COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE BOARD MEMBERS, HANKS, HENDRIX AND SUTHERLAND ASK WHY???
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Monday, October 03, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Leslie Hanks
October 3, 2005
720-394-8946 C
COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE CALLS FOR ETHICAL VACCINES
Attendees at the 2005 Colorado Right to Life, State Meeting September 24, 2005
voted unanimously to adopt a resolution opposing the use of fetal tissue in the
production of vaccines and proposing the development of ethical alternatives grown
on cell lines which are not tainted with fetal tissue from aborted babies.
Furthermore, the body calls upon the congress to pass the Fair Labeling and Informed
Consent Act, which was introduced earlier this year by Children of God for Life. (www.cogforlife.org)
Patti Johnson, former State School Board member, wrote and carried the
resolution to the organization’s annual State Meeting, at which new board members
were elected and the vision for 2006 was charted.
CRLC President, Diane Hochevar noted, “Our organization believes that all human
life is precious and should be equally protected under the law from fertilization to natural
death. “We commend Patti Johnson for raising this important topic, about which many
citizens are unaware.”
Most parents have no idea that their children’s vaccines contain DNA from
an aborted human baby. “We intend to embark upon an education campaign to help
families understand the ethical and medical implications of this hidden issue,”
states CRLC Vice President, Leslie Hanks.
Unlike Merck, who obtained their rubella virus from an aborted baby, Japanese scientists simply swabbed the throat of an infected child. “Why American pharmaceutical companies have not pursued a similar ethical avenue, remains a mystery,” said the resolution’s sponsor, Patti Johnson.
October 3, 2005
720-394-8946 C
COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE CALLS FOR ETHICAL VACCINES
Attendees at the 2005 Colorado Right to Life, State Meeting September 24, 2005
voted unanimously to adopt a resolution opposing the use of fetal tissue in the
production of vaccines and proposing the development of ethical alternatives grown
on cell lines which are not tainted with fetal tissue from aborted babies.
Furthermore, the body calls upon the congress to pass the Fair Labeling and Informed
Consent Act, which was introduced earlier this year by Children of God for Life. (www.cogforlife.org)
Patti Johnson, former State School Board member, wrote and carried the
resolution to the organization’s annual State Meeting, at which new board members
were elected and the vision for 2006 was charted.
CRLC President, Diane Hochevar noted, “Our organization believes that all human
life is precious and should be equally protected under the law from fertilization to natural
death. “We commend Patti Johnson for raising this important topic, about which many
citizens are unaware.”
Most parents have no idea that their children’s vaccines contain DNA from
an aborted human baby. “We intend to embark upon an education campaign to help
families understand the ethical and medical implications of this hidden issue,”
states CRLC Vice President, Leslie Hanks.
Unlike Merck, who obtained their rubella virus from an aborted baby, Japanese scientists simply swabbed the throat of an infected child. “Why American pharmaceutical companies have not pursued a similar ethical avenue, remains a mystery,” said the resolution’s sponsor, Patti Johnson.
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
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Speakout: Breast cancer-abortion link slighted
By Leslie Hanks, Special to the News
September 23, 2005
As the leaves begin to turn gold each fall, cities begin to turn pink.
Everywhere one looks one finds pink ads, pink attire, pink hats, pink tennis shoes, pink teas - yes The Republic of Tea makes a Sip for the Cure. The Race for the Cure (for breast cancer) has become the cause celebre for the nation.
A perusal of a recent O, The Oprah Magazine found 14 pages of ads for the politically correct event. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is proclaimed on radio commercials, seen in huge displays in shopping malls and their pink ribbons decorate buildings all over town. Has there ever before been a more comprehensive marketing campaign? On Oct. 2, Denver's Clear Channel radio stations, 9News and Safeway will sponsor this year's Race for the Cure to raise funds for a cure for breast cancer.
The participating women are highly motivated to find a cure for the dread disease, and who can blame them? In the recent past, however, a growing body of evidence has been amassed linking breast cancer and the most avoidable risk factor for it: abortion. One can study the statistics and come to one's own conclusions, but the data found on www.abortionbreastcancer.com is pretty persuasive.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation lost a founding member of its National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council, Eve Sanchez Silver, because of her concern about the foundation giving funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the nation. Sanchez Silver asking, "Why aren't women being told?" Her concerns can be found at www.pinkmoney.org.
As early as 1986, government scientists wrote a letter to the British medical journal The Lancet acknowledging that abortion is a cause of breast cancer. They wrote, "Induced abortion before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer" (The Lancet, Feb. 22, 1986).
Aborting one's first pregnancy - when the breast's cells are changing from nonmilk-producing to those able to sustain life - apparently leaves the cells in a vulnerable state to toxins, leading to a serious increase in one's risk for developing breast cancer later in life.
As the abortion-breast cancer link's strongest proponent, Joel Brind, Ph.D., explains, "So full-term pregnancy is protective; it lowers breast cancer risk. But if that pregnancy is cut off artificially somewhere in the middle after some weeks or months, [a woman] has far more cells in her breasts that are capable of proliferation, and that have proliferated, than she did at the beginning of the pregnancy, which translates statistically into a higher chance of getting breast cancer later in life."
Why does giving grants to Planned Parenthood, the organization that may be most responsible for the dire increase in breast cancer rates since Roe v. Wade, make any sense? Why do the mainstream media insist on a media blackout about the most relevant topic to women's health today? Why do editors routinely ignore the queries begging them to reveal the truth? Do they believe women can't handle the truth?
Leslie Hanks is the vice president of Colorado Right to Life. She is a resident of Watkins.
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Speakout: Breast cancer-abortion link slighted
By Leslie Hanks, Special to the News
September 23, 2005
As the leaves begin to turn gold each fall, cities begin to turn pink.
Everywhere one looks one finds pink ads, pink attire, pink hats, pink tennis shoes, pink teas - yes The Republic of Tea makes a Sip for the Cure. The Race for the Cure (for breast cancer) has become the cause celebre for the nation.
A perusal of a recent O, The Oprah Magazine found 14 pages of ads for the politically correct event. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is proclaimed on radio commercials, seen in huge displays in shopping malls and their pink ribbons decorate buildings all over town. Has there ever before been a more comprehensive marketing campaign? On Oct. 2, Denver's Clear Channel radio stations, 9News and Safeway will sponsor this year's Race for the Cure to raise funds for a cure for breast cancer.
The participating women are highly motivated to find a cure for the dread disease, and who can blame them? In the recent past, however, a growing body of evidence has been amassed linking breast cancer and the most avoidable risk factor for it: abortion. One can study the statistics and come to one's own conclusions, but the data found on www.abortionbreastcancer.com is pretty persuasive.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation lost a founding member of its National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council, Eve Sanchez Silver, because of her concern about the foundation giving funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions in the nation. Sanchez Silver asking, "Why aren't women being told?" Her concerns can be found at www.pinkmoney.org.
As early as 1986, government scientists wrote a letter to the British medical journal The Lancet acknowledging that abortion is a cause of breast cancer. They wrote, "Induced abortion before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer" (The Lancet, Feb. 22, 1986).
Aborting one's first pregnancy - when the breast's cells are changing from nonmilk-producing to those able to sustain life - apparently leaves the cells in a vulnerable state to toxins, leading to a serious increase in one's risk for developing breast cancer later in life.
As the abortion-breast cancer link's strongest proponent, Joel Brind, Ph.D., explains, "So full-term pregnancy is protective; it lowers breast cancer risk. But if that pregnancy is cut off artificially somewhere in the middle after some weeks or months, [a woman] has far more cells in her breasts that are capable of proliferation, and that have proliferated, than she did at the beginning of the pregnancy, which translates statistically into a higher chance of getting breast cancer later in life."
Why does giving grants to Planned Parenthood, the organization that may be most responsible for the dire increase in breast cancer rates since Roe v. Wade, make any sense? Why do the mainstream media insist on a media blackout about the most relevant topic to women's health today? Why do editors routinely ignore the queries begging them to reveal the truth? Do they believe women can't handle the truth?
Leslie Hanks is the vice president of Colorado Right to Life. She is a resident of Watkins.
Copyright 2005, Rocky Mountain News. All Rights Reserved.
Sunday, September 18, 2005
PASTOR ENYART REPORTS:
Pro-life activists met with one of Colorado’s Deputy Attorney Generals, Jason Dunn, and prosecutor Jeanne Smith to inform them of abortion industry violations state-wide of the mandatory reporting law for suspicion of sexual activity with underage children. Colorado’s law does not empower the Attorney General’s office to investigate or prosecute local crimes. However, Colorado Right to Life vice president Leslie Hanks, sidewalk counselor Jo Scott, and Denver Bible Church pastor Bob Enyart argued that this matter rose to the level of the Attorney General’s office because of its multi-jurisdictional nature. Also, the pro-lifers asked Dunn to recommend that Attorney General John Suthers use the lawful authority he does possess to issue a statement to make statewide local law enforcement aware that, because of apparent violations of mandatory reporting, abortion clinics are systematically aiding those who commit incest and rape against children in the cover-up of these crimes.
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, and the National Abortion Federation, operate facilities across the state, from Ft. Collins, through Denver and Colorado Springs, to Durango. Longtime prosecutor Smith was familiar with the frequent prosecutions throughout Colorado of sexual predators for crimes against minors, but could not recall any examples of cases arising from abortion clinics complying with Colorado’s mandatory reporting law. Smith, and Deputy Attorney General Dunn, stated that in preparation for this meeting they had discussed the possibility of multi-jurisdictional issues. The pro-lifers played recorded phone-call evidence, obtained by Life Dynamics of Denton Texas, of Colorado abortion clinics telling a woman posing as a 13-year-old to forget that you told us the 22-year-old age of the man who had impregnated her. Both lawyers indicated that such information seemed insufficient to prompt the AG to investigate. Enyart indicated the statistical evidence, since studies show that 60% to 80% of young teens impregnated have been violated by adults, and many of those children are brought to abortion clinics, and yet Colorado’s law requiring reporting from such workers who “suspect” is utterly ignored. The officials asked if the pro-lifers had direct evidence that any abortion organization had centralized training procedures or policies specifically designed to evade the mandatory reporting law, which the pro-lifers did not. Leslie Hanks then said, “These are children’s lives that are being ruined. This seems so wrong, that you are telling us that, as citizens, Colorado’s Attorney General’s office cannot look into the evidence, and that we, as citizens, are the ones who would have to investigate.”
Aside from informing these officials of this concern, the September 16, 2005 meeting yielded three action items. The Deputy AG agreed to raise the matter with Suthers of the AG issuing a statement to law enforcement; the Deputy agreed to inform the pro-lifers of the outcome of that request; and it was agreed that both parties would gather further information and meet again, possibly next month.
This report should not be understood to imply that abortion clinics would be less condemnable if they reported rather than systematically ignored their suspicion of child rape. Abortion clinics murder unborn children. And abortion is always wrong. In this instance, our love and concern for violated young teenagers who get brought to an abortion clinic, often by the very adult who raped them, parallels our effort to save the life of each and every unborn child, and to expose the wickedness of the abortion industry.
Pro-life activists met with one of Colorado’s Deputy Attorney Generals, Jason Dunn, and prosecutor Jeanne Smith to inform them of abortion industry violations state-wide of the mandatory reporting law for suspicion of sexual activity with underage children. Colorado’s law does not empower the Attorney General’s office to investigate or prosecute local crimes. However, Colorado Right to Life vice president Leslie Hanks, sidewalk counselor Jo Scott, and Denver Bible Church pastor Bob Enyart argued that this matter rose to the level of the Attorney General’s office because of its multi-jurisdictional nature. Also, the pro-lifers asked Dunn to recommend that Attorney General John Suthers use the lawful authority he does possess to issue a statement to make statewide local law enforcement aware that, because of apparent violations of mandatory reporting, abortion clinics are systematically aiding those who commit incest and rape against children in the cover-up of these crimes.
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, and the National Abortion Federation, operate facilities across the state, from Ft. Collins, through Denver and Colorado Springs, to Durango. Longtime prosecutor Smith was familiar with the frequent prosecutions throughout Colorado of sexual predators for crimes against minors, but could not recall any examples of cases arising from abortion clinics complying with Colorado’s mandatory reporting law. Smith, and Deputy Attorney General Dunn, stated that in preparation for this meeting they had discussed the possibility of multi-jurisdictional issues. The pro-lifers played recorded phone-call evidence, obtained by Life Dynamics of Denton Texas, of Colorado abortion clinics telling a woman posing as a 13-year-old to forget that you told us the 22-year-old age of the man who had impregnated her. Both lawyers indicated that such information seemed insufficient to prompt the AG to investigate. Enyart indicated the statistical evidence, since studies show that 60% to 80% of young teens impregnated have been violated by adults, and many of those children are brought to abortion clinics, and yet Colorado’s law requiring reporting from such workers who “suspect” is utterly ignored. The officials asked if the pro-lifers had direct evidence that any abortion organization had centralized training procedures or policies specifically designed to evade the mandatory reporting law, which the pro-lifers did not. Leslie Hanks then said, “These are children’s lives that are being ruined. This seems so wrong, that you are telling us that, as citizens, Colorado’s Attorney General’s office cannot look into the evidence, and that we, as citizens, are the ones who would have to investigate.”
Aside from informing these officials of this concern, the September 16, 2005 meeting yielded three action items. The Deputy AG agreed to raise the matter with Suthers of the AG issuing a statement to law enforcement; the Deputy agreed to inform the pro-lifers of the outcome of that request; and it was agreed that both parties would gather further information and meet again, possibly next month.
This report should not be understood to imply that abortion clinics would be less condemnable if they reported rather than systematically ignored their suspicion of child rape. Abortion clinics murder unborn children. And abortion is always wrong. In this instance, our love and concern for violated young teenagers who get brought to an abortion clinic, often by the very adult who raped them, parallels our effort to save the life of each and every unborn child, and to expose the wickedness of the abortion industry.
Friday, September 16, 2005
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Posted by: lesforlife54.
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> meeting with Colorado deputy AG, Jason Dunn regarding Planned
Parenthood's coverup of adult men sexually exploiting very young
teen girls.
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Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Racing Against Hope – Why aren’t Women being told the truth?
As the leaves begin to turn gold, each fall cities begin to turn pink. Not exactly complimentary colors. Pink suggests spring, renewal and growth.
