Pro-life blog buzz 1-3-14
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- ProLifeBlogs links to Operation Rescue’s top ten pro-life victories of 2013.
- Pro-Life in TN discusses the conflicting policies of population building in Israel – encouraging immigration while expanding government-funded abortions.
- Right to Life of Michigan says Planned Parenthood has resorted to plagiarizing and deceptively editing stories from a NARAL website in order to create their own website opposing MI’s decision to opt out of abortion insurance coverage:
In their desperate attempts to attack this pro-life legislation, abortion advocates have made false statements about whether the treatment of miscarriages would be covered and how the signatures which initiated this legislation were collected. As they try to drum up sympathetic stories, they are now plagiarizing the work of another pro-abortion organization and deceptively editing those stories because they recognize most people are not in favor of their tax dollars and insurance premiums paying for 3rd trimester abortions.
- Wesley J. Smith remarks on end-of-life care polling data and wonders how minority groups may react to the cost controlling measures of Obamacare. Would they still support the President and his liberal agenda when an end-of-life rationing situation affects a loved one?
The Pew Poll shows that 61% of African-Americans want doctors to “do everything possible to save their lives” when experiencing “a disease with no hope of improvement” and “in a great deal of pain.” So do 55% of Hispanics.
But one of Obamacare’s primary purposes is cost control, which will prevent “everything possible” from being done to extend life through cost/benefit treatment guidelines, insurance regulations, health care rationing, and/or futile care impositions forcing removal of treatment. Obamacarians want the right to coerce, not just educate and persuade.
- ProLife NZ comments on an unusual story in which a child was denied benefits after the tragic death of his parents because he was still in the womb at the time their will was written.
- Priests for Life intends to “launch[] the Cardinal John O’Connor Institute for the Pro-life Training of the Clergy, which will include a re-packaging of many of the activities Priests for Life has done all along, together with some new initiatives” in 2014.
- Secular Pro-Life comments on the Texas father attempting to disconnect his pregnant wife from life support:
After reading the comments section of this article on the story, I found myself in a very small minority of those who disagree with Erick Munoz’s desire to have his wife and unborn child taken off of life support, for several reasons….Why is this father trying to find all the reasons why his wife and unborn child should be removed from life support and left to die, and not the reasons why they shouldn’t? I find it very frustrating and disheartening that Erick Munoz thinks this way and also frightening that so many people actually agree with him. I believe these hopeless, negative attitudes about the Munoz family’s situation are caused mainly by one thing: abortion. Abortion causes society to devalue human beings. When the abortion industry, media, and politicians pound in our heads over and over that unborn babies are blobs of disposable tissue, it’s easier to see why someone would not be motivated to preserve the life of their “clump of cells.”
At least we can rejoice in the fact that Texas has a law which prevents misguided, emotionally distraught people from making this kind of horrible, irreversible choice. If only every state protected all stages of life in every situation.
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.
“The Pew Poll shows that 61% of African-Americans want doctors to “do everything possible to save their lives” when experiencing “a disease with no hope of improvement” and “in a great deal of pain.” So do 55% of Hispanics.”
How do these two groups reconcile this with supporting Obamacare?
I fall into the do nothing catergory. Put me on hospice and let me go. Keep me free from pain.
Hi heather,
I hear you.
I read that CA family will be transferring their daughter to another facility. This is so tragic, I just don’t think they can accept her death or want to make the decision to let her go, a decision I fear they will have to make down the line. A facility in New York may accept her. What is this family thinking? Flights cross country on a regular basis to see her? If she suddenly begins to fail can they be by her side?
Honestly heather, I’ve never seen anything like this. My heart goes out to this family in their loss, to a point I can understand their state of shock and denial, but please let that poor girl go and get the help needed to cope with your grief and loss.
I don’t’ want to be here one second longer nor one second less than is written of me in HIS book. My only concern is that I accomplish every thing that was purposed for my life.
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In the event that some of my work is left undone when the last of the sand passes thru the hourglass of my life, then my hope is that my children wrap up the loose ends.
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I read somewhere in the book that my children are weapons in the hand of the Warrior and I will not be ashamed when my they confront our common enemy in the gates of the city.
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And I know that ‘children’ is not limited to my biological son and daughters.
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“And this is why I am suffering as I do. Still I am not ashamed, for I know (perceive, have knowledge of, and am acquainted with) Him Whom I have believed (adhered to and trusted in and relied on), and I am [positively] persuaded that He is able to guard and keep that which has been entrusted to me and which I have committed [to Him] until that day.
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It must be emotionally exhausting worshipping a goddess who is so impotent she requires mere mortals to defend her.
Hi Mary I had not heard that. They are only going to prolong the inevitible. Im sure that they are looking for someone to give them the answers they want. I understand pain and denial. There are those very rare instances where people awake from comas but I have yet to see it in all my years of nursing. Let her go. Its the kinder thing to do and then you can get on with the healing.
And yes Mary Im sad to say but the mother believes she will one day snap out of it but she has been declared brain dead by 2 neurologists. Ive seen this pain before but shes brain dead. Nothing will change.
Hi heather,
The people who awoke were brain damaged, not brain dead. People don’t understand there is a significant difference and hold on to hope. You and I know too well this child’s fate and the decisions the family will be forced to make. I have no doubt they will come to rue the day they made this decision to keep her alive.
This family is in dire need of professional help.
Mary I was reading on this case last night. As morbid as this may sound did you know that the coroner must be involved in this decision because it is actually the shipping of a dead body. I understand the family not wanting to let go but she is already gone.
I will bet they nicked an artery during her procedure…i had mine out at 10. I still have sleep apnea. A cpap machine may have helped.