(Prolifer)ations 1-25-11
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
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- Albert Mohler examines President Obama’s statements on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade as evidence he is as pro-abortion as the pro-life movement has always believed.
- The Center for Women of Faith in Culture writes about the need to be consistently pro-life.
- Real Choice discusses the National Abortion Federation’s culpability in abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s “house of horrors.”
- ProWomanProLife questions the marketing of Plan B to women as a pill that will not work if a pregnancy has begun (ignoring the fact that life begins at conception, not implantation). Why would women need to be “comforted” by that fact if aborting newly created life were inconsequential?
- Priests for Life congratulates their own Dr. Alveda King and Marie Smith, recipients of this year’s Life Prizes Awards from the Gerard Health Foundation, which were presented on January 22 in DC.
- Parenting Freedom highlights the story of one unborn baby’s grim prognosis for survival – the same given to his father at the same hospital so many years before. Both father and son lived, despite the odds, thanks to the choice for life made by their mothers.
Jan.25, 2011 11:40 am |
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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.
Its rephreshing to see a couple willing to give their baby a chance at life! My family was faced with a similar situation and now she is almost three years old! Its amazing what can happen when people have faith!
This Plan B story deserves special attention. This redefinition of the beginning of pregnancy is rather insidious and alarming. When I learned about the birds and the bees at the ripe old age of five, I was taught that pregnancy begins at conception. Now time and again I see things from Planned Parenthood and pharmaceutical companies that define the beginning of pregnancy as implantation. Even gynecologists have gotten on board. Where did this come from?
Now, in and of itself, it doesn’t make much of a difference to me when a woman is officially identified as “pregnant”, because a woman won’t even know the difference herself for at least a few more weeks. The problem is that the redefinition makes it so that some things aren’t identified as abortifacient when in fact they do end the life of an unimplanted zygote or embryo.
I’ve known plenty of innocent pro-life women who have gotten snowed into accepting abortifacient birth control (pills, IUDs) because their gynecologists tell them they don’t cause abortions. They don’t “cause abortions” if you define the beginning of pregnancy as implantation, but they *do* in fact keep an embryo from implanting, causing it to die and be expelled, and the woman herself will probably never be aware of how many of her children have been killed.
So much for “pro-choice” being the side of honesty, education, and freedom. If they were, they wouldn’t resort to rewriting the dictionary in order to force more abortions on women who don’t want them.
So Obama’s official statement on the anniversry of Roe v. Wade is that “government should not intrude on private family matters”?
Uh, what family? I thought this was all about a private medical decision between a woman and her doctor, like a tonsillectomy.
A family matter? What, like punishment, what kind of food to eat, what religion to follow, what kind of clothes to wear?
Could this be about which family member should live or die?