Mark Brumley has had enough of philosophically ill-informed scientists going on about nothing. So has William Carroll.
Philosopher Paul F. Symington takes an Aristotelian approach to the moral quandary posed by Sophie’s Choice.
Very few Catholics follow their Church’s teaching on contraception, right? Not so fast. Our friend Lydia McGrew looks at the data and begs to differ.
Who’s to blame for the Obama administration’s attempt to impose its liberal values on Catholics? Well, the Obama administration, of course. But the Catholic bishops must also bear their share of the blame, say Paul Rahe and Rorate Caeli. (Sounds familiar.)
Academic apologists for baby-killing -- or, as they call it, “after-birth abortion.” No, it’s not a story from The Onion. William M. Briggs has the lowdown on these lowlifes.
Is it only a matter of time before something like China’s One Child Policy is mandated under Obamacare? Fr. John Zuhlsdorf dares you to call him crazy for thinking so.
Fr. Z is not crazy, of course. Connect the dots: The Obama administration has already shown itself quite happy to force Catholics and others to pay for abortifacients. As Fr. Z notes, the administration has also made it clear that it regards a reduction in the birthrate as a desirable goal of health care policy. The legitimacy in principle of “after-birth abortion” is already implicit in existing arguments for abortion, and has been defended by other “ethicists” -- the article cited by Briggs isn’t that novel. The premises are already in place. All that is necessary is to draw the conclusion. It won’t be drawn under this administration, but as with “same-sex marriage,” what is unthinkable today will tomorrow be the “progressive’s” idea of common sense.
If they call you crazy for saying so, that’s a matter of tactics. Ten or twenty years from now they’ll call you crazy for opposing mandatory abortion (or rather, for opposing it in those cases where the “public good” or “women’s health” or “overpopulation” or some such thing “requires” it). Count on it. And remember, I told you so.
