(Prolifer)ations 3/31/08
I sure have missed my (Prolifer)ations posts. I launched (Prolifer)ations a few months back to spotlight good info gleaned from other pro-life blogs, because there’s no way I can keep up with all the news.
But I kept running short of time to research, and so (Prolifer)ations faded from “site,” although not from mind.
But there’s another great blogger, JivinJehoshaphat, who follows nearly the same concept with his Life Links blog posts.
I’m happy to announce JivinJ will be contributing (Prolifer)ations 3-4x a week here. He will cross-post these on his site, along with other good information, so be sure to visit his blog.
Here is JivinJ’s first (Prolifer)ations contribution. Welcome, Jivin’!…
Furendi’s basic thinking seems to go like this: “Many people are having sex who don’t want kids now or possibly ever, some people don’t want kids now because they don’t think they could give everything they want to their child, contraception is great but doesn’t work all the time and some people aren’t good at using it, so in cases where contraception doesn’t work or isn’t taken – abortion is a good back-up because it means that more people who don’t want kids aren’t having them.”
The problem with this thinking is that from step one, it assumes the unborn aren’t children.
Over the weekend the Associated Press picked up on the story of Tong Phuoc Phuc and his pro-life work in Vietnam . He not only cares for pregnant mothers in crisis, he has established a cemetery of discarded aborted babies.
Demonstrating the subversive nature of the euthanasia/assisted suicide movement on proper medical care, Dutch doctors are switching from lethally injecting patients to sedating them into a permanent coma so they die by dehydration over a period of days or weeks.
[Furedi photo courtesy of The Guardian; photo of Tong Phuoc Phuc’s Hon Thom cemetery courtesy of VietnamNetBridge]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Rising abortion rates aren’t good. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
“Apparently, Barack Obama thinks babies are some kind of punishment for women who get pregnant when they aren’t planning to.”
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There are those who would “punish” women with unwanted pregnancies by denying then legal abortions, but thank goodness they aren’t in control.
If you want to say “punishment,” go ahead, but since unwanted pregnancies can be ended via abortion, the women can do what is best for themselves, whatever they feel that is.
I suppose you could say they were punished (or whatever) for having sex by becoming pregnant, and I suppose some women do feel that way, but they then have the choice, which is the way it should be.
I’ve heard several pro-lifers refer to their children as punishments. Like, “My child is the most wonderful punishment ever!” Is there anyone here who would be alright with their parents referring to them as a “punishment”?
Once I listened to a tape of a National Abortion Federation meeting. The abortion workers were all expressing bewilderment that they were percieved as disliking — even hating — children. Well, when you declare that a live baby is “punishment” and devote your life to exterminating them, that doesn’t exactly paint you as somebody with a favorable view of infants!
Well I guess it’s a punishment if you want it to be, but I don’t think that’s a really healthy outlook.
” Last year I had an abortion, and I can honestly say it was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I
“Once I listened to a tape of a National Abortion Federation meeting. The abortion workers were all expressing bewilderment that they were perceived as disliking — even hating — children. Well, when you declare that a live baby is “punishment” and devote your life to exterminating them, that doesn’t exactly paint you as somebody with a favorable view of infants!”
Interesting.
Furendi’s basic thinking seems to go like this: “Many people are having sex who don’t want kids now or possibly ever, some people don’t want kids now because they don’t think they could give everything they want to their child, contraception is great but doesn’t work all the time and some people aren’t good at using it, so in cases where contraception doesn’t work or isn’t taken – abortion is a good back-up because it means that more people who don’t want kids aren’t having them.”
The argument notwithstanding, abortion is certainly a good back-up in that it prevents the birth if other birth control has failed.
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The problem with this thinking is that from step one, it assumes the unborn aren’t children.
The terminology isn’t the issue here. Call it anything you want, but Furendi and others feel it’s best for women to be able to prevent birth if that’s what they want.
Oh that’s swell Pap Taylor Gang – so we’ll just punish the baby for coming into existence through no fault of it’s own and KILL it!
Groovy, what a suggestion – why didn’t I think of that one…
And then there’s this rationalization:
” Last year I had an abortion, and I can honestly say it was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I
Here is the video of Obama referring to babies as punishment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbZJYWjkAPo
“Let’s hope the tables get turned on you someday just so you can have the opportunity to think about what you’ve done.”
Well that’s nice and very pro-life Patricia.
Well I guess it’s a punishment if you want it to be, but I don’t think that’s a really healthy outlook.
It’s really, really not healthy…for the kid or for the parent.
Wow, Patricia. The hateful bile that spills out of your fingers sometimes…
Especially after you defended Laura’s banning by saying her posts were “inflammatory, derogatory and insulting to people.”
But I suppose you, being pro-life and all, are above such nonsense.
