The Candidates’ Stand on Abortion
Written by Maria on | January 10, 2008 | No Comments
Though this is not a recent article, it reflects the beliefs and ideals of the candidates running for election of President of the United States in 2008.
In response to last year’s Supreme Court ruling banning partial-birth abortions, an abhorrent practice that often involves forced partial-birth and the crushing of a baby’s skull while still inside the womb, the presidential candidates spoke their opinions with obvious separations between Republican and Democrat. It is no accident that all candidates in favor of the Supreme Court’s decision were Republicans and the others were Democrats.
Senator McCain, who recently won the New Hampshire primary, summed it up best when he said the “Supreme Court ruling is a victory for those who cherish the sanctity of life and integrity of the judiciary. The ruling ensures that an unacceptable and unjustifiable practice will not be carried out on our innocent children.”
Senator Sam Brownback brought up a good point when he said he was “delighted that the Supreme Court is moving forward to see the expression of life in the Constitution” According to our Constitution, we are granted the inalienable rights of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
The Democrats all made reference to the issue of the mother’s health. However, none of them said anything regarding the health of the baby. And that’s what it is at this point. When we see a pregnant woman we don’t ask, “Oh, when’s the fetus due?” We ask when the baby is due. Because it’s a baby.
Democrat Mike Gravel stated he was “opposed to today’s ruling or any ruling that places restrictions on reproductive freedom.” Where is the freedom in killing a child while it’s still in the womb? He says he is opposed to restrictions on reproductive freedom, yet he supports the idea of not only restricting the life of an infant but preventing it.
Where is the freedom in that?
Tags: 2008 > Abortion > Democrat > John McCain > Mike Gravel > partial-birth abortion > president > Republican > Sam Brownback > Supreme Court
AusAID Attempts to Lift Abortion-Advising Ban
Written by Fiona R on | January 7, 2008 | No Comments
The Australian funded government has banned an organization known as “AusAID” from educating women overseas about abortion. The program is funded and run by the government, which begs to question: Why deal with abortion? Dr. Mal Washer said it himself:
“No one likes abortion,” [he] told [the reporter]. “I don’t like abortion, but it is ridiculous that we can’t give any advice to women overseas about abortion at a time when the government funds abortion advice to women in this country. It smacks of misogyny and stupidity.”
Way to contradict yourself, Washer. Especially when followed by this paragraph:
The MPs’ report said guidelines preventing Australian aid from being used to advise women on abortion were “cruel and illogical” and effectively encouraged unsafe illegal abortions, which were responsible for 13 per cent of all maternal deaths globally.
If women are getting abortions, then they must know of the concept. Why not spend money teaching prevention instead of educating them on something they already know?
You can check out the article here.
Also, if you’re interested, browse the AusAID website.
Men have abortions too
Written by Maria on | January 7, 2008 | No Comments
“We had abortions,” said Mark B. Morrow, a Christian counselor. “I’ve had abortions.”
The above is just one statement of several included in an article titled Changing Abortion’s Pronoun that came out in the LA times today. The author of this article discusses how many men often suffer through the same guilt and depression that women do after abortions.
Therapist Vincent M. Rue, who helped develop the concept of post-abortion trauma, runs an online study that asks men to check off symptoms (such as irritability, insomnia and impotence) that they feel they have suffered as a result of an abortion. When men are widely recognized as victims, Rue said, “that will change society.”
Indeed it will change society. Before, abortion has often been labeled as women’s problem: something for the women to worry about and fight over, with men only getting involved to help. Now society is forced to look at the other half of the relationship. Abortion is no longer a feminist topic.
If it comes into the spotlight that men suffer from abortion too, that it isn’t only the women who are hurt by it (besides the babies themselves, but that’s another topic), perhaps the ease with which abortions are able to be performed will dissipate.
Chris Aubert, a Houston lawyer, felt only indifference in 1985 when a girlfriend told him she was pregnant and planned on an abortion. When she asked if he wanted to come to the clinic, he said he couldn’t; he played softball on Saturdays. He stuck a check for $200 in her door and never talked to her again.
Aubert, 50, was equally untroubled when another girlfriend had an abortion in 1991. “It was a complete irrelevancy,” he said. But years later, Aubert felt a rising sense of unease. He and his wife were cooing at an ultrasound of their first baby when it struck him — “from the depths of my belly,” he said — that abortion was wrong.
“I have this stain on my soul,” Aubert said, “and it will always be there.”
It is no longer a question of women’s choice or women’s rights. The fathers have to be taken into account as well. Even men who originally supported the abortions of their babies, like Chris Aubert, have afterwards felt deep regret.
