The House of Representatives passes Obamacare by a vote of 219-212. Pro-life Republicans tried to get the fixer bill recommitted for more discussion (in committee) about taxpayer-funding of abortion. Rep. Joseph Pitts (R. Penn) called the health care bill the most pro-abortion bill Congress has ever considered. Unfortunately, Rep. Bart Stupak said that the pro-life thing to do is to pass health care [...]
Stupak said the Executive Order is good until 2014. In other words, the unborn and taxpayers are protected for four years, that's it.
Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper (D, Penn) is among those joining Rep. Bart Stupak in a press conference to announce support for the health care reform bill now that President Barack Obama has said he would sign an Executive Order outlawing taxpayer funding of abortion. Dahlkemper stresses that she is not pro-life, but 'whole-life' and that means not only opposing abortion but supporting a [...]
Rep. Bark Stupak (D, Mich) has just announced in a press conference that he will vote for Obamacare. He brings enough supposedly pro-life colleagues with him to help pass health care reform. Of course, abortion funding was not the only pro-life concern with Obamacare.
So reports Politico: Under the agreement, President Barack Obama would sign an executive order ensuring that no federal funding will go to pay for abortion under the health reform plans. In addition, Stupak will get to state his concerns about abortion funding in the bill during a colloquy on the House floor during the debate. That is insufficient. Even if the EO [...]
National Review has the text of a proposed Executive Order that would prohibit funding of abortion -- a scheme necessary to get Bark Stupak and other pro-life Democrats on board with the Senate version of health care reform. (Yuval Levin doubts the EO's language "possibly be a draft of actual executive order language" and therefore might only be symoblic.) I entirely endorse Kathryn Jean Lopez's [...]
In the language of our intellectual and cultural elites, we often find repeated phrases that seem to have a life of their own. Like the symptoms of an undiagnosed, contagious disease, these phrases suddenly appear and spread quickly throughout the language of our popular discourse until they, and the assumptions they conceal, are accepted as self-evidently true. It is sometimes difficult to [...]
On Nov. 3, 2009, a United Kingdom judge ruled that Tim Nicholson’s environmental principles qualified as a “philosophical belief” under the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations. The former head of sustainability from Grainger plc can now sue the company for religious discrimination, as they fired him because of his environmental policies. This treatment of environmentalist views as a religion is indicative of [...]
I am 25 years old, have been married for a year and a half and look forward to having children. I am thrilled to know many friends and acquaintances who have also been discerning, preparing and entering into marriage over the last few years. It is not unusual to discuss having children and natural family planning with them. The underlying understanding for [...]
In “Christianity Lite” (First Things, February 2010), Mary Eberstadt traces the collapse of the mainline Protestant churches to Resolution 15 of the 1930 Lambeth Conference of Anglican Bishops, which broke with the hitherto universal and constant teaching of the Catholic church against any use of artificial means of contraception. Specifically, Resolution 15 provided that married couples who are faced with [...]
I’m going to the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville,” I told my wife Ileen. “Sarah Palin is going to be the keynote speaker.” “Sarah Palin! She’s terrific. Who’s paying for it?” she asked, suspiciously. “The Tea Party people. The Democratic party recommended me highly.” “The Democratic Party!” she exclaimed. “After what you accidentally did to the Democrats telling the whole world [...]
We know that Drew Brees quarterbacked the New Orleans Saints to a Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts and was named the game’s most valuable player. But there was another quarterback who, on that same day, earned an MVP award for what he did off the field, during the telecast of the game. Tim Tebow is, in the parlance [...]
Recently, in my Sun Media column, I wrote of being invited by a student group at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. to speak on the issue of abortion. I wrote in the column that the organizers of the event were obliged to hire security guards after threats were made to disrupt the event and how these were taken seriously as [...]
Recently, an editor who regularly rejects my articles called me a humorist. I let it pass. Editors have called me worse things. When I was young and busy, I wrote humour for fun, and I sold the odd piece. Now that I’m old and idle, I write humour seriously, and I still sell the odd piece. So I’m keeping up. [...]
There are a few rules about reviewing movies that no one can teach you – that only become evident after you’ve sat through many hundreds of hours of films you probably didn’t enjoy and written reviews that, taken as a whole, provide evidence of a life in the midst of being wasted. Some apply generally to the whole history of moviemaking and [...]