IN A DARK TIME, THE EYE BEGINS TO SEE: After Abortion.

The editors of National Review on Roe v. Wade at 25:

Everything abortion touches, it corrupts. It has corrupted family life. In the war between the sexes, abortion tilts the playing field toward predatory males, giving them another excuse for abandoning their offspring: She chose to carry the child; let her pay for her choice. Our law now says, in effect, that fatherhood has no meaning, and we are shocked that some men have learned that lesson too well. It has corrupted the Supreme Court, which has protected the abortion license even while tacitly admitting its lack of constitutional grounding. If the courts can invent such a right, unmoored in the text, tradition, or logic of the Constitution, then they can do almost anything; and so they have done. The law on everything from free speech to biotechnology has been distorted to accommodate abortionism. And abortion has deeply corrupted the practice of medicine, transforming healers into killers.

Most of all, perhaps, it has corrupted liberalism. (more)

A gut-wrenching piece from San Diego News Notes (archdiocesan newspaper)–hard to read. (“I wasn’t made for an age like this./Was Smith? Was Jones? Were you?”)

And some essays on the moral status of the embryo. Several of them touch on one of the crucial facts: Individual human lives don’t earn value through their abilities. The useful, the interesting, and the competent are not worth more than the dependent, the difficult, and the desperately needy–and not only because we are all desperately needy.

The Second Look Project.

And: I volunteer at a crisis pregnancy center. It’s not something that comes easily to me–I’m not naturally good at guiding people through difficult decisions, or witnessing to them, or anything like that. I needed training, and in a lot of ways I’m still in training after about three years. But working with these women and their families inspires me and changes me, every week. Please consider volunteering–if you’re not called to be a counselor, maybe you can donate a stroller, buy diapers, address envelopes, sort clothes, or answer phones. There are between 3,000 and 4,000 pregnancy centers in this country. Why not consider helping the one nearest you?