abortion

Democrats For Life vs. Mitt Romney: Who’s More Pro-Life?

by Michael Fragoso September 20, 2012

The Democrats for Life are still active, though this may surprise anyone who followed the passage of Obamacare. As Jonathan Last reported at the Weekly Standard, they even held a small conference at the recent Democratic convention. Professor Stephen Schneck…

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The Irreconcilable Conflict

by Pat Buchanan September 18, 2012

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
“Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.”
Thus did Kipling, the Poet of Empire, caution the British about the Eastern world the…

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Jimmy’s For Barack–and Abortion and Homosexual Marriage?

by Dr. Paul Kengor September 14, 2012

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Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared at Catholic Vote.
In my previous commentary, I noted the blind political devotion of Bill and Hillary Clinton, hopelessly devoted to Barack Obama above all else. These onetime…

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Catholic College Drops Abortion Coverage

by Matthew Archbold September 12, 2012

The Cardinal Newman Society has learned that a Catholic university in Pennsylvania is dropping its unintentional coverage of abortion in its health insurance plan to better reflect Catholic teaching.
Gannon University, owned by the Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania, sent a…

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Pounding the Table About Abortion

by Ken Connor September 6, 2012

In the three days of “speechifying” that constituted the 2012 Republican National Convention, precious little time or rhetoric was devoted to the topic of abortion.  While Messrs Romney and Ryan (along with notable speakers including Condoleezza Rice and Marco Rubio)…

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Asia’s Response to Aging Crisis: More Abortions!

by Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D. August 31, 2012

Top Asian demographers, population experts, and UN staff gathered in Bangkok this week to address the region’s aging crisis. Despite the severity of the low fertility predicament, abortion, contraception, and “reproductive and sexual health” were the subject of one out…

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Why Aren’t We Talking About Stem Cells Anymore?

by Michael Cook August 28, 2012

Stem cell research has hardly been mentioned in 2012, unlike the last two US election campaigns. Salon’s political reporter, Alex Seitz-Wald, points out that strongly-worded opposition is still part of the Republican platform: “We oppose the killing of embryos for…

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The Killing Fields of Surrogacy

by Christopher White August 23, 2012

Meet Cathleen: a twenty-year-old from New Brunswick, Canada, who served as a surrogate mother of twins for an infertile British couple. Twenty-seven weeks into the pregnancy, Cathleen was informed–via text message–that the couple was divorcing and would no longer need…

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Is It Immoral Not to Design Your Baby?

by Michael Cook August 21, 2012

The editor of the Journal of Medical Ethics, Julian Savulescu, has a radical utilitarian message, but he is preaching it in the most conventional of outlets, the UK edition of Reader’s Digest. In the September issue he argues that parents…

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Three Words, Cardinal Dolan: Cancel the Dinner

by Jenn Giroux August 16, 2012

According to the New York Times, “The Archdiocese of New York confirmed that both Mr. Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, had accepted an invitation to speak on Oct. 18 at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner,…

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