Pro-life blog buzz 12-13-13
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- ProWomanProLife showcases an article about the death of a young woman who used the NuvaRing contraceptive. Her lawyer now fights for justice against the manufacturer, which touts its product as being easy — but buried in the fine print of thousands of pages sent to the FDA are the results of 500 studies which included blood clots and death.
- ProLife NZ has a truly wonderful story about an RU-486 reversal. Ashley, at age 20, became pregnant and was pressured to get an abortion. Thankfully, she and her daughter Kaylie are alive and unharmed today – flourishing, in fact.
- At Pro-Life Action League, Ann Scheidler comments on the abortion industry’s tactics to force employers to pay for abortifacients, now in cases before the Supreme Court. The current propaganda is that women will be denied the use of birth control by their bosses. PLAL wonders when it becomes the responsibility of your employer to pay for your birth control.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The lawsuits challenge the government’s right to force the employer to pay for a woman’s birth control in her employer-provided health insurance. No one is telling women that they can’t walk down to the corner Walgreens and buy whatever birth control they want….What a sad commentary on womanhood. I find it so frustrating and truly disappointing that all the feminist movement has come to is contraception and abortion. It is bad enough that feminist leaders campaign for abortion on demand and free birth control, but it is a real indictment of 21st century women that they buy this definition of themselves.
- Alveda King of Priests for Life wishes she would have discussed her pro-life conversion with Nelson Mandela:
I feel that I failed him by not reaching out to him and trying to get with him and sit down and have a talk about my transformation. How I came from thinking that it was okay to abort a child to knowing that it was wrong because it that’s a sacred human life. I failed but I pray that I don’t fail millions of others and I pray that that message will continue to resonate across the globe. - At Life Training Institute, Jay Watts discusses Joseph Dellapenna’s book, Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History. Part 2 here.
- Right to Life of Michigan says pro-lifers gave an overwhelming response to a legislative calling campaign and Tweetfest on the Abortion Insurance Opt Out Act:
Thanks to a great swell of grassroots lobbying effort, our message about voting on the Abortion Insurance Opt Out Act has been heard loud and clear in Lansing. Support for the measure is stronger than ever. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind at the Capitol that our initiated legislation has the votes to become law!Even Politico noticed:
Michigan could become the 24th state to ban most abortions in exchange plans this week, after an unusual citizens’ petition drive that allows state lawmakers to resurrect a bill the governor had vetoed and vote it into law without his signature….Michigan legislators are expected to take a second stab at a ban this week. Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, vetoed it the first time. Anti-abortion activists collected more than 315,000 signatures to allow the legislature to take it up again, and if it passes it would become law without Snyder’s signature, under a provision in the state constitution.
[Mandela photo via melty.fr]
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.
“I find it so frustrating and truly disappointing that all the feminist movement has come to is contraception and abortion. It is bad enough that feminist leaders campaign for abortion on demand and free birth control, but it is a real indictment of 21st century women that they buy this definition of themselves.”
Politics diverted the feminism thing. I remember back to the 1070s, but not farther back. Abortion access was an aspect of feminism, but there was so much more to the political efforts, such as ERA.
Here is why the focus has gotten narrowed to birth control and abortion:
Progressive legislators sustain and develop policies that bring money through the doors of Planned Parenthood – abortion support does this. PP provides possibly a third of the nation’s abortions, with the remainder provided by small practices with no political power to speak of.
PP needs a reason to exist. Abortion is the only reason. Any doc anywhere can do breast cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, prescribe BC pills, and treat STDs – this is low-level stuff. So, there is NO need for women-specific healthcare ANYWHERE; just the fiunding and access; that can be handled by FQHCs and Medicaid coverage, etc.
PP takes some of their money, that has come courtesy of entrenched govt programs, and circles it back to those politicians. PP just supported McAuliffe in VA to the tune of $1 million.
PP makes money off of Rx BC, and treating STDs. But that isnot enough to justify their existence; abortion must be legal for them to have a reason to exist.
The democrats and liberals have circled around this one aspect of feminism since it is the only scheme of those in the liberal agenda that so neatly circulates money back and forth.
If abortion gets drastically decreased or outlawed, the political support behind abortion will dry up.
I hate to see it, but even in local judge and school board elections, the liberals almost always have served on some PP committee, been recognized by PP, etc. PP is all over the map from the ground up.
Friends insist that some local rep. candidate is a wonderful person, and so I should vote for them – and their position would have nothing to do with pro-life issue. I go look them up on the web and find the PP tie-in every time.
It is the re-election power of legal abortion. The BC issue is just yet another way, as has breast cancer screening, to bring more money thru the door of PP, as long as their unique capability – providing abortions – is legal.
In a similar way, Hispanic issues have laser-focused on legalizing immigrants – adding millions of dem voters – while down-playing other minority-related political issues.
Rick Snyder a Republican in name only? If this effort succeeds, that will be a lesson for him.
The feminist movement in developing countries is much different than what we see in the industrialized world. They are much more focused on grassroots issues, such as equal access to education, preventing child marriages, fighting sexual violence against including FGM, etc. I remember reading about an inrernational women’s conference where the women from the U.S were talking about lesbian rights, anortion, etc., while the Third World participants were concerned about women in their countries were worried about access to clean water and having enough food to eat!
Cover story in the new issue of Vanity Fair tells the story of two young women (college-age friends, aged 24) who suffered deadly complications from the NuvaRing.
One young woman was a promising star in Democrat Party politics. She died.
The other was a military star athlete and Olympic hopeful who nearly died. Her athletic hopes and military career are both abruptly and permanently ended.