This entry is part of a series of guest posts on the governor’s race. For the rest of the series, go to:
Taylor vs. DeWine: candidate comparison, by the issues (2018 Republican primary for Ohio governor)
On life, only Mary Taylor and Nathan Estruth have always been pro-life with no exceptions. Mary was the only woman to co-sponsor a bill to ban abortion in Ohio, no exceptions. Mary has said she would not only sign, but she would call for the Heartbeat bill. While Mike DeWine has voted for some pro-life legislation, DeWine also voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Merrick Garland, and Eric Holder, and DeWine championed Judge Barrett, the Planned Parenthood judge who is the reason our tax dollars in Ohio still go to Planned Parenthood.
Mary Taylor is endorsed by the grassroots/local Right to Life Action Coalition of Ohio, while Mike DeWine is endorsed by the Ohio Right to Life PAC.
Gibbons vs. Renacci: U.S. Senate Republican Primary (2018, Ohio) Candidate Comparison, by the Endorsements
May 3, 2018
There are five candidates on the ballot in the primary this Tuesday seeking the Republican nomination to challenge incumbent Sherrod Brown for U. S. senator from Ohio, but pollsters indicate the two who realistically have any chance of winning the nomination are Mike Gibbons and Jim Renacci.* Here’s how they compare, according to organizations that have looked into the candidates’ records and positions on different issues:
On Immigration
Hundreds of thousands went to D. C. for the annual March for Life last week. As even the liberal Washington Post observed, this pro-life movement is full of youth and energy.
Journalism Student Shapes Narrative, Promotes Abortion
October 16, 2014
Jillian Martinez has an interesting report on a ballot initiative in Colorado. She makes sure to give some of the factual background and to quote both proponents and opponents about their views on Amendment 67, but that doesn’t prevent her from shaping the narrative in more and less subtle ways.
- Before the piece begins, the headline over it frames the issue: “Personhood amendment resurfaces and deceives”. (The issue is the amendment—not the underlying issue that it seeks to address—and the amendment “deceives”.)
Thomas, Winburn to Lose Pro-life Endorsements
October 6, 2014
Last week, I wondered whether Ohio Right to Life and Cincinnati Right to Life would rescind their endorsements of Cecil Thomas, after he flip-flopped on the definition of marriage.
Since then, the Cincinnati Enquirer has reported (longer article, shorter article) that Cincinnati Right to Life has rescinded its endorsements of both Mr. Thomas and Mr. Winburn (and Ohio Right to Life is considering rescinding its endorsement of Mr. Thomas) after both men started waffling on their pro-life stance.
What Would You Say to the Man Who Killed Your Child?
July 29, 2014
The blogger at Keep Life Legal offers her thoughts on the occasion of the death of her abortion doctor.
Letter to Representatives: End IVF and Surrogacy
July 17, 2014
Dear {Governor Kasich},
I have been horrified to read about the heartless way our society treats some children, enabled and facilitated by new technologies. Especially saddening is the recent case of Sherri Shepherd, who ordered the creation of a child that she now says she wants nothing to do with. (See, e.g., http://acculturated.com/the-brave-new-world-of-ivf/ )
On Monday, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby (opinion available from the Supreme Court’s Web site).
- The National Review editors concisely sum up what the decision means, as opposed to what its critics say it means.
“Hobby Lobby Hysteria”
Right-to-life News Coming Up
June 30, 2014
Two items:
First, the Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling today on Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby, a case in which business owners (apparently “94 related cases involving 300 plaintiffs representing nearly half the states”) appeal to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA, pronounced “riff-ra”) against the Obamacare HHS mandate that they provide contraceptives to their employees for free.
Culture of Death
March 21, 2013
Mark Steyn reflects on “abortion” “doctor” Kermit Gosnell’s grisly murder business, and how differently the mainstream news media treat its death toll from, say, those of the Jared Loughner and Adam Lanza shootings.
Gosnell’s murderous regime in Philadelphia reflects on him. The case’s all but total absence from the public discourse reflects on America . . . .
40 Years of Roe vs. Wade
January 22, 2013
On January 22nd, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe vs. Wade (full text, Wikipedia), inventing a constitutional “right” to abortion and overturning democratically enacted laws to the contrary in something like 46 out of 50 states. According to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute, by 2008 “nearly 50 million” abortions had been performed. (Pro-life groups estimate that the total is now more than 55 million.)
Well-spent Journey links to ten articles about the logic of the pro-life position. It seems as good a way as any to observe this grisly anniversary.
Just for everyone’s reference, according to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute, more than one in every five pregnancies in America today is terminated by induced abortion, adding up to more than a million abortions a year.
Nineteenth-century Americans Knew the Fetus Was a Person
January 2, 2013
National Review Online has an interesting piece about the legal history of abortion in America. Apparently there’s a certain liberal narrative that “the true purpose of 19th-century abortion laws was to protect women, not unborn children,” and that there was a “right” to abortion in Anglo-American common law “from 1607 to 1830.”
Apparently this narrative is far from historically accurate, and the liberal lawyers who crafted it were sometimes surprisingly explicit (among themselves) about what they were doing:
Arts & Letters Saturday: ‘Brick’
December 15, 2012
Abortion Methods Explained
November 29, 2012
Well-spent Journey has put together a concise, matter-of-fact overview of the most common methods of abortion and how they are performed:
“Abortion Methods: An Overview”
Most people hold strong opinions on the issue of abortion…yet in my experience, there is a widespread lack of understanding surrounding the actual procedure.
Chinese Woman Example of Love, Protector of Life
August 1, 2012
She is pictured here with two of the children she helped rescue
Via Wintery Knight, the UK Daily Mail has a good-news story:
Feminist Nightmare
May 13, 2012
Happy Mother’s Day, the final day of National Offend a Feminist Week. I don’t know whether being told that they have ironically ushered in a Brave New World of women’s degradation will offend feminists or not, but here goes:
In the wake of feminism and the sexual revolution, our society has degenerated surprisingly far (and continues to degenerate?) toward some kind of pre-civilizational nightmare dystopia in which men don’t respect women, and women don’t even respect themselves, as even those who exploit it will sometimes tell you:
The reason why I can string along multiple women is because each woman thinks she’s the girlfriend and the others are just women I have sex with.
China Kills Children, Sells Them as Food
May 9, 2012
More sensitive readers should perhaps skip this one.
8% of Americans Agree Contraception Is Wrong
March 1, 2012
Right around the same time that the Reformed Pastor and I were wondering whether there were any polling data about contraceptives as such (that is, what share of the population thinks contraception itself is immoral, not just the HHS mandate or any other current particular), Pew was releasing a report about exactly that, as Pew staff helpfully pointed out to me.
Pew estimates that 8% of the general population believe that it’s wrong to use contraceptives: Read the rest of this entry »
Enjoyment and Contemplation 