JUDIE BROWN COMMENTARY

I don’t know about you, but if I hear one more promise of change, it may be the straw that ends my association with newspapers and television until after the first week of November.

When a friend told me about the Science Olympiad, my first reaction was that this is a wonderful way to get young people into the habit of thinking for themselves, enjoying the pursuit of scientific inquiry and generally exploring areas that might otherwise be unattractive to them.

The California legislature has decided that the state should push patients to choose being put to death as their preferred healthcare option. That is the way I read the “Terminal Patients’ Right to Know End of Life Options Act”, also known as Assembly Bill 2747.

When you look up the word bop in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, you find that, when used as a verb, the word is defined as “hit” or “sock.”

I was very intrigued by a few news reports that crossed my “e-mail desk” this week. I guess that’s how you have to view e-mail these days – few write you a real letter anymore, and everyone who does send e-mail wants a response immediately.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is, as we know, an avowed proponent of aborting innocent preborn children, and for that she makes no apologies.

As you may know, I have been on vacation for a few weeks and have tried to write blogs when computer access is available.

While in Vienna recently, I had the chance to meet a young man who has been married for nearly four years. He and his wife are waiting to have a baby because they simply, according to him, cannot afford it right now.

It seems, if you took this article seriously, that couples having children and thus increasing the Australian fertility rate is cause for concern, if not alarm, at least among those who keep statistics and appear dedicated to preserving the country’s ecological balance.

The latest news from the world of draconian science should have turned the culture of death on its ear – but so far, I have not heard a word from the human embryonic stem cell research cadre’s guru

The birth control pill came on the scene in 1960 and has, in the intervening 48 years, become the magic bullet for organizations like Planned Parenthood, for belief systems like secular humanism and for pharmaceutical profiteers the world over.