Celebrating Intellectual Dishonesty in the Abortion Debate
Making the digital rounds this week is a Youtube clip of a precocious 12-year-old girl delivering her articulate defense of the pro-life position on abortion. Conservative bloggers immediately fell in...
View ArticleSeeking Clarity in the Abortion Debate
This weekend on Secular Right, John Derbyshire proposed pruning some of the language we use to frame the abortion debate: Isn’t there any way to wean people off the silly, prissy, dishonest terminology...
View ArticleChoice For Me, But Not For Thee
Health care provider conscience laws began to appear on the federal books shortly after the United States Supreme Court decided Roe v Wade in 1973. These statutory provisions protect health care...
View ArticleMandating Late-Term Abortion Training for OB/GYNs?
A few months ago, I wrote about the movement to apply a pro-choice litmus test to OB/GYN residency applicants. The theory is that there aren’t enough doctors willing to perform abortions because...
View ArticleTwo Thumbs Up, Social Cons!
Media reports have hailed Saturday’s passage of the Stupak amendment – a measure to impose tight restrictions on federally subsidized abortions – as a great triumph for pro-life Republicans. What a...
View ArticleKeep Government Out of Health Care, Say … Liberals?
Want a clear indication that the federal government has no business getting into the health insurance industry? Look no further than the Stupak amendment, the measure that attached tight abortion...
View ArticleGenius Idea of the Month: Reparations for Planned Parenthood
Did you know that Planned Parenthood was deeply wronged when CBS chose to air the pro-life Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow and his mom? That’s what one editor at The Nation thinks. From my article at...
View ArticleDefending The Right to Race-Based Abortions?
1921 diagram from the Eugenics Record Office The virtue of hate crime legislation is a given on the Left. Criminals deserve stiffer punishments if they select victims based on race or sex, end of...
View ArticleFeminist Left Uses Child’s DIY Abortion by Pencil to Score Political Points
Originally published at David Horowitz’s NewsReal _____________ 30-year-old Michael Lisk told police he had sex with his 13-year-old neighbor “too many times to count.” He said the rapes, which began...
View ArticleAnthony Weiner’s Flaccid Feminism
Originally published at Frontpage Magazine ___________ “My name is Anthony Weiner and I stand for women!” That’s not just a tailor-made caption for the indiscreet photo sent from the New York...
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