I have noticed lately that the political left, which most supports health care rationing (and which, ironically, yells the loudest about HMO care restrictions), argues disingenuously for the agenda through the time-tested tactic of blatant misdirection.Classic example, the fuzzy and reliably emotive . . . . Continue Reading »
I wrote earlier about my worry that two competing bills filed in Texas about the state’s discriminatory futile care law—one to put on a few bows of surface reform, the other to end the right of hospitals to refuse wanted life-sustaining treatment—would end up in gridlock. This . . . . Continue Reading »
Once we have national health insurance, the Death Angel will be given a medal . . . . Continue Reading »
At Front Porch Republic , James Matthew Wilson reflects on a sonogram image of his son: This is my son. As you see him here, he has been alive for just about one-hundred-forty days and has, this and other ultrasound images suggest, my nose and not his mother’s. I have not seen him any more . . . . Continue Reading »
Patrick Deneen wants to agree with Jody’s argument that Catholic culture stands at the middle of the Notre Dame controversy. But he can’t : I admire and agree with much of what Jody writes, but I fear I have to disagree with him over this analysis. In my view, the singular focus upon . . . . Continue Reading »
The new movie with Tom Hanks as James Bond and the Catholic Church as SMERSH is about to hit the theatres, if you care. It is called Angels & Demons , or The Further Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk as told to Dan Brown and Exhibited in a Narrative of The Secret Deeds of the Roman Church . From . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a sad but glorious story of selfless maternal love, which I think, would have once been the expected course: A doctor recounts a long ago decision of a woman diagnosed with brain cancer to delay surgery in order to bring her baby to birth. From the story : For the neurosurgeon, the verdict . . . . Continue Reading »
In the next few weeks, if all goes according to plan, you will notice some changes around here at SHS. My site will be added to the First Things family of blogs, which should increase our already steadily growing traffic and may—I’m not sure about this—change our look. I believe . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a sad but glorious story of selfless maternal/paternal love, but I think that at one time, it would have been the expected course: A doctor recounts the decision of a woman diagnosed with brain cancer to delay surgery in order to bring her baby to birth. From the story:For the neurosurgeon, . . . . Continue Reading »
Abortion was supposed to liberate women and protect them from unwanted pregnancies. But with prenatal testing and all, it is increasingly being used as a eugenic search and destroy tool to eliminate unwanted types of children prior to birth. In other words, eugenic abortion mixed with . . . . Continue Reading »
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