SOWING MORE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
Fox 31 called this blogger to get a comment
about the new pro-abortion plan to endorse candidates
described in this Wall Street Journal article below.
Believing that Planned Parenthood had
already been in the business of advocating
for candidates who believe women should
be allowed to destroy their children in the
womb, I stated that they will be doing nothing
new - just sowing more death and destruction.
The reporter indicated this was never done
before because they would never have violated
their 501c3 status. Considering how many
passes PP gets in the legal system for
all their criminal behavior, one wonders
how accurate his assessment is?
Follow the money!
January 22, 2008
Planned Parenthood to Push Candidacies
By BRODY MULLINS
January 22, 2008; Page A6A
WASHINGTON -- For the first time, abortion-rights advocate Planned Parenthood is launching a major effort to elect pro-abortion-rights candidates to Congress and the White House in November.
The nation's largest reproductive-health-care provider plans to spend $10 million in hopes of persuading one million people to vote for abortion-rights candidates in the 2008 election. Planned Parenthood will roll out its election plans today to mark the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade that made abortion legal.
With its "One Million Strong" campaign, Planned Parenthood becomes the latest Washington interest group to launch an independent effort to elect candidates who back its priorities. Since Congress enacted a campaign-finance-reform law banning large financial contributions to the Republican and Democratic parties, a growing number of individuals, labor unions, corporations and other interest groups have started or boosted their own campaigns to elect like-minded candidates.
In the presidential primaries, the fiscally conservative Club for Growth has aired television advertisements against Republican candidates who have backed tax increases in the past. Labor unions have spent heavily to support Democratic candidates they endorse. And Emily's List, a group that supports pro-abortion-rights female Democrats, has funded a campaign to get women to go to the polls for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the primaries.
In all, Emily's List hopes to exceed the $46 million it raised for the 2006 election. Another abortion-rights organization, Naral Pro-Choice America, plans to spend $10 million on the general election.
Together, the efforts by the three abortion-rights groups are the most aggressive attempt by abortion-rights advocates to elect like-minded candidates -- most of whom are likely to be Democrats.
The campaign spending by Planned Parenthood and the other groups will compete against conservative organizations who are spending money to elect antiabortion Republicans, so it isn't clear how much impact the efforts will have on turnout and voters' choices.
The efforts come at a time when many abortion-rights advocates feel they are under attack. Since President Bush took office, he has nominated federal judges who have chipped away at abortion rights and installed two antiabortion justices to the Supreme Court. Two of the oldest justices on the current Supreme Court are liberal. If a Republican wins the 2008 presidential election, two more conservative judges could be added to the court.
Until recently, Planned Parenthood hadn't played a role in elections. In 2004, the organization endorsed Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry for president, marking the first time it had endorsed a presidential candidate in its 90-year history. In 2006, Planned Parenthood lent its backing to a handful of Democratic candidates for governor.
Officials at Planned Parenthood say they decided to move into the campaign arena because they say reproductive rights are under assault by Republicans. The political effort will be led by Cecile Richards, the organization's president, who has a long history of working in Democratic politics. "To keep our doors open," Ms. Richards said, "it's clear that we need to step into the electoral arena."
A former aide to Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, Ms. Richards took over Planned Parenthood last year. She is the daughter of Ann Richards, the former Democratic governor of Texas.
Ms. Richards said she believes Planned Parenthood can rally an important demographic that has proved to be elusive to the traditional political parties and candidates: young, unmarried independent and Democratic women.
"Women voters and young adults already trust Planned Parenthood's health information -- and this year they'll be able to rely on the Planned Parenthood Action Fund for election information," Ms. Richards said.
This year's presidential primaries underscore the importance of women and younger voters. In New Hampshire, women made up 57% of the Democratic vote and helped to deliver a surprising win to Mrs. Clinton. In Iowa, younger voters are credited with propelling Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois to victory.
Planned Parenthood has a potent political tool to reach its target voters: a database of nearly four million people. About five million women visit Planned Parenthood clinics across the country each year and 10 million people browse Planned Parenthood's Web site, the organization says.
The political campaign will be run by a legally separate entity that was set as a 501(c)4 organization called the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. In the last few years, an increasing number of interest groups have formed 501(c)4 groups to fund their political efforts in part because Internal Revenue Service rules allow them to keep the names of their donors secret.
Planned Parenthood will fund political advertisements for candidates and organize paid staffers and volunteers to go door-to-door seeking votes.
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Monday, January 21, 2008
GRAMMA GOES TO JAIL !
http://www.thehawkeye.com/
Local views still spark debate 35 years after Roe v. Wade
By NICHOLAS BERGIN
nbergin@thehawkeye.com Sunday, January 20, 2008
John Gaines/The Hawk Eye
Dan and Donna Holman have a personal crusade against abortion. The couple met at an anti-abortion rally six years ago.
Nearly 35 years after the Supreme Court of the United States decided one of the most controversial cases in its history, Roe v. Wade, a local woman has lost her own battle with the law.
Anti-abortion activist Donna Holman, 72, of Keokuk will observe the Jan. 22 anniversary of the Supreme Court decision from a jail cell in Johnson County.
Holman is serving a 30-day stint after being convicted of third-degree harassment, which stemmed from a November 2006 confrontation with patients at the Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa clinic in Iowa City.
Donna Holman and her husband, Dan, have become known throughout the region for their in-your-face abortion protests. Using graphic pictures of aborted fetuses, the Holmans have targeted politicians, speakers and abortion rights advocates.
The Holmans' view of the issue and how the Supreme Court's decision affected the United States leaves no room for debate. To them abortion and all other forms of chemical or surgical birth control are the ultimate sin -- murder.
"They have normalized baby-murder here in America," Dan Holman said. "They have accepted the murders of 50 million Americans -- 4,000 Americans murdered per day, one out of every three babies is being aborted.
"It is evident that these people (aborted fetuses) are people," he continued. "They were people prior to 1973, and they are still people today. You don't change reality by changing the law.
"They are what they are. They are human beings. They are people."
Others don't see things so black and white.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that a Texas criminal abortion law dating to the 19th century violated a woman's 14th Amendment rights. The ruling overturned the patchwork of state abortion laws.
For those advocating abortion rights, the court's decision gave women control of their bodies and the right to choose when to have a child.
"If the mother doesn't feel she is prepared to do that (have a child), then I don't think she is ethically bound to carry that baby to term," said the Rev. Roger Mohr, president of the local American Civil liberties Union and minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Burlington. "The baby does not exist without the mother. If the mother doesn't feel she can handle it, we have to respect her decision."
The act of abortion has been documented throughout human history and prehistory, Mohr said.
"Abortion, that is something that has always happened. Back in the day, the way that you performed abortion was you carried the child to term then laid it out on a rock and abandoned it," he said.
Abortion is a medical procedure, and before women had the option of receiving it in a medical clinic, they often resorted unsafe abortions under unsterile conditions, Mohr said.
"We don't have to do that anymore. And I would like to think at this point we have gotten to the point where we realize it's not always a good time for a baby," he said.
Making abortion, contraceptives and sexual education available to women -- and teenage boys -- has revolutionized the opportunities available for women in their education, careers and personal lives, said Cherry Klein of director of Burlington-based Planned Parenthood of Southeast Iowa.
"They have the ability to plan when they might have children so they can work their education their jobs and their personal lives around that," Klein said, noting the women sometimes had their lives shortened because of repeated childbearing.
Being able to choose when and whether to have a child also helps ease financial strain on women and families, she said.
"In a lot of situations, it has allowed women to have happier marriages and family lives because they don't have the stress of not being pregnant all the time or having more children they might want or be able to provide for," Klein said. "Those (issues) still are big stressers for women."
Never give up
No argument or jail time will ever change either Dan or Donna Holman's mind or stop their protests.
The Monday before Donna Holman's arraignment hearing in Iowa City, the couple discussed their beliefs, and why they do, what they do.
The couple has a tidy, single-story, ranch-style home in Keokuk.
For the interview, Donna Holman wore a purple sweater with the names of her grandchildren embroidered on it in white print. Around each name was an embroidered heart. She has five children, Dan Holman has three children, and together they have 16 grandchildren.
Their living room window is cracked and broken where someone threw a rock through it. Over the hole is taped a sign reading "Life the first inalienable right."
While he talked about his wife's trial, Dan Holman made dough for homemade multi-grain bread.
The couple has a video of the incident that led to Donna Holman's current incarceration.
In the video, she's outside the Iowa City Planned Parenthood clinic wearing sandwich boards with pictures of aborted fetuses, and she is trying to hand literature to women entering the office. The women refuse the literature, and Holman follows them to the office entrance, stands in the doorway and shouts at them as they enter the building.
"They (Planned Parenthood employees) didn't like people in the waiting room hearing me say 'thou shall not murder,' " Donna Holman said of the incident.
In the tape, Dan Holman can be heard in the background shouting, "Your baby wants to live. It's not a piece of garbage. ... How can you pay a total stranger $500 to rip the legs and arms off your baby?"
Within minutes, two police officers showed up and began questioning the Holmans and others.
Donna Holman was given a 30-day suspended jail sentence and placed on a year of probation for third-degree harassment.
As part of her probation, she was ordered to receive a psychiatric evaluation and comply with any treatment recommendations.
Holman refused because she believes "psychiatry to be a psuedoscience on par with astrology, fortune telling and palm reading," she wrote in a statement to the court.
Last Tuesday, a judge ordered Holman to serve the sentence for not complying with the terms of her probation.
The Holmans called the arrest "bogus" and unjustified.
Still, it was hardly surprising.
Dan Holman has said he's been arrested more than 300 times and has spent considerable time in jail.
Four years ago, he was ordered him to stay away from the Iowa City clinic after he made comments sympathetic to Paul Hill, who was executed in Florida for killing an abortion doctor.
"Some day, I hope I will have the courage to be as much a man as he was," he told the New York Times.
A perfect match
The Holmans met about six years ago while protesting abortion in New England. Donna is a widow, and Dan, 61, is divorced.
They married after a three-month courtship. Donna Holman can recite to the day exactly how long they have been together.
The couple appears to be a perfect ideological and domestic fit.
He bakes bread, works around the house and does the mechanical work their "Truthvan," a van they have covered with posters of aborted fetuses and anti-abortion slogans.
Donna Holman does laundry and writes letters to newspapers. Together, they travel the country protesting. Their activities are financed by Missionaries to the PreBorn, a Milwaukee-based anti-abortion group founded by the Rev. Matt Trewahella.
Recently, they returned from a protest tour in Iowa and South Carolina in which they followed the campaign of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to more than 60 events. At the events, they displayed pictures of aborted fetuses with the caption "Hillary's Holocaust."
The Holmans don't attend any area churches. They worship from home and have started a local branch of the Missionaries to the Preborn.
The couple said area churches don't focus enough on the issue they believe is paramount, and they said churches generally regard them as too radical.
The Holmans maintain they will never give up protesting abortions or using graphic images.
"Do they have pretty pictures of an abortion?" Dan Holman asked rhetorically. "If they have a pretty picture we'll show it. God said show the bloody city her abomination, and that's what we're doing."
The Holmans said they use the graphic images because they work.
"We know that graphic images change hearts, change minds," Dan Holman said. "I don't think we're confrontational enough."
Actions lead to reactions
Reactions to the Holmans' protests, literature and frequent letters to the editor occasionally make headlines.
In December, a 71-year-old Fort Madison man made news when he accosted Dan Holman with a broom handle while Holman was protesting a Clinton campaign event in the Lee County community.
The Holmans frequently are harassed, too. Their home and their possessions have been vandalized repeatedly.
While many viscerally oppose the Holmans' use of graphic images, others in the community support their goals.
A member of the Fort Madison Right to Life, an anti-abortion group, Mary Abolt said that while Right to Life does not support the use of graphic images to get its message across, that does not mean she believes what the Holmans do is wrong.
"I think there are all kinds of ways to approach this issue," she said. "At least when people see (the Holmans signs) they get to think, 'it's not right what we're doing in the United States Killing our children.' "
Abolt said the Fort Madison Right to Life group avoids using graphic images so it can participate in community events.
"If we associated with the Holmans and presented ourselves like they do, we wouldn't get in the rodeo parade," she said.
Even though the ACLU disagrees with the Holmans' position on abortion, Mohr said it supports their right to protest.
"We support their right to say what they want to say and say it how they want to say it," the Unitarian Universalist minister said. "They have the right to try to present their case. Even if they do it in a tasteless and lurid manner primarily for the shock value."
As long as the Holmans make their point in a lawful way, on public property and don't harm or harass people, area law enforcement take the same approach.
At the local Planned Parenthood clinic, Klein agreed the Holmans have a right to protest and said the couple generally doesn't scare patients away.
To the contrary, Klein said the Holmans protests actually help galvanize Planned Parenthood's supporters, resulting in an influx of donations.
Looking toward the future
The abortion debate likely will not disappear soon and pundits expect it to play a role in the 2008 presidential general election.
