(Prolifer)ations 10-11-11
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Americans United for Life points out how Politifact supports AUL’s assertion that the government cannot accurately account for taxpayer funding given to Planned Parenthood. The fact that this “nonprofit” receives an apparently incalculable amount of money should demonstrate why they need to be investigated.
- The Culture Vulture takes ALRANZ (New Zealand’s foremost abortion rights promoter) to task for refusing to speak out against eugenic or sex-selection abortion. In their recent newsletter, ALRANZ stated: “… NZ’s abortion law should be decriminalized, giving women the right to make their own abortion decision for their own reasons.”
- Generations for Life shares the eye-opening video, It’s a Girl, which exposes sex-selection abortion worldwide. One has to wonder – where is the National Organization for Women? Where is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? Where are the feminists? They’re burying their heads in the sand, hoping the dearth of girls in certain countries will magically disappear:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISme5-9orR0[/youtube]
- Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life reports on the San Jose Articles, a document “refut[ing] the claim that there is a right to abortion under international law that all nations must accept.” Professor Robert George of Princeton explains:
The Articles will support and assist those around the world who are coming under pressure from United Nations personnel and others who say falsely that governments are required by international law to repeal domestic laws protecting human beings in the embryonic and fetal stages of development against the violence of abortion.
- The Anti Abortion Gang demonstrates the “me first, with no responsibilities” attitude so prevalent in our culture, referencing a recent post at the Thought Catalog, in which a co-ed writes of her experience with sex and becoming pregnant:Taking the test is like preparing for a funeral. Everyone always tells you that sex changes things, that it’s the death of your innocence and you can never take it back. Sitting there staring at that pee-soaked stick, you know they were lying to you. This [positive pregnancy test] is the loss of that innocence. You feel damaged, dirty, nauseated. Nothing will ever be the same after those lines appear.
Instead of recognizing the sexual behavior as the problem, the blame is transferred to the baby created, who will pay the ultimate price.
- Live Action commends pro-lifers who prayed outside a Virginia Beach Planned Parenthood during 40 Days for Life. This particular PP posted a nonsensical sign reading, “Planning for parenthood is sacred work.”
- Catholic Vote asks, tongue-in-cheek, why not subsidize abstinence? Given the mandate by Health and Human Services for insurance coverage of sterilization and contraceptives at 100% – putting pregnancy in the category of a disease necessitating prevention – why not pay people to abstain from sex?
- Moral Outcry shares the testimony of a woman who saved a child from abortion during a “chance encounter” at a beauty parlor. We need to always be ready to speak effectively and with compassion to mothers considering abortion.
- Euthanasia Prevention Coalition calls out an article in the Huffington Post which erroneously claims assisted suicide is legal in Hawaii:This is an interesting claim considering that in the past few years there have been several bills to legalize assisted suicide in Hawaii that were all defeated. During the most recent legislative session, a bill to legalize assisted suicide was defeated in the state Senate Health Committee by a 4 to 0 vote.
Perhaps the HuffPo subscribes to the theory “If you say it often enough, people will believe you.”
- Abby Johnson recounts the two-year anniversary of her departure from the abortion industry and the support she received from pro-lifers.
- LTI spots some cognitive dissonance in California where minors have been banned from using tanning beds. One of the bill’s sponsors said of the passage: “I praise Governor [Jerry] Brown for his courage in taking this much-needed step to protect some of CA’s most vulnerable residents – our kids – from what the ‘House of Medicine’ has conclusively shown is lethally dangerous….”Too bad the health of minors isn’t considered in California abortion law.
Oct.11, 2011 3:30 pm |
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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.
I thought the very same thing when I heard about California’s tanning bed ban for teens. Where is the outcry from the younger feminists: KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY BODY!!!! ?
Spending an afternoon at the tanning salon : bad.
Spending an afternoon having your baby killed: well, we can’t really say whether that’s right or wrong, every person’s different, BLAH BLAH BLAH.
Are we getting Punk’d??? Maybe I’ll get to meet Ashton!
