• I'm Only Human!

    By Kaitlin Martinez • August 25, 2010 10:30 AM

    People always say that when they want sympathy for doing something dumb. I also hear that argument put forth time and time again when it comes to abortion.  It always comes up when I tell people that they shouldn’t have the ability to choose to abort their child because they already made their choice when they decided to participate in the activity that lead to the creation of another human being.  I continuously suggest that instead of getting to the point where you should have to choose whether or not to terminate your child you should make the choice to, I dunno, perhaps abstain. Then comes that wonderful saying, “but I’m only human!” You can’t possibly expect people to NOT have sex, right!? I mean that’s crazy!

     

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  • Abortion: Outdated In The 21st Century

    By Kaitlin Martinez • August 24, 2010 12:00 PM

    In a culture where the rights of humans and animals alike are championed, and people tread as cautiously on their words as they would through a mine field it seems strange that an act as archaic and barbaric as abortion would be legal. If you take a trip over to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) website you’ll see scores of famous faces promoting the welfare of animals. Don’t get me wrong I believe that we should care for the creatures God created. However, how many of those same celebrities would come out in support of unborn children being treated unethically??

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  • Judge Halts Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding

    By Susan Tyrrel • August 24, 2010 10:00 AM

    What do vaccines and federal court cases have in common? Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth from the District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction against the Obama administration's plan to expand funding and use federal dollars for human embryonic stem cell research.

    You may want to read this post where we discussed the ins and outs of this case, but this is good news for pro-lifers. The plaintiffs sued because they asserted that by funding embryonic stem-cell research, there was a potential for "irreparable injury" to those doing ethical adult stem-cell research; it also argued that it violated federal law since the Dickey-Wicker Amendment prohibits federal funding of research that destroys human embryos, noting that “since 1994, Congress has expressly banned NIH from funding research in which human embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.”

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  • Babies Saved Again in DC

    By Matt Lockett • August 23, 2010 03:24 PM

    We've posted several articles here tracking with the progress of the "No Trespassing" sign the Planned Parenthood put on public property here in DC. Last Saturday's event, A Time To Stand, was a significant victory in that the city recognized that the property was in fact public and open for Christians to enter—specifically those that want to pray on site and do sidewalk counseling.

    Well here is an amazing testimony of fruit from those efforts that comes by way of a local woman named Carolyn. In fact, Carolyn was the first person threatened with arrest and made to leave several months ago after Planned Parenthood erected their fence and hung their no trespassing sign. Carolyn returned this last week to once again pray at the facility which had been a regular activity for her before the fence was built.

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  • The Scarlet A

    By Susan Tyrrel • August 23, 2010 12:00 PM
    Although the number of pro-life people in the nation has grown to a majority, a disturbing poll shows that while 54% of Americans think abortion is morally wrong “most of the time,” as a voting issue, they still rank it below ten other issues, including economy, government ethics and immigration in their voting interest. This may show why 49% consider themselves pro-choice, conflicting the numbers.
     
    These results are profoundly disturbing, of course. To be pro-life is to defend life. Period. The second we value another issue over life, thereby subordinating it, the moment we add allowances and exceptions, we have forfeited our pro-life status. Life and death are opposites—one cannot exist with the other in this arena.
     
    Randy Alcorn points out some of these inconsistencies in a recent interview with Mark Driscoll. He discusses the debate with the Planned parenthood slogan which says “Every child a wanted child.” Alcorn notes that:
     
    The nice little bumper sticker that says, “Every child a wanted child” really means, “Every unwanted child a dead child.” Obviously that doesn’t look good on a bumper sticker, and nobody actually has a sticker that says that. But that is really what it means.

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  • Ryan's Story

    By Christina Martin • August 20, 2010 02:30 PM

    Every little girl has a dream. Andrea's dream was to take care of kids, who had no one to care for them. Her parent's separated when she little and she was put in a children's home for a year. Although her parents were able to visit her, she saw many lonely kids whose parents couldn't see them. She decided that when got older and married, she would help kids who didn't have anyone to care for them.

    Andrea grew up, got married to Henry Bomberger, and never forgot her childhood dream.

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  • Against Such Things There Should Be No Law

    By Susan Tyrrel • August 20, 2010 12:30 PM
    Not too long ago we reported that a major study by a secular university showed that abstinence education actually worked. (You can read the whole study here.)We weren’t surprised but were happy even academia knew it. Apparently the Obama administration doesn’t want anyone else to know much about it, though.
     
    According to this report:
     
    A taxpayer-funded study that indicates parental and adolescent support of abstinence education is not being released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), as it does not support the administration’s objective – or that of vocal “safe sex” activists – of eliminating all abstinence-education funding.

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  • Time Out: Funny Eggs (Video)

    By Ian Kelly • August 20, 2010 12:00 PM

    And now a break from the regular scheduled programming...

    (video after the jump)

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  • Adoption And Money: WHY Should I Pay For YOUR Kid?

    By Jess Clark • August 20, 2010 10:30 AM
    Maybe you're asking yourself, "What the heck, self? Why should I pay for somebody else's kid? Nobody paid for my kid." or some such. Let me try to help out.
     
    Let me throw the disclaimer in here that I am talking about adoption in general, and not our adoption specifically. Obviously we are fundraising, but more importantly, I just want to shed some light on the whole topic.
     
    One of the key elements you have to understand about adoption is - the kid is already here. We are talking about a person, in utero or out of it, that has already joined our world and will live here, one way or another. Adoption is one way to provide that child a healthy, stable family.

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  • Adoption And Money: WHY So Much?

    By Jess Clark • August 19, 2010 04:00 PM

    I’m writing a series here about the details of adoption, and trying to answer some of your questions.

    So, why does it cost so much? That’s probably the question I have been getting asked the most, next to what if the baby is really a demon? One thing at a time, folks.

    There are a myriad of opinions as to why it costs what it does. If you are one of those who believes deeply in corporate greed and conspiracies, you could find some in adoption. Like everything else, there is corruption. I’d like to think there’s less now than ever before.

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