March for Life 2012...youth....church.....LIFE

Thanks to the nice people at KY Right to Life and many people of faith who chartered three buses to Washington DC and allowing a stowaway...I got to go to the March for Life for the first time. I always wanted to go and could not find anyone  that I could go along with so I always went to our Nashville version of March for Life which is also very good. 

But there is nothing like being a part of 400,000 people standing for the sanctity of human life. The march itself was not that long. The weather was rainy but it could have been worse and the standing still for the  speeches were not that bad either. I enjoyed people watching....and I saw something AMAZING.

I saw the CHURCH STAND UP. The crowd was huge, the youth were in splendid display and the church was very visible.  The crowd was civil and polite and  tidy especially considering the rain and mud. Signs that were disposed were done so in trash barrels.  I did not see any protesters and no indication of the Occupy Wall Streets squatters.


Perhaps I was just imagining I was in DC for this event because.....looking for news reports on this largest annual march you find the following:


Bob Smietana who writes for the Tennessean and USA Today said that  thousands were there.  Thousands...as in 400 thousand? He did profile some pro life students from Hendersonville TN who attended but in true liberal fashion referred to them as anti abortion as opposed to pro life. That is part of the MSM PC speech book. 

NY Times ignored the event as it has for the  the past five years. Washington Post posted a brief mention in the online version and opinion page that made it seem like small potatoes and had more concern for what streets would be closed off.  Broadcast news outlets also passed on reporting for this event. Maybe this is why people lack trust for the MSM.




Here is a first person report ......... large crowd........more youth....the Church stood up.....FOR LIFE.

Picture:Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

Born at 24 wks weighing less than 1 lb....baby soon will go home

Politically correct and confused??


MSM tells story of baby born by C section at 24 weeks gestation weighing just 9.5 ounces and fitting into the palm of the doctor's hand. Cared for in the ICU she is expected to go home on New Year's Eve. 


Sweet little heartwarming story,  but I note that in writing this the baby is fetus in the womb and baby outside the womb. So it it the location that determines the word used. Of course we know that fetus is Latin for young one or offspring. But  for those who support abortion, words matter. If you call the fetus a baby it makes it harder to justify killing a baby. Saying terminating a pregnancy or fetus...it makes you feel better. Or does it? Words matter in the battle for hearts and minds.

I once called a reporter and asked about this and they said the paper had a style book that had pc language they were to use.

Nashville TV station infers PP gives prenatal care for expectant moms...

Channel 4 Nashville (WSM) had the following write up on their website....Get this headline....

"Lack of funding leaves expectant moms looking for options...."

Expectant moms!!! Really!!!I did walk in on the video of  this story playing  on the local news coverage, but since I missed most of it I wanted to go to their website and see the actual script.

I wish there was a place for comments. What a totally inaccurate write up!!

First of all, Planned Parenthood / Nashville  does not do prenatal care...  in fact only a tiny proportion of PP centers around the country report providing this care....63 out of 800+ and as for Nashville from their own website, they clearly  state that if you are pregnant and wish to continue the pregnancy, they refer you out for prenatal care....but this headline suggests that expectant moms will be out of luck for prenatal care ????

Expectant moms going to PP come out  not pregnant as in abortion. Oh ya, they say they do adoption counseling as in what???? carry the baby for 9 mos. and choose adoption????...nah...you need an abortion. Adoption  referrals as in you want to do adoption???...go somewhere else. 

If I did not know better and heard/read this report, I would think that the govt. cut the Title X monies for STD testing, well women check ups and birth control.... instead of just said that the services in Nashville would be done  at the county health dept. instead of the nation's largest promoter and provider for abortion. The person who wrote this report was clueless.  

Again, they kept saying poor women are going to be denied necessary care and  try to paint PP as a totally benevolent organization bemoaning that the abortion giant cares only about women and not the sweetheart annual grant of  $335K from our taxes. Look at this fact sheet about  Maybe their non profit prez can chip in something from $100K++ salary?

Journalist calls out deceptive practices of fellow journalists...when truth conflicts with your bias!

