Will Obamacare usher in an era of back alley births?

Joy was a sick little girl. Only 14 weeks old since her conception, she was diagnosed with hydroencephaly. That meant her brain wouldn’t develop properly; that it would fill with fluid; that her chance of surviving to birth was bleak; and that if she actually was born, she had minimal chance for any kind of normal life. Her life and death are immediately relevant as Obamacare begins to impose its will on medical decisions.

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The gray haired men in Rome

My liberal Catholic friend intoned, “I don’t want a bunch of gray-haired men in Rome telling women what to do with their bodies.”
She speaks for million of Catholic and non-Catholic women. For that matter, she speaks for millions of Catholic and non-Catholic men …

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She’s a woman, hear her roar

A regular Quiner’s Diner reader, Lee Burleson, directed me to an interesting college website. There, a student proclaimed her liberal feminist beliefs in a piece titled, “I am woman, here me roar.” Lauren Muellner, writing on the University of Illinois Chicago’s website, warned …

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“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”

People of faith need to confront the reality that they are being called to confront evil. As Dietrich Bonhoeffer states, if you don’t speak up, you are speaking volumes. You are giving your tacit approval to evil by not confronting evil …

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Quiner’s Diner “discusses” abortion with the Obamacrat

I reached out to a liberal today. I re-visited the blog called “The Obamacrat.” We had a somewhat rocky exchange a couple of months ago which I recounted in a piece I wrote called, “How the Obamacrat thinks.” Feeling frisky, I thought I’d take another stab at having a civil conversation with a liberal …

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The craven abortion culture of Barack Obama

Just when you think the Obama administration couldn’t get any worse when it comes to abortion issues, they surprise you. Their latest abortion news is a doozy. Barack Obama has plunged to new depths of depravity with his latest expansion of abortion at taxpayer expense. You’re not going to believe this …

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Ultrasound is standard medical care

Performing an ultrasound before an abortion should be a commonsense standard of care for abortion providers. Ultrasound assists an abortion provider in determining gestational age. The farther along in pregnancy a woman is, or the possibility that the pregnancy is ectopic, the greater the risk that abortion poses.

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