by Bethany and Mary Kay

And now for something completely different....

Fetal Scooby-Doo?

There is a message in this cartoon somewhere....

by Jill Stanek

Rich and I are returning home from our Hawaiian vacation today, which has sensitized me more than ever to the devastation of population decline.

One elderly half-Hawaiian told me she thinks there are no pure blooded Hawaiians left; Encyclopedia Britannica puts the number at less than 10,000.

It is politically correct to blame Westerners for the Hawaiian demise. Numbering anywhere from 300k-500k or more when Captain James Cook arrived in 1778, it is true their numbers spiraled downward due to the introduction of our diseases, like chicken pox, measles, and STDs.

But omitted from discussion is the ancient Hawaiian penchant for human sacrifice, numbering in the tens to hundreds of thousands to angry gods, as well as a strict penal code with capital punishment for breaking numerous taboos that included crossing one's shadow over a chief's shadow.

Speaking of chiefs, also omitted from popular discussion is the ancient Hawaiian class system with the belief that inbreeding between siblings and other immediate family members was good, certainly also weakening the Hawaiian strain.

How many millions of their progeny did Hawaiians themselves snuff?

All of that was actually an aside. Troy Newman of Operation Rescue alerted me to this trailer about the soon-to-be-released documentary, Demographic Winter. Click on this image to watch it at its link....

by Jacqueline Harvey

As a pro-life activist, I've heard my fair share of the mantra, "How many unwanted children are you going to adopt?" As a woman who desires to adopt and knows countless families created or supplemented by adoption, this is easy to retort: "As many as I can."

But at my most recent trip to the pound, I had a thought that has made me think of this a different way.

Walking through the cages of the animals doomed to death in 72 hours if no one claimed them, my heart shattered. I wished I could save them all, but was fettered by the reality that I am simply not equipped to care for dozens upon dozens of dogs.

Then, I became angry. There was nothing wrong with those dogs that condemned them, but their owners. Irresponsible owners who failed to spay/neuter, failed to feed their animals, failed to properly restrain them, just flat failed them. Even the aggressive dogs were only such because of abuse or neglect.

The bottom line was that I can't force people to spay/neuter. I can't force them to properly vaccinate or feed their dependent animals- but moreover, I can't do this for them. As much as I would LOVE to save and adopt the innocent animals who face the consequences of their irresponsibility, I can not....

By: Mary Kay Hastings

I found this quote and thought it was rather interesting, considering the posts that we have put up over the last week and a half.

Not only have I continued to follow your work with loving admiration and expect ever greater results from your beneficence, I have also known of Nehru's statesmanlike interest in birth-control, and now I behold you and him and Lady Rama Rau working together -- a triple Hercules -- for the deliverance of a land long-cursed with excess of population. I cannot imagine anything more blessed happening on earth. As you teach, mankind has, through ignorance, often destroyed the sweet joy of childhood. Now a tide of enlightenment, slow but sure, shall lift its healing waves from one end of the world to the other until every child has a chance to be well born, well fed and fairly started in life -- and that is woman's natural work as the creator of the human race. Affectionately I salute you, Margaret Sanger, as the prophet and the woman Prometheus of humanity's highest physical and mental welfare....

by Mary Kay Hastings

Short people got no reason to live?

Sure, everybody make mistakes sometimes. But we ain't talkin' spilled milk here! From Operation Rescue, "Healthy baby narrowly escapes late abortion at Tiller's clinic," February 12:

Last September, a 22-year old woman and her mother arrived at George Tiller's Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas, for an abortion. She had been told by her Reno doctor that her baby suffered from dwarfism, water on the brain, and a number of other fetal abnormalities. He also told her that if she attempted to deliver the baby at term, she could die. Fearful for her life, the woman made the trip to Wichita, KS.

CPC volunteer, Judi Weldy, convinced her to get another ultrasound....