Making It Better

One signature is helping make the world a safer place.  Mark Thiessen writes Monday about Governor Dave Heineman’s ratification of the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act in Nebraska last week.  Thiessen quotes a recent New York Times Magazine article ‘The First Ache’, which notes that the unborn infant’s “immature physiology may well make it more sensitive to pain, not less: the body’s mechanisms for inhibiting pain and making it more bearable do not become active until after birth.”

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xt3.com has created an informative fact sheet entitled ‘The Pope, the Media, and the Sexual Abuse Scandals’.  Providing background and specifics, it’s a must-read for anyone wanting the complete picture.

Loony Lefty Hack

Brendan O’Neill has been called worse things by various members of his country, where he is the editor of the U.K. online magazine spiked,* described by the former president of the ACLU as “one of those rare publications that defends free speech even when it is difficult and unfashionable to do so”.

He risks being unfashionable yet again with Tuesday’s article reviewing the push by atheists in England to arrest the Pope during his visit this fall.  As an atheist himself, O’Neill identifies this eruption as revealing the internal decay of the secular outlook.

* “spiked is endorsed by free-thinkers such as John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, and hated by the narrow-minded such as Torquemada and Stalin. Or it would be, if they were lucky enough to be around to read it.”

No Hurting

The center of the nation became a center of protection yesterday as Nebraska passed 44-5 a law to prevent killing unborn children who can feel pain, nrlc.org reports. The Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, corresponding to research that identifies pain receptors throughout the body connected to the brain at 20 weeks, prohibits abortion following that age. This data is reflected in other prenatal care, affirms Spaulding Bach, who notes: "Doctors performing fetal surgery at and after 20 weeks now routinely use fetal anesthesia."

2020 and the Changing Face of the World

"Nothing like this has ever happened to any civilisation before."

Writing about the world's largest nation, Peter Hitchens describes his visits near Danzhou and the crisis facing China as their policy of forced abortions leaves them with an imbalance of over 30 million more boys than girls. An extended article on China's single child policy, Hitchens' writing provides a sober update on the accelerating distortion of our single largest population group.