As Richard Mourdock’s Indiana Senate fate hinges on how voters absorb his views on rape, all conservatives have an opportunity for a look in the mirror.
Just how pro-life do we want to be?
The Mourdock controversy is nothing like Todd Akin’s self-inflicted wound in Missouri, the result of an embrace of just plain bad medical information.
Mourdock is in hot water for accurately (if not particularly skillfully) articulating what God instructs about the life of the unborn.
If he is on politically shaky ground, it is because he had the courage to stand on the...











In the last seven years, however, four major epidemiological studies have shown that abortion is actually associated with higher rates of death compared to childbirth. The most recent study of pregnancy-related deaths was published earlier this year in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. That study, linking birth, death, and abortion records for the entire country of Finland over a thirteen year period, found that women who had abortions were three times more likely to die than women who gave birth. Findings like these have completely reversed scientists’ conclusions regarding the relative risk of deaths associated with pregnancy outcome.
It sure doesn't look as if the lives of these women have very much worth to supporters of abortion.