Minor Thoughts

Obamacare represents the biggest expansion of taxpayer-funded abortion in American history. Watch this video to see how.

Alan Kazdin recently discussed corporal punishment. He’s against it.

Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have banned corporal punishment in the schools. But so far, we have shown ourselves unwilling to extend that debate beyond the schools and into the ideologically sacred circle of the family. Where the argument against corporal punishment in …

Many people can agree that abortion is a bad thing. Many people can agree that we should have fewer abortions in the world. But how can we reduce the number of abortions?

There are two main methods: social and legal.

How can we work socially to reduce abortions? I asked: why do women have abortions? The Guttmacher …

Yesterday and today, joe chapman and I discussed Obama’s votes on the Infant Born Alive Act. joe is distressed at my strong reaction to Obama’s vote and has been urging me not to be a single issue voter over abortion.

I was planning to write a rebuttal to that charge. Then James and Adam stepped in …

Peter Kirsanow makes a really good point about Senator Abortion and the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act.

Even if one accepts any one of Obama’s (four and counting) explanations for his vote against the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, his position remains problematic, if not untenable. Consider:

Obama sits through testimony …

This is why I cannot — will not — vote for Senator Barack Obama in November.

The tiny newborn baby made very little noise as he struggled to breathe. He lacked the strength to cry. He had been born four months premature.

”At that age,” says nurse Jill Stanek, ”their lungs …

When Does a Fetus Resemble a Baby?:

We left off last night asking: when does a fetus begin to command moral respect, such that we should view it as something other than a mere clump of cells appended to a woman’s body?

I have repeatedly noted AMac’s comment:

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Patterico has posted A Discussion of Abortion — Part Two: Follow-Up Questions. I’ll follow suit by posting more answers. While the question was asked as one paragraph, I think it makes sense to break it down into three questions:

How do you define “conception”? As the union of sperm and egg? As implantation of the zygote …

Patterico published A Discussion of Abortion — Part One: Setting the Stage yesterday evening. He invited his readers to answer two questions, as part of a multiple day discussion of abortion. I chose to answer his questions here rather than just answering in a comment on his blog. Here goes.

For you, is abortion in …