Pro Life in TN: May 2011

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN and Kelli
As always, we welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

Abortion State turns the tables on proponents of “choice” and comprehensive sex ed, pointing out NARAL’s and Planned Parenthood’s interference in the sex lives of impoverished individuals through “family planning” efforts. The post points out the failure of such family planning programs to decrease unintended pregnancy or abortion rates in WA, and proves they merely line the pockets of the private abortion industry with public funds.
Secular ProLife gives an update on the AbortionSafety.com project, including funds raised and the need for a volunteer researcher to join their team.

Pro Life NZ reports the number of couples adopting internationally has increased while domestic adoptions decreased. Reasons may include “increased availability of abortions and contraception and a rise in infertility.”
Pro-Life Action League reports that despite the “tidal wave” of evidence showing 20-30% of women who abort have long-term negative effects, some abortion proponents insist the women who have these effects were “emotionally unstable” prior to their abortions. If ultrasound laws “patronize” and “infantilize” women (as pro-aborts claim), surely a collective diagnosis of mental illness does the same.
Real Choice chronicles instances of babies who survived pregnancies outside the uterus.
MN Citizens Concerned for Life decries MN Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton’s veto of the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would have prohibited abortion past 20 weeks.
Alveda King comments on the increased abortion rate among low-income women while national rates decreased: Many people also say that sex education and birth control will lower abortion rates. Planned Parenthood has been in the low-income neighborhoods peddling their sex education and birth control for years and the number of abortions is on the rise. They know that this is a myth but continue to spread the lie.

Fire Dog Lake: Moral argument in favor of abortion fails....same old quality trumps sanctity of human life

A retired Unitarian minister takes his stab at presenting a moral argument in favor of abortion.

"In the game-changing 1973 Roe v. Wade case, abortion was framed as an issue of women’s rights. The women’s movement was in full swing, and it was easy to see why women would believe they should have the right to abort an unwanted fetus. But the “rights” frame proved to be an easy target for those who say the termination of a developing human being must be supported by a persuasive moral argument. They have won: a majority of Americans now believe abortion is wrong, perhaps because they think that even a poor moral argument about the termination of a developing human life is better than none at all."

He acknowledges that pro life forces have convinced the majority of people that abortion is morally wrong but of course we are not a totally moral population and so we still want it to be legal, even if immoral. Interestingly, he credits the pro life Catholic Church with a brilliant essays on moral arguments.

"In religion, this moral argument was given its most powerful and adaptable form 120 years ago, in one of the most persuasive essays in the history of Christianity. The Rerum Novarum (“Of New Things”), was issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, and updated by the Catholic Church in 1931, 1961, and 1991. Anyone interested in reading one of the most brilliant Christian moral arguments in the past 20 centuries should check it out. (http://www.papalencyclicals.net/Leo13/l13rerum.htm).'

Well, his stab at presenting a moral argument is not brilliant. It is the same old quality of life trumps sanctity of life or as he calls it quantity of life. He compares the quantity of life argument to insects and rats who do not care about the quality of their life. And then he makes a generalizations that few kids will make it out of the ghetto since we do not live in rural communities anymore. He equates unplanned pregnancies with the assurance that the quality of life will be poor and that it is a moral thing to do to end the developing life in the womb rather than risk that the quality of life might leave something to be desired.

He ends his weak argument with an image from those trapped in the Twin Towers on 911. Many jumped instead of being burned to death. These people had an impossible situation....stay inside and be burned or jump . They were in a crisis situation....perhaps by some stroke of luck they may land someplace and still be alive. They had seconds to make that choice. It is not in the same ball park as this conversation. How many would have chosen life even if they were badly burned and disabled because of what happened that day?

" And to enact laws whose intent is to force the most desperate women to bring babies into a home and a world that can’t care for them is, if not evil, a brutality against the most vulnerable women and children in our society — and profoundly immoral."

How can you compare babies developing in the womb to being dismembered because they may have a quality of life that you consider poor. There are those who would consider your quality of life poor, may they dismember you?

Russia: experiment has failed now recommending strict laws against abortions.....

Last Saturday, I attended my granddaughter's birthday party. Besides her brother, there were three other children there that were adopted from Russia. They are the lucky ones who escaped the liberal abortion laws of their home country.

