Pro-life blog buzz 1-24-14
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Pro-Life in TN shares an article by David French at National Review Online that captures the hubris and “me first” mindset of many who support abortion on demand:
I’m still shaking my head at Wendy Davis — not that she lied about her biography (sometimes it seems as if every politician springs out of some kind of heroic narrative) — but that she, as a very young lawyer doing the simple, ordinary work that thousands of young lawyers do, conceded custody of her child on the grounds that “it’s not a good time for me right now” to be the custodial parent.I’m also shaking my head at the president of the United States, speaking on the anniversary of the legalized killing of tens of millions of children, justifying this slaughter because it gives the former parents the ability to “fulfill their dreams.”
- Albert Mohler discusses 41 years of abortion, highlighting past comments from the late President Richard Nixon along with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (both pictured left). Both candidly revealed that abortion was seen as a way of population growth among those of certain racial, economic and ethnic backgrounds.
- After Abortion contrasts the Washington Post’s coverage of the “March for Women’s Lives” in 2004 to their coverage of the March for Life this year. Interestingly, the pro-abortion march garnered six pages of coverage as well as an aerial shot of the crowd taken from the top of the Washington Monument (which is currently forbidden).
- Suzy B asks readers who use Twitter to encourage their senators to support the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.
- At Priests for Life, Fr. Frank Pavone addresses arguments that claim pro-lifers are judgmental and political:
Today we remind every pastor in America that preaching against abortion does not mean we are judgmental, nor does it mean we are political.It simply means we stand with the weakest, most marginalized members of our society, the children still in the womb, and we stand ready to help their moms and dads welcome new life, despite the fears they may have.
- ProWomanProLife features video of Christian Buchanan’s mother Lacey, who plans to kick-off her own pro-life ministry with a rally on January 25th. The video she made introducing her son to the world received more than 11 million views:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/OtJ9_-WOXik[/youtube]
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I would have aborted that kid in that video. He has basically no quality of life I would want for myself.
Really Steven? You can’t possibly know what he experiences, feels, & thinks unless you can read his mind or spend a day in his shoes. And who has the right to say individuals with a developmental or physical disability can’t have a meaningful quality of life? Perhaps the way an individual experiences life is different from others, but that’s not to say they can’t enjoy life in their own meaningful way. Also look past the disability to the person of intrinsic worth he is.
Judging a person’s worth on their based on one’s own subjective opinion of “quality of life” is a dangerous road towards discrimination and euthanasia to go down.
What a cruel statement. You leave me speechless.
*I mean eugenics instead of euthanasia.
Yep really….I can have my own opinions of what life I deem to be worthwhile. It might be a dangerous road for you but its reality for many people everyday facing fetal disease and other pregnancy complications. There are diseases that are so horrible and have such terrible outcomes most people would not want to suffer through them. For those who are opposed to abortion no matter the reason….you people need to realize this fact. Grandma isn’t worth the million dollar treatment to save her life because other factors come into play, neither is the life of the fetus.
Suz, it might be cruel but it is a fact and Im sure the view of many others in the world.
Yes Steven, you can have your own opinions of what is worthwhile for YOUR life. But it’s pretty disgusting that you think you have the right to take other people’s lives if they aren’t “worthy” of living according to you. Move to Belgium plz.
Steven,
You may be entitled to your opinions, but that doesn’t mean they’re right or ethical. And for your information pro-lifers don’t live in a glass bubble and for many of us, our occupations expose us to hard cases and tragedies almost every day (I work as an aide in a nursing home & with severely disabled individuals in their homes & phillymiss is a social worker, I believe), but that does not give us the right to judge other’s quality of life or to sacrifice our principles and ethics. Again, you can’t see into the hearts & minds of others & who are we to judge other’s quality of life & whether they should or shouldn’t live…
*My phone battery died, it should of read “Again, you can’t see into or read the hearts & minds of others, so what gives you the right to assume they wouldn’t want to live & what gives you that right to make that judgement for others. The question then should be raised, are we judging another’s quality of life based on a perception of suffering or are we forming our opinions not from experience & knowledge but from our own bias and prejudices (& even unwillingness to be burdened or inconvenienced).
Lacey has heard that from PUHLENTY of people that she should have aborted her precious son!!
Her body her choice though right Steven???
So grateful to God that Christian has a loving family that adore him and know for a FACT that all life has value.
Also, it’s worth noting how Steven jumped from defending euthanasia/abortion/eugenics for a boy who has a visual disability/Hydrocephaly (which are both medically manageable by the way) & anyone else he deem s unworthy to live to hiding behind the hard cases.
We jumped from fetal disease and pregnancy complications to Grandma pretty quickly.
That little boy is precious, and HE is OBVIOUSLY happy. You have no right to take away a child’s life because YOU think that his quality of life might not be good.
Her body her choice, I guess, Carla… Unless an enlightened person like Steven comes along to decide whose lives are worth continuing and whose are not. Wow, thank goodness people like him are around to let us know which people we should kill.
Meet Steven, the face of eugenics and possibly a relative of our President.
We jumped to Grandma pretty quickly because the devaluing of human life is seen across the board. Who is useful to society? Who is a burden? This is the utilitarian ideology.
So many people I know don’t even believe people who think like Steven exist.
Of course, sometimes Obama lets his utilitarianism slip out, too – like the time he talked about Grandma needing pills instead of a hip replacement.
Helen Keller became blind and deaf as a toddler. Her story is portrayed in the movie “The Miracle Worker”. I suppose her life wasn’t worth much either, was it Steven?
Oh, and let’s not forget Stevie Wonder, who considers his blindness “a gift from God. This way I judge people for who they really are, not how they look to me”.
I can see that Steven does not have anything like the quality of life that I want for myself.
I should help Steven out.
