(Prolifer)ations 4-1-11
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
As always, we welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.
- Timmerie’s Blog, our newest addition, gives a behind the scenes testimony from an undercover student investigator who spent a month in TX with Operation Rescue, visiting abortion facilities as a potential client. Her account gives a more personal look at the horrors inside abortion mills.
- Stand for Life hosts the video of a Life Dynamics interview with a sidewalk counselor with an incredible idea: become the client of an abortion clinic, and counsel the other waiting patients from inside the clinic. The counselor ignores the “no children” signs, taking her baby in and allowing the women to pass her around and hold her. She has seen at 40+ women change their minds in 2 months.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtXIc1kq3Us[/youtube]
- Secular Pro Life has a post on Dr. Michael New’s latest study showing the effectiveness of state legislation on saving lives, proving that there is a valuable place for so-called “incremental” legislation in the pro-life movement.
- John Smeaton links to the story of Kevin Weller, who has had “locked-in syndrome” for the past 21 years. Weller communicates by blinking, spelling words on an alphabet board. He says he is happy and has no desire to give up on life. He and his wife of 35 years have 3 children and 7 grandchildren.
- Pro Life Wisconsin shares a couple of interesting tidbits: The Milwaukee “Walk for Choice” attracted – get this – 2 walkers. Also in Milwaukee, Rep. Gwen “Better dead than Ramen” Moore (D–WI) spoke at Planned Parenthood’s peptobus rally. Pro-lifers brought Ramen noodles to the event to donate to local food banks.
- Live Action calls on Sen. Barbara Boxer (D–CA) of “it’s not a baby until the parents decide to take it home” fame to retract her claim that PP does mammograms.
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Pro-lifers brought Ramen noodles to the event to donate to local food banks.
What a fantastic idea! Kudos, pro-life Wisconsinites.
Oh wow, Ramen noodles. That sure will help a single mother (or a poor married couple) with a couple of kids and one more “saved” baby. But if the lifers really wanted to show how committed they are, they would provide the amount of money that the taxpayer pays for “welfare” for this mom as well as the equivalent amount of foodstamps and medicaid for the same amount of time that the state allows for “welfare.” Methinks that’s a lot more than Ramen noodels for poor women who, if the lifers got their way, wouldn’t even have access to fere contraception. “The rich get rich and the poor get babies. Ain’t we got fun!!”
And BTW, “Forbes,” (hardly liberal) showed that Cecile Richard was talking about the House attempt to repeal health care reform when she referenced mammograms – but because of the editing of the tape (de rigeur for sweet lil Lila) it appeared that she was referencing Planned Parenthood – which does provide referrals for mammograms.
http://blogs.forbes.com/jeffbercovici/2011/03/31/anti-abortion-sting-video-fools-washington-post-no-one-else/
CC, it’s because Rep Moore said children are better off dead by abortion than poor eating Ramen. Maybe she’s a distant relative of Robert Berger?
Lila Rose edits the Joy Behar show? Wow, she really does have a lot on her plate. Here’s a longer clip upped by one of the Dead Babies R Us crowd (4:09 is the mammogram claim). CC, maybe call the show’s producers and ask why, if they were talking about the health care, it says stripping PP of funding across the bottom of the screen? Bonus: more incoherence from Rep Moore. Cecile Richards feels her “empire”, as she calls it, slipping from her: No woman needs an abortion.
Ah, CC is really pro life and anti choice but doesn’t know it yet. It won’t hit her now, but soon she will be aware that she is changing.
ssh lucinda, you’ll put CC on guard and it’ll take longer for her to succumb.
Maybe you and mar should put your heads together.
The stand for life video is awesome. I’ve had a similar idea for some time. Because of a difficult pregnancy, I wasn’t able to pray outside local clinics.it’s been a while since they’ve seen my face. Now I have a one month old little Dominic, and I’m going to do something like this. I think my local prolife leaders can help with this.
Imagine if prolife women with new babies did this on a regular basis. Rachel said she saw about forty women leave the clinics after talking with her and holding her baby in two and a half months. She’s allowed to give more info
inside the clinic than outside.
Awww, Mary Ann…you should post a pic of little Dominic for us! ;)
CC-
Don’t you get it?
