At the end of the article is an ad for the British version of Planned Parenthood....Marie Stopes. I kid you not!
Pro Life in TN
- Susie Allen
- Pro Life thoughts in a pro choice world through the eyes of a convert. I took early retirement after working in the social work and Human Resources fields but remain active by being involved in pro life education, lobbying and speaking .
Adoption
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Abortion pill fails and now woman fears for safety and health of her child she no longer wants to abort
At the end of the article is an ad for the British version of Planned Parenthood....Marie Stopes. I kid you not!
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
(Prolifer)ations 6-19-10
June 29, 2010
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
The situation illuminates the problem with gestational time-lines as a basis for abortion law. When did pain become the determining factor for whether or not a person or animal is deserving of life... ? After all, there are adults who don't feel pain. May we kill them?
In the decades to come, our posterity too will look back and join in [John] Adams' words:
"We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding... that who we are IS who we were."
So, some seriously ill patients might get rationed out of a stay in hospital, or receive less than optimal care due to a nursing shortage, as money will be diverted to older women so they can give birth past their time? I'm sorry, but that is just plain nuts.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Two Miracles: Adult Stem cell reverses blindness and Italian govt funds study of only adult stem cells
"Its a miracle, and a huge win for proponents of adult stem cell use! The AP is reporting that in Italy, dozens of people who had been blinded as a result of chemical burns to their eyes had their sight restored after adult stem cell therapy......the study was partly funded by the Italian govt... the Italian government."" I'll tell you what the miracle is. Its a miracle that the Italian government funded a study involving only the use of adult stem cells. Here in the U.S., research with adult stem cells is only in the preliminary stages while after only two months in office, President Obama ended the ban on embryonic stem cell research. Since March 2009, there has been little to no success with embryonic cells. Hopefully the American science & research community will take this hint from our Italian friends!"
Celebrating in TN: Clay Smith wins National Right to Life Oratory Contest
Clay Smith of TN won first place in the National Right to Life Oratory contest held this past weekend in Pittsburgh. Clay lives in Nashville and graduated this year from David Lipscomb High School. He plans to attend Harding University in Searcy, AR next year.
His speech on abortion summed it up with “America’s
view of abortion defies common sense”. I did hear him deliver his speech at the state contest on May 1st when our historic storm and flood was being waged outside the building. We actually had to interrupt the contest to take shelter for a period of time. Clay went on to deliver his speech with maturity and conviction despite the obstacles presented by the weather.
Our youth are pro life because they can see what some of their elders fail to see.....America's view of abortion defies common sense.....be encouraged by our youth!
Congratulations to Clay and the other winners...
1st – Clay Smith -TN
2nd – Alexa Sleadd – Oregon
3rd – Beth Maisane – Texas
4th – Trisha Herbert - Kansas
Saturday, June 26, 2010
(Prolifer)ations 6-25-10
From: Jill Stanek.com
June 25, 2010
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
•Fr. Frank Pavone discusses "settled law" assertions as Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan readies for her confirmation hearing. Though Kagan considers abortion rights to be "settled law," America's courts and legislatures have a history of changing such laws when new evidence is brought forward that makes it clear someone's rights, not previously recognized, are being violated....
•Suzy B showcases a Wall Street Journal article article which shows the single and childless are the least happy in society, not parents.
•Mark Pickup lauds the safety of Catholic hospitals in a society that views death as preferable to disability, and discusses the pressure to sign a "Do Not Resuscitate" (DNR) order upon entering most hospitals.
•Pro Life with Christ reports VP Joe Biden traveled to Kenya to personally urge the country to pass a new constitution that would legalize abortion - and to assure Kenyans that such a change would "allow money to flow" from foreign aid treasuries.
•Albert Mohler writes an article regarding the disappearance of manhood in society.
•Real Choice notes the LA Legislature has decided doctors shouldn't be covered under medical malpractice laws when they are providing elective abortions.
June 25, 2010
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
•Fr. Frank Pavone discusses "settled law" assertions as Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan readies for her confirmation hearing. Though Kagan considers abortion rights to be "settled law," America's courts and legislatures have a history of changing such laws when new evidence is brought forward that makes it clear someone's rights, not previously recognized, are being violated....
•Suzy B showcases a Wall Street Journal article article which shows the single and childless are the least happy in society, not parents.
•Mark Pickup lauds the safety of Catholic hospitals in a society that views death as preferable to disability, and discusses the pressure to sign a "Do Not Resuscitate" (DNR) order upon entering most hospitals.
