Infanticide:
Fetus = Baby, therefore Abortion = Fetal homicide.
The
Vast Left-Wing Culture of Death. Here we can clearly see the great lie that springs from those
who have chosen evil over good. The content of a woman's uterus has never been a magic bean. It has
never been a puppy, a kitten, not even a gerbil. At conception, when the genetic materials from two human
beings combine, a third human life is ignited. That life may burn for only a day or it may burn for
100 years. Regardless of how long it lasts, it is a human life, nevertheless.
The Evolving
Issue of Abortion. Let us work hard and pray that those who continue to couch the taking of
innocent life in terms like "women's health issues" might someday realize that a normal pregnancy is not a
disease and that abortion is a voluntary act of infanticide, not a curative treatment.
The "Murder" of a Fetus:
If the California state statutes use the term "murder" to describe the killing of a fetus, then why can't
pro-lifers use the same language?
Teen
sought in fetus slaying. A 15-year-old boy who allegedly wanted his estranged girlfriend to
get an abortion took matters into his own hands when he stomped and kicked her swollen belly, killing her
unborn child by fracturing its skull, officials say.
Cellmate:
Mom said she killed her baby. She was China Arnold's cellmate and lover, but after
Arnold admitted killing her baby in a microwave, Linda Williams wanted out. "I requested to
leave the cell we were in," Williams testified Thursday [1/31/2008] in Arnold's aggravated murder
trial. "I didn't want to be there anymore."
Life sentence upheld for killer
of mother, fetus. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday [11/21/2007] upheld the life
prison sentence of a Dallas man convicted of the capital murder of a woman and her unborn child. An
anti-abortion group said the decision was the first by the court to affirm the constitutionality of a 2003
state law protecting unborn children from murder and assault.
Texas
Man Gets Death for Killing Fetus. A former youth pastor was sentenced to death Wednesday [2/7/2007]
for killing a teenager and her fetus in what is believed to be the first such order in Texas, the nation's busiest
death penalty state. … A 2003 Texas law amended the definition of the word "individual" to include an "unborn
child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth."
Planned Parenthood Nurse Admits
Infanticide: "It Does Happen". Yesterday [10/30/2008], Students for Life of America (SFLA) released
undercover footage of a nurse at a Title X, federally funded Freehold, New Jersey Planned Parenthood
facility describing how an abortion would be performed on a 22 week unborn child. ... In the footage,
the Planned Parenthood nurse describes to the pregnant woman that an abortion at such a late stage would entail
delivering her son and, after the woman asks if the baby can be born alive, the nurse admits that "it does
happen, but it wouldn't be able to survive on its own so eventually the baby does die."
The Evil Logic Of Abortion:
Most people mightn't have thought about it, but it's no surprise that Scott Peterson, whose murdered wife has
been national news since she went missing on Christmas Eve, stands charged with two murders. Laci
Peterson was pregnant, a tragic fact that raises the obvious question: If a man who kills his pregnant
wife can be charged with a double murder pursuant to a "fetal homicide" statute, then how can the law permit
a doctor and a mother to collude in an abortion?
Scott Peterson Gets Death Penalty in Double Murder of Laci
and Conner. In a case that focused the nation's attention on violence against pregnant women,
jurors in the Scott Peterson double murder trial sentenced him to the death penalty for the deaths of his wife
Laci and unborn child Conner. [There were two murder convictions. The jury says he murdered two
people.]
The Murder of the Petersons' Son Raises
Right-to-Life Issues. The murder of Conner Peterson was a key factor in the jury's decision to
impose the death penalty on his killer, and the state law that allowed an unborn child to be deemed a murder
victim created a serious legal problem for the abortion industry, which thrives on the fiction that unborn
babies are not human life and are therefore expendable and cannot be treated as victims.
Mexican
man sentenced to three years for killing wife, fetus in drunken crash. A Mexican construction
worker in the country illegally was sentenced today to three years in prison for causing the crash on New
Year's Day that killed his pregnant wife and fetus. Alfonso Martinez, 30, also lost his American
driving privileges for life. He pleaded guilty in May in Franklin County Common Pleas Court
to two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide. [Emphasis added] And he could be
deported to Mexico.
Police shoot, kill man who savagely beat toddler to death near
Turlock. Sergio Aguilar, 27, parked his gold 2002 Toyota truck on West Bradbury Road near the intersection of
South Blaker Road in rural Stanislaus County, then punch, kicked and stomped the small boy to death until a Modesto police
officer, dropped on the scene by a helicopter, shot the man dead. ... [A sheriff's department spokesman] said on Sunday that
DNA testing may be required to identify the toddler because he was beaten beyond recognition.
