Only four made my list of top favorite political cartoons this week…
by Chip Bok at Townhall.com…
by Bob Gorrell at Townhall.com…
by Dana Summers at GoComics.com…
by Nate Beeler at Townhall.com, on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s call to ban super-size drinks, ironic coming from a man who is pro-“choice” on abortion…
A prayer of King Solomon. Oh, that all leaders would be so just and merciful…
O God, give the king your justice and the king’s son your righteousness so that he may judge your people with righteousness and your oppressed [people] with justice….
May he grant justice to the people who are oppressed. May he save the children of needy people and crush their oppressor….
He will rescue the needy person who cries for help and the oppressed person who has no one’s help. He will have pity on the poor and needy and will save the lives of the needy. He will rescue them from oppression and violence. Their blood will be precious in his sight.
~ Excerpts from Psalm 72, God’s Word translation
This week, no surprise, Planned Parenthood Action Fund endorsed President Barack Obama for reelection.
But a lot has happened since the group endorsed Obama in 2008.
Only four years ago Planned Parenthood enjoyed a sunny reputation.
But in that short span of time Planned Parenthood has racked up a rap sheet of fraud, Medicaid overbilling, statutory rape cover-up, violating safety standards, falsifying medical information, facilitating underage prostitution and sex trafficking, medical malpractice, accepting donations earmarked to abort black babies, huge $1 billion annual profits, and more.
Of course, this week Planned Parenthood was also exposed as an aider and abetter of sex selection abortions.
Furthermore, Planned Parenthood is now under congressional investigation.
Finally, ever since Obama, Democrats, Planned Parenthood, and the abortion industry launched their campaign accusing Republicans of engaging in a “war on women” earlier this year, Obama’s standing among women has plummeted. This week brought only more bad news for that strategy, an ABC/Washington Post poll. Click to enlarge:
The poll further noted:
All Romney’s gains have come among women – up by 13 percetnage points in personal popularity from last month, whole Obama’s lost 7 points among women. (View among men have been more stable….
So, given Planned Parenthood’s baggage, in conjunction with its message, do you think an endorsement from the abortion giant will be perceived as an asset or liability among the American people?
To the cynic, the wrangling over a bill that would ban abortions based on the sex of a child is all about politics….
Yet abortion remains an emotional issue, particularly at the edge where late-term abortions and murky motives reside.
While many sympathize with parents faced with health risks for mother or child, choosing to abort because the pink nursery is not what you had in mind sets up a moral choice so clear that anyone who isn’t repulsed at the notion seems heartless at the very least.
~ Op ed by journalist Mary C. Curtis, Washington Post’s She The People section, June 1
Yesterday the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, a bill that would ban sex-selective abortions in the U.S., garnered an overwhelming majority vote in the House, 246-168.
But PRENDA still failed. Why?
Simply, the vote procedure used (“Suspension of the Rules”) required a two-thirds majority to pass.
If such an overwhelming number of congresspersons were known to support PRENDA, why didn’t Republican House leaders follow a route to passage that only required a simple majority?
To back up, PRENDA is not dead. It is still live and can be called again for a vote at any time, leaving the other side to worry whether they will see PRENDA return to the House floor for another vote yet this year.
Achieved yesterday was a clean vote. Every other procedure to pass a freestanding bill would have afforded the opposition an opportunity to submit at least one amendment. If that had happened, we would have seen a lot of pro-abortion House members vote for some counterfeit alternative – an amendment dressed up to look like a limitation on sex-selection abortions but really hollow and acceptable to Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry – before they voted against the real ban.
The pro-abortion Members would then have been able to claim they voted for something condemning sex-selection abortions – the sham ban.
“Using Suspension of the Rules removed the opportunity for phony cover votes,” said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for National Right to Life. “As a result, the majority was probably bigger than it would have been if a ‘multiple choice’ procedure had been used.”
Abortion proponents apply this tactic all the time. They particularly like to hide behind health exceptions to pro-life bills, which we all know only gut them.
The other side used this tactic repeatedly, for instance, during the decade-long fight over the Partial Birth Abortion Ban. Americans were repulsed by PBA, but with fraudulent language added, pro-abortion politicians were able to say they voted for the ban, and even point to their vote, when they actualy actually voted against a clean ban.
Yesterday abortion opponents didn’t get to hide. And we learned something new. We learned President Obama thinks “choice” must include sex-selection abortions, a position 77% of Americans find abhorrent. Those who still may try to call Obama “moderate” are losing ground.
Yesterday’s vote left abortion proponents floundering to explain why they oppose female gendercide but support sex-selective abortions.
The inevitable passage of PRENDA has taken its first step. And the other side was lured into the debate, which will turn out to be quite unhelpful for them. On May 29, before the vote, Wesley Smith wrote at First Things:
Pro lifers are attacking the abortion license piece, by piece, by piece….
[E]xpect federal and state legislation seeking to outlaw sex selection abortion… [which] would put the pro choice side into a tight political box. If they let it go, they would be admitting that there is a reason for abortion that is so illegitimate it should be outlawed. But if they oppose, they are in the position of defending sex selection.
I predict that latter will be seen as preferable to the former. Thus, once such a law is enacted, look for PP, other pro choice groups and the ACLU to sue to legally prevent the legal prevention of sex selection abortions. That would transform ”female feticide” into the next “partial birth abortion” and materially help the pro life cause.
Support for abortion slipped greatly during the 90s when Americans learned and relearned (due to President Clinton’s two vetoes) the horrors of the partial birth abortion procedure.
Likewise, the other side will lose ground in the court of public opinion as they battle a pro-life law that will ban law sex-selective abortions.
by Kelli
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Of all the discriminatory, godless, abhorrent, selfish, cruel decisions, the message behind this one sits at the top of the despicable list and should not be tolerated by constituents of these who have failed to exercise a spine in an election year while the dragon of Planned Parenthood breathes down their neck.
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by LauraLoo
Oui oui, meet Henri!
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[HT: Suzan S]
Listen, you fools. YOU DON’T SHUT ANYTHING DOWN. You keep going exactly as you have been, and you force those dirty rotten SOBs to literally storm your hospitals and shut YOU down at gunpoint.
And I’m not kidding.
Make them physically shut down your hospital by dragging you out at gunpoint. Make them physically shut down your schools. Make them shut down your university by force because you won’t cover abortions in your student health plan. Make them physically shut down your soup kitchens. Make them shut down your adoption agencies because you won’t hand a baby boy over to two men who like to jam various and sundry body parts up each others’ rectums.
In other words, STAND AND FIGHT.
~ Ann Barnhardt, admonishing the bishops to resist the healthcare mandates imposed by the Obama administration and the Department of Health and Human Services, Sancte Pater, May 25
[Hat Tip: moderator Gerard Nadal; photo of the execution of Father Francisco Vera courtesy of Monterey Traditional Latin Mass]
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.