•Pro Life with Christ reports VP Joe Biden traveled to Kenya to personally urge the country to pass a new constitution that would legalize abortion - and to assure Kenyans that such a change would "allow money to flow" from foreign aid treasuries.
•Albert Mohler writes an article regarding the disappearance of manhood in society.
•Real Choice notes the LA Legislature has decided doctors shouldn't be covered under medical malpractice laws when they are providing elective abortions.
Friday, June 25, 2010
LA: Unsafe abortion facilities can be shut down by state Health Secy
The Health Secretary of the State of Louisiana now has the sole ability to shut down clinics that provide abortion, according to CNBC:
BATON ROUGE, La. - Louisiana's health secretary now has more discretion to shut down an abortion clinic for safety or health concerns.
Gov. Bobby Jindal signed the bill into law Wednesday that gives the head of the Department of Health and Hospitals the ability to quickly suspend a license if he decides there is an immediate health or safety threat at one of a handful of clinics in the state that provide abortions.
Clinics can appeal the license suspension.
Parks Rep. Fred Mills, sponsor of the new law, has said the change puts the health secretary's authority over outpatient abortion clinics in line with the authority he has over other kinds of health care facilities, like substance abuse and adult day care facilities.
Prior to this piece of legislation, it took a panel of three judges to approve a clinic's license suspension.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Criminal complaint against telemed abortions filed with IA AG
From Pro Life Blogs
DES MOINES, IA/June 24, 2010/Christian Newswire --Operation Rescue has filed a formal complaint with the IA Attorney General's office asking for a criminal investigation of a remote-controlled push-button Internet abortion pill scheme operated by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland known as "telemed abortion."
"We believe that telemed abortions are illegal for several reasons and may rise to the threshold of criminal negligence," said OR President Troy Newman. "PP's scheme to deny women personal access to licensed physicians is a prescription for disaster."
In addition to PP of the Heartland, the complaint names abortionists Thomas William Ross and Susan Haskell, both osteopaths who are employed with PPH and are known to participate in the telemed abortion scheme.
The complaint centers on 5 major areas of concern regarding telemed abortions:
- Violation of the IA law requiring that only licensed physicians perform abortions.
- PPH's remote dispensing practice for abortion drugs RU-486 and misoprostol so ignores FDA protocols that they are intentionally endangering the lives of women.
- Criminal negligence and consumer protection laws may have been violated since evidence shows that PP intentionally exceeds manufacturer warnings and safety limits, and misrepresents to patients the actual failure rate of the medical abortion process.
- Consumer protection violations regarding insurance company over-billing.
- Patient abandonment since the licensed physician only speaks with the patient for a brief time over an Internet teleconferencing hookup, and never interacts with the patient again even in the case of emergency.
OR has also filed a supplemental information packet with the IA Board of Medicine as an amendment to their complaint, along with a request to expand their investigation to include abortionist Thomas Ross.
OR uncovered the IA telemed abortion scheme during an undercover investigation of abortion clinics throughout the U.S. It published a special report describing the remote controlled abortion process then followed up with a formal complaint to the IA Medical Board. The IMB notified OR in April that the complaint was placed with an investigator.
In interviews, PP officials indicated that the group had plans to expand telemed abortions to every PP clinic by 2015 beginning with two clinics associated with PP of East Central Iowa. Public outcry against the dangerous push-button abortion process caused PPECI to backtrack from their original statements.
Schiendler to Page: No unwanted children.....just unwanting parents
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
First Things: House opening to assist with your suicide in OR
Mohler: The End of Men-A Hard Look at the Future
Albert Mohler writes a fascinating article "The End
of Men? — A Hard Look at the Future." Hanna Rosin makes the case for this
claim in the current issue of The Atlantic, and it is the cover story. While this may seem
slightly off the pro life topic, the trend of sex selection is now slanting
toward women and the continued feminization of men, perhaps an unintended
consequence of the feminist movement, along
with their displacement in leadership roles in society and the family shows the
real issue here , as Mohler states, is not the end of men,
but the disappearance of manhood. Here are some excerpts:
For Christians, the importance of this article is even greater. God intended for men to have a role as workers, reflecting God’s own image in their vocation. The most important issue here it not the gains made by women, but the displacement of men. This has undeniable consequences for these men, and for everyone who loves and depends on them.
