Bill Frezza at RealClearMarkets: You say that your lofty goal is to guarantee "access" to abortion for those who can't afford it. OK, let's do the math. The average abortion costs about $400. Something like 1.2 million abortions are performed in the US every year. Suppose a third of these unwanted pregnancies are to women so destitute that $400 would swing their [...]
In this morning's Assorted Links, we note Michael Barone's interesting piece on abortion and voting behaviour and I encourage everyone to read it, the key point being that abortion seems to be a leading indicator of cultural liberalism and that there is a strong correlation between high abortion rates and voting Democrat. Anyway, this paragraph was worth highlighting, which provides a lot [...]
Catholic Insight editor Fr. Alphonse de Valk says that Canadians should learn from the U.S. health care debate and "stop being the patsies we have become and start fighting back" -- and begin doing so by insisting that the Culture of Death not be subsidized by taxpayers. The McGill Daily has a report on the Montreal university's student union's suspension of the Choose [...]
The Blade, Washington DC's weekly homosexualist newspaper, celebrated its 40th anniversary last month. It was America's oldest gay newspaper and was billed the gay community newspaper of record. Today it ceased publication, as did three other Windows Media titles, all gay publications. The Washington Times has the story. However, the Washington City Paper reports that newly unemployed Blade staff will start a new publication [...]
This story is so sad it is hard to celebrate that justice was ultimately done. The AFP reports that a Edward Erin, a 44-year-old British doctor, was sentenced to six years after a judge found him guilty of attempting to administer a poison to induce a miscarriage on his former lover, Bella Prowse, 33. She later gave birth to a boy, whom she named [...]
The New York Post reports: Club owner John "J.E." Englebert is planning an "Anti-Gosselin" fundraiser for Planned Parenthood at his Suzie Wong sake lounge to make "a point of thinking of the victims, the children of their loveless marriage" So Englebert is 1) using the tragedy of the Gosselin family (Jon & Kate and their eight) to promote his company and Planned Parenthood and 2) [...]
Daniel Allott in The American Spectator Online: But does anyone believe that the man who brushed off a question about when human life begins as being "above my pay grade" gives more than a passing thought to life issues, aside from considering their political implications? Obama's earnest-sounding words collide with a voting record over more than a decade that reveals an abortion [...]
University of Toronto Students for Life notes that last week the McGill University student union revoked club status from campus pro-life group Choose Life, leading them to revisit a lengthy letter from from SSMU from early October that shows the lengths by which the union will go to oppose the club. Fox News reports that David Axelrod, an advisor to Barack Obama, says the [...]
The Daily Telegraph reports that more abortions are committed in Great Britain than any other country in the EU, and that its 209,699 abortions ranks only behind China, India, Russia and the United States. The Wall Street Journal reports on the balancing act Nancy Pelosi has to make the Catholic bishops and pro-life Democrats happy on one side, and her pro-abortion allies in Congress, on [...]
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I was thinking of calling this post "NH passes up chance for new motto: 'Live free and die'." Earlier this week the New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee voted against a proposed bill that would legalize euthanasia in the state by allowing terminally ill patients to obtain lethal prescriptions. The margin wasn't even close -- 14 against legalizing euthanasia and three in favour. State Rep. Nancy Elliott said, [...]
In the long-term there is little doubt that Obamacare will diminish the right of all Americans to make their own choices about health care coverage, but all the debate in Washington and the punditocracy right now is about the supposedly lost of the "right to choose" abortion. Yet, as the the Manchester Union Leader editorializes: Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wrote about [...]
Mary Harned of Americans United for Life explains in detail why the Stupak-Pitts amendment was necessary by going into great detail about what it does and doesn't do and why the Hyde Amendment was insufficient to prevent taxpayer subsidies covering abortion.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Japanese scientists are close to producing a "three parent baby" after successfully fertilizing an egg with two biological mothers. The first question that comes to mind is "Why?" Are scientists deliberately attempting to attack the sanctity of human life and undermine conjugal relationships, or is it just so much fun to play God that there are no rules [...]
The National Right to Life Committee takes note of a study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that finds a high rate of complications when women use the RU-486 abortion pill. Dana Goldstein at The Daily Beast says Rep. Diana DeGette (D, Col), co-chairwoman of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, claims 40 pro-abortion Democrats have signed a letter to Congressional leaders [...]