Even some of those who use the technology will admit that IVF makes human life a commodity. From yesterday’s NYTimes piece about a woman who was chose to kill one of the healthy unborn twins she conceived via IVF: “Things would have been different if we were 15 years younger or if we hadn’t had children already or if we … Read More
Celebrating Life on July 4
I Am An American I am endowed by my Creator With the inalienable right to life Just like you, and every other American. You know who I am. Now that you can see my face, Will you use your voice? Please tell America, I am an American, too. America, it’s time to protect your children again. When the founders of … Read More
Authentic Love
“Authentic love is not a vague sentiment or a blind passion. It is an inner attitude that involves the whole human being. It is looking at others, not to use them but to serve them. Love, in a word, is the gift of self.” – Blessed John Paul II In today’s culture it is considered “loving” for families to end … Read More
The Difference Faith Makes
Yesterday I wrote about an article in the UK Daily Mail written by a mother who chose to kill her unborn son who was diagnosed with spina bifida. Today I was just struck by the stark contrast between her negative and fear based vision of life with a handicapped child and a recently uncovered email written by former Governor Sarah … Read More
Everyone Has the Right to Pursue Happiness
It’s one of the fundamental human rights that our founding fathers here in the US formally recognized in our Declaration of Independence. And, yet, so many human beings here and throughout the world are judged by someone else’s standard of happiness and snuffed out (denied their other most basic human right to life) and never given the chance to pursue … Read More
Suicide, Abortion and a Kevorkian Round-Up
Ross Douthat has a couple of good pieces at the NY Times. First, is his op-ed on death of Jack Kevorkian and the public’s approval of his deadly profession: If participating in a suicide is legally and ethically acceptable, in other words, it can’t just be because cancer is brutal and dementia is dehumanizing. It can only be because there’s … Read More
The Delicate Pro-Life Balancing Act
The tagline of a recent Pampers commercial states: “Every baby is a little miracle to celebrate, support and protect.” To which Patheos blogger Julia Becker asks: Is it a trite advertising tagline? Or a profound truth?… Should we celebrate babies born to teenagers? Babies born through in vitro fertilization? Is there a way to celebrate the life of every baby … Read More
Easter Giveaway, Given Away!!
Congratulations to Sherry from Spokane, WA! She is the lucky winner of the first ever Reflections of a Paralytic (ROAP) giveaway: an autographed copy of Abby Johnson‘s powerful pro-life testimony, Unplanned (which she is pictured signing to the right!). I do hope to do more of these, so be sure to “like” the ROAP Facebook page to be automatically entered … Read More
Prenatal Genetic Testing is Not the Problem, Abortion Is
Rebecca Taylor is a voice of sanity on the whole issue of genetic testing (she is responding to this LifeNews piece from Kristen Hawkins): I have the utmost respect for Ms. Hawkins and I feel her anger and frustration. Having tested pregnant mothers and their partners for cystic fibrosis mutations, I am fully aware of how this information is being … Read More
The Shrill Cry of an Old, Dying, Barren Generation
During last week’s seemingly endless debate about the Federal budget, which largely came down to a “debate”, if you can call it that, about de-funding Planned Parenthood, the Nation’s largest abortion chain, Nancy Pelosi said that the GOP was waging a “war on women” (h/t Creative Minority Report) There is “a war on women,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says, … Read More