Pro-Life
A quiet tidal wave of hope
Sluttiness is chic.
If you watched MTV’s Video Music Awards, and I didn’t, you would have seen singers Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga try to out-slut the other.
Harsh words, I know, but accurate …
Read MoreTrue or false?
By Tom Quiner True.
Read MoreChildren are a blessing
The Des Moines Register ran a piece this week about Iowa’s declining birth rate.
They were careful to suggest that abortion had nothing to do with the dilemma. The reporting pinned the blame on the high cost of raising children.
My friend John, who raised 11 children, was pretty bent out of shape about the story, titled “So where’s the stork?”. He e-mailed me his feelings on the subject:
Read MoreAnother liberal group defaces public property
Why do so many liberal groups feel a need to deface public property?
The country was subjected to the filth and destruction of the Occupy Wallstreet crowd most recently. Another liberal group struck yesterday here in Des Moines …
Read MoreThe telemed abortion debate rages in Iowa
“Human life begins at conception, and the fact that different stages are given different names does not mean that some stages are not human …”
Read MoreShouldn’t we err on the side of life?
Dr. Ashman completely misses the point. The issue does not lie with the scientific understanding of human development. Pro-life physicians and pro-life bioethicists thoroughly understand such development, as does any well-informed person. It is the conclusions they reach that differ materially …
Read MoreDoctor says Quiner is full of it
An Iowa City doctor responded forcefully to my essay which appeared in the Des Moines Register last Friday.
Here is Dr. Robert Ashman’s letter which appeared in the morning’s Des Moines Register …
Read MoreWhat a heartless mob
Detractors to my recent essay in the Des Moines Register claim I “hate women” since I oppose webcam abortions:
“I’ve got to wonder at anyone who so hates females that he’d elevate the rights of a fetus over those of a woman.”
I oppose webcam abortions on the ground that they can hurt women, as it did to Holly Patterson, and kill her fetus, which compelling evidence reveals as being a human being. The “hate women” claim is nonsense, of course, and is trotted out by those who are unable to muster a more persuasive argument …
Read MoreA letter from Holly Patterson’s dad
I wrote a recent post titled “RU-486 is poison.” I made reference to a young woman, Holly Patterson, who died a decade ago as a result of taking the RU-486 human abortion pill. The piece appeared in the Des Moines Register on Friday. Her father responded:
Read MoreThe Des Moines Register publishes Quiner’s Diner essay
Readers of the Des Moines Register reacted sharply to my essay which appeared in the paper this morning. My favorite: “Quiner is a nut.”
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