Archive for abortion
Projecting A Cyber Snowball from my Laptop
Just a few short minutes ago, as the snow began to really pile up and the wind to howl, I hit “send” on the manuscript my seven co-authors and I have been working on for what seems like a decade. (In fact, the project began with a symposium almost two years ago; we signed with [...]
“Issues” Plate Debate
Here’s why states should get out of the business of approving clearly political messaging for license plates. You can’t just approve one side of the debate, as the Virginia legislature will learn if it dares not to approve a “pro-choice” plate having already approved and sold thousands of “pro-life” plates. It’s not about abortion, but [...]
What’s Wrong with CBS, the Super Bowl, and Football
This will be the official Grouch Post for January. One of them, anyway.
Maybe you’ve heard by now about CBS’s decisions on ads for the Super Bowl. They’ve decided to “relax” their policy against advocacy ads to allow one from Focus on the Family that uses NFL star Tim Tebow and his mother to condemn abortion. [...]
Media Alert: Abortion and Marriage Trial
I’ll be heard on 1150AM (WDEL) at 5:25 this evening, talking about both the marriage equality case being tried in California and the trial of Scott Roeder, who confessed to having killed Dr. George Tiller (who performed abortions.)
WDEL is in Wilmington, Delaware. If you can’t pick that up, you can catch it on line here [...]
Killing an Abortion Doctor: Maybe Not So Bad, Judge Rules
The judge in the George Tiller homicide case has ruled that, at least for now, the defense may present the jury with the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. If convicted on this lesser charge, Scott Roeder may end up spending only a few years in prison for what everyone agrees was a deliberate act: Roeder [...]
2009: A Year of Blogging Obsessively (300 Posts and Counting)
Well, I have a few minutes before family and friends return to sweep me away in a haze of New Year’s Eve partying. (Of course, with young children “a haze of partying” ends well before midnight. We can do a faux countdown with them.)
To all of the readers — regular and occasional — who have [...]
“Ant-y Maim”
“To test your will would take the strength of crazy ants.”1
This morning, I stayed in my car — radio (NPR) on and eyes agog — after I’d reached the coffee shop where I was heading for an emergency hit. This story was the reason:
Researchers at the University of Ulm have demonstrated, probably conclusively, that ants [...]
Abortion, Again
As I write this, the House of Representatives has just approved, 220-215, the vast health care reform bill that has on the hot stove for much of the year. But before doing so, the Democratic leadership caved to the pro-life members of their caucus, and allowed a vote on an amendment that will make obtaining [...]
The Public Health Peril in Oklahoma’s Anti-Abortion Obsession
Nan Hunter has just run a good summary of recent legislation in Oklahoma that, taken as a whole, is designed to prevent women from having abortions altogether. The state’s determination shows that, Roe v. Wade not to the contrary, there’s plenty that states can do to restrict what the Court has declared to be part [...]
What About the Women?
In my previous post, I wrote about the protests being staged against Dr. LeRoy Carhart, a self-claimed abortionist who’s one of the few doing late-term procedures. Now the anti-abortion forces are met by an equally passionate and committed pro-choice group, led by the National Organization for Women. The two sides converged in an angry Tower [...]