Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts

Election 2014: Victories And Defeats For Individual Rights

by Ari Armstrong.     If the victorious Republicans follow through on their campaign promises—for example, many promised to work toward repealing or defunding ObamaCare—election day will have been a net win for advocates of individual rights, despite the passage of some rights-violating ballot measures. Consider some of the relevant       ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: More Culture Wars?

Will the Republican victory make a difference?          Because of the way the news business works, I am writing this column before the close of the polls in the so-called midterm elections, and hence as I write, I do not know their outcome. Will the Republicans or the Democrats control the U.S. Senate for the next two years?   ... MORE

Anti-Gun Activists Adopt Anti-Abortion Tactics

by A. Barton Hinkle.        A dark, sinister game. Foes of abortion and foes of guns have a similar problem: The Supreme Court, which says government cannot ban either one outright. What to do? Increasingly, the two advocacy movements are resorting to a similar solution: targeted regulation. Abortion opponents started the trend and have it    ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: Dubious Rights Threaten True Liberty

Free birth control and unfree photographers.     According to The New York Times, a case the Supreme Court heard in March, involving a challenge to Obamacare's requirement that businesses pay for their employees' contraceptives, "pits religious liberty against women's rights." Similarly, the recent controversy over an Arizona bill aimed at    ... MORE

The ObamaCare Gift To Planned Parenthood Clinics

by Paul Bedard.       Most of Planned Parenthood's 750 health and abortion clinics around the nation will be covered under Obamacare, imposing a new demand on insurers who want to participate in the health care exchanges that will provide insurance coverage to millions of Americans. While insurers currently cover doctors and health     ... MORE

Are Teenagers Big Children Or Small Adults?

by A. Barton Hinkle. America can’t make up its mind. This should not be surprising in a nation of 314 million people, half of whom can’t make up their minds about what to have for dinner. But dinner is inconsequential. How we treat children is not. And when it comes to the treatment of children, society’s approach is wildly incoherent. Last week the Supreme   ... MORE

Larry Huss: The Federal Assault On Freedom Of Religion

Obama wants to trump the tenets of Catholic morality. The Catholic Church believes that abortion is the taking of a human life – an innocent human life. It makes no distinction between an abortion and murder. I stand with the Catholic Church. Despite that stance, the Church has avoided a direct confrontation with the federal government   ... MORE

Matt Welch: Why Big Government Is Offensive

The increasingly invasive activities of the state stinks.    I was hoping to make it through life without hearing television commentators repeatedly utter the word transvaginal. Yet that intimate territory is where the country headed in February, and it is where we will increasingly return as long as the government keeps assuming a greater role in our private ... MORE

Providing Abortions & Transgender Therapy To Illegals

ObamaCare forces taxpayers to pick up tab.    U.S. immigration officials are under standing orders to provide abortion services for detained illegal aliens in some circumstances and hormone therapy to those who say they are transgendered. The orders to do so are included in the “2011 Operations Manual ICE Performance-Based National Detention   ... MORE

Katie Kieffer: Santorum Fails Constitution 101

Rick is not happy with our founding document.     I think Sen. Rick Santorum would make a great community organizer. Unfortunately, we are trying to remove, not re-elect, a community organizer in the White House. Both Santorum and President Obama have a track record of ignoring the Constitution and implementing their personal ideologies at the  ... MORE

Mark Steyn: Contraception Misdirection

Like handing out condoms on the Titanic. Have you seen the official White House version of what the New York Times headline writers call “A Responsible Budget”? My favorite bit is Chart 5-1 on page 58 of their 500-page appendix on “Analytical Perspectives.” This is entitled “Publicly Held Debt Under 2013 Budget Policy Projections.” It’s a straight through your  ... MORE

Sheldon Richman: Insuring The Uninsurable

Pitting conscience against coercion. Controversy rages over the Obama administration’s proposed (and later modified) mandate that all employers—including Catholic hospitals and universities—include free contraception in their employee health insurance policies. Catholic officials object that since their church forbids contraception, the decree   ... MORE

WSJ Op-Ed: HHS Tells Religious Believers To Go To Hell

ObamaCare's great awakening.   The political furor over President Obama's birth-control mandate continues to grow, even among those for whom contraception poses no moral qualms, and one needn't be a theologian to understand why. The country is being exposed to the raw political control that is the core of the Obama health-care plan, and Americans are seeing  ... MORE

Richard Doerflinger: Mandatory Abortion Coverage?

What the HHS mandate was about all along. The fact is, neither PPACA nor the president’s order erects any barrier whatever to health-insurance plans’ including abortion coverage — in fact, for the first time ever in federal law, they declare that plans covering abortion can even receive federal funds. (Section 1303 of the federal law provides for a     ... MORE

A Barton Hinkle: Do We Need A Law To Make People Think?

The picture painted of some legislators is grotesque. “I think people should make informed choices, and I think this bill would accomplish that.” So said Del. Mark Cole the other day about his bill to force anyone seeking a firearm or concealed-carry permit in Virginia to look at autopsy pictures of shooting victims. Autopsy pictures of gunshot wounds ... MORE

VIDEO: A Version Of Mitt For Everyone


Two reasons to pick Ron Paul. We know who Gingrich is. We don't know Romney.