Pro-life news brief 4-4-13
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
- Yesterday at the Kermit Gosnell trial, a former employee of Gosnell named Elizabeth Hampton testified about her difficulties working at his clinic:
Hampton testified that she would pour the jar of red liquid from the machine down a sink drain and turn on the garbage disposal. She said she did not know if the liquid contained fetal body parts.“I left because of things I saw. I went out that night and started drinking at the bar across the street,” Hampton said, her voice choking with emotion. “I fell off the wagon.”
- At RedState, RNC Chair Reince Priebus (pictured left) hits the media over their lack of coverage on Planned Parenthood’s testimony against legislation to help children who survive abortions:
Consider two events from last week. First, in North Dakota the governor signed into law bills that would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat is present and when the procedure is sought solely because of the baby’s genetics. The media, including most major outlets, went into a frenzy to stir up controversy, often casting pro-life conservatives in a negative light.
Then later in the week in Florida, lawmakers held a hearing about a bill to protect the lives of babies born during an attempted abortion procedure. The bill requires the abortionist to provide medical care to the newborn. It might seem obvious that a newborn should be cared for — but not to Planned Parenthood.
- Noam Chomsky (pictured right) thinks ignorantly claimed an unborn child is an organ in a woman’s body. He then stated that hand washing could become illegal because of human cloning or something (don’t expect a logical argument):
There is a strong debate at the moment with regards to a woman’s right to control an organ of her own body – namely the foetus. There is legislation being enacted in several US states to define personhood as a fertilised egg.
Pretty soon you can imagine legislation prohibiting the washing of hands because thousands of cells are flaked off that could be turned into a stem cell and you can grow a foetus – so you’re killing a person. It’s attacks on women’s rights.
Chomsky said these incredibly stupid things at an event where he received University College Dublin’s highest award. It’s amazing how elite liberals can say the most unscientific, moronic jibber-jabber and no one seems to care.
- Noah Rothman takes down NARAL president Ilyse Hogue’s absurd claim that before Roe v. Wade, “illegal abortion was the top killer of women of childbearing age in this country”:
I am not a pro-life activist – I’m not even particularly pro-life (though many abortion practices make me uncomfortable) – but this claim sounded wildly exaggerated to me. How could it be that, prior to 1973, the leading cause of death for young and middle age women was the oft-referenced but rarely identified “back-alley abortion?” It turns out, unsurprisingly, that Hogue’s claim is entirely fabricated.
Jeffrey Meyer has more at Newsbusters. Video via Mediaite:
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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.
There is legislation being enacted in several US states to define personhood as a fertilised egg.
Pretty soon you can imagine legislation prohibiting the washing of hands because thousands of cells are flaked off that could be turned into a stem cell and you can grow a foetus – so you’re killing a person.
Now, here’s a great example of the slippery slope logical fallacy. Unlike the claim made in the harvesting eggs from aborted girls comments.
I think its important to realize that after all the blood guts and gore it gets to the workers. That’s why many have left. I wonder how many suffer PTSD
Former abortionist Paul Hill ” I finally quit because Id realized I was a paid assassin .” The vs from Deutoronomy kept haunting him….Cursed is the man who taketh reward to kill an innocent person .”
Oops Deuteronomy
Anthony Levitano…At first I thought I was helping women . You want to take that baby home but we were throwing them in the trash at an alarming rate. My wife and I adopted a daughter named Heather. She was hit and killed by a car. I quit the abortion industry .
Hi! I’ve sure missed my usual interwebs interactions, but couldn’t resist mentioning that Ilyse is living down to our expectations. Also, what Chomsky knows about biology would fit in a Barbie doll’s thimble. Idiot.
Carry on… I’m lurking ;>) !
But wait, I would like to demonstrate the proper grammatical use of the words ‘egg’ and ‘fertilized’ in a sentence:
A zygote is created once the egg is fertilized; a zygote is a unique, though tiny, member of his or her species, and not an organ of either parent’s body. There is no such thing as a “fertilized egg.” The phrase was coined not to allow women to kill small human children, but rather to make eating eggs more palatable when you’ve collected them on your own farm.
**back to lurking. (This is really hard!! I love arguing!)
Ilyse, in the same sound bite you used the Constitution to defend abortion and then turned around to condemn “extremists” for using it when it suits them. Do you realize put yourself in that same category? Technically, nothing in the Constitution itself explicitly defends “a woman’s right to choose”. Roe v Wade is an interpretation of the US Constitution that struck down all state laws enacted to protect women and children regarding abortion.
Dr. Chomsky tends to discount certain phenomena that don’t fit his theories in linguistics too. In order to equate a “fetus” with skin cells, he is only ignoring EVERY SINGLE THING about a “fetus” and EVERY SINGLE THING about skin cells.
Aw Dr. Chomsky’s all confused. Pregnant women *do* grow an organ during pregnancy, but it’s not the foetus!! It’s the placenta – which gets expelled naturally when the baby is born. So… yeah he’s sort of right but the baby itself is still a unique person.