Is Violence a Civil Right?

Sherif Girgis writes:

Can we provide every member of the human family equal protection under the law? Your record as a legislator gives a resounding answer: No, we can’t. That is the answer the Confederacy gave the Union, the answer segregationists gave young children, the answer a complacent bus driver once gave a defiant Rosa Parks. But a different answer brought your father from Kenya so many years ago; a different answer brought my family from Egypt some years later. Now is your chance, Senator Obama, to make good on the spontaneous slogan of your campaign, to adopt the more American and more humane answer to the question of whether we can secure liberty and justice for all: Yes, we can.

The Princeton senior gets to the heart of the issues of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in this open letter to Senator Barack Obama.

(HT: JT)

"Planned Parenthood" is a Lie

I was driving a few hours ago between job sites and stopped at a light beside our local "Planned Parenthood" organization. It dawned on me that this name is a total falsitude. This organization does not exist to "plan" people's "parenthood," but rather to deal with people's "unplanned childhood." They should just be honest and call it, "Unplanned Childhood."

Or, more to the point, "Ended Childhood."

Dear Nancy Pelosi

"This isn't really an abortion issue," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, as she walked the Capitol on Friday. "That is what really saddens me about what the justices said. This is about a procedure that any parent would want her daughter to have access to if she needed it. And to frame it as an abortion issue is doing a disservice to medicine and to our young women and our country. So I hope we can get the focus back on the fact that this Supreme Court is deciding what medical procedures are necessary for child-bearing women."

Dear Nancy Pelosi,
In response to your quote in the San Francisco Chronicle about the partial-birth abortion ban recently upheld by the Supreme Court, these "child-bearing women" you speak of helping, are they bearing any children in the procedure that kills their unborn children? I'm not sure you understand what "child-bearing" means.

Britt Treece

(HT: JT through Denny Burk)

P.S. - Also note the liberal slant of the news articles. They spin the issue to be about "freedom" and "justice" for women rather than freedom and justice for all people. There are also some amazingly scary quotes in this article.

Heartbeat of Miami

Justin Taylor interviews John Ensor here, and what struck me about the interview was the utter Biblicity of it - Rev. Ensor simply speaks the Bible about the issues of abortion, life, and justice. He heads up Heartbeat International's urban initiatives and is working on planting pregnancy life care centers in the large urban areas of the US.

Ensor basically says the Christian reaction to our country's abortion culture should be:

• Read the Bible on the subject. (He highlights key passages.)
  
• Repent for our carelessness. (Yes, that means everyone.)
  
• Get involved with pregnancy life care centers. (Or join with their ministry.)
  

I wholeheartedly recommend the article and the ministry.