It’s the video everyone is talking about.¹https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1704478116389814272/pu/vid/avc1/640×360/0SLjSO4IxSKNFTCl.mp4 :

Too bad, no one is thinking through it.   It’s a fake.  Hadley had a miscarriage.  She didn’t need a “rape and incest” abortion.  The truth is that Hadley Duvall, now in her early 20s, became pregnant but miscarried.

Her stepfather, Jeremy Whitledge, would later plead guilty to raping her and is now serving prison time.²https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/rape-victim-featured-ad-reemerges-focal-point-abortion-103732793

Lest the word rape call to mind violence, Hadley has said it was by deception, not by force: Continue reading →

Aren’t they cute?  Aren’t they sweet?  When a child does something nice to or for us, we admire the courtesy, sweet disposition and mannerly demeanor.  Everyone loves a young person with decorum and restraint.  We can respect a well-mannered child as a person, a success.

What we have more trouble with is understanding that there is no difference in substance between the well-mannered child and the brat.  The both have an inherent human dignity.  The difference, really, can be laid at the feet of the parents.  Likewise, there is no difference is essence between the parents and the children.  They are all human.  You see where this is going, right? Continue reading →

Being: The quality or state of having existence.” One might note that a positive pregnancy test results from the existence of some being.

Human: A rational corporeal being. Thus, a bipedal primate belonging to the genus Homo, especially Homo sapiens (rational man).

Is a human being a person? What is a person?

Person: An individual substance of a rational nature.

Yes, that substance causing the positive pregnancy test is a human being and therefore a person.

After rescuing a young boy from child traffickers, a federal agent finds out the boy’s sister is still a hostage.  He decides to quit his job and embark on a dangerous mission deep in the Colombian jungle to save her, putting his life on the line to free her from a tragic fate.

What people say: Continue reading →