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Project Ultrasound
Project Ultrasound I have added this link to the Here is what you can do to save lives on my right side bar. Please visit and share! With so much going on this year, we have to take every opportunity to share our pro life facts. Please help spread the word for those who cannot! The enemy is at our door and we must fight to keep him out!! Thank you.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Breaking News
July 2, 2009 From Jill Stanek's blog.
Today Orlando, FL, late-term abortionist James Pendergraft lost his appeal in the 5th District Court of Appeal, and the suspension of his license by the FL Board of Medicine stands.
According to a court document filed today, "Dr. Pendergraft violated sections 456.072(1)(k) and 458.331(1)(g) when he performed a third trimester abortion in his clinic, which is not a hospital."
Next, Pendergraft "violated section 390.0111(1)(a)... which prohibits third trimester abortions unless two physicians certify in writing to the fact that, to a reasonable degree of medical probability, the termination of the pregnancy is necessary to save the life or preserve the health of the pregnant woman."
Third, Pendergraft violated "section 390.0111(1)(b)... because he did not certify in writing "to the medical necessity for legitimate emergency medical procedures for termination of pregnancy in the third trimester, and another physician is not available for
consultation."
Finally, "the [Administrative Law Judge] found that there was clear and convincing evidence that Dr. Pendergraft committed medical malpractice."
There are no details on the news yet. Unknown is whether any or all of Pendergraft's 5 clinics will have to close during his suspension. Also unknown is whether criminal charges will be filed.
Baby Rowan, the subject of the movie 22 Weeks, was aborted alive in 2005 at 1 of Pendergraft's mills. Workers refused his mother's pleas for help.
Pendergraft's license was suspended in 2006 for the same reason.
In 2001, Pendergraft was convicted of extortion and spent 46 months in prison.
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Saturday, June 27, 2009
The Smell of Rain
The smell of rainA cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. She was still groggy from surgery. Her husband, David, held her
hand as they braced themselves for the latest news. That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency Cesarean to
deliver couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing. At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound
nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature. Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs. "I don't think she's going to make it," he said, as kindly as he could. "There's only a 10-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one" Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described the devastating problems Dana would likely face if she survived.
She would never walk, she would never talk, she would probably be blind, and she would certainly be prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on. "No! No!" was all Diana could say. She and David, with their 5-
year-old son Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for David and Diana. Because Dana's underdeveloped nervous
system was essentially 'raw', the lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the strength of their love.
All they could do, as Dana struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle of
tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close to their precious little girl. There was never a moment when Dana suddenly grew stronger. But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of strength there. At last, when Dana turned
two months old. her parents were able to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And two months later, though doctors continued to gently but grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Dana went home from the hospital,
just as her mother had predicted. Five years later, when Dana was a petite but feisty young
girl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She showed no signs whatsoever of any mental or physical impairment. Simply, she was everything a little girl can be and more. But that happy ending is far from the end of her story. One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving, Texas, Dana was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local ball park where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing. As always, Dana was
chattering nonstop with her mother and several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging her arms across her chest, little Dana asked, "Do you smell that?" Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it smells like rain."
Dana closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?" Once again, her mother replied, "Yes, I think we're about to get wet. It smells like rain." Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head, patted her thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly announced, "No, it smells like Him. It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest." Tears blurred Diana's eyes
as Dana happily hopped down to play with the other children. Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least in their hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of her first two months of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to touch her, God was holding
Dana on His chest and it is His loving scent that she remembers so well.
This was sent in an email to me along with the pictures of the tiny baby and her mother I am pretty confident that it was a true story.
Thursday, June 25, 2009
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Friday, June 19, 2009
UNDERCOVER STUDENT VIDEO LEADS TO LAWMAKERS STRIPPING PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES IN TENNESSEE
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UNDERCOVER STUDENT VIDEO LEADS TO LAWMAKERS STRIPPING PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD AFFILIATES IN TENNESSEE
Legislature passes bill to make funding of public health providers priority over state’s Planned Parenthood affiliates
Contact: Lila Rose, lilarose@liveaction.org, 408-497-3982
LOS ANGELES - Inspired by undercover videos from a Planned Parenthood clinic in Memphis released earlier this year, Tennessee legislators passed a law yesterday that threatens to strip Planned Parenthood of over $1 million in federal grant funding. The videos show a counselor urging a 14-year-old girl to lie about the age of the 31-year-old "boyfriend" who impregnated her so she can obtain a secret abortion.
“We are very happy that Tennessee legislators saw the harm Planned Parenthood is doing to little girls and took the necessary steps to ensure that the organization's negligence will no longer receive preferential treatment when taking our tax dollars,” said Lila Rose, president of Live Action and the UCLA student who went undercover in the videos.
Under the new statute, local community health clinics will be given priority for Title X family planning funds instead of Planned Parenthood.
This is the second state this year in which Live Action videos showing abuse cover-up at Planned Parenthood prompted public officials to revoke taxpayer subsides. In California, after a community member alerted the Orange County Board of Supervisors to more of Live Action’s undercover videos of Planned Parenthood counselors agreeing to protect adult-child sexual relationships, the Board in March refused to renew Planned Parenthood’s $291,788 contract with the county.
The undercover videos are part of the Mona Lisa Project, a multi-state expose that documents Planned Parenthood's willingness to repeatedly violate mandatory reporting laws for statutory rape in order to obtain secret abortions for young girls. The Memphis video is the 5th video released in the series so far. See all videos here: http://liveaction.org/monalisa/ .
“We will continue to expose Planned Parenthood for endangering the lives and well-being of young girls in service of its abortion-first mentality,” said Rose. “It is our hope that other elected officials will soon follow the examples of Orange County and Tennessee in seeking to de-fund Planned Parenthood of all public subsidies for their lawless activity.”
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Please Pray for Stellan
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Please Pray for Stellan
Hi all, this is MckMama's sister, Hilary.
My sister ended up taking Stellan to the ER this afternoon. As I'm sure you know, Stellan has been having many break-throughs of SVT and performing vagel maneuvers just isn't going to suffice anymore for Stellan's long-term plan.
After a bit of trying, they were able to get an IV into Stellan's foot and successfully converted him by using adenosine. As per Dr. B's orders, they are admitting Stellan into the PICU and will further decide what to do from here. It seems as though some new combination of medicines will need to be tried to keep Stellan's SVT under control.
UPDATE: I just spoke with my sister on the phone (6:30pm central time) and Stellan has flipped back into SVT.
So please join me in praying for healing of Stellan's heart and for peace in the hearts of my sister and her family as they deal with this stressful situation.
Lord, wrap your arms around my sister and her family. Fill them with peace and trust as they travel through this "storm." You are our Comfort, our Shelter and our Healer. We beseech you, Lord, to interevene right now and cause Stellan's heart to beat in the rhythm it was meant to! Help us to keep our eyes focused on You. Amen.
Thank you all!
Blessings,
Hilary
New Stanek WND column, "Abortion vs. cat 'murders'"
... In April someone began mutilating and killing cats in 2 Miami-Dade neighborhoods. The outcry with demands to make it stop were instant.
Animal cruelty is despicable. Only sick people hurt and kill defenseless animals. That's how Jeffrey Dahmer got his start.
But knowing the same sorts of torturous acts are committed every day against human beings in at least 25 Miami area abortion clinics with no public protest makes me a little crazy. These would include... an abortion survivor who was suffocated in a plastic bag and thrown on the clinic roof for a week until he was so infested by maggots he couldn't be properly autopsied....
Mainstream media accounts attempting to humanize, dramatize and describe the cat killings in contrast to how they attempt to dehumanize, sanitize and obfuscate abortion make me a little crazy. Some excerpts:
"At a news conference... city and county leaders... reassured the community that the 'reign of terror' was over." (CBS) "... the killing spree..." (KPLG) "... [M]y heart goes out to those families who have lost their dear kitties 'cause I understand that pet owners feel very strongly about their little family members.... To see them so violated and so mutilated just defies all common sense and is painful for everyone involved. Thankfully... the terror has come to an end. And what of the perpetrator, depraved, demented, twisted." - Miami-Dade Commissioner Katy Sorenson (CBS) "... a slew of brutal cat murders and mutilations..." (CBS)...
Continue reading my column today, "Abortion vs. cat 'murders,'" at WorldNetDaily.com.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
OFL Leads Campaign Against Sotomayor with Online Petition
Sign the petition opposing Sonia Sotomayor at www.stopsotomayor.com
WASHINGTON, June 11 /Christian Newswire/ -- On May 26, the day that Judge Sotomayor was nominated to the Supreme Court, Organized for Life stepped up as a leading force against President Obama's nominee. Organized for Life's PAC, OFL Action, has opened a petition site at www.stopsotomayor.com to oppose the addition of another pro-abortion justice to the Supreme Court.
Sonia Sotomayor, in these few short weeks since her nomination, has made it clear that she is not with the majority when it comes to the dignity and protection of life. This has become more evident with the news of her involvement as a member of the board of a group that filed six legal briefs in support of abortion rights.
Peter Shinn, national director of Organized for Life, commented that, "Sonia Sotomayor is out of step with the American people. Senators Feinstein, Snowe, and Wyden are confident that Sotomayor will uphold Roe and so are we. The pro-life movement must unite to protect the unborn from another pro-abortion justice."
Ruben Obregon, president of Organized for Life, added, "Sotomayor's involvement as a board member of a group that filed six legal briefs in support of abortion rights and taxpayer funding of abortion is a key indicator of how she will cast her votes on the nation's highest court. The pro-life majority of this country does not want to see another pro-abortion activist justice impose abortion on our society. Pro-life activists, the Davids in this epic battle for life, can only stop the Goliath of the White House by banding together and signing the petition at www.stopsotomayor.com ."
The petition against Sonia Sotomayor be found at www.stopsotomayor.com and will be sent to President Obama and the members of the United States Senate. Let's go out, let's get organized for life, and let's legally protect our children, one Supreme Court justice at a time.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
pain of the unborn
The Pain of the Unborn
Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley.
Warning: The following commentary includes graphic descriptions that may not be suitable for children or sensitive readers.
Undoubtedly many of the great evils of our times have been committed because the cries of the victims were not heard—not heard by those who sat by, comfortably ignorant of the horrors around them. In early nineteenth-century England, few citizens had any real understanding that the lump of sugar they dropped in their afternoon tea was made at the high price of human bondage. The screams of men and women branded or whipped on West Indies sugar plantations were not heard in the fashionable parlors of England. Not until, that is, the great Christian statesman William Wilberforce launched his crusade against the slave trade.
Today, some two hundred years later, there are victims whose agony our ears will never hear. These are the unborn victims of abortion.
While the unborn do not have a voice to scream, science tells us that by twenty weeks a child in the womb is capable of feeling pain. Dr. Sunny Anand, director of the Pain Neurobiology Laboratory at Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute, testified before Congress and said: “The pain perceived by a fetus is possibly more intense than that perceived by term newborns or older children . . . the highest density of pain receptors per square inch of skin in human development occurs in utero from twenty to thirty weeks gestation.” Sobering testimony.
