Ross DouthatcomparesSenator Kennedy with his sister Eunice, who also recently passed away:
What the siblings shared - in addition to the grace, rare among Kennedys, of a ripe old age and a peaceful death - was a passionate liberalism and an abiding Roman Catholic faith. These 2 commitments were intertwined: Ted Kennedy's tireless efforts on issues like health care, education and immigration were explicitly rooted in Catholic social teaching, and so was his sister's lifelong labor on behalf of the physically and mentally impaired.
I watched Senator Ted Kennedy's burial service at Arlington National Cemetery on t.v. last night and was saddened when hearing the contents of his letter to Pope Benedict XVI.
Nowhere in his letter did Kennedy profess a belief that Jesus Christ died to give him the free gift of eternal life. Instead Kennedy's letter read as from a man unsettled about his future, seemingly listing his accomplishments in hopes they would be enough and additionally hoping the prayers of the leader of his faith would help. Don't get me wrong, the prayers of the saints are invaluable - in all areas except helping God make up His mind on one's entry into heaven....
UPDATE, 12:05p:LifeNews.com has a more detailed article up on the sad loss of Bob Schindler.
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I just received the sad news from Schindler family friend Bro. Paul O'Donnell that family patriarch Bob Schindler passed away early this morning in a FL hospital.
Bob was 71 72 years old and died of heart failure. His health had been deteriorating, but his death was still unexpected. He was admitted to the hospital only yesterday complaining of shortness of breath.
I'm so sad for this dear family, who has endured so much. Bro. Paul told me Bob was never quite the same after Terri was killed by denial of hydration and nutrition on March 31, 2005.
Bob's funeral is tentatively scheduled for Friday, September 4, in the Philadelphia area. Details to follow.
Please join me in praying for the Schindler family's comfort and peace at this tragic time.
I know the family is very close, and Bob's death will devastate them.
Father Raymond de Souza has an interesting piece in the National Catholic Register thinking about how today's American political scene might have been different had Senator Ted Kennedy held onto his pro-life beliefs:
Kennedy's family legacy, his impregnable position in MA (he won more than 60% of the vote the year after Chappaquiddick) and his national prominence rendered him immune from the pressures other politicians had to face. He could always choose his own path. Had he chosen to remain economically liberal but culturally conservative, he would have prevented the Democratic Party from embracing the orthodoxy of the unlimited abortion license. Had he remained pro-life the Democratic Party would have had to make place for other pro-life politicians. Had he remained pro-life many others -
Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson - would not have abandoned their pro-life positions as the price to be paid for national ambition.
Geron has announced why their human embryonic stem cell clinical trial was put on hold by the FDA. Some research showed cysts at the injury sites:
But in a prepared statement Thursday, Geron said the hold resulted from the discovery of cysts in some animals given the cells. Although the cysts had appeared in some earlier animal studies, they appeared with "a higher frequency" in more recent animals tests, the company said.
Despite the finding, however, Geron said the cysts were "non-proliferative, confined to the injury site and had no adverse effects on the animals."
The Omaha World Herald reported August 21 that Bellevue, NE, late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart had fired 4 of his 10 employees, which became "the subject of a complaint filed with the state about possibly unsafe conditions." Carhart's explanation for the terminations, according to OWH:
Carhart wrote in a letter to his former employees that the layoffs were the result of "the recent decrease in patient numbers and income."...
And that complaint?
"This is nothing new," he said. "They are always making stuff up, and they aren't very credible."
The NE Attorney General's office confirmed to Operation Rescue (1 of the groups spearheading the complaints) that it had forwarded it to the NE Dept. of Health and Human Services, "which would be the appropriate regulatory agency," wrote OWH.
Turns out there was a little more to things. According to OWH today...
I normally like to preview pro-life movies before publicizing them, but the director of Blood Money has made a special request that makes sense. He wrote me:
If abortion is the front line of the healthcare plan, we need to get people to see the trailer, where Dr. Clowes talks about the giant facilities being built by Planned Parenthood.
[Also], we already have 3 distributors interested in seeing it once it is complete. So if we can show there is an interest in the public seeing it in theaters we will have a stronger case to present to them for doing so.
So here's the trailer. It is very good, which bodes well for the movie. In the trailer is a snip of my dear friend Angele, whose story was told in the movie 22 Weeks, at 2:30. She was interviewed for Blood Money....
I previously noted MSM's inability to pinpoint liberal hecklers in a crowd, even repeat offenders, usually garbed in pink. Meanwhile MSM manages to find the name, rank, serial number, and mother's maiden name when hecklers are our people.
Yesterday one such Code Pinker disrupted an AZ town hall meeting held by John McCain...
It appeared at one point the heckler was blind, but when she started using her cane as a walking stick I became confused.
Anyway, it's a blast from the not too distant past to see liberals heckling conservatives, although such practices weren't considered unAmerican until we saw the reverse.
Former Democrat presidential candidate, party chair, and Planned Parenthood board memberHoward Dean spoke at a Reston, VA, town hall meeting with Congressman James Moran on August 25.
Pro-life activist Randall Terry was also there.
Before the event, Terry staged stabbings of preborns and grandma outside...
Terry went on to disrupt the event, as previously promised. This clip is a tad long at 7:12, but the entire thing is raucous and interesting. For those wanting to fast forward, Terry is first seen at 2:05. Moran mentions Terry from the mic twice, at 3:22 and 4:03....
UPDATE, 8/28, 8:30a: Regarding Marvin Olasky's quote in the LAT article comes this explanation from him in an email to Troy Newman, which he gave me permission to repost:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Marvin Olasky wrote:
Troy,
Thanks for your note. The reporter asked questions about Randy. Years ago I told him to his face what I told the reporter. To the best of my recollection, your name did not come up at all in her questioning or my responding.
The idea of being paid to advance the sanctity of life is foreign to most online pro-life citizen journalists and commentators.
Not that being financially reimbursed for providing this work is wrong. Paul in I Timothy 5:18 wrote, "For the Scripture says, 'Do not muzzle the ox while it is treading out the grain,' and 'The worker deserves his wages.'"
It's just that the lack thereof doesn't keep our writers from performing what they consider a vocation.
But quality online pro-death advocacy would be pretty much nonexistent sans financial reward.
Knowing that behind the advancement of illicit sexual behavior is an industry raking in billions of dollars annually from the sale of contraceptives and abortion makes it too easy to see why online journalistic promotion would be a natural marketing tool.
