As featured in The Spectator, Abortion and the Deep South, 14 September 2018. In one of the many forgotten decisive moments in the history of the USA the question of the expansion of slavery was being debated. The one in favour of expansion asked why if he could take his animals anywhere then why…
100 years of Australian Labor In June of 1991, the Australian Labor Party was celebrating 100 years since its founding in Barcaldine, Queensland. The Centennial Conference of the Queensland ALP met in Brisbane. A motion was passed calling for the Parliamentary wing of the party to implement state policy and remove abortion from the criminal code.…
Ireland’s problem is our problem Ireland has had another voluntary referendum on a social issue. The result is reported as a revolt against what Libby Purves in The Times called “centuries of clerical domination”. The referendum result happened not in spite of long-time opposition from the official Catholic Church, but because of it. The Irish…
Democracy and Euthanasia In democratic terms Euthanasia is about whether our humanity persists despite its distressing disguise. The sick in their mostly cheerful persistence in human activity despite their suffering show the nature of human equality to us; an equality that overcomes suffering; that persists despite such. We are called to live in solidarity with…