Entries from What's Wrong with the World tagged with 'choice devours itself'
Choice Devours Itself--Murderous UK doctor breaks his silence
Wesley J. Smith is a lawyer, and I am not. That means that I'm less hesitant than he is about using the word "murder" for various killings of the helpless and vulnerable. (He is careful not to do it if...
Posted by Lydia McGrew on June 18, 2010 9:43 PM
Choice devours itself--Flanders doctors killing the elderly without consent
I suppose this shouldn't really be a surprise, but it's useful to have it documented. In Flanders, where active euthanasia is legal, doctors are killing nearly as many people without their request as with it. The study (based on the...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on May 24, 2010 10:37 AM
Choice devours itself--Forced abortions for minors
Long-time readers will be familiar with my interest in the "choice devours itself" phenomenon. (See here and here.) Briefly, a "choice devours itself" incident occurs when liberals connive at or turn a blind eye to coercion in one of the...
Posted by Lydia McGrew on May 8, 2010 3:25 PM
Free and Equal Superman brings down Catholic religious orders
This interview came out in 1994, but I heard of it first just yesterday, on Facebook, of all places, thanks to one of my FB contacts who posted it. Some of you probably know all about it: It's the story...
Posted by Lydia McGrew on April 5, 2009 3:47 PM
Choice devours itself--the bottom of the hill?
I tell ya', I simply cannot keep up with the bad guys these days. If one gets involved even for a few days in some project other than keeping people informed of what the culture of death is up to,...
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Posted by Lydia McGrew on March 6, 2009 3:51 PM
To whom do we belong?
I present the following deliberate overstatement to provoke discussion: If a man does not believe that his body belongs to God, he ends by believing that his body belongs to the state. Now, since I said that this is a...
Posted by Lydia McGrew on November 29, 2008 8:29 AM
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