How To Use Pro-life In A Sentence
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Also Randy Alcorn, a well-known pro-life apologist and Protestant pastor, published a booklet in 1998 in which he gave the reasons for why the pill is an abortifacient and he has actually counselled couples in his ministry against using the pill for that reason.
ProWomanProLife » A remarkably honest abortionist
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He's not one of your crazy futurists - he won't dole out contraceptive medicine to anyone unmarried, say, and despite being an ob-gyn, he's a staunch pro-lifer.
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In fact, one of the reasons I joined this gym in particular is because a) it is only for women but it is not the right-wing pro-life fascist don’t-even-get-me-started Curves, and b) I can show up in cut-off sweats, lululemons that give awesome camel toe or a t-shirt with coffee stains on it and not feel like a total shlepper.
I Like To Move It Move It
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The Republicans, in the face of Obama's ascendancy and the indefensibility of their policy decisions in the last eight years, have just pulled a desperation maneuver and hijacked what is perhaps the most important election in America's history by demoting it to an emotional cat-fight between pro-choice and pro-life women, over the one issue where neither side can be reasonable.
Cintra Wilson: It's the Freedom, Stupid
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If you want narrow dogma, how about the plight of a major political party in which being pro-life disqualifies you from seeking national office because special interests forbid it?
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If the church is to be truly pro-life, how can it help but champion the cause of battered women?
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HELMAN: Mitt Romney has long been a supporter of abortion rights and only a few years ago changed to what he calls a firmly pro-life position.
CNN Transcript Jul 29, 2007
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It would not be accurate to describe the post–baby boomer generation as ardently pro-life, as few endorse a total ban on abortion, but they are more willing than their parents to place restrictions on abortion.
American Grace
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The pro-life representatives make a distinction between the lives lost to direct abortion, and the "hardly determinable number of victims" of "diverse contraceptives capable of killing human beings in their first days of life," such as intrauterine devices (IUDs), the "morning after" pill, systemic use contraceptive pills, injectable or subdermal implants, and the chemical abortifacient drug misoprostol.
Pro-Life With Christ
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Roberts is a devout Catholic and is married to an ardent pro-life activist.
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I think he's misconstruing the pro-life position, though.
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His comments are likely to stir opposition from pro-life groups, who say it is unethical to create an unborn child for research.
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Even some members of the pro-life movement found the organisation's behaviour disturbing.
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That's why on February 18th, so-called "pro-life" members of the House of Representatives, voted 240 to 185 to defund Planned Parenthood, a premier women's healthcare provider for nearly a century, serving 3 million women a year in its 800 centers across the country.
Katie Halper: The Top 10 Names for the "Pro-Life," Pro-Cancer, Pro-UTI, Anti-Planned Parenthood Amendment
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The response of most pro-lifers is that abortion is disanalogous, because unlike the subject in the Famous Violinist case, people who choose to have intercourse, even with contraception, know that they do so at the risk of creating a fetus.
Rape, Incest, and Famous Violinists
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I recently saw a prolific pro-life blogger not one who made any claims to feminism who was writing about how he had JUST FOUND OUT about a condition called ectopic pregnancy, and how this new information was causing him to question his previous belief that there was no such thing as abortion to save the mother.
Do Pro-Lifers Know Anything About Abortion?
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Part of the blame for the mindless "emotivism," as MacIntyre calls it, can be attributed to the more extreme elements in the pro-life movement, who have stifled reasoned argument with their cries of "Murder!
On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position
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It is abundantly clear that no pro-choicer on this thread has betrayed even the most rudimentary understanding of the pro-life position.
Punishment
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This movement attempts to sidestep the politics that divide pro-life from pro-choice.
Christianity Today
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Churches and pro-life organisations fear that the bill could result in incapable adults being denied food and drink at the insistence of a relative empowered to act for them.
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Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asmindless baby-making machine.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist
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My parents have been involved in the pro-life movement for decades.
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As usual, the obstructionist GOP puts PARTY first, America and Americans last - taking yet another opportunity to put their "pro-life" anti-abortionist demands out there as blackmail:
Abortion once again roils health care debate
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At worst, pro-life groups have been actively working to redescribe traditional means of birth control, such as the pill, as “abortifacients,” and have been fighting state laws mandating insurance coverage for birth control by falsely saying they fund abortions.
