Discarded and abandoned babies:
Incidents like these are the inevitable result of the persistent claim that a fetus is merely a lump of tissue
that is just "part of a woman's body" and can be disposed of in any manner of her choosing.
Fetus Found In Reading Sewage Plant.
There was a disturbing discovery in a Berks County sewage processing plant — a fetus was founding a
Reading [Pennsylvania] sewage pumping station.
Woman freezes baby after birth.
A Bloomfield, Pa., woman has been charged with abuse of a corpse for stashing her newborn child in a beer box in
her freezer. Police said the infant had been in the freezer for about a month when they got a call tipping
them off about the location of the frozen child, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Friday [5/18/2007].
Newborn's
remains found in pickle jar. A road construction crew found the remains of a newborn girl inside
a two-gallon pickle jar, authorities said Friday [3/2/2007]. The jar was dug up along a state highway on
Monday, according to a statement from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.
Oakdale newborn's grisly death: Stabbed 135 times.
A 17-year-old Oakdale girl told police she gave birth on the laundry room floor early Monday, then panicked and stabbed the
baby girl after seeing her move a finger. The baby, found by investigators in a bloody garbage bag outside the teen's
home, had 135 stab wounds, many in her tiny chest.
Body of infant found in Milford trash compactor. A neighborhood
of well-kept homes was shocked yesterday after two trash collectors made a gruesome discovery as they were about
to compact a load — the body of an infant that appeared to have tumbled out of a split bag.
Newborn
girl's body found in concrete pile. The body of a newborn girl was spotted Tuesday [11/21/2006] in
a pile of concrete and rocks headed to the shredder at a recycling center. Within hours of her birth, she
was in a construction trash bin somewhere between Pompano Beach and southern Martin County.
Baby boy born, then
abandoned as mother walks away. San Francisco police arrested a woman after she gave birth to a
baby boy on a street corner Sunday night and then walked away, abandoning the baby. A security guard who
saw the woman delivering the baby on Fifth and Stevenson Streets at 9:30 p.m. was calling 911 when he saw
the mother get up and walk away, according to police Capt. Al Casciato. "The kid was lying on the street
and she was walking away," Casciato said.
Mom abandoned three newborns in three years.
The first newborn was discovered swaddled in a blanket on a park bench, an umbilical cord still hanging from
his tiny body. Then, at neat 11-month intervals, two more abandoned babies were found in parked pickup
trucks in the same neighborhood. ... The third baby was found dead of exposure on the cold night of
Dec. 3.
Experts
say murder of infants is not uncommon. The horrifying circumstances of Christy Freeman's
alleged murder of an infant are more common than many people think, according to those who have studied
the phenomenon known as neonaticide. In the United States, a baby is killed within 24 hours of
birth ate last once every three days, experts say.
Japanese Hospital Gets Approval for 'Baby
Drop-Off Hatch'. A Japanese hospital said Thursday [4/5/2007] it would push ahead with plans to
set up a hatch where unwanted infants can be anonymously dropped off, following a series of cases of parents
reportedly abandoning newborns in parks and shopping centers.
[Let's hope they make the hatch big enough for a two-year-old. After all, if it's okay to
abandon a newborn with no questions asked, how old does the baby have to be before the mother is
obligated to keep it?]
All
charges against O.C. woman dropped. Charges have been dropped against an Ocean City woman accused
of killing her newborn child several years ago, the Worcester County public defender's office said today [9/19/2007].
Christy Lynn Freeman, 37, É was charged with first-degree murder after authorities found the remains of
four fetuses in or near her home in July. Police said she told a detective during questioning that she
had given birth to twins three or four years ago and had allowed one to drown in the toilet.
Charges
filed against mother who flushed her newborn. A metro mother accused of trying to flush her newborn
down a McDonald's toilet turned herself in to police Thursday night [10/4/2007] just before 10 p.m.
The Jackson County prosecutor has charged Ashley Wood, 20, with first degree assault.
