On May 1 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Student Government Association Senator Roderick King was caught on tape vandalizing a pro-life display of crosses commemorating children killed by abortion.

UWSP administration had given Pointers for Life authorization to display the exhibit. This didn't deter King from destroying it, nor did knock-kneed campus police....

6 days later the UWSP administration issued a statement that "[u]niversity procedures are being followed" for discipline but it couldn't say what. And what about King's leadership position on UWSP's SGA? How could the SGA possibly retain him when he defied not only university policy but the rule of law against destroying property? When I wrote my 1st post on this disgrace on May 7, the UWSP SGA had not disciplined or removed King - almost a week after the spectacle.

Today reader Marc sent me the following email exchange he had with SGA Senator Claire Smith that gives a good idea of the "discipline" SGA meted King - likely an "adda boy."

Smith has a high threshhold for violence, considering King's actions of pulling and throwing crosses from the ground nonviolent.

Smith also considered King "in the right" and PFL at fault for King's temper tantrum due to an unnamed "technicality."

So I expect SGA members to be meeting up at some local bar tonight to celebrate King's boorish behavior. What punks... some of whom wouldn't even be here today if not for pro-lifers. And what a school. Click to enlarge:

[[Photo courtesy of the Wausau Daily Herald]

From the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society website:

On Saturday, May 3, over 300 mourners gathered at St. Gerald's Church in Farmington, MI, for the funeral Mass to pay their respects to 23 victims of abortion killed at the Woman Care abortion clinics in Lathrup Village and Sterling Heights - owned and operated by abortionist Alberto Hodari....

(See more photos on page 2.)

Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, John Quinn, offered the funeral Mass. Con-celebrants included the chancellor for the Archdiocese of Detroit, Msgr. Robert McClory as well as Father Ronald Browne, pastor of St. Gerald's.

Pro-lifers, including mmebers of Citizens for a Pro-life Society, retrieved the babies on February 24 and March 2 - amid biohazardous watse and numerous patient records.

Those who live according to the ethics of the culture of death threw these human beings in the trash - after killing them in violent acts of abortion. The human being made in the image and likeness of God had no more value or meaning than the coffee grounds and half eaten McDonald's hamburgers - thrown out in the garbage dumpster.

When pro-lifers took them out of the trash they were given back to God the Father who made them - reversing in some small way, the horrific injustice done to them.

The babies truly can say: "The reason why the world does not know us--is that it never knew HIM. We are God's children now" (1 John 3: 1-2).

[T]he Hodari Babies [are] buried... at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Southfield, MI, Cemetery Section 71.

The Michigan Catholic has posted an in-depth article today with more photos.

[HT: Milissa of Catholic Pro-life Committee, who 1st discovered these babies, mentioned in the MC article]

A press release yesterday from the Indian Hindu reform group Navya Shastra called on Hindus to "allow daughters to impart final rites at the funerals of their parents."

A NS rep explained, "One religious reason why boys are favored among Hindus is because of the anachronistic belief that only a son can formally conduct this ceremony, so a girl is totally worthless in this regard."

I found this information fascinating. According to Webhealing.com...

Hindus... believe in the hastened departure of soul. They believe that once it sheds the body, the soul prepares to depart immediately on its karmic journey, and as such, it's very important to cremate the body as soon as practicable so as not to provide any allurement for the soul to linger on to this side of the world. Therefore, Hindu customs require the body to be taken to the holy grounds and cremated as soon as all the family members have had a chance to view it.

The New York Times added:

[T]he son of the deceased should perform the ceremony, If he [is not able] at the time of the death, the father or brother of the deceased or some other male member of the family [must] his place. When there is no son in the family, one Is adopted for the purpose.... The body is placed upon the [funeral] pile.... Then the chief mourner walks around the pile three times and fires it....

So according to Hindus, one's post-death future is dependent on a hasty cremation, and only family males can see to that. Thus, preborn girls are killed so her parents can live after dying.

NS called on "Indian feminist leaders" to address the growing female-to-male gender imbalance.

Apparently it is not only American feminists but feminists worldwide who are silent on this most extreme demonstration of sexism - killing.

Two reasons why. First, to speak up would be to admit preborns are human. Can't do that.

The NYT reported April 28 the Indian gender imbalance is only worsening:

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh highlighted an "alarming" decline in the number of girls for every 1,000 boys in India, slipping to 927 in 2001 from 962 in 1981, according to the latest census figures....

The Lancet, the British medical journal, estimated in 2006 that as many as 10 million female fetuses had been aborted in India over the previous 20 years by families trying to secure male heirs. Unicef... noted that the imbalance in the sex ratio had become particularly acute in India's wealthier regions, where couples were easily able to afford ultrasound tests.

Well, that's interesting. So are Planned Parenthood et al trying to stop female feticide, or are they focused on getting more money from abortion by forcing UN and government programs to more widely avail abortion to poor women?

If you picked B, you're right. See here and here. The abortion industry is aiding in worsening sex-selection abortions in India because it wants to make more money.

And that is the primary reason feminists and the abortion industry are silent.

An NS rep I spoke with told me the group has only taken a position against female abortion, which is also interesting.

[Funeral photo courtesy of Encyclopedia Britannica; Indian family photo courtesy of the Boston Globe]