Link Farm and Open Thread #17
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Beyond the use of the word "dangerous" and "African American" in such close proximity, it's hard to understand the combo of cultural concern and pro-life authorship without considering how the billboard -- this one installed a half-mile from Planned Parenthood on Bleeker Street in Manhattan -- activates the stereotype of the young black women asÂmindless baby-making machine.
Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Pro-Life Billboard: Saving (Those Baby-Dropping) Black Women From the Abortionist
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The same would be true if Clinton responds by scaring women about a flood of pro-life Dole-appointed judges.
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The Idaho gubernatorial candidate formerly known as Marvin Richardson is so strongly opposed to abortion that he has changed his name to Pro-Life.
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Therapeutic cloning is backed by medical charities and the government but opposed by pro-life groups.
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If pro-life activists get their way and abortion is once again made illegal, my life along with many others could be ruined.
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To me, I am pro-life because I respect the fact that a child should only be brought in to a world where it can be looked after and provided for sufficiently.
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The disaster helped prove the pro-life contention that nothing is more vital and basic to human beings than loving and being loved by one's kith and kin.
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Supporters of access to abortion describe themselves as pro-choice; opponents as pro-life.
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Pro-life conservatives oppose embryonic stem-cell research on the grounds that it destroys life.
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As a pro-family and pro-life leader, Gary is held to a higher standard.
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Once again, my paisan, Bishop Martino, shows why he has earned my nickname of the Energizer Bishop, when it comes to standing up for the Catholic Church's Pro-life teachings, he just keeps on going & going.
ProLifeBlogs
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And in a matter of time, there will be 100 million active evangelical voters who will, every year, every election year, decide the pro-life, pro-family candidate's elected.
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The term pro-life originated historically in the struggle to end abortion on demand and continues to be used in public discourse overwhelmingly in that sense.
Charles Redfern: The Far-Right Fringe Embarrasses the Pro-Life Movement -- Again
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According to the article, the Republican glitterati is rethinking being pro-life and against gay rights because it alienated moderates who are apparently focused on esoteric issues like jobs, health care and education.
No convictions a good spanking can't cure...
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In my latest academic upload here I look at the claim by anti-abortionists that they are ‘pro-life’ and find it to be an overgeneralization.
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I think the party from the top and leadership has been much more open to pro-life Democrats.
Christianity Today
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Nor has the Bureau carefully limited its targets: "[f] aith institutions, activist groups advocating for causes as varied as pro-life and pro-choice stances on reproductive rights, environmental causes ... and animal rights have all been affected.
Shahid Buttar: COINTELPRO 2.0
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It's surprising that 18 - to 30-year-olds, the most pro-life demographic in a generation, are the same voting bloc from which Barack Obama, the most antilife presidential candidate ever, draws his most ardent supporters.
The Audacity of Death
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That’s quite the intolerant, not-Catholic, elementary-school-level kicking and screaming hissy fit of a screed, darlings -- no doubt written with her pro-life Friday Jeeziz panties in just the bunchiest of bunches.
Was it something we said?
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Their opposition to a pro-life referendum in the Republic displays this.
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The "pro-life" argument regarding improvement in pain control through drugs, hospices etc. only covers those dying in pain.
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Over the last six months, I have had numerous conversations with pro-life democrats.
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HELMAN: Most of the world ought to know that Mitt Romney has long been a supporter of abortion rights and only a few years ago changed to what he calls a firmly pro-life position.
CNN Transcript May 24, 2007
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I believe what accounts for this is the purity of the pro-life movement's cause.
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It continues to amaze me how the same organizations that are pro-life are maddeningly pro-capital punishment.
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The problem lies not in what was stated but in a glaring omission that cuts right to the heart of the pro-choice/pro-life propaganda war.
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At the same time, thousands of conservative politicians will face a dreadful choice: backtrack from the anti-abortion ground they have staked out and risk infuriating their pro-life base; or deliver on their promise to eliminate the right to abortion, and risk the wrath of a moderate, pro-choice majority.
Letting Go of Roe
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The support of violence is not compatible with being in the pro-life movement.
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You are probably correct that most pro-lifers arew in favor of neglecting the newborn should have been:
Think Progress » Holding up the health care bill, Rep. Gohmert shouts, ‘I brought an abortion to show you today.’
