April 1, 2016

NEW RESOURCES! New bulletin inserts—from Lutherans For Life—for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day will soon be available for shipping from Concordia Publishing House. Check out Mothers are Saints on Earth and God Smiles on Fathers.

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Abortion

FDA Allows RU-486 Abortions To Expand by Holly Scheer – “The FDA will now allow women a longer window to chemically starve unborn babies, with less medical oversight.”

Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood Aborting Babies: We Need to “Really Humanize It” by Micaiah Bilger

Houston Planned Parenthood joins lawsuit against Daleiden after being caught on video by Ben Johnson

Batman v. Superman star admits abortion harms women

A baby’s life, no less sacred before birth than after birth by  Maria Gallagher

End-of-Life

The Netherlands is normalizing euthanasia by Michael Cook

What Terri Schiavo Still Can Teach Us by Bobby Schindler

Family Living

Baby given less than a 1% chance of survival returns home with her mother

Proud Mother of Adorable Baby With Down Syndrome Shocked After Her Picture Goes Viral by Steven Ertlet

10 More Ridiculous Responses To My Latest Pregnancy by Vanessa Rasanen – “Thought you’d heard all the rude comments about pregnancy? Bet not.”

Who do we think we are? by Fleur Letcher – “Why biological links matter and why society should care”

Orphan Care

Foster Parenting Is the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Done — but so worth It by Mike Berry

Movies – Television – Video

Why the Critics are Wrong about “Batman vs. Superman” by Steve Deace

Political 

The Plea Of The Little Sisters by Richard A. Epstein – “This case shows just how difficult it has become to protect religious liberty from overweening state power.”

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal Vetoes Religious Liberty, Media Cheer Him On by Mollie Hemingway

Governor Deal Caves – What We Must Learn about Religious Freedom by John Stonestreet – “Georgia Governor Nathan Deal can teach us an important lesson or two about religious liberty.”

March for Life President: Pro-Life People Don’t Believe Women Should be “Punished” for Abortions by Steven Ertelt 

4 Reasons Donald Trump’s Abortion Answer Was A Betrayal Of Pro-Lifers by Mollie Hemingway

Gospel-Centered Thoughts on Mr. Trump’s Comment on Punishing Women Who’ve Had Abortions by Doug Merkey

Audio: Issues, Etc. – The Theology of Donald Trump – Dr. Michael Horton

Worldview and Culture

Audio: Understanding Down Syndrome – “Elizabeth Corcoran, chair of Down Syndrome Research Foundation offers a challenge to the church.”

5 Signs America Has Gone Totally Nuts by Michael Brown

Easter: The Only Hope for America by Steve Deace

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Fuhrer Principle by Bruce Norquist

Complaining by Abbot Tryphon

A compassionate gesture – Good Samaritan fixes roof of the House of Compassion by Sara Jordan-Heintz – A good story out of Marshalltown, Iowa. (Karen Frohwein is a former director of development for Lutherans For Life and former president of LFL of Iowa.)