August 18, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
Comments Off on Embryology Texts
Ever need access to human embryology textbooks with accurate scientific, medical facts? Moore and Persaud’s The Developing Human Larsen’s Human Embryology Carlson’s Human Embryology & Developmental Biology O’Rahilly and Mueller’s Human Embryology & Teratology. Some are available from Amazon as … Continue reading
August 14, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
Comments Off on The Immeasurable Value of Each Human Life
Without a doubt, the current healthcare reform effort is about controlling expanding medical costs. Also, without any doubt, measures in the House version of a bill (H.R. 3200 section 1233) address end of life consultations. As liberal commentators Charles Lane … Continue reading
July 12, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
Comments Off on Abortion Language – rights and responsibilities
By way of (Prolifer)ation’s on Jill Stanek’s blog, Big Blue Wave touched on how Reuters works to govern the abortion debate via their Handbook on Journalism: abortion Unless quoting someone, refer to aborted foetuses rather than unborn babies. Describe those … Continue reading
July 3, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
Comments Off on Congressman Langevin’s “Fertilized Eggs”
He suggested that excess embryos from IVF (in-vitro fertilization) procedures were only going to be discarded as medical waste. His take is, unless the “fertilized egg is implanted” it’s not going to be a child. To use these fertilized eggs for research that might prove beneficial to others is to be greatly “pro-life”, and he cited Sen. Orrin Hatch as a role model who held similar views. Continue reading
June 8, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
Comments Off on Would We Consent If We Knew?
The fetus is the woman’s offspring – her child. While most everyone knows this, the average person may not know the gestational development of the child enough to fully understand medical risks, or comprehend the emotional health impacts associated with permanently denying the mothering of that child. Continue reading
May 26, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
Comments Off on A Born Alive Parable
I wrote this little story to illustrate the essentials of the Born Alive issue that surround Barack Obama. Once upon a time there was a successful hit-man, who occasionally blundered during his killing. One day the hit-man was hired to … Continue reading
May 19, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
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There are no exceptions for violence against dependent human beings. If someone genuinely believes in the goodness of humanity and self-autonomy, when they resort to violence to benefit themselves, they cruely victimize others, and also themselves by desecrating their own humanity. Continue reading
May 13, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
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Self-awareness doesn’t require communicating your own awareness to others. Yet body presence indicates you exist – your body is your means of communication. A test for intangible personhood which ignores the human body is an invalid test, because no natural human being can pass it. Continue reading
May 12, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
Comments Off on Choice?
Squiggling in the word “choice” allows people a conscientious backdoor to escape. When someone says “choice” they need to be asked – what is the result of an abortion-choice? Because the only factual answer is: a dead human being. And … Continue reading
April 27, 2009
by Chris Arsenault
Comments Off on Judicial Complicity in Statutory Rape
Lila Rose exposes yet another Planned Parenthood covering up alleged statutory rape in TN in a pattern that is not isolated to one state, but now has been exposed at 6 clinics and multiple states. There clearly have been violations … Continue reading