Jivin J’s Life Links 5-7-10
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
[Sen. Mary] Pilcher Cook, a Shawnee Republican, offered the idea as an amendment today as the Senate debates a 1-cent sales tax increase. Her amendment would also decrease the proposed sales tax hike to .9 cents….
She noted that governments routinely use tax policy to effect behavior – cigarette and liquor taxes, for example, or tax breaks designed to spur economic activity.
“If you want less of something, you tax it,” Pilcher Cook said.
“[Adult] endometrial tissue is probably the most readily available, safest, most easily attainable source of stem cells that is currently available. We hope the cells we derived are the first of many types that will be used to treat a variety of diseases,” said Yale’s Dr. Hugh Taylor.
“I think this is just the tip of the iceberg for what we will be able to do with these cells,” added Taylor, whose findings are published in the Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine.
I found comfort in the medical terms of “products of conception” and spontaneous missed abortion. From the point in which we realized that the heart had stopped beating, my only thought was that something had died inside of me, and that I desperately and with every fiber of my being needed it to be removed. It wasn’t a baby…..
That I needed medical permission to remove it was galling to me. The baby was dead and my body had betrayed me. Now I had to undergo surgery just to make it end.
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.
I think Marty’s point in saying “it wasn’t a baby” was that the baby was no longer alive, not that it never was a baby. Her miscarriage experience was identical to mine – 12 weeks old, but the baby died several weeks prior. I had very little sign of the miscarriage until verification by the OB/GYN. The thought of having to undergo a D&C was disturbing since the term is more often heard in speaking about abortion, but I didn’t see it something intrusive or “galling” as Marty did. It was a necessary consequence of my miscarriage.The staff at the hospital could not have been more caring and attentive during that difficult time.
Jill,
Did you see the Mother’s Day message from the Center for Reproductive Rights? It was on Robin Marty’s blog.
CRR was thanking mothers for supporting aborting their children and teaching their daughters to do the same. They thanked mothers for ‘raising up a generation that supports choice’. I guess they are also thanking the mothers for doing away with a generation in the name of choice.
I don’t have words to express how ludicrous this is or how terribly sad it makes me feel.
I was 1 year old at my mom’s high school graduation. The people at CRR and other pro-choice organizations fought for her ability to end my life because she was young and it was not the best time for her to have me.
My mom has passed away, but on behalf of my family, my husband, my children, and myself, I want to thank my mom for being Pro-life!
Janet @ 2:00
I should add that Marty, I’m very sorry for your loss.
I should add that Robin Marty, I’m very sorry for your loss.
Mods,
Please delete my post @ 2:02.
Thanks.