Canada National Post: Mob Rule on Campus

George Jonas wrote an opinion column that sure hit the nail on the head about what is happening at college campuses in Canada. 

If a mob disrupted a pro-choice speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the protesters would be removed. If a mob disrupted a pro-life speaker at a Canadian university, chances are the speech would be canceled.

The next great act of Canadian philanthropy must be to buy out all university administrators' contracts, and replace them with the first persons encountered at the nearest bus stop. Whatever it accomplished scholastically, it would lead to a marked moral improvement of higher education in Canada.

Graphic pictures ....how far to go with them?

Do you agree with the FDA's plan to put grisly warnings featuring corpses and diseased lungs on cigarette packs?

• No (54%, 114 votes
• Yes (46%, 96 Votes)

Total Voters 210

As of November 25, 2010 at 9:21 AM CDT 

This is the poll on the online opinion page of the Tennessean. Pretty close right now. What is interesting is the debate about how far to go to educate people. We are visual people after all and the printed warning on the packs have failed to scare people off from a habit that is very addictive and hard to kick. Would graphic images do the trick? If you ever had to go to driver's school for speeding, most of the class is showing you graphic pictures of real car wrecks and how about the latest campaign on TV to warn teens about the results of texting and driving?

What does all this have to do with pro life. Well, why not show what an abortion does and what the end result is for the one being aborted. If it is true how can it be in poor taste. Hard to look at. You bet. Even some pro lifers object. But it does show the humanity of the pre born. I have had some argue what if young children see these images. What then? Well, I guess the parents would have to answer their questions. Why would someone want to do that to a baby? 

Graphic images make us face the truth and when we do we become responsible for the decisions we make. That is what the real problem is.

Travoltas happy to announce new arrival......Congratulations!

Yahoo News reports  the good news today. Kelly Preston and John Travolta are proud parents of a new baby boy ...

"Benjamin Travolta weighed 8 pounds and 3 ounces.
PHOTOS: Stars who got pregnant past 40
Travolta, 56, Preston, 48 and daughter Ella Bleu, 10, are ""are ecstatic and very happy about the newest member of the family," the rep told Us in a statement.
Mom and child "are healthy and doing beautifully," added the rep.
PHOTOS: Who else is expecting?'

What I find interesting and hopeful is the newsworthiness of the article highlighting all the other stars who are pregnant now and those who had babies over 40. Not that I am advocating having babies late but it is good to see that having babies is seen as a good thing and not a burden to be discarded via abortion.
Like it or not the celebs have influence and the fact that they see their babies as blessings is a good thing. Wish more would see the need for husbands as well.....

(Prolifer)ations 11-23-10

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
from Jill Stanek.com

• Americans United for Life attended the meeting of the Institute of Medicine, a group that will help determine what Obamacare will list as “mandated preventive care” for women in all plans. Presenters on “women’s issues” at the conference were abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood, who “stands to gain financially if abortion and abortion-inducing drugs are included in this mandate.” According to AUL, “This huge conflict of interest was not disclosed at the meeting.”
• Lisa Graas spotlights a story from NewsRealBlog’s Paul Cooper, who discusses the pro-abortion groups funding the campaigns of Jessica Lappin and Christine Quinn, the 2 NYC Council members leading the charge to censor crisis pregnancy centers.
• ProWomanProLife encourages elementary and high school students to enter ActionLife Canada’s pro-life video contest.
• MN Concerned Citizens for Life discusses fetal pain as a “common ground” point between pro-life and pro-choice camps.

NJ Senate shuts down testimony critical of Planned Parenthood

NJ Senate Silences Abortion Critic

" The New Jersey State Senate silenced a woman, Darlene Dunn of Burlington, who attempted to testify against Planned Parenthood. They called her testimony irrelevant because the bill only had to do with giving millions to…Planned Parenthood."

Toronto Star tries to glamorize young abortionists including one who seeks to adopt....

Toronto newspaper,The Star, writes a lengthy puff piece trying to show  young abortionists as heroes.

