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Posts tagged "pro-life"

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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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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What's more newsworthy: 300,000 marchers or a 'handful' of marchers?

If it is a handful of Catholic college students bitching about how they can’t afford contraception versus 300,000 pro-lifers marching in Washington, the hands-down decision goes to the handful. Check out the comments on the comparison here. One observation made in the article: But in so many news reports this handful of young women speaking... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
February 20, 2012 at 1:57 pm
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Norma McCorvey (Jane Roe) once was pro-choice too

The Daily Beast writes about Rick Santorum’s wife, Karen with this headline: The GOP contender’s hard-core pro-life wife once dated an abortion provider. What follows is a 1,300-word article describing Karen’s live-in relationship in her 20s with anobstetrician who provided abortions. Now, we’re informed that she is “hard-core pro-life,” the implication being that she and, I... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
January 16, 2012 at 12:25 pm
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At last, Illinois supreme court agrees to hear arguments in long-stymied parental notification law

Sixteen years ago, the Illinois Legislature enacted a law requiring a parent or guardian to be notified 48 hours before a child under 18 has an abortion. This reasonable requirement still hasn’t been enforced because pro-choice radicals like the American Civil Liberties Union have for years tied the law up in the courts, defying the... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 30, 2011 at 3:03 pm
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Abortion compromise on 'informed consent'?

One of the many contentious issues in the abortion debate is whether women planning the procedure should be “fully informed” of the risks. Pro-lifers think they should; pro-choicers think they shouldn’t. Or at least the government shouldn’t prescribe what doctors must say to patients. Who can argue against patients having a chance to give their... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
November 18, 2011 at 8:30 am
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This, too, is Earth Day

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By Dennis Byrne,
April 22, 2010 at 3:46 pm
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Why Stupek, who won't run again, is under pro-life fire

Well, that didn’t take long. Seventy-eight percent of the voters in his northern Michigan district said they oppose public funding of abortion in health care legislation, according to polling by the Susan B. Anthony List. It didn’t take long for Rep. Bart Stupek, the Democrat who engineered passage of the health car law–without the public... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
April 9, 2010 at 12:35 pm
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The cost of Stupak's, Costello's and 9 other's votes for health care: $4.7 billion in earmarks

As soon as Rep. Bart Supak (D-Mich), Jerry Costello (D-Ill) and the others decided that DemCare was in the public interest, lots of people started asking: What did it to sell out their pro-life consciences to buy their votes?  Here’s a possible answer from the the Sunlight Foundation.  The day after the vote, the 11 put... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 26, 2010 at 3:42 pm
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Aurora gets lesson in free speech

Aurora had posted signs prohibiting picketing on public property and taken other actions to restrict the freedoms of pro-life demonstrators.  In a settlement of a First Amendment suit… filed two years ago to protect the rights of citizens who pray and protest at the Planned Parenthood facility in Aurora. The settlement requires the City of... Read more »
By Dennis Byrne,
March 25, 2010 at 4:45 pm
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