Category: Pro-Life

This label appears on a plastic container in which, ironically, we were storing toddler clothes. Gotta love trial lawyers for forcing these things on us. (I love that the kid is hovering in mid-air inside the container.)

CL reader Mike wants everyone to know that Christopher West, noted author and speaker on marriage and sexuality, will be coming to Laurel, Maryland soon.
I thought I recognized the name, then I remembered that at one time he was in my living room frequently. When I was a batchelor, one of my roommates was a grad student at the John Paul II Institute, and so was Chris West. Chris hung out with my roommate sometimes, and also he came to several of our house parties. (Let me tell you, there’s nothing quite like partying with theology students! They party like it’s 1399!)
But as always, I digress. Chris is a bright guy and has many valuable things to say. Full details are here. Here’s a short description:

Christopher West, best-selling author and dynamic speaker, will visit St. Vincent Pallotti High School in Laurel, Maryland on Saturday, March 12 to conduct a workshop on Pope John Paul II’s revolutionary work, the “Theology of the Body.”
The workshop will run from 8:45 am-4pm (Mass at 8:00
a.m. at St. Mary of the Mills across the street from
the high school) and the cost is $20, which includes
workshop materials.

This is the latest member of the Johnson family. Ain’t he or she cute?
We haven’t decided whether to find out what the sex is yet. But the baby is healthy, and that’s all that really matters.

An Illinois judge has ruled that a frozen embryo in vitro is a human being, and therefore the parents of the pre-born can sue over his or her wrongful death in a fertility lab mixup.
The practice of artificial procreation is on an ethical collision course with itself. If the would-be parents get to sue the lab for the wrongful death of one, who’s to be held responsible for the wrongful deaths of the equally human siblings: the eight rejected for implantation and discarded with the couple’s consent?

Catholic Light reader David B. says there is no reference to abortion in the Constitution. I don’t think he’s looking closely enough. You see…
…the Third Amendment to the Constitution forbids the quartering of soldiers in private homes…
…that right was used to legalize contraception in Griswold vs. Connecticut…
…and Griswold was a major precedent for finding the right to an abortion.
From no quartering soldiers, to allowing baby repellants, to killing eight-months-gestated babies while they’re still in the birth canal. What part about that can’t you follow, David? Don’t tell me you’re not getting it. Maybe you could read this class summary and it will make it clearer.