Now the men need to take a step further and stand up to tell others what they go through. It is the time for awareness and protest.
Aubert pictures men by the hundreds praying, chanting — and waving signs: “I regret my abortion.”
I think that is a good idea.
Tags: Abortion > awareness > current events > LA times > men > rights > victims
Pro-Abort Attacks Pro-Life Protestor, episode #345,645
Written by admin on | January 6, 2008 | No Comments
World Net Daily has an article about another attack by a pro-abortion extremist against those who practice their freedom of speech and question the killing of children. This happens quite often although the media ignore it.
Pro-life activists are calling for an investigation into – and possibly prosecution of – police officers who responded to a severely injured abortion clinic sidewalk counselor, but then allowed his suspected attacker to leave the scene.
“It is unbelievable that an officer would allow an attacker to go free after inflicting life-threatening injuries on an elderly gentleman, then threaten to arrest the witness to the crime,” said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue.
“That was not only unprofessional conduct, but it showed a fundamental lack of respect for Mr. Snell’s life and beliefs. She should face serious discipline.”
The attack happened just before Christmas, as Ed Snell, 69, was trying to counsel women entering the Hillcrest Abortion Center in Harrisburg, Pa., according to witnesses at the scene.
The “police” officer, obviously a person who should be fired and thrown into jail for obstructing justice, let the assailant walk away!
Pro-aborts act violently against pro-lifers, or just threaten it like here, from ZombieTime.com
also blogging: Common Sense Journal
Tags: Abortion > pro-abortion anti-speech Nazis > violence against pro-life people
A Simple Boycott
Written by Rea Rose on | January 5, 2008 | No Comments
Sometimes the way to make someone listen to you, is to boycott something they make or something they do or by simply not going to certain places. According to a new release, Planned Parenthood has several backers. Some who are known, some who aren’t as the article by Steven Ertelt of LifeNews says.
No, we aren’t going to stand outside every hotel, every charitable organization or anybody that supports abortion(though, it isn’t a bad idea) but simply this. Don’t support them. Eventually, as with hotels and banks, they will realize that people care and that we will not stand up for it anymore.
Check out the article below.
http://www.lifenews.com/nat3581.html
Election ‘08: The Future of Abortion
Written by Fiona R on | January 4, 2008 | No Comments
It is alarming how many main-stream politicians are pro-abortion. A few appear wishy-washy in their beliefs. According to the CNN Election Center 2008, popular candidate Mitt Romney began his political lifestyle as a pro-abortionist. Now, he has switched his views to a popular “sometimes” view.
Only Republican John McCain seems to share Romney’s view on abortion: That a baby should be aborted in cases of rape, incest, or for the safety of a mother.
Ron Paul brushes the topic off onto states, instead of making it a federal - and therefore more effective, with harsher punishments - law.
In short, who should you vote for? When it comes to abortion, voting Democrat would be a bad idea. All of the Democratic candidates, as well as Republican Rudy Giuliani, support abortion and would refrain from dealing with the issue accordingly. As for Republican, this blogger supports Republican Duncan Hunter: He opposes abortion, and has attempted to do something against it during his time as a representative of California.
Teenage abortion rates rising
Written by Maria on | January 4, 2008 | No Comments
Read the original article here.
A recent article came out stating that an increase in teen abortions occurs after the Winter holidays. Certainly this should be an alarming revelation.
The problem in this instance isn’t just the fact that teenagers are more likely to have abortions during the holidays, it’s the fact that they can get away with it: a simple solution to a few moments of “freedom”. This stems from a lack in parental supervision and the ability to freely have an abortion without parental consent.
While teens are left to their own devices when out of school for the holidays, they see it as an opportunity to have sex without their parents finding out. Because abortion clinics are legally allowed to perform procedures on minors under certain conditions without parental consent, the teenagers are able to remedy their ‘mistake’ without suffering any consequences.
The organization Planned Parenthood even has a holiday-friendly abortion ad titled “Choice on Earth.” Themed this way, teens can have an abortion and feel no more guilty about it then they would giving themselves a Christmas present.
Parents need to be more aware of what their children are doing. This article is just more proof of that fact.
Obama: Soft on Crime, Higher Taxes, Pro-Abortion Extremist. Yay says Oprah!
