Jivin J’s Life Links 6-30-09
by JivinJ
- Dan Gilgoff reports that there is a growing schism among common ground advocates regarding legislation on abortion. One side wants the two segments of the common ground package (preventing unwanted pregnancies and reducing the need for abortion) introduced in one bill while another side wants them introduced separately.
- Joe Carter writes about how the language we use could be affecting how we think…
When you stop to consider the differences between such phrases as “methods of procreation” and “reproductive technology” it begins to become clear why social conservatives are losing ground in the fight to preserve the concept of human dignity.
Any attempt to argue that embryonic human life is deserving of a particular moral status is undercut when we are using such phrases as “blastocysts produced by the technological advances of IVF.” The language of the factory and of human dignity is as incompatible as would be the interchangeability of machine and life. Such degradation of language only leads to linguistic confusion and muddy thinking.
- The BBC reports Algerian singer Cheb Mami (pictured left) has been arrested in France and accused of participating in an attempted forced abortion:
Prosecutors at Thursday’s trial in Bobigny will allege that Cheb Mami was one of a group who abducted and beat the woman, a French photographer, in the Algerian capital, Algiers, in 2005.
The woman was allegedly forced to undergo an abortion, but on returning to France she discovered she was still pregnant and later gave birth to a daughter.
France issued an international arrest warrant for Cheb Mami after he skipped bail in Paris in May 2007 and fled to Algeria.
- CBS News is featuring a story on a Cedars-Sinai medical study where doctors attempt to heal patients who’ve had heart attacks using their own adult heart stem cells.
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.
Chris, I figured out that I can comment as long as I haven’t previewed anything. It’s from the preview page that I get the “invalid response” message. Just in case you were wondering.
I have through the years tried to avoid the soft or obfuscating language used by the pro-abortion movement. Instead of women’s health center I call it abortion clinic, or preferably abortion mill. Instead of mass of tissue or fetus I call it unborn child or preborn child. The list of examples could go on . . . In fact with the abduction of the word choice and the widespread use of “pro-choice” for the pro-abortion movement, I most frequently use the word option instead of choice even in conversations that do not involve the subject of abortion. I may be over reacting in this latter instance, but it is as though the pro-abortion movement has made the word choice a dirty or vulgar slang word.
Posted by: Alexandra at June 30, 2009 3:42 PM
Excellent video, please watch:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/events/state-of-the-nation
Please watch this video:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/events/state-of-the-nation
You’re right, HisMan…that IS an excellent video. Funny that I stumbled across your post with this link, because I was ‘attacked’ just last night for my comment on a post. I commented on a picture of a naked couple covered only by cowboy hats, and my comment was ‘Posing like this, let’s HOPE they’re married.’ I was told ‘Gee..I didn’t know Amish people had access to computers!’ and ‘Is this post for REAL?’…that sort of thing. This is ‘normally’ a fun website that I visit all the time Awkwardfamilyphotos.com , but comments like those just go to show you how far we have slipped into ‘moral decline’. Anyway, thanks for posting this link.
It is great. I’m listening to it now. Thanks!