(Prolifer)ations 5-27-09
by Kelli
Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs…
No Apologies. In her article, she urges pro-life women to make themselves heard and to not allow one type of “feminist” to speak for all women…
People must understand that respect for the unborn does not preclude respect for women. Equality exists by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings; it is not created by making some people more powerful and some people less.
Women are not made less equal by respecting the rights of others. If anything, women are diminished by the notion that the most important power they have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy is to kill their unborn child. It suggests that it is necessary to excuse women from killing because they are not strong enough or responsible enough to do otherwise, and must compensate for their biological weakness. Men don’t get that privilege, so why should women?
Once people see that respect for unborn children does not entail disrespect for women, they will be more open to considering equality for the unborn child.
And there will be a greater respect for women, too.
The filing is the latest round in a 4-year court battle between the state of SD and Planned Parenthood of MN and the Dakotas…
The organization objects to its doctors being forced to use phrases that PP considers ideological, such as: “That the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.”
State Health Department officials declined to comment on what sanctions PP might face, or if there is a deadline for the agency to comply with the health department’s demand…
In an e-mail sent to PP in Sioux Falls… the state warned the agency of possible sanctions if it fails to use a state-approved disclosure form, including being cited for “deficiencies” associated with the form.
“Any abortion facility violating any of the provisions of (state law) places its abortion facility license at risk for suspension or revocation,” Anthony Nelson, administrator of the state Office of Data, Statistics, and Vital Records, said in the e-mail.
But PP argues that a state law passed in 2005 does not require a scripted form, and that the agency is “free to choose the specific text of the disclosures they provide” so long as the state-required disclosures about certain biological facts are disclosed.
Apparently, PP would rather not inform clients of the scientific and biological fact that the unborn are indeed “living human being[s].” What a surprise.
Both sides await a final ruling.
You may say, but a lot of the cases I read about is young women teachers preying on young men. You’d be right that these are the most glamorized cases–and perplexing to some. That is, until you realize that those 20 to 30-year-old women are the first to come through the sexual education of the 90s.
Yes, I believe that we can accurately place a lot of the blame of our current sex saturated society and sexual-predators-as-teachers at the feet of the sexual education model of the 1990s. Up until that point in time, comprehensive sex education was not taught in schools. Yes, the 60’s brought free love, but it wasn’t something that was preached from the school’s pulpit….
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.
You might find it interesting that the free database GSS (General Social Survey) http://www.norc.org/GSS+Website/
only chose to survey whether people had been sexually harassed by either a work supervisor or a member of clergy. Most people have had a lot of contact with a work supervisor or teachers, so you would think that would have been an obvious question.
On the article from “Is This Modest?” – the teacher/student sexual epidemic –
Just wondering – are teens being taught sex ed classes by a teacher of the same gender? (Boys being taught by male teachers and girls being taught by female teachers?) I think this would be very important in keeping an atmosphere of modesty.
I really doubt they are separated for sex education today. The public school system could care less about preserving modesty.
Suzanne from Big Blue Wave said everything that I’ve been thinking- but with more eloquence of course. Hooray for her!
“The public school system could care less about preserving modesty.”
I think promoting modesty in dress would go a long way in changing the hyper- sexuality in our culture. It’s so simple. It wouldn’t change over night, but it’s possible, one family at a time! A few years ago, the fashions for pre-teens became so suggestive that mothers complained and the stores actually listened! We need to let the retailers know that we appreciate the more modest fashions they are selling when we see them in the stores and complain when we don’t.
Oh yeah, don’t get me started on finding appropriate clothing for Alison… we do it, but it isn’t easy (luckily she usually just wants to wear my clothes).
About 3 years ago we went to Walmart to get her a skirt and couldn’t find anything that would actually cover her backside, much less come to her knees (which is the minimum in our home). Figured it was my fault for going there and went to Target instead… which is where I lost it completely on a store manager when I informed him, loudly, that he needed to take down the sign that said “Misses/Juniors” and hang one that said, “Whores R Us”. Alison joined right in and said, “If I came home in any skirt you sell here my father would kill me!”
LOL, Elisabeth! Totally off topic but do you know Margaret Jane Wray?
I remember shopping at Target once and if I had been Britney Spears would have bought one of everything. I was a public school teacher at the time and had to leave the hot pink and orange street walkin clothes on the racks.
The soprano? Not personally.
Hot pink and orange? Ick!