To make matters worse, the biological mechanisms that inhibit the experience of pain do not begin to develop until weeks thirty to thirty-two.
Yet ironically, an unborn child has less legal protection from feeling pain than commercial livestock. In a slaughterhouse, a method of slaughter is deemed legally humane only if, as the hundred-year-old law states, “all animals are rendered insensible to pain . . . ” By contrast, D&E abortions, performed as late as twenty-four weeks, involve the dismemberment of the unborn child by a pair of sharp metal forceps. Instillation methods of abortion replace up to one cup of amniotic fluid with concentrated salt solution, which the unborn child inhales as the salt burns his or her skin. The child lives in this condition up to an hour.
These things are uncomfortable to hear and to speak about. That is precisely the point. We should not be comfortable in a society where such things exist and where we have the power to influence change. The Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act is scheduled to be re-introduced into this Congress. This legislation would require that women seeking abortions are fully informed of the pain that their unborn baby feels when he or she is aborted twenty weeks or more after fertilization. If that knowledge does not deter the mother in what has come to be reduced to a mere “choice,” she must be offered the opportunity to give the unborn child drugs to ease his or her pain.
Pro-abortion advocates dreadfully fear this legislation. It brings to light the difficult questions they do not want to confront, like why livestock have more rights than an unborn child. Questions like these, like the cries of victims, are hard to forget once they have shaken us from the comfort of our parlor chairs.
Take Action
Urge your senators and representative in the newly elected 110th Congress to introduce, co-sign, and vote for the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act. The Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121.
Today's BreakPoint Offer
Right to Know: An Intellectually Honest Look at the Abortion Debate (booklet from Stand to Reason).
For Further Reading and Information
Catherine Claire, “The Pain of the Unborn,” The Point, 30 November 2006.
“Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act Loses Vote in House,” Catholic News Agency, 7 December 2006.
Joey Depew, “Child Pain Awareness Act Deserved Notice, Got None,” Chillicothe Gazette, 3 January 2007.
Lynn Vincent, “State Skirmishes: Abortion,” World, 11 January 2007.
BreakPoint Commentary No. 040511, “The Truth Comes Out: The Partial-Birth Abortion Trials.”
BreakPoint Commentary No. 070122, “A Visual Apologetic for Life: In the Womb.”
Scott Klusendorf, Pro-Life 101: A Step-by-Step Guide to Making Your Case Persuasively (Stand to Reason Press, 2002).
Erika Bacchiochi, ed., The Cost of ‘Choice’: Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (Encounter, 2004).
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Do not be discouraged
1Peter 5:6-10 says Be humble under God's powerful hand so he will lift you up when the right time comes. Give all your worries to him, because he care about you. Control yourselves and be careful! The devil, your enemy, goes around like a roaring lion looking for someone to eat. Refuse to give in to him, by standing strong in your faith. You know that your Christian family all over the world is having the same kinds of suffering. And after you suffer for a short time, God , who gives all grace, will make everything right. He will make you strong and support you and keep you from falling. He called you to share in his glory in Christ, a glory that will continue forever.
Peter doesn't tell us that life is fair. He tells us that when times are tough, stand strong in your faith against the devil and humble under God. He reminds us that our Christian family all over the world is having the same troubles we are. And even though we will suffer from time to time, if we stand strong and keep our faith, God who gives all grace, will make everything right. We should never forget that the devil, our enemy, is like a roaming and roaring lion waiting to devour us if we do not stand in faith.
What ever you are facing today... what ever lion's roar you are hearing in your ears today..... Don't forget that God, who gives all grace, will make everything right.
Peter doesn't tell us that life is fair. He tells us that when times are tough, stand strong in your faith against the devil and humble under God. He reminds us that our Christian family all over the world is having the same troubles we are. And even though we will suffer from time to time, if we stand strong and keep our faith, God who gives all grace, will make everything right. We should never forget that the devil, our enemy, is like a roaming and roaring lion waiting to devour us if we do not stand in faith.
What ever you are facing today... what ever lion's roar you are hearing in your ears today..... Don't forget that God, who gives all grace, will make everything right.
Monday, June 1, 2009
Your Pregnancy: Week 7
If you're one of the "lucky" pregnant women to experience morning sickness (a poorly named symptom of pregnancy as it can strike at any time of the day), remember that it won't last forever. Most of the wooziness tapers off by the second trimester. Of course, mental wooziness can affect you throughout your pregnancy, as you think of your growing to-do list, or wonder about how you're life will change, or worry if you'll know how to handle it all. Luckily, the cure for that wooziness is laying your eyes on your new baby.Wondering what's up with your body, your baby and your life this week? Read on ...What You're Thinking:
"How can I feel like I'm hung over all day long when I've had nothing to drink in three weeks?"Your BodyYou're supposed to be "eating for two" but instead, it's hard for you to swallow water. As a result, you're "praying to the porcelain god for two." Morning sickness can leave a pregnant chick exhausted, weak and wondering what on earth she got herself into. Don't throw in the towel just yet, here's how to cope:There are a whole bunch of tricks that pregnant women swear help to reduce nausea caused by morning sickness ... such as sucking on lemon drops or any other hard candy.Sometimes certain foods can help relieve the symptoms of morning sickness. Also, blaming your partner for everything has been known to comfort many women in the throes of nausea. Even if you're experiencing frequent vomiting, try not to worry, as your baby needs very little nourishment this early in the pregnancy. Good thing, since all you've eaten today is two boxes of saltines.If you're noticing weight loss or dehydration, you could have hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness that occurs very infrequently. Check with your doctor.
Your BabyThis week your baby's brain is growing at a mind-boggling 100 cells per minute within a see-through skull. If you could peer inside, you'd see those tiny brain cells growing and growing and growing (about as quickly as you feel like yours are shrinking and shrinking and shrinking with your "pregnancy brain"!). More high points include: Your baby's face is becoming more defined this week. A tiny mouth hole (which will be ready to wail before you know it!), tongue, nostrils and ear indentations are visible. His or her eyes are wide open, but he doesn't have irises (the colored part) yet. Baby's arm buds are growing. At this point they look more like microscopic ping-pong paddles than arms. Baby's leg buds are also forming and will look like tiny paddles by the end of the week.The umbilical cord—the connection between your baby and the placenta—is now visible.Your baby is now between 1/3 and 1/4 inch long—about the length of a Tic Tac and about as heavy as an eyelash. While that sounds tiny, he or she is approximately 10,000 times bigger than at conception. Crazy, huh?
Your Life Keeping the cat in the bag for the next five weeks will be tough. But the relief of finally telling your coworkers that you're pregnant—and not gaining weight at an astounding rate—will be a total relief. Begin to form a plan on how to tell your boss you're pregnant. (Hint: Tell your supervisor before you tell the office gossip!)Talk to human resources so you can be sure of your benefits and legal rights as a pregnant employee.
Entertain in your home while the living room is still free of baby toys. If you're too zonked to cook, make it a potluck!Take a moment to appreciate your clean upholstery. With years of parenting ahead, you might never see it this pristine again.Buy It:PsiBandsPretty puke prevention.Eat It:Ginger Cakes Ginger is nature's secret weapon against nausea, but gnawing on a piece of it isn't tasty. Luckily, tossing it in pancakes is. By the way, when you're pregnant, it's perfectly acceptable to eat pancakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.Know It:One Way to Calm a Queasy StomachDiscuss It:Chat with other expecting parents on our Pregnancy Board.
"How can I feel like I'm hung over all day long when I've had nothing to drink in three weeks?"Your BodyYou're supposed to be "eating for two" but instead, it's hard for you to swallow water. As a result, you're "praying to the porcelain god for two." Morning sickness can leave a pregnant chick exhausted, weak and wondering what on earth she got herself into. Don't throw in the towel just yet, here's how to cope:There are a whole bunch of tricks that pregnant women swear help to reduce nausea caused by morning sickness ... such as sucking on lemon drops or any other hard candy.Sometimes certain foods can help relieve the symptoms of morning sickness. Also, blaming your partner for everything has been known to comfort many women in the throes of nausea. Even if you're experiencing frequent vomiting, try not to worry, as your baby needs very little nourishment this early in the pregnancy. Good thing, since all you've eaten today is two boxes of saltines.If you're noticing weight loss or dehydration, you could have hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness that occurs very infrequently. Check with your doctor.
Your BabyThis week your baby's brain is growing at a mind-boggling 100 cells per minute within a see-through skull. If you could peer inside, you'd see those tiny brain cells growing and growing and growing (about as quickly as you feel like yours are shrinking and shrinking and shrinking with your "pregnancy brain"!). More high points include: Your baby's face is becoming more defined this week. A tiny mouth hole (which will be ready to wail before you know it!), tongue, nostrils and ear indentations are visible. His or her eyes are wide open, but he doesn't have irises (the colored part) yet. Baby's arm buds are growing. At this point they look more like microscopic ping-pong paddles than arms. Baby's leg buds are also forming and will look like tiny paddles by the end of the week.The umbilical cord—the connection between your baby and the placenta—is now visible.Your baby is now between 1/3 and 1/4 inch long—about the length of a Tic Tac and about as heavy as an eyelash. While that sounds tiny, he or she is approximately 10,000 times bigger than at conception. Crazy, huh?
Your Life Keeping the cat in the bag for the next five weeks will be tough. But the relief of finally telling your coworkers that you're pregnant—and not gaining weight at an astounding rate—will be a total relief. Begin to form a plan on how to tell your boss you're pregnant. (Hint: Tell your supervisor before you tell the office gossip!)Talk to human resources so you can be sure of your benefits and legal rights as a pregnant employee.
Entertain in your home while the living room is still free of baby toys. If you're too zonked to cook, make it a potluck!Take a moment to appreciate your clean upholstery. With years of parenting ahead, you might never see it this pristine again.Buy It:PsiBandsPretty puke prevention.Eat It:Ginger Cakes Ginger is nature's secret weapon against nausea, but gnawing on a piece of it isn't tasty. Luckily, tossing it in pancakes is. By the way, when you're pregnant, it's perfectly acceptable to eat pancakes for breakfast, lunch and dinner.Know It:One Way to Calm a Queasy StomachDiscuss It:Chat with other expecting parents on our Pregnancy Board.
Abortionist Tiller Dead
By John Jakubczyk on May 31, 2009 4:38 PM No Comments
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Fr. Pavone, following news that abortionist George Tiller was shot to death today in Wichita, Kansas.
"I am saddened to hear of the killing of George Tiller this morning. At this point, we do not know the motives of this act, or who is behind it, whether an angry post-abortive man or woman, or a misguided activist, or an enemy within the abortion industry, or a political enemy frustrated with the way Tiller has escaped prosecution. We should not jump to conclusions or rush to judgment.