Well Russia now seems to be doing a 360 per this article. Even the Russian Orthodox Church is waking up from their silence and speaking up against abortion. It is never too late but the country is now suffering from a serious population decline. They have had the most liberal laws and free abortions have not brought the desired result. Abortion is the birth control of preference. In 2000, they reported a shocking 169 abortions per 100 births in 2000.

Legislation being considered includes the banning of the Morning After Pill, eliminating abortion from their free services at govt. run clinics, parental consent for minors and spousal consent for married women, week long waiting period, safe harbors places for mothers to leave babies they cannot care for without fear of criminal prosecution. So the Russians have done the experiment and are working to turn their country around after the experiment failed. So glad to see the church get involved...they have been silent too long as in this country.

Natalya Karpovich, a lawmaker with the dominant pro-Kremlin party United Russia, who is expecting her fifth child, said she supported stricter regulation of abortions.

Of course all the laws will not automatically get passed but kudos to her for starting the fight.

Monday, May 30, 2011

UK: 40 yr.old "players" abandon safe sex and embrace more abortions.....

Maybe they need to stop watching so much TV...
The National Post reports that in the UK abortions are up in the 40 yr. old range.

"The head of Britain's biggest abortion provider said women in their 40s -known as "The Sex and the City generation" -were increasingly inclined to take chances with contraception, only to be shocked when they became pregnant."

Shocked that sex leads to pregnancy? Why ? Well, the report states that more marriages are breaking up at this time and the women consider themselves "players." They are less likely to practice safe sex and using the liberal abortion laws as a means of birth control. Of course this is good profitable news for the UK version of Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes.

These rates also take into effect women who are waiting to get pregnant until after establishing their career and finding out that their unborn child has a deformity such as Down's Syndrome as the risk increases with age. Prenatal testing of this leads to abortion in 90% of the cases.

Sunday, May 29, 2011

IN PP brags about private contributions keeping them going....fine, let the private $$ support them ...they don't need tax money!

Fine with me....let the individuals that believe so strongly in PP fund them out of their own pocket. See they don't need taxpayer monies..... So back off Obama and Sebelius.....

Planned Parenthood [of IN ] now has the funds to keep its doors open until at least June 15, thanks to receiving over $100,000 in donations from all over the country (and beyond).

Friday, May 27, 2011

Bring on a Pro-Life Planet! - Jill Stanek

(Prolifer)ations 5-27-11

from Jill Stanek.com

Mary Meets Dolly discusses society’s “dangerous precedent to value human lives less than that of others in the animal kingdom.” Nazi Germany was known for this, as well.
MN Citizens Concerned for Life responds to the pro-choice argument that pro-lifers are trying to “legislate morality” regarding abortion.
ProLifeBlogs highlights a post from Pundit and Pundette revealing UK doctors now prescribe water for their elderly patients to assure that hospital staff tends to patients’ basic nutritional needs. The disregard for life in some hospital wards is so severe, they may be forced to close.
Live Action hosts an interview with 2 former Girl Scouts who have launched their own website to expose the organization’s alliance with Planned Parenthood:

Bryan Kemper tells about 52 college students who will spend the summer walking 20 miles per day and sleeping in RV’s as they walk across the US to be a witness for life.

Andrew Haines at Ethika Politika gives his take on the increasingly popular “Slut Walks” being staged in Canada and the US.

Coming Home makes the case for an incrementalist approach to pro-life activism.

Abstinence Clearinghouse, our newest blog addition, posts a video of a Pacific University student who gives his view of sex, abstinence and marriage in front of an audience of his fellow students:

Is Huffington Post becoming pro life?

Could it be a conversion? Not really....but the "irony" is not lost on Catholic Vote who note that Huffington Post, while doing a piece on employment prospects of college graduates, calls them the Lost Generation. "The image the vehemently pro-abortion website has chosen for the logo is an image of pro-life graduates with a “precious feet” symbol on their mortarboards."

Contact Pro-Life Governor Haslam Today

Dems want to go to the mat for PP....

So 30 Dem Senators wrote a letter to Obama urging him to warn off states that refuse to give $$ to PP for non abortion related services that they may lose medicaid funding if the mess with PP.
Wow, what a lobby the abortion industry has that the Dem party and Obama are so beholden to them . Never mind that county health depts. and other non abortion providers can provide the same or better services for the Title X monies. They are going to fight tooth and nail to get it. Why, because they rely upon that free $$ to run their mills. Just ask those who walked away from running PP clinics. It represents a good chunk of their budget...this is the $$ that pays the rent, keeps the lights on pays the salaries and benefits of those who perform abortion and non abortion services. They need to increase the foot traffic in these clinics and provide these services at taxpayers expense so when the bc does not work.....come back for your abortion ....which is the profitable part of the business. Who do they think they are fooling?