Everywhere one looks one finds pink ads, pink attire, pink hats, pink tennis shoes, pink teas – yes The Republic of Tea makes a Sip for the Cure. The Race for the Cure has become the cause celebre for the nation. A recent perusal through an Oprah Magazine found fourteen pages of ads for the politically correct event. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is proclaimed on radio commercials, seen in huge displays in shopping malls and their pink ribbons decorate buildings all over town. Has there ever before been a more comprehensive marketing campaign?
On October 2, 2005, Denver, Colorado’s Clear Channel radio, 9 News and Safeway will sponsor this year’s Race for the Cure to raise funds for a cure for breast cancer.
The participating women are highly motivated to find a cure for the dread disease, who can blame them?
In the recent past, however, a growing body of evidence has been amassed, linking breast cancer and the most avoidable risk factor for it: abortion. One
can study the statistics and come to one’s own conclusions, but the data found on www.abortionbreastcancer.com is pretty convincing.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation lost a board member, Eve Sanchez Silver, because of her concern over the foundation giving funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest
provider of abortion in the nation. Not only is Eve asking, “Why aren’t women being told?” she also wants to know why Planned Parenthood targets people of color with its
policies. Her concerns can be found at www.pinkmoney.org.
Asking tough questions doesn’t bother Eve. What bothers her is the silence in the U.S. media. Taking her cause to Australia has revived fresh interest for her message, where it
hit a brick wall in her own nation.
When the truth begins to seep out of the bulwark standing against it, the racer’s anger will begin to simmer. They will demand to know why some pretty important information
was withheld from them.
As early as 1986, government scientists wrote a letter to the British Journal Lancet acknowledging that abortion is a cause of breast cancer. They wrote, “Induced abortion
before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer,” Lancet 2/22/86 p.436.
Aborting one’s first pregnancy - when the breast’s cells are changing from non-milk producing to those able to sustain life – apparently leaves the cells in a vulnerable state to
toxins, leading to a serious increase of one’s risk for developing breast cancer later in life.
As the ABC link’s strongest proponent, Joel Brind PhD explains, “So full term pregnancy is protective; it lowers breast cancer risk. But if that pregnancy is cut off artificially somewhere in the middle after some weeks or months, she has far more cells in her breasts that are capable of proliferation, and that have proliferated, than she did at the beginning of the pregnancy, which translates statistically into a higher chance of getting breast cancer later in life.”
Why does giving grants to the organization which may be most responsible for the dire increase in breast cancer rates since Roe v Wade make any sense? Why does
mainstream media insist on a media blackout about the most relevant topic to women’s health today? Why do editors routinely ignore the queries begging them to reveal the truth?
Do they believe women can’t handle the truth?
Absent that, all the pink attire, buttons, and tennis shoes in the country won’t restore health while one of the main causes of disease is denied.
All the running and racing for a cure will never happen as long as women go against nature, destroy their progeny and the beautiful functions for which their bodies were incredibly designed.
Keep the color pink for the time when women rediscover, with perfect joy, their majestic endowment as life givers.
Until that day is embraced and renewed, the colors of October shall remain naturally those of falling leaves.
Leslie Hanks
As the leaves begin to turn gold, each fall cities begin to turn pink. Not exactly complimentary colors. Pink suggests spring, renewal and growth.
Everywhere one looks one finds pink ads, pink attire, pink hats, pink tennis shoes, pink teas – yes The Republic of Tea makes a Sip for the Cure. The Race for the Cure has become the cause celebre for the nation. A recent perusal through an Oprah Magazine found fourteen pages of ads for the politically correct event. The Susan G. Komen Foundation is proclaimed on radio commercials, seen in huge displays in shopping malls and their pink ribbons decorate buildings all over town. Has there ever before been a more comprehensive marketing campaign?
On October 2, 2005, Denver, Colorado’s Clear Channel radio, 9 News and Safeway will sponsor this year’s Race for the Cure to raise funds for a cure for breast cancer.
The participating women are highly motivated to find a cure for the dread disease, who can blame them?
In the recent past, however, a growing body of evidence has been amassed, linking breast cancer and the most avoidable risk factor for it: abortion. One
can study the statistics and come to one’s own conclusions, but the data found on www.abortionbreastcancer.com is pretty convincing.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation lost a board member, Eve Sanchez Silver, because of her concern over the foundation giving funds to Planned Parenthood, the largest
provider of abortion in the nation. Not only is Eve asking, “Why aren’t women being told?” she also wants to know why Planned Parenthood targets people of color with its
policies. Her concerns can be found at www.pinkmoney.org.
Asking tough questions doesn’t bother Eve. What bothers her is the silence in the U.S. media. Taking her cause to Australia has revived fresh interest for her message, where it
hit a brick wall in her own nation.
When the truth begins to seep out of the bulwark standing against it, the racer’s anger will begin to simmer. They will demand to know why some pretty important information
was withheld from them.
As early as 1986, government scientists wrote a letter to the British Journal Lancet acknowledging that abortion is a cause of breast cancer. They wrote, “Induced abortion
before first term pregnancy increases the risk of breast cancer,” Lancet 2/22/86 p.436.
Aborting one’s first pregnancy - when the breast’s cells are changing from non-milk producing to those able to sustain life – apparently leaves the cells in a vulnerable state to
toxins, leading to a serious increase of one’s risk for developing breast cancer later in life.
As the ABC link’s strongest proponent, Joel Brind PhD explains, “So full term pregnancy is protective; it lowers breast cancer risk. But if that pregnancy is cut off artificially somewhere in the middle after some weeks or months, she has far more cells in her breasts that are capable of proliferation, and that have proliferated, than she did at the beginning of the pregnancy, which translates statistically into a higher chance of getting breast cancer later in life.”
Why does giving grants to the organization which may be most responsible for the dire increase in breast cancer rates since Roe v Wade make any sense? Why does
mainstream media insist on a media blackout about the most relevant topic to women’s health today? Why do editors routinely ignore the queries begging them to reveal the truth?
Do they believe women can’t handle the truth?
Absent that, all the pink attire, buttons, and tennis shoes in the country won’t restore health while one of the main causes of disease is denied.
All the running and racing for a cure will never happen as long as women go against nature, destroy their progeny and the beautiful functions for which their bodies were incredibly designed.
Keep the color pink for the time when women rediscover, with perfect joy, their majestic endowment as life givers.
Until that day is embraced and renewed, the colors of October shall remain naturally those of falling leaves.
Leslie Hanks
Sunday, September 11, 2005
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Posted by: lesforlife54.
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> Date: September 11, 2005 6:40:23 PM MDT
> To: steve curtis
> Cc: enyartbob@aol.com, Ken and Jo Scott , Diane
> Hochevar
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
'March of the Penguins' vs. March for Women's Lives
By Jill Stanek
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Last week, my 5-year-old grandson and I went to see the movie, "March of the Penguins."
MOTP is a documentary that tells of the incredible sacrifices emperor penguins make to reproduce, protect their eggs, and safeguard their babies' lives in the harshest conditions on earth.
In light of the pro-life issue, I watch animal documentaries and dramas with mixed emotions. On one hand, there are usually a couple of scenes about pregnancy or giving birth corroborating that, yes, on a gut level, people do recognize the sanctity of life.
For instance, an early scene of "Finding Nemo" shows Nemo's desperate father, whose wife and incubating eggs have just been devoured by a predator, spotting Nemo, his lone surviving embryonic progeny, in a see-through egg. Instantly his despair turns to joy. He certainly does not consider his preborn son a blob of tissue.
On the other hand, scenes like this magnify the depravity of people who condone abortion, and I am refilled with angst.
MOTP hit me harder than most. Almost every scene and narrative verified the beauty of life and the rightness of protecting it.
Every March, as the Antarctic summer ends, scattered tribes of emperor penguins travel up to 70 miles to an ancient inland breeding ground, chosen instinctively because this is where ice is the thickest and will remain solid until the following summer, so the young won't fall through it. Upon arrival, penguins find mates with whom they are monogamous for a yearlong breeding cycle.
In early June, females lay one egg, and, as pro-abort actor Morgan Freeman narrated, "From now on the couple has but a single goal – keeping the egg alive ... The tiny beating heart within the shell cannot survive more than a moment in the freezing air."
(Mr. Freeman, do you ever contemplate what you read?)
By now, parents have gone without food for two months, and mom has lost 1/3 of her body weight. In a chivalrous role reversal, dads assume responsibility for their eggs for an incredible two additional months, so moms can trek 70 miles back to the sea for food and to regain strength to care for their hatchlings.
Sometimes when mom transfers the egg to dad, it cracks. In that case, narrated Freeman, "The couple can only watch as the ice claims their egg and the life within it."
Throughout the harshest winter in the world, when there is no sunlight, temperatures drop to -80 degrees, and winds blow 100 miles per hour, fathers huddle together to protect their eggs, nestled atop gentle, clawed feet and underneath a fold of warm, feathered skin.
Mothers instinctively return when hatchlings are a couple of days old. Most of them return, anyway. Seals have killed a few. "With a snap of its jaw," said Freeman, "the seal actually takes two lives – one of the mother and one of her unborn chick, who will never be fed."
Mothers assume care of the chicks so fathers can trod 70 miles to the sea to eat. For the next several months the two will take turns caring for their baby and shuttling back and forth to the ocean, until their baby is old enough to fend for itself.
As I watched MOTP, I wondered how people could ooh and aww when baby penguins pecked out of their shells, or cover their eyes when a giant petrel attacked a baby penguin, yet not give a thought to the dismemberment and killing of human babies.
I wondered, what would it take for people to connect? I juxtaposed the willingness of penguins to freeze and starve to death for their babies to the unwillingness of humans to forfeit any indulgence whatsoever for their babies.
I remembered last year's March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C., when pro-aborts gathered to bolster their right to kill babies.
I thought, maybe a penguin movie analogy would help people understand.
The movie would open with militant feminist penguins marching to their ancient political breeding ground, where lusting, self-centered males waited. There they would all serial-mate, despising the prospect of producing babies. Should the unthinkable happen, close-ups would show frenzied penguins pecking open eggs and ripping babies apart, or inserting little hoses into the eggs to suction babies out. Fathers would abandon mothers who changed their minds and wanted to keep their eggs to fend for themselves.
But a movie like that won't ever be made, because it would expose anti-lifers as demented.
Still, I sometimes wish humans would behave more like animals.
Jill Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. In 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In January 2003, World Magazine named Jill one of the 30 most prominent pro-life leaders of the past 30 years. To learn more, visit Jill's blog, Pro-life Pulse.
By Jill Stanek
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Last week, my 5-year-old grandson and I went to see the movie, "March of the Penguins."
MOTP is a documentary that tells of the incredible sacrifices emperor penguins make to reproduce, protect their eggs, and safeguard their babies' lives in the harshest conditions on earth.
In light of the pro-life issue, I watch animal documentaries and dramas with mixed emotions. On one hand, there are usually a couple of scenes about pregnancy or giving birth corroborating that, yes, on a gut level, people do recognize the sanctity of life.
For instance, an early scene of "Finding Nemo" shows Nemo's desperate father, whose wife and incubating eggs have just been devoured by a predator, spotting Nemo, his lone surviving embryonic progeny, in a see-through egg. Instantly his despair turns to joy. He certainly does not consider his preborn son a blob of tissue.
On the other hand, scenes like this magnify the depravity of people who condone abortion, and I am refilled with angst.
MOTP hit me harder than most. Almost every scene and narrative verified the beauty of life and the rightness of protecting it.
Every March, as the Antarctic summer ends, scattered tribes of emperor penguins travel up to 70 miles to an ancient inland breeding ground, chosen instinctively because this is where ice is the thickest and will remain solid until the following summer, so the young won't fall through it. Upon arrival, penguins find mates with whom they are monogamous for a yearlong breeding cycle.
In early June, females lay one egg, and, as pro-abort actor Morgan Freeman narrated, "From now on the couple has but a single goal – keeping the egg alive ... The tiny beating heart within the shell cannot survive more than a moment in the freezing air."
(Mr. Freeman, do you ever contemplate what you read?)
By now, parents have gone without food for two months, and mom has lost 1/3 of her body weight. In a chivalrous role reversal, dads assume responsibility for their eggs for an incredible two additional months, so moms can trek 70 miles back to the sea for food and to regain strength to care for their hatchlings.
Sometimes when mom transfers the egg to dad, it cracks. In that case, narrated Freeman, "The couple can only watch as the ice claims their egg and the life within it."
Throughout the harshest winter in the world, when there is no sunlight, temperatures drop to -80 degrees, and winds blow 100 miles per hour, fathers huddle together to protect their eggs, nestled atop gentle, clawed feet and underneath a fold of warm, feathered skin.
Mothers instinctively return when hatchlings are a couple of days old. Most of them return, anyway. Seals have killed a few. "With a snap of its jaw," said Freeman, "the seal actually takes two lives – one of the mother and one of her unborn chick, who will never be fed."
Mothers assume care of the chicks so fathers can trod 70 miles to the sea to eat. For the next several months the two will take turns caring for their baby and shuttling back and forth to the ocean, until their baby is old enough to fend for itself.
As I watched MOTP, I wondered how people could ooh and aww when baby penguins pecked out of their shells, or cover their eyes when a giant petrel attacked a baby penguin, yet not give a thought to the dismemberment and killing of human babies.
I wondered, what would it take for people to connect? I juxtaposed the willingness of penguins to freeze and starve to death for their babies to the unwillingness of humans to forfeit any indulgence whatsoever for their babies.
I remembered last year's March for Women's Lives in Washington, D.C., when pro-aborts gathered to bolster their right to kill babies.
I thought, maybe a penguin movie analogy would help people understand.
The movie would open with militant feminist penguins marching to their ancient political breeding ground, where lusting, self-centered males waited. There they would all serial-mate, despising the prospect of producing babies. Should the unthinkable happen, close-ups would show frenzied penguins pecking open eggs and ripping babies apart, or inserting little hoses into the eggs to suction babies out. Fathers would abandon mothers who changed their minds and wanted to keep their eggs to fend for themselves.
But a movie like that won't ever be made, because it would expose anti-lifers as demented.
Still, I sometimes wish humans would behave more like animals.
Jill Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. In 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In January 2003, World Magazine named Jill one of the 30 most prominent pro-life leaders of the past 30 years. To learn more, visit Jill's blog, Pro-life Pulse.
Dear Pro-lifers,
Louisiana and Mississippi pregnancy resource centers are in desperate need of our help. Four New Orleans area pregnancy resource centers were destroyed by Katrina, and it t is unclear how incapacitated the Mississippi PRCs are, because no one has been able to get through to any of their directors.