The Reproductive Health Reality Check blog is but one example of pro-death pay to play, a "campaign," according to the United Nations Foundation, its financial backer "launched in 2006 to harness the power of new media to offer a reality check on the misconceptions about reproductive health... [a] rebuttal arsenal."
All this brings us to a remarkable August 21 article in RH Reality Check by Elizabeth Westley, Francine Coeytaux, and Elisa Wells, originally published in the journal, Contraception....
The bad Ted Kennedy turned his back on the least of these. Not only did Kennedy by the 1980s come out in support of Roe v. Wade; he also supported taxpayer funding of abortion. His most consequential pro-choice advocacy was the 1987 Supreme Court hearing of nominee Robert Bork. Standing on the Senate floor, Kennedy assailed Bork as a jurist whose rulings would force women to resort to "back-alley abortions." Kennedy's verbal assault helped defeat Bork, who would have been a 5th vote to overturn Roe.
UPDATE, 11:57a:Ellen Malcolm is the president of EMILY's List, an organization focused exclusively on electing pro-abortion Democrat women to national offices. Why do pro-aborts avoid the A-word when eulogizing proponents? Click to enlarge...
I also note Ellen is not extending her prayers, just thoughts.
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FactCheck.org has called out President Obama's fabrications about whether public funds would pay for abortions under current health care reform measures. Some excerpts:
As for other types of abortions, the Capps Amendment leaves it to the secretary of Health and Human Services to decide whether or not they will be covered. It says, "Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the public health insurance option from providing" abortion services that would not be legal for Medicaid coverage......
Q: Many of the countries where the abuses against women are most prevalent are also countries that have a vital strategic importance to the United States: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, India. How can you aggressively advocate for women without jeopardizing those strategic relationships?...
Clinton: Obviously, there's work to be done in both India and China, because the infanticide rate of girl babies is still overwhelmingly high, and unfortunately with technology, parents are able to use sonograms to determine the sex of a baby, and to abort girl children simply because they'd rather have a boy. And those are deeply set attitudes. But at the governmental level, there is a great deal of openness and commitment that I am seeing....
This is problematic for hardcore pro-aborts, because Hillary is admitting preborns are distinct and separate human beings and also that some abortions are wrong.
Can't find any pro-abort blog taking note of this traitorism.
"You've heard that this is all going to mean government funding of abortion," Obama said recently in a call to religious leaders. "Not true."....
But this last statement, while technically correct, does not tell the whole story....
The health-care-reform bill proposed by House Democrats... does find a way for the Federal Government to expand the coverage of abortion services through a government-run program - the so-called public option...
The problem is that all those who sign up for the public option would have to pay into the account for abortion coverage, an amount "not less than $1 per month," according to the legislation. So in effect, anyone who wanted to sign up for the public option, a federally funded and administered program, would find themselves paying for abortion coverage....
The title says it all in the FactCheck.org piece, but feel free to read the entire analysis...
On August 19 People magazine published Kourtney Kardashian's lengthy explanation why she chose not to abort her unplanned baby. Kardashian stars with her sisters Kim and Khloe and other family members on E!'s Keeping up with the Kardashians. Here's what she told People:
... Kardashian's unplanned pregnancy forced the shocked reality TV star to make one of the most difficult decisions in her life: Would she have the baby or terminate the pregnancy?
"I definitely thought about it long and hard, about if I wanted to keep the baby or not, and I wasn't thinking about adoption," [said] Kardashian, 30.... "I do think every woman should have the right to do what they want, but I don't think it's talked through enough. I can't even tell you how many people just say, 'Oh, get an abortion.' Like it's not a big deal."...
Time has an article on President Obama's lack of truth-telling when it comes to abortion and health care reform:
But this last statement, while technically correct, does not tell the whole story. The health-care reform proposed by House Democrats, if enacted, would in fact mark a significant change in the federal government's role in the financing of abortions.....
Restaurant chains with 20 or more stores would be required to display nutrition information, including calorie counts and "suggested daily caloric intake" on their menus, under a mandate contained in [Section 325 of] the health-care reform bill drafted by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee....
Someone just sent me the following surprisingly funny bit posted by the ACLU back in 2005 to protest nationalized IDs. Listening to it, I thought the vignette was ahead of its time, germane to the healthcare debate today. CNS sure confirmed that. Click on the graphic below to be connected to the link....
Public health officials are considering promoting routine circumcision for all baby boys born in the United States to reduce the spread of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS....
Experts are also considering whether the surgery should be offered to adult heterosexual men whose sexual practices put them at high risk of infection. But they acknowledge that a circumcision drive in the United States would be unlikely to have a drastic impact: the procedure does not seem to protect those at greatest risk here, men who have sex with men.
I'm actually a proponent of male circumcision, but that's beside the point....
On August 18 the Wall Street Journal published an op ed Jim Towey, president of St. Vincent College, former director of the White House Office of Faith-Based Initiatives and author of Five Wishes, the most widely used living will template in the country.
Towey's piece has gotten much attention. The piece begins:
If President Obama wants to better understand why America's discomfort with end-of-life discussions threatens to derail his health-care reform, he might begin with his own Dept. of Veterans Affairs. He will quickly discover how government bureaucrats are greasing the slippery slope that can start with cost containment but quickly become a systematic denial of care....
Bill O'Reilly asked this question August 21, and I thought it was a good one. No surprise, I saw Bill didn't include Fox as 1 of the possible answers, so I did.
Here are the results of my previous poll. 3/4 of Americans were pessimistic; our International voters were slightly less so...
South Dakota's informed consent law has been upheld in part. From the AP:
U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier's decision Thursday ends a lawsuit that Planned Parenthood MN, ND, SD filed in response to a 2005 informed consent law that required several disclosures to women seeking an abortion....
I wrote on July 20 that our dear moderator Bethany had entered the photo above of her 3 Chick-Fil-A fans in Chick-Fil-A's "Show us the cow" contest and has requested on her blog that we vote for her entry.
Bethany is currently one of the top 20 vote getters (!), which is where she needs to stay to have her photo considered for the winning title....
First Things'Keith Pavlischek writes about common ground, the Obama administration and reducing the number of abortions:
The problem, of course, is that anyone who has been paying attention knows full well that Obama and his crew are not interested in reducing the number of abortions. How do we know this? We know it because Obama and crew keep telling us that they are not interested in reducing the number of abortions. Sooner or later you would think these moderate and progressive Evangelicals would get the message.
