ANOTHER REASON TO BOYCOTT WALMART!!!

Kudos to Wal-Mart (barf alert!)

Mega-retailer stands up to religious right, stocks ‘Brokeback’

It’s not often that Wal-Mart, the ubiquitous destroyer of small businesses everywhere, earns high praise for a corporate decision. But this week, the mega-retailer stood its ground and resisted calls from the American Family Association to refuse to sell the “Brokeback Mountain” DVD.

Wal-Mart even promoted the DVD in displays featuring the gay characters portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger.

“It wasn't even a blockbuster movie, so if Wal-Mart isn't trying to push an agenda, why would they put it at the front door?" Randy Sharp, director of special projects for the association, told the L.A. Times.

Actually, Randy, “Brokeback” has made more than $165 million worldwide on a production budget of just $14 million. If that ain’t a blockbuster, I don’t know what is. And that number doesn’t include DVD sales, which will no doubt be tremendous.

Some will say that Wal-Mart is just greedy and knows a hot-selling product when it sees it. But the behemoth is uber-popular in the red states where the American Family Association and other so-called Christian groups hold lots of influence.

So, just this once, kudos to Wal-Mart.

Posted by Kevin Naff, Washington Blade Managing Editor | Apr. 5 at 7:48 PM | knaff@washblade.com

CHECK OUT www.walmartno.org

CLEARLY DELUSIONAL!!!!!!!!

Terri Schiavo's Former Husband Attacks Tom DeLay After Resignation

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 4, 2006
Clearwater, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The feud between retiring pro-life Congressman Tom DeLay and Terri Schiavo's former husband Michael is not as old as the legal battle with Terri's family, but intense nonetheless. After DeLay made an announcement that he is retiring his Congressional seat, Michael released a statement attacking him.

Schiavo claimed "there's no question " that DeLay retired in part because he supposedly didn't want to face voters in November after having sided with the Schindler family against Michael's desire to kill Terri.

"After what he did to Terri and me, he no longer deserved the public trust that he had been given," Michael said, applauding DeLay's decision to step down from public office.

“I hope Mr. DeLay's actions in the Congress and the political costs associated with it will be a warning to other lawmakers that Congress just does not belong in the personal and private lives of Americans," Michael threatened.

After Circuit Court Judge George Greer finalized his order allowing Michael to euthanize Terri and state and federal courts refused to review the decision, DeLay said the judges who abrogated Terri's right to live would be held responsible.

"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior," DeLay said at the time, adding that the House "will look at an arrogant and out of control judiciary that thumbs its nose at Congress and the president."

Later DeLay apologize for the strong words but maintained his position that the courts gave the Schindler family the shaft in their legal efforts to save her life.

DeLay's remarks earned him Michael Schiavo's ire and Terri's former husband placed him at the top of the list for lawmakers to be defeated when he announced the creation of a new political action committee in December.

The PAC will target pro-life lawmakers who sided with the Schindlers. The PAC is expected to oppose pro-life Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum's election and also targets President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on its web site.

The Schindler family, meanwhile, has set up a new organization to help disabled people like Terri receive appropriate medical care and treatment.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation - http://www.terrisfight.org



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A TEXAS BY-PASS OF SUSAN G. KOMEN

Dear Pro-Life Friends,

 
We have been encouraging you to let Susan G. Komen of Central Texas know of your displeasure at their relationship with Planned Parenthood of Central Texas.  In the name of helping needy women receive mammography, Komen's unnecessary grant of $45,000 to Planned Parenthood helps them to appear as a caring medical facility instead of the evil abortion business that they really are.

 Many pro-lifers have responded in amazing ways.

 Donna and Wayne Garner have taken a lemon and turned it into lemonade.  Recently, their friend's wife passed away from breast cancer.  Kathy was a truly pro-life Christian woman.  After hearing of a team running in the Komen Race for the Cure in Kathy's name, they went into action.  Discouraging all those who signed up from running in her name, they found the perfect way to memorialize Kathy and help other women fight breast cancer without supporting Planned Parenthood.

Donna and Wayne contacted the Hillcrest Hospital Department of Development and set up a memorial account in Kathy's name.  The money will be used for mammograms for women who do not have the ability to pay.

Many people make the mistake of thinking that Susan G. Komen is the only source of helping and treating women with breast cancer.  The Komen organization grows fatter each year and refuses to inform women of the abortion/breast cancer link while partnering with Planned Parenthood abortion facilities.

