Jivin J’s Life Links 2-9-10
by JivinJ
Perhaps his real message to Ohio’s teens is that excelling in public speaking isn’t worth being honored if their views are different than his,” said Mike Gonidakis, executive director of OH Right to Life.
Katherine M. Venskus, 34, of Oconomowoc, allegedly used the card belonging to MN-based Public Affairs Company to make $15,473 in unauthorized purchases, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.
Venskus was known as Katherine Heringlake when she pleaded no contest in 2002 to forgery, a felony, for stealing almost $13,000 from the NARAL of Wisconsin, when she was president of its board of directors.
But on Wednesday, a motion will be presented at the GA entitled “Discriminatory Groups” that threatens those very rights. This motion makes some wild claims. It claims that denying a woman access to abortions is “an act of discrimination.” On the grounds that pro-life groups are therefore “discriminatory,” it seeks to alter SSMU’s equity policy to include a clause that would prevent SSMU from granting full or interim club status to any pro-life group. The motion also claims that Choose Life utilized coercive tactics at the now-infamous “Echoes of the Holocaust” event.
This entire motion offends me.
The claim that pro-life groups are fundamentally discriminatory is absurd. It has no rational justification. I make this statement as a person who is fundamentally pro-choice. But that doesn’t prevent me from understanding the sincere arguments of the pro-life side of the debate. How is the belief that a fetus is a child discriminatory? Whether life begins at conception is both a scientific and a spiritual question, not a question of sexism.
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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.
“Whether life begins at conception is both a scientific and a spiritual question.”
Scientific, yes. If that’s as far as it went, the author would have to be pro-life. I guess he threw “spiritual” in there as a way to justify his support for abortion. But it’s nice to see someone standing up for pro-life free speech in Canada.
“Whether life begins at conception is both a scientific and a spiritual question.”
It’s a scientific question, and the answer is yes. I’m guessing he realizes this and tacked on “spiritual” so his irrational ideology would have something to fall back on. Still, it’s always nice to see support for freedom of speech.
Sorry for the double post, technical difficulties.