"But whatever the motives, we at Priests for Life continue to insist on a culture in which violence is never seen as the solution to any problem. Every life has to be protected, without regard to their age or views or actions."
George Tiller died from the same philosophy by which he lived. And we in the pro-life movement regret his death as loss even as we regret and mourn the deaths of those tens of thousands of innocent children whom he killed over the last 35 years. We regret his death because we seek the conversion of the soul, the restoration of the person and the recognition of wrongness of ones actions so that reconciliation can occur for that person.
We have seen former abortionists realize the evil they had done and seek the forgiveness of both God and their fellow citizens. Leaders such as Joe Scheidler have reached out for years to those who worked in the abortion industry and have brought them out of the hell they were living. In such remarkable events one finds additional proof of the supremacy of the pro-life perspective over the selfish calloused approach promoted by the abortion proponents.
But let us keep everything in perspective. George Tiller made a living killing babies and harming women. He danced with death every day. Tragically someone with Tiller's mentality thought that he or she could act with the same impunity that Tiller claimed in his actions. And as Fr. Pavone noted, at this point we do not know who acted and for what purpose or motive.
Let this event remind this nation why abortion is ultimately a destructive act for all involved. Let us pray for the end to abortion in our nation and throughout the world.
Cross-posted: Jacubczyk on Life
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Fr. Pavone, following news that abortionist George Tiller was shot to death today in Wichita, Kansas.
"I am saddened to hear of the killing of George Tiller this morning. At this point, we do not know the motives of this act, or who is behind it, whether an angry post-abortive man or woman, or a misguided activist, or an enemy within the abortion industry, or a political enemy frustrated with the way Tiller has escaped prosecution. We should not jump to conclusions or rush to judgment.
"But whatever the motives, we at Priests for Life continue to insist on a culture in which violence is never seen as the solution to any problem. Every life has to be protected, without regard to their age or views or actions."
George Tiller died from the same philosophy by which he lived. And we in the pro-life movement regret his death as loss even as we regret and mourn the deaths of those tens of thousands of innocent children whom he killed over the last 35 years. We regret his death because we seek the conversion of the soul, the restoration of the person and the recognition of wrongness of ones actions so that reconciliation can occur for that person.
We have seen former abortionists realize the evil they had done and seek the forgiveness of both God and their fellow citizens. Leaders such as Joe Scheidler have reached out for years to those who worked in the abortion industry and have brought them out of the hell they were living. In such remarkable events one finds additional proof of the supremacy of the pro-life perspective over the selfish calloused approach promoted by the abortion proponents.
But let us keep everything in perspective. George Tiller made a living killing babies and harming women. He danced with death every day. Tragically someone with Tiller's mentality thought that he or she could act with the same impunity that Tiller claimed in his actions. And as Fr. Pavone noted, at this point we do not know who acted and for what purpose or motive.
Let this event remind this nation why abortion is ultimately a destructive act for all involved. Let us pray for the end to abortion in our nation and throughout the world.
Cross-posted: Jacubczyk on Life
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Abortion,
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
A 21 week fetus grasps the finger of surgeon during spinal bifida surgery
Read this beautiful story of a little 21 week fetus that reached out and grabbed the finger of his surgeon! Click here to read the story and see this beautiful amazing picture!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Thank you Congressman Sensenbrenner and Congressman Smith
From Pro Life Blogs
Congressmen to Obama: Stop Efforts to Rescind Conscience Protection Will Reduce Abortions
By Georgia Kijesky on May 23, 2009 7:57 AM No Comments
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Washington, May 19 - In response to President Obama's commencement address last Sunday at the University of Notre Dame, today Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Congressman Chris Smith(R-NJ),, co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus, held a press conference in Washington, D.C. and sent a letter to President Obama calling on him to publicly forgo rescinding the Bush Administration conscience protection regulation.
In the letter Sensenbrenner and Smith write, "You indicated that you wanted to 'honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion.' Given our agreement in regard to a conscience clause, we respectfully request that you put an end to your Administration's review of the Bush Administration rule that enforces existing conscience protection laws and completely forgo the rescinding of this rule. In addition, we urge you to commit to defending conscience protections in future rulemaking that affects both individual and institutional health care providers."
The letter goes on to state that, "We should reduce the number of abortions by continuing the restrictions on abortion funding... We urge you to use all the tools at your disposable to keep conscience protections in place and reduce the number of abortions in the United States."
Congressman Sensenbrenner and Congressman Smith are heartened to share common ground with the President on the issue of conscience and want to work toward a better solution that protects life and the rights of health care employees.
"If this Administration wants to be the Administration of choice, then all people need to have their choices protected," Sensenbrenner said. "The religious and moral views of health care workers should be respected. Workers should have the right to refuse to participate in an abortion procedure without the fear of losing their job or being discriminated against."
"We're simply asking President Obama to ensure that his deeds match his words," said Rep. Chris Smith, co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus. "This past weekend President Obama said that he believes we should 'honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion," Smith noted. "To make that happen, Mr. President," Smith added, "simply stop all your efforts, and those of your Administration, to rescind the current conscience regulations that protect the fundamental right to prolife healthcare workers--and Catholic Hospitals--to refuse to participate in procedures that they find morally reprehensible. Protecting conscience is the truly pro-choice position and respects the diversity of opinion in our society as well as the sanctity of life."
In 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a rule that prohibited recipients of federal money from discriminating against doctors, nurses and health care aides who refuse to take part in medical procedures in which they have religious or moral objections. The rule implemented existing conscience protection laws that ensure medical professionals cannot be denied employment because they do not want to provide abortions. Although federal law has long forbidden discrimination against health care professionals who refuse to perform abortions or provide referrals for them, the regulation required institutions that get federal funding to certify their compliance with laws protecting conscience rights, promoted education within the medical community regarding their rights, and provided an avenue of recourse in the event of discrimination through the Office of Civil Rights within HHS.
It was at the end of February, when the Obama Administration announced that it began "reviewing" the regulations implementing conscience laws, the first step toward rescinding the rule altogether. At that time, as part of a bipartisan effort, Sensenbrenner and Smith joined in a statement expressing their concern about the President's review of the clause.
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Congressmen to Obama: Stop Efforts to Rescind Conscience Protection Will Reduce Abortions
By Georgia Kijesky on May 23, 2009 7:57 AM No Comments
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Washington, May 19 - In response to President Obama's commencement address last Sunday at the University of Notre Dame, today Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Congressman Chris Smith(R-NJ),, co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus, held a press conference in Washington, D.C. and sent a letter to President Obama calling on him to publicly forgo rescinding the Bush Administration conscience protection regulation.
In the letter Sensenbrenner and Smith write, "You indicated that you wanted to 'honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion.' Given our agreement in regard to a conscience clause, we respectfully request that you put an end to your Administration's review of the Bush Administration rule that enforces existing conscience protection laws and completely forgo the rescinding of this rule. In addition, we urge you to commit to defending conscience protections in future rulemaking that affects both individual and institutional health care providers."
The letter goes on to state that, "We should reduce the number of abortions by continuing the restrictions on abortion funding... We urge you to use all the tools at your disposable to keep conscience protections in place and reduce the number of abortions in the United States."
Congressman Sensenbrenner and Congressman Smith are heartened to share common ground with the President on the issue of conscience and want to work toward a better solution that protects life and the rights of health care employees.
"If this Administration wants to be the Administration of choice, then all people need to have their choices protected," Sensenbrenner said. "The religious and moral views of health care workers should be respected. Workers should have the right to refuse to participate in an abortion procedure without the fear of losing their job or being discriminated against."
"We're simply asking President Obama to ensure that his deeds match his words," said Rep. Chris Smith, co-chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus. "This past weekend President Obama said that he believes we should 'honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion," Smith noted. "To make that happen, Mr. President," Smith added, "simply stop all your efforts, and those of your Administration, to rescind the current conscience regulations that protect the fundamental right to prolife healthcare workers--and Catholic Hospitals--to refuse to participate in procedures that they find morally reprehensible. Protecting conscience is the truly pro-choice position and respects the diversity of opinion in our society as well as the sanctity of life."
In 2008, the Department of Health and Human Services issued a rule that prohibited recipients of federal money from discriminating against doctors, nurses and health care aides who refuse to take part in medical procedures in which they have religious or moral objections. The rule implemented existing conscience protection laws that ensure medical professionals cannot be denied employment because they do not want to provide abortions. Although federal law has long forbidden discrimination against health care professionals who refuse to perform abortions or provide referrals for them, the regulation required institutions that get federal funding to certify their compliance with laws protecting conscience rights, promoted education within the medical community regarding their rights, and provided an avenue of recourse in the event of discrimination through the Office of Civil Rights within HHS.
It was at the end of February, when the Obama Administration announced that it began "reviewing" the regulations implementing conscience laws, the first step toward rescinding the rule altogether. At that time, as part of a bipartisan effort, Sensenbrenner and Smith joined in a statement expressing their concern about the President's review of the clause.
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Even an self proclaimed AntiChrist can see it!
Read Jill Stanek's page here.
Denver Post columnist converts to pro-life, almost
We may be seeing the house of cards starting to fall. Recent polls indicating a growing nationwide affinity to the pro-life position prompted self-described "atheist and a secular kinda guy" Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi to announce in a column yesterday he's lining up with the new majority:
After a life of being pro-choice, I began to seriously ponder the question. I oppose the death penalty because there is a slim chance that an innocent person might be executed and I don't believe the state should have the authority to take a citizen's life.?
So don't I owe an nascent human life at least the same deference? Just in case?
You may not consider a fetus a "human life" in early pregnancy, though it has its own DNA and medical science continues to find ways to keep the fetus viable outside the womb earlier and earlier.
But it's difficult to understand how those who harp about the importance of "science" in public policy can draw an arbitrary timeline in the pregnancy, defining when human life is worth saving and when it can be terminated.
The more I thought about it, the creepier the issue got....
I'm sure it was difficult for Harsanyi to write that column, beginning to distance himself from his culture on its cornerstone point. Then again, gaining a sense that one's belief is not only noble but popular may embolden more, hence my thought we may be seeing the house of cards start to fall. Harsanyi is not quite there, but he's on his way:
Now, I happen to believe... that the right to life and liberty is the foundation of a moral society. Then again, I also believe a government ban on abortion would only criminalize the procedure and do little to mitigate the amount of abortions.
I wrote this as a comment response to Harsanyi:
There is no law that has not been broken. But we do not stop making them. It would appear that laws against child porn have done little to mitigate child porn, but we do not abandon the law and forsake the children.
At any rate, I think your premise is faulty. Laws restricting abortion have indeed mitigated it - from parental notice before a minor aborts to 24-hour waiting periods before abortions. It stands to reason that making abortion illegal will lower the number of abortions.
