Roger Clegg at NRO remarks on the government’s new report on birth rates and what it says about births out of wedlock: The government released its preliminary data for 2007 births today, finding, “All measures of childbearing by unmarried women increased in the United States to historic . . . . Continue Reading »
A federal report released yesterday reveals that more babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any other year in the nation’s history, “even surpassing the number of deliveries during the height of the baby boom that followed World War II.” After World War II, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Not wanting to be outdone by the Times , the Washington Post followed their lead in denuncing the Pope today , all in the name of science . . . . . Continue Reading »
Jim Wallis: “Making Abortion Provision Part of Healthcare Reform Will Kill Healthcare Reform” You read that right. Jim Wallis has announced in a public interview: Making abortion provisions part of healthcare reform will kill healthcare reform . . . There are a number of people who . . . . Continue Reading »
The Association of Compassionate Christian Caregivers today severely criticized traditional Catholic teaching on marital “love” and called upon the churches to encourage wife-beating Africans to take the “prudent, practical steps” to reduce the risk of HIV infection when . . . . Continue Reading »
Jan in a Pan is the street-smart title of a 1959 black and white B-grade, science fiction/horror film (released in 1962). I happened to watch it a few nights ago, utterly fascinated by the issues it raised. The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (the actual but only marginally more serious title) stars . . . . Continue Reading »
I wasn’t going to run with this because bioethicist Jacob M. Appel seems to be following the same business model to career success as Julian Savulescu and others: stake out the most wild and radical positions conceivable and you are sure to get attention—and perhaps big speaking . . . . Continue Reading »
I wasn’t going to run with this because bioethicist Jacob M. Appel seems to be following the same business model to career success as Julian Savulescu and others: stake out the most wild and radical positions conceivable and you are sure to get attention—and perhaps big speaking . . . . Continue Reading »
In my previous post, “Dueling Petitions at the American Philosophical Association” , I called attention to a controversy in which several Christian colleges and their philosophy faculties are accused of unjustly discriminating against practicing homosexuals in violation of the rules of . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been very unhappy about the lurid headlines in the New York Post and elsewhere about the gravely injured Natasha Richardson being “brain dead.” That is not only insensitive to her devastated family, but the term is thrown around all too loosely.Brain death is a popular term for . . . . Continue Reading »
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