White House adviser: “It is not our policy to reduce abortions”

At a White House meeting to find “common ground” on the abortion issue, an excruciatingly precise use of language has revealed the White House policy on reducing the number of abortions:
It’s YES to Obama’s “..let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions”.
But NO to the goal of reducing the number of [...]

Sensible fog

At Obama’s Notre Dame talk, he at one point refers to the value of conscience:
Let’s honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause, and make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded not only in sound science, but also in clear ethics, as well as [...]

“Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules”

Lila Rose, a 20-year-old UCLA student, poses as only 13 years old to Planned Parenthood operatives, to see if they will obey all applicable state laws — like reporting statutory rape when Lila claims to have a 31-year-old boyfriend. Sometimes they seek to evade legal requirements, and their evasions get recorded on a hidden camera. [...]

It is the grimmest of ironies…

It is the grimmest of ironies that one of the most savage, barbaric acts of evil in history began in one of the most modernized societies of its time, where so many markers of human progress became tools of human depravity: science that can heal, used to kill; education that can enlighten, used to rationalize [...]