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He was ably abetted by the self-described "progressive pro-lifers" like Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, whose comparisons of abortion to torture gained resonance among those who are unyieldingly opposed to women's reproductive freedoms.
Jon O'Brien: Truth Is Indeed One of the First Casualties of War
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By preventing implantation, pro-life groups argue that the morning after pill is an abortion on demand.
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-- OED ochlophobic ephemera: ABC & EP on abortion, seminaries, the thoughts of the dead, usual ochlophobic topics ... this opinion piece by ABC Williams does not articulate what I would consider by any means a sufficiently strong and clear stand against abortion, it strikes me as closer to a pro-life position than anything I have heard from the Ecumenical Patriarch on the issue, and strikes me as a more coherent position than the one articulated by +Bartholomew which was noted in Nearly identical in tone and spirit [to a statement made by an Armenian bishop], and lack of any clear, prophetic teaching are statements made by His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople when he visited San Francisco in 1990 as the metropolitan of Chalcedon as part of the entourage of the then Patriarch Dimitrios of blessed memory.
The Ochlophobist
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I mean, there's no distinction on the abortion issue in my view between Bush and McCain. they're both kind of queasily pro-life, but Alan accuses McCain of being pro-choice and does not make that acquisition against Governor Bush.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Republicans Square Off in California Debate - March 2, 2000
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As we saw with their actions last year toward a pro-life group on campus, the Central Student Association will not allow any opinions in contrast to their Castroist agenda.
The Torch
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If any sort of pro-life argument had a chance to receive a favorable hearing at Holy Trinity, this was the one.
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Both sides take their political beliefs out into the public realm in the U.S.: pro-lifers want to illegalize abortion; pro-choicers want to keep abortion legal as mandated in Roe v.
Dear Pro-Life Movement: I respect your opinion. Can you respect mine? From, someone who believes in pro-choice « Gender Across Borders
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(the term "abortifacient birth control" is a codephrase in the dominionist "pro-life" community for hormonal birth control -- partly due to a unique urban legend claiming "the pill" and other hormonal birth control causes abortion and partly because of a unique definition of pregnancy beginning at conception rather than at implantation (the latter is what most mainstream OB / GYNs use) and thus making anything preventing implantation potentially "abortifacient").
Scams
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The pro-life side called on a "huissier" not sure what the equivalent is in English-- Justice of the Peace to complain about the fact the police did not act fast enough.
Toulouse: Pro-aborts scream: Death to Catholics
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Pro-life groups are opposed to any change in the law and have criticised the survey for being unrepresentative.
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HELMAN: Most of the world ought to know that Mitt Romney has long been a supporter of abortion rights and only a few years ago changed to a-- what he calls a firmly pro-life position.
CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2007
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Please ask all faithful Catholics you know to arrange to have Masses said for pro-life and pro-family victories at the polls this Nov. 2004.
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CHICO, CA, June 26, 2009 LifeSiteNews.com - James Canfield, a regular pro-life protester of a Planned Parenthood and Women's Health Center in Chico, California, was almost run down during a protest last Wednesday, according to the Chico Enterprise Record.
Pro-Lifer Attacked with SUV, Alleged Attacker Charged
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The strongest pro-life argument is that reproductive choices have moral consequences, that such choices should be made in a framework of balancing rights and responsibilities, and that this framework will generally though not always dispositively tilt in favor of the nurturing of new life.
Regarding Amy Richards & Abortion
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I don't think it was pro-life propaganda, but I do believe that it could be easily used by pro-life propagandists.
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Labels: abortion debate, dupage county state's attorney, families against planned parenthood, ground zero aurora, planned parenthood, pro-life action league, rachel currie, sidewalk counselors comments:
Chicago Cop Alleged of Threatening Sidewalk Counselor with Gun at Planned Parenthood Aurora
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Open letter to live tweeting aborter Angie Jackson from father of teen who died from RU-486 abortion Pro-life group plays hardball with UCLA over graphic display of aborted babies Planned Parenthood of Houston plans posh grand opening gala for huge abortuary Hitler/abortion billboard makes international news; Polish pro-lifers on fire New Stanek WND column, "The copycat who stopped live tweeting her abortion
Abortion News and Information
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One woman was attending a pro-life conference and came up to the speaker afterwards and said, "My mother was raped as a 13 year old and gave me up for adoption.