“Here is the video of Obama referring to babies as punishment”
Obama, you bum.
And Doug:”abortion is certainly a good back-up in that it prevents the birth if other birth control has failed.”
Patricia: This statement is the exact thing proaborts denied over and over throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s and into the 1990’s. Abortion would NEVER be used as a backup. It prevents the birth of what, Doug? Oh yes, fetii, conceptus, neonates, and babies!
Oh please. OF course abortion can be used as a backup and of course abortion itself is birth control.
Just who did you really see saying that’s not the case?
Elizabeth @ 9:36pm, sure you could run blindly down the highway at night dressed in black… I don’t know if that’s really healthy though. Ehn!
That’s definitely NOT healthy either Jess!
Would you vote for a President who’d kill his own grandchild? Later Obama did say his two daughters were “miracles.” So, let me get this straight
Furedi must get loads of euros for her work, glorifying the whole abortion carnage and all. In a leading industrialized country, no less.
Along comes Tong Phuoc Phuc, most likely nowhere near as wealthy as Ms. Furedi, and he’s actually helping to raise unwanted children (34 according to the article) and gives fetal trash a decent burial.
Oh, the irony.
“Blessed are the merciful for they shall have mercy shown them.”
And Jivin’ J,
Been an admirer of your audacity for awhile. Glad to see you’re collaborating with her Royal Boldness on her site.
Keep it up.
At a campain rally today Babaric Obamination said he would bring up his two daughters with morals and values stating also that they shouldn’t be punished with a baby if they made a mistake.
Now since when is a baby a punishmen? My Bible says children are a gift from God. And this statement made by a so-called Christian.
Also, is it a moral value to teach your children that mistakes have no consequences? I say the oppposite is true. To teach this brand of morality and values, which promotes the avoidance of consequences for mistakes made, shows a TOTAL LACK of morals and integrity?
And you pro-aborts want to give this low-life control of our government? It is hard to understand the pro-abort mentality when it is filled with inconsistency, illogic, and the lack of real moral teaching. I shouldn’t be so amazed, however, when pro-aborts don’t call it abortion they call it “a choice”.
Doug and Pap: Pitiful……..
HisMan, I guess, after considering it, that you’re right, and hence I will go over to the pro-life side.
Doug
Would you vote for a President who’d kill his own grandchild?
I don’t believe Obama would kill his own grandchild… or are you talking about abortion? Either way, even if his wife/daughter/female friend wanted an abortion, Obama could do nothing because it is the woman’s choice to do so.
When a woman has sex and gets pregnant with a baby she does not want and is subsequently forced to have a child, then yes, she is being punished for having sex. Regardless of how wonderful children are, you are forcing punishment upon her.
What did that quote say again…? 77 percent of pro-lifers are men… 100 percent of them will never be pregnant?
Something like that.
Doug, welcome to the side that advocates taking responsibility for the consequences of our actions.
Doug, welcome to the side that advocates taking responsibility for the consequences of our actions.
Truthseeker, did you notice the date of my post?
The woman is responsible, and she takes that responsibility by deciding either way, to continue the pregnancy or to end it.
Welcome Jivin!!
The woman is responsible, and she takes that responsibility by deciding either way, to continue the pregnancy or to end it.
Now THAT’S an April Fool’s day joke…
Nay Lassie, ’tis true every day o’ the year.
I have always liked the “Jivin’ Jehoshaphat” name.
(Even said so back in September – no foolin’.)
MSM in Love with “rock-star” Obama:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2008/04/01/medias-april-fools-keep-slobbering-over-obama
Insisting that a woman “must” continue a pregnancy because she engaged in consentual sex and has an obligation to “pay the piper” is punative. Forcing a woman to continue an unwanted pregnancy is punishing her for being sexually active.
What a complete load of horse $hit – and guess what: Ms Furendi, you’re not only flippant, but selfish, narcisstic and navel gazing too. Let’s hope the tables get turned on you someday just so you can have the opportunity to think about what you’ve done.
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What a disgusting hatefilled attitude –
Doug, Happy atheists day :)
“And you pro-aborts want to give this low-life control of our government?”
If you’re referring to Obama (and I know you are) then the answer is YES. President Obama will be a wonderful change from the last 8 years. I can’t wait. And believe me, it won’t be any harder for you to live through then 8 years of Bush was for me. In fact, as a true “united not a divider” it should be easier.
HisMan, I guess, after considering it, that you’re right, and hence I will go over to the pro-life side.
Doug
Posted by: Doug at April 1, 2008 12:17 AM
Yahoo, Doug! Once you’re pro-life, you can’t go back – it’s not humanly possible to change the brain chemistry. Betcha didn’t know that, huh? :)
There’s a book that I’d like to recommend especially for those who considers themselves “pro-choice”. It’s called “Unaborted Socrates: A Dramatic Debate on the Issues Surrounding Abortion” by Peter Kreeft, 1983.
