Jivin J’s Life Links 6-7-11
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Planned Parenthood of Indiana says it will close 7 clinics of its 28 clinics and lay off 24 employees if it doesn’t get a federal injunction to allow it to receive Medicaid funds.
- Ohio legislators are considering a proposal to ban abortions at publicly funded hospitals and clinics.
- Ross Douthat writes about Jack Kevorkian’s victims:
This isn’t a hypothetical slippery slope. Jack Kevorkian spent his career putting this dark, expansive logic into practice. He didn’t just provide death to the dying; he helped anyone whose suffering seemed sufficient to warrant his deadly assistance. When The Detroit Free Press investigated his “practice” in 1997, it found that 60% of those he assisted weren’t actually terminally ill. In several cases, autopsies revealed “no anatomical evidence of disease.”
This record was ignored or glossed over by his admirers. (So were the roots of his interest in euthanasia: Kevorkian was obsessed with human experimentation, and pined for a day when both assisted suicides and executions could be accompanied by vivisection.)
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.
What in the world? Planned Parenthood of Indiana’s annual fundraiser is called “Gathering of Goddesses and Gods”.
Bewitched, anyone? Can’t they just wiggle their noses and make piles of money appear?
“Planned Parenthood of Indiana says it will close 7 clinics of its 28 clinics and lay off 24 employees if it doesn’t get a federal injunction to allow it to receive Medicaid funds.”
Normally, I’d ask if I could have that in writing, but … yeah.
Glad we could help, PP!
Wow, gathering of Goddesses and Gods? Interesting.
What part of federally protected right to access abortion services do they not understand?
This is the kind of stuff that will lose the 2012 presidential race for the republicans. Attacking women’s rights, attacking union rights, and spending more time on social issues instead of addressing the real problems this country faces. Abortion and gay marriage are not going to fix our economy or get us out of three wars so we can stop borrowing money from China is it?
And for a different example of news, we have:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/catholic-hospital-bars-contraception-advice-20110605-1fnj3.html
As someone said: In other words, “The people who are experts in science and ethics says our plan is crazy… but we don’t care because we’re Catholics and we think we know better.”
Hm. Jill, I have to thank you for installing the “Like” buttons; they have the incidental benefit of getting something of a more accurate “troll count”, when looking at the posts of our favourite knobby-skinned friends…
(*sigh*) Think, then post. Suppress knee-jerk, then speak. Put down flame-thrower, then ask. Prove; don’t just gainsay. Assert; don’t crow or froth. It’s really not all that difficult.
so because they do not get medicaid funds, they have to close? What happened to all those supporters who came forward with all that cash to protect their cherished causes?
I thought PP was all about women’s health and comprehensive sex education – and that abortion was only 3% of their business. If that is so – why ‘have’ to shut down those clinics?
Also Biggz – I would bet that there are other abortion-providers in the state of Indiana – and they are open for business. They may not be Planned Parenthood-affiliated, but they provide access to those services.
Biggz, you are correct in that neither abortion nor homosexual “marriage” are the real problem here. Rather, they are some of its most visible and horrendous symptoms.
No, the real problem is (to immensely simplify it) the common insistence on personal happiness at the expense of the very lives of others. The insistence on deciding morality by popular demand without a true foundation, employing intentionally broad and fundamentally flawed terminology to reflect the passing whims of the latest generations as if they were in any way innovative.
There is nothing new here, Biggz, and likewise with the inevitable failure of the proposed solutions.
When a society is so culturally ill as to demand the deaths of many of its children to satisfy the dreams of others, how can the economy, let alone the nation itself, be expected to recover?
No, just as the bleeding in a patient must be stopped before nutrition levels are even considered, we must first address this humanitarian atrocity and social sickness before any hope for true and lasting economic recovery and growth can take root.
Maestro – So you ARE saying that outlawing abortion will fix the economy? Didn’t the great depression happen while abortion was still outlawed? Just checking. I am sure in your little world this is the solution to all the world ills but the rest of us know it is just smoke and mirrors…
joyfromillinois – No if they lose that funding they will have to lay off employees. Like I have said none of that federal money goes to pay for abortions and yes it is only 3-5% of what PP does. Those federal funds pay for disease prevention and treatment, education, cancer screenings, pap tests, vasectomies, and birth control. You are quite right that any 100% abortion clinic will be unaffected by this funding cut. However as abortion is a very small part of what PP does it will affect them greatly. Access to abortion will be a longer drive but it will still be available so the intent behind this funding cut will not be realized and the only thing that will come from it is more sick low income people. If you do not care about the poor then there is no problem cutting funds from them.
But…but…Paladin…then I’d NEVER be able to post! ;_;
No, Biggz, I did not say that.
I said quite clearly that abortion is a symptom and not the real problem, and then I very briefly outlined the actual problem immediately afterwards.
The problem is the attitude upon which abortion (among other social ills) depends and through which it thrives.
At the end, I pointed out that only once this problem is solved can we have much hope for economic recovery. I did not say that everything would suddenly be all fine and dandy.
Side note: this is one of the main reasons I became involved in the pro-life movement in the first place. Having had a very small glimpse of the poverty and suffering of the people in third world nations, I naturally wondered why, with our resources, we weren’t doing more to help them.
Once I learned about abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and everything either supporting them or supported by them, the reason became clear; our society was increasingly unwilling to care for its most vulnerable members, let alone a people we’d never see.
I don’t have the resources to help with both struggles so I chose this one, knowing that helping to open the eyes of our own nation to the reality of its destructive ways could solve both problems at once.
As the pro-life movement has grown and will inevitably continue to do so, I am filled with hope that one day, there will no longer be an “us” here and a “them” there, a blind eye to the murder of children and destruction of their mothers, or a deaf ear to the pleas of the poor of the world. As His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI pointed out, it is a greater sense of global solidarity that is needed, not a new economic plan based on the crumbling foundations of self-gratification.
Anyway, that’s it in a nutshell.