Government of Trinidad and Tobago: No Homosexual “Weddings,” No Abortion

The government of the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago has made a strong statement in favor of maintaining the role of traditional marriage in the country’s cultural and social fabric, and said it will not relax its restrictions on abortion.
In the latest draft of the “National Policy on Gender and Development of the Republic [...]

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Amnesty International Caught in “One Big Lie”

Last year international media was awash with headlines about the case of pregnant 14-year-old Polish girl, who had become the focal point of the debate about abortion in the strongly pro-life country. In the end the girl aborted her child, apparently under intense pressure to do so from her mother and an international pro-abortion group.
But [...]

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Revelations that non-terminally ill people were euthanised in Switzerland calls into question the ‘right to die’ campaign

Concern will be expressed today by senior UK medical officials about the fact that patients with non-fatal illnesses have been arriving at the Swiss assisted-suicide clinic. The controversial clinic was in the news last month over its proposal to assist the death of a healthy Canadian woman who wished to die at the same time [...]

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Huckabee Hashes Out Abortion Arguments with Comedian Jon Stewart

The June 18 episode of the Daily Show featured an unusual topic for a late-night comedy segment: abortion.  Host Jon Stewart, who said he blamed guest Mike Huckabee for the choice of topic, dejectedly pulled out a bottle of whiskey as the segment began.
But the ensuing discussion proved both civil and hard-hitting as the former [...]

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The Rare Achievement of Disagreement

There’s a great article from First Things reporting on a recent panel discussion with the subject “Is It Wrong to End Early Human Life?”.  Participants included Robert George, Peter Singer, Don Marquis, Patrick Lee, Jeff McMahan, John Haldane and Elizabeth Harman, a mix of prominent pro-life and pro-abortion choice scholars.  “On any measure, these are [...]

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How to treat an unfaithful husband

This week Mark Sanford, Governor of South Carolina, confessed to involvement in an extramarital affair with an Argentine woman. The governor had lied about his whereabouts over the previous week and later emerged to rectify the matter. Sanford reportedly “teared up” as he delivered an apology. “The bottom line is, I have been unfaithful to [...]

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Amnesty International Blasts Poland For Not Promoting Abortion as So-Called Right

Amnesty International recently issued its 2009 survey of what it considers to be the state of human rights throughout the world. Of particular interest to social conservatives is Amnesty’s continued campaign to advance a “right” to abortion globally.
In its entry on Poland , Amnesty raps the country for its alleged “Denial of access to abortion [...]

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Is the Abortion Debate Over?

The philosophical debate about abortion has reached a welcome level of clarity. The pro-life movement must capitalize on recent gains in public policy and opinion by equipping their grass-roots supporters with winsome arguments and effective strategies to continue to cultivate a culture of life.
Full article here

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How many mothers die from ‘unsafe abortion’?

Maternal deaths during pregnancy or childbirth, the vast majority in developing countries, constitute one of the world’s greatest hidden epidemics. The death toll is estimated at more than half a million mothers a year.
World leaders meeting at the UN agreed that reducing maternal mortality is essential to fulfilling their “collective responsibility to uphold the principles [...]

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Love of contraception will turn Baby Boomers into economic victims around 2050

The world’s 65-and-older population will triple by mid-century to one in six people, leaving the US and other nations struggling to support the elderly.
The number of senior citizens has already jumped 23 percent since 2000 to 516 million, according to US census estimates released on Tuesday. That is more than double the growth rate for [...]

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