Superbowl Ad — More Lying for Jesus?

Gloria Allred a well known women’s rights attorney is questioning the veracity of the “choose life” story being spun by Pam Tebow;
“Allred says she believes it an impossible scenario to believe that Philippino doctors would of ever suggested abortion as a viable option for Tebow in the first place. And when you learn that [...]

The right to life.

I remember when this was the slogan chanted by abortion criminalizers. This was a specific notion, as defined by religious or pseudo-scientific dogma that fuelled their fury – and yes, I say fury because of my first-hand experience at a demonstration where I was verbally abused by zealots who screamed baby-killer at me, conveniently [...]

One day late …

but not to worry, because though this is about the right to choose, it’s not about my own fear about being pregnant when I don’t want to be.
Abortions were made legal in the United States in a landmark 1973 Supreme Court judgement, often referred to as the Roe v Wade case.
Abortion has been a [...]

Conscience

We at Birth Pangs have been wrestling with ‘conscience’. Not ours. Ours are fine, thank you. (Er, except for that evening a few weeks ago, when one of us had a tad too much to drink and took her father-in-law to task for the unequal distribution of wealth in Canada, and well, pretty much the [...]

Kriminalizers Konfused

Woo-hoo. Wot fun. USian fetus fetishists are in a tizz. On Sunday, Fred (I Don’t Recall Lobbying for the Pro-Aborts) Thompson let slip a doozy. A columnist in the Chicago Sun-Times writes:
Fred Thompson was well into a prolonged dialogue about abortion with interviewer Tim Russert on NBC’s ”Meet the Press” on Sunday when he said [...]