Quite an amazing article in Big Journalism calling out NPR,Media Matters and CBS et al.

At that point, I wasn’t at all surprised to see CBS adopting the Media Matters/NPR framing and doing the same cover-up for the ignorance and lack of humanity displayed by numerous senior staff members from Planned Parenthood. It seemed so simple to me. Come out, thank Lila Rose for identifying the issue and bringing it to light, announce a new effort to better train staff, and most import of all, use the entire matter finally give help to the advocates of human-trafficking victims who have fought for years to educate the public on what atrocities are occurring right beneath our privileged little noses. But no, the Left Media’s little darling could do no wrong.

Last but not least, what about us as a nation? Do our past “choices” keep us from being able to honestly look at what has just occurred? Are we allowing our various political orientations to blind our ability to recognize such a clear case of wrong?
This author doesn’t know or comprehend what bizarre cocktail of moral relativism and political ambition was behind this injustice.
What I do know is this:

The videos of Planned Parenthood managers and staff doing these horrible deeds are accurate, truthful, and should be seen by all. The Mainstream Media Establishment’s portrayal of the videos has entered the realm of utter deception and has participated in perpetuating a system where adults and children are victimized by the human-sex-trafficking industry.

pix: big journalism

Accurate reporting lacking in PP sting

You have to listen to the  tape more than once to get all the egregious things said on there and I don't mean the vulgarity. This morning the MSM is reporting that Amy Woodruff the clinic manager of the second largest Planned Parenthood clinic was fired.  She will go down in infamy for her "waist up" comments. She was so eager to please the customer and keep the business coming in but did you notice at the end when the "pimp" asked if there was any way we could streamline this and deal with you only, she pulled out a business card and wrote her cell number on it! He then said we could slide you some money like a $100 and she said we can work that out as we go. No one is picking up on that. So she knew that she was dealing with underage girls as young as 14, being brought into the country illegally, to perform as prostitutes and many could speak no English. Did she ever think those girls may have been kidnapped??

Most of the MSM have reported incorrectly on this. Some by design, some by omission. Lila Rose and Live Action are not associated with James O'Keefe. This was not just an rouge employee but the clinic director of the second largest Planned Parenthood clinic in New Jersey. She clearly is well versed in evading the law as her conversation showed. One of  the most outrageous comments I heard in defending PP was that she was playing along with them to get the girls in so she could really help them!!! 

Most of the print MSM took the talking points from PP and regurgitated it right back out. The pointed out that the tape was edited. Yup and before the day was out the full tape was posted on Live Action. Their second point was that PP reported it to the Justice Dept. How long after the string of visits were detected did the reporting take place and why did they feel it necessary to plant an AP story to that effect. Did they realize how egregious the tapes would be? If so, they would have cleaned house right away. 

We must insist that the tax dollars stop flowing immediately to PP. If the people love the organization that much then let them get 100% of their support from like minded individuals.

Commercial Appeal's Ricard Locker ...most accurate on pro life SJR 127.

 Today is a good day in TN regardless of snowfall and school closings. The 107th Tennessee General Assembly  begins its session. This is a big year for pro life advocates as SJR 127 will certainly come up for a vote. We also welcome the most pro life list of legislators. May they not forget why they won election and be  swayed by all the highly paid lobbyists for the abortion industry roaming the halls. The reporters will also be roaming looking for a good sound bite. It is frustrating that no matter how much you try to explain it to them, they can't get it right. Is it because the misinformation is deemed more newsworthy? I hope not. 






Family Action Council /TN  points out some of the misinformation in their email blast today ....

"Yesterday’s Chattanooga Times Free Press reported on SJR 127, saying it “would strip the Tennessee Constitution of any language construed to protect the right to an abortion.” The reporter, who is a friend and actually a good reporter as far as I’m concerned, sort of got it right. He rightly noted that the “right to abortion” in Tennessee’s constitution was a consequence of judicial construction. There is, in fact, no language in the state constitution regarding abortion."

