John on August 1, 2010
This clip is the subject of George Will’s most recent column: As you can see, Boxer has no answer to Santorum’s central question and she knows it. She tries to filibuster. She tries to change the subject. This is not an emergency procedure. This is not medically necessary. What it is, as George Will correctly notes, is slightly modified infanticide. Liberal as they are, I don’t think the voters of [...]
John on July 2, 2010
I’m stealing this from Allahpundit at Hot Air because it’s a perfect follow up to yesterday’s post on this topic: Nice of CNN to notice though I will say that, given that this is the worst oil spill in world history, this issue isn’t getting half the play that Bush’s refusal to allow filming of coffins returning from Iraq got. It’s also very interesting to me that the media has [...]
John on June 30, 2010
Orrin Hatch is persistent and Kagan, the woman with no opinions, seems eager to avoid taking credit for the memo in question. Note that this isn’t merely support for partial birth abortion, which is despicable in its own right. This is someone using their government position to try and invent a reason for the law to protect this gruesome practice even after the doctors with expertise say they can envision [...]
John on June 29, 2010
That’s the thrust of this piece by Shannen Coffin: The task force’s initial draft statement did not include the statement that the controversial abortion procedure “might be” the best method “in a particular circumstance.” Instead, it said that the select ACOG panel “could identify no circumstances under which this procedure . . . would be the only option to save the life or preserve the health of the woman.” [...] Upon receiving the task [...]
John on June 7, 2010
Not that he’s endorsing the idea himself, he’s just saying that there’s a good new book that says as much and, well, it’s worth considering: Most thoughtful people are extremely concerned about climate change. Some stop eating meat, or flying abroad on vacation, in order to reduce their carbon footprint. But the people who will be most severely harmed by climate change have not yet been conceived. If there were [...]
John on April 20, 2010
The meme is simple. Right wing violence leads to extremism. As early as last April democratic staffers on Capitol Hill were passing out press releases claiming the Town Hall attendees were extremists and “neo-Nazis.” Since then the claim has been echoed by dozens of high profile opinion writers including Paul Krugman at the NY Times and Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post (who claims “far-left violence in this country has [...]
John on April 15, 2010
Just another day at Planned Parenthood, talking a young woman into having an abortion by lying: The amazing thing is, I bet this ignorant woman really believes what she is saying. Perhaps at some point she’ll wake up from the fog she’s in. [HT: Cassy Fiano in the Green Room with the butter knife]
John on April 11, 2010
He used a knife: A Sacramento Superior Court judge sentenced a 32-year-old man to 50-years-to-life imprisonment today for killing his girlfriend’s unborn baby by stabbing her in the stomach. That’s after Danny Ray Poplin Jr. serves 12 years for corporal injury and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with his Dec. 31, 2006 attack, Judge Greta Curtis Fall ruled. In November, a jury found Poplin guilty of first-degree murder [...]
John on March 13, 2010
I saw this yesterday on Fox. Just watch: Over at Hot Air Allahpundit thinks the whole scenario is unlikely or rather it’s more likely not to be true. Too close to “death panels.” He also notes this story which, whether true or not, doesn’t have anything to do with the current argument. You can reduce abortion rates through universal coverage and still not pay for abortions with federal funds. Personally, [...]
John on March 10, 2010
That’s the only conclusion you can reach when you look at the numbers as Cassy Fiano does: In the year 2007, Planned Parenthood made only 4,912 adoption referrals yet performed 305,310 abortions. Should those numbers really be so lopsided? No, but Live Action’s newest undercover project, the Rosa Acuna Project, shows why these numbers are so lopsided. The “counselors” at Planned Parenthood aren’t there to help women make the best [...]
John on February 20, 2010
The Blog Prof catches an amazing story that, shocker!, the MSM has completely blacked out: A woman was going in to have an abortion at a local butcher shop in Duluth, and was confronted by two pro-life protesters that urged her not to kill her baby. The woman was so angry that she brandished a knife and held it to one of the pro-life protester’s throat. She was of course [...]
John on February 16, 2010
Last week he offered one of the most tortured excuses for abortion ever printed on a news site. This week he offers a smoothed out retread of the same argument. The subtitle of his piece is “The pro-life case for pregnancy termination.” Now that he’s had two bites at the apple, what has Saletan produced? Not much: Wow. She was ready to sacrifice her life—and leave her children motherless—to give [...]
John on February 8, 2010
No wonder he won that blogger of the year award. Yesterday, after seeing the Tebow ad that had pro-abortion folks in a tizzy all week, Ed predicted that someone on the other side would claim the ad was akin to domestic violence. Here’s the ad, in case you missed it: Like some latter day Nostradamus of the interwebs, Ed wrote yesterday: the people who shrieked over CBS’ completely understandable decision [...]
John on February 6, 2010
Over at Slate, William Saletan offers a desperate bit of argumentation for…well, I’m not even sure what it’s for. He’s pro-choice certainly, but the argument itself is so extended it requires Cliff’s notes to follow it. First the basic facts. Pam Tebow had a “placental abruption” which is found in a small minority of pregnancies in the US, but more abroad. In some cases, continuing a pregnancy with a placental [...]
John on February 1, 2010
From the Daily Mail: Gervais, 48, said there were ‘too many unwanted children, too many people who are poor and struggling’. He added: ‘If they all had a good quality of life, no one would complain. What there is, is too many useless people. Too many people who shouldn’t have children.’ Asked whether there should be a limitation then, he told the Sunday Times: ‘Yes, based on… stupid, fat faces. [...]
John on January 29, 2010
The whole thing is worth reading, but I thought this bit was particularly well written: My own opposition to abortion-on-demand is not religious in nature. I believe there aren’t enough people in the world. The decision to deny a human being his, or her, opportunity to enter the living world and make the choices that compose a lifetime should never be made lightly. For people of religious faith, the exercise [...]
John on January 28, 2010
A friend and long time VS reader (who appears in the comments as “Lurker’s Wife”) agreed to send me some pics from her recent trip to the 2010 March for Life in Washington DC. Some excellent photos here and it looks like it was quite a crowd. Update: Zombie has lots of photos of a 40K strong March for Life in San Francisco.
John on January 23, 2010
Politico has the story of nervous pro-abortion liberals who were unnerved by this week’s overturning of parts of McCain-Feingold: “Yesterday’s Roberts court decision, which exhibited a stunning disregard for settled law of decades’ standing, is terrifying to those of us who care deeply about the Constitutional protections the court put in place for women’s access to abortion,” said Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights. “We are deeply concerned….Yesterday’s [...]
John on January 2, 2010
It hasn’t been confirmed to be pro-abortion violence by authorities yet, but that’s what it looks like: A pregnancy center in rural eastern Arizona that serves a predominantly native American population was severely burned in what appears to be an arson attack. The Living Hope Women’s Center clinic has closed indefinitely as a result of a fire that gutted a portion of the building on December 20. Dinah Monahan, the [...]
John on December 23, 2009
From Hot Air headlines: The important bit is at the end where he says there are a dozen Congressman who’ve vowed not to vote for the compromise bill unless the language is changed. Pelosi is going to have a hard time passing this if she’s down 12 votes.
