[It] is becoming increasingly apparent that abortion is about family relationships, not simply a contest between the state and a woman who happens to be pregnant. Scientific discoveries about human development and the testimonies of women who have had or have considered an abortion suggest that it is family law rather than constitutional law that provides the best means of understanding the issue of abortion.

You can read the rest of the article at The Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse blog. Good stuff!

Pope Benedict XVI has issued what Catholic pro-life advocates are calling an unprecedented request for prayers worldwide from all pro-life people against abortion.

The head of the Catholic Church will begin Advent by celebrating a solemn “Vigil for all nascent human life” at St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday, November 27.

The call is not limited to Catholics as the Pope is asking that “all Diocesan Bishops (and their equivalent) of every particular church preside in analogous celebrations involving the faithful in their respective parishes, religious communities, associations and movements.”

Mary McClusky, the Special Projects Coordinator at the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, says the call is especially important at a time when attacks on the dignity and worth of human life seem to be at an all-time high.

There she goes again, “putting her silver foot in her mouth,” to reverberate her late mother’s (former Texas governor Ann Richards) criticism of the first George Bush.

Chief Planned Parenthood wordsmith and president, Cecile Richards, has released a doozie just in time for the barbecue and fireworks. Here, she infers that abortion at U.S. military hospitals and bases is a “basic freedom”; denial of said freedom is an “outrageous injustice.”

Of course, Richards does not afford children in the womb the “basic freedom” of life, nor does she consider the destruction of such life an “outrageous injustice.”

Twisted, perverted, unpatriotic thinking, y’all.

Awesome!