Stream Splashes: October 14-20 in Review
Every week, The Stream rounds up some highlights from the recent news. We call these our “splashes”: everything from insightful commentary on the week’s big events to small inspiring stories you may have missed.
The film Gosnell: The Trial of America’s Greatest Serial Killer opened Friday in 650 theaters. But it was largely ignored by the entertainment media. Much like the actual Gosnell trial was largely ignored by the news media. Until it could not be ignored.
The Gosnell story is deeply unsettling, and not just because it deals with the unsavory subject of abortion. The movie makes clear that the District Attorney office was not seeking to litigate or further restrict abortion. Assistant District Attorney Alexis McGuire, played by Sarah Jane Morris, is a pro-choice mother of five. But McGuire comes to realize that “there is nothing that man did illegally for 30 years that protects women or children. And you don’t have to be a pro-life activist to see that.”
Do progressives wake up in the morning and think, “What can I do today to further prove we’ve gone out of our stinkin’ minds?”
I’m barely done processing last week and already there’s a fresh batch of kooky dough in the oven. Or should I say Pow Wow Chow.
I give you Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Cherokee Wannabe.
Pro-abortion forces made it as painful as possible. But we did it. We put on the Supreme Court a man who, please God, will be the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.
But we don’t know for sure. And so, while pro-lifers still have the political power to fill more Supreme Court vacancies, now is a good time to take stock of the lessons learned from the Brett Kavanaugh fight.
I named her Leah Naomi.
She was a beautiful child — in my mind. She was not meant to be. In fact, I didn’t even know whether the baby was a boy or girl; I just knew I lost someone I already loved.
It was fall of 1999. I’d waited rather impatiently on the first ultrasound. My clothes were getting tighter, but I didn’t care. I was thrilled with the expectancy of a new life in our family of three. My oldest son was three. This one would be almost exactly four years younger.
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