RNS: "Though the number of death-row inmates executed in 2012 remained unchanged from 2011 at 43, death penalty opponents said the year still showed capital punishment is on the wane. Connecticut this year upped the number of states to repeal the death penalty to 17. Some states that have had relatively high numbers of executions … Continue reading Death penalty grows rarer in U.S.
Two Major Abortion FAILS
Charles Comosy: "So, just as the country is moving energetically in a pro-life direction–especially among those who will determine this country’s future (young people and Hispanics)–the Republicans appear to be moving away from fighting for equal protection of the law for our prenatal children. First Abortion FAIL."
Shameless Self-Promotion: Does the Pro-Life Cause Have the Wrong Allies?
My article in Millennial: "The biggest reason why the pro-life movement needs progressive allies is because the Republican strategy, which relies on the appointment of enough conservative Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the issue of abortion to the states, would neither result in the legal protection of unborn life nationwide … Continue reading Shameless Self-Promotion: Does the Pro-Life Cause Have the Wrong Allies?
'This Week' Exclusive: Ben Affleck on the Congo
Ben Affleck and Rep. Adam Smith discuss renewed violence in Central Africa.
A rush to judgment is no basis for legalising abortion
Irish Times: "For politicians to rush to judgment and transform the culture of Irish medical care by authorising the termination of the lives of unborn children based on suicidal ideation would be a tragedy. For politicians to take this step on an assumption that has no factual basis in the context of the treatment of … Continue reading A rush to judgment is no basis for legalising abortion
CA Proposition 35, on human trafficking, passes
LA Times: "Proposition 35, an effort to increase prison sentences and fines for human traffickers, has passed."
California's Death Penalty: All Cost and No Benefit
Danny Glover and Mike Farrell: "A comprehensive five-year study by Federal Judge Arthur Alarcón (who is pro-death penalty) and Loyola Law Professor Paula Mitchell (who is not) showed the state has spent $4 billion on the death penalty since 1978. They've just updated that report to show that California is on track to spend $5 … Continue reading California's Death Penalty: All Cost and No Benefit
Let's get real about abortions
David Frum: "As a general rule, societies that do the most to support mothers and child-bearing have the fewest abortions. Societies that do the least to support mothers and child-bearing have more abortions."
Why This Election Isn't Just About Abortion
Ben Lowe: "As Christians, no matter which candidates we each end up siding with in this election, I hope and pray we will strive to be consistently and comprehensively pro-life, supporting the good not only of the unborn, but also of the born: the unemployed, the impoverished, the immigrant, the uninsured, victims of disasters and … Continue reading Why This Election Isn't Just About Abortion
Being Pro-Life Doesn't Make Me Any Less Of A Lefty
Mehdi Hasan: "Abortion is one of those rare political issues on which left and right seem to have swapped ideologies: right-wingers talk of equality, human rights and "defending the innocent", while left-wingers fetishise "choice", selfishness and unbridled individualism."
The Whole Life Democrat 