(Prolifer)ations 7-23-09
by intern Anne Marie D.
Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs…
The author writes that after being diagnosed with cervical cancer, she was advised by her physician to use artificial contraception until her cervix grew back. Instead, the author and her husband chose to practice NFP, and report positive results from the experience:
For 3 years we successfully prevented conception without the use of any artificial birth control and while continuing an active conjugal relationship. Once given the “all clear” to conceive, we had three more children, one after the other, and received them with joy.
It is because of my personal experience with NFP that the arguments of feminists that they should be able to ask a doctor to kill their own unborn children in order to have “control” over their own bodies fall on deaf ears.
Among several particularly worrisome issues is that of surrogacy tourism, or “wombs for rent,” which are often contracted through Indian hospitals. Surrogates live in dormitories or “baby farms” and are paid $5-7k each, a relatively low cost. This is extremely exploitative to the concept of family, and turns the physiological process into a commodity.
Yesterday Katie Couric asked Obama the question that Catholics and other Americans are very worried about:
Katie Couric: Do you favor a government option that would cover abortions?
President Obama: What I think is important, at this stage, is not trying to micromanage what benefits are covered. Because I think we’re still trying to get a framework. And my main focus is making sure that people have the options of high quality care at the lowest possible price.
As you know, I’m pro choice. But I think we also have a tradition of, in this town, historically, of not financing abortions as part of government funded health care.
Rather than wade into that issue at this point, I think that it’s appropriate for us to figure out how to just deliver on the cost savings, and not get distracted by the abortion debate at this station….
… [H]ow are we to take seriously Obama’s claim that he wants to reduce the number of abortions in America when his attitude about the single-greatest expansion of abortion access in our nation’s history is … “let’s not get distracted”?!
… [A]nd now that I think about it… if Obama doesn’t want abortion to “distract” us, why not simply rule out covering them with taxpayer dollars? That strikes me as a very simple fix.
[Image and photo attributions: billings-centre.ab.ca; americanpapist.com]
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.
no, of course we shouldn’t ever get distracted by the fact that 1.5 million Americans are dying each year by abortion
we shouldn’t let the deaths of 4000 babies each day ruin the “good life” we have.
of course not.
This man reflects a part of society that is truly evil and satanic.
NFP makes sense! celebrate your fertility instead of treating it like a disease with pills! I was using birth control pills when I conceived my first child…I did not know it could cause an abortion! Thank God it didn’t hurt my son and he is a rambunctious two year old now!
“How are we to take seriously Obama’s claim that he wants to reduce the number of abortions in America? ”
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Simple answer, we Don’t.
He was in bed with PP during the elections and now it’s time to pay the piper…
Let’s not get distracted by the foisting of abortion on the world, the taxpayer funding of it and this all out effort to “reduce” the number of abortions by promoting it.
“.. [A]nd now that I think about it… if Obama doesn’t want abortion to “distract” us, why not simply rule out covering them with taxpayer dollars? That strikes me as a very simple fix.”
Too simple. Obama wants to slip it in by “stealth” means…. in other words, pretend not to want to fight for it in public, but privately insist that it be included… under threat of veto.
If anyone thinks it’s odd there’s been little if no talk of FOCA in the past few months, think again. If Obama care passes, FOCA will be included in it. There is no way the pro-aborts will let this go through without abortion being included.
I fear we’re on the road to forced abortion. All that’s needed is to add (probably a bit down the line) mandatory amniocentesis to Obama care. Down syndrome baby? Abort. Cystic fibrosis baby? Abort.
President Obama said: “As you know, I’m pro choice. But I think we also have a tradition of, in this town, historically, of not financing abortions as part of government funded health care.”
What the President fails to mention – as of July 9, and July 13, respectively, the Senate and House both approved tax-payer paid abortions in his town, Washington, DC.
From Baptist Press News –
“The House-approved bill maintains the ban on federal funding of abortions in D.C., permitting only local money to be used. Pro-lifers say, however, the ban is meaningless because federal and local funds are combined for the district, and the D.C. government can specify as local the money used to underwrite abortions.”