I don't know how many times this particular reporter has been given the correct language and explanation of SJR 127. Every time I see it, I write and correct him.   Fowler goes on to The Scene, a liberal rag  who like the umpire who does not call it like he sees it but sees it like he calls it.

"Of course, the November 11, 2010, edition of the Nashville Scene takes the prize for inaccuracy and hyperbole by saying SJR 127 “would amend the state constitution to strip abortion rights and force women to have the babies of even their rapist.”

MSM aides abortion industry $$$ with friendly articles on series to normalize abortion and make it the preferred choice for teens

 The Abortion industry did not like the shows "16 and pregnant" and "Teen Mom" and complained to MTV that they were not showing abortion as a way out of an unplanned pregnancy.  Most teens  today choose parenting and for most the story is not pretty.
Forget the safe, legal and rare mantra, they want to normalize abortion and make it the best option for teens who are having sex and being careless with birth control, if used at all. Let us not forget, no abortion mill runs as a non profit. This is big business . Their goal is to get abortion to be the top choice for unplanned pregnancies and they  cater to the teens especially with their online advice outlets that would make the porn industry blush. When they can get tax paid abortion, it will be icing on the cake for this lucrative business. So tonight, the first episode of No Easy Decision will be shown. A former star of 16 and pregnant who chose  to parent becomes pregnant again and this time chooses abortion. 

The industry already has their friends in the MSM ready with articles stating it is about time we showed that abortion is no big deal (then why no easy decision??) and in response to the live blogging that will be going on during the show....they are ready for anyone who wants to differ with them. Already Markai Durham, the star of the first episode is lashing out on her Facebook page  showing  she surely did not receive medically accurate information about the pregnancy.

“Its Not A Baby At All Until I Think You 3rd Trimester (I Could Be Mistaken) Its Only A Fetus Which Means Its Only A GROUP OF CELLS TRYING TO FORM INTO SOMEONE. && Its Not Our Right To Judge Wo…men / Girls Who Do Get An Abortion. Thats Like Judging Someone Because There Gay Or Black Or Whatever. Its Not Right For People To Lash Out At Women/ Girls Who Made The Right Decision For Them && Their Family. Point Blank. && Even Though They Have Created SOMETHING That CAN Be The Most Beautiful Thing. SOMETIMES Women/ Girls Aren’t Ready For That Big Of A Responsibilty. NO MATTER IF THEY OPENED THEIR LEGS / PANTS.”

 The purpose of these articles is to make anyone pro life as a judgmental, biased person. The industry surely does not want facts to stand in the way of the bottom line. I did not enjoy 16 and pregnant and found the language and situations difficult to watch. I never got much beyond the first few minutes when I tuned out.  But I did admire Tyler and Caitlin who made a courageous and selfless decision and showed so much maturity. They put the interests of the baby first and choose adoption.

No Easy Decision partners with the abortion industry to bring this into your living room.  Their target audience  are potential customers.

Persistence pays off

How I love it when the left leaning MSM finally gets it and has to admit that they ,like the abortion industry,  were caught off guard. This politico story admits what that they were resting on the "wink wink " of the paper thin Executive Order and knowing  their friend and fellow pro abort Kathleen Sebelius in  HHS would sneak abortion in through the very  large loop holes.

“This is not the outcome we expected,” said Laurie Rubiner, Planned Parenthood vice president for public policy. “We now know we need to be vigilant to make sure there aren’t other areas of the law where there is silence. There is a whole host of areas that we’re going to be watching like a hawk.”

That doggone Douglas Johnson of NRTL was willing to actually read all the small print in the state exchanges coming down the pike and alas in PA, NM and MD....there it was.  Those pesky pro life advocates.....they sure are persistent. Then sound the alarm and embarrass all those mouthpieces saying of course abortion is not in there.....as in "You lie Mr. President" and then the backpeddling.

I guess having the most pro abortion president in history is not quite enough these days.

Another MSM admits the pro life side is winning...Newsweek

Hey, I thought the MSM said that the March for Life this past year was nothing but a few old gray haired ladies. They must have been looking at the pro abortion side. Read this article from Newsweek.


