(Prolifer)ations 8-19-11
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Secular ProLife writes an insightful post on the apparent “cognitive dissonance” suffered by pro-choicers when it comes to the selective reduction (abortion) of one or more children in a multiples pregnancy.
- ProWomanProLife’s Jennifer Derwey shares the thoughts of former Planned Parenthood director Norman Fleishman, who believes overpopulation is the scourge of the earth. He applauds the Obama administration’s decision to mandate free birth control, even voicing approval of China’s one-child policy, predicting doom for the US if we do less – disregarding the demographic winter currently suffered by many countries. Derwey states:As much as I dislike hearing that women ought to have children for the sake of their country, I also dislike hearing that women ought not have children for the sake of their country. Both statements treat women as commodities, and both are false claims.
- Pro-Life Action League tells the heartwarming and sad story of 17-month-old Kameron and Kaydon Hayes (pictured left), conjoined twins who passed away this month. Doctors recommended abortion to mother Brianna Manns, but she refused, saying, “They are my babies. I had the feelings that any mother would have…. I wanted my children to experience life to the fullest, to whatever extent that it might be.”
Some say the price is too high for the family and for society, but how much do we value life and who decides which lives are expendable?
- Suzy B posts about Kenneth Cole’s “shameless” use of social media to push his views on abortion and sell his clothes at the same time.
- LaShawn Barber reviews Dawn Eden’s book, The Thrill of the Chaste, in which Eden explains how “our casual sex culture encourages singles to view one another as commodities.” Eden also shares her live-and-learn experiences in the book, admitting, “[T]he same armor that enabled me to tolerate casual sex made me less attractive to the kind of man I most desired.”
- Stand for Life compiles a series of 13 unedited 911 calls from 2 New Mexico abortion clinics over a 30 month period. What is most striking is the flippant, careless demeanor of the workers requesting emergency assistance:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMzo_RfRTmw[/youtube]
- ProLife NZ describes the history of the Hippocratic oath and how it has changed over time. Interestingly, this ethical code came into common use in the US following WWII when the brutality of the Nazi regime’s “applied biology” – forced sterilization and euthanasia – were exposed for the world to see.
- Timmerie’s blog proves the dog days of summer aren’t keeping pro-life youth indoors. Check out a pro-life flash mob performed at Griffith Park in Hollywood and at Santa Monica Pier:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwjzg1EHNQw[/youtube]
Aug.19, 2011 3:00 pm |
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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.
Regarding using overpopulation as an argument, people really need to get their facts straight. I’ve seen this argument used a number of times and it is getting quite annoying. Simply put, there is no evidence whatsoever to support that we have an “overpopulation” problem. In fact, the evidence is surprisingly the opposite in a number of countries. See the link for a nice overview of this myth.
Using this argument, people have described a sort of “world starvation” scenario occurring as early as 1890… which obviously did not happen. A recent champion of this myth has been Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb), who had his argument famously debunked by Julian Simon in the Simon-Ehrlich Wager. Click links for more info if your are interested.
To see this used as an argument by Norman Fleishman as a reason why we should allow abortion is deplorable and based on bad science (no science?).
“Is she pregnant?”
“She was. Not anymore.”
I think I might be sick. I know for a fact I’m about to cry.
Kelsey’s article at Secular Prolife articulates everything that I feel like the Pro-life movement has been trying to convey for decades… the baby that’s aborted is just as precious as the one that’s not.
Those twins break my heart. How could anyone say those kids didn’t deserve to live life, just look at them! RIP.
Exactly Jack. The mother, family, doctors, nurses, and other caregivers surely found joy and empathy and love and learned many things through the lives of those boys. How can we possibly put a price on that? The lives they touched and enriched are forever changed by these boys simply existing. Their contribution to society is huge.
And under Obamacare rationing the death panel would use a ‘productivity equation’ that would deem children like 17-month-old Kameron and Kaydon Hayes to be “unwanted pregnancies” cause it is too costly to society to let them live.
When I see those twins, I see beauty.
I don’t think about wasted tax dollars. RIP, little ones <3