« CapitolLink: No 'EZ Pass' To Torture | Main | BillBlast: Feingold's Filibuster »
December 16, 2005BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Blogging Against Abortion
Abortion has been one of the most divisive issues in America for decades, and blogs are now one of the hottest formats for advocacy on divisive causes. Which begs the question: Why isn't there more organized advocacy on abortion, be it pro or con, in the blogosphere?
Someone must have asked that question in the anti-abortion community recently because in about a month, bloggers who oppose abortion will be hosting the "first annual" Blogs4Life. The event will be held Jan. 23, just before the annual March for Life that marks the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.
Blogger Charmaine Yoest of the Family Research Council, which will co-host the conference, announced Blogs4Life yesterday. National Review columnist Kathryn Jean Lopez will be the featured speaker. She blogs at The Corner.
Yoest billed the meeting as an "opportunity for pro-life bloggers to get together and talk about how to maximize the impact of their blogging." And yes, you read that right, the event is exclusive. Bloggers who favor abortion rights are not invited, as the Blogs4Life site also makes clear: "The conference is open to all who support the sanctity of human life." The abortion rights crowd will just have to orgazine its own strategic blogging confab.
I won't be surprised if I hear about that one soon.
UPDATE: Although more than 40 blogs participated, the Blogs4Life event yesterday didn't generate much copy online. As of this afternoon, even the Blogs4Life site had only one post-event entry.
La Shawn Barber authored the meatiest post on the gathering. It includes links to other commentary by participating blogs. Her views on whether abortion should be allowed in the cases of rape and incest were the most powerful.
"Since the day I realized I was a Christian," Barber wrote, "I was never torn about this issue. The life of the unborn is precious and worthy of protection no matter how that life is conceived. It really isn't more clear than that. What's unclear is whether Christians are willing to live as the world does or as God requires."
Posted by | 05:27 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://amcblog.nationaljournal.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/389
