The Briefing have published an article which is a reworking of a few pieces I penned a while ago, “Our Messy Individualism“. Here’s a short excerpt of some of the reasoning part-way through, I suspect, therefore, there’s a more basic common motivation that influences the push towards both abortion and gay adoption—that of the increasing perception of [...]
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A helpful little list from Trevin Wax at TGC (via Challies) 1. You say you support a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices in regards to abortion and contraception. Are there any restrictions you would approve of? 2. In 2010, The Economist featured a cover story on “the war on girls” and the growth of “gendercide” in the world – [...]
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from Adrian Warnock. I don’t think it needs any additional commentary: In the UK we have a peculiar form of hypocrisy about abortion. When the law allowing abortion was passed (note to my American readers, this was passed by an act of parliament, not a ruling of unelected judges) it was argued that abortion was needed [...]
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This is going to be a bit of a ramble. Grab a cup of something and sit down with me… I’ve been working through the latest government adoption report [pdf] in Australia, prompted by my previous post and I came across this chilling sentence (chapter 4, p.34): Broader social trends, such as declining fertility rates, the wider [...]
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A striking op-ed (first featured at Ricochet and also on his website) from Santorum, who is clearly seeking to solidify his position as the traditionalist conservative. Here’s a chunk of the argument, Marriage is, and has always been through human history, a union of a man and woman – and for a reason. These unions are special because they [...]
View PostA great little piece in the Guardian by Andrew Brown on the faux utilitarian ethic people pretend they apply to the issue of abortion. …the Dorries bill does raise some interesting ethical complications. It shows up once more the way in which we justify our actions on the basis of a sort of squishy utilitarianism, [...]
View PostNail. Head. Hit.: In recent days, two horrifying accounts of abortion have gripped the human conscience. From Australia news came of a couple who had aborted twin boys, just because they wanted a baby girl. Having three sons already, the couple aborted the twins because they want a daughter after the death of a previous [...]
View PostI got a letter published in today's Herald. Yesterday, one correspondent wrote this, Paul Collins says the Pope is using the principle of avoiding the greater of two evils to justify condom use by male prostitutes (“Australia welcomes papal shift on safe sex“, November 22). But isn't the birth of unwanted children a greater [...]
View PostI was going to apologise for the stark nature of the title of this blog post but I stopped myself. The point is, it is shocking. We ought to be shocked by this and those who support such abortion (more of them later) will do anything to remove this issue from public consciousness. So onto the [...]
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