Pro-life news brief 8-9-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Kirsten Powers uses her latest column to point out how Wendy Davis doesn’t know what she’s talking about when she speaks on abortion:
Despite frequently mocking anti-abortion activists as anti-science know-nothings, abortion rights absolutists are the ones who play fast and loose with the facts of abortion. Because they are so rarely asked to defend their positions, Davis and her ilk apparently don’t feel the need to be informed.Follow-up questions to their strange and often empirically false statements are almost nonexistent, while offensive or misinformed comments from GOP back benchers are greeted with full-scale media hysteria.
- The Toledo Blade covers the possible closure of the last abortion clinic in Toledo:
Dr. Theodore Wymyslo, director of the Ohio Department of Health, notified the facility in a letter dated Aug. 2 that it had 30 days to request an administrative hearing. [Health Dept. spokesperson] Ms. [Tessie] Pollock said that if Capital Care does not respond within that time, the health department will proceed with revocation.Terrie Hubbard, identified by the health department as Capital Care Network of Toledo’s owner, did not return phone calls or an email seeking comment.
However, as of Thursday morning, Capital Care was open and seeing patients.
- Ross Douthat (pictured left) responds to his critics regarding his comparison between abortion laws in Europe and the U.S.:
This variation, in turn, gives us more data on the original question that my column asked: What happens to a modern society when abortion is restricted? And I don’t think that either Pollitt or Lemieux offered much of a rebuttal to my suggestion that Europe’s variations and their apparent consequences pose a problem for two commonplace pro-choice assumptions: That restrictions on abortion don’t actually reduce abortion rates (which appears to be true in neither the U.S. nor in Europe), and more importantly, that any restrictions on abortion are necessarily threats to female professional advancement and bodily health. - Politico has an article on the GAO’s investigation into Planned Parenthood:
On Friday, the GAO confirmed to POLITICO that the request from the lawmakers was accepted and an investigation opened. No press release or pubic statement was put out by the office at the time.Chuck Young, GAO managing director of public affairs, said the scope of the investigation was still being determined, and no completion date had been set.
The SBA List has related video from Fox News:
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According to Douthat: “…that any restrictions on abortion are necessarily threats to female professional advancement and bodily health.”
THIS CONCLUSION TOTALLY LACKS MERIT.
This idiotic argument only supports another statement in this post: “abortion rights absolutists are the ones who play fast and loose with the facts of abortion.”
The lengths pro-abortionists will go to in order to scare women so that they murder their babies.
I bet that “Merit” and “Reality” will be burning their fingers at the keyboard responding to the subject matter of this thread….
Thomas, I’m having a hard time following you… Douthat was responding to abortion supporters who claim abortion restrictions are threats to women, and Kirsten Powers was stating that pro-choicers are the ones whose arguments aren’t based in fact.
Neither Douthat nor Powers are “pro-abortionists.” Can you clarify your comments?
I directed my comment at the claim itself, citing Douthat, and proceeded from there to address the claim’s relevance to the statement cited in my 3rd paragraph. Notice that in paragraph 4, I am referring to pro-abortionists in general as those who engage in fear-mongering with their claim cited in the first paragraph.
Hope this helps clarifying, LOL.
It’s my understanding that, in the whole Texas fracas involving Wendy Davis, the one serious error of fact made public was made by Texas state senator Jodie Laudenberg, the sponsor of the debated abortion legislation, when she indicated that police rape kits prevented rape pregnancy. See: http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2013/jun/24/jodie-laubenberg/jodie-laubenberg-says-texas-rape-kit-dilation-and-/.
Even if morning after pills were included in such rape kits, which they are not, not all rape pregnancies could be prevented – that crazy woman actually believed a rape kit was like a D&C. And as long as pro-life people continue to make their ignorance public, their views are going to be repulsive to seriously educated people. This woman was not just giving an alternative interpretation of factual evidence, but rather revealing genuine ignorance of factual evidence itself. Typical anti-choicer.
Typical of pro-abortionists to punish the preborn instead of humanely allowing the child to be. Seriously educated people think beyond their noses about humanity. Even a child conceived through the unacceptable act of rape, has potential.
Nowhere in this rhetoric do I hear anything about the possibility of putting this child up for an adoption to a loving family who will provide such child with unconditional positive regard and not stigmatize him/her as pro-abortionists do.
This narrow, self-centered focus that pro-abortionists spew on a daily basis is just abhorrent to me.