(Prolifer)ations 3-29-11
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
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- Bryan Kemper posts the text of one man’s scheduled interview with an Atlanta, GA Planned Parenthood. Of special interest is the paranoia of the PP educator in refusing to answer some straightforward questions and PP’s refusal to allow any audio recording of the interview. PP later tried to harass one the interviewers, even contacting his supervising professor. All this from an organization that has nothing to hide.
- On the 1st anniversary of Obamacare, the LTI blog highlights the role of Bart Stupak (now a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government) and other pro-life Democrats on its final passage. Stupak claims to have no regrets.
- Mark Crutcher writes on the always controversial topic of using graphic abortion photos. Crutcher believes that by objecting to the photos, many well-meaning pro-lifers become unwitting allies of the industry that wants women to stay uninformed and to make uninformed decisions about abortion.
- Secular ProLife enumerates which Constitutional rights would be removed from pro-lifers if NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg got his way. Lautenberg recently claimed pro-lifers “don’t deserve the freedoms in the Constitution… but we’ll give it to them anyway.”
- The Culture Vulture suggests that in addition to observing “Earth Hour” by turning off lights for an hour, we should celebrate “Birth Hour” to “remember all the human beings who won’t get to be born, and all of the women harmed this year because of abortion.”
- ProLifeBlogs posts a press release detailing the Maryland Coalition for Life’s leasing of an office space directly across from Carhart’s late-term abortion mill in Germantown, MD.
- Parenting Freedom tells of Hungary’s plan to encourage citizens to have more children – tax cuts, extra maternity leave, etc. – without banning abortion.
- Moral Outcry discusses remarks made by Australian Professor Julian Savulescu, chair of Oxford University’s practical ethics department, who believes society has an interest in promoting eugenics. He also claims IQ is important, and that those of lesser intelligence should be weeded out through genetic manipulation and IVF. View video of his commentary below:
Part 1
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7515623[/vimeo]
- Part 2
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7681585[/vimeo]
Mar.29, 2011 4:30 pm |
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Dr. Savulescu is using evolutionary psychology to argue against monogamous relationships, which is a very shaky “discipline” and is not a foundation on which I would rest any argument whatsoever. And IQ tests are not useful, as a psychological tool, in determining the absolute end of someone’s potential. One of the many things that makes them problematic as a diagnostic tool, when not used in conjunction with other testing methods, is the simple fact that that not everyone tests very well.
Given these rather problematic beginnings, I think I’m going to skip the rest of his talk.
Savulescu, you may be very intelligent… but you are an utter depraved fool. “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God…” I Corinthians 3:19
Non-sequitur alert!
Please avert your eyes if iireverant irrlevance causes you discomfort.
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“In case you’re wondering the koran does not specify what a woman gets in the afterlife for dying in ‘jihad’.
But if I were a female muslim terrorist, I’d like to hope that in paradise, muslim men…
would just leave me alone!”
D. J. Dolce
Read the Bryan Kemper post–very, very interesting. Honestly…I agree with those who say “If they have nothing to hide, why did they refuse to answer some of the questions?”
As to IQ tests, they don’t measure a person’s potential necessarily. Also, genius level of IQ doesn’t mean said person is going to be happy or even really contribute to society. Just means they have a high IQ.
Makes me think of Billy Joel’s song, ”Just The Way You Are”–because how do they know people with low IQs/deformities or disabilities won’t be able to lead productive lives that contribute to society somehow? Some people teach us the most about love by having disabilities/deformatives or low IQs: http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=hjCoBTzrN9E (I know that’s not what the song is about, but the idea of weeding out lower IQs in favor of the high IQs makes me think of that song)
As a supervisor, I’ll take a humble low IQ hard worker over an ”enlightened” high IQ slacker any day. I have found it is easier to raise someone’s IQ than increase his/her work ethic.
Also, genius level of IQ doesn’t mean said person is going to be happy or even really contribute to society. Just means they have a high IQ.
Agreed, Mother in Texas. Plenty of unhappy people who are really, really smart. Personally, I think being happy is a more sure measure of “genius,” in the first place. If somebody is smart, but not smart enough to be happy, well – just how smart are they, really?
As for contributing to society, if one spends tens of thousands of hours during one’s life arguing on message boards, does that count? ; )
…”Planned Parenthood will no longer be able to line the pockets of child-murderers with blood money.”
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PP is all about lining her own whoring pockets and those of her accomplices, the progressive/liberal/humanist politicians and their bunk buddies.
I remember my momma telling me that Jezebel painted her fingernails with the blood of the prophets.
I don’t know where she got that.
But if you line your pockets with ‘blood money’, it stands to reason that it’s going to get on your nails when you go to spend it.
“As for contributing to society, if one spends tens of thousands of hours during one’s life arguing on message boards, does that count? ; )”
Doug,
Now you’ve gone from preachin to meddlin.
Yor, if a male dies in Jihad, the 70 virgins will be elderly Catholic nuns. If a female dies in Jihad, her 70 virgins will be science fiction fanboys who lived with their mothers.
;>) !!
ninek,
You mean like Harry Reid.
Now you’ve gone from preachin to meddlin.
Ken, I’ve made that trip in less than 3 hours several times.
As for contributing to society, if one spends tens of thousands of hours during one’s life arguing on message boards, does that count? ; )
Doug,
You tell me. I don’t come on here as often as I used to.
Tejas Mammy, I was asking that in a joking/rhetorical/sarcastic sense.