Category: Abortion
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California and Abortion
The first is becoming as morally repugnant as the second. Here: California has long promoted abortion on demand, and even forces taxpayers to pay for elective abortions through its state Medicaid program. But one of their latest efforts is really beyond the pale. Abortion advocates in the state recently became alarmed that the burgeoning number…
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The Left’s Misplaced Moral Enthusiasm
Among the leftists who profess deep concern over the effect on children of the President's salty talk are leftists who endorse the killing of disabled unborn children. I call that misplaced moral enthusiasm. Which is worse: mocking a disabled reporter as Trump is alleged to have done, or the late-term abortion of the disabled unborn? …
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Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained
The 'pro-choice' movement, to use the polite euphemism, is fueled by concupiscence. Not entirely, of course. To what extent, then? One naturally wants the pleasures of sexual intercourse without any consequences. One seeks cost-free indulgence in the most intense sensuous pleasure known to man. Unrestricted abortion on demand is a convenient remedy to an inconvenient…
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The Sad State of Public Discourse in an Age of Ideology
The inability to follow an argument and respond reasonably and civilly to what an author actually maintains is a mark of the present miserable state of public discourse. Even prominent conservative commentators display this inability. A recent example is the Never-Trumper and NRO contributor David French's febrile flailing at Tully Borland. Professor Borland ignited a…
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Why Alabamans Should Vote for Roy Moore
Tully Borland makes the case in The Federalist. In so doing he has provoked a crap storm of controversy. See here and here. The quality of the Twitter jabs of an army of thoughtless twits justifies my talk of a crap storm. It is depressing to realize how few people today are able calmly to…
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Trump Nixes Outrageous Obamacare Birth Control Mandate
Here. Prominent Catholics such as Robert P. George and George Weigel who refused to vote for Trump made a massive error in judgment. I was right to lay into them in Catholics Must Support Trump.
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Are ‘Progressives’ Now Entirely Devoid of Moral Sense?
From an article by A. N. Wilson: Not believing in abortion, like not believing in gay marriage, is now, unquestionably, a thought crime. It was hardly surprising that the Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg recently said he did not believe in abortion, because he is a man of conviction as well as a Roman Catholic, and…
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Do Black Lives Matter?
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am not now, and never have been, a Southerner, a redneck, a plantation owner, slave holder, apologist for slavery, Civil War re-enactor on the Confederate (or Union) side, racist, or white supremacist. I condemn slavery as a grave moral evil. I also condemn abortion as a grave moral evil. Holding that all…
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Abortion: The Actual Future Principle, An Objection, and a Sophistical Reply
Elizabeth Harman puts forth the following 'principle': The Actual Future Principle: An early fetus that will become a person has some moral status. An early fetus that will die while it is still an early fetus has no moral status. ("Creation Ethics: The Moral Status of Early Fetuses and the Ethics of Abortion," Philosophy and…
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Ayn Rand on Abortion
I was a little unfair to Elizabeth Harman the day before yesterday. I said she has "presented perhaps the most lame abortion argument ever made public." As knuckleheaded as her argument is, there is one that is worse.
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Elizabeth Harman’s Abortion Argument
A curious new abortion argument by Princeton's Elizabeth Harman is making the rounds. (A tip of the hat to Malcolm Pollack for bringing it to my attention.) It is not clear just what Harman's argument is, but it looks to be something along the following lines: 1) "Among early fetuses there are two very different…
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More Proof that ‘Liberals’ are Morally Retarded
1) JPod on Kathy Griffin. It is not just Griffin who is at fault here, but every 'liberal' who contributes to an environment in which the sorry Griffin can get away with her vile stunt, at least initially. The nadir of cultural decline is still a ways off yet, however: CNN fired the sick comedienne. 2)…
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The Collapse of the Catholic Universities
Yet another example, one so egregious that I pinch myself to see if I am awake: Stéphane Mercier, a lecturer in philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (UCL) in Belgium initially was suspended from teaching, pending the outcome of disciplinary proceedings, because there was opposition in a class from a feminist group to his philosophical argument to the…
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Trump Against Abortion
Here: President Trump on Monday reignited the war over abortion by signing an executive order blocking foreign aid or federal funding for international nongovernmental organizations that provide or "promote" abortions. You conservative pro-life Never Trumpers are starting to look mighty stupid 'long about now, don't you think? You refused to support the one guy who…
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Nat Hentoff, Defender of Human Life (1925-2017)
I have been a fan of Nat Hentoff ever since I first read him in the pages of Down Beat magazine way back in the '60s. He died at 91 on January 7th. My tribute to him is a repost from 4 June 2012: A Prime Instance of Political Correctness: The Blackballing of Nat Hentoff…