One dog night:
Abandoned Baby Kept Alive, Safe by Mother
Dog and Her Brood. A newborn baby that was abandoned outdoors by her 14-year-old mother during
the Argentina winter was found safe Thursday [8/21/2008] after being kept alive and warm by a mother dog
and her brood of puppies, Reuters reported.
Austin police: Mom beat girl, 4, threw her
in path of SUV. A woman has been charged with child endangerment, a state jail felony, for beating
her 4-year-old daughter before throwing her into the path of an oncoming vehicle, police said. The driver
of the brown Suburban braked and did not strike the child. Aurelia Gallardo, 24, could face up to
20 years if convicted. Bail was set at $25,000.
Disposing of less-than-perfect children:
Abortion's dead
poets society. In 2002, a baby was aborted at 28 weeks because of a cleft palate. Last
year, a 6-month-old fetus was aborted when ultrasound revealed that part of a foot was missing, according
to [Britain's Sunday] Times. One doesn't have to believe in the supernatural to wonder what might
have been. Not only with the babies who were known to be slightly imperfect, but also with the
millions of others worldwide who have been eliminated for reasons less vivid.
Disposing
of the Disabled. Sadly, in today's post-Roe environment the news that a child is likely to be born
with a significant handicap is often a death sentence. According to The New York Times, about ninety
percent of unborn children who are diagnosed with Down syndrome are aborted. Moreover, when a prenatal
cystic fibrosis test was developed, the number of children born with cystic fibrosis in Massachusetts dropped
by fifty percent. No studies have been done to asses the cause of the drop, but the odds of this being
simple coincidence are quite low.
Why Worry about Deaf
Babies? England is currently deciding whether or not to legalize the use of embryo selection to
produce deaf babies to accommodate deaf couples who want their children to share their soundless world.
When Thomas Lifson reported this in AT, he expressed shock that such things could be permitted. I was
shocked too — until I realized that this, and much worse, is the logical consequence of our
legalization of abortion.
Eugenics
by abortion: Is perfection an entitlement? In Britain, after
the 24th week of pregnancy — "viability," when the child presumably
can live outside the womb — an abortion is permitted only when "there is a
substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or
mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped." But in 2001 an unborn
28-week-old child was aborted because new techniques for detecting fetal
abnormalities indicated that the child had a cleft lip and palate.
Why the Media Feminists Hate Palin:
Columnist Marc H. Rudov calls them the "fascist feminists." These are the feminists in the media
and elsewhere who detest Sarah Palin because of her role as a successful wife and mother and defender of the
unborn. Palin's decision to have a Down syndrome child, when 90 percent of these children are being
aborted in the womb, has proven in dramatic terms not only that there are articulate pro-life women in
America but that there are women who will take a leadership role on "culture of life" issues of concern
to millions.
Disposing of unwanted female children:
Where are the great feminist leaders? Why aren't the feminists outraged by this?
Why are they all totally silent about gender-selection abortion, and for that matter, about
Muslim honor killings?
British Asians aborting
unwanted girls. Cultural pressure to give birth to sons is causing some pregnant Indian-born women
living in Britain to return to India to abort their unwanted daughters, an investigation has found. It
reveals how "selective sex abortion", a practice outlawed in India in the 1980s, is still widespread and being
used by some women living in England and Wales.
Sex Selective Abortions:
[In India] Because of frequent female infanticide and selective abortion of girls, the birth ratio was 927 girls
born for every 1,000 boys in 2001, down from 962:1,000 in 1991. The severe shortage of brides in
the Haryana region has resulted in a black market in women from other regions who are brought in and sold
into marriage, according to a Meri News report. As many as 200 million girls may have been killed
worldwide in this way, mostly in Muslim and Asian countries. The rate is increasing because of
ultrasound technology that permits sex identification around 18 weeks.
The results of gender-selection abortion...
Beijing's
bachelor bulge: the unprecedented surplus of boys. All across China, the dangerous
combination of modern technology and traditional beliefs is creating a huge army of single men. By 2020, more
than 30 million men of marriageable age will be unable to find wives. Ultrasound machines and
selective abortions, combined with China's restrictive one-child policy, are helping parents to skew the
gender ratio, with potentially disastrous consequences. In China, the trend has become so extreme
that it is believed to be unprecedented in human history. A recent Chinese government report warned
that 118 boys were born for every 100 girls in 2005.
