Pro-life news brief 10-26-12
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Texas’ Women’s Health Program doesn’t need to fund abortion providers and their affiliates now that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied an appeal to reconsider their early decision. Planned Parenthood’s lawyers apparently can’t understand that no one is taking away their free speech rights if a state chooses not to fund abortion providers:
In a statement issued Thursday, Gov. Rick Perry said Texas will immediately “defund” the health organization’s affiliates. “Today’s ruling affirms yet again that in Texas the Women’s Health Program has no obligation to fund Planned Parenthood and other organizations that perform or promote abortion. In Texas we choose life, and we will immediately begin defunding all abortion affiliates to honor and uphold that choice.”
- President Obama has lied so many times about Planned Parenthood providing mammograms (the latest this week on the Tonight Show) that even the liberal Washington Post is fact checking him on it:
The problem here is that Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms or even possess the necessary equipment to do so. As such, the organization certainly does not “provide” mammograms in the strict sense. - Louisiana authorities have arrested a man who allegedly cut his child out of his pregnant wife’s womb. The wife is in critical condition and the child died:
Deputies continued to interview people at the home in Walker a day after they arrested Jeffrey Reynolds, 31. He is accused of slashing his wife’s throat and cutting their unborn child out of her abdomen with a kitchen knife. Deputies found the baby dead inside the home with a large laceration to the head.Paula Reynolds, 28, was seven and a half months pregnant. At last check, she was in critical condition. - A woman named Rebecca Edmonds is suing the Air Force after her scholarship was revoked because she was pregnant. The Air Force has policy which prohibits single parents from enlisting:
Edmonds said she asked the officer who informed her that she was being ejected from the Air Force, “Had I terminated the pregnancy before my commissioning, would I have been able to commission at that point?” And, according to Edmonds, “He said, ‘Well. Technically, yes.’ That was the hardest part of all of this. Someone telling me to my face that had I gotten an abortion, then I would be eligible for service.”
[Photo by Kevin Lamarque/Reuters, via WashPo]
Oct.26, 2012 9:02 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.
“after she decided to become a single parent”
I think the military will be better off.
Nice good catholic morals there.
This Air Force needs to modify this policy.
Nothing wrong with single parents, I’m a single parent. The Air Force should rethink this policy.
Yeah because if there’s one thing the military needs it’s more deserters.
Because someone is a single parent they will automatically be a deserter? Or what?
I guess it’s all in how you read it, JackBorsch. I understood U-104’s comment to mean she’d have been Air Force material if she had “deserted” her unborn child… Regardless of what U-104 meant, this young woman has made the right choice – one that has already saved the life of one person, regardless of the sacrifice it may have meant to her personal life. Sounds to me like exactly the kind of people we want defending our country… Bravo.
It says in the article that her scholarship was revoked. That sounds to me like she was in college on an ROTC scholarship. The armed forces have a rule, I believe, about having dependents or becoming pregnant while on scholarship. I have a daughter who wants to attend college on an ROTC scholarship and she is fine with that rule. I’m sure this was made clear to her when she received the scholarship. If she was single, then it seems to me that she could have made a choice to avoid the possibility of pregnancy through abstinence, especially if her scholarship money and continuation in her program depended on it. I do believe the rules for scholarships are different (and more stringent) than the rules for enlisting.
If she’d made an adoption plan or married the father (you know, like people used to do) she would have been commissioned as well. The military does not allow single parents for the very common sense and obvious reason of military readiness and familial support/provision. Military can be called up at a moments notice, moved to a new station, or have hours/job changed with little to no notice. A single parent can not possibly provide the same readiness as a two parent household. They have to find someone non-spousal to care for the child, maybe for years, without any notice at times, or find childcare for a non-standard schedule that can change at any time. It would be foolishness to expect a single parent to be able to acomplish this (even though, yes, *some* may be capable of such a feat). Furthermore, if the soldier dies the child is an orphan. Even during times of draft the military has turned down sole-providers of children as too risky for military work. I had a grandfather who was denied service in WWII because he was the sole provider (his wife being partially disabled) for his 7 kids.
Ultimately, the military’s position makes perfect sense and, more importantly, she was fully informed of this position *before* she signed up and before she became pregnant. Pregnancy is good, parenting is good, but there are some situations where it is not appropriate. She had options, both before and after she became pregnant (certainly not limited to abortion!) she is not entitled to complain because she chose not to avail herself of any of those choices.
Single mothers are notorious for becoming undeployable just when the orders come in, their childcare plans just happen to fall through, they suddenly become pregnant totally by accident, damn that banana peel right next to that man sunbathing nude.
@RSC
And she will save many more lives by staying out of the military.
I LOVE Texas. They are leading the way when it comes to defunding Planned Parenthood and we can only hope other states follow their lead.