Pro-lifers DO take care of struggling women and families, all the time.
Not because we have to, or because we follow your suggestion that if we help someone not be murdered, we’re then responsible for that person’s wellbeing for the rest of their lives.
We care for women and families because WE WANT TO. We LOVE to HELP! We GIVE freely of our time, our energies and our resources because we are motivated by LOVE.
To argue that we MUST help misses the point. We have no more ongoing obligation to the baby we save from abortion than a firefighter has to the child s/he saves from a burning building.
AND YET…we LOVE to help women, families, babies. We volunteer, donate, sponsor, adopt and foster. We open our homes, share our possessions, offer our time and talents. We enter into professions that serve women and families, and we support groups, some specifically pro-life and others not, that help women, children and families.
We believe women CAN, WILL and DO raise families while living whole, happy lives and we HELP them do it!
We eliminate problems, not people. There is no blood on our hands.
LOVE WINS. Every.single.time.
Abortion is no substitute for LOVE.
There is freedom and peace in LOVE, like you’ve never known.
LOVE is calling you CC… your life will truly begin when you let LOVE change you from the inside out. I’m glad you’re here, because LOVE is contagious. I hope you catch it soon.
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BTW- my kids are big fans of ramen noodles- they’d eat them three times a day if I let them. I feed them balanced, nutritious meals for only a few cents more instead. :o)
I can feed a family of 4 for $20 a week, at least until those teenage years. That’s less than 3 hours of minimum wage work in my current state. It might not be the most exciting fare, but it will keep you healthy. I grew up poor, at time extremely poor, I always felt sad for the rich kids, they missed so much in life! Their priorities were always so messed up. I’d rather be poor, living on barely stew, eggs, and whatever bit of meat is on sale that week, and safe in a loving family than eating at four star resturants every day and thinking that such things are important. Even though we are not currently extremely poor I still feel uncomfortable buying clothes not on the 70% off racks!
Jespren: I can feed a family of 4 for $20 a week, at least until those teenage years.
And then it takes like $1000 a week for each kid….
Okay, just kidding, but I remember being a teenager, along with 3 brothers and a sister.
I would take out a box of cereal, unopened, one pound…. On the back it would give information about the nutrition and calories in “one serving,” and lo and behold – it claimed that the box contained “16 servings.”
Heh heh heh, yeah right…. I had a fair-sized bowl to eat cereal out of, and that dang box only had one serving in it….
I almost fell off my bed laughing, because I was eating cup ramen just as I was reading this! >.<
Also, Jespren, how exactly does one feed a family of 4 with $20/week?
@ Amanda: here is a common shopping list and meals, this would vary some, and you have to buy cheap no-brand discount stuff to get these prices, and then you buy things that go on sale to round it out.
1 dozen eggs: $1.50
1 gallon milk: $3
Cereal (no brand): $1.50 ($3 bag lasts 2 week)
1 loaf bread: $1
1 package hotdogs (8): $1
1lb lunch meat: $2
1 head lettuce: $1
3 boxes mac & cheese: $1 (buy bulk)
3lbs cheap roast: $5
2lbs potatos: $1
1/2lb brown rice: $.50
1/2lb barley: $.50
1/2 lb lentils: $.50
1lb bananas: $.50
$1 apples or other cheap fruit.
Breakfast: eggs or cereal, banana or other fruit
Lunch: sandwich or mac & cheese with hotdog
Dinner: stew with meat, brown rice, barley, potatoes, and lentlis or mac & cheese with hotdogs.
You can buy rice, barley, and lentils in bulk and get it even cheaper, you could add carrots, mushrooms, or celery, all very cheap, and vary the fruits. You can buy chicken for less than $1 a lb to balance out cheap beef, or sometimes pork. Anyway, it’s totally doable IF you cook from scratch, buy in bulk and on sale, and are willing to eat pretty much the same things. I made a beef or chicken stew with lots of good grains every week and that’s what we ate for dinner. Thankfully, we are no longer this poor and we can afford to buy a bit more. Also, if you have small kids you can get WIC and you get milk, cereal, fruit, vegetables, rice, peanut butter, cheese, and juice, all you really have to buy is meat (we did that for a time too).