Does anyone else see the absolute disconnect here? Or am I the only one?
The anti-abortion gang story referenced a girl who got pregnant at college and aborted. Her boyfriend wanted to keep the baby. She says “The person sitting beside you—your significant other—is already crying. They are religious. They think this is a baby.”
Girl, what in the world are you learning at college if you don’t even know basic biology. Sex is how babies are made! Shocking, I know. And that baby is biologically human and alive. Abortion kills that human. This isn’t religion, its called science. How on earth were you accepted into any college when you don’t even know how babies are made? I think I knew that by like, age 8.
And then for her to say she feels damaged when she discovers she is pregnant. What an ungrateful brat! Tell that to my cousin and his wife who can’t have children because they somehow really ARE damaged. Tell that to several of my friends who have had miscarriages and had to have surgery to try and get pregnant and are still waiting for that pee soaked stick to show them two lines.
You were given a precious gift and you threw it away. And there is no guarantee you will ever receive that gift again.
From the Catholic Vote article – “contraceptives and sterilization procedures qualify as “preventive medicine” that must be covered by all health insurance plans. Thus we can deduce that pregnancy is a disease which the state has a vested interest in preventing.”
That’s one giant leap for mankind!
There is a vast array of “preventative medicine” which does not equate to dealing with ‘disease’.
As for paying people to be abstinent, much of the so called sex education in Texas is abstinence only yet look at the teen pregnancy rate. I think it would be less than successful.
Exactly, Sydney. I’m sitting here broken-hearted and crying as I type this because I’m NOT pregnant, and may never be again. :(
I’m also trying to wrap my brain around the woman in the “It’s A Girl” video who said she killed EIGHT of her born babies HERSELF “because they weren’t male”..and LAUGHED as she said it. Yes, I understand “nervous laughter”, but still…
Praying for you Pamela… God hears your heart’s cry. Praying very soon you will be blessed with another baby. I know that hurt oh so well! There is no other ache like it. It is like a deep wound that no one else can see and it hurts every moment of every day.
Cannot understand killing your child or even just withholding affection for being the “wrong” gender. I don’t know if this baby I carry is male or female but I love this kid NO MATTER WHAT. No matter if this child has Downs, Spina Bifida, dwarfism, no matter what shape and size this baby comes in… this is my baby and I love him/her.
Don’t understand the coldness of some hearts.
Normally, I would post a comment there because I enjoy fighting injustice and shining truth wherever needed. It just makes me so sad, though. “What It’s Really Like…” to be a self-absorbed, cold-hearted, homicidal hedonist.
X, did you comment? I commented a few times. The coldness of their hearts is astounding. Yet through it several women commented “I still think about it 6 years later”… ” I can’t listen to ‘Brick’ (about an abortion) without crying.” “I wonder what could have been”, “Its a secret I still carry.”
The angriest ones are the men on there. Wonder if they carry guilt for paying for some abortions themselves?
Oh my gosh Brick is one of the most depressing songs ever written, Sydney.
I know Jack, I know! I went to a Ben Folds concert and he played all his hits including Ben Folds Five stuff like Brick. Even though its sad I don’t cry when I hear it. These women obviously are still hurting from their abortions.
That song turns my stomach. Bad memories. I thank God I’m so stubborn sometimes, though.
I haven’t had the chance to comment, Sydney. Sometimes people are so heartless, it can even leave ME speechless. As you all should well know, that’s not easily done.
“I got pregnant using protection. It is the weirdest feeling. Didn’t keep it, and was kind of amused that protection actually doesn’t work 100% of the time.”
One of the comments. :(
Breaks my heart… I also got pregnant while using “protection”. I kept “it” and that “it” is turning 5 in less than two weeks! He is the dearest person in the world to me and I cannot imagine not having that precious little boy in my life. I thank GOD every single day that my “protection” failed and that I get to be mommy to such an amazing little human being.
Finally got around to commenting. Feeling drained.
I know what you mean. Reading so many lies and so much garbage is spiritually and emotionally draining. Ugh.