[HT: Dougy, moderator Chris]
Denver Post columnist converts to pro-life, almost
We may be seeing the house of cards starting to fall. Recent polls indicating a growing nationwide affinity to the pro-life position prompted self-described "atheist and a secular kinda guy" Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi to announce in a column yesterday he's lining up with the new majority:
After a life of being pro-choice, I began to seriously ponder the question. I oppose the death penalty because there is a slim chance that an innocent person might be executed and I don't believe the state should have the authority to take a citizen's life.?
So don't I owe an nascent human life at least the same deference? Just in case?
You may not consider a fetus a "human life" in early pregnancy, though it has its own DNA and medical science continues to find ways to keep the fetus viable outside the womb earlier and earlier.
But it's difficult to understand how those who harp about the importance of "science" in public policy can draw an arbitrary timeline in the pregnancy, defining when human life is worth saving and when it can be terminated.
The more I thought about it, the creepier the issue got....
I'm sure it was difficult for Harsanyi to write that column, beginning to distance himself from his culture on its cornerstone point. Then again, gaining a sense that one's belief is not only noble but popular may embolden more, hence my thought we may be seeing the house of cards start to fall. Harsanyi is not quite there, but he's on his way:
Now, I happen to believe... that the right to life and liberty is the foundation of a moral society. Then again, I also believe a government ban on abortion would only criminalize the procedure and do little to mitigate the amount of abortions.
I wrote this as a comment response to Harsanyi:
There is no law that has not been broken. But we do not stop making them. It would appear that laws against child porn have done little to mitigate child porn, but we do not abandon the law and forsake the children.
At any rate, I think your premise is faulty. Laws restricting abortion have indeed mitigated it - from parental notice before a minor aborts to 24-hour waiting periods before abortions. It stands to reason that making abortion illegal will lower the number of abortions.
[HT: Dougy, moderator Chris]
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Respect for women and unborn?
Read more here.
by Kelli
Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs...
Suzanne from Big Blue Wave is featured as a guest columnist at No Apologies. In her article, she urges pro-life women to make themselves heard and to not allow one type of "feminist" to speak for all women...
People must understand that respect for the unborn does not preclude respect for women. Equality exists by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings; it is not created by making some people more powerful and some people less.
Women are not made less equal by respecting the rights of others. If anything, women are diminished by the notion that the most important power they have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy is to kill their unborn child. It suggests that it is necessary to excuse women from killing because they are not strong enough or responsible enough to do otherwise, and must compensate for their biological weakness. Men don't get that privilege, so why should women?
Once people see that respect for unborn children does not entail disrespect for women, they will be more open to considering equality for the unborn child.
And there will be a greater respect for women, too.
2 Seconds Faster draws attention to an Argus Leader report that Planned Parenthood is fighting SD's "state-approved language in the paperwork that is presented to women seeking abortions":
The filing is the latest round in a 4-year court battle between the state of SD and Planned Parenthood of MN and the Dakotas...
The organization objects to its doctors being forced to use phrases that PP considers ideological, such as: "That the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being."
State Health Department officials declined to comment on what sanctions PP might face, or if there is a deadline for the agency to comply with the health department's demand...
In an e-mail sent to PP in Sioux Falls... the state warned the agency of possible sanctions if it fails to use a state-approved disclosure form, including being cited for "deficiencies" associated with the form.
"Any abortion facility violating any of the provisions of (state law) places its abortion facility license at risk for suspension or revocation," Anthony Nelson, administrator of the state Office of Data, Statistics, and Vital Records, said in the e-mail.
But PP argues that a state law passed in 2005 does not require a scripted form, and that the agency is "free to choose the specific text of the disclosures they provide" so long as the state-required disclosures about certain biological facts are disclosed.Apparently, PP would rather not inform clients of the scientific and biological fact that the unborn are indeed "living human being[s]." What a surprise.
Both sides await a final ruling.
by Kelli
Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs...
Suzanne from Big Blue Wave is featured as a guest columnist at No Apologies. In her article, she urges pro-life women to make themselves heard and to not allow one type of "feminist" to speak for all women...
People must understand that respect for the unborn does not preclude respect for women. Equality exists by virtue of the fact that we are all human beings; it is not created by making some people more powerful and some people less.
Women are not made less equal by respecting the rights of others. If anything, women are diminished by the notion that the most important power they have to deal with an unwanted pregnancy is to kill their unborn child. It suggests that it is necessary to excuse women from killing because they are not strong enough or responsible enough to do otherwise, and must compensate for their biological weakness. Men don't get that privilege, so why should women?
Once people see that respect for unborn children does not entail disrespect for women, they will be more open to considering equality for the unborn child.
And there will be a greater respect for women, too.
2 Seconds Faster draws attention to an Argus Leader report that Planned Parenthood is fighting SD's "state-approved language in the paperwork that is presented to women seeking abortions":
The filing is the latest round in a 4-year court battle between the state of SD and Planned Parenthood of MN and the Dakotas...
The organization objects to its doctors being forced to use phrases that PP considers ideological, such as: "That the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being."
State Health Department officials declined to comment on what sanctions PP might face, or if there is a deadline for the agency to comply with the health department's demand...
In an e-mail sent to PP in Sioux Falls... the state warned the agency of possible sanctions if it fails to use a state-approved disclosure form, including being cited for "deficiencies" associated with the form.
"Any abortion facility violating any of the provisions of (state law) places its abortion facility license at risk for suspension or revocation," Anthony Nelson, administrator of the state Office of Data, Statistics, and Vital Records, said in the e-mail.
But PP argues that a state law passed in 2005 does not require a scripted form, and that the agency is "free to choose the specific text of the disclosures they provide" so long as the state-required disclosures about certain biological facts are disclosed.Apparently, PP would rather not inform clients of the scientific and biological fact that the unborn are indeed "living human being[s]." What a surprise.
Both sides await a final ruling.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sotomayor's record
Dear Friend,
We’ve been working hard in the lead-up to the Supreme Court nomination to prepare . . . and today was the day. As you know, the President nominated Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
We’ve spent the day responding to requests for a response from a pro-life perspective -- running from the Associated Press to the BBC to FOX Radio and more.
The Washington Post gave AUL credit for leading the way in researching Sotomayor’s record and being one of the first pro-life groups to comment on her nomination. We want to keep you informed as this nomination process goes forward, so please stop by AUL.org for more background on Judge Sotomayor.
So what do we think? Frankly, this is a very troubling nomination. In listing his requirements for a Supreme Court pick, President Obama highlighted “empathy” rather than loyalty to Constitutional principles. Now, we see what that means -- a judge who makes it clear she decides cases on feelings, not facts. She is a radical judicial activist who readily admits that she applies her personal political agenda when deciding cases. In a speech at Duke Law School at 2005, Sotomayor said that her own Court of Appeals -- not the democratically elected legislature -- is “where policy is made.” Taking such “judicial action,” she said in a 2004 speech, is part of the “heroics of judges today; it may dwell in protecting our own turf and ensuring that it is we who interpret the law.” Sotomayor’s philosophy of radical judicial activism is exactly the thinking that led to the Supreme Court turning into the “National Abortion Control Board,” denying the American people the right to be heard on this critical issue. She will further entrench the Court’s self-appointed role as the sole arbiter of abortion policy. Based on her judicial philosophy, we expect her to elevate unrestricted, unregulated, and taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand to a fundamental constitutional right by reading the sweeping Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) into the Constitution.
Pro-abortion groups are already lining up to endorse Obama’s choice. NARAL praised her “distinguished record of professional accomplishments,” while the National Organization for Women (NOW) said it would “celebrate” the nomination with a “Confirm Her” ad campaign.
That’s why it’s so important we get out the truth about Sotomayor’s radical judicial activism. Our recent polling data shows 69% of the American people believe that “some federal judges have gone too far by doing more than just interpreting the law and instead are making new law.” Mainstream America will not tolerate the choice of a Supreme Court nominee who, instead of following her duty to uphold the Constitution, chooses instead to dictate her own personal political agenda.
We’ve been working hard in the lead-up to the Supreme Court nomination to prepare . . . and today was the day. As you know, the President nominated Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
We’ve spent the day responding to requests for a response from a pro-life perspective -- running from the Associated Press to the BBC to FOX Radio and more.
The Washington Post gave AUL credit for leading the way in researching Sotomayor’s record and being one of the first pro-life groups to comment on her nomination. We want to keep you informed as this nomination process goes forward, so please stop by AUL.org for more background on Judge Sotomayor.
So what do we think? Frankly, this is a very troubling nomination. In listing his requirements for a Supreme Court pick, President Obama highlighted “empathy” rather than loyalty to Constitutional principles. Now, we see what that means -- a judge who makes it clear she decides cases on feelings, not facts. She is a radical judicial activist who readily admits that she applies her personal political agenda when deciding cases. In a speech at Duke Law School at 2005, Sotomayor said that her own Court of Appeals -- not the democratically elected legislature -- is “where policy is made.” Taking such “judicial action,” she said in a 2004 speech, is part of the “heroics of judges today; it may dwell in protecting our own turf and ensuring that it is we who interpret the law.” Sotomayor’s philosophy of radical judicial activism is exactly the thinking that led to the Supreme Court turning into the “National Abortion Control Board,” denying the American people the right to be heard on this critical issue. She will further entrench the Court’s self-appointed role as the sole arbiter of abortion policy. Based on her judicial philosophy, we expect her to elevate unrestricted, unregulated, and taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand to a fundamental constitutional right by reading the sweeping Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) into the Constitution.
Pro-abortion groups are already lining up to endorse Obama’s choice. NARAL praised her “distinguished record of professional accomplishments,” while the National Organization for Women (NOW) said it would “celebrate” the nomination with a “Confirm Her” ad campaign.
That’s why it’s so important we get out the truth about Sotomayor’s radical judicial activism. Our recent polling data shows 69% of the American people believe that “some federal judges have gone too far by doing more than just interpreting the law and instead are making new law.” Mainstream America will not tolerate the choice of a Supreme Court nominee who, instead of following her duty to uphold the Constitution, chooses instead to dictate her own personal political agenda.
Organized for Life Leads Campaign Against Activist Judicial Nominee
Please read and sign this petition.
By OrganizedForLife on May 26, 2009 11:52 PM No Comments
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Sign the petition against Sonia Sotomayor at http://www.stopsotomayor.com/
Washington, DC- Organized for Life has stepped up as the leading force against President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Souter. Organized for Life's PAC, OFL Action, has opened a petition site at http://www.stopsotomayor.com/ to oppose the addition of another potentially pro-abortion justice to the Supreme Court.
Sonia Sotomayer has a record of legislating from the bench that stands against the will of the majority of Americans. Fifty-one percent of Americans call themselves pro-life. Eighty-two percent of Americans do not want a justice who would support partial-birth and late term abortion. Sixty-nine percent do not want a justice that opposes parental involvement laws. This open spot on the Court was PresidentObama's opportunity to create the common ground he seeks by representing the American people's views on abortion, he missed the mark completely in nominating Sonia Sotomayor who believes she can legislate from Justice Souter's seat.
