Australia needs a referendum on redefining marriage
The rainbow flag sank like a stone in last weekend's election. But there's no room for complacency.
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Recent Catholic Commentary
God has a face: the answer to an atheist’s longing
The sad irony is that when he suggests that what people like him need is a god they can “plausibly imagine,” he is apparently unaware that such a god actually exists: His name is Jesus.
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Why libertarians should be pro-life
I am morally aligned with Republicans on almost every social issue – pornography, gay marriage, prostitution, etc. – but find I have begun to disagree with the party establishment on the proper role of government when it comes to these things.
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‘A Conservative Catholic now backs gay marriage’: that Joseph Bottum essay
Try as I might, I cannot find any argument in Bottum’s piece more persuasive than that notion: that public acceptance of same-sex marriage is inevitable, and resistance is making the Catholic Church unpopular.
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Past three years have taken a ‘dramatic toll’ on number of US abortion clinics
This kind of change is incredibly dramatic. What we’ve been seeing since 1982 was a slow decline, but this kind of change … [is] so different from what’s happened in the past. ~ Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager at Guttmacher Institute, commenting on a Huffington Post report (“Anti-abortion laws take dramatic toll on clinics nationwide”) that “54 abortion providers across 27 states have shut down or ended their abortion services in the past three years,” August 26.) Reprinted with permission from JillStanek.com.
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Even pro-aborts appalled at decision not to prosecute for sex-selective abortions
When we wrote yesterday about the waves of opposition to the decision by the (British) Crown Prosecution Service not to prosecute abortionists who were willing to abort female babies, I began by remarking that a “hornet’s nest of outrage” had followed this indefensible [non-]action. (See “Controversy follows decision not to prosecute British abortionists accused of willingness to practice sex-selection abortion.” But that’s proven to be not the half of it. Understand that abortion on demand in Great Britain seems to woven into the very warp and woof of British culture. If you think we’ve had a long uphill battle, we […]
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Why I avoid arguing that doctors shouldn’t do abortions based on ‘conscience’
The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an article that should compel pro-lifers to think seriously about how they frame the abortion debate. Dr. Lisa Harris writes, “The exercise of conscience in health care is generally considered synonymous with refusal to participate in contested medical services, especially abortion. This depiction neglects the fact that the provision of abortion care is also conscience-based [emphasis added]. The persistent failure to recognize abortion provision as ‘conscientious’ has resulted in laws that do not protect caregivers who are compelled by conscience to provide abortion services…” This is a very real reason why I […]
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Texas abortion advocates tremble over Texas’ failing abortion movement
Despite the pro-woman, pro-child nature of the scientifically based mandates of HB-2, abortion advocates in Texas continue to decry the omnibus bill as a step backwards in the so-called movement of 'women’s reproductive rights.'
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Abortion: everybody’s doing it!
Past statistics are no guarantee of a younger generation's behavior, but factual accuracy isn't the point. The point is the message that everybody's doing it. It is, at its core, marketing.
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Alimony for egg freezing commodifies children
We have seen egg buying, paying poor women to gestate, eugenic IVF, etc.–and now alimony to pay for egg freezing? That’s the gist of a request in a New Jersey divorce, supported by Sarah Elizabeth Richards in the New York Times. From, “Alimony for Your Eggs:” All of a sudden, fertility has been assigned a value. If the point of a divorce settlement is to take inventory of a couple’s joint life and divide the assets, then that commodity belongs on the negotiating table — alongside vacation time-shares and projected earnings from his and her M.B.A.’s. No! This idea must not be […]
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