Celebrate mom by helping others avoid motherhood.

This rivals a suggestion on Facebook when a former schoolmate asked others to donate to NARAL in lieu of wrapping up a gift for Christmas. Saves paper and bows! Besides, what says joy of infant Jesus like the slaughter of the unborn? Kirsten Gilibrand stuck her foot in it today. Via Hot Air, behold: “This [...]

A parent’s worst nightmare…?

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we ad-lib to conceive… From LifeSiteNews Single mom wants baby. But she’s on a budget, so sperm donor is out of the question. So she goes the way of “ex-boyfriend with benefits” – sorta – she pays him $1400 for his “service” – you know his guy friends [...]

Planned Parenthood pleads: Pray for abortions!

I missed this earlier this month when LifeNews covered it, but I must say I’m awed at the brazen sacrilege of calling people to 40 days of prayer for infanticide. Today is Day 38: Today we pray for a cloud of gentleness to surround every abortion facility. May everyone feel calm and loving. Because gentle, calm [...]

“The days I stay home with my kids without going out, I start to get ill.”

Ah, she gets a headache, too. So quipped the First Lady in an interview in 2007. The full Monty: Every year, Michelle Obama considers quitting her job and staying home full-time to take care of her children. “It was a gift having my mother home every day. I want my kids to feel that way,” [...]

“A woman who does this is a heroine of feminism. A man who does this is a louse”

So writes Instapundit of Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, a mother of two who decided she didn’t want to be a mother anymore and abandoned her family to live in Japan and pursue writing. He’s right, of course. She is a finalist for the National Book Award for her memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning.  From the article at Parenting: [...]

“The future belongs to the fruitful”

So argues James Taranto of the WSJ yet again in explaning the consequences of what he terms the “Roe Effect.” More: We have another thought as to why environmentalism seems to have peaked with the baby boom. The key is in that generation’s moniker: “baby boom.” The baby boomers’ parents were unusually fertile, especially when [...]

How disengenous can you get, NYT? This isn’t a battle for *access* to birth control.

From today’s paper, with the ominous headline, Centrist Women Tell of Disenchantment with Republicans (emphasis my own): As baby showers go, the party Mary Russell attended to celebrate her niece’s first child was sweet, with about a dozen women offering congratulations over ice cream and cake. But somewhere between the baby name game and the gifts, [...]

The miracle of life (and the choice of barrenness)

Two things caught my eye today (because I sat down long enough to read!) In the first, via Pundette, Mark Steyn contrasts the miracle of life as witnessed in Luke’s Gospel to the barrenness-by-choice of today’s society. He writes: That bit of the Christmas story doesn’t get a lot of attention, but it’s in there — Luke [...]

Is premarital sex today less “evil” than it used to be?

Walter Russell Mead says yes. He writes: The core truth is that premarital sex is less evil today than it used to be.  It remains, as moral theologians say, wrong in itself, we Christians believe, and that is a quality that does not change.  But premarital sex is less of a sin against other people [...]

What feminism hath wrought, part 9,897

Kate Bolick recalls her childhood and her mother’s emerging feminism: I was her first and only recruit, marching off to third grade in tiny green or blue T-shirts declaring: A Woman Without a Man Is Like a Fish Without a Bicycle, or: A Woman’s Place Is in the House—and the Senate, and bellowing along to [...]