Reality TV star Kourtney Kardashiantells People that she's pregnant and considered getting an abortion before choosing life...
Democrats have spent the past 2 weeks trying to convince elderly American voters that only right-wing whackos could believe that Obamacare will lead to rationed healthcare or "death counseling" to convince those over 65 that they should help cut health care costs by, well, dying....
This is off-topic, but this idiocy makes me SO MAD. From the Associated Press, August 14:
Crews dredging PCBs from the Hudson River on Friday ripped away remnants of what was once Britain's largest fort in Colonial America, a mistake that incensed local officials who had feared the cleanup project would damage such relics in the area....
One thing I look forward to in heaven is the absence of misogyny. We have no idea how much this sin has marred human life. It's the foundation of abortion, for instance.
And now I see women can't escape it, even in death. Currently for sale on eBay (click to enlarge)...
If she says she is pro-life so he thinks abortion is not an option for her, he might decide to keep her from getting pregnant by leaving her for someone more open to abortion, a woman who doesn't insist on his using a condom. That is, the presence in the sexual marketplace of women willing to have an abortion reduces an individual womans bargaining power.
A group of plaintiffs filed a federal lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to "enjoin and overturn the controversial guidelines for public funding of embryonic stem cell research that the National Institutes of Health issued on July 7, 2009," according to a press statement....
Am listening to the liberal religious teleconference pushing Obamacare. Obama is supposed to speak at some point. (You can listen in, too, at 347-996-5501, no passcode required.)...
When writing Monday on the puff piece Newsweek just published on late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, I posted a YouTube video shot August 14 of a worker at Carhart's mill - who professed to be a satanist, btw - verbally abusing a pro-life protester in front of the mill.
Operation Rescue reports this afternoon that YouTube has yanked the video, sending this notice:
Youtube is not a venue for things like predatory behavior, stalking, threats, harassment, intimidation, invading privacy, revealing other people's personal information, and inciting others to commit violent acts or to violate the Terms of Use. If you continue to post such content, you may have your account permanently suspended.
At least once or twice weekly Nancy Keenan of NARAL had been sending a steady stream of "Keep anti-choice extremism out of health-care reform"-type e-mails, as was her July 28 message entitled - until Aug. 3. Nancy has now gone silent for over 2 weeks.
Same goes for Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood, who likewise was transmitting "Anti-choice groups step up attacks on women's health"-type emails, as was the title of her July 22 dispatch - until July 24. Cecile hasn't been heard from in over 3 weeks.
On Aug. 11, President Obama unveiled his Reality Check website with nary a word about the biggest obstacle to passing health care, abortion.
Coincidental clam-ups?
No.
In her last e-mail, Cecile wrote, "[T]ell Congress that women's reproductive health care MUST be part of health-care reform."
Nancy in hers wrote, "Ask your lawmakers to oppose anti-choice attacks on health-care legislation."
Clearly, both felt their unnamed treasure trove, abortion, was in imminent danger of being aborted from health care.
Then ... silence?
The other side does nothing without a plan. The plan is to stop talking about abortion 1) in hopes the controversy will die down, and 2) to regroup and reframe the argument.
But make no mistake: Abortion is still part of the liberal plan. On Aug. 12, Cecile tweeted...
Continue reading my column today, "Why pro-aborts went silent on healthcare," at WorldNetDaily.com.
Wesley Smithwrites regarding a story that a woman in Tunisia is apparently pregnant with 12 children after using IVF:
IVF has brought joy to millions of parents. But it has also fueled the hedonism front of the coup de culture. Moreover, because the reproductive industry, feminists, bioethicists, and others in the anything goes crowd resist any reasonable regulation, it has also opened the door to treating nascent human life as mere ore taken from a mine, set the Brave New World project on its trajectory, led to women becoming so many paid brood mares, caused the death, disability, and serious illness of egg donors and sellers, and transformed reproduction into a mercantile transaction in which people believe they have the right not only to a baby, but to the baby - or many babies - they want....
by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind.
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, which began August 17, 1969, here is a redux of a video we posted earlier this year, Joe Cocker's "I get by with a little help from my friends," sung at Woodstock, interpreted...
Click on Elwp.com for larger view of this video...
UPDATE, 8/19, 3:22a:Shakesville has closed off comments due to this post. Following are the last 4. As I said yesterday, blogger Melissa chose her words carefully when soliciting advice for Kirsten, which she verified at the end of the thread (click to enlarge):
[HT: commenter Rachael C.]
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Yesterday "abortion-positive" blogger Melissa at Shakesville posted a request from reader Kirsten, soon to be undergoing an RU-486 abortion, for affirmation with her decision because "she's a little anxious about the actual procedure." Careful wording, I thought. Not guilt that she will be killing her baby, just fear of the "actual procedure."
Anti-choice Melissa didn't allow any, "Don't do it; everything will turn out ok" or "I regret my abortion" posts, so I'm hoping commenters here will fill that gap.
The pill was great. I took one at the clinic, the other at home a few hours later. Sometime after that I had some (relatively) mild cramping and tada. The only thing that was hard about it was that I bled for nearly 3 weeks afterwards....
One year ago Planned Parenthood opened an outlet in Dubuque, IA, despite warnings from the pro-life community it would create "an abortion pipeline to our town," according to a statement released yesterday by Dubuque Co. Right to Life, as well as provide a haven for child sexual predators and construct a firewall between parents and children.
Yesterday Dubuque Co. RTL announced Phase II of an educational campaign launched when PP opened its doors in Dubuque by near constant prayer vigils (3,000 hours logged by volunteers since last August 21) and educational talks before numerous groups.
Phase II, reported Dubuque Co. RTL Exec. Dir. Steven Brody in an email to me...
The poll by Denver-based Vitale & Associates was conducted July 29-30....
The findings reaffirm the notion that Reid is in trouble in his home state, despite expectations that he will raise as much as $25 million to maintain his grip on the seat, said those behind the poll....
I wrote this morning that showing the reality of abortion tosses "pro-choice" platitudes out the window.
Newsweek reporter Sarah Kliffwrote a nice pro-abort puff piece about late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart but in a related piece reported running into emotional trouble when actually watching him commit the dirty deed:
... But I'd never actually seen an abortion; I'd never watched the procedure that activists vehemently defend or deplore.... I wasn't sure I would. I confess I was hesitant to step into Carhart's operating room....