Connor Peterson,
RIP. Leave it to the feminists. Why is NOW defending Scott Peterson for the murder of
his pre-born son?
The Bobbie Jo Stinnett case:
From
fetus to baby. This is a horrific crime that, like the Scott Peterson
case, opens an uncomfortable window into our culture's tortured reasoning on anything
related to unborn life. During the coverage of the crime, the status of the
Bobbie Jo Stinnett's unborn girl steadily changed. … [A] "fetus" — something
for which American law and culture has very little respect — was somehow instantly
transformed into a "baby" and "infant" — for which we have the highest respect. By
what strange alchemy does that happen?
Editorial Comment
The details of this story are worth noting: The mother was strangled. Killed. Dead. Then
the baby was cut out of the mother's body and kidnapped. Before long, the baby was recovered in another
state in good condition. Did that mass of tissue suddenly become a separate person when it was cut out of
the dead mother's body? No, the baby was a separate person already, and had been for several months.
Where are the "pro-choice"
activists now? Had Bobbie Jo Stinnett decided to have an abortion, there is no question that,
legally speaking, she would have been entitled to do so. Of course, Stinnett did no such thing. She
was ruthlessly murdered by Lisa Montgomery, who then stole Stinnett's unborn daughter. But, gruesomely
enough, in this country today, Stinnett, had she desired to, could have excised the baby growing inside her
womb herself with the help of a doctor.
Mother
sacrificed her life by refusing cancer treatment so her premature baby would live. Lorraine Allard
was told four months into the pregnancy the devastating news that she was in the advanced stages of cancer. A
further blow came when doctors advised her to terminate the foetus, which was 23 weeks old, and start chemotherapy
straight away. Instead, she insisted on waiting long enough to give her unborn son a chance to survive,
telling her husband, Martyn: "If I am going to die, my baby is going to live."
[This item is included here as another illustration that the mother and baby are two separate people.]
Abortion Chic:
A nine-week-old fetus, for the record, has a heartbeat, a closed circulatory system, a respiratory system, eyes,
ears and brain function. She can't go shopping yet, but she can squint, swallow, move her tongue and make
a fist. She is not, in other words, "just a clump of cells." The problem with petitions and "I Had
An Abortion" T-shirts, such as those hawked by Planned Parenthood, is that they trivialize the deeply emotional
and spiritual consequences many women suffer.
Don't
tear a smiling foetus from the womb. Advanced scanning means we have a window on the secret life
of foetuses. At 11 weeks we can see them yawn, and even take steps. At 22 weeks, they
begin to open their eyes. Between 20 and 24 weeks we watch as they seem to cry, smile and frown.
Understandably, these incredible images have influenced the debate on abortion.
When
Liberals Shoot Children. Given the right circumstances, liberal feminists, activist lawyers,
and judges who should be impeached for their lack of judgement — will first allow and then defend
the cold-blooded shooting of an innocent child. They did so this week.
Same story:
Woman Aborts Her Full-Term
Baby With a Gun. Prosecutors say that on the morning she was scheduled to give birth, [Tammy]
Skinner drove to an auto dealer's parking lot, took a gun, and shot herself in the belly, killing the fetus
in an act of self-abortion. Skinner was charged with carrying out an illegal abortion. Is Skinner
a criminal? Today [10/19/2006], a Virginia judge said no. The charges were dropped, her case dismissed.
Sheriff: Man Wanted 'Hit' on Unborn
Baby. A man tried to hire someone to kill his unborn child after learning his ex-girlfriend was
pregnant and about to give birth, Stevens County Sheriff Craig Thayer said Thursday [9/12/2006].
Samuel's Spina Bifida Surgery In
Utero: During a spina bifida corrective procedure at twenty-one weeks in utero,
Samuel thrusts his tiny hand out of the surgical opening of his mother's uterus. As the
doctor lifts his hand, Samuel reacts to the touch and squeezes the doctor's finger. As
if testing for strength, the doctor shakes the tiny fist. Samuel held firm.
New Law Protects Unborn Victims.
Under this law, those who direct violence toward a pregnant woman will answer for the full extent of the harm
they have done.