That's the bad news. The good news is that five of eight Louisiana abortion clinics were also destroyed.
The PRCs in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and other outer Louisiana areas have been inundated by families needing diapers and formula. Area hospitals are also asking the centers to recover post-partum patients.
The formula companies say they have sent huge shipments to the area, but they're not getting to the PRCs.
I spoke with three PRC directors in Louisiana yesterday, and they gave me a list of their greatest needs. We are going to collect donations in the Chicago area over the weekend at Parkview Christian Church (11100 Orland Parkway, Orland Park, Illinois 60467), and a semi is going to deliver them to Louisiana on Monday (September 12).
Here are the needs, in order of urgency:
1. Formula: Advanced Similac with iron; Enfamil with iron; any other formulas - dry, condensed, or ready to serve
2. Diapers, especially newborn
3. Infant car seats
4. Pedialyte
5. Bassinets
6. Baby wipes
More than that, the PRCs desperately need money. They need to finance mobile medical units to go into the devastated areas as they are accessible. A director told me that there is lots of giving going on to churches and relief agencies, but the PRCs are being overlooked.
We also need money to pay for the semi truck gas. (The truck and driver's time are being donated.) Donations for gas can be made to Concerned Women for America of IL, P. O. Box 188, Palos Heights, IL 60463.
There is also a need for volunteers to go to Louisiana and stay for a week or two or longer, particularly men for protection. A nurse at the Shreveport PRC says she will help find housing.
Donate directly online to: www.ctlm.org. These funds will go to finance mobile medical units and restoring pregnancy care centers.
Please distribute this alert widely.
Thank you very much,
Jill Stanek
Contact Information
email: jillstanek@comcast.net
web: http://www.jillstanek.com
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Louisiana and Mississippi pregnancy resource centers are in desperate need of our help. Four New Orleans area pregnancy resource centers were destroyed by Katrina, and it t is unclear how incapacitated the Mississippi PRCs are, because no one has been able to get through to any of their directors.
That's the bad news. The good news is that five of eight Louisiana abortion clinics were also destroyed.
The PRCs in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and other outer Louisiana areas have been inundated by families needing diapers and formula. Area hospitals are also asking the centers to recover post-partum patients.
The formula companies say they have sent huge shipments to the area, but they're not getting to the PRCs.
I spoke with three PRC directors in Louisiana yesterday, and they gave me a list of their greatest needs. We are going to collect donations in the Chicago area over the weekend at Parkview Christian Church (11100 Orland Parkway, Orland Park, Illinois 60467), and a semi is going to deliver them to Louisiana on Monday (September 12).
Here are the needs, in order of urgency:
1. Formula: Advanced Similac with iron; Enfamil with iron; any other formulas - dry, condensed, or ready to serve
2. Diapers, especially newborn
3. Infant car seats
4. Pedialyte
5. Bassinets
6. Baby wipes
More than that, the PRCs desperately need money. They need to finance mobile medical units to go into the devastated areas as they are accessible. A director told me that there is lots of giving going on to churches and relief agencies, but the PRCs are being overlooked.
We also need money to pay for the semi truck gas. (The truck and driver's time are being donated.) Donations for gas can be made to Concerned Women for America of IL, P. O. Box 188, Palos Heights, IL 60463.
There is also a need for volunteers to go to Louisiana and stay for a week or two or longer, particularly men for protection. A nurse at the Shreveport PRC says she will help find housing.
Donate directly online to: www.ctlm.org. These funds will go to finance mobile medical units and restoring pregnancy care centers.
Please distribute this alert widely.
Thank you very much,
Jill Stanek
Contact Information
email: jillstanek@comcast.net
web: http://www.jillstanek.com
Join our mailing list!
Forward email
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Hurricane victim needs for baby items are more prevalent that we can imagine. Denver Bible Church is
seeking help for a family whose baby is due this week. They lost everything as thousands
have.
If you want to send layette items to
P.O. Box 518
Watkins, CO 80137
the items will be distributed to the needy.
For life,
Leslie
seeking help for a family whose baby is due this week. They lost everything as thousands
have.
If you want to send layette items to
P.O. Box 518
Watkins, CO 80137
the items will be distributed to the needy.
For life,
Leslie
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Abortionist Warren Hern3 (2)
Are these the words of a respectable caring doctor, or a man driven by
bloodlust?
"We have reached a point in this particular technology [D&E abortion] where
there is no possibility of denial of an act of destruction by the operator.
It is before one's eyes. The sensations of dismemberment flow through the
forceps like an electric current."
Warren Hern's statement at an
Assoc. of Planned Parenthood
Physicians
meeting in San Diego Oct. 26
1978
"Most physicians regard abortion as a stigmatized operation done by people
who are otherwise incompetent and can't do anything else. If you're going to
do abortions and make that your specialty the best you can hope for is to be
tolerated by your colleagues. American
Medical News, September 5, 1994
Warren Hern indicts himself with his own statements.
Abortionist Warren Hern
We pray that God would take the wicked heart of Warren Hern and turn it
towards Himself. We pray that Jesus would apprehend his heart and enable
Mr. Hern to use the wonderful gifts and abilities given to him to bring
health, healing, and life, rather than destruction and death.
In Jesus Name!
Reverend Flip Benham
www. operationsaveamerica.org
Denver Prayer rally for Gush Katif
Leslie holds the banner with the name of the Lord
in Hebrew. The Lord is our banner. Jesus is Lord!
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
100_9706.JPG - Killing clinic support -front lines
Doug brought his Gospel ambulance today to the front lines in the Denver abortion wars.
I was almost decked by a large man for saying "don't go into this
death camp!"
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
RACE FOR THE CURE??? NOT!!!!!!
Quick Note on the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation...
Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, sat on a Planned Parenthood advisory board at least as late as 2002.
In 2003, Komen gave PP more than $475,000 allegedly to conduct lung cancer screenings and physician referrals.
Screenings and physician referrals are critical. Komen's funds could have been given to a real medical facility.
Colorado auditors found several years ago that PP cannot be trusted with donations that donors specify may not be used for abortion. PP moved funds to pay for a lease from one corporation to another to be used for its abortion "services."
The Coalition on Abortion Breast Cancer
P.O. Box 957133 Hoffman Estates, IL 60195-3051 USA
Toll Free: 877.803.0102 Local Calls: 847.421.4000
Email: response@abortionbreastcancer.com
Web: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com
"Today's abortion customer increases her chances of being tomorrow's cancer walker. That is a fact backed by scientific research and analysis" - Karen Malec.
Quick Note on the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation...
Nancy Brinker, founder of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, sat on a Planned Parenthood advisory board at least as late as 2002.
In 2003, Komen gave PP more than $475,000 allegedly to conduct lung cancer screenings and physician referrals.
Screenings and physician referrals are critical. Komen's funds could have been given to a real medical facility.
Colorado auditors found several years ago that PP cannot be trusted with donations that donors specify may not be used for abortion. PP moved funds to pay for a lease from one corporation to another to be used for its abortion "services."
The Coalition on Abortion Breast Cancer
P.O. Box 957133 Hoffman Estates, IL 60195-3051 USA
Toll Free: 877.803.0102 Local Calls: 847.421.4000
Email: response@abortionbreastcancer.com
Web: http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com
"Today's abortion customer increases her chances of being tomorrow's cancer walker. That is a fact backed by scientific research and analysis" - Karen Malec.
Monday, August 08, 2005
KILLING FUTURE SOLDIERS SO THEY WON'T HAVE TO DIE IN COMBAT?
Our fee for an abortion under 13 weeks 6 days is $390. Our fee for an abortion between 14 weeks and 15.6 weeks is $525. WE OFFER A $50 DISCOUNT TO ACTIVE MILITARY AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WITH CURRENT MILITARY ID. We will accept cash, VISA / MasterCard, Discover, Money Orders or Traveler's Checks. We cannot accept personal checks. Please be prepared to pay the entire amount or the balance on the day of the abortion or the day of the insertion of the osmotic cervical dilators.
Planned Parenthood Waco, Texas
Our fee for an abortion under 13 weeks 6 days is $390. Our fee for an abortion between 14 weeks and 15.6 weeks is $525. WE OFFER A $50 DISCOUNT TO ACTIVE MILITARY AND THEIR DEPENDENTS WITH CURRENT MILITARY ID. We will accept cash, VISA / MasterCard, Discover, Money Orders or Traveler's Checks. We cannot accept personal checks. Please be prepared to pay the entire amount or the balance on the day of the abortion or the day of the insertion of the osmotic cervical dilators.
Planned Parenthood Waco, Texas
Monday, August 01, 2005
This is the Strategy That Wins!
by Flip Benham
When Boulder, Colorado abortionist Warren Hern took out a full page ad in the Rocky Mountain News decrying the methods used by Operation Save America, calling us names and comparing us to fascists, Big Brother, Nazi's, and the Ku Klux Klan – who would ever have imagined that he gave us the greatest pat on the back we have ever had? Read again what he said in those final three sentences of the ad:"American women who want to have reproductive health and freedom and who want to live in the 21st century instead of going back to the 9th century [Mr. Hern's way of saying women who want to have sex without responsibility or consequences]have less to fear from the overturn ofRoe vs. Wadeby the Supreme Court than from Operation Save America. A little more of this, and doctors just won't do abortions. Would you?"
What the Church of Jesus Christ did inBoulder,ColoradoSprings, andDenver this past week presents us with the strategy that wins! The devil has spoken very clearly through Warren Hern’s mouth that it is not the politicians and lawyers inWashington,D.C., that are a threat to him. It is the Church rising up in the Name of Jesus, and storming the gates of hell with the sharp double edged Sword of the Spirit, that has him in such a tizzy. Thank you Mr. Hern, and thank you devil for this back-handed compliment. It is simply the greatest single compliment that we have ever been given.
Mr. Hern, you have made it clear that abortion will come to an end inAmerica when the Church of Jesus Christ makes up her mind it will come to an end, and not one second sooner. This is such glorious news, because now we don’t have to wait upon our waffeling Republican brethren to stand up and be brave – we can “just do it” ourselves! How? By allowing the theology of the church house to become biography in the streets. When we unsheathe the Sword of the Spirit at the gates of hell the very power of God is loosed. This is what has been lacking in our legislative wranglings.
Until now, we Christians have been ashamed of God's Word. The world had convinced us that if we were ever going to win the battle for the lives of little boys and girls waiting to be born we would have to do it through legislative means. Of course this meant that we could never fight the battle in the Name of Jesus, and we most certainly could not quote from the Bible. That would be viewed as so politically incorrect and not conducive to crafting legislation that would be acceptable to all parties involved. Please! This lie from the pit of hell has been a failed strategy for 33 years!
But look at what happens when the Church moves out of her cave into the streets and takes her rightful stand on the standard of God's Word. When she unsheathes the Sword of the Spirit all hell stands back and takes notice. It cannot prevail. Even our enemies admit defeat, for our Lord"is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." (Ephesians 3:20.)
So the question remains. Will we rely on the arm of flesh (political pragmatism) or will we rely on the Sword of the Spirit to accomplish the work we have been given to do – end abortion? One can work on the “Partial Birth Abortion Ban” from now until the cows come home and never save the life of one child. The “Partial Birth Abortion Ban” was disputably one of the greatest boondoggles ever foisted upon the pro-life community. The devil himself would have signed this into law.
We can, with the very best of motives, get “Parental Notification” and “Parental Consent” bills passed and signed into law. But then we look at each other with awkward amazement as we realize that it is never right to kill a child, even when the parents are notified or even when they give their consent. Surprisingly, we find ourselves fighting against God and His Word, rather than working with Him.
Many of our high profile evangelical Christian leaders are doing their level best to end abortion, but they cannot do it by relying on the arm of the flesh (Republican political strategy). Abortion will not be be ended by electing a Republican President, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate. We already have that and nothing has changed.
It will not be ended by packing the Supreme Court with Republican court appointees. Seven of the justices sitting on the Supreme Court for the past five years have been appointed by Republican Presidents. The court is still decidedly pro-abortion. This vividly reflects the failed strategy of the pro-life movement.
Here is the strategy that will win. Simple little Christians, not loving their own lives so much as to shrink from death, storm the gates of hell where little children are being killed and allow theology to become biography in the streets.
The Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Denver, on the corner of 20th and Vine, shut down Saturday. Why? Because the Church of Jesus Christ showed up at the gates – not because we voted, not because we packed the court with prolife judges, not because we have a Republican Congress or President, but because simple Christians came to the abortion mill. Countless babies were saved.
Saul's armor makes us wholly dependent upon elected officials to fight the Goliath of abortion that only we can slay. Evangelical leaders don't know it, but the battle is being won as gentle Christians take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the gates of hell. God has given us vision and hope. We can handle the situation. With God's help, the giant of abortion is coming down!
Just ask Warren Hern!
God bless you,
by Flip Benham
When Boulder, Colorado abortionist Warren Hern took out a full page ad in the Rocky Mountain News decrying the methods used by Operation Save America, calling us names and comparing us to fascists, Big Brother, Nazi's, and the Ku Klux Klan – who would ever have imagined that he gave us the greatest pat on the back we have ever had? Read again what he said in those final three sentences of the ad:"American women who want to have reproductive health and freedom and who want to live in the 21st century instead of going back to the 9th century [Mr. Hern's way of saying women who want to have sex without responsibility or consequences]have less to fear from the overturn ofRoe vs. Wadeby the Supreme Court than from Operation Save America. A little more of this, and doctors just won't do abortions. Would you?"
What the Church of Jesus Christ did inBoulder,ColoradoSprings, andDenver this past week presents us with the strategy that wins! The devil has spoken very clearly through Warren Hern’s mouth that it is not the politicians and lawyers inWashington,D.C., that are a threat to him. It is the Church rising up in the Name of Jesus, and storming the gates of hell with the sharp double edged Sword of the Spirit, that has him in such a tizzy. Thank you Mr. Hern, and thank you devil for this back-handed compliment. It is simply the greatest single compliment that we have ever been given.
Mr. Hern, you have made it clear that abortion will come to an end inAmerica when the Church of Jesus Christ makes up her mind it will come to an end, and not one second sooner. This is such glorious news, because now we don’t have to wait upon our waffeling Republican brethren to stand up and be brave – we can “just do it” ourselves! How? By allowing the theology of the church house to become biography in the streets. When we unsheathe the Sword of the Spirit at the gates of hell the very power of God is loosed. This is what has been lacking in our legislative wranglings.
