February 16, 2017

Abortion

Teen Vogue tells kids: Give friends “angry uterus” heating pad to make them feel better after abortion by Claire Chretien

Fact Check: Abortion Is Not “The Most Safest Medical Procedure In America” by Jay Hobbs – “NARAL Pro-Choice America’s California state director Amy Everitt wants the world to believe that ‘abortion is the most safest medical procedure in America.’”

Planned Parenthood and Prenatal Care – We Don’t Do That Here by Eric Metaxas – “It turns out that Planned Parenthood is not interested in seeing you if you’re planning to become a parent. So why do they keep insisting otherwise? Money.”

To Its Long List of Lies, Planned Parenthood Adds “We’re Nonpartisan” by Kristan Hawkins – “Planned Parenthood campaigned hard for Hillary Clinton. It’s now clear why, as Republicans investigate federal funding for the abortion giant and alleged atrocities.”

Former Planned Parenthood Employees Reveal: We Treated Women “Like Cattle” by Bre Payton

Abortion and concentration camps: a comparison made by a practicing abortionist by Sarah Terzo

Personally pro-life, publicly pro-choice? by Paul Stark

We were both raped and became pregnant. She aborted. I’m so glad I didn’t by Elizabeth Díaz Navarro

Adoption

Bargaining Chips: Why Russian Orphans Might Become Political Pawns Once Again by Daria Litvinova and Eva Hartog – “European Court ruling raises hope that Russia’s much-derided ban on adoption by U.S. citizens could soon be overturned.”

Bioethics

Scientists Want to Genetically Engineer Humans by Wesley J. Smith

Devotional

Pay Close Attention by Rev. Ken Klaus

Remembering by Rev. Ken Klaus

End-of-Life

Canadian doctors are struggling with euthanasia by Alex Schadenberg

Family Living

What’s Love Got to Do With It? – Understanding the Distinction Between “Agape” and “Philo” Love by Rev. Robert Fleischmann

Q&A on Helping the Grief Stricken

Political

Why Both The Left And Right Are Political Hypocrites And What To Do About It by Jonathan Bethune – “There can be no meaningful dialogue premised upon shared values if both sides only apply those values when it lets them score points.”

Movies – Television – Video

“Girls” Writer Likens Abortion To “Shooting A Puppy In The Head” by Bre Payton

Worldview and Culture

Ashton Kutcher’s Impassioned Plea to Help Victims of Sex Slavery by Melissa Mackenzie

C-SPAN: Human Trafficking and Slavery – After returning from a brief recess for votes, actor Ashton Kutcher, founder of an anti-human trafficking organization, resumed testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on ways to combat human trafficking and slavery. Senators talked more about anti-trafficking legislation they were in the process of generating, and asked Mr. Kutcher and another witness about ways they could improve federal support for anti-trafficking and slavery efforts at the local and state levels, in addition to encouraging such efforts with partners abroad.  

Dying Children Get Loving Home by Bradley Mattes

History’s Lessons Unlearned by R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. – “Ushering in a new era of barbarism.”

American Minute – “There are more slaves TODAY than at any point in human history” – TIME Magazine, Jan. 18, 2010

“I’m not going to modify basic biology” that threatens “subjective” reality: Ben Shapiro destroys transgender, pro-abortion arguments by Claire Chretien

SNL’S Kellyanne Conway Sketch Shows the Left’s Empathy Gap by Ben Domenech – “SNL’s Kellyanne Conway sketch just convinces Trump supporters that the modern left is illiberal, intolerant.”