JC WATTS ON MICHAEL VICK
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Aug. 12, 2007
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J.C. WATTS: Dogfighting barbaric? So is abortion
Sen. Robert Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat, referred to this act as "barbaric." In case you missed it the first time, he repeated it. Again. And again. And yet again.
Byrd acknowledged that he's witnessed one execution in his life, but wouldn't mind seeing another "if it involves this cruel, sadistic, cannibalistic business."
The gentleman from West Virginia got pretty worked up over the whole thing. "How inhuman! How dastardly!" bellowed the senator.
But wait. There's more! "Barbaric!" he yelled. "Let that word resound from hill to hill, and from mountain to mountain, and valley to valley across the broad land. Barbaric! Barbaric! May God help those poor souls who'd be so cruel. Barbaric! Hear me! Barbaric!"
But the 89-year old dean of the Senate wasn't done. He graciously offered that he would not prejudge a man's guilt or innocence on the barbaric actions which instigated his ire, but he left no doubts about his sentiments.
"I am confident that the hottest places in hell are reserved for the souls of sick and brutal people who hold God's creatures in such brutal and cruel contempt," he said.
In his never-ending quest not to be outdone by a demagogic colleague, would-be President John Kerry wrote a letter describing this as "one of society's most barbaric and inhumane activities."
CNN host Nancy Grace called it "murder" and compared the perpetrator to O.J. Simpson.
What heinous act has these -- and millions of other compassionate lovers and defenders of life -- so outraged? Could they possibly be expressing their condemnation to those physicians who swore an oath to honor and protect life, yet abort millions of viable young lives in utero every year? Could these esteemed leaders be acknowledging that the brutal procedure known as partial-birth abortion is indeed a sadistic and barbaric mistreatment of God's greatest gift -- human life?
Sadly, no. These men and women, and millions others like them, get more worked up over the admittedly brutal and inhumane treatment of soulless dogs, as evidenced by their public proclamations in the Michael Vick case.
Nancy Grace pointed out on her program, over video of two dogs annihilating each other, that the dogs "can't defend themselves." I'm confident Ms. Grace has never shown video of a partial-birth abortion procedure, and I'm relatively confident she has somehow failed to acknowledge that the unborn children are even more defenseless, but she's outraged over this nevertheless. If only they and their animal-rights allies would acknowledge the more precious worth of human life.
(I must note that Sen. Byrd has voted for a ban on partial-birth abortions, but I wonder if he debated in favor of human life with the passion he showed for Vick's canines.)
Please don't misunderstand me. I love dogs. There is no doubt the crime for which Michael Vick has been charged is brutal and inhumane, to say the least. But I fear our culture has degenerated to a level where our priorities are so out of whack, that we decry "from mountain to mountain and valley to valley" the mistreatment of innocent animals, while we turn a collective and legislative blind eye to the premature and yes, barbaric killing of human life in the name of "choice."
What's wrong with this picture?
I am in no way defending Vick, an NFL quarterback, for his off-field enterprises. If the allegations are true, and this happened on his property under his watch, the man clearly should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Vick has had several run-ins with authorities and fans over the past several years. At one point, you heard him say he's just "one of the boys." It's time for him to rise above the level of a boy, and raise the standard of maturity and responsibility for his "boys" to live up to.
Like it or not, being a high school, college and NFL superstar making millions of dollars a year brings with it some responsibility. And as any leader knows, the burden of leadership can sometimes be heavy. Unfortunately, Vick has fumbled the ball.
I've been a dog owner, and I must say I got attached to my critter. I'm not amused by or defensive of the accusations against Vick and his "boys."
But once -- just once -- I'd like to hear the John Kerrys, Nancy Graces and PETA supporters of the world weep over the brutal and barbaric taking of human life that they call "choice."
Absent that, I weep for them and for our culture.
J.C. Watts (JCWatts01@jcwatts.com), chairman of J.C. Watts Companies, a business consulting group, is former chairman of the Republican Conference of the U.S. House, where he served as an Oklahoma representative from 1995 to 2002. He writes twice monthly for the Review-Journal.
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Thursday, August 30, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Planned Parenthood Secretly Buys Land for New Offices
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
August 24, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - The nation's biggest abortion provider is seeking to avoid opposition when buying property or building new facilities through secrecy, or what one pro-life leader called "a series of cover-ups" in such places as Denver, Colo., Portland, Ore., and Aurora, Ill.
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM) - a division of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America - announced this week it will break ground in November on a $4.2 million headquarters and clinic on northwest Denver property it bought secretly last year.
Planned Parenthood, which receives $305.3 million in tax dollars a year, is the largest abortion chain in the United States and has killed more than 3 million children by abortion, according to the American Life League.
PPRM Senior Vice President Leslie Durgin told the Denver Post that the organization initially intended to complete the entire project in secrecy to avoid the kind of protests and delays Planned Parenthood building projects have encountered elsewhere.
But when a reporter discovered that the group had bought an entire city block under a different name, the organization acknowledged that ground would be broken for its new 50,000-square-foot, three-story center in November and that the facility was slated to begin operation in August 2008.
PPRM moved to its current Denver location, a former bank, in 1973, Durgin said. Twenty-three years later, it added a second location for administrative offices.
"We really wanted to build a state-of-the-art health-care facility and to consolidate our programs and services. To do that in the current facilities was not realistic," she said, adding that the new structure would be the first new clinic the 90-year-old organization has built in the Denver area.
Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life, told Cybercast News Service on Thursday that her organization has begun making plans to launch protests and initiate boycotts when construction on the new structure begins.
"We have a strong presence at their current 'death camp,' where we save about 100 babies a year," she said. "Every day they kill, protesters are there, and we don't intend to go away anytime soon."
Hanks said she suspected PPRM might be looking to move to another location since "they've really let that facility go down the tubes. It's all sprayed with graffiti, and they haven't tried to clean it up or anything."
Over the next few months, pro-life forces "intend to try to get more 'troops' and step up our pressure and efforts to expose the lies Planned Parenthood tells," Hanks added, "such as denying that they target minorities."
"Every day in this country, 1,600 black babies die at the hands of abortionists, and they tend to put their centers right in the heart of minority neighborhoods," Hanks said. "And this new facility is no exception," because it's to be built in an area with more minority residents than the current structures.
"Let's face it," she added, Planned Parenthood is "in the business to kill babies for profit."
However, Durgin responded that African-American women received only 7 percent of the abortions it provided in 2006, compared with 55.5 percent for white women, and PPRM served 125,000 people in five states last year. Of those, 8,800 African-American women received abortions.
As Cybercast News Service previously reported, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America last year experienced a drop in donations and the first fall in income from clinics in its history.
Jim Sedlak, executive director of Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP) International, said he believes those factors have led the PPFA and its affiliates to engage in what he called "a series of cover-ups" across the country.
"This is now the third major facility that they've tried to build secretly," Sedlak told Cybercast News Service on Thursday. Besides Denver, "one was in Portland, Ore., where they tried to go through a front organization to buy the land from the city and build" until the ruse was discovered.
And in Aurora, Ill., a 22,000-square-foot structure was built under a fake name, he said.
"The sign out front said 'Gemini Health Systems,'" Sedlak said. "It was only about a month ago that one of the workers got suspicious when he saw they were installing bullet-proof glass. He started raising questions, which got to local reporters, and the reporters found out that it's a Planned Parenthood facility" set to open Sept. 18.
"Planned Parenthood has such a bad name that they can't even tell people when they're planning to build a building," he said. "They have to sneak into a community."
As a result, STOPP is warning people across the nation that "if you have a major new health facility in your area at all, suspect it may be Planned Parenthood and go find out about it," said Sedlak.
Back in Denver, the PPRM work site will be fenced, and protesters will not be allowed inside the boundaries of private property, Durgin said. "We don't expect to have a police presence on a daily basis unless we need it," she said, "in which case we'll call for it, and I have been assured we will get it."
Sedlak responded that the police in Denver have been occupied, though not quite in the way Durgin thought they would be.
"There have been two arrests out there, but they were local people who were harassing the protestors," he said.
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By Randy Hall
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August 24, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - The nation's biggest abortion provider is seeking to avoid opposition when buying property or building new facilities through secrecy, or what one pro-life leader called "a series of cover-ups" in such places as Denver, Colo., Portland, Ore., and Aurora, Ill.
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM) - a division of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America - announced this week it will break ground in November on a $4.2 million headquarters and clinic on northwest Denver property it bought secretly last year.
Planned Parenthood, which receives $305.3 million in tax dollars a year, is the largest abortion chain in the United States and has killed more than 3 million children by abortion, according to the American Life League.
PPRM Senior Vice President Leslie Durgin told the Denver Post that the organization initially intended to complete the entire project in secrecy to avoid the kind of protests and delays Planned Parenthood building projects have encountered elsewhere.
But when a reporter discovered that the group had bought an entire city block under a different name, the organization acknowledged that ground would be broken for its new 50,000-square-foot, three-story center in November and that the facility was slated to begin operation in August 2008.
PPRM moved to its current Denver location, a former bank, in 1973, Durgin said. Twenty-three years later, it added a second location for administrative offices.
"We really wanted to build a state-of-the-art health-care facility and to consolidate our programs and services. To do that in the current facilities was not realistic," she said, adding that the new structure would be the first new clinic the 90-year-old organization has built in the Denver area.
Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life, told Cybercast News Service on Thursday that her organization has begun making plans to launch protests and initiate boycotts when construction on the new structure begins.
"We have a strong presence at their current 'death camp,' where we save about 100 babies a year," she said. "Every day they kill, protesters are there, and we don't intend to go away anytime soon."
Hanks said she suspected PPRM might be looking to move to another location since "they've really let that facility go down the tubes. It's all sprayed with graffiti, and they haven't tried to clean it up or anything."
Over the next few months, pro-life forces "intend to try to get more 'troops' and step up our pressure and efforts to expose the lies Planned Parenthood tells," Hanks added, "such as denying that they target minorities."
"Every day in this country, 1,600 black babies die at the hands of abortionists, and they tend to put their centers right in the heart of minority neighborhoods," Hanks said. "And this new facility is no exception," because it's to be built in an area with more minority residents than the current structures.
"Let's face it," she added, Planned Parenthood is "in the business to kill babies for profit."
However, Durgin responded that African-American women received only 7 percent of the abortions it provided in 2006, compared with 55.5 percent for white women, and PPRM served 125,000 people in five states last year. Of those, 8,800 African-American women received abortions.
As Cybercast News Service previously reported, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America last year experienced a drop in donations and the first fall in income from clinics in its history.
Jim Sedlak, executive director of Stop Planned Parenthood (STOPP) International, said he believes those factors have led the PPFA and its affiliates to engage in what he called "a series of cover-ups" across the country.
"This is now the third major facility that they've tried to build secretly," Sedlak told Cybercast News Service on Thursday. Besides Denver, "one was in Portland, Ore., where they tried to go through a front organization to buy the land from the city and build" until the ruse was discovered.
And in Aurora, Ill., a 22,000-square-foot structure was built under a fake name, he said.
"The sign out front said 'Gemini Health Systems,'" Sedlak said. "It was only about a month ago that one of the workers got suspicious when he saw they were installing bullet-proof glass. He started raising questions, which got to local reporters, and the reporters found out that it's a Planned Parenthood facility" set to open Sept. 18.
"Planned Parenthood has such a bad name that they can't even tell people when they're planning to build a building," he said. "They have to sneak into a community."
As a result, STOPP is warning people across the nation that "if you have a major new health facility in your area at all, suspect it may be Planned Parenthood and go find out about it," said Sedlak.
Back in Denver, the PPRM work site will be fenced, and protesters will not be allowed inside the boundaries of private property, Durgin said. "We don't expect to have a police presence on a daily basis unless we need it," she said, "in which case we'll call for it, and I have been assured we will get it."
Sedlak responded that the police in Denver have been occupied, though not quite in the way Durgin thought they would be.
"There have been two arrests out there, but they were local people who were harassing the protestors," he said.
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD FORTHRIGHT or EXPOSED?
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Planned Parent Decides To "Be Forth Right"
That's right. Planned Parenthood has, according to the newspaper, "decided the best way to handle that was to be forth right about it's plans."
The interesting part is what "that" was.