Until now, we Christians have been ashamed of God's Word. The world had convinced us that if we were ever going to win the battle for the lives of little boys and girls waiting to be born we would have to do it through legislative means. Of course this meant that we could never fight the battle in the Name of Jesus, and we most certainly could not quote from the Bible. That would be viewed as so politically incorrect and not conducive to crafting legislation that would be acceptable to all parties involved. Please! This lie from the pit of hell has been a failed strategy for 33 years!
But look at what happens when the Church moves out of her cave into the streets and takes her rightful stand on the standard of God's Word. When she unsheathes the Sword of the Spirit all hell stands back and takes notice. It cannot prevail. Even our enemies admit defeat, for our Lord"is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think." (Ephesians 3:20.)
So the question remains. Will we rely on the arm of flesh (political pragmatism) or will we rely on the Sword of the Spirit to accomplish the work we have been given to do – end abortion? One can work on the “Partial Birth Abortion Ban” from now until the cows come home and never save the life of one child. The “Partial Birth Abortion Ban” was disputably one of the greatest boondoggles ever foisted upon the pro-life community. The devil himself would have signed this into law.
We can, with the very best of motives, get “Parental Notification” and “Parental Consent” bills passed and signed into law. But then we look at each other with awkward amazement as we realize that it is never right to kill a child, even when the parents are notified or even when they give their consent. Surprisingly, we find ourselves fighting against God and His Word, rather than working with Him.
Many of our high profile evangelical Christian leaders are doing their level best to end abortion, but they cannot do it by relying on the arm of the flesh (Republican political strategy). Abortion will not be be ended by electing a Republican President, a Republican House, and a Republican Senate. We already have that and nothing has changed.
It will not be ended by packing the Supreme Court with Republican court appointees. Seven of the justices sitting on the Supreme Court for the past five years have been appointed by Republican Presidents. The court is still decidedly pro-abortion. This vividly reflects the failed strategy of the pro-life movement.
Here is the strategy that will win. Simple little Christians, not loving their own lives so much as to shrink from death, storm the gates of hell where little children are being killed and allow theology to become biography in the streets.
The Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Denver, on the corner of 20th and Vine, shut down Saturday. Why? Because the Church of Jesus Christ showed up at the gates – not because we voted, not because we packed the court with prolife judges, not because we have a Republican Congress or President, but because simple Christians came to the abortion mill. Countless babies were saved.
Saul's armor makes us wholly dependent upon elected officials to fight the Goliath of abortion that only we can slay. Evangelical leaders don't know it, but the battle is being won as gentle Christians take the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the gates of hell. God has given us vision and hope. We can handle the situation. With God's help, the giant of abortion is coming down!
Just ask Warren Hern!
God bless you,
HELP DISPUTE THE FROZEN EMBRYOS WILL BE THROWN IN THE TRASH MYTH!!!
Embryos preserved in frozen storage offer great hope for life and for families facing fertility challenges. When a family has been successful in having a child through in vitro fertilization, embryos are often cryo-preserved, resulting in the question of what to do with them. These frozen embryos can be the hope of a child for an infertile couple. Embryo adoption shares this wonderful hope with others.
In 1997, Nightlight began the Snowflakes Frozen Embryo Adoption Program, which is helping some of the more than 400,000 frozen embryos realize their ultimate purpose – life – while sharing the hope of a child with an infertile couple. In addition to your physician, you need to trust the people you choose to help you in these important decisions.
Check out www.nightlight.org/snowflakes
Embryos preserved in frozen storage offer great hope for life and for families facing fertility challenges. When a family has been successful in having a child through in vitro fertilization, embryos are often cryo-preserved, resulting in the question of what to do with them. These frozen embryos can be the hope of a child for an infertile couple. Embryo adoption shares this wonderful hope with others.
In 1997, Nightlight began the Snowflakes Frozen Embryo Adoption Program, which is helping some of the more than 400,000 frozen embryos realize their ultimate purpose – life – while sharing the hope of a child with an infertile couple. In addition to your physician, you need to trust the people you choose to help you in these important decisions.
Check out www.nightlight.org/snowflakes
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
TEXT MESSAGING FOR LIFE!
Please be in prayer for Kara. She is seeking to abort her precious
12 week baby today. Her boyfriend Jay wants to keep his child.
He has been text messaging me about how to spare the baby. I've
never text messaged till today but just sent a message to Kara that
God hates the hands that shed innocent blood. She is really angry
with me now but she has been warned.
Pray that God will break her heart for her baby!!
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
IM for life!!!
Please be in prayer for Kara. She is seeking to abort her precious
12 week baby today. Her boyfriend Jay wants to keep his child.
He has been text messaging me about how to spare the baby. I've
never text messaged till today but just sent a message to Kara that
God hates the hands that shed innocent blood. She is really angry
with me now but she has been warned.
Pray that God will break her heart for her baby!!
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
IM for life!!!
Sunday, July 24, 2005
100_9699.JPG - Gary from the Bronx (red shirt) speaks to Pastor Bob Enyart and Colorado Right to Life board member Phillip Hendrix
100_9699.JPG - Gary from the Bronx (red shirt) speaks to Pastor Bob Enyart and Colorado Right to Life board member Phillip Hendrix
Posted by: lesforlife54.
Denver Police removed Gary from the Unitarian Universalist church lastPosted by: lesforlife54.
Sunday. His crime? Wearing a shirt that said "Intolerance of abortion, homosexuality and Islam," during a "sermon" on tolerance.
100_9696.JPG - Warrior Mary Ellen on 16th Street Mall
Final day of Operation Save America's rock Denver for Life event at ground zero of the abortion holocaust.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Monday, July 18, 2005
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Fwd: 100_9644.JPG - Leslie at Unitarian Church picket where Hemlock Society meets - Operation Save America events July 16-23, 2005
Fwd: 100_9644.JPG - Leslie at Unitarian Church picket where Hemlock Society meets - Operation Save America events July 16-23, 2005
Posted by: lesforlife54.
Begin forwarded message:Posted by: lesforlife54.
> From: Leslie Hanks
> Date: July 17, 2005 5:11:55 PM MDT
> To: floriduhvoter@netzero.net
> Cc: fight4terri@aol.com
> Subject: 100_9644.JPG - Leslie at Unitarian Church picket where
> Hemlock Society meets - Operation Save America events July 16-23, 2005
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Hello, fellow pro-lifers:
Please join us for what many consider the ultimate family fieldtrip...
Operation Save America's annual national event is taking place right here in Colorado.
While some attendees will witness with us Saturday morning the 16th in front of the Planned Parenthood abortuary located two blocks west of City Park at 20th & Vine Streets, the event itself officially kicks off at 6:30 pm Sunday, July 17, at Redeemer Community Church.
The Redeemer Temple is conveniently located about one mile west of Elitch's amusement park just a little west of downtown Denver in a nice neighborhood near 32nd and Lowell Streets. Just take the Speer exit off of I-25 and continue on to 32nd, and then look for Lowell.
Pastor Lou and the good folks at Redeemer have graciously loaned their facility, where we will be offering nightly services and rallies; afternoon equipping seminars and workshops on Christian activism, stem cell research, and similarly interesting topics; and youth training and activities. You'll hear a variety of speakers from around the country and others from right here in Colorado. If you have never heard Reverend Flip Benham, OSA's Executive Director, you have really missed something special. His knowledge of the Word and the exciting ways he shares timely messages are truly exhilarating. His countless preachings and interviews across the nation on various life issues have been some of the more memorable programs anyone recalls.
Have you ever wondered how to get involved in activism? Has your family looked for an outlet to share your faith? Would you like to be better equipped to deal with our antagonistic, GOD-hating society? Would you like to be a part of a solemn assembly whereby Catholics and Christian brothers and sisters come together to praise our LORD and exclaim His glories? During the day for the next six, there will be public witness and displays and many other exciting and effective ways to reach out to the lost and to re-ignite the Church. Understandably, this IS the best way for you and your family to leave the comfort zone and take your ministry to the streets.
Don't worry about not having experience in activism. There are many parts to Christ's body and they all serve different functions; each are valued. Some come to pray. Some come to learn. Some come to be re-energized. But, please, do not miss out on one of the most exciting events you'll ever attend. Please note, we employ only Biblical principles: the Bible is our foundation, the cross of Christ is our strategy, the repentance of the Church is our ultimate goal.
Why Denver, you might ask? After more than fifty million babies, Denver is where the abortion holocaust all began. In 1967 (yes, six years before Roe v. Wade was decided), Colorado was the first state in the union to legalize the murder of pre-born children. The first abortion mill in the country was the Planned Parenthood facility in Denver, Colorado. The Denver area also shamefully boasts of having the second highest percentage of homosexuals - behind San Francisco. Their recent "Pride" parade held in the downtown area drew hundreds of thousands of people in support. They virtually own our current legislature, with a couple of openly and unabashed homosexuals holding prominent positions and driving their agenda of perversion and moral decay. What better place for Christ's Church to storm the gates of hell in the mighty name of Jesus!
Jesus is calling the salt of the earth out of the salt shaker! Please, come and join us.
For details check out the website at http://www.operationsaveamerica.org, or call OSA's Communications Center (rings at Redeemer) at 972-200-4074 for more information.
Please join us for what many consider the ultimate family fieldtrip...
Operation Save America's annual national event is taking place right here in Colorado.
While some attendees will witness with us Saturday morning the 16th in front of the Planned Parenthood abortuary located two blocks west of City Park at 20th & Vine Streets, the event itself officially kicks off at 6:30 pm Sunday, July 17, at Redeemer Community Church.
The Redeemer Temple is conveniently located about one mile west of Elitch's amusement park just a little west of downtown Denver in a nice neighborhood near 32nd and Lowell Streets. Just take the Speer exit off of I-25 and continue on to 32nd, and then look for Lowell.
Pastor Lou and the good folks at Redeemer have graciously loaned their facility, where we will be offering nightly services and rallies; afternoon equipping seminars and workshops on Christian activism, stem cell research, and similarly interesting topics; and youth training and activities. You'll hear a variety of speakers from around the country and others from right here in Colorado. If you have never heard Reverend Flip Benham, OSA's Executive Director, you have really missed something special. His knowledge of the Word and the exciting ways he shares timely messages are truly exhilarating. His countless preachings and interviews across the nation on various life issues have been some of the more memorable programs anyone recalls.
Have you ever wondered how to get involved in activism? Has your family looked for an outlet to share your faith? Would you like to be better equipped to deal with our antagonistic, GOD-hating society? Would you like to be a part of a solemn assembly whereby Catholics and Christian brothers and sisters come together to praise our LORD and exclaim His glories? During the day for the next six, there will be public witness and displays and many other exciting and effective ways to reach out to the lost and to re-ignite the Church. Understandably, this IS the best way for you and your family to leave the comfort zone and take your ministry to the streets.
Don't worry about not having experience in activism. There are many parts to Christ's body and they all serve different functions; each are valued. Some come to pray. Some come to learn. Some come to be re-energized. But, please, do not miss out on one of the most exciting events you'll ever attend. Please note, we employ only Biblical principles: the Bible is our foundation, the cross of Christ is our strategy, the repentance of the Church is our ultimate goal.
Why Denver, you might ask? After more than fifty million babies, Denver is where the abortion holocaust all began. In 1967 (yes, six years before Roe v. Wade was decided), Colorado was the first state in the union to legalize the murder of pre-born children. The first abortion mill in the country was the Planned Parenthood facility in Denver, Colorado. The Denver area also shamefully boasts of having the second highest percentage of homosexuals - behind San Francisco. Their recent "Pride" parade held in the downtown area drew hundreds of thousands of people in support. They virtually own our current legislature, with a couple of openly and unabashed homosexuals holding prominent positions and driving their agenda of perversion and moral decay. What better place for Christ's Church to storm the gates of hell in the mighty name of Jesus!
Jesus is calling the salt of the earth out of the salt shaker! Please, come and join us.
For details check out the website at http://www.operationsaveamerica.org, or call OSA's Communications Center (rings at Redeemer) at 972-200-4074 for more information.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
GOD'S GIFTS AS GARBAGE?!
HARWINTON (AP) -- A human fetus, with the umbilical cord still attached, was discovered Tuesday at a sewage treatment plant.
The fetus was discovered in a screen at the Torrington Area Water Treatment Facility which serves the Torrington, Hartford and Litchfield areas, police said.
Medical personnel believe the fetus was in the first trimester, said Sgt. J. Paul Vance, a spokesman for the state police.
The fetus was taken to the chief medical examiner's office for examination.
Several witness have been interviewed and detectives have specific leads in their investigation, Vance said.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
HARWINTON (AP) -- A human fetus, with the umbilical cord still attached, was discovered Tuesday at a sewage treatment plant.
The fetus was discovered in a screen at the Torrington Area Water Treatment Facility which serves the Torrington, Hartford and Litchfield areas, police said.
Medical personnel believe the fetus was in the first trimester, said Sgt. J. Paul Vance, a spokesman for the state police.
The fetus was taken to the chief medical examiner's office for examination.
Several witness have been interviewed and detectives have specific leads in their investigation, Vance said.
(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
A WAY OUT OF THE WILDERNESS???
This letter ran in the Colorado Springs Gazette May 3, 2005. Read the comments of others or post your own! Back to KGOV.
Focus on the Strategy
Republican Judges are Pro-Choice
Dobson Criticizes His “Own” Judges
An Open Letter, with Love and Respect, to Dr. James Dobson:
In desperation, some members of Denver Bible Church had our own Justice Sundae in a peaceful protest at Senator Salazar’s Dairy Queen. The goal was to oppose his support for the killing of unborn children, but mostly to expose the result of your quarter-century strategy of getting judges who respect life by electing pro-life Republican presidents.
On your Justice Sunday, you were outraged by your own judges! Dr. Dobson, you listed the 11th Circuit decision against Terri Schiavo as an example that the judiciary is “out of control.” But all six of the justices nominated by our pro-life Republican presidents (Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II), voted against your position! All six (including William Pryor whom President Bush recess-appointed last year to avoid a Democratic filibuster), voted not to save Terri’s life and against our side. All six!
It is time to admit that your strategy has failed. Republicans nominated 58 percent of the federal judiciary [Ft. Collins’ Coloradoan.com April 28], which you rightly expose as firmly against family values. The Moral Majority/Christian Coalition/Focus on the Family 25-year strategy of getting anti-abortion judges through Republican victories has utterly failed; and now George W. Bush is keeping his word by living up to his very first campaign promise to ignore abortion when nominating judges. It was a Republican Supreme Court which legalized abortion, and a Republican-nominated judge even wrote Roe v. Wade. The current Supreme Court keeps abortion legal with seven of the nine sitting justices nominated by Republican presidents.
