I fall in love with whomever, sleep with whomever, and marry whomever I choose.
I decide when and how I become a mother.
This is my body, not yours.
~ Various pro-choice activists in a never-ending monologue defending their bodily autonomy, via The Frisky, July 24
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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And the Daily Beast would (hopefully) not publish an article centered on a theme such as “Who cares that the restaurant is endangering customers by serving expired meat? The lighting in the dining room is exceptional!”
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Over the weekend the mainstream media was surprisingly forthcoming in reporting the tragic death of a mother following her second trimester abortion at a Chicago Planned Parenthood, revealing her name, age, and the name of her surviving son. Also sad was news that she had an identical twin. From CBS Chicago:
Tonya Reaves, 24, died late Friday night from a hemorrhage, with a cervical dilation and evacuation, as well as an intrauterine pregnancy as contributing causes, according to the medical examiner’s office.
She died after she’d had an abortion at Planned Parenthood at 18 S. Michigan Av, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Her death was ruled an accident, but the Reaves family wants to know more, especially Tonya’s twin sister Toni.
“We were born the same day. She was my other half,” Toni said….
Toni Reaves said her sister was engaged to be married and had one son – Alvin – who just had his first birthday.
The Daily Mail went so far as to (sort of) describe the type of abortion procedure Reaves underwent:
A dilation and evacuation procedure usually takes place during the second trimester of a pregnancy and involves the removal of tissue from the uterus using various devices.
Was Reaves a victim?
It must be said that most aborting mothers know they are murdering their babies, particularly those like Reaves who had already borne a child.
But giving Reaves the benefit of the doubt, there were many contributing factors that led to her death aside from the obvious, none of which were her fault.
Reaves was a victim in the sense she was lulled by liberals into thinking the abortion procedure is not dangerous. She was the victim of a state that regulates nail salons more than abortion mills. She was the victim of a black culture that has completely lost any sense of sexual morality and healthy family structure, with 72% of black children now born out of wedlock, up from 24% at the beginning of the sexual revolution in the 1960s. Reaves was likely a victim of comprehensive sexual education that gives a false sense of trust in contraceptives. Reaves may have also been a victim of “counseling” that told her the fully formed baby inside her was a blob of tissue.
Barack Obama’s protection of Planned Parenthood
And then there is Barack Obama, who inexcusably continues to herald, protect, and fund Planned Parenthood in the face of the worst revelations about its underbelly in its 96 year history.
We now know Planned Parenthood will freely commit sex-selection abortions, race-based abortions, and clandestine underage abortions. It will aid and abet sex traffickers. It will commit Medicaid fraud. It gives women false and/or incomplete information about developing children and the abortion procedure. It dispenses RU486 contrary to FDA guidelines. On and on.
People ask me all the time why I think Obama is so loyal to Planned Parenthood.
And I used to say it was some sort of combination of ideology and politics.
But as more evidence indicting Planned Parenthood mounts, along with increasing attempts by various states to defund it, the more I think Obama’s ties to the abortion giant extend beyond the obvious.
It is hard to get inside the head of a man who is such a fanatic he thinks infanticide should be legal if it would otherwise hinder abortion. Suffice it to say Obama is a 110% ideologue.
And it is true that one of Obama’s staunchest political allies in terms of campaign donations and getting out the vote is the abortion industry.
But at some point, as evidence against Planned Parenthood reaches the tipping point, it would make political sense for Obama to back away.
Yet it seems that Obama’s support of PP only grows more resolute. As recently as this month Obama promoted Planned Parenthood in a campaign ad…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60ziBFRKTnk[/youtube]
It seems to me there is something more to the relationship between Obama and Planned Parenthood than meets the eye. Mark my words.
It is ironic that Tonya Reaves was killed at a Planned Parenthood in Barack Obama’s backyard. His propping of Planned Parenthood to such an extraordinary extent in his position as president definitely qualifies him as an enabler. Both legislators and the press should be calling him out.
by Hans Johnson
First, some bad news. The hospital merger in Pennsylvania posted about here last month has fallen apart, in no small part due to a Facebook campaign, as well as a physician protest. So those there who think their local hospital should only be a place for healing must continue to be dismayed.