10 million Indian girls
killed in 20 years. The widespread use of illegal tests to determine the sex of an unborn child
is fuelling a rise in female feticide cases in India, social activists and officials say. Sex determination
tests through techniques such as ultrasonography and amniocentesis are banned in India, but female fetuses are
still commonly killed in some regions where a preference for sons runs deep.
Killing of baby girls triggers social upheaval
in India. Over 27 percent of India's 593 districts have an adult population ratio of under
900 females for every 1,000 males, indicating a long-standing practice of female infanticide and feticide.
That means thousands of men can't find brides in their areas, a shortage that is felt particularly in states
where the practice of female infanticide, and now feticide, is practised and accepted. The British
medical journal The Lancet recently estimated that 500,000 female fetuses are aborted each year in India
solely because of their gender.
India killing off girl
babies. India's female population is in steady decline, with parents continuing to kill off their
baby girls before or just after birth, a report has found. Described as "the shame of modern
India" — particularly at a time of booming economic growth and increasing literacy — the
decline is attributed to misuse of prenatal diagnostic techniques and a consequent increase in cases of
female feticide.
U.N.
Addresses Discrimination and Violence Against Girls. Abortion in the United States has become one
of the most common surgical procedures for women. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute reports that more
than one-third of American women will have an abortion by the time they are 45. While the statistics will
vary from country to country, the U.S. data indicates the extent of the worldwide problem. Sadly,
Guttmacher also reports that 3 out of 4 women seeking an abortion do so for financial reasons.
Feminist Eugenics:
Joseph D'Agostino has dubbed the rise in sex-selective abortions as "Feminism's Triumph: Exterminating
Girls." Experts disagree on the overall toll, but an article
published in the medical journal Lancet pegs the number at 100 million aborted girls, mostly in China and India.
In China alone, UNICEF estimates there are only 832 girls per 1,000 boys. Feminists have a
compulsion to impose radical social change and when things go sour, blaming the subsequent fiasco on the
patriarchy. The problem of sex-selective abortions is no exception to this rule.
Why
Liberal Feminists Support School Shootings. This coming Tuesday, Ms. Magazine will release its
new issue with the cover story, "We Had Abortions (and we're glad we did)." … The story is intended to
gloss over the millions of women who have had negative reactions to the abortion experience in their own life
and choose to instead highlight a petition in which 1000+ very misguided women signed a statement affirming
their belief that their lives were infinitely improved because they snuffed the life out of the most vulnerable
person they personally had ever known — their unborn daughter (or son, or both).
Liberal in Chief:
Liberals always expect their principles to harmonize with each other, and then are
surprised when it doesn't work out that way. In their zeal for sexual equality, they
oppose sex discrimination and favor abortion on demand, only to find that some people
abort babies upon discovering that they are female.
Mothers sue over gender test that
promised 99.9% accuracy. In a class action lawsuit filed in the US district court in Boston
on behalf of 16 women the makers of the Baby Gender Mentor are accused of breaking their promise. Barry
Gainey, the women's lawyer, said he knew of about 100 women whom the kit had failed….
The Editor says...
These gender tests are not just to tell the mother what color of curtains to
buy for the baby's room. Many people use these tests to facilitate gender-selection
abortions. And naturally there are plenty
of lawyers around so you can find somebody
to sue in the event you accidentally have a girl when you wanted a boy.
Doctors have a financial incentive to perform abortions.
Doctor
denies illegally billing state for abortions. A Lexington doctor accused of Medicaid
fraud is denying the charges. Doctor Hamid Hussain Sheikh is charged with falsely billing the
state for abortions. He was arrested this week. Authorities say he billed the abortions
as fetal ultrasounds.
The pro-choice
movement: Safe, legal and as often as possible. Dr. William F. Harrison of
Arkansas calls himself an "abortionist." "I am destroying life," he proclaims. But
Harrison, who estimates that he has aborted over 20,000 unborn children, also sees abortion
as a life-giving procedure, describing his patients as "born again."
