At the Intersection of Theology, Political Science, Nature, and the Arts
Often in discourse today, abortion advocates refer to a "fight for reproductive rights," and an organization, The Center for Reproductive Rights exists to continue taking "cases to courts and human rights bodies, partnering with advocates, to protect reproductive health..." Yet, reproductive rights are not the issue in the argument over abortion. By the time a …
I cannot begin to fathom how the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Bill once again failed to pass in the Senate! No one can look at a sonogram image and deny the presence of a life, a human life, a unique and separate being. Only an individual with a seared conscience and a heart of stone …
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I came across an article on Life News yesterday that was entitled, “Press Laments Loss of Baby Panda, Ignores Loss of 1.2 Million Human Babies.”* In the piece, the author—Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee—lamented that the death of a panda at the National Zoo was receiving more attention from the …
Today, when we think of eugenics, our thoughts most likely turn to mid-twentieth century Germany and Nazi efforts to create a “pure race” by eliminating those considered unworthy of contributing to the chain of heredity. What many may not know, however, is that the eugenics movement was well established in the United States before it …
Continue reading "Eugenics and Extropic Transhumanism: “Perfection” at What Cost?"
DFG Hailson 