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Depending who is in the relivant office at the time, either a pro-choicer could gloss over dangers or a pro-lifer could exagerate even very unlikely or purely hypothetical dangers in the hope of scareing women away from abortion.
ProWomanProLife » Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plains
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For liberals, pro-lifers are “single-issue Catholics” or “single-issue voters”, a label intended to accuse us of ignoring all the other life issues in the “seamless garment” that makes up their precious “consistent life ethic.”
"Consistent Life Ethics" Catholics
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This "tempest in a teapot" is almost exactly like the protests by pro-lifers before the Notre Dame graduation speech.
White House says speech to students not altered
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Even though the South Dakota law went down to defeat, it signals an important shift in pro-life rhetoric, moving from arguments that the fetus is a person and abortion is murder to arguments that no women willingly choose abortion unless they are tricked into it or their will is overborne, and that abortion hurts women.
Balkinization
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He also was the only pro-life Democratic politician in the county.
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But any such gains would be wiped out by a backlash from your core pro-life constituents.
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Our regular veterinarian is an avid pro-lifer and refuses to spay or neuter his patients!
Spay/Neuter in Spanish
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We talk about pro-life groups' opposition to their case.
Times, Sunday Times
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Labels: abortion debate, dupage county state's attorney, families against planned parenthood, ground zero aurora, planned parenthood, pro-life action league, rachel currie, sidewalk counselors
Archive 2009-12-01
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In 2005, George Galloway, UK Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, and ardent "pro-life" campaigner, famously referred to his arch-nemesis, Christopher Hitchens, as a "drink-soaked former Trotskyist popinjay.
Archive 2009-03-01
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In the tradition of the classic Harry and Louise commercials, two people (whom I will call "Gary and Bernice" who are both possibly members of the Pro-Life Action League and who could have probably been sighted at the gates of Notre Dame when Obama delivered the university's commencement) talk about how government is willing to pay for abortions but not a husband's surgery (kind of chauvinistic, if you ask me).
Printing: The Right Wing War on Reproductive Health Care for Women
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Of course, Cooch has an outstanding substantive record of fighting for pro-life license plates, reduction in legalized baby killings, and preservation of God-ordained marriage.
MAJOR AG DEVELOPMENT
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- Former President George W. Bush will be presented with an award by the lay group Legatus, for his work in advancing the pro-life cause.
Think Progress » SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.
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caricatured" all pro-lifers as "right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman's right to choose"?
Redstatesusa
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Around 15,000 pro-life campaigners, clearly buoyed by what they see as last month's victory on the foreign-aid front, cheered loudly when numerous speakers talked about the next steps in what one called bringing a "culture of life" to Canada.
"BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader
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While your attitude is applaudable, most prominent anti-abortion groups are also anti contraception and they don't tolerate anyone who is pro-life and pro-contraception.
Diana Whitten and Anita Schillhorn van Veen: Abortion Ship Forced To Cease Operations After Passage Of Dutch Pregnancy Law
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If Democrats care so much about the "downtrodden," and if the GOP is playing on their false consciousness by emphasizing things that don't matter like abortion and homosexuality, why don't the Democrats simply adopt pro-life and antigay positions, so that they can win office on their superior economic programs and actually do something for these fortuneless folks?
Archive 2005-01-01
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People with pro-life attitudes are not only more religious when compared to those on the pro-choice side, they are far more likely to disapprove of premarital sex, to believe that it is best if women do not work outside the home, and to say that children should be taught obedience over self-reliance.
American Grace
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Adoption is the one issue that pro-choice and pro-life people can agree on.
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As any pro-lifer who's been on the net today knows,late-term abortionist George Tiller was acquitted of 19 charges in reference to his relationship to Ann Neuhaus.
It's not over yet for George Tiller
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In my latest academic upload here I look at the claim by anti-abortionists that they are ‘pro-life’ and find it to be an overgeneralization.
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But I suspect most pro-life people would willingly swap the lives of the babies for the insensitivity: feel free to excoriate us but don't sign the executive order at all.
Well, it's been a quiet week here at The Inn. . . .
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Even scarier is the fact that these GOP-ers are usually Fundamentalist “pro-life” Christians who believe in that made up rapture BS.