What does it mean for large sectors of our society to become virtual matriarchies? How do we prepare the church to deal with such a world while maintaining biblical models of manhood and womanhood?The elites are awakening to the fact that these vast changes point to a very different future. Christians had better know that matters far more important than economics are at stake. These trends represent nothing less than a collapse of male responsibility, leadership, and expectations. The real issue here is not the end of men, but the disappearance of manhood.
University of Toronto....Students for Life....thinking of the orphans
From the University of Toronto Students for Life blog
The good thing about pro-choice arguments is that we can get a good laugh.
Here is an article in the Winnipeg Free Press regarding the G8 initiative by Stephen Harper with my comments:
Women’s and reproductive-rights organizations have written a last-minute letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper urging him to include abortion funding in his G8 maternal- and child-health initiative.”No woman and no child should pay with their lives for the ideologically based decisions of one man named Stephen Harper,” said Katherine McDonald, executive director of Action Canada for Population and Development.
But unborn children should pay with their lives for the ideologically-based decisions of pro-choicers…but I digress.
Vicki Saporta, president and CEO of the National Abortion Federation Canada, told a news conference Tuesday that Harper’s decision to exclude abortion funding from his initiative will create generations of orphans in developing countries.
Of course! We are forgetting about the orphans! It’s good that pro-choicers will make that decision for them that their lives will suck bad enough that they should die before they are born.
The World Health Organization reports nearly 70,000 women die each year from complications from unsafe abortions, while another five million are hospitalized and three million more go untreated. The Conservative prime minister has said he won’t include abortion or family planning and contraception in the maternal- and child-health initiative he’ll introduce at the G8 summit in Muskoka, Ont., this week, even though abortion has been legal across Canada since 1988. The letter signed by more than 100 women’s and abortion-rights groups throughout the G8 and other countries commends Harper’s commitment to women’s health, but it says the initiative will fail as it now stands.
Yes, it will fail. Both mother and child will be alive. We can’t have that!
“The scientific evidence is overwhelming,” says the letter. “Access to safe, legal abortion care preserves women’s health and saves women’s lives. Unsafe abortion remains one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in developing countries. …
The evidence is overwhelming…such as????
“We ask that you honour Canada’s long-standing tradition of recognizing women’s reproductive rights and urge you to include access to contraception and abortion care in your initiative to improve maternal health care.”
Canada is 143 years old and abortion has been legal for about the last 40 years. What a long-standing tradition!
An accountability report released last weekend cited improvements to disease prevention and child- and maternal-health care in the Third World as two of the most poorly kept promises among G8 countries. “The (goals) on child mortality and maternal health are proving the toughest area in which to make progress,” said the report.
What about unborn children mortality? Any progress on that?
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
TN: Primary Endorsements for State Legislature
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(Prolifer)ations 6-22-10
From Jill Stanek.com
- Excellent video by Christine Reid. At about the 6:15 mark she talks about what we can do to support LIFE.
Pro-life message "silenced" at Ichthus Christian Music Festival by Jill Stanek
I was adding this to my proliferations column that will be out today, but Jill did a post on it. How sad that the Church has allowed themselves to be marginalized on the issue of Life.
Dr Death: Worst moment of my life, the day I was born.....
From Jill Stanek.com
This gives me the chills just reading it. He regrets the day he was born. Dr. Death....as one person commented...." This statement explains a lot.Kevorkian should have been getting help for depression rather than "helping" others with theirs."
This gives me the chills just reading it. He regrets the day he was born. Dr. Death....as one person commented...." This statement explains a lot.Kevorkian should have been getting help for depression rather than "helping" others with theirs."
JUNE 22, 2010
"I have no regrets, none whatsoever," he said. It was windy outside, but it was also over 90 degrees in sunny Ann Arbor, MI. I was now sweating, and he was... well, cold.
He shifted his gaze from his lawyer back to me. "Sanjay, you want to know the single worst moment of my life?"
That wasn't the question I asked, but in fact I was curious to know the answer.
"OK," I replied - a little uneasily.
He smiled now and said in a very deliberate, almost staccato voice: "The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born." And, we had officially begun my sit-down interview with Dr. Jack Kevorkian.
~ CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta, reporting on his interview with physician-suicide enthusiast Dr. Jack Kevorkian, June 14
Blue MA: Choose Life plates are now available
It is not easy to get this through and includes pre selling 1500 plates as just one hurdle . The plates will cost $90 for two years. There's an initial $50 registration fee and $40 dollars charged for the special plate. $12 goes to the making of the plate and $28 goes to Choose Life Inc., a Massachusetts based nonprofit who then distribute the money to crisis pregnancy centers in the states.
