by Globe and Mail has an in-depth article on India’s problem with sex-selection abortion. The problem is biggest among the upperclass: But $100 on the birth of a girl – or even $2,500 at her marriage – means nothing to the country’s wealthiest families. And that is where the gender gulf is yawning most deeply. […]

by defends his presence at Senator Kennedy’s funeral: Needless to say, the Senator’s wake and Catholic funeral were controversial because of the fact that he did not publicly support Catholic teaching and advocacy on behalf of the unborn. ­­­Given the profound effect of Catholic social teaching on so many of the programs and policies espoused […]

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by AP report, Rick Pitino, head coach of the Louisville men’s basketball team, apparently paid for the abortion of a woman he had sex with in 2003. The woman, Karen Sypher, is currently charged with lying to the FBI and trying to extort $10 million dollars from Pitino: About two weeks after meeting Sypher at […]

At first I laughed when reading Barack Obama had appointed Doug Kmiec ambassador to… Malta? Yesterday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave its thumbs up, so only 1 nonhurdle remains, the full Senate. Then I did a little reading and discovered intrigue and controversy. Recall Kmiec is a supposed pro-life Catholic Republican who defected to […]

by Carder Yes, Barack Obama. So wrote

by Charlie Savage has an interesting piece in the New York Times about the Sotomayor hearings, abortion, Gonzalez v. Carhart, settled law and precedent. Hadley Arkes discusses empathy and apathy. After discussing Laci’s and Connor’s law and court cases involving partial-birth abortion, Arkes writes (emphasis added)…

Pro-lifers should keep Obama’s pledge to the Pope handy at all times. Heretofore Obama and his people have been careful to say they want to reduce the “need” for abortion, not the “number.” Big difference. But about Obama’s meeting last week with the Pope, statement in May by Melody Barnes, his White House Director of […]