Pro-life blog buzz 1-21-14
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Down on the Pharm exposes the truth about Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, whose claim to fame is her state senate filibuster in favor of late-term abortion. It seems that the twice-divorced candidate fudged information about her first divorce in her official bio. She also omitted the fact that her second husband paid for her college, cared for their daughter Dru (and her daughter from her first marriage, Amber) while she attended school in Boston, and they divorced right after he made Davis’ last tuition payment. He was then granted custody of both daughters and Wendy Davis was directed to pay child support.
This story – where a former colleague is noted as saying ““Wendy is tremendously ambitious…. She’s not going to let family or raising children or anything else get in her way” – is a must-read.
In typical biased fashion, mainstream media – instead of calling out Democrat Davis – pounced on conservatives for exposing the lies in her own bio.
- At Coming Home, Dr. Gerard Nadal calls for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (pictured left) resignation over his declaration that those who don’t agree with him politically (including “right to lifers”) “have no place” in the state. Amazing how the party that celebrates “tolerance” shows little for opposing views:
… [H]e defines people acting in accord with the tenets of his own [Catholic] Church as extremist and unwelcome in the state. That is a declaration of war on religion by the governor. This incendiary rhetoric is meant to turn New Yorkers against one another, breeding into the political bone marrow a strain of hatred and intolerance that will take generations to purge.Cuomo is now claiming that his comments were “distorted” and taken out of context.
- Big Blue Wave says while the creators of the MTV reality program “16 and Pregnant” claim they will show a teen mom’s abortion, the truth is that “if it doesn’t show the fetus being sucked by a vacuum, then they are not showing the abortion.”
- Live Action reports that “3D Babies, a California company, says it will create a fetal doll from the mother’s 3D/4D ultrasound pictures”:
While a fetus figurine isn’t going to be everyone’s idea of a great investment, the fact that a fetal model can be crafted with accuracy is another blow to the abortion movement, which loses more ground every time something like this happens. - Euthanasia Prevention Coalition’s Alex Schadenberg comments on a case in France similar to that of Terri Schiavo. The courts have intervened to save the life of a man whose wife wanted him to die via starvation and dehydration:
The ruling goes against the wish of his wife and instead favours the parents’ desire to keep their son alive. The wife and parents… have long been in opposition over the issue and in recent months his brothers and sisters have become involved on opposing sides. - Americans United for Life posts their report on the best, worst, and most improved states for protecting women from abortion industry abuses:
For the 5th year in a row, Washington ranked as the worst state for life for failing to protect women from an unmonitored and under-regulated abortion industry, followed by California, Vermont, New York, and Connecticut. This year’s most improved states include Texas, Illinois, North Carolina and Kansas. To see the entire 2014 Life List, click here.
[Cuomo photo via AP]
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The 2014 Life List makes me proud to be an Illinoisan (well that with Concealed Carry in the second place) :)
I want to poke my finger in Abortion Barbie’s eye…. but lying and then blaming Republicans has been a pretty effective strategy for Democrats. We must not underestimate her.
Praise to the Dallas paper for doing some genuine investigation and journalism!
Meanwhile, Cuomo…. We need to be afraid of him. He is carving out some extremist real estate, just like Obama did in the Illinois Senate. The abortion industry is going to get $1.8b tax dollars between now and Obama’s retirement, and Cuomo is looking to get a piece of that.
How right Dr. Nadal is about the party that celebrates tolerance. My way or the highway.
Just who does this egomaniacal little twerp think he is, Zeus on Mt. Olympus?
Be very careful what you wish for governor. The gods punish mortals by giving us what we want.
Ah yes, “taken out of context.” The official slogan of anyone who has ever said anything stupid.
Imagine being Wendy, and having everyone know that your college age daughter chose to remain with her STEP-father rather than you.
Of course, he was her primary parent since age 2, and was her single parent while her mom went off to Harvard too.
That might be why Wendy is the Girl Scouts of America role model for their girls.
One wonders if there will be some kind of IRS backlash against Mr. Davis for discussing these family matters with the media.
Yet to be sourced is a claim, at Red State, that a judge was asked to address a little substance abuse issue as it impinged upon visitation rights. I will be watching for corroboration.
Is Wendy’s whacko-ness a result of genetics, environment, pharmacology, or a combination of the three? Inquiring minds want to know.
On what objective basis can Wendy be deemed to have ‘wacko-ness’? Inquiring minds want to know.
Found corroboration. You can see a new links to further info and a restraining order for Wendy here.
You cite yourself as corroboration?
I see no evidence that she actually did anything. Just someone taking out a bit of pre-emptive character assasination, as sometimes happens.
Jenelle from MTV got pregnant again right after her abortion. Replacement baby?
MTV exploite Markei in “No Easy Decision” when she aborted. She later has come out saying it is the biggest regret of her life and she was coerced into it by her deadbeat boyfriend.
Cuomo is still scary, but I am glad to see that he is back-pedaling from his comments already.
Cuomo sees his tax base eroding away. The exodus from NYC is made up of higher income people, and it’s not being replaced, in number or in tax potential, by the people moving into the state.
