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Twins' death doubly wrong

The tragic death of twin babies in a botched operation at a Melbourne hospital is absolutely awful for everyone involved. And it demonstrates everything that is wrong about abortion. As reported in The HeraldSun , a couple was advised by doctors at Melbourne's Royal Women's Hospital to abort one of their twin boys because he had a congenital heart defect "that would require years of operations, if he survived at all". So they decided to abort one of the boys, whom they had already named. I find that heartbreaking. I can't imagine making such a decision. But it gets worse. During the abortion operation, at which both parents were present, a mistake was made and, rather that the sick baby dying, his healthy brother was injected with the poisonous substance meant for his brother, and killed. The doctors then performed a caesaerian operation to terminate the sick baby, so both twins died. The HeraldSun reports: A friend of the woman said the family was struggling t...

Fastest Firefox ever

What the ...? Firefox 5? That must be the fastest full version upgrade ever. I guess Mozilla got sick of Google upping its version number with every point update and joined in. Doesn't look much different, apparently it's all under the hood. So hopefully, it's speedier too.

Fixing damaged goods

I commented on Hans Kristensen's Lies the church tells about sex: if you have sex outside of marriage you are damaged goods . The post and the series has good intentions, but sorry Hans, this is not a lie. All sex outside of marriage, like all sin, will damage us. The great news is that, no matter what we've done, God will always forgive us when we ask for his forgiveness -- Jesus' blood washes us clean.