The Abortion Capital of
America: In 1970, New York passed the most permissive abortion law in America,
one that defined the state as the country's abortion refuge. Overnight, a new industry
materialized in New York City, promoting itself to women across the country. The pitches
were often blunt. A newspaper ad from the time inquired, "Want to be un-pregnant?"
Babies born alive during attempted abortions:
Obama's
Abortion Extremism: Obama's record on abortion is extreme. He opposed the ban on partial-birth
abortion — a practice a fellow Democrat, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once called "too close to
infanticide." Obama strongly criticized the Supreme Court decision upholding the partial-birth ban.
In the Illinois state Senate, he opposed a bill similar to the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which prevents
the killing of infants mistakenly left alive by abortion.
Closer look at Obama
reveals he's wrong choice. Obama can joke that when life begins is above his pay grade, but this is
not rocket science. If you destroy the egg of a bald eagle, you can be fined. Why? Because everyone
knows that egg is a potential bald eagle. There is something fundamentally wrong with a society that protects
bald eagles and yet allows unborn babies to be burned and sucked from their mother's wombs. When Obama was an
Illinois state legislator, he wouldn't even vote to protect a baby that lived after abortion. That's cold.
Obama's
Abortion Positon: To the Left of NARAL. Frank Pastore from KKLA in Los Angeles interviews
Jill Stanek, the former registered nurse who served at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois. She testified
before Congress about the death of infants who survived the abortion procedure only to die without care, giving
rise to the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.
Deniers for
Obama. When Congress was considering the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA), a
subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from Jill Stanek and Allison Baker, two nurses
at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. They described several instances in which babies who were moving
and breathing after induced abortions were left to die. The committee report quoted Jill Stanek:
"Mrs. Stanek testified about another aborted baby who was thought to have had spina bifida, but was delivered
with an intact spine. On another occasion, an aborted baby was left to die on the counter of the
Utility Room wrapped in a disposable towel."
Video: Kill and Destroy.
An interview with Jill Stanek.
Obama
is no moderate: His radical position on 'abortion' after birth. [Scroll down] So,
what are we to make of Obama's votes against protecting the right to life for living babies who have survived
attempted abortions? Such babies are sometimes born alive as a result of late-term induced labor
abortions, often sought when babies are believed (sometimes in error) to have genetic defects such as Down
syndrome. Earlier this decade, such living, breathing, babies who survived labor were
"shelved" — left to die and disposed of with other medical waste, or were "aborted" —
killed outside the womb. The practice was ultimately banned by unanimous Congressional votes, as even
the most pro-abortion Senate Democrats — including every defender of partial-birth
abortion — recognized that killing these breathing babies is no longer abortion in any real
sense. It crosses the line; it is infanticide. Yet, incredibly, Obama repeatedly worked to
deny these living babies any right to life.
The Audacity of Death:
According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn't exist. Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what
antiabortion advocates call a "survivor." Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna's biological
mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion
center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist's arrival, Gianna emerged.
Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive. Had the abortionist
been present at her birth, Gianna would have been killed, perhaps by suffocation. … As an Illinois state
senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as "persons" babies who survive late-term abortions.
Obama's Stealth Pro-Abortion
Stance: In response to a Pennsylvania voter's question about elementary school sex education, Obama said:
"Look, I got two daughters — nine years old and six years old. I am going to teach them first about values
and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby." This makes two things clear.
First, Senator Obama supports abortion on demand — even "convenience" abortions — for minors, including
his own daughters; and second, Obama considers babies a "punishment" he'd rather spare his daughters, even if those
daughters have to abort Obama's own unborn grandchildren to avoid that particular "punishment." That unguardedly
candid public statement is political dynamite — or it would be, if the media had reported on it.
Obama
is the Most Pro-Abortion Candidate Ever. He is so pro-abortion he refused as an Illinois state
senator to support legislation to protect babies who survived late-term abortions because he did not want to
concede — as he explained in a cold-blooded speech on the Illinois Senate floor — that
these babies, fully outside their mothers' wombs, with their hearts beating and lungs heaving, were in fact
"persons." "Persons," of course, are guaranteed equal protection of the law under the 14th Amendment.
