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March 2018

March 05, 2018

All Politics Is National

"All politics is local." According to that maxim, both parties catered to local issues and...

March 02, 2018

Church Members Who Believe in Abortion, by Denomination

Lots of church members believe in abortion. That's understandable, I suppose, since lots of churches...

March 01, 2018

The Pope’s Efforts to Reverse Birth Control Ban

It appears that Pope Francis is trying to reverse the Catholic Church's unpopular and widely-ignored...

February 2018

February 12, 2018

Mallory Millett’s Critique of Her Sister’s Feminism

Kate Millett, who died last year, has been called the Karl Marx--or even the Mao...

January 2018

January 23, 2018

The Secularist Case Against Abortion

You don't have to be a Christian to be pro-life. You don't have to be...

January 22, 2018

Has Trump Come Through for Pro-Lifers & Evangelicals?

President Trump won the support of most evangelicals and other pro-lifers, some of whom had...

January 18, 2018

The Philosophy That Opposes Birth and Being Born

In researching policies that are "antinatalist"--that is, "anti-birth," discouraging having children--I found that there is...

January 16, 2018

Requiring Pro-Life Clinics to Promote Abortion

Not content with having legalized abortion, some pro-abortion extremists want to force pro-lifers to promote...

January 03, 2018

How the Sexual Revolution Morphed into a Religion

If traditional religions are receding, and yet much of the population remains “spiritual but not...

November 2017

November 21, 2017

Environmentalism vs. Children

Some environmentalists have revived the notion that having children is immoral, contributing to global warming...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

Having a baby with a sex robot

Human ingenuity has given us a new information medium of staggering potential, a major use...

October 19, 2017

Pro-Abortionists Targeting Religious Institutions

Jerry Brown, the Democratic Governor of California, is an arch-liberal. But he doesn't let his...

October 10, 2017

Tebow the Missionary Kid & Kaepernick the Lutheran Confirmand

These two kneeling football players represent two strains of Christianity in America.

October 05, 2017

House Passes Bill Banning Abortion After 20 Weeks

The House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks. That...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Hugh Hefner’s Actual Legacy

Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy Magazine, has died at age 91. Along with the birth control...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

Eliminating Down Syndrome–by Abortion

The headlines read like this: "Iceland is Becoming Nearly the First Country with no Down...

August 23, 2017

Why the Alt-Right is Pro-Abortion

The National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) is trying to associate the pro-life movement with...

August 11, 2017

Latest developments

I'm going to experiment with some short form blogging for the weekend, calling your...

August 07, 2017

Vatican Condemns U.S. Catholic Conservatives

An official Vatican publication has condemned Catholic conservatives in America for participating with evangelicals in...

July 2017

July 31, 2017

The baptized Charlie Gard dies

The baby Charlie Gard, the subject of a controversial legal battle, was taken off of...

July 28, 2017

American scientists “edit” the genes of human embryos

For the first time, American scientists have "edited" the DNA of developing children. The...

July 25, 2017

“It’s too late for Charlie”

The parents of the baby Charlie Gard have given up their legal battle to send...

July 20, 2017

Why having fewer children won’t save the earth

A study that claims having one fewer child will reduce your carbon footprint by 58...

July 18, 2017

The U.S. doctor will go to U.K. for Charlie Gard

If the baby can't go to the doctor, let the doctor come to the baby....

July 13, 2017

Oregon to force taxpayers to pay for abortion

Oregon is enacting a law that will require all insurance companies to pay for abortions,...

July 11, 2017

Why it was good that we broke away from Britain

Some say that the American revolution was not really necessary. That staying with Great Britain...

July 11, 2017

Russian adoptions and the Donald Trump Jr. meeting

President Trump's son, Donald, Jr., admits that after his father's nomination, he met with a...

July 03, 2017

Euthanasia for “a completed life”

First euthanasia was supposed to be for people who were terminally ill. Then for those...

June 2017

June 26, 2017

Court throws out most charges against makers of Planned Parenthood videos

Pro-abortion fanatics have been trying to get David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt put in prison for...

June 19, 2017

Infant morality

Christians who don't believe in baptizing infants generally hold to the notion of "the age...