The next president likely will appoint new judges to the Supreme Court as old ones retire. The cases they hear could affect abortion laws across the country.
However, many see abortion as little more than a wedge issue used by politicians and people like the Holmans.
Mohr said he has faith that people will see past the Holmans' graphic images and protests and respond to the issue logically.
"The American people are smart enough to look past just the bold images, to think through the issue and to respond in a way that is more than just a visceral gut level response," he said.
At Planned Parenthood in Burlington, which does not perform abortions, Klein said the clinic would rather the debate to focus on preventing abortions through birth control and education that is age-appropriate and research-based, as required by a state law passed last year.
"Comprehensive sexuality education includes abstinence as the best method, but also discusses birth control, pregnancy prevention, self esteem, sexually transmitted diseases and a wide range of health issues that teens really need information about," Klein said. "They are programs that studies show actually work."
Klein said studies have proven abstinence-only education does not work and does not prepare teens to deal with their emerging sexuality.
The Holmans admit there is no way to completely stop abortions or people having sex outside of marriage, but they still strive to have abortion and birth control outlawed.
"It never ends, but it can be outlawed," Dan Holman said. "It's just like outlawing any other kind of murder."
"The Bible says children are a blessing," Donna Holman said. "The reason God put us on earth is to multiply."
The only sexual education they advocate is abstinence. They believe sexual education "sexualizes kids, makes them promiscuous and adds to the overall baby-killing problem," Dan Holman said.
The couple also believe women's place is in the home and they should not seek careers or education.
One of the reasons they chose to protest Clinton events is because "Hillary models the 21st century role reversal of women," they wrote in a recent Missionaries to the Pre-born Iowa newsletter.
John Gaines/The Hawk Eye
http://www.thehawkeye.com/
Local views still spark debate 35 years after Roe v. Wade
By NICHOLAS BERGIN
nbergin@thehawkeye.com Sunday, January 20, 2008
John Gaines/The Hawk Eye
Dan and Donna Holman have a personal crusade against abortion. The couple met at an anti-abortion rally six years ago.
Nearly 35 years after the Supreme Court of the United States decided one of the most controversial cases in its history, Roe v. Wade, a local woman has lost her own battle with the law.
Anti-abortion activist Donna Holman, 72, of Keokuk will observe the Jan. 22 anniversary of the Supreme Court decision from a jail cell in Johnson County.
Holman is serving a 30-day stint after being convicted of third-degree harassment, which stemmed from a November 2006 confrontation with patients at the Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa clinic in Iowa City.
Donna Holman and her husband, Dan, have become known throughout the region for their in-your-face abortion protests. Using graphic pictures of aborted fetuses, the Holmans have targeted politicians, speakers and abortion rights advocates.
The Holmans' view of the issue and how the Supreme Court's decision affected the United States leaves no room for debate. To them abortion and all other forms of chemical or surgical birth control are the ultimate sin -- murder.
"They have normalized baby-murder here in America," Dan Holman said. "They have accepted the murders of 50 million Americans -- 4,000 Americans murdered per day, one out of every three babies is being aborted.
"It is evident that these people (aborted fetuses) are people," he continued. "They were people prior to 1973, and they are still people today. You don't change reality by changing the law.
"They are what they are. They are human beings. They are people."
Others don't see things so black and white.
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that a Texas criminal abortion law dating to the 19th century violated a woman's 14th Amendment rights. The ruling overturned the patchwork of state abortion laws.
For those advocating abortion rights, the court's decision gave women control of their bodies and the right to choose when to have a child.
"If the mother doesn't feel she is prepared to do that (have a child), then I don't think she is ethically bound to carry that baby to term," said the Rev. Roger Mohr, president of the local American Civil liberties Union and minister at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Burlington. "The baby does not exist without the mother. If the mother doesn't feel she can handle it, we have to respect her decision."
The act of abortion has been documented throughout human history and prehistory, Mohr said.
"Abortion, that is something that has always happened. Back in the day, the way that you performed abortion was you carried the child to term then laid it out on a rock and abandoned it," he said.
Abortion is a medical procedure, and before women had the option of receiving it in a medical clinic, they often resorted unsafe abortions under unsterile conditions, Mohr said.
"We don't have to do that anymore. And I would like to think at this point we have gotten to the point where we realize it's not always a good time for a baby," he said.
Making abortion, contraceptives and sexual education available to women -- and teenage boys -- has revolutionized the opportunities available for women in their education, careers and personal lives, said Cherry Klein of director of Burlington-based Planned Parenthood of Southeast Iowa.
"They have the ability to plan when they might have children so they can work their education their jobs and their personal lives around that," Klein said, noting the women sometimes had their lives shortened because of repeated childbearing.
Being able to choose when and whether to have a child also helps ease financial strain on women and families, she said.
"In a lot of situations, it has allowed women to have happier marriages and family lives because they don't have the stress of not being pregnant all the time or having more children they might want or be able to provide for," Klein said. "Those (issues) still are big stressers for women."
Never give up
No argument or jail time will ever change either Dan or Donna Holman's mind or stop their protests.
The Monday before Donna Holman's arraignment hearing in Iowa City, the couple discussed their beliefs, and why they do, what they do.
The couple has a tidy, single-story, ranch-style home in Keokuk.
For the interview, Donna Holman wore a purple sweater with the names of her grandchildren embroidered on it in white print. Around each name was an embroidered heart. She has five children, Dan Holman has three children, and together they have 16 grandchildren.
Their living room window is cracked and broken where someone threw a rock through it. Over the hole is taped a sign reading "Life the first inalienable right."
While he talked about his wife's trial, Dan Holman made dough for homemade multi-grain bread.
The couple has a video of the incident that led to Donna Holman's current incarceration.
In the video, she's outside the Iowa City Planned Parenthood clinic wearing sandwich boards with pictures of aborted fetuses, and she is trying to hand literature to women entering the office. The women refuse the literature, and Holman follows them to the office entrance, stands in the doorway and shouts at them as they enter the building.
"They (Planned Parenthood employees) didn't like people in the waiting room hearing me say 'thou shall not murder,' " Donna Holman said of the incident.
In the tape, Dan Holman can be heard in the background shouting, "Your baby wants to live. It's not a piece of garbage. ... How can you pay a total stranger $500 to rip the legs and arms off your baby?"
Within minutes, two police officers showed up and began questioning the Holmans and others.
Donna Holman was given a 30-day suspended jail sentence and placed on a year of probation for third-degree harassment.
As part of her probation, she was ordered to receive a psychiatric evaluation and comply with any treatment recommendations.
Holman refused because she believes "psychiatry to be a psuedoscience on par with astrology, fortune telling and palm reading," she wrote in a statement to the court.
Last Tuesday, a judge ordered Holman to serve the sentence for not complying with the terms of her probation.
The Holmans called the arrest "bogus" and unjustified.
Still, it was hardly surprising.
Dan Holman has said he's been arrested more than 300 times and has spent considerable time in jail.
Four years ago, he was ordered him to stay away from the Iowa City clinic after he made comments sympathetic to Paul Hill, who was executed in Florida for killing an abortion doctor.
"Some day, I hope I will have the courage to be as much a man as he was," he told the New York Times.
A perfect match
The Holmans met about six years ago while protesting abortion in New England. Donna is a widow, and Dan, 61, is divorced.
They married after a three-month courtship. Donna Holman can recite to the day exactly how long they have been together.
The couple appears to be a perfect ideological and domestic fit.
He bakes bread, works around the house and does the mechanical work their "Truthvan," a van they have covered with posters of aborted fetuses and anti-abortion slogans.
Donna Holman does laundry and writes letters to newspapers. Together, they travel the country protesting. Their activities are financed by Missionaries to the PreBorn, a Milwaukee-based anti-abortion group founded by the Rev. Matt Trewahella.
Recently, they returned from a protest tour in Iowa and South Carolina in which they followed the campaign of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to more than 60 events. At the events, they displayed pictures of aborted fetuses with the caption "Hillary's Holocaust."
The Holmans don't attend any area churches. They worship from home and have started a local branch of the Missionaries to the Preborn.
The couple said area churches don't focus enough on the issue they believe is paramount, and they said churches generally regard them as too radical.
The Holmans maintain they will never give up protesting abortions or using graphic images.
"Do they have pretty pictures of an abortion?" Dan Holman asked rhetorically. "If they have a pretty picture we'll show it. God said show the bloody city her abomination, and that's what we're doing."
The Holmans said they use the graphic images because they work.
"We know that graphic images change hearts, change minds," Dan Holman said. "I don't think we're confrontational enough."
Actions lead to reactions
Reactions to the Holmans' protests, literature and frequent letters to the editor occasionally make headlines.
In December, a 71-year-old Fort Madison man made news when he accosted Dan Holman with a broom handle while Holman was protesting a Clinton campaign event in the Lee County community.
The Holmans frequently are harassed, too. Their home and their possessions have been vandalized repeatedly.
While many viscerally oppose the Holmans' use of graphic images, others in the community support their goals.
A member of the Fort Madison Right to Life, an anti-abortion group, Mary Abolt said that while Right to Life does not support the use of graphic images to get its message across, that does not mean she believes what the Holmans do is wrong.
"I think there are all kinds of ways to approach this issue," she said. "At least when people see (the Holmans signs) they get to think, 'it's not right what we're doing in the United States Killing our children.' "
Abolt said the Fort Madison Right to Life group avoids using graphic images so it can participate in community events.
"If we associated with the Holmans and presented ourselves like they do, we wouldn't get in the rodeo parade," she said.
Even though the ACLU disagrees with the Holmans' position on abortion, Mohr said it supports their right to protest.
"We support their right to say what they want to say and say it how they want to say it," the Unitarian Universalist minister said. "They have the right to try to present their case. Even if they do it in a tasteless and lurid manner primarily for the shock value."
As long as the Holmans make their point in a lawful way, on public property and don't harm or harass people, area law enforcement take the same approach.
At the local Planned Parenthood clinic, Klein agreed the Holmans have a right to protest and said the couple generally doesn't scare patients away.
To the contrary, Klein said the Holmans protests actually help galvanize Planned Parenthood's supporters, resulting in an influx of donations.
Looking toward the future
The abortion debate likely will not disappear soon and pundits expect it to play a role in the 2008 presidential general election.
The next president likely will appoint new judges to the Supreme Court as old ones retire. The cases they hear could affect abortion laws across the country.
However, many see abortion as little more than a wedge issue used by politicians and people like the Holmans.
Mohr said he has faith that people will see past the Holmans' graphic images and protests and respond to the issue logically.
"The American people are smart enough to look past just the bold images, to think through the issue and to respond in a way that is more than just a visceral gut level response," he said.
At Planned Parenthood in Burlington, which does not perform abortions, Klein said the clinic would rather the debate to focus on preventing abortions through birth control and education that is age-appropriate and research-based, as required by a state law passed last year.
"Comprehensive sexuality education includes abstinence as the best method, but also discusses birth control, pregnancy prevention, self esteem, sexually transmitted diseases and a wide range of health issues that teens really need information about," Klein said. "They are programs that studies show actually work."
Klein said studies have proven abstinence-only education does not work and does not prepare teens to deal with their emerging sexuality.
The Holmans admit there is no way to completely stop abortions or people having sex outside of marriage, but they still strive to have abortion and birth control outlawed.
"It never ends, but it can be outlawed," Dan Holman said. "It's just like outlawing any other kind of murder."
"The Bible says children are a blessing," Donna Holman said. "The reason God put us on earth is to multiply."
The only sexual education they advocate is abstinence. They believe sexual education "sexualizes kids, makes them promiscuous and adds to the overall baby-killing problem," Dan Holman said.
The couple also believe women's place is in the home and they should not seek careers or education.
One of the reasons they chose to protest Clinton events is because "Hillary models the 21st century role reversal of women," they wrote in a recent Missionaries to the Pre-born Iowa newsletter.
John Gaines/The Hawk Eye
Friday, January 18, 2008
January 15, 2008 Denver, Colorado Contact: Leslie Hanks 720-394-8946
MARCH FOR LIFE 2008 GUEST SPEAKER TELLS NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE: I had every right to live!
Julie Makimaa sat quietly at the National Right to Life conference a few years back, listening to their strategy about
including rape and incest exceptions in any abortion bans that states would promote that year. After hearing all their
arguments and finding herself steaming inside, this bold woman stood up and stated in no uncertain terms that she
disputed their claims.
Julie Makimaa told National Right to Life that they were wrong, that her mother did the wise thing and gave her
up for adoption. She continued that she was very glad she had lived to meet her mother, Lee Ezell, and to be able to tell this
confused organization that they needed to re-think their flawed strategy.
Colorado Right to Life is pleased to present Julie as March for Life 2008 guest speaker January 19, on the West Steps of the
State Capitol at 1:30 P.M. As a woman who agrees with our statement of purpose that abortion is always wrong and that every life is
worthy of protection, from the moment of fertilization, Julie states:
"Many people believe abortion is morally justifiable and medically necessary for women pregnant through rape and incest.
