Pro-life blog buzz 12-11-12
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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- A Single Drop in the Ocean takes exception to a PETA ad that equates eating meat with the pro-life issue.
- Moral Outcry lauds the work of a Colorado pastor who established Project 1:27, which “turned 875 children in the Colorado foster system who were waiting for adoption (not all foster children are eligible to be adopted) just a few years ago into zero.”
- Down on the Pharm answers critics of pharmacists who refuse to sell the morning-after pill to men, and explains why some refuse to sell it at all.
- Pro Life NZ responds to bigthink.com blogger Adam Lee’s “challenge” questions for pro-lifers, which are really nothing more than tired, old pro-choice talking points – including the fallacy of equating natural death with death by abortion.
- Reflections of a Paralytic says that despite the often-repeated mantra, abortion on the disabled unborn is neither moral nor compassionate:
Whether you mean to say it or not, advocating for abortion for unborn children with various diseases and disabilities in an effort to “spare them a life of suffering” (among other things) suggests that one must be perfect in mind and body in order to have a fulfilling life, which sends a message to those of us poor fools living with disabilities outside the womb that you do not think that our lives are worth living.
- Right to Life of Michigan is happy to report that Pro-Life Lobby Day was attended by more than 800 people. Some important pieces of pro-life legislation were passed and will now wait for the governor’s approval. Despite political losses at the national level, pro-life work is gaining importance and traction at the state level.
- ProWomanProLife points out the hypocrisy of feminists and progressives who refuse to even vote to condemn female gendercide in sex-selective abortions in Canada.
- Wesley J. Smith shows the slippery slope is alive and well in Belgium, where the legalization of euthanasia and therapeutic abortion are now being used to justify infanticide:
Several neonatologists have drawn up a procedure which enables euthanasia of premature newborn infants or those presenting a handicap in one of the three following instances: either the infant has no chance of survival, or it is deemed to only have a very mediocre quality of life, or the outlook is poor and it is felt that the infant will suffer unbearable pain.The Groningen Protocol [Dutch infanticide protocol] caused quite a stir in Belgium and a great many medical practitioners are of the opinion that since a “therapeutic” abortion is possible right up to the day before birth in the event of the child being handicapped, euthanasia of newborns ought also to be allowed under the same conditions.
- Operation Rescue has information on the case of a patient who suffered severe blood loss after a possible “chemical abortion gone bad” in Cleveland, Ohio:
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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.
” … which sends a message to those of us poor fools living with disabilities outside the womb that you do not think that our lives are worth living.”
Well said. Yeah, who are the foolish ones? And this attitude in the name of compassion! Help, help – the world is upside down!
Kind of ironic that the blogger from bigthink.com seems to have put no thought into his post and lazily repeated several easily debunked talking points.
I get ticked by the mentality of abortion for the disabled due to quality of life too. If you saw me walking down the street (most days) you’d guess I was healthy. But I have a genetic disorder which causes me daily, chronic, frequently extreme pain, joint, and soft tissue issues. Many things I loved to do and would love to still do, I no longer can. There is no expectation that I might recover function, only a slow decline as I age. There is a 50% inheretance rate (although not everyone who has it suffers from chronic pain), I currently have 3 children, statistically at least one has it as well. My life, and my children’s lives, are well worth living. I have friends, hobbies, acomplishments. I love, laugh, and thoroughly enjoy life. It’s highly offensive to suggest it would be better to kill someone who may be disabled than ‘let’ them live a life of pain and disability. Life is worth living. Life is worth living even when it is less than ‘perfect’.
Thanks for the insight Jespren. I think it’s very important that people with disabilities speak up regularly to certify that yes, their lives are worth living.
Hi Jesperen,
Our lives are far from easy. Thanks, Jesperen for speaking out. I too would love to shout, but I can’t; would love to shake someone (actually anyone who struggles to find any joy). Many moons ago a friend and PC-er was thinking that my reflections were strange and unnecessqry.
One of these was the concept of freedom. [To me freedom and joy are interchangeable.] Because there is an almost joyless crowd in PC-land, I asked if a person in prison have any sense of freedom? Her answer was ‘No’ because freedom consisted of ‘making choices’. So perhaps this restriction of concept did not permit freedom to grow and therefore was a poor/false idea about ‘freedom’.
Then I proposed a Christian (religious) understanding of ‘freedom’. In many writings of Sts Paul and John there is talk of a merging/meshing of humans … ‘two become one flesh’ ; Jesus prayed ‘ may they be one Father,as you and I are One’ and ‘I am in you and you in me’.
Freedom relates to how a human loves. He/she has the ability to extend themselves into another. If the person is another limited being, like themselves. A human in-love/in-marriage is freer than if alone. [If he/she extends in-love to God (an unlimited being), Their ‘freedom knows no bounds. {I once told a disabled friend that God’s being was like a flame. In this analogy, we are like broken birthday candles. He consumes our brokenness.]
Such a way of viewing life allows me a freedom and joy unsurpassed. Baronness Dougherty wrote about yet another step in this process: ‘When God extends Himself, the person becomes liberated.”
2 Corinthians 12:9-10 comes instantly to mind …
“9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”