Here is your alternative to help women in your own community!

 

Hillcrest Health Foundation
P. O. Box 5100
Waco , Texas76708

DEPRESSED ABOUT TERRI'S DEATH

I still can't believe my government let a completely innocent
woman be starved to death with the whole world watching, to our eternal shame!

My week long fast in solidarity with Terri, didn't make the difference I prayed it would have. Nothing any of the hundreds and thousands of us did could stand in the way of the EVIL
ones, who wouldn't stop until Terri died and was cremated, in order to cover up the evidence.

I pray nearly every day for God's perfect justice to be served
upon Terri's tormentors and for Him to bless every effort of
the very classy Schindlers.

Mr. Delusional still persists, keeping many of us more committed than ever to see him behind bars.

IN MEMORY OF OUR FRIEND TERRI
PROSTRATE BEFORE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!!

Upon learning of Terri's demise, Andrew and Janet fell down
to call upon the Lord and we were promptly told by the Florida
Capitol police that we couldn't pray and must leave the
Capitol grounds where we had been begging for Terri's life.

Andrew, Janet and Leslie: friends of Terri forever before
the Lord.

GOD HELP US - MAY YOUR PERFECT JUSTICE PREVAIL
FOR THE WICKED WHO TORTURED TERRI!
BLESS EVERY EFFORT OF THE SCHINDLERS IN SEEKING
PROTECTIONS FOR THE MEDICALLY VULNERABLE.
SHOWER THEM WITH YOUR MERCY, GRACE AND LOVE.

THANK YOU JESUS!

FROM THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS 3-31-06

EC lies would make Lewis Carroll proud

The lies told in the recent Senate hearing on so-called "emergency contraception" were staggering. Alice in Wonderland author Lewis Carroll would've been proud.

The lie about life beginning at implantation would be laughable, were it not so deadly.

Roberts Pharmaceutical sales representative Jen Kessell added insult to injury with her take on the miracle of life, bestowed upon women by our creator: "Pregnancy begins when a woman is comfortable with it beginning. It depends on your own personal views and what you want to believe!"

Or, as Humpty Dumpty said, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, nothing more, nothing less."

The denigration of language Carroll foretold should jolt us to our senses. But I'm not counting on it.

Leslie Hanks

Vice president, Colorado Right to Life


CHECK OUT WWW.walmartno.org to help begin the Walmart boycott for their sale of Plan B

A MARRIAGE MADE IN HELL!!!!

As an Apple Mac user, I am appalled to learn that
the nation's largest baby killing enterprise is giving
away your iPod products as an enticement to
teens to enter the blood stained world of Planned Parenthood.
PP's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a racist who sought to eradicate the black race.
This marriage of your product with an org who kills
off future customers can't be good for business!

Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life

TWO FLORIDA MEN FACE FELONY CHARGES FOR ANIMAL ABUSE!
Freerepublic tells story - my reply below:


Florida cares more for asses than innocent disabled women like
Terri Schindler Schiavo who they allowed to be starved to death
before a watching world!

Hypocrites!!

LAST FRIDAY ON DENVER's FOX 31

I debated Phd Wood who (resigned the FDA over its failure to approve MAP for otc use)
kept telling the viewers how safe Plan B is. She repeated her mantra that it is "safer
than aspirin" in response to numerous challenges that I raised.

My parting shot was that "You are the folks telling us that RU-486 is safe and we
know women are dying!" She was outraged and screetched that Plan B isn't RU-486.

That may be the only correct thing she said.

Imagine my amazement upon leaving the debate and learning about
another two women who have died from RU-486.

Will women ever recognize their unique value as those who alone can carry
the Creator given gift of life into posterity?

TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS!!

The lies told in the recent Senate hearing on
so called "emergency contraception"
were staggering.

Alice in Wonderland's author, Lewis Carroll, would be proud.

The lie about life beginning at implantation would
be laughable, were it not so deadly.

Roberts Pharmaceutical sales representative,
Jen Kessell ads insult to injury with her take
on the miracle of life, bestowed upon women by our
Creator.

"Pregnancy begins when a woman is comfortable
with it beginning. It depends on your own
personal views and what you want to believe!"

"When I use a word, it means just what I choose it
to mean, nothing more, nothing less," noted Humpty Dumpty.