My standard for quality of life does not involve having no eyes. Many people would rather die than have certain things happen to them. For example if I was a vegetable in the hospital I would want to die. Life is not always worth living. It hurts you guys so much to say that life is not good sometimes. Life is bad sometimes and life should end. One more time….Life SHOULD end sometimes!
Marco Rubio lied about his biography, too. His parents actually came to the U.S. before Castro. But, I guess that’s an OK lie.
By the way, the latest from Texas is a PROLIFE GOP judge ordered a brain dead woman removed from life support and she no longer has to be an artificial incubator for her all but dead fetus:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/24/health/pregnant-brain-dead-woman-texas/
The law is the law. The Texas law was never designed for what the hospital hid behind.
I only know four blind people personally who’ve earned bachelor’s degrees. Gosh, what a terrible life: making friends, learning, having jobs, adapting to adversity, basking in your mother’s love..
Is that it? Did widdle Stevie Troll’s mommy not hug him enough? So jealous of a blind baby he wants him to die? Does the very notion of a child laughing and playing really upset him that much? Yep. It does. The burgermeister award goes to… LOL!
“Life SHOULD end sometimes!”
It does. Every minute of every day. Life ends when it is over. Not when someone takes “pity” on a smiling child and decides they’re not happy.
Steven,
Other then being blind, what are some of the other reasons you believe people SHOULD be killed? Are you ok with killing deaf people too or only the ones who can’t see? What about diabetics or people with bipolar disorder, should they be killed too?
Steven, what about healthy babies that haven’t been born yet? Should babies be killed because mom hates him or her and wanted the other sex?
Merit,
So you have no problem with Wendy’s tale of woe when in fact she hooked up with some guy and he took care of the bills and kids?
Merit,
Also, would you please medically define “all but dead fetus” and how that applies here.
As for Marco Rubio,
I’ve been bitterly disillusioned with him since he became part of the Gang of 8 and schmoozed with Chuck-U Schumer. This fairy tale about his parents does nothing to enhance my opinion of him. I’m not a Florida resident so what I think doesn’t really matter.
I think Steven needs to learn what real-pain feels like. We even have it recorded in the Gospels. (it happened to PETER) and now to you … Jesus said ‘Do you love me? … well, do you???
… did you know that ‘Steven’ is the first Christian martyr?
God bless and keep you!
The burden of trying to figure out who has a life worth living is now on the shoulders of STEVEN!!
There are so many joyous, happy, productive people in this world but you seem to know better than anyone else if they should live or die. It is totally up to you. Much like those in charge at the concentration camps. One look and a flip of the wrist and that life and death decision was made.
Good luck man. You are the most disabled person I have met lately.
Abortion rights! Women should abort for any reason at any time. I would abort that kid and so would many others….thats all I’m sayin!
You display a sad poverty of spirit, Steven.
Poverty of spirit? Naww just living in reality.
Usually what I have found is that being around those who are less advantaged than we are tends to make us better people – more compassionate, more in tune to the needs of others.
I’m sitting here wondering if Steven has ever even met anyone who is disabled. And if so, if he has expressed his sentiments to them.
My standard for quality of life does not involve having no eyes.
But yet you live without a heart, Steven. Amazing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=helen+keller+books&oq=helen+keller+books&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.4775j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8
Steven, that is a horrifically cruel thing to say.
I will say, though, that there is a time for everything. And perhaps we do artificially preserve life too long. Neonatal hospice can be a good option. And sometimes, when a person has reached the end of their lives, they want to just go.
HOWEVER. There is a HUGE difference between allowing nature/God/death to take its natural course and loving the person to the end and out-and-out killing the person because we healthy people deem them a burden and too much effort to care for.
Choosing hospice can be a heartbreaking decision for families to make but it is not murder. It may be a necessary decision to make. And people every day make those heartaching decisions.
But again. Those kinds of decisions are often made with love and seeing that there is a time for everything.
What I can’t understand is people like Steven who look at the face of a boy and his mother who is in love with him and bravely chose to go against society and give her baby a chance, and say he would have murdered him. WHAT?! You would have murdered that child? Like gone in there, said, eh. His life’s not worth it. And just kill him?? How can you be so cruel?
Your life must be so void of joy if you see human life as so intrinsically worthless.
What is it with pro-aborts flinging ‘pro-life’ politicians in our faces on here?
Pro-life or not, they are politicians. They are not perfect. Most on here don’t even agree on politics (ie Marco Rubio makes me want to hurl. He’s a squish).
We’re talking about life. Not people who are in the spotlight and often make dumb decisions and say silly things.
Mary, what do you think of Scott Walker for president? He has shown the ability get support from both sides of the political spectrum and still govern as a conservative.
“My standard for quality of life does not involve having no eyes. Many people would rather die than have certain things happen to them. For example if I was a vegetable in the hospital I would want to die. Life is not always worth living. It hurts you guys so much to say that life is not good sometimes. Life is bad sometimes and life should end. One more time….Life SHOULD end sometimes!”
Steven would you commit suicide if you were blinded in some way? That’s a really, really low bar for quality of life. I think you must think very little of yourself if you think you’re suddenly worthless if you can’t see.
Wow. I hate the Hitler analogy because its so overused but Steven would have been right at home during the Third Reich. Adolf hated all those “useless eaters,” not only the disabled but mentally handicapped people and those with psychiatric disabilities, like me. That little boy looks like he is happy to me. Are you the one to tell him he should have been aborted?
I was born with Hydrocephaly myself, and I’ve had my struggles but I’ve also had my successes, including a B.A. in sociology. Should I have been told that I should have been aborted if I had been born in 1973 instead of 1972? (actually, I could have been aborted easily anyway because my parents lived fairly close to NY where it was already legal though I pretty much know they wouldn’t have done that under any condition)