by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat In China, conjoined twin girls have been successfully separated at 4 months. (See video footage at the link.) They were conjoined at the chest and abdomen: Liu Jinfen, director of Shanghai Children’s Medical Center, said they had detected the abnormality early enough into the pregnancy to allow abortion, […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Britain is now embroiled in an abortion controversy. Some members of parliament want a conscience vote on legislation to require abortion counseling be performed by organizations who don’t perform abortions. Now, Nadine Dorries, the MP behind the legislation, claims there’s a covert whipping operation underway as Prime Minister […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat A local news station reports on the closing of a Planned Parenthood in Sherman, TX, apparently due to a lack of customers. The report also notes a PP in Gainesville (a city which neighbors Sherman) will close August 29. A woman is in intensive care after an Australian […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat A NPR blog has statistics on the percentage of OB/GYNs who provide abortions: 97% of OB-GYNs have encountered patients wanting an abortion, but only 14% of the doctors perform them, according to a study published today in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology. That finding suggests a smaller percentage […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Margaret Somerville comments on “deselecting our children”: Here’s a recent Danish headline: “Plans to make Denmark a Down syndrome-free perfect society.” The Danes want to promote aborting fetuses with Down syndrome, so their society will be free of such people around 2030. One bioethicist describes it as a […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Ross Douthat writes about the failings of liberal bioethics with the NY Times selective twin reduction article as a backdrop:… [T]hey find reasons to embrace each new technological leap while promising to resist the next one – and then time passes, science marches on, and they find reasons […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat In New Orleans, a man has been convicted of rape and the main piece of evidence was DNA from the aborted child: Samuel Williams, 58, will be sentenced Aug. 19 to life in prison, after a two-day trial in which DNA evidence from the fetus proved key, along […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat According to the International Business Times, a South Korean documentary television team found evidence suggesting Chinese pharmaceutical companies are using remains of aborted children for stamina pills: Chinese hospitals and abortion clinics that are connected to the business immediately notify pharmaceutical companies when a baby dies, mostly because […]