The judge who wrote the 9th Circuit ruling against the words “under God” in the Pledge was nominated by a Republican president. In 2002 a New York federal judge ruled that a convicted child sex offender could not be stopped from attracting children with balloons in a public park. That judge was nominated by George Bush Sr., and this compares to the current Republican U.S. Supreme Court which decided in favor of the child-porn industry against families and law enforcement, making it harder to prosecute those who sodomize children for profit. Will you please publicly expose that the vast majority of the justices nominated by our pro-life Republican presidents are pro-choice and refuse to uphold traditional biblical morality?
Our biggest successes are mostly hollow. We have spent most of a decade fighting to ban partial-birth abortion, which is tantamount to Germans banning Zyklon A only to have Zyklon B used in the extermination camps instead, while today’s abortionists simply use a different method on late-term babies and have not canceled a single abortion as a result. And the “pro-life” justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have never declared an unborn child’s fundamental right to life, but rather criticize Roe only because abortion should not be a judicial but a legislative issue; this very position undermines the safety of children as though any subdivision of government could have the right to decriminalize murder. The judges that we pretend are conservative actually are only committed to process, not to Christian values, so that when Clarence Thomas dissented from overturning the Texas sodomy law that mercifully opposed harmful behavior, we touted him as supporting Christian values, yet he wrote that if he were a state legislator he would vote to overturn the “silly” law [see SupremeCourtUS.gov or see excerpt below].
Dr. Dobson, respectfully, you are outraged by your own judges. Those in the womb when Reagan campaigned for president have now graduated from college, and the de facto Focus political strategy has packed the Federal judiciary with pro-choice Republican judges. You must come to terms with this failed strategy. You carry a heavy weight as America’s evangelical leader in the war against injustice, especially heavy if you lead by compromise; whereas Christ’s burden is light. We recommend the strategy you declared a decade ago but have since abandoned. Back then you repeatedly pledged, as stated on your program in March of 1995, “I am committed never again to cast a vote for a politician who would kill one innocent baby.”
Our leaders have been reduced to plotting battles in which every victory is a retreat. Yet your previous strategy permits no defeat. Do right and risk the consequences. The battle is not only in America, but worldwide 45 million babies [guttmacher.org] die annually. Elevating campaign savvy above righteousness guarantees only failure. Truth is not politically naive. For decades we have done evil that good may come, only to affirm Romans 3:8. Faithfulness to God is our best hope of outlawing abortion and protecting family values. Our failed political strategy makes America increasingly unsafe for children. Sadly, George W. Bush is proud of the pro-choice judges he packed the Texas Supreme Court with, and has put on the federal judiciary.
Without Christian leaders upholding your old pledge, Republican presidents simply use us conservative Christians; and the compromise tremendously weakens our side. You noticed that during the battle for Terri Schindler most religious conservatives in the media stated, “this all could have been avoided if Terri had left a written directive.” With those words, the pro-life community crossed the line to support assisted suicide, starving to death people who are not dying, as long as there is a Living Will. Our pro-life leaders have become weak after a quarter-century of compromise, never compromising on Republican-party politics, but on Thou Shalt Not Murder, all in vain hope of thereby making progress toward victory.
Federally, Republican-nominated judges issue most of the anti- Christian rulings in America. We have to stop focusing on code words that are a recipe for surrender, such as demanding strict constructionists, judicial philosophy, original intent, and constitutionalists (by which justices upheld Article I in the Dred Scott ruling that black people were property, and the Nuremberg trials brought convictions). Such terminology is another part of the failed strategy which obscures our true demand, for judges who fear God and oppose the killing of the innocent.
Thus, the issue is not the Democratic filibuster, but the failed Christian political strategy that has packed the federal judiciary with pro-choice Republican judges. Please, Dr. Dobson, take up your pledge again, and provide the leadership we desperately need.
In Christ, -Pastor Bob Enyart
(call in at 800-8Enyart or give your comments at our web forum!)
Focus on the Family is headquartered in Colorado Springs and so this letter ran in their newspaper, The Gazette, on May 3, 2005. Read the comments of others or post your own!
This letter ran in the Colorado Springs Gazette May 3, 2005. Read the comments of others or post your own! Back to KGOV.
Focus on the Strategy
Republican Judges are Pro-Choice
Dobson Criticizes His “Own” Judges
An Open Letter, with Love and Respect, to Dr. James Dobson:
In desperation, some members of Denver Bible Church had our own Justice Sundae in a peaceful protest at Senator Salazar’s Dairy Queen. The goal was to oppose his support for the killing of unborn children, but mostly to expose the result of your quarter-century strategy of getting judges who respect life by electing pro-life Republican presidents.
On your Justice Sunday, you were outraged by your own judges! Dr. Dobson, you listed the 11th Circuit decision against Terri Schiavo as an example that the judiciary is “out of control.” But all six of the justices nominated by our pro-life Republican presidents (Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II), voted against your position! All six (including William Pryor whom President Bush recess-appointed last year to avoid a Democratic filibuster), voted not to save Terri’s life and against our side. All six!
It is time to admit that your strategy has failed. Republicans nominated 58 percent of the federal judiciary [Ft. Collins’ Coloradoan.com April 28], which you rightly expose as firmly against family values. The Moral Majority/Christian Coalition/Focus on the Family 25-year strategy of getting anti-abortion judges through Republican victories has utterly failed; and now George W. Bush is keeping his word by living up to his very first campaign promise to ignore abortion when nominating judges. It was a Republican Supreme Court which legalized abortion, and a Republican-nominated judge even wrote Roe v. Wade. The current Supreme Court keeps abortion legal with seven of the nine sitting justices nominated by Republican presidents.
The judge who wrote the 9th Circuit ruling against the words “under God” in the Pledge was nominated by a Republican president. In 2002 a New York federal judge ruled that a convicted child sex offender could not be stopped from attracting children with balloons in a public park. That judge was nominated by George Bush Sr., and this compares to the current Republican U.S. Supreme Court which decided in favor of the child-porn industry against families and law enforcement, making it harder to prosecute those who sodomize children for profit. Will you please publicly expose that the vast majority of the justices nominated by our pro-life Republican presidents are pro-choice and refuse to uphold traditional biblical morality?
Our biggest successes are mostly hollow. We have spent most of a decade fighting to ban partial-birth abortion, which is tantamount to Germans banning Zyklon A only to have Zyklon B used in the extermination camps instead, while today’s abortionists simply use a different method on late-term babies and have not canceled a single abortion as a result. And the “pro-life” justices on the U.S. Supreme Court have never declared an unborn child’s fundamental right to life, but rather criticize Roe only because abortion should not be a judicial but a legislative issue; this very position undermines the safety of children as though any subdivision of government could have the right to decriminalize murder. The judges that we pretend are conservative actually are only committed to process, not to Christian values, so that when Clarence Thomas dissented from overturning the Texas sodomy law that mercifully opposed harmful behavior, we touted him as supporting Christian values, yet he wrote that if he were a state legislator he would vote to overturn the “silly” law [see SupremeCourtUS.gov or see excerpt below].
Dr. Dobson, respectfully, you are outraged by your own judges. Those in the womb when Reagan campaigned for president have now graduated from college, and the de facto Focus political strategy has packed the Federal judiciary with pro-choice Republican judges. You must come to terms with this failed strategy. You carry a heavy weight as America’s evangelical leader in the war against injustice, especially heavy if you lead by compromise; whereas Christ’s burden is light. We recommend the strategy you declared a decade ago but have since abandoned. Back then you repeatedly pledged, as stated on your program in March of 1995, “I am committed never again to cast a vote for a politician who would kill one innocent baby.”
Our leaders have been reduced to plotting battles in which every victory is a retreat. Yet your previous strategy permits no defeat. Do right and risk the consequences. The battle is not only in America, but worldwide 45 million babies [guttmacher.org] die annually. Elevating campaign savvy above righteousness guarantees only failure. Truth is not politically naive. For decades we have done evil that good may come, only to affirm Romans 3:8. Faithfulness to God is our best hope of outlawing abortion and protecting family values. Our failed political strategy makes America increasingly unsafe for children. Sadly, George W. Bush is proud of the pro-choice judges he packed the Texas Supreme Court with, and has put on the federal judiciary.
Without Christian leaders upholding your old pledge, Republican presidents simply use us conservative Christians; and the compromise tremendously weakens our side. You noticed that during the battle for Terri Schindler most religious conservatives in the media stated, “this all could have been avoided if Terri had left a written directive.” With those words, the pro-life community crossed the line to support assisted suicide, starving to death people who are not dying, as long as there is a Living Will. Our pro-life leaders have become weak after a quarter-century of compromise, never compromising on Republican-party politics, but on Thou Shalt Not Murder, all in vain hope of thereby making progress toward victory.
Federally, Republican-nominated judges issue most of the anti- Christian rulings in America. We have to stop focusing on code words that are a recipe for surrender, such as demanding strict constructionists, judicial philosophy, original intent, and constitutionalists (by which justices upheld Article I in the Dred Scott ruling that black people were property, and the Nuremberg trials brought convictions). Such terminology is another part of the failed strategy which obscures our true demand, for judges who fear God and oppose the killing of the innocent.
Thus, the issue is not the Democratic filibuster, but the failed Christian political strategy that has packed the federal judiciary with pro-choice Republican judges. Please, Dr. Dobson, take up your pledge again, and provide the leadership we desperately need.
In Christ, -Pastor Bob Enyart
(call in at 800-8Enyart or give your comments at our web forum!)
Focus on the Family is headquartered in Colorado Springs and so this letter ran in their newspaper, The Gazette, on May 3, 2005. Read the comments of others or post your own!
Monday, June 27, 2005
Oh! Well, it's OK to have Murdered Her Then.
Mr. Thogmartin has told us that, after fifteen years of a patient lying in bed recovering, Terri Schiavo might have fully recovered from any abuse she endured. Miraculously he was also unable to see whether or not this person had, fifteen years ago, a heart attack or not. Of course, I’ve never met anyone whose cardiologist was ever unsure, say 24 hours after the incident, that a heart attack had occurred or not. No, in my experience cardiologists can tell you precisely how many nano-seconds the heart attack lasted.
Continuing, the Pinellas medical examiner tells us that a person's brain, which consists of 85% water, can, oh my gosh, shrink when dehydrated for 12 days while simultaneously being starved to death.
Last, he reveals that this excruciating process could leave a person blind, actually subjecting their brain to being killed as a horrible consequence of the rest of them being killed.
Friends, that's all we really know from the autopsy of Terri Schiavo. There’s nothing particularly observably wrong with anything Mr. Thogmartin did. He is simply an observer reporting the present state of the laboratory truths: brain shrunk, brain was killed, person was thirsted to death, fifteen years of living recovery erases much data. He is a scientist performing an observation today on remains which were subjected to most nasty kind of stresses and trying to say something credible about facts a decade and a half in the past. We have been deprived, by the Pasco good ole boy club, of the normative scientific process of peer review – neither science nor the law of Moses allows anything to be established without at least two observations of the same phenomena.
So what does this report mean? It means absolutely nothing. All of its substance could have been easily predicted before the report based on publicly known facts and it is the testimony of only one individual – it cannot be confirmed or denied.
What does mean something is that these no-brainer findings are being used to perform an acquittal on the national conscience – and that is vile. The argument being forwarded by the witlessly evil pontificals is that: because after being thirsted to death her brain shrunk it means that her brain must have been shrunk for all the fifteen years before that. But regardless - proof of brain damage is proof enough that we were perfectly OK to have murdered her. NPR smarmily danced around demanding an apology from Bill Frist who had the audacity to assert that a diagnosis of persistent vegetative state was hard to make.
But now we’ve got Proof!
Proof?
Proof of what?
That she was brain damaged and that thirsting people for 12 days shrinks the brain.
But didn’t we already know that?
Uh, yes.
But what you don’t understand dear reader is that the smear campaign to anesthetize the American conscience to this murder needed some exalted “science” to say that proof that she was, gasp, blind means it was OK to murder her too. Blind on March 29th 2005 or blind in March 1997? Doesn’t matter, shut up.
Oh.
But the absolutely damning proof is that we can now see that she was brain damaged irrecoverably! The fact that the brain damage was “irreversible” (yeah when I’m dead on an autopsy table and my brain is in a jar, its pretty irreversible too) is equated in the popular press to mean Terri was a total loss like your car when you wreck it. See? She couldn’t have been taught the full webster’s dictionary again so...it’s OK to have even shot her! That my friends is the smarmy argument being foisted on us by the devil Felos and his apologists. And it is an evil that thinking people must forcefully resist in word and deed. They act as though proof of disability is proof of murderability – and they want you to nod your head as if you agree.
Friends, we have to cut to the quick here: this meaningless autopsy is trying to mislead the public mind away from core moral truth which is: it is evil to starve and thirst to death an innocent defenseless injured woman NO MATTER THE EXTENT OF HER DISABILITY. If we begin to make ANY disability worthy of judicial murder ALL DISABILITIES will be under threat of preemptive claim to the authority of judicial murder. They argued before hand that “substantial” disability was enough to murder her - “substantial” being a term they defined. They search afterward and announce that “substantial” disability existed – safe knowing they can define “substantial” up or down as needed. Then they celebrate everyone’s relief that their moving-target definition was reached. They stamp Terri as “worthless”, stamp the file “closed”, pop their champaign and cheer Michael Schiavo’s cheer, “When will that bitch die?”
Expensive weasels now pound one another gently on their Brookes Brothers backs comforting each other that they were right all along: whew! She was worthless! Thank God!
But God sits in judgment of them and knows that they were never given power over the life and death of the innocent. The Almighty knows that all men were created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Yes - God knows there will be hell to pay.
This is a smear job on the worth of Terri Schiavo and is a failed attempt to exorcise the conscience of all those who cheered her death or who sat meaninglessly by and did nothing. It is just another damnation in the string of evils spewing from the contagion that is Felos-Greer. But we don’t fall for it. The smarmy bar boys of the Pasco-Pinellas watering hole cannot convince us of their righteousness. Couch it in as much lawyer-speak as you want; the man on the street knows they committed murder.