"This past January, when Keenan's train pulled into Washington's Union Station, a few blocks from the Capitol, she was greeted by a swarm of anti-abortion-rights activists. It was the 37th annual March for Life, organized every year on Jan. 22, the anniversary of Roe.I just thought, my gosh, they are so young," Keenan recalled. "There are so many of them, and they are so young." March for Life estimates it drew 400,000 activists to the Capitol this year."


How can the next generation defend abortion rights when they don't think abortion rights need defending?

By Sarah Kliff
NEWSWEEK

Published Apr 16, 2010

From the magazine issue dated Apr 26, 2010

When the history of the 21st century is written, March 21, 2010, will go down as the day Congress cleared the way for health-care reform. Yet for those in the abortion-rights community, March 21 will mark a completely different turning point: the day when they became acutely aware of their waning influence in Washington. The Democratic Party has, since 1980, supported a woman's right to an abortion. But in 2008 it decided to broaden its appeal by running an unprecedented number of anti-abortion-rights candidates in socially conservative swing districts. That move helped secure a robust House majority for the Democrats.

But abortion-rights supporters could no longer count on that majority to vote their way. The shift first became clear during the health-care debate, when abortion-rights supporters found their cause rather easily brushed aside in pursuit of another, larger goal. Anti-abortion Democrats, most notably the now retiring Rep. Bart Stupak, pressed for stringent abortion restrictions. While Stupak's desired language did not ultimately survive, the final health-care law was more than a psychological setback: it requires separate payments for abortion coverage on the public exchange. The strict accounting rules could well prove so onerous that insurers drop abortion coverage altogether.

So if Democrats won't stand strong for abortion rights, who will? The predicament weighed particularly heavily on NARAL Pro-Choice America, the country's oldest abortion-rights group. Founded in 1969 as the National Association for Repeal of Abortion Laws, NARAL has helped protect Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case legalizing abortion, against countless legislative challenges. NARAL president Nancy Keenan had grown fearful about the future of her movement even before the health-care debate. Keenan considers herself part of the "postmenopausal militia," a generation of baby-boomer activists now well into their 50s who grew up in an era of backroom abortions and fought passionately for legalization. Today they still run the major abortion-rights groups, including NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women.

These leaders will retire in a decade or so. And what worries Keenan is that she just doesn't see a passion among the post-Roe generation—at least, not among those on her side. This past January, when Keenan's train pulled into Washington's Union Station, a few blocks from the Capitol, she was greeted by a swarm of anti-abortion-rights activists. It was the 37th annual March for Life, organized every year on Jan. 22, the anniversary of Roe. "I just thought, my gosh, they are so young," Keenan recalled. "There are so many of them, and they are so young." March for Life estimates it drew 400,000 activists to the Capitol this year. An anti-Stupak rally two months earlier had about 1,300 attendees.


New NARAL research, conducted earlier this year and released exclusively to NEWSWEEK, only amplified Keenan's fears. A survey of 700 young Americans showed there was a stark "intensity gap" on abortion. More than half (51 percent) of young voters (under 30) who opposed abortion rights considered it a "very important" voting issue, compared with just 26 percent of abortion-rights supporters; a similar but smaller gap existed among older voters, too. Worse still for NARAL, the millennials surveyed didn't view abortion as an imperiled right in need of defenders. As one young mother in a focus group told NARAL, it seemed to her that abortion was easily accessible. How did she know? The parking lot at her local clinic, she told them, was always full.

Millennials are more likely than their boomer parents to see abortion as a moral issue. In the NARAL focus groups, young voters flat-out disapproved of a woman's abortion, called her actions immoral, yet maintained that the government had absolutely no right to intervene. As one young woman in Denver said, "I only get mad when [a friend] tries telling me, 'It is like nothing, oh well, it is just an abortion.'?" It wasn't the abortion itself that seemed to trouble the woman; rather, it was her friend's nonchalance. "Even if it was like nothing," the woman told NARAL, "it was something."
Certainly, the anti-abortion movement helped fuel this shift in the attitudes of the young by reframing the abortion debate around the fetus rather than the pregnant woman. Millennials also came of age as ultrasounds provided increasingly clear pictures of fetal development. "The technology has clearly helped to define how people think about a fetus as a full, breathing human being," admits former NARAL president Kate Michelman. "The other side has been able to use the technology to its own end." Thirty-eight states now consider it a separate crime to kill a fetus in an act of aggression against a pregnant woman, and just last week Nebraska banned abortions after 20 weeks because of the possibility that the fetus could feel pain.

