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Freedom to choose and the health care debate
In the long-term there is little doubt that Obamacare will diminish the right of all Americans to make their own choices about health care coverage, but all the debate in Washington and the punditocracy right now is about the supposedly lost of the "right to choose" abortion. Yet, as the the Manchester Union Leader editorializes: Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus wrote about the issue, under the headline "Freedom of choice, except for women." She never explained how not ... (Continue reading)
Everything you wanted to know about Stupak-Pitts
Mary Harned of Americans United for Life explains in detail why the Stupak-Pitts amendment was necessary by going into great detail about what it does and doesn't do and why the Hyde Amendment was insufficient to prevent taxpayer subsidies covering abortion. (Continue reading)
‘Three parent’ babies
The Daily Telegraph reports that Japanese scientists are close to producing a "three parent baby" after successfully fertilizing an egg with two biological mothers. The first question that comes to mind is "Why?" Are scientists deliberately attempting to attack the sanctity of human life and undermine conjugal relationships, or is it just so much fun to play God that there are no rules to abide? (Continue reading)
Assorted links (11/12)
The National Right to Life Committee takes note of a study published in the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology that finds a high rate of complications when women use the RU-486 abortion pill. Dana Goldstein at The Daily Beast says Rep. Diana DeGette (D, Col), co-chairwoman of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, claims 40 pro-abortion Democrats have signed a letter to Congressional leaders threatening to vote against any health care bill that retains the Stupak amendment but that the list of signatories "remains closely guarded."... (Continue reading)
People deserve better than animals
One of the strange arguments pro-euthanasia advocates employ is to note that we don't let dogs suffer so likewise we should put grandma out of her misery by killing her. The denial of human exceptionalism (to use Wesley Smith's term) is baffling or revealing, but considering that we don't take people to veterinarians to be treated, perhaps that means they deserve different kinds of treatment. Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition notes a story in the Abbotsford ... (Continue reading)
Euthanasia — A naive approach
A Bloc Quebecois MP’s Private Members’ Bill, C-384, on the right to die with dignity, is frighteningly naïve, and should not be supported. The proposed legislation would amend the Criminal Code to allow a medical practitio-ner to aid a person who is experiencing severe physical or mental pain, or is suffering from a terminal illness, to die with dignity once the person has given his or her consent to die. It sounds noble: ending pain and suffering and supposedly giving the right ... (Continue reading)
Ben Nelson: the Senate version of Stupak?
Politico reports: Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) wants to see abortion language as restrictive as the Stupak amendment in the health care reform bill, his spokesman told POLITICO Monday. “Senator Nelson is strongly prolife and was pleased the Stupak amendment passed with such strong support," Thompson said in a statement. "He believes that no federal money—including subsidies or tax credits--should be used to buy insurance coverage for abortion. This is a very important issue to Senator Nelson and it is highly unlikely ... (Continue reading)
Assorted links (11/11)
The Calgary Herald reports that new Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith told a audience of Alberta business people that her party will focus on economic issues -- "those issues that the majority of Albertans care about" -- rather than "the divisive issues that tear us apart," such as abortion and gay rights, which "are not ones that are going to be on our election platform." Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker looks at Red China's one-child policy and the silence of some ... (Continue reading)
Abortion is not health care
Ann Friedman writes at Feministing (there is a non-swearing version at The American Prospect : On some level, I don't care about the nitty-gritty details of this amendment. This isn't just about how the money is allocated or what workarounds exist. This has me so incredibly infuriated because it further segregates abortion as something different, off the menu of regular health care. It is a huge backward step in the battle to convey -- not just politically, but to women ... (Continue reading)
Bishop castigates a Kennedy
Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of the Diocese of Providence and Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D, RI) have postponed a scheduled face-to-face meeting after the prelate stepped up the pressure on the congressman over his rejection of church teaching on abortion. Bishop Tobin's open letter to Rep. Kennedy can be read at the diocese's website and the story is covered by the Providence Journal. Bishop Tobin says to Kennedy: Congressman, I’m not sure whether or not you fulfill the basic requirements of being ... (Continue reading)
New stories at Interim.com
New on the website are articles on the parliamentary debate on euthanasia, the legal challenge to Canada's prostitution laws, the pro-life reaction to an Allan Guttmacher Institute report on abortion around the globe, and a report from the National Campus Life Network symposium in September. There is also our November editorial remembering pro-lifers who have passed away. Remember, we are going to roll out the articles from our November issue throughout the month. Next week we'll ... (Continue reading)
Being pro-choice means bossing around pro-life clubs
Josh Kolic is the vice president finance for the Lakehead University Student Union, which recently decertified the Lakehead University Life Support pro-life club and last week he had this to say about the decision. In a great victory for human rights on this campus, Life Support was denied club status in our first board meeting this year... So it is a victory for human rights to deny people the right to associate and express themselves. As your Vice President Finance, I ... (Continue reading)
Obama and the art of having it both ways
From the ABC News report on President Barack Obama's interview with Jake Tapper: In an exclusive television interview in the Map Room of the White House, Obama told ABC News' Jake Tapper that he was confident that the final legislation will ensure that "neither side feels that it's being betrayed." "I want to make sure that the provision that emerges meets that test -- that we are not in some way sneaking in funding for abortions, but, on the other hand, that we're ... (Continue reading)
Assorted links (11/10)
Derek Miedema of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada has the "Top 5 myths about euthanasia and assisted suicide." Katherine Bradley and Chuck Donovan of the Heritage Foundation look at "12 Policies that Undermine Civil Society" which are supported by Barack Obama and the Democratic Congress. Dr. Miriam Grossman questions the sexual health advice that Planned Parenthood is giving teenagers. Stand for Life surveys the U.S. denominations that support abortion. The National Right to Life Committee sent a ... (Continue reading)
Frum on Obamacare and abortion
In a typically hysterical post by David Frum, the former George W. Bush speechwriter notes that many women won't be able to have their abortions paid for through private insurance under Obamacare because of an amendment passed on Saturday before the final vote on H.R. 3962. That is debatable -- just as it is still an open question whether the funding restriction will survive the final bill. But if the restrictions on the use of taxpayer money on abortion coverage in private ... (Continue reading)
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