Holocaust survivors have observed that holocaust denials are like "double killing" because they erase even the memory of the horror. Yet we who remain are responsible for all the more deliberately holding a megaphone before Terri's Blood which cries out from the ground, saying:
“You are my witnesses.”
By FarRockaway from FR
Mr. Thogmartin has told us that, after fifteen years of a patient lying in bed recovering, Terri Schiavo might have fully recovered from any abuse she endured. Miraculously he was also unable to see whether or not this person had, fifteen years ago, a heart attack or not. Of course, I’ve never met anyone whose cardiologist was ever unsure, say 24 hours after the incident, that a heart attack had occurred or not. No, in my experience cardiologists can tell you precisely how many nano-seconds the heart attack lasted.
Continuing, the Pinellas medical examiner tells us that a person's brain, which consists of 85% water, can, oh my gosh, shrink when dehydrated for 12 days while simultaneously being starved to death.
Last, he reveals that this excruciating process could leave a person blind, actually subjecting their brain to being killed as a horrible consequence of the rest of them being killed.
Friends, that's all we really know from the autopsy of Terri Schiavo. There’s nothing particularly observably wrong with anything Mr. Thogmartin did. He is simply an observer reporting the present state of the laboratory truths: brain shrunk, brain was killed, person was thirsted to death, fifteen years of living recovery erases much data. He is a scientist performing an observation today on remains which were subjected to most nasty kind of stresses and trying to say something credible about facts a decade and a half in the past. We have been deprived, by the Pasco good ole boy club, of the normative scientific process of peer review – neither science nor the law of Moses allows anything to be established without at least two observations of the same phenomena.
So what does this report mean? It means absolutely nothing. All of its substance could have been easily predicted before the report based on publicly known facts and it is the testimony of only one individual – it cannot be confirmed or denied.
What does mean something is that these no-brainer findings are being used to perform an acquittal on the national conscience – and that is vile. The argument being forwarded by the witlessly evil pontificals is that: because after being thirsted to death her brain shrunk it means that her brain must have been shrunk for all the fifteen years before that. But regardless - proof of brain damage is proof enough that we were perfectly OK to have murdered her. NPR smarmily danced around demanding an apology from Bill Frist who had the audacity to assert that a diagnosis of persistent vegetative state was hard to make.
But now we’ve got Proof!
Proof?
Proof of what?
That she was brain damaged and that thirsting people for 12 days shrinks the brain.
But didn’t we already know that?
Uh, yes.
But what you don’t understand dear reader is that the smear campaign to anesthetize the American conscience to this murder needed some exalted “science” to say that proof that she was, gasp, blind means it was OK to murder her too. Blind on March 29th 2005 or blind in March 1997? Doesn’t matter, shut up.
Oh.
But the absolutely damning proof is that we can now see that she was brain damaged irrecoverably! The fact that the brain damage was “irreversible” (yeah when I’m dead on an autopsy table and my brain is in a jar, its pretty irreversible too) is equated in the popular press to mean Terri was a total loss like your car when you wreck it. See? She couldn’t have been taught the full webster’s dictionary again so...it’s OK to have even shot her! That my friends is the smarmy argument being foisted on us by the devil Felos and his apologists. And it is an evil that thinking people must forcefully resist in word and deed. They act as though proof of disability is proof of murderability – and they want you to nod your head as if you agree.
Friends, we have to cut to the quick here: this meaningless autopsy is trying to mislead the public mind away from core moral truth which is: it is evil to starve and thirst to death an innocent defenseless injured woman NO MATTER THE EXTENT OF HER DISABILITY. If we begin to make ANY disability worthy of judicial murder ALL DISABILITIES will be under threat of preemptive claim to the authority of judicial murder. They argued before hand that “substantial” disability was enough to murder her - “substantial” being a term they defined. They search afterward and announce that “substantial” disability existed – safe knowing they can define “substantial” up or down as needed. Then they celebrate everyone’s relief that their moving-target definition was reached. They stamp Terri as “worthless”, stamp the file “closed”, pop their champaign and cheer Michael Schiavo’s cheer, “When will that bitch die?”
Expensive weasels now pound one another gently on their Brookes Brothers backs comforting each other that they were right all along: whew! She was worthless! Thank God!
But God sits in judgment of them and knows that they were never given power over the life and death of the innocent. The Almighty knows that all men were created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. Yes - God knows there will be hell to pay.
This is a smear job on the worth of Terri Schiavo and is a failed attempt to exorcise the conscience of all those who cheered her death or who sat meaninglessly by and did nothing. It is just another damnation in the string of evils spewing from the contagion that is Felos-Greer. But we don’t fall for it. The smarmy bar boys of the Pasco-Pinellas watering hole cannot convince us of their righteousness. Couch it in as much lawyer-speak as you want; the man on the street knows they committed murder.
Holocaust survivors have observed that holocaust denials are like "double killing" because they erase even the memory of the horror. Yet we who remain are responsible for all the more deliberately holding a megaphone before Terri's Blood which cries out from the ground, saying:
“You are my witnesses.”
By FarRockaway from FR
Sunday, June 26, 2005
SAVE VICKI'S SERVICES!!!
On June 2, 2005, ADAPT WV will be sponsoring a call in day on behalf of the MR/DD waiver services of Vicki Shaffer. The state of West Virginia is, under the pretense of saving money, trying to take away the services that enable her to live in the community and improve her life all the while saving the state thousands of dollars every month compared to nursing home placement. So on June 2 ADAPT WV is asking you to call one of the following numbers and help fight for Vicki’s services.
Governor Manchin 1-888-438-2731
Martha Walker, secretary of DHHR, 1-800-642-8589
or your own state or national representative and ask them to help Vicki stay in her own home.
Vicki is a Terri supporter who needs our help to stay in her own place!
Please help her by making a call to Governor Manchin and saying a prayer for this dear sister in the Lord!
On June 2, 2005, ADAPT WV will be sponsoring a call in day on behalf of the MR/DD waiver services of Vicki Shaffer. The state of West Virginia is, under the pretense of saving money, trying to take away the services that enable her to live in the community and improve her life all the while saving the state thousands of dollars every month compared to nursing home placement. So on June 2 ADAPT WV is asking you to call one of the following numbers and help fight for Vicki’s services.
Governor Manchin 1-888-438-2731
Martha Walker, secretary of DHHR, 1-800-642-8589
or your own state or national representative and ask them to help Vicki stay in her own home.
Vicki is a Terri supporter who needs our help to stay in her own place!
Please help her by making a call to Governor Manchin and saying a prayer for this dear sister in the Lord!
100_9577.JPG - HEAVEN HELP US!
Today Denver's Mayor Hickenlooper marched with numerous Colorado churches, aiding and abetting the aids crisis, in a "Gay Pride" parade down Colfax Avenue to the State Capitol.
GOD WILL NOT BE MOCKED!
Friday, June 24, 2005
Pray for Scott!!
Lord, we lift up Scott Thomas to you - your tender
mercies to bestow. Protect him Lord, from those
who seek to harm him or cut his life short.
Lord, we know that you are the ultimate physician.
Let his dear Mother be encouraged this day by the
prayers of those who cherish life.
In the majestic name of Jesus we pray. Amen.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Friday, June 17, 2005
Terri's Autopsy
On Wednesday I was privileged to speak on Terri's behalf
on Denver's KHOW Radio Caplis and Silverman program.
Pro-life attorney Dan Caplis was out of the studio and
as his "Pro-Choice" partner, Craig Silverman says,
while the cats away, the mice will play.
Former prosecutor Silverman's opening question to me
was "Don't you think you owe Michael Schiavo an apology?"
I said, "Absolutely not!" I think Michael owes the doctors he
sued for not diagnosing Terri's supposed bulemia an apology
and that he should re-pay them for the malpractice settlement
he received, since the autopsy showed Terri didn't have bulemia.
I told Mr. S that I thought the autopsy raised more questions than
it answered. Craig made a big deal about the size of Terri's brain
being half of normal. I asked if it didn't make sense that one's brain
would atrophy after 13 days of dehydration.
I told Craig that any questions about the autopsy's impartiality could
have been alleviated had Cyrl Wecht or Michael Baden been allowed to
observe which is usually done as a professional courtesy. He replied
that it may have been too crowded in the room - LAME!!
Jeb Bush is now calling for an investigation of what Mark Fuhrman's book
will illustrate - that the timeline is not Michael Schiavo's friend.
Why couldn't he have demanded that while Terri was still alive?
On Wednesday I was privileged to speak on Terri's behalf
on Denver's KHOW Radio Caplis and Silverman program.
Pro-life attorney Dan Caplis was out of the studio and
as his "Pro-Choice" partner, Craig Silverman says,
while the cats away, the mice will play.
Former prosecutor Silverman's opening question to me
was "Don't you think you owe Michael Schiavo an apology?"
I said, "Absolutely not!" I think Michael owes the doctors he
sued for not diagnosing Terri's supposed bulemia an apology
and that he should re-pay them for the malpractice settlement
he received, since the autopsy showed Terri didn't have bulemia.
I told Mr. S that I thought the autopsy raised more questions than
it answered. Craig made a big deal about the size of Terri's brain
being half of normal. I asked if it didn't make sense that one's brain
would atrophy after 13 days of dehydration.
I told Craig that any questions about the autopsy's impartiality could
have been alleviated had Cyrl Wecht or Michael Baden been allowed to
observe which is usually done as a professional courtesy. He replied
that it may have been too crowded in the room - LAME!!
Jeb Bush is now calling for an investigation of what Mark Fuhrman's book
will illustrate - that the timeline is not Michael Schiavo's friend.
Why couldn't he have demanded that while Terri was still alive?
Friday, June 10, 2005
PLANNED PARENTHOOD PROTECTS STATUTORY RAPISTS
The following letter has been sent to Colorado AG, John Suthers.
May 24, 2005
Attorney General John Suthers
1525 Sherman 5th Floor
Denver, CO 80203
Dear Mr. Suthers,
Enclosed please find a report from Life Dynamics regarding the
terrible state of affairs in Colorado and the rest of the country
relating to the rampant sexual exploitation of underage girls
by adult men.
This report exposes the relationship of Planned Parenthood to
this crisis. Several of us who try to rescue babies from the
20th and Vine clinic in Denver would like to meet with you
regarding this matter.
There is a video produced by Life Dynamics which has audio of
a Colorado clinic telling an underage client how to get around
the law. We would like to get this into your hands. This kind of criminal
activity is unconscionable and it is our desire to have a meeting with you to discuss proper enforcement of laws already on the books.
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Most sincerely,
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
720-394-8946 cell
lesforlife@earthlink.net
The following letter has been sent to Colorado AG, John Suthers.
May 24, 2005
Attorney General John Suthers
1525 Sherman 5th Floor
Denver, CO 80203
Dear Mr. Suthers,
Enclosed please find a report from Life Dynamics regarding the
terrible state of affairs in Colorado and the rest of the country
relating to the rampant sexual exploitation of underage girls
by adult men.
This report exposes the relationship of Planned Parenthood to
this crisis. Several of us who try to rescue babies from the
20th and Vine clinic in Denver would like to meet with you
regarding this matter.
There is a video produced by Life Dynamics which has audio of
a Colorado clinic telling an underage client how to get around
the law. We would like to get this into your hands. This kind of criminal
activity is unconscionable and it is our desire to have a meeting with you to discuss proper enforcement of laws already on the books.
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Most sincerely,
Leslie Hanks
V.P. Colorado Right to Life
720-394-8946 cell
lesforlife@earthlink.net
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Sunday, June 05, 2005
Saturday, June 04, 2005
COLORADO RIGHT TO LIFE V.P., LESLIE HANKS, WELCOMES OPERATION SAVE AMERICA TO DENVER - July 16-23, 2005
“Colorado began the abortion holocaust in 1967. State Representative Dick Lamm wrote and carried the first abortion law in the nation. It was passed and signed into law by Governor John Love on April 25, 1967, making Colorado the first state in our nation to “legalize” abortion for rape, incest and the life of the mother. Nonetheless, his legislation opened Pandora's box and once the killing started it spread like wildfire and into abortion on demand.”
“Dick Lamm went on to become Governor of Colorado. He earned the reputation of being “Duty to Die” Dick Lamm. In the late 1970s, he wrote an article for Playboy magazine in which he stated that the elderly should step aside and do their duty to die so that health care resources could be made available for the young.”
“Colorado started the abortion holocaust and planted many of the seeds of the euthanasia movement in America. Colorado Right to Life believes that we have a unique duty and responsibility to lead America back to protecting all life from fertilization through natural death.”
“We encourage and welcome every pro-life individual to join us in the battle of reclaiming America for the protection of God's gift of life. Therefore we are so thrilled that OSA is heading our way. You are giving us an opportunity to honor our Lord and live out our faith in the streets of Denver, Colorado!”
Activities include:
Witnessing at different area abortion mills (Denver has many!)
Proclamation at state capital
Early morning overpass ministry
Teaching seminars
Evening rallies
“Colorado began the abortion holocaust in 1967. State Representative Dick Lamm wrote and carried the first abortion law in the nation. It was passed and signed into law by Governor John Love on April 25, 1967, making Colorado the first state in our nation to “legalize” abortion for rape, incest and the life of the mother. Nonetheless, his legislation opened Pandora's box and once the killing started it spread like wildfire and into abortion on demand.”
“Dick Lamm went on to become Governor of Colorado. He earned the reputation of being “Duty to Die” Dick Lamm. In the late 1970s, he wrote an article for Playboy magazine in which he stated that the elderly should step aside and do their duty to die so that health care resources could be made available for the young.”
“Colorado started the abortion holocaust and planted many of the seeds of the euthanasia movement in America. Colorado Right to Life believes that we have a unique duty and responsibility to lead America back to protecting all life from fertilization through natural death.”
“We encourage and welcome every pro-life individual to join us in the battle of reclaiming America for the protection of God's gift of life. Therefore we are so thrilled that OSA is heading our way. You are giving us an opportunity to honor our Lord and live out our faith in the streets of Denver, Colorado!”
Activities include:
Witnessing at different area abortion mills (Denver has many!)
Proclamation at state capital
Early morning overpass ministry
Teaching seminars
Evening rallies
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
A Baby saved!!
Last week I was used by the Lord to turn this mom away from
killing her baby.
I approached her with my Center for Bioethical Reform sign
(www.abortionno.org) of an aborted 10 week old baby and when she saw it, she burst into tears.
She clearly didn't want to abort. Her husband approached and
we got a spanish speaker to tell them about Alternatives
Pregnancy Center downtown Denver.