The denigration of language Carroll foretold should jolt us
to our senses.

Don't count on it.

Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life

PURIM REVISITED! IS THE ADL CORRECT??

“Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had
neither father nor mother. This girl who was also known as Esther, was lovely in form
and features, and Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.” Esther 2:7

On March 2, 2005 around our nation, Hadassah had a national Date with the State lobby day for SOS. Their State of Stem Cells presentation encouraging California style
funding for ESCR embryonic stem cell research. That SOS really ought to be
a call to help embryonic life in our nation.

Of all human groups which should be finely attuned to the needs of the oppressed, one
would think that Jewish mothers would be at the top of the list.

Having been the target of Hitler’s destructive march for eugenic purity, these descendents
of Auschwitz should be working over time to protect innocent life. They of all humans on the planet should be familiar with the beautiful story of Queen Esther and how the Lord used her to save His people.

Taking a human life to potentially find a cure for another human, is reminiscent of the heinous German notion of using the skin of murdered Jews to create lampshades. Have the memories of the holocaust grown so dim as to no longer serve as a morality check on today’s human psyche?

Pro-lifers are accused of opposing stem cell research. An honest assessment of the
opposition would reveal that they, to a person, support ethical stem cell research
which does not destroy human life.

Adult stem cell research has produced a variety of amazingly marvelous improvements
in the health status of the incapacitated. Embryonic stem cell research has to date produced no successful cures. In fact, harmful effects like teratomas have resulted.
With embryonic cells being undifferentiated, tumors of hair and baby teeth can
occur with implantations of ECSR.

The largest women’s group, Hadassah, should re-read the book of Esther and become
well versed in its lessons, before Purim, March 14.

Embryonic life in America needs you Hadassah!

“For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this.” Esther 4:14.

Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life








Letters to the Editor
The Colorado Statesman 
     March 11, 2005


To the Editor:

There are important philosophical issues in the debate over embryonic stem cell funding.  Reasonable people can differ on questions of when life begins, or whether adult stem cell research is more promising.  But it is never acceptable to descend to the level of offensive argument that appears in Leslie Hanks' letter of March 11 in The Colorado Statesman. 

Instead of debating the merits of the issue, Ms. Hanks dwells on the Jewish roots of Hadassah, an international women's group, which encouraged the General Assembly to look into funding stem cell research.

Moreover, it is highly offensive, inflammatory, disrespectful and inappropriate to compare stem cell research to find cures for human disease with the Holocaust, in which the Nazis murdered six million Jews and others.  Ms. Hanks has the audacity to tell Jews how they should think, believe and act in light of her interpretation of Jewish history and biblical stories.

Legitimate debate on important issues of the day is welcomed in our democracy.  Diatribes focused on the religion of one's opponents and what they "should" believe are not appropriate, and deserve to be rejected by the readers of this publication.

 
Sincerely,

Bruce DeBoskey
Mountain States Regional Director

4-Year-Old Broomfield Boy
Starved to Death by Parents

The appalling starvation of Dylan is evidence of the limitless cruelty the compassion in dying movement will accept in order to remain faithful
to its mantra, "Better Dead Than Disabled."

Just prior to Christmas 2005, The Denver Post carried an exclusive, titled "Letting Go: Dylan’s Last Days. Two parents face an agonizing test of faith and love for their son." The piece raised great alarm for Colorado Right to Life. The special report is still available on line and chronicles the 24-day starvation death of 4-year-old Dylan Walborn of Broomfield, Colorado. The article states that The Denver Post agreed (ed.- perhaps "conspired" is more accurate) with the parents to withhold publication of the story until Dylan’s passing.

Dylan suffered with severe seizures from Cerebral Palsy, and even though the euthanasia movement has convinced the mainstream media that it is merciful to starve to death terminally ill patients, The Denver Post did not even raise the objection that Dylan was not dying, nor terminally ill. He was severely disabled.

The article makes the claim that the parents sought and received an approval to euthanize their son from Children’s Hospital, and from their pastor, Buddy Conn. The Denver Post omitted the name of Westminster’s Victory Church, where pastor Conn ministers. Victory has denied that they were aware of the parents’ decision to starve Dylan. Kevin Simpson, The Denver Post author of "Letting Go," told Colorado Right to Life that he stands by his story. To date the pastors of Victory Church have not publicly repudiated their reported involvement in the matter.
"The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." Proverbs 12:10

See dylanwalborn.com for more information.