And now some good news. Babies continue to be saved, one by one, across the country. 40DaysFor Life celebrated one such rescue from one of three Los Angeles area “clinics” that have recently closed. Last week Heartbeat International brought young mothers to Capitol Hill to tell members of Congress that without the help of pregnancy centers they would have aborted their children.
Here is a report from CBN News.
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Women seek an abortion if they have an unwanted pregnancy, legal and safe or not, because it’s too late for contraception.
There is no split between contraception and abortion from women’s perspective, they are two sides of the same coin.
Even so, many of the biggest supporters of “family planning” refuse to support women’s need for safe, legal abortion. Even worse, they always talk about abortion in negative terms. They mention it along with STIs, as if it were a disease, or treat it as an annoying problem that they wish would go away, and consider it inferior to use of contraception. They even claim that use of contraception will (or should) make it go away.
But this is about the realities of people’s sex lives and how sex happens, not just about well-thought-out, planned-in-advance decisions about family formation.
~ Reproductive Health Matters founding editor Marge Berer, RH Reality Check, July 23
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
Police said [Heath’s son Steven] King was arrested in April for sexual misconduct with the girl and is held on bond in the Gibson County Jail.
The pregnancy and “cervical dilation and evacuation,” which is a technical term for abortion, that she received at the Planned Parenthood clinic, 18 S. Michigan Ave. were listed as contributing factors in her death.
The victim’s twin sister told WBBM Newsradio that her family is demanding answers.
“It happened so fast,” said Toni Reaves. “She was just fine one day – and then the next day she was gone. We’re just trying to figure out what happened.”
Tonya’s death leaves her 1-year-old son without a mother. Planned Parenthood couldn’t issue a statement of condolences without a note from their PR department.
[Photo via Daily Mail]
by LauraLoo
Are you feeling the same way I am, after emotionally suffering with those impacted by the Aurora, Colorado, shooting massacre having to listen to President Obama tell parents to hug their children tighter, along with making other tragically ironic statements, such as:
Even as we learn how this happened, and who’s responsible, we may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this. Such violence, such evil, is senseless. It’s beyond reason. But while we will never know fully what causes somebody to take the life of another, we do know what makes life worth living….
And if there’s anything to take away from this tragedy, it’s the reminder that life is very fragile. Our time here is limited, and it is precious. And what matters at the end of the day is not the small things… ultimately it’s how we choose to treat one another and how we love one another….
At the end of the day what we’ll remember will be those we loved and what we did for others. That’s why we’re here.
Specifically focus on the video from 2:52 on…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfUSWDSYnlU[/youtube]
President Obama, since you have asked us to take time for prayer and reflection, why don’t you do the same as it pertains to the thousands of preborn children you sanction daily to die via your pro-abortion/infanticide stance? Innocent children that are mowed down daily. Where are the hugs afforded to them outside the womb? There are none because they don’t survive.
President Obama also mentions his daughters, Malia and Sasha, could very well have been at that movie theater, at a dreadful time such as this. Well, not quite, Mr. President. They would have had ample Secret Service protecting them at taxpayer expense. They would surely make it in and out of every venue they attend safely, since the Secret Service are required to “take a bullet” for your family.
While I don’t question President Obama’s concern for the victims of the Aurora shooting, nevertheless I’m sick of this two-faced President who just doesn’t get it. (Can I get an Amen?)
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Before Wheaton’s move, most plaintiffs suing over the mandate were Catholic colleges and organizations that follow the Vatican’s teaching against birth control. Most of the 58 plaintiffs in the 24 lawsuits are Catholic dioceses, colleges and charity groups.
But Wheaton’s involvement shows that Catholics aren’t alone in opposing the mandate, since many evangelical Christians view certain forms of birth control, such as the “morning-after” pill, as equivalent to abortion.
“The list of required services includes ‘morning after’ and ‘week after’ pills that claim the life of an unborn child within days of its conception,” Wheaton President Philip Ryken wrote in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday.
~ Elise Viebeck, The Hill, July 22
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.
