Elizabeth Scalia
So, here is a title, over at Salon: “So what if abortion ends life?”: Writes Mary Elizabeth Williams: Of all the diabolically clever moves the anti-choice lobby has ever pulled, surely one of the greatest has been its consistent co-opting of the word “life.” Life! Yeahhhh, wanting and affirming life over death; that’s…diabolical! Here’s the [...]
(image courtesy of shutterstock.com) Someone asked me, recently, what I thought the status is of the pro-life movement, and I said, “sort of stagnant.” Different polling shows different data (and as Sr. Mary Ann Walsh noted at the USCCB Media Blog, “it’s all in how you ask the questions”) but whether anything is really changing [...]
Not everyone is into political issues, or keeps up with them, and my husband has a limited attention span for news articles on issues that have promised “nothing new” for the last few decades. For that reason, and although he is strongly pro-life, articles touching on the issue rarely get his attention: there’s a lot [...]
(photosource) Recall that the only reason we ever heard about monster-abortionist/baby-feet collecting Kertmit Gosnell was because of an investigation into drug charges. Absent that investigation, we’d never have known about the filth, incompetence and reckless disregard for human life that comprised his profitable “services” to “women in need.” And here, again, we discover abortion mill [...]
Because I am very nearly burned out, to the point where yesterday I wondered if I should take a blogging moratorium, I shut down the computer rather early and missed this story as it was building. Well, how dare I? This morning a couple of emails greeted me, all variations on this theme: “hey you [...]
I don’t mean to be a nudge, I really don’t. But it’s starting to creep me out, how much Obama loves Planned Parenthood, and how he clearly lives with the expectation that his daughters are going to kill his grandchildren, and negate the coming of love. “Mr. Romney wants to get rid of funding for [...]
(Photosource) Would have missed this editorial in the New York Daily News, if not for the invaluable New Advent: Modern-day slaves, hostage to abortion: Set aside politics to help Catholic groups that fight human trafficking Some problems are more important than politics. Human trafficking should be one of them. As Secretary of State Clinton has [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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