"When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her."

In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.

Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.

Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll be a little fuzzy on where, exactly, the Bible says this, but they’ll insist that it does.

That’s new. If you had asked American evangelicals that same question the year I was born you would not have gotten the same answer.

Very good read. Rest of the article at
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivis ... appy-meal/

Pretty sure it was a vegan/PETA conspiracy.

Poll results such as these will not go unnoticed by the Rmoney campaign.

This will require some serious Etch-A-Sketchin' after Rmoney secures the nomination.

As many a husband will tell you women have VERY VERY VERY long memories. We will not forget this shit come November.

As many a husband will tell you women have VERY VERY VERY long memories. We will not forget this shit come November.

(Can I add another "VERY"?)

Very good read. Rest of the article at
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivis ... appy-meal/

Great article (and discussion.) As a Catholic lad I was quite impressed with the Premminger film, The Cardinal. In it there was a plotline that developed between the priest, Stephen Fermoyle, had to deal with his sister Mona's unwed pregnancy and whether to save the baby or Mona.

Catholics, in my experience, frown on abortion unless one of them needs one.

On 27 November 2010, Pope Benedict XVI spoke that
“from the moment of its conception life must be guarded with the greatest care.”[14] [...] With regard to the embryo in the mother's womb, science itself highlights its autonomy, its capacity for interaction with the mother, the coordination of biological processes, the continuity of development, the growing complexity of the organism.
It is not an accumulation of biological material but rather of a new living being, dynamic and marvelously ordered, a new individual of the human species. This is what Jesus was in Mary’s womb; this is what we all were in our mother’s womb. We may say with Tertullian, an ancient Christian writer: “the one who will be a man is one already” (Apologeticum IX, 8), there is no reason not to consider him a person from conception.[15]
In relation to elective abortion, Pope John Paul II wrote about ensoulment in his 1995 encyclical letter Evangelium Vitae that:
Throughout Christianity's two thousand year history, this same doctrine of condemning all direct abortions has been constantly taught by the Fathers of the Church and by her Pastors and Doctors. Even scientific and philosophical discussions about the precise moment of the infusion of the spiritual soul have never given rise to any hesitation about the moral condemnation of abortion.[16]
While the Church has always condemned abortion, changing beliefs about the moment the embryo gains a human soul have led their stated reasons for such condemnation, and the classification in canon law of the sin of abortion, to change over time.[17][18]

A measure passed Arizona’s Senate claims that it would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, but experts say that the bill is far more restrictive, effectively banning abortions after 18 weeks and declaring that a woman could be pregnant 2 weeks before she even had sex.

Arizona’s HB 2036 takes Nebraska’s 20-week abortion ban one step further by starting the clock on pregnancies at the woman’s last last menstrual period, which could be two weeks before fertilization.

Specifically, the bill would “[p]rohibit abortions at or after twenty weeks of gestation, except in cases of a medical emergency, based on the documented risks to women’s health and the strong medical evidence that unborn children feel pain during an abortion at that gestational age,” where gestational age is defined as “age of the unborn child as calculated from the first day of the last menstrual period of the pregnant woman.”

“Think about the implications down the road,” she wrote. “If a woman is ‘pregnant’ two weeks before she becomes pregnant, than any fertile woman—including those currently menstruating!—should really be considered pregnant. After all, we don’t know the future. We don’t know that any non-pregnant woman couldn’t be pregnant two weeks from now, making her retroactively pregnant now.”

Just one month earlier, Nebraska had enacted the nation's first fetal pain legislation, banning abortions after 20 weeks gestation. So the Deavers had to wait more than a week to deliver baby Elizabeth, who died after just 15 minutes.

"They could do nothing to make it better but tell us to wait, which made it worse," Danielle Deaver said. "Every time I felt movement, I was terrified she was hurting and trying to push the uterus away from her."

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...I am just out of words to express the rage and sadness and confusion I feel over these laws passing, and the inability of women to do anything to stop them.

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The Rs in MS are crowing today for, once again, moving the goalposts on personal choice. They have effectively closed the only abortion provider in the state.

I am just out of words to express the rage and sadness and confusion I feel over these laws passing, and the inability of women to do anything to stop them.

Supporters are trying to revive the dead bills by inserting the issues into other bills that are still alive, but it’s unclear whether they will succeed.

Bryan said he pocket-vetoed the bills because he believes they’d be challenged in court.

House Bill 1196 would have prohibited abortion once a fetal heartbeat is detectable, unless the woman’s health was at risk.

House Bill 790 would have regulated the use of the abortion-inducing drug RU-486 by requiring the prescribing physician to be in the room when the woman took it.

Governor Brewski has signed the omnibus abortion bill.

Pregnancy is the fertilization and development of one or more offspring, known as an embryo or fetus, in a woman's uterus. In a pregnancy, there can be multiple gestations, as in the case of twins or triplets. Childbirth usually occurs about 38 weeks after conception; in women who have a menstrual cycle length of four weeks, this is approximately 40 weeks from the start of the last normal menstrual period (LNMP). Human pregnancy is the most studied of all mammalian pregnancies.

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