Friday, July 29, 2022

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By Maria McFadden Maffucci:
Almost 30 years ago, after my first miscarriage, I wrote an article for the Review ... Today, with the idea pushed that a fetus is a human life only if you want it, the guard-rail is gone, and women who are in a crisis are being taken advantage of, by men in their lives, by feminists who want to deny that childbearing is more than just a choice among many other choices, and by an abortion industry that makes millions of dollars a year from women “in trouble.”
By Ellen Wilson Fielding:
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Two thousand years ago, Jesus demonstrated his ability to walk on water. What we now wait to see is whether the morally “evolved” nations of the West, having jettisoned their Origin Story in favor of a myth of infinite progress and a consequent abhorrence of the past, can perform the miracle of perambulating in mid-air, unsupported philosophically and ethically by any real foundation of meaning—any explanation of our purpose, our origin and goal, our Creator and Redeemer.
By Edward Mechmann:
You can’t understand abortion law unless you understand abortion facts. And that is proving extremely difficult in a media and political environment that is full of misinformation and outright deception.
By Diane Moriarty:
The pro-abortion front is counting on mothers putting nationwide legal abortion above their families and their transportation needs, expecting that emotion-driven women will vote for pro-abortion politicians as an act of ideological revenge against “right-wingers” while budgets explode, and savings are drained. It’s an awkward position, one pro-abortionists didn’t suffer as long as an errant Supreme Court was in their corner. Now there’s more to weigh, more to consider. It’s between-the-ears territory.
By Rev. W. Ross Blackburn:
Abortion has always been a national shame. But now, even if only in part, the cover has been withdrawn. There are two ways to deal with shame. One is to come clean, confess, and seek to make things right. The other is to double-down and self-justify. Before June 24, advocates didn’t need to work hard to justify abortion and the sexual license it promotes. Now they do.
By John Grondelski:
In June 2022, the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, ruled 5-2 ... that Happy—an elephant that has been at the Bronx Zoo for 40 years—did not have a right to habeas corpus .... Chief Judge Janet DiFiore [wrote] in her majority opinion, “it has no applicability to Happy, a nonhuman animal who is not a ‘person’ subjected to illegal detention.”
By Rev. Canon Victor Lee Austin:
[W]hen the culture goes berserk, any one of us can still make a difference by attending to that which is within the compass of our household. We make a difference by being faithful to whatever vows we have made and lovingly diligent to whatever children we might be given.
By Madeline Fry Schultz:
Dr. Kristin Collier is ... director of the school’s Health, Spirituality, and Religion program and is “enormously popular” with “enviable” patient ratings, according to the dean who introduced her. ... [W]hat happened to Dr. Collier is part of a larger trend of abortion supporters silencing pro-life advocates to avoid looking more closely at the issue.
By Edward Mechmann:
By adding it to the constitution, abortion would be treated as a “fundamental right.” Any right in that category is close to impossible to regulate or restrict. Any attempt to do so is evaluated by the courts under the most stringent standard, called “strict scrutiny.” One Supreme Court justice once called that test “strict in name, fatal in fact.”
By Madeline Fry Schultz:
The Department of Health and Human Services last week issued a mandate ordering doctors to perform abortions if they determine a mother’s life is at risk, no matter what a state law might direct. In response, Texas is suing the Biden administration, with Attorney General Ken Paxton saying the mandate would permit “abortions under a whole new range of circumstances.”



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