Deadly Trend:
Sociologist Stefan Timmerman has observed that "Humans in every society studied to date are more likely to be
murdered on the day they are born than on any other day of their lives." Timmerman was quoted recently
by bioethicist Wesley J. Smith in the online publication To the Source. Smith rightly claims that
while infanticide was commonly accepted in ancient times, only the Jews and the Christians actively opposed
it. … So, as Western culture abandons its Christian roots, we ought not to be surprised that infanticide
is making a comeback.
Woman in W.Pa. baby mystery charged with
homicide. A woman suspected of cutting open a pregnant woman's uterus and stealing the baby has been
charged with homicide, unlawful restraint and kidnapping, police said Sunday [7/20/2008]. Andrea Curry-Demus,
38, of Wilkinsburg, is charged in the death of Kia Johnson, 18, of McKeesport. Curry-Demus is accused of taking the
baby boy to a Pittsburgh hospital and claiming it was her own.
Woman Settles Abortion
Lawsuit Over Baby's Disposal. A woman has settled her lawsuit against Los Angeles County
involving the disposal of her infant daughter as "bio-waste" after she had an abortion.
The Editor asks...
How can she believe that the child is something to be disposed of (through abortion), and then be
upset that the body wasn't handed over for funeral services? No sane person can stand on both
sides of that fence.
The numbers are surprising.
Most people are unaware of the scope of this problem.
Piercing the Skull.
The crucial change in American thinking about abortion came not with Roe v. Wade in 1973 but with the
pregnancy of Sherri Finkbine in 1962. … Two score and five years later, the carnage from our domestic war has
been enormous. We rightly mourn the 3,400 members of the American military who have died defending us in
Iraq over the past four years: They're human beings. We largely ignore a number almost 15,000 times
greater — close to 50 million killed since Finkbine's child — but that's OK: They're just fetuses.
Constituency Aborted.
As of 2008 anyone born before 1990 will be old enough to vote. This also means that anyone unfortunate enough
to have their life interrupted by an abortionist before their birth day is old enough to vote also. I reviewed
the CDC's numbers on abortion and found that between 1970 and 1990 22,689,118 fetuses were aborted. That would
have been 22,689,118 voters between the ages of 18 and 38. I reviewed the demographics of the women who
had these abortions considering ages, ethnicity, marital status, and the fact that they exercised their right to end
their pregnancy and I think I am safe to estimate that about 80% of these aborted voters would vote Democrat.
Roe v. Wade:
There have been more than 48.5 million abortions in the United States since Roe was decided, according to tallies
analyzed by the National Right to Life Coalition. This staggering figure alone gives reason to pause.
Howard Dean's Abortion
Contortions: A 1994-1995 AGI survey of abortion patients found that in states where Medicaid pays for
abortions, women covered by Medicaid have an abortion rate 3.9 times that of women who are not covered, while in
states that do not permit Medicaid funding for abortions, Medicaid recipients are only 1.6 times as likely as
nonrecipients to have abortions. A more recent study by Dr. Michael New of the University of Alabama found:
"State laws restricting the use of Medicaid funds in paying for abortions reduced the abortion rate by 29.66" abortions
per 1,000 women of childbearing age.
Abortion and America's
Future: It was supposed to be big news that the abortion rate has fallen to its lowest
level in 30 years. They did not tell us that an estimated 49 million have died through
abortion in America since 1973. But the damage has been felt in other ways. The Supreme Court's
legalization of abortion has undermined the philosophy of God-given rights that made our progress as a
nation possible.
Abortion Myths: Myth: Thousands of
women died every year from illegal abortion before Roe V. Wade legalized abortion. Fact: According
to the Center for Disease Control, the exact number is 39 [per year] and 27 more from legal abortions (in
states where the procedure was already legal in 1972 before Roe.)
Anniversary
Marks Deaths of Millions. One out of every four children conceived in America will be killed
by an abortionist. In 2003 alone, more children died from abortion than the total number of Americans
who died in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Gulf
War combined. Two-thirds of all abortions are performed on single women. Statistically, the womb
has become the most dangerous place in America.
The Cost of Roe at
35: Depending on how one counts the number of abortions per year since 1973, more than
50 million people who might have been are not. These were people who, regardless of the
circumstances of the women who carried them, had the potential to contribute to the country and to the
world. But now they cannot, because they are not. Would we be fighting the battle over
immigration had we not rid ourselves of a generation of humans who likely would have done the work
for which we are now importing illegal aliens? Actions have consequences.
Abortion
Statistics: "The United States has one of the highest abortion rates among developed
countries."
