Pro-life blog buzz 10-11-13
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- ProLifeBlogs features a post by LifeSiteNews which reports pro-choice violence against a woman participating in a peaceful Life Chain in Toronto. Faye Arellano was attacked and beaten by a knife-wielding man, who was arrested. During the Life Chain, Faye “held a rosary in one hand and a sign in the other which read: ‘Life, the first inalienable right.”
- Down on the Pharm comments on California Governor Jerry Brown’s (pictured left) signing into law a bill that will allow non-physicians to perform abortions in the state:
We know already that abortionists who are physicians have a poor performance record. It would be irrational to expect that people with less medical training would have a better safety record than those who have to undergo four years of medical school and four years of residency.Pro-lifer Wynette Sills, who is participating in 40 Days for Life in Sacramento, addressed the passage of this law on Facebook – citing scientific facts and posting photos of actual fetal development – and was temporarily blocked from posting on the social media site for a comment that read, “Debi, become informed. Human life begins at conception and every abortion kills a human being. Know your science, rather than just respond with emotions.”
- Right to Life of Michigan “circulated petitions throughout the summer to initiate Abortion Insurance Opt-Out legislation. More than 315,000 signatures were submitted to the Secretary of State’s office today sending a strong message to Michigan lawmakers that abortion is not health care”:
Michigan’s Constitution allows the people of the state to initiate legislation through a petition; 258,088 signatures of registered voters needed to be collected in 180 days to initiate the Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act. Signatures for the NO Taxes for Abortion Insurance petition drive was collected in less than 4 months. After the Board of Canvassers verifies the signatures, the legislature will have 40 calendar days to respond.
- Secular Pro-Life says pro-choicers often ask pro-lifers, “If you had the choice to rescue either an adult or ten frozen embryos from a burning building, which would you choose?” But this question actually proves nothing about the value of human life:
Consider it like a case of triage. Two people are in mortal danger and a doctor can only save one. The doctor will save the person with the greatest chance of survival. Does that mean the other person is less valuable than the person she saves? Of course not. But if she tried to save the person with the most extensive injuries, she may end up losing both. In this case, since the fate of the embryos is uncertain (nor could it ever be certain), saving the adults would be morally justified because they have a 100% chance of survival if you rescue them.Choosing who to save does not equate to the intentional killing of embryos.
- Albert Mohler discusses the addictive nature of pornography and how it “hijacks” the male brain:
In Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain, [William] Struthers presents key insights from neuroscience that go a long way toward explaining why pornography is such a temptation for the male mind.“The simplest explanation for why men view pornography (or solicit prostitutes) is that they are driven to seek out sexual intimacy,” he explains. The urge for sexual intimacy is God-given and essential to the male, he acknowledges, but it is easily misdirected. Men are tempted to seek “a shortcut to sexual pleasure via pornography,” and now find this shortcut easily accessed.
[Photos via Bloomberg and Flickr]

I’ve done some googling on Faye Arellano story. It turned up a number of sites relating the story. Most are anti-choice sites, a couple were news sites. None of them identified her attacker as being pro-choice, or anything else. I don’t think the term is even mentioned. It would seem we do not know his affiliations, personal position or anything pertinent to why he attacked.
So why have you said “pro-choice violence”?
He called her obscenities as he punched her out and pulled a knife on her. She was holding a rosary and a pro life sign. Safe to say he wasn’t after her autograph. It was indeed violent and he was not pro life.
How do you know he isn’t anti-choice?
She had left the protest and was crossing the road carrying a sign.
For all we know she may have seen a person who he recognized simply as a protestor of no particular ilk and he thought “a protestor! I hates me them protestors!”
Or he may have had a mental health moment and thought he was fighting off a demon or something.
Sometimes the brain damage that manifests itself as leftism is so severe that the sufferer is unable to feel embarrassment. At this point in the disease progression, reason and the possibility of conscientious ethical behavior dissipate.
