The popular “Christian Music” magazine is changing its M.O. according to this recent press release: CCM Magazine, Christian music’s preeminent publication, is changing its definition of “Christian music” with its May 2007 issue to raise the profile of independent and general market artists of faith.
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Prenatal Executions (Part 2)
In response to yesterday’s post, a reader left the following comment: Choosing to have a retarded child is a moral atrocity. There’s no way to get around the fact that Down syndrome causes suffering in everyone involved. The parents who support bringing more people burdened with this illness into the world only want to extend their and their children’s suffering to everyone else. They should be named for what they are – evil. Every child should be loved and valued – but a fetus is not a child until he or she is born – and what kind of perverted monster do you have to be to want your children…
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Prenatal Executions: Ridding the World of People with Down Syndrome
Today’s New York Times reports a chilling statistic: “About 90 percent of pregnant women who are given a Down syndrome diagnosis have chosen to have an abortion.” As a result of this situation, a group of parents of children with Down Syndrome are trying to convince pregnant women not to kill their unborn babies with Down Syndrome.
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Pro-Choice Non-Sequitur
Madeleine Berenson tells the story of her courageous decision to choose life 27 years ago when she had an unplanned pregnancy while she was unwed. When she informed the lecherous father that she was pregnant, he replied “I want to wash my hands clean of this whole thing. I’ll support abortion or adoption. That’s it.” Nevertheless, she had her baby and kept him. Now her son is 27 years old and has a Ph.D. and she couldn’t be happier about choosing life. Yet her reflections on her own journey and on the abortion issue are a bit surprising. I would argue that they are a bit of a non-sequitur as…
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John Piper on Supreme Court’s Partial Birth Abortion Decision
John Piper is inimitable. He always speaks with prophetic power, but especially when he speaks about abortion. It was his preaching against abortion that awakened my own heart to the urgency and the priority of this issue for Christian social engagement. I have not been the same since.
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Nancy Pelosi: In Her Own Words
Here is how the law defines partial birth abortion: “An abortion in which a physician delivers an unborn child’s body until only the head remains inside the womb, punctures the back of the child’s skull with a Sharp instrument, and sucks the child’s brains out before completing delivery of the dead infant.” Here is what Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says about partial birth abortion:
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Statement from Gunman’s Sister
“We feel hopeless, helpless and lost. This is someone that I grew up with and loved. Now I feel like I didn’t know this person. We have always been a close, peaceful and loving family. My brother was quiet and reserved, yet struggled to fit in. We never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence. He has made the world weep. We are living a nightmare.” –Sun Kyung Cho, “We Are So Deeply Sorry,” Washington Post (April 21, 2007)
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Krauthammer on the Massacre
“What can be said about the Virginia Tech massacre? . . . With an event such as this, consisting of nothing but suffering and tragedy, the only important questions are those of theodicy, of divine justice.” –Charles Krauthammer, “A Moment of Silence,” Washington Post (April 21, 2007)
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Thinking about Our Culture with Peggy Noonan
Beyond the loss of human life, the thing that grieves me most about the Virginia Tech massacre is what it has revealed about our culture. Peggy Noonan’s description of how people are responding sadly sums up my own reaction:
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Supreme Court Upholds Partial Birth Abortion Ban
This news is heartening. The Washington Post reports: The Supreme Court today narrowly upheld a nationwide ban on a controversial late-term abortion procedure, voting for the first time to restrict abortion rights and handing a major victory to President Bush and his social conservative allies.