Pro-life blog buzz 9-4-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli
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- Culture Campaign reports on a new study from Yale University and City University of New York, which “shows that if the Republican Party abortion platform came to fruition and states could outlaw abortion, not only would the national abortion rate drop, but the rate among non-white Americans would drop the most.”
Some point to this and claim racism on the part of Republicans… but really, doesn’t this just prove the pro-life point that abortion is used as a eugenic weapon and disproportionately takes the lives of minorities?
- 40 Days for Life proudly announces that the upcoming fall campaign will be the longest and largest ever, with 314 locations planned, both here and abroad: 49 U.S. states (plus D.C.), 7 Canadian provinces, Australia, England, Spain, and – for the first time – Uganda, and many more. The full list of locations has just been posted.
- Live Action says the Democrats are focusing on the GOP’s imaginary “war on women” (labeling female Republican leaders, “shiny packaging”) while attempting to excuse and downplay Barack Obama’s pro-infanticide abortion extremism:
So unless pro-abortion politicians use the words “I support infanticide,” we can’t hold them accountable for protecting de facto infanticide. Too bad they aren’t such sticklers for rhetorical charity when calling pro-lifers sexist religious fanatics who want to legitimize rape, leave women for dead in back alleys, control people’s sex lives, and incite violence against abortionists….There’s simply no getting around Obama’s record of protecting infanticide. Nor can the rest of the president’s right-to-life record – nearly unlimited abortion during all three trimesters, federal funding for abortion, opposition to states’ right to make their own abortion policy – be spun as moderate.
- The Anti-Abortion Gang shares a Twitter conversation in which a pro-choicer points to orphans and the cost of caring for humanity as reasons to promote the killing of preborn children.
- Big Blue Wave has a great quote from Ben Stein (pictured right), host of the documentary, Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed:
For me, the number one issue is right to life. I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue…. People who think of abortion as a reasonable method of birth control just are never going to get my vote. - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition notes a group from Boston calling themselves, “Second Thoughts: People with Disabilities Opposing the Legalization of Assisted Suicide.” Formed in 2011 to educate and organize the Massachusetts disability community to respond to the Question 2 ballot initiative, the group “emphasizes that rather than offering individual choice, assisted suicide laws create a potentially discriminatory and dangerous practice.”
- The Abolitionist Society of OK lists 7 reasons why the abortion abolitionist movement must reject violence.
- American Life League’s Judie Brown continues to ask why the Catholic Church is playing out a drama involving both political parties when the stakes for religious liberty and abortion are so high.
- Accepting Abundance writes about “sacred parenting” when a preborn child is given a terminal diagnosis. Often, “therapeutic” abortion is chosen, but this video explains an option that both honors the life of the child and helps the family heal. (Tissue alert.)
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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.
“Yale University andCity University of New York, which “shows that if the Republican Partyabortion platform came to fruition and states could outlaw abortion, not only would the national abortion rate drop”
Impossible, we all know abortion restrictions totally don’t work, and like the abortion rate is higher in places where it is illegal. I guess Yale and City University of New York are both part of some pro-life conspiracy to spread false information.
“I guess Yale and City University of New York are both part of some pro-life conspiracy to spread false information.”
Maybe they are a part of the “pro-life industry” that one of my favorite trolls ever, steve, used to go on and on about without explaining.
Oh..that perinatal hospice video breaks my heart! It also lets me know how BLESSED I am…their baby Erin was born at 34 weeks, and died. Our Rachel was born at 33 weeks, and LIVED.
The video didn’t say…I wonder what condition (s) baby Erin was born with/why she died?
So the research says that a 31 state ban on abortion would reduce the abortion rate by 14.9%. Brian Fung of The Atlantic concludes: “it’s hard to see how abortion bans would advance anything except ideology.” It may be hard for some people to see. Maybe he just doesn’t have a calculator … At 3000 abortions a day, that would be 447 humans a day that would be “advanced” into LIFE! 447?! When’s the last time anyone counted that high?! And with each of those numbers being a real PERSON!? Goodness …
”not only would the national abortion rate drop, but the rate among non-white Americans would drop the most.”