Los Angeles Times Poll: 53% Oppose
All Or Most Abortions. On the day that the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court
decision legalizing unlimited abortion turns 32 years-old, the Los Angeles Times released the
results of a new poll showing a majority of Americans oppose all or most abortions. According
to the Times poll, 53 percent said they oppose all or most all abortions
while just 43 percent said abortion should always or almost always be illegal.
Abortion: America's
Staggering Hidden Loss. When most people think of abortion, they picture a
frightened young girl in a crisis pregnancy. The latest research from the Beverly
LaHaye Institute, CWA's think tank, indicates that teen abortions are declining and
that, increasingly, abortion is becoming birth control. Women over age 25 are
having the largest share of abortions. The data indicates that the number of women
having repeat abortions is increasing (some four or more) and more abortions are being
performed on women who have previously had a live birth.
Hearing Women: Approximately
40 percent of American women under 45 have had at least one abortion. Twenty-five percent of all
pregnancies end in abortion. Since the legalization of abortion in 1973, over 40 million abortions
have taken place. Yet no comprehensive data exists concerning the impact of abortion on women.
Consider that the federal government has in place mechanisms to track just about every other medical procedure,
but it chooses not to follow this one.
Abortion Statistics: An Effective Eye-Opener.
Leading Causes of Death in the United States in 1990
Abortion 1,570,000
Heart Disease 980,000
Cancer 510,000
Lung Disease 160,000
Accidents 100,000
Other Causes 460,000
"Other causes" includes, among many other causes of death,
murder, suicide, septicemia, congenital abnormalities, AIDS,
ulcers, tuberculosis, meningitis, and hepatitis. Reference: Statistical Abstract of the United States, quoted
here.
Other countries' experiences:
Chinese parents fight forced abortions.
Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, wined and dined three government officials for permission to become a father.
But the Peking duck and liquor weren't enough. One night, a couple of weeks before her date for giving birth,
Yang's wife was dragged from her bed in a north China town and taken to a clinic, where, she says, her baby
was killed by injection while still inside her.
China trying to force 6-months pregnant woman
to abort. A Muslim Uighur woman who's more than six months pregnant remained under watch in a
hospital in China's far northwest Friday [11/14/2008] awaiting a forced abortion by authorities who don't
want her to have a third child. A nurse who's tending to the woman at a hospital in Yining, near
China's border with Kazakhstan, said physicians had delayed the abortion because of international
queries about her case.
Congresswoman Confident Obama
Will Fund UNFPA, Which Supports China's Coercive Abortion Program. Rep. Carolyn Maloney
(D-N.Y.) said she is confident that President-elect Barack Obama will reverse the Bush administration's
decision six years ago to stop the $40 million in annual funding to the United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA) because of its support of China's one-child policy — a policy that includes
coercive abortion.
Vietnam Abortion Rates Very High, One Woman Dies Every Five
Days. New reports out of Vietnam, where abortion is legal, are showing the number of abortions
in the Communist nation is staggeringly high. In addition, one woman dies form a legal abortion in the
Asian nation every five days.
Half
of infant deaths in Flanders were euthanasia. Nearly half the newborn
babies who died in Flanders over a recent year-long period were helped to die by their
doctors, a new study reported yesterday [4/9/2005]. Pediatricians in the Dutch-speaking
region of Belgium either discreetly stopped treating the babies or, in 17 cases, illegally
killed them with lethal doses of painkillers.
In Australia...
Loophole allows baby bonus for late
abortions. It was intended to boost the birth rate, but a legal loophole means the $5000 baby
bonus can be claimed for late-term abortions. The loophole arises because abortions after 20 weeks'
gestation are recorded by doctors as stillbirths. Parents of stillborn babies receive the maternity
benefit on compassionate grounds.
Australian Abortion Business Objects to Nearby Child Care
Center. In a move that pro-life activists say is clearly "anti-child," an Australian abortion
center has objected to the opening of a child care center in its neighborhood. In a complaint filed with
the city of Swan, the abortion center's operators said that the sight and sound of children playing on nearby
property might cause emotional strain for women undergoing abortions.
[In other words, if you don't pause to give it serious thought and
consideration, ending someone else's life is not really all that bad.]
Philosophical issues, Biblical perspectives, and the slippery slope:
The Sanctity of Human Life. The
sanctity of human life is first described in the Holy Bible in Genesis 1:27 (NIV): "So God created
man in his own image; in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them." Scholars
note that being created in the image of God (imago Dei) means more than having certain abilities and
attributes. It means that humans are the images of God, regardless of what they can or cannot do.
