Life Links 3-16-12
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Bookmark this from RH Reality Check to respond to claims that “no one likes abortion”:
I love abortion. I don’t accept it. I don’t view it as a necessary evil. I embrace it.
I donate to abortion funds. I write about how important it is to make sure that every woman has access to safe, legal abortion services. I have bumper stickers and buttons and t-shirts proclaiming my support for reproductive freedom. I love abortion.
- Ready to get sick? At Religion Dispatches, Sarah Posner interviews an anonymous abortionist about the role her faith plays in killing defenseless human beings:
For the doctor, her faith is “an important part of my life I think it still helps me find balance and determine what actions to take. I do feel like I have a calling for certain things, including the work I do, and that comes from my faith and my beliefs.”
A calling from God to rip innocent human beings limb for limb?
- The Detroit Free Press has an article on Michigan State women’s basketball player Lykendra Johnson (pictured left), her unplanned pregnancy and her daughter:
As MSU learned it would be heading to Wichita… to play Northern Iowa in the first round of the NCAA tournament, Johnson learned something, too.
“It wasn’t fatigue,” she said. “That’s when I first found out.”
She found out she was pregnant, and had been pregnant for most of the season, including when she had 16 points and 17 rebounds against Ohio State in February and 24 points and 12 rebounds against Penn State. The pregnancy – former MSU men’s player Delvon Roe was the father – was a shocking surprise.
- I’m surprised the Washington Post headline in a story/blog post correctly attributes the decision to defund the Texas Women Health Program to the White House.
WaPo also has an interview with a local Planned Parenthood leader about the defunding and PP’s plans to cut corners.
- A California man was given 25 to life for killing his girlfriend and her unborn child:
A man who admitted to strangling his pregnant girlfriend, killing her and her 4-month-old fetus, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in state prison.
Michael LaBrunda pleaded guilty to both first-degree murder for killing 21-year-old Alisha Chapman of Westminster on Oct. 10, 2007, and second-degree murder for killing the fetus, Los Angeles County prosecutors said.
- In Reason, Steve Chapman writes about the real war on women:
If the effort to limit the contraceptive mandate were truly a frontal assault on women, a majority of them would not be endorsing the offensive. But the ideology of groups like Planned Parenthood and the National Organization for Women (NOW) sometimes ignores inconvenient gender realities.
Those advocates have been distracted from a different and far less figurative war on women — which, as it happens, is helped rather than hindered by one of the “reproductive rights” they champion.
Legal abortion may empower women, but it has also become a powerful method for the mass elimination of females.
- Funny how abortion advocates act like all abortion clinic owners aren’t really in it for the money but just care so much about women. Then you have an abortion clinic worker say something like this:
Sometimes our employers tend so much to the “business” part of our business, that they forget the heart of it. They forget that without passion, without advocacy, without caring for more than the bottom line (and without having employees who do, to their core, have these qualities), they will have a very cold business. They will lose those who care the most: who are motivated by making a difference in women’s lives. Some of my friends are getting lied to by their bosses: being promised that they would always have a job/not get a paycut/not get laid-off/that they’re too valuable to ever lose; then all of the above happens. And employees who are rude to patients, rude to other employees, who suck the heart out of a clinic stay behind.
- Illinois continues its long overdue attempts to crackdown on abortion clinics. This time, the state is ordering an abortion clinic to stop advertising surgical abortions since it lost its license in October:
The Illinois Department of Public Health sent a strongly worded order to the Women’s Aid Clinic in Lincolnwood by certified mail on March 7. But the clinic’s website on Thursday still was promoting “first trimester abortion services from 6 to 14 weeks of pregnancy with two types of anesthesia.”
In October, the clinic lost its abortion clinic license after it was cited for dusty equipment, lack of a supervising registered nurse and failure to perform CPR on a patient who later died.
Since then, the clinic has remained open, even as its owner told the state the clinic would cease to operate as a licensed pregnancy termination center. It’s unclear whether the clinic still is providing surgical abortions, which could be a violation of state law. A woman answering the phone said the clinic provides only the abortion pill.
The clinic failed to pay a $36,000 fine assessed in October, according to the March 7 letter, which also demands that the clinic return its original license to the state or face a revocation action. The matter will be referred to the Illinois attorney general’s office if the clinic doesn’t pay the fine and cease its “false advertising,” the letter states.
[Photo via mlive.com; Image via examiner.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.
Okay, everyone who reads my posts knows that I try to keep religion out of the issue as much as possible. But when I read about someone being “called” to destroy developing human life, Im reminded of the Bible verse that says that talks of how good will be called evil, and evil good.
