by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat An abortion clinic escort reviews the study which produced the “1 in 3″ women will have an abortion statistic and finds the study doesn’t really say that: It is misleading to assume that one-third of a given group of women (such as a group of female protesters standing […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Pope has tweeted support for the March for Life.
• Gerard Bradley discusses the paradox of Personhood and how the Supreme Court’s refusal to address the most foundational question could resurface:
  

  Roe’s shaky edifice is built on a studied and stubborn refusal to address the foundational question about who the law is for. This reticence is all the more remarkable because none of the seven justices in Roe’s majority seems to have believed that the unborn really are persons. They reckoned nonetheless that the constitutional law they produced could not be grounded in any answer — theirs, yours, mine — to that philosophical question. Their reticence was supposed to credential the Court’s judgment as somehow uniquely objective and thus supremely authoritative.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Abortioneer Desembarazarme notes some abortion clinics don’t offer any pre-abortion counseling: I actually took the counseling portion of the program for granted until I learned that some very compassionate, professional clinics don’t offer counseling to their clients. It could be a trick to save time (clients always complain […]

by New York Times has an article on Obama and abortion which discusses his attempts to straddle the issue (at least with his rhetoric) and his upcoming appearance at Notre Dame. The end of the article has this interesting quote from Doug Kmiec: Douglas W. Kmiec, a constitutional scholar and former Notre Dame professor who […]