Wesley Smith: The pro life movement often argues that abortion rights is a racist agenda because of the disproportionate number of minority babies terminated. I don’t agree with that argument, actually. I don’t think that most pro choice activists are racist or that abortionists do what they do for racially discrminatory reasons. But there are exceptions ... The video of an abortionist [...]
A press release from Campaign Life Coalition: Campaign Life Coalition announces change in B.C. leadership For Immediate Release Toronto, Aug. 3, 2012 - Campaign Life Coalition (CLC) announced today that as of Tuesday July 26, 2012, John Hof, president of CLC British Columbia, had resigned from his post to pursue other pro-life work in the province. The CLC National Office in Toronto will [...]
Actress Elizabeth Banks is plumping for Barack Obama and Planned Parenthood. The Hill reports on a pro-Obama ad featuring the actress, in which the star of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Role Models and What to Expect When Expecting says: "So for that little 5 percent that Mitt Romney decides he doesn't agree with, he's going to take away cancer screenings? What [...]
Last week I commented on our editorial questioning the wisdom of gestational limits. In the post from last Thursday, I noted: We are not working against those who are promoting gestational limits; we are trying to persuade them and the larger pro-life movement that there are better ways of advancing the cause of life. Disagreement should not be viewed as seditious to [...]
One of our August stories, "Increase pro-abortion violence against pro-lifers" is now online. It begins: Over the past three months, pro-life activists have been physically assaulted by abortion supporters, a sign, pro-lifers say, that their message is hitting a nerve. The story features chocolate milk.
The Newseum's top ten newspaper covers today are on Chick-fil-A. (HT: Michelle Malkin) The Washington Post reported customer support for the restaurant made for brisk business and Rick Warren tweeted "#ChickfilA has already set a world record today." A quick perusal of the internet will find long lines of customers in stores and drive-throughs. It was pretty obviously a good day to be a Chick-fil-A [...]
The cover feature of the August Interim is on gestational limits. We surveyed pro-life leaders and groups and asked if they supported incrementalism (which can be a good thing) and specifically gestational limits (which we think are a bad idea). That survey will appear online shortly. Today we've posed a special editorial that we ran alongside the survey in the paper's centerspread, as [...]
Mariette Ulrich writes about children, Summer, and boredom. She has a point about modern, mostly electronic entertainments offering "stimulation (but usually the wrong kind--that which dazzles the senses, but does not feed the soul or the intellect)." But when you read about Ulrich growing up you realize that there is something deeper there. She had open space on a farm and lots [...]
Writers of the Future, a project of L. Ron Hubbard, predicted in 1987 what 2012 might look like. Generally speaking, the writers offer apocalyptic visions and several people predicted world population will catastrophically hit 8-10 billion (in fact, there are about 7 billion people on the planet today), and that there is no way Earth could handle that many people. One person, [...]
The New York Sun editorializes on the decision by New York City under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's regime that hospital maternity wards must restrict choice -- not the choice of a mother to kill her baby, but how she feeds it: The latest from New York’s commissioner of mental hygiene is that maternity wards in New York are going to start locking up [...]
Business Week is trying to push its socially left-wing agenda to be helpful in advising Chick-fil-A to follow the example of Marriott International, the hotel company run by Bill Marriott, a "devout" Mormon. Business Week says that the company stayed out of the gay marriage fight when the Mormon church supported a ban on the practice in California. In fact, Marriott International went [...]
Interim's coverage from the July edition of the paper: "Transgendered, transsexuals get special protections in Ontario." The article begins: On June 13 Bill 33, a private members bill in the Ontario legislature that would add “gender expression” and “gender identity” to the Ontario Human Rights Code and give special legal protection to people who self-identify as transgender and transsexual, passed with all-party [...]
Great list of "Five Canadian pro-life activists who need to write their memoirs," by Suzanne Fortin of Big Blue Wave: Fr. Alphone de Valk, Gwen Landolt, John-Henry Westen, Steve Jalsevac, and Jim Hughes. Agreed on all of them and would add a sixth: Dr. Barrie de Veber, a medical doctor who helped create one of the first two pro-life groups in Canada, founded the [...]
Don Perry, head of public relations at the department at embattled Chick-fil-A, died unexpectedly on Friday. Five Feet of Fury says: Something to remember the next time somebody asks you sarcastically: “So, just HOW does gay marriage hurt straight people, huh…?”
Rod Dreher on the journalistic crusade against coverage of the Chick-fil-A story: This is all about some fake-journalism scheme dreamed up by a few extremely parochial, bourgeois anti-Christian bigots who work in the Newsweek/Daily Beast building in lower Manhattan. It’s not about reforming a great social wrong. It’s about destroying the reputation of a restaurant whose owners are traditional Christians who share [...]