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All Blog Posts Tagged 'pro-choice' (5)

Please help this important women's rights documentary get made!

Readers, you may have recently noticed on my sidebar a plea to help to Brooklyn-based filmmakers, Lana Wilson and Martha Shane, raise funds for their documentary "Trust Women," which takes a look at Dr. LeRoy Carhart and Dr. Warren Hern, two of the last physicians in the country who continue to perform late-term abortions. Whether they realize it or not, the directors are documenting the tale of two American doctors who stand up to terrorism everyday. I had the chance… Continue

Added by Billy Deaton on May 22, 2010 at 6:04pm — No Comments

Will God put his abortion practice on hold for 40 Days for Life campaign?

In a recent press release David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life, said, “With abortion advocates trying to exploit the current health care reform debate to mandate taxpayer funding of abortion. We are incredibly encouraged to see record numbers of people in cities across America willing to take a stand by participating in 40 Days for Life to speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves and seek God's protection for innocent children in the womb -- and mothers -- at risk of… Continue

Added by V1ktor on August 21, 2009 at 12:39pm — 2 Comments

A REVIEW OF THE DEBATE “IS ABORTION MORALLY JUSTIFIABLE IN A FREE SOCIETY?”

Participants:

Peter Kreeft, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College

David Boonin, Associate Professor of Philosophy, UC-Boulder

Yale University

Download available at: http://www.isi.org/lectures/lectures.aspx?SBy=lecture&Sfor=28e773af-4bd2-44da-8b3e-be5570fad64d

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Professor David Boonin began this debate with an analogy which illustrated the difference between… Continue

Added by Rosemary LYNDALL WEMM on July 15, 2009 at 11:00pm — 60 Comments

Being Atheist must mean you are pro-abortion!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdW0bFc8SRo&feature=channel_page

Watch this video. Make sure you have some hard liquor near you or you might attempt to punch the screen. Do not attempt this, you will damage your screen and possibly hurt your hand.

First of all, no one is really Pro-abortion. Really its for the right to be able to have one or not.

Mr. Geerup's entire argument here is that every fetus or zygote has a unique set of DNA so it is 'special' and aborting said fetus… Continue

Added by Hekate Moon on June 17, 2009 at 5:40pm — 7 Comments

Pro Life Atheists?

I just came from this group as I was intrigued how one could be Anti Choice without also believing that a soul is created at the moment of conception. I mean isn't that the only real basis for being Anti Choice? If not then I guess the argument is that Society should intervene in an adult Woman's reproductive rights and force her to carry a child to term because...... I just don't know? Doesn't it have to be that something magical happens at conception and that the rights of a zygote now trumps… Continue

Added by Kozz on January 23, 2009 at 6:01pm — 10 Comments