Despite her inept attempt to dehumanize the preborn and laud the ones aborting these children...one story line is especially amazing even though the political correct reporter attempts to showcase this mixed up person as a  hero. Jill Stanek writes a lengthy post on it and I love how her title sums it up. "The gay abortionist who can't find a baby to adopt."

Okay, this dr. attempts  to compartmentalize his life to the extent that he is proud of performing first and second trimester abortions for a living but hides what he does from people.  Then he discloses that he and his "partner" are attempting to adopt and  with each abortion laments that there is one less child available for adoption....duh! He wonders how he is going to explain his profession to the future children if they are successful in adopting. He settles on a twisted logic that he is proudly pro choice as he both aborts and seeks to adopt and will tell his children that their birth mother was pro choice and in this case she decided you could live and be cared for by someone else. What a wonderful word this choice is.....suppose the children asks.....well is she decided on abortion I would not be alive and you would not have the possibility of being my parent??? How is that good???

What a sick world we live in.

November is National Adoption month.....video of mother and son as they meet tells the story

November is National Adoption Month....Jess Clark describes the scene in the hospital as she awaits with the birth family the arrival  of her son in an open adoption experience and video tapes the first time she is allowed to hold him.

" You are mine, and I am yours. In a span of seconds, my heart was captured. I don’t know how, or what or why God put it together this way. I just know they handed me a stranger and he was my flesh."

 

WA Post: GOP's gains ready to propel social back into national spotlight

 Despite objections and worried sound bites from the abortion industry to try to salvage their agenda the Washington Post points out that social issues such as abortion will be front and center especially considering the historic shift in control of state legislatures. But the Republicans had better not become a "weak sister" following the election and back off on these critical issues. Abortion industry is rightfully worried what may happen to their cash cow.

Today, Republicans control 26 state legislatures, Democrats 17, and five have split control. In New York, officials are still determining who is in charge in the state Senate. Republicans control more legislatures than they have since 1952.

The National Council of State Legislatures noted several historic shifts: It is the first time since the 1800s that Republicans will control the full legislatures in Alabama and North Carolina. Republicans will lead the Minnesota Senate for the first time ever.

The election was a referendum on the economy, not [abortion], so we think the voters are going to be very surprised to see the level of attacks on choice at the state and federal level now," said Ted Miller, spokesman for NARAL Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights group. "We don't think this is what voters voted for."

Abortion foes say they expect several states where Republicans made significant gains to consider barring, under the new federal health-care overhaul, some private insurance companies from covering abortions as part of their routine plans. So far, Arizona, Missouri, Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana have passed such legislation.

"Ninety percent of pro-life legislation happens at the state level, so the landscape change that we have now is huge," said Daniel McConchie, vice president of governmental affairs at Americans United for Life, an antiabortion group.

(Prolifer)ations 11-19-10

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN
from Jill Stanek.com

• Pro-Life Wisconsin notes that while NARAL is observing National Adoption Month with a special screening of the movie Juno in Madison, WI, they just can’t seem to speak the truth about the humanity of the preborn. On their website, they state: There is no single answer to the question of when life begins. That is why each woman must be free to make a decision about abortion based on… her beliefs about when life begins.
  Forget scientific evidence – it’s all about what the woman wants. Interestingly, in a scene from Juno, Juno’s classmate, a sidewalk counselor, tells her her baby already has fingernails, and that piece of scientific evidence causes Juno to leave the abortion clinic.

