Safer for whom?

Posted by on January 28, 2012 No comments

A Reuters headline this week proclaims Abortion safer than giving birth:

Dr. Elizabeth Raymond from Gynuity Health Projects in New York City and Dr. David Grimes of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, found that between 1998 and 2005, one woman died during childbirth for every 11,000 or so babies born.

That compared to one woman of every 167,000 who died from a legal abortion.

It’s all in how you do the math — or in this case, how you define “death”.

By my count, about 15 women die for every 167,000 children born. That’s compared to one woman plus 167,000 children for every 167,000 abortions.

It seems clear that legal abortion is about 15 times more deadly than childbirth.

Scripting the caucus

Posted by on January 2, 2012 3 comments

The storyline shifts again to make the show more entertaining:

According to the latest survey from Public Policy Polling, it looks like a statistical dead heat between Mitt Romney, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum for the top slot in the state.

With a margin of error of plus or minus 2.7 percentage points, Romney leads with 19 percent, followed by Paul with 18 percent and Santorum with 17 percent. As with the Des Moines Register poll unveiled Saturday night, Santorum appears to have the most momentum of all of the candidates, with an eight point surge from last week. Santorum also has the highest favorability rating of all the candidates—60 percent—which could give him an edge with the 41 percent of Iowa caucus voters who say they have not yet made up their minds.

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God targeting elections?

Posted by on January 2, 2012 1 comment

I stumbled onto this video from December of 2010 this morning. Cindy Jacobs of Generals International says God told her He’s targeting elections to bring forth a “Davidic governmental anointing” to remove the unholy from elected office:
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Another example of why we won’t join AARP

Posted by on December 26, 2011 1 comment

I stumbled onto this article while trolling the web this morning.  It caught my attention because–well, I’ve showed up on AARP’s radar because I turn 50 next week, and because Bloomington, Indiana is where Sharon lived and worked when we met.

The article features “10 Great Small Cities for Retirement”, of which Bloomington is one:

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Merry Christmas!

Posted by on December 24, 2011 No comments

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted something, anything, on this site.  It’s not that I’ve forgotten about this blog, which is now, what–nine years old?  This Christmas season has just been a little busy, and in the hustle it seemed that the world could manage without my opinions for a while.

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