Pro-life blog buzz 9-11-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli
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- Ethika Politika displays some of the disrespectful, vile comments that came from social media following Timothy Cardinal Dolan’s closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention last week. Who knew there were so many creative ways to use the “F” word?
- Abolitionist Society of OK prints a personal testimony of rape, pregnancy, and healing. The lack of support the author received from obstetricians is appalling, and raises the question: Is it rape victims who attach stigma to pregnancies resulting from rape, or is it the rest of society?
- At Live Action, Stephen Brown has a three–part series on the lawsuit against Planned Parenthood for Medicaid fraud, and why PP has such a strong stake in the outcome of this election.
- Abstinence Clearinghouse points out another difference in the platform of the two major parties. The Republican platform includes abstinence education, which is in direct opposition to the idea of school family planning clinics:
We renew our call for replacing “family planning” programs for teens with abstinence education which teaches abstinence until marriage as the responsible and respected standard of behavior. Abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that is 100 percent effective against out-of-wedlock pregnancies and sexually-transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS when transmitted sexually. It is effective, science-based, and empowers teens to achieve optimal health outcomes and avoid risks of sexual activity. We oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and related services for abortion and contraception.
- Fr. Frank Pavone points out how abortion in a democracy can fundamentally transform the State.
- American Life League’s Judie Brown addresses the life issue at the ballot box in Massachusetts this November – assisted suicide:
It may sound preposterous, but the fact is that once a person buys into the philosophy that there are lives unworthy of being lived — as is the case with those who market abortion — there is little to nothing stopping that same individual from advocating death as a solution to life’s challenges when they are at the other end of the spectrum.
Freedom of choice has no boundaries once God is taken out of the equation and personal self-interest, often called autonomy, moves in to take center stage.
- Michael New says Democrats are again trotting out the same tired and unsubstantiated claims about social spending and abortion:
[T]here is not one peer-reviewed study which shows that Medicaidspending or any other kind of welfare spending actually reduces the incidence of abortion.There is, however, a substantial body of research which documents the effectiveness of pro-life laws. In 2009 the Guttmacher Institute did a literature review on public-funding restrictions for abortion. Of the 24 studies they considered, 20 found that abortion rates fell after public funding was reduced. They even acknowledged the best research indicates that restricting public funding lowers abortion rates. There is also an academic literature which documents the effectiveness of parental-involvement laws and properly designed informed-consent laws.
President Obama has pursued policies which will almost certainly increase the incidence of abortion…. If abortion is listed as a federal health benefit, that could easily nullify or weaken a number of state-level pro-life laws. Obamacare also provides federal funds to insurance plans which cover abortion. The HHS contraceptive mandate could require employers to cover abortifacients and is also a taxpayer bailout of Planned Parenthood.
- Accepting Abundance shares a cartoon portrayal of the issue of conscience rights. Think taxpayer-funded birth control and abortion:
[Photo via The Atlantic]
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 love the cartoon by Accepting Abundance. I have worked in healthcare for years to promote and to teach the healthiest and safest choices for patients and how to avoid risky behaviors. I would refuse to assist patients in engaging in risky behaviiors that would help them to destroy their health. The CDC, FDA, and NIH all state the “only certain way to avoid STDs and unplanned pregnancies it to avoid ALL sexual activity until in a mutually monogamous, life-long relationship” (i.e. marriage). No, I do NOT want to pay for someone else’s sexual activity choices by paying for their birth control, abortions or STD treatments (for that matter) with my hard-earned tax dollars. Sleep around on your own dime. I would have no problem paying for STD treatments of sexually abused childen and teens who contract STDs or for babies who are infected in utero or for those who become infected by receiving tainted blood transfusions. I have a friend whose brother is an hemophiliac and contracted HIV/AIDs this way. He deserves all the help he can get to battle this horrible disease, he has suffered miserably.
For those of you who don’t know it, the FDA (their website gives their policy) ask MSM to self-defer donating blood if they have ever had sex with another man, it is the most high risk category of all “behaviors” because they are many, many times more likely to carry Hepatitis B, C, HIV, syphilis, etc (btw IV drug users and prostitutes as well as people who know they have had sex with them are asked to self-defer as well but their risk is still not as high). It is NOT about being “hateful”, judgemental” and “bigoted” it is about medical facts that people’s unhealthy, promiscuous, sexual behaviors have dire consequences sometimes even deadly ones. I have Christian friends and family who are health care workers who have take care of HIV/AIDS patients for years (it is a horrible way to die) they are the most compassionate, caring, competent practitioners, they don’t hate but love their fellow man and tell them the truth. Not politically correct but it is still the truth. “No orgasm is worth dying for”.
That picture with His Eminence Cardinal Dolan is definitely one of the funniest pictures I’ve seen in quite a while! :-D
I’m glad he said what he said; they badly needed to hear it, as reinforced by the common response to it among their own.
obamascare summed up in one sentence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnY8r7_fLw
“So let me get this straight: We’re going to be gifted with a healthcare plan we are forced to purchase, and fined if we don’t, which puportedly covers at least 10 million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn’t understand it, passed by a congress that didn’t read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a president who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes, for which we will be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted social security and medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese and financed by a country that’s broke.”
[“So, what the blank could possibly go wrong?”]
Barbara Bellar is NOT your typical politician.
She’s not your typical person. Starting out as a nun, she went on to become a Major in the Army, a Doctor, a Lawyer, and a small business entrepreneur. Her life is encompassed by one phrase, serving others.
http://electbellar.com/
“Barrak 0. Bama will close the book on the old politics of race, gender and group against group and straight against gay.”
Ted Kennedy, 2008 DemocRAT National Convention
If b o is not re-elected the democRATs will blame his defeat on the angry, white voters still clinging to their GOD and their guns.They will obstinately ignore the fact that it was predominantly white voters, particularly white catholic women voters, who were responsible for
b o’s win in 2008.
But it won’t just be the white women who abandon the obamateur in 2012.
Ethnic minorities, specifically black women voters, will not return to the polls to repeat the increasingly painful mistake they made four years ago.
Either they will stay at home or they will cast their ballot for the alternative, ‘hoping for a change’ for the better.
Not even mr. bo-jangles base of socialists, feministas, gender challenged liberals and union members will turn out like they did four years ago.
It is up to mr. Romney to motivate his base and to woo the dis-affected democrats and liberals to turn out in sufficient numbers to over come the predictable voter fraud and intimidation at the polling places in states where the race will close enough for the liberal/progressives to steal it.
Blood will be shed and some freedom folks will probably be killed rather than be intimidated and dis-enfranchised by democRAT thugs.
The next ethnic minority who is elected president will not be a democRAT.
That cartoon is shocking and scary, how some people really think. (“I’ll devalue myself and wish you bring you along to help devalue me as well.”)
Have these folks never heard of personal accountability and loving/respecting themselves enough to do the right thing?
LL
Is it possible to lead more people to relate to each other on an intellectual rather than romantic or sexual basis?
But it’s ok for the “alcoholics” of the world to force their values on everyone else via the medical profession. Hello, Auschwitz!
hmmm…were any of the x-rated tweets about Cardinal Dolan from our trolls?