Washington Post: “The House of Delegates voted 82-56 to repeal Maryland’s death penalty on Friday, making the state the sixth in as many years to abolish executions and delivering a major legislative victory to Gov. Martin O’Malley.”
15th Mar, 2013
Maryland General Assembly repeals death penalty
5th Mar, 2013
How to reduce abortions
Richard M. Doerflinger, USCCB: “Poverty and the hopelessness it can bring into people’s lives is a major factor in the abortion rate. In one study by the Guttmacher Institute, women on Medicaid had twice the abortion rate of other women, even in states that fund childbirth but not abortions.”
4th Mar, 2013
Why pro-lifers keep fighting abortion
Helen M. Alvaré and Meg T. McDonnell: “Embryology, genetics, neurology, not to mention ultrasound technology — they are probably responsible for the fact that none of the abortion-rights Web sites bothers any longer to attack the humanity of the unborn child. Second, the human rights nature of the abortion debate just never gets old.”
27th Feb, 2013
The Special Olympics of joy
Michael Gerson: “Viewing the intellectually disabled as athletes has aided a civil rights revolution — changing both individual lives and social perceptions. And Special Olympics is carrying that revolution to a global scale.”
20th Feb, 2013
Victory for Life: Pregnant Teen Wins Abortion Battle
Millennial: “Once again, it was very encouraging to see that the audience at the Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life was engaged and interested in the case that we were trying to make. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, particularly on the point that being pro-life needs to mean more than simply supporting restrictions on access to abortion. And most seemed to agree that a strong pro-life bloc within the Democratic Party coupled with a strong bipartisan effort in the pro-life movement is the only way to effectively save the lives of the unborn and improve the lives of women and their families.”
29th Jan, 2013
Has Roe Been Good For Women?
Kristen Day: “Unless there is a united front to put pregnant women first, Roe will continue to provide a wedge issue, an excuse to raise money, or a reason to March on Washington. Women deserve better. Children deserve better. America deserves common-sense solutions that empower women to choose life.”
The Hill: “Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) introduced three anti-abortion rights bills Thursday, one of which would double spending for a pregnancy assistance program aimed to help pregnant teens and college students.”
24th Jan, 2013
The Millennial Divide
American Spectator: “But at the moment Americans began to become more accepting of same-sex marriage, they were also becoming more pro-life — and, again, that change in sentiment was due to the changing views of young people.”
24th Jan, 2013
Women and the Pro-Life Movement
Anna Williams: “The battle over abortion, Shields concludes, ‘will be fought increasingly by gender egalitarians.’ Just don’t expect the pro-choice movement to admit it.”
21st Jan, 2013
40 Years Ago an All-Male Supreme Court Decided Roe, Today More Women than Men Think Abortion is Wrong
Charles Camosy: “The important group Feminists for Life was founded at about this time, and for decades these and other pro-life feminists have been fighting for women by presenting evidence that–contrary to conventional wisdom–broad abortion rights serve the financial and sexual interests of men. And, tragically, hurt the flourishing of women.”
19th Jan, 2013
5 Reflections for the Pro-Life Movement
Daniel Darling: “First, the prolife movement should break free from the conservative movement and stand on it’s own. In other words, there are young evangelicals who may be prolife, but who don’t subscribe to all the tenets of political conservatism. This would enable the movement to be more nimble, to engage and join common cause with people of all political stripes to save innocent children from death. Secondly, the movement should adopt a more holistic version of prolife. We shouldn’t simply champion the unborn, but we should fight human trafficking and join other causes that defend human life.”
16th Jan, 2013
O’Malley calls for death penalty repeal
Washington Times: “Gov. Martin O’Malley will throw his support behind legislation to repeal the death penalty in Maryland this year, he announced at an event Tuesday while flanked by civil rights activists and legislators.”
15th Jan, 2013
Pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life
Kim Daniels: “We should be grateful that Americans increasingly recognize that life in the womb deserves our protection and care. We should also be grateful for the pregnancy resource centers run by dedicated women and men around the country, offering hands-on help, material and emotional support, and most of all, love, from the moment of conception until after the baby is born and the mom has found the support she needs. This is love in action, and it’s changing hearts and minds. This is what it means to build a culture of life and love where all are welcomed and valued and protected.”
2nd Jan, 2013
America’s Retreat From the Death Penalty
NY Times: “When the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, it said there were two social purposes for imposing capital punishment for the most egregious crimes: deterrence and retribution. In recent months, these justifications for a cruel and uncivilized punishment have been seriously undermined by a growing group of judges, prosecutors, scholars and others involved in criminal justice, conservatives and liberals alike.”
The Ampersand: “More and more of my colleagues in ethics–and my students–see that the liberal/conservative binary is on the way out, and that the more interesting question is what its replacement will be. Pro-life democrats and feminists are becoming more numerous and influential in very public ways.”
19th Dec, 2012
Death penalty grows rarer in U.S.
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 in the past executed no one this year, or issued no new death sentences.”
9th Dec, 2012
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.”
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 nor address the underlying causes of abortion. Only a comprehensive approach that guarantees constitutional protection for unborn lives and addresses the economic and social needs of pregnant women and children, born and unborn, can be fully successful.”
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