Family Planning and Reporductive Health poll....public tired of talking about abortion

Politico "breaks" a poll "commissioned by the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, an organization that represents family planning administrators and clinicians, and the Communications Consortium Media Center, a public interest media center that works with nonprofits."

 Hmmmm....sounds pretty biased right there...but ask a bland question...

"While the current political debate focuses too much on abortion, there is a much broader discussion that needs to happen around reproductive health. We may have different opinions about abortion, so rather than continuing to argue about this one issue, our elected officials should focus on the broader context like providing greater access to birth control, teaching comprehensive sex education and improving maternal health and childbirth outcomes." Do you agree?

Wow....what breaking news...... then Politico posts a headline stating that the public is  tired of the abortion debate... a more correct statement might be the abortion industry wants to change the subject.
This commenter hit the nail on the head with this one.

"..a new survey by a Democratic polling finds."
...and in other breaking news, studies conducted by the tobacco industry now PROVE that smoking is good for you, improving blood circulation and lung capacity!!"

Further....they state four in 10 Americans said they would be less likely to vote for a member of Congress who votes to defund groups like Planned Parenthood.  Well that means that 6 out of 10 would vote for those who promise to defund PP.

Time to hit the spin cycle again....

States not afraid of the big bad Federal Govt.....

Okay, packing....getting on the plane but a few stories caught my eye  this AM...LA is pursuing legislation that bans all abortions except those to save the life of the mother. It would also bar the Louisiana Medicaid program from covering any abortion. Feminists are shrieking...what about rape and incest, their old mantra knowing full well these are the rare cases making up less than 1% but is a good rallying cry. It is a personhood bill and is being debated on the House floor on Monday. What I find interesting that the abortion industry friendlies  are openly worrying that it is a direct challenge to Roe and if they sue, it may end up with the Supremes overturning Roe. What to do....allow a state to ban abortion?? What I find interesting is that states are not cowered by the Feds anymore. IN standing up to the pro abortion administration on giving $$ to PP and LA doing the same with medicaid $$. 

I thought Roe was "settled" law and the people have accepted abortion. I guess that spin did not work. Feministing has it's usual replies and rants in the comments section but here is an interesting one from Davenj

"In a twisted way it does make sense. I never understood the ideology of folks who think abortion is murder, but make exceptions for rape or incest. If you truly believe that it’s murder then you can’t condone it under any circumstances, except possibly the “double effect” principle.
As is, I think it shows the dangerousness of being anti-choice, but at least it’s logical."

Yikes, Feministing had better get to him/her...for making some sense in the first part. If abortion takes  the life of an innocent human being than under what circumstances is it acceptable.  Although he/she does not agree sees the logic...

Tanzania bound....

I am traveling to Tanzania from June 4th to June 17th...and will be going cold turkey with no cell phone, email, twitter and Facebook. Imagine! My hands are already shaking.....

(Prolifer)ations 6-3-11

from Jill Stanek.com

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.

• The National Catholic Register features an interview with Prof. Michael J. New on the far-reaching effects of state level pro-life legislation.
• Generations for Life posts the text of an excellent persuasive speech on euthanasia a GFL college student, examining the “slippery slope” of a society which embraces the culture of death. In the Netherlands, where euthanasia is normalized, the post disturbingly states, “over 10k citizens carry ‘do not euthanize me’ cards as a safeguard in the event they are taken to a hospital.”

• Live Action points out the UK media are more willing to show photos of preborn humans, showing accurate fetal and embryonic development (like the photo at left of a 6 week embryo from a BBC story). Why are US media outlets unwilling to do the same?
• The Culture Vulture shows the “Monty Python“-esque situation of the Abortion Supervisory Committee in New Zealand, which has decided it won’t actually supervise abortion providers to make sure they are following NZ law. It truly would be funny if it weren’t so unbelievable.
• The FRC Blog reports scientists at Stanford have successfully turned human skin cells into functioning nerve cells.
• MN Citizens Concerned for Life discusses the two types of assisted suicide and why both are wrong in light of human equality.
• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition discusses the case of Canadian nurse William Melchert-Dinkel, who preyed on suicide-vulnerable, depressed individuals in online chat rooms, convincing at least 2 young people to commit suicide. This “suicide voyeur” was given an extremely light jail sentence and is appealing it on the grounds of free speech.
• Parenting Freedom finds the hypocrisy in an article about the banning of children’s kickball games, which are deemed dangerous – but it’s acceptable to give those same young children condoms to engage in sex.