• Fr. Frank Pavone describes a good way to cut to the heart of the issue when discussing the human toll of abortion:They will talk about choice, freedom, the Constitution, the Church, women’s rights and sometimes, women’s health. But they won’t define or describe abortion itself. The reason is simple. Abortion cannot be defended. As soon as it is described, or viewed, the human conscience objects to its obvious violence. Maybe that’s why pro-abort HHS Sec. Sebelius, who advocates use of graphic images to discourage smoking, doesn’t approve of graphic abortion images.
• Pro-Life Unity tells the story of pro-life Netherlands journalist, Mariska Orban, who has received death threats after writing an open letter to a pro-abort parliamentarian asking her to reconsider her position. Apparently, “[t]he pro death people of The Netherlands are certainly true to their beliefs. They believe getting rid of an inconvenient child is acceptable and thus threatening to get rid of an inconvenient journalist is acceptable as well.”
• Wesley J. Smith discusses Donald Berwick, temporarily appointed Medicare chief, and his view that the patient/doctor office call is highly overrated.
• ProWomanProLife discusses the real reason why pro-aborts have a problem with freedom of expression like the one at Carleton College in Ottawa: At Carleton today, it’s about graphic images. In Halifax, 25 years ago, it was about Feminists for Life pamphlets saying “Peace begins in the womb.” The problem then, isn’t how the message is conveyed. The problem is that the pro-life message is conveyed at all.
  

Online poll to birth or abort....I vote to abort their computer access.....

Tasteless website of a couple with too much time on their hands stating that she is pregnant and they are undecided, after two miscarriages,whether to birth or abort.  I vote that this is a publicity seeking prank. Many agree. Some are saying this is a pro life trick showing how disgusting abortion is and the humanity of the pre born. Most everyone agrees that this couple should not be parents but the online poll is running 80-20 for giving birth. This says something about how we entertain ourselves and how we see life as a commodity. Serious  things are going on all over the world and this is a news grabber?

I saw the movie Morning Glory this week and the premise was that entertainment (the more outlandish the better) like the morning weather man getting his butt tattooed gets better ratings than hard news. I vote this couple get the word  idiot tattooed across their foreheads and their computer dies and is never resurrected. As one commenter said : they are not the brightest candles on the altar.....

"You can vote and choose whether we abort or keep our unborn child. For the first time, your vote on the topic of abortion can make a difference. Voting is such an integral part of the American identity.  We vote on everything.  We vote on things ranging from the best singer on American Idol to who the next leader of the free world will be.  Wouldn’t it be nice to voice your opinion and have it actually make a difference in the real world?  Why not vote on whether to continue or abort an actual pregnancy? Your vote can help a real couple to make a decision on this issue."

Photo: Jill Stanek.com

Unexpected Survival: The Melissa Ohden Story" A face to the burden Obams's discusses once an abortion decision has been made

"I suspect that doctors feel that they would be under that obligation, that they would already be making these determinations, and that essentially adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion."

Barack Obama
Illinois Senate
April 4, 2002
Expressing his opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act

Tennessean supports use of graphic images to educate about smoking...what about abortion then?

How interesting  that Dwight Lewis, manager of the Editorial Board for  the abortion supporting Tennessean  should use his premier space to support the use of graphic images about what smoking does to you. I am not a smoker and agree that you should not smoke. I also agree that verbiage on cigarette packages have not done the job. So they want to use graphic images. Go for it! The images are true and truth is always in good taste. But I laugh at the hypocrisy that Dwight Lewis and Kathleen Sebelius display. They are both abortion supporters and disagree with the use of graphic  and TRUE images of abortion.  Have you ever seen an abortion? Not too pretty. But their  argument would be  to deny the humanity of the pre born. Science is proving them wrong everyday but why should  facts to interfere with their abortion advocacy.

"As a result, one year ago the Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion was given author­ity to reg­u­late tobacco prod­ucts. Since the ver­bal warn­ings on cig­a­rette packs and adver­tis­ing that have been in use for more than 25 years haven’t been suf­fi­cient, the agency recently announced that in 2012 it will require graphic images and warn­ings instead."

"They will include pic­tures of a dis­eased lung or a man smok­ing a cig­a­rette through a tra­cheotomy tube. It’s an unfor­tu­nate but appar­ently nec­es­sary step to ensure peo­ple get the mes­sage across that smok­ing causes seri­ous health prob­lems and death, and it’s never too late to quit."