This will be a massive links post. The links are not related, so don’t attempt to draw any dots. As I’ve said before, I don’t expect to do much more than this for a few weeks.
Well, I take that back. Some are related. Over the past few days there have been a rash of life-and-death related stories and images floating around. I’ll just limit this post to those.
This account from the Los Angeles Times of selective abortion by the proud and practical dad.
Finally, those of us who do suffer from infertility and also oppose abortion are pleased with the Supreme Court’s recent decision because we are pro-life. We do not think that the desperate and understandable desire to have children can ever justify the death of children (how could it?!), nor that two wrongs make a right. Nor do we think that being irresponsible once means that you have the right to be irresponsible again. Neil takes great pains to present he and his wife as victims, as though having a child is everyone’s right (as opposed to being the responsiblity and blessing that it is), and that any consequences that come from doing anything and everything to have children should be pinned on others: the government, the Supreme Court, pro-lifers, etc. My wife and I, like so many other pro-lifers who are infertile, having exhausted all means that we believe is morally allowable (and guided by commonsense, study, and Church teaching), were able to have children through adoption. In both cases the birth mothers could have chose abortion, but did not. Young and having to make difficult decisions, they still had more moral sense than Neil, whose utilitarian approach to life is as irresponsible as it is illogical.
At MOJ, Elizabeth Schiltz responds to the article.
DIogenes reflects on the ordinary work week of the purveyors of death.
But on a more hopeful note, watch the video "99 Balloons" – a short (about 6 minute), moving film about the birth and life of a child with Trisomy 18, narrated by his father.
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