Bioethike

Matt Cochran, a co-conspirator in the Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal project and an all-around good guy, offered a response my “vocation” post that deserves more robust exposure. Here’s Matt in his own words: Articles like Dr. Jungling’s are one of the dangers of confessional reductionism–making the Confessions the sole norm of faith either explicitly [...]

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From Jill Stanek, quoting American Life League’s Jim Sedlak: Despite its protestations that abortion is only a small part of its services, Planned Parenthood has increased its number of abortions for 15 straight years. During that time, it has gone from committing 9.3 percent of all abortions in the United States to committing 27.5 percent… [...]

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Granted, the title of this post is provocative, but there’s a reason for that. For several years I’ve argued, in a way, that we have a theological crisis within broader Lutheranism. That crisis consists of a tendency to “theologize” using Lutheran systematic categories for illicit ends. As I’ve learned through my study of natural law [...]

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Kirsten Powers in “Busting the Birth-control Myth“: Turns out, a 2009 study by the journal Contraception found, in a 10-year study of women in Spain, that as overall contraceptive use increased from around 49 percent to 80 percent, the elective abortion rate more than doubled. This doesn’t mean that access to contraception causes more abortion—though [...]

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The December 31, 2010 New York Times had an interesting quote from Steven M. Gillon, author of Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever and How It Changed America (Simon & Schuster, 2oo4): [The Baby Boomers] became more concerned with [their] own emotional well-being, whereas to older generations that was considered soft and fluffy. [...]

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From the It’s About Time Department (AP): Starting in January, more than 10,000 baby boomers a day will turn 65, a pattern that will continue for the next 19 years. From this Baby Boomer: Please, dear fellow Baby Boomers, take advantage of your retirement especially from government and the Church. We can handle it from [...]

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Oh no, I don’t favor President Obama’s repeal of DADT. At first blush, I suppose that there are numerous arguments to suggest that such a repeal is not a good thing. Chief among those might be that this is only part of an even greater effort to legitimize homosexual behavior in American society. However, given [...]

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This is simply breathtaking. From The Guardian: Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage. The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling [...]

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Yep, that’s the quotient (rounded up to the nearest dollar) you’ll get when you divide the amount of federal money paid to Planned Parenthood in 2008 by the number of abortions that organization performed that year. Here’s the scoop from CNS News: Planned Parenthood received $349.6 million in tax dollars in the fiscal year ending [...]

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