"That" was their intention to complete a new $4.2 million headquarters and clinic in Denver. In secrecy. At least that's what they told the Denver Post. (Read story).
Leslie Durgin, a Planned Parenthood senior vice president said, "We changed that several months ago. We decided that wasn't right for us."
The reason Planned Parenthood changed their mind had more to do with being exposed than with a desire to be "forth right." At least, in my opinion.
Pro-life people in the Denver area became aware of their plans and called them on it, thus leading to their decision to come clean.
I guess it's understandable that Planned Parenthood can believe they can cover up some of their illegal activities regarding abortions to minors without proper consent and the like. Although, they have been caught in several such situations recently, only they would know how much they have actually gotten away with.
But did they really think they could build a $4.2 million, 50,000 square foot building in secret?
And even more important, what would lead them to come to that conclusion? That's a big building.
Perhaps they have become so emboldened by recent victories that they believe they are invincible--also a thought not lost to the gay rights activists.
Thank God for those who are willing to stand up for the sanctity of life and do so publicly.
Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life, said,"Let's face it,they're in the business to kill babies for profit. First and foremost, they get young girls hooked on their birth control pills, which don't work." She also said of the contractors who have been working on the "secret" project,"Companies in the business of trying to build a death camp need to be exposed."
Lolita Hanks (no relation to Leslie) and a member of Colorado Right To Life said, "As an African-American woman, I find it disturbing that their clinics that do abortions tend to be in African-American neighborhoods."
And that, of course, is exactly where this new clinic is being built.
Many across the nation read the blogs and comments on this website. If you live or have family in the Denver area, please join the pro-life people as they advocate for life. If you do not live in the area, please remember them in prayer as they stand for life.
Life is a gift and it is worth fighting for.
______________
Gary Randall
President
Faith & Freedom
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Planned Parent Decides To "Be Forth Right"
That's right. Planned Parenthood has, according to the newspaper, "decided the best way to handle that was to be forth right about it's plans."
The interesting part is what "that" was.
"That" was their intention to complete a new $4.2 million headquarters and clinic in Denver. In secrecy. At least that's what they told the Denver Post. (Read story).
Leslie Durgin, a Planned Parenthood senior vice president said, "We changed that several months ago. We decided that wasn't right for us."
The reason Planned Parenthood changed their mind had more to do with being exposed than with a desire to be "forth right." At least, in my opinion.
Pro-life people in the Denver area became aware of their plans and called them on it, thus leading to their decision to come clean.
I guess it's understandable that Planned Parenthood can believe they can cover up some of their illegal activities regarding abortions to minors without proper consent and the like. Although, they have been caught in several such situations recently, only they would know how much they have actually gotten away with.
But did they really think they could build a $4.2 million, 50,000 square foot building in secret?
And even more important, what would lead them to come to that conclusion? That's a big building.
Perhaps they have become so emboldened by recent victories that they believe they are invincible--also a thought not lost to the gay rights activists.
Thank God for those who are willing to stand up for the sanctity of life and do so publicly.
Leslie Hanks, vice president of Colorado Right to Life, said,"Let's face it,they're in the business to kill babies for profit. First and foremost, they get young girls hooked on their birth control pills, which don't work." She also said of the contractors who have been working on the "secret" project,"Companies in the business of trying to build a death camp need to be exposed."
Lolita Hanks (no relation to Leslie) and a member of Colorado Right To Life said, "As an African-American woman, I find it disturbing that their clinics that do abortions tend to be in African-American neighborhoods."
And that, of course, is exactly where this new clinic is being built.
Many across the nation read the blogs and comments on this website. If you live or have family in the Denver area, please join the pro-life people as they advocate for life. If you do not live in the area, please remember them in prayer as they stand for life.
Life is a gift and it is worth fighting for.
______________
Gary Randall
President
Faith & Freedom
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Michael Vick Should Have Invested His Money into Killing Babies Instead of Dog Fighting
Stand True asks PETA to cry out for the protection of babies as well as dogs
OPINION, Aug. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- Stand True Ministries President, Bryan Kemper, released the following commentary about the hypocrisy of PETA, The Federal Government and the NFL regarding the Michael Vick Scandal. "I am disgusted that we as a nation are so outraged over dog fighting while thousands of babies are being mutilated daily" said Kemper.
While the title of this commentary is meant to be sarcastic, it is sadly true. Michael could have invested his money into an abortion clinic and he would not be in trouble, in fact he would be protected. It may be against federal law to inflict cruelty on animals but it is perfectly fine according to the law to dismember little baby boys and girls any time in the first nine months of their lives.
I am horrified by dog fighting just like most people; I think it is a barbaric practice and should be illegal. I am not however, okay with the fact that our federal government allows more protection to a dog than a human person. It is absolutely asinine that we as a society can get in an uproar about dog fighting and still allow the destruction of almost 4,000 precious children each day.
Organizations like PETA are in their own words, "bellowing for strong action on behalf of dogs". They want the NFL to make rules about its players and their involvement in dog fighting and animal cruelty. I wonder if PETA would support the NFL if they made rules against its players being involved in paying so called "doctors" to kill their own children.
John Rolfe, a writer for Sports Illustrated wrote, "Only a drooling, spiral-eyed sadist would insist that drowning, hanging or electrocuting innocent dogs should be an un-punishable offense, let alone allowing them to rip each other to shreds for fun and profit". I wonder if he would include injecting saline into a baby while still in the womb, or suctioning their body parts off with a hose into that category.
Where are we heading as a nation if we cannot protect the most innocent and vulnerable citizens, the pre- born children, yet we can offer such protection to dogs? Since when are dogs more human than babies? God have mercy on our nation, we are so blind.
PETA is asking the public to help demand that the NFL add cruelty to animals to its personal conduct rules. I want to ask the public to ask PETA to demand the same protection for babies in the womb. I challenge PETA to show some consistency in their crusade against cruelty and work for the same protection for humans as it does for animals.
Call PETA at 757-622-PETA (7382) and ask them why they won't stand up for the babies with the same passion they stand up for the dogs.
Editors: Bryan Kemper is available for comment at 54
Stand True asks PETA to cry out for the protection of babies as well as dogs
OPINION, Aug. 22 /Christian Newswire/ -- Stand True Ministries President, Bryan Kemper, released the following commentary about the hypocrisy of PETA, The Federal Government and the NFL regarding the Michael Vick Scandal. "I am disgusted that we as a nation are so outraged over dog fighting while thousands of babies are being mutilated daily" said Kemper.
While the title of this commentary is meant to be sarcastic, it is sadly true. Michael could have invested his money into an abortion clinic and he would not be in trouble, in fact he would be protected. It may be against federal law to inflict cruelty on animals but it is perfectly fine according to the law to dismember little baby boys and girls any time in the first nine months of their lives.
I am horrified by dog fighting just like most people; I think it is a barbaric practice and should be illegal. I am not however, okay with the fact that our federal government allows more protection to a dog than a human person. It is absolutely asinine that we as a society can get in an uproar about dog fighting and still allow the destruction of almost 4,000 precious children each day.
Organizations like PETA are in their own words, "bellowing for strong action on behalf of dogs". They want the NFL to make rules about its players and their involvement in dog fighting and animal cruelty. I wonder if PETA would support the NFL if they made rules against its players being involved in paying so called "doctors" to kill their own children.
John Rolfe, a writer for Sports Illustrated wrote, "Only a drooling, spiral-eyed sadist would insist that drowning, hanging or electrocuting innocent dogs should be an un-punishable offense, let alone allowing them to rip each other to shreds for fun and profit". I wonder if he would include injecting saline into a baby while still in the womb, or suctioning their body parts off with a hose into that category.
Where are we heading as a nation if we cannot protect the most innocent and vulnerable citizens, the pre- born children, yet we can offer such protection to dogs? Since when are dogs more human than babies? God have mercy on our nation, we are so blind.
PETA is asking the public to help demand that the NFL add cruelty to animals to its personal conduct rules. I want to ask the public to ask PETA to demand the same protection for babies in the womb. I challenge PETA to show some consistency in their crusade against cruelty and work for the same protection for humans as it does for animals.
Call PETA at 757-622-PETA (7382) and ask them why they won't stand up for the babies with the same passion they stand up for the dogs.
Editors: Bryan Kemper is available for comment at 54
Tuesday, August 07, 2007
COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE'S
2007 - "LIGHT ON LIFE BANQUET"
September 22, 2007
6:00 P.M.
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AN EVENING WITH PHILL KLINE:
THE MAN WHO PUT HIS LIFE AND CAREER
ON THE LINE TO SEE THIS DREAM BECOME
REALITY!!!
Visualize abortionists behind bars. . .
Wichita, KS - August 3, 2007 - Operation Rescue has obtained the mug shot of George R. Tiller who was arraigned today in Sedgwick County Court on 19 criminal counts of illegal late-term abortions. (Read story) The photo is courtesy of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department.
2007 - "LIGHT ON LIFE BANQUET"
September 22, 2007
6:00 P.M.
For tickets and more info 303-753-9394
AN EVENING WITH PHILL KLINE:
THE MAN WHO PUT HIS LIFE AND CAREER
ON THE LINE TO SEE THIS DREAM BECOME
REALITY!!!
Visualize abortionists behind bars. . .
Wichita, KS - August 3, 2007 - Operation Rescue has obtained the mug shot of George R. Tiller who was arraigned today in Sedgwick County Court on 19 criminal counts of illegal late-term abortions. (Read story) The photo is courtesy of the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Department.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
THANK YOU ALVEDA KING!!!
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Byrd dogged
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56850
By Gary DeMar
© 2007
Poor Michael Vick. The multi-talented quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons picked the wrong side business. Football doesn't seem to be enough to satisfy his interests. Vick and his associates got involved in the dog fighting business. His story has made front-page news across the country. USA Today carried an editorial that read, "Window on a cruel world." The editorial reports, "Vick and two associates allegedly 'executed approximately eight dogs ... by various methods, including hanging, drowning and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground.'" The editorial continues: "The animals' crime? They performed badly in 'testing' sessions to see how viciously they world fight."
If Vick had picked the abortion business, no one would have batted an eye. It would have been considered a shrewd business venture. In fact, he would be praised as a champion of women's rights. And if he had set up a "clinic" in a black neighborhood, he would have been called a "champion of the poor."
Every abortion is an execution. No, that's not right. An execution assumes a capital offense. Preborn babies are innocent victims. I heard CNN talker Nancy Grace describe the dog killings as murder and say Vick will probably get off like O.J. Simpson did because he's a celebrity athlete. How incredibly stupid!
(Column continues below)
A preborn baby's head can be crushed in the partial-birth abortion procedure, and it's touted as a fundamental right. But don't slam a dog to the ground. That would be cruel. Am I missing something?
West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, who voted no on making harming or killing a preborn baby in the commission of a crime a criminal offense, indirectly called for Vick's execution. Byrd said he's witnessed one execution but wouldn't mind seeing another "if it involves this cruel, sadistic, cannibalistic business of training innocent, vulnerable creatures to kill." Now if we can only get him to stand up for the unborn like he stands up for dogs.
Alveda King, pastoral associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said that the allegations of animal cruelty announced in the case against Michael Vick demonstrate the disparity in the way the media have more regard for animals than they do for the unborn: "The appalling cruelty to dogs described in the complaint against Michael Vick immediately reminds me of another kind of cruelty that is not only not punished, but is protected by our authorities," said Dr. King. "I'm talking about the incredible cruelty suffered by babies who are stabbed, have limb torn from limb, or have their skulls crushed in the womb by abortionists. The pain these children endure is undoubtedly excruciating, yet we close our eyes and look the other way in the name of 'choice.'"
Our society is sick. How is it possible to rationalize the killing of preborn babies and then protest mightily against animal cruelty?
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Byrd dogged
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56850
By Gary DeMar
© 2007
Poor Michael Vick. The multi-talented quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons picked the wrong side business. Football doesn't seem to be enough to satisfy his interests. Vick and his associates got involved in the dog fighting business. His story has made front-page news across the country. USA Today carried an editorial that read, "Window on a cruel world." The editorial reports, "Vick and two associates allegedly 'executed approximately eight dogs ... by various methods, including hanging, drowning and slamming at least one dog's body to the ground.'" The editorial continues: "The animals' crime? They performed badly in 'testing' sessions to see how viciously they world fight."