D’uhhh. Minorities won’t have the same kind of access to D&C’s that wealthy, white women will have (and always did have). They also won’t be able to afford travel to states and countries that allow legal abortion. And if poor minority women give birth to more poor, minority babies, the poverty rate among poor minorities will go up while at the same time their social safety net will be frayed if not abolished. Yay – clap hands.
Get some new rhetoric already! You are so unashamed of your blatant racism and negative eugenics. Gosh, what if there are more people of color than white people, oh the horror! Gosh, what if there are more “poor” people than spoiled rich people, oh the horror! Who’s racist? CC, that’s who!! Clap for your racism and classism, cc! In fact why don’t you give yourself a standing ovation right now. If you’re clever, you can photoshop yourself into that charming picture of your goddess, Maggie, addressing the fine ladies of the KKK!
Jill,
“Poor minority women” need to “give birth to more poor, minority babies”…it seems to me that, historically, the ones most interested in really reducing poverty are the poor…when they haven’t been brainwashed into thinking they and their progeny are doomed to remain poor…This thinking is how Margaret Sanger got started…
Speaking of Maggie, mine is still waiting on the answer to her question, CC. When were YOU alive?!
Please, tell me, CC…tell me how my life would be better right now if Maggie wasn’t in it. Tell me why it should’ve been legal for ME to kill HER while she was in my uterus. She really, really, REALLY wants to know! TELL HER!
You know, I feel for young people. When I was young, we were ashamed if we didn’t wear the latest styles and fashions to school. We were ashamed if our possessions weren’t as numerous as our classmates’. But a wonderful thing happened: we grew up. We realized that it wasn’t the brand of shoes that made you someone, but what kind of person you were. Do you drive an economy car? That’s nothing to be ashamed of, people! You do not need a specific brand, or income level, or degree to be a better person. If some stinkin’ elitist like cc tells you that you need to snuff your kid rather than buy affordable clothes, just tell her where she can get off!! Wearing a scarf from Lord and Taylor does NOT make you better than someone wearing a t-shirt from Target.
You are not your possessions. You are not your 401K or your tax return. What we contribute to society as human beings cannot always be measured. And anyone who measures you by your income or your designer shoes (or lack thereof) isn’t worth your time. *gets back off soapbox*
Good ol’ DWS.
The amazing lifelike talking points robot strikes again!
Ninek, sometimes I wear my L & T scarf WITH my Target tshirt–great pairing!!
CC, waiting for you to cry MISOGYNY about the DWS quote. Selective hearing, I imagine, just like my kids on chore day.
X, expect crickets from CC. Plus, there are some shiny packages in Charlotte tonight she is probably worshipping.
Give Maggie a hug for me. Her Aunt Courtnay gets it.
Will do, Courtnay.
I just have to wonder what her reaction is going to be a little later in her life when someone like CC tries to tell her about how abortion is her “right”, and how it’s all about “equality”. *cackle*
We as a people, nation and gender are diminished by the legal right to kill our offspring. It affects us all, from the girls who were never born to bitter feminists like cc and joan who spew and foment and hate.
Love wins. No abortion, no exceptions. All humans are welcome at the table.
“Tell me why it should’ve been legal for ME to kill HER while she was in my uterus. She really, really, REALLY wants to know! TELL HER.”
Easy answer. Because you, as the person who carried her, had the right to bodily self-determination – or, as cited by Roe, the right to privacy.
“I just have to wonder what her reaction is going to be a little later in her life when someone like CC tries to tell her about how abortion is her “right”, and how it’s all about “equality”. *cackle”
If she forms a view of women that differs from her mother’s then she just might accept and even advocate for a woman’s right to choose – just like the women who were raised in the confining anti-woman shackles of the Catholic Church but who went on to become the first generation of pro-choice advocates. Some of today’s pro-choice young women have broken free of anti-choice families and churches. Some of them actually attend Catholic institutions of higher learning. The apple sometimes falls far from the pro-life tree. ROFLMAO.
And Ninek, your pro-life histrionics indicate that you don’t get it. When abortion is illegal, more poor women will have children because they won’t be able to get to places, like my state, where it will be legal. That’s a reality. I was making no value judgments. In fact, I mentioned that while poor births will go up, there might not be a safety net to catch them in.