Dr. Death dies of natural causes....

 Dr. Jack Kevorkian known as Dr. Death is gone...at the age of  83, in a hospital where he was being treated for kidney and heart problems. After being notorious for assisting others to commit suicide, he died  without fanfare.  He once boasted that he would starve himself to death while serving a term in prison for second degree murder for assisting the  suicide of a man with Lou Gehrig's disease. Not being publicity shy he agreed to allow 60 Minutes to film it and then acted as his own attorney in defending himself.

"He admitted being present at about 130 suicides and his hectoring defiance of established laws and protocols forced reexamination of personal freedoms in medical treatments and end-of-life decisions."

He was sentenced to 10-25 years in prison but released after 6  due to poor health and  after promising never to do any more assisted suicides. He enjoyed the notoriety of having a movie made of his life but with his own health declining...he did not go out the way so many of his patients did by his hand of assisted suicide but in a hospital seeking treatment for his ailments.  Is that strange....I immediately thought of Saddam Hussein who encourage others to sacrifice themselves as a martyr  for the cause and when he was captured said....I want to negotiate. 

Whatever....RIP...

Teen pregnancy...get the facts.....innovative program is educating our teens

Decisions Choices and Options.....making a difference in TN and beyond....check out  the website here.
 

Abortion is personal....yes, it was personal to the baby as well.....

This pro abortion blog that appears in Philly Post  tells the story of  Rose...

"A friend of mine—we’ll call her Rose—used to be on the other side of the argument. Like any good Catholic girl, she didn’t believe in abortion. Until, just as she neared her 17th birthday, the morning sickness kicked in. A hospital visit, and there it was: Her birth control had failed due to a drug interaction. She was pregnant."

I hate to destroy a good storyline here but  a single girl  being sexually active and on birth control are  two no no's for the Catholic Church....but let's continue....
 
Then abortion becomes more than a theory  and she decides that she has no other choice than to abort because no one was prepared to parent and she was headed to nursing school. The writer  blows off that it took her a few years to reconcile herself to the decision she made.

Now she goes on to attack pro lifers who want to make laws against abortion. She justifies that this friend's life is important and so are her  plans to go to nursing school where she will be trained to enter a field where she will work to save lives.  Also, she no longer is with the man who got her pregnant. She describes that woman as strong and brave and one who should be praised for making this decision to abort. Now she can have the life she wants.

"What makes that life any more important than the woman’s life?" she asks...

Well here are some points this writer missed. This woman was not risking her life or being asked to give up her life to carry the baby to term.  She could have chosen adoption. How many many couples would have gladly entered into an adoption plan of her choice...open,semi open or confidential. She could have continued with her schooling and her  work of saving lives. 

The writer glosses over the fact that this woman decided that her baby 's life was disposable rather than alter even temporarily her future plans. I don't fault this lady. She was 17 and received great  pressure from her parents and boyfriend. But the writer glamorizes the fact  that an innocent life paid the price for the actions of two people engaging in an activity that results  in pregnancy.  Why was adoption never a consideration??

HHS tries to bully IN for defunding Planned Parenthood...wants to warn off other states....

Obama will clearly go to the mat for Planned Parenthood.  Today through his administration he
stated....

“Medicaid programs may not exclude qualified health care providers — whether an individual provider, a physician group, an outpatient clinic or a hospital — from providing services under the program because they separately provide abortion services,” Center for Medicaid Director Cindy Mann wrote in the memo.

But  Mike Fichter, IN Right to Life responded...

“The Obama administration appears to be intent on trying to force Indiana to subsidize the business of abortion in direct contrast to the desires of the state legislature and the people of Indiana.  Indiana must refuse to be bullied by the federal government and must challenge this politically-charged determination with full vigor.  The state of Indiana has a right to determine how it will manage its Medicaid program and to select the providers it will partner with.  Planned Parenthood is not entitled to public funding,” he said.

Per the AP article , IN is not going  to shy away from this fight.

"Marcus Barlow, a spokesman for Indiana's Family and Social Services Administration, said the state's attorneys have told his department that it must continue to comply with the law passed by the Indiana General Assembly.
We will seek guidance from the Indiana attorney general on how to proceed forward," he said. Bryan Corbin, a spokesman for Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller, said the letter was being reviewed to determine the state's options but that "we will continue to defend the statute."

So IN is saying Game On....we will fight this. The Administration is trying to get ugly to warn off other states that they had better not try to  defund their pet. The abortion industry  is flexing their muscle and Obama is bowing to their demands.

