Seth & Aubrie Drayer

The "Pro-Choice" crowd wants to keep abortion legal. One would think, then, that it would be simple for them to define this act they want to keep beneath the sanction of the law. And yet, sometimes, they struggle to put into words what exactly an abortion is. Maybe because even defining an abortion in any terms not laden with euphemism is disturbing. Aubrie and I recently approached a crowd of abortion advocate demonstrators to ask them to define an abortion. Watch their response.

Does it ever bother you when art intended to cater to Christians is covered with smiling faces, blue skies and labels such as "uplifting and encouraging"? Is it somehow anti-Christian to overflow with joy or bask in the beauty of a sunny afternoon? Is the Christian life devoid of uplifting and encouraging news? Of course not. What bothers me is that we---speaking collectively on behalf of American Christendom---focus almost exclusively upon the good news to the exclusion of the really bad news. What is the bad news? The bad news is that man is lost. The Fall, an event which really happened (not merely a tale composed to convey some religious truism) dealt a major blow: fixing a massive gulf between man and God, ushering chaos into the world with divisions between man and other men, man and nature, man and himself, etc. This bad news must not be overlooked; for, without it, there is little meaning to the good news. What does it mean to say man is "saved" if he ...

I appreciate logical consistency. Sometimes, though, the desire to be consistent with one's pet views may lead to conclusions which are humorous, baffling---or even terrifying. I recently posted a survey on the Created Equal Facebook page asking the following question: When it comes to killing toddlers, are you pro-choice or anti-choice? The options: - Pro-Choice: I trust people to decide for themselves. - Anti-Choice: I oppose killing toddlers. Normally, this is a question upon which abortion advocates and opponents are united. While they disagree on the value of life in the womb, most agree that it is wrong to kill born children (exceptions include Peter Singer of Princeton). Admitting that common ground, however, is a dangerous step for the abortion advocate---for it does not take long to get from "it is wrong to kill toddlers" to "it is wrong to kill the preborn." Because of this, many who would personally rise to action if someone were actual...

How do pro-life activists share good news? Here's one way.

Geico has a history for clever marketing. One of their commercials , for example, shows what it really would look like to "live under a rock." While having zero knowledge of the savings Geico offers could qualify for one living under a rock these days, another example would be to have heard nothing of Lila Rose, Live Action, and the many investigations into Planned Parenthood. I can imagine the commercial now. "Planned Parenthood covers up statutory rape and sex trafficking of minors." "No way! I didn't know that." "What, have you been living under a rock?" Instead of a neolithic-looking man crawling out from under the rock, though, it would be Nancy Pelosi and President Obama blinking their eyes as they wipe off the dust from blissful hibernation. Something else which has been hard to miss is the PR campaign mounted by Planned Parenthood to combat the efforts of Live Action. While in Florida for the Genocide Awareness Project, I chatted w...

On Friday, March 18, 2011, a letter to the editor entitled "Abortion Issue" appeared in the Columbus Dispatch. It is available online here . I elected to rewrite the letter changing only the principal topic---exchanging "toddler killing" for "abortion"---while keeping the rhetoric intact. My rewrite is below. Disclaimer: This is intended to prove a point concerning the prejudice our culture has against the preborn. It is not intended to suggest the religious groups named herein lobby for the act of killing toddlers. The Issue of Killing Toddlers Allow me to surprise some of your readers. I'm a deeply religious person, and I am for the choice of killing toddlers. So are many others in my Presbyterian congregation in suburban Upper Arlington. So are many other deeply religious people and clergy (men and women) that I work with across the state through the Ohio Religious Coalition for Parenting Choice. We come from Judaic, Methodist, Presbyterian,...

CatholicVote.org attended the February 2011 "Walk for Choice" in Chicago, Illinois with cameras in hand. The result: the above disturbing video. Present in this fascinating bit of man-on-the-street media is the ever-increasing effort to make abortion "normal." Two young women boldly declare their abortionist ambitions in the video: "I'm so glad to be a future doctor. And I will perform abortions and I'll be proud of it." "There is no shame in abortion. I'm planning on being an abortion provider. I had an abortion a few weeks ago." One man even longs to see Planned Parenthood become "like Starbucks . . . a Planned Parenthood on every corner." When injustice is a mere quotidian occurrence, its continuation is nearly certain. Until the act becomes unthinkable to the public or those in power, very few will act out to end it. How should we best respond to efforts to demystify abortion? Here's one idea: strip away all of ...