God chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important.
~ I Corinthians 1:28, Good News translation
Anti-abortion billboards targeting predominantly African American communities in Atlanta have many questioning the motivations of Prolife Across America, the organization that erected them….
Atlantans aren’t the only ones up in arms about the posters, which are being called racist. The same signs have been placed in Memphis and African American residents are criticizing them for their messaging, telling Raycom News Network that it pits black men against black women.
“To use black men like me to facilitate the erasure of black women like my wife and others from the conversation about their own bodies is not only propaganda, it’s pathetic and repulsive.” Memphis Pastor Earle Fisher told Raycom.
~ Article entitled, “Anti-abortion group targets black neighborhoods with weird ‘dad’s princess’ billboards,” Raw Story, June 5
Rev. Harry Knox, CEO of The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, recently posted an op ed at Talking Points Memo, using the Bible to support abortion as an act of compassion.
Ironically, the photo accompanying his piece included me, from a day earlier this year when pro-life activists conducted a prayerful sit-in at Speaker Boehner’s office, which resulted in arrest.
From Knox’s piece:
With the myriad ways that God was invoked on the House floor, one might reasonably assume that the Almighty had sent a gilded memorandum, replete with red letters to the Speaker of the House.
Let’s be very clear: The Bible says nothing about abortion. Anyone who tells you otherwise is offering you their inaccurate interpretation of scripture. But let me tell you what is in the Bible: compassion. Indeed, compassion and love of neighbor are common to many faith traditions.
We read in Zechariah that God proclaims: “Make just and faithful decisions; show kindness and compassion to each other.” Paul writes in Colossians that we ought to, “Put on compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” And in the Quran, compassion is the most frequently used word.
It’s simple: Our faith traditions call us to acts of justice and compassion. Yet that isn’t what anti-choice legislators are offering….
Women seek abortions for many different reasons. God trusts and empowers us to make the best decisions for ourselves and our families. It’s not our place to judge a woman’s personal decisions. God calls us to offer compassion, respect, and support so she can be at peace with whatever decision she makes. We believe this not in spite of our faith, but because of it.
How do you respond to Knox and others like him who say that since abortion isn’t specifically mentioned in the Bible as a sin, it is not only not a sin but a deed to be supported as an act of faith?
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
At the time, SPL simply condemned the decision with a tweet, which was widely retweeted and even made it onto Twitchy….
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh wrote up the decision in the Washington Post. (You should read the whole thing.) He begins with the obvious point that it’s a First Amendment violation. But then he explains the Second Circuit’s reasoning, if you want to call it that, and it is truly incredible. The logic of the opinion requires the assumption that pro-choice New Yorkers are so violent, pro-lifers have to be censored for their own safety.
Janet Morana and Georgette Forney, co-founders of Silent No More, noted that men can play many roles in an abortion decision. Some men coerce women into abortion; others had no knowledge until it was too late. Some are complicit in the decision and some are just silent.
“We know through our work with Silent No More that no matter what role a man played, he is often thrown off guard by his reaction to the abortion,” Mrs. Morana said. “Many feel they have failed as men by allowing, or insisting on, the destruction of their own child.”
“Men are often pushed to the margins of the abortion debate, but after the baby and the mother, fathers are the most directly impacted,” Mrs. Forney said. “We want them to know they are deserving of healing and we want to help them restore peace to their souls.
[Photos via pinterest.com and A Voice for Hope]
by Kelli
The big push for embryonic stem cell research seems to have taken a nosedive as adult stem cells (which are ethically derived) continue to show amazing advances – advances which were promised yet never materialized from embryonic stem cells.
Right to Life of Michigan shares the story of Paul Wagle, who beat cancer with the help of stem cells from umbilical cord blood:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/tNSPWPVA36g[/youtube]
[HT: Susie Allen]
Backdrop, from Created Equal:
A group of physicians at Wright State University is enabling infamous late-term abortionist and partial-birth abortion pioneer Martin Haskell [pictured right] to keep his abortion facility in Dayton, Ohio open and running.
Ohio law requires all ambulatory surgical facilities to have a written transfer agreement with a nearby hospital. Dayton hospitals refuse to give Haskell such an agreement. However, Haskell has found a way to skirt this law through a contract with the Wright State Physicians Women’s Health Care group.
Thus, Created Equal has launched a public awareness campaign to expose the physicians who are enabling Haskell to stay in business.
The names of the complicit doctors are: Josette D’Amato, Sheela M. Barhan, Janice M. Duke, Michael Galloway, Steven R. Lindhelm, CEO Alan P. Marco, William A. Nahhas, Kathryn Newton, G. Theodore Talbot, and Jerome Yaklic.
On April 21, Created Equal sent letters to the aforementioned doctors before launching its campaign, requesting that they disengage from bolstering Haskell.
None of the doctors responded.
So, on June 3, as promised, Created Equal began publicizing the names of Haskell’s collaborators through a campaign involving postcards and a truth truck.
This postcard, personalized for each physician, is being sent to neighbors of their individual residences. This is a sample of the front and back view…
The truth truck, with the collaborators’ names and photos plastered on it along with photos of abortion victims, is being driven around their their physicians’ group office building, Wright State University, two hospitals affiliated with the group and Haskell (Miami Valley and Good Samaritan), and the Dayton area in general. Below is the mock-up. View photos of the truck in action here.
by Carder
In the past, those of us who’ve spoken about the collapsing Euro birth rates have been dismissed as religious fanatics or other stuff that I can’t share in a family blog.
Yet this is not about religion. It’s about reality. You cannot have a future without babies. In other words, at some point you run out of people.
There are other impacts, such as having to rely on immigrants to keep up your population. Will these immigrants integrate and adopt their new culture? Or will they assume majority status and impose their own culture? I don’t know the answer, but those “no go zones” in Paris offer a glimpse of a future that isn’t very French.
Also, the aging population will require more health care. Will younger immigrants be willing to pay the taxes to support all of those social programs created by people that they have no cultural connection to?
It’s a complicated subject, but the bottom line is simple: no babies, no future!
~ Silvio Canto, Jr., American Thinker, June 3
by Hans Johnson
Angelique Clark, a soph0more at West Career and Technical Academy in Las Vegas decided last December to form a chapter of Students for Life of America. She heard nothing till a meeting with the vice principal in February, and had her request refused for the same weak reasons used in other recent cases: it was too controversial, was exclusive of opposing opinions, and Clark wasn’t qualified to lead a pro-life club (must one have had a child or an abortion to discuss either?).
After reaching out to the SFLA and the Thomas More Society for help, a letter was sent on her behalf citing the First Amendment and the Equal Access Act.
Here is a report from Fox5:
Angelique and her lawyer were interviewed by Elizabeth Hasselbeck on Fox&Friends.
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[Photo via Thomas More Society]
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.