In today's Life Links, Jivin J mentioned the August 15 Newsweek profile on NE late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart.
The pro-abort bent of the piece was obvious from the provocative title, "The abortion evangelist." I can think of no other reason for such verbiage other than to insult and incite pro-life Christians.
Here was the accompanying video. There were no interview questions, just cutting back and forth between pro-aborts (Carhart, staff, and the clip of a Charlie Gibson newscast of George Tiller's death) and pro-life activists. Pro-aborts got 3:34 air time; pro-lifers got 1:17...
I previously reported here and here about the White House's "fishy" expedition, a request that supporters turn in emails/websites giving contrary information on Obamacare. And as of today, the request is STILL UP.
But according to Politico today, spotlighted by Drudge (currently top link), the email address no longer works:
Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box - flag@whithouse.gov - that was set up to receive information on "fishy" claims about President Barack Obama's health plan.
E-mails to that address now bounce back with the message: "The e-mail address you just sent a message to is no longer in service. We are now accepting your feedback about health insurance reform via http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck."
I tried sending an email and it did indeed bounce back. The form the WH is now referring people to specifies (click to enlarge):
TN pro-life groups have been working behind the scenes several weeks to keep Planned Parenthood from renting larger space to expand into a surgical abortion business in the Knoxville area. On August 8 KnoxvilleNews.com announced success...
Are disruptive town hall participants acting unpatriotically?
Of course liberals initiated this spin to intimidate average Americans from displaying anger and rabble rousing in the healthcare debate. Liberal audacity knows no bounds, particularly on this topic. Loud, disruptive, vitriolic dissent has been a liberal staple since the Vietnam War protests. Speaking of the LSD era, here are a couple flashbacks.
Unrestricted access to abortions paid for by the national government? That's not enough!
So declares Canadian columnist Andre Picard, in the Globe and Mail, who claims women in Quebec "need fewer barriers to abortion, not more" in response to a proposed regulation which would require abortion clinics to meet the same requirements as other non-hospitable facilities which provide surgeries (the horror!)....
Yesterday I took part in a planned protest of my IL Democrat Obamacare-loving Congresswoman, Debbie Halvorson (CD-11), who refuses to hold a townhall meeting during summer recess.
We were surprised to be greeted by Obamacare counterprotesters, who learned about our protest and beat us to the coveted spot in front of Halvorson's office.
I've read that while complaining about we astroturf, unAmerican, mobs of "evil mongers" (the latest depiction of us by Harry Reid, yesterday), the other side has been organizing unions to brandish its message.
I'm here to corroborate. First, just by perusing these 2 photos you can tell the financially backed, highly organized group from the organically grown group...
In this week's video report, the American Life League leafs through the 1k+ pages of Obamacare to show how abortion is a Trojan horse in the bill.
Then ALL challenges Catholic Charities and the Catholic Health Association for supporting Obamacare, dropping this little bombshell: 5 days after endorsing Obamacare Catholic Charities got its 1st ever government contract - for $100 million. Quid pro quo....
Through the official statements of the USCCB, the Catholic bishops assert that health care is a "basic human right." Since the release of their 1981 pastoral letter on health and health care, the bishops have consistently argued that the federal government is responsible for establishing "a comprehensive health care system that will ensure a basic level of health care for all Americans."...
Perhaps more Catholics would question the necessity of the present suggestion for health care reform if they realized the central argument - health care as a human right - is muddled and, therefore, dangerous....
To assert the right to health care as the end of the argument leaps over both prudential reasoning and the Catholic principle of subsidiarity, which stipulates that a social problem should first be dealt with at a local level before being addressed at higher, governmental levels....
Giving the responsibility for adjudicating the meaning of the health care right to the government poses obvious problems for Catholics, and should be a deal-breaker for the bishops....
Catholics will be handing the morally charged responsibility of medical treatment to political leadership whose operating assumptions about the human person are antithetical to Catholic social teaching.....
Are all Catholics supposed to become socialists in order to solve the health needs of the poor, the immigrants, the uninsured? Opposition to a federal takeover of healthcare is not just an "American" protest, it is a Catholic one, as well. A Catholic should know as well as any other citizen that the truly personal life of individuals and families should not be controlled by the state.
The current healthcare legislation, in all 5 of the bills being considered, poses a clear and present danger to the conscience and religious liberty of every Catholic. Catholics should be challenging the assumption that Church teaching is congruent with government-directed, universal healthcare. Medical care is one of the most morally-charged and private dimensions of our personhood. Why would anyone want to hand off those decisions to the federal government?
Rather than being directed by an individual's decision-making, the government, with its own value system, will inevitably be rationing healthcare.
I concur with Deal completely and am relieved to read his thoughts. I have been bothered by certain Catholic leadership support of nationalized healthcare. I would be just as bothered if aware of liberal Protestant support as well, which I'm sure is out there.
The Evangelical Protestant perspective, which as you know is solo scriptura, is that the Church is primarily responsible to care for the poor and the sick, (importantly, the sick poor). Deal is saying the same thing from a Catholic perspective.
The government's role is to protect citizens, and provide societal order and justice.
Mixing these roles causes societal chaos and harm. We've seen the government completely muck up care of the poor, since it instituted welfare, thwarting Biblical teaching, for instance, that fit people should not be given handouts. Who can forget the photo, for instance, of a supposedly homeless poor man taking a photo of Michelle Obamawith his cell phone while in line for free food at a local D.C. soup kitchen in March?
We've seen the government completely muck up care of the sick, too, since becoming involved in healthcare, using that launchpad, for instance, to thwart Biblical teaching about sexual behavior.
In essence, the Church is abdicating its primary societal responsibilities by pawning the the poor and sick off on the government.
The pattern of giving also becomes hopelessly imbalanced. Whereas people used to give more to the Church and charities to care for the sick and poor, now the government is siphoning off that money and the Church and charities are getting less. Obama only plans to exacerbate this imbalance by decreasing tax write-offs for charitable giving. The principle of tithing (giving 10% to Church) becomes that much more difficult to attain.
It is good for pro-lifers to argue against abortion and euthanasia in Obamacare.
But Christians need to step back and argue against the principle of government-run healthcare.