Our 40 Days For Life vigil is suffering some harrassment from a young turk who lives nearby. He seems to be trained in Alinsky radical tactics. He works hard to provoke us into getting angry and throwing a punch at him.
Oddly, he has not revealed his own agenda. He won’t say why he hates us. He does not mention abortion, but he gets violently upset when we offer to pray for him. I suspect that he hates our Christianity more than he cares about abortion.
(Madison is home to the “Freedom From Religion Foundation,” and they use and teach Alinsky tactics.)
In any case, the attacker in Toronto is guilty of a hate crime. Sidewalk vigils face danger from two deranged sources:
1) Persons who are addicted to killing, and react violently to the thought of no more abortions.
2) Persons who desire the persecution of Christians, and feel justified in punishing anyone who is caught praying in public. (Sometimes the hate is directed specifically toward Catholics. The attacker may have been reacting to her rosary.)
In reality, most violent haters have multiple triggers. They blow up at any mention of Christians or Republicans, and this affinity for violence often starts with an abortion in that person’s past. That is why these persons gravitate toward our sidewalk prayer vigils.
Stay safe out there, people! Pray in pairs or larger groups. Know how to use your phone cameras. Keep a good relationship with your local police, and don’t be afraid to call them at the first sign of trouble.
Pharmer says:
October 12, 2013 at 12:24 am
Sometimes the brain damage that manifests itself as leftism is so severe that the sufferer is unable to feel embarrassment. At this point in the disease progression, reason and the possibility of conscientious ethical behavior dissipate.
Pro-choicers insist that killing is a suitable solution to just about every sort of problem.
Pro-choicers insist that killing is a suitable solution to just about every sort of problem.
Except when it involves animals. There are so many celebrities that are pro-abortion (Natalie Portman, Pink, etc.) that are vegetarians and/or animal rights activists. I don’t have a problem with that, but it doesn’t make sense to me.
@Del, I work with people that claim to be good Christians, but you should hear how they talk about Republicans, especially Sarah Palin. I’m not fond of her either, but the hatred for her is astounding, and she’s not even on the national stage anymore. And I dare not say anything the least bit critical of the Barkster. I am afraid I might get hit (seriously).
It must be hard to be prolife in Madison!
phillymiss says:
October 12, 2013 at 12:27 pm
It must be hard to be prolife in Madison.
There is a lot of hate here. Liberals do not practice the tolerance that they preach.
But Be Not Afraid! Where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more!
A few years ago, we fought and won a long battle with the University Hospital administrators who wanted to start a late-term abortion business at our University Surgical Center. We surrounded the entire hospital block with 2000 pro-lifers, and then kept up a prayerful sidewalk vigil. This was enough to encourage the pro-life staffers inside to resist their management until the effort was aborted.
We are not intimidated by a mouthy young man on the street. We just sign up more men to accompany the “little old church ladies” who are so powerful at our vigil.
None of them identified her attacker as being pro-choice, or anything else.
LifeSiteNews is reporting that he was screaming about ‘You Filipinos’ during the attack. That’s obviously not going to be reported here because it doesn’t support the ‘pro-choice violence’ narrative–I’m somewhat surprise that LifeSiteNews included it in a story.
Of course he passed a law allowing abortions to be performed by non-doctors. Real doctors don’t kill humans they nurture and heal them.
Once before we had discussed the issue of non-physicians performing abortions in CA and I voiced a little surprise that pro-life is pushing the state to remain “doctor-abortion” state. Why? Are we in effect being forced to choose abortion instead of maintaining our position that doctor or no doctor – abortion is wrong?
CA has found pro-life weakness the way I understand it. We are now fighting for abortions in that state. Please set me straight as I am having a hard time understanding this whole focus.
So are we left to conclude that the statement “a post by LifeSiteNews which reports pro-choice violence against a woman” was…..well, ‘accurate’ doesn’t seem quite the right term at this juncture does it.