If Vick had picked the abortion business, no one would have batted an eye. It would have been considered a shrewd business venture. In fact, he would be praised as a champion of women's rights. And if he had set up a "clinic" in a black neighborhood, he would have been called a "champion of the poor."
Every abortion is an execution. No, that's not right. An execution assumes a capital offense. Preborn babies are innocent victims. I heard CNN talker Nancy Grace describe the dog killings as murder and say Vick will probably get off like O.J. Simpson did because he's a celebrity athlete. How incredibly stupid!
(Column continues below)
A preborn baby's head can be crushed in the partial-birth abortion procedure, and it's touted as a fundamental right. But don't slam a dog to the ground. That would be cruel. Am I missing something?
West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, who voted no on making harming or killing a preborn baby in the commission of a crime a criminal offense, indirectly called for Vick's execution. Byrd said he's witnessed one execution but wouldn't mind seeing another "if it involves this cruel, sadistic, cannibalistic business of training innocent, vulnerable creatures to kill." Now if we can only get him to stand up for the unborn like he stands up for dogs.
Alveda King, pastoral associate of Priests for Life and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., said that the allegations of animal cruelty announced in the case against Michael Vick demonstrate the disparity in the way the media have more regard for animals than they do for the unborn: "The appalling cruelty to dogs described in the complaint against Michael Vick immediately reminds me of another kind of cruelty that is not only not punished, but is protected by our authorities," said Dr. King. "I'm talking about the incredible cruelty suffered by babies who are stabbed, have limb torn from limb, or have their skulls crushed in the womb by abortionists. The pain these children endure is undoubtedly excruciating, yet we close our eyes and look the other way in the name of 'choice.'"
Our society is sick. How is it possible to rationalize the killing of preborn babies and then protest mightily against animal cruelty?
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Gary DeMar is president of American Vision, author of 23 books, including "Last Days Madness" and "Is Jesus Coming Soon?" and editor of The Biblical Worldview.
Planned Parenthood rape stats questioned
Activists say dozens of 'cases' missing
July 26, 2007
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56860
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A pro-life organization in Waco, Texas, is calling for an explanation of a huge discrepancy between statistics regarding statutory rape cases Planned Parenthood says it has reported, and the number of those cases documented by law enforcement or other authorities.
Officials with Prolife Waco say from all official sources, they were able to collect fewer than 10 reports of suspected statutory rape each year. The actual average compiled was 7.3 reports annually. Planned Parenthood, however, has made public statements that it is reporting such cases at the rate of 98 per year.
"Pro-Life Waco finds reports to the Waco [police department] and the [Texas Department of Family and Protective Services] of just 7.3 per year using very generous assumptions. WHERE ARE THE OTHER 91 REPORTS PER YEAR?" the organization asked.
(Story continues below)
Multiple messages requesting an explanation left by WND at Waco's Planned Parenthood office with answering services for the group's director, assistant, and education leader were not returned.
John Pisciotta, the co-director for Pro-Life Waco, said, "The differential is huge and the legal issue is even bigger. This is not just about make-believe conversations with Planned Parenthood counselors revealing an obvious intent to avoid the law for mandatory reporting of statutory rape."
The issue being raised in Waco has been addressed in other pro-life campaigns, as well as prosecutors. In Kansas, former Attorney General Phill Kline questioned how dozens of underage girls could be provided abortions in that state within a year, without a single case of statutory rape.
Pro-Life Waco, whose website quotes Mother Teresa's statement from 1997: "If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" said the missing cases are "where the bodies and souls of real children have been wounded by Planned Parenthood failure to report statutory rape of its child-clients."
Pro-life activists noted in Ohio in 2005, a lawsuit against a Planned Parenthood there alleged a 14-year-old was impregnated by her soccer coach who took her in for an abortion. But they said a required report to law enforcement never was filed.
A second Ohio case, Waco activists said, involved a young girl raped over a period of five years starting at age 13 by her father. She also was given an abortion and told a Planned Parenthood worker she had been raped by her father, but no law enforcement agency was told.
Pro-Life Waco said it obtained Planned Parenthood Waco's record of statutory rape reporting through an investigator who used Texas' open records law.
"For Planned Parenthood, the mandatory reporting of statutory rape would of course come into play when girls 16 and under seek abortions," Pro-Life Waco said. "But, this is by no means just an issue relating to abortion. Any indication of statutory rape as defined in Texas law would trigger a mandatory report to law enforcement. This would include an underage girl coming to Planned Parenthood for contraception or an underage girl coming into Planned Parenthood for a sexually transmitted disease."
Officials said they first sought the records from the Waco Police Department, and found only 20 reports had been made for the multiple-year period. And information from the state agency resulted in the addition of only about four reports per year, resulting in the average of 7.3.
However, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Waco was asked about the numbers for a story in the Waco Tribune Herald, and said there had been 147 reports in about 18 months.
Pisciotta noted the Texas law requires "a report to law enforcement when a health care facility encounters a sexually active female child 13 or younger. For girls 14,15, or 16, a report is mandated if the child's sex partner is three or more years older than the victim."
Pisciotta also noted in May UCLA sophomore Lila Rose visited two Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clinics and spun a story about being 15 and pregnant by her 23-year-old boyfriend.
"Both clinics encouraged her to lie about her age to circumvent a required statutory rape report under California law and to protect her boyfriend," he said.
And in 2002, Life Dynamics of Denton, Texas, did a nationwide investigation, making undercover calls to clinics presenting a similar scenario. In that assessment, 91 percent of the clinics contacted urged the girl to conceal or lie about her age.
The results of that study are at a Child Predators website.
Previous stories:
Court allows display of 'bloody' aborted babies
Abortion clinic director arrested
Christian ministry buys former abortion clinic
Botched procedure shuts down abortion business
StandUpGirls: 'You're not alone'
Dad returns baby's body to abortion clinic
Abortionist arrested in Florida investigation
'Child-rape cases being ignored'
IMs reaching women vulnerable to abortion
Mom, meet your (unborn) child!
Planned Parenthood access to public purse in jeopardy
Abortion business closes because clients 'too poor'
'Nurse' accused of handing out fatal abortion drug
Operation Rescue seeks abortion business closure.
Clinic shuts down after abortionist disappears
Pro-life group gets abortionist's license revoked
Rules convince another abortionist to quit
Yet another abortionist can't stand heat, quits
Half-dozen abortion clinics shut down
'Aborted' baby born alive, authorities say
Abortionists investigated for possible baby murder
10 million females illegally aborted in India
Operation Rescue buys abortion clinic
Indian tribe challenges abortion law with clinic
Related commentary:
Striking back at Planned Parenthood
Activists say dozens of 'cases' missing
July 26, 2007
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56860
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A pro-life organization in Waco, Texas, is calling for an explanation of a huge discrepancy between statistics regarding statutory rape cases Planned Parenthood says it has reported, and the number of those cases documented by law enforcement or other authorities.
Officials with Prolife Waco say from all official sources, they were able to collect fewer than 10 reports of suspected statutory rape each year. The actual average compiled was 7.3 reports annually. Planned Parenthood, however, has made public statements that it is reporting such cases at the rate of 98 per year.
"Pro-Life Waco finds reports to the Waco [police department] and the [Texas Department of Family and Protective Services] of just 7.3 per year using very generous assumptions. WHERE ARE THE OTHER 91 REPORTS PER YEAR?" the organization asked.
(Story continues below)
Multiple messages requesting an explanation left by WND at Waco's Planned Parenthood office with answering services for the group's director, assistant, and education leader were not returned.
John Pisciotta, the co-director for Pro-Life Waco, said, "The differential is huge and the legal issue is even bigger. This is not just about make-believe conversations with Planned Parenthood counselors revealing an obvious intent to avoid the law for mandatory reporting of statutory rape."
The issue being raised in Waco has been addressed in other pro-life campaigns, as well as prosecutors. In Kansas, former Attorney General Phill Kline questioned how dozens of underage girls could be provided abortions in that state within a year, without a single case of statutory rape.
Pro-Life Waco, whose website quotes Mother Teresa's statement from 1997: "If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?" said the missing cases are "where the bodies and souls of real children have been wounded by Planned Parenthood failure to report statutory rape of its child-clients."
Pro-life activists noted in Ohio in 2005, a lawsuit against a Planned Parenthood there alleged a 14-year-old was impregnated by her soccer coach who took her in for an abortion. But they said a required report to law enforcement never was filed.
A second Ohio case, Waco activists said, involved a young girl raped over a period of five years starting at age 13 by her father. She also was given an abortion and told a Planned Parenthood worker she had been raped by her father, but no law enforcement agency was told.
Pro-Life Waco said it obtained Planned Parenthood Waco's record of statutory rape reporting through an investigator who used Texas' open records law.
"For Planned Parenthood, the mandatory reporting of statutory rape would of course come into play when girls 16 and under seek abortions," Pro-Life Waco said. "But, this is by no means just an issue relating to abortion. Any indication of statutory rape as defined in Texas law would trigger a mandatory report to law enforcement. This would include an underage girl coming to Planned Parenthood for contraception or an underage girl coming into Planned Parenthood for a sexually transmitted disease."
Officials said they first sought the records from the Waco Police Department, and found only 20 reports had been made for the multiple-year period. And information from the state agency resulted in the addition of only about four reports per year, resulting in the average of 7.3.
However, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Waco was asked about the numbers for a story in the Waco Tribune Herald, and said there had been 147 reports in about 18 months.
Pisciotta noted the Texas law requires "a report to law enforcement when a health care facility encounters a sexually active female child 13 or younger. For girls 14,15, or 16, a report is mandated if the child's sex partner is three or more years older than the victim."
Pisciotta also noted in May UCLA sophomore Lila Rose visited two Los Angeles Planned Parenthood clinics and spun a story about being 15 and pregnant by her 23-year-old boyfriend.
"Both clinics encouraged her to lie about her age to circumvent a required statutory rape report under California law and to protect her boyfriend," he said.
And in 2002, Life Dynamics of Denton, Texas, did a nationwide investigation, making undercover calls to clinics presenting a similar scenario. In that assessment, 91 percent of the clinics contacted urged the girl to conceal or lie about her age.
The results of that study are at a Child Predators website.
Previous stories:
Court allows display of 'bloody' aborted babies
Abortion clinic director arrested
Christian ministry buys former abortion clinic
Botched procedure shuts down abortion business
StandUpGirls: 'You're not alone'
Dad returns baby's body to abortion clinic
Abortionist arrested in Florida investigation
'Child-rape cases being ignored'
IMs reaching women vulnerable to abortion
Mom, meet your (unborn) child!
Planned Parenthood access to public purse in jeopardy
Abortion business closes because clients 'too poor'
'Nurse' accused of handing out fatal abortion drug
Operation Rescue seeks abortion business closure.
Clinic shuts down after abortionist disappears
Pro-life group gets abortionist's license revoked
Rules convince another abortionist to quit
Yet another abortionist can't stand heat, quits
Half-dozen abortion clinics shut down
'Aborted' baby born alive, authorities say
Abortionists investigated for possible baby murder
10 million females illegally aborted in India
Operation Rescue buys abortion clinic
Indian tribe challenges abortion law with clinic
Related commentary:
Striking back at Planned Parenthood
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Suspect in child rape found dead
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Charges filed when protesters' photos prove trip to abortionist
Posted: July 24, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A sexual assault suspect arrested after pro-life protesters gave police a photograph showing his vehicle at an abortion clinic where his victim reported getting an abortion has been found dead.
Authorities in Bryant, Ark., have confirmed to WND that Jeffrey Dean Cheshier, 41, was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound by deputies in Garland County who responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in a private driveway.
Cheshier had been arrested after Angela Michael, who runs Small Victories with her husband and children, was able to document for police the fact that Cheshier's vehicle was at an abortion clinic in Granite City, Ill., at the time the victim reportedly claimed to have been taken there for an abortion.
Bryant, Ark., Det. Jimmy Long confirmed it was the photograph from Small Victories that helped secure a case against Cheshier.
(Story continues below)
An underage girl had accused him of rape, but she also reported he forced her to go to the "Hope" Clinic for Women abortion business in Granite City for an abortion, so there was no evidence.
The protesters' photograph provided an identifiable license plate number on the suspect's car at the abortion clinic when the victim claimed to have been there, police said.
