Life Links 1-24-12
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Here’s the Washington Post’s coverage of the March for Life 2012.
- A utility worker in Fort Wayne found the remains of an unborn child while cleaning a pump station screen. The age of the child has yet to be determined. The article states between 10 and 25 weeks.
- At the LTI blog, Jay Watts dismantles Unitarian Universalist minister Debra Haffner’s assertion-filled, argument-free piece attempting to make a religious case for legalized abortion.
What always gets me about pieces like Haffner’s is when they equate “respecting women’s moral agency” with believing that every decision a woman makes is morally right.
- The Salt Lake Tribune has a long, two-part profile article on embattled abortionist Nicola Riley (pictured left), who has been charged with murder for her role in late-term abortions in Maryland. The story shows how Riley’s financial troubles led her to inquire about aborting children on the east coast and led to her association with infamous abortionist Steven Brigham. The second part details the botched abortion which led to charges against Riley and Brigham and how Riley’s numerous lies about her past prison term caught up with her.
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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.
In the Washington Post coverage of the march, this phrase caught my eye:
“…the antiabortion programming at the rally this year or in the past was their first real exposure to the issue”
Programming??? Dang, as if somebody needs to be “programmed” to know that abortion is the killing of babies.
Upon seeing an aborted baby, even todlers ask: “Who broke the baby ? ”
From the Washington Post article:
“Such events reinforce recent Gallup polls that report more young people, especially those in the 18- to 34-year-old range, are identifying as antiabortion.”
Here we see political correctness causing journalism failure. Respondents to the Gallup poll identify themselves as “pro-life”, not antiabortion.
The Washington Times had the best report on the March for Life I have ever seen outside of blogs and Catholic media:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLEbw-cLuGA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Exactly, Lrning, and notice, too, how they minimize the pictures to make it appear as if there weren’t all that many people there.
Yep, the Washington Post article is dripping with pro-abortion bias!! Get me a roll of paper towels. Also, the photos: 4 out of 10 feature the counterprotesting, which was tiny compared to the number of pro-lifers.
It was awesome to see all the young folks!
Thanks for the tip, John L., I just checked out the other article on the Washington Times’ website.
I am so encouraged by the young people, and especially the young religious. If today you hear His voice, harden not your heart. :>)
If people hate babies so much they spend every Saturday making sure they get killed, they certainly need professional help.
It’s never to late to choose life.
CC, would you care to make a non-religion bashing, NON-inflammatory comment sometime in the near future that I can leave published?
Yeah, my local news had the tiniest blurb on the march. They showed one woman smiling holding a pro-life sign and that was that. They never showed all the people marching. Funny how that is.
Jill,
How ironic that the Journal Gazette reported:
“The fetus city utility workers found…could not have survived outside the womb, the Allen County Coroner’s Office said Tuesday.
The fetus is believed to have been about 14 or 15 weeks of gestation, which is non-viable…
‘There were no deformities or obvious signs of trauma,’ it said. ”
The most obvious trauma is that the babe was found outside of its mother…
To be fair, LS, I have heard of women going into a state of shock after having a natural miscarriage on the toilet and flushing the toilet out of panic. Makes no logical sense, but it happens. Obviously, the baby’s death is horrible, but I’m not going to jump to the abortion conclusion.
“antiabortion ideology”? Really, Washington Post? Would it have killed you to write Pro-Life even once?
Jill,
re: Haffner…
“The scriptural commitment to the most marginalized means that pregnancy, childbearing, and abortion should be safe for all women, just as a scriptural commitment to truth-telling means that women must have accurate information as they make their decisions.”
To group the words “pregnancy”, “childbearing”, and “abortion” as if they should go together (seeing that the first two have to do with the natural life-giving process and the last has to do with death, whether deliberate, accidental, or incidental as Kate mentioned above) is not “scriptural truth-telling”, at least not biblical. To insist upon “truth-telling” and present a lie just before that is to call “good” evil, and “evil” good…(see Isaiah 5:20-21).
Yeah, I had a friend who miscarried and flushed. She didn’t know what to do and was upset and so flushed. Later she said she regretted flushing her baby but man, at the time, when you’re bleeding and in shock and not sure what to do… I totally understand.
The Washington Post actually gave the march some good press a few months after last year’s march. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/metropolitan-jonah-goes-to-washington/2011/02/24/ABnZq3l_story.html
The article is mostly about an Orthodox bishop, Metropolitan Jonah, who’s encouraging activism in his church, which includes his participation in the March for Life in Washington. The overall approach of the article is positive towards his pro-life work.
Fortunately, he managed to ride out the trouble spot that the article talks about, and even gave the Invocation at this year’s March.
By the way, I’ve been to the march several times, and have never seen a single counterprotester anywhere! How does the media even find them, anyway?!
“..How does the media even find them, anyway?!”
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Clarice,
It’s a needle in a very large haystack kind of thing….about 30 pro-aborts versus 300,000+ pro-lifers…
Don’t really care if MSM covers it or not….as long as WE know what’s happening and we know the pro-life bae is growing each year.
The truth is the pro-aborts are getting old and dying, taking their Culture of Death mentality with them….and the pro-lifers are continuing to have sons and daughters to continue the good fight.
*just look at the Dugger family, it’s already a 19 to 0 fight *LOL*…you get my point.
Don’t really care if MSM covers it or not….as long as WE know what’s happening and we know the pro-life bae is growing each year.
The truth is the pro-aborts are getting old and dying, taking their Culture of Death mentality with them….and the pro-lifers are continuing to have sons and daughters to continue the good fight.
I agree. I don’t need the MSM to validate the March or anything else in my life, thank you.
My daughter and her fiance are prolife and she wants four children. And my son — the same one who once asked me for money to abort his girlfriend’s pregnancy — said he wants to adopt someday. Hooray!