[Top and middle photo attribution: InsideCatholic.com; bottom photo attribution: Los Angeles Times]
This is related to our issue in that last week the White House website began asking Obamacare supporters to send in "fishy" emails and website addresses opposed to The Plan. (The request remains up today.) Likely, you and I have been reported.
So today Fox's Major Garrett told WH press secretary Robert Gibbs that people have emailed him, writing that they have begun receiving emails from Chief of Staff David Axelrod - but they never signed up for them, or for that matter, any Democrat email list. Garrett asked Gibbs if he could explain how this happened. And the exchange became heated...
This goes to Obama's pride. He should have had the "fishy" request taken down. But that would have admitted the WH blundered.
So this is, of course, one of the outcomes the WH should expect, and it should get used to Garrett's question being asked by others, the paranoia growing. Even if the WH is completely innocent and does nothing with email addresses it receives, people are going to think the WH or surrogates are sending them stuff.
From 2001 to 2005, US states had the choice to either accept or reject abstinence funding from the Bush administration, and the statistics were compiled by the CDC. With all of their crowing about how "abstinence education doesn't work," pro-aborts may want to take note:
For teen girls under the age of 15 years old, from 2001 - 2005, there was a 7.5% decrease in abortions among the states which have rejected funding for abstinence only education....
The White House unveiled its new Reality Check webpage Monday morning, attempting to realign facts in its favor about the proposed nationalized health care plan.
I noted on my blog that noticeably missing was any mention of the A-word, even though the topic has taken center stage in the national debate....
But there was a time when Obama was quite clear about his intention to include abortion in taxpayer financed health care as well as force private insurance coverage.
On July 17, 2007, Obama was speaking to Planned Parenthood supporters, and Bryan Howard, CEO of Planned Parenthood AZ, asked a question on health care (abortionspeak translation: "reproductive healthcare" means "abortion"):
Could you talk - give us some specifics about how reproductive health care ... is going to fit into and be a part of primary care for women in your health care reform plans and how Planned Parenthood ... will continue to be a part of the health care safety net for women and families across the country?
Obama responded quite clearly he planned for abortion not only to be part of taxpayer-funded health care but also forcibly covered by private insurers. He added he thought it "important" for the United States' largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, to be part of his plan. Here's the entire clip, courtesy of Americans United for Life:
Flash forward 2 years and Obama isn't quite so clear....
On July 21, CBS's Katie Couric could not have asked Obama more directly: "Do you favor a government option that would cover abortions?"
Obama's response....
Continue reading my column this week, "Obama on abortion in healthcare: Unclear now, quite clear then," at WorldNetDaily.com.
I wrote August 10 about the now infamous Section 1233 in a House version of the nationalized healthcare plan, which has concerned even healthcare proponents as pushing euthanasia on the elderly.
Kudos to FRC's The Cloakroom (here and here) for drawing attention to the fact that the 2 authors of Section 1233 are major proponents of euthanasia and assisted suicide.
The first is Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer. Recall Oregon was the 1st state to legalize physician assisted suicide almost 12 years ago. Blumenauer wrote on Huffington Post July 28:
Rep. Buck McKeon admonished people to read the bill and then specifically cited Section 1233. Actually, I know a little bit about this section because it's a bill that I wrote which was incorporated into the overall legislation.
Blumenauer wrote an amicus brief in support of assisted suicide in a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005, Gonzalez vs. Oregon....
UPDATE, 3:46p: Well, isn't this interesting. The AARP Media channel on YouTube has just posted this CNN story, entitling it, "CNN fact check on President Obama's AARP 'Endorsement' statement":
Well, I'm guessing due to the growing furor by seniors over the euthanasian tenor of Section 1233, AARP is backing away, which is huge and important. I've said before if Democrats lose seniors on this, they've lost.
AARP Chief Operating Officer Tom Nelson issued a statement saying that the organization has not endorsed any legislation. "While the President was correct that AARP will not endorse a health care reform bill that would reduce Medicare benefits, indications that we have endorsed any of the major health care reform bills...are inaccurate," Nelson said.
AARP does support measures to reform health care, Nelson said, but has not endorsed the bills being crafted in Congress.
This referred back to Obama's statement yesterday in his pep rally townhall meeting that AARP was behind him. This has become a hot topic. According to Fox News this afternoon, a great exchange...
According to an AP report, Rick Pitino, head coach of the Louisville men's basketball team, apparently paid for the abortion of a woman he had sex with in 2003.
The woman, Karen Sypher, is currently charged with lying to the FBI and trying to extort $10 million dollars from Pitino:
About two weeks after meeting Sypher at the restaurant, Pitino told police that she called, told him she was pregnant and that he had to be the father. Pitino told her when they met again that he had five children and she had four, and that he didn't know what he wanted to do, according to the report by Sgt. Andy Abbott, commander of the sex-offense unit....
At an August 10 townhall meeting in San Jose, CA, Democrat Congresswoman and Obamacare advocate Zoe Lofgren admitted abortion is covered in the House versions of the nationalized healthcare plan:
... [A]bortion will be covered as a benefit by one or more of the healthcare plans available to Americans, and I think it should be.
See for yourself:
I was pleasantly surprised by the overwhelmingly applause the questioner received in support after saying, "Abortion is clearly not healthcare."
UPDATE, 10:50a: Here are links to the entire Beck segment yesterday. In clip 1 Beck covers the history of eugenics in America. Clip 2 includes what I discuss in my post and a panel discussion.
Obama: Let me tell you who I associate with.... Those are the people, Democrats and Republicans, who have shaped my ideas and who will be surrounding me in the White House.
Beck: We will do exactly what Obama himself has told us to do: We have to find out about his advisers. Who is shaping his opinion? Who is surrounding him? We know it's not based in eugenics, but what is it based in?...
In the midst of a national debate on healthcare rationing of the elderly, disabled, and informed comes this, posted on Drudge this morning. in the Washington Times:
Four years after Hurricane Katrina exposed major deficiencies in the capacity of governments to evacuate and care for the disabled during a natural disaster, America's most vulnerable citizens are barely considered in most emergency plans, according to a report being issued Wednesday by the National Council on Disability....
I reported in March that the Department of Homeland Security had placed "anti-abortion activists" along with war veterans, those opposed to illegal immigration, and more on a "rightwing extremist" domestic terrorist watch list, per a leaked report.
Today ALG released the DHS's response, and it's remarkable.
