The best reason not to fund Planned Parenthood is never mentioned in the newspapers. (Could it also have been overlooked in the briefs?) Numerous undercover investigations have shown that Planned Parenthood prefers money to the interests of women. But even without that evidence, it would be unwise to entrust pregnancy prevention and pregnancy counseling to […]
In a remarkable case, two Canadian pro-life activists have been convicted of violating an abortion “bubble zone”. What is remarkable is that they were not handing out pro-life literature, but rather copies of British Columbia’s Access to Abortion Services Act – the act under which they were convicted. An account can be found at http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bc-pro-life-activists-found-guilty-of-violating-bubble-zone
Canada’s path to an unlimited legal right to abortion has features which Americans may find of interest. A brief account can be found in The National Post at http://www.nationalpost.com/news/five+judges+legalized+abortion/4997598/story.html
Here is an article in U.S. Catholic about the recent University Faculty for Life (UFL) conference at Notre Dame. The article notes that pro-life faculty members are often isolated at their home institutions and mentions the importance of UFL in fostering fellowship among its members and in fostering pro-life scholarship. http://www.uscatholic.org/news/2011/06/professor-says-pro-life-faculty-often-feel-isolated-campus-views Richard M.
Here is a link to commentary by Jeanne Head of National Right to Life on the UN procedures that have been used in recent years. These procedures, which depart significantly from procedures used in the past, undermine national sovereignty and transparency. The new procedures are quite troublesome to the pro-life/pro-family coalition.http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2011/06/recent-un-procedures-undermine-sovereignty-and-transparency-worry-pro-lifepro-family-coalition/#more-2627 Richard M.
Father Miscamble CSC gave an excellent talk a few weeks ago in which he discussed the status of the life issues at Notre Dame. Here is a link to the Project Sycamore website where Father Miscamble’s talk can be found. http://www.projectsycamore.com/bulletins/110608.php Richard M.
This is a quick follow up to my post of June 6, 2011. On June 16, 2011, the US Bishops approved a statement on physician-assisted suicide. Here is the link. http://www.usccb.org/toliveeachday/bishops-statement-physician-assisted-suicide.pdf The statement provides a useful summary of the problems posed by the campaign to legalize assisted suicide. The Bishops advocate “the way of love […]
Two pro-choice advocates are publishing an article of interest in The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics: Glenn Cohen and Sadath Sayeed, Fetal Pain, Abortion, Viability and the Constitution (forthcoming April/May 2011). One significant point is that the authors implicitly corroborate the irrelevance of viability to the personhood of an infant born alive in an […]
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The Pro-Life Spring in America
14 June 2011 The New York Times recently carried a lengthy article by Emily Bazelon entitled “The Reincarnation of Pro-Life,” N.Y. Times May 27, 2011. It is available at http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/29/magazine/the-reincarnation-of-pro-life.html?_r=1 . While a bit sensational in parts (just a hint of “To the ramparts! The barbaric hordes are coming!”) much of it is quite encouraging. […]
Texas recently enacted a law that requires that women considering abortion to be able to view a sonogram. The law, which went into effect on May 20, 2011, has just been challenged in federal court. See http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2011/06/pro-abortion-legal-firm-files-lawsuit-challenging-texas-sonogram-law/#more-2476 There has been a recent trend for pro-abortion groups not to challenge pro-life legislation. This case will be an important test […]