I encourage everyone who holds this position or who has doubts about the best solution for women in these situations, to attend the rally on
January 19th. I guarantee you'll gain a new understanding of the value of every life and the benefits for women who choose life."
"The promotion of abortion for children conceived in rape or incest is society's way of punishing an innocent victim for the crimes of another."
Kristi Burton, sponsor of the Personhood Amendment will speak briefly and Tony Funderburk will sing his song
Personhood.
Colorado Families Against Planned Parenthood founder, Will Duffy, will encourage the crowd to fight efforts to build the
biggest death camp for babies in the nation at PP's new Stapleton location in north Denver.
March for Life - January 19, 2008 - West steps of the State Capitol - 1:30 p.m.
For more information, please call: 303-753-9394
*Greenwood** Village** Police Abuse John Wiechec
*by
Jo Scott
Planned Parenthood is building the largest death camp in the country to date in Denver, Colorado. Pro lifers there are making a monumental effort to stop the construction of the new super-sized killing center.
Included in that effort is Ron Brock who drives a large ostentatious truth truck displaying large graphic pictures of aborted babies along with scripture verses and the Weitz company name. His truck was parked outside of Bill Hornaday’s home several mornings a week. Bill Hornaday is the president of The Weitz Company Rocky Mountain. One of his neighbors lied about Ron’s peaceful morning protests in the neighborhood and got a temporary restraining order against Ron. In an effort to fight the restraining order in court Ron needed to subpoena two Greenwood Village police officers.
Fellow pro-lifer and friend, John Wiechec, volunteered to serve the subpoenas on the two policemen at the Greenwood Village police department. On the evening of December 17, 2008 Ron left a voice message on Officer Michael W. Fultineer’s phone alerting him to the fact that a subpoena would be delivered to him the following day. John was able to reach Officer Gipson on the phone and made arrangements to meet him at 10:15am the next morning, Dec. 18^th . At 10:15 the following morning John met Officer Gipson, shook his hand and gave him the subpoena. John then asked the receptionist if he could speak to Officer Fultineer. When the officer walked into the lobby, John held out his hand to shake Officer Fultineer’s hand and gave him the subpoena. Officer Fultineer threw the subpoena on a nearby chair, grabbed John’s hand and twisted John’s arm up behind his back. John was confused, but allowed Office Fultineer to throw him to the ground and search his pockets. He then told John to sit in a chair and five other officers entered the room. Officer Fultineer told them that he “had” to tussle with John. John told the sergeant that entered the room that he did not “have” to tussle with him; he had just tried to hand Officer Fultineer a subpoena. The sergeant told John to “shut up” or he’d be arrested. John complied. The sergeant continued to yell and make a scene for another minute.
John was given a ticket for disobeying a lawful order and disturbing the peace. Before he left the building he asked for the name of the receptionist who witnessed the incident and one of the officers told him that he would find out in court. Fortunately, John has ascertained the name of the receptionist and a copy of the police video tape of the incident. When asked about the incident John said, “I’m thankful that office Fultineer did not shoot me.” John is now in the process of finding a lawyer to represent him at his arraignment on January 23rd .
*by
Jo Scott
Planned Parenthood is building the largest death camp in the country to date in Denver, Colorado. Pro lifers there are making a monumental effort to stop the construction of the new super-sized killing center.
Included in that effort is Ron Brock who drives a large ostentatious truth truck displaying large graphic pictures of aborted babies along with scripture verses and the Weitz company name. His truck was parked outside of Bill Hornaday’s home several mornings a week. Bill Hornaday is the president of The Weitz Company Rocky Mountain. One of his neighbors lied about Ron’s peaceful morning protests in the neighborhood and got a temporary restraining order against Ron. In an effort to fight the restraining order in court Ron needed to subpoena two Greenwood Village police officers.
Fellow pro-lifer and friend, John Wiechec, volunteered to serve the subpoenas on the two policemen at the Greenwood Village police department. On the evening of December 17, 2008 Ron left a voice message on Officer Michael W. Fultineer’s phone alerting him to the fact that a subpoena would be delivered to him the following day. John was able to reach Officer Gipson on the phone and made arrangements to meet him at 10:15am the next morning, Dec. 18^th . At 10:15 the following morning John met Officer Gipson, shook his hand and gave him the subpoena. John then asked the receptionist if he could speak to Officer Fultineer. When the officer walked into the lobby, John held out his hand to shake Officer Fultineer’s hand and gave him the subpoena. Officer Fultineer threw the subpoena on a nearby chair, grabbed John’s hand and twisted John’s arm up behind his back. John was confused, but allowed Office Fultineer to throw him to the ground and search his pockets. He then told John to sit in a chair and five other officers entered the room. Officer Fultineer told them that he “had” to tussle with John. John told the sergeant that entered the room that he did not “have” to tussle with him; he had just tried to hand Officer Fultineer a subpoena. The sergeant told John to “shut up” or he’d be arrested. John complied. The sergeant continued to yell and make a scene for another minute.
John was given a ticket for disobeying a lawful order and disturbing the peace. Before he left the building he asked for the name of the receptionist who witnessed the incident and one of the officers told him that he would find out in court. Fortunately, John has ascertained the name of the receptionist and a copy of the police video tape of the incident. When asked about the incident John said, “I’m thankful that office Fultineer did not shoot me.” John is now in the process of finding a lawyer to represent him at his arraignment on January 23rd .
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Ban The Word 'Fetus' (Brent Bozell Column)
NewsBusters.org ^ | 1/5/2008 | L. Brent Bozell III
Posted on 01/15/2008 3:02:15 PM MST by Pyro7480
The Democratic presidential race is turning into a snippy identity-politics battle waged around the question: Is America more racist or more sexist? Is America too racist to deserve Barack Obama? Or too sexist to deserve Hillary Clinton? Liberals think this is a real puzzler, since they assume America is bigoted both ways. It’s going to be a long, America-accusing election year no matter who wins.
This is nuts. Our system of laws in this country contains energetic remedies for discrimination against blacks and women. Discriminatory attitudes still exist in isolated, politically irrelevant pockets whose existence is then magnified one hundred-fold by those in the media who want this picture of discrimination to exist. Blacks and women simply are not as a rule denied their humanity, as evidenced by a black and a woman vying to become America’s next president.
If we don’t want this year to be an exercise in liberal accusation and intimidation, we should force the Democratic front-runners to answer a different question. If we want to identify the one segment of American humanity that is routinely disregarded, we should ask them: when will you recognize the civil rights and humanity of the unborn baby? When will America overcome this injustice of destroying human lives in the name of "choice"?
While Gloria Steinem is fussing on National Public Radio about why the B-word isn’t taken as seriously as the N-word, perhaps pro-lifers need to really accuse America of insensitivity to what they’ve long seen as an F-bomb: "Fetus."
What a cold, humanity-negating word that is. Happy pregnant women carry "babies." But indecisive or panicked pregnant women carry a "fetus." How discriminatory that sounds in regard to an innocent human life.
"Fetus" has a dictionary definition: the young of a mammal that resembles its parents in physical form, in our case, a human with hands and feet and eyes and a beating heart. But to our media and political analysts, it has a different definition: a subhuman appendage, a disposable mass of tissue, a slave to our whims, and too often, a casualty of our irresponsibility.
The media drop this version of the F-bomb all the time. On January 14, the networks took up the awful case of Marine Corporal Maria Lauterbach, whose burned body was found in the back yard of another Marine she had accused of sexual assault. CBS reporter Jeff Glor uttered the offensive word: "Over the weekend, police found what they believe to be the charred remains of missing Marine Maria Lauterbach and her unborn fetus." Glor repeated the offense an hour later: "Lauterbach was eight months pregnant, and her badly burned body and that of her fetus were found in a shallow grave in [suspect Cesar] Laurean's back yard over the weekend."
ABC was only half-offensive on "Good Morning America," a show that has accused America repeatedly of inherent racism and sexism. Reporter Jeffrey Kofman noted the investigation into "Maria Lauterbach and her unborn baby will continue." But an hour later, news anchor Deborah Roberts reported "The remains of Maria Lauterbach and her fetus were found buried" in Laurean’s back yard.
We saw the same standard in the case of Laci Peterson, another woman murdered with an eight-month-old baby five years ago. When a pregnant woman is murdered, shouldn’t the news media show a preference for the term "baby," since the murdered woman clearly intended to have the baby, and, in these cases, the baby would have been viable outside the womb?
Pro-lifers could press harder for the media to label this a "double murder." This is one small civil-rights advance for the unborn: the Unborn Victims of Violence Act recognizes the murdered baby as a fully human victim of homicide, which President Bush signed (to dismissive media yawns) in 2004.
On the same day as these network reports, the January 21 issue of Newsweek arrived in the mail, complete with a story on impressive advancements in medical imaging technology. The story carried two golden-toned photos of babies inside the womb, in three dimensions. But the Newsweek caption offended: "The latest ultrasound technology allows doctors and patients to view the developing fetus with breathtaking clarity."
Newsweek also has a clarity that’s breathtaking. It’s clearly not convinced that a baby should be defined as a human being until it is born. Later in the caption, Newsweek added the improved images have allowed "expectant parents to bond with their babies much earlier." But the next sentence points the reader to a picture of a "13-week-old fetus."
Our media elite prides itself on an official or unofficial policy of not using insulting or offensive terms about women or minorities in its daily news content. It’s about time they took the same approach to the unborn baby, and nixed the word "fetus" as too demeaning of human life.
NewsBusters.org ^ | 1/5/2008 | L. Brent Bozell III
Posted on 01/15/2008 3:02:15 PM MST by Pyro7480
The Democratic presidential race is turning into a snippy identity-politics battle waged around the question: Is America more racist or more sexist? Is America too racist to deserve Barack Obama? Or too sexist to deserve Hillary Clinton? Liberals think this is a real puzzler, since they assume America is bigoted both ways. It’s going to be a long, America-accusing election year no matter who wins.
This is nuts. Our system of laws in this country contains energetic remedies for discrimination against blacks and women. Discriminatory attitudes still exist in isolated, politically irrelevant pockets whose existence is then magnified one hundred-fold by those in the media who want this picture of discrimination to exist. Blacks and women simply are not as a rule denied their humanity, as evidenced by a black and a woman vying to become America’s next president.
If we don’t want this year to be an exercise in liberal accusation and intimidation, we should force the Democratic front-runners to answer a different question. If we want to identify the one segment of American humanity that is routinely disregarded, we should ask them: when will you recognize the civil rights and humanity of the unborn baby? When will America overcome this injustice of destroying human lives in the name of "choice"?
While Gloria Steinem is fussing on National Public Radio about why the B-word isn’t taken as seriously as the N-word, perhaps pro-lifers need to really accuse America of insensitivity to what they’ve long seen as an F-bomb: "Fetus."
What a cold, humanity-negating word that is. Happy pregnant women carry "babies." But indecisive or panicked pregnant women carry a "fetus." How discriminatory that sounds in regard to an innocent human life.
"Fetus" has a dictionary definition: the young of a mammal that resembles its parents in physical form, in our case, a human with hands and feet and eyes and a beating heart. But to our media and political analysts, it has a different definition: a subhuman appendage, a disposable mass of tissue, a slave to our whims, and too often, a casualty of our irresponsibility.
The media drop this version of the F-bomb all the time. On January 14, the networks took up the awful case of Marine Corporal Maria Lauterbach, whose burned body was found in the back yard of another Marine she had accused of sexual assault. CBS reporter Jeff Glor uttered the offensive word: "Over the weekend, police found what they believe to be the charred remains of missing Marine Maria Lauterbach and her unborn fetus." Glor repeated the offense an hour later: "Lauterbach was eight months pregnant, and her badly burned body and that of her fetus were found in a shallow grave in [suspect Cesar] Laurean's back yard over the weekend."
ABC was only half-offensive on "Good Morning America," a show that has accused America repeatedly of inherent racism and sexism. Reporter Jeffrey Kofman noted the investigation into "Maria Lauterbach and her unborn baby will continue." But an hour later, news anchor Deborah Roberts reported "The remains of Maria Lauterbach and her fetus were found buried" in Laurean’s back yard.
We saw the same standard in the case of Laci Peterson, another woman murdered with an eight-month-old baby five years ago. When a pregnant woman is murdered, shouldn’t the news media show a preference for the term "baby," since the murdered woman clearly intended to have the baby, and, in these cases, the baby would have been viable outside the womb?
Pro-lifers could press harder for the media to label this a "double murder." This is one small civil-rights advance for the unborn: the Unborn Victims of Violence Act recognizes the murdered baby as a fully human victim of homicide, which President Bush signed (to dismissive media yawns) in 2004.
