Yawper

The demagoguery and fear-mongering surrounding health care policy is utterly mind-numbing.  For as long as I can recall health care policy has been a confusing mish-mash of amazing statistics, horrifying anecdotes, and low-quality quantifications.  The net sum of this mess is a standard narrative we pretty much all accept: at some point we will get […]

Two physicians, writing for the Journal of Medical Ethics, argue for the legalization of infanticide.  In the paper, Doctors Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva argue that newborn babies are not really persons and are therefore “morally irrelevant,” thus permitting a procedure euphemistically termed “after birth abortion.” There should be nothing shocking about the article, “After-birth […]

Did you catch what happened?  In the tussle over religious freedom violations in Obamacare, the President offered an alternative that amounts to an even bigger power grab. Mulling this over I came across Charles Krauthammer making the same point.  He’s smarter than me so go read his article.  For those who are still here I […]