Jivin J’s Life Links 5-2-11
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Democratic state legislators in Florida got into a heated argument after one of them (Daphne Campbell) backed a pro-life bill:
Deeply religious and opposed to abortion, Campbell clashed with her colleagues over the abortion bill. [Rep. Scott] Randolph had had enough. And the two exchanged words — possibly more.
At that point, the stories diverge. And they’re being revised.
Campbell said Randolph called her a “traitor,” threatened to run an opponent against her and threw papers at her. Randolph denies it. He acknowledged he threw some of her papers and a pen in the trash.
- Huntington News isn’t too impressed with W. VA Sec. of State Natalie Tennant’s (pictured left) decision to get funding from EMILY’s List in her attempt to become governor:
Reasonable people can disagree on the pro-life/pro-choice issue. But until this year, we have yet to see a West Virginia statewide candidate for office so brash as to tell her future constituents that they must kowtow to the out-of-state special interest group that says that abortion on demand is fine and dandy. Natalie Tennant may have gotten a few TV spots paid for by Emily’s List money this year.
But in exchange, she’s sold her political career here for a very cheap price.
- The New York Times is covering Indiana’s push to stop providing tax-dollars to abortion providers:
Abortion rights supporters condemned the decision, saying it would leave 22,000 poor residents of IN, who use Planned Parenthood’s 28 health facilities in the state, with nowhere to go for a range of women’s services, from breast cancer screening to birth control. PP of IN said it would file an injunction to block the measure from taking effect. But abortion opponents said the move merely guarded against sending tax dollars to facilities that perform abortions, and said women on Medicaid still had plenty of health facilities available to them all over Indiana.
Here’s the text of the bill in question. It also includes a 20 week/fetal pain abortion ban, tweaks their informed consent law with ultrasound viewing option, tries to prevent cross-county judge shopping for parental consent waivers, and requires abortionists to have admitting privileges.
Below is a video of a news report on the story. At the end, the female anchor notes that Gov. Daniels’ office says organizations can get their funding back – all they need to do is stop performing abortions. When Planned Parenthood is forced to choose between state funding and providing abortions, they’re going to pick abortion every time. They won’t even acknowledge that ceasing abortions is an option.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSOf9PD9sDM[/youtube]
[Tennant photo via republicangazette.com]
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.
You know, it really bothers me that PP has even a theoretical chance of getting an injunction to prevent tax funding from being blocked. That a court, any court, could (not that they will or won’t, but that the power to do this exists at all) compel a state government to pay money to an entity it is not indebted to over the express protests of the taxpayers in the region is really, really troubling for reasons that go even beyond abortion. I’m really feeling like it’s very anti-Constitutional, and it most certainly is anti-choice.
I guess pro-aborts act like babies because they keep aborting all of their own.
No what is unconstitutional is trying to weaken a federal law by use lies from state legislators. All these stupid state laws trying to make it harder and harder for women to get what federal law says they have a right to not only obtain but to the right of privacy while they do it. State law after state law being passed on lies like the fetal Pain laws even though there is not any accepted creditable evidence that fetal pain even exists. Ultrasound laws, what a waste of time, any woman who goes to PP is asked if she would like to see the ultrasound first, some say yes some say no once again it should be their choice. When you have conservative senators speaking lies on the senate floor like “over 90% of what PP does is abortion” without repercussions from their own party. Lila Rose and Abby Johnson telling lie after lie while they rake in huge amounts of money from appearances and book deals… Seriously Abby Johnson, there are hundreds of thousands of PP employees all across this country and out of all those people one disgruntled employee is speaking the truth… It doesn’t even hold water at a glance. Do you have any idea how many people get fired or laid-off from PP every single year? Notice that no matter how mad they are they don’t spew the crap Abby does. I bet they would if someone offered them a speaking fee and a book deal. We have states now that require a longer waiting period for an abortion that to buy a AK-47!!!
Biggz: tl;dr
Wow your post was the nonsensical ravings of an abortion-lover which only proved my point. Thank you for the laugh.
We’re all lyin’ McLiars! Please, oh wondrous abortion fans, do save us from all our lyin’ because for sure babies don’t feel pain and PP is just so awesome and generous what with all the healthy babies they deliver and all the mammograms they perform!