On the same day as these network reports, the January 21 issue of Newsweek arrived in the mail, complete with a story on impressive advancements in medical imaging technology. The story carried two golden-toned photos of babies inside the womb, in three dimensions. But the Newsweek caption offended: "The latest ultrasound technology allows doctors and patients to view the developing fetus with breathtaking clarity."
Newsweek also has a clarity that’s breathtaking. It’s clearly not convinced that a baby should be defined as a human being until it is born. Later in the caption, Newsweek added the improved images have allowed "expectant parents to bond with their babies much earlier." But the next sentence points the reader to a picture of a "13-week-old fetus."
Our media elite prides itself on an official or unofficial policy of not using insulting or offensive terms about women or minorities in its daily news content. It’s about time they took the same approach to the unborn baby, and nixed the word "fetus" as too demeaning of human life.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Does Anybody Care??
January 16, 2008
Killing of babies by abortion should be top concern
One child named TaJanay dies and we are shocked, outraged and saddened. Every death of an American soldier makes us cringe. We ask ourselves how we can make these killings stop.
On Jan. 22 we will observe the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on abortion. Since 1973, 50 million unborn children have been killed. Where is the shock? Where is the outrage? Where is the sadness?
The late Rep. Julia Carson had a reputation for speaking for the voiceless, but she supported abortion. Columnist Dan Carpenter defends every downtrodden cause that comes along, but he won't defend the unborn. I don't get it. We all know these babies are being killed and we don't care as long at they're hidden away at a Planned Parenthood clinic and we don't have to experience it.
The deaths of 50 million children should be the number one issue for every voter who goes to the polls this year. How can it not be? Our American way of life is not going to disappear because our property taxes are too high, or we don't kill enough terrorists or the Dome is not big enough for the Colts. It will be destroyed because we are killing a million of our children every year and we know it and we don't care.
Stephen J. Martin
Indianapolis
January 16, 2008
Killing of babies by abortion should be top concern
One child named TaJanay dies and we are shocked, outraged and saddened. Every death of an American soldier makes us cringe. We ask ourselves how we can make these killings stop.
On Jan. 22 we will observe the 35th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on abortion. Since 1973, 50 million unborn children have been killed. Where is the shock? Where is the outrage? Where is the sadness?
The late Rep. Julia Carson had a reputation for speaking for the voiceless, but she supported abortion. Columnist Dan Carpenter defends every downtrodden cause that comes along, but he won't defend the unborn. I don't get it. We all know these babies are being killed and we don't care as long at they're hidden away at a Planned Parenthood clinic and we don't have to experience it.
The deaths of 50 million children should be the number one issue for every voter who goes to the polls this year. How can it not be? Our American way of life is not going to disappear because our property taxes are too high, or we don't kill enough terrorists or the Dome is not big enough for the Colts. It will be destroyed because we are killing a million of our children every year and we know it and we don't care.
Stephen J. Martin
Indianapolis
Thursday, January 10, 2008
OBAMA DOESN'T CARE THAT ABORTION
KILLS MORE BLACKS PER DAY THAN
ANY OTHER CAUSE !
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
ELECTION 2008
Black pro-life leader rips Obama
'He doesn't care that abortion is the No. 1 killer of African-Americans'
Posted: January 10, 2008
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
The leader of a black pro-life organization is blasting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama for "applauding the efforts" of those who are aborting unborn African-Americans.
Day Gardner
Day Gardner is president of the National Black Pro-Life Union, which helps to coordinate the efforts of black pro-life groups.
"Senator Obama doesn't care that abortion has obliterated the rights of more than 15 million black children since 1973," Gardner said in a statement. "He doesn't care that abortion is the No. 1 killer of African-Americans surpassing deaths caused by accidents, heart disease, stroke, crimes, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths – combined!
"He won't make one of his powerful speeches decrying the injustice of abortion providers as they plant killing centers firmly in black communities – making it easier to kill black children. Instead, he actually applauds their efforts! These children are denied their most basic human right, which is the right to life, a right which our ancestors so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for."
Obama's record of supporting abortion in both the Illinois state Senate and the U.S. Senate is undisputed.
WND columnist Jill Stanek has written about Obama's opposition to Illinois' Born Alive Infant Protection Act, legislation clarifying the terms "person," "human being," "child," and "individual" in Illinois statutes included any baby born alive, no matter what gestational age or circumstance of birth.
(Story continues below)
Wrote Stanek: "In 2001 and 2002, Obama was the lone senator speaking against Born Alive on the Senate floor. In 2003, Obama killed the bill altogether by burying it alive in a committee he chaired. …
"By the third time Obama tried to snuff Born Alive, he was running for the U.S. Senate. The federal version had passed the year before unanimously in the Senate and almost unanimously in the House. Even NARAL went neutral. Pro-aborts agreed to let it pass without a fight lest they appear extreme.
"Except Obama. He decided to battle alone further left than any other senator – Boxer, Clinton, Kennedy, Kerry, et al."
Concluded Gardner: "Unfortunately, Barack Obama supports the ruthless culture of death – one that includes killing the smallest Americans – too small to flee or fight back."
KILLS MORE BLACKS PER DAY THAN
ANY OTHER CAUSE !
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Thursday, January 10, 2008
ELECTION 2008
Black pro-life leader rips Obama
'He doesn't care that abortion is the No. 1 killer of African-Americans'
Posted: January 10, 2008
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily.com
The leader of a black pro-life organization is blasting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama for "applauding the efforts" of those who are aborting unborn African-Americans.
Day Gardner
Day Gardner is president of the National Black Pro-Life Union, which helps to coordinate the efforts of black pro-life groups.
"Senator Obama doesn't care that abortion has obliterated the rights of more than 15 million black children since 1973," Gardner said in a statement. "He doesn't care that abortion is the No. 1 killer of African-Americans surpassing deaths caused by accidents, heart disease, stroke, crimes, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths – combined!
"He won't make one of his powerful speeches decrying the injustice of abortion providers as they plant killing centers firmly in black communities – making it easier to kill black children. Instead, he actually applauds their efforts! These children are denied their most basic human right, which is the right to life, a right which our ancestors so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for."
Obama's record of supporting abortion in both the Illinois state Senate and the U.S. Senate is undisputed.
WND columnist Jill Stanek has written about Obama's opposition to Illinois' Born Alive Infant Protection Act, legislation clarifying the terms "person," "human being," "child," and "individual" in Illinois statutes included any baby born alive, no matter what gestational age or circumstance of birth.
(Story continues below)
Wrote Stanek: "In 2001 and 2002, Obama was the lone senator speaking against Born Alive on the Senate floor. In 2003, Obama killed the bill altogether by burying it alive in a committee he chaired. …
"By the third time Obama tried to snuff Born Alive, he was running for the U.S. Senate. The federal version had passed the year before unanimously in the Senate and almost unanimously in the House. Even NARAL went neutral. Pro-aborts agreed to let it pass without a fight lest they appear extreme.
"Except Obama. He decided to battle alone further left than any other senator – Boxer, Clinton, Kennedy, Kerry, et al."
Concluded Gardner: "Unfortunately, Barack Obama supports the ruthless culture of death – one that includes killing the smallest Americans – too small to flee or fight back."
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
BRUTAL FORCED ABORTION EVIL
IN CHINA
Chinese Couple Will Get Court Hearing in Brutal Forced Abortion Case
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 5, 2008
Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- A Chinese couple who have filed a lawsuit against family planning officials over a forced abortion that has left the couple unable to have children may get a court hearing. The suit involves a woman who, in the ninth month of her pregnancy, was forced to have an abortion because the couple violate the nation's laws.
Just days before she was scheduled to give birth, authorities took Jin Yani from her home to an abortion center. There, family planning officials injected a drug into her abdomen that killed her unborn child.
"Several people held me down, they ripped my clothes aside and the doctor pushed a large syringe into my stomach," she told the Associated Press about her ordeal last fall. "It was very painful. ... It was all very rough."
Jin was hospitalized for 44 days and lost considerable blood because of the abortion and the hospital sent the couple a considerable medical bill.
The couple filed a lawsuit but the case went nowhere. Now, according to a London Telegraph report, the regional people's court said in October that it would eventually hear the case.
It's the first time such a court has agreed to take a case of this nature.
Once that decision came down, Jin's husband Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, said family planning officials contacted him about a job and health care for his wife to make up for their actions.
He told the newspaper the offers are too little, too late.
"They have made no mention of damages," he said. "We can get a job anywhere."
Jin says the couple can never be fully compensated for the death of their child, whom Jin says he planned to name Yang Yin.
"Our baby will never come back," Jin told the London paper. "We just hope this kind of thing will never happen again."
When the couple found out they were illegally pregnant five months before their marriage ceremony -- birth outside of wedlock is prohibited in China -- Yang hoped he could buy off family planning officials to allow him and his wife to have a baby.
Jin was an 18 year-old high school dropout when she met 30-year-old Yang, who works in construction, in September 1998. They moved in together and 18 months later Jin was pregnant.
The couple couldn't get married because Chinese law prevents anyone under the age of 20 from getting a marriage license. They eventually got married but could not obtain the paperwork to have their child.
According to AP, Yang faced a fine of $660 to $1,330 for not getting the proper papers in advance and he tried to buy off Di Wenjun, head of the neighborhood family planning office in their hometown. He also bought a meal for the local head of the Communist Party.
But three weeks later they took Jin for the abortion.
One of Yang's two lawyers, Wang Chen, told AP that's because Yang merely bought them dinner but did not give them a bribe to look the other way.
"Dinner is not enough," Wang said. "Nothing gets done without a bribe. This is the situation in China. Yang was too naive."
Courts originally sided against them saying Jin consented to the abortion.
Today, Jin has lost his construction business because he cannot afford it and doctors say nothing is wrong with Jin, even though she has repeatedly tried to have children.
The Yang's attorneys don't expect the courts will ever reward them the money they are seeking in emotional and medical damages from the abortion.
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According to Lifeissues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/mos/pri_03abortionforall1.html
"International Planned Parenthood Federation supported the coercive one child policy from its inception in 1979. Beijing's
coercive family planning program includes, forced contraception and sterilization, compulsory abortion, widespread
sex selection abortions and the notorious dying rooms for less than perfect newborn babies."
IN CHINA
Chinese Couple Will Get Court Hearing in Brutal Forced Abortion Case
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 5, 2008
Beijing, China (LifeNews.com) -- A Chinese couple who have filed a lawsuit against family planning officials over a forced abortion that has left the couple unable to have children may get a court hearing. The suit involves a woman who, in the ninth month of her pregnancy, was forced to have an abortion because the couple violate the nation's laws.
Just days before she was scheduled to give birth, authorities took Jin Yani from her home to an abortion center. There, family planning officials injected a drug into her abdomen that killed her unborn child.
"Several people held me down, they ripped my clothes aside and the doctor pushed a large syringe into my stomach," she told the Associated Press about her ordeal last fall. "It was very painful. ... It was all very rough."
Jin was hospitalized for 44 days and lost considerable blood because of the abortion and the hospital sent the couple a considerable medical bill.
The couple filed a lawsuit but the case went nowhere. Now, according to a London Telegraph report, the regional people's court said in October that it would eventually hear the case.
It's the first time such a court has agreed to take a case of this nature.
Once that decision came down, Jin's husband Yang Zhongchen, a small-town businessman, said family planning officials contacted him about a job and health care for his wife to make up for their actions.
He told the newspaper the offers are too little, too late.
"They have made no mention of damages," he said. "We can get a job anywhere."
Jin says the couple can never be fully compensated for the death of their child, whom Jin says he planned to name Yang Yin.
"Our baby will never come back," Jin told the London paper. "We just hope this kind of thing will never happen again."
When the couple found out they were illegally pregnant five months before their marriage ceremony -- birth outside of wedlock is prohibited in China -- Yang hoped he could buy off family planning officials to allow him and his wife to have a baby.
Jin was an 18 year-old high school dropout when she met 30-year-old Yang, who works in construction, in September 1998. They moved in together and 18 months later Jin was pregnant.
The couple couldn't get married because Chinese law prevents anyone under the age of 20 from getting a marriage license. They eventually got married but could not obtain the paperwork to have their child.
According to AP, Yang faced a fine of $660 to $1,330 for not getting the proper papers in advance and he tried to buy off Di Wenjun, head of the neighborhood family planning office in their hometown. He also bought a meal for the local head of the Communist Party.
But three weeks later they took Jin for the abortion.
One of Yang's two lawyers, Wang Chen, told AP that's because Yang merely bought them dinner but did not give them a bribe to look the other way.
"Dinner is not enough," Wang said. "Nothing gets done without a bribe. This is the situation in China. Yang was too naive."
Courts originally sided against them saying Jin consented to the abortion.
Today, Jin has lost his construction business because he cannot afford it and doctors say nothing is wrong with Jin, even though she has repeatedly tried to have children.
The Yang's attorneys don't expect the courts will ever reward them the money they are seeking in emotional and medical damages from the abortion.
