Pro-life blog buzz 7-5-13
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- At National Review, Michael J. New says that despite the media’s attempts to paint the views of Wendy Davis and abortion proponents as mainstream, they aren’t:
The results of the National Journal poll indicate that 50 percent of women support the 20-week abortion ban. Similarly, individuals under 30 supported the ban by a 52-39 margin. Unfortunately, the media typically gives little attention to the demographic breakdown of abortion surveys. After all, they do not want to disrupt their narrative that young people and women support legal abortion.
- Pro-Life Wisconsin links to a Life Site News story of baby boy, Walter Fretz (pictured left), born to parents Lexi and Joshua, at 19 weeks. He lived only a few minutes but touched so many.
- At Reproductive Research Audit, Dr. Jacqueline Harvey examines “the science behind two aspects of the Texas bill” restricting abortions after 20 weeks, which are “1.) misrepresentations about studies on fetal pain and 2.) the effect of intimate partner violence on women seeking abortions.”
- In celebrating Independence Day, Suzy B remembers that in a country which claims people have an inalienable right to life, we still do not protect that right for the preborn.
- ProLifeBlogs features an FRC Blog article discussing the encouraging results with using adult stem cells to cure HIV. Unfortunately, most mainstream media articles on this news generically refer to “stem cells,” instead of specifying that these are not embryonic stem cells. Because after all, this wouldn’t fit their agenda.
- Wesley J. Smith remains concerned that the ecology movement that has become “increasingly radical and anti-human.” By stipulating that the earth itself has a “right to life,” this movement appears to suggest that this trumps any notion of human exceptionalism. Smith writes:
It means the forced continued destitution of those in resource rich/economically poor nations, because the life of earth will matter more than those of desperate masses.
- Coming Home spotlights a study from the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer showing that in India, induced abortion increases breast cancer risk six-fold. This in a country where breast cancer used to be rare.
- Right to Life of Michigan introduces the winning entry in the 2013 National Right to Life Video Contest by Northern Michigan University student Joshua Rapavi:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/O-0eO2c5ofo[/youtube]
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.
kudos to Joshua Rapavi. Marvelous.
Even though we all know how these happy-mommy movies end — it still made me cry. I didn’t foresee the only spoken line, by the child. Chilling. A new thing in the pro-life message.
I’m not quite sure what to make of the National Journal poll. It seems to be an outlier; Gallup consistently gets over 60% support for a ban on second trimester abortions.
I think the ban is good and women shouldn’t be allowed or forced into abortion after the 20 weeks!
What a terrific line-up of links! Wesley Smith, as usual, offers insightful analysis on how the tenacles of environmentalism will lead ultimately to anti-life debacles. In this and the other featured stories we see more and more how the utter rejection of truth and freedom lead us to the slavery of secularism. Is it any wonder that proaborts in Texas would try to drown out prolifers singing Amazing Grace by interjecting chants praising Satan? Rejection of truth is rejection of God and vice-versa. The intellectual underpinnings of the prolife movement and the reality of our culture of death are on a collision course.
GREAT VIDEO… WELL DESERVED.
“I’m not quite sure what to make of the National Journal poll. It seems to be an outlier; Gallup consistently gets over 60% support for a ban on second trimester abortions.”
Yeah, and I’m pretty sure this specific proposal has polled in the 60s before as well.
Oh no, another “Hal.” How confusing.
”Within the past year, polls have shown that people under 30 are actually more likely than other age demographics to support late-term abortion bans, parental involvement laws, and waiting periods.” Wonder why?-Because so many young people live the reality of an abortion-permissive America-that means, P.A.S. is prevalent-a dis-ease of our time-our generation-the thirty fieve and & under population, the fertile population are so heavily targeted, we see it as a hustle by the sour-faced, plastic surgery-driven, career driven, over-forty demographic to curb our reproductive freedoms, not enable them, our friends have gone through it, it HAS A STIGMA attached to it, it’s never pleasant or easy, it’s NOT FUN-it’s a loss-it hurts, you can’t tell your parents, the boyfriends who are the meanest think it’s a joke-the girls who are the most heartless use it as a weapon, it’s gross-the pictures are gross-it’s an ugly bad NEGATIVE in this life-that’s why Planned Parenthood had to PAY protesters in Texas and life and pro-adoption activists paid to be there. To have heart, a life choice.