Forget the FBI or CIA or other intelligence sources we don't even know about. The Department of HOMELAND SECURITY got its information from the media - including far left media like the Huffington Post, MSNBC, and CNN - websites, and blogs. Here's a sampling from the DHS response letter (click to enlage)...
It is remarkable that in a Catholic family of 8 children, Eunice Kennedy Shriver was the rare pro-lifer. But she was. And the 88-year-old passed away today. One prominent pro-life organization of which she was a member eulogized her in a press release:
Former Susan B. Anthony List Advisory Committee Member Eunice Kennedy Shriver died today at the age of 88 at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, MA, surrounded by her family. Eunice Kennedy Shriver was a sister of President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and mother of Maria Shriver, the first lady of CA. She founded the Special Olympics in 1968....
Well, I didn't let the Obama sticker on Lex's tummy on November 4 (click to enlarge) ruin it for me.
35-year-old parents Zachery Bir and Amber Smirnow of Richmond, VA, took daily photos of son Alexander throughout his 1st year of postborn life and compiled them into a darling 2-minute YouTube video, "A year of Lex," August 5.
"Some friends of ours have a nicely framed set of monthly pictures of their daughter, showing her growth through her first year," Bir told ParentDish via email. "I thought that would be a great project, and I wanted to try my hand at a year's worth of daily shots....
Canadian pro-life advocate David MacDonald shares the story of a young woman he met while protesting at an abortion clinic:
Afterwards she wanted to die. She cut herself with razor blades all over her body and ended up in a psych ward. The walls were blank but she saw children running all around on the walls and she was in incredible turmoil. When she was released she had tattoos engraved all over her body, some she did herself....
UPDATE, 12:31p: My own rabid pro-abort representative, Debbie Halvorson, who I famously tangled with during the brief moment in time when mandating the HPV vaccination to preteen girls was the cool thing for legislators to do, is on the GOP'smicro-target list of 13 within its larger target list of 70.
Halvorson, who supports socialized healthcare, has thus far refused to hold a townhall meeting during summer recess. Tomorrow Thursday (August 13) I'll take part in a "We want a meeting!" protest at Halvorson's office at 116 N. Chicago St., Joliet, IL, from 11:30a-1p. If you live in my district, consider joining in?
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I was just thinking this morning it has been awhile since I received an email alert from Planned Parenthood (July 24) or NARAL (August 3) on the healthcare debate. I wondered if there was a connection to Obama's glaring omission of abortion on his new Reality Check website....
"For President Obama, healthcare is a deeply moral issue."
I gagged at those opening words on a video by Melody Barnes, White House Director of the Domestic Policy Council, attempting to reassure Americans euthanasia is not in the healthcare plan on the WH's new Reality Check website.
I don't need to remind pro-lifers about Obama's "morality" on the issues of abortion and infanticide.
But you may need reminding that Barnes previously served on the boards of both Planned ParenthoodandEMILY's List. So she and Obama share the same "deeply moral" commitment to abortion.
But on to the topic of euthanasia. Barnes, in a spookily calm and reassuring voice, says not to worry....
The White House launched a healthcare "Reality Check" website today.
I'll address the White House's anti-euthanasia spin in my next post, but for now, do you notice a certain topic missing from "Reality Check" rollout? That's right, abortion....
Frank Beckwith notes the concerns of Charles Lane in the Washington Post surrounding the health care reform legislation's end-of-life counseling. Beckwith writes:
Supporters of H.R. 3200 claim that its end of life counseling provision, section 1233, is merely voluntary for the patient. But a closer look shows that section 1233 includes conditions and financial incentives for physicians and other health care providers that create a setting in which an elderly patient's decision to appropriate this option is likely to be less than voluntary....
Przystanek Woodstock, translated "Woodstock Stop" in English, is billed as "the biggest open-air festival in Europe." Held annually in Poland since 1995 to commemorate America's 1969 Woodstock, it draws 200-400k people.
Here are some of the tamer photos from this year's event, held July 31-August 2, to give you an idea of the magnitude and type of people Woodstock Stop attracts, all courtesy of Reuters:
It is critically important that pro-lifers bring pressure to bear against the socialized healthcare plan while our legislators are home on recess. We may not be able to attend townhall meetings, particularly as we see legislators now bailing or refusing to hold them.
But here is something each of us can do, from home, on the computer. And that is submit a letter to the editor of our local newspaper. This is the most widely read section of the paper. And it's free at our disposal.
StopTheAbortionMandate.com has even prepared 3 samples, which follow! Please choose one, or use one as a template to formulate your own thoughts, and submit it this weekend. Let us know in the comments section you have done your weekend homework! Also, if you create your own succinct letter others can use, post it as a comment, too....
The controversial Family Guy abortion episode that Fox has declined to air next season features matriarch Lois Griffin acting as a surrogate mother for an infertile couple. The couple is then killed in a car crash, leaving Lois with a tough decision.
The episode (titled "Partial Terms of Endearment") is "very graphic, very morbid," sources say, particularly about the abortion process....
Penny Young Nance writes in the Baltimore Sun about how President Obama really just isn't that into pro-lifers:
The battles on Capitol Hill over Sonia Sotomayor and health care have convinced me that pro-life Americans should take a cue from a popular chick flick. A hit movie newly out on DVD recently proclaims a shocking truth to women who make excuses for the bad behavior of men they date. That fact is: If he lies, cheats and treats you disrespectfully, "he's just not that into you...."
In the wake of the shooting death of abortion provider George Tiller, physician LeRoy Carhart says he plans to open a facility in KS that will provide abortion services later in pregnancy....
Carhart - who operates an abortion clinic in Bellevue, NE [pictured below]- is one of the 4 physicians who performed abortions at Tiller's Wichita clinic before it closed following his death on May 31....
I wrote yesterday that the pilots of ABC's Defying Gravity had pro-life subplots, one realistic, one weird.
The realistic subplot involved a post-abortive mother imagining a baby crying. The unrealistic subplot purported that pro-lifers go so far as to oppose rabbit embryo research. The backdrop to all this was a world in 2052 where not only abortion is illegal but also pregnancy tests....
At first I laughed when reading Barack Obama had appointed Doug Kmiec ambassador to... Malta? Yesterday the Senate Foreign Relations Committee gave its thumbs up, so only 1 nonhurdle remains, the full Senate.
Then I did a little reading and discovered intrigue and controversy.
