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News and commentary from the Pro-Life Action League
I’ve often thought that one of the best things that could happen to the pro-life movement is for the “pro-choice” movement to get its own 24-hour cable channel.
Just give them a camera, give them a microphone, and let them talk. And talk. And talk some more.
The more they try to justify their position, the more bizarre their arguments become.
This is what went through my mind while I was watching video footage from a debate held October 20 at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado about Amendment 62, the state’s proposed Personhood Amendment.
After the pro-life case was presented, members of the campus group Advocates for Choice — which is sponsored by Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains — responded. You really have to hear for yourself some of the statements they made: [Continue reading ...]
A new study reported on last week by the Christian Post confirms what pro-life physicians have been saying for years: that there is no valid medical reason for a doctor to recommend abortion to women undergoing breast cancer treatment.
In the past, doctors have recommended that pregnant women diagnosed with breast cancer have abortions in order to be able to undergo treatment like chemotherapy immediately, without risking harm to the fetus. Of course, abortion does quite a bit more well-known harm to a fetus than the theorized harm of the mother’s cancer treatment.
And according to the new study, we now know that that harm is insignificant; women can undergo treatment without harm to the unborn child.
Reporter Stephanie Samuel interviewed me for the article, and I’m pleased to say that she quoted me several times in it, especially on the anti-life bias behind the notion that abortion should ever be considered a component of authentic health care.
Do you ever suffer from the Seinfeld Effect?
I read a really interesting article the other day about so-called “Same-Sex Marriage,” the Seinfeld Effect, and the “spiral of silence.”
It really struck a chord with me, because it emphasized the importance of every single person’s voice and the importance of people standing up for what they believe in.
Basically, the article uses an episode of Seinfeld to prove a point–people are afraid to admit if they believe homosexuality is wrong anymore. When Jerry and George are mistaken for being a gay couple, they deny it loudly but always add the caveat “not that there’s anything wrong with that.”
My point here is not to discuss homosexuality, though. My point is that they thought something was wrong enough that they wouldn’t want to be involved with it (their vociferous denials prove this) but that they were afraid to admit this out loud.
Can you imagine a world in which we all say, “I’m never going to have an abortion–not that there’s anything wrong with having one.”? [Continue reading ...]
Last week, Planned Parenthood Federation of America released a fact sheet [PDF] detailing the services they provided nationwide in 2008.
True to its moniker, Abortion, Incorporated reported that its total number of abortions was up 6.1% from the previous year: 324,008 abortions in 2008 compared to 305,310 in 2007 [PDF]. (In 2006 [PDF], Planned Parenthood’s number of total abortions was 289,750.)
In the document, Planned Parenthood boasts of having provided educational programs to more than 1.2 million people of all ages and in all types of settings, including preschools. [Continue reading ...]
Speaking at a Canon Law symposium in Slovakia this week, Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput gave voice to some sobering thoughts on what the future holds for Christianity in general and the Catholic Church in particular, which he called “the most compelling and dangerous heretic of the world’s new order.”
In his address, Chaput spoke of the dangers inherent in moral relativism, which inevitably results in such “foundational injustices” as abortion, which he called “the crucial issue of our age.”
He went on to make some eye-opening statements about human rights and the nature of government: [Continue reading ...]
Pro-lifers at 2009 Rockford Face the Truth Day [Photo by Sam Scheidler]
On Tuesday, August 10, the League will join forces with the Rockford Pro-Life Initiative for a Face the Truth Day in Rockford, Illinois.
This will be our 7th consecutive year visiting the city, which is unquestionably one of the nation’s abortion hot spots, due to the presence of the particularly bizarre and macabre — even by abortion facility standards — Northern Illinois Women’s Center.
Among the window displays at NIWC are a rubber chicken attached to a Crucifix and a poster showing Jesus giving the middle finger, along with the inscription “Even Jesus Hates You.” [Continue reading ...]
The Avon Walk for Breast Cancer will be coming to Chicago on June 5 and 6. While I believe the cause is a good one, they are going about it all wrong and they’re hurting their efforts to eliminate the disease.
Avon hopes to raise money to find a cure for breast cancer, but ignores a major cause of breast cancer: abortion.
Not only do they not warn people of the risk, but Avon has joined with UNIFEM to promote “women’s issues.” This phrase, like “women’s health” or “reproductive rights,” has become a code word for the promotion of a universal right to abortion. (I was reminded of this when I heard how UNIFEM planned to help Haiti after the earthquake.) [Continue reading ...]
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Children praying for an end to abortion [Photo by Dan Gura]
The tradition of prayerful protest continues this Saturday when we will again line Dempster Street to expose their dark secret.
Last year a doctor, who asked not to be named, came down to thank us for being there and said “they” know we are there and “they” are not very happy about it. She urged us to never stop until the hospital stops aborting healthy babies (the hospital performs “selective reduction” abortions and abortions on minor girls without parental notification). [Continue reading ...]
An article by Sarah Kliff in the current edition of Newsweek has some sobering news for the country’s largest “pro-choice” organizations.
They’re worried about what the future holds, because they don’t see young people stepping up and rallying to their cause — and yet, that’s exactly what they do see happening on our side.
Citing new NARAL research from earlier this year, the article notes:
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.
After pointing out that “Millennials are more likely than their boomer parents to see abortion as a moral issue,” Kliff writes:
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.
Quite so. Once you see a baby on ultrasound, it’s rather hard to be convinced that it’s anything other than, well, a baby.
Can one father plus two mothers make one baby?
Two stories have come to my attention this week that are just sickening.
If you thought you’d already heard of all of the ways an unborn child—created in the image and likeness of God—could be disrespected, you were wrong. [Continue reading ...]