More
on Obama and Babies Born Alive: When Obama was in the Illinois Senate, the Born Alive Infants bill
came up three successive years. In 2001, three bills were proposed to help babies who survived induced
labor abortions. One, like the federal Born Alive Infants bill, simply said a living "homo sapiens"
wholly emerged from his mother should be treated as a "'person,' 'human being,' 'child' and 'individual.'"
On all three bills, Obama voted "present," effectively the same as a "no." Defining "a pre-viable fetus"
that survived an abortion as a "person" or "child," he argued, "would essentially bar abortions, because the
Equal Protection Clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an
anti-abortion statute."
Scores
of babies left to die after NHS abortions that go wrong. Botched abortions mean that scores of
babies are being born alive and left to die, an official report has revealed. A total of 66 infants
survived NHS termination attempts in one year alone, it emerged. Rather than dying at birth as was
intended, they were able to breathe unaided. About half were alive for an hour, while one survived ten
hours. The figures are the first to give a national picture of the number of babies who survive abortion but
are left to die. Experts previously believed the phenomenon was limited to a handful of cases a year.
Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected
to Live 'Normal' Life. A mother who decided to abort her son because he may have inherited a
life-threatening kidney condition is overjoyed that he survived the procedure. Jodie Percival of
Nottinghamshire, England, said she and her fiancee made the decision to abort baby Finley when she was
eight weeks pregnant.
Dad returns baby's body to abortion
clinic. Counselors question why police didn't investigate the death. ... Now, with the probable
destruction of the body, an investigation never will reveal whether the abortion was a late-term procedure in
violation of state law, or whether the infant was born alive and medical help was withheld, in violation of
federal law.
Bush Signs "Born-Alive Infants
Protection Act" Into Law: President Bush Monday signed legislation protecting infants
"accidentally" born during abortion procedures from being killed or left to die. Bush signed the
"Born-Alive Infants Protection Act" (H.R. 2175) during a trip to Pennsylvania, to mirror laws already on the
books in more than 30 states.
The real scandal: Even for those of us
who tilt toward the pro-choice side, there are worse things than the repeal of Roe, included among which would
be a society that endorsed allowing newborn babies to die. For anyone with an even rudimentary moral
conscience, this is only a short step or two from the brave new world of Auschwitz.
Survivors of abortions:
Baby Miraculously Survives Abortion, Expected
to Live 'Normal' Life. A mother who decided to abort her son because he may have inherited a
life-threatening kidney condition is overjoyed that he survived the procedure. Jodie Percival of
Nottinghamshire, England, said she and her fiancee made the decision to abort baby Finley when she was
eight weeks pregnant.
Couple
give birth to healthy quintuplets after being told to abort. A Russian woman has given birth to
quintuplets in Britain after defying medical advice in her homeland. The 29-year-old music teacher, who
has strong religious beliefs, travelled to England to give all five of her daughters a chance of life.
Aborted Fetus
Sings. When her biological mother was 17 years old and 7½ months pregnant she
went to a Planned Parenthood clinic to have an abortion. As God would have it, the abortion failed
and a beautiful two-pound baby girl was brought into the world. Unfortunately, she was born with
cerebral palsy and the doctors thought that she would never survive. The doctors were wrong.
Will the Miracle Baby
Change the Abortion Debate? Is "Hurricane Amillia" about to blow the abortion village
down? Not if the media can help it. ... ABC World News Tonight was the only broadcast
news outlet to make the connection between Amillia's gestational age and laws governing abortion.
The vast majority of the 21 broadcast stories that ran about Amillia last week merely dealt with
the baby's homecoming.
The
unborn need a Wilberforce. In Miami, Amillia Sonja Taylor captured the hearts of
millions and the attention of doctors with her courage, strength and zest for life. Born at
21 weeks and six days, she weighed only 10 ounces and was 9.5 inches
long — about the size of a ballpoint pen. Last week, she was brought home by her
doting family weighing four and a half pounds. The world's youngest baby ever to survive,
little Amillia has moved the threshold of viability in the ongoing fight to protect the unborn.
