Posted in Faith, Health Care on Jun 30th, 2009
On October 2, 2008 Chase Kear’s family found themselves praying for a miracle after a tragic pole vaulting accident left his skull severely injured.
Chase’s father, Paul Kear, told The Wichita Eagle that the family was informed “that it was really severe, and that he had fractured his skull from ear to ear, and that there [...]
Posted in Bioethics, Culture, Health Care on Jun 30th, 2009
Ingenuity in the realm of art could provide an amazing tool for the medical field that would allow doctors and parents to literally use open arms to welcome their unborn child into the world.. A London art student’s recent design creates life size versions of their child in the womb for parents to hold.
The startling new medical technology [...]
Posted in Abortion, Activism, Culture, Law on Jun 27th, 2009
On June 24, the U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit ruled to uphold the ban on partial birth abortion. The court ruled that a bill called the Virginia Act, which declares partial birth abortion as unconstitutional, is in fact constitutional and should be upheld.
In his concurring opinion, Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson wrote, “The fact [...]
A small Iowa town was stunned yesterday with the killing of a football legend. Coach Ed Thomas was shot by a former player while he was leading summer training in the weight room Aplington-Parkersburg High School. He died of his injuries very shortly after at a hospital nearby.
Today, the family of the suspect, Mark Becker, has [...]
…and it appeared perhaps a hacker defaced the story reporting this computer flaw.
The story begins…
Hackers defaced the home page of the Oregon University System, posting a caustic message telling President Obama to mind his own business and stop talking about the disputed Iranian election.
Attempts to access the university system’s Web site were automatically redirected to [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Media, Society on Jun 22nd, 2009
A friend and I were discussing that very idea the other day. Today, scanning the headlines several times, that very idea was running through my head as I read the day’s various stories.
My news reading began with this article:
On marriage: Let’s call the whole thing off
I could see where this was going. The author’s failed marriage, [...]
Today is Father’s Day, and the media has focused their attention on honoring dad’s, as well as dispelling myths about fatherhood. And even the President had some thoughts to share with the public on his own fatherhood.
Parade Magazine published an essay the President has written regarding his own father as well as his fatherhood.
As the father [...]
In his commencement address at the University of Notre Dame President Obama acknowledged that the issue of abortion is incredibly divisive in America today. He even went as far to call the opposing sides irreconcilable. That’s not incredibly true. But regardless of that, in the wake of the killing of abortionist George Tiller’s, individuals on both [...]
Posted in Culture, Entertainment on Jun 16th, 2009
I was in my hometown again this past weekend attending my younger sister’s senior dance recital. Fifteen years of dancing culminated in what I think was a remarkable and overwhelming performance. The song above was the music to her final dance in the show and it was an astounding lyrical piece.
Watching the girls leap and [...]
The description of this lawsuit sounds just sounds wrong.
In the months before their daughter was born in 2007, Deborah and Ariel Levy worried the baby might have Down syndrome.
They say a doctor at the Legacy Center for Maternal-Fetal Medicine assured them that a sample of tissue taken from the placenta early in the pregnancy ruled [...]