Pro-life blog buzz 11-2-12
by Kelli
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- In the New York Post, Scott Gottlieb has a column on how Obamacare, while granting free contraceptives to women, actually takes away real life-saving screenings and care for women.
- Michael New debunks arguments often made during election season – specifically, that more generous welfare programs will reduce abortion rates and that pro-lifers have not benefited from electing Republicans.
- At ProWomanProLife, Andrea Mrozek links to Jennifer Fulwiler’s article on why she lost faith in the pro-choice movement.
- Reflections of a Paralytic notes how movies like Gattaca and Cloud Atlas, on the issues of eugenics and human cloning, are becoming a reality.
- At Pro-Life Action League, Joe Scheidler writes about the continued intimidation of praying pro-lifers outside a Chicago abortion clinic – this time, by police who say they “don’t like to keep coming” there.
- ProLife NZ has thoughts on why the controversy over abortion will “always be with us.”
- At Pro-Life Wisconsin, Kristin Van Spankeren writes about what it’s like to be a “pro-life people pleaser in a pro-choice community.”
- Secular Pro-Life posts a lengthy synopsis of a debate from the 2012 Texas Freethought Convention between two atheists – one pro-life and one pro-choice.
- Wesley J. Smith discusses a European Court of Human Rights ruling which “appears to require Poland to squash the conscience rights of doctors who do not wish to be complicit in a legal abortion.”
- At New Feminism, Marjorie Campbell writes an open letter to NOW president Terry O’Neill, encouraging her (and other feminists) to not only stand up for obvious instances of misogyny and violence against women, but against the ones to which the NOW typically turns a blind eye:
It is vital that those of us fighting and struggling for the dignity of our gender dialogue on the scope of degradation of the female – including females aborted due to sex selection, females used and degraded in pornography and prostitution, females reduced to indentured pregnancies, and females killed as “incidents” by drones and military strategies.
If we do not insist that the condition of being female is never a justification for destruction and exploitation, that – in fact – the condition of being female is as worthy and equal to that of the male – then we will fall short of creating a world where the female can live with the same respect and dignity of the male.
- Women’s Rights Without Frontiers president Reggie Littlejohn had the opportunity to co-present the anti-gendercide film, It’s a Girl, in British Parliament this week. View the trailer below:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISme5-9orR0[/youtube]
[Images via Reflections of a Paralytic and concordatwatch.eu]
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.
The abortion controversy will not always be with us. It will fade away after unwanted pregnancy is eliminated.
DeniseNoe,
That is as absurd as saying wife abuse will not always be with us, it will fade away when unwanted fiancees are eliminated.
The old blame the victim mentality. Where have we heard this before? Oh yes, abortion will eliminate child abuse.
But, Denise, 9 months is along time for a “choice-y” woman to be pregnant. She could change her mind at any time, for any number of frighteningly lame reasons. Eliminating “unwanted pregnancies” means simply changing hearts to welcome and want all pregnancies.
* … welcome and want all BABIES.
Yikes. I was consumed by your language, Denise.
Mary says:
November 2, 2012 at 7:28 pm
DeniseNoe,
That is as absurd as saying wife abuse will not always be with us, it will fade away when unwanted fiancees are eliminated.
The old blame the victim mentality. Where have we heard this before? Oh yes, abortion will eliminate child abuse.
(Denise) This isn’t about blaming anyone. The abortion controversy WILL fade away after unwanted pregnancies are eliminated. There just won’t be much to hassle about. Women often experience a kind of “baby hunger.” They WANT to have the experience of having babies. They WANT to raise a child. When unwanted pregnancies are eliminated, the only women getting pregnant will be those who look forward to having babies. Overjoyed to learn they are pregnant, they are likely to get good pre-natal care and take good care of themselves because they are so eagerly looking forward to the birth. A woman who badly wants to have a baby isn’t going to seek an abortion.
Thus, the abortion controversy isn’t something that will always be with us. Once we’ve eliminated the unwanted pregnancy, there will be no reason to even discuss abortion because it just won’t be going on. Women will just stop aborting because those who don’t want to have babies won’t get pregnant.
LifeJoy says:
November 3, 2012 at 12:15 am
But, Denise, 9 months is along time for a “choice-y” woman to be pregnant. She could change her mind at any time, for any number of frighteningly lame reasons. Eliminating “unwanted pregnancies” means simply changing hearts to welcome and want all pregnancies.
(Denise) With human beings, anything is possible. However, as a general rule, a woman who wants to have a baby and gets pregnant is going to be very happy with the pregnancy. She will carry and give birth.
Eventually, women won’t get pregnant unless they want babies. Abortion will simply fade away.
make sterilization easier to obtain and reverse. There’s your quest, Denise. GO GET IT.