Pro-life blog buzz 10-16-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli
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- Big Blue Wave shares a video from Alliance for Life Ontario, which the Advertising Standards Council of Canada claims is “demean[ing] and denigrat[ing to] women.” The ASC plans to penalize the pro-life group for refusing to amend or withdraw the ad:
- At National Review, Michael New notes the critical flaws in the recent study in favor of free contraception:
[T]here are at least five reasons why this study greatly overstates the impact of no-cost contraception.1) No control group… 2) Limited impact on repeat abortion rate… 3) Exaggerated impact on overall abortion rate… 4) The weighting mechanism overstates effectiveness of contraception program… 5) The results are not generalizable to a large population….
All in all, the pro-life movement receives plenty of criticism from the mainstream media and supporters of legal abortion for not being more contraceptive-friendly. However, in reality there is little evidence that supports the effectiveness of contraceptive programs. Separate studies from both the Guttmacher Institute and the Centers for Disease Control both indicate that a low percentage of sexually active women forgo contraception due to high cost or lack of availability.
- Accepting Abundance also comments on the free contraception study:
Caring for women is not the real agenda. Saving the taxpayers money or reducing abortion is not the real agenda. The real agenda is about power. How do you gain power? You convince people they need you to take care of them. You convince them you can save them. You convince them you are god. Works every time, right? - 40 Days for Life provides updates from several cities at the halfway point of the campaign. Pro-life speakers David Bereit, Abby Johnson, and Rev. Walter Hoye paid a visit to the Nashville gathering.
- FRC Blog responds to an article that attempts to paint the pro-life as something it isn’t:
When working through policy issues with my interns, I often remind them to make sure they know the real principles guiding any discussion. Being pro-life is about valuing life because it is God-given and necessary for all other human experience on earth.It is NOT about being pro-opportunities and pro jobs or any other such thing. No dead people have jobs, enjoy art, or get a good education. Being pro-life means you don’t want innocent people to be murdered. A little state charity doesn’t make a platform of murder more palatable.
If a man ran for office, ended all poverty, gave everyone an ideal education, but every day stood outside the White House and presided over the legal killing of innocent Americans, no one would vote for him. That is what happens in America, only it is labeled “choice.” Innocent people are killed and not a single one of them gets a good education or a chance to have a good life. It is the first liberty without which the others can’t be exercised.
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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.
Advertising Standards Council Of Canada…..
This ad is “demeaning” and “denigrating to women”????
In what way? This ad tells it exactly like it is. What about all those aborted “women” (baby girls)?
I think somebody (there) needs to look up the definition of “standards”, because if they object to this add, they don’t HAVE any.
Come on, Canada!
*As usual, pro-aborts are objecting to an ADVERTISEMENT, but not to abortion itself*
I saw the video and see no demeaning of women. Just truth telling. I suppose the ad council is opposed to truth.
A little late. A good first answer by Mr. Romney.
Holy Spirit please forgive me for the sins that I have committed today. And Holy Spirit, please allow the moderator to be fair and unbiased tonight in the debate and to guide Mr. Romney’s answers, and that each politician show concern for all of the preborn children waiting to be born and about to be aborted. Please enter Mr. Obama’s heart, so that he no longer wants to permit abortionists to murder preborn children.
God bless America.
Canada is a wicked place. Strong words, but they have less liberty to speak their minds freely every day.
Chris, you forgot to put some indication that you were being sarcastic about the entire country of Canada being wicked. Surely no one could condemn an entire country like that with a straight face.
I really wish people wouldn’t make statements like that when they’re on my (pro-life) side.
maybe the entire people of Canada are not wicked or evil, but I wouldn’t fault anyone who said most of the officials inhabiting government within the nation of Canada were wicked or evil.
I agree, xalisae, though I’d add the bulk of American politicians to the assessment. I don’t know enough about foreign politicians, but they’re probably in there too.
I can understand frustration with the status quo, but nasty and ridiculous hyperbolic statements like Chris’s just contribute to the idea that we’re nutbars.
Roxy, Chris didn’t say “Canadians are wicked” he said “Canada is wicked” which is a valid statement. The U.S. is wicked too. Not any specific person, but the nation as an entity. As a entity the nation of Canada: allows for any and all abortion, leading to the wholesale slaughter of their unborn, they limit free speech and freedom of religion, landing protestors, pastors, and even letter-to-the-editor writers in jail or burdened with crushing fines, they force religious insitutions to teach against their principles, etc, etc, etc. As a *nation* they are wicked. Governments usually are. Abuses and evils are so inherent in the miasma of government, any form of government, that it’s almost impossible for a governing body of any large group not to be wicked. That’s not hyperbole or ‘nutcase-talk’, it’s an objective look at facts. And pointing out the evil in a nation doesn’t condem any specific individual of that nation, but only the collective government as a whole.
Jespren, I do see what you mean, but what is a nation if not a sum of its people? “Canada” is not a vacuum, and the geographic area is not “wicked.”
I agree with you that governments tend to be evil, which is not an admirable part of human nature, and also that this evil extends to all countries. At that point, though, it’s like saying, “I like to breathe air,” or, “Humans don’t always make the best decisions.” Pretty pointless, in other words.
My first thought, still, when I read a statement like that is, wow, this person has a dreadful grasp of human nature or else just knows nothing about Canada. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would react that way. Had Chris written something well-thought-out, like you did, I would have been in agreement with him/her too.