Peter Shinn, national director of Organized for Life, commented that, "Sonia Sotomayor is out of step with the American people. Quoted in 2005 as believing that policy comes from the bench, she stands counter to the American people's desire to end the tragedy of abortion rather than continue the culture of death imposed on this country by its highest court."
Ruben Obregon, president of Organized for Life, added, "In nominating Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama chose to further his own pro-abortion agenda rather than seek common ground on the abortion issue by choosing a nominee in line with the majority of the country. Instead of faithfully representing the country's views, President Obama has added another reliably liberal member to the Court who will continue to impose the Court's will on the people. Pro-life activists, theDavids in this epic battle for life, can only stop the Goliath of the White House by banding together and signing the petition at http://www.stopsotomayor.com/."
The petition against Sonia Sotomayor be found at www.stopsotomayor.com and will be sent to President Obama and the members of the United States Senate. Let's go out, let's get organized for life, and let's legally protect our children, one Supreme Court justice at a time.
By OrganizedForLife on May 26, 2009 11:52 PM No Comments
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Sign the petition against Sonia Sotomayor at http://www.stopsotomayor.com/
Washington, DC- Organized for Life has stepped up as the leading force against President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court vacancy created by Justice Souter. Organized for Life's PAC, OFL Action, has opened a petition site at http://www.stopsotomayor.com/ to oppose the addition of another potentially pro-abortion justice to the Supreme Court.
Sonia Sotomayer has a record of legislating from the bench that stands against the will of the majority of Americans. Fifty-one percent of Americans call themselves pro-life. Eighty-two percent of Americans do not want a justice who would support partial-birth and late term abortion. Sixty-nine percent do not want a justice that opposes parental involvement laws. This open spot on the Court was PresidentObama's opportunity to create the common ground he seeks by representing the American people's views on abortion, he missed the mark completely in nominating Sonia Sotomayor who believes she can legislate from Justice Souter's seat.
Peter Shinn, national director of Organized for Life, commented that, "Sonia Sotomayor is out of step with the American people. Quoted in 2005 as believing that policy comes from the bench, she stands counter to the American people's desire to end the tragedy of abortion rather than continue the culture of death imposed on this country by its highest court."
Ruben Obregon, president of Organized for Life, added, "In nominating Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama chose to further his own pro-abortion agenda rather than seek common ground on the abortion issue by choosing a nominee in line with the majority of the country. Instead of faithfully representing the country's views, President Obama has added another reliably liberal member to the Court who will continue to impose the Court's will on the people. Pro-life activists, theDavids in this epic battle for life, can only stop the Goliath of the White House by banding together and signing the petition at http://www.stopsotomayor.com/."
The petition against Sonia Sotomayor be found at www.stopsotomayor.com and will be sent to President Obama and the members of the United States Senate. Let's go out, let's get organized for life, and let's legally protect our children, one Supreme Court justice at a time.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
video collection breaks down development into monthly segments
A wonderful video collection for moms-to-be! Click here to watch what is happening to you and your baby!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
American Adoption
Here is a link to American Adoption... You can find information from all sides. Click here.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Life Liberty and Justice for All?
Notice the right side bar? Medical facts as well as adoption options are listed under medical facts.Under Action Links you will find several links to sites that will direct you on a path to get involved in the fight against abortion. Under Bog List you will find highly effective blogs that are well known and reliable for the newest information available. Organized for Life feed covers endless ways to get involved.
I want to get personal for a minute.
I found out yesterday that my baby sister (20 yrs old) is pregnant! She is due Jan. 18 2009. I am thrilled. My parents and grandparents are thrilled. My sister and her husband are thrilled. My middle sister is thrilled. My middle sister has had two miscarriages. She cries often for her losses and suffers a condition making it very difficult to conceive. I have two beautiful daughters. Our baby sister is now expecting. My middle sister is still empty handed. I can't begin to understand why she is faced with this emptiness. I don't understand. I do know however, that there are babies killed daily in the name of 'choice' while my wonderful loving sister has an empty womb and a heavy heart. I want nothing more than to put a stop to legal abortion. But I want to uplift adoption. Make adoption less expensive and less painful. Make adoption well known, not a closed door. I am sad. I feel like freedom can go too far. When we tear apart sleeping infants in the womb in the name of freedom, we have given our soldiers who fight for freedom a bad name. I don't want my tax dollars to fund abortion. I don't want my flag to stand for abortion tolerance. What happened to Life, Liberty, and Justice for All?
I want to get personal for a minute.
I found out yesterday that my baby sister (20 yrs old) is pregnant! She is due Jan. 18 2009. I am thrilled. My parents and grandparents are thrilled. My sister and her husband are thrilled. My middle sister is thrilled. My middle sister has had two miscarriages. She cries often for her losses and suffers a condition making it very difficult to conceive. I have two beautiful daughters. Our baby sister is now expecting. My middle sister is still empty handed. I can't begin to understand why she is faced with this emptiness. I don't understand. I do know however, that there are babies killed daily in the name of 'choice' while my wonderful loving sister has an empty womb and a heavy heart. I want nothing more than to put a stop to legal abortion. But I want to uplift adoption. Make adoption less expensive and less painful. Make adoption well known, not a closed door. I am sad. I feel like freedom can go too far. When we tear apart sleeping infants in the womb in the name of freedom, we have given our soldiers who fight for freedom a bad name. I don't want my tax dollars to fund abortion. I don't want my flag to stand for abortion tolerance. What happened to Life, Liberty, and Justice for All?
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Do something here is your chance!
Support cures we can all live with!
By rebecca on May 14, 2009 3:36 PM No Comments
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As the National Institutes of Health and lawmakers discuss the future of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, now is the time to make your opinion heard. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is urging everyone to contact the NIH and their representatives in Congress and let them know you oppose the funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos. From the USCCB website:
Following President Obama's March 9 executive order, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has proposed guidelines for federally funded embryonic stem cell research. The guidelines would - for the first time - use taxpayer funds to encourage the killing of embryonic human beings for their stem cells.
This marks a new chapter in divorcing biomedical research from its necessary ethical foundation, respect for human life at all stages.
Embryonic stem cell research treats innocent human beings as mere sources of body parts, as commodities for our use.
Even if, like the embryos targeted by the NIH policy, an embryo may be at risk of being abandoned by his or her parents in a fertility clinic, that does not give researchers or the government a right to kill that human being - much less a right to make the rest of us subsidize that destructive agenda.
Some in Congress and the Administration want an even broader policy. They want to obtain stem cells by destroying human embryos specially generated for research through in vitro fertilization (IVF) or cloning procedures - a "create to kill" policy.
Neither of these policies is ethical or promotes responsible science. They both violate the fundamental right to life.
Patients suffering from devastating illnesses deserve our compassion and our committed response - but not at the cost of innocent life. The Church supports ethical stem cell research and treatments that do no harm and respect the inherent dignity of persons - cutting-edge medical advances that are already benefiting patients with dozens of conditions in clinical trials.
It is time to focus on cures and treatments we can all live with.
Please go to this website and contact your representative and tell them you do not want your hard earned money to fund the creation and/or destruction of fellow members of your species for research.
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Bioethics,
Cloning,
In Vitro Fertilization,
Medical Ethics,
Politics,
Pro-Life,
Stem Cells
By rebecca on May 14, 2009 3:36 PM No Comments
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As the National Institutes of Health and lawmakers discuss the future of federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, now is the time to make your opinion heard. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is urging everyone to contact the NIH and their representatives in Congress and let them know you oppose the funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos. From the USCCB website:
Following President Obama's March 9 executive order, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has proposed guidelines for federally funded embryonic stem cell research. The guidelines would - for the first time - use taxpayer funds to encourage the killing of embryonic human beings for their stem cells.
This marks a new chapter in divorcing biomedical research from its necessary ethical foundation, respect for human life at all stages.
Embryonic stem cell research treats innocent human beings as mere sources of body parts, as commodities for our use.
Even if, like the embryos targeted by the NIH policy, an embryo may be at risk of being abandoned by his or her parents in a fertility clinic, that does not give researchers or the government a right to kill that human being - much less a right to make the rest of us subsidize that destructive agenda.
Some in Congress and the Administration want an even broader policy. They want to obtain stem cells by destroying human embryos specially generated for research through in vitro fertilization (IVF) or cloning procedures - a "create to kill" policy.
Neither of these policies is ethical or promotes responsible science. They both violate the fundamental right to life.
Patients suffering from devastating illnesses deserve our compassion and our committed response - but not at the cost of innocent life. The Church supports ethical stem cell research and treatments that do no harm and respect the inherent dignity of persons - cutting-edge medical advances that are already benefiting patients with dozens of conditions in clinical trials.
It is time to focus on cures and treatments we can all live with.
Please go to this website and contact your representative and tell them you do not want your hard earned money to fund the creation and/or destruction of fellow members of your species for research.
Categories:
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Bioethics,
Cloning,
In Vitro Fertilization,
Medical Ethics,
Politics,
Pro-Life,
Stem Cells
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Planned Parenthood Admits to Killing Babies
This video has no pictures just a nurse in the shadows. Please take the time to watch. Don't forget your tax dollars are paying them.
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=e46UZuaGSU
http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/checker.aspx?v=e46UZuaGSU
Obama's 'short list'
courtesy of Americans United for Life.
“In Defense of Life?” Potential U.S. Supreme Court Nominees
“Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.” -- Hugo Black, Turner v. United States, 1970
During his campaign, President Obama stated that he would appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices in the mold of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter, two of the Court’s most ardent abortion rights supporters. President Obama further stated that he finds himself compelled “to side with Justice [Stephen] Breyer’s view of the Constitution -- that it is not a static but rather a living document, and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world.”
On March 17, 2009, true to his expressed intent to appoint pro-abortion judges who will interpret the American Constitution in light of ever-evolving circumstances rather than the original intent of the Framers, President Obama used his first judicial appointment to select radically pro-abortion U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Moreover, less than four months after taking office, the new Administration and abortion advocates are already employing a variety of executive, budgetary, and legislative means to implement the expansive aims of the controversial Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) which seeks to impose unrestricted, unregulated, unapologetic, and taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand on an unwilling American public.
Clearly, the ability to appoint federal judges -- including U.S. Supreme Court Justices -- is a powerful means toward the end of imposing “FOCA by Stealth,” advancing its radical aims piecemeal and surreptitiously instead of as one legislative package that can be fully evaluated and debated by the American public, individually and through our elected representatives. We expect a judicial activist, once seated on the Court, to work to read FOCA into the Constitution, elevating abortion to the status of a fundamental right, on the same plane as freedom of speech.
