Christianity Today has a good article on the wealth of pro-life movies that have been released in the past year by a usually pro-choice Hollywood. Rob Johnston, professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, notes that with the exception of Bella, these films aren't being made by Christians. "The church cannot take credit […]
A "pro-life" activist attacked an elderly pro-choice activist outside a crisis pregnancy center last week leaving the abortion rights supporter in serious condition. The pro-choicer suffered compression fractures in four vertebre, broke his right shoulder bone and two ribs. Police were called to the scene -- and let the assailant go free. When contacted for […]
Gregory Popcak rips into the dishonest Garry Wills "the Bible doesn't speak to the abortion issue" piece I mentioned last week. Popcak's piece is devastating to Wills' lame argument. In his essay, Wills cherry-picks Thomas Aquinas' theology; employs a simplistically idiosyncratic interpretation of Scripture and massacres history, science and philosophy, all in a fevered attempt […]
Garry Wills, author of "Head and Heart: American Christianities," wrote this woefully inaccurate and misinformed op-ed piece in today's Los Angeles Times. I'll let Ramesh Ponnuru have the first word on this: He has a long, confused op-ed on abortion in the L. A. Times. His focus on evangelicals is a little odd—if all you […]
I don't think I'll be converting to the religious left's line on the proper role of the U.S. government anytime soon. And this sort of rhetoric sure isn't the way to sway anyone to your line of thinking. REV. JIM WALLIS: If I'm an unborn child and I want the support of the far religious […]
There's a new report out today on abortion worldwide and, as always, I'm skeptical. Why? Unsafe abortion has not declined worldwide, however, and is concentrated in developing countries, according to a study conducted by Dr. Gilda Sedgh of the Guttmacher Institute in New York, Dr. Iqbal Shah of World Health Organization in Switzerland and colleagues. […]
In an article earlier this week in the Wall Street Journal, Northwestern University law professor Stephen Calabresi makes the point that those who disdain the legal principle of "originalism" when it comes to interpreting the Constitution in favor of "evolving standards of decency" are a bunch of hypocrites. For starters, the long-accepted rule for interpreting […]
For those interested in the abortion issue, here's a couple of things worth reading. First is this article from last week's Los Angeles Times entitled "Democrats shift approach on abortion." Surprisingly, the aforementioned shift is in a pro-life direction. For years, the liberal response to abortion has been to promote more accessible and affordable birth […]
This posted started as a kind of run-on thought to the previous post, so it's probably a good idea to scroll down and read the next post, then come up to this one. I posited in the previous post that animosity towards "Evangelical Christians" in academia was because that term is believed to be synonymous […]
Over at National Review's "The Corner," Ramesh Ponnuru points out a recent CBS/New York Times poll that's been quoted noting that 75 percent of the public favors legal abortion. Do not confuse that with 75 percent of the public approving the status quo. The source for the Times claim, and the apparent source for Slate […]