Doug, I think you might find this book interesting.
Yahoo, Doug! Once you’re pro-life, you can’t go back – it’s not humanly possible to change the brain chemistry. Betcha didn’t know that, huh? :)
Janet, I looked at that book and some reviews of it.
The main focus of the debates is when does life begin, and who will speak for the most helpless, the unborn.
To me, this is missing a good bit of the abortion debate, and is focusing on something that isn’t really at issue.
Life is there at conception, no argument from me on that score.
And it’s not only a matter of wondering who will “speak for the unborn,” it’s seeing if there would or could really be any “voice” there anyway, in the absence of awareness.
In the absence of need to expand the population beyond what’s already happening (and I realize that too can be argued), is there any real need to worry about unwanted pregnancies?
And what of the pregnant woman, who most certainly is aware, a thinking, feeling person?
Janet – I was pro-life.
But with education comes knowledge, with experience comes wisdom, and eventually I believed the pro-choice arguments outweighed those of the moral right.
Doug,
Life begins at conception, no argument from me on that score.
That’s a good start! Now if we can agree on this (see below)….then you’re an pro-lifer. Some day, I think you will be one!
1. Each life is irreplaceable in this world.
2. Each life has potential no matter how old.
3. Each life is good.
4. Each life deserves a chance to live.
Doug,
“In the absence of need to expand the population beyond what’s already happening (and I realize that too can be argued), is there any real need to worry about unwanted pregnancies?”
“What, me worry?”
http://www.norcalblogs.com/dog/alfred_e_neuman.jpg
Janet, you have a good, level head on your shoulders, and a nicely calm demeanor, often.
1. Each life is irreplaceable in this world.
Yes, but we don’t need every life. Some are just plain bad, just as some are good. It’s always a mixture, sure, but on balance who’s to say how a given person will turn out? Meanwhile it’s fact that a pregnant woman will want to go one way or another.
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2. Each life has potential no matter how old.
Yes, but it’s not saying that any “good” potential would be reached. Do we need to take that gamble with every single pregnancy, all the while not allowing women the legal freedom they have now? My feeling is “no way.”
There are plenty of people being born now, while allowing women the choice.
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3. Each life is good.
No, that’s an opinion. Not everybody shares it. And of course that’s ignoring the pregnant woman – we’re not considering the unborn, alone, here.
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4. Each life deserves a chance to live.
I say the mother comes first. It’s not for us to say she has to have an abortion if she wants the pregnancy nor is it for us to say she can’t have an abortion if she doesn’t want the pregnancy. My opinion.
Edyt,
Janet – I was pro-life.
But with education comes knowledge, with experience comes wisdom, and eventually I believed the pro-choice arguments outweighed those of the moral right.
Do you mean you are pro-choice when it comes to abortion, specifically or for other issues as well? Why did you change your mind, if you don’t mind my asking?
Janet, you have a good, level head on your shoulders, and a nicely calm demeanor, often.
“a nicely calm demeanor, often” – Thanks, Doug, I think?
I hope you realize “What, me worry?” was a joke!
On the other points, well, I tried. I’ll wait another month or two and try again:)
What does =P mean? Where do you find all these abbreviations?
On Friday I go to the Southern Hemisphere, so that too is something to think about. =P
Doug,
A donde vas? Mexico? Puerto Rico? A trabajar o vacacion?
Doug said:
The woman is responsible, and she takes that responsibility by deciding either way, to continue the pregnancy or to end it.
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Doug, See Pap’s post from March 31, 2008 5:18. I thought maybe it could help you to see the nonsensical circular logic you usually post coming from someone else. lol
Janet, =P is supposed to be a good-natured sticking-out of the tongue. Tilt your head to the left and perhaps it looks like two eyes (the = part) and then the P is the line of the mouth and the tongue.
Vacation. ‘Tis the season – just got back Monday from FL – family reunion. Friday my wife and I go to Argentina – a brother-in-law lives down there – so my wife, her sister, and both us husbands are going down there to see the other couple.
It’s the beginning of autumn in the Southern Hemisphere and the perfect time to go, and it’s my wife’s spring break from teaching.
Do you mean you are pro-choice when it comes to abortion, specifically or for other issues as well? Why did you change your mind, if you don’t mind my asking?
Janet, I don’t think you realized what a long question you were asking! But I’ll try to explain.