PRO-LIFE SLICE OF LIFE!!

Driving away from the killing clinic, she uttered a silent prayer. “Lord, let some of
the women change their hearts and minds. Father God, put obstacles in the way
of the abortionist that he might not be able to destroy the gifts of life, you’ve
so beneficently bestowed. Lord, I pray that the clinic workers will be horrified
by what they do. Let them dream about the blood that is on their hands.”

She was distracted as she drove by the sight of a disheveled black man, sitting street-side on a dusty side yard.

“He’s probably drunk,” she thought continuing toward the golf course
club house, where several rescuers had agreed to gather.

A myriad of thoughts bubbled in her sub-conscious as the car
progressed another two blocks. Her own father and brother might have been
that individual at another point in history.

“Kind of a strange place to be sitting,” popped into her mind. “What if he is
more than inebriated?” nagged at the back of her mind.

Putting the car into reverse, she backed up to where he sat.

“Are you ok?” she asked. He said, “No!”

“Are you intoxicated?” she continued.

“I think I’m having a heart attack!” he shouted. “Oh, my God,” she thought.

She grabbed her cell phone and jumped out of her car, racing to the man’s side.

Dialing 911, she told the dispatcher that she was at 20th and Gaylord by the side
of a man she had found, who believed he was having a heart attack.

Other pro-life rescuers assembled around the elderly gentleman as he screamed out
for his mother. Ken asked his name, Jo shouted, “Where does your mom live?”

In the ensuing chaos, Ralph told us his name and that his mom lived around the corner
just before going into a minor seizure.

Jo ran to his mother’s house while Ken lent comfort and the conversation with
the dispatcher continued.

“Please hurry,” “Oh Jesus, don’t let him die,” she spoke into the mobile phone.

Neighbors of the killing clinic who regularly criticized this group stopped, on their
way to church, upon seeing the commotion.

Ralph did admit, to those trying to help him, that he had been drinking – in between
seizing and sitting up calling out for his mom.

His history of cirrhosis came to light as the paramedics and the fire truck arrived very
shortly after the initial call was made.

Jo and Ralph’s mother arrived to support him as he was gingerly placed upon the
gurney, for what must have been “another” trip to the hospital.

As the crowd dispersed, she wondered what the neighbors were thinking of those
they regularly criticized for shouting to moms going in to kill their babies.

Would they recognize that their care for life transcended the pre-born to all
made in God’s image?

Would they see the connection on their way to worship? Would they care? Would they
join them in their quest for “justice for all” sometime in the future?

“Lord, let this all be for your glory.” Her reverie continued as she drove away from
the momentary detour from her life’s yearning.

PRAISE ALMIGHTY GOD FOR GOVERNOR ROUNDS COURAGE!!!!
It should have been Colorado since we were the first to legalize,
sadly.



Monday, March 6, 2006


MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Bill to kill 'Roe'
signed into law
Abortion ban by South Dakota
touches off fierce legal battle
Posted: March 6, 2006
2:16 p.m. Eastern




© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com





South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds


South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds today signed into law a highly restrictive anti-abortion bill aimed ultimately at overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling.

The legislation, passed last month by state lawmakers, bans abortion in nearly every case and punishes doctors who perform one with a $5,000 fine and five years in prison.

The bill allows abortion only in the event a mother's life is in danger, making no exception for rape or incest.

South Dakota Planned Parenthood, which operates the state's sole abortion clinic, has said it will challenge the law.



Rounds said in a written statement he expects the law will be tied up in court for years and will not be enacted unless upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.

"In the history of the world, the true test of a civilization is how well people treat the most vulnerable and most helpless in their society," Rounds said. "The sponsors and supporters of this bill believe that abortion is wrong because unborn children are the most vulnerable and most helpless persons in our society. I agree with them."

Prior to the signing, an anonymous donor pledged $1 million to help the state defend the new statute.

Last week, Rounds was in Washington for a National Governors Association meeting where he found more pledges of donations and the support of some of his colleagues across the nation.

"There is a lot of interest in it here," Rounds said, according to the Associated Press. "And there are a number of states that have similar legislation. A lot of governors expressing support and wishing us good luck and suggesting that they will have similar types of proposals that may very well be favorably looked upon across the United States."

