Mark Pickup reflects on his role in his former girlfriend’s 1971 abortion: In 1971, my girlfriend became pregnant with our baby. We were both seventeen years of age. She wanted to get married and have the baby. Not me, I was a goodtime Charlie. There were parties to attend, beers to drink, drunken choruses to sing. The prospect of fatherhood … Read More
Breaking the Chain of Violence and Hatred
The Daily Mail has a beautiful story of a young girl who refused to have an abortion despite the fact that her child was conceived in a brutal gang rape. Sadly, “Elizabeth” and her mother were almost completely alone in this decision (names have been changed for legal reasons): “One of the few things that Elizabeth is sure of is … Read More
Attention Roman Catholics for Obama
Obama, the Freedom of Choice Act, Abortion and the Catholic Church (h/t American Papist): “Catholics can support “pro-choice” candidates if they support them despite — not because of — their “pro-choice” views. But they also need a compelling proportionate reason to justify it. What is a ‘proportionate’ reason when it comes to the abortion issue? It’s the kind of reason … Read More
Barack Obama and Infanticide: Indefensible
When the man votes against a bill supported nationally by every major pro-abortion Democrat in Congress and unopposed by America’s largest abortion rights organization, there really is no defense except that he believes it is perfectly acceptable practice for hospitals and abortion clinics to put infants on shelves to die so long as someone was trying to kill them before … Read More
All Men are Created Equal
A nice little video from ProLifeUnity.com: Also said by Abraham Lincoln: “If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might in a moral point of view justify revolution; certainly would if such right were a vital one.” (March 4, 1861)
Theology of the Body: Original Happiness
Part four of the Cardinal Arinze podcast series on Theology of the Body is online: In honor of the coming election and the large number of Catholics pledging to vote for Barack Obama, check out this already classic podcast from the Cardinal from this April: Send 12 Swiss Guards to arrest them all! (Q&A 2007 – part VII): Subscribe to … Read More
This Time Last Year
Jay reminded us yesterday that July 17, 2007 was the day Barack Obama gave that chilling speech to Planned Parenthood in which he told the pro-abortion crowd that “what is at stake in this election” is the “fundamental freedom”, the “fundamental right” to abortion: “This is about more than just standing our ground, must be about more than protecting the … Read More
Wake Up America!
You must read this piece from Fr. John Corapi: Death Wish: the impending suicide of a once great nation (h/t Leticia). Here is a very little taste: The first and pre-eminent right is the right to life. This truth the Founding Fathers were sure of, and anyone with any common sense at all is equally sure of it. 232 years … Read More
“A Real Funeral for Real Human Beings”
Here is video from the funeral of the 7 babies whose bodies were found in an abortion clinic dumpster (h/t causa nostrae laetitiae): Previous post: Abortion Victims Laid to Rest
Abortion Victims Laid to Rest
A handful of tiny dead bodies were recently found in a dumpster outside a Michigan abortion clinic. Last Friday they were laid to rest in the presence of an estimated 600 people who never knew these young ones, yet loved them enough to gather and pray for the eternal rest of their souls (and their parents, no doubt) and to … Read More