And BTW, Sanger’s views were informed by her experience in the squalid urban ghettos (mostly white at that time) where poor families led lives of absolute desperation. These families had to pimp out their daughters for money. In one case that she witnessed, the birth of another child nearly killed a young Russian Jewish woman. Meanwhile, Sanger knew that those who escaped the life of poverty did so by limiting births. She also helped southern black women have access to the types of birth control that only white women had. If you seriously think that unplanned children don’t impact on a poor family’s standard of living, you are seriously deluded. Babies aren’t always a blessing despite your cult’s belief that everything works out happily ever after.
One more time. MLK, Jr. was a supporter of Planned Parenthood which must mean that he believed in eugenics. Right?
CC: “Some of today’s pro-choice young women have broken free of anti-choice families and churches. Some of them actually attend Catholic institutions of higher learning. The apple sometimes falls far from the pro-life tree. ROFLMAO.”
Yeah chuckles, but it’s also true that many pro-choice women become pro-life, and become members of pro-lifer churches. And some of them actually attend Catholic or other Christian institutions of higher learning. Heck, even many Anglicans go there. So apples roll in all directions — including away from your nonchalance concerning choices for death.
Laugh it up, fuzzball. ;-)
Easy answer. Because you, as the person who carried her, had the right to bodily self-determination – or, as cited by Roe, the right to privacy.
Yeah, small consolation to her when that “right” would’ve meant she was sucked out and disposed of had I so chosen. But I’ll be sure to let her know what you think so she can give you her opinion on the matter.
Considering that her first reaction after I finally told her what her father had intended for her was that she wanted to “punch him in the face” the next time she saw him, you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting to welcome her in to the Dead Baby Party fold. But please, do anyway.
and you still didn’t answer her question. When did you become alive?
That would be assuming she is alive now. I’m still not convinced she isn’t a blob of Sanger’s unrestful ectoplasm, flopping itself against keyboards in the public library of Rhode Island.
I am the nurse in the Perinatal Hospice video. Erin had a genetic condition that can manifest itself in varying degrees and hers was severe. It is important to have these babies assessed for possible treatment and there was a Neonatologist in the room who saw her first(those pictures were not included, we had 3 times as many as would fit in the video). I am historically a Neonatal ICU nurse and I went to Chaplaincy School (didnt finish) and had done some adult Hospice…when I read an article about Perinatal Hospice, I knew just what path God had picked for me.
Tomorrow I will be hosting nurse from Tokyo who is in the US to learn about Perinatal Hospice… there really is no such thing there right now, but a cluster of bold Nurses are trying to introduce it.
“My mom’s rights aren’t more important than ours. You shouldn’t have the right to murder someone no matter what! If you didn’t want a baby in the first place then don’t make a baby, but no matter what, don’t kill the baby.”
Put that in your pipe and smoke it, CC.
Still no response, X?
That’s because there is none. OR (though I highly doubt this) CC has located an ounce of shame in her highly undeveloped conscience.
No, that can’t be it. Carry on.
no, Courtnay, she responded. And of course, Maggie found it to be just as ridiculous as the statement was on its face.
EDIT: Upon giving it a second look, I find that CC does in fact have yet to answer the very clear-cut question my daughter asked after her initial statement. So…yeah.
I just realized it has to be weird for CC to be getting an earfull from one of those non-persons she fights so very hard for the legal right to kill.
But please, do answer, preferably soon. She awaits your rationalizations!
You don’t have anything to tell her, CC. You can’t give her a good enough reason. That is why you and your ilk are going to lose this fight. The tide is turning. You can’t tell these children why they should be dead right now, why it should be okay that they should be dead right now, and they’re going to reject you, en masse.
cc,
When Roe v. Wade is overturned, I expect you’ll be happily polishing up the signs that say, RHODE ISLAND, THE OCEAN STATE – WE KILL OUR OWN HERE.
Tammy,
You know how we say to people who served in the armed forces, “Thank you for your service!”?
Well, I think I can speak for all of us in saying the same goes for you. :)