To bear the image of the Creator is a privilege extended uniquely to humans. No other "creation" of
God can make this claim.
When Life
Begins: Your life began, as did the life of every other human being, when the fusion of egg
and sperm produced a new, complete, living organism — an embryonic human being. You were never an
ovum or a sperm cell, those were both functionally and genetically parts of other human beings — your
parents. But you were once an embryo, just as you were once an adolescent, a child, an
infant, and a fetus. By an internally directed process, you developed from the embryonic stage
into and through the fetal, infant, child, and adolescent stages of development and ultimately into
adulthood with your determinateness, unity, and identity fully intact. You are the same
being — the same human being — who once was an embryo.
Docs speak out
about abortion. Canada, which reputedly provides the most open legal access to abortion in the
western world, doesn't provide access enough, said an abortion rights group last week. Many women can't
get abortions at all, or are subjected to long delays. The group's solution: Require doctors by
law to perform abortions whether they like it or not.
A matter of life and death. In
self-defense, most see nothing wrong with taking a life if another person is about to take theirs. It is
only if the killer succeeds that some strange notion kicks in that the killer's life suddenly inherits value
and comes under constitutional protection. Conversely, the unborn child, according to the same court,
only has a right to live if the woman carrying it gives it that right. Should she decide not to give
birth, any method, including drug cocktails, is allowed. It mocks life when anti-death penalty people
advocate for the guilty, while caring nothing for the unborn.
America's Culture War: How does the war
over abortion rights and homosexual rights affect society at large in America? … Many men and women who would be
responsible for saving the lives of many Americans were never permitted to come into the world. Therefore, abortion
has cost the United States economy billions of dollars. Fewer workers mean less tax revenue for the U.S. Treasury.
Fewer workers mean less Social Security revenue for the U.S. Treasury. Fewer workers mean less money spent on food,
clothes, and shelter in America which definitely affects the economy negatively.
Partial-Birth Bigotry:
Liberal critics just can't believe that a majority of Americans find this procedure immoral. Nor can they
understand why many think the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade is muddle-headed and misguided for
conjuring a woman's right to abortion out of a constitutional guarantee of "due process."
Like
a slave, is an unborn child not a brother? This week, I received an invitation to the opening of
a new gallery in the Museum in Docklands, an offshoot of the Museum of London. … I found myself wondering
how abortion will be viewed by museum curators, teachers, historians and moralists 200 years from now. As
the slavery exhibition shows, something that one generation accepts readily enough is often seen as abhorrent
by its descendants — so abhorrent, in fact, that people find it almost impossible to understand how it could
have been countenanced in a supposedly civilised society.
The devaluing of human life … did
not end with making abortion legal, and therefore, to some people, moral. The word "baby" does not appear
in Roe v. Wade, let alone the word "killing." And so, the termination of "lives not worth
living" goes on.
Rule backs
doctors opposed to abortion. Federal health officials announced tougher steps yesterday to protect
doctors and other health care professionals from being fired or discriminated against for refusing to provide
abortions for conscience or religious reasons. A proposed rule, which is open for public comment for the
next 30 days, reads that no one receiving federal funds can discriminate against employees who refuse to
undergo training for abortions or provide referrals for abortions.
Abortion Rhymes
with Death. Ramesh Ponnuru, my close friend and colleague at National Review, has written the
first serious pro-life book for a general audience in decades. It is a humane, sustained and, most of all,
respectful argument about respecting life, dealing with abortion, eugenics, and euthanasia.
What the Bible Says About the
Beginning of Life: The Bible is far from silent on the topic of the sanctity of human life,
especially preborn life in the womb. This resource provides just a few of the Scripture verses that speak
to the value of preborn life created in God's image from the moment of fertilization.
The Media Adore Warren Buffett.
Buffett targets people in general, not just a particular group. In a press release, [Rev. Thomas J.]
Euteneuer took aim at almost every aspect of Buffett's agenda, saying that "Warren Buffett's philanthropy aims
at killing pre-born children not curing childhood disease, eliminating the poor not poverty, and destroying the
developing world not aiding development." That may seem harsh. But while [Bill] Gates is dedicated
to "global health" issues, he, too, underwrites the pro-abortion agenda.
More women have
abortions as it loses stigma. Women are finding it more acceptable to have an abortion than to
drift into an unplanned pregnancy, the head of Britain's leading abortion agency said yesterday. Ann
Furedi, the chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), said one women in five was now
childless at the age of 45 and an increasing number were making the choice not to have children at all.
