Entries for May, 2009

Stanek to attend George/Kmiec debate tomorrow tonight

Thanks to Professors Michael New and Robert George, I received clearance last week to attend a debate tomorrow from 5p to 6:30p EST at the National Press Club in DC between George and Catholic Obama apologist Doug Kmiec. I flew in yesterday. Entitled, “The Obama Administration and the Sanctity of Human Life: Is There a [...]

Bi-partisan House committee to investigate DHS “domestic terrorist” report

by intern Andy M. In March, “Rightwing extremism: current economic and political climate fueling resurgence in radicalization and recruitment,” referred to as

Jivin J’s Life Links 5-28-09, Part II

by LA Times has an article regarding the concerns of abortion rights groups in regards to Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor: “I simply don’t know Judge Sotomayor’s view on Roe vs. Wade. I will be very concerned if the question is not asked and answered during the Senate hearings,” Nancy Northup, president of the [...]

The fight over Sotomayor: both sides of abortion issue engaged

If I were watching only t.v. news, including Fox, I’d think the fight over Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, was over before it started. All I hear are warnings for Republicans to back away for fear of losing the Latino vote. (Where were warnings for Dems to back away when they [...]

Lunch Break: Car for ladies

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind… Email Bethany with your Lunch Break suggestions!

Jivin J’s Life Links 5-28-09, Part I

by University of Washington’s paper covers a visit by the Genocide Awareness Project. Some pro-choice students protested the exhibit (one appears to be holding a sign which reads “Pro-Choice is Pro-Life”) while others used other means: The tone of the protest shifted when one student egged the exhibit, and another scribbled on the signs advertising [...]

Denver Post columnist converts to pro-life, almost

We may be seeing the house of cards starting to fall. Recent polls indicating announce in a column yesterday he’s lining up with the new majority: After a life of being pro-choice, I began to seriously ponder the question. I oppose the death penalty because there is a slim chance that an innocent person might [...]

UW Madison responds to WIRTL ad: admits it may force pro-life employees to get hands dirty

The University of Wisconsin Madison Hospital sent an email to employees last night responding to

WI RTL releases final ad in campaign against UW Madison Hospital

Wisconsin Right to Life is publishing its 3rd and final ad today in the Wisconsin State Journal as part of 3 week ad campaign against the UW Madison Hospital for planning to introduce late-term abortions as part of its patient care. (Be sure to check out WIRTL’s excellent 2nd ads.) The new ad is a [...]

Pro-abort suspicious over Obama’s Notre Dame “common ground” speech

by Carder Not all pro-choicers are embracing President Obama’s call for “common ground.” The Rev. Dr. Carlton Veazey, president of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, laments in RH Reality Check whether common ground is merely code for appeasement: My experience of 13 years in the pro-choice movement is that “common ground” has become another [...]

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I think that people will look at that and think that’s a step too far…. I find it really abhorrent to see the sort of campaign that’s been raised now on a really sensitive issue.

I’m concerned to see young kids involved in a debate like this.

There was a good point made in some of the commentary that I saw, that these young people are at an age that they haven’t actually lived long in the life to experience the competing issues that adults have to confront in their lifetime.

~ Australian Premier Lara Giddings (pictured above right; click to enlarge), commenting on silent protests at the Tasmanian Parliament involving “more than 200 people… [including] young children – some in school uniform… rall[ying] against proposed changes to the state’s laws to allow abortions up to 24 weeks into a pregnancy,” as quoted by ABC News, April 10

Video at link.

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