Anti-abortion… Anti-women?

So, in between a life of much too busy, I hap­pened upon a news cast which, for lack of a bet­ter word, decried a cer­tain Super­bowl ad by Focus on the Fam­ily (in coop­er­a­tion with CBS, appar­ently. At least, accord­ing to this news cast). The news­cast seemed to give the impres­sion that any­one who pro­motes an anti-abortion posi­tion (i.e. “pro-life”) does not: (1) trust and value women (specif­i­cally, moth­ers) and girls,... Read More

on Abortion

I just fin­ished read­ing Fran­cis Scha­ef­fers A Chris­t­ian Man­i­festo and Peter Kreeft’s The Unaborted Socrates and it seems that Scha­ef­fer, like Kreeft, places strong empha­sis on abor­tion and the issues sur­round­ing abor­tion. Rightly so, I think. So, maybe some com­ments on Kreeft and Scha­ef­fer. On the legal­iza­tion of abor­tion Scha­ef­fer comments: “The door is open. In regard to the fetus, the courts have... Read More

Fetus: human being, if not, what?

We’ve all heard it said before: I don’t feel that a fetus is alive until it can sur­vive out­side of the mother. I’m not going to change my mind about that… I find this an unten­able posi­tion, though at least he used the word fetus rather than baby, excus­ing the emo­tional lan­guage, more on this in just a lit­tle bit. This entry isn’t intended as any sort of exhaus­tive dis­cus­sion of abor­tion, it isn’t even nec­es­sar­ily... Read More