Think Progress » Rep. Gohmert introduces resolution endorsing an Israeli military strike on Iran.
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The pro-life movement will inform the European Union of anything which we do not think is ethical.
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A few weeks back, on what we call Pro-Life Sunday, all the priests in our diocese preached pro-life sermons.
Propeller Most Popular Stories
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) defined the pro-life stance as a "foundational issue" in the presidential race during a campaign event in Iowa this week.
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Though he apologized for the undemocratic way it was done, he held firm on what he described as a "pro-life" goal of trying to drive down cancer rates.
NY Daily News
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Three of them, a Catholic, an evangelical Christian, and an Orthodox Jew, were devoutly pro-life.
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Depending who is in the relivant office at the time, either a pro-choicer could gloss over dangers or a pro-lifer could exagerate even very unlikely or purely hypothetical dangers in the hope of scareing women away from abortion.
ProWomanProLife » Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plains
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Moreover, I can now see (after reading about your experience) why so few doctors (even pro-life doctors) will step in to help us against the futilitarians by taking over care.
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The crime, some suggested, was the logical culmination of certain pro-lifers 'apocalyptic rhetoric and their penchant for singling out particular individuals to calumniate.
Red State Story
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You can't see from here, but those badges and buttons sport a plethora of pro-life phrases.
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Fireworks fly at final Virginia Beach forum - and the return of Harris Miller Gallup: "Pro-Life" outnumbers "Pro-Choice" for first time since '95
Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
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Also Randy Alcorn, a well-known pro-life apologist and Protestant pastor, published a booklet in 1998 in which he gave the reasons for why the pill is an abortifacient and he has actually counselled couples in his ministry against using the pill for that reason.
ProWomanProLife » A remarkably honest abortionist
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While my decision was motivated solely by his promise to lower the price of chocolate milk in the school cafeteria, apparently he was also a staunch conservative with a strong pro-life stance, and it was only after the Chief Inspector strapped me into an Aeron chair and did something unspeakable to me which he called "deprogramming" that they finally allowed the piece to air.
Clothes-Minded: You Are What You Wear
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When one reads the total gestalt of the antiabortionist movement in America, it is clear to see that the average 'pro lifer' is not pro-life at all, certainly not pro-quality life.
Rev. Chuck Freeman: Planned Parenthood Funding: A Religion of Control versus A Religion of Life
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An intensive canvass of all interest groups will also take place, including the churches, the Pro-Life Campaign, the Right to Choose campaign and other organisations.
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The editors accuse Scott of "shamelessly exploiting the tragedy of a family of a severely disabled young woman" in order to "burnish" his pro-life bona fides.
Rick Scott, Florida Gubernatorial Candidate, Assailed By St. Petersburg Times In Editorial
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It is a pro-life-purist lifestyle known as Quiverfull, where women forgo all birth-control options, viewing contraception as a form of abortion and considering even natural family planning an attempt to control a realm — fertility — that should be entrusted to divine providence.
Extreme Motherhood
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I would not argue for the pro-life position based on this, because you don't know.
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Abortion clinics opened and did a thriving business, even in the face of much pro-life mayhem.
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I stress I know nothing about the woman herself, but the background to his defenestration – hate mail from pro-life and animal cruelty groups, frenzied character assassinations from the ghastly Cristina Odone, and an unspeakably unpleasant piece of twit-gloating from the even ghastlier Nadine Dorries soon afterwards – is inescapable.
Arise, geeks
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Another point that the "Pro-life" lobby try to get across is that they believe no one dies painfully now, because of hospices and modern drugs, so euthanasia is not needed.
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No buildings were firebombed, nor did the Republican Party decide to define itself as "pro-life" and fight every election, local, state, and national, by declaring its antiabortion credentials.
Frank Schaeffer: The Abortion Wars Will Never Go Away (A Former "Pro-Life" Crusader Reconsiders)
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The work by Daniel Edwards, titled "Monument to Pro-Life: The Birth of Sean Preston" shows Spears naked, pregnant, and sensually bent over on her knees.
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They make a mockery of the word "pro-life" because everything they say and do makes it clear that for them life starts at conception and ends at birth.
Digg.com: Top News
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The pro-life movement does not hide behind deceptive language but rather sheds light on the truth.
