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Posts in category "abortion"

Pro-Choice Activist Gets Prison for Sending Pro-Lifers Death Threats

Death threats don’t always come from the right, as this article in LifeNews.com points out. Father Frank Pavone , director of Priests for Life, made this observation: Pavone added, “From the point of view of my work as a pro-life leader, I also take this opportunity to point out that violence and threats of violence... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 15, 2012 at 3:08 pm
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The media's hijacking of pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng's message

Whatever fate awaits pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng, we know two things for sure: The Chinese tyrants will continue to force women to kill their wanted children. And President Barack Obama, who has ramped up the campaign fiction that Republicans have declared a “war on women,” will continue the detente with the real war on women... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
May 14, 2012 at 4:41 pm
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A modest proposal: kill your newborn if you don't want him.

Killing newborns should be permissible. Call it “after-birth abortion” (but don’t call it infanticide). Insist that killing an infant should be permissible for any reason, just like abortion. Argue that an infant is no different than a fetus. Assert that not wanting a newborn is reason enough to kill it. No, I’m not making this up... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 27, 2012 at 10:02 am
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Personal PAC, Fred Eychaner and big money bought an Illinois supreme court justice victory

Last minute personal smears by radical pro-choice group funded by big money contributions and backed by Rahm Emanuel’s Democratic machine carries the day for Illinois Supreme Court justice. Never heard of Fred Eychaner? Then you need to read this post in With Both Hands, a blog by a genuine Chicagoan, Pat Hickey. Eychaner is the Daddy Warbucks... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 21, 2012 at 12:21 pm
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Why social conservatives should vote for Romney in Illinois presidential primary

An open letter to my pro-life and social conservative friends: Would you prefer that President Barack Obama appoint the nextU.S. Supreme Court justice? Would you prefer to have an Obama bureaucrat continue to impose her secular morality on what is supposed to be your constitutionally protected freedom to practice your religion? I could go on... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 20, 2012 at 9:17 am
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Catholic bishop exposes himself in public park

Oh,wait. It was a president and CEO of Planned Parenthood. Now, be honest, would you have bothered to look at this post if the headline didn’t say that a Catholic bishop was the flasher? When I Googled the story, I found only seven local stories about the arrest of Tony Ray Thornton, 56, president and CEO of... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 14, 2012 at 1:58 pm
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Is a fetus a parasite?

Some folks got their noses out of joint when I wrote about the debate in my Chicago Tribune op-ed column. (View it here. And be sure to read the comments posted below the column to get the flavor of the wrath that I incurred.) What do you think? poll by twiigs.com... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 24, 2012 at 3:49 pm
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More debate on the abortion/breast cancer link

The letter below was published in the Tribune’s Voice of the People in response to my Jan. 31 column in which I deplored the politicalization of science, including the political attacks made on scientists who see a connection between breast cancer and inducted abortions. I had mentioned one study that discovered a statistical link between... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 8, 2012 at 3:03 pm
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The abortion/breast cancer debate; some details

When I mentioned in my Tribune column about the need to be objective and open-minded about research that points to a positive link between induced abortion and breast cancer, the usual hell broke loose. I was told that studies and the votes of medical groups, such as the National Cancer Society, have settled the matter without... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 7, 2012 at 3:23 pm
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Surprises about Planned Parenthood cancer testing

Planned Parenthood, as this AP story explains, doesn’t actually do mammograms, but refers women out to other sources. Which raises the question: Why is Planned Parenthood accepting any money for mammograms? Doesn’t that make them “middlemen?” Shouldn’t money contributed to Planned Parenthood for mammograms go directly to providers? Wouldn’t that be more efficient use of... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 4, 2012 at 8:52 am
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