Ms. Furedi said there had been a shift in public opinion about parenthood. The stigma of abortion
had diminished but there was now concern about being a poor parent.
[A mother who has her child exterminated is a poor parent indeed.]
Protecting the lives of others is fundamental
to civilization. It is becoming increasingly expedient to eliminate an unwanted pregnancy, a
malformed child, an infant of an undesired sex, a disabled person, the elderly, and others who are nonproductive,
inconvenient, and do not vote. When we no longer have the will to take care of others in peril and need,
we will no longer be able to depend on others to care for us when we are similarly afflicted. History has
shown us how easy it is to accelerate the elimination of the inconvenient as the Nazis did starting in 1935.
Pro-life on
campus. What causes people who pride themselves on the compassion of their creed to
champion the violent killing of the weakest human beings? Many reasons have been offered, most
with some truth to them. For the sexual revolution to achieve its goal of sex without consequences,
abortion was necessary. Guilt is another factor; those who have had or encouraged abortions
are desperate to justify themselves.
Pro-life laws
save lives. Is such pro-life legislation effective? Do parental-notification laws,
partial-birth abortion bans and informed-consent laws make a difference? According to a new
Heritage Foundation paper, the answer is yes.
I have
a (pro-life) dream. I have a dream that some day, every child will be conceived from an act
of true love between parents who love each other, are married to each other, and eagerly welcome him. I
have a dream that every child will spend his childhood with those parents who brought him into being.
Abortion FAQ
I was knit together
in my mother's womb, Psalm 139.
The
Abortion-Homosexual Connection. California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's
appointment of longtime Democrat, lesbian activist and pro-abortion leader Susan Kennedy as his
chief of staff is more evidence of The Terminator's disdain for social conservatives. But
the move also illustrates the strong collaboration between homosexual activists and the
abortion lobby.
Excellent:
Abortion discussed on
the Ears to Hear web site, where it
is seen as "Murder under the deceptive premise of the 'right to choose.'"
The
Abortion Underworld: The abortion industry is riddled with violence, corruption,
and crime and is guilty of committing vile deeds outside as well as inside abortion clinics.
Abortion and the Religious Left: The
liberal churches speak out on abortion, but the conservative ones are silent. Churches must preach the
Gospel before all else. Because, this is not a physical battle. This is not even a merely cultural
battle. It is spiritual warfare. Unless traditional Christians speak up, there will be only one army
on the field.
United Methodist Church
criticized for pro-abortion alliance. The United Methodist Church is being criticized for its
alliance with a pro-abortion coalition. The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice has come out
against the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the ban on partial-birth abortion, calling it a "serious
setback." The pro-abortion group is supported by several mainline Christian denominations, including
the United Methodist Church.
Abortion: Striking at the Root of the
Problem. Consider this quote: "The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be
idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. Those who have no love for children
are swine, stocks, and logs unworthy of being called men or women; for they despise the blessings of God, the
Creator and Author of marriage." Perhaps you're thinking some deranged medieval Pope must have made that
statement. Hardly! It was Martin Luther, the Father of the Protestant Reformation who said it.
Entertainer
Pat Boone Blames Abortion for Society's "Insensitivity".
Cheating
girlfriend hid body of newborn baby in car boot to conceal love affair. On the night of
December 27 last year [Claire] Jones gave birth alone in the bathroom of her mother's home but the
baby was stillborn. She wrapped the body in a carrier bag and some plastic bin bags then drove back to
the house she shared with [David] Stoneman, 33. Jones acted as if nothing had happened and even
returned to her job as a marketing manager.
Catholic voters warned on abortion.
Roman Catholic voters and lawmakers must heed church teaching on abortion or risk losing their eternal salvation,
U.S. bishops said yesterday [11/14/2007]. "The direct and intentional destruction of innocent human life
is always wrong and is not just one issue among many," the bishops stated. "It must always be opposed."
Doctors worry organ
donors not dead. A federally funded research project has described how surgeons
were able to snatch the hearts from severely brain-damaged newborns only seconds after they
were disconnected from life-support units and transplant the organs into other diseased
infants, but the work is raising alarms from those who say the donors weren't dead yet.
Premature
baby 'comes back to life'. The father, Ali Majdub, told Channel 2 that his wife realized the
child was alive after asking to see her dead daughter one last time. "When we unwrapped the baby to see
her, she realized it was moving. I began screaming and ran with it toward the doctors," he said.
She was then rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit, where doctors are fighting for her life.
