HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH

"STUDY:  7,000 steps a day cuts risk of death by 70%." Drudge Report

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

"Man stabs leg while driving, holding knife, eating Taco Bell. Traffic safety officials always say you shouldn't drive while distracted. More specifically, you shouldn't drive while talking to your friend on the phone, eating Taco Bell & holding a knife . . . A (39-year-old) man was eating & driving, he later told police, & he was talking to a friend via Bluetooth speaker & looking at a knife that his friend gave him. He then drove through a large pothole or hit a bump on the road. The jolt made him accidentally stab his right thigh with the knife,' the police report said. The man was left with a 1- to 1 1/2"-deep puncture wound in the top of his right thigh." Omaha World Herald, 9/4

TRENDING

"Press shocked as man who didn't answer any questions while running for President still doesn't answer any questions now that he's President." Babylon Bee

HEALTH EDUCATION STANDARDS

"After twice attempting to come up with statewide health-education standards amid a firestorm of opposition, members of the Nebraska State Board of Education on FRI pulled the plug on the process." OMW 9/4. I've mentioned this before. The proposed standards included teaching students as early as kindergarten about gender identity, 8th graders how to deal with an unwanted pregnancy, & other extremely offensive content. Thank goodness the State Board listened to the "firestorm of opposition."

ABORTION 

If it seems as if I'm fixated on the topic of abortion, it's because I am. Abortion is an evil, a holocaust, that perhaps has far surpassed any previous holocausts. And, no, this belief does not make me anti-semitic. Human life begins as conception. This is a biological truth, which cannot be denied. Those who support Planned Parenthood seem to willfully ignore the evil nature of this godless organization. And I pray for those who seem to find pro-abortion arguments in Holy Scripture. They aren't there.

"Just before midnight, the Supreme Court, over the incoherent objections of four dissenting justices, denied the request by Texas abortion providers for emergency relief against the Texas Heartbeat Act. The compelling procedural grounds on which five justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — ruled have no direct bearing on the substantive question whether the Court will overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey in next term’s blockbuster abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. But the clarity, courage, and commitment to the rule of law that the five justices demonstrated in the midst of intense fury from the Left — and in the face of an exasperating cop-out by Chief Justice Roberts — are heartening indeed." The Editors, National Review Online 9/3

"President Joe Biden made an irrational statement the other day about when human life begins, saying at a press conference:  I respect those who believe life begins at the moment of conception. I don’t agree, but I respect that. I’m not going to impose that on people.

"Except this is not a question of “belief,” but one of biological fact. It’s a question about which science–rather than politics or ideology–has long known the answer. Indeed, embryology text books are clear on that point. For example (my emphasis):  Human development is a continuous process that begins when an oocyte (ovum) from a female is fertilized by a sperm (or spermatozoon) from a male. (p. 2); … but the embryo begins to develop as soon as the oocyte is fertilized. (p. 2); … Human development begins at fertilization, the process during which a male gamete or sperm … unites with a female gamete or oocyte … to form a single cell. This highly specialized, titipotent cell marks the beginning of each of us as a unique individual . . . 

"In other words, Joe Biden’s life began when he came into being after conception as a one-celled human being–whether he “believes” it or not. 

"Besides, at what other point could a new human life begin? Not implantation of the embryo in the uterus–although one could potentially say that is when pregnancy begins. But pregnancy’s inception is not the same thing as the beginning of life itself. And in any case, surgical abortions happen long after that point."  Wesley Smith, NRO 9/4

"Abortion has been so successful in America because of euphemisms and pressures. We look away. We don't let young women see what is happening, see what abortion really is. Women are told -- sometimes by their mothers -- that they are too young to have children, that their lives will be miserable and never amount to anything if they have a child before they're ready.

"Shouldn't we be embracing motherhood with grateful expectation for the beauty to come? How have we become blinded to the enchantment of creation? Whatever the circumstances of a pregnancy, we are a part of creation, creating with God, even if unintentionally."  Kathryn Lopez, Townhall

"At the risk of pummeling an already, very dead horse, allow me to ask you once again: so, how is your pro-life vote for Joe Biden looking right now? As I’ve said repeatedly in the past, I can understand if you could not cast your vote for Donald Trump, despite all the good that he did. In your view, the damage he did and the example he set more than outweighed the positives. And so, as a lover of Jesus and the Word of God, you could not vote for him. But a vote for Biden, specifically, as a pro-life evangelical? What on earth were you thinking?" Michael Brown, ditto