"The Life Zone" response from Justice for All

I sent the following email regarding the new "horror" movie "The Life Zone".
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Hello,

Do you have anything to do with [the new] "Justice for All Media"'s new "Horror" Movie, "The Life Zone"? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn_Iq9D_Clg&feature=player_embedded You might want to make a press release about this.

Thanks,

Gerry

http://wonderingzygoteemeritus.blogspot.com/

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The response was the following.
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Negative, we are not the "Justice For All" that created the movie or the trailer. Our approach (see our website at http://jfaweb.org) is quite a bit different than what appears to be the message in the trailer. What's your view of the trailer/movie?

David Lee

Executive Director, Justice For All

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he can only do a little." -- Edmund Burke

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I think the movie's premise is a flawed view of the pro-life side. We are not about kidnapping women with child against their will (like the kidnapped person in the famous violinist scenario by J. J. Thomson). I'm all about getting all (legal and non-legal) baby killers out of business and informing women that abortion is a natural crime against them and their preborn boy or girl.

If there were no abortionists, this movie/trailer would not make any sense. If abortion was illegal, the abortionist, to whom the depicted pregnant mothers went, would be in jail or in custody. Kidnapping random pregnant women is also wrong.
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What do you think?

Obama Made in USA

So, Obama was "Made in USA". The new t-shirt says so (it must be true).

I would rather change it to "Created in USA". Would that change his mind on abortion, ESCR, the Declaration of Independence, etc?

Maybe Obama thinks it should read, "Born in USA"?

Hmmmm....

Review of Defending Life by F. J. Beckwith

Someone liked my review below at Goodreads, so I thought I would share on my blog.
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Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice by Francis J. Beckwith

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book summarizes all the most and best arguments against abortion choice. It can be a good book to bring to an abortion/ESCR/cloning debate since the section headings are a good guide. Although, the headings could have been outlined in the table of contents for quick reference.


This book does outline the non-religious grounds against abortion choice, but I still feel that the argument ultimately depends on the axiom that all humans (where a human if and only if a person) have inherent worth. This axiom is mostly found in faith traditions. If one does not have a faith tradition or other reason to uphold the axiom, the reasoning behind this book (and really all arguments for any protection for anyone) falls apart.

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Antidote to the Best Pro-Abortion Choice Argument

There is, by far, a best pro-abortion choice argument out there: while acknowledging the personhood of the preborn human, a pregnant mother still has the right to kill/unhook her preborn child. Many know this argument from the famous violinist scenario by Judith Jarvis Thomson; many introduction to ethics courses use her argument for abortion debates in class (mine did).

Well, the video series below from Life Report answers the argument to an extremely high degree. (I have an article I'm working on that goes beyond the ideas in this video, but I'll disclose that later.)

Please take the time to listen to the videos in their entirety.

Prolifers Across the Parking Lot from Carhart

(Dr) Leroy Carhart, the infamous late term abortionist now has his serial murdering business in Maryland (perhaps the most liberal state in the US). MD Coalition for Life is moving in across the parking lot from Carhart tomorrow at 2:30.

May God help us and convert Carhart's heart to see his victims as precious images of God. It can take only one Big Fish to start many more on the conversion path away from abortion killing.

Prolife Coexist Bumper Sticker MD Coexist I Stickervoice.com

I like this sticker that was at the MD March for Life last week. It's about time there was a coexist bumper sticker that has a pregnant woman with a preborn child (yes that's redundant).

They're at Stickervoice.com






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UPDATE 7/29/2011:
I have a Pro-life Coexist T-shirt. I'll have to take a picture of it soon. Below is a picture from the website:
(Click here for a PDF of the Pro-life Coexist T-shirt.)

Archbishop Dolan on 60 Minutes

I watched the (Roman Catholic) Archbishop of N.Y. Dolan on 60 Minutes last night. Of course, a great deal of the interview was about the sex abuse scandals. Another focus in the interview was about the image that the Church was a stern, old fashioned relic of the puritan past. It's all about world views as AB Dolan said:

I'm in one world. You're in the other. I'm glad you're visitin'.

This last focus reminded me of an interview of AB Dolan on wordonfire2 on Youtube.

He said in 1:41 to the end above, "The Catholic Church is all about one big ringing yes! It's an affirmation of all that is beautiful and noble and uplifting and exiting and liberating in the human drama."

This is opposed to the "double no" that he talks about later in the video above. When the world puts forth a no to the dignity of the human person, the Church says no, which tries to ultimately make the world better.

May God bless AB Dolan and my AB O'Brien. Two Irish AB's leading the Church at a tumultuous time in the US.

Orthodoxy Review

Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


The argumentation in many sections of this book seems to come out of right field (yes, that's right), but it oh so nicely lands on target on his point.

The references to Quakerism (The Inner Light) and Buddhism were very apropos as well as his pity of the moderns. To him, pre-modern civilization is justifiably seen as the reincarnation of pre-"Christendom" (he doesn't use "pre-modern", only "modern").

His treatise on original sin is more expounded upon than in his St. Francis of Assisi that digs out and deepens my understanding of the doctrine.

He really does lay down the case that Christian orthodoxy is more liberating than the modern notion of freedom.

As I have said before with Chesterton's St. Francis of Assisi, Chesterton is supposedly hard to read, but I found that this is not the case with this book either. It's too bad that people don't read Chesterton as much as CS Lewis (as I have seen) since Chesterton really hits his points with real panache.



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