by Jesse Galef
It was a good week for separation of church and state. The “I Believe” license plate was ruled unconstitutional, the DC Council might have the courage to stand up to the Archdiocese threats, and here’s one from earlier in the week I missed – Representative Lynn Woolsey, co-chair of the Congressional Progressive [...]
Banning abortion does not appear to reduce the number of women trying to end unwanted pregnancies, according to new research:
The Guttmacher Institute’s survey found abortion occurs at roughly equal rates in regions where it is legal and regions where it is highly restricted.
It did note that improved access to contraception had cut the overall abortion [...]
Operation Rescue, an extremist anti-abortion organization, says it is going broke and may shut down. How, er, sad:
Operation Rescue, one of the nation’s highest-profile groups in the anti-abortion movement, has told its supporters it is facing a “major financial crisis” and is very close to shutting down unless emergency help arrives soon.
The group’s president, Troy [...]
I’ve pointed out before that the Bible nor the God it portrays is “pro-life,” but the BEattitude has compiled some more verses about the Bible’s stance on killing babies in the womb:
God will punish women by aborting their fetus through a miscarriage.
“Give them, O LORD–what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.” (Hosea [...]
There’s a command in the Bible that Christian anti-abortionists really hate — or at least they’d hate it if they knew about it. It’s a command to abort children when a husband suspects his wife was unfaithful:
If feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he [...]
by Lorette C. Luzajic
Part 13 of the Pillars of Faith series
Righter than the Right
It’s beyond comprehension that the opponents of contraception and abortion are the same ones who think it’s communist to care for the underprivileged or unwanted. It’s also a great mystery that these greedy, gun-toting creeps name themselves for a mostly-peacenik hippie who [...]
This is a guest post by an abortion doctor. Her name has been removed to protect her and her family.
I’d like to share some of my thoughts with you regarding abortion. I’m a doctor who does both 1st and 2nd trimester abortions.
Although most of my practice is general OB/GYN, I’m something of an abortion “specialist” [...]
Dear Pro-Lifer,
Your God is not pro-life.
You might find that statement surprising, but I know this from your own holy book. Despite what you may have been told, the Bible is not a pro-life document.
It is, in many parts, pro-death. In one of the first stories in the Bible, God murders millions of people through a [...]
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