Pro-life blog buzz 7-29-14
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
- A Culture of Life says STDs are showing an increasing resistance to antibiotic treatments:
It’s a constant race with the bugs. We develop a new antibiotic, and after a while, we see the first signs of resistance appearing. Then the resistance spreads, until finally that antibiotic becomes useless. Then it’s time to move to the next antibiotic, if one exists. Earlier this month the [New Zealand] Herald reported that this is happening with Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the cause of gonorrhoea. And there are no more antibiotics left to treat it….Often STDs are described as being easy to treat or cure. That’s not consistent with the advice about infectious diseases from outside the ‘sexual health’ area. How often do hospitals advise visitors to stay away if they are sick? Yet in the ‘sexual health’ area, the advice is to just use condoms….
Anyone in public health would see that as irresponsible.
But the ‘just wear a condom’ advice is given particularly to young people who are consistently the worst at using condoms, and who are the most vulnerable to catching STDs.
- At National Review, Michael J. New responds again to Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig, who believes women should receive government funds to carry their pregnancies to term. However, she apparently objects to women receiving help from pregnancy resource centers because she believes that this only “increas[es] the population of single mothers and undermin[es] norms against pre-marital sex.” (Apparently, government welfare doesn’t?) New disagrees, and also says that despite Bruenig’s claims, economics may not play as large a role in a woman’s decision to abort.
- American Life League’s Judie Brown discusses how society has descended into “a multitude of errors” due to the assumption that we can “play God” with human life in the areas of birth control, abortion, and IVF.
- Big Blue Wave highlights a much-touted study showing that preborn children can learn nursery rhymes in the womb. Researchers are quoted as saying that this study “push[es] the envelope earlier” as to when children can learn, with one stating, “It is really before they are even born.” The more we learn, the more we discover how complex these so-called “clumps of cells” really are.
- At Live Action, Calvin Freiburger responds to a divorced-from-reality post at RH Reality Check, in which writer Andrea Grimes objects to labeling Christian citizens and lawmakers “the American Taliban.” Why the objection? Because she feels this is insulting… to Muslims. Freiburger unleashes some sanity on her ridiculous assertions:
I cannot imagine reading a more complete, more self-centered, more embarrassing lack of perspective within the next year. Prohibiting abortions, tightening medical regulations, and respecting Americans’ right to choose what they subsidize constitute “extremist Christian theocracy” on par with what you’d find in the Middle East….Translation: Either let us kill children here, or you’re just as bad as those who kill children over there. Either let us fine out of business anyone whose benefit packages don’t conform to our morality, or you’re in the same category as those who kill people for having socially-disapproved sex.
Suicide-bombing churches. Stoning women for alleged adultery. Bans on teaching girls and employing women. Genital mutilation. Dropping walls on gays. Ethnic cleansing. Executing apostates from Islam. Prison time for selling unapproved books. Turning villages to ash.
This is just a sampling of the hell the Taliban put millions of people through. What real patriarchy, real misogyny, real oppression, real theocracy, real homophobia, real morality police, and a real War on Women look like. What it’s really like to live without choice or privacy.
Andrea, why don’t you do a Google Image Search for “Taliban victims” and get back to us on whether the results remind you of a pro-life demonstration?
[Photo of Holly Fisher and Reem Saleh Al-Riyashi via National Review Online]
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.
“But the ‘just wear a condom’ advice is given particularly to young people who are consistently the worst at using condoms, and who are the most vulnerable to catching STDs.”
I’ve stated here before: pretty unrealistic to expect teens to consistently remember a condom for heat of the moment encounters when they can’t consistently remember to bring a number 2 pencil to class.
Aren’t there a few STI’s that are spread skin to skin?
HPV, which is extremely antibiotic resistant (being a virus). It’s also the one that causes cancer.
Yes phillymiss. You are correct. The most common STI, HPV is spread skin-to-skin (even with the HPV vaccine the efficacy is about 70% because it is targets 4 strains of HPV) there are about 50 strains I believe. Herpes and syphilis can be transmitted skin-to-skin as well. The skin, mucous membranes, hands and the region right above and around the condom can be infected with HPV, genital warts, Herpes and syphilitic sores (I have seen medical slides with these right above where the condom ends).
Most people infected with STDs have NO symptoms and no visual signs. To Eric’s point last research I saw stated 70% of sexually active teens have not been tested for STDs, so they don’t even know if they have one (typical teen response “I’m clean, I don’t feel sick, I don’t see anything, I would be able to tell”). We should take a poll of how many teens would ask “Can I examine you for blisters, warts, chancres, and sores first?”. They can’t remember to bring a pencil, paper or a textbook to class (I have lots of family/friends that are teachers) but they are going to remember to practice so-called “safe sex”. Good grief!! Sex never has been and never will be “safe”.
Sorry for the long post but I am passionate about teens, if adults want to take the risks it’s on them and it’s their business.
Shes nuts.
“Explain the Difference”
Oh where to begin? Chances are the woman on the left can read the book she’s holding, has intact genitals, and can choose a spouse with no threat of honor killing. The woman on the right … not so much.
It looks like “Taliban” is replacing “Nazi” in modern applications of Godwin’s Law.
The Pro-Life Movement is a matter of scientific facts and justice for the innocent. We know when human life begins, and we know that innocent lives should be protected from murder.
Many of us are compelled by our Christian morality to take action against injustice. But one does not need to be Christian to have this moral sense — And groups like Secular Pro-Life are ample evidence that non-Christians are also passionate protectors of justice.
The RHRC fantasy is that pro-life is merely a dogma of Christian faith, and the only reason to protect innocent life is a religious reason. They insist that all persons who are not “brainwashed” by the “superstitions” of Christianity are naturally pro-abortion. But this is only true inside of their own bubble-world: Reality is different in the real world.
Del, well said!
How about a new “Question of the Week”?
It’s obvious that the answer to the old one is “save the baby,” and that everybody who pretended to answer differently is lying.
a quire Jack et all: since antibiotics (that most ‘orthodox’ medicine use) no longer work often, (HPV is a virus), I was wondering if essential oils have ever been tried. Wild oregano oil is a potent antibiotic, antifungal, and antiviral?
Hi John. Have not heard of your idea about oregano oil before, usually genital warts are burned off with a pretty costly, nasty medical procedure. Some strains of HPV cause warts which be genital, anal, down the throat, etc. other strains of HPV can develop into cancers of the cervix, rectum, penis, along with the head and neck. Right now there is a significant increase in head and neck cancers from oral sexual activity. One of the “secrets” that the homosexual activists do not want out is about all of the health risks especially to teens. Like I think Jill Stanek asked long ago in an article “where are the health warnings?”. Heard of a young man who came “out of the closet” pretty recently and he has already had 2 or 3 surgeries to get rid of pre-cancerous areas in his rectum and bowel. From what I understand someone told him he could have “safe sex” and he bought the “condoms will protect you” lie as a teen. I just want kids to be told the truth about all of the health risks. Like I said “if adults want to take the risks it”s on them and it’s their business” but promoting social and sexual agendas that hurt kids is ridiculous.
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/BloodBloodProducts/Questionsabout Blood/ucm108186.htm
Sorry link above did not work, will try to repost the FDA link again, hopefully it works this time.
http://www.fda.gov/biologicsbloodvaccines/bloodbloodproducts/questionsaboutblood/ucm108186.htm