Youth are not the future of the pro-life movement. They are the pro-life movement – according to this inspirational video featuring Ryan Bomberger of The Radiance Foundation, David Bereit of 40 Days for Life, and others:
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A billionaire and a princess graced the stage to tell nurses and clean water advocates that any effort to help poor women is secondary to giving them contraception and abortion.
Sexual and reproductive rights are “at the core of human life,” said Princess Mary of Denmark. Until women have power not to have children, they won’t have power to improve nutrition, grow crops, or deliver babies safely, said Melinda Gates.
“Pregnancy is not natural,” said Frances Kissling, the former head of Catholics for Choice.
And with that, the sharp divide became apparent between first-world activists who want a universal right to abortion and the poor women they believe should have fewer children….
The first Women Deliver in 2007 presented family planning and abortion as the solution to reduce deaths from pregnancy and childbirth. The second conference in 2010 ran into trouble when new research showed the annual number of maternal deaths is far less than the estimated 536,000.
Attendees complained this year’s conference offered no program to address maternal mortality except to enhance midwives to be trained to provide abortion….
A… participant noted $8 billion a year goes to family planning and advocates are demanding more. Yet “they don’t want to share it” with other causes. “And they don’t want to give any other group a platform that will distract from expanding abortion.”
~ Wendy Wright and Lisa Correnti, discussing the United Nations-supported 2013 Women Deliver conference (which featured infanticide proponent Peter Singer and late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart, and lists partnerships with Pfizer, Bayer, and Merck) C-FAM, May 31
by LauraLoo
A recent report exposed the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of pro-life groups. Yahoo! News reports:
On June 22, 2009, the Coalition for Life of Iowa received a letter from the IRS office in Cincinnati, Ohio, that oversees tax exemptions requesting details about how often members pray and whether their prayers are “considered educational.”
“Please explain how all of your activities, including the prayer meetings held outside of Planned Parenthood, are considered educational as defined under 501(c)(3),” reads the letter, made public by the Thomas More Society, a public interest law firm that collected evidence about the IRS practices. “Organizations exempt under 501(c)(3) may present opinions with scientific or medical facts. Please explain in detail the activities at these prayer meetings. Also, please provide the percentage of time your organizations spends on prayer groups as compared with the other activities of the organization.”
Peter Breen of the Illinois-based Thomas More Society appeared on Fox News to discuss the targeting of pro-life groups throughout the country.
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[HT: Jill]
When we finally found a fifth head, I started to cry.
~ Alexandra Kinova describing her reaction to the ultrasound that revealed she was carrying naturally-conceived quintuplets, Daily Mail, May 30
The first Czech quints (4 boys, 1 girl), were delivered by C-section on June 2, each weighing between 2#5 oz and 2#15 oz.
HT: Laura Loo
Got back from vacation in the wee hours this morning, but in time to post this week’s Sunday funnies, a collection of my top five favorite political cartoons for the past week. Be sure to vote for your favorite in the poll at the bottom of this post!
by Walt Handelsman at GoComics.com…
a twofer by Steve Kelley at Townhall.com…
by Henry Payne at Townhall.com…
by Rick McKee at Cagle.com…
God our Savior, help us. Then glory will come to you. Be true to your name. Save us and forgive our sins….
Listen to the groans of the prisoners. Use your powerful arm to save the lives of those who have been sentenced to death.
~ Psalm 79: 9,11, New International Reader’s Version
by Hans Johnson
In this video made for TEDxSydney, children experience their first taste of various foods.
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[HT: TheBlaze]
(Be sure to voice your vote on this question on the poll at the bottom of this post.)
Former tennis champion Jimmy Connors is taking heat for outing the abortion of his 70s girlfriend and tennis champion Chris Evert in his new autobiography, The Outsider.
From a May 20 Slate article by abortion proponent Amanda Marcotte entitled, “Jimmy Connors is woefully out of line on Chris Evert’s abortion”:
Connors is trying to shame Evert by making a spectacle of her private reproductive choices. And while Evert shouldn’t need a defense either way, the memoir seems fantastically unwilling to acknowledge that a tennis star at the top of her game has good reasons for not wanting to be pregnant….
In a statement released on May 9, Chris Evert seemed understandably upset:
“In his book, Jimmy Connors has written about a time in our relationship that was very personal and emotionally painful. I am extremely disappointed that he used the book to misrepresent a private matter that took place 40 years ago and made it public, without my knowledge. I hope everyone can understand that I have no further comment.”
Here’s how I would have phrased it:
Look, Jimmy, it’s totally unfair that some of us can get pregnant and some of us can only impregnate. But in the grand scheme of things, this system brought to us by mindless evolution is much more unfair to women than men. Not only do women have to undergo the indignities of menstruation and routine gynecological care, but if we do get pregnant, we’re the ones who either endure the abortion or have our bodies painfully bent out of shape to bear the child. In exchange, we get decision-making power over those pregnancies. Full stop. The alternative—giving a man the right to force childbirth or force abortion simply because he once had sex with you—is too terrible a violation of human rights to be tolerated in a civilized society.
So stop whining already. You sound like McEnroe.
Marcotte went further than my question does, claiming not only should fathers have no say about killing their offspring, they should say nothing in the event it happens.
What do you think? Should outing the other parent of a child killed by abortion be taboo? Is it acceptable to out the mother or father of one’s aborted child?
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.