What PFAW
means by "far right": The lawyers cited a New Jersey Supreme Court case involving babies
who survive prenatal injuries that said "(m)edical authorities have long recognized that a child is in
existence from the moment of conception, and not merely a part of the mother's body." In essence,
they argued, all human beings are persons and entitled to the same rights under the 14th Amendment.
The Audacity of Death:
According to Barack Obama, Gianna Jessen shouldn't exist. Miss Jessen is an exquisite example of what
antiabortion advocates call a "survivor." Well into her third trimester of pregnancy, Gianna's biological
mother was injected with a saline solution intended to induce a chemical abortion at a Los Angeles County abortion
center. Eighteen hours later, and precious minutes before the abortionist's arrival, Gianna emerged.
Premature and with severe injuries that resulted in cerebral palsy. But alive. Had the abortionist
been present at her birth, Gianna would have been killed, perhaps by suffocation. … As an Illinois state
senator, Barack Obama twice opposed legislation to define as "persons" babies who survive late-term abortions.
Some survivors aren't very grateful.
Disabled
Children Want To Sue Doctors For Being Born: An Australian court is hearing a test case that seeks
to establish whether children born disabled as a result of medical negligence can sue doctors for "wrongful
life." A lawyer representing doctors in the case has warned that if the court rules in favor of the
children's right to sue for damages, then children born with disabilities could eventually end up suing their
mothers for not aborting them.
Serial abortions / Abortion as birth control / A matter of convenience:
Thousands of women
have four abortions. Thousands of British women have had four or more abortions, including dozens who have
undergone six by the age of 30. Figures uncovered by the Telegraph show that almost 4,000 women have had at
least four abortions. In a "grotesquely bleak" picture of British society, scores of women have had at least eight
terminations.
Campaign
to end 'abortion capital' Britain. MPs will today [5/6/2008] launch a campaign to cut the number
of abortions carried out and reduce the upper time limit for termination from 24 to 20 weeks. Campaigners
warn a "less casual" approach to abortion is now needed and hope to reduce the number of terminations made for
social reasons. By lowering the time limit for these abortions, they estimate 2,300 lives a year could
be saved.
Abortion
accuracy: While unmarried women are four times more likely to have an abortion
than married women, both married and unmarried abortions declined by more than 25 percent
during the 1990s. In fact, abortion increasingly is becoming a matter of birth control for
women over age 25. They are the ones having the largest share of abortions. Also,
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.
Life is on the
march. Modern Americans seem absurdly determined to wipe away all evidence of what previous
generations understood and accepted about life — its pains, challenges, surprises; its miraculous
beginnings and eventual endings. The fear of hardship has created a cult of death. An obliging
Supreme Court has crafted a jurisprudence to justify murders of convenience.
That
very 'so-called' right to privacy. Whatever else modern America stands
for has nothing like the centrality in our affairs of the right to abort a pregnancy. The
Constitution, it almost seems, exists to make sure no woman has to have a baby she doesn't
want. No sucker game of this magnitude was ever before played on the citizens of a great
democracy. It all comes down to abortion.
The lamentable "bomb
shelter": The gruesome procedure known as partial-birth abortion once again
has been declared legal by the federal court system. A person must suspend all logic,
as well as empathy, to accept the brutal killing of a child just seconds away from taking
his or her first breath. Those who argue that all forms of abortion must be allowed
in order to preserve the life of the mother ignore the facts. The overwhelming
majority (90-plus percent) of abortions are performed for reasons related to economics
or convenience.
The secular
barbarians: If an unborn child is going to impede the mother in any way,
it's cool to root that baby out because the little rascal could ruin her "life". Maybe
its birth could interfere with Mom getting her BA degree, or expose the affair she's having
with her college professor, or mess up her bikini body, or keep her from partying and
sleeping with everything that moves.
Women say
economy factors in abortions. Many women who got abortions last year say the worsening economy
was one of the reasons for their decision. There were 13,843 abortions performed in Minnesota in 2007.