State lawmakers in Georgia, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi and Indiana also are considering legislation that would heavily restrict abortions.

National pro-life activists, who are urging supporters to send $10 to Rounds to support the state's defense, chose South Dakota as its first vehicle to challenge the Roe decision.

They believe that if a legal challenge ever reaches high court, the recent addition of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the bench makes it more disposed than ever to overturn the 1973 ruling.

As WorldNetDaily reported, South Dakota's House of Representatives passed a similar bill in 2004 by a 54-14 vote, before its narrow defeat in the Senate, 18-17. The bill actually initially passed the Senate, but Rounds issued a "style and form" veto, sending the bill back with wording changes to make sure existing abortion restrictions were not threatened if the bill were struck down in court.



In 2004, two pro-life groups clashed over the demise of the previous measure. The public-interest Thomas More Law Center, which helped draft the bill, accused National Right to Life of "complicity" with pro-abortion groups for lobbying against it.

Some pro-life groups think the time is not right to take such drastic measures to overturn the Roe decision.



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US Supreme Court Gives Unanimous Victory to Pro-Life Protesters
Schiedler/Operation Rescue Vindicated


Washington, DC - Feb 28, 2006 The United States Supreme Court issued an unanimous ruling today finally clearing pro-life protesters of a 20-year old suit brought by NOW under the Federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) laws. Joseph Scheidler, a long- time pro-life activist from Chicago, took the lead in defending the case on behalf of over 20 defendants, including Operation Rescue.


In an historic third trip to the nation’s highest court, Justice Stephen Breyer issued the unanimous opinion clearly stating that the case is over and that pro- lifers may not be sued under RICO. This decision also puts an end to a nationwide injunction against the protesters.
“We are very excited to finally see this case put behind us once and for all,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “This is a victory not only for pro-lifers, who can now exercise their First Amendment rights to speak out about abortion without fear of a RICO suit, but it is also a victory for the women and babies who are entering our nation’s abortion mills, who now will have greater access to more information and practical assistance that can help them spare the lives of their pre-born children.”

“This is a victory that is a long time in coming, but whose arrival was never in doubt,” said Rev. Patrick Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition. “Every American owes Joe Scheidler a debt of gratitude for fighting this battle over two decades to preserve freedoms for all Americans.”







Operation Rescue
Troy Newman

President

phone: 316-841-1700

Operation Rescue
Cheryl Sullneger

Outreach Coordinator

phone: 316-516-3034

BRIAN ROHRBOUGH'S March for Life speech
inspires others!!

Death for rapists, not their unborn children - Denver Post Letters February 28, 2006


South Dakota passed a bill to end abortions that doesn't include an exemption for cases of rape. That bothers some people. Their thinking, as told in an Associated Press article, is that if a rape victim becomes pregnant and bears a child, the rapist could have the same parental rights as the mother.

The idea that, to prevent a living rapist from being a father of a living child, some think it best to let the rapist live and to kill the child, instead of the other way around, is incredibly moronic.

Obviously, one better solution is to add convicted rapists to the list of those eligible for the death penalty. That would forever rid the child and all of society of a rapist in our lives. Another can be addressed by the legislature and/or the courts wherein rapists have no parental rights whatsoever over any child conceived during a rape.

The fact is that we don't have to think that the only solution is to kill the rapist's children, whether born or unborn, when other solutions are available.

Robert E. Forman, Lakewood

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IMG_1719
Originally uploaded by lesforlife.

KATE ADAMSON, (katesjourney.org) Senator
Doug Lamborn, Colorado Right to Life President, Diane Hochevar and Leslie Hanks
at SB 158 committee hearing on nutrition/hydration.

JILL STANEK'S MOST RECENT BRILLIANCE!

Don't miss the link to lifecommercials.com



Wednesday, February 15, 2006


Barbequed sacred cows
Posted: February 15, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern


By Jill Stanek

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com



Chicago is no longer my kind of town. It's a liberal Democrat kind of town. It's a town with a gay and lesbian center – funded by taxpayers. It's a town that aborts over 20,000 of its residents a year. It's Jesse Jackson's home town. It's a town where Republicans meet in catacombs. It's a town where even Catholic priests vote 4-to-1 Democrat.

So imagine my surprise when last week the overpowered Cook County Republican Party issued a press release accusing Democrat tyrants of abusing their most prized possession, African Americans.