Of course the pro abortion groups are not happy ......stating their displeasure with not the message but the money going to crisis pregnancy centers. These are non profit entities who support life affirming options to crisis pregnancy and provide their services free of charge. What's not to like....well they don't support abortions.
Recently a NY Times article states that abortion clinics are to training their counselors about adoption as a choice in an unplanned pregnancy. Their referral rate for adoptions is laughable compared to their abortion rate. Even the article expressed some skepticism about this approach...
Discussing these choices is always delicate, but perhaps even more so in this setting. Social workers in abortion clinics run the risk of sounding as if they’re offering a refutation of the service they are there to provide. As Ms. Page put it: “It’s like you’ve come to this Italian restaurant — do you really want the waiter saying, ‘There’s this great German place down the block, not sure how much you know about it, but you might like it’?”Telling comment.......don't send paying business away.
To many who have labored for abortion rights, it might seem at first blush that abortion clinics need adoption specialists the way fish need bicycles — that it represents an infiltration of the opposition. Corinna Lohser, one of the founders of the Adoption Access Network, said that when she worked at an abortion clinic in Cleveland years ago, she and many of her colleagues were wary of adoption, noting that abortion providers are “the ones getting all this harassment from protesters about adoption.”
Now Ms. Lohser, 33, works for Spence-Chapin Adoption Services, a New York adoption agency that supports abortion rights, and has come to regret the lack of information she had been able to provide women in Cleveland. If a client said she didn’t think she could carry a pregnancy to term, then never see the child again, Ms. Lohser’s response was, she recalled, “Yup, check, me either.” She did not realize how much more common open adoptions had become; she knew of no adoption agency that would speak to women with an open mind about abortion.Have you ever been in an abortion clinic and heard what a trained counselor says....I have. They push abortion as the only choice to solve the problem. Make it go away quickly........like it never happened. Quick Fix.... I have heard those who left the industry state that they were trained to target those who seemed especially desperate to get them in right away even if you need to rearrange appointments....get them while they still were in the crisis mode.
It is hard for me to understand an adoption counselor being pro choice but I know some. I understand compartmentalizing your thinking.....have done it myself. But once you get that abortion ends the life of a human being.....and that person is not given his or her choice.....it is hard to justify all the other slogans that take you down the path that ends the life of another human being.
Anyway good for the church secretary and good for MA...the bluest of the blue. Read the full article here.
Sign of the Times....or like yelling "jump" to someone perched on a bridge??
A billboard in San Fransico is attracting attention alright. Here is an article in the Bay Citizen on the feelings from this recent addition to the scenery. Here are some excerpts.
This is irresponsible and downright dangerous; it is the equivalent of handing a gun to someone who is suicidal,” wrote Lanny Berman, president of the International Association of Suicide Prevention, in an email.Forty-five years ago, San Francisco had the highest suicide rate in the world. In 1962, the city developed the first crisis hotline in the United States, a model now replicated around the country. Since then, the annual suicide rate in San Francisco has dropped by half.Final Exit Network paid for the billboard and said it hoped it would provoke discussion about “the right to die.”Members of Final Exit Network, which was founded in 2005, have been present at the deaths of about 130 people.
Monday, June 21, 2010
DILLER: Planned Parenthood's missing millions...New GAO report reveals disturbing financial discrepancies
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on federal tax money funneled into Planned Parenthood and similar organizations raises more questions than it answers about the nation's largest abortion chain.Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) audits show the organization spent just $657.1 million between 2002 and 2008 from federal government grants and programs, but the abortion behemoth's own annual reports show that it took in $2.3 billion from government grants and programs during the same time period.
Planned Parenthood's abortion business has increased year after year in lock step with its increasing government funding, as evidenced by the included chart.Obviously, every penny Planned Parenthood receives feeds its abortion business in one way or another.
Friday, June 18, 2010
(Prolifer)ations 6-18-10
discusses an investigation by the WI Attorney General
into a possible violation of state law for paying resident U of
WI physicians to train by committing abortions at Planned
Parenthood.
Action League discusses the encouraging pro-life Gallup
poll numbers and posts his reply to an Abortion Gang
blog on the subject.
article by ALL's Judie Brown
on the new morning-after pill, which isn't just for the "morning after."