Recall Kmiec is a supposed pro-life Catholic Republican who defected to support Obama and actively - and successfully - worked hard to siphon pro-life Catholic votes Obama's way. For that Kmiec is being rewarded with this ambassadorship. And here is where the plot thickens....
Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs...
Judie Brown's blog covers the recent release of Plan B One-Step, purported to make pregnancy prevention after unprotected sex easier than ever before.
Judie takes particular issue with the claims of the PBO website, which states, "Plan B One-Step isn't effective if you're already pregnant, and it won't terminate an existing pregnancy. " The prescribers section of the website states that the pill works in the following ways...
UPDATE, 6:20p: Thoughts on the Sotomayor nomination and confirmation process by Curt Levey of the Committee for Justice:
Although the numbers in the Senate ensured that the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor was never in doubt, those of us committed to restoring the rule of law to the federal judiciary have many things to be happy about in how Sotomayor's confirmation battle played out. Those include Republican senators' courage in mounting a strong opposition; the repudiation of the living Constitution philosophy that has been so fashionable in recent decades; the multi-edged defeat of identity politics; the strong signals sent to the White House about future Supreme Court picks; and the profound change in the politics of judicial confirmations wrought by the explosion of the Second Amendment issue....
The latest statistics on abortion are out in MI. Abortions increased by 5.2%. The percentage of abortions on black women rose to 45.4%. The number of abortions performed after 12 weeks also jumped up. One MI woman died as the result of an abortion.
Also of note, 98.1% of women paid for abortion by themselves. Only 1.8% of abortions were paid for by insurance. Makes you wonder where the Alan Guttmacher and the Kaiser Family Foundation got their statistics (87% and 46% respectively) used in the AP article regarding abortion coverage in employer insurance health care plans....
I've written several times about Pastor Walter Hoye, who violated Oakland City, CA's, ordinance creating an 8-foot bubble around mothers entering abortion mills (at present only 1, Family Planning Specialists Medical Group) that pro-lifers couldn't pop when distributing literature.
For his crime Hoye chose in March to spend 19 days in jail over a judge's offer of community service. Hoye went on to challenge the bubble ordinance in federal court. On August 4 came work Hoye lost his first round. According to the Contra Costa Times:
A federal judge on Tuesday upheld an Oakland city law that bars people from approaching within 8 feet of women entering abortion clinics, dismissing a constitutional challenge brought last year by anti-abortion activist Walter Hoye....
I wrote July 8 that the IRS was refusing to grant nonprofit status to the Coalition for Life of Iowa unless the group and individual members of the group pledged not to picket the local Planned Parenthood.
Just received this press release:
Yesterday attorneys from the Thomas More Society, a national public interest law firm based in Chicago, finally received an official "Determination Letter" from the Internal Revenue Service granting tax exempt status to the Coalition for Life of Iowa, a newly formed grass roots pro-life citizen group based in Cedar Rapids....
This past weekend Mike Huckabee interviewed the Duggar Family - of TLC's18 Kids and Counting if you didn't know. Covered was the difference between their family and Jon & Kate Plus 8, how much laundry they have, how they shop for groceries, and much more.
This family is a delightful example of the fruit of embracing God's blessing of children.
Only yesterday White House press secretary Robert Gibbs dismissed anger seen by Democrats at townhall meetings as "manufactured" by conservative groups:
Here's a taste of that "manufactured" anger, from an August 2 townhall meeting sponsored by PA Democrat Sen. Arlen Specter and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius:
Now, today, Obama himself, from his campaign email address (and this blending of Obama's campaign and public office has always bothered me... fine print on this email says "Paid for by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee") is manufacturing support for his healthcare plan (click to enlarge):
The most recent example of anti-birth thinking comes from Paul Murtaugh and Michael Schlax of Oregon State University.
In a study called "Reproduction and the carbon legacies of individuals," they suggest that if you truly care about the environment, it's not enough to trade your SUV for a Prius, use the right lightbulbs, or limit your lawn to organic fertilizers. To the contrary, you need to start thinking about something way more important: i.e., having one less child....
Yesterday conservatives publicized that the White House was recruiting informants on its blog to turn in emails and web addresses of those spreading "disinformation" on Obamacare, i.e., anything in opposition.
Today Big Brother's request remains up (click to enlarge)...
... prompting Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) to write a great letter to the WH reminding Obama of the First Amendment, requesting him to remove the request, and asking exactly what Obama plans to do with names, email addresses, IP addresses, and web addresses of people countering his healthcare disinformation. Great last line:
Do your own past statements qualify as "disinformation"? For example, is it "disinformation" to note that in 2003 you said: "I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan"?
Just 3 days ago Associated Press reporter Charles Babington, wrote in a "fact check" piece it is "not yet clear" whether abortion would be subsidized by taxpayers in the nationalized healthcare plan:
CLAIM: Health care revisions would lead to government-funded abortions....
THE FACTS: The proposed bills would not undo the Hyde Amendment, which bars paying for abortions through Medicaid, the government insurance program for the poor. But a health care overhaul could create a government-run insurance program, or insurance "exchanges," that would not involve Medicaid and whose abortion guidelines are not yet clear.... Congressional action this fall will determine whether such language is in the final bill.
Doug Johnson of National Right to Life Committee, explained to LifeNews.com the AP fact checker needs a fact checker. (And this isn't the first time Babington has been called out for liberalized reporting.)
Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal policy on the divisive issue....
A law called the Hyde amendment applies the restrictions to Medicaid, forcing states that cover abortion for low-income women to do so with their own money. Separate laws apply the restrictions to the federal employee health plan and military and other programs.
But the health overhaul would create a stream of federal funding not covered by the restrictions.
The AP needs to learn to communicate internally better, scary since it's in the business of communication.
There has been much talk the last few days on treatment of the elderly under the Obama healthcare plan. Was the 1973 movie Soylent Green (which I remember well and which freaked me out a tad), about life in the year 2022, prophetic?
Yesterday on Fox an AARP rep defended his organization's support of Obamacare despite a section mandating an end-of-life conversation with one's dr. The rep argued Medicare currently doesn't cover such chats so they're not happening. Obamacare simply ties up a reimbursement loophole, he said.
Hogwash. Fred Thompson has an op ed in today's Washington Times taking on the euthanasia component of Obamacare. First, Thompson reiterates the Left's argument, which the AARP mouthpiece parroted, and of which you should be aware...
