(Prolifer)ations 2-3-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- Secular Pro-Life notes some items of interest on the international abortion front in Russia and Australia.
- John Smeaton reports on the eugenic screening of eggs, currently being implemented in a Scotland IVF clinic.
- ProLife NZ sees history repeating itself in different ways – with the extermination of disabled children under the guise of “quality of life”:
Berlin’s “Topography of Terror,” museum, which features exhibits on the murderous crimes of German police forces during the Nazi era, has begun a temporary display on the thousands of children euthanized during the same period as “life unworthy of life.”
The exhibition, entitled, “In memory of the children. Pediatricians and crimes against children in the Nazi period,” displays photos and documents related to various Nazi projects concerning the murder and torture of children, such as Action T4 and Lebensborn.”
- Reflections of a Paralytic has thoughts on Newt Gingrich’s strong statement against the use of embryonic stem cell research, which he formerly supported.
- Pro-Life Wisconsin discusses the “Roe effect” and contrasts photos of Roe supporters in Wisconsin with March for Life participants in DC.
- Pro-Life With Christ posts two links where readers can view the annual March for Life in DC, as mainstream media barely covered this half-a-million participant event.
- ProWomanProLife shares video of the Android app, Iris (similiar to Apple’s Siri), when asked a question about abortion. Surprising!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JKCZiF62tA[/youtube]
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.
Nice that Iris has a pro-life message, but did it HAVE to be about the Bible? Not everybody who uses the Android is going to be Christian.
@Kelsey: Listening to it, I half-wonder if it’s sarcastic. I mean, yes, I like that it’s pro-life but it’s also about as nuanced and thoughtful as a brick to the head.
The exhibition, entitled, “In memory of the children. Pediatricians and crimes against children in the Nazi period,” displays photos and documents related to various Nazi projects concerning the murder and torture of children, such as Action T4 and Lebensborn.”
From Eric Metaxas’ biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
‘Bonhoeffer:Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy’
Just as Hitler had been planning for years to enslave the Poles and kill the Jews, he had been planning to murder every German with a disability…As early as 1929 he [Hitler] proposed that 700,000 of the weakest Germans be removed per year.
In August 1939 every doctor and midwife in the country was notified they must register all children born with genetic defects–retroactive to 1936. In September, when the war began, the killing of these ‘defectives’ began. In the next few years five thousand small children were killed.
After Hitler’s success in France, a new day dawned. Bonhoeffer and so many in the Resistance had been convinced that Hitler would ruin Germany by dragging it into a military defeat. But who could have ever dreamed he [Hitler] would destroy Germany through success, through an ever escalating orgy of self-love and self-worship? Actually Bonhoeffer considered it in the truncated speech given two days after Hitler came to power. He [Bonhoeffer] knew that if Germany worshipped any idol, it would incinerate its own future, as those who worshipped Moloch did by burning their own children.
o’bamascare: Call us when you are shovel ready
I respect Ronald Reagan, but I have never been able to understand why he let this happen.
An entry in his personal journal indicates that Reagan believed that Sec. Otis Bowen had no choice but to can Gaspar. Maybe Reagan was the victm of bad advice.
But witnessing the brujas response to the recent SGK decision to cease funding pp may help explain Reagan’s asssessment of the Gaspar incident.
Gaspar subsequently went to work for William Bennett in the Dept. of Education.
That tells me Gaspar was not fired for immoral or unethical behavior.
Perhaps ms Gaspar will give us an explanation now that the ‘Gipper’ has gone to glory.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-07-20/news/8702220865_1_planned-parenthood-judge-robert-bork-dr-otis-bowen
But in the same week, Mr. Reagan`s secretary of health and human services, Dr. Otis Bowen, fired deputy assistant secretary Joann Gaspar, a strong advocate of the prolife position. Miss Gaspar`s transgression, it appears, was to refuse to sign grants that were issued in violation of stipulations in Title X`s funding authority.
Title X denies eligibility for funding to groups that “advocate or perform abortions.“
Planned Parenthood, a group that both advocates and performs abortions, and other groups in the same category have been receiving Title X funds, in spite of their ineligibility.
When Miss Gaspar pointed out the illegality, and the improper practice of funding these groups, she was rewarded by being summarily fired.
This action by Secretary Bowen, which was apparently carried out with White House approvalHouse approval, came late on Thursday afternoon before the three-day holiday weekend of July 4. This helped ensure that she would be out and gone before anyone could raise a fuss. But the prolife community will be heard from, and the man who stands to lose the most is the President himself.