Printed from: http://www.lifenews.com/int589.html
Copyright © 2003-2006 LifeNews.com. All rights reserved. For free daily/weekly pro-life news, email us at news@LifeNews.com.
According to Lifeissues.net:
http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/mos/pri_03abortionforall1.html
"International Planned Parenthood Federation supported the coercive one child policy from its inception in 1979. Beijing's
coercive family planning program includes, forced contraception and sterilization, compulsory abortion, widespread
sex selection abortions and the notorious dying rooms for less than perfect newborn babies."
Monday, January 07, 2008
AMERICA HAS LOST HER MIND
Coach Dave Daubenmire
January 3, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
As the old United Negro College Fund commercial used to tell us, “the mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Losing one’s mind is even worse.
America has lost her mind.
What is the mind? It is "the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc." In most Americans this part of the brain no longer functions. For many the loss of our mind is a result of the “mind blowing” experience of the sixties, or from sitting at the feet of the radical Humanists who permeate our nation’s universities, or perhaps from a life filled with Oprah, Dr. Phil, Jerry Springer and the Cable News outlets.
The average American no longer thinks. Years in the public-fool system has sucked all ability to use logic and reason out of our populace. Americans have been systematically dumbed-down. “No Tax Dollar Left Behind” had as its goal a slick transformation in educational method. Measure, measure, measure…test, test, test. This is the only way, we were told, to determine whether or not our children are learning.
Testing measures rote memory. In other words, for those of you who never learned that word, it means a measurement of WHAT YOU HAVE MEMORIZED.
“Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean.” Today’s “testing” measures whether you can recite the poem, not your ability to analyze the dietary principles enunciated therein. (I used those fancy words so that you would know I still have my mind.)
Logic is the ability to frame an argument based on knowledge. Knowledge is “acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation" and reason requires the application of logic in order to determine the validity of a particular theory.
Ultimately, wisdom is the goal. Wisdom is “the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting.”
Proverbs 4:7 says “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
“What is true, right, or lasting……” sort of puts you in mind of the knowledge we are pumping into America’s young “skulls full of mush,” doesn’t it?
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. What is a fool? Why, a fool is “a person who lacks judgment or sense.” Americans and American schools are producing trained-fools. Not just fools, “a stupid person,” but trained fools, fools who have been “coached in or accustomed to a mode of behavior or performance.” All wrong thinking leads to wrong action. The thief thought he would get away with it. The rapist never thought he would get caught. The teenager never thought she would get pregnant.
Just because you believe something, anything, does not make it true.
We no longer teach our children HOW to think. Instead, we “coach” them on WHAT to think and then test to measure if the indoctrination has worked. Ooops, “indoctrination,” that is probably another word many are not familiar with. Indoctrination is “teaching someone to accept doctrines without proof.” Everywhere you look we are being indoctrinated. Our news is indoctrination. “They decide, we report.” “We have to stop Hillary.” “Who are you to judge?" “Global warming is destroying the planet.” “Top-tier candidates.”
American-adults have lost their minds. Look at the garbage we are teaching our kids:
A child doesn’t need a mother and a father. Two moms or two dads are fine, because men and women are really no different.
Anal sex between men is normal, but those who speak out against it are not.
Killing a wanted unborn child is homicide; an unwanted unborn child is choice.
Global warming kills more people than abortion.
“Choice” is good for unborn children, but bad for born school children.
A young woman can have an abortion and yet never have regrets about it.
We have lost our minds!
A child must say no to cigarettes, but it is ok to say yes to sex.
Abortion is good and the death penalty is bad.
Divorce is best for the children if it makes the parents happier.
Spanking your children will cause them to be violent.
Famous people are better than “regular” people.
Love is sex and sex is love.
Condoms will prevent disease.
We have lost our minds!
Creating more laws will lower crime.
Gun control makes law-abiding citizens safer.
Being sick is an excuse for breaking the law.
Government needs to spy on us to keep us safe from terrorism.
“Experts” know what is best for the rest of us.
Our rights are granted by government.
We need more money for education.
We have lost our minds!
Paying people not to work will make them more productive.
We have no right to judge the actions of another person.
The government is the answer to everyone’s problems. .
There is a big difference between Democrats and Republicans.
President Bush is a Christian-conservative.
The National Education Association cares about kids than teachers.
We have lost our minds!
Jesus has forgiven our sins so stop talking about sin.
An hour of Sunday school will undue 7 hours a day in public schools.
God is not to be included in public ceremonies, government, or education.
Remove the teachings of Christianity and people will naturally be good.
The US Supreme Court over-rides the law of God.
Jesus is most concerned with making us happy.
Those who believe the Bible are not very well educated.
We have lost our minds!
I could go on. Let me leave you with a few Scriptures to chew on. Perhaps they can help explain the mess we are in.
Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge.”
Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:”
Psalm 14:1 “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.”
America has become a “ship of fools” captained by fools. The ship has lost her moral rudder. The blind are leading the blind.
Coach Dave Daubenmire
January 3, 2008
NewsWithViews.com
As the old United Negro College Fund commercial used to tell us, “the mind is a terrible thing to waste.” Losing one’s mind is even worse.
America has lost her mind.
What is the mind? It is "the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc." In most Americans this part of the brain no longer functions. For many the loss of our mind is a result of the “mind blowing” experience of the sixties, or from sitting at the feet of the radical Humanists who permeate our nation’s universities, or perhaps from a life filled with Oprah, Dr. Phil, Jerry Springer and the Cable News outlets.
The average American no longer thinks. Years in the public-fool system has sucked all ability to use logic and reason out of our populace. Americans have been systematically dumbed-down. “No Tax Dollar Left Behind” had as its goal a slick transformation in educational method. Measure, measure, measure…test, test, test. This is the only way, we were told, to determine whether or not our children are learning.
Testing measures rote memory. In other words, for those of you who never learned that word, it means a measurement of WHAT YOU HAVE MEMORIZED.
“Jack Spratt could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean.” Today’s “testing” measures whether you can recite the poem, not your ability to analyze the dietary principles enunciated therein. (I used those fancy words so that you would know I still have my mind.)
Logic is the ability to frame an argument based on knowledge. Knowledge is “acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation" and reason requires the application of logic in order to determine the validity of a particular theory.
Ultimately, wisdom is the goal. Wisdom is “the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting.”
Proverbs 4:7 says “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
“What is true, right, or lasting……” sort of puts you in mind of the knowledge we are pumping into America’s young “skulls full of mush,” doesn’t it?
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. What is a fool? Why, a fool is “a person who lacks judgment or sense.” Americans and American schools are producing trained-fools. Not just fools, “a stupid person,” but trained fools, fools who have been “coached in or accustomed to a mode of behavior or performance.” All wrong thinking leads to wrong action. The thief thought he would get away with it. The rapist never thought he would get caught. The teenager never thought she would get pregnant.
Just because you believe something, anything, does not make it true.
We no longer teach our children HOW to think. Instead, we “coach” them on WHAT to think and then test to measure if the indoctrination has worked. Ooops, “indoctrination,” that is probably another word many are not familiar with. Indoctrination is “teaching someone to accept doctrines without proof.” Everywhere you look we are being indoctrinated. Our news is indoctrination. “They decide, we report.” “We have to stop Hillary.” “Who are you to judge?" “Global warming is destroying the planet.” “Top-tier candidates.”
American-adults have lost their minds. Look at the garbage we are teaching our kids:
A child doesn’t need a mother and a father. Two moms or two dads are fine, because men and women are really no different.
Anal sex between men is normal, but those who speak out against it are not.
Killing a wanted unborn child is homicide; an unwanted unborn child is choice.
Global warming kills more people than abortion.
“Choice” is good for unborn children, but bad for born school children.
A young woman can have an abortion and yet never have regrets about it.
We have lost our minds!
A child must say no to cigarettes, but it is ok to say yes to sex.
Abortion is good and the death penalty is bad.
Divorce is best for the children if it makes the parents happier.
Spanking your children will cause them to be violent.
Famous people are better than “regular” people.
Love is sex and sex is love.
Condoms will prevent disease.
We have lost our minds!
Creating more laws will lower crime.
Gun control makes law-abiding citizens safer.
Being sick is an excuse for breaking the law.
Government needs to spy on us to keep us safe from terrorism.
“Experts” know what is best for the rest of us.
Our rights are granted by government.
We need more money for education.
We have lost our minds!
Paying people not to work will make them more productive.
We have no right to judge the actions of another person.
The government is the answer to everyone’s problems. .
There is a big difference between Democrats and Republicans.
President Bush is a Christian-conservative.
The National Education Association cares about kids than teachers.
We have lost our minds!
Jesus has forgiven our sins so stop talking about sin.
An hour of Sunday school will undue 7 hours a day in public schools.
God is not to be included in public ceremonies, government, or education.
Remove the teachings of Christianity and people will naturally be good.
The US Supreme Court over-rides the law of God.
Jesus is most concerned with making us happy.
Those who believe the Bible are not very well educated.
We have lost our minds!
I could go on. Let me leave you with a few Scriptures to chew on. Perhaps they can help explain the mess we are in.
Proverbs 1:7 “The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge.”
Philippians 2:5 “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:”
Psalm 14:1 “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God.”
America has become a “ship of fools” captained by fools. The ship has lost her moral rudder. The blind are leading the blind.
Thursday, January 03, 2008
WHY DOES WHOLE FOODS SUPPORT THE MURDER
OF ITS POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS ??
Sent to the Cherry Creek and Tamarac stores in Colorado
as well as the corporate headquarters:
I see from Life Decisions International's newest boycott
list that Whole Foods is still listed as supporting the nation's
most evil organization - Planned Parenthood.
PP of the Rockies killed 8,800 pre-born babies in 2006.
Why does Whole Foods want to have potential customers
lives destroyed?
It saddens me to have to share this news with our supporters.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
To ask Whole Foods to stop supporting America's largest
killer of pre-born babies:
National Contacts
Ashley Hawkins
Ashley.Hawkins@wholefoods.com
512.542.0381
Amy Schaefer
Amy.Schaefer@wholefoods.com
512.542.0380
Kate Lowery
Kate.Lowery@wholefoods.com
512.542.0390
OF ITS POTENTIAL CUSTOMERS ??
Sent to the Cherry Creek and Tamarac stores in Colorado
as well as the corporate headquarters:
I see from Life Decisions International's newest boycott
list that Whole Foods is still listed as supporting the nation's
most evil organization - Planned Parenthood.
PP of the Rockies killed 8,800 pre-born babies in 2006.
Why does Whole Foods want to have potential customers
lives destroyed?
It saddens me to have to share this news with our supporters.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
To ask Whole Foods to stop supporting America's largest
killer of pre-born babies:
National Contacts
Ashley Hawkins
Ashley.Hawkins@wholefoods.com
512.542.0381
Amy Schaefer
Amy.Schaefer@wholefoods.com
512.542.0380
Kate Lowery
Kate.Lowery@wholefoods.com
512.542.0390
Saturday, December 29, 2007
WHY DOES DENVER'S REPRESENTATIVE
ALICE BORODKIN HATE PRE-BORN BABIES?
The December 28th issue of the Colorado
Statesman reports that Rep. Borodkin has formed
the Rocky Mountain Regional Pro-Choice Caucus.
Claiming the group is being formed to "focus on sex
ed and preventing unwanted pregnancies in the
first place," Borodkin states the group isn't
about abortion. Partnering with NARAL (National
Abortion Rights Action League) should make that
mission tough! No pre-born child is too developed for
NARAL to deny the "right" to dismember.
Abortions after 21 weeks, they say, are "complicated."
Although at least 15% of babies can survive a c-section
with medical support at that stage, if continuing the
pregnancy isn't possible, NARAL suggests the baby
can be destroyed.
Denver citizens should ask Rep. Borodkin why she
doesn't believe in the God-given, inalienable, right
to life and why she won't work to ensure that
evil organizations like Planned Parenthood and
NARAL stop killing innocent babies in their
mother's wombs for financial gain.
Capitol Phone: (303)866-2910
Email: alice.borodkin.house@state.co.us
ALICE BORODKIN HATE PRE-BORN BABIES?
The December 28th issue of the Colorado
Statesman reports that Rep. Borodkin has formed
the Rocky Mountain Regional Pro-Choice Caucus.
Claiming the group is being formed to "focus on sex
ed and preventing unwanted pregnancies in the
first place," Borodkin states the group isn't
about abortion. Partnering with NARAL (National
Abortion Rights Action League) should make that
mission tough! No pre-born child is too developed for
NARAL to deny the "right" to dismember.
Abortions after 21 weeks, they say, are "complicated."
Although at least 15% of babies can survive a c-section
with medical support at that stage, if continuing the
pregnancy isn't possible, NARAL suggests the baby
can be destroyed.
Denver citizens should ask Rep. Borodkin why she
doesn't believe in the God-given, inalienable, right
to life and why she won't work to ensure that
evil organizations like Planned Parenthood and
NARAL stop killing innocent babies in their
mother's wombs for financial gain.
