(Prolifer)ations 4-5-11
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
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- ProWomanProLife highlights a story from the April 3rd Academy of Country Music awards show featuring “Music from the Heart.” See the song below as performed by Darius Rucker and a choir of young people with developmental disorders:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtkxjCkGPug[/youtube]
- Bryan Kemper shares his reasons for not avoiding the subject of his faith in Jesus Christ when he does pro-life work and gives pro-life speeches.
- Vital Signs reveals how the United Nations continues to undermine parental rights when it comes to abortion and contraception.
- Wesley J. Smith discusses mediating bioethics committees, and how they have morphed into the “death panels” who decide upon life or death care for patients.
- Secular ProLife takes apart the various labels and rhetoric used in the abortion debate.
- Mark Crutcher points out the use of euphemisms by pro-aborts to make abortion sound less harsh and ease consciences:The pro-life movement is not now, has never been, and will never be, opposed to pregnancy terminations. We are fully aware that all pregnancies terminate. When a woman is pregnant, the only question is whether her pregnancy will terminate with a live baby or a dead baby. And that is a biological fact our enemies will never be able to change….
The pro-life contention is that all pregnancies should terminate with living babies. Meanwhile, the pro-choice forces find it acceptable for their tiny corpses to rot in dumpsters or be eaten by rats in the sewer system.
This reminds me of a young girl I spoke to outside a Planned Parenthood who said, “I am not having an abortion. I wouldn’t do that. I made a mistake and I am having a pregnancy termination.”
Apr.05, 2011 4:30 pm |
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That quote from the girl outside the abortion clinic, *shakes head*…and yet pro-abortion people lobby against informed consent laws because they feel a woman couldn’t possibly be manipulated into abortion by misinformation! I have heard from so many people how they believed the outrageous lies told to them by their abortion couselor, sex ed speaker, pro-abortion friend, etc, etc, etc. Informed consent laws lower abortion, and there has been more than one sting that shows how little many abortion clinics actually follow them. Just think how many people who go running from an abortion clinic if they were actually informed of all the details of the procedure, side effects (immediate and long term), possible complications, and factual embryotic development! I believe very few women would choose abortion if they were actually informed!
I totally agree with you, Jespren. Whenever abortion numbers go down, there are always abortion advocates that find something wrong with it. Which proves of course that the only choice they tolerate is to abort.
Not me, Ninek. I would rather have pregnancies willingly continued or prevented than ended by abortion.
Jespren,
Amen and amen!! If I knew then what I know now I would have NEVER gone to the mill that day. NEVER!
The assumption from proaborts is that all women going into an abortion mill have informed consent. They do not.
I recently saw a photo of a pro-lifer who was outside of a clinic and holding a sign that said “You Can Still Change Your Mind”.
Gotta love it!
Why, Doug? Do you think abortion is a lesser choice for some reason? What reason would that be? I am sincere in asking.
Janet,
I do love it!!
Why, Doug? Do you think abortion is a lesser choice for some reason? What reason would that be? I am sincere in asking.
Mary Ann, do you have a guilty conscience? ; )
Just kidding – I’d never think you had some sort of “other” motive that wasn’t good for the message board, and I’ll answer anything. (Well, I suppose stuff like my credit card numbers, etc., aren’t included.)
I certainly see preventing a pregnancy as better than ending one via abortion. For the woman, there is some risk with abortion, however small, and there is cost, time spent, a “hassle” factor to varying degrees, etc. Better to prevent the pregnancy, IMO, than incur those.
So, if the pregnancy is going to be unwanted, if we are comparing abortion versus preventing the pregnancy in the first place, then yeah, I see abortion as a lesser choice.
I also think it’s better to be glad that one is pregnant, versus being unhappy about it. I know there is some sentiment that “pro-choicers love abortion,” but I’d rather see all pregnancies wanted than unwanted. Even for women who are glad overall, that they had an abortion, there may have been significant conflicts, and in no way am I saying it’s necessarily an easy choice.
Really, my bottom line is suffering, and over the years I’ve come to know many really good people on the pro-life side, many of them right here on Jill’s site. I cannot fault them for what they say, nor for what they believe. Were there no unwanted pregnancies, then their suffering/pain/mental anguish and unhappiness would be less, and that to me would be a good thing.