Pro-life blog buzz 12-20-13
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Priests for Life reports that their lawsuit against Obamacare’s contraceptive mandate was dismissed by a U.S. District Court judge in Washington, D.C. Father Frank Pavone states:
The judge’s decision today is a complete contradiction to Judge Cogan’s decision of just a few days ago in New York for organizations situated similarly to us and using exactly the same arguments.The New York decision recognized that the religious nonprofits were being forced to cooperate with evil. Our judge, instead, claims that we are not being forced to cooperate with evil. Our judge’s decision is wrong, and we are confident of victory in our appeal.
- At National Review Online, Michael New discusses the CDC’s report of a 3% decrease in abortions – in 36 of 44 states reporting – in 2010. Predictably, the media credits an increase in contraceptive use. New writes:
[T]his assertion is not supported by the data. Contraception use began to increase well before abortions started to decline. And the unintended pregnancy rate has actually increased since the mid-1990s. Interestingly, since 1990 there has been a substantial increase in both pro-life public sentiment and state level pro-life laws. However, the mainstream media has scant interest in giving the pro-life movement any credit for declining abortion rates.
- Women’s Rights Without Frontiers prints a heartfelt letter from the two daughters of imprisoned Chinese pro-democracy activist Zhang Lin, who are now safe and living in the U.S. at the home of Reggie Littlejohn:
Zhang Anni [pictured left, with her father] has been known as “China’s youngest prisoner of conscience.” She was detained as a 10-year-old, denied food water and a blanket, and then prevented from attending school — all because of the pro-democracy activism of her celebrated father, Zhang Lin. Zhang Anni and her sister, Zhang Ruli, arrived in the United States in September 2013. - Jay Watts of Life Training Institute responds to a listener who objects to his message because it offends her. Should we stop defending the unborn because we are afraid of offending people?
- Secular Pro-Life lists their top ten stories of the year, with six being written by guest bloggers.
- Pro-Life Action League says that their annual Empty Manger Christmas Caroling at Planned Parenthoods and other abortion sites has received media attention as more states join this event. Unsurprisingly, these liberal media outlets and their commenters view the caroling as an act of hate.
- Reflections of a Paralytic comments on two wrongful birth suits filed (and won) by parents of children born with disabilities. The parents claim they were not given enough prenatal information and that they would have aborted if they had known about their children’s conditions. Apparently it isn’t enough that children with disabilities often qualify for subsidies and other governmental assistance. This sends a chilling message to doctors who may advise abortion even more readily in order to protect themselves from lawsuits.
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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.
If they could get away with it I seriously believe the progressives would pass China-like legislation restricting the number of children parents can have. They would say it ‘saves the planet’ but that is just their code phrase for saving progressives from having to share the planet….
If fetuses are so important to you, how many do you plan to adopt after birth? Or are they worth nothing to you outside of the womb?
Anon, thanks for validating my first post.
Anon is another troll and a joke.
Good morning heather
“Wrongful birth suits?” Since when is this a thing? Upsetting to say the least.
Also regarding China-like legislation: I’ve commented on this blog before about the racist, eugenicist origins of “population control” rhetoric. Population control has always been about controlling supposedly “undesirable” populations. Everything we hear about “overpopulation” refers to Asian and African nations and cultures. Middle-and upper-class white Western women are likely not going to be subject to laws saying they can’t have children or forced or coerced into contraception, sterilization and abortion. It will be women like me who will be accused of not being able to support children or even of “not bonding with children the way white mothers do” according to population rhetoric.
Hunger and poverty in Asian and African nations are very complex problems with many causes, not least of which is centuries of colonial exploitation of natural and human resources. The same racism that fueled colonialism is fueling population rhetoric that attempts to impose such legislation in these countries. It’s appalling and something people especially those of us living in Western countries need to be aware of.
Anon,
Just out of curiosity, what is the extent of your knowledge or experience with abortion? This is a question I often see presented by pro-choicers. Your question is akin to asking firefighters if they are going to adopt all the children they save in a fire, but that’s beside the point. There are no unwanted children, only unwilling parents, who may find themselves in a difficult situation. Our goal is not only to protect humans (fetus is developmental stage of humans) in the womb, but also help the mother with her needs so she doesn’t feel like abortion is her only option. Our assistance goes beyond giving out some baby clothes & few diapers a month (as the rhetoric often goes) to assisting the woman with furniture, clothing, food, financial assistance, job placement, and help finding affordable & safe housing, often while helping her get back up on her feet through parenting and/or life skills classes. We love them both and want to help them both! (the woman & her child).
What abortion fans know about adoption would fit in a thimble. It can be a long arduous process. Even an affluent celebrity like Sandra bullock had to wait 4 years for Louis.
Padma, thank you for pointing out that eugenics and minority targeting were the roots that the scourge of abortion grew from and became the industry that it is today. Now it has morphed and though they primarily target the poor in general; they now like to practice development reduction services on all peoples.
weird to be reminded of the eugenics background of the abortion industry. I was wondering about anti-human rhetoric about being ‘wanted’ as a tag. I began to wonder if Jews were ‘unwanted’ by the Nazis, so were and are ‘disposable’. Why they even passed laws to hurt those opposed to this cruelty.
Such an innocuous-sounding word. Yet ALL … every single child killed by abortion was ‘wanted’ … yep. WANTED – dead, just like the old ‘WANTED DEAD or ALIVE’ posters in every public building. Of course ‘that is not what the phrase means’ says the PC. Then what … if not a target for death (the baby’s fault), then ‘wanted’ as a target for abuse. Both are credible options. When a baby dies through abortion it is rarely a physical necessity, but usually a matter of convenience to the pregnant Mom, but also her medical adviser unwilling to assume any liability.