1. The new Marist poll numbers commissioned by the Knights of Columbus about people shifting on abortion in the direction of life is a huge opportunity to start working together to make abortion implausible to people, and overwhelm people with alternatives.
2. The upcoming movie Unplanned, about Abby Johnson’s journey from a Planned Parenthood clinic director and employee of the year, will be rated R. Because abortion is some of the most intimate violence there is. And yet in many places, a teen can get an abortion but not see a movie which connects the dots about abortion not being women’s health care.
(I write a little about the movie elsewhere in our parts today.)
3. An amazing adoption story. It’s long, and worth the time.
4. Today is Becky Weichhand’s birthday. She was a tireless adoption and foster-care advocate who got people working together as executive director of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute. She died from cancer in November. Here’s a little tribute to her. She was a radiant soul and I wish I got to work with her more. We have to do so much more on these fronts. We all have roles to play.
5. More than 260 women who visited the Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC) of Rolla, Mo., were considering abortion last year. None of them went through with it.
6. Ryan T. Anderson: Maryland’s end-of-life bill is about one thing: Killing.
7. This would be a beautiful thing:
8. What our country needs is the Deliver-Alive Human Being Protection Act: A law that unequivocally protects fetuses once they can survive outside the womb, currently 22 weeks.
9. Two of the addresses at the Vatican abuse synod this weekend, from a religious sister from Nigeria and a mother-journalist from Mexico.
10. A little something about Virginia:
11. This is from a few days ago, but if you haven’t read it, you might want to: Kirsten Powers on toxic social media.
12. Andy’s the best (also too wise to be on Twitter):
13. This is something fun from last week, our friend Robby George and Ch’nel Duke and Bronwen McShea performing Bob Dylan.
14. From Daniel Philpott at Notre Dame: Why the Catholic Church needs a Eucharistic response to the sex-abuse scandals
15. A Thomistic Litany of Humility
(Here’s one about trust.)
16. Opportunities:
Also the deadline is approaching for the Claremont Lincoln fellowships.
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