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Welcome! Let's Hit the Ground Running about Life and Death Issues,...
Obligatory Introduction & Housekeeping NotesThis is my new blog. Like a home you have just moved into with boxes left unpacked and walls unadorned, but where the daily activities of life have...
View ArticleOn Spiritual Clericalism & the Bandwagon Fallacy in the Context of SB 303
I wrote the first version of this on May 15, 2013, and it was addressing the issue of clericalism and avoiding it in the context of SB 303. By that time, we had seen the TCC further...
View ArticleBob Hall's Pro-Life Record
A few Bob Deuell supporters are running around claiming that they can find no evidence that Bob Hall has ever "done" anything pro-life. They then point to Bob Deuell's legislative work as proof that...
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Congratulations to State Senator Bob Hall & Setting the Record Straight (Again)
Well, the run-off election is in the books. It was quite a night! The race I was most closely following was, of course, State Senate District 2. (Although that is not my district, this was a crucial...
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PolitiFact: On Missing the Forest for the Trees When Being More Political...
So, you thought we were finished with the Deuell/Hall race and SB 303 for a while now that the run-off election is over, didn’t you? So did I. Silly us. It turns out that PolitiFact ran a little...
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Thoughts on the Feast of St. Edith Stein: Contraception Is Not Pro-Life; the...
I have been wanting for some time to address a pro-life issue that does not get as much attention as it deserves within the wider pro-life movement: contraception. Closely related to this is a...
View ArticleOne More Thought on Contraception on the Feast of St. Edith Stein:...
I meant to include in today's earlier post about contraception and the Texas Women's Health [Contraception] Program that part of the reason the pro-life movement must come to terms with...
View ArticleAnother Inconvenient Truth: Oral Contraceptives Are Dangerous
This post is going to be uncharacteristically short, but serves as an important update and additional source for prior blog posts on the topic of contraception.A month ago, on the Feast of St. Edith...
View ArticleGovernor’s Race: Disappointing Revelations
For any pro-lifer, Wendy Davis is a non-starter as a candidate. Her extreme position supporting abortion just excludes her from the get-go. That just goes without saying.Our hope was in Greg Abbott...
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Something Different: A Book Review
Bishop Emeritus Gracida recently published his autobiography, An Ordinary's Not So Ordinary Life, and it is a fantastic read. I highly recommend it. I wrote the following review for it on Amazon.com:I...
View ArticleTwo Important Reposts in Response to a Pro-SB 303/Passive Euthanasia Article
I have never re-posted anyone else's work before, but the following two posts are so well done and are in keeping with the primary purpose of this blog (opposing the Third Path, the extension of...
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HB 3074: What It Is & My Written and Oral Testimony Against It
Hello! Yes, it's been a while. Let's catch up.I had the opportunity to attend Mass at St. Mary's Cathedral prior to testifying.I'm fresh in from Austin where I testified, as did the majority of those...
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HB 3074 Has Been Significantly Amended & Can Be Supported as an Incremental...
What a difference a week makes! I am very pleased to report that many of the concerns so many raised at the hearing and in other venues about HB 3074 have been met and it is worthy of support as a true...
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A Real Thrill and Honor: Empower Texans' Citizen Profile
This is me with my daughter, Lucy.I am really honored and thrilled to be the subject of a Citizen Profile by Empower Texas! Here's a snippet of it:As a constitutional conservative, fiscal issues are...
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An 84th Legislative Session Retrospective: "Robust Primaries in 2016; New...
I think it is pretty safe to say that this 84th Legislative Session was disappointing where pro-life measures are concerned. Some may be more diplomatic about it than that, but I don't have to be. It...
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Texas' Advance Directives Act Is Being Used to Kill a Patient
This blog as been almost entirely devoted to the Texas Advance Directives Act ("TADA") because it is something that I think is so incredibly vital and affects everyone. It is also something that few...
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Chris Dunn Will Not See Christmas
I have a very sad, distressing update for you about Chris Dunn. Today a Texas hospital has blood on its hands, as does everyone and every entity - including at least two "pro-life" organizations and...
View ArticleChris Dunn, TADA, & Euthanasia: Working through the Issues
As I predicted in my last post, there is plenty of Monday-morning quarterbacking (for lack of a better term) going on in the wake of Mr. Dunn's death (notably by those who are in favor of TADA (the...
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Chris Dunn: Setting the Record Straight with Court Documents, Continuing to...
Medieval representation of HippocratesI've already written a great deal about this case, so why are we talking about it again? In part because one particular organization, Texas Alliance for Life...
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Healthcare in Crisis Conferences UPDATED*
One of the great blessings in being even as small a part as I am of the pro-life community that addresses the end-of-life/denial-of-care issue is all of the wonderful people I've met. Back when I first...
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