As for the “war on women”, is it just a war on we anti-choice and/or conservative women, or just liberal women? What about those of us past childbearing age?
Inquiring minds what to know!
PP cutting corners? Only reason why that is surprising is to hear they think there are any corners left to cut. When your whole business is ‘bottom line, bottom line’ corners usually last about as long as a hundred dollar bill on a busy sidewalk. They’re going to have to lop off some sides first if they want to find some more corners to cut.
phillymiss,
The latest alleged war on women is just a ploy of the progressives to influence young women’s votes for the fall of 2012. They are STILL using the battle cry that they fabricated in the 1960’s and 1970’s to influence the legalization of abortion. Our young girls especially need the level-headed influence of their more traditional female role-models.
The “I love abortion” girl must be vying for Cecile Richards job. What other explanation could there be?
Did I just read that right???? Rude abortion workers “suck the heart” out of a clinic???
Irony, meet ignorance.
Janetforlife,
Can we non-traditional female role models also help? ;P
She found out she was pregnant, and had been pregnant for most of the season, including when she had 16 points and 17 rebounds against Ohio State in February and 24 points and 12 rebounds against Penn State.
But…but…I thought pregnancy was a crippling disability that totally compromised your bodily integrity and we need abortion doctors to save usblah blah blah blah blah!
Jessica DelBalzo is a very sick woman. She needs help, as do her children. She’s been brainwashing them at her own admittance since they were 2. Can you imagine the kind of damage that can do to a child? “I off’d your sibling last year because it was my choice, and I want you guys to support me no matter what I choose, even if it would’ve been to off one of you, ok? Give mommy a hug!”
This is where people like VS come from.
“…Our young girls especially need the level-headed influence of their more traditional female role-models.”
Janetforlife,Can we non-traditional female role models also help? ;P
Hi xalisae!
Traditional and progressive are somewhat relative terms, so maybe I could have been more specific. I think self-proclaimed progressives tend to fall in the pro-abortion camp, so I think you fall into the category of “more traditional” than them.
If you’d rather not be categorized as such, let me know.
Anyone who is pro-life is more than “welcome” to join the fight - I’d say they are morally obligated.
@Janetforlife: The trouble with labeling pro-lifers as “more traditional” than abortion apologists is that it is not reflective of the reality we live with, at least in the US. Abortion is legal and has been since the seventies. Sooner than that, depending on which state you live in. The people who are seeking to end it are the ones that are advocating change. The pro-abortion camp, regardless of how “progressive” they proclaim themselves to be, are defending the status quo. They are not the hip, counter-cultural rebels that they see themselves as. Like so many other narratives of the abortion apologists, that is a lie.
Alice,
Hmmm…. interesting perspective. I will have to ponder that and I’m interested to hear what others think as well, including xalisae.
I do see your point, that progressives think they are being brilliant and unique, enlightened, etc…. In fact, they are the lemmings in society today, IMHO and they are blind to that fact. (It’s those of us who go against the tide who are really cool. LOL. I know people who think you’re dull, uncool, backwards, if you don’t tow the Obama “progressive” line. Hah, we see it here all the time.) There’s a progressive talk radio guy I’ve listened to, Mangold is his name? who came right out and said he and his type are more sophisticated and educated than the rest of us, you know with the advanced degrees etc…. I guess he would have characterized all the great inventors of the 1800’s and 1900’s as dullards. It’s amazing that any of us can even get to work and home each day.
Me with my body jewelry and unconventional hair color, and my very-soon-to-be hubby with his leather biker jacket just came home from sidewalk counseling one evening. He stopped for a second, took a look at the both of us, and said, “I think this is the new ‘Punk Rock’!”
He later clarified by saying that what we were doing was sort of counter-culture, just because abortion has become so prevalent in today’s society.
xalisae,
I think you and your very-soon-to-be-hubby have a good point. I’m fortunate in that I’m pretty isolated from the pro-abortion culture in my little corner of the world. The exposure to it at Jill’s is eye-opening and shocking, and depressing to be honest, although after so many years, nothing surprises me anymore. I didn’t know you are sidewalk counseling together. That’s awesome.
Congratulations to you both – when’s the wedding?
On paper, June. Ceremony, October. Yesterday was the 2 year anniversary of the day we met. He asked me to marry him 2 weeks after that, and we never looked back.
The other day, he and his father went out for a motorcycle ride together, and they stopped to eat and chat. He told him, “It’s obvious you love her. It’s obvious she loves you. You two get on like Heckle and Jeckle.”
I take that as a great compliment, but I’ve been trying to figure out which one I am. XD