Imagine that there is an issue that you really care about; we’ll say American adoption of the metric system. Right now, neither party supports adoption of the metric system, but to be fair neither party has taken a stance against it either. Now, you’re first job is to go out into the public [...]

If I were Mike Huckabee, I’d be pretty upset right now.
This weekend, a number of leaders of the Social Conservative movement have signed a pledge not to vote for any candidate, in the primary or general election, that does not support overturning Roe v. Wade. Leading the charge is James Dobson, who laid out [...]

This story is about a week old now, but I just had it come to my attention yesterday, and I was curious if any of my readers here had an opinion about it. The case revolves around an alleged rape that happened between a girl and her boyfriend’s brother. According to the girl [...]

I want to talk about genetic testing, but first, allow me to play at political philosophy for a second. First a proposition: it is possible for an action to be both immoral and legal. In fact, an action’s legality should have no bearing on its morality. (Note that the same is not [...]

The pope recently said that Catholic politicians who support legalizing abortion risk excommunication. I don’t actually have a problem with that. If the Catholic faith believes that life starts at conception, and that therefore abortion is murder, then it makes sense to censure those who would condone it.
What I have a problem with, [...]

Can somebody please explain to me what the pro-choice folks are all up in arms about this supreme court decision? From what I understand, the supreme court upheld a ban on a particular procedure (partial birth abortion). They didn’t allow a ban on abortion, or make it significantly harder to get one.
Medical procedures [...]

You may have missed it, if you weren’t watching CSPAN, but yesterday was the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. As such, it occurred to me that this would be a good time to get myself into trouble on abortion. I’ve always believed that there are only two question of any interest underlying the [...]

My wife was watching VH1 this morning, as they were playing Paris Hilton’s latest music video “Nothing in This World”. This song is a pretty vanilla pop song; about what you would expect from Paris Hilton’s debut album. What caught my attention was the video. The video tells the story of a [...]

First, I apologize for not posting very much lately. I was sick for a bit, and then my wife was in the hospital for over a week. Thankfully we’re all back on the road to good health and good fortune now, so once again I can torment you with my rantings and ravings [...]

There’s a pro-life rally occurring on campus today. Lots of people with pictures of mangled fetuses and chanting about an American Holocaust. I had a free half hour, so I stopped down to chat with some of them. My position on abortion is that abortion is bad, but that there are better [...]