The executive director of the abortion clinic, Sally Burgess, told KSDK television she knew nothing about this particular case but the business has safeguards in place to protect juveniles.
Authorities said Cheshier had been free on bond pending trial on the various charges against him.
According to reports, a witness heard a "pop like a bottle rocket" and a deputy found the body a short time later. Court officials confirmed Cheshier had been scheduled for trial starting the first week in September, and that the case had not yet been dismissed.
"This unfortunate crime of child rape is played out every day," Angela Michaels said in a prepared statement. "This one just got caught. Unfortunately, it ended tragically. One can only imagine the pain and guilt Cheshier felt after stealing this young girl's innocence that would force a man in the prime of his life to take the coward's way out of his problems."
She told WND the case was a tragedy for all involved.
"We knew this man had to face judgment, to go before a jury and a judge," she said. "We really had been hoping to reach this man, to save this man, to have this man repent of his crime."
The young girl, 13 when the assaults apparently started and now 15, now will have to deal with the trauma of being attacked without an assailant to confront, she said.
And she said equally important are the other victims.
"I think the world needs to take note of this. How many more victims are out there?" she asked. "And why is the abortion industry allowed to cover up these attacks."
The Michaels, for their Christian ministry, have spent more than 14 years outside the Granite City abortion business protesting and taking photographs of abortionists, clinic employees and customers.
The victim had reported to police that Cheshier had been assaulting her over a period of time when officers arrived at the home for a call regarding a domestic disturbance.
Angela Michael said the Granite City clinic is known nationwide because of the circumstances. Its abortionists do late-term abortions and the state of Illinois has no parental notification law.
The ministry parks its ultrasound van on the public street in front of the abortion business and encourages girls to miss their abortion appointments. Angela Michael said she's seen "an abundance" of cases where an older man obviously is forcing an underage girl into the clinic.
Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline also unsuccessfully battled for charges to be developed in many cases apparently involving underage victims.
Kline had cited the 2003 Kansas state statistic that there were 78 abortions on girls under the age of 15. In a state where the legal age of consent is 16, how could 78 girls become pregnant and obtain abortions without a single report of sexual assault, or rape, on a child, he wondered.
He later lost his bid for re-election to an opponent who has expressed support for the abortion industry.
SUPREME FRAUD: Unmasking Roe v. Wade, America's most outrageous judicial decision
Previous stories:
Court gives 'Small Victories' right to posters
Ministry's photograph gives evidence of forced abortion
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Charges filed when protesters' photos prove trip to abortionist
Posted: July 24, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A sexual assault suspect arrested after pro-life protesters gave police a photograph showing his vehicle at an abortion clinic where his victim reported getting an abortion has been found dead.
Authorities in Bryant, Ark., have confirmed to WND that Jeffrey Dean Cheshier, 41, was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound by deputies in Garland County who responded to a report of a suspicious vehicle in a private driveway.
Cheshier had been arrested after Angela Michael, who runs Small Victories with her husband and children, was able to document for police the fact that Cheshier's vehicle was at an abortion clinic in Granite City, Ill., at the time the victim reportedly claimed to have been taken there for an abortion.
Bryant, Ark., Det. Jimmy Long confirmed it was the photograph from Small Victories that helped secure a case against Cheshier.
(Story continues below)
An underage girl had accused him of rape, but she also reported he forced her to go to the "Hope" Clinic for Women abortion business in Granite City for an abortion, so there was no evidence.
The protesters' photograph provided an identifiable license plate number on the suspect's car at the abortion clinic when the victim claimed to have been there, police said.
The executive director of the abortion clinic, Sally Burgess, told KSDK television she knew nothing about this particular case but the business has safeguards in place to protect juveniles.
Authorities said Cheshier had been free on bond pending trial on the various charges against him.
According to reports, a witness heard a "pop like a bottle rocket" and a deputy found the body a short time later. Court officials confirmed Cheshier had been scheduled for trial starting the first week in September, and that the case had not yet been dismissed.
"This unfortunate crime of child rape is played out every day," Angela Michaels said in a prepared statement. "This one just got caught. Unfortunately, it ended tragically. One can only imagine the pain and guilt Cheshier felt after stealing this young girl's innocence that would force a man in the prime of his life to take the coward's way out of his problems."
She told WND the case was a tragedy for all involved.
"We knew this man had to face judgment, to go before a jury and a judge," she said. "We really had been hoping to reach this man, to save this man, to have this man repent of his crime."
The young girl, 13 when the assaults apparently started and now 15, now will have to deal with the trauma of being attacked without an assailant to confront, she said.
And she said equally important are the other victims.
"I think the world needs to take note of this. How many more victims are out there?" she asked. "And why is the abortion industry allowed to cover up these attacks."
The Michaels, for their Christian ministry, have spent more than 14 years outside the Granite City abortion business protesting and taking photographs of abortionists, clinic employees and customers.
The victim had reported to police that Cheshier had been assaulting her over a period of time when officers arrived at the home for a call regarding a domestic disturbance.
Angela Michael said the Granite City clinic is known nationwide because of the circumstances. Its abortionists do late-term abortions and the state of Illinois has no parental notification law.
The ministry parks its ultrasound van on the public street in front of the abortion business and encourages girls to miss their abortion appointments. Angela Michael said she's seen "an abundance" of cases where an older man obviously is forcing an underage girl into the clinic.
Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline also unsuccessfully battled for charges to be developed in many cases apparently involving underage victims.
Kline had cited the 2003 Kansas state statistic that there were 78 abortions on girls under the age of 15. In a state where the legal age of consent is 16, how could 78 girls become pregnant and obtain abortions without a single report of sexual assault, or rape, on a child, he wondered.
He later lost his bid for re-election to an opponent who has expressed support for the abortion industry.
SUPREME FRAUD: Unmasking Roe v. Wade, America's most outrageous judicial decision
Previous stories:
Court gives 'Small Victories' right to posters
Ministry's photograph gives evidence of forced abortion
Thursday, July 19, 2007
AMERICA'S BLAND INDIFFERENCE TO CARNAGE
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56736
Thursday, July 19, 2007
LAW OF THE LAND
Court allows display of 'bloody' aborted babies
Case addresses 'America's bland indifference to this carnage'
Posted: July 19, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Some signs used by pro-life protesters to spur a public reaction against abortion may be graphic, but that doesn't mean they're illegal and can be confiscated, according to a new ruling from the Minnesota Supreme Court.
The decision reversed the criminal convictions of pro-life protesters Ron Rudnick and Luke Otterstad, who displayed the signs on an overpass in the Twin Cities suburb of Anoka during the run-up to the 2004 national elections.
One sign displayed a large color photograph of an aborted infant; the other branded a local congressional candidate as "pro-abortion." The two were jailed by police, their signs were taken away, and they were convicted of causing a "criminal nuisance."
But the state's highest court unanimously reversed the convictions, determining that prosecutors simply failed to prove their case: that the signs created any danger to the public.
(Story continues below)
"Our decision does not foreclose the possibility that some sign might distract motorists in such a way as to endanger the public and constitute a public nuisance. Nor does our decision require a police officer on the scene to wait until an accident occurs or is threatened before intervening. An officer can and should use his or her experience and expertise to determine whether a sign constitutes a danger to a considerable number of members of the public before that danger manifests itself in injuries," the court opinion said.
"But to maintain a conviction … for endangering the safety of the public, the state must prove through testimony and evidence that the public was in fact endangered. Here, the state has not done so," the opinion said.
"Graphic photos are controversial even among pro-lifers," said Tom Brejcha, chief counsel of Thomas More Society, which argued the case. "We urge that they be used prudently and sparingly – with warning signs wherever possible.
"But our society has to confront the brutal, bloody realities of this murderous atrocity, as mere abstract rhetoric too often fails to trigger the deep, visceral reaction needed to overcome contemporary America's bland indifference to this carnage," he said.
The protesters were arrested and jailed twice for holding the signs in view of traffic in Anoka. Fines and prison sentences were imposed, although they were suspended pending the appeals.
But the court's conclusion in the case said the prosecution hadn't proven the signs were a criminal "nuisance" or that the city's sign ordinance even applied. Two other justices agreed with former NFL star-turned-judge Alan Page that the defendants' First Amendment rights were violated because the prosecution was "content-based," or targeting the pro-life message.
"It is impossible to convey certain messages, including the message that pro-lifers Rudnick and Otterstad sought to convey – with all its emotional content – without the use of graphic anti-abortion images," Brejcha said. "The First Amendment protects political speech that is annoying and even offensive, including speech that stirs people to anger or produces deeply unsettling effects. Those who disagree with a speaker's message must not suppress or criminalize it, but answer it with more speech."
Justice G. Barry Anderson, who wrote the main opinion for the court, said the two men described their actions as "a protest against abortion and Patty Wetterling's candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives."
But, "as evidence of a danger to the public, the state presented: the fact that an anonymous phone call was made about the signs; the fact that an accident occurred … and that a second accident occurred earlier; the fact that a driver … yelled at appellants that they had created a traffic hazard, and the nature of appellants' display," Anderson wrote.
"None of those pieces of evidence, alone or in the aggregate, establishes that appellants' signs endangered a considerable number of members of the public," he wrote. "In short, nothing in the record connects the accidents with the display."
In Page's concurring opinion, he noted that "it is clear on this record that the state's prosecution of appellants under that statute was content-based and therefore barred by the First Amendment."
"[A]bove all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content," the concurrence said.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56736
Thursday, July 19, 2007
LAW OF THE LAND
Court allows display of 'bloody' aborted babies
Case addresses 'America's bland indifference to this carnage'
Posted: July 19, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Some signs used by pro-life protesters to spur a public reaction against abortion may be graphic, but that doesn't mean they're illegal and can be confiscated, according to a new ruling from the Minnesota Supreme Court.
The decision reversed the criminal convictions of pro-life protesters Ron Rudnick and Luke Otterstad, who displayed the signs on an overpass in the Twin Cities suburb of Anoka during the run-up to the 2004 national elections.
One sign displayed a large color photograph of an aborted infant; the other branded a local congressional candidate as "pro-abortion." The two were jailed by police, their signs were taken away, and they were convicted of causing a "criminal nuisance."
But the state's highest court unanimously reversed the convictions, determining that prosecutors simply failed to prove their case: that the signs created any danger to the public.
(Story continues below)
"Our decision does not foreclose the possibility that some sign might distract motorists in such a way as to endanger the public and constitute a public nuisance. Nor does our decision require a police officer on the scene to wait until an accident occurs or is threatened before intervening. An officer can and should use his or her experience and expertise to determine whether a sign constitutes a danger to a considerable number of members of the public before that danger manifests itself in injuries," the court opinion said.
"But to maintain a conviction … for endangering the safety of the public, the state must prove through testimony and evidence that the public was in fact endangered. Here, the state has not done so," the opinion said.
"Graphic photos are controversial even among pro-lifers," said Tom Brejcha, chief counsel of Thomas More Society, which argued the case. "We urge that they be used prudently and sparingly – with warning signs wherever possible.
"But our society has to confront the brutal, bloody realities of this murderous atrocity, as mere abstract rhetoric too often fails to trigger the deep, visceral reaction needed to overcome contemporary America's bland indifference to this carnage," he said.
The protesters were arrested and jailed twice for holding the signs in view of traffic in Anoka. Fines and prison sentences were imposed, although they were suspended pending the appeals.
But the court's conclusion in the case said the prosecution hadn't proven the signs were a criminal "nuisance" or that the city's sign ordinance even applied. Two other justices agreed with former NFL star-turned-judge Alan Page that the defendants' First Amendment rights were violated because the prosecution was "content-based," or targeting the pro-life message.
"It is impossible to convey certain messages, including the message that pro-lifers Rudnick and Otterstad sought to convey – with all its emotional content – without the use of graphic anti-abortion images," Brejcha said. "The First Amendment protects political speech that is annoying and even offensive, including speech that stirs people to anger or produces deeply unsettling effects. Those who disagree with a speaker's message must not suppress or criminalize it, but answer it with more speech."
Justice G. Barry Anderson, who wrote the main opinion for the court, said the two men described their actions as "a protest against abortion and Patty Wetterling's candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives."