The
Slippery Slope is Real (and Real Slippery). Most conservatives I hear from are upset about the
inch-by-inch ground we give up on traditional values. The end result isn't a ball of fire; instead we
wake up in a foggy, swampy mess of concessions that really does impact society. … Frankly, we don't
need to prove a downward slope. The left has done it for us.
Nebraska Safe-Haven Law Permits Parents to Abandon
Teens. Nebraska's new safe-haven law allowing parents to abandon unwanted children at hospitals with
no questions asked is unique in a significant way: It goes beyond babies and potentially permits the abandonment
of anyone under 19. While lawmakers may not have intended it, the month-old law raises the possibility that
frustrated parents could drop off misbehaving teens or even severely disabled older children with impunity.
Update:
10 kids
abandoned at Nebraska hospitals under state's safe haven law. Relatives of nine siblings who were
abandoned by their father under Nebraska's new safe haven law may be granted custody. A spokeswoman for
the state department Health and Human Services officials said Friday [9/26/2008] that a number of family
members have volunteered to take the siblings, ranging in age from 1 to 17.
Nebraska Dad Who Abandoned 9 Children Was Out
of Work, 'Overwhelmed'. An out-of-work widower who abandoned nine of his children at a hospital
under Nebraska's new safe haven law said he was overwhelmed without his wife and just "fell apart." ... The
unique law allows caregivers to abandon babies and teenagers alike at hospitals without fear of prosecution.
Originally intended to protect infants, it was expanded in a legislative compromise to protect any "child."
Some have interpreted that to mean anyone under 19.
Frustrated parents dump teens at
hospitals. Frustrated parents are dumping their teenagers at Nebraska hospitals —
even crossing state lines to do it — and the state Legislature has scheduled a special hearing to
try to stem the tide. Nebraska's "safe haven" law, intended to allow parents to anonymously hand over
an infant to a hospital without being prosecuted, isn't working out as planned.
Semantics, euphemism and verbal chicanery:
PBS' Frontline "The Last Abortion
Clinic" — Information or Effort to Energize Pro-abortion Base? It was clear the battle
over the future of the lone abortion clinic still operating in Mississippi was not the documentary's
primary agenda. "The Last Abortion Clinic" appeared to be more of a call to action by pro-abortionists
on a national level. The program featured dire predictions concerning the loss of so-called women's
reproductive rights and held up Mississippi as an example of things to come across the nation.
Use and Abuse of
Euphemism: Whatever you think of the practice of partial-birth abortion, surely no one can truly
be pleased with the media convention of describing it as "a certain abortion procedure" or "a controversial
abortion method." … Even the practice of referring to it on the second, third, or fourth mention as
"what opponents call 'partial birth' abortion" is questionable. What do supporters call it?
Words of
Choice: Abortion advocates are squeamish about this. They never say that
abortion "kills." They prefer roundabout expressions like "terminate a pregnancy," though
a live birth also terminates a pregnancy. And they never call the child a "child"; they
call it a "fetus," as if to give the impression that modern medical science has discovered that
it's something other than what we all know it is.
Fork replaces donkey as Democratic Party
symbol. It's good to be reminded that the sole item on the Democrats' agenda is
abortion. According to Dianne Feinstein, Roe v. Wade is critically important because "women
all over America have come to depend on it." At its most majestic, this precious right that
women "have come to depend on" is the right to have sex with men they don't want to have
children with.
Abortion Stops a
Bleeding Heart. The Democrats are trying to "reframe" their message to make people think they
believe abortion is wrong. I think this is going to be a hard sell if they plan to continue ferociously
defending abortion-on-demand right up until the moment the baby's head is through the birth canal.
Rush Limbaugh: Abortions kill liberal
causes. Radio host also says homosexuals would be pro-life if a "gay" gene were proved.
Super-duper
prevarication. How many times does someone have to repeat a falsehood before it becomes
true? The answer, of course, is that no matter how many times someone repeats a falsehood, it
never becomes true. This principle holds even for the U.S. Supreme Court. A majority of the
court, for example, could declare that gold is lead. But that wouldn't make it true.
Medical
Experts Testify Partial-Birth Abortion Is Never Medically Necessary. The
American Center for Law and Justice, which specializes in constitutional law and pro-life
litigation, said today the Department of Justice, which is defending the national ban on
partial-birth abortion in three trials nationwide, presented sound and convincing testimony
this week in New York concluding that partial-birth abortion is never medically necessary,
the procedure itself is unsafe, and that the partially-born child experiences pain during
the life-ending procedure.
