New campaign to pass Ohio Heartbeat Bill will spotlight victims of abortion
Today Created Equal announced a new video and billboard campaign that will focus on the victims of abortion.
Ohio children like these are losing their lives every day as the Republican-controlled state Senate dithers on HB125, the “Heartbeat Bill,” which would ban abortions when a baby’s heartbeat is detectable on ultrasound, as early as six weeks. Senate Leader Tom Neihaus suspended hearings in December. The House passed the Heartbeat bill back in June. Here’s the video…
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/35928068[/vimeo]
In addition truth trucks will drive in the districts of squishy senators – those who say they are pro-life but are either on the fence or opposing the Heartbeat Bill….
Because people who know better fail to grasp the urgency, they’re going to see the urgency.
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.
Is Ohio passing universal health coverage as well? Who pays for the ultrasounds?
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2010/01/22/poverty-soars-in-ohio.html
Here are the actual faces and lives of people in Ohio who live in abject poverty, and whom PLers would like to ensure are having as many babies as possible that they can’t afford. Most of them already have small children. With no access to birth control, NONE of these families have any hope of getting out of their situations.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38382773/ns/dateline_nbc-america_now/t/friends-neighbors/#.TyitIYFhBKo
Born in Indiana, here, but have lived in Ohio most of my life.
What can I say? Politicians are idiots? ;)
law
The only thing that doesn’t have hope is your faulty logic. Anyone who is alive has hope. So the good news is while you ,because you are alive, have hope your logic doesn’t. Having being raised economically disadvantaged I can never remember a time when I was devoid of hope. I was the baby though maybe this condition you speak of just happens to those whose lifes’ outcomes are determined by the more enlightened such as yourself.
Myrtle: The only thing that doesn’t have hope is your faulty logic.
Myrtle, there’s a question as to when the unborn become “someone” in that respect. As to when it applies, to when it matters.
Even aside from that – I’ve seen politicians, ad infinitum, play up certain issues while selling us *all* down the river.
My opinion – sure, we can argue abortion day and night; while things that in the end have much greater import to us are occurring. And sure – I realize that you may disagree with me, there. I just see abortion as such a political “football” while the prevailing mega-trends (that I see as quite bad for almost all Americans) are enbraced, or not resisted, by our elected politicians.
Myrtle: If you can watch the video of the people who rely on Friends and Neighbors and think that the solution to those people’s problems is a lack of birth control and MORE children they can’t afford to take care of (and if you had watched the videos, which I know you didn’t, you would see that the cycle of poverty has caused some of those children to have medical problems such as diabetes and many of the adults are also disabled) then you you are the one who is impervious to logic. Povery causes suffering, medical problems, and early death. You may have grown up economically disadvantaged, and you are not the only one, but the solution to poverty is not to increase the factors that cause it. More humans living in poverty and squalor is NOT better than fewer humans living longer and having a higher quality of life.
This is not caveman times anymore.
Killing off poor people is also NOT the solution to poverty. There is plenty of “access” to BC in this country no matter how broke you are. If nothing else, there are plenty of free condoms floating around and the health departments offer BC on a sliding scale (in other words, if you’re so broke you can’t pay anything at all then free).
Is this rights? As long as the clinician doesn’t hear the heartbeat then it’s okay to tear the baby’s arms off?
Cranky Catholic, agreed. I’m wondering what would stop an abortionist from lying and saying there’s no heartbeat to get around this.
It’s a step in the right direction, though.
Waiting for the flood of comments from pro-aborts and pro-lifers alike complaining about how vulgar these pictures are.
When I look at them I am not disgusted but SAD – so so sad for the loss of these beautiful babies :(
And I think these cards need to be hand delivered to the government. They are very bold and to the point.
“With no access to birth control, NONE of these families have any hope of getting out of their situations.”
Faulty premise #1: Birth control is the only way to avoid having children.
“More humans living in poverty and squalor is NOT better than fewer humans living longer and having a higher quality of life.”
Faulty premise #2: I am capable of measuring another’s quality of life.
On population and poverty:
http://youtu.be/KUY4ztwIVfA
“My opinion – sure, we can argue abortion day and night; while things that in the end have much greater import to us are occurring”
Doug, I appreciate your civility in the discourse. I feel compelled to point out, though, that your use of the words “to us” is disturbing. Abortion is extremely relevant to the unborn, and apparently you do not include the unborn in your concept of “us.” In a civilized society people generally fight for their own rights as well as for those who have no voice. Otherwise, minorities are subjected to narcissistic majority bullying.
Eric, I agree! I find saving the lives of the unborn and the ill and the needy to be extremely important and relevant!
Absolutely, Eric. It is my line in the sand. Protection of the law for all humans–if you don’t have that, any understanding of law or civil rights is meaningless.
How can a human heartbeat not mean something?
law – what exactly does the Heartbeat Bill have to do with birth control? Unless, of course, you mean to say that birth control is in fact used primarily as birth control.
sorry for the typo..
law… Unless of course you mean to say that abortion is in fact used primarily as borth control.