But, "as evidence of a danger to the public, the state presented: the fact that an anonymous phone call was made about the signs; the fact that an accident occurred … and that a second accident occurred earlier; the fact that a driver … yelled at appellants that they had created a traffic hazard, and the nature of appellants' display," Anderson wrote.
"None of those pieces of evidence, alone or in the aggregate, establishes that appellants' signs endangered a considerable number of members of the public," he wrote. "In short, nothing in the record connects the accidents with the display."
In Page's concurring opinion, he noted that "it is clear on this record that the state's prosecution of appellants under that statute was content-based and therefore barred by the First Amendment."
"[A]bove all else, the First Amendment means that government has no power to restrict expression because of its message, its ideas, its subject matter, or its content," the concurrence said.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
Conservatives, Beware of Fred Thompson
ConservativeHQ ^ | 7-2007 | Richard A. Viguerie
He disappointed conservatives during his eight years in the Senate. Is there any reason to think this Washington insider and veteran trial lawyer would be any better as President?
The frustration of conservatives is understandable. Faced with the prospects of Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, or Mitt Romney as the next Republican presidential candidate, many are pinning their hopes on former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee. Could this actor-politician be the new Ronald Reagan?
Mainstream media types assure us that he is. His record suggests otherwise.
This is the second time conservatives have pinned their hopes on Thompson. When he was first elected in the Republican sweep of 1994, he was seen then as the “new Reagan”—a charismatic movie star turned politician. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole quickly picked Thompson to give the five-minute GOP rebuttal to President Clinton’s economic address, and no less than The New York Times swooned with its headline the next morning, “A Star Is Born.”
He turned out to be a shooting star—a dazzling flash in the sky, soon gone, not there dependably, night after night, like the Big Dipper. Or, as The Tennessean later put it, “A year ago [Thompson] looked like a rising star. Today he looks more like a fading comet.”
Especially to conservatives who have taken the time to examine his record.
Rumors circulated that Thompson was lazy, uninterested in the daily grind that comes with being a Senator—and one can understand that Capitol Hill is a lot more tedious and less glamorous than a Hollywood movie lot. More important were Thompson’s failures of will and his lack of leadership on any legislation that would promote the conservative cause. Instead what little leadership we got from Thompson advanced the liberal Establishment agenda.
Failure of will: Charged with investigating the Clinton White House’s Asia fundraising scandal (“Asiagate”), Thompson managed to draw a tiny blood sample from Bill Clinton but little more. If he’s that ineffectual against an easy target like Bill Clinton at the height of his parade of scandals, why should we expect Thompson to be any more effective against, say, the other partner in the Clintons’ 20-year plan to rule the nation?
On the wrong side of the fence: The McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, championed by Fred Thompson, is the only important piece of legislation where he played a major role. And that is not an accomplishment to be proud of as a conservative. In fact, now that he’s running for President, Thompson is trying to flip-flop on this issue. Well, he can run, but he can’t hide from his record.
Why McCain-Feingold is so important—and so bad
Never mind that it was patently unconstitutional, as the courts are starting to declare. McCain-Feingold was also, from the beginning, a sham and a lie.
Its stated purpose—its claim to being a “reform”—was that it would take big money out of politics. Well, you can see how successful it’s been! The big corporate and union lobbies are more powerful than ever, and bored billionaires with nothing else to do are eyeing the Senate and the White House as the next trophies on their mantelpieces.
No, the real purpose of “reform” legislation like McCain-Feingold is to serve as incumbent-protection laws. Establishment politicians aren’t threatened by the K Street lobbyists: they feed off them. They are threatened by grassroots organizations that keep an eye on how they vote and pass that information on to their members.
From the National Rifle Association to the Sierra Club, from Right to Left, these groups call incumbents on the carpet. So the incumbents pass laws to restrict the activities of these groups.
McCain-Feingold, the most prominent recent addition to campaign regulations, does this by prohibiting these groups from broadcasting any issue ads that refer to specific candidates for federal office in the 30 days before a primary, or 60 days before a general election.
Why were those dates chosen? Because “that’s when people are most interested in the elections,” according to Congressman Martin Meehan (D-MA), one of the law’s most ardent supporters. In other words, McCain-Feingold and similar laws are intended to silence the voices of ordinary citizens who contribute to these organizations. And they are designed to do so at exactly the times when grassroots citizens can have the greatest impact.
The real purpose of McCain-Feingold-type laws is to silence your voice in the campaign process, by placing a gag on the organizations that represent you and your views. Such measures are the gravest threat to your free speech that exist today.
And who was the only other Republican Senator to join John McCain in pushing hard for this assault on your First Amendment free speech rights? Fred Thompson. Indeed, campaign finance “reform” was the only issue on which he seemed to show any passion.
Thompson was deeply involved in writing the law, lobbied for it among his fellow Republicans, and was even inclined to call it “McCain-Feingold-Thompson.” He and McCain were able to convince only five of their fellow Republicans in the Senate—but added to the Democrats, that was enough. “You were essential to our success,” Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) told Thompson in a gushing thank-you note after passage of McCain-Feingold.
http://www.conservativesbetrayed.com/gw3/articles-latestnews/articles.php?CMSArticleID=1827&CMSCategoryID=19
ConservativeHQ ^ | 7-2007 | Richard A. Viguerie
He disappointed conservatives during his eight years in the Senate. Is there any reason to think this Washington insider and veteran trial lawyer would be any better as President?
The frustration of conservatives is understandable. Faced with the prospects of Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, or Mitt Romney as the next Republican presidential candidate, many are pinning their hopes on former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee. Could this actor-politician be the new Ronald Reagan?
Mainstream media types assure us that he is. His record suggests otherwise.
This is the second time conservatives have pinned their hopes on Thompson. When he was first elected in the Republican sweep of 1994, he was seen then as the “new Reagan”—a charismatic movie star turned politician. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole quickly picked Thompson to give the five-minute GOP rebuttal to President Clinton’s economic address, and no less than The New York Times swooned with its headline the next morning, “A Star Is Born.”
He turned out to be a shooting star—a dazzling flash in the sky, soon gone, not there dependably, night after night, like the Big Dipper. Or, as The Tennessean later put it, “A year ago [Thompson] looked like a rising star. Today he looks more like a fading comet.”
Especially to conservatives who have taken the time to examine his record.
Rumors circulated that Thompson was lazy, uninterested in the daily grind that comes with being a Senator—and one can understand that Capitol Hill is a lot more tedious and less glamorous than a Hollywood movie lot. More important were Thompson’s failures of will and his lack of leadership on any legislation that would promote the conservative cause. Instead what little leadership we got from Thompson advanced the liberal Establishment agenda.
Failure of will: Charged with investigating the Clinton White House’s Asia fundraising scandal (“Asiagate”), Thompson managed to draw a tiny blood sample from Bill Clinton but little more. If he’s that ineffectual against an easy target like Bill Clinton at the height of his parade of scandals, why should we expect Thompson to be any more effective against, say, the other partner in the Clintons’ 20-year plan to rule the nation?
On the wrong side of the fence: The McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill, championed by Fred Thompson, is the only important piece of legislation where he played a major role. And that is not an accomplishment to be proud of as a conservative. In fact, now that he’s running for President, Thompson is trying to flip-flop on this issue. Well, he can run, but he can’t hide from his record.
Why McCain-Feingold is so important—and so bad
Never mind that it was patently unconstitutional, as the courts are starting to declare. McCain-Feingold was also, from the beginning, a sham and a lie.
Its stated purpose—its claim to being a “reform”—was that it would take big money out of politics. Well, you can see how successful it’s been! The big corporate and union lobbies are more powerful than ever, and bored billionaires with nothing else to do are eyeing the Senate and the White House as the next trophies on their mantelpieces.
No, the real purpose of “reform” legislation like McCain-Feingold is to serve as incumbent-protection laws. Establishment politicians aren’t threatened by the K Street lobbyists: they feed off them. They are threatened by grassroots organizations that keep an eye on how they vote and pass that information on to their members.
From the National Rifle Association to the Sierra Club, from Right to Left, these groups call incumbents on the carpet. So the incumbents pass laws to restrict the activities of these groups.
McCain-Feingold, the most prominent recent addition to campaign regulations, does this by prohibiting these groups from broadcasting any issue ads that refer to specific candidates for federal office in the 30 days before a primary, or 60 days before a general election.
Why were those dates chosen? Because “that’s when people are most interested in the elections,” according to Congressman Martin Meehan (D-MA), one of the law’s most ardent supporters. In other words, McCain-Feingold and similar laws are intended to silence the voices of ordinary citizens who contribute to these organizations. And they are designed to do so at exactly the times when grassroots citizens can have the greatest impact.
The real purpose of McCain-Feingold-type laws is to silence your voice in the campaign process, by placing a gag on the organizations that represent you and your views. Such measures are the gravest threat to your free speech that exist today.
And who was the only other Republican Senator to join John McCain in pushing hard for this assault on your First Amendment free speech rights? Fred Thompson. Indeed, campaign finance “reform” was the only issue on which he seemed to show any passion.
Thompson was deeply involved in writing the law, lobbied for it among his fellow Republicans, and was even inclined to call it “McCain-Feingold-Thompson.” He and McCain were able to convince only five of their fellow Republicans in the Senate—but added to the Democrats, that was enough. “You were essential to our success,” Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) told Thompson in a gushing thank-you note after passage of McCain-Feingold.
http://www.conservativesbetrayed.com/gw3/articles-latestnews/articles.php?CMSArticleID=1827&CMSCategoryID=19
Sunday, July 08, 2007

Friday, July 6, 2007
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Coloradans aim to exploit hole in 'Roe'
Plan would declare personhood for unborn
Posted: July 6, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A team of Coloradans wants to exploit a loophole in the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned state laws banning abortion – by simply stating that an unborn child, from the moment of fertilization, is a person.
In a comprehensive plan that would ban all abortions, the Colorado Equal Rights organization is trying something that hasn't been accomplished – yet – in the battle against abortion.
"It is the only way we're going to bring before the Supreme Court the issue of personhood. It's a subject they have dodged for the last 30-plus years. It's an issue that needs to be addressed," spokesman Mark Meuser told WND.
The "hole" in Roe v. Wade is the little-publicized comment from Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the 1973 opinion, in which he noted, "[If the] suggestion of personhood [for the unborn] is established, the [abortion rights] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment."
The same approach, Meuser said, was attempted in Michigan, where not enough signatures were verified, and is in process in Mississippi. In Georgia, as WND has reported, lawmakers are reaching for the same goal through a legislative process.
(Story continues below)
Noting Colorado was the first state to legalize abortion, due to the work of ex-Gov. Dick Lamm, then a state lawmaker, Meuser told WND, "We should be the first state to turn around and acknowledge our mistake and grant personhood to the unborn."
The state's Legislative Council already has approved the wording of the proposal, which would read:
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. Article II of the constitution of the state of Colorado is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read: Section 31. Person defined. AS USED IN SECTIONS 3, 6, AND 25 OF ARTICLE II OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION, THE TERMS "PERSON" OR "PERSONS" SHALL INCLUDE ANY HUMAN BEING FROM THE MOMENT OF FERTILIZATION.
Meuser said the council asked a series of questions about the proposal and its expected impact.
"Our purpose is to protect all life and, thus, we want to start at the moment life actually begins," he told the group.
"The Legislative Council also asked what the effect of the amendment would be on the 'undue burden' test as established in Roe v. Wade," he reported.
He explained that the court created that test "because they could not find that 'person' was defined for state or national constitutional purposes."
"Because our amendment defines life as beginning at fertilization, it makes the 'undue burden' test a moot issue," he said.
Aiming for the 2008 ballot, he said he wants to work with a coalition of groups to collect the 76,000-plus signatures needed to put it on the ballot.
"We're in the process of talking with all the groups, letting them know what the vision is and how we plan to go about it," he said.
He said a team of abortion promoters also listened to his presentation to the state board, but the avenue he's using will leave little recourse if successful.
"I've read that decision multiple times. I've listened to the actual oral arguments. I'm very familiar with the loophole that was created in Roe v. Wade. We're attacking it. Why have we waited 30 years to attack the weakness the enemy showed us?" he said.
The new definition of person specifically would be applied to sections 3, 6, and 25 of Article II of the state constitution.
