Pro-life blog buzz 11-27-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Michael New gives his take on the media’s claim that contraceptive use was the primary contributor to the decrease in 2009 abortion rates. There is no evidence to suggest that contraceptive use increased that year – however, New points out that it was the first year that a majority of Americans identified themselves as pro-life.
- At Live Action, Kristen Walker Hatten promotes Reggie Littlejohn’s new Save a Girl campaign against gendercide and coerced abortion in China:
“We ask people to contribute $25 a month,” says Littlejohn. “Twenty dollars goes to the women and $5 goes to cover our costs and to the field workers who are bravely finding these women and getting the money into their hands….
Our primary focus is to end gendercide,” Littlejohn says, “so we’re definitely locating women who are determined to abort or abandon babies. The other thing we’re doing is helping women who are fleeing from forced abortions. We have one woman who was fleeing from village to village to avoid the family planning police. She had a baby boy a few months ago.”
- Americans United for Life says the recent reports touting the CDC’sabortion rate drop tell only part of the story. What isn’t highlighted is the fact that the 12 women who died following their abortions is “double the deaths reported the previous year and it’s the highest since 1994.”Reporting by states is also voluntary and California does not participate.
- Fletcher Armstrong spots a piece of disgusting advice for teens from Planned Parenthood that might as well have been taken from a pornographic magazine: If you’re okay with swallowing semen, go for it. But as a footnote… remember, kids, unprotected oral sex can still give you STDs. (No mixed message there, right?)
- Right to Life of Michigan fact checks a pro-embryonic stem cell piece from the Detroit Free Press, which is long on spin of promised cures but short on truth about the failures and dangers of such research. Notably missing are arguments against ESCR and discussion of induced pluripotent (adult) stem cell successes. The ESCR article features a photo of adult stem cell success – a definite misleading of the public in order to promote an agenda.
- Real Choice shares the story of two women who died from abortions 50 years apart in order to show why the legalization of abortion did nothing to save women’s lives.
- Wesley J. Smith reports on a fertility doctor who has decided to save money by using an “assembly line” approach:
Dr. Ernest Zeringue… sharply cuts costs by creating a single batch of embryos from one egg donor and one sperm donor, then divvying it up among several patients.
As long as this industry remains unregulated and human life is bought as a commodity item, we can expect to see more of this.
[Graphic via The Stem Cell Blog]
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.
Fletcher Armstrong spots a piece of disgusting advice for teens from Planned Parenthood that might as well have been taken from a pornographic magazine: If you’re okay with swallowing semen, go for it. But as a footnote… remember, kids, unprotected oral sex can still give you STDs. (No mixed message there, right?)
(Denise) This has risks. However, no one will have an abortion because she engaged in oral sex. Abstinence is preferable to partnered sex. But oral sex is better than fetuses ripped to pieces.
Breaking News. Ohio Heartbeat Bill has been killed.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZJ6i7UDPxNxn-vvnveeSbP-FOWQ?docId=b125588d2c5e44e993e2b0ae67dd3227
Our government is shoving abortion down our throats now! D:
“Ohio Heartbeat Bill has been killed.”
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Link and Proof.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gZJ6i7UDPxNxn-vvnveeSbP-FOWQ?docId=b125588d2c5e44e993e2b0ae67dd3227
Ever since Obama won, our country is being force steered to the left and Plan B is now likely to be shoved down innocent teenage girls’ throats.
http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2012/11/26/teen-girls-should-get-advance-prescription-for-morning-after-pill-pediatricians-recommend/UTtNb5HocfbmImGOQX2gAO/story.html
I am going to be very sick and lose sleep if this goes through. D:
“Ever since Obama won, our country is being force steered to the left” – no, the country moved to the left without you realizing it and it therefore voted for obama.
“and Plan B is now likely to be shoved down innocent teenage girls’ throats” – no, can you not tell the difference between something being offered and something being forced?
@ BebeLyssious ( Alyssa C. ): Teen girls are the most likely to wait until AFTER THE FIRST TRIMESTER before seeking abortions. Even author Eleanor Cooney, who is a very intelligent person and has published several books, began looking for a (then-illegal) abortion when beginning her 4th month of pregnancy. This was true even though she had no fear of stigma or parental disapproval. She was aware that abortions are more difficult to perform past the 1st trimester. When questioning someone about an illegal abortionist, she asked, “He knows I’m over 3 months, right?”
Teen girls often don’t keep good track of their menstrual periods.
A second trimester abortion requires that a doctor grab onto fetal body parts, bear down on them, and tear them off the body. Or the pregnant female can have saline injected into her womb. The fetus gulps this material and is poisoned to death by it and burned. The third alternative is to pull the fetus partly out of the female’s body, suction out the brain, collapse the skull and then pull.
The FACT is that teen girls are often the ones getting late abortions. Thus, it is of primary importance to PREVENT THEM FROM GETTING PREGNANT. The best way to do this is to prevent partnered sex. But it’s a lot better to use contraceptives than to have an abortion — especially a late abortion which they are more likely to have than grown women.
“and Plan B is now likely to be shoved down innocent teenage girls’ throats” – no, can you not tell the difference between something being offered and something being forced?
What about the 22 year old who threatens his 14 year old “girlfriend” with violence unless she takes it? I would say at my agency at least half of the girls who get pregnant have “boyfriends”who are at least five years older than them, and some of these creeps will do ANYTHING to cover up the fact that they are committing STATUTORY RAPE.
Coming soon to a school near you:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/schoolgirls-controlled-by-loverboys-math-class-in-the-morning-turning-tricks-at-lunchtime-a-705104-2.html
@ phillymiss: As I’ve pointed out many times, really enforcing the statutory rape laws would cause a steep decline in the demand for abortion.