Joel Brind's response to a published letter from Dr.
Gail Erlick Robinson, dismissing post abortive psychological
problems. Brind points out esteemed medical studies that confirm women
who had abortions in the past 12 months were 3 times more likely to
commit suicide than other women and 6 times more likely than women who
gave birth in the past 12 months.
Klusendorf of the Life Training Institute
comments on an ABC News video featuring some
left-wing Evangelicals discussing what they believe to
be the most important issues of our day. Not one mentioned abortion...all focused on social justice issues. Jo Jo Ruba put an excellent response on his Facebook page and Scott posts it to his blog....in part it reads... "Frankly, if Christians don't think the killing of unborn children merits even a mention in an
interview, then they not only misunderstand the moral gravity of the
situation but they have failed to live up to their mandate of loving
their neighbor as themselves."
AK Dept of Health discloses that state supported DenaliKidCare includes abortions.....Kid Care??
Well how about this for hubris....naming a program KidCare and then using state money to pay for abortions.....Kid Care or Kid Kill. Well there is another kid taken care of!.....
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
The AK Dept. of Health and Social Services said today that 664 abortions were funded last year through Denali KidCare.
Gov. Sean Parnell (pictured below left) recently vetoed money to expand Denali KidCare, the health care program for low income kids and pregnant women, because some of the money funds abortions. Parnell said at the time that the program funded "hundreds" of abortions. Anchorage Democratic Sen. Bettye Davis had disputed that, saying a "very small number" of abortions are funded.
Women on Denali KidCare can have an abortion funded if a physician decides it's "medically necessary." The state doesn't define what is "medically necessary," leaving that to be determined by the treating physician....There were 1,875 abortions performed in AK in 2009. It's quite obvious that AK abortionists are using their own definition "medically necessary" when around 8% of the pregnant women enrolled in Denali KidCare get "medically necessary" abortions and "medically necessary" abortions make up more than a third of the state's abortions.Alaskans have their Supreme Court to thank for this ridiculous scenario where a fund designed to help children and give prenatal care to pregnant women turns into an abortion fund which funds a third of the state's abortions.
There were 55,754 Alaskans enrolled in Denali KidCare last year, including 7,947 pregnant women.
Dr. Mark: Dutch Surprised that euthanasia is on the rise?? Why??
From: http://drmarkaliveandkicking.blogspot.com/
One final point: No, we’re not at the bottom of the
slippery slope. It will get worse.
Ahead of the official release of last year’s euthanasia
stats in the Netherlands, the Dutch press is reporting that euthanasia is on the
increase over previous years.
What surprises me is that the Dutch authorities continue
to be surprised by the increase.
Let’s see:
Take the social taboo of euthanasia, allow it to happen
undercover, then tut-tut that instead of happening behind closed doors, it
should be regulated and ‘transparent.” This doltish idea was meant to ensure
that undercover euthanasia was stopped and only happened under very rare and
highly controlled circumstances.
It
hasn’t turned out that way, as some of us predicted years ago.
Here’s the slippery slope:
First, euthanasia was meant for only those adults who
were terminally ill and in unbearable and uncontrollable physical
pain.
Then, euthanasia was allowed for those with unbearable
physical pain, even if it could be controlled, and even f they were not
terminally ill.
Then euthanasia was allowed for those who were not only
not terminally ill, but for people in no physical pain whatsoever –
psychological pain, controllable or not, was enough.
Then the age limit was extended to
adolescents.
So, from DutchNews.nl:
The number of reported deaths by euthanasia rose 13% last year to 2,636, following an increase of 10% in 2008, the NRC reports, quoting figures due to be published at the beginning of July.
The 2008 increase led the health ministry to set up an investigation into the increase. That investigation is due to start this month.
This is not the whole macabre picture, either: These
stats reflect ONLY patients who requested to be killed.
It
does not include hundreds, and perhaps thousands, who are euthanized even though
they never requested it.
It
does not include the hundreds of newborns with disabilities that are murdered
under the so-called Groningen Protocol.
It
does not include legalized assisted suicides.
Here’s the truth: Euthanasia is now increasingly accepted
as just another medical procedure. The social constraints have
collapsed.
Need any more proof?
A
recent survey in the Netherlands showed that there was strong public sentiment
for making euthanasia available for anyone over 70 even if the only reason to
die was because they were “tired” of living.
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