PTL!!! God hates the hands that shed innocent blood!
Saturday, May 28, 2005
Freeper cpforlife.org Prayer Request: 8-month old boy with rapidly growing cyst on brain5-28-05 | CpForLife.org
Posted on 05/28/2005 8:29:48 PM MDT by cpforlife.org
Dear Freepers and prayer warriors,
My good friend and his wife, who together have done Pro-Life work for about 30 years have an 8-month old grandson with a rapidly growing cyst on his brain.
His name is Teddy Thaddeus Ladislaus and he’s in Texas, just like our tiniest Freeper, Logan, aka. Texas Termite.
Teddy was diagnosed with brain anomalies and I believe other problems when he was still in-utero and the doctors advised his mother to abort him. Well his good mother is a tried and true Pro-Life Christian and would not consider that.
Teddy is now 8-months old and has been diagnosed with a rapidly growing cyst on his brain.
I will provide more details when I get them.
My friend is a member of Knights For Life and his grandson needs many prayers. Please hold little Teddy, his mom, and family in your prayers.
Thanks,
Kevin (cpforlife.org)
Posted on 05/28/2005 8:29:48 PM MDT by cpforlife.org
Dear Freepers and prayer warriors,
My good friend and his wife, who together have done Pro-Life work for about 30 years have an 8-month old grandson with a rapidly growing cyst on his brain.
His name is Teddy Thaddeus Ladislaus and he’s in Texas, just like our tiniest Freeper, Logan, aka. Texas Termite.
Teddy was diagnosed with brain anomalies and I believe other problems when he was still in-utero and the doctors advised his mother to abort him. Well his good mother is a tried and true Pro-Life Christian and would not consider that.
Teddy is now 8-months old and has been diagnosed with a rapidly growing cyst on his brain.
I will provide more details when I get them.
My friend is a member of Knights For Life and his grandson needs many prayers. Please hold little Teddy, his mom, and family in your prayers.
Thanks,
Kevin (cpforlife.org)
TO COMMEMORATE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, 81 YEAR OLD
FLORIDA ABORTIONIST KILLS 50 BABIES!!
I figure Memorial Day started Thursday...Since that day, I have watched as mothers brought their children to be killed at two of Tampa's abortuaries...That I know of only two mom's turned away...Four very large babies came inside their moms today at Hyde Park to be injected with digoxin, into their tiny hearts, by Harry the Hacker Perper, who then left to kill those waiting at the Kennedy Killing Place...He would return around noon or so to finish killing the little tiny first trimester babies by hacking them up and sucking them into a canister, the same ones used in liposuctions...Sue and I actually saw the sucking tubes being carried into Alternatives on Thursday...
The alter-ego of Margaret Alvis, owner of Alternatives, again threatened to sue me...She told me that if I told one more person "they would die in here" that she would sue me...She had witnesses that would sign affadavits, yada-yada-yada...I told her she should go ahead now and sue...Why wait?
Alternatives has spent huge bucks lately on a very rotten roof and soffits, AC, etc. Keep praying for more disasters to befall this place. I put her, Margaret, among the worst of the killers, since she purposely located across from a high school...She thought she could capitalize on killing kid's kids...Ed Martin thinks she would be the easiest to put out of business. I know they are threatened because no one else ever came out to threaten me with lawsuits, etc...(Harry just comes out and screams.)
Pray that this place goes down...The killer, DeHaan is 81 ...If a young woman is severely injured at that place and we can use that to shut them down...so be it...
Will you join me in that "attack" prayer?
Thanks,
Judy
FLORIDA ABORTIONIST KILLS 50 BABIES!!
I figure Memorial Day started Thursday...Since that day, I have watched as mothers brought their children to be killed at two of Tampa's abortuaries...That I know of only two mom's turned away...Four very large babies came inside their moms today at Hyde Park to be injected with digoxin, into their tiny hearts, by Harry the Hacker Perper, who then left to kill those waiting at the Kennedy Killing Place...He would return around noon or so to finish killing the little tiny first trimester babies by hacking them up and sucking them into a canister, the same ones used in liposuctions...Sue and I actually saw the sucking tubes being carried into Alternatives on Thursday...
The alter-ego of Margaret Alvis, owner of Alternatives, again threatened to sue me...She told me that if I told one more person "they would die in here" that she would sue me...She had witnesses that would sign affadavits, yada-yada-yada...I told her she should go ahead now and sue...Why wait?
Alternatives has spent huge bucks lately on a very rotten roof and soffits, AC, etc. Keep praying for more disasters to befall this place. I put her, Margaret, among the worst of the killers, since she purposely located across from a high school...She thought she could capitalize on killing kid's kids...Ed Martin thinks she would be the easiest to put out of business. I know they are threatened because no one else ever came out to threaten me with lawsuits, etc...(Harry just comes out and screams.)
Pray that this place goes down...The killer, DeHaan is 81 ...If a young woman is severely injured at that place and we can use that to shut them down...so be it...
Will you join me in that "attack" prayer?
Thanks,
Judy
Saturday, May 21, 2005
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Mary Henning, 94 years young, faithfully offers another option to
women seeking to destroy innocent life at Denver's Planned Parenthood
killing clinic on 2th and Vine.
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Passionate Pro-lifer thanks Mary Henning, 94 year old
rescuer, for her faithful witness!
Saturday, May 14, 2005
Operation Save America's National Director, Flip Benham, was in Denver this week to meet with pastors
regarding their national event in Denver this July.
These photos, taken in front of the 20th and Vine Planned Parenthood killing clinic,
of Denver pro-life rescuers, celebrate friends willing to rescue those being led to the
slaughter.
Sara, (3rd from left) spared the life of her baby boy Braden 4 years ago because
of their presence at the mill!
regarding their national event in Denver this July.
These photos, taken in front of the 20th and Vine Planned Parenthood killing clinic,
of Denver pro-life rescuers, celebrate friends willing to rescue those being led to the
slaughter.
Sara, (3rd from left) spared the life of her baby boy Braden 4 years ago because
of their presence at the mill!
Saturday, May 07, 2005
ISN'T THAT SPECIAL?
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
A gift promoting abortion might be the last thing someone searching for a Mother's Day present might have in mind, but the National Organization for Women is offering jewelry that does just that.
NOW features abortion bracelet for Mother's Day
On its website with the banner headline "Mother's Day Gift Ideas from NOW," the group has listed as its first item a bracelet carrying the message "Keep Abortion Legal."
The ad reads: "7 1/2 inch link bracelet with Keep Abortion Legal round charm and lobster closure. Silvertone finish over solid brass, packaged in drawstring pouch." Its price is listed as $11.95.
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
A gift promoting abortion might be the last thing someone searching for a Mother's Day present might have in mind, but the National Organization for Women is offering jewelry that does just that.
NOW features abortion bracelet for Mother's Day
On its website with the banner headline "Mother's Day Gift Ideas from NOW," the group has listed as its first item a bracelet carrying the message "Keep Abortion Legal."
The ad reads: "7 1/2 inch link bracelet with Keep Abortion Legal round charm and lobster closure. Silvertone finish over solid brass, packaged in drawstring pouch." Its price is listed as $11.95.
Friday, May 06, 2005
100_9347.JPG - Mary La Francis Pro-life Iowa nurse and poet
Read Mary's lovely poem below - dedicated to Terri's
family, this Mother's day.
PLANNED PARENTHOOD'S MURDEROUS BOAST! Where is the Church?? Thirteen year old Florida girls ends her baby's life - another
"tragic" day for Jeb!
Planned Parenthood credits their activism as the reason why Gov Jeb Bush backed-off an appeal. Did Pro-lifers email/fax/phone the Gov regarding LG as much as PP??
PP's propaganda:
Greetings,
Thank you for your hard work today! Together we made a
difference in L.G.'s life! Your help and support was
instrumental in protecting her ability to make private medical
decisions without further interference by Governor Jeb Bush.
Unfortunately, L.G.'s tragic story is not the first or last of
its kind. The legislature is poised to pass a parental
notification bill in the next few days that will force delays
for many other young women seeking medical care. Fortunately, we
have you on our team. The ground swell of support by Planned
Parenthood Activists will ensure that we can protect all of the
other young women in Florida. Your emails, calls, and
letters-to-the-editor forced Governor Bush to stop interfering
on L.G.'s ability to obtain safe and legal healthcare and we
will continue to fight together for the rights of all young
women!
With your support Planned Parenthood will continue to ensure
access to reproductive healthcare for all Floridians!
Again, thank you for your support!
"tragic" day for Jeb!
Planned Parenthood credits their activism as the reason why Gov Jeb Bush backed-off an appeal. Did Pro-lifers email/fax/phone the Gov regarding LG as much as PP??
PP's propaganda:
Greetings,
Thank you for your hard work today! Together we made a
difference in L.G.'s life! Your help and support was
instrumental in protecting her ability to make private medical
decisions without further interference by Governor Jeb Bush.
Unfortunately, L.G.'s tragic story is not the first or last of
its kind. The legislature is poised to pass a parental
notification bill in the next few days that will force delays
for many other young women seeking medical care. Fortunately, we
have you on our team. The ground swell of support by Planned
Parenthood Activists will ensure that we can protect all of the
other young women in Florida. Your emails, calls, and
letters-to-the-editor forced Governor Bush to stop interfering
on L.G.'s ability to obtain safe and legal healthcare and we
will continue to fight together for the rights of all young
women!
With your support Planned Parenthood will continue to ensure
access to reproductive healthcare for all Floridians!
Again, thank you for your support!
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
I met Mary LaFrances in Florida, working to save Terri.
She had driven straight through from Iowa all by herself
to join the battle. As a pro-life nurse, she spoke
passionately about Terri's condition and how she would
have been fired if a patient in her care were to have
his or her hands and feet drawn up as Terri's were.
She stayed over a month, praying fervantly and serving
those who gave their all to show the media Terri's dignity and
humanity.
It was a pleasure to have worked along side such a faithful
servant of God. I trust you'll enjoy another side of her God
given talents as much as I have!
She had driven straight through from Iowa all by herself
to join the battle. As a pro-life nurse, she spoke
passionately about Terri's condition and how she would
have been fired if a patient in her care were to have
his or her hands and feet drawn up as Terri's were.
She stayed over a month, praying fervantly and serving
those who gave their all to show the media Terri's dignity and
humanity.
It was a pleasure to have worked along side such a faithful
servant of God. I trust you'll enjoy another side of her God
given talents as much as I have!
In tribute to Terri and her beloved family and supporters....
ODE TO RUNNING WATERS
I wandered, lonely as a cloud
O'er hill and valley, 'neath leafy shroud
Of stately forest that raised its head
To sky above from earthen bed.
I paused ' neath cool of sylvan wing
That sheltered there a tiny spring
Giving forth from Natures breast
To infant waters, virtue blest.
Crystal waters, cool and sweet
Dance o'er pebbles on twinkly feet,
Sparkling droplets, sunlight kissed
Gurgle on 'neath moon and mist.
Sombred now this babbling brook
Drifts on quiet thru valed nook
And winds its way thru mossy side
Where creature small and flower hide.
On they course thru cavern walls
That echo back the erie calls
Of searching waters pounding on
To find New Life within the Dawn
The Gate is won, the battle's done
Reborn they leap to greet the sun,
Plunging down, proud and grand
Crowned in mist upon the sand.
Times tides surge on
But mortals end,
And to his Fate each one must bend.
Coursing on magestically
These waters meet the Eternal Sea.
mary mitchell lafrancis 1955
ODE TO RUNNING WATERS
I wandered, lonely as a cloud
O'er hill and valley, 'neath leafy shroud
Of stately forest that raised its head
To sky above from earthen bed.
I paused ' neath cool of sylvan wing
That sheltered there a tiny spring
Giving forth from Natures breast
To infant waters, virtue blest.
Crystal waters, cool and sweet
Dance o'er pebbles on twinkly feet,
Sparkling droplets, sunlight kissed
Gurgle on 'neath moon and mist.
Sombred now this babbling brook
Drifts on quiet thru valed nook
And winds its way thru mossy side
Where creature small and flower hide.
On they course thru cavern walls
That echo back the erie calls
Of searching waters pounding on
To find New Life within the Dawn
The Gate is won, the battle's done
Reborn they leap to greet the sun,
Plunging down, proud and grand
Crowned in mist upon the sand.
Times tides surge on
But mortals end,
And to his Fate each one must bend.
Coursing on magestically
These waters meet the Eternal Sea.
mary mitchell lafrancis 1955
Monday, May 02, 2005
No comments:
Monday, April 25, 2005
Eve Sanchez Silver resigned from the Susan G. Komen board of
directors, when she learned that they give funds to Planned Parenthood
raised by the women who participate in the Race for the Cure.
For years, Colorado Right to Life has tried to bring truth to the racers
about the ABC link. We had a truth truck greeting the women with
the message, "Breast cancer's most avoidable risk factor: Abortion"
The media in Denver and nationally are keeping women completely
in the dark about the connection between abortion of a first pregnancy
and future increased rates of breast cancer.
To learn more see www.abortionbreastcancer.com
and www.pinkmoney.org
directors, when she learned that they give funds to Planned Parenthood
raised by the women who participate in the Race for the Cure.
For years, Colorado Right to Life has tried to bring truth to the racers
about the ABC link. We had a truth truck greeting the women with
the message, "Breast cancer's most avoidable risk factor: Abortion"
The media in Denver and nationally are keeping women completely
in the dark about the connection between abortion of a first pregnancy
and future increased rates of breast cancer.
To learn more see www.abortionbreastcancer.com
and www.pinkmoney.org
TESTIMONY: I was sixteen at the time of my first abortion. I missed my period and went to an OB/Gyn with excellent credentials for my pregnancy test. He showed me a period at the end of a sentence and told me that I was pregnant but that it was just a blob about the size of the period and that it would be a simple matter to have an abortion. I walked out with a vague sense of excitement at the thought of being a woman and pregnant. But I was resigned to abort. I was working with another OB/GYN at the time and did not fear or worry about my decision to abort. The day of the abortion arrived and I was taken in to be aborted.