The Probable “Short List”
Solicitor General of the United States, Elena Kagan
Despite authoring a 1993 law review article acknowledging that the harms inherent in abortion are open to debate, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the former dean of Harvard Law School, has publicly and repeatedly criticized Rust v. Sullivan, a 1991 U.S Supreme Court decision upholding federal regulations that prohibit recipients of Title X family planning funds from counseling on or referring women for abortions. Ignoring the American public’s opposition to the use of taxpayer dollars to directly or indirectly subsidize abortion, Kagan argued that the regulations amounted to the subsidization of "anti-abortion" speech.
Earlier, while serving as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Kagan wrote a memo suggesting that faith-based groups -- specifically those that operate pregnancy care centers -- should not play a role in counseling pregnant teens because they would not be able to do so without injecting their religious beliefs.
The Honorable Diane Wood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
As a judge with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal, Judge Wood has placed her pro-abortion ideology above her judicial duty in cases involving common-sense restrictions on abortion and also in cases involving the rights of pro-life demonstrators.
In 1998, Judge Wood issued written opinions disputing the constitutionality of partial-birth abortion bans that had recently been enacted in Illinois and Wisconsin. Moreover, in a 2002 case challenging an Indiana informed consent law -- one that was nearly identical to a similar law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey -- Wood dissented from her fellow judges’ decision to permit enforcement of the law and opined that the law was unconstitutional (without distinguishing it in any meaningful way from a law that the U.S. Supreme Court had deemed constitutional nearly 6 years earlier).
Further, in NOW v. Scheidler, Judge Wood ruled that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), a federal law enforcement tool designed to counter the activity of organized crime, was properly applied against pro-life demonstrators. This "novel" and controversial approach was later summarily rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano
Recently, Secretary Napolitano, who was formerly both the Attorney General and the Governor of Arizona, released a report to the nation’s law enforcement community that branded some pro-life activists as potential "domestic terrorists."
As Governor of Arizona, she routinely vetoed legislation that imposed common-sense and medically-supported regulations on abortion including bans on the dangerous and gruesome practice of partial-birth abortion (on two separate occasions); measures designed to strengthen the state’s parental consent requirement by, for example, providing uniform standards for Arizona judges to use when considering petitions for judicial bypass of the requirement (also on two separate occasions); a requirement that women considering abortion be counseled on the pain that the unborn child may feel during the procedure; a measure prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to purchase health insurance coverage for abortions for government employees; and a measure protecting healthcare providers who decline to prescribe or dispense contraceptives including so-called “emergency contraceptives” based on ethical, moral, or religious objections. All of these vetoes occurred in just 4 years: from 2005 to 2008.
The Honorable Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
Justice Sears has been a member of the Georgia judiciary since 1985 and was appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1992 by then-Governor Zell Miller. She has twice won re-election and was elected Chief Justice in 2005. She will be retiring from the court in June 2009.
Justice Sears has not issued any known decision on life-related issues (except capital punishment). However, in privacy-related cases, Justice Sears has evidenced a broad conception of substantive constitutional privacy -- the very basis upon which Roe v. Wade is predicated. For example, in 1998, Justice Sears voted to overturn the state’s ban on sodomy. In her concurring opinion, Justice Sears referred to the responsibility of courts to protect constitutional rights against "morals legislation" from the majority. Throughout her judicial career and by her own admission, she has viewed the courts as the protector of the "little guy" against the public majority.
The Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Despite 17 years on the bench, Judge Sotomayor has never directly decided whether a law regulating abortion was constitutional. She has, however, decided a few cases that indirectly implicate abortion rights.
Writing for the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor upheld the Mexico City Policy which prohibited foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from using federal funding to promote abortion overseas. In a constitutional challenge brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), an American abortion advocacy group that routinely argues that "abortion is the law of the world," Judge Sotomayor first rejected a claim that the policy burdened the First Amendment rights of domestic pro-abortion groups, finding that no First Amendment rights were implicated. The significance of this part of her opinion, however, may be minimal because the issue was largely controlled by the Second Circuit’s earlier opinion in a similar challenge to the policy.
More interesting was Justice Sotomayor’s response to CRR’s second claim that the policy violated the Equal Protection Clause by impermissibly burdening the "rights of domestic abortion groups relative to domestic anti-abortion groups." Rejecting this new argument, Justice Sotomayor wrote that because the challenge involved neither a suspect class nor a fundamental right, a deferential "rational basis" test was appropriate. She then acknowledged the ability of the government to adopt anti-abortion policies, noting "there can be no question that the classification survives rational basis review. The Supreme Court has made clear that the government is free to favor the anti-abortion position over the pro-choice position, and can do so with public funds."
Finally, Judge Sotomayor wrote an opinion overturning, in part, a district court’s grant of summary judgment against a group of anti-abortion protestors, albeit on an issue far removed from abortion jurisprudence. When a group of protestors sued the city of West Hartford, CT alleging its police officers used excessive force at a peaceful protest, the district court issued a summary judgment in favor of the defendants on all theories of liability. Writing for the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor reversed the district court’s summary judgment order against the protestors and remanded the case for further proceedings.
Other Potential Nominees:
Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan
Governor Granholm has stated that she "fully supports" Roe v. Wade and that she believes that the abortion decision is "[a] matter of health between a woman and her doctor." In 2002, when she first ran for Governor of Michigan, she pledged to defend access to abortion and to support an increase in the number of abortion clinics operating in the state, declaring that she would "rather work on a decrease in demand (for abortion), not supply."
She has been described by the Detroit Free Press as an "ardent supporter" of abortion. She counts the pro-abortion group, Emily’s List, as one of her major political contributors.
Further, Governor Granholm has repeatedly vetoed common-sense abortion restrictions and regulations -- measures supported by a majority of her constituents -- including a state ban on partial-birth abortion (on two occasions), as well as a measure that delineated specific procedures to be used when Michigan judges considered petitions for judicial bypass of the state’s parental consent requirement and that also sought to limit the ability of minors to "shop" for a judge who would rubber-stamp (rather than properly evaluate) their requests to exclude their parents or guardian from involvement in their abortion decisions.
Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts
Governor Patrick was elected in 2006 with the full support and endorsement of the National Organization of Women (NOW), the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), and Planned Parenthood. He strongly supports both abortion and destructive embryonic research. In 2006, while running for office, he publicly criticized former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for his veto of a bill that would have provided state funding for destructive embryonic research and instead proposed a state bond measure to fund the controversial and ethically-problematic practice.
In response to a constituent’s question regarding his support for abortion, Patrick responded that he believes that the abortion decision should be made by the woman and not the government and implied that voters were "far less concerned" with abortion than other more practical issues such as the economy. In 2007, Patrick signed into law a measure increasing so-called "buffer zones" around abortion clinics and limiting the First Amendment rights of pro-life demonstrators.
Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanford Law School
Professor Sullivan, who has no judicial experience, published an article in the August 1992 New Jersey Law Journal, commenting on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and arguing that legal status of abortion should be decided by the courts, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, and not the American people through the democratic process. Sullivan argued that "women’s reproductive freedom" was "too precious and fragile" to be "left to politics."
In that same article, she inaccurately described the radical Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) as a mere "codification of the protections of Roe" and, relying on a purportedly "pro-choice" electorate, asserted that then-President George H.W. Bush would veto the measure (the version of FOCA then pending before Congress) at the Republican Party’s "peril" in the November 1992 national elections.
Cass Sunstein, White House Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulator Affairs
Echoing the views of Dawn Johnsen, one of President Obama’s most radical pro-abortion nominees to the U.S. Department of Justice, Sunstein (who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978) has publicly argued that laws restricting abortion "co-opt women’s bodies for the protection of fetuses" and "selectively turn women’s reproductive capacities into something for the use and control of others." Failure to accept this premise -- he argues -- accepts an out-dated line of thought that renders women "involuntary childbearers."
Sunstein’s voluminous writings suggest that he believes that the so-called "right to die" is a fundamental constitutional right. He has also opined that the debate over the "right to die" is the next great "arena for the struggle to define the scope of fundamental rights under the Due Process Clause."
“In Defense of Life?” Potential U.S. Supreme Court Nominees
“Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind.” -- Hugo Black, Turner v. United States, 1970
During his campaign, President Obama stated that he would appoint U.S. Supreme Court justices in the mold of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter, two of the Court’s most ardent abortion rights supporters. President Obama further stated that he finds himself compelled “to side with Justice [Stephen] Breyer’s view of the Constitution -- that it is not a static but rather a living document, and must be read in the context of an ever-changing world.”
On March 17, 2009, true to his expressed intent to appoint pro-abortion judges who will interpret the American Constitution in light of ever-evolving circumstances rather than the original intent of the Framers, President Obama used his first judicial appointment to select radically pro-abortion U.S. District Court Judge David Hamilton to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Moreover, less than four months after taking office, the new Administration and abortion advocates are already employing a variety of executive, budgetary, and legislative means to implement the expansive aims of the controversial Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) which seeks to impose unrestricted, unregulated, unapologetic, and taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand on an unwilling American public.
Clearly, the ability to appoint federal judges -- including U.S. Supreme Court Justices -- is a powerful means toward the end of imposing “FOCA by Stealth,” advancing its radical aims piecemeal and surreptitiously instead of as one legislative package that can be fully evaluated and debated by the American public, individually and through our elected representatives. We expect a judicial activist, once seated on the Court, to work to read FOCA into the Constitution, elevating abortion to the status of a fundamental right, on the same plane as freedom of speech.
The Probable “Short List”
Solicitor General of the United States, Elena Kagan
Despite authoring a 1993 law review article acknowledging that the harms inherent in abortion are open to debate, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the former dean of Harvard Law School, has publicly and repeatedly criticized Rust v. Sullivan, a 1991 U.S Supreme Court decision upholding federal regulations that prohibit recipients of Title X family planning funds from counseling on or referring women for abortions. Ignoring the American public’s opposition to the use of taxpayer dollars to directly or indirectly subsidize abortion, Kagan argued that the regulations amounted to the subsidization of "anti-abortion" speech.
Earlier, while serving as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Kagan wrote a memo suggesting that faith-based groups -- specifically those that operate pregnancy care centers -- should not play a role in counseling pregnant teens because they would not be able to do so without injecting their religious beliefs.
The Honorable Diane Wood, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
As a judge with the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeal, Judge Wood has placed her pro-abortion ideology above her judicial duty in cases involving common-sense restrictions on abortion and also in cases involving the rights of pro-life demonstrators.
In 1998, Judge Wood issued written opinions disputing the constitutionality of partial-birth abortion bans that had recently been enacted in Illinois and Wisconsin. Moreover, in a 2002 case challenging an Indiana informed consent law -- one that was nearly identical to a similar law upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Planned Parenthood v. Casey -- Wood dissented from her fellow judges’ decision to permit enforcement of the law and opined that the law was unconstitutional (without distinguishing it in any meaningful way from a law that the U.S. Supreme Court had deemed constitutional nearly 6 years earlier).