Update: Names are leaking out on the Mystery Amendment...now how can we fix this

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.

TN: Knox News (no name) Editorial....how about some fact checking....

 Update: Knox News has printed a correction stating ...

"Correction: The Planned Parenthood clinic in Memphis provides abortion services. A previous version of this editorial was incorrect."

What about Nashville PP....they do abortions...will watch for the next correction.

So stunned to read this editorial in the Knox News....just posted although no reporter put his/her name to it. 

"Supporters of such bans have targeted Planned Parenthood because some of its clinics (though none in Tennessee) perform abortions. "

Excuse me?? PP clinics in Nashville and Memphis do not perform abortions..... Hmmm might want to check out their websites that advertise surgical and medical abortions.  The rest of his column was pretty trite and warmed over PP talking points  about how many unplanned pregnancies occur in TN and how many babies are born to single women.

"Guttmacher researchers also found 58 percent of all pregnancies in Tennessee were unintended. Sixty-nine percent of those were mistimed, while 31 percent were unwanted. A quarter ended in abortions."

Apparently all the years of funding Title X through PP has not brought about the desired results ....so send us more $$. Hmmm...
Then they end with a scare tactic....

"Thirty Democratic senators sent a letter last week to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius urging her to warn states about the illegality of the bans"

Oh my, 30 Dems wrote a letter to abortion supporter on steroids Kathleen Sebelius saying not giving $$ to the nation's largest abortion provider might be illegal. I am shaking.....

I noted that this editorial was posted at midnight... maybe that is the excuse for such a weak and inaccurate editorial . Surely Knox News  can do better than this.

Just noticed that many comments are taking the editorial to task but no one does it better than noted speaker, Ryan Bomberger  of TooManyAborted.com .  He weighs in on the Comments page and blasts the writer with FACTS  that should embarrass them.  Don't you just hate it when the facts get in the way of an agenda.....
Ryan ends with this insightful comment after his factual "slap down"

"The question should be: Why do we continue to annually fund, with over $350 million of our hard-earned tax dollars, an organization that fails to accomplish its publicly promoted basic function?
Answer: ideology over actuality. Abortion apologists will defend abortion (via Planned Parenthood) at any cost, with any distortion, and apparently with anonymous Op-Eds that shill for a failing but extremely profitable organization."

 Well....Knox News????

TN: Gov. Haslam can use his line item veto to defund PP....will he??

 Texas Governor Rick Perry is holding a special session to resolve the wording problem in their budget to defund Planned Parenthood and direct the Title X monies to other sources such as public health depts. and other entities that do not also perform  abortions. I commend Gov. Perry for doing this.

Now in TN, our Gov. Bill Haslam ran on a strong pro life platform and  said during the campaign that he  would defund  Planned Parenthood.

"I guess the big question is what is meant by family planning," Haslam responded. "If it's having Planned Parenthood run it out of state dollars, I would not be in favor of that. I would not be in favor of state dollars going to abortion, either. Are there other things that we can do to help on this very serious issue in Tennessee? You bet."

Candidate Bill Haslam, Speaking to TN Economic Council on Women

October 19, 2010

Gov. Haslam does not have to go to the expense of calling a special session to resolve this. He has the line item veto  to fix this and do what the General Assembly clearly intended and what the people of TN, absent the abortion industry, wants.  Timing is important here and I encourage you to take the time TODAY to email the Gov. and call his office and respectfully ask him to keep his campaign promise and defund PP with his line item veto. If you have done this before, please do it again TODAY.

Don't be fooled by the editorials and printed opinions of those who  rely upon the lucrative abortion industry.....when we pay tax money to PP it is the money in the operating budget that pays the rent, utilities, salaries and benefits of those who perform abortion and non abortion services. 

Just think about it....there is no logical way that money can be segregated. As former PP director, Abby Johnson stated they rely upon the tax money.  

This is all about our two counties.... Davidson (Nashville) and Shelby(Memphis) whose  Health Depts. say they pass on the Title X money to PP because they lack the capacity to perform the services. Well interesting that Hamilton (Chattanooga) and Knox(Knoxville) manage to do this. They can staff up and the Director in Nashville even  stated on NPR radio that they would step up and perform necessary services if this legislation  passed. 

Please take two minutes and make the call and send the email and pass on to your pro life friends....

Office of Governor Bill Haslam

1st Floor, State Capitol

Nashville,  TN   37243

(615) 741-2001

bill.haslam@tn.gov

(Prolifer)ations 5-31-11

from Jill Stanek.com

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.