In the Senate, the Appropriations Committee voted 15-13 July 9 against an amendment by Sen. Sam Brownback, R.-Kan., that would have restored the ban on abortion funding for D.C.
History, schmistory.
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“Rather than wade into that issue at this point….”
WADE? Is that a play on Roe v. Wade? I say we need to dive right in.
“I fear we’re on the road to forced abortion. All that’s needed is to add (probably a bit down the line) mandatory amniocentesis to Obama care. Down syndrome baby? Abort. Cystic fibrosis baby? Abort.”
Posted by: Luana at July 23, 2009 2:36 PM
Contesting the legality of these requirements will tie up the court system for decades. I bet lawyers are lovin’ it.
“This man reflects a part of society that is truly evil and satanic.”
“Celebrate your fertility instead of treating it like a disease with pills!”
“I fear we’re on the road to forced abortion.”
There are some truly misinformed and/or disturbed people who read this blog.
Let’s not get distracted by the foisting of abortion on the world, the taxpayer funding of it and this all out effort to “reduce” the number of abortions by promoting it.
Posted by: carla Author Profile Page at July 23, 2009 1:47 PM
yes this does seem to be the new strategy of the proaborts.
Even Obama’s pr people have milked his meeting with the Pope for all it’s worth.
The Pope never said he was interested in “reducing” the number of abortions.
There is only one position the Pope has on abortions and that is that there should be none.
Only a “disturbed” person would find Obama’s abortion position reasonable, Dhalgren.
Abortion Funding in Canada:
http://www.albertaprolife.com/resources/funding.html
Posted by: Dhalgren at July 23, 2009 2:44 PM
“There are some truly misinformed and/or disturbed people who read this blog.”
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Dhalgren,
Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
yor bro ken
Dhalgren,
The man that the ‘smart’ one appointed as science and technology czar stated that there should be an internatinal ‘regime’ established to control population and this international body should have the power to force and/or prohibit reproduction.
This ‘genius’ went on to say that nothing in the United States Constitution would prohibit the U.S. government from doing the same thing.
Dhalgren do you agree with sentiment?
Would the United States Constitution permit the federal government from going one step further than China’s ‘one child’ policy by not only prohibiting women from conceiving additional children, but if their enlightened view there were not enough children being birthed they could force women to be baby hatcheries?
Keep listening for the ‘pop’. Hopefully you will hear the liberating sound before it’s too late for you and yours.
yor bro ken
Dhalgren,
Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
yor bro ken
Posted by: kbhvac at July 23, 2009 4:23 PM
ken, my dad would always say that to any one of us kids attempting to use “we” rather than “I” when speaking generally.
This is the equivalent of a classroom aborted every day in Alberta – 29 abortions, at a minimum cost of $14,500 each and every day.
From RSD’s link. A good explanation why there are schools closing everywhere. And immigration simply does not make up for these missing/dead children.
Right now 90% of Down syndrome babies who are diagnosed via amniocentesis are aborted. While abortion may not become “forced” under Obama care, a bit more persuasion may convince more of the 1 in 10 who decide to carry the baby to term to instead abort. No doubt any other anomalies will be presented to be so awful that the parents will be told they’re doing the child a favor by aborting.
This is the equivalent of a classroom aborted every day in Alberta – 29 abortions, at a minimum cost of $14,500 each and every day.
From RSD’s link. A good explanation why there are schools closing everywhere. And immigration simply does not make up for these missing/dead children.
Posted by: angel at July 23, 2009 8:07 PM
Last Friday p.m. I took my younger dtr to Chuck E. Cheese and at one point they invited the children to follow Mr. Cheese to get more tickets. At the end of their little parade they gathered to sing and collect tickets and I did a quick count of the enraptured, smiling faces: 20, the same number we see aborted at PP on most Sat. mornings. It was like a physical blow to see this group, and know that within a matter of hours, that many little smiling faces and singing voices would never be seen or heard (here on Earth, at least).
“Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.” Matthew 18:10