Pro-life blog buzz 10-21-14
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
- Fletcher Armstrong has put in a request to City Hall in Asheville, North Carolina, asking them to afford his pro-life group the same right to display a banner on the building as was given to a rainbow flag celebrating the striking down of a statewide ban on gay marriage. While he is still awaiting an official response, he has received some local TV coverage for his request.
- Down on the Pharm showcases the edgy work of California graphic artist Sabo, whose art “lampoons the Left.” Pictured at left is his response to Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis‘ 13-hour filibuster of a 20-week abortion ban, which vaulted her to prominence. They are a pair of earrings entitled, “Snip.”
- The New Yorker has a feature piece on Marjorie Dannenfelser and the history and strategy of the SBA List, as well as some great history on the pro-life movement in general.
- Kansans for Life discusses the hotly contested U.S. Senate race in Kansas between pro-life Sen. Pat Roberts (R) and pro-abortion challenger Greg Orman (who says he is an Independent). Orman has used late abortionist George Tiller’s popular slogan, “Trust Women,” to promote his pro-choice beliefs, while claiming that abortion is settled law, so we need to get past the issue. Roberts was incredulous, “saying that to admonish us to ‘get past’ the rights of the unborn and those at the end of life is unconscionable”:
“I am pro-life,” he said [voting record: 64 out of 64 correct pro-life votes] and am proud to be endorsed by National Right to Life and Kansans for Life.
In a follow-up rebuttal, Roberts added, “[abortion] isn’t settled law because we had a great fight over Hobby Lobby, didn’t we? …[that] we’re not going to accept Obamacare because it strikes at our religious beliefs. And the Hobby Lobby won. And so it isn’t settled law, not by a long shot.”
- At Pro-Life Action League, John Jansen calls out the euphemisms that the abortion industry uses to sell abortion (“pregnancy termination,” and “emptying the uterus,” to name two) and shares a Planned Parenthood “whitewashed tomb of a video” which demonstrates this perfectly:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/2RQ3H2tnxfw[/youtube]
Oct.21, 2014 3:30 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.
Thanks for the Kansans For Life post,
there’s a small typo: second sentence should read Orman, not Roman. :)
I watched the video…. Has anyone ever seen a Planned Parenthood office that clean, or hallways that are that adequately wide? I suspect they filmed some of those shots in a real hospital. Or perhaps they detailed and polished up one of their Megabort-Marts.
At the end of the video, they gloss over the sorrow, anger, and loneliness that women suffer after abortion by reminding us of that oft-repeated “1-in-3” statistic. “One in three women will experience abortion over their lifetime.”
I’m trying to figure out how that can be true. If there were really so many adult women accepting abortion, then the pro-life movement would be a tiny voice against the culture. (In the Old South, less than 1-in-10 families actually owned a Black slave. But see how deeply rooted the culture was, and how difficult the culture was to change.)
I suspect that a great many abortions are done to women who are not yet adults, not deeply committed to the culture of abortion, and deeply hurt/shamed by the experience. That is why abortion is shrouded in silence, and no one wears those “I had an abortion” shirts.
The 1 in 3 ignores the fact that many women are repeat aborters. If you have one abortion you are statistically likely to have a second…or third or fourth.
FYI, your story about statutory rape reporting in Virginia is still objectively, demonstrably false. You all should be ashamed of yourselves for taking money from gullible people under the guise of being a news provider.
https://www.jillstanek.com/2014/10/prolife-blog-buzz-10714/
I believe repeat abortions are taken into account, but there are other good reasons to question the 1 in 3 claim.
http://blog.secularprolife.org/2014/08/no-1-in-3-women-will-not-have-abortion.html
“Has anyone ever seen a Planned Parenthood office that clean, or hallways that are that adequately wide?” – how many have you inspected Del? Or is it that such wouldn’t fit your paradigm?
“they gloss over the sorrow, anger, and loneliness that women suffer after abortion” – not much to gloss over, such outcomes are rare indeed.
“If there were really so many adult women accepting abortion, then the pro-life movement would be a tiny voice against the culture” – including those who identify as ‘pro-life’ then merrily trot off for an abortion if the circumstances arise.
In the video, the smiling mom with the smiling teen daughter, you would think she was trying on prom dresses.
I have seen this video before. It still smacks of being utterly contrived like some pro-choice fantasy land.