Clinton
Rule Attempted to Alter Definitions of "Fetus" and "Child": The
regulation, which was cleared by the Clinton administration on January 17, but then postponed
by the Bush administration, states that a newborn is still considered a "fetus" until it is
determined the baby will live by "independently maintaining a heartbeat and
respiration." Only when this determination is made is the baby considered
a "child," according to the rule.
Partial-Birth Abortion — You Can
Look It Up in the Medical Dictionary! You have probably heard pro-abortion spokespersons claim
that "partial-birth abortion" is a "political" term that is "not found in medical dictionaries." This
claim is diversionary, since "partial-birth abortion" is a legal term of art that is defined by Congress
in the bill itself. However, the claim is also untrue.
Informed
choice and abortion: "Choice" presupposes access to information so that people know what it is
they are choosing. We have truth-in-labeling and lending laws that require food manufacturers and
financial institutions to disclose the contents of what they are selling (be it food or a loan). Laws
also require auto dealers to put informational stickers on the cars they sell. But in still too many
instances, a woman can get an abortion with fewer informational requirements than for any other surgical
procedure.
Latin 101 - "Fetus" means "Offspring,"
not "Tissue": on September 28, 2002 Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post announced "Starting in
November, 'unborn children' will qualify for government health benefits under a new rule that the Bush
administration announced yesterday." Unborn children is in quotation marks because, in the lexicon of the
lunatic left, while a woman carrying a "fetus" is properly called a mother, it is not politically correct to say
that the "fetus" she is carrying is an unborn baby.
A Little
Too Much Reality TV. In a documentary titled "My Foetus," England's
Channel 4 showed a London doctor using the "vacuum pump" method on a woman who
was four weeks pregnant — then placing the aborted fetus on a Petri dish.
The right to protest:
Pro-Lifers Praise Ruling Allowing
Statement on Abortion. South Dakota may enforce a law that requires doctors to provide pregnant
women with a written statement saying, "the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique,
living human being," a federal appeals court ruled last Friday [6/27/2008]. In Planned Parenthood
v. Rounds, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit voted 7-4 to strike down a 2005 preliminary
injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for South Dakota.
First
Amendment Rights for Abortion Protestors? On December 22nd a 69-year-old pro-life activist
who was standing atop his automobile and protesting in front of the Hillcrest Abortion Clinic in Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, was physically attacked by an abortion supporter and thrown to the ground with enough force to
knock him unconscious. Doctors even worried for a time that the elderly man might perish from the
attack. Over a week after the attack, there aren't any accounts of the attack in the mainstream
media. As I searched for the story, I found only two Internet hits for it. Why the silence
from the MSM? Can you imagine the MSM swarm that would have occurred if it had been a pro-lifer
who attacked an abortion supporter? The cacophony would have been deafening if a pro-lifer had
been the one to get violent.
Suit filed after cops confiscate
motor home: A California man has filed suit in U.S. district court in Detroit after police from
Royal Oak, Mich., confiscated his motor home because it allegedly bore "obscene" pro-life messages.
Neither King nor
abortion foes are racketeers. The Supreme Court's unanimous 8–0 decision this week rejecting
claims by the National Organization for Women that demonstrations at abortion clinics are extortion
and therefore punishable under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act was an important vote
for freedom and free speech.
Pro life?
Beware of the "permit process". Silencing pro-life speech is unconstitutional, but that hasn't
stopped many public officials from doing so. While the result is always inexcusable, the methods used are
often quite creative. Take Raleigh, North Carolina, where officials excuse their censorship by blaming
the "permit process." … "The government can't require citizens to request permission before they exercise
their First Amendment rights," said ADF Senior Counsel Nate Kellum. "The policy used by Raleigh officials
to silence pro-life speech is clearly unconstitutional."
False Witnesses? The U.S. Supreme Court is set
to review the most sweeping legal judgment against pro-life activists in history. But painstakingly compiled
new evidence shows that pro-abortion witnesses in the case may have lied.
Justices
Express Concern For Free Speech In Pro-Life RICO Case. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments
Wednesday in a case that bars pro-life activists from protesting outside abortion clinics, and although free
speech was not a question for the court to consider, several justices expressed concern about the impact the
case could have on all forms of demonstration.
Minister Risks Jail Time To Read
Scripture In Front Of Abortion Clinic: The Rev. Patrick Mahoney said he plans to violate a 1998
federal court injunction that requires abortion protesters to stay at least 20 feet away from the
entrances to abortion clinics.
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