Further, in NOW v. Scheidler, Judge Wood ruled that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), a federal law enforcement tool designed to counter the activity of organized crime, was properly applied against pro-life demonstrators. This "novel" and controversial approach was later summarily rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano
Recently, Secretary Napolitano, who was formerly both the Attorney General and the Governor of Arizona, released a report to the nation’s law enforcement community that branded some pro-life activists as potential "domestic terrorists."
As Governor of Arizona, she routinely vetoed legislation that imposed common-sense and medically-supported regulations on abortion including bans on the dangerous and gruesome practice of partial-birth abortion (on two separate occasions); measures designed to strengthen the state’s parental consent requirement by, for example, providing uniform standards for Arizona judges to use when considering petitions for judicial bypass of the requirement (also on two separate occasions); a requirement that women considering abortion be counseled on the pain that the unborn child may feel during the procedure; a measure prohibiting the use of taxpayer dollars to purchase health insurance coverage for abortions for government employees; and a measure protecting healthcare providers who decline to prescribe or dispense contraceptives including so-called “emergency contraceptives” based on ethical, moral, or religious objections. All of these vetoes occurred in just 4 years: from 2005 to 2008.
The Honorable Leah Ward Sears, Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
Justice Sears has been a member of the Georgia judiciary since 1985 and was appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court in 1992 by then-Governor Zell Miller. She has twice won re-election and was elected Chief Justice in 2005. She will be retiring from the court in June 2009.
Justice Sears has not issued any known decision on life-related issues (except capital punishment). However, in privacy-related cases, Justice Sears has evidenced a broad conception of substantive constitutional privacy -- the very basis upon which Roe v. Wade is predicated. For example, in 1998, Justice Sears voted to overturn the state’s ban on sodomy. In her concurring opinion, Justice Sears referred to the responsibility of courts to protect constitutional rights against "morals legislation" from the majority. Throughout her judicial career and by her own admission, she has viewed the courts as the protector of the "little guy" against the public majority.
The Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Despite 17 years on the bench, Judge Sotomayor has never directly decided whether a law regulating abortion was constitutional. She has, however, decided a few cases that indirectly implicate abortion rights.
Writing for the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor upheld the Mexico City Policy which prohibited foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from using federal funding to promote abortion overseas. In a constitutional challenge brought by the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), an American abortion advocacy group that routinely argues that "abortion is the law of the world," Judge Sotomayor first rejected a claim that the policy burdened the First Amendment rights of domestic pro-abortion groups, finding that no First Amendment rights were implicated. The significance of this part of her opinion, however, may be minimal because the issue was largely controlled by the Second Circuit’s earlier opinion in a similar challenge to the policy.
More interesting was Justice Sotomayor’s response to CRR’s second claim that the policy violated the Equal Protection Clause by impermissibly burdening the "rights of domestic abortion groups relative to domestic anti-abortion groups." Rejecting this new argument, Justice Sotomayor wrote that because the challenge involved neither a suspect class nor a fundamental right, a deferential "rational basis" test was appropriate. She then acknowledged the ability of the government to adopt anti-abortion policies, noting "there can be no question that the classification survives rational basis review. The Supreme Court has made clear that the government is free to favor the anti-abortion position over the pro-choice position, and can do so with public funds."
Finally, Judge Sotomayor wrote an opinion overturning, in part, a district court’s grant of summary judgment against a group of anti-abortion protestors, albeit on an issue far removed from abortion jurisprudence. When a group of protestors sued the city of West Hartford, CT alleging its police officers used excessive force at a peaceful protest, the district court issued a summary judgment in favor of the defendants on all theories of liability. Writing for the Second Circuit, Judge Sotomayor reversed the district court’s summary judgment order against the protestors and remanded the case for further proceedings.
Other Potential Nominees:
Governor Jennifer Granholm of Michigan
Governor Granholm has stated that she "fully supports" Roe v. Wade and that she believes that the abortion decision is "[a] matter of health between a woman and her doctor." In 2002, when she first ran for Governor of Michigan, she pledged to defend access to abortion and to support an increase in the number of abortion clinics operating in the state, declaring that she would "rather work on a decrease in demand (for abortion), not supply."
She has been described by the Detroit Free Press as an "ardent supporter" of abortion. She counts the pro-abortion group, Emily’s List, as one of her major political contributors.
Further, Governor Granholm has repeatedly vetoed common-sense abortion restrictions and regulations -- measures supported by a majority of her constituents -- including a state ban on partial-birth abortion (on two occasions), as well as a measure that delineated specific procedures to be used when Michigan judges considered petitions for judicial bypass of the state’s parental consent requirement and that also sought to limit the ability of minors to "shop" for a judge who would rubber-stamp (rather than properly evaluate) their requests to exclude their parents or guardian from involvement in their abortion decisions.
Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts
Governor Patrick was elected in 2006 with the full support and endorsement of the National Organization of Women (NOW), the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), and Planned Parenthood. He strongly supports both abortion and destructive embryonic research. In 2006, while running for office, he publicly criticized former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney for his veto of a bill that would have provided state funding for destructive embryonic research and instead proposed a state bond measure to fund the controversial and ethically-problematic practice.
In response to a constituent’s question regarding his support for abortion, Patrick responded that he believes that the abortion decision should be made by the woman and not the government and implied that voters were "far less concerned" with abortion than other more practical issues such as the economy. In 2007, Patrick signed into law a measure increasing so-called "buffer zones" around abortion clinics and limiting the First Amendment rights of pro-life demonstrators.
Kathleen M. Sullivan, Stanford Law School
Professor Sullivan, who has no judicial experience, published an article in the August 1992 New Jersey Law Journal, commenting on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and arguing that legal status of abortion should be decided by the courts, particularly the U.S. Supreme Court, and not the American people through the democratic process. Sullivan argued that "women’s reproductive freedom" was "too precious and fragile" to be "left to politics."
In that same article, she inaccurately described the radical Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) as a mere "codification of the protections of Roe" and, relying on a purportedly "pro-choice" electorate, asserted that then-President George H.W. Bush would veto the measure (the version of FOCA then pending before Congress) at the Republican Party’s "peril" in the November 1992 national elections.
Cass Sunstein, White House Office of Management and Budget, Office of Information and Regulator Affairs
Echoing the views of Dawn Johnsen, one of President Obama’s most radical pro-abortion nominees to the U.S. Department of Justice, Sunstein (who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1978) has publicly argued that laws restricting abortion "co-opt women’s bodies for the protection of fetuses" and "selectively turn women’s reproductive capacities into something for the use and control of others." Failure to accept this premise -- he argues -- accepts an out-dated line of thought that renders women "involuntary childbearers."
Sunstein’s voluminous writings suggest that he believes that the so-called "right to die" is a fundamental constitutional right. He has also opined that the debate over the "right to die" is the next great "arena for the struggle to define the scope of fundamental rights under the Due Process Clause."
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New Stanek WND column, "Pro-life Obamanation?"
By jill stanek on May 13, 2009 8:26 AM No Comments
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The terms "pro-life" and "Obamanation" would seem incompatible.
But there may be an emerging phenomenon. While President Obama continues to enjoy popular support, his anti-life agenda is enjoying less popularity the more he tries to advance it.
The first sign was public reaction to Obama's overturning of the Mexico City policy, which reinstated taxpayer funding to international abortion groups. This garnered Obama a 65% disapproval rating, according to Gallup, making it the least popular of his first 7 decisions as president.
Then in late February, Obama....
Obama pressed on with his anti-life agenda, signing an executive order in March authorizing taxpayer funding of human embryo experimentation.... A March Pew poll showed support had "fallen below the 50% level for the first time since 2004 and constituted a slight decline in support since 2007," wrote the New York Times.
In April Politico.com reported a surge in pro-life activism....
Then an April 30 Pew poll showed the biggest drop in abortion support in 15 years.... This was consistent with a CNN poll conducted April 23-26....
Obama may be winning abortion battles, but a casualty is loss of public support in the abortion war.
Translation: Obama is making abortion unpopular.
If this keeps up, an interesting oxymoron may be....
Read my complete column today, "Pro-life Obamanation?" at WorldNetDaily.com.
Read LEARN leader Rev. Clenard Childress's similar view, "Barack Obama - The best thing to happen to end black genocide." [HT: Leslie Hanks]
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The terms "pro-life" and "Obamanation" would seem incompatible.
But there may be an emerging phenomenon. While President Obama continues to enjoy popular support, his anti-life agenda is enjoying less popularity the more he tries to advance it.
The first sign was public reaction to Obama's overturning of the Mexico City policy, which reinstated taxpayer funding to international abortion groups. This garnered Obama a 65% disapproval rating, according to Gallup, making it the least popular of his first 7 decisions as president.
Then in late February, Obama....
Obama pressed on with his anti-life agenda, signing an executive order in March authorizing taxpayer funding of human embryo experimentation.... A March Pew poll showed support had "fallen below the 50% level for the first time since 2004 and constituted a slight decline in support since 2007," wrote the New York Times.
In April Politico.com reported a surge in pro-life activism....
Then an April 30 Pew poll showed the biggest drop in abortion support in 15 years.... This was consistent with a CNN poll conducted April 23-26....
Obama may be winning abortion battles, but a casualty is loss of public support in the abortion war.
Translation: Obama is making abortion unpopular.
If this keeps up, an interesting oxymoron may be....
Read my complete column today, "Pro-life Obamanation?" at WorldNetDaily.com.
Read LEARN leader Rev. Clenard Childress's similar view, "Barack Obama - The best thing to happen to end black genocide." [HT: Leslie Hanks]
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Monday, May 11, 2009
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English Teenage Girls Killing Their Children In Record Numbers
By peter on May 11, 2009 1:58 AM No Comments
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If only America recognized we don't have to try out the liberal policies of sex and death to get results. Other countries are already experimenting with drugs - Amsterdam, Sex education, abortion and birth control - Europe and Socialism - Europe.
England is going through a major experiment with their teenagers right now. From Mail Online:
"The teenage pregnancy strategy, which has cost taxpayers more than £300million, was meant to halve the number of conceptions among girls under 18 in England between 1998 and 2010."
So England spent $452 million dollars to cut the teenage pregnancy rate? What were their methods?
"Ministers have tried to slash teenage pregnancies by freely handing out contraceptives and expanding sex education."
Wow, that sounds like a good plan. Oh yeah, we're doing that here in America, I forgot. There's some benevolent group called Planned Parenthood already doing that. Did I say benevolent? I meant to say profiteering group who is soaking Americans for over $350 million tax dollars every year for sex education, they make another $350 million by killing babies through prenatal murder, euphemistically called "abortion", and another $350 million dollars are donated to them by America hating groups and people, some guy named George comes to mind.
Whoops, sorry, my wife tells me I'm a lot like a squirrel, flitting to one branch after another. Where was I? Oh yeah, the great British experiment on sex and death.
"But the fall in pregnancy rates has not met Government targets, and in 2007 the rate actually rose."
