Examining bioethics, morality, and culture from a distinctively orthodox Lutheran perspective. Site dedicated to the Holy Family.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 4th, 2010
WeeklyStandard.com reports that President Obama’s healthcare plan pays for abortions in three ways: Federally-subsidized insurance plans will cover abortions The National Right to Life Committee reports that $4 billion in extra spending added in Senator Reid’s Manager’s Mark are not restricted from being used for abortions in “community health centers” the Senate bill, which is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 3rd, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 28th, 2010
But then again, TheHill.com also reports her as saying that A bill can be bipartisan without bipartisan votes. Huh? That’s like saying a cake can be chocolate without any. . . chocolate. Methinks that the “A” Madam Speaker is referring to is abortion. Says the National Right to Life Committee, If all of the President’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 27th, 2010
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2010
Like that winter rash that won’t go away, President Obama rolled out his version of a health care bill that adopts Senate language but not the House’s restrictive Stupak-Pitts Amendment limiting abortion coverage. About the president’s chafing itch to ram a health care bill down America’s throat, uber-cool bioethicist and attorney Wesley J. Smith warns, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 23rd, 2010
Rasmussen’s latest poll confirms what the American people have been trying to tell Congress and the President all along: Drop health care. It’s the economy and jobs, stupid!
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2010
Without the Senate’s 60-vote supermajority, health care reform is simply dead this time around. From The Washington Examiner: Congressional Democrats are abandoning their massive health care package in the face of strong public resistance manifested in the election of Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts to the Senate. Brown’s victory Tuesday halted the intense backroom negotiations [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 31st, 2009
Today I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine at work centering on whether the current health care proposals mandate a minimum contribution for abortion services regardless if one wishes to contribute towards this or not. My friend was convinced that, as has been relayed by the MSM, No, there is no $1 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 21st, 2009
National Review Online has some answers: Seniors: Even though they are being told otherwise, seniors will pay the biggest price for reform. Half of the reason that Sen. Reid got a favorable cost estimate from CBO is because his bill cuts Medicare by $471 billion over the coming decade. An earlier report from the program’s [...]
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.
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