Abortion
I can’t help but think that New York Times movie reviewer Stephen Holden misses the significance of Bella by, well, by the distance between life and death: It is not hard to see why “Bella,” a saccharine trifle directed by Alejandro Monteverde, won the People’s Choice Award at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. This…
This is for those who think that Rudy Giuliani’s philosophy on the judiciary will compensate for his personal view on abortion: “But with Roe—a strict constructionist judge could come to either conclusion about Roe v. Wade. He could come to the conclusion that it was incorrectly decided, overturn it, or he could decide well, it’s…
Legislators, activists and especially judges often seem to operate from the assumption that laws related to abortion should be evaluated according to different rules than other laws. Today’s Projo has an sensible editorial reminding its readers that this shouldn’t be the case…Under current Massachusetts law, anti-abortion protesters must observe a six-foot “bubble” within 18 feet…
This is a touching story, and whether one would have made different decisions as a parent requires much reflection, but it’s easy to imagine Gabriel reacting to it quite differently than his parents might expect: When doctors found that Gabriel was weaker than his brother, with an enlarged heart,and believed he was going to die…
Jonah Goldberg has opened up the topic of ensoulment with respect to abortion, and an email that he published concerning the Christian view doesn’t take its conclusions quite far enough to be entirely relevant to his broader stance on abortion: What Christianity actually teaches is that man—and man alone—is a psychosomatic entity consisting of a…
The problem with the cult of moderation is that it requires there to be two extremes equidistant from the middle line of wisdom, or else it must define the two opposing groups as the extremes, no matter where they actually lie. To present his — certainly welcome — “compromise” position of sending abortion policy back…
Of course, I’d argue that moral laws would forbid abortion whatever the father’s opinion, but I’m sympathetic to the incremental gain that some Ohio lawmakers are seeking: Several Ohio state representatives who normally take an anti-abortion stance are now pushing pro-choice legislation – sort of. Led by Rep. John Adams, a group of state legislators…
For those who might have missed it (whether by accident or by design), I’ve got a piece in today’s Providence Journal that considers some of the discussion that Bishop Tobin’s reflections on Rudy Giuliani inspired.
The Providence Journal’s editorial on the Supreme Court’s partial-birth abortion ruling isn’t quite as deceptive/deluded as Mary Ann Sorrentino’s, but at the very least, it’s misleading (emphasis added): The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 decision upholding the right of the federal government to impose a ban on a certain form of rarely performed second-trimester abortion is…
Mary Ann Sorrentino’s Providence Phoenix article on the Federal partial birth abortion ban and the Supreme Court’s decision upholding it in Gonzales v. Carhart repeats a serious factual error multiple times… The court’s decision to uphold a ban on late-term abortions — even when the mother’s health is endangered — codifies what pro-choicers have suspected…
