Pro-life blog buzz 9-25-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli
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- Live Action says a settlement has been reached in the case of an Ohio Planned Parenthood which failed to report the repeated sexual abuse of a minor girl by her own father – even after she reported that he had fathered the child she was aborting.
- Culture Campaign reports the sad news that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists “now recommends that post-pubescent girls be made unable to conceive using IUD or implanted birth control because children do poorly at managing other contraceptives that rely on proper usage.”
- Big Blue Wave links to an interview with Martin Hudá?ek, creator of the sculpture (pictured left) entitled, “The Child Who Was Never Born.”
- Megan of Life Training Institute reinforces the fact that despite what some groups may claim, there really is no middle ground on abortion:
For the sake of clear thinking and decision making, we need to carefully consider the rhetoric and make some important distinctions. What is meant by the term “abortion?” What are the issues that touch the abortion issue? Are there limits out of which we must not step? What is the most human response?Philosopher Christopher Kaczor defines abortion this way: “Properly speaking, abortion is the intentional killing of a human fetus.”
His terms are carefully chosen and scientifically accurate. Working with this definition, either abortion is morally permissible, or it is not.
- FRC Blog comments on the impact same sex divorce has on the children brought into the arrangement via “adoption, artificial reproductive technology, or one partner’s previous heterosexual relationship. When the relationship breaks up, who has a claim to the child: biological parent, donor or surrogate, or adoptive same-sex partner? What about the same-sex partner who never adopted the child because the other biological parent would not release his or her rights – or the partner’s new boyfriend or girlfriend, who is helping raise the child?”
- Ethika Politika takes exception to bumper sticker slogans (like the one at right) which assert that politics and religion should remain separate:
The two main (assumed) premises of the bumper sticker don’t stand up to scrutiny. First, if religion stayed out of government, then political life would rarely, if ever, actually lead to violence. It doesn’t take an extensive study of history for more than 30 seconds to realize that this attitude is simply not the case: government and ideology can do quite a fine job on their own compeling [sic] the state to act in a violent manner towards the world. The second is that the mixture of religion and politics leads to people burning at the stake. Or at the least, nothing good comes of that. Ponder that on Martin Luther King, Jr. day. - Stacey of Accepting Abundance writes about “life after 40,” sharing the news that she is expecting another child. Her philosophy? “If I can still have babies… then I can still have babies.”
- David Bereit of 40 Days for Life comments on the disruption and subsequent protests that occurred at his speaking engagement in Australia:
While I was a bit surprised by the sudden barrage, I was saddened more than anything else. As I looked at the anger and hatred in the eyes of these young people, I realized that some of them had probably experienced the pain of abortion in their own lives.
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It’s Megan, not Meghan.
remember the lady who was helped to escape the country by some Amish folks so that her child would not be forcibly subjected to some court-ordered custody or visitation by her prior lesbian partner? and now the Amish folks who helped are in legal hot water?
“American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists “now recommends that post-pubescent girls be made unable to conceive using IUD or implanted birth control”
they would have to put me in jail before I would allow this to happen to my daughters – and before they could put me in jail, they would have to find me – and if they did find me, they would have to overcome my robust exercise of my 2nd amendment right to bear arms – there comes a time when we must stand for what is right regardless of the cost – and the day that this asinine ACOG recommendation becomes a mandate, then they can bring it on, because I will gladly give up my life in defense of my family
@Bryan: Are you concerned about protecting your daughters from pregnancy through rape?
To everyone: Will it ever be possible to truly de-emphasize sexuality? We are distinct from other species because of our rationality. Placing greater emphasis on this rather than our passions would alleviate a multitude of problems, especially those connected with sexuality.
Regarding the Ohio Planned Parenthood that failed to report the incestuous father: Would it be possible to indict someone as an accessory after the fact?
Failure to report if you know this is happening seems to qualify as being an accessory to sexual abuse after the fact.
Live Action says a settlement has been reached in the case of an Ohio Planned Parenthood which failed to report the repeated sexual abuse of a minor girl by her own father – even after she reported that he had fathered the child she was aborting.
(Denise) Isn’t this being an accessory after the fact to sexual abuse?
That sculpture makes me so sad. :(
But Planned Parenthood cares so much about women! Maybe they gave this poor girl a mammogram before they returned her to her abuser.
Jack,
You’re right. That’s a gut-wrenching sculpture. True art is thought-provoking.
Denise, I think that you are correct that it makes PP an accessory to the crime of sexual abuse but I don’t think that they really care. It is all about their bottom line.
Humans are stupid and it’s really hard if they are liberals.
“Last time we mixed politics with religion people got burned at the stake.”
Is the author of this bit of buffoonery referring to Caesar and Rome?
Or is he referring to the ancient Celts?
Or is it the indigeous people of the americas…..prior to the arrival of the europeans?
Or is she referring to the Germans and their crematoriums?
Or does he mean the practice of ‘necklacing’ in southern Africa?
Or the mass execution by incineration in the humanist paradise of N. Korea in the 90’s
Or maybe he is talking about the Hindu practice of cremating widows with their dead husbands.
Or possibly they are speaking of the death by burning of 67 children, women and men just outside of Waco, Texas.
The one religion responsible for the deaths of more people than all the plagues, famines, natural disasters, religious persecution and wars combined…is secular humanism and it is true even if you do not include the hundreds of millions or pre-natal children killed by abortion.
Human are stupid, partcularly liberal/progressive/humanists.
I can’t stop staring at that sculpture, it’s just so… haunting.