(Prolifer)ations 9-17-10
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
- Generations for Life recalls a “first save” anniversary 8 years ago. While sidewalk counseling a Spanish-speaking woman, they found she was an undocumented immigrant who was fearful of being discovered. She had been told over the phone that there might be “something wrong with the baby” and that she should abort or she would be turned in to immigration by the hospital when she delivered. Talk about intimidation!
- Coming Home notes the presentation of an award to Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey of NY, the woman “who defeated William S. Merrell Company’s application for thalidomide in the United States by linking the drug to the hideous birth defects it induced in embryos of mothers taking the drug for morning sickness.” The award was presented by FDA commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg, “who helped shepherd the new abortifacient Ella through the regulatory process as merely a ‘contraceptive…’.”
- Charmaine Yoest at Reasoned Audacity reviews the book Abortion & Life by Jennifer Baumgardner. Yoest says though the book is presented as an “even handed conversation,” it ends up being an “ad hominem argument.”
The book mentions a current symbol of “reproductive freedom” is angels’ wings, which is meant to indicate the belief that aborted babies are watching over their mothers. Talk about a delusion – that the baby would look kindly at the one who snuffed out his existence.
- Americans United for Life points out little has changed since the Beijing 4th World Conference on Women in 1995, when pro-aborts sought to declare a worldwide “right to abortion”:
Abortion advocates attending the Conference fought rigorously to establish a “right to abortion” on demand, but were defeated when governments declared that no “right to abortion” was to be established at Beijing….
In March of this year, the Commission on the Status of Women took place at the UN in NY…. Pro-abortion groups invaded… to convince delegates that legalizing and expanding access to abortion is the key to improving women’s health and ending maternal mortality.
Greater access to abortion, however, fails to address the problem of maternal mortality. In fact, countries with the greatest restrictions on abortion have the lowest maternal mortality rates.
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 do believe the souls of aborted babies go to heaven. In heaven there is no sin so there is no anger, hatred, resentment, rage. These babies do look with love down on their earthly mothers. So its okay to kill them in the first place? If someone killed me I would go to heaven because I trust Christ as my Savior. Does that make it okay to kill me?
It is a terrible terrible sin to take an innocent human life. There is no life more innocent than a baby growing in her mother’s womb.
A mother who aborted her child can always hope that her dead child is watching over her. But if she thinks it excuses the act of murder, she’s just deluding herself. Her child is watching over her, because he’s praying for her to repent for his murder…
I will say that that book cover is about the most disgusting thing I have ever seen, even worse, to my mind, than the goriest abortion picture. It presents the situation as if “abortion” and “life” are two equal paths. “There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways.” – Didache, trans. J.B. Lightfoot
I the woman going through the pregnacy on he cover, but the other one just left me lost. I guess Talk about morbid irony.
(Why don’t they have the pregnant woman smiling? She looks like she’s arguing and it makes the person wearing the “I Had An Abortion Shirt” look like the happier one, which sends out the the erroneous message that women who have abortions are happier–did anyone else get that or am I thinking something completely different?)
They wanted the picture to be shocking. That was part of their intent.
The woman with the “I Had An abortion” shirt with her hand on the pregnant mother’s belly makes it look as if she’s thinking “I had an abortion…and YOU should have, too!”. That’s just my thinking.
Pamela, I was trying to put my finger on exactly how that picture bothered me, and I think you hit the nail on the head. “Honey, are you sure you can’t get that taken care of at one of those late-term places?”