THE FIRST HALF OF THIS POST (BELOW) WAS WRITTEN DURING THE 2008 PRE-ELECTION PERIOD AND SENT TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY AND TO PRO-LIFE ASSOCIATES. ALTHOUGH MOST OF THOSE TEN POINTS OF CONCERN COVERED ECONOMICS, GOVERNANCE, WORLD AFFAIRS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, THE MAIN RAISON D’ETRE FOR VOICING ANGST OVER A POTENTIAL OBAMA REIGN WAS HIS CLEARLY-EVIDENT… [Read more…]
June 27, 2011
Those in denial about late-term, second-trimester elective abortions of viable or potentially-viable infants (21/22 through 27/28 weeks’ gestation lmp) say that “the numbers are not real”. That “the problem doesn’t exist”. Or “even if there are some late-term abortions, they are very rare and only occur in the third trimester”. And “anyway, those ‘fetuses’ are… [Read more…]
March 2, 2011
As recently as 2006, Senior Editor of National Review magazine Ramesh Ponnuru wrote in his important book “The Party of Death” that (in regard to a 1997 mischievous bill put forward by Senate Democrat leader Tom Daschle to ban third trimester abortions as a counter to the Republicans’ reintroduced bill to ban partial birth abortion)… [Read more…]
February 23, 2011
segments of this article originally posted on July 26, 2010 Essential points to recap are (1) several major medical studies over the past decade have proven that infants at 22 weeks’ gestation lmp are potentially viable (far earlier than the 24, 26 or 28 weeks previously thought): (2) 20% of extremely premature infant births… [Read more…]
January 11, 2010
A recent news article in the Wall Street Journal, reporting on the Kansas trial of the man who shot Dr. Tiller, repeated an oft-quoted misconception that the Kansas abortion physician was one of only a very few doctors to perform late-term second- and third-trimester abortions in the United States. (WSJ Jan 9/10, 2010) The number… [Read more…]
November 2, 2009
Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle was a spiritual follower and helper of the late Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her Order, and has written a book entitled “Mother Teresa and Me – Ten Years of Friendship”. Donna-Marie is a lay Missionary of Charity. She has been a guest on EWTN’s “Faith & Culture” program, talking about… [Read more…]
October 25, 2009
In your August 10, 2009 New York Magazine piece by Gale Scott re “High Abortion Rate Worries NY Experts”, let me add some additional facts. In 2005, the CDC Annual Abortion Surveillance Report lists New York State as having 124, 849 legal abortions, with New York City at 88,891. Your article’s figure of 90,157 is… [Read more…]
October 8, 2009
Awful in the sense of awe-full. Mother Theresa of Calcutta, now Blessed, said these words (possibly in the company of then-President Clinton and his wife, at an annual Washington Prayer Breakfast): ”There can be no peace in this world as long as we make war against the unborn child…the most vulnerable…” We too, in America,… [Read more…]
September 10, 2009
NEARLY A THIRD OF CALIFORNIA’S 300,000 ABORTIONS A YEAR ARE TAXPAYER FUNDED UK MRC STUDIES SHOW DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT IN SURVIVABILITY OF 22-25-WEEKS’ PREEMIES LATE-TERM (21-WEEKS-PLUS) D&E POST-VIABILITY ABORTIONS ARE OVER 1.5% OF ALL ABORTIONS PEW RESEARCH FINDS NEARLY 50% OF CATHOLICS ARE IN FAVOR OF ABORTION COMPARISON OF D&X (PARTIAL BIRTH) AND D&E (DISMEMBERING) IN… [Read more…]
March 27, 2012
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