Found my first op-ed article for my college's newspaper

The other night I was trying to locate something regarding my alma mater Elon University (though it was still "Elon College" when I was there).  During the search I came upon something truly wonderful: an archive of just about every issue of Elon's weekly student newspaper The Pendulum.I got involved in the The Pendulum early in my first semester at the...

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Roe v Wade... is DEAD!

Today is the REAL "Juneteenth".Behold the wild celebration outside the United States Supreme Court a few hours ago, as pro-life activists uncorked the champagne and raised a toast to the overturning of Roe v Wade:This gentleman is Scott Stewart.  He is the Solicitor General for the state of Mississippi.  He is the attorney who argued before the Supreme Court that...

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What the leaked majority opinion REALLY does

 I'm seeing a lot of outrage about the leaked draft of the majority opinion overturning Roe v Wade. Much anger about destroying a "right" to abortion. But for all their screaming these people are showing us that they have NO grasp whatsoever of what they are screaming about.Justice Alito's draft does NOT end the right to abortion. It does however articulate that the federal government has no standing in establishing such a right. The opinion...

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My first op-ed piece was about abortion. This is what happened...

During the four years I spent (of my seven year undergraduate career... ehh, family tradition you might say) at Elon, I was on the staff of the student newspaper The Pendulum.  First as a reporter but mostly as an op-ed writer.  It was a continuation of all the letters to the editor I had been sending the bigger newspapers.  I figured that being an essayist...

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New children's book asks: what is an abortion?

Big League Politics posted a story yesterday about a children's book titled - and I am not making this up - What's An Abortion, Anyway?Does anyone else catch the irony about this?A book for children.About abortion.As if our kids aren't having enough of their childhood taken away from them already.  Now comes this.(And I can't even find a literary agent for the book...

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Why are pro-life people so incredibly beautiful?

The annual March for Life is this weekend, albeit accommodating for the current COVID-19 situation.  Some turned out for the main event in Washington D.C. but in large part it's been a local affair.Something I've noticed, and have for quite a long time now.  Here are some photos from today's events and one or two from last year's:  Notice anything about...

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Kermit Gosnell has chosen life

And by that I mean, Kermit Gosnell has chosen life in prison. He could have chosen death.  Gosnell dropped his appeals in exchange for life, not death. I'm not the first to note the irony that given a choice, Gosnell chose life. If only his victims had been given the same choice... Kermit Gosnell: He chose life for himself, death for babies. Kermit Gosnell, abortion...

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The Cleveland kidnappings and abortion

Like many others, I have been watching the news out of Cleveland this week: the three young women who escaped after more than a decade of captivity, rape, torture and other abuse.  There is a lot to be said about this story, but most of that has been discussed at considerable length already. However, tonight I happened to catch something that has led me to articulate some thoughts aloud... Apparently, at least one of the women became pregnant...

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Planned Parenthood official sez: there is a right to POST-BIRTH abortion

God have mercy on us. Alisa LaPolt Snow, a lobbyist representing Planned Parenthood in Florida ("Planned Parenthood"?  Now there's a contradiction in terms...) testified before that state's legislators this week that babies who are born after an attempted abortion should be killed at the discretion of the mother and her doctor. Killing a baby.  After it has been born. Back in the old days, we used to call that "infanticide".  Something...

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Bias in mainstream press? WHAT bias?! (anti-gun vs. pro-life)

The apparently big story right now is about the estimated fewer than 1,000 who marched in Washington D.C. today against the Second Amendment. I understand that this has made all of the major evening new broadcasts: CBS, NBC, CNN etc.To the very best of my understanding, there was NO such coverage at all of yesterday's March for Life, which many have calculated drew more than...

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Forty years of silent screaming

The moment is still seared into my memory. Indeed, I can still feel the revulsion that was far too much for a little child to have to grasp.It was this day in 1983. I had seen on the news about something called "abortion". Seems that it was the tenth anniversary of it being allowed. So I asked Mom what "abortion" means."It means a mother kills her baby before it's born."A...

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"Unborn Grace" music video brought Chris to tears!

Got word tonight that the new music video for Faye Smith's song "Unborn Grace" stars a friend from my college days, the incredibly talented and exceedingly beautiful Candice Irion!So I hit the link and watched it.And this is only the second music video to ever make me cry. I'll let it be an exercise for the reader about what the first one was.From the album Deeper Still and gorgeously directed by Mark Blitch, here is "Unborn Grace"...

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An observation about Susan G. Komen For The Cure and Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood shouldn't be complaining one measly bit about Susan G. Komen For The Cure dropping its funding.After all, Planned Parenthood became something not wanted or needed... and so Komen gave it an abortion.What? I thought Planned Parenthood was pro-choice. Komen made a choice. It chose to abort its relationship with Planned Parenthood. Komen has the right to choose, doesn't it?And now a dozen or so senators are condemning Komen for...

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Bachmann and Romney mad at each other or something about pro-life "pledge"

sigh...Every time I come across a story like this about how inane our "political process" has become, I can't help but think of that line from Battle for the Planet of the Apes: "Ape has killed ape!!!"So newly-announced candidate for President of the United States Michele Bachmann is feigning righteous wrath (I know of no other way to put it) at fellow candidate Mitt Romney because he hasn't signed something called the "Susan B. Anthony pro-life...

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Monsignor Charles Pope contemplates "the Strength and Resilience of the Human Person"

In the wake of last week's tragic incident in Tuscon there have been reams of pages written about human nature, with one spin or another on the subject.I haven't read anything that is as poignant and beautiful as what Monsignor Charles Pope - pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian - has composed on his blog hosted by the Archdiocese of Washington.Here's an excerpt "Life is Worth Living: On the Strength and Resilience of the Human Person"...One of the...

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Study finds link between autism and vaccines using cells of aborted children

Good. God.How something like this has escaped my knowledge until now, I've no idea.Did you know that two widely-used childhood vaccines were manufactured with cells taken from aborted fetuses?I didn't either, until I read this article from LifeNews.com. It's about a just-published research study that has found a connection between the MMRII and chickenpox vaccines, and the dramatic rise in the rate of diagnosed autism.From the article...A new study...

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Scott Brown, the Republican Senator-elect, favors abortion "rights"

Read about it here.How the hell is this going to make him any different than Ted Kennedy?"But Chris, he couldn't get elected in Massachusetts if he were pro-life!"There are more important things in this world than "getting elected".I have said it before and I will say it again: the vast majority of the Republican party's leadership and elected officials do not care one iota about the abortion issue. And if they do, it's only because it never ceases...

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The most horrific news story I have read all year

A Campbell County, Virginia woman gave birth and smothered her newborn child to death. But she won't face murder charges because the umbilical cord was not yet cut so legally it's not murder but abortion.Officials say that the loophole in the law keeps them from pursuing charges.God help us.Read the story here at WSLS if you have the heart for ...

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New Republican head Steele: GOP should embrace pro-choice views, "gay marriage"

The only reason I'm really posting this is to illustrate something that I and many others have screamed ourselves hoarse about during the past several years: that there is no damned difference at all between the Republican and the Democrat parties in the United States.In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, new Republican National Committee chairman Micheal...

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A commercial you won't see during the Super Bowl tonight

CatholicVote.org attempted to buy airtime to run this thought-provoking spot during the Super Bowl tonight. But NBC refused, on grounds that the commercial time isn't for "political advocacy or issues". CatholicVote.org is quick to point out that People for Ethical Treatment of Animals already received approval for a racy and suggestive promo it created.Here's the spot that CatholicVote.org came up with. I find it to be exceptionally powerful,...

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