Of the women who listed a reason for their abortions, 40 percent cited economic concerns — that's
the largest share since the state started collecting detailed abortion information a decade ago, according
to the state's annual abortion report.
Spitting in the face of
pro-lifers: Forgive my ignorance, but I fail to see what contribution Dr. Henry Morgentaler has made to
Canadian society that he deserves to be called an officer of the Order of Canada. I stand with the multitude of
pro-life Canadians who believe legalized abortion has not made Canada a fundamentally more just or humane society, as
abortion rights proponents said it would. Like every place where abortion is introduced, it has cheapened human
life and transformed abortion into an acceptable form of birth control.
A society with no
standards: Currently sitting at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 list is a rap
rendition called "Confessions, Part II" by rap star Usher. Mixed into the
recording are lyrics by another rapper, Joe Budden, in which he talks about his frustration
with a woman's refusal to abort his baby.
Feminism and the
Family: Since the central aspect of women's liberation is so-called "free
love" — sexual activity that is unconstrained and without consequences — they
declared that abortion on demand is a basic human right and they made abortion an essential and sacred
element of their life's creed. The abortion activists became both effective street fighters and
skillful backroom strategists; they defend the 45 million murders of unborn lives by
abortionists — at every turn and in every arena.
Read this The
Truth About Abortion: The most recent statistics document an average of 1.4 million legal
abortions performed annually from 1973 to 1998. Two to five percent of these pregnancies are terminated
due to incest, rape, fetal abnormalities, or the mother's health, while the other 95 to 98% are simply
a means of birth control.
Making abortion less messy: RU-486 and other drugs.
Shots assist
in aborting fetuses. In response to the Supreme Court decision upholding the Partial-Birth Abortion
Ban Act, many abortion providers in Boston and around the country have adopted a defensive tactic. To avoid
any chance of partially delivering a live fetus, they are injecting fetuses with lethal drugs before procedures.
RU-486: Human pesticide.
The FDA's approval of RU-486 should help remind the pro-life community of the principles at stake in the dispute
over abortion. For several years, the most intense public discussion of abortion has been the debate over
late-term, or "partial-birth" abortion. But opposition to this physically most repugnant form of abortion
has had the unfortunate side-effect of distracting some from the key issue of principle, which is equality for all.
Abortions
down 25% from peak. The number of abortions has plunged to 1.2 million a year, down 25%
since peaking in 1990, according to a report released today -- days before the 35th anniversary of
Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion. ... [However] Women looking
to end early pregnancies are gravitating to medication abortions, in which they take two pills
under a doctor's supervision to induce miscarriage. This approach lets them avoid
surgery -- and the protesters who often picket clinics -- and expel the
embryo in the privacy of their homes.
The Editor says...
"Expel the embryo" is a euphemistic way of saying, "flush the baby". An intentionally induced
miscarriage has the same result as an abortion, and the death of the baby is easily preventable; therefore
it is the same thing as an abortion, and this new "down 25%" statistic is meaningless.
Pharmacists sue Walgreen over contraceptives. Four
from Illinois were fired after refusing to dispense morning-after pill.
'Morning After' Ruling
in Wash. State. A federal judge has suspended Washington state's requirement that pharmacists
sell "morning-after" birth control pills, a victory for druggists who say their moral objections to the drug
are being bulldozed by the government. In an injunction signed Thursday [11/8/2007], U.S. District Judge
Ronald Leighton said pharmacists can refuse to sell the morning-after pill if they refer the customer to
another nearby source.
Workers'
Religious Freedom vs. Patients' Rights. The Department of Health and Human Services is reviewing
a draft regulation that would deny federal funding to any hospital, clinic, health plan or other entity that
does not accommodate employees who want to opt out of participating in care that runs counter to their personal
convictions, including providing birth-control pills, IUDs and the Plan B emergency contraceptive.
Wal-Mart
pharmacies to carry morning-after pill. Caving in to pressure from abortion activist groups,
Wal-Mart will begin carrying the controversial morning after pill in all of its more than 3,700 U.S.
pharmacies beginning March 20. … However, Wal-Mart will maintain its conscientious
objection policy, which allows pharmacists who have moral qualms about dispensing the pill to refer
customers to another pharmacy.
