How can you “kill” something that cannot “die”? This is arguably the most significant question in any discussion concerning the legality of abortion, and because facts matter, the following seventeen words are critical in understanding that before gestational week 25, although more accurately week 28, there is no ethical dilemma in terminating a pregnancy because … Continue reading
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The Lies Evangelicals Tell
David McDonnough, an evangelical apologist who writes at Applied Faith, penned a thoroughly interesting post on the language used in the abortion debate: Plan-B” and Other Twisted Words Of Murder. The opening salvo gets right to the point of the article and implores the reader to “use accurate and correct words,” to which all rational people exclaim, … Continue reading
Educating Christians. Lesson #1: Abortion; your god LOVES it!
There’s an unmistakable truism in Sam Harris’s assertion that atheism is just a way of clearing the space for “better conversations.” By this he meant rational dialogue free of the unreasonable noise so often encountered when religious zealots attempt to imposes their predictably preposterous beliefs on civil secular societies… and of all the conversations perverted … Continue reading
Listen up, Christians; I gonna learn ya’ somethin ’bout Personhood-hood
A woman’s unencumbered, secular right to make decisions concerning her own body. That’s where the subject of contraception/abortion begins and ends with rational human beings. It proceeds no further. There is no debate, and there certainly is no controversy. The Christian right are not, however, rational human beings. Like their fundamentalist Muslim brothers they forfeited … Continue reading