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The language is not particularly inflammatory, but the substance of the decision is one that pro-lifers will like and pro-choicers will fear a great deal.
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In refusing to deal with these questions, feminism has become an ally of the pro-life movement.
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I would like to vote, this year or sometime, for a ticket and a party that is pro-life, pro-family, and pro-poor.
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During the 1980s a militant wing of the pro-life movement had attempted to close clinics by direct action.
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In 2006, the Democrats abandoned their gun control agenda and looked to field pro-life Democrats as the Republicans were being attacked by the Drive-by media for corruption that resulted from the plutocracy of public / private partnerships, or what I call the adoption of liberal crony socialism (a phenomena that Todd Epp incorrectly labels as crony capitalism).
Sibby Online
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Sure Casey is pro-life, but this godless caitiff supports public funding of contraception and the over-the-counter-sale of Plan B!
Midterm Roundup
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It's also a hypocrisy that so many of the same people claiming the "pro-life" moniker clamor for more executions by The Government they claim not to trust.
Will pro-choice activists give any moral weight to the unborn?
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It's also a hypocrisy that so many of the same people claiming the "pro-life" moniker clamor for more executions by The Government they claim not to trust.
Will pro-choice activists give any moral weight to the unborn?
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However, Pro-Life made the change too late to get the updated name on the ballot so supporters will still have to look for his old name.
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Pro-life groups opposed to the referendum claim that a ‘yes’ vote will allow the use of abortifacients such as the morning-after pill and the IUD.
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Not every person who is pro-war or anti-gun control is a pro-life, anti-gay religious nut.
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Some object to the term pro-life on the grounds that it gives the anti-abortion movement an unfair advantage.
Gallup's Pro-Life America
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Roman Catholic Church and her bishops are unequivocally pro-life; however, we do not always publicly support every initiative that comes before us in the name of pro-life, he said in a statement announcing the news conference.
USATODAY.com News
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Every time I see a "pro-life" bumper sticker I wonder if the car's occupant is also prolife when it comes to capital punishment.
14 Important Science Questions
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The bulk of the pro-life movement has long since tipped its hat to critics: The term "pro-life" is intrinsically positive and conveys more than fetal preservation.
Charles Redfern: The Far-Right Fringe Embarrasses the Pro-Life Movement -- Again
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We stress that it is not accurate to describe post-boomers as ardently pro-life.
American Grace
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Yet, antiabortionist would have her ignore the very rule that strict observant Pro-Lifers are supposedly telling her to follow, which is to protect the life of her child.
National Catholic Reporter
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This problem of the efficacy of natural law is strategically important to the pro-life movement.
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She adds that he said he didn't wish to be called "pro-choice" and didn't like the "pro-life" label, either.
For Romney, 2005 Was Key Year of Policy Shifts
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My sister is brain damaged and my mother was the ultimate ‘Pro-lifer’ This man has no business setting policy.
Think Progress » Virginia lawmaker: Children with disabilities are God’s punishment to women who previously had abortions.
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They are destined to emerge as the next significant generation of American political operatives - similar to the antiwar and antisegregation baby boomers who dominated the Democratic Party after cutting their teeth in the Bobby Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy campaigns of 1968, similar to the pro-life, antitax Reaganauts who dominated the Republican Party and American politics from the election of 1980
TIME.com: Top Stories
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After two years of battling pro-life groups in the courts, they won the right to do just that.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thus, it is unclear to me that any leverage was to be had from the kind of mobilization that Rosenberg suggests that the pro-choice movement pursue -- apparently what pro-life activists were "backlashing" in response to was abortion liberalization, not the involvement of the Court.
Balkinization
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Hicks 'brand of social commentary -- his routine, embedded below, includes barbs on aggressively mindless pop culture figures of the day, cultural attitudes about homosexuality, pro-lifers, and religious symbolism - must have seemed discomfiting so soon after Letterman lost The Tonight Show gig to Jay Leno, and an endless stream of commentary questioned if Letterman's "edgier" - by-comparison approach had a chance to succeed on CBS at the earlier hour.
Clusterflock
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AlphaLiberal says: "It's also a hypocrisy that so many of the same people claiming the "pro-life" moniker clamor for more executions by The Government they claim not to trust.
Will pro-choice activists give any moral weight to the unborn?
