Purify Your Bride

“One of the most troubling aspects of the proposed rules is the overly-broad definition of ‘abortion,’” write Clinton and Murray. “This definition would allow health-care corporations or individuals to classify many common forms of contraception — including the birth control pill, emergency contraception and IUDs — ‘abortions’ and therefore to refuse to provide contraception to [...]

I don’t write about Canadian politics much. I do follow it but I know most of the folks at St Blogs are not Canadian so they would not care much. Still I think we have reached a new low in terms of the social conservative politic agenda. That is mostly the issues of abortion [...]

I like James Dobson. I have since high school. We still listen to focus on the family as my kids are nearly in high school. I have to say I was disappointed at his response to Obama’s speech on religion. It is not that I disagree with him. I think he is basically right. I [...]

I knew when I brought up politics I would get the typical partisan rant as a response. Devin Rose is a good guy. We are both converts and programmers and bloggers. I have read his blog and seen his comments on other blogs so I know he is quite bright and a very serious Catholic. [...]

Lately, I have been following US presidential politics quite closely. I don’t blog about it much because everyone at St Blogs is pretty much in awe of George Bush and I am not. In fact, I am not impressed by many politicians in either party. I do see Obama as being a game changer. That [...]

An interesting poll done by Time. LifeSite found it noteworthy that most Americans were opposed to 96% of abortions that actually occur. What I thought was even more interesting is they didn’t even include the current law as an option. The most pro-choice option selected by 42% was:

a woman should be able to get an [...]

How much jail time should a woman get if abortion is illegal and she has one anyway? The debate around this question shows a bit about why this nation is not ready to make abortion illegal. The pro-choice side has been forcing this question to the forefront because the public reacts very badly to the [...]

Ellen Burnstyn is no friend of the Catholic church. She left the church when she was young and now has written a book pushing some combination of many religions. Still when CFRB in Toronto asked her what the lowest point of her life was she said it was her abortion. She is 74 years old [...]

Interesting comment from Thos on the pill and how many abortions it may be producing. I am not sure if the numbers are accurate but you get the point. Even a small rate of abortions produced by the pill does mean a lot of babies killed when you multiply by 10 million users of the pill. Of [...]

Archbishop Burke has restated in a more rigorous way his belief that those who take the prochoice position, especially in a very public way, should not be allowed to receive the Eucharist. I say more rigorous because he is arguing from cannon law. That is his area of expertise so this analysis should carry some [...]

I guess I feel that there is a critical mass of public opinion that must be reached before we can expect to be effective in the passing of laws. I think the civil rights laws and laws against other activities like drunk driving and public smoking did require a huge shift in public opinion before [...]

Kyl was commenting a bit on my last post. He brought up a few points by Dr Francis  Beckwith who has written a new book on the morality of abortion. Thanks for that Kyl. Some of the questions were around somebody, also named Frank, who saw abortion laws as bad. I was not saying that. [...]

I wonder if we as Christians should even be trying to make abortion illegal. If we somehow get the judges we want in there to let us pass the laws it won’t end abortion. It will mean politicans who have hid behind Row v Wade for a long time will now have to deal with [...]

I went to a meeting of the CCBR. They are a pro-life group that tries to make the horrors of abortion known to the society at large. One thing they do is put pictures of aborted fetuses on large trucks and drive them around town. It is an interesting tactic. It makes people very uncomfortable. [...]