(Prolifer)ations 11-29-10
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
- ProLifeBlogs highlights another welcome announcement out of NJ: another NJ Planned Parenthood has closed due to Gov. Christie’s halt on taxpayer funding for organizations that support abortion.
- SuzyB reports Thai lawmakers are trying to end horrors like the discovery of 2000 aborted children at a Buddhist temple – by loosening abortion restrictions – “because the answer to death and destruction is more death and destruction?”
- Andy Moore of Star Studded Super Step grieved with the rest of New Zealand when 29 miners died in a mine disaster – but when he dared to compare the human toll to that of abortion, many attacked him as being heartless.
- ProWomanProLife highlights an opinion piece by George Jonas about the free speech issue occurring on Canadian college campuses. Jonas states:If a mob disrupted a pro-choice speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the protesters would be removed. If a mob disrupted a pro-life speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the speech would be canceled.
- Wesley J. Smith blogs about an assisted suicide case in Germany, where a man is suing over the government’s “refusal to grant his late wife authorization to acquire a lethal dose of medication enabling her to commit voluntary, assisted suicide.” She was paralyzed after a fall and wanted to die. When German authorities refused to allow it, she committed suicide in a Swiss clinic. This ruling is by the European Court of Human Rights is key.
- RealChoice continues to chronicle abortion deaths and includes a graph showing that prior to legalization of abortion – contrary to pro-abortion propaganda – 90% of criminal abortions were performed by doctors.
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.
Hey, where is EX-GOP?!?!?!?!! Isn’t he so very fond of telling us all how republicans don’t really care about stopping abortion, and don’t ever really act on their convictions, so why bother voting for them?! GO GOVERNOR CHRISTIE!!!!
A couple items in the (Prolifer)ations above stand out to me as being an unconquered battle ground for the prolife movement after many years of struggle.
Stopping funding to pro-abortion agencies such as Planned Parenthood.
The George Jonas opinion piece comparing the favorable treatment likely given to a pro-choice [pro-abortion in my terminology] speaker whose speech is disrupted and the callous treatment given to a pro-life speaker whose speech is disrupted seems ture not only on college campuses in Canada, but in general. The fact is that after many years of effort on different fronts the pro-life movement has still not gained mainstream respect, especially among the “elite” and secularized educated professions. But we must not cease our battle to win the cultural war at all levels.
That means spiritual, moral, political and intellectual.
So if Planned Parenthood shuts down, where will poor women, without health insurance and without Medicaid, go for non abortion gynecological care? Will the churches provide it for them?
Where do women go today when they have an ectopic pregnancy? Not PP, they don’t help women with ectopic pregnancy. Where do they go if they have cancer? Not PP, they don’t help women with cancer. Where do they go if they want to deliver healthy babies? Not to PP. who doesn’t deliver live babies.
So what are all these non-abortion health care items that PP provides? There are none. They are in the business of promoting their big cash cow: abortion.
However, most communities already have state-funded or county-funded healthcare for women and men. In fact, my community offers prenatal care and delivery options for women who have no money at all. CPC’s make referrals for care and some are even run by churches. So yes, DD, the churches have long been willing to help their communities. If you are hungry, there are three churches in my city serving breakfast in the morning. If a hungry woman goes to PP, what are they going to give her? A flavored condom?
So if Planned Parenthood shuts down, where will poor women, without health insurance and without Medicaid, go for non abortion gynecological care?
What the heck is PP doing for poor women who don’t want or need an abortion now but need non abortion gynecological care? Does PP only provide non abortion gynecological care for poor women if they sign a contract that they will let PP abort a fetus with them in the future?
I’m sure when abortion becomes illegal, compassionate centers will replace PP and take care of poor women’s gynecological care, minus killing their children.
Your attempts at arguing in favor of the killing mills are truly pathetic, DD.
I will tell you where they will go. To the county public health centers. That is where they used to go before abortion mills were operational.
The answer I gave often leads to the next logical anti-life question: What about the birth control that poor women need?
Contraception is voluntary. It is the voluntary use of a method or device that prevents the healthy reproductive organs from doing what they normally do. Since the sexual organs of both partners are healthy, then contraception falls into the ‘want’ not the ‘need’ category. The ‘need’ category is reserved for medicine such as insulin or other life-saving therapy.
If all abortion providers were defunded and all insurance companies that cover elective abortions stopped covering them and instead women paid for them themselves, then a ton of money (millions? billions?) could go to health care that people really need, like antibiotics, basic dental care, and the kind of care that often takes place in the emergency room but is not really emergency care. I imagine a better world for it.
“… another NJ Planned Parenthood has closed due to Gov. Christie’s halt on taxpayer funding for organizations that support abortion.”
HALLELUJAH!!! May her tribe increase!
“Thai lawmakers are trying to end horrors like the discovery of 2000 aborted children at a Buddhist temple – by loosening abortion restrictions – “because the answer to death and destruction is more death and destruction?”
The blind are leading the blind. Nothing good can result. I pray their eyes will be opened to the truth which will set them (and the little babies) free.
Jonas states:If a mob disrupted a pro-choice speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the protesters would be removed. If a mob disrupted a pro-life speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the speech would be canceled.
This honesty is refreshing! This shows clearly the blatant hypocrisy so often employed by political liberals, who are so intolerant they will not even allow a conservative to speak, but will boo them off the podium.
Seriously, though, where is Ex-GOP? I think this is a great opportunity to ask him what he thinks of this…
*cues crickets chirping*
DD asks a question that many people probably mistakingly wonder about. Because of all the favorable press given PP over the years a great many people actually think PP is this wonderful benevolent warm and fuzzy organization that has only the best of motives and intentions. Indeed, probably many PP employees and volunteers go there thinking that they are partaking in a great cause. Providing useful medical services is good work, but PP has this little problem of being the largest abortion provider in the country.
This is the mystery of evil…that so much evil is done in the world by people who think they are doing good. We see that reality all around us and throughout history.
I might add that during the health care debate many people were taken in by arguments born of the same general unawareness expressed by DD. Where do people (women in particular) go who are in need of medical attention? Surely we need to pass Obamacare so that these people are given care.
Just as there have been and continue to be places where women can and do go when a PP is not in their community or is shut down, so too there are numerous places that exist to help those in need. Most people are unaware that there are some 3700 taxpayer assisted community heath centers throughout the country that serve some 15 million people. These centers generally apply sliding scale charges for their services. But of course we were led to believe by Obamacare zealots that if we did not pass the legislation people would be without care which is simply not true. No, what we have presently is not perfect and that is why alternative proposals to Obamacare were put forward. Unfortunately they were ignored by the libs because the alternatives did not fit the utopian idea of a single payer system that Obamacare is headed towards.
One more thing. DD asks if churches will provide care for women who cannot get medical attention if PP shuts down. DD, you may want to look around and open your eyes to all of the thousands of things church organizations do on a daily basis to help people, including at times providing vouchers for medical services. Americans are a generous people.