(Prolifer)ations 4-24-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Fletcher Armstrong responds to a recent article by Erin McCann opposing a Genocide Awareness Project display:
Ms. McCann’s piece actually illustrates some of the very points we make with our GAP display….She notes that, “Isn’t it interesting how the male can do whatever he pleases, but the female must live with the consequence? Only the female is left with the decision between ‘right and wrong.’” Sadly true. Reminds me of something Mark Crutcher often says, “Abortion is something done by men, to women, for the benefit of men.” So many males — I cannot use the term “men” to describe such people — want sex without responsibility….
But when cancer-causing birth-control hormones are passed out, who gets to ingest those? When the worst symptoms of STDs show up, who bears that burden? When somebody gets pregnant, which one is it? It’s always the woman.
His response is often to threaten abandonment. It can be an overt threat or a thinly veiled one, such as, “It’s not my decision, it’s yours … Whatever you want to do.” In other words, “The decision… and especially the guilt that goes with it… are yours alone; I’m going to go hide somewhere until you get it taken care of.
- Abortion in Washington highlights a LifeSiteNews article on a Seattle fertility clinic that advertises sex-selective services in conjunction with IVF. Their ad (pictured left) seems to target a certain population, featuring photos of children dressed in ethnic garb.
- Down on the Pharm exposes President Obama’s “slush fund” in Medicare Advantage. $8B will be used to assure the program continues… until just after the November election:
The current regime understands that if seniors lose this particular Medicare plan, and get funneled back into the standard plan, they’ll get upset and vote Obama out. - Abstinence Clearinghouse says Tennessee legislators recently approved a bill that will require abstinence education to be taught in public schools:
The bill was introduced to address Tennessee’s high teen pregnancy rate.Abstinence education has continued to gain momentum in the past decade. With new strains of STDs and unplanned pregnancies becoming more and more common among teens, many law makers see the need to teach adolescents abstinence. “Safe sex” isn’t safe. Abstinence from sexual activity is the only 100% way not to get pregnant or contract an STD.
- Big Blue Wave believes there is a right way and a wrong way to debate abortion online:
When you debate abortion online, your purpose is not to convince the person you`re talking to. So DON’T EXPECT ANY MOVEMENT ON THEIR PART and that will lessen your frustration. Abortion supporters will cling to their opinion even in the face of facts and logic because they have a strong emotional reason for doing so. It’s not your job to be their personal psychologist. Don’t play arm chair psychologist and try to get them to spill the beans about their reasons. That doesn’t convince anyone.Your purpose is to persuade anyone who might be reading. Because online debates often have silent readers, either at the time of posting or later on when people find your discussion through search engines.
[Image via lifesitenews.com]
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.
“Your purpose is to persuade anyone who might be reading.”
Exactly. I remember being at a talk by Scott Klussendorf and he told us about a recurring event; he and a popular radio personality (can’t remember who) would have a public debate from time to time about abortion. She never changed her position – and in fact seldom argued well – , but Scott recognized the opportunity for what it was:
“It was great; she would draw a crowd and I’d get to talk to them!”
Anyone still wondering why pro-aborts don’t like it when abortion is discussed, either vocally or visually?
Because it is what it is.
It is NOT reproductive freedom.
It is NOT choice.
It is not pregnancy termination.
It’s bloody babies in buckets or freezer bags. There is no way around it.
Words of wisdom from Big Blue Wave. Although it doesn’t hurt when silent readers see proaborts get owned in debate once in a while ;) I was fortunate to have a save that way, the women contacted me later and said she read my arguments with a prodeather along with her daughter, who was planning to abort but changed her mind. An unforgettable message.
If one takes a discussion on abortion personally, they will never be able to persuade anyone that abortion is wrong. It takes courage to go against the tide in a discussion, to keep one’s head about themselves. Not to be distracted by the name calling and the nastiness that pro-aborts are prone to write.
I’m fine with gender selection that doesn’t involve abortion. I’d even consider doing microsort if I had all boys to have a daughter.
NC, sex selecting gives me Orwelian chills. All life has an inherent value way beyond your capacity to place value upon it and I would have to say pride is making you feel ok playing God.
It would have expressed my thoughts better if I had said vanity is making you feel ok playing God. Creating multiple lives and selecting which lives have value and which get discarded based upon sex. You should rethink that.
Microsort doesn’t involve “creating multiple lives”. All it does is sort the sperm before insemination.
In all cases let God’s will be done. That applies not only for pre-conception but at conception and post conception too. And praise be to God the Father Almighty.
Would you microsort the color of their hair?
Would you microsort IQ?
Microsort doesn’t involve “creating multiple lives”. All it does is sort the sperm before insemination.
I thought all IVF involved multiple embryos frozen etc. Do those sperm only inseminate one egg?
The sperm is direcly inseminated into the uterus. No embryos are created or destroyed in a petri dish. It’s impossible to sort sperm based on IQ or hair color because conception has yet to occur. It’s not nearly as high tech as you are making it out to be.
Maybe not by today’s technology but what about tomorrows? If the technology were here today would you feel ok pre-selecting IQ or hair color?
I’m not scientist, NC, so please can you briefly explain how you can sort a sperm?
I suppose if there were a way to sort out sperm more likely to carry genes for a lower than normal IQ, I would be ok with it. As for eye color, I wouldn’t bother. I don’t care about that. If someone else wants to it doesn’t bother me. It’s just sperm.
Anyway, this explains the process:
http://www.microsort.com/en/whatismicrosort.shtml
So in NC’s work the developementally slow don’t deserve a chance at life. You have a mindset that would have made it high up in Hitler’s SS. and I am sure Margaret Sanger would have been very proud of you.
Sperm =/ “The Developmentally Slow”
Being ok with preventing lower IQ people from entering our world = vanity
Sorting sperm would not be preventing lower IQ people from entering the world any more than taking folic acid is preventing people with certain birth defects from entering the world. Reducing the incidence of any given condition is not tantamount to aborting people with it. Life doesn’t begin before conception.