Gov. Pawlenty's Offensive "Abortion Recovery Month"

What a mean  spirited column printed in the MSM. So the Church offers healing and just want to fill up the pews with poor people. Abortion rights...of course,  their mantra. What about the baby's rights and of course her sign off signature...subjugate women to child bearing and nothing else. So she rails against offering services for post abortive men and women. What a champ. Nice lady. Nice magazine that would give column space to a lady like that. She needs  to read the piece in Salon.com.

By Bonnie Erbe, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
US News and World Report, April 15, 2010
Here we go again. Just when you thought the religious right couldn’t come up with any more outrageous behavior designed to offend mainstream Americans and accomplish nothing of worth, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty proclaims April, again, “Abortion Recovery Month.”
The proclamation, first cited by the Minnesota Independent, “encourages and promotes healing opportunities and raises awareness of the aftermath of abortion experienced by individuals and families,” according to the document signed by the Republican governor and Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie.
According to Politico, the proclamation also recognizes that “many Minnesota organizations offer support and recovery services to those who have had abortions or who have been impacted by abortion" and that “many organizations in Minnesota promote policies that reinforce a culture of life and hope.”
It’s time for the religious right to get honest about what it’s really doing by continuing to campaign against abortion rights. (Politico reports Pawlenty’s third April declaration was done “at the behest of the anti-abortion advocacy group Silent No More.”)
What is the religious right doing by campaigning against abortion? First and foremost, its efforts seem aimed at trying to keep church pews filled by bringing more and more poor people into the world. Second, it will just end up boosting the teen unwed pregnancy rate every time it guilt trips an unwed, pregnant teen into bringing to term a child she does not want and cannot afford to raise. Third, it will effectively subjugate women and girls in the same way women and girls in developing nations are consigned to a life of child-bearing and little else.
So as long as Pawlenty is declaring April Abortion Recovery Month, if he wants to be fair and unbiased on this issue, he should declare May, “Anti-abortion Zealots Recovery Month,” so the rest of us can get a break from their unrelenting proselytizing and tomfoolery.

Disabled children viewed in a positive light for a change......

Two great stories in the Olympics highlighted the benefit brought to the athletes by siblings......... one Down's Syndrome and the other with  cerebral palsy...... especially in a society where pre natal testing suggest abortion for such children.

If you have faithfully tuned into NBC’s primetime broadcasts, you may have noticed featured bios about two athletes who have been positively influenced by their handicapped siblings.

Freestyle moguls’ skier Alexandre Bilodeau became the first Canadian athlete to win an Olympic gold medal on Canada’s home soil. And Bilodeau dedicated his Olympic medal to the person he publicly refers to as his hero and inspiration – his brother Frédéric. Frédéric has cerebral palsy, and his speech and muscle control are affected by the disease, along with his ability to walk.

The other athlete, snowboarder Kevin Pearce was not even a member of this year’s U.S. Olympic team. He was a favorite to make the team, but in November of 2009 he suffered a traumatic brain injury during practice. NBC’s coverage documented Kevin’s injury and ongoing recovery, and included interviews with his family, including Kevin’s brother David, who has Down Syndrome.

Kevin’s mother, Pia, talked positively about how the gift of David in their lives has equipped them to deal with Kevin’s slow recovery. In closing, NBC’s Tom Brokaw, who conducted the interview, remarked that while it may appear that parents of special needs children do all the work, the child gives back so much more.

Jill Stanek - WaPo columnist after attending March for Life: "Roe supporters (including me) are justifiably nervous"

Jill Stanek - WaPo columnist after attending March for Life: "Roe supporters (including me) are justifiably nervous"

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