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The murder of George Tiller has prompted many families to post first-person accounts of their own heart-wrenching decisions about abortion and child birth. There’s a broad national consensus against late term abortions yet these stories raise the question of just how much we know about why women have them. Are these stories actually representative? What…

Larson Hicks writes: “My wife gave birth to a beautiful anencephalic little boy about seven weeks ago. He lived for the most wonderful 16 days we’ve ever had. We knew he wouldn’t live long, but we couldn’t be more grateful for his life. We were not only given the gift of getting to know our…

A moving post from a female phsyician: “At age 40, I gave birth to my first child – a desparately wanted girl. Only, at my 3rd ultrasound, I was told, my girl would live not on this earth, but only in heaven. Heart and brain defects incompatible with life. My OB advised “abortion”, but that…

Scott Roeder, the man charged with murdering abortion doctor George Tiller, had been arrested once before in 1996, on charges of holding illegal explosives. Ironically, he eventually got out of jail when courts ruled that police had improperly searched his car, The New York Times reported. In other words, he was sprung on exactly the…

In response to the assassination of George Tiller, a number of blogs have posted testimonials from women who had late term abortions. Poignantly, most of the women wanted the babies. In some cases, the babies were dead or dying within the womb. Hilzoy has several examples at The Washington Monthly. One woman in the eighth…

I’m wary of drawing too many lessons from anonymous message board comments. One could certainly pluck comments from Beliefnet’s boards to prove that we harbor either right wing or left wing extremists. But it’s worth perusing the message boards of FreeRepublic, a conservative community, to gauge the general mood of the most hardcore conservatives. First,…

The murder of abortion provider George Tiller should force a re-assessment of the Department of Homeland Security’s maligned report on “right wing extremism.” I was thoroughly dumbfounded at the conservative reaction to that report in April. If you read the report, it was quite clearly aimed a serious, violent, insane extremists. Yet mainstream conservatives took…

Here’s an excerpt from Bob Nylen’s riveting new book, in part about his experiences in Vietnam. Bob, the co-founder of Beliefnet, died in December 2008: “For several days, a private in Robert McNamara’s breathe-and-you’re in Army had played the same grotesque joke. He pulled the pin of a hand grenade, making a distinctive ping, and…

I wonder how many times I’ve walked past scenes like this and not even noticed.

Conservative Catholic activist Bill Donohue shocked me this morning by saying he will “quietly root for” the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor. During an email exchange, he wrote: “I like the fact that she is not brandishing her religion. I do not want Catholic judges to rule as Catholics but as judges. I am all for…
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