By Sarah Terzo Nat Hentoff was a liberal journalist with The Village Voice who surprised many people when he became pro-life. He was a lifelong atheist. Hentoff explains in this passage what prompted him to consider the pro-life cause. “Baby Jane Doe” was an infant who was born disabled. A simple operation could have saved …
Continue reading "Libertarian Nat Hentoff explains why he became pro-life"By Wesley J. Smith We have lost a great writer, civil libertarian, free speech absolutist, jazz historian, and pro-life advocate, Nat Hentoff, who died Saturday at 91. As an atheist, Nat took much heat from his fellow liberals and rigid fundamentalists among the “free thinking” crowd for standing against abortion, euthanasia, and opposing protocols that …
Continue reading "Nat Hentoff, Memory Eternal"By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. Pro-life columnist and author Nat Hentoff passed away on Saturday. We are carrying two tributes: this, from 2012, and a personal farewell to a great champion of unborn children and little ones born with major anomalies. Pro-life veterans, like yours truly, need to remind ourselves constantly that our Movement replenishes …
Continue reading "Nat Hentoff: Breaking with the Herd of Independent minds on abortion and infanticide"By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. There is still time to register for the National Right to Life convention June 28-30 and to reserve a hotel room at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in Arlington, Virginia. Just go to www.nrlconvention.org. Pro-life veterans, like yours truly, need to remind ourselves constantly that our Movement replenishes itself daily. …
Continue reading "Nat Hentoff: Breaking with the Herd of Independent minds on abortion and infanticide"By Wesley J. Smith I know Nat Hentoff. Nat Hentoff is a friend of mine. And Wesley, you are no Nat Hentoff. No kidding, Wesley! But I was heartened to read an article exposing the profound intolerance of many on the Left against one of their own because he became pro life. It tells how …
Continue reading "Hentoff Blackballed for Pro-Life Views"By Dave Andrusko Over the years we’ve written a great deal about the tragic and wholly unnecessary death of Terri Schindler Schiavo, the severely disabled Florida woman whose case was at the heart of our country’s debate over the right to life of the medically dependent and disabled. By way of preface to Monday’s edition …
Continue reading "What’s Airing on Pro-Life Perspective Today? “Nat Hentoff’s Reflections on Terri Schiavo, part 1”"