The Coming Pro-Abortion Spectacle in Charlotte
Robert George, First Things
It looks like the Democratic Party’s leadership has decided to make the Party’s fierce commitment to protecting abortion against meaningful legal restrictions of any kind and extending its availability a, if not the, central theme of its national convention.
Judaism and Christianity: Embracing the “Other”?
Peter Berger, The American Interest
There cannot be two other religious traditions whose historical relations have been as awful as those between Judaism and Christianity.
Akin absurdity aside, rape never justifies abortion
Andrew P. Napolitano, Washington Times
What has gone unmentioned, however, in the cacophony of condemnation by Republicans and Democrats, is the implication in Mr. Akin’s comments that rape is not a moral justification for abortion. In that, he is correct: It is not.
The great both/and of Catholic social teaching
Fr. Robert Barron, Catholic News Agency
For many on the left, Paul Ryan is a menace, the very embodiment of cold, indifferent Republicanism, and for many on the right, he is a knight in shining armor, a God-fearing advocate of a principled conservatism.
My older daughter is married and mother to three “fierce and impious Saxons”, otherwise known as happily energetic, small tow-headed BOYS.
My younger daughter is as yet single. I have informed her several times that if anyone drags her behind a bush, so to speak, to refuse suspicious pills in the emergency room: her sister would gladly adopt.
If the real concern of pro-abortionists is the emotional trauma that rape victims face, they could turn their vast energies and deep pockets to programs that would offer comfort, therapy, financial support, and even downright coddling for the younger or fragile victims as they wait out their pregnancies. Public attitudes can be changed to the high road as readily as to the ditches.
And adoption could become the ‘In’ thing.