Archive for October, 2007
A Future Museum
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007In a thoughtful column in Britain’s Telegraph, a visitor to a Museum of London gallery on “London, Sugar, and Slavery” imagines what a future museum gallery might be like.
It is not hard to imagine how a future Museum of London exhibition about abortion could go. It could buy up a 20th-century hospital building as its [...]
International Perspectives on Life Issues
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007MercatorNet is an excellent online publication from Australia that covers a variety of topics. In the past week they’ve had a trio of worthy articles on life issues.
Shameful anniversary, sham inquiry. Forty years ago Britain passed a law that has facilitated 6.7 million abortions. A government inquiry has seen to it that nothing will change.
Making [...]
AUL Signs Letter to Congress RE: Planned Parenthood
Thursday, October 25th, 2007AUL joined 59 other pro-life organizations in sending a letter to all members of congress yesterday, with the following request:
In light of recent revelations of Planned Parenthood’s alleged systematic violation of state laws in Kansas, the undersigned organizations request the immediate suspension of Planned Parenthood’s federal funding until it can be determined whether the organization [...]
Washington Briefing Wrap Up
Monday, October 22nd, 2007We had a great time at FRC’s Washington Briefing, and I just can’t thank Joe Carter, Jared Bridges, Charmaine Yoest and everyone else at FRC who worked so hard to make the New Media Row such a success. So many bloggers, podcasters, and video podcasters showed up that they had to bring out more tables [...]
Why be Pro-Life?
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007This is the question National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg addresses in his Tribune Media Services column today.
While science provides plenty of information about when life begins, Goldberg and many many others take the position that “I don’t know if life begins at conception. I don’t really know what ‘life’ means.” He goes on to make [...]
AUL Sponsoring New Media at FRC’s Washington Briefing
Monday, October 15th, 2007AUL is sponsoring New Media at the Family Research Council’s Washington Briefing.
Here’s the list of official bloggers that will be on New Media Row:
David All - TechPresident
Marc Ambinder — The Atlantic
Nathan Bradfield — Church and State
Soren Dayton — eye0n08.com
Erick Erickson — RedState
Matthew Eppinette — Americans United for Life Blog
Jim Geraghty — NRO’s Campaign Spot
Justin [...]
MO Cloning Battle Heats Up Again
Friday, October 12th, 2007Cathy Ruse of Family Research Council weighs in at NRO on the latest in the battle over cloning in Missouri: Missouri Manipulation — Don’t get conned on cloning.
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Book Review: Democrats for Life
Thursday, October 4th, 2007My good friend Joe Carter provides a 60 second review of Kristen Day’s Democrats for Life: Pro-Life Politics and the Silenced Majority. Joe concludes:
Pro-life Democrats should read this book to learn how their party lost its moral footing on the issue of abortion; pro-life Republicans should read it as a cautionary tale of what could [...]
The Right Judicial Litmus Test
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Monday’s Wall Street Journal carried an outstanding opinion piece (subscription required, unfortunately) by Steven Calabresi, who is a professor of law at Northwestern and a cofounder of the Federalist Society. As the Supreme Court starts its new session, Calabresi weighs in on the best way to evaluate the Court’s work.
the proper basis on which we [...]
Hadley Arkes coming to Valparaiso University
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007From Valparaiso University Students for Life:
On Saturday, November 3, Professor Hadley Arkes from Amherst College in MA will be speaking at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN as part of VU Students for Life’s fall speaker series. Professor Arkes is a very well-known and well-respected author, speaker, and professor in the field of law and bioethics. [...]