Those sections confirm that all "persons" have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights, including "the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties," that courts of justice shall be open to every "person," and no "person" shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
In Georgia, state Right to Life spokesman Dan Becker said the goal of that legislative plan is the same: no abortions, no exceptions. Not even rape and incest.
The precedent-setting plan already is on track to be presented to voters as a constitutional amendment as early as next year.
"The whole sanctity of life cause is based on Genesis 1:26-28, where it talks about man is created in the image of God and has worth at all levels," Becker said. "Hence, we are working at a state level for a paramount human life amendment to our constitution."
The Georgia plan was written by the Thomas More Law Center, which advocates for pro-life causes:
"The rights of every person shall be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life. The right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person. With respect to the fundamental and inalienable rights of all persons guaranteed in this Constitution, the word 'person' applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, sex, health, function, or condition of dependency, including unborn children at every state of their biological development, including fertilization."
"If we're consistent with God's position in his Word, we expect him to fight our battles for us," Becker said. "We've seen success after success, and we can't claim that's due to outstanding organization or increased funding, even though all of that's true.
Friday, July 6, 2007
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Coloradans aim to exploit hole in 'Roe'
Plan would declare personhood for unborn
Posted: July 6, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
A team of Coloradans wants to exploit a loophole in the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned state laws banning abortion – by simply stating that an unborn child, from the moment of fertilization, is a person.
In a comprehensive plan that would ban all abortions, the Colorado Equal Rights organization is trying something that hasn't been accomplished – yet – in the battle against abortion.
"It is the only way we're going to bring before the Supreme Court the issue of personhood. It's a subject they have dodged for the last 30-plus years. It's an issue that needs to be addressed," spokesman Mark Meuser told WND.
The "hole" in Roe v. Wade is the little-publicized comment from Justice Harry Blackmun, author of the 1973 opinion, in which he noted, "[If the] suggestion of personhood [for the unborn] is established, the [abortion rights] case, of course, collapses, for the fetus' right to life is then guaranteed specifically by the [14th] Amendment."
The same approach, Meuser said, was attempted in Michigan, where not enough signatures were verified, and is in process in Mississippi. In Georgia, as WND has reported, lawmakers are reaching for the same goal through a legislative process.
(Story continues below)
Noting Colorado was the first state to legalize abortion, due to the work of ex-Gov. Dick Lamm, then a state lawmaker, Meuser told WND, "We should be the first state to turn around and acknowledge our mistake and grant personhood to the unborn."
The state's Legislative Council already has approved the wording of the proposal, which would read:
Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Colorado: SECTION 1. Article II of the constitution of the state of Colorado is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to read: Section 31. Person defined. AS USED IN SECTIONS 3, 6, AND 25 OF ARTICLE II OF THE STATE CONSTITUTION, THE TERMS "PERSON" OR "PERSONS" SHALL INCLUDE ANY HUMAN BEING FROM THE MOMENT OF FERTILIZATION.
Meuser said the council asked a series of questions about the proposal and its expected impact.
"Our purpose is to protect all life and, thus, we want to start at the moment life actually begins," he told the group.
"The Legislative Council also asked what the effect of the amendment would be on the 'undue burden' test as established in Roe v. Wade," he reported.
He explained that the court created that test "because they could not find that 'person' was defined for state or national constitutional purposes."
"Because our amendment defines life as beginning at fertilization, it makes the 'undue burden' test a moot issue," he said.
Aiming for the 2008 ballot, he said he wants to work with a coalition of groups to collect the 76,000-plus signatures needed to put it on the ballot.
"We're in the process of talking with all the groups, letting them know what the vision is and how we plan to go about it," he said.
He said a team of abortion promoters also listened to his presentation to the state board, but the avenue he's using will leave little recourse if successful.
"I've read that decision multiple times. I've listened to the actual oral arguments. I'm very familiar with the loophole that was created in Roe v. Wade. We're attacking it. Why have we waited 30 years to attack the weakness the enemy showed us?" he said.
The new definition of person specifically would be applied to sections 3, 6, and 25 of Article II of the state constitution.
Those sections confirm that all "persons" have certain natural, essential and inalienable rights, including "the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties," that courts of justice shall be open to every "person," and no "person" shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.
In Georgia, state Right to Life spokesman Dan Becker said the goal of that legislative plan is the same: no abortions, no exceptions. Not even rape and incest.
The precedent-setting plan already is on track to be presented to voters as a constitutional amendment as early as next year.
"The whole sanctity of life cause is based on Genesis 1:26-28, where it talks about man is created in the image of God and has worth at all levels," Becker said. "Hence, we are working at a state level for a paramount human life amendment to our constitution."
The Georgia plan was written by the Thomas More Law Center, which advocates for pro-life causes:
"The rights of every person shall be recognized, among which in the first place is the inviolable right of every innocent human being to life. The right to life is the paramount and most fundamental right of a person. With respect to the fundamental and inalienable rights of all persons guaranteed in this Constitution, the word 'person' applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, sex, health, function, or condition of dependency, including unborn children at every state of their biological development, including fertilization."
"If we're consistent with God's position in his Word, we expect him to fight our battles for us," Becker said. "We've seen success after success, and we can't claim that's due to outstanding organization or increased funding, even though all of that's true.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Columbine Memorial-Pro Life Connection Missed?
by: Sandra Fish - Colorado Confidential
Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 07:12:40 AM MDT
Much is being made in Denver media about the dispute between Brian Rohrbough and the Columbine Memorial Committee over his message for the tile memorializing his son.
Rohrbough apparently won his battle this week after threatening to sue.
But a review of reporting about the dispute over Rohrbough's message indicates the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver Post, the Associated Press and local television stations have failed to mention Rohrbough's role as president of Colorado Right to Life. It's a role that gives a hint to what the father's message might be, based on his previous statements.
The disagreement centers on tiles commemorating each of the Columbine victims. Danny Rohrbough, 15, was among the dozen students and a teacher killed by two fellow students on April 20, 1999, in what was then the worst school shooting in United States history.
In reporting on the dispute on June 7, the Rocky Mountain News only notes that Rohrbough's message includes a Bible verse, which wasn't considered objectionable by the committee:
Rohrbough would not disclose the contents of his writing. He, like all of the families, agreed that the inscriptions will remain confidential until the memorial is dedicated.
Later in the article: "Some people will hate it and think it's inappropriate," Rohrbough said, "and many more will look at it and like it, and even more will look at it and consider what it has to say - and 50 years down the road what it has to say will be more valuable."
Although no one's talking about it (or reporting about it), it seems possible that the quote includes a reference linking abortion to the Columbine shootings. Rohrbough made that assertion publicly in 2006, first in a radio commercial and an interview on a local radio talk show.
He reiterated the connection in a "freeSpeech" segment on the CBS Evening News last October after the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania:
This country is in a moral free-fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak, without moral consequences and life has no inherent value.
We teach there are no absolutes, no right or wrong. And I assure you the murder of innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion. Abortion has diminished the value of children.
Rohrbough was elected president of Colorado Right to Life last fall and enacted a no-compromise stance that led to his criticism of Focus on the Family leader James Dobson. National Right to Life subsequently severed ties with the Colorado chapter.
While the local media included Rohrbough's Columbine connection in reporting that dustup, Rohrbough's role in Colorado Right to Life goes unmentioned in the stories about the Columbine memorial. It's possible that connection will have to be made when the memorial is dedicated this fall.
by: Sandra Fish - Colorado Confidential
Fri Jun 29, 2007 at 07:12:40 AM MDT
Much is being made in Denver media about the dispute between Brian Rohrbough and the Columbine Memorial Committee over his message for the tile memorializing his son.
Rohrbough apparently won his battle this week after threatening to sue.
But a review of reporting about the dispute over Rohrbough's message indicates the Rocky Mountain News, the Denver Post, the Associated Press and local television stations have failed to mention Rohrbough's role as president of Colorado Right to Life. It's a role that gives a hint to what the father's message might be, based on his previous statements.
The disagreement centers on tiles commemorating each of the Columbine victims. Danny Rohrbough, 15, was among the dozen students and a teacher killed by two fellow students on April 20, 1999, in what was then the worst school shooting in United States history.
In reporting on the dispute on June 7, the Rocky Mountain News only notes that Rohrbough's message includes a Bible verse, which wasn't considered objectionable by the committee:
Rohrbough would not disclose the contents of his writing. He, like all of the families, agreed that the inscriptions will remain confidential until the memorial is dedicated.
Later in the article: "Some people will hate it and think it's inappropriate," Rohrbough said, "and many more will look at it and like it, and even more will look at it and consider what it has to say - and 50 years down the road what it has to say will be more valuable."
Although no one's talking about it (or reporting about it), it seems possible that the quote includes a reference linking abortion to the Columbine shootings. Rohrbough made that assertion publicly in 2006, first in a radio commercial and an interview on a local radio talk show.
He reiterated the connection in a "freeSpeech" segment on the CBS Evening News last October after the Amish school shooting in Pennsylvania:
This country is in a moral free-fall. For over two generations, the public school system has taught in a moral vacuum, expelling God from the school and from the government, replacing him with evolution, where the strong kill the weak, without moral consequences and life has no inherent value.
We teach there are no absolutes, no right or wrong. And I assure you the murder of innocent children is always wrong, including by abortion. Abortion has diminished the value of children.
Rohrbough was elected president of Colorado Right to Life last fall and enacted a no-compromise stance that led to his criticism of Focus on the Family leader James Dobson. National Right to Life subsequently severed ties with the Colorado chapter.
While the local media included Rohrbough's Columbine connection in reporting that dustup, Rohrbough's role in Colorado Right to Life goes unmentioned in the stories about the Columbine memorial. It's possible that connection will have to be made when the memorial is dedicated this fall.
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Colorado for Equal Rights files Pro-Life Amendment
June 19th, 2007
Today Colorado for Equal Rights filed language with the Colorado
Legislative Council to start the process of a ballot initiative for the November 2008 election, which will grant rights of person hood from conception.
This proposed amendment to the Colorado Constitution states, “As used in Article II, Sections 3, 6, and 25 of the Colorado Constitution, the words “person” and “persons” shall include any human being from the moment of fertilization.”
www.coloradoequalrights.com
Spanish version of abortion breast cancer link:
ENLACE - El Aborto y Càncer de Mama PDF
Presentación del asunto en español
ENLACE - El Aborto y Càncer de Mama PDF
Friday, June 15, 2007
Killing kids backfires
www.ellenbrewster.com
Infanticide has boomeranged fiercely. News out of Washington D.C. and China this week makes it obvious that abortion is, apart from being savage, reckless social policy.
Parents who kill their unborn children often report emotional and spiritual decay, but now it appears that society takes a hit demographically and financially as well.
Party-hearty Baby Boomers embraced the pill and abortion which allowed us to screw around without unwanted offspring. Forty million children, or one third of an entire U.S. generation were wiped out by abortionists since Roe v. Wade in 1973.
In our shortsighted self-absorption, it never occurred to us that those aborted babies might one day come in handy.
A report released Tuesday by demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institute in Washington D.C. details how many retiring Boomers face delayed retirement and insecure financial futures. Contributing to retirement angst was our choice to have fewer kids, and thus produce fewer taxpayers.
Remaining children will have to support the huge number of retiring Boomers in the Social Security system. In 1950, 16 workers supported each retiree; today, three workers support one. According to Social Security’s Board of Directors, benefits paid out will exceed taxpayer input by 2012.
Result: higher taxes and decreased benefits, with many Boomers, who tend to be spenders not savers, falling back on what children made it out of the womb intact.
“That one child they had will be very valuable,” says Frey. And let’s hope we are on good terms with that one child - if we need dough to tide us over until our demise.
China’s abortion backlash results from its one-child per family policy. That, coupled with its culture’s preference for boys, killed off millions of baby girls through abortion and post-birth infanticide. Now, their marriage-minded male counterparts have little hope for wives.
USA-TODAY reports that the 1995 sex ratio in central Hubei Province was 130.3 boys for every 100 girls. In all of China there will be an estimated 40 million young bachelors - known in Chinese as guang guan, “bare branches” or “bare sticks” - by 2020, “more than the current female populations of Taiwan and South Korea combined.”
