Jivin J’s Life Links 1-4-11
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- The body of 5-6 month old unborn child was found in a plane bathroom after a trip from Abu Dhabi to Manila.
- The January/February issue of Mother Jones magazine has an article by Sarah Blustain which highlights the work of pro-life lawyer Harold Cassidy. You can get free access to the article by giving them an e-mail address.
- Meghan McArdle (whom I believe is pro-choice) shoots down Andrew Sullivan’s latest comments on the pro-life movement:
… [E]ven I know that the pro-life movement spends rather a lot of energy on things like crisis pregnancy centers which aim to get women to carry their pregnancies to term, and assist them in doing so….At the point where international adoptions have increased to a quarter of all adoptions, and kids with special health needs make up a substantial fraction of the children adopted (ranging from 30% of international adoptions, to 55% of adoptions from foster care), I think we can say that the demand side has been taken care of. And as far as I know, pro-lifers are doing what they can on the supply side – in terms of building institutions that help women carry a pregnancy to term.
I find it far-fetched that women are having abortions because no one is willing to help them give the baby up for adoption – there are lots of people and agencies that will not only help them, but pay a substantial portion of their expenses until they deliver.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Re: The Atlantic article – the comments are very interesting. It seems that even some of the readers of this very liberal magazine are uncomfortable with abortion, and especially with women who have more than one of them.
While I agree with Jivin-J that McArdle is pro-choice, I also think she’s intellectually honest and lately has been grappling with the issue. IIRC, she recently got married, and so she’s probably thinking about motherhood more than before.
I could be wrong, but I’m getting the impression that McArdle is actually starting to see the light…
I think it’s impossible to find a body of a ‘5-6 month unborn child’ unless it was with an ultrasound. Otherwise it was a, by definition, a child/baby born at an estimated 5-6 months gestational age.
I was previously unfamiliar with McArdle, but will be following her work from now on. :)