From out of the mouths of abortionists

Dr. Curtis Boyd, abortionist

“Am I killing? Yes, I am. I know that.”

 

Dr. Bertran Wainer, abortionist

“Abortion is killing. Nobody can argue with that. When the fetus is inside the uterus it is alive and when the pregnancy is terminated it is dead – that by any definition is killing. ... I think abortion is the destruction of something which is potentially irreplaceable, human and of great value, which is the tragedy of abortion.”

 

Dr. Lisa Harris, abortionist, about prolifers’ claims

“Given that we actually see the fetus the same way, and given that we might actually both agree that there’s violence in here. Let’s just give them all, ‘It’s violence. It’s a person. It’s killing.’ Let’s just give them all that.”

 

Cecili Chadwick, prochoice advocate

"Abortion undoubtedly ends life. I am not here to argue that today. Of course a fetus is a human being, of course a fetus is living and growing inside a womb."

 

Dr. Willie Parker, abortionist

“Abortion kills a human being.

 

Dr. Paul Jarrett, abortionist

“(I) looked squarely into the face of a human being — a human being that I had just killed.”

 

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, abortionist

“The unborn child is simply another human being, another member of the human community...indistinguishable in every way from any of us."

 

Dr. Leah Torres, abortionist

“Human beings are pregnant with human beings.”

 

Dr. Neville Sender, abortionist

“Of course we know it’s killing, but the state permits killing in certain circumstances.”

Judith Arcana, abortionist

 “We should never disregard the fact that being pregnant means there is a baby growing inside of a woman, a baby whose life is ended. We ought not to pretend this is not happening.”

 

Dr. William F. Harrison, abortionist

”No one, neither the patient receiving the abortion, nor the person doing the abortion, is ever, at any time, unaware that they are ending a life.”

 

Some sources -

https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortionists-agree-abortion-is-killing/

https://www.liveaction.org/news/abortionist-admits-babies-human-beings/

https://humandefense.com/prochoice-concedes/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork&fbclid=IwAR14bXQxUJ62LZDNRzaNeTZKh4Y7pV7F-B4Er4FLgvsIzHm3xbznH-KqvPY

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Screwtape - The Road to Hell Is a Gradual One

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts." - Screwtape

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Screwtape - moderated religion

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The devil, you say

At school, I had started reading The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis with my students during a homeroom reading period.

Then the coronavirus hit. No more reading with my students.

So after finishing Chesterton's The Innocence of Father Brown, I decided to finish Lewis's book. It's actually a rereading on my part, but it's been years since I read it.

One of the things I'm finding amusing is the number of pithy quotations one can draw out of it.

Here's a few of them:

“A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.”  

“It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing."

“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."

“Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can’t touch and see. "

I'm enjoying this rereading immensely.

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St. Padre Pio Chapel

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The Innocence of Father Brown

I decided to combine my love of mysteries and G. K, Chesterton and read The Innocence of Father Brown, the first collection of Father Brown stories.

I had read a couple of the stories before - "The Blue Cross" and "The Invisible Man" - but none of the others.

They were entertaining and amusing. But I will admit I figured out a couple of them before the end, and a couple seemed not to follow the fairness rules for detective fiction that Chesterton himself would later champion. *

Still - a good read. Well worth the time, I'll gladly read other Father Brown stories in the future.

* Detection Club Rules (circa 1930)

Club’:

1. The criminal must be someone mentioned in the early part of the story, but must not be anyone whose thoughts the reader has been allowed to follow.
2. All supernatural or preternatural agencies are ruled out as a matter of course.
3. Not more than one secret room or passage is allowable.
4. No hitherto undiscovered poisons may be used, nor any appliance which will need a long scientific explanation at the end.
5. No chinamen must figure in the story (today, sounds racially insensitive, but at the time too many pulp mysteries relied on racially stereotyped characters and villains, among them being the evil Asian ones).
6. No accident must ever help the detective, nor must he ever have an unaccountable intuition which proves to be right.
7. The detective himself must not himself commit the crime.
8. The detective must not light on any clues which are not instantly produced for the inspection of the reader.
9. The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, must not conceal any thoughts which pass through his mind; his intelligence must be slightly, but very slightly, below that of the average reader.
10. Twin brothers, and doubles generally, must not appear unless we have been duly prepared for them.

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Great response to the prochoice suffering child argument

This woman nails it!

https://www.facebook.com/studentsforlife/videos/701499934009967/

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