Examining bioethics, morality, and culture from a distinctively orthodox Lutheran perspective. Site dedicated to the Holy Family.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2009
Top 10 Reasons it’s the Un-choice … 60% said “part of me died.”1 The rhetoric of choice hides the reality of coercion. 64% of American women who have had abortions felt pressured by others.1 Her “choices” may involve losing her shelter, her family, her income or even her life. Coercion can escalate to violence. 2 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2009
Jill Stanek does a good job, in my opinion, of uncovering the primary issue in the rush to provide (semi-) national health care: abortion. Jill quotes from Time magazine, July 8: Should government-subsidized health coverage pay for abortion procedures? For more than three decades, that question had seemed pretty much settled. The Hyde Amendment, passed [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 13th, 2009
The New York Times has an interesting July 11 piece about the opinions of physicians, elected to Congress, relating to what has been called a “government takeover” of health care. “We seem to agree on everything,” Dr. [John] Fleming [R, Louisiana] said about his fellow physicians. “We agree on the fact that we need portability; [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves the Church as an editor at the denomination's publishing house. He is currently pursuing an M.S. degree in Health Care Ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas? and How Do You Start a Fire with Water? and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
