Conversation at 'The Linde'

Head over to 'The Linde' at The Personalist Project's website for a conversation initiated by a post on courtship.

You'll find two Generation Life staffers' comments as well!

Lenny Kravitz and His New Found Purity!

"I knew it was not consistent with my beliefs. So that’s hypocritical, and I don’t want to be a hypocrite. And I could just feel the emptiness… it didn’t feel good. The feeling afterward. Just that empty sort of… weird space. And I’d had enough."

"(Kravtz) believed it was wrong to have sex without being married. 'Obviously,’ he conceded,

'I break the law. I don’t like to, and I ask for forgiveness, and I try not to do it as much as possible. I’m just like, “God, forgive me.”’

'But I wasn’t being celibate then at all,’ he clarifies. 'It took years to get it right. To actually do it, and really try to walk the walk and not just talk it. It’s not like it’s not important – I think sex and intimacy and all that is very important. It’s just that I’m going to do it with my wife.’ He laughs. 'And not everybody else.’

Read the full interview at the Telegraph.

Gender Test Spurs Abortion Fears

A new test to reveal the gender of a fetus in early pregnancy has sparked a row over whether it will lead to sex-selection abortions.

The American-designed IntelliGender test kit, which can be used from eight weeks after conception, went on sale in Australia last month. Its Australian distributor hopes to launch it in New Zealand within a fortnight.

David Portnoy, managing director of Melbourne-based Early Image, said yesterday that he was negotiating with health products companies Douglas Pharmaceuticals and API to supply the kits to New Zealand pharmacies.

He expected they would sell for about $125.

New Zealand Hearald

Honoring A Pro-Life Hero: Ronald Reagan!

A statue of the late former president is unveiled in the Capitol Rotunda.

"Abortion and the Conscience of A Nation"

...As we continue to work to overturn Roe v. Wade, we must also continue to lay the groundwork for a society in which abortion is not the accepted answer to unwanted pregnancy. Pro-life people have already taken heroic steps, often at great personal sacrifice, to provide for unwed mothers. I recently spoke about a young pregnant woman named Victoria, who said, "In this society we save whales, we save timber wolves and bald eagles and Coke bottles. Yet, everyone wanted me to throw away my baby." She has been helped by Save-a-Life, a group in Dallas, which provides a way for unwed mothers to preserve the human life within them when they might otherwise be tempted to resort to abortion. I think also of House of His Creation in Catesville, Pennsylvania, where a loving couple has taken in almost 200 young women in the past ten years. They have seen, as a fact of life, that the girls are not better off having abortions than saving their babies. I am also reminded of the remarkable Rossow family of Ellington, Connecticut, who have opened their hearts and their home to nine handicapped adopted and foster children....

The full speech by Ronald Reagan.

New Judge is Pro-Abortion??

In the search for a clear understanding of where President Obama's supreme court pick stands on the right to life.... The articles keep COMING: http://www.lifenews.com/nat5124.html But, why isn't she talking about it? Why can't we hear where she stands from her own mouth? It's only THE key issue regarding a new judge appointment. It was even mentioned during the Obama/McCain debates. So where does she stand? Life News says it's not promising.

TONIGHT

Reminder: Tonight (June 3) at 6:30 pm

The Personalist Project presents:

Dietrich von Hildebrand on Human Sexuality

3 Ways of Attraction

3 Dangers in Action

3 Reasons for Renunciation

A lecture by Michael J. Healy, PhD
Professor of Philosophy, Franciscan University

With a response by Christopher West
Author, speaker and Research Fellow of the Theology of the Body Institute

Both speakers will consider the true nature of sexuality as essentially deep and intimate and in relation to betrothed love. Sex is not just another instinct or appetite, but unique in its vocation toward the expression of something higher. Von Hildebrand's Purity, the Mystery of Christian Sexuality (on which Dr. Healy's lecture is based), written in the 1920's, anticipates many of the insights of John Paul II's Theology of the Body.

Time and place: Wednesday, June 3, at 6:30 pm, at The Holiday Inn in West Chester, PA (943 S High St.)

Registration: This event is free and open to the public. Your advance registration helps us anticipate attendance, and is greatly appreciated. Please register online at thepersonalistproject.org

Late-term abortionist Carhart wants to continue Tiller's "mission"

Physician LeRoy Carhart wants to continue providing third-term abortions after the brazen slaying of his friend and colleague George Tiller, but the NE doctor doesn't have anywhere to perform them - and he's one of only a handful of providers who will....

Carhart, 67, is one of a handful of remaining doctors in the United States who perform third-trimester abortions....

The picture above is taken outside of Abortionist Carhart's Abortion Facility. A generator is used for electricity. This is worse than a "back alley."

Read the full story at Jill Staneck's web page.

Thoughts From An Ex-Fetus

George Tiller, the 67-year-old physician shot last week in Wichita, Kan., was an abortionist. His suspected killer, identified by the press as Scott Roeder, 51, also felt entitled to decide whose life to terminate and when. To this extent at least, killers of abortionists resemble their victims.

Some people might object that there is a fundamental difference. Abortion is legal, while killing abortionists isn't. This is true -- at least, it's true today, although not long ago a medically unnecessary abortion was every bit as illegal as a medically unnecessary assassination. Killers of fetuses stayed behind bars for shorter periods than killers of physicians, but the law viewed both as felons.

The law continues viewing the killing of abortionists as a felony, and rightly so, but has come to regard the abortion of fetuses as a private matter between unborn children and their mothers. Will our grandchildren say we were enlightened or barbaric? Societies are entitled to determine their laws and institutions, but have no say in what their descendants will think of their choices.

We consider the ancient Spartan model barbaric, for instance, although in some ways it was much like ours. Spartans, too, regarded letting children live or die a private choice, although they did involve father in the decision, not only mother, and extended it to born children, not just fetuses. Another difference was that Spartans, instead of relying on vacuum suction, threw unwanted children off a mountain called Taigetos.

For Spartans, "unwanted" meant "substandard." For us, it means "inconvenient." We don't want standard or even super-standard children if they cramp our style.

Living in an epoch that is selfish as well as matriarchal, our lifeboats are no longer marked "women and children first," only "women first." We invent euphemisms, such as "choice" for killing, and sophomoric dilemmas, such as pretending not to know when life begins, to ensure that nothing hinders Virginia's quest for Santa Claus. No obstacle must interfere with her goal of self-fulfillment -- least of all an issue (as it were) of her healthy sexual appetite.

Read the full story by George Jonas at The National Post

Prevent Nothing Act: The Abortion Bailout of 2009