At the End of the Day

IN A DEMOCRACY, the banging of ideas in the hall of learned opinion puts in motion the equality of people among people in contributing for the best of the greatest number. It is therefore immature to condemn the adversary simply because he is winning the argument. If truth has to win the bearers of truth must succeed in arguing for it. A proponent of truth that cannot argue successfully must be the last person to be considered in such a critical occupation. Never was a time in our history as a Christian nation that the life of the unborn hangs in the balance of a word's definition.  The House Representatives is entering the phase of the legislation process where amendments of the very controversial and highly divisive RH Bill can be done by the proponents of the opposing camps. In this stage, a proponent who sleeps in the cause will bring the cause into a tragic end. Instead of staging social unrest, it is now the right time for the Roman Catholic Church and the prop

THE SECOND DEFINITION of the intransitive verb, "abort," in Merriam-Webster dictionary runs as "to become checked in development so as to degenerate or remain rudimentary." One characteristic of "development," aside from being an act or a result, is that it is also a process. Any process begins at the point of initiation, but not the generation of an idea, or the planning stage. And "rudimentary" inarguably means "of a primitive kind," or being in its fundamental form. This gives us a more fundamental definition of the term "abortion" as the "termination of the process of giving life to a human being through a natural, biological and developmental process of conception into a child ready for birth." Now, this definition is entirely different from the standard medical definition of "abortion." Merriam-Webster's standard definition of "abortion" is "the termination of pregnancy after, acc