Pro-life blog buzz 6-12-15
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
- Wesley J. Smith discusses a man sentenced to life in prison in Tennessee who has asked to be euthanized so he can donate his organs to his parents. Smith points out that while this won’t happen for a variety of reasons yet in the U.S., Belgium is ahead of the game in coupling euthanasia with organ donation and in giving prisoners the option of euthanasia.
- Priests for Life has been granted a temporary stay against the HHS contraceptive mandate:
“Without the stay granted today, we would have been in the position of being fined for failing to comply with the mandate,” Father Pavone said. “But no matter what happens, we will not obey the mandate, nor will we pay fines to the government.”The stay will remain in effect while the Supreme Court considers the case.
- Pro-Life in TN says Tennesseans took a well-deserved victory lap on June 10th when Governor Haslam signed three pro-life bills into law, thanks to 15 years of work by grassroots activists. The state constitution was changed (Amendment 1) to correct an egregious decision in 2000 by the TN Supreme Court, which denied the enforcement of any pro-life laws. The three laws address informed consent, waiting periods, and the inspection and licensure of abortion facilities. Tennessee has demonstrated that grassroots activism can win against well-funded pro-abortion groups, despite being outspent 4-1. Continued vigilance is needed as the culture of death is now trying to introduce physician assisted suicide to the state.
- The Pro-Life Action League, along with Citizens for a Pro-life Society and Priests for Life, are promoting the 3rd annual National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children, to be held on September 12:
The Day of Remembrance comprises a series of simultaneous memorial services at more than 40 known gravesites of aborted children throughout the country. If there’s no burial place of unborn babies in your area, you may wish to host a memorial service at another site dedicated to aborted children.Find a list of locations here.
- Pro Life NZ posts seven terrible arguments used to justify assisted suicide:
With the same party that had an MP who wanted the government to pay welfare recipients to get sterilised positioning itself as a self-styled assisted-suicide party with plans underway for introducing an ‘assisted dying’ bill, assisted suicide is back in the news again, which will result in an almost daily slew of really bad arguments being invoked by activists who want a law change that will legally allow doctors to terminate the lives of their patients with lethal injections upon request. - Saynsumthn’s Blog details one woman’s disturbing account of her late-term abortion, subsequent injuries and emotional pain, which led her to consider suicide until she received post-abortion counseling. Although difficult to read, her account reveals the lack of compassion and care she received from her abortionist, who only wanted to discuss price:
He said right then it would be $4000.00 the week before the 27th. And we didn’t have the full amount and he said it goes up – the longer you wait the higher it is.He proceeded to encourage her to take out a second mortgage on her house so she could pay to have her child killed.
- Secular Pro-Life expresses support the upcoming Selma Project, a “protest against unlicensed Selma, AL abortionist Samuel Lett” to take place on June 19th and 20th:
Alabama law requires abortion businesses to meet the same regulations as other outpatient surgical facilities. But for unknown reasons, the state health department is not keen to enforce those regulations in Selma. The department is claiming that Lett does not commit enough abortions to qualify for the licensing regulation, but local activists have strong evidence to the contrary. The time has come for protest. - Pregnancy Help News gives background on the “bully bill” that targets California pro-life pregnancy centers, forcing them to refer clients for abortion. Heartbeat International has uncovered a report that apparently guided those drafting the model legislation (along with assistance from NARAL):
The 37-page report… highlights four main fronts for lawmakers to attack PHCs: Signage, Licensing, Enforcement (of existing laws), and Private Cause of Action (encouraging “injured individuals to sue CPCs…”).The report misrepresents the relationship between local organizations and national and international groups including Heartbeat International, Care Net and NIFLA, claiming that local PHCs “generally receiv[e] substantial funding… from at least one large pro-life umbrella organizatio[n]…”
While advising policy makers to steer clear of making the same mistake of other states such as Washington, Maryland, Texas, and New York by infringing upon the rights of free speech and free exercise of religion guaranteed by the First Amendment, the paper also… includes a curious distinction between what it calls “targeted CPCs”:
Because these centers are often religiously affiliated, any regulation that affects only CPCs will likely be seen as unconstitutionally infringing the speech of a religious organization. We address this issue by regulating all pregnancy resource centers equally. (pg. 13)

Al Sharpton was here to discuss the Michael Brelo verdict in a church. He did not receive a warm welcome. I for one am glad. Now if Al would come to say that black lives matter and stand in front of a PP clinic, he’d have my respect! Most aborted babies are black. Al has done nothing for the black community.
Heather: Most aborted babies are black.
Not in the U.S., Heather. It’s about 30%.
The NZ article is so poorly written. I get the arguments against assisted suicide, but if you have to resort to convoluted logic like this:
“This is similar to our current drink-driving laws, which do not allow people to choose to drink unlimited (or even large) amounts of alcohol before getting behind the wheel of a car. There is no doubting that this might seem unfair to people who have a higher tolerance for alcohol, but then the law wasn’t created to protect their choices, instead it is intended to protect wider society from the harms that would result if legal alcohol tolerances were loosened or totally removed for drivers.
The law rightly recognises that not every choice a person might want to make is a good thing for society to legally allow them to make.”
No, drunk driving is bad because you could hurt someone else who is innocent of making the stupid decision to get behind the wheel while inebriated. If you’re drunk and end up driving yourself off a cliff, that’s fine by me, as long as you don’t hit any wildlife below.
The only way I can think of for that argument to work is if someone is trying to off themself in a crowd, in a way that could potentially injure people around them. Otherwise, the situation is nothing like anyone’s drunk-driving laws.
Personally, I don’t care if people for this cause want to sound stupid, but I can imagine some other people here do. I know I cringe when I read similarly written anti-abortion literature.
Black genocide and Klanned Parenthood. They put abortion clinics in the inner city for a reason. And how about Hitlary accepting the Margaret Sanger award? Where is the outrage? Doug, I have often thought that MORE WHITE women had abortions, but I was corrected and I was told that more black women abort. Do you have a link to provide?
Because most of the white women I know have had at least one abortion, but a while back I was corrected on this thread. No matter though.. Why isn’t Al Sharpton standing in front of an abortion clinic?
“Pregnancy Help News gives background on the “bully bill” that targets California pro-life pregnancy centers, forcing them to refer clients for abortion. Heartbeat International has uncovered a report that apparently guided those drafting the model legislation”
—“Progressives” hate when conservative groups use “model” legislation – and act like that is evil.
shoe. other. foot.
more white women have abortions.
a greater portion of black women have abortions.
AA are only like 15% of pop., but 30% of abortions.
we progressives have succeeded in convincing many blacks they can have a great life if they kill themselves off during gestation.
Heather: Why isn’t Al Sharpton standing in front of an abortion clinic?
Why should he be, Heather?
I think Al’s in it for the money, so would need to be enough of a “big deal” as far as news or something – my opinion.
https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html
“Non-Hispanic white women account for 36% of abortions, non-Hispanic black women for 30%, Hispanic women for 25% and women of other races for 9%.”
Geez, ya think??
http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2015/05/26/
Amazing how contraception suddenly becomes more easy to obtain and people better educated in its use when they really do have to use it!