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January 2021

January 25, 2021

Only Spiritual Revival Will Stop Abortion

[Clarifying Note: Of course we need to make abortion illegal. I've fought for that for 34 years....

November 2020

November 10, 2020

Seidensticker Folly #62: Bible & Personhood of Fetuses

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got...

September 2020

September 28, 2020

KKK / Slavery Analogies & [“New”] Pro-Life Democrats

Various thoughts of mine, and a few from friends of mine as well (in blue...

August 2020

August 26, 2020

Question to Pro-Life Catholics Who Vote Pro-Abort

The argument formerly in this article has been expanded and developed further in the...

August 26, 2020

Ratzinger’s “Proportionate Reasons” & a Pro-Abort Vote

This fall, I voted Democrat, not merely with a clean conscience, but under the conviction...

January 2020

January 25, 2020

Reflections on Showing Graphic Abortion Photographs

These are my comments (2-3 January 2017) from a long Facebook discussion thread, that was...

January 19, 2020

Constructive Dialogues w Legal Abortion Advocates

These far "better than average" exchanges originally took place on my blog and Facebook page:...

January 18, 2020

Liberal & Conservative Pro-Life Outlooks: A Dialogue

This exchange took place on my Facebook page, on 1-17-20, and then on a second...

January 10, 2020

Abortion Declines Under Trump (Surprise, New Pro-Lifers!)

The new pro-life movement is, basically, leftists and Democrats who are pro-life -- I don't...

May 2019

May 23, 2019

GOP & Pro-Life Supreme Court Justices: Revisiting the Facts

[I was replying to a Catholic leftish Never Trumper, a month before the 2016 presidential...

May 19, 2019

Debate: Do Liberal Social Policies Lessen Abortion & Poverty?

I started out by posting the article, "Hillary Clinton to Receive Planned Parenthood's 'Champion of...

May 16, 2019

Dialogue: Racism, Republicans, Logic, and Liberals

This is a follow-up discussion, from yesterday's Dialogue: Pro-Life White Guys & Anti-Southern Prejudice. That dialogue...

May 15, 2019

Dialogue: Pro-Life White Guys & Anti-Southern Prejudice

This occurred on my Facebook page, underneath a New York Times article about Roe v....

April 2019

April 15, 2019

Three Popes (One a Saint) Called Abortion “Murder”

. . . But There is a Particular Time and Place for Such Language My...

April 03, 2019

“Unplanned”: Realistic Portrayal of Abortion Advocates & Opponents

I saw Unplanned last night and thought it was well-done. What was particularly realistic and...

March 2019

March 31, 2019

Dialogue: Does Personhood Begin at Conception?

... Includes Extensive Discussion on the "Hard Case" of Pregnancy by Rape Sogn Mill-Scout's words...

February 2019

February 09, 2019

Dialogue on Conservative vs. Liberal Pro-Life Voting

Nathaniel Sperling is a good Facebook friend, with whom I always have cordial and constructive...

December 2018

December 10, 2018

Premature New-Pro-Life “Nya Nya’s” Re Kavanaugh

New Pro-Lifers, Never Trumpers, non-conservative centrists, third-party types and liberals / leftists have been anxiously...

November 2018

November 15, 2018

Debate: SCOTUS & GOP in Relation to Abortion Rates

Scott Eric Alt, my friend and a pro-lifer who proudly voted Democrat in November 2018,...

November 07, 2018

Left-Wing “New Pro-Lifers” Are Also Pro-Life (DUH!)

A left-wing pro-lifer is a thing to discuss in and of itself (and I do...

July 2018

July 21, 2018

Civil Dialogue with an Advocate of Legal Abortion

This is a follow-up to my dialogue, “Pro-Abortion”: Reply to an Objection to its Use. My...

July 20, 2018

“Pro-Abortion”: Reply to an Objection to its Use

A person on my blog raised this objection, after I used the term "pro-abort" in...

May 2018

May 21, 2018

Richard Dawkins’ Outrageous Hypocrisy on Abortion

This is one of four critiques of the book, The God Delusion (New York

April 2018

April 19, 2018

This “Old” Pro-Lifer [Mostly] Agrees with “New” Ones

Sarah Babbs is a fellow writer at Patheos. She wrote an article entitled, "Pro-Life: Have...

April 19, 2018

Abortion in the Bible?: Debate w Zealous Agnostic

[Agnostic Ed Babinski's words will be in blue] *** In an earlier paper I made...

February 2018

February 17, 2018

Dialogue: Conservatives & “Old” Pro-Lifers & the Poor

The claim is that conservatives & "old" pro-lifers lack any appreciable concern for poor people....

February 15, 2018

“New” & “Old” Pro-Lifers: Roundtable Discussion About Divisions

This took place on a public thread on my friend Scott Eric Alt's Facebook page...

August 2017

August 31, 2017

“New” vs. “Old” Pro-Life Strategies (vs. John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe)

Image by "geralt" (10-29-12) [Pixabay / CC0 Creative Commons license] * * * The following...

August 30, 2017

Are “Old” Pro-Lifers Racists & “Anti-Woman”? (vs. John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe)

2017 March for Life; photograph by James McNellis (1-27-17) [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license] ***** John...

August 06, 2017

Abortion and a “Progressive and Humane Nation” (By Al Kresta)

Burial of the dead after the massacre of Wounded Knee (29 December 1890). At least...

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