I have learned since then that I am unusually small internally. I was given no sedative or any pain medication in preparation. He first inserted what I now know to be a large speculum. He began to rapidly crank it open. Almost immediately I was pinched and torn and began to cry out in pain. The doctor and his nurse worked steadily and ignored me. I was thrashing about. He secured one of my legs, forcing the other open over and over with his gloved hand. I began to scream in a short time. I was hysterical with burning, searing pain. The doctor, who had seemed calm, threw something down with a bang and yelled, “I’ll be back when you CALM DOWN,” he called this out as he walked away and left the room. I was left there for some time with these instruments inside me, one leg tied and screaming until I was hoarse. When he returned he was very abrupt and vicious. I was in a nightmare of pain and cramping. Soon I heard the gurgling sounds of a suction aspirator. When he was finished, he walked out tossing his gloves and cap at the basin.
There was a lot of blood where I had lain. I was given post abortion instructions and told to fill a prescription for birth control pill. I was given some medication and left with the father of my dead child, who had paid for the abortion. I had recently read Desmond Morris’s book, The Naked Ape. Although I was convinced that, as a higher order animal, I had the right to abort. I returned to my room and wept as if someone close to me had died. I was in excruciating pain for over 24 hours. My boyfriend was frightened. I just lay there and cried my heart out. At age 21, I aborted the first child of my marriage. I did not believe I deserved a child. I had hardened my heart to all children and complained about them. I said that if I were re-incarnated I wanted to come back as a childhood disease. It was something I had read somewhere and fitted my tough perspective on children. I said I hated them. And I did. During and after that abortion I felt incredible pain but I did not cry out. I felt completely soul-less and empty: I felt even emptier after the abortion. I felt I deserved the pain. Those were the first two of eleven total pregnancies.
I became a Christian and reveled in the forgiveness of Christ, I was relieved and desired to have children right away. I had a horribly incompetent cervix as a result of my awful abortions. My cervix appeared fine on the external surface but the internal surface was damaged, as if it had been pecked at by birds. My amniotic sack leaked through and hour-glassed, filling with fluid little by little until the full lower globe burst. I would lose the child: Again and again and again and again and again. Each child I carried longer and longer, begging God to grant me Life. I had one perfect pregnancy. My son. I continued to lose babies farther along after his birth. I was kept in bed, my useless cervix sown shut to keep the child in. I went into excruciating transition labor before they could cut open the stitches that shut my cervix. I was in full labor, with my cervix, sewn shut, before they got me back on the table. I was told over and over that I should abort this child or that child, because my life was in danger. “How do you know?” I asked. I had a miscarriage at 6.5 months and held a funeral for my little girl. Everyone left me alone but my son, who refused to leave my side.
BREAST CANCER As a breast cancer survivor, I have come to realize that this disease is not something one should tackle alone. It is a destroyer of morale and a debilitator of the spirit. Breast cancer has fractured my femininity and hurt my relationships: One needs support and encouragement, and occasionally, someone to cry with and someone to witness your rage. INITIAL DISCOVERY I discovered the 3 cm tumor beneath my breast while standing in the shower. As a medical research analyst, I carefully considered my options and chose to have a lumpectomy with grossly wide margins. Three years later, early in 2001, I was re-diagnosed. My cancer had returned. I took the aggressive path and had a bilateral mastectomy, with reconstruction and saline implants. One breast was taken prophylactically: I considered the decision with dread, but made my decision with firm convictions: My paternal first cousin Shirley, whom I loved (and a year younger than I), and our grandmother, both died of breast cancer. My own mother a nine-year survivor now, was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years before me. I wanted it OUT. I was in New York City at Sloane Kettering Cancer Care Center recovering, until September 10, 2001, the day before the World Trade Towers fell.
ABORTION BREAST CANCER LINK My strong family breast cancer history, according to Dr. Janet Daling’s study of American Women (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington) raised my breast cancer risk by at least 270%. I have lost both breasts, my Grandmother and dear cousin to the disease, and walked through the disease with my mother, and twice alone. In the process of breast reconstruction I learned to my distress that I was not a good candidate for nipple reconstruction. I was not expecting the level of personal sadness, which accompanied this news. I realized that it mattered to no one else, but it did matter to me at a very personal and intimate level: My sensuality, my sexual experience are forever altered. There are flashing signs in the center of my soul which say: Caution: ONGOING RECONSTRUCTION OF SPIRITUAL AND MENTAL ATTITUDES: SELF-WORTH IN MIRROR MAY BE WORSE THAN IT APPEARS The dark side of dealing with breast cancer makes everyone else uncomfortable too. No hand is dear in that dread dark. One enters alone and is engulfed by devastation, loss and grief.
There are no easy words to describe the lingering shapes and shadows of anguish. I am a survivor, in every sense of that word. I feel that my life, my femininity and my self-image were fractured, then shattered, fragmented and reorganized. I know that is hard to hear; it is hard to write; but I believe it is important to say so. The breast cancer survivor is often presented in public, well after her ordeal, when the reality of her pain has been dealt with and diminished. I am an ebullient, effervescent person by nature; it was unimaginable, as a woman of faith, to find myself so thoroughly depressed and disheartened. My support system was severely fragmented and attenuated. When I got to see a linear accelerator up closer than I had ever expected to, it made me so sick. I lost layers of skin from my shoulder to my elbow and fought virulent infections. I developed a mild addiction to the painkillers that took me away from it all, just a little while. I was hospitalized for weeks at a time fighting to keep my breast implant. The expander, a device forced under my chest wall muscles to make room for the implant that they used for me, was much too large for my small frame. They made me claustrophobic and unable to sleep as they were filled with saline. It was a plastic bear-hug that made me fight for every breath.
Women deserve to know the fact that there is a breast cancer link, a physiological pathway between abortion and breast cancer, that leads to an empty legacy for women with a history of breast cancer in their families. Latina women and African American women have much more aggressive cancers and higher mortality rates. Someone said that emotion should not be a factor in these proceedings. He is not a woman, holding her first grandchild to her empty, salt-filled breast. Respectfully submitted, Eve Sanchez Silver Executive Director CINTA LATINA RESEARCH
I have learned since then that I am unusually small internally. I was given no sedative or any pain medication in preparation. He first inserted what I now know to be a large speculum. He began to rapidly crank it open. Almost immediately I was pinched and torn and began to cry out in pain. The doctor and his nurse worked steadily and ignored me. I was thrashing about. He secured one of my legs, forcing the other open over and over with his gloved hand. I began to scream in a short time. I was hysterical with burning, searing pain. The doctor, who had seemed calm, threw something down with a bang and yelled, “I’ll be back when you CALM DOWN,” he called this out as he walked away and left the room. I was left there for some time with these instruments inside me, one leg tied and screaming until I was hoarse. When he returned he was very abrupt and vicious. I was in a nightmare of pain and cramping. Soon I heard the gurgling sounds of a suction aspirator. When he was finished, he walked out tossing his gloves and cap at the basin.
There was a lot of blood where I had lain. I was given post abortion instructions and told to fill a prescription for birth control pill. I was given some medication and left with the father of my dead child, who had paid for the abortion. I had recently read Desmond Morris’s book, The Naked Ape. Although I was convinced that, as a higher order animal, I had the right to abort. I returned to my room and wept as if someone close to me had died. I was in excruciating pain for over 24 hours. My boyfriend was frightened. I just lay there and cried my heart out. At age 21, I aborted the first child of my marriage. I did not believe I deserved a child. I had hardened my heart to all children and complained about them. I said that if I were re-incarnated I wanted to come back as a childhood disease. It was something I had read somewhere and fitted my tough perspective on children. I said I hated them. And I did. During and after that abortion I felt incredible pain but I did not cry out. I felt completely soul-less and empty: I felt even emptier after the abortion. I felt I deserved the pain. Those were the first two of eleven total pregnancies.
I became a Christian and reveled in the forgiveness of Christ, I was relieved and desired to have children right away. I had a horribly incompetent cervix as a result of my awful abortions. My cervix appeared fine on the external surface but the internal surface was damaged, as if it had been pecked at by birds. My amniotic sack leaked through and hour-glassed, filling with fluid little by little until the full lower globe burst. I would lose the child: Again and again and again and again and again. Each child I carried longer and longer, begging God to grant me Life. I had one perfect pregnancy. My son. I continued to lose babies farther along after his birth. I was kept in bed, my useless cervix sown shut to keep the child in. I went into excruciating transition labor before they could cut open the stitches that shut my cervix. I was in full labor, with my cervix, sewn shut, before they got me back on the table. I was told over and over that I should abort this child or that child, because my life was in danger. “How do you know?” I asked. I had a miscarriage at 6.5 months and held a funeral for my little girl. Everyone left me alone but my son, who refused to leave my side.
BREAST CANCER As a breast cancer survivor, I have come to realize that this disease is not something one should tackle alone. It is a destroyer of morale and a debilitator of the spirit. Breast cancer has fractured my femininity and hurt my relationships: One needs support and encouragement, and occasionally, someone to cry with and someone to witness your rage. INITIAL DISCOVERY I discovered the 3 cm tumor beneath my breast while standing in the shower. As a medical research analyst, I carefully considered my options and chose to have a lumpectomy with grossly wide margins. Three years later, early in 2001, I was re-diagnosed. My cancer had returned. I took the aggressive path and had a bilateral mastectomy, with reconstruction and saline implants. One breast was taken prophylactically: I considered the decision with dread, but made my decision with firm convictions: My paternal first cousin Shirley, whom I loved (and a year younger than I), and our grandmother, both died of breast cancer. My own mother a nine-year survivor now, was diagnosed with breast cancer seven years before me. I wanted it OUT. I was in New York City at Sloane Kettering Cancer Care Center recovering, until September 10, 2001, the day before the World Trade Towers fell.
ABORTION BREAST CANCER LINK My strong family breast cancer history, according to Dr. Janet Daling’s study of American Women (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington) raised my breast cancer risk by at least 270%. I have lost both breasts, my Grandmother and dear cousin to the disease, and walked through the disease with my mother, and twice alone. In the process of breast reconstruction I learned to my distress that I was not a good candidate for nipple reconstruction. I was not expecting the level of personal sadness, which accompanied this news. I realized that it mattered to no one else, but it did matter to me at a very personal and intimate level: My sensuality, my sexual experience are forever altered. There are flashing signs in the center of my soul which say: Caution: ONGOING RECONSTRUCTION OF SPIRITUAL AND MENTAL ATTITUDES: SELF-WORTH IN MIRROR MAY BE WORSE THAN IT APPEARS The dark side of dealing with breast cancer makes everyone else uncomfortable too. No hand is dear in that dread dark. One enters alone and is engulfed by devastation, loss and grief.
There are no easy words to describe the lingering shapes and shadows of anguish. I am a survivor, in every sense of that word. I feel that my life, my femininity and my self-image were fractured, then shattered, fragmented and reorganized. I know that is hard to hear; it is hard to write; but I believe it is important to say so. The breast cancer survivor is often presented in public, well after her ordeal, when the reality of her pain has been dealt with and diminished. I am an ebullient, effervescent person by nature; it was unimaginable, as a woman of faith, to find myself so thoroughly depressed and disheartened. My support system was severely fragmented and attenuated. When I got to see a linear accelerator up closer than I had ever expected to, it made me so sick. I lost layers of skin from my shoulder to my elbow and fought virulent infections. I developed a mild addiction to the painkillers that took me away from it all, just a little while. I was hospitalized for weeks at a time fighting to keep my breast implant. The expander, a device forced under my chest wall muscles to make room for the implant that they used for me, was much too large for my small frame. They made me claustrophobic and unable to sleep as they were filled with saline. It was a plastic bear-hug that made me fight for every breath.
Women deserve to know the fact that there is a breast cancer link, a physiological pathway between abortion and breast cancer, that leads to an empty legacy for women with a history of breast cancer in their families. Latina women and African American women have much more aggressive cancers and higher mortality rates. Someone said that emotion should not be a factor in these proceedings. He is not a woman, holding her first grandchild to her empty, salt-filled breast. Respectfully submitted, Eve Sanchez Silver Executive Director CINTA LATINA RESEARCH
Personal Testimony & Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
Cinta Latina Research, LLC - Deposition to Alaska State Review Board ^ | April 15, 2005 | Eve Sanchez Silver
Posted on 04/25/2005 8:43:21 AM MDT by Lesforlife
This is an expanded version of the testimony I provided to the Committee by phone. Dear Committee members: This is the first time that I have given public testimony regarding the fact of my abortions. It has taken me years to do so.
BACKGROUND: I am a medical research analyst and a published member of the American Medical Writers Association. My work provides support for translational research goals in the basic sciences. I have partnered with the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, The Department of Defense, The National Cancer Institute and other scientific institutions and organizations.
As a researcher I have developed a non-surgical cosmetic tool for breast cancer survivors. I am a former charter member of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council, informing the organization concerning best practices in addressing breast cancer disparities among Latina populations nation wide and served on their breast cancer tumor review board for two years. I lecture widely at universities and institutions across the country with a focus on the abortion-breast cancer information disparity. I lecture internationally on the physiological pathway of the abortion-breast cancer link (Australia and New Zealand 08/05).
Currently I am involved in several research projects focused on light at night and disruption of the circadian rhythm, sleep/wake cycle. I am well informed, reasonable and approach the dialog on abortion and breast cancer from many directions, but wish to focus on my own personal experience with abortion and its devastating aftermath, breast cancer. I know without a doubt that breast cancer risk information and photos of the child within me would have decided for me against having any abortions.
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Cinta Latina Research, LLC - Deposition to Alaska State Review Board ^ | April 15, 2005 | Eve Sanchez Silver
Posted on 04/25/2005 8:43:21 AM MDT by Lesforlife
This is an expanded version of the testimony I provided to the Committee by phone. Dear Committee members: This is the first time that I have given public testimony regarding the fact of my abortions. It has taken me years to do so.
BACKGROUND: I am a medical research analyst and a published member of the American Medical Writers Association. My work provides support for translational research goals in the basic sciences. I have partnered with the Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, The Department of Defense, The National Cancer Institute and other scientific institutions and organizations.
As a researcher I have developed a non-surgical cosmetic tool for breast cancer survivors. I am a former charter member of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s National Hispanic Latina Advisory Council, informing the organization concerning best practices in addressing breast cancer disparities among Latina populations nation wide and served on their breast cancer tumor review board for two years. I lecture widely at universities and institutions across the country with a focus on the abortion-breast cancer information disparity. I lecture internationally on the physiological pathway of the abortion-breast cancer link (Australia and New Zealand 08/05).
Currently I am involved in several research projects focused on light at night and disruption of the circadian rhythm, sleep/wake cycle. I am well informed, reasonable and approach the dialog on abortion and breast cancer from many directions, but wish to focus on my own personal experience with abortion and its devastating aