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JivinJehoshaphat (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Hadley Arkes provides a suggestion for Republican senators regarding what they should question Judge Sotomayor about. The Republicans can simply ask Judge Sotomayor to explain what Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton established. If she just says those cases established a right to abortion for the first three months of the pregnancy, the Republicans can correct her, and correct her on national television....
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
"The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right." -- David Souter , after being sworn in as a Supreme Court justice in 1990...
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Thoughts of a Regular Guy (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
[guest commentary by Paladin] In many of the discussions on this blog, the moral debates have (on the liberal/secular side) very often regressed to a sort of "battle cry" which can be roughly translated: "Whom is it hurting?" That touches on a key point, I think: what does it mean to "harm" someone? Isn't it rather important to have a definition of "harm" (at...
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The Republican Revolutionary (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
Joe Scarborough: Off The Reservation! The man has a few good points, but most of this interview will make you want to scream, if you care about conservative social issues. I think that working at MS-LSD has been slowly eating away at the man or he is a socialist plant to soften the Republican base and move the party into the middle. If you care about social issues (Abortion, Gay marriage, Christian...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
The New York Times reported on Wednesday that " Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees." Jim Rutenberg’s story on page A-15 followed one iron law to the letter: advocates for the "LGBT lobby" are not described anywhere as "liberal," but their opponents...
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Truth Out (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Richmond, Virginia - A sharply divided federal appeals court upheld Virginia's ban on a type of late-term abortion Wednesday, ruling that the statute does not unduly burden a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy by more conventional means. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said in a 6-5 decision that the 2003 law also makes clear the type of procedure that is banned and adequately protects women's...
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JivinJehoshaphat (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion in a 6-5 vote. The Center for Reproductive Rights isn’t happy about it. Micah Watson asks, “Is the Abortion Debate Over?” and reviews Scott Klusendorf’s The Case for Life. Nevertheless, the philosophical debate about the normative dimensions of the abortion issue still comes down to...
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LifeNews.com (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Phoenix, AZ (LifeNews.com) -- The Arizona legislature has sent a package of pro-life bills to Governor Jan Brewer and she is expected to sign them into law. That would be a departure from pro-abortion former Gov. Janet Napolitano, who signed up for President Barack Obama's administration after vetoing numerous pro-life bills over the years.
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
Guttmacher Institute publications often have a clear disconnect between the actual findings of research they cite and spin they give to these findings. "All That's Old Is New Again: The Long Campaign To Persuade Women to Forego Abortion," which recently appeared in Guttmacher Policy Review, is no exception. In this article the author, Rachel Benson Gold argues that pro-life efforts geared...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Re the Bork/Potemra/McCarthy discussion on abortion, I agree in principle with Judge Bork's position in favor of allowing legislatures to decide, but in practice I agree with Mike that this would have had consequences for the vigor of the pro-life movement. As to other countries, Britain and Europe are far more advanced in their post-Christian condition, and abortion isn't an issue. Very few social...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Mike, abortion is obviously less likely to be banned because it can't be banned barring one of two unlikely developments: a Supreme Court majority willing to overrule Roe or a constitutional amendment. I'm responding though because I want to correct a misimpression I may inadvertently have caused. When I drew the analogy between anti-abortion advocacy and anti-gay-marriage advocacy, I meant only to...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/23/2009
Mike, maybe Ramesh has a different take on this, but I imagine Judge Bork would say that the pro-life movement is more vigorous in the U.S. because abortion on demand was imposed by the fiat of the politically insulated branch and, because this was done by the Roe majority's purporting to construe the Constitution, that makes it virtually impossible to reverse (other than by getting the Court itself...
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OxBlog (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
WHAT ABORTIONIST KILLERS BELIEVE: What are the beliefs that motivate extreme anti-abortion activists to murder the doctors that perform abortions? My friend and colleague Jon Shields provides careful answers to a question that usually provokes little more than partisan rhetoric. Jon, now a professor at Claremont McKenna, recounts the influence on the extremist movement of violent activist Michael Bray....
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Judge Bork gave a fascinating interview to Stuart Taylor Jr. for Newsweek about the Sotomayor nomination. It's well worth a read for a number of reasons -- for example, he cautions Republicans that a filibuster would be unwise. But I want to draw special attention to what he said about abortion. Taylor asked him, "Was it your view that the law on abortion should be left totally to the democratic...
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The Clue Batting Cage (Free subscription) | 06/22/2009
Las Vegas Review Journal editor Sherman Frederick woke up . I pushed the DMV clerk the paperwork. She shoved it back and said I didn't have to fill out that form if my address remained the same. "No, I want to change party affiliation." "Oh," she said. "Had enough of the president, have we?" "Up to here. I quit." Republicans offer our only hope in slowing the...
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rubber2002 | 11/12/2008
President-elect Barack Obama could reverse some of President Bush's most controversial executive orders, including restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, shortly after taking office in January.
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klhrevolution | 06/25/2008
Not many people are aware of the multitudes killed by governments in the past, present and likely the future. It is hard to believe that the government that you pledged allegiance to, sang anthems for could be evil to the core. It is hard to come to the realization that you and your loved ones have been indoctrinated since birth. And this raises the question. What do we really know about the education
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www.italica.sm | 02/13/2008
[Italica] - Seven police officers interrogated a woman few hours after she had an abortion at the 21th week of pregnancy in a hospital in Naples. However, from the inquiries made it appeared that it was legal. As a matter of fact, the Italian law permitts the abortion up to the sixth months of pregnancy if the fetus has a malformation. The doctors declared that they have detected the Klinefelter syndrome
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