Posts Tagged by pro-choice
Catholic Hospitals SHOULD close if FOCA is passed
| March 6, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, Blog, Christianity and Culture, General, homosexuality, morality, Obama, politics, theology |
Closing the hospitals would show that the RCC has some real backbone. It would be great if other Christian hospitals followed suit, though this is clearly less likely.
This may seem harsh but I think it would simply be strong medicine. Once swallowed, the medicine would do its work and FOCA would come under pressure. Additionally, Catholics in America would get the idea that their higher ups mean business. What with all the challenges the RCC has had in America (the priest scandal, the requirement in some states that the RCC adopt children to homosexual couples, the communing of American politicians who probably aren’t Christian at all, let alone Catholic (Kerry, Pelosi, etc), etc), that is a message that needs to be communicated. That is the opinion of someone who is not a Catholic so take it with a grain of salt, I guess.
Any way, the Obama administration is hell bent on promoting the most radical of pro-choice positions, and this is no time for any of us- Roman Catholics included and especially- to be considering compromise and half-measures… because that is precisely what Obama is counting on.
Human Rights Without God?
| February 13, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, atheism, Blog, Christianity and Culture, General, morality, original sin, philosophy, politics, theism, theology |
Atheists and secular humanists quite obviously argue that we humans are all alone and that humans themselves determine their worth, their value, their ‘intrinsic’ dignity. The problems with this ought to be self-evident but atheists are crafty folks. History reveals clearly that humans can change their minds about the ‘worth,’ ‘value,’ and ‘rights’ of humans (usually other humans). For example, the Nazis depersonalized the Jews with consequences I need not expand on. Atheistic communist regimes depersonalized dissidents and capitalists with consequences I need not expand on. The atheistic apologetic on the point is that actually this goes to show the dangers of ‘religion.’ For, you see, anyone who ever does anything nasty, no matter what their ideology, is, by definition, acting religiously. In this way, atheists can always keep their hands clean.
However, it misses the point. The fundamental point has to do with our basis for decrying what the Nazis and communists did. If humans themselves are the sole and final arbiters for determining and dictating human value then no one can complain about what humans decide. Oh sure, the do complain. But in doing so they betray the inconsistency of their position.
Octuplets Birth a Victory for the Pro-Life Cause?
| February 10, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, Blog, General, morality, politics |
What would have been their fate had they not been implanted? I suppose eventually they would have been destroyed. This doesn’t seem like a good solution to me. After the embryos have been created, I find myself happy that they have been given a chance at life.
While in the main the woman strikes me as a pretty loopy in the net analysis I’m glad she did what she did, at least insofar as the embryo implantation goes.
My main point of resistance is not with the implantation but with the creation of the embryos in the first place. In my mind, it is here where the ethical questions should have been played out by the doctors and by society at large. Do we really want to be generating thousands upon thousands of embryos that will be stored indefinitely and then, at the last, destroyed? I am all for helping parents conceive and have children and receiving medical help if necessary, but I am not for creating embryos that one does not plan to implant.
Upcoming Radio Interviews for Author of New Pro-Life Book
| February 8, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, atheism, Blog, morality, politics |
My book, We Chose Life: Why You Should Too will be officially available this Valentine’s Day. However, I am shipping orders now. You can also find it on Amazon.com, but I don’t think they ship until the 14th. In the lead up to the book’s release I am pleased to report that I have some radio interviews lined up. You can listen to two of them live if you so desire.
The first will be with Paul Clayton at KFUO. It will broadcast live, Monday Feb. 9th at 9:05 a.m. CST. Link: http://www.kfuoam.org/
The second will be this Wednesday with http://www.ambassadornewspaper.com/
This is a taped interview. I’ll provide a link to the broadcast when I have it.
The third is 10:00-10:30 a.m. CST on Feb. 20th, at WGRC out of Pennsylvania. Link: http://www.wgrc.com/
New Pro-Life Book Aims to Persuade Parents of Disabled to Reject Abortion
| February 4, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, Blog, book reviews, Christianity and Culture, morality, politics, spirituality, theism, theology |
We chose life.
Our daughter is almost two years old now and I can testify that the joy she brings completely overwhelms the troubles associated with her condition. (Like Heaven triumphs over Hell, ala Lewis’s The Great Divorce) And really, how different is this from any other non-disabled child? All children bring troubles- but we have them anyway. A disabled child might have more troubles- or they might not, rather, the troubles are of a different sort. But the joys outweigh the troubles out of proportion. More troubles equals more joys. See the parable of the Prodigal Son.
With this experience in mind and wishing that I could do something to persuade others to make the same choice that my wife and I did, I have written a book, and it is now available for purchase.
Lincoln on Slavery Applied to Abortion: Irony in Electing a Pro-Choice Black President
| January 23, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, Blog, General, politics |
Of course, if humans, individually and collectively, are the final reference point then one may in fact say any of the things above and get away with it. In other words, despite there being clear concern about what happens if the reasoning is taken to its conclusion, some basis needs to be provided for why one shouldn’t adopt the reasoning at all. That is why in the end, the issue of the Divine Morality becomes so critical from a practical stand point.
Which is why it is so ironic that we find a black president who claims to believe in God essentially giving into arguments for abortion on demand. What can explain that?
Abortion and Slavery: Obama as the Anti-Lincoln
| January 19, 2009 | Posted by Anthony under abortion, Blog, General, politics |
While it is understandable why so many black Americans are cheering the election of Barack Obama it is tragic that they were willing to abandon the very principles that brought them their own freedom, overlooking the fact that there exists in this country, and in the man they elected, the view that that there is another ‘subset’ of humanity that does not warrant personhood status. Their success, therefore, is no success at all. They elected ‘one of their own’ and didn’t care if it meant something worse than slavery for millions of people. And many of these believe they are doing the ‘Christian’ thing. It will only be a genuine success after it is achieved in such a way to respect the rights of all individuals- not just those with your skin color or stage in human development.
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