Unleashing
the Killer Pill: RU-486, the abortion pill, is a dangerous drug that not only
kills the unborn infant but endangers the mother's life and health as well.
Why Is It So Hard to Understand? The
Abortion Pill Is Simply Wrong: Many years ago I sat at a table in the White House, looking at
a dumbfounded President Ronald Reagan. I had just told him that under his administration, research
was being funded in the United States on an abortion pill called RU-486. He took the documents from
me, handed them to Ed Meese, and said, "This is wrong. Look into this."
Abortion Pill May Be Tied
to Deaths. Abortion in a pill wasn't supposed to include body bags and caskets, but tell that
to the two women whose recent deaths may be linked to their "right to choose" RU486.
Here is the Kafkaesque headline of the week:
Abortion pill, death not linked,
FDA says. Health officials said yesterday that they have ruled out the abortion pill RU-486 in
one of two deaths in women who took the drug. The second remains under investigation.
As
Abortion Rate Drops, Use of RU-486 Is on Rise. Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court's
landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a pill that has largely faded from the rancorous public debate over
abortion has slowly and quietly begun to transform the experience of ending a pregnancy in the United States.
The French abortion pill RU-486, on the market since 2000, has become an increasingly common alternative, making
abortion less clinical and more private.
The Editor says...
Privacy doesn't change the fact that it's homicide. Most homicides are committed
in places where the perpetrators believe nobody's watching.
Pro-Life Pharmacy Opens Doors,
Faces Boycott from Abortion Group. A unique pro-life pharmacy opened its doors Monday [10/20/2008] in the
Washington, D.C. suburb of Chantilly, Va. The owners say Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy will sell
medications and products found in most other drug stores — but it will not fill prescriptions for
contraceptives, or sell condoms.
Other items yet to be categorized:
Conventional
wisdom strikes out: Last week's news contained a couple of nuggets that stand conventional wisdom
on its head.
Abort this award.
The Order of Canada was supposed to be a public recognition of service and devotion to Canada. In recent years it has
become a way for the liberal elites to reward their friends and those activists whose politics they support. So in a
grotesque paradox perhaps [Henry] Morgentaler really does deserve the thing. Future recipients are advised to wipe
the blood off first.
Radical Feminist With a Track Record Takes
YWCA Helm: The announcement that Patricia Ireland is the new president of the YWCA has been met
with concern from some in the Christian community. [Additionally,] The YWCA receives over
$272 million in tax dollars per year.
Conservatives
Renew Fight to Stop US Financing of UN Population Fund. Conservatives
say the U.N. Population Fund condones forced abortion and sterilization in China and elsewhere.
Web site: Life Dynamics: "'We're not here just to put
up a good fight. We're here to win, because winning is how the killing stops.' This is the mindset
that is behind everything that Life Dynamics does. We are fighting to return full legal protection for
every unborn child, from the moment of conception. Because of this our motto is, 'Pro-Life: without
compromise, without exception, without apology.'"
ACLU Marks
Day of Appreciation for Abortionists: The American Civil Liberties Union is celebrating Sunday,
March 10th, [2002] a "National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers."
Pro-Lifers,
NOW President Clash Over Abortion Views: The
new president of the National Organization for Women wasted little time in causing a
stir with the pro-life community. Kim Gandy said her first priority would be to block
efforts by President George W. Bush to nominate Supreme Court justices opposed to abortion.
Alan Keyes
and the Abortion Issue. [Abortion] not only divides liberals and conservatives, parents and offspring,
and men and women, but also divides those within each group. Even my wife and I have been known to argue
about it; she feels that men shouldn't even have a say in the matter, while I contend that cutting us out of the
discussion is like saying that people who aren't serving in the military shouldn't have an opinion about Iraq, or
that honest, law-abiding citizens aren't entitled to comment on the legal system or voice an opinion about
capital punishment.
Numerous commentaries on abortion and bio-ethics.
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