The Kermit Gosnell Case: Portrait of the Culture of Death
Dr. Kermit Gosnell Type the name of serial killer Harold Shipman into the search function on the BBC News website and you will find 587 news items. Crossing the Atlantic, and more recently, try a...
View ArticleLives Unworthy of Life
Bernard Nathanson ‘I am one of those who helped usher in this barbaric age’, said Bernard Nathanson, the former abortionist who died this week. Nathanson co-founded the National Association for the...
View ArticleThe Dorries/Field Amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill
The amendment tabled by MPs Nadine Dorries and Frank Field to the Health and Social Care Bill has provoked much media controversy. It would hardly be an exaggeration to suggest that this one amendment,...
View ArticleViolations of Conscience in ‘The Land of the Free’
From a guest blogger: Not for the first time has ‘the land of the free’ been a hopelessly wrongheaded epithet with which to label the United States of America. Many developed western nations find...
View ArticleSex-Selective Abortion: The Failed Autonomy of Modern Man
From a guest blogger: The news that some private abortion clinics in Britain may be carrying out here the sex-selective abortions which are horrifyingly common in parts of Asia is no real surprise to...
View ArticleA Case for Repeal of the Abortion Act?
A nation is governed –and partly defined — by the rules and regulations on its statute book. Laws are supposed to regulate so as to ensure fairness and justice, as well as to prohibit behaviours deemed...
View ArticleAfter Dr. Kermit Gosnell the Abortion Debate has come Full Circle
We have blogged before about the story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell the Philadelphia-based abortionist arrested for murder but, although his trial is ongoing, and the case against him horrendous news networks...
View ArticleSolidarity with the weakest –‘they’ are ‘us’
In early October the Northern Ireland Department of Justice Minister, David Ford, announced a consultation on whether Northern Ireland should allow abortion in the case of what is styled ‘lethal foetal...
View ArticleProfessor Geeta Nargund and Reproductive Rights
For the most part having children is not about enhancing choice. It is a practical reality that calls for much forgoing of what parents might want to do – whether listening to music, going to the...
View ArticleLessons from America’s Culture Wars
The present furore in the USA over Planned Parenthood’s sale of fetal organs has now claimed its third casualty. After Louisiana and New Hampshire, Alabama has now become the third state to withdraw...
View ArticleElection Reflection III: Liberalism’s Illiberal Endpoint
This is the third and final part in a series of reflections on the 2017 UK General Election. Shortly after the recent General Election the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron, offered his...
View ArticleThe March of the Malthusians
Last week we saw the return of the London Family Planning Summit, with senior government officials, NGO representatives and business leaders committing billions in additional funding with a view to...
View ArticleLabour’s Slippery Slope
With the General Election approaching on 12 December, Labour has released its manifesto. It includes policies such as nationalising broadband, increasing the health budget by 4.3% and legalising...
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