"They point out that 48 percent of Planned Parenthood' patients are Medicaid patients, and 60 percent of women who use health care clinics like Planned Parenthood say they are their main health care providers."

Obama and the Dems have shown that the abortion industry of which PP is the leading provider calls the shots with them and as POTUS said zip, nope, zero...don't touch them. It does not matter what the people in the states say through their elected representatives and governors.....Big Brother is calling the shots.
Well, Game On!

Thursday, May 26, 2011

91 yr.old suicide maven served with warrant.....

They took away her sewing machine and computer...the 91 yr. old was making quite a bundle selling suicide kits over the Internet. She bragged that she did not have time to cash the checks. She attracted negative attention in OR after it became public that she sold her kit to a 29 yr.old depressed over pain. She callously said that the mother of the deceased young man should be happy that her son is now pain free.
How cold!

Photo: J. Jensen/10News

FLOTUS: says "let's move"....college students walking across US for LIFE....

The First Lady has as her motto..."Let's Move"...well these young people are moving....Bryan Kemper tells about 52 college students who will spend the summer walking 20 miles per day, sleeping in RV's and eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches as they walk across our country to be a witness for life.

They are moving for a cause and our abortion supporting FLOTUS should take notice. Hope she does not object to the sandwiches!

House Republicans File Bill to Cut Pro-Abortion UNFPA Funding | LifeNews.com

Jill Stanek - With her typing fingers on the pro-life pulse

Mystery person authorizes the insertion of stealth amendment to stop PP defunding

Update again...June 1st...Well the names are coming out...now what are we to do to fix this???

Update: May 28th...No it didn't...yes it did.... Campfield sums it up...we are all virgins but somehow we got pregnant!

Update: It came from the Senate side.
Well here it is ..a real whodunnit in TN. If you follow Senator Stacey Campfield's newsy blog you could follow the story as it unfolds.

The idea that a legislative attorney "states" that on the direction of an "unnamed legislator" inserted a stealth amendment into the budget in the hurried and waning hours of the session to undo a sponsored amendment in the final defunding of Planned Parenthood in TN suspends belief.

Inquiring minds want to know at whose direction the atty inserted the amendment and as of now the denials are being followed like a check list ticking off possibilities.

But what can be done at this point is a point of much discussion.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Are you serious?? NARAL puts up website for the face of Choice...these are some of them....

Pictures taken from NARAL Put a face on Choice...

UK: reports increase in abortions....medical abortions and repeat abortions...how are those liberal laws working out for you?

How's that working out for you...UK reports abortions up...more are taking the medical abortion pill....up from 12 per cent in 2000 to a record 43 per cent last year and most are repeat abortions. Liberal abortion laws, free abortions...how's that working out for you??

"Among the under-25s, a quarter of abortions were repeat terminations with 79 teenagers who have had two previous abortions undergoing the procedure again last year"

"A spokesman for the Department of Health said: "Abortions are traumatic and stressful and should never be seen as a form of contraception.
"Women and men need to make informed and responsible decisions about their sexual health and think about contraception before having sex"

Obviously they are not heeding that warning...traumatic and stressful ???....why they are just emptying the contents of the uterus of the products of the conception??

Bill to ban the use of federal $$ to train future abortionist gets House vote today

Update: The Foxx amendment passed 234-182. Of couse the Democrat controlled Senate is expected to kill it....

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R) NC has introduced a bill banning the use of federal funding to train future abortionists...

"This amendment ensures that the grants being provided to teaching health centers are not being used to perform elective abortion, makes it crystal clear that taxpayer money is not being used to train healthcare providers to perform abortion procedures," Foxx said. "When the liberal Democrats rammed through their government takeover of healthcare, in an unprecedented fashion, they refused to include longstanding pro-life provisions."

Of course this will be vigorously opposed by the abortion industry and Democrats who see federal funding of abortion as the Holy Grail

Chelsey Handler...I would now have had a 20 year old kid...

