"An abortion requires an operation.  It kills the life of a baby after it has begun.  It is dangerous to your life and health.  It may make you sterile so that when you want a child you cannot have it."

A quote from SPUC?  Perhaps Youth Defence or the Pro-Life Campaign?

Think again - the year is 1952 and Planned Parenthood, which would go on to become America's greatest mass murderer in history, had not yet made the scientific breakthrough that a child stops being a child when you want to kill ...
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TV3 has a decent panal discussion programme called Midday - a rip off of Loose Women, except the Irish version is more serious and restrained.  Tuesday had a discussion on the abortion case being brought before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg by three women - for some reason granted anonimity - who were clearly set up by the promoting body, the Irish Family Planning Association.  The discussion was quite good - watch it here.  If the correct show doesn't appear it should be o...
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Something unusual happened to me today.  This morning I submitted a letter for publication to The Irish Catholic.  I have previously had letters published there on a number of topics.  So this morning I emailed the following letter:

Since 2007 bishops, priests and lay people around the world have been resigning from Amnesty International in protest at its decision to begin supporting legal access to abortion as a human right. 

Renato Cardinal Martino, then President of the Pontifical Council...

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Somehow I missed this, frankly bizarre, story - that Ann Widdecombe is tipped to be the next Ambassador of Great Britain to the Holy See.

I don't really see it.  Do these jobs not normally go to career diplomats from the FCO?

On a connected note, I read one of Ann's novels during the holidays and found it rather good.  An Act of Treachery is about a young French woman who falls in love with an older married German officer in occupied France.  Must track down the follow up - an Act of Peace.

Spe...
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I wouldn't kill an abortionist myself, but I wouldn't want to impose my moral values on others. No one is for shooting abortionists. But how will criminalizing men making difficult, often tragic, decisions be an effective means of achieving the goal of reducing the shootings of abortionists?

Following the moral precepts of liberals, I believe the correct position is: If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, then don't shoot one.

H/T Ann Coulter
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Have a look at this headline.  Worser, and worser and worser.

And you know, he's right, the Left Hand of Darkness could easily be a modern liberal Catholic.  The story continues:

"More striking was how Obama, a non-Catholic, showed his ability to think and to talk like a Catholic. He empathically did this by vividly using in his address very particular experiences as grounds legitimating the validity of universal claims. During his speech, Obama exemplified the translation that necessarily occu...
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“Let's honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion" said President Obama at Notre Dame.  Oh, well that's good, maybe this guy isn't so bad after all if he believes at least in respecting the consciences of pro-life health care workers.  What else does he say?

"and draft a sensible conscience clause" - but surely there is already the 2008 regulation which implements and enforces three federal laws protecting the conscience rights of health care providers, especially those at risk...
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Taking the salute from Obama Youth

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Obama silent on the rape and murder of two black children in Soweto.

Obama silent on the relegation of West Bromwich Albion.

Obama silent on the suspension of a teacher accused of abuse in Tallahassee public school.

Presumably we can conclude from this silence that Obama supports rape, murder, Liverpool FC and abuse in Tallahassee.  No, you say, that would be entirely illogical.

Try googling "Pope silent Obama invitation" and you will get some four thousand news articles, for example this one.  T...
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His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI has been invited by the Margaret Sanger School of Eugenics in Boston to attend the commencement ceremony for abortion and sterilization technicians June 20 during which he will receive the David Steele award for commitment to reproductive services.  The Director of the School, Professor U von Asia, said that while they disagreed with some of the Holy Father's views on abortion, they fully supported his opposition to the Iraq war.  The event would provide an oppo...

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Out for a lunchtime stroll today and passing Easons on Talbot Street when my eye is caught by a new Skulduggery Pleasant novel.  I rushed inside and bought it, though not before spending several minutes trying to find two other books to get the 2 for 3 offer.  I hate 2 for 3 offers because I know they are a con and yet I still fall for them.  At least I do in Waterstones where at least they have a fairly wide selection to chose from.  In Easons I scoured the shelves before discovering there w...
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