Pro-life blog buzz 8-31-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli
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- Wesley J. Smith notes that the Democratic Party’s abortion platform is extreme, even for the majority of Democrats:
While solid majorities of Democrats back some limitations on abortion — 59 percent would ban partial-birth abortions, for example, and 60 percent endorse a mandatory waiting period — the official position of their party is that even common-sense restrictions are unthinkable….If Obamacare remains in effect, eventually Congress will revoke the abortion restrictions currently in the law. Then, we’ll see a “Free Abortion Rule,” patterned after the Free Birth Control Rule.
- Moral Outcry describes how Planned Parenthood reveals its true motive – money – in email fundraising campaigns to support its lobbying and highly-paid employees. Do PP’s supporters know they aren’t actually supporting “women’s health” when they give to the PP Action Fund?
- Secular Pro-Life points to a rogue writer at the Huffington Post who apparently forgot to stick to the “Men are irrelevant after sex” meme:
Most men, however, are not rapists and do not support rape. Most men are sons and brothers and fathers and friends; not only do they love the women in their lives, but they would go to great lengths to protect them. Their daily lives and very existence are deeply and inextricably intertwined with women around them. Including the men whose values don’t align with mine.These men deserve a place at the table, if not a veto, then at least a vote [on reproductive policy].
- The Passionate Pro-Lifer notes America’s selective outrage when it comes to child sexual abuse. The Penn State and Catholic Bishops’ cover-ups are looked upon with disdain, while Planned Parenthood is paid “more than $1 million a day… [and] probably covers up more sexual abuse of children than any other institution in the United States. Evidence is overwhelming.”
- ProWomanProLife comments on an eye-opening story in Slate that celebrates lust, selfishness, and abortion – Jewish-style:
It’s a story of selfishness. It’s a story of how oxytocin changes abilities to reason. It’s a story of what we are told we can do. And then some women go out and do it. And some blog about it, and compare their choice to kill their lentil-sized baby with deeply significant religious events like Passover that do not celebrate what she thinks they celebrate. Then trendy magazines like Slate give a forum for such articles and the author feels satisfied that she is a real artist. - New Feminism writes about “ComKids,” or “commercially created children” and what their rights should be in a society that has turned children into creations to be obtained at any cost.
- John Smeaton stands in defense of Northern Ireland politician Jim Wells (pictured left), who is waging the pro-life battle against the rape, conception, and abortion issues in his own country:
Rape is traumatic, but to argue that aborting a child conceived through rape undoes that trauma ignores that abortion, too, is an act of violence. Of 200,000 babies aborted in Britain annually, less than 1% are conceived through rape…. Today, [I am] proud to work with Jim Wells and other politicians who believe a child’s right to exist does not depend on the circumstances of his, or her, conception. - Timmerie’s Blog rejoices at the Republican Party’s platform on the sanctity of human life:
Opposition to the non-consensual withholding or withdrawal of care or treatment, including food and water, from people with disabilities, including newborns, as well as the elderly and infirm (YES!)” - Pro-Life Action League posts about two different grandmothers. One was falsely accused of touching someone during a prayer vigil outside Chicago’s Albany Medical/Surgical Center – on a day she wasn’t even there. The other is the mother of Tonya Reaves, who is suing after her daughter died aborting her second child at a Chicago Planned Parenthood.
- ProLife NZ says New Zealand’s pro-abortion group, ALRANZ, is busy making public statements attempting to “[sell] the general public the myth that NZ desperately needs liberal abortion laws – definitely nothing that actually resembles a coherent logical argument for why aborting an unborn human being should be considered an ethically acceptable thing to endorse or carry out.”
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Aug.31, 2012 3:30 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.
I read the article by Carla in Huffpost. I found the article rather condescending. She will allow man a vote – how kind of her. I wonder who made her Queen of the USA.
But the prolife position isn’t about men, it isn’t about women, it isn’t about a woman’s vagina or uterus, and it isn’t about some fictional desire hidden in the heart of all men to control a woman’s vagina or uterus. The prolife position is about whether the preborn children have rights. It is about whether society is going to acknowledge their body.
So can someone please tell women like these to stop flattering themselves. A lot of men are happily married and are not thinking about the uteri of other women. What I care about is whether women are using the organ between their ears, and whether women understand how human life is created, nurtured, and born. And lastly I am concerned about how egotistical or traumatized a person has to be in order to justify the killing of their own child.
This letter was published in yesterday’s “Atlanta Journal-Constitution.”
Aug. 31, 2013
Regarding “Akin’s gaffe is a glimpse of Republican attitudes” (Opinion, Aug. 28), Mary Sanchez defends the legality of abortion – but fails to decry the fact that so much demand for it indicates how society has failed its women.
We shouldn’t have to face the wrenching decisions intrinsic to unwanted pregnancies. We should be working to ensure that the women who get pregnant are those who want babies.
When abortion dramatically declines – not because it is illegal, but because there is little demand for it – women will have truly made progress.
Wow, I read the article in Slate. She sounds like a real charmer. :P No wonder the poor guy left her. And the points behind her prose turned what could have been lovely writing into shriveled, rotting words. She used a poor man to get her thrills and acted absolutely reprehensibly towards him (low-class? not “ambitious” enough – according to her? Horrible fashion choices? What a snooty, self-absorbed snob). And then she justifies killing her child (whom she admits is a child)!?. The article simply broke my heart. What a twisted woman. She may not regret her abortion now, but something tells me years down the road, she will be tormented not only by the memory of the man she scorned but also by the life that snuffed out – and on Passover, a holiday to celebrate redemption.
Wow. LibertyBelle I read that article on Slate too. She seemed very elitist towards a guy who seemed like a nice person. How dare he be raised on powdered milk instead of tofu and brown rice. I mean, wow. And that poor baby. She knew it was a baby, she said it several times. I don’t even know what to say, that article was just like a punch in the gut.
I read the Abortion Love Story – who is going to want to marry this poor confused girl. She exchanged her freedom in order to chained to the death of her baby. Poor girl, this is not going to end well for her.
I don’t know if the story was meant to make her feel more empowered, to reveal her callousness, or to hide her pain. I believe a lot of the story has been left unsaid.
Hey guys, after reading your comments on the Slate article, I honestly can’t bring myself to read it. It sounds so awful, like honestly, what’s wrong with people? Nice to see they’re actually willing to showcase an abortion story that isn’t a twelve year old rape victim though.
“I don’t know if the story was meant to make her feel more empowered, to reveal her callousness, or to hide her pain.”
Perhaps a combination of all three?
”I believe a lot of the story has been left unsaid.”
That seems likely, one article is never enough to tell everything.
“whom she admits is a child”
“She knew it was a baby, she said it several times.”
On another thread on this blog someone (I regret that I can’t remember who) said something to the effect of people already know the unborn are human, the tough part is getting them to respect human life.(very loose paraphrasing here, I remember the idea better than the details). I think this story is a good example of that. The hardcore abortion advocates will try to make any crazy argument to make the unborn something other than a human child, but I think this lady is probably a more typical person than they are.
Jack, a punch to the gut is exactly how it made me feel. Exactly. I felt so horrible for that whole situation.
And anyway, what’s wrong with being “raised on powdered milk” when, as Princess Buttercup says in the Princess Bride, “No, he’s poor. Poor and perfect.”
Character and who a person is is so much deeper than economic status. Just saying. :)