Posts Tagged ‘human abortion’
"Pro choicers are our allies"
By Tom Quiner What an outlandish claim. Right? How could people who are ‘pro choice’ be allies to those of us who are ‘pro life?’ The quote above comes from none other than the Priest for Life himself, Fr. Frank Pavone. Fr. Pavone was in Des Moines last Saturday night as the keynote speaker at…
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America's issues are cultural, not economic
“A Christian who hopes to follow the teachings of Jesus needs to reckon with a singular fact about American poverty: Its deepest and most debilitating deficits are moral, not financial; the most serious deprivations are cultural, not economic. Many people living at the bottom of American society have cell phones, flat-screen TVs, and some of the other goodies of consumer culture. But their lives are a mess.”
Read MoreEarth Day theology is a threat to mankind
“[By 1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.”
Read MoreTRIVIA QUIZ: Who is the most prolific mass murderer in American history?
By Tom Quiner [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAAll1R29vs] The death of a single human being is never trivial, so please forgive my use of the word in the headline above. Since Moses came down from the mountain carrying the Ten Commandments, the Fifth one (in the Catholic Church) has been one of the few commandments that even modern day…
Read MoreA human tragedy: a culture that values a bird egg more than humanity itself
Do not despair, there is hope for tomorrow
Will you do something for yourself to fill your heart with hope?
Watch the brief speech above presented by a 12 year old girl named Lia. She lays out a clear and compelling case for the preservation of human life …
The pornography of abortion
An entire group of human beings are on the verge of extinction. I’m talking Down Syndrome babies. Nine out of ten parents with a prenatal Downs diagnosis choose to abort their child.
Today is World Downs Syndrome Day. We honor our brothers and sisters, our nephews and nieces who are unique since their bodies possess an extra chromosome.
I am sympathetic to the challenges of raising a Downs child, having watched my nephew grow up …
Consensus! Telemedicine should not be used for abortions.
The Register’s editorial staff finds it “baffling” that Iowans are overwhelmingly against webcam abortions, as evidenced by the Register’s own poll [“Telemedicine Is Much More Than Abortion in Our State” editorial, March 14]. Let me make it less baffling …
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