Similarly, the RNC saw their voter base and donations eroding away this year and decided to make nice with pro-lifers. Isn’t that special? Those people need to be replaced.
The other day, Cuomo gave a radio interview in which he made the unremarkable point that the kind of Republican who wins elections in, say, Alabama, likely would have something of a tough row to hoe in New York.
“If they are extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York,” Cuomo said in a radio interview Friday. Cuomo defined “extreme conservatism” as being “anti-gay” by opposing same-sex marriage rights, opposed to abortion rights and favoring legalization of assault weapons. Cuomo officials later said the governor’s remarks were aimed at “extremist” conservative Republican candidates.
“The Republican National Committee urges all Republican pro-life candidates, consultants, and other national Republican Political Action Committees to reject a strategy of silence on the abortion issue when candidates are attacked with ‘war on women’ rhetoric,” the resolution reads.
“Not talking about it has not worked well for us,” Barrosse told CNN in an interview. “Not responding has not worked well for us. It’s a conversation the party has to have.”
She considers the past several years of Republican campaigning and lawmaking to have been “not talking about it”? Akin and Mourdock, forced-ultrasound and clinic-closing laws from Texas to Wisconsin to North Carolina? The No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act in the House, which could lead to the IRS auditing rape victims? That’s “not talking about it”? Dear heaven, what are these people hoping for? Republican candidates who campaign exclusively outside women’s clinics, harassing everyone who goes in?
But please! Bring it. Be honest—tell us how you feel about exclusions for rape, incest, or the life of the mother. Take it the next step and talk about contraception. Keeping showing voters just where the Republican Party stands on this one. I don’t think Democrats will have any problem with that at all.
Yep, that’ll work.
And for a bit of levity –
The Republican Party of Multnomah County, Oregon, got in a bit of hot water when they decided to raffle off an AR-15 rifle for their Lincoln Day fundraising dinner, a move that was a supposed “celebration” of Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. (No, they really thought raffling off a gun to “honor” two of America’s most infamous assassinations via firearm. Got their finger on the throbbing pulse of America, those Republicans.)
Hi Pharmer,
Here’s a link to the restraining order.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/201176359/Wendy-Davis-Temporary-Restraining-Order
Reality,
http://www.guns.com/2013/01/21/guns-com-on-civil-rights-leader-and-gun-owner-martin-luther-king-jr/
This was how King and other black citizens protected themselves from the Democrat Party run terrorist organization the Ku Klux Klan.
Mary, in the rural South many black people had guns that were used for hunting. However, they did serve other purposes as well.
As for Abortion Barbie, “liar, liar, Spanx on fire!”
Ya, Mary…
Breitbart.com and the tea partiers are digging a hole for Wendy Davis the way we all did for Anthony Weiner.
She is destined for the same kind of relative obscurity.
Wendy Davis is the next Sandra Fluke.
Hi Pharmer,
I think its more accurate to say that these are two people who had enough rope…..and they did the rest.
Breitbart and The Tea Party didn’t have to lift a finger.
Hi phillymiss,
Someone needs to remind the charming Ms Davis there are these pesky things called public records.
Watch for an upcoming performance of “I’m a victim”.
Pharmer, don’t pay attention to “reality” attempting to discredit your valid sources on Wendy. These soruces speak for themselves and all that “pre-emptive character assassination talk from “reality” is just his despearte attempt to salvage the remnants of his arguments for abortion. He is being hoisted by his own petard though…
Okay everyone, just ignore the troll.
Wendy Davis is the next Sandra Fluke. – what, Rush Limbaugh will deliver some deranged insults?
your valid sources on Wendy. These soruces speak for themselves – that’s one of the funniest things you’ve said yet “thomas r.” :-)
I am trying to JDC.
I would like to congratulate Louisiana on coming in first on AUL’s list of most protective states.
Well, thanks Reality. Making typos in some of my words in terms of spelling has become an art form for me. You do have to admit that soruces is not only funny but has a pretty good sound to it too ;)
Imagine the following scenario:
Republican man running for governor spins tale of hardship and woe as a single father struggling through law school to finally attain elected office in the state legislature.
He can’t keep it quite straight as to when he divorced or how long he lived in a trailer.
No mention of the fact he married a successful woman 13 years his senior, with whom he has another child, and SHE paid his tuition and took out a loan for him to attend Harvard, as well as worked and cared for the children, his and theirs. as he “struggled”.
He dumps her the day after she pays off the loan. She files for divorce charging adultery and is given full custody of both children, one of whom isn’t hers, She also takes out a temporary restraining order.
He proclaims that he pays child support as part of the divorce settlement. How noble.
He then plays the victim, blaming those who expose the truth, and states his opponent, a woman confined to a wheelchair, has no right to question his story as she has never walked in his shoes.
I can hear the feminists, liberals, and Democrats howling like banshees.
I wasn’t making fun of your typo Thomas R. We all make typo’s and they are hardly extremely funny.
It was what you actually said which was so highly amusing. :-)
Wow, a woman can’t even keep her child without you people criticizing her.
And you don’t lose custody of a 21 year old.