In conjunction with Black History Month, the Chicago GOP wrote a profound pro-life editorial blaming the Democrat "pro-slavery" Party of "black genocide" because of its pro-abortion position:



One of the most infamous cases ever decided by a Democrat-controlled court was the Dred Scott case ... The result of Dred Scott was to strip African Americans of their standing under the law and thereby prevent them from ever exercising political power for the good of their people. Roe v. Wade subtly accomplishes the same ends by a different means.

The black population is curbed by convincing black mothers that their unborn children are only property which will financially destroy them, so it is in their interests and the interests of society to kill them. African Americans can thank the Democratic Party and its unyielding support for Roe v. Wade ... for today's veritable black genocide. Today's Democrats continue to advocate a society in which certain people are stripped of their humanity and denied political power.



Score a major hit for the GOP.

I don't know what got into those scrappy Republicans, but they weren't finished. They next took aim at Planned Parenthood:



Recent statistics indicate that since 1973, abortion has reduced the black population by over 25 percent. Because abortion has been aggressively peddled to innercity black communities, black babies today are three times more likely to be killed in the womb than white babies. Abortion kills twice as many black babies as AIDS, accidents, violent crimes, cancer and heart disease combined. Although it is possible that Planned Parenthood and its ilk are racially blind, 80 percent of Planned Parenthood facilities are located in minority neighborhoods.



Score a second major hit for the Republicans. Chicago's Planned Parenthood isn't accustomed to attacks. As the Democrat Party's very public mistress, Planned Parenthood is considered untouchable.

I blogged on the Cook County Republican Party's brave effort to bring the truth about the racist agenda of Democrats and Planned Parenthood to African Americans.

I linked in my blog post to an ad by LifeCommercials.com titled, "Why?" This ad exposes the eugenic agenda of Planned Parenthood's founder, Margaret Sanger. I isolated one of Sanger's quotes from the ad as an illustration for my post: "We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population ..."



One place I blog is Illinoize, a gathering hole of political bloggers in the Land Formerly of Lincoln. Illinoize is inhabited predominantly by liberals. I didn't quite fathom before I blogged how sacred are the Democrat Party and Planned Parenthood cows to liberals. But here is one sample of 139 mostly furious comments I received:



Jill Stanek is an animal. Absolutely an animal, and the Cook County GOP, the most irrelevant political organization in the country, is disgusting, and whatever hack consulting firm they're using for this ... are (sic) hate-mongering punks. Margaret Sanger said those words but, of course, meant the exact opposite – she was quoting a concern.

Stanek, you are a misleader, a liar, intellectually dishonest, a queen of the facile analogy, and best of all politically and socially irrelevant. Pathetic. This is absolutely disgusting, and you deserve this type of vitriol, because that is the kind of hate and vitriol you're putting out into the world.



And you thought I was exaggerating about those sacred cows.

Meanwhile, just as Indians revere their untouchable sacred cows while people lay dying in ignorance all around them, so do African Americans continue to revere their two sacred cows.

But I have hope.

Historically speaking, cows don't fare well in Chicago. It was a cow, after all, that kicked over Mrs. O'Leary's lantern and started the Great Chicago Fire.

It's only a matter of time before history repeats, and these two cows torch themselves due to their abortion obsession.


Jill Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In January 2003, World Magazine named Jill one of the 30 most prominent pro-life leaders of the past 30 years. To learn more, visit Jill's blog, Pro-life Pulse.

BOBBY SCHINDLER'S STATEMENT FOR SB158
COLORADO NUTRITION/HYDRATION HEARING
FEBRUARY 16, 2005


My name is Bobby Schindler. My sister was Terri Schiavo.

On March 31st of 2005, Terri died of starvation and thirst after having her feeding tube removed by court order on the hearsay testimony of her husband, Michael.

My sister lived in a neurologically compromised state for reasons that are still unknown and my family wanted nothing from anyone but to be granted the permission to care for Terri for the span of her natural life. We were denied.

Terri tenaciously fought for her life for more than 13 days after being deprived of the most basic, natural and constant need that we all share – the need for nourishment – food and water. Terri was not on a respirator, not terminally ill, not dying and not succumbing to any killer disease. She was disabled. She was dependent on others. But, she was still very much a life, a woman and a person.

