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 [...]

Religion, Science, and the Law

We at Birth Pangs aren’t too keen on religion in general. But the Dalai Lama is pretty cool. He’s OK with homosexuality and even abortion in some circumstances.
But we really like this, from wiki:
He has also stated his belief that modern scientific findings take precedence over ancient religions.
He is in Canada now and strayed [...]

Morality v. The Market

In their all-out campaign for totally unregulated — even mandatory — pregnancy, fetus fetishizers in the Excited States are doing their darnedest not only to criminalize abortion but to create zillions more criminals by attacking access to contraception.
According to Right Wing Watch, the Chicago Tribune reported on a conference held in September 2006 called [...]

Pro-Abort Professionals

*Sigh.* Here we go again. The Pharmacy Board in the great state of Washingon is investigating another case of a holier-than-everybody pharmacy deciding what prescriptions doctors should write for their patients.
We at Birth Pangs decided to do a little investigation of our own. What other so-called professionals decide to act outside their expertise on [...]