Capitol Phone: (303)866-2910
Email: alice.borodkin.house@state.co.us
IF YOUR BABY ESCAPES THE WOMB,
YOU CAN BUY HER PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S
ANTI ROMNEY ONESIE!
Planned Parenthood launches anti-Mitt clothing line
By Jessica Fargen | Friday, December 28, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com | 2008 Campaign News
Photo by Angela Rowlings
Less than a week before the neck-and-neck race to finish first in the Iowa caucuses, Planned Parenthood has launched a line of “multiple choice Mitt” clothing including bibs, baby onesies and T-shirts that blast GOP candidateMitt Romney’s “flip-flop” on abortion rights.
The collection, for sale online, includes $20 doggie T-shirts, $6 baby bibs, a $15 mug, as well as bags and hats, all bearing a photo of the former governor and the logo “Multiple Choice Mitt: Flip-Flopper from Massachusetts.”
“This was more than just a flip-flop, this was an extreme makeover,” said Angus McQuilken, spokesman for the Massachusetts chapter of Planned Parenthood, which has aggressively dogged Rommey for his reversal on abortion rights.
Romney’s spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, said the candidate is not shocked at the campaign.
“Mitt Romney is pro-life. It’s not surprising that abortion rights advocates are opposed to him. Every action Mitt Romney took on legislation sent to him as governor he came down on the side of protecting life. As president, he will do the same,” Fehrnstrom said in a statement to the Herald.
When Romney ran for Massachusetts governor in 2002, he supported abortion rights, but in recent years has become an anti-choice candidate and tried to paint himself as the authentic conservative in the tight GOP race.
The Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts launched the Multiple Choice Mitt: Flip Flopper from Massachusetts campaign in February.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/view.bg?articleid=1063308
YOU CAN BUY HER PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S
ANTI ROMNEY ONESIE!
Planned Parenthood launches anti-Mitt clothing line
By Jessica Fargen | Friday, December 28, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com | 2008 Campaign News
Photo by Angela Rowlings
Less than a week before the neck-and-neck race to finish first in the Iowa caucuses, Planned Parenthood has launched a line of “multiple choice Mitt” clothing including bibs, baby onesies and T-shirts that blast GOP candidateMitt Romney’s “flip-flop” on abortion rights.
The collection, for sale online, includes $20 doggie T-shirts, $6 baby bibs, a $15 mug, as well as bags and hats, all bearing a photo of the former governor and the logo “Multiple Choice Mitt: Flip-Flopper from Massachusetts.”
“This was more than just a flip-flop, this was an extreme makeover,” said Angus McQuilken, spokesman for the Massachusetts chapter of Planned Parenthood, which has aggressively dogged Rommey for his reversal on abortion rights.
Romney’s spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, said the candidate is not shocked at the campaign.
“Mitt Romney is pro-life. It’s not surprising that abortion rights advocates are opposed to him. Every action Mitt Romney took on legislation sent to him as governor he came down on the side of protecting life. As president, he will do the same,” Fehrnstrom said in a statement to the Herald.
When Romney ran for Massachusetts governor in 2002, he supported abortion rights, but in recent years has become an anti-choice candidate and tried to paint himself as the authentic conservative in the tight GOP race.
The Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund of Massachusetts launched the Multiple Choice Mitt: Flip Flopper from Massachusetts campaign in February.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/politics/2008/view.bg?articleid=1063308
Thursday, December 27, 2007
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
SEEMS LIKE HUGE NEWS!
Roe v. Rabbis
Chief Rabbinate: Abortions are grave sin
Rabbinic Council of Chief Rabbinate to establish committee to lobby against abortions in Israel. Rabbis: Abortions delaying coming of messiah
Neta Sela
Israel's Chief Rabbinate decided over the weekend that it would establish a special committee that would work to reduce the amount of abortions carried out in Israel.
Both Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger supported the Rabbinical Council's decision.
Women's Right to Choose
Religious party proposes outlawing abortions after 22nd week / Amnon Meranda
Knesset to vote on Shas bill proposal to amend current abortion law, outlaw terminations towards end of second trimester. MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz) slams bill as offense to women's rights, says
Full Story
The council made the decision after Dr. Eli Schussheim, director of the anti-abortion organization Efrat, presented the rabbis with facts and figures on the amount of abortions carried out in Israel yearly.
According to Dr. Schussheim, 50,000 abortions occur in Israel every year, only 20,000 of which are legally performed.
The Rabbinic Council, which is made up of the Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Rabbi Shaar-Yeshuv Cohen, the Chief Rabbi of Rehovot, Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Kook and Beersheba’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yehuda Deri, has decided to have the new committee begin work this coming Saturday.
"The vast majority of abortions are unnecessary and strictly forbidden according to halacha because they are carried out even when the pregnancies do not endanger the mother's health," the rabbis wrote in their decision.
The rabbis believe that these types of abortions are a grave sin which may even delay the coming of the messiah. They base this assumption on an expression uttered by the Jewish sages which can be construed as signifying that the messiah will not arrive until all souls meant to be born to Jewish mothers are in fact born.
The halachic basis for the rabbis anti-abortion position is articulated in Genesis 9:6 which reads: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man."
The rabbis see fetuses as constituting a "man" based on a Gemara passage which states that a fetus in its mother's womb should already be considered a human being.
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL DENVER'S RABBI STEVEN FOSTER!
Roe v. Rabbis
Chief Rabbinate: Abortions are grave sin
Rabbinic Council of Chief Rabbinate to establish committee to lobby against abortions in Israel. Rabbis: Abortions delaying coming of messiah
Neta Sela
Israel's Chief Rabbinate decided over the weekend that it would establish a special committee that would work to reduce the amount of abortions carried out in Israel.
Both Sephardi Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar and Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger supported the Rabbinical Council's decision.
Women's Right to Choose
Religious party proposes outlawing abortions after 22nd week / Amnon Meranda
Knesset to vote on Shas bill proposal to amend current abortion law, outlaw terminations towards end of second trimester. MK Zahava Gal-On (Meretz) slams bill as offense to women's rights, says
Full Story
The council made the decision after Dr. Eli Schussheim, director of the anti-abortion organization Efrat, presented the rabbis with facts and figures on the amount of abortions carried out in Israel yearly.
According to Dr. Schussheim, 50,000 abortions occur in Israel every year, only 20,000 of which are legally performed.
The Rabbinic Council, which is made up of the Chief Rabbi of Haifa, Rabbi Shaar-Yeshuv Cohen, the Chief Rabbi of Rehovot, Rabbi Simcha HaCohen Kook and Beersheba’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Yehuda Deri, has decided to have the new committee begin work this coming Saturday.
"The vast majority of abortions are unnecessary and strictly forbidden according to halacha because they are carried out even when the pregnancies do not endanger the mother's health," the rabbis wrote in their decision.
The rabbis believe that these types of abortions are a grave sin which may even delay the coming of the messiah. They base this assumption on an expression uttered by the Jewish sages which can be construed as signifying that the messiah will not arrive until all souls meant to be born to Jewish mothers are in fact born.
The halachic basis for the rabbis anti-abortion position is articulated in Genesis 9:6 which reads: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man."
The rabbis see fetuses as constituting a "man" based on a Gemara passage which states that a fetus in its mother's womb should already be considered a human being.
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL DENVER'S RABBI STEVEN FOSTER!
LIFE WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CHOICE!
Another Pro-life film - not for the
little ones.
The following article is located at:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/2007/juno.html
Juno
Review by Peter T. Chattaway | posted 12/05/07
Who could have foreseen that 2007 would be the year of the unplanned pregnancy at the multiplex? And who could have foreseen that, as the year progressed, the films dealing with this topic would be increasingly bold in expressing their implicitly pro-life—not "anti-choice," but certainly pro-life—sensibilities?
First there was Waitress, which starred 30-ish Keri Russell as a married woman who learns that she is bearing the offspring of her neglectful, even abusive, husband; deeply ambivalent about the pregnancy itself, she simply states that she recognizes the child's "right to thrive," and that is that. Then there was Knocked Up, in which Katherine Heigl played a single up-and-coming journalist in her 20s who keeps her baby partly because she is repulsed by her mother's suggestion that she "take care of" the pregnancy now and have a "real baby" at some point in the future. And then there was Bella, in which a struggling single woman ends up with an unplanned pregnancy and intends to abort, only to end up reconsidering after a concerned friend offers to help.
Ellen Page as Juno, Michael Cera as Paulie Bleeker
And now, there is Juno, which is arguably the funniest and most meaningful of the lot. The film stars Ellen Page as the youngest mother of them all, a whip-smart high-school student named Juno MacGuff who discovers that she is in the family way after a single sexual experience with her best friend and bandmate, a semi-dorky track star named Paulie Bleeker (Superbad's Michael Cera).
The film's early scenes play on the idea that teenagers these days have become quite casual about sexual matters—Juno's friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) offers to call the abortion clinic for her, just like she did for one of their friends—but things take an unexpected turn when Juno shows up at the clinic itself. Standing outside is a classmate named Su-Chin (Valerie Tian), who holds a pro-life placard and chants, insistently but not aggressively, "All babies want to get borned!"
Juno shrugs Su-Chin off at first, but as she sits in the lobby, something else Su-Chin said—that her baby has fingernails—sticks in Juno's mind, underscoring the humanity of the unborn fetus. In fact, it sticks in her mind so much that, before long, Juno stands up and walks right back out of the clinic—much to the delight of Su-Chin, who beams, "God appreciates your miracle!"
Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman as the hopeful adoptive parents
This is the one and only time that we see Su-Chin, and what with her bad grammar and earnest sloganeering, she may come across as a bit of a stereotype. But the story hinges on her, so it is worth noting the small but significant part she plays in convincing Juno to carry her baby to term—a decision that becomes the first step on a humorous, confusing, and ultimately moving path towards Juno's greater maturity. Put simply: because Juno accepts her pregnancy, she grows up.
Juno recognizes, however, that she is not ready to raise the child, so she looks in the classifieds for a couple that wants to adopt, and she finds one in the comfortably middle-class Mark and Vanessa Loring (The Kingdom co-stars Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner). But there are hints, too subtle for Juno, that the Lorings might not be on quite the same page. Vanessa desperately wants a child, but Mark doesn't seem to share her enthusiasm. And when Juno discovers that Mark is a musician too, he strikes up a friendship with her that threatens to cross a boundary or two.
Juno is the first film written by Diablo Cody, a blogger and former stripper who knows how to come up with hip, clever lines and so-old-they're-cool-again pop-culture references ("Thundercats are go!" cries Juno when she goes into labor). But even better than that is the way the film goes beneath the hipster surface and gives many of its characters an extra dimension that goes beyond Juno's perception of them. In short, this is a film that empathizes with all of its main characters.
J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney as Juno's parents
Vanessa, for example, seems rather uptight when we first meet her, so much so that you wonder if you would really want to give your child to her; but later on, Juno bumps into Vanessa at a shopping mall and offers to let Vanessa feel her belly—and there is genuine, sympathetic suspense as we wait to see whether the baby will kick and, in some sense, begin to bond with its would-be future adoptive mother.
On the flip side, we can also appreciate that Mark, who used to play in a rock and roll band before he turned to writing commercial jingles, feels constricted by Vanessa's need to form a proper suburban domestic family unit. His music, his comics, and his horror movies are all confined to a single room while Vanessa seeks his opinion on which shade of yellow to color the baby's room. Mark makes at least one very bad decision because he feels so stifled, but we can understand why he does.
And then there are Juno's parents. As Juno's father, J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man's J. Jonah Jameson) lets the love and concern he has for his daughter show through his usual gruff exterior. And as Juno's stepmother, Alison Janney (who has played her share of caricatures, most recently in Hairspray) has moments of genuine warmth and compassion. Remarkably, while the film is clearly told from Juno's point of view, and while Juno's taste in music and knack for witticisms mark her as an alter ego of sorts for screenwriter Cody, the film is smart enough and broad-minded enough to recognize that Juno really is a naïve child in some ways, and that sometimes the adults—including those that Juno taunts—really do know better than her.
Juno and best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby)
Juno is directed by Jason Reitman, whose last film was the scathingly brilliant satire Thank You for Smoking. The new film is, if anything, even better than his previous effort, and it works equally well as a story of pre-mid-life crisis—when, exactly, did Gen-Xers like Mark abandon the mosh pit for mortgages and families?—and as a straightforward high-school comedy, with hints of possible romance as Paulie shyly suggests that he and Juno should get back "together" on a long-term basis.
Note to those who may be drawn to the movie by the pro-life elements: It would be a stretch to say that Cody or Reitman intended this to be a "socially conservative" film. Juno and her friends are still teenagers, with all that that implies, though the jokes they tell never stray outside PG-13 territory. (This isn't a crass Judd Apatow film, in other words.) Also, it is worth noting that, when all is said and done, neither Juno nor her child end up in a traditional family, as such. But in a way, that just underscores the film's implicit pro-life sensibility. Life is life, and deserves to be nurtured, even—if not especially—when everything around it is broken.