Written by admin on | January 2, 2008 | No Comments
Here’s a comment I posted on this pro-Obama blog:
When it comes to Oprah, Caveat Emptor, buyer beware. She promoted James Frey’s memoir which turned out to be a fake. She promoted “the Secret”, a nonsensical cult that blames people for ALL their problems (you can’t change reality by thinking it), and she promoted that plastic surgeon who later ended up killing Kanye West’s mom. Now she’s promoting someone who supports the grotesque partial birth abortion (he’s a pro-abortion extremist), has threatened to nuke Pakistan (the only Arab country that has nukes, nice going Obama), and he voted against a bill that would have made it illegal for gang members to re-join their gangs (he’s a soft on crime liberal).
People are ignorant on his voting record but just like his speaking style and personality. Get educated; look at the candidates’ voting history instead of whether or not you like the shade of his skin. Obviously that is one of the reasons Oprah is behind him, since she’s never campaigned like this before. Hopefully the mindless masses who watch “look-at-all-the-monay-I-got-girlfriends” Oprah won’t vote like she does just because she instructs them to do so.
As for the “why people are trippin” comment by the author of this blog, that doesn’t make any sense. Use real points, not nonsensical slang. Yes, Oprah has a right to advocate for a candidate, even if that candidate is an inexperienced leftist who wants to raise your taxes and make a big government even bigger. But we also have a right to point out her ignorance, and that’s not “trippin” that’s called political discussion.
Tags: Abortion > election 2008 > obama > oprah > presidential race
Dutch Couple Abandons Child of Seven Years
Written by admin on | December 13, 2007 | No Comments
Writer Nat Hentoff has described how babies have been discarded in an ultra-consumeristic mentality that views humans as commodities. “After all, department stores have return policies,” he has wisely stated concerning abortion-on-demand. This affects born babies as well, as Michelle Malkin recently points out how a Dutch couple has given back an adopted child, a child they raised for about SEVEN YEARS. The article in a British Newspaper states:
A Dutch couple has sparked outrage by giving up a seven-year-old South Korean girl they adopted as a baby – after claiming she didn’t “fit in” with their life-style.
The diplomat and his wife, who had taken in the child after failing to conceive, handed her to social workers in Hong Kong after having two biological children. They claimed the girl, who was adopted when four months old and has lived in the territory since she was three, was struggling to adapt to their culture, including food. Now the Hong Kong’s Korean community is trying to find a home for the unnamed child who is currently in foster care after being given up last year. The girl, who speaks English and Cantonese but not Korean, is neither a Dutch citizen nor a Hong Kong resident, so her future in the territory is uncertain.
In South Korea, parents cannot return adopted children, but no such law exists in Hong Kong.
The diplomat told reporters, who agreed to his anonymity, that his family was struggling to cope with their decision and said his wife was having therapy. “It’s just a very terrible trauma that everyone’s experiencing,” he said. “My foreign ministry knows about my situation. “I have also been in touch with the Hong Kong Government and they have been very helpful to me and so has my own employer.”
But the plight of the girl has sparked anger among social workers and many of the seven million people living in the territory. “It’s bizarre. I don’t think it has anything to do with cultural shock,” said Law Chi-kwong, an associate professor at the University of Hong Kong’s Social Work department.
“The child grew up with them. They adopted her when she was a baby; they are responsible for shaping the child’s mind and culture.
“How can you say the child cannot adapt to the culture in which she was raised? This is just ridiculous.”
When unborn babies are seen as disposable goods, it’s no wonder this doesn’t happen more often.
Colorado Petition for Science and Life
Written by admin on | December 11, 2007 | No Comments
The (pro-abortion “news” service) Associated Press has an interesting article on a campaign by a pro-life woman to get others to acknowledge the scientific reality that life begins at conception:
DENVER (AP) — A 20-year-old law student has become a cause celebre in the anti-abortion movement for her efforts to have the state Constitution define fertilized eggs as people — a tactic spreading nationwide in bids to neutralize the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion.
The measure spearheaded by Kristi Burton would give fertilized eggs state protections of inalienable rights, justice and due process, and she needs 76,000 signatures to get it on the state ballot next November.
Similar efforts are under way in Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi and Oregon.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw the awakening of a sleeping giant here as conservatives come out to vote on this because of the purity of the bill and because it’s a no-nonsense amendment,” said Keith Mason, a veteran of grass-roots efforts defending Ten Commandments displays and parental notification laws. He is helping the petition effort.
Burton’s so-called human life amendment doesn’t mention abortion. She insists her only aim is to define when human life begins, and any discussion about abortion is up to lawmakers, she said.
“It’s a concrete point in time that we can point to. It’s at the moment of conception, life begins and at that moment we need to protect it. If we don’t do that, then anyone can take away people’s lives at other stages,” Burton said.
Tags: Abortion > colorado > kristi burton > petitions > pro-life > Science
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