USA TODAY further highlights a 1997 report in the Chinese magazine Beijing Luntan that correctly “predicted forced marriages, girls stolen for wives, bigamy, visiting prostitutes, rape, adultery, homosexuality, and weird sexual habits. Prostitution…is epidemic in Chinese cities. Bride-trafficking (kidnapping) is common in the countryside.”
2007 will witness 3800 deaths per day in the United States. Immorality and inconvenient pregnancies still demand abortion’s easy out, and kids are being trained accordingly.
Last week a Manchester, NH middle school chose the local Planned Parenthood facility for a spring field trip. That type of not-so-subtle abortion approval could ultimately spell an end to Social Security before those students turn gray.
Bible Byte: “ Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them…” Psalm 127:3-5a
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www.ellenbrewster.com
Infanticide has boomeranged fiercely. News out of Washington D.C. and China this week makes it obvious that abortion is, apart from being savage, reckless social policy.
Parents who kill their unborn children often report emotional and spiritual decay, but now it appears that society takes a hit demographically and financially as well.
Party-hearty Baby Boomers embraced the pill and abortion which allowed us to screw around without unwanted offspring. Forty million children, or one third of an entire U.S. generation were wiped out by abortionists since Roe v. Wade in 1973.
In our shortsighted self-absorption, it never occurred to us that those aborted babies might one day come in handy.
A report released Tuesday by demographer William Frey of the Brookings Institute in Washington D.C. details how many retiring Boomers face delayed retirement and insecure financial futures. Contributing to retirement angst was our choice to have fewer kids, and thus produce fewer taxpayers.
Remaining children will have to support the huge number of retiring Boomers in the Social Security system. In 1950, 16 workers supported each retiree; today, three workers support one. According to Social Security’s Board of Directors, benefits paid out will exceed taxpayer input by 2012.
Result: higher taxes and decreased benefits, with many Boomers, who tend to be spenders not savers, falling back on what children made it out of the womb intact.
“That one child they had will be very valuable,” says Frey. And let’s hope we are on good terms with that one child - if we need dough to tide us over until our demise.
China’s abortion backlash results from its one-child per family policy. That, coupled with its culture’s preference for boys, killed off millions of baby girls through abortion and post-birth infanticide. Now, their marriage-minded male counterparts have little hope for wives.
USA-TODAY reports that the 1995 sex ratio in central Hubei Province was 130.3 boys for every 100 girls. In all of China there will be an estimated 40 million young bachelors - known in Chinese as guang guan, “bare branches” or “bare sticks” - by 2020, “more than the current female populations of Taiwan and South Korea combined.”
USA TODAY further highlights a 1997 report in the Chinese magazine Beijing Luntan that correctly “predicted forced marriages, girls stolen for wives, bigamy, visiting prostitutes, rape, adultery, homosexuality, and weird sexual habits. Prostitution…is epidemic in Chinese cities. Bride-trafficking (kidnapping) is common in the countryside.”
2007 will witness 3800 deaths per day in the United States. Immorality and inconvenient pregnancies still demand abortion’s easy out, and kids are being trained accordingly.
Last week a Manchester, NH middle school chose the local Planned Parenthood facility for a spring field trip. That type of not-so-subtle abortion approval could ultimately spell an end to Social Security before those students turn gray.
Bible Byte: “ Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth. How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them…” Psalm 127:3-5a
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Thursday, June 14, 2007
Colorado Right To Life Kicked Out of National RTL
Two Days After Dr. James Dobson Concedes
"Ending partial-birth abortion… does not save a single human life."
Today in Kansas City Missouri, National Right to Life's board voted to disenfranchise a state chapter, Colorado Right To Life, from the umbrella organization. Two days ago, Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, admitted in a mass email that, "Ending partial-birth abortion… does not save a single human life." An unusually-public feud erupted within the movement after CRLT co-signed a series of open letters to Dr. James Dobson exposing that the Gonzales v Carhart U.S. Supreme Court ruling on partial-birth abortion (PBA) is not even a hollow victory for anti-abortionists.
An Open Letter published in the Colorado Springs Telegraph Gazette on May 23 began a barrage of criticism leveled at National Right To Life, Focus on the Family, and other industry groups for fraudulent fundraising in support of the PBA ban. WorldNetDaily.com (WND), a conservative, editorially pro-life online news outlet reported on June 7, " the fact that the legal [PBA] ruling, itself, does not and cannot be used to proscribe [prohibit] a single abortion ." Another concession to the Open Letter coalition came from the Thomas More Society's Pro-Life Law Center. The partial-birth abortion ban is " not going to stop any abortions as such," said TMS counsel Paul Linton who authored briefs submitted to the Supreme Court in support of the PBA ban, "They're still going to take place by other means."
Dr. Dobson released his June 2007 Action e-mail on Monday, and on Tuesday, a National RTL committee voted to remove state affiliation from its Colorado Right To Life chapter, CRTL being one of the pro-life organizations which has broken ranks with the movement's larger groups and is exposing the PBA fundraising irregularities.
Now that the 15-year battle to outlaw partial-birth abortion has ended with a ban and a ruling that have no authority to save a single life, CRTL's public rebuke is leading to frequent pro-life industry concessions such as in this Washington Post excerpt: "Chuck Donovan, executive vice president of the Family Research Council, a Washington advocacy group allied with Dobson, said... "there are certainly a fair number of people, including in our own building, who think… that, practically, there may not be even one fewer abortion in the country as a result." And according to WND, " the ban on partial-birth abortion is meaningless as it relates to the actual killing of unborn children," if the assessment of Life Dynamics' Mark Crutcher is correct. "In the final analysis… [the PBA ban's] practical implications for the unborn are zero," said Crutcher.
"We will tell the truth that National Right To Life doesn't want told," said Brian Rohrbough, president of Colorado Right To Life, "that NRTL advocates a strategy of child-killing regulations that undermine personhood and distract from the real battle." And Leslie Hanks, V.P. of Colorado Right To Life added, "As a fundraiser, partial-birth abortion has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars, but as a way to save lives, it has no authority to save a single child." Discussions of new affiliation are underway between CRTL and another principled pro-life organization fighting for the personhood of the pre-born.
Two Days After Dr. James Dobson Concedes
"Ending partial-birth abortion… does not save a single human life."
Today in Kansas City Missouri, National Right to Life's board voted to disenfranchise a state chapter, Colorado Right To Life, from the umbrella organization. Two days ago, Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, admitted in a mass email that, "Ending partial-birth abortion… does not save a single human life." An unusually-public feud erupted within the movement after CRLT co-signed a series of open letters to Dr. James Dobson exposing that the Gonzales v Carhart U.S. Supreme Court ruling on partial-birth abortion (PBA) is not even a hollow victory for anti-abortionists.
An Open Letter published in the Colorado Springs Telegraph Gazette on May 23 began a barrage of criticism leveled at National Right To Life, Focus on the Family, and other industry groups for fraudulent fundraising in support of the PBA ban. WorldNetDaily.com (WND), a conservative, editorially pro-life online news outlet reported on June 7, " the fact that the legal [PBA] ruling, itself, does not and cannot be used to proscribe [prohibit] a single abortion ." Another concession to the Open Letter coalition came from the Thomas More Society's Pro-Life Law Center. The partial-birth abortion ban is " not going to stop any abortions as such," said TMS counsel Paul Linton who authored briefs submitted to the Supreme Court in support of the PBA ban, "They're still going to take place by other means."
Dr. Dobson released his June 2007 Action e-mail on Monday, and on Tuesday, a National RTL committee voted to remove state affiliation from its Colorado Right To Life chapter, CRTL being one of the pro-life organizations which has broken ranks with the movement's larger groups and is exposing the PBA fundraising irregularities.
Now that the 15-year battle to outlaw partial-birth abortion has ended with a ban and a ruling that have no authority to save a single life, CRTL's public rebuke is leading to frequent pro-life industry concessions such as in this Washington Post excerpt: "Chuck Donovan, executive vice president of the Family Research Council, a Washington advocacy group allied with Dobson, said... "there are certainly a fair number of people, including in our own building, who think… that, practically, there may not be even one fewer abortion in the country as a result." And according to WND, " the ban on partial-birth abortion is meaningless as it relates to the actual killing of unborn children," if the assessment of Life Dynamics' Mark Crutcher is correct. "In the final analysis… [the PBA ban's] practical implications for the unborn are zero," said Crutcher.
"We will tell the truth that National Right To Life doesn't want told," said Brian Rohrbough, president of Colorado Right To Life, "that NRTL advocates a strategy of child-killing regulations that undermine personhood and distract from the real battle." And Leslie Hanks, V.P. of Colorado Right To Life added, "As a fundraiser, partial-birth abortion has brought in hundreds of millions of dollars, but as a way to save lives, it has no authority to save a single child." Discussions of new affiliation are underway between CRTL and another principled pro-life organization fighting for the personhood of the pre-born.
Friday, May 25, 2007
TO DEFENDERS OF THE PRO-LIFE INDUSTRY
Thanks for your serious concern. After Dr. Dobson's many years of dedicated ministry, it is not surprising that you disapprove of our confronting him. If we are wrong, we deserve your criticism. And if the three following points are correct, then we ask you to reconsider this life and death matter.
1. The Gonzales v. Carhart PBA ruling instructs abortionists that they can legally continue to perform partial-birth abortions simply by delivering a late-term baby halfway (to his bellybutton), and then killing him by various methods including by ripping off his legs. (See the ruling itself or our analysis at www.coloradorighttolife.org.) This is evil.
2. Most pro-life ministries have done many years of fundraising on this PBA ban, leading donors and Christians by the millions to believe the ban had the authority to save the lives of late-term babies even though they knew from the beginning this law did not have the authority to save a single child's life.
3. We are warning the many pro-life leaders who have become moral relativists that it is wrong to defend judges and rulings that violate God's enduring command, Do not murder. This happens commonly when officials affirm the killing of the innocent, as happened when Dr. Dobson defended Samuel Alito's 2000 ruling that kept partial-birth abortion legal in New Jersey. And now he defends this PBA ruling which optimistically suggests that abortionists "may find… less shocking methods to abort the fetus."
Some people who have been dismayed by our confronting of Focus on the Family have been even more shocked, to the point of disbelief, of what this brutally wicked ruling actually says, because they are not being told the truth by ministries they have grown to love and trust. We urge you to read carefully our open letter (earnestly co-signed by respected pro-life organizations like American Life League, Operation Rescue, Colorado Right To Life and Human Life International), and you can read the ruling itself. Then after you have more information, for Dr. Dobson's sake, and for the sake of the Body of Christ, and for the unborn who we are fighting for, please reconsider joining us in exposing moral relativism among Christian leaders, and in condemning any law or ruling that provides authority to intentionally kill an innocent person, thus undermining personhood and God-given right to life, which is the only place of safety for the unborn.
Thanks,
Leslie Hanks
LHanks@ColoradoRightToLife.org
V.P. Colorado Right To Life
p.s. Many respected pro-life leaders joined together to condemn this brutally wicked ruling, including:
* Ambassador Alan Keyes, RenewAmerica (see 28-second video at www.coloradorighttolife.org
Thanks for your serious concern. After Dr. Dobson's many years of dedicated ministry, it is not surprising that you disapprove of our confronting him. If we are wrong, we deserve your criticism. And if the three following points are correct, then we ask you to reconsider this life and death matter.
1. The Gonzales v. Carhart PBA ruling instructs abortionists that they can legally continue to perform partial-birth abortions simply by delivering a late-term baby halfway (to his bellybutton), and then killing him by various methods including by ripping off his legs. (See the ruling itself or our analysis at www.coloradorighttolife.org.) This is evil.
2. Most pro-life ministries have done many years of fundraising on this PBA ban, leading donors and Christians by the millions to believe the ban had the authority to save the lives of late-term babies even though they knew from the beginning this law did not have the authority to save a single child's life.
3. We are warning the many pro-life leaders who have become moral relativists that it is wrong to defend judges and rulings that violate God's enduring command, Do not murder. This happens commonly when officials affirm the killing of the innocent, as happened when Dr. Dobson defended Samuel Alito's 2000 ruling that kept partial-birth abortion legal in New Jersey. And now he defends this PBA ruling which optimistically suggests that abortionists "may find… less shocking methods to abort the fetus."
