UPDATE, 9:35a: Moderator Bethany spotted video of an interview with the Duggars yesterday by PETA’s new anti-human ad campaign: I don’t think the poster is at all cute; it’s offensive. PETA is basically saying the Duggar kids shouldn’t be here. And after learning of here and my December 18 Update I
In every society, there are two critical lists: acceptable conditions for having a baby, and acceptable conditions for having sex… It was only with the widespread acceptance of contraception in the middle of the 20th century, creating an upheaval in the public psyche in which sex and babies no longer went hand-in-hand, that the two [...]
by Chris Stirewalt on the left’s reaction to Focus on the Family’s Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow: News of the ad had a predictably Pavlovian effect on the Left. Since the spot combines many of the elements that the “educated class” most detests about America — frank expressions of Christianity, pro-life advocacy, home-schoolers, football [...]
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Confessions of an ex-feminist. On her journey there and back author Lorraine Murray had an abortion: Murray then movingly tells readers the story of the abortion she’d had years before. “No one,” she writes, “had prepared me for the flashbacks, which began about a year after the ‘procedure’…. I would relive the experience…. I started [...]
UPDATE, 1/29, 12:46p: James O’Keefe the explosive interview yesterday about James O’Keefe between MSNBC’s clearly biased reporter (as evidenced by his tweets) David Shuster and Big Journalism’s Andrew Breitbart. Breitbart shepherded O’Keefe on the release of his ACORN videos and hired him as well. Also at the link is Breitbart’s post, “How David Shuster lied [...]
It’s too bad that abortion rights “pioneer” Ruth Proskauer Smith, a founder of NARAL, WPIX: Emergency officials responded to A1 Medicine at 95-45 Roosevelt around 3:15p Monday. A woman, believed to be in her 30′s, was reportedly bleeding heavily and rushed to Elmhurst Hospital Center where she was later pronounced dead. Apparently the abortionist severed [...]
I previously blogged on Krista Gesaman’s egregiously false here and My first post, up today, is on the Newsweek flak. To update, on January 25 Gesaman posted a
by Sarah Palin slaps down NOW for their protestations of the Tebows’ Super Bowl ad: NOW is looking at the pro-life issue backwards. Women should be reminded that they are strong enough and smart enough to make decisions that allow for career and educational opportunities while still giving their babies a chance at life. In [...]
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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.
The Associated Press tells us that the “GOP-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill.” But don’t worry, Politico adds. It is “largely symbolic: The bill will be dead on arrival in the Senate.”
… The Democrats’ ill-fated gun restriction push was never a “symbolic effort” or “far-reaching,” was it? Coverage of the Newtown, Conn., shootings… was almost immediately turned into a debate over gun control. The Gosnell horror, when covered (which was sporadically), was sequestered from any broader discussion about morality or science or regulations or reform — or anything other than the crime itself.
… [T]he president claimed that 90 percent of Americans supported him… in favor of expanded background checks. What you may not have heard is that Gallup (and many others) consistently find that strong majorities of Americans oppose not only third-trimester abortions but second-trimester abortions, as well.
That is the reason, of course, that coverage tends to conflate all positions on abortion — throwing together those who believe that 22-week-old fetuses can feel pain and those who believe that a woman can avoid pregnancy while being raped if she prays hard enough — so they can focus on the all-important political implications (hint: terrible for Republicans) of a debate they’re already distorting.
~ David Harsanyi, Human Events, June 19
[Image of 20-week fetus by Science Photo Library via pregnancymomandbaby.com]
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