Well I never heard of Chelsey Handler and never watched E but due to the amount of press she is getting, she must be some teen star. She is slamming MTV's 16 and Pregnant for glamorizing teen pregnancy. I have tried to watch that show and am not a fan either but it seems that instead of glamorizing teen pregnancy, it shows how hard it is and that the couples always break up and in many cases the teen moms are left in horrible shape. The language and behavior is pretty much beyond the pale.

However, Catelynn and Tyler are the exception and I watched that episode many times. They are the couple that choose adoption for their baby girl. I have followed them and had the opportunity to meet them in person as I sit on the board of a non profit that educates teens about options in a teen pregnancy. Let me tell you, they are a sweet couple and especially Tyler who is wise beyond his years. They are still a couple , graduated from high school and attending college. They are now continuing to allow MTV to follow their lives in Season 4. They are generous and have a heart for helping others understand the truth about adoption.

But enough of them....back to Chelsey H. Nice looking girl who is pretty narcissistic . Guess most stars are. She thinks 16 and Pregnant is bad and has a personal reason to be offended.

"Or 16 and Pregnant. Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you’re a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody.”

Strange choice of words..... Chelsey. Kill somebody....Freudian slip??

“I had an abortion when I was 16. Because that’s what I should have done,” Chelsea blatantly states. “Otherwise I would now have a 20-year-old kid."

Yes, just consider that. Your child would have been 20 now. You could have made the choice to make an adoption plan instead of choosing parenting. And this person would now be an adult. As Tyler and Catelynn would say, why should our child pay the price for our actions. Catelynn revealed that she had an appt. at PP for an abortion but when Tyler did some internet research on what abortion was and showed Catelynn, the appt. was off. Just the difference between maturity and immaturity....in this it's all about me world.

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

(Prolifer)ations 5-24-11

from Jill Stanek.com

Ethika Politika features a post by Scott Lloyd, former attorney for the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, regarding the relationship between abortion and contraception.

Coming Home hosts a 7-minute video of politicians and NARAL leaders laying out the road map to effectively muzzle pregnancy resource centers throughout the US:

Accepting Abundance continues her series defending personhood, this time taking on arguments regarding conception.
The makers of Bloodmoney show how the abortion industry uses sex education and contraception as “front end” products, with abortion being the large “back end” product in a “sales pipeline”:

Moral Outcry completes a 3-part series on daily decisions that impact pro-life convictions.

Barbara at Mommy Life shares information on a company looking to do a docu-series on large families.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition reports on a new poll that shows 70% of the disabled in the UK are concerned they may one day be pressured into assisted suicide.

Even in NY.....frantic twitter from PP of NYC...bill introduced to defund PP!!

Frantic twitter from PP of NYC..

"Assemblyman Steven Katz introduced a bill (A.7841) to bar Planned Parenthood, and any other organization that provides abortions, from receiving any state money at all, including money from Medicaid, family planning grants, Title X, CAPPs and other education programs funded by the State"

I am proud that we did it in TN and in my home state of WI...now even the abortion capitals are stepping up to the plate.

Jill Stanek - With her typing fingers on the pro-life pulse

Americans Becoming Much More Anti Abortion

Tyler's child girlfriend tells her abortion story.....

Gracious....what a story.

Julia Holcomb tells her story of being pregnant with Steven Tyler's baby. Late term abortion, salt saline and baby boy born alive and left to die. No wonder Tyler has post abortion trauma.

So happy that Julia is doing well.....but what she has been through....Wow!

Notre Dame installs trustee who supports pro abortion groups with her $$

Here we go again. Notre Dame installs a new trustee [Roxanne M. Martino]... " a CEO of an investment firm managing billions of dollars whose stock in trade is knowing all there is to know about everything it touches?”

However, this new trustee has a record on contributing to radical pro abortion groups such as Emily's List and Chicago Foundation for Women. ND says these are innocent mistakes and she did not understand their ties to abortion. Either she is lying or incompetent. Would you want her managing your affairs?

Here is what the Chicago Foundation supported during her contribution years...

“During those years, the Chicago Foundation for Women made grants to the Chicago Abortion Fund, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area, Planned Parenthood of Illinois, the ACLU Reproductive Rights Project, and Black Women for Reproductive Justice,” CNS reports. “The Foundation’s website also notes that it supports the Illinois Campaign for Reproductive Health and Access, which seeks “to organize around the advancement of a broad pro-active, pro-choice agenda.”

And of Emily's List... "requires candidates it supports to back partial-birth abortions and taxpayer funding of abortions."

Shame on Notre Dame.

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