Really? You mean if you encourage sex, hand out condoms and birth control like candy, more teenage girls will have sex resulting in higher pregnancy rates? What a surprise!!! The people doing this study must have college degrees. Ahm jest a dum 'ol hick & cudn't figure that 1 out if I tried.
So America, why do you think we will have different results? We've been doing the same thing, yet teenage pregnancies are the highest in the industrialized world. How can that be? We've been handing out condoms, birth control and abortion since I was a kid. When will this "experiment" end in America?
I wonder if reading the box would make a difference? Let's see, I think I'll check Planned Parenthood's web site for information on the effectiveness of condoms and birth control....dum de dum. Well what do you know, Planned Parenthood has their own brand of condoms, what a surprise. And in 2005 those condoms got the lowest rating by Consumer Reports.
I'm shocked!
Really, I'm totally amazed that their condoms perform so poorly, after all, when they fail, it looks bad on them and then our underage daughters are directed by the schools to go have an abortion. What? You say Planned Parenthood makes $350 million dollars a year on abortions? That's amazing!
What a scam. I'm going to try that one in a different way. I'm going to sell schools an ink pen that leaks. Then, when the students' clothes get covered in ink, they can come to my dry cleaner stores which I will have next to every high school. Smart thinking huh?
Yep, those Planned Parenthood folks sure are smart cookies. Oh wait, what's this? From Planned Parenthood South Central new York:
"Abstinence
How it works: Choosing not to have any sex play with a partner.
Effectiveness: 100% (if used correctly)"
If used correctly? How do you use abstinence incorrectly? I feel my knuckles starting to drag. I must be one of those "right-wing nut-jobs" who doesn't believe in eevolootion you read so much about.
Let's look at some of their other stats:
Male condom 85 - 98%, Female condom 79 - 95%
Diaphragm: 84 - 94%; Cap: 71 - 86%, Shield: 85%
Spermicide: 71 - 82%
Hmm, let me contemplate this one now. by "effectiveness" they are of course referring to a statement that might read something like "resulting in a pregnancy". After all, if the condom wasn't "effective", it doesn't just mean that the girl says "aww shucks, it didn't work". It means a baby in the belly.
So, think about those stats, and imagine them in a different way. Let's say I give you a gun.
Oh no!!! He said "gun"! Call the PC police!
Now imagine I give you a bullet to put in that gun, and then I say, "spin the chamber, put it up to your head and pull the trigger". You would say "yeah right fruitcake, don't think so! Yet we're okay with Planned Parenthood giving our children "birth control" which is guaranteed to fail 3 out of 10 times" No, let me rephrase that, "guaranteed to result in the pregnancy of our daughters 3 out of 10 times?"
Remember, these are the same people who say:
"Abstinence
How it works: Choosing not to have any sex play with a partner.
Effectiveness: 100% (if used correctly)"
Now that's like saying if I give you a gun but don't give you any bullets, you will still manage to blow your head off.
Back to the article on England. They say:
"Teenage pregnancy rates are now higher than they were in 1995. Pregnancies among girls under 16 - below the age of consent - are also at the highest level since 1998."
It took them 14 years to realize the huge mistake they have made. Countless young girls used for what I would call their 'great sex experiment', or as critics of the program over there call it the "Teenage Abortion Strategy".
What's going to be their strategy now?
"They have called for a redoubling of efforts to persuade young girls to use contraception."
They are saying to the parents of England "you people shut up about abstinence already, we're going to experiment on your daughters for another 14 years. We'll let you know how it turns out."
The nut job Ann Furedi, of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service stated:
"The fact that teenagers felt able to end their pregnancy in abortion is actually a positive sign."
She probably said that with a straight face, with other nut jobs applauding. I apologize to all the nuts out there. I really do like peanuts, so it's an insult to compare them to psychotic people like these pro-aborts.
It gets better...well, worse:
"A Department of Health spokesman said: 'One of the key aims of this Government, as set out in the Sexual Health and Teenage Pregnancy Strategies, is to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and consequently abortions, through better access to contraception."
What was that about Abstinence again?
Oh yeah:
How it works: Choosing not to have any sex play with a partner.
Effectiveness: 100% (if used correctly)"
I wonder if they have a manual for that?
Peter
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By peter on May 11, 2009 1:58 AM No Comments
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If only America recognized we don't have to try out the liberal policies of sex and death to get results. Other countries are already experimenting with drugs - Amsterdam, Sex education, abortion and birth control - Europe and Socialism - Europe.
England is going through a major experiment with their teenagers right now. From Mail Online:
"The teenage pregnancy strategy, which has cost taxpayers more than £300million, was meant to halve the number of conceptions among girls under 18 in England between 1998 and 2010."
So England spent $452 million dollars to cut the teenage pregnancy rate? What were their methods?
"Ministers have tried to slash teenage pregnancies by freely handing out contraceptives and expanding sex education."
Wow, that sounds like a good plan. Oh yeah, we're doing that here in America, I forgot. There's some benevolent group called Planned Parenthood already doing that. Did I say benevolent? I meant to say profiteering group who is soaking Americans for over $350 million tax dollars every year for sex education, they make another $350 million by killing babies through prenatal murder, euphemistically called "abortion", and another $350 million dollars are donated to them by America hating groups and people, some guy named George comes to mind.
Whoops, sorry, my wife tells me I'm a lot like a squirrel, flitting to one branch after another. Where was I? Oh yeah, the great British experiment on sex and death.
"But the fall in pregnancy rates has not met Government targets, and in 2007 the rate actually rose."
Really? You mean if you encourage sex, hand out condoms and birth control like candy, more teenage girls will have sex resulting in higher pregnancy rates? What a surprise!!! The people doing this study must have college degrees. Ahm jest a dum 'ol hick & cudn't figure that 1 out if I tried.
So America, why do you think we will have different results? We've been doing the same thing, yet teenage pregnancies are the highest in the industrialized world. How can that be? We've been handing out condoms, birth control and abortion since I was a kid. When will this "experiment" end in America?
I wonder if reading the box would make a difference? Let's see, I think I'll check Planned Parenthood's web site for information on the effectiveness of condoms and birth control....dum de dum. Well what do you know, Planned Parenthood has their own brand of condoms, what a surprise. And in 2005 those condoms got the lowest rating by Consumer Reports.
I'm shocked!
Really, I'm totally amazed that their condoms perform so poorly, after all, when they fail, it looks bad on them and then our underage daughters are directed by the schools to go have an abortion. What? You say Planned Parenthood makes $350 million dollars a year on abortions? That's amazing!
What a scam. I'm going to try that one in a different way. I'm going to sell schools an ink pen that leaks. Then, when the students' clothes get covered in ink, they can come to my dry cleaner stores which I will have next to every high school. Smart thinking huh?
Yep, those Planned Parenthood folks sure are smart cookies. Oh wait, what's this? From Planned Parenthood South Central new York:
"Abstinence
How it works: Choosing not to have any sex play with a partner.
Effectiveness: 100% (if used correctly)"
If used correctly? How do you use abstinence incorrectly? I feel my knuckles starting to drag. I must be one of those "right-wing nut-jobs" who doesn't believe in eevolootion you read so much about.
Let's look at some of their other stats:
Male condom 85 - 98%, Female condom 79 - 95%
Diaphragm: 84 - 94%; Cap: 71 - 86%, Shield: 85%
Spermicide: 71 - 82%
Hmm, let me contemplate this one now. by "effectiveness" they are of course referring to a statement that might read something like "resulting in a pregnancy". After all, if the condom wasn't "effective", it doesn't just mean that the girl says "aww shucks, it didn't work". It means a baby in the belly.
So, think about those stats, and imagine them in a different way. Let's say I give you a gun.
Oh no!!! He said "gun"! Call the PC police!
Now imagine I give you a bullet to put in that gun, and then I say, "spin the chamber, put it up to your head and pull the trigger". You would say "yeah right fruitcake, don't think so! Yet we're okay with Planned Parenthood giving our children "birth control" which is guaranteed to fail 3 out of 10 times" No, let me rephrase that, "guaranteed to result in the pregnancy of our daughters 3 out of 10 times?"
Remember, these are the same people who say:
"Abstinence
How it works: Choosing not to have any sex play with a partner.
Effectiveness: 100% (if used correctly)"
Now that's like saying if I give you a gun but don't give you any bullets, you will still manage to blow your head off.
Back to the article on England. They say:
"Teenage pregnancy rates are now higher than they were in 1995. Pregnancies among girls under 16 - below the age of consent - are also at the highest level since 1998."
It took them 14 years to realize the huge mistake they have made. Countless young girls used for what I would call their 'great sex experiment', or as critics of the program over there call it the "Teenage Abortion Strategy".
What's going to be their strategy now?
"They have called for a redoubling of efforts to persuade young girls to use contraception."
They are saying to the parents of England "you people shut up about abstinence already, we're going to experiment on your daughters for another 14 years. We'll let you know how it turns out."
The nut job Ann Furedi, of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service stated:
"The fact that teenagers felt able to end their pregnancy in abortion is actually a positive sign."
She probably said that with a straight face, with other nut jobs applauding. I apologize to all the nuts out there. I really do like peanuts, so it's an insult to compare them to psychotic people like these pro-aborts.
It gets better...well, worse:
"A Department of Health spokesman said: 'One of the key aims of this Government, as set out in the Sexual Health and Teenage Pregnancy Strategies, is to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies and consequently abortions, through better access to contraception."
What was that about Abstinence again?
Oh yeah:
How it works: Choosing not to have any sex play with a partner.
Effectiveness: 100% (if used correctly)"
I wonder if they have a manual for that?
Peter
Pro-Life Unity
United we stand ~ Divided they die
Pass it on
Categories:
Abortion,
Pro-Life,
Pro-Life News,
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Mother's Day
Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful women who are mothering children!! May your day be bright with memories new and old.
Whether by body or heart, what a blessing you are to be a mother!
Whether by body or heart, what a blessing you are to be a mother!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
week five of development
Find this and more information at pregnancy.org
• First heartbeats begin - If you have an early ultrasound you may not be able to recognize this tiny being as a baby, but there is no mistaking what it feels like seeing your child's heartbeat on that screen. That rhythmic beat is echoed in your own heart.
• Umbilical cord develops - This is your baby's lifeline in utero. It bears the responsibility of pumping in oxygen, removing waste, and supplying the necessary nutrients for the remainder of your pregnancy.
• Blood is now pumping - All four heart chambers are now functioning, insuring your baby's body will receive all it needs over not only the remainder of your pregnancy but throughout life.
• Most other organs begin to develop - Your infant's lungs start to appear, along with her brain. Already your little one is preparing for a quest for lifelong learning!
• Arm and leg buds appear - While they may not appear to be much at this stage it is ok to dream of the future. Just imagine your ballerina twirling and jumping around your kitchen floor. Or perhaps you will have the precocious boy that throws the perfect pitch -- right through the neighbor's window.
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