Pro-life blog buzz 1-4-13
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Live Action reports that Planned Parenthood of Michigan actually applied for a grant to teach abstinence in schools (after claiming on their website that abstinence education doesn’t work) – and were denied. Is getting tax funding is an addiction with them?
- At the LTI Blog, Scott Klusendorf shares a short story that cuts to the heart of the “noise” surrounding the pro-life issue.
- ProWomanProLife showcases the baffling hypocrisy of feminists who are protesting an award being given to the Israeli pro-life group Efrat, which provides women with counseling, financial help, and alternatives to abortion. Would those same feminists protest if the award instead went to a group that provided financial aid for abortion?
- The Abstinence Clearinghouse points out Planned Parenthood’s odd sense of humor about sexually transmitted diseases. PP stocks STD Plushies – made to look like “microbes of herpes, syphilis, and gonorrhea,” calling them “cute and cuddly.” One commenter to PP’s Facebook page remarked, “Clearly, Planned Parenthood will do anything to treat sexual health as a non-issue.”
When you profit from the killing of innocent human beings on a daily basis, perhaps a warped way of thinking isn’t far behind. Are these plushies supposed to make people feel like STDs aren’t serious illnesses?
- Americans United for Life cheers the common sense court decision allowing Texas to remove Planned Parenthood from its state-funded healthcare program.
- Judie Brown is choosing to view 2013 with cautious optimism, thanks to a “recipe for success”:
Combine:
• One generation of young enthusiasts
• One helping of articulate speakers
• One measure of self-sacrificing black leaders
• One generous sprinkling of faithful public witness
• One heaping cup of reliable guidance
Stir with the largest amount of total surrender to God’s will possible and allow it to rise.
When the dough is ready, the nation will be on its knees, prepared to surrender to His truth and right the wrongs that once nearly destroyed America.
- Pro-Life in TN comments on a new viral photo of little Nevaeh Atkins’ birth via c-section, in which she reaches out to grasp the surgeon’s finger. While most reactions to the photo have been positive, this was not the case with a similarly remarkable photo (pictured right) taken by Michael Clancy more than 12 years ago at Vanderbilt University during the spina bifida surgery of Samuel Armas’ at 21 weeks, after which Clancy “was chastised and called a liar by the attending doctor and the hospital.”
More on the latest photo:
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.
Yes, when I read of that baby reaching out from the womb it reminded me of the big controversy when Matt Drudge attempted to show a similar photo. Even Fox News was too squeamish for this, and he left his tv show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Armas
Any thoughts on the story of the woman executed despite her pregnancy?
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/blog/article/the-first-woman-ever-executed-in-the-usa-was-pregnant/index.html
Ugh, everything Planned Parenthood does is creepy and gross.
I’ll tell you the reason people are accepting of the c-section pic and not the spina bifida surgery pic-that baby was being born, so they caught her right as the Personhood Fairy was sprinkling her magical Personhood Dust on the former fetus and made her an Actual Baby, so it’s okay to be totally enthused about that one. That Actual Baby was wanted, and healthy, and born-ish, so she gets the proabort Personhood Seal of Approval. However, the spina bifida baby-I’M SORRY, I MEANT FETUS-was NONVIABLE! at the time, and might be born into a life with mild to severe levels of SUFFERING! due to being imperfect, so would probably have been better off just being aborted. That little NON-VIABLE PARASITE had a surgery that was so expensive and intensive that it probably took resources away from some Actual Babies, so aborting him-I MEAN “IT”-and making a new one would’ve been better for everyone, even him-SORRY, I MEANT “IT”.
I think it might have had something to do with the fact that the baby was heavily sedated in the spina bifida case and so couldn’t reach out and do anything, no more than mom could. The doctor performing the surgery said that the little hand flopped out and he tucked it back in, there wasn’t any grasping. I do really like that picture, you can see what a perfect little hand he has and that he’s definitely a human, but I don’t like the inaccuracies that abound around it.
But you might have a point with pro-choicers not being comfortable with the fact that a human unborn baby is *gasp* human and was receiving medical treatment like a Real Human Person ™.
Abortionists wouldn’t be worrying about little grasping hands, but I do hope they’re having nightmares of other little hand gestures.