Some people who have been dismayed by our confronting of Focus on the Family have been even more shocked, to the point of disbelief, of what this brutally wicked ruling actually says, because they are not being told the truth by ministries they have grown to love and trust. We urge you to read carefully our open letter (earnestly co-signed by respected pro-life organizations like American Life League, Operation Rescue, Colorado Right To Life and Human Life International), and you can read the ruling itself. Then after you have more information, for Dr. Dobson's sake, and for the sake of the Body of Christ, and for the unborn who we are fighting for, please reconsider joining us in exposing moral relativism among Christian leaders, and in condemning any law or ruling that provides authority to intentionally kill an innocent person, thus undermining personhood and God-given right to life, which is the only place of safety for the unborn.
Thanks,
Leslie Hanks
LHanks@ColoradoRightToLife.org
V.P. Colorado Right To Life
p.s. Many respected pro-life leaders joined together to condemn this brutally wicked ruling, including:
* Ambassador Alan Keyes, RenewAmerica (see 28-second video at www.coloradorighttolife.org
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Unequal undercover reports
By Michelle Malkin
May 20, 2007
Here is a tale of two breeds of undercover journalists. One has been celebrated by the national media and journalism organizations, the other has been shunned. One has champions in Congress. The other faces litigation.
Both engaged in sting operations with secret cameras catching their targets on videotape. Both were deceptive about their true identities and life circumstances. Both exposed their targets' aggressive methods and law-subverting recruitment tactics. But you've probably only heard of the efforts of one of these breeds. You'll know why in a moment.
Over the last several years, local and national news outlets have conducted stings on military recruiters. Last week, a Nashville, Tenn., station set up hidden cameras and reported it caught Army recruiters telling an undercover producer posing as a recruit that taking medication for depression would not disqualify a recruit. The Democratic chairman of a House Armed Services subcommittee now urges an Army probe of recruitment and the mentally ill, based on the station's report.
Last fall, ABC News and New York affiliate WABC enlisted students to help them in a similar gotcha game with recruiters. They armed the kids with hidden video cameras for visits to 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Recruiters were accused of misleading students to get them to enlist.
The ABC News sting came on the heels of a Colorado student's undercover operation in Denver in 2005. David McSwane, a high school honors student, posed as a dropout and druggie. "I wanted to do something cool, go undercover and do something unusual," he told the Rocky Mountain News. Mr. McSwane deliberately failed a high school equivalency test, caught recruiters on tape driving him to purchase a detox kit, and reported they urged him to obtain a phony diploma. A local CBS station picked up the story -- prompting the Army to close its recruiting stations nationwide for ethics training.
Mr. McSwane earned a "laurel" from the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review "for conduct most becoming" and announced he was headed to journalism school. His reporting garnered attention from the New York Times to Editor & Publisher -- and spawned copycats like those at ABC News.
No such laurels have been awarded to Lila Rose, however -- and none will be, I predict. Miss Rose is an 18-year-old student journalist at the University of California-Los Angeles. Like Mr. McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, she surreptitiously infiltrated a massive organization that enlists young people. Like Mr. McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, Miss Rose exposed deceptive practices. Miss Rose posed as a 15-year-old seeking the services and advice of her target. Like Mr. McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, she caught her targets urging her to lie and evade the law in order to sign her up.
But Miss Rose's target was the Left's beloved Planned Parenthood, not the military. And that has made all the difference in the nonexistent national coverage of her undercover journalism. Miss Rose edits the Advocate, a pro-life campus publication of the student group Live Action. She posed as a minor impregnated by a 23-year-old boyfriend and caught a Planned Parenthood employee advising her to lie about her age to relieve the abortion provider from a legal obligation to report statutory rape to the police.
"If you're 15, we have to report it," the staffer told Miss Rose in a secretly taped video. "If you're not, if you're older than that, then we don't need to."
"OK, but if I just say I'm not 15, then it's different?" Miss Rose queried.
"You could say 16," the worker helpfully suggested. "Just figure out a birthdate that works. And I don't know anything."
Other than coverage from a few pro-life groups and conservative Web sites, Miss Rose's stunning revelations have received virtually no mainstream media attention. And no calls from lawmakers for investigations of Planned Parenthood's predatory tactics and practices --which have been also caught on tape in other states by undercover citizen investigators.
Instead, Miss Rose faces threats of a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood, which sent her a cease-and-desist letter and had the appalling nerve this week to lecture her about the need "to be more respectful of California laws," according to the conservative Cybercast News Service.
Where are the muckraking champions when you need them? Intrepid Lila Rose has learned the hard way: Not all undercover journalists are equal.
Michelle Malkin is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild."
By Michelle Malkin
May 20, 2007
Here is a tale of two breeds of undercover journalists. One has been celebrated by the national media and journalism organizations, the other has been shunned. One has champions in Congress. The other faces litigation.
Both engaged in sting operations with secret cameras catching their targets on videotape. Both were deceptive about their true identities and life circumstances. Both exposed their targets' aggressive methods and law-subverting recruitment tactics. But you've probably only heard of the efforts of one of these breeds. You'll know why in a moment.
Over the last several years, local and national news outlets have conducted stings on military recruiters. Last week, a Nashville, Tenn., station set up hidden cameras and reported it caught Army recruiters telling an undercover producer posing as a recruit that taking medication for depression would not disqualify a recruit. The Democratic chairman of a House Armed Services subcommittee now urges an Army probe of recruitment and the mentally ill, based on the station's report.
Last fall, ABC News and New York affiliate WABC enlisted students to help them in a similar gotcha game with recruiters. They armed the kids with hidden video cameras for visits to 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Recruiters were accused of misleading students to get them to enlist.
The ABC News sting came on the heels of a Colorado student's undercover operation in Denver in 2005. David McSwane, a high school honors student, posed as a dropout and druggie. "I wanted to do something cool, go undercover and do something unusual," he told the Rocky Mountain News. Mr. McSwane deliberately failed a high school equivalency test, caught recruiters on tape driving him to purchase a detox kit, and reported they urged him to obtain a phony diploma. A local CBS station picked up the story -- prompting the Army to close its recruiting stations nationwide for ethics training.
Mr. McSwane earned a "laurel" from the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review "for conduct most becoming" and announced he was headed to journalism school. His reporting garnered attention from the New York Times to Editor & Publisher -- and spawned copycats like those at ABC News.
No such laurels have been awarded to Lila Rose, however -- and none will be, I predict. Miss Rose is an 18-year-old student journalist at the University of California-Los Angeles. Like Mr. McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, she surreptitiously infiltrated a massive organization that enlists young people. Like Mr. McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, Miss Rose exposed deceptive practices. Miss Rose posed as a 15-year-old seeking the services and advice of her target. Like Mr. McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, she caught her targets urging her to lie and evade the law in order to sign her up.
But Miss Rose's target was the Left's beloved Planned Parenthood, not the military. And that has made all the difference in the nonexistent national coverage of her undercover journalism. Miss Rose edits the Advocate, a pro-life campus publication of the student group Live Action. She posed as a minor impregnated by a 23-year-old boyfriend and caught a Planned Parenthood employee advising her to lie about her age to relieve the abortion provider from a legal obligation to report statutory rape to the police.
"If you're 15, we have to report it," the staffer told Miss Rose in a secretly taped video. "If you're not, if you're older than that, then we don't need to."
"OK, but if I just say I'm not 15, then it's different?" Miss Rose queried.
"You could say 16," the worker helpfully suggested. "Just figure out a birthdate that works. And I don't know anything."
Other than coverage from a few pro-life groups and conservative Web sites, Miss Rose's stunning revelations have received virtually no mainstream media attention. And no calls from lawmakers for investigations of Planned Parenthood's predatory tactics and practices --which have been also caught on tape in other states by undercover citizen investigators.
Instead, Miss Rose faces threats of a lawsuit by Planned Parenthood, which sent her a cease-and-desist letter and had the appalling nerve this week to lecture her about the need "to be more respectful of California laws," according to the conservative Cybercast News Service.
Where are the muckraking champions when you need them? Intrepid Lila Rose has learned the hard way: Not all undercover journalists are equal.
Michelle Malkin is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of "Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild."
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
For Immediate Release:
Rift Opens in Christian Right
Unprecedented Criticism of Dobson by Major Ministries
An ad hoc coalition of pro-life Christian ministries publishes today, May 23, 2007, a critical Open Letter addressed to Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs as a full-page ad in that city's largest newspaper. The letter documents gross misrepresentation by Dr. Dobson and certain Christian organizations regarding the recent partial-birth abortion ruling.
Signers of the open letter include:
- Brian Rohrbough, president, Colorado Right to Life
- Rev. Tom Euteneuer, president, Human Life International
- Flip Benham, director, Operation Rescue / Operation Save America
- Judie Brown, president, American Life League
Judie Brown runs one of the largest pro-life ministries in America. Operation Rescue is the nation's most-well known pro-life activist organization. Human Life International ( HLI.org), founded by Father Paul Marx, has 90 offices in 75 countries. Colorado Right To Life is the nation's oldest Right To Life organization, and its president Brian Rohrbough is known internationally for fighting against violence as with his interviews on Good Morning America, Oprah, Fox News, and the BBC; and after the Amish school shootings on the free-speech segment at the CBS Evening News.
The open letter criticizes the leadership of the U.S. Christian right for a 15-year effort which achieved a partial-birth abortion ruling that actually encourages abortionists to devise "less shocking methods to abort the ['late-term'] fetus" (p. 30). The ruling, celebrated by leaders of the pro-life industry, provides instructions on how to legally kill a baby by a partial-birth abortion by delivering the child (breech), just not "past the navel." To actually violate this regulation (p. 17) "requires the fetus to be delivered 'until … any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother. '"
The Colorado Springs Telegraph Gazette approved this open letter for publication after confirming the accuracy of the Gonzales v. Carhart ruling excerpts. The letter also lists fifteen other pro-life leaders who are in agreement with the signers' negative analysis of the ruling. The signers made repeated efforts to reach Dr. Dobson personally, and he has received an advance copy of this letter, the text of which is attached, and at the Gazette.com , and at ColoradoRightToLife.org/openletter.
Contact Leslie Hanks
V.P., Colorado Right To Life
303 753-9394 or 720-394-8946
lhanks@coloradorighttolife.org
Rift Opens in Christian Right
Unprecedented Criticism of Dobson by Major Ministries
An ad hoc coalition of pro-life Christian ministries publishes today, May 23, 2007, a critical Open Letter addressed to Dr. James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family in Colorado Springs as a full-page ad in that city's largest newspaper. The letter documents gross misrepresentation by Dr. Dobson and certain Christian organizations regarding the recent partial-birth abortion ruling.
Signers of the open letter include:
- Brian Rohrbough, president, Colorado Right to Life
- Rev. Tom Euteneuer, president, Human Life International
- Flip Benham, director, Operation Rescue / Operation Save America
- Judie Brown, president, American Life League
Judie Brown runs one of the largest pro-life ministries in America. Operation Rescue is the nation's most-well known pro-life activist organization. Human Life International ( HLI.org), founded by Father Paul Marx, has 90 offices in 75 countries. Colorado Right To Life is the nation's oldest Right To Life organization, and its president Brian Rohrbough is known internationally for fighting against violence as with his interviews on Good Morning America, Oprah, Fox News, and the BBC; and after the Amish school shootings on the free-speech segment at the CBS Evening News.
The open letter criticizes the leadership of the U.S. Christian right for a 15-year effort which achieved a partial-birth abortion ruling that actually encourages abortionists to devise "less shocking methods to abort the ['late-term'] fetus" (p. 30). The ruling, celebrated by leaders of the pro-life industry, provides instructions on how to legally kill a baby by a partial-birth abortion by delivering the child (breech), just not "past the navel." To actually violate this regulation (p. 17) "requires the fetus to be delivered 'until … any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother. '"
The Colorado Springs Telegraph Gazette approved this open letter for publication after confirming the accuracy of the Gonzales v. Carhart ruling excerpts. The letter also lists fifteen other pro-life leaders who are in agreement with the signers' negative analysis of the ruling. The signers made repeated efforts to reach Dr. Dobson personally, and he has received an advance copy of this letter, the text of which is attached, and at the Gazette.com , and at ColoradoRightToLife.org/openletter.
Contact Leslie Hanks
V.P., Colorado Right To Life
303 753-9394 or 720-394-8946
lhanks@coloradorighttolife.org
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