(Prolifer)ations 10-18-10
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
- Life Training Institute quotes author and producer Nora Ephron, who recently claimed, “You can’t call yourself a feminist if you don’t believe in the right to abortion.” LTI’s response:
… Nora Ephron’s feminism is weak because it is not feminism at all. As Dr. Francis Beckwith points out in Defending Life, stating that abortion is necessary for the equality of women is to say that women in their natural state are unequal to men and need legal access to a surgical procedure in order to have a competitive chance. That is a very inspiring view of women you have to offer there, Nora.
- Live Action speaks to the importance of voting for life at all political levels.
- Generations for Life analyzes an Abortioneer’s description of 1st and 2nd trimester abortions, and the attempt to portray the procedure as “minor.” The so-called “gentle suction” is anything but gentle to the body of an unborn human.
- Culture Campaign slams a DC middle school for administering a sexual information “pre-test” to 12-year-olds which included questions about sexual orientation, oral sex, vaginal sex, anal sex, condom usage, and bodily fluids. Parental permission slips were sent home on the day the tests were given – after the fact.
- Catholic Vote informs readers the SBA List is being sued by OH Rep. Steve Driehaus (1 of the “pro-life” Democrat sell-outs on Obamacare) to prevent billboards against his campaign (pictured above left) from being posted in his district. Driehaus claims the President’s EO covers his vote. The lawsuit is moving forward:
Why should this concern us in the pro-life movement? Because an elected official has gone to the courts to suppress the free speech of pro-life groups he disagrees with.
His suit… represents an act of desperation by someone who refuses to allow a pro-life group to communicate with the voters of his district. Such actions have a “chilling effect” on other pro-life groups attempting to communicate their message. You can be sure that other groups will be wary of trying to actively engage with voters through public advertising if there is a precedent established here of officials simply suing groups when they don’t like what they are saying….
Then there’s this bombshell: “If the Commission rules that campaign laws were in fact violated, the SBA List could face criminal prosecution, fines, and even jail time.”
- Dr. Gerard Nadal of Coming Home has a column in Headline Bistro discussing the 2010 Nobel Prize awarded to Dr. Robert Edwards for the development of IVF. Dr. Nadal notes the Nobel committee is known for “attempting to drive political agendas through their awards. Given IVF’s derivative technologies, the award for Edwards can easily be construed to be not only for helping infertile couples have a biological child of their own, but also for the invention of the technology that is at the root of embryonic stem cell research.”
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.
where’s the barf smiley? That test for TWELVE YEAR-olds is yet another reason for families with morals to HOME SCHOOL when its possible…..or not send to a public school. That’s disgusting and unnecessary. How about asking things like who the first president was? Something that’s part of education, not something that filthy.
You can’t be a feminist if you don’t believe in abortion? Fine. I don’t want to be a feminist, then. Oh boo hoo, I can’t be in the club filled with self-serving, self-congratulatory narcissists and egoists!
I am SO SICK of these raging liberal feminists.
How about asking things like who the first president was? Something that’s part of education, not something that filthy.
I wouldn’t say the subjects of the “pre-test” were “filthy”, but they’re sure as heck not what twelve-year-olds should be spending their time in school learning. Make them memorize state capitals or British monarchs or constellation names or something.
yeah, I remember a show once (I think it was that NBC show that’s on once in awhile that’s sort of like NBC’s version of 20/20) and they had something about how certain % could tell you who Darth Vader was, but they could not tell you the year of the Declaration of Independence or name at least one founding father. Pathetic.
too bad sex ed doesn’t include FETAL DEVELOPMENT. How about “when does the heart start to beat”…..I’d love to see how many 12 Year-Olds know that!
“You can’t call yourself a ‘feminist’ if you don’t believe in the ‘right’ to abortion”?
Actually, the very opposite is true. Abortionists are NOT feminists because they believe in destroying ALL women in the unborn stage and depriving ALL women of their human lifespans. Any questions?
And by the way, there is and can be no “right” to commit prenatal homicide. It is a crime not a right.
Take heart, Liz.
My son saw a video yesterday in his health class that went through every stage of fetal development starting with sperm and egg and ending with the “termination of the pregnancy” with CHILD BIRTH! He said it was pretty cool. :)
Nora Ephron is irrelevant. I agree with Joe’s comment.
that’s great, Carla. Glad to know some health classes are showing the truth.
“Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.”
~ Susan B. Anthony
“Guilty? Yes. No matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; But oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!”
~ Susan B. Anthony
Have they forgotten that the woman who basically started the feminist movement was pro-life?