Archive for January 2014
Enough with the endless abortion euphemisms
“We hear that abortion is fundamentally about a woman’s right to reproductive freedom. Or abortion is a litmus test for judicial nominees. Or abortion is symptomatic of what’s wrong with the social discourse in America. But none of those things is what abortion really is. Abortion is the intentional killing of unborn children.”
–Jon Bloom in Relentlessly Call Abortion What It Really Is
Teen birth control even a Catholic can love!
How my newspaper covered the March for Life
I was pleasantly surprised by the coverage the Des Moines Register gave the March for Life in the morning’s paper. They ran a piece written by the U.S. Today which covered the top third of page four. The coverage was by and large good, except for two things …
Read More"I heard Satan laughing with delight the day the baby died"
A tidal wave of love warms Washington D.C.
The temperatures may have been frigid, but the weather was no match for the power of love.
Washington D.C. was invaded by hundreds of thousands people for the March for Life today, the single biggest social justice event of the year …
Prayer for the Preborn
We pray for president Obama, members of Congress and the Supreme Court, that they may have the courage and wisdom to establish and promote laws which protect the dignity of human life from conception until natural death …
Read MorePlanned Parenthood quietly closes more clinics in Iowa
January 22, 2014-DES MOINES, IOWA-Iowa Right to Life has discovered that Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has quietly laid off all but one employee (a center manager) at their Creston and Red Oak, Iowa locations. In addition, Iowa’s largest abortion provider has halted surgical abortions at its Bettendorf and Sioux City abortion centers.
This is not the first time PPH has tried to keep closings and layoffs quiet …
A third of a generation lost
We need a tomb for the Unborn Baby.
On this dark day, January 22nd, 41 years beyond the Roe v Wade and Doe v Bolton decisions that led to the legalization of abortion in all 50 states for all 9 months of pregnancy, we need to pause …
Liberals do NOT want you to see this movie
FrackNation. Liberals are screaming about this 67 minute documentary. They’ve tried to get the trailers removed from YouTube and Vimeo. Why? Because it characterizes “fracking” as the “miracle of the 21st century.”
Read MoreThe inconsistent application of liberal virtue
Liberals and conservatives revere different virtues. It’s why it’s so hard for the two sides talk to each other some times.
For conservatives, the cardinal virtues consist of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude.
For liberals, they consist of diversity, inclusion, choice, and equality. And yet liberals aren’t terribly consistent in their application of their virtues. Let’s look at the first two …