(Prolifer)ations 3-11-11
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
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- Serge at LTI discusses a recent article by British Pregnancy Advisory Service director Ann Furedi, who rejects the gradualist view of abortion in favor of aborting “throughout all 9 months without question.” “
- The FRC blog reports on recent news stories linking emergency contraceptives (Plan B) to an increased risk for heart disease and deep vein thrombosis in young women.
- ProLifeUnity (via ProLifeBlogs) reveals American Life League’s “bunny in a blender” Planned Parenthood ad has been banned by local TV stations in DC unless ALL can “prove that PP puts babies in blenders.” Really? Remember those “This is Your Brain on Drugs” commercials?
… Michael Hichborn, a lead researcher with ALL, put it this way: “The Partnership for a Drug-Free America never had to prove that drugs turn the human brain into a chicken egg in a frying pan and Energizer has yet to prove that rabbits play drums.”
- Albert Mohler examines the long term consequences of gendercide on societies like China and India.
- Joe Carter of First Things links to Pat Archbold’s NC Register article which paints the portrait of “the armchair pro-life” who seem to be more involved in criticism than in activism:
… [T]he armchair pro-life, mistaking tepidness for wisdom, steadfastly maintain that there is no difference between the [political] parties. Instead of getting in the game, they sit on the sidelines complaining about how muddy the players get.
With limited compassion and unlimited hubris, the armchair pro-life swell with repellent pride over their self-supposed Solomonic wisdom, blithely nattering on while the baby is cleaved in half.
- MN Citizens Concerned for Life notes the efforts of pro-aborts to shoot down a recently introduced MN fetal pain bill by “appealing to the hard cases” – but rape, incest, and fetal abnormality don’t change the humanity of the unborn child.
- Live Action points out blatant MSM bias, shown by the words they choose to use when labeling pro-lifers.
- Culture Campaign reports on the MSM’s sudden (but delayed) realization that Americans are interested in social issues like abortion and defending traditional marriage.
- Accepting Abundance posts a discussion board conversation she had with a woman celebrating abortion and the “death of traditional marriage.”
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 can’t blame the DC stations for not wanting to show the “bunny in a blender” advertisement on television. The analogy to abortion would be lost on many frightened children who might be able to view it. It’s six weeks until Easter – not hard to see that it’s not good timing – and then there’s the problem of certain children seeing it and thinking it would be a fun thing to try at home. Pro-choicers would use it against pro-lifers declaring “See, those crazy pro-lifers are up to their hi-jinks again”. That said, the ad is a good conversation starter; it grabs your attention. It’s best left for the internet, IMHO.
This entry alienates gay pro-lifers.
Yes that’s it there concerned about children. I never did do eye rolls so I’ll just pause and wonder when their hypocrisy will catch up with them. ;(
Once again the MSM will not get close to telling the abortion story…it will frighten the children. Sure. Then they show hundreds of CSI episodes that depict violence with extreme and nauseating detail. But if we want to fill in the education gap by taking to the streets with graphic images, well now we have gone too far. So we try to soften the message with no graphic details and still we are shut down. What a bunch of hypocrites!
Oh no…not the gay marriage/abortion social issues cocktail again…
Anyway, I am working on writing out my thoughts on sexual violence, abortion, unity, and empowerment in an essay. I would be very interested in sharing it with someone here when it’s finished. Por favor. :)
Nate and others – you may or may not have noticed that the bullet points above are from other blogs. They are reporting what other blogs are talking about right now. If you don’t want to go and read those particular posts, you are within your rights to avoid them.
Go ahead, DC. Let the anti-choice tards show that garbage. It will be just as absurd as the PDFA ads and only the pre-indoctrinated will agree with it anyway. There’s a saying that any publicity is good publicity, but there are cases where that’s just not true. This is one of them.
I knew of a teenage girl who was considering getting an abortion. A so-called Christian girl heard about it and came up to her in the hall with her “holy” friends. The “Christians” shoved a photo of supposedly aborted embryos and called the girl a “babykilling whore”. They also told her they would kick her ass if she got one. She ended up getting one and it was partially because of all the loving counseling she got from those twits.
SL, if we’re making generalizations on entire movements based on a few members, I guess that makes you a eugenicist intent on removing “human weeds” who has a great respect for hitler, and who thinks acts of charity and altruism are a terrible burden on society.
And that’s based on the founder of Planned Parenthood, while your story is based on some juvenille teenagers.
The Margaret Sanger strawman is getting kind of old. Don’t you have another canard up your sleeves? By dehistoricizing Sanger’s legacy, some important facts are forgotten, like a) most social reformers of the time were at least a little ethnocentric b) prominent black leaders like W.E.B. Dubois supported the birth control movement. Also, you might want to stop talking about black people like they’re some monolithic whole duped by the “abortion industry.” Makes it seem like you don’t think people of color can use their own brains.
The real discrimination occurs every day in Congress. By cutting social service programs like Title V, Head Start, WIC and heating subsidies for low-income houses under the guise of “fiscal austerity,” conservative leaders send the clear message that POOR PEOPLE DON’T MATTER. Oh, and this one’s for laughts:
In response to a constituent’s questions about recent budget cuts to programs for the mentally ill, a NH GOP state rep said that he wanted to ship “defective” people off to Siberia:
http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/245163/lawmaker-advocates-eugenics
Megan, I was only bringing up sanger to point out the flaw in SL’s logic when he compared us to those teenage girls.
As for “talking about black people like they’re some monolithic whole duped by the ‘abortion industry.'”
Please get your words out of my mouth. They’re bitter and disgusting.
And as far as “Hating the Poor” goes, charity is NOT the governments job. When put in the hands of the government, it inevitably turns to socialism or communism, which history has proven to fail time and time again. Conservatives give 30% more to charity than liberals do anyways, so saying we discriminate against the poor is laughable.
Conservative Republicans, are statistically more charitable (more than 30% more charitable) compared to their “socially concerned” liberal democratic friends.
http://richiericher.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/arthur-brooks-who-really-cares-the-surprising-truth-about-compassionate-conservatism/