The Family Corner For parents to consider
Juno is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material (a high school girl gets pregnant and goes to an abortion clinic, where she meets a pro-life classmate), sexual content (brief flashbacks to the moment when Juno and Paulie had sex, though without explicit nudity) and language (about half-a-dozen four-letter words). There are also a couple of brief and mildly irreverent, but not hostile, references to God and Jesus.
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Another Pro-life film - not for the
little ones.
The following article is located at:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/movies/reviews/2007/juno.html
Juno
Review by Peter T. Chattaway | posted 12/05/07
Who could have foreseen that 2007 would be the year of the unplanned pregnancy at the multiplex? And who could have foreseen that, as the year progressed, the films dealing with this topic would be increasingly bold in expressing their implicitly pro-life—not "anti-choice," but certainly pro-life—sensibilities?
First there was Waitress, which starred 30-ish Keri Russell as a married woman who learns that she is bearing the offspring of her neglectful, even abusive, husband; deeply ambivalent about the pregnancy itself, she simply states that she recognizes the child's "right to thrive," and that is that. Then there was Knocked Up, in which Katherine Heigl played a single up-and-coming journalist in her 20s who keeps her baby partly because she is repulsed by her mother's suggestion that she "take care of" the pregnancy now and have a "real baby" at some point in the future. And then there was Bella, in which a struggling single woman ends up with an unplanned pregnancy and intends to abort, only to end up reconsidering after a concerned friend offers to help.
Ellen Page as Juno, Michael Cera as Paulie Bleeker
And now, there is Juno, which is arguably the funniest and most meaningful of the lot. The film stars Ellen Page as the youngest mother of them all, a whip-smart high-school student named Juno MacGuff who discovers that she is in the family way after a single sexual experience with her best friend and bandmate, a semi-dorky track star named Paulie Bleeker (Superbad's Michael Cera).
The film's early scenes play on the idea that teenagers these days have become quite casual about sexual matters—Juno's friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby) offers to call the abortion clinic for her, just like she did for one of their friends—but things take an unexpected turn when Juno shows up at the clinic itself. Standing outside is a classmate named Su-Chin (Valerie Tian), who holds a pro-life placard and chants, insistently but not aggressively, "All babies want to get borned!"
Juno shrugs Su-Chin off at first, but as she sits in the lobby, something else Su-Chin said—that her baby has fingernails—sticks in Juno's mind, underscoring the humanity of the unborn fetus. In fact, it sticks in her mind so much that, before long, Juno stands up and walks right back out of the clinic—much to the delight of Su-Chin, who beams, "God appreciates your miracle!"
Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman as the hopeful adoptive parents
This is the one and only time that we see Su-Chin, and what with her bad grammar and earnest sloganeering, she may come across as a bit of a stereotype. But the story hinges on her, so it is worth noting the small but significant part she plays in convincing Juno to carry her baby to term—a decision that becomes the first step on a humorous, confusing, and ultimately moving path towards Juno's greater maturity. Put simply: because Juno accepts her pregnancy, she grows up.
Juno recognizes, however, that she is not ready to raise the child, so she looks in the classifieds for a couple that wants to adopt, and she finds one in the comfortably middle-class Mark and Vanessa Loring (The Kingdom co-stars Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner). But there are hints, too subtle for Juno, that the Lorings might not be on quite the same page. Vanessa desperately wants a child, but Mark doesn't seem to share her enthusiasm. And when Juno discovers that Mark is a musician too, he strikes up a friendship with her that threatens to cross a boundary or two.
Juno is the first film written by Diablo Cody, a blogger and former stripper who knows how to come up with hip, clever lines and so-old-they're-cool-again pop-culture references ("Thundercats are go!" cries Juno when she goes into labor). But even better than that is the way the film goes beneath the hipster surface and gives many of its characters an extra dimension that goes beyond Juno's perception of them. In short, this is a film that empathizes with all of its main characters.
J.K. Simmons and Allison Janney as Juno's parents
Vanessa, for example, seems rather uptight when we first meet her, so much so that you wonder if you would really want to give your child to her; but later on, Juno bumps into Vanessa at a shopping mall and offers to let Vanessa feel her belly—and there is genuine, sympathetic suspense as we wait to see whether the baby will kick and, in some sense, begin to bond with its would-be future adoptive mother.
On the flip side, we can also appreciate that Mark, who used to play in a rock and roll band before he turned to writing commercial jingles, feels constricted by Vanessa's need to form a proper suburban domestic family unit. His music, his comics, and his horror movies are all confined to a single room while Vanessa seeks his opinion on which shade of yellow to color the baby's room. Mark makes at least one very bad decision because he feels so stifled, but we can understand why he does.
And then there are Juno's parents. As Juno's father, J.K. Simmons (Spider-Man's J. Jonah Jameson) lets the love and concern he has for his daughter show through his usual gruff exterior. And as Juno's stepmother, Alison Janney (who has played her share of caricatures, most recently in Hairspray) has moments of genuine warmth and compassion. Remarkably, while the film is clearly told from Juno's point of view, and while Juno's taste in music and knack for witticisms mark her as an alter ego of sorts for screenwriter Cody, the film is smart enough and broad-minded enough to recognize that Juno really is a naïve child in some ways, and that sometimes the adults—including those that Juno taunts—really do know better than her.
Juno and best friend Leah (Olivia Thirlby)
Juno is directed by Jason Reitman, whose last film was the scathingly brilliant satire Thank You for Smoking. The new film is, if anything, even better than his previous effort, and it works equally well as a story of pre-mid-life crisis—when, exactly, did Gen-Xers like Mark abandon the mosh pit for mortgages and families?—and as a straightforward high-school comedy, with hints of possible romance as Paulie shyly suggests that he and Juno should get back "together" on a long-term basis.
Note to those who may be drawn to the movie by the pro-life elements: It would be a stretch to say that Cody or Reitman intended this to be a "socially conservative" film. Juno and her friends are still teenagers, with all that that implies, though the jokes they tell never stray outside PG-13 territory. (This isn't a crass Judd Apatow film, in other words.) Also, it is worth noting that, when all is said and done, neither Juno nor her child end up in a traditional family, as such. But in a way, that just underscores the film's implicit pro-life sensibility. Life is life, and deserves to be nurtured, even—if not especially—when everything around it is broken.
The Family Corner For parents to consider
Juno is rated PG-13 for mature thematic material (a high school girl gets pregnant and goes to an abortion clinic, where she meets a pro-life classmate), sexual content (brief flashbacks to the moment when Juno and Paulie had sex, though without explicit nudity) and language (about half-a-dozen four-letter words). There are also a couple of brief and mildly irreverent, but not hostile, references to God and Jesus.
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
FAMILIES AGAINST PLANNED PARENTHOOD
EXPOSE COLORADO KILLING PLANS - 8,000
killed in 06
Protest Victory!
Greenwood Village, CO (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates in the Denver area can continue protesting outside the home of a contractor who is leading the building of a new Planned Parenthood abortion business. Members of the city council of this suburb voted to allow the protests as long as they occurred only during the daytime.
The city council also limited the size of the signs so they wouldn't be an eye sore in the neighborhood.
Jo Scott, one of the pro-life people involved in the protests, told 7-News TV that they're letting area residents know information that Planned Parenthood won't divulge.
"Not only are our unborn children being killed, but our mother's are being damaged," she said. "When you kill in the womb, it leads to bloodshed on the streets."
Some local residents in the neighborhood said they were upset by the protests and Vicki Cowart, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, said the contractors involved are "heroes."
"The contractors are heroes. (They) are helping us to build better access to health care," Cowart told the television station.
"It is not just an abortion clinic, it is comprehensive reproductive health care for women," Cowart claimed.
Colorado Families Against Planned Parenthood has been targeting contractors involved in building the facility since the construction of the new abortion center began.
Planned Parenthood has come under fire for hiding its identity during the building approval process by creating a front business to file paperwork under and using the name of the company that sold the land to it.
It purchased the land its using to build the new abortion center from United Airlines. During the approval process for starting the building project, Iowa-based contractor Weitz Company listed United as the owner of the property to hide Planned Parenthood's ownership of the land.
Furthermore, the web site reports, Planned Parenthood set up a front group called Fuller 38 to set up all of the operations.
No one knew until August that the new facility will house the pro-abortion group's headquarters and an abortion facility in the same 50,000-square foot space.
Colorado pro-life advocates met with representatives of the building firm and hoped to persuade the firm to boycott the project and refuse to build the abortion center, but found considerable resistance.
Leslie Durgin, a Planned Parenthood senior vice president, previously admitted to the Denver Post that she hoped the abortion center could be built secretly.
Planned Parenthood purchased the property, located down the street from Martin Luther King park, under a different name to keep the purchase secret, she said. Now that construction is set to begin, the abortion business is changing tactics.
"We changed that several months ago. We just decided that wasn't right for us," Durgin said. "We anticipate we will have protests."
Planned Parenthood began using the secret tactics when pro-life groups successfully got construction workers and firms to boycott building an abortion center in Austin, Texas. The abortion center eventually opened but the tactics delayed that for several months.
The abortion business is slated for completion by the summer of 2008 and it is located at 7155 E. 38th Ave.
Planned Parenthood of the Rock Mountains did 8,000 abortions last year on women from Colorado, Wyoming and other nearby states.
http://noppd.org/2007/12/19/co-families-against-planned-parenthood-on-fox-31/
Printed from: http://www.lifenews.com/state2696.html
EXPOSE COLORADO KILLING PLANS - 8,000
killed in 06
Protest Victory!
Greenwood Village, CO (LifeNews.com) -- Pro-life advocates in the Denver area can continue protesting outside the home of a contractor who is leading the building of a new Planned Parenthood abortion business. Members of the city council of this suburb voted to allow the protests as long as they occurred only during the daytime.
The city council also limited the size of the signs so they wouldn't be an eye sore in the neighborhood.
Jo Scott, one of the pro-life people involved in the protests, told 7-News TV that they're letting area residents know information that Planned Parenthood won't divulge.
"Not only are our unborn children being killed, but our mother's are being damaged," she said. "When you kill in the womb, it leads to bloodshed on the streets."
Some local residents in the neighborhood said they were upset by the protests and Vicki Cowart, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, said the contractors involved are "heroes."
"The contractors are heroes. (They) are helping us to build better access to health care," Cowart told the television station.
"It is not just an abortion clinic, it is comprehensive reproductive health care for women," Cowart claimed.
Colorado Families Against Planned Parenthood has been targeting contractors involved in building the facility since the construction of the new abortion center began.
Planned Parenthood has come under fire for hiding its identity during the building approval process by creating a front business to file paperwork under and using the name of the company that sold the land to it.
It purchased the land its using to build the new abortion center from United Airlines. During the approval process for starting the building project, Iowa-based contractor Weitz Company listed United as the owner of the property to hide Planned Parenthood's ownership of the land.
Furthermore, the web site reports, Planned Parenthood set up a front group called Fuller 38 to set up all of the operations.
No one knew until August that the new facility will house the pro-abortion group's headquarters and an abortion facility in the same 50,000-square foot space.
Colorado pro-life advocates met with representatives of the building firm and hoped to persuade the firm to boycott the project and refuse to build the abortion center, but found considerable resistance.
Leslie Durgin, a Planned Parenthood senior vice president, previously admitted to the Denver Post that she hoped the abortion center could be built secretly.
Planned Parenthood purchased the property, located down the street from Martin Luther King park, under a different name to keep the purchase secret, she said. Now that construction is set to begin, the abortion business is changing tactics.
"We changed that several months ago. We just decided that wasn't right for us," Durgin said. "We anticipate we will have protests."
Planned Parenthood began using the secret tactics when pro-life groups successfully got construction workers and firms to boycott building an abortion center in Austin, Texas. The abortion center eventually opened but the tactics delayed that for several months.
The abortion business is slated for completion by the summer of 2008 and it is located at 7155 E. 38th Ave.
Planned Parenthood of the Rock Mountains did 8,000 abortions last year on women from Colorado, Wyoming and other nearby states.
http://noppd.org/2007/12/19/co-families-against-planned-parenthood-on-fox-31/
Printed from: http://www.lifenews.com/state2696.html
PLANNED PARENTHOOD PANHANDLES!
PP worker harasses woman at bus stop
The following is from an e-mail that we received from a young woman who was harassed by a Planned Parenthood employee while she was waiting at a bus stop in Pennsylvania.
My name is Samantha and I am 20 years old. I work full time in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. I had an interesting conversation with someone who worked for Planned Parenthood the other day and I felt like sharing.
I was at my bus stop about 4 pm waiting for my bus to go home when someone who worked for Planned Parenthood came up to me and asked if I would like to make a donation to help support Planned Parenthood's efforts.
