I see someone has obviously sent out a ‘make more public statements’ memo at ALRANZ headquarters, because this week two staunch pro-abortion advocates wrote op-ed pieces that were published in two different NZ newspapers. One was written by Alison McCulloch, the senior Abortion Law Reform Association of NZ (ALRANZ) member and public spokesperson, and the […]
Cross posted from Lawrence at LifeChoice. The crowd was silent in the bright fluorescent studio at ABC studios before the first words were uttered by Peter Singer, the renowned Bioethicist and public figure who holds the view (among others) that it is morally permissible, nay even dutiful to murder a human being if they do […]
Following on from our post from the Radical Feminist last week, here is an interesting point of view on the Akin controversy cross posted from the New York Times. IN 1971, two years before Roe v. Wade, the philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson used an arresting thought experiment to make the case for legalized abortion. […]
-IMPORTANT- Today’s post may contain triggers for survivors of rape and sexual assault In light of US Senator Todd Akin’s poorly considered comments on rape and pregnancy (which, depending on which side of this debate you believe, were either: just a simple grammatical mistake in the heat of the moment, or: the expression of some […]
“Membership of the species Homo sapiens is not enough to confer a right to life.” To the ears of us ordinary people, it sounds like the ravings of some fringe group of European neo-fascists or Communists, but the man who made that statement in a Scottish newspaper today is perhaps the most acclaimed and […]
There has been a bit of discussion going on around the place about screening for Down Syndrome having a therapeutic benefit. So what is the situation here in New Zealand? This post cross posted from the new Saving Downs website provides some excellent points and is well worth a read. Firstly, Saving Downs position […]
Okay, so I’ve heard some pretty crazy pro-abortion sentiment in my time, but I think that Lynn Beisner’s opinion piece that has just been published in the UK guardian might just take pro-choice crazy to a whole other level. Basically she starts her piece by bemoaning the personal stories of people who were conceived into […]
A new review of studies examining various types of prenatal loss and the effects on subsequent parenting has concluded that abortion may be “particularly damaging to the parenting process.” The article, published in Current Women’s Health Reviews, looked at already published studies on miscarriage, induced abortion and adoption. The author, Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State […]
Media release from Right to Life New Zealand. Right to Life welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court. The judgment declined the appeal of Right to Life by three to two, it however: Affirms the duty of the Abortion Supervisory to enquire from certifying consultants how they were approaching their decision making in general. The […]
I was going to write today about how population is very important when it comes to measuring success in the Olympics. It should not be a straight “who has the most gold medals?” analysis. Instead, we can only meaningfully measure success by weighting the medal tally of each country by the population of each country. […]
