Holding the Country Hostage? Or Appropriating for Life?

  “Pro-lifers are holding the country hostage because of their feud with Planned Parenthood.” This is a meme we have heard before and may hear again. What does it really mean? It could refer to two separate processes; two separate dramas. Right now in Washington, the...
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Alive! (From National Review)

When last we visited the Jahi McMath case, a judge gave her mother the chance to file an amended complaint showing that Jahi is alive, with the assurance that if properly pleaded, evidence of life could be brought She seems to have done just that. Read more at:...
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Prayer and Perseverance

O Lord, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? Or cry to you “Violence!” and you will not save? Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise. So the law is paralyzed, and...
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Caveat Emptor: How to Avoid the Dr. Roths of the World

  The news trail has grown cold on Dr. Michael A. Roth, the Detroit area OB-GYN who was found two weeks ago to be carrying pain-killing drugs and “products of conception” in his car—“14 containers of human tissue, possibly fetuses,” according to an Oct. 16 WXYZ report. Dr....
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What do we mean by Pro-Life?

Jeremiah 29:1-7 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon: Build houses and live in them; plant gardens and eat their produce.  Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give...
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Two Great Defenders of Life

Last week the Human Life Foundation (publisher of the Human Life Review) held its annual Great Defender of Life Dinner. As always, it was a scintillating event, with the bright lights of the national pro-life movement circulating around the room, talking with anyone and everyone....
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The Tongue of the Taught

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught (Isaiah 50:4). The above passage is one of the servant songs in Isaiah that...
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The Abortionist and the Catholic Hospital

The first story broke on October 13 on WXYZ Detroit. An OB-GYN, Dr. Michael Arthur Roth, is suspected of performing abortions in his and/or other peoples’ homes. Now under investigation by the Michigan Attorney General, he hadn’t been charged with any crime as of this writing....
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Exposing Darkness

 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them (Ephesians 5:11). It is one thing to refuse to participate in evil. It is quite another to expose it. Yet this is what light does. By its very nature, light dispels darkness, thereby revealing what is done...
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On the Trail of the Giant Pink Bus

Back in the early days of the March for Life, the National Park Service used to issue official estimates of crowd size for any demonstration. Crowd estimates were always contested because the size of a crowd was a measure of the urgency/validity/resonance of an issue. Eventually...
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