Throughout the entire history of mankind, never was it held that food and water constituted “medical care”. Our nation now claims food and water to be “medical treatment” instead of ordinary care, to facilitate their removal from persons deemed by the medical industry or the courts as “unworthy of life” primarily for economic reasons. Persons like Terri, with injuries and disabilities, are seen as not being worthy of life, not worth the investment.

It is beyond comprehension that we are seeing a culture of death impose its will upon society’s weakest and most vulnerable members. Every human being is endowed by his or her Creator with inestimable worth. Therefore no human being or agency has the authority to pronounce an innocent person such as my sister as “unworthy of life.”

We, as a society, are standing on a cliff with two clear and utterly polarized choices that we can make: Either we value each other – in spite of disability, or we despise each other based on those limitations.

I urge those in leadership to afford the protections to all weak and vulnerable people which were denied to my sister Terri.

WHO IS HALEIGH POUTRE?


Where are Tookie's supporters now?

I have a question for the hordes of bleeding-heart Hollywood stars who joined the "Save Tookie" brigade, bowed their heads in prayer with ex-Crip gangster Snoop Dogg and the Rev. Jesse Jackson and pleaded to save the life of convicted murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams, and who lobbied so hard for the government to err on the side of life.

Where are you now?

In Boston, an innocent girl was sentenced to death by the state. Her name is Haleigh Poutre. Last fall, she was hospitalized after her stepfather allegedly burned her and beat her unconscious with a baseball bat. Haleigh was kept alive by a feeding tube and ventilator. Doctors said she was "virtually brain dead." They said she was in a "persistent vegetative state." The medical professionals pronounced her "hopeless."

Less than three weeks after Haleigh's hospitalization, the Massachusetts Department of Social Services was raring to remove Haleigh's feeding and breathing tubes. Even her biological mother (deemed unfit to care for Haleigh and whose former boyfriend was accused of sexually abusing the child) wanted her put to death. The only person who wanted Haleigh alive was her stepfather, who will likely be charged with murder if Haleigh dies.

Insane decision

Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled in favor of killing Haleigh, saying it was "unthinkable" to give the power to make a life-and-death decision to the man accused of putting Haleigh in a coma. Instead, the court did something just as unthinkable: It handed that power to the same child welfare agency that had failed time and time again to protect Haleigh.

According to the Boston Herald, a report by her court-appointed guardian showed that the Massachusetts Department of Social Services had received 17 reports of abuse or neglect involving Haleigh in the three years before her adoptive mother and stepfather were charged with pummeling her into a coma.

"State can let beaten girl die," the headlines trumpeted. But there was just one small complication for all of those who, for whatever reason, were in such a rush to let Haleigh die:

Haleigh is fighting to live.

As state officials prepared to remove Haleigh's life support, she began breathing on her own, responding to stimuli and showing signs of emerging from what doctors had deemed a hopeless condition. Everyone had given up on Haleigh -- except Haleigh.

Unbelievably, the state had weaned Haleigh off her breathing tube before the state Supreme Court ruled -- but the government failed to inform the court of this. Haleigh's medical records and the social service agency's brief remain sealed.

Politicians in Massachusetts are vowing full-scale investigations of the state's incompetent child welfare bureaucrats. But where's the accountability for the medical experts whose faulty diagnosis led to Haleigh's court-approved death sentence? Will they step forward and reveal themselves? Will they explain how they erred? Will they apologize?

It was the "experts'" unequivocal assessments that led the court to declare Haleigh in "an irreversible vegetative state" and to assert "the child could not see, hear, feel or respond." Now, they admit they were wrong. And Haleigh's life depends on the whims of a hopeless agency that didn't think the court needed to know she was breathing on her own.

Wake up

Haleigh's story is a wake-up call to "right-to-die" ideologues who recklessly put such unlimited trust in the medical profession and the nanny state. With such uncertainty surrounding persistent vegetative state diagnoses, the presumption must be in favor of life. Yet, the "right-to-die" lobby's mantra seems to be: When in doubt, pull it out.

While Haleigh clings to life, I've pondered how we might help persuade the plug-pullers to put off the child's state-sanctioned death sentence. I propose nominating her for a Nobel Prize. It bought Williams five extra years.

Jamie Foxx and Susan Sarandon, will you join me?

The writer is a syndicated columnist with Creators Syndicate. She is a 1988 graduate of Holy Spirit High School in Absecon. Contact her at malkin@comcast.net.
Published: January 29. 2006 3:00AM