Pro-life news brief 6-27-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Planned Parenthood is using Obamacare to expand its outreach into the Hispanic community:
Outreach efforts will particularly target Hispanic women, 38 percent of whom lack insurance coverage in Florida, according to a 2009 study by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Nearly 20 percent haven’t been screened for cervical cancer in the past three years, and nearly one-third haven’t had a mammogram in the past two years, according to Planned Parenthood.Except Planned Parenthood doesn’t do mammograms.
- Is this an AP story or an editorial by Will Weissert on Gov. Rick Perry’s call for a second special session to pass a Texas bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks and hold abortion clinics to higher standards?
It sought a statewide ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the point at which anti-abortion activists claim a fetus can feel pain — despite a lack of scientific evidence to support that.Because I’m sure Weissert carefully reviewed the scientific evidence.
- I’m hoping Newsbusters’ Matthew Balan will do a comparison between the March for Life coverage and the coverage of Wendy Davis on the nightly newscasts. I’m guessing they spent more time covering a woman standing for 10 hours than hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers marching in D.C. He notes how the morning shows gushed over her filibuster in support of late-term abortions.
- Charles Cooke doesn’t #StandwithWendy:
But dress it up as they might, the truth remained ghastly: What Wendy and her team of protesters were trying to do was block a bill that would have made it illegal to deliberately kill an unborn child after 20 weeks of pregnancy. And that is a disgrace….As a rule, people winning wider political battles do not invade their legislatures and scream. On Tuesday night, demonstrating a combination of genuine media savvy and animalistic frustration at not getting their own way, the diehards in the crowd shouted loudly enough to kill a bill that the majority wants. They will not prevail for long.
- Abortionist and convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell has refused a plea deal for federal drug charges.:
Federal prosecutors say Gosnell flooded Philadelphia streets with more than 700,000 oxycodone or OxyContin pills by selling prescriptions to addicts, dealers and others who lined up at the clinic.
[Photo by Eric Gay/AP, via NBCNews.com]
Regarding when the unborn can feel pain, I found this article to contain some interesting information regarding the scientific evidence:
http://www.justfactsdaily.com/when-do-humans-begin-to-feel-pain
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“As a rule, people winning wider political battles do not invade their legislatures and scream.”
What a great quote.
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“Legislative violence” was committed in Texas, as well as Wisconsin and RI.
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