I grew up in a Christian fundamentalist household. I found out, about the age of 10 or so, that my mother actually had an abortion when she was about 21 (6-7 years before she met and married my father). Of course, as I was raised pro-life, this incidence made me think she was utterly insane and unstable.*
I was born with a questioning, curious nature. I think that’s why I went into journalism, actually. But I didn’t immediately inquire into the abortion issue. One, I was young and two, I didn’t really understand it. Even in high school, when I found out that girls were getting pregnant and having abortions, I was incredibly judgmental and thought they were horrible people for killing children.
Then I had sex for the first time. I believe it was partly a rebellious act and assertion of my own independence, but I also did like the guy a lot (I said I loved him, but I know better now). At that moment, I distinctly remember being incredibly paranoid that I’d get pregnant. I knew** my parents would disown me, that I didn’t know what to do with a kid, and I didn’t want to ever be a parent.
I also distinctly remember going, “This is it? This is all sex is? What the hell are people so uptight/excited about it for?”***
I think that was the time when I realized I would get an abortion if I ever got pregnant. I had made the decision years earlier to not have children (I believe I’ve explained this before), but at that time, I really understood that I was not ready to be a parent. I broke up with my boyfriend soon after, and remained single/sex-less for quite awhile after that. And I insisted on two forms of birth control (pills/condoms) just to be sure I wouldn’t get pregnant.
I also self-educated myself. I read a lot about why women got abortions, very personal, deeply moving stories. I felt I had no right judge them for their choices. (Of course, I was also becoming an atheist at the same time and distancing myself from my perception of moral superiority).
Through self-education, I can now argue the pro-choice side legally, economically, through personal stories, logically, financially, politically …
I also rebuked the perception that women were subservient creatures, made for men’s pleasure and control (which is taught in the Bible).
What I essentially decided was that no one had the right to own or control me. And when someone tries to give an unborn child more rights than me, I start to feel like I’m not a valuable human being whose only worth is in my uterus.
So I ultimately decided that I have no right to determine what’s best for another person. Only they do.
* My mother is insane and unstable, but not because of abortion.
** Or at least I thought I knew. But you never know for sure.
*** I have better sex now and realize how pleasurable and wonderful it can be with someone you truly love.
“The woman is responsible, and she takes that responsibility by deciding either way, to continue the pregnancy or to end it.”
Doug, See Pap’s post from March 31, 2008 5:18. I thought maybe it could help you to see the nonsensical circular logic you usually post coming from someone else. lol
Truthseeker, it’s not nonsensical nor circular. It is the woman’s responsibility. It’s not yours or mine. She is the one responsible. She is not responsible to what you want, she is responsible to what she wants.
Now I gotta go find what the Papster said…..
:: laughing :: I googled it, and here it was right here in the same thread…
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Pap: There are those who would “punish” women with unwanted pregnancies by denying then legal abortions, but thank goodness they aren’t in control. If you want to say “punishment,” go ahead, but since unwanted pregnancies can be ended via abortion, the women can do what is best for themselves, whatever they feel that is. I suppose you could say they were punished (or whatever) for having sex by becoming pregnant, and I suppose some women do feel that way, but they then have the choice, which is the way it should be.
What’s the objection, there? It started with speculation about what Obama thinks – and who knows? Has he actually said that “babies would be punishment” or “babies are punishment”?
I do feel there are those who want to “punish” women for having sex, etc. I’d say that Pap has a pretty good point – one could say “punishment” but regardless whether one wants to do that or not, the woman is free to take action. I’m not sure all what Pap meant – perhaps that whether an unwanted pregnancy is seen as punishment or that the real punishment would be not being allowed to end an unwanted pregnancy…?
Doug, I have no objection to any specific part of the post. I jwas just saying that I saw an uncanny resemblence in your’s and Pap’s “phraseologies”.
Edyt,
Thanks for your honesty in sharing your story.
Doug, Have fun in Argentina! (Oops, I realized after I posted that Mexico and P.R. are in the N. Hemisphere… it was late!)
Janet: Edyt, Thanks for your honesty in sharing your story.
CO-SIGNED!
Truthseeker: Doug, I have no objection to any specific part of the post. I was just saying that I saw an uncanny resemblence in your’s and Pap’s “phraseologies”.
Okay, so you don’t think it’s nonsensical or circular, then?
[insert some large rolling eyes here]
I usually do agree with Pap, but does this sound like me?
I suppose you could say they were punished (or whatever) for having sex by becoming pregnant, and I suppose some women do feel that way, but they then have the choice, which is the way it should be.
Janet, no problem. It is my hope that I can be seen not as just a “soulless baby-killer” but as a human being who has thoughts and feelings that have been independently developed through my personal experiences and exploration of the world.
Doug:
I heard there’s some political unrest in Argentina, major food shortages, protests, especially around the capital – so be careful traveling!
Janet – yeah – the couple we know who live there say the farmer’s food strike really has messed things up. However, their advice was to come on down….
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