Now, knowing what I know about PP and having been pro-life since I first learned what abortion was, I POLITELY declined and told her that I was sorry but I did not support PP. This lady became irate. She asked what kind of person I was that did not support an organization that was committed to helping women and young girls. Once again, I politely told her that I was pro-life and I could not and would not support an organization that not only supports, but provides, abortions. She then told me that I had no clue what I was talking about and that I need to get my facts straight before I assumed things and get myself into trouble. It was at that point that I felt threatened, excused myself, and walked away to another bus stop.
I was appalled and at one point, even frightened for my safety. It was my first face to face with someone from PP and I hope to never have to go through that again.
From: STOPP
PP worker harasses woman at bus stop
The following is from an e-mail that we received from a young woman who was harassed by a Planned Parenthood employee while she was waiting at a bus stop in Pennsylvania.
My name is Samantha and I am 20 years old. I work full time in downtown Pittsburgh, Pa. I had an interesting conversation with someone who worked for Planned Parenthood the other day and I felt like sharing.
I was at my bus stop about 4 pm waiting for my bus to go home when someone who worked for Planned Parenthood came up to me and asked if I would like to make a donation to help support Planned Parenthood's efforts.
Now, knowing what I know about PP and having been pro-life since I first learned what abortion was, I POLITELY declined and told her that I was sorry but I did not support PP. This lady became irate. She asked what kind of person I was that did not support an organization that was committed to helping women and young girls. Once again, I politely told her that I was pro-life and I could not and would not support an organization that not only supports, but provides, abortions. She then told me that I had no clue what I was talking about and that I need to get my facts straight before I assumed things and get myself into trouble. It was at that point that I felt threatened, excused myself, and walked away to another bus stop.
I was appalled and at one point, even frightened for my safety. It was my first face to face with someone from PP and I hope to never have to go through that again.
From: STOPP
PROTESTING PRAISE THE LORD!!
PP clinic in Alabama no longer performing surgical or medical abortions
We have learned that Planned Parenthood in Huntsville, Alabama is no longer offering surgical or medical abortions. Thanks to the hard work of pro-lifers in Alabama, and with God’s help, we are happy to pass along the following e-mail:
I am writing to let you know that the Planned Parenthood in Huntsville, Alabama that we have been protesting has now stopped performing abortions. They are still open, but they are no longer performing any type of abortion. They have removed their license from the health department and are finished with that part! Thank you for your help! What a great Christmas present!
Protesting works! The peaceful protests in Huntsville did not close down the clinic (yet), but it did affect the business enough that they no longer do medical or surgical abortions. We encourage every one of our readers to find the nearest Planned Parenthood clinic and establish a presence outside it at least once a week. To find the clinic nearest to you, visit our map room.
From: STOPP (Stop Planned Parenthood)
PP clinic in Alabama no longer performing surgical or medical abortions
We have learned that Planned Parenthood in Huntsville, Alabama is no longer offering surgical or medical abortions. Thanks to the hard work of pro-lifers in Alabama, and with God’s help, we are happy to pass along the following e-mail:
I am writing to let you know that the Planned Parenthood in Huntsville, Alabama that we have been protesting has now stopped performing abortions. They are still open, but they are no longer performing any type of abortion. They have removed their license from the health department and are finished with that part! Thank you for your help! What a great Christmas present!
Protesting works! The peaceful protests in Huntsville did not close down the clinic (yet), but it did affect the business enough that they no longer do medical or surgical abortions. We encourage every one of our readers to find the nearest Planned Parenthood clinic and establish a presence outside it at least once a week. To find the clinic nearest to you, visit our map room.
From: STOPP (Stop Planned Parenthood)
Monday, December 17, 2007
THE REAL MEANING OF CHRISTMAS
An African Tale
Thompson and big sister!!
Some days sidewalk counseling can be tedious, other days it can be dangerous and in extremely hot or cold weather it can be physically taxing. But some days are just indescribably delicious. Wednesday was one of those days for this sidewalk counselor in Denver.
The day started out as usual, I was up and working at the computer before daylight, out the door by 8:00 A.M., and in front of Planned Parenthood abortion mill by 8:30 A. M. The young women walking into the mill were hard hearted and calloused. I wasn’t able to reach even one of them. My cell phone rang at 9:45 A.M.; it was Angie, calling from a nearby hospital to tell me that she was in labor. Several months ago I was able to talk her out of her abortion appointment at the Planned Parenthood abortuary. She needed emotional, Spiritual and financial help to continue her pregnancy and by the grace of God, we were able to provide it.
I was privileged to coach her through her labor and help her to usher little baby Thompson into the world. I can’t explain the overwhelming feelings of thanksgiving and humility that enveloped me when I looked into his precious little face and remembered back to the day that I confronted his mom with what she was about to do. I imagine that it is the same overwhelming experience that all sidewalk counselors have when they are so blessed as to hold the fruit of their ministry in their arms.
BUT, that is not all that happened on Wednesday. About four years ago a young woman from Liberia, Africa was scheduled for an abortion in September at the same Planned Parenthood death camp. Oretha and her one and a half year old son, Emanuel, had just arrived in the United States; she was afraid that she would be sent back to her war torn country by the United Nations if she were pregnant. When I met her she had no money and no food at home. To make matters worse her oldest son, Ephesian, was still in Africa somewhere, the war had separated them. She was frightened that she would never see him again unless she was able to work to raise the money to find him and bring him here. She was convinced that abortion was her only choice.
Fortunately, Oretha was a Christian, so when I talked to her about Jesus she listened. I reminded her that Jesus would not let her down, nor would we, the protesters and sidewalk counselors let her down. I promised her that we would stand with her and help her to find her oldest son, Ephesian. Oretha decided not to abort her child.
Saved baby Isaiah:
That evening, the phone rang, when I answered, Oretha was frantic, she cried, “You said that you would help me.” I was able to calm her down and convince her that we would help her and then she told me of her plight. The following day when I met with Oretha and I was able to provide her with the food that she needed and through God’s word inspire hope for the future. Although Ephesian was still in Africa, in time, Oretha began to believe that she would see him again. It has been about four years since the day that I met Oretha, who is now my beloved friend and sister in Christ.
On Wednesday evening, while little baby Thompson was being born, at long last, Ephesian landed at Denver International Airport. He walked off the plane and into his mother’s arms for the first time in over four years.
I met Ephesian the next morning, Thursday, December 13, 2007 at the United Nations office in Denver. I will never forget the look on Oretha’s face when I walked into that office. She had leaned on Jesus through the darkest of nights and now, sitting beside her was Ephesian her oldest son, holding his little brother Isaiah’s hand. (Emanuel was in school.) Oretha was radiant, her joy tangible and everyone in the room was caught up in the moment.
Mother & Son reunited:
There is not enough time in this short story to recount everything that Oretha and her people endured in Africa before they were able to make their way to America and freedom. And yet she has remained sweet, thankful and brimming with joy. We all could learn from her. Americans have more wealth than most of the world, our children live better than King Solomon could even dream of living and yet we have very little faith. I thank God everyday that I met Oretha and her family. She has taught my husband Ken and I more than we could teach her in two lifetimes and all because we stood at the gates of hell proclaiming the love of Jesus.
God Bless,
Ken and Jo Scott
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
DIANA DEGETTE SAYS CONGRESS IS PLAYING GOD!
Playing God?
How sad and ironic that Representative
Degette doesn't recognize the grave danger
to her eternal soul by her advocacy of destroying
some innocent human lives for the benefit of others.
The Creator of the universe implores us to protect
and revere the innocents; not use them as a means
to an end. Killing a human being for the potential
of an enhanced quality of life, for those suffering illness,
is evil.
Playing God, indeed.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
DeGette to continue pushing for stem-cell research
By: The Denver Post
Created 12/02/2007 - 10:14am
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado made news this past week by endorsing Sen. Hillary Clinton for president. She'll be back in the spotlight in coming weeks as she continues her fight for federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research in light of a promising new study that ordinary skin cells can be transformed into embryonic stem cells.
POST: What do you think about last week's developments?
DeGETTE: To take adult stem cells and make them essential to other kinds of cells is a big breakthrough. But I would also sound a cautionary note that this research is really still in its nascent stages, and it is not — certainly at this point — a substitute for other kinds of research, like embryonic stem-cell research.
The religious right and the White House, every time there's some other breakthrough, they want to say that's a substitute for embryonic stem-cell research. In fact, we don't know which of these types of research will end up being the research that will end up curing all these diseases.
What we do know is embryonic stem-cell research is almost 10 years ahead of this new type of discovery, and so there are a lot of advances coming, particularly out of Great Britain and some other countries, on skin regeneration on macular degeneration.
I expect you'll see some big announcement in the next few months about embryonic stem cell research or somatic cell nuclear transfer or some other technique. What this all points out to me is that Congress needs to stop playing God, Congress and the White House need to stop telling researchers what types of cell research they should be doing.
POST: Do you foresee yourself running another embryonic stem-cell bill?
DeGETTE: I certainly do intend to reintroduce the bill, but we may want to look at other ways to move the issue.
We are so close on the research with so many of these diseases. One of my colleagues, Jim Langevin of Rhode Island, he's been in a wheelchair since he had a gun accident. You know they're close to nerve regeneration, they're close with the islet cell regeneration with diabetics. What it's going to take is some serious attention and resources through the NIH to all of this research.
I'm not going to say it's embryonic stem-cell research or it's adult stem-cell research or it's somatic cell nuclear transfer. Everybody was really happy to see that research announced last week, but ... we've got to think really hard about the ethics of what we're doing.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) speaks as Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) listens during a news conference on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, January 9, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Getty Images / Alex Wong) DC.
I went to England a couple of years ago. They have a whole system that they set up around the time in vitro fertilization clinics were set up. A board reviews all research proposals, not just embryonic stem-cell proposals, but anything having to do with these kinds of research.
The board is composed of researchers who don't have a financial interest, lay people and elected officials. And before someone can do this research in Great Britain, they have to submit a proposal to this board. We don't have anything like that in this country, even for the federal-funded lines of embryonic stem-cell research. We don't have any code of ethics for that or any ethical review.
Playing God?
How sad and ironic that Representative
Degette doesn't recognize the grave danger
to her eternal soul by her advocacy of destroying
some innocent human lives for the benefit of others.
The Creator of the universe implores us to protect
and revere the innocents; not use them as a means
to an end. Killing a human being for the potential
of an enhanced quality of life, for those suffering illness,
is evil.
Playing God, indeed.
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
DeGette to continue pushing for stem-cell research
By: The Denver Post
Created 12/02/2007 - 10:14am
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado made news this past week by endorsing Sen. Hillary Clinton for president. She'll be back in the spotlight in coming weeks as she continues her fight for federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research in light of a promising new study that ordinary skin cells can be transformed into embryonic stem cells.
POST: What do you think about last week's developments?
DeGETTE: To take adult stem cells and make them essential to other kinds of cells is a big breakthrough. But I would also sound a cautionary note that this research is really still in its nascent stages, and it is not — certainly at this point — a substitute for other kinds of research, like embryonic stem-cell research.
The religious right and the White House, every time there's some other breakthrough, they want to say that's a substitute for embryonic stem-cell research. In fact, we don't know which of these types of research will end up being the research that will end up curing all these diseases.
What we do know is embryonic stem-cell research is almost 10 years ahead of this new type of discovery, and so there are a lot of advances coming, particularly out of Great Britain and some other countries, on skin regeneration on macular degeneration.
I expect you'll see some big announcement in the next few months about embryonic stem cell research or somatic cell nuclear transfer or some other technique. What this all points out to me is that Congress needs to stop playing God, Congress and the White House need to stop telling researchers what types of cell research they should be doing.
POST: Do you foresee yourself running another embryonic stem-cell bill?
DeGETTE: I certainly do intend to reintroduce the bill, but we may want to look at other ways to move the issue.
We are so close on the research with so many of these diseases. One of my colleagues, Jim Langevin of Rhode Island, he's been in a wheelchair since he had a gun accident. You know they're close to nerve regeneration, they're close with the islet cell regeneration with diabetics. What it's going to take is some serious attention and resources through the NIH to all of this research.
I'm not going to say it's embryonic stem-cell research or it's adult stem-cell research or it's somatic cell nuclear transfer. Everybody was really happy to see that research announced last week, but ... we've got to think really hard about the ethics of what we're doing.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) speaks as Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) listens during a news conference on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, January 9, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Getty Images / Alex Wong) DC.
I went to England a couple of years ago. They have a whole system that they set up around the time in vitro fertilization clinics were set up. A board reviews all research proposals, not just embryonic stem-cell proposals, but anything having to do with these kinds of research.
The board is composed of researchers who don't have a financial interest, lay people and elected officials. And before someone can do this research in Great Britain, they have to submit a proposal to this board. We don't have anything like that in this country, even for the federal-funded lines of embryonic stem-cell research. We don't have any code of ethics for that or any ethical review.
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