Archive for category Abortion
Birth or Not?
It appears that the website is down –
A US couple’s decision to let the public vote on whether or not they should keep their baby has dismayed prolifers.
Pete and Alisha Arnold, both 30, have set up the website, www.birthornot.com, to allow people to place their vote, as well as share their thoughts and see pictures of the foetus – nicknamed “Wiggles” by the pair.
Alisha is already 17 weeks pregnant, meaning that the unborn baby is entering the stage of growth where it is able to suck its thumb and hear voices. (here)
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Disgusting – even if this is an attempt at making a statement.
Related articles
- OSV Daily Take Blog: Stunt or not, abortion ‘vote’ is just plain sick (deaconforlife.blogspot.com)
- ‘Should we have an abortion – you decide’: Couple set up website on whether they should keep unborn child (purestrange.wordpress.com)
- “Pregnant couple sets up web site for people to vote on whether they should give birth or have an abortion” and related posts (jivinjehoshaphat.blogspot.com)
Do not take Planned Parenthood’s Sex Tips
Lifesite News is reporting,
The world’s leading abortion provider is continuing to promote a graphic brochure advocating casual sex among youth. According to International Planned Parenthood Federation, the brochure called “Healthy, Happy and Hot” has become their most popular publication.
Aimed at young people with HIV, the brochure contains sexually explicit language and promotes casual sex with multiple partners, as well as oral, anal, and homosexual sex.
“Some people like to have aggressive sex,” says the brochure. “There is no right or wrong way to have sex.” It encourages young people who might have sex after drinking or using drugs to “plan ahead by bringing condoms.” Another section suggests readers visit family planning clinics for help in preventing or aborting unplanned pregnancies.
The publication encourages youth to keep their sexual activity secret from their parents, as well as visits to family planning clinics. “You should find out whether there are any centers near to you where you can go without needing the permission of your parents or guardians.”
The brochure criticizes countries with laws requiring disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners. Such laws violate the rights of people living with HIV, the pamphlet argues.
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Why? Why is stuff like this printed, sold and financed by…. well, do some research…
Pelosi is no theologian
Posted by Joel in Abortion, Religion and Politics on August 12, 2010
Okay…I admit, the reporter is awesome. Great question:
You said at a recent Catholic Community Conference that your favorite word was ‘The Word, as in the word made flesh,’ and that we need to quote, ‘give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the Word.’So, when was the Word made flesh? Was it at the Annunciation, when Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, as the Creed says, or was it at the Nativity when he was born of the Virgin Mary? And when did the Word get the right to life?”
Oh, I can’t tell you how much I loved that question. And Pelosi’s bizarre-take-2 response, which is actually untrue, I might add:
Whenever it was, we bow our heads when we talk about it in church, and that’s where I’d like to talk about that.
Pelosi refuses to say when Jesus got the right to life – Jill Stanek.
Republicans make bad examples of pro-family valued people and Democrats are worse theologians. (Politicians, I mean)
It is a fair question – I mean if the Word is to be used for public policy, then let’s do so completely. Christ was born to an unwed teen with no hope for an education, etc…
Adult Stem Cells and Success
Stem Cells are the big rage in medical science, and rightly so. Like anything good, it pays to get back to the source to heal health fissures which have developed over time. Embryonic stem cells, harvested from aborted fetuses, have yet to be proven to work successfully, and yet there is huge money being invested into that area – all the while, medical science is actually showing results from adult stem cells.
A few months ago, Dr. Thomas Einhorn was treating a patient with a broken ankle that wouldn’t heal, even with multiple surgeries. So he sought help from the man’s own body.
Einhorn drew bone marrow from the man’s pelvic bone with a needle, condensed it to about four teaspoons of rich red liquid, and injected that into his ankle.
Four months later the ankle was healed. Einhorn, chair of orthopedic surgery at Boston University Medical Center, credits “adult” stem cells in the marrow injection. He tried it because of published research from France.
Read the rest here:
Heal thyself: Patients use own stem cells – Health – Cloning and stem cells – msnbc.com.
With the measurable success of adult stem cells verses that of embryonic stem cells which is none, why is it then that we should continue to be told that we must spend money in that area?
Andrea Bocelli, A Life Saved
Just think of the talent, perhaps economic or art or politic, that has been culled from the human race by elective abortion.
Bocelli, who is blind, didn’t expect the fuss over his testimony but voiced his pro-life stance clearly in a recent interview with Italian newspaper Il Foglio, as reported by LifeSiteNews.com.
“Because of my personal convictions as a devout Catholic, I am not only fighting against something, I am fighting for something – and I am for life,” the world-famous tenor said.
In the video, Bocelli does not make arguments defending the dignity of human persons in the womb, but rather tells a short story of how he came to be.
Read the story here:
via Renowned Singer Andrea Bocelli Tells Abortion Story | Christianpost.com.
It is a cliché, but just imagine the difference an abortion might make….
Economic – There’s a preacher and wife who are very, very, poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she’s pregnant with her 15th. They’re living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion? John Wesley
Birth Defects – The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. They have 4 children. the 1st is blind, the 2nd is dead, the 3rd is deaf and the 4th has TB. she finds she’s pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you consider recommending abortion? Beethoven
Rape – A white man raped a 13-year-old black girl and she got pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion? Ethel Waters
Doesn’t want to run a young life – A teenage girl is pregnant. She’s not married. Here fiancée is not the father of the baby, and he’s very upset. Would you consider recommending abortion? (You know this one, right?)
How many abortions did you pay for between 2002-2009?
My guess is that it would be a lot more than you either would like or know about. The list of organizations, which spent 1 BILLION dollars of your tax money on abortions are not government clinics, but private groups, and sometimes, businesses:
The GAO report showed the following government funding:
– Advocates for Youth, $8.7 million.
– Guttmacher Institute, $12.7 million.
– International Planned Parenthood Federation, $3.9 million.
– Planned Parenthood Federation of America, $657.1 million.
– Population Council of the United States, $284.3 million.
– Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, $300,000.
And this occurred during the Bush years, when the GOBP controlled the White House and Congress.
“Additionally, for federal fiscal years 2002 through 2005, complete obligation and disbursement data for awards made through USAID’s overseas-based missions were not available,” the GAO said in the report. “As a result, obligations and disbursements in this report may understate the actual amount of federal funds provided to the selected organizations and their affiliates.”
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A group responded to the GAO report of course, without announcing any supporting evidence, states that funding has dramatically increased under the current President’s term.
I can think of nothing else to say, but what Henry David Thoreau said after his imprisonment for refusing to may a poll tax which supported slavery.
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
You may read more about proper civil disobedience here. Mind you, I am not one for nullifying every action of the Federal Government, but seeing as it is my money, and I do not want my money paying for elective abortions, I am hard-pressed to test my resolve as to the obedience to my proper government.