Abortion proponent Amanda Marcotte blogged last week:
It's the most common outpatient procedure in the country, and yet we write it off as fringe. There's only 694,000 open heart surgeries a year on average, 600,000 hysterectomies and 193,000 hip replacements a year - but there's 1.2 million abortions performed every year.
Marcotte was complaining about something not the topic of my column today but interesting nonetheless, that for only the second time since the controversial animated sitcom Family Guy began airing in 1999, Fox was refusing to air an episode - on abortion.
Marcotte didn't think it funny that Fox didn't think abortion was funny.
But as I said, I digress.
It is true that abortion is one of the most if not the most common surgical procedure performed in America.
So, objectively speaking, abortion should be covered under Obama's nationalized health care plan.
As pro-abortion Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-CA, said 2 weeks ago when opposing an amendment to the health care plan banning taxpayer coverage of abortion, "It's a legal medical practice.... We're not talking about having your tonsils out and whether you can or can't.... Let them have an abortion or not have an abortion based on their needs, not ours."
Exactly. If abortion is the moral equivalent to having a tonsillectomy, and twice as prevalent (tonsillectomies are performed 600,000 times annually), then of course abortion should be covered in nationalized health care.
And if not, why not? If I were in the abortion industry, I'd be making darn sure it was.
But there has emerged a strange and opposite phenomenon. Pro-abortion leaders are going out of their way to reassure the public abortion won't be a mandated covered procedure in any health care plan.
This makes no sense. But, wrote Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards in Huffington Post August 3....
Continue reading my column today, "Cecile Richards: Crazy like a baby-killing fox," in WorldNetDaily.com.
John McCormack has a piece in the Weekly Standard on Congressman Tim Ryan and his slide away from being pro-life. It includes this telling part of an interview between the Weekly Standard and Ryan:
TWS: When do you believe life begins?
REP. RYAN: That answer's above my pay grade. That's for God to determine.
TWS: So you're not saying first trimester, second trimester, conception?
REP. RYAN: I don't know. I mean, that's God. God knows when it begins, and when it ends, and all that other stuff.
If Ryan doesn't know when life begins, then on what does he base his supposed "pro-life" position?...
When I talk with members of pro-life clubs, one of the most common questions I hear is, "How can we get more involved?"
One of the suggestions I make is to organize a fundraising event for a local pregnancy resource center. Not only does this help a pro-life club become a greater part of the local pro-life community, but it also provides much-needed money for a place that offers lifesaving help to women who are pregnant, scared, and don't know where else to turn.
As for particular fundraising event ideas, a pro-life car wash is one of the easiest to sponsor - not to mention one of the most fun. If your club is interested in doing one, make plans now to participate in the 4th Annual Wash for Life on Saturday, September 19.
Over the past 3 years, more than 6k pro-life teens across the country have sponsored Wash for Life car washes and raised nearly $180k to benefit pregnancy care centers in their local communities.
You can help make this year's Wash for Life even more successful! I hope you will consider being a part of it.
The cleverly named pro-abortion group National Advocates for Pregnant Women has become alarmed at the number of personhood initiatives popping up in various states.
So it has produced 4 attack ads attempting to show how giving preborn babies legal status as persons usurps pregnant mothers' legal rights, forcing them through the courts to maintain pregnancies even if doing so kills them and forcing them to deliver babies via c-section against their will, etc.
The latest American Life League video report shows the ads, dissecting their lies and adding doses of truth. This report shows how pro-aborts twist, turn, and omit factual details to make their false points....
UPDATE, 4:15p: Haley is currently the SC House Majority Whip. Here's her bio.
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by Carder
Keep your eyes on Nikki Haley. She's principled, driven, and wonderfully pro-life.
Among her other attributes...
While unapologetically pro-life, she is first and foremost known as a fiscal conservative. She is the type of candidate conservatives claim they want, as well as the type of candidate libertarians claim to want.
While she won't please everyone - the only candidate who ever tried is now in the White House making everyone mad - she gets checks in all the major boxes: life, tax cutting, government cutting, honesty, and uncompromising on the need to reform.
Do you think she'll be anywhere near as attacked as Sarah Palin?
John McCormack provides a little more detail into what happened with abortion amendment in the House Energy and Commerce Committee:
Instead of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, the committee passed an amendment that is being billed by some Democrats as a "common ground" measure on abortion. The amendment - sponsored by Lois Capps (D-Calif.), whose National Right to Life Committee vote-scorecard is 0 for 74 - would allow the "public option" to provide coverage for elective abortions and would allow federally subsidized private plans to provide abortion coverage as well....
There were several good political cartoons this week. None were specifically on our issue, although Blue Dog cartoons, which along with Beer/Obama cartoons predominated, were related. But first, a few wild cards...
At its Values Voter Summit, September 18-20, the Family Research Council is awarding its 1st ever Media Courage Award to Bill O'Reilly, explaining:
Bill O'Reilly has never shied away from denouncing late-term abortions and the handful of doctors who perform them. In the aftermath of George Tiller's murder, O'Reilly became an easy target for the liberal media who tried to pin some of the blame on Bill, saying he incited the violence by decrying these unnecessary procedures on his show.
Despite the unfair allegations, O'Reilly spoke the truth, bringing new light to a gruesome procedure. On behalf of our co-sponsors and millions of values voters, we want to express our gratitude to a culture warrior who uses his national platform to promote life - no matter what the personal or professional costs.
No surprise, liberals are not happy. Here was News Hounds' take...
Despite pro-life protests, do you think mandated abortion coverage will be included in any nationalized healthcare plan Congress passes?
Here are the results of my previous poll. Fox News mopped up, with Bill O'Reilly taking 1st place, Brett Baier 2nd, and Shepard Smith 4th. Katie Couric... not one vote?...
My blog vacation is over! If you're one of my Facebook friends, you can see photos of the visit of the Stanek Grandsons Four. We love them dearly but also love being empty nesters again! Still picking up toys...
Who Is Jill Stanek?
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 White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.
A top Obama administration official is praising the new Senate health bill's attempt to find a compromise on abortion coverage -- even as an official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops says Sen. Harry Reid's bill is the worst he's seen so far on the divisive issue.
The bishops were instrumental in getting tough anti-abortion language adopted by the House, forcing Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to accept restrictions that outraged liberals as the price for passing the Democratic health care bill.
by intern Anne Marie
I have a new poll question up:
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.
