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January 2025

January 19, 2025

The ERA of 1972 no longer exists in 2024

So on Friday, President Joe Biden declared that the Equal Rights Amendment is henceforth adopted,...

July 2023

July 17, 2023

What’s A Pro-Life Illinoisan To do?

The Illinois Republican Party is struggling -- maybe not in the same way as in...

December 2022

December 27, 2022

The Violinist vs. the Castaway, and an attempt at a new abortion metaphor

Who recalls the metaphor of the violinist on life support? This metaphor was created by...

June 2022

June 28, 2022

On the end of Roe, and why I’m not as celebratory as I would like to be

I keep revisiting this draft, which I started a long time ago, when the Supreme...

February 2020

February 12, 2020

An Imaginary Speech from Amy Klobuchar

The following is a speech I offer to Sen. Amy Klobuchar as she tries to...

February 08, 2020

Confessions of a Never-Dem-er

Here's a line of reasoning that promotes voting for a Democrat, any Democrat, for president...

June 2019

June 15, 2019

No, there is no “right to a baby box”

SMDH, as they say. Let me start by telling you about the "family bill of...

May 2019

May 29, 2019

Just how far are we willing to “trust women”?

"Trust women." That's what we're told, time and again. We should "trust" that there is...

May 17, 2019

The statistics on abortion and social class

So in my prior post, I observed that the conventional wisdom that "the only people...

May 17, 2019

Who are the real pro-lifers?

One reads a lot, these days, about what it means to be "pro-life" -- and...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

On Baby Doe and Ralph Northam

In 1982, a child was born in Bloomington, Indiana, with a condition called a tracheoesophageal...

February 01, 2019

Sacrificing babies

To recap: in my prior post, I wrote about the new New York law, and...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

In the news: more wins for abortion supporters

Meanwhile, while we've been arguing about whether or not the Covington kids were innocent, or...

September 2017

September 29, 2017

Bruce Rauner, Scorpion

That's a folktale that shows up every now and again. It's in the form of...

January 2017

January 18, 2017

Can you be a “pro-life feminist”? (warning: rant)

The folks at Feminists for Life certainly believe so. A group calling itself the New...

December 2016

December 06, 2016

The Economist thinks it knows how to reduce abortion . . . eh, not so much

"How to Make Abortion Rarer" -- that's the title of an article in this week's...

August 2016

August 12, 2016

Objecting to objection: Abortion in Italy

Just passing on a link to an article in the New York Times, "On Paper,...

August 02, 2016

Not Newsworthy in Illinois? Rauner destroys conscience protections

Last Friday, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner signed into law the Orwellianly-named Health Care Right of...

March 2016

March 09, 2016

In the news: fetal deformities, transplants, and the NHS

Here's a report from LifeNews.com: "British Govt Encouraging Women to Give Birth to Disabled Babies...

February 2016

February 11, 2016

F.A.Q. on late-term abortion

Well, my post yesterday was a bit of a bust. I was hoping to spur...

February 10, 2016

So about those hard cases . . .

Here's what Chris Christie had to say at the latest GOP debate, as quoted by...

January 2016

January 28, 2016

So what about early miscarriages, anyway?

So what about early miscarriages? You've heard that before - and it's reappeared in comments...

January 25, 2016

A few thoughts on “pro-choice-ism”, and two analogies

Let's start with this: The pro-abortion attitudes I cited back on Friday, and the demands that...

January 22, 2016

What do 113 female lawyers tell us about abortion and “abortion alternatives”?

I'd been meaning to write about this for a while. Two weeks ago, Slate.com published...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Don’t defund Planned Parenthood – dismember them

Figuratively, of course. But it's kind of fitting, isn't it? Planned Parenthood's abortion providers dismember...

August 2015

August 22, 2015

Planned Parenthood: the media’s chosen their side

As you know if you've been following the reports on the Center for Medical Progress's...

August 19, 2015

If you’re Singerian about “personhood” will even the latest video perturb you?

If you've been following any of the major conservative news sites or blogs (but not...

August 05, 2015

Four challenges with #DefundPP

1) Is contraception "(medically-necessary) health care" or a wholly separate consumer-product category of drugs and devices,...

August 03, 2015

#UnplannedParenthood and a chicken-and-egg question

Which came first: the chicken or the egg? (Apparently, the egg, insofar as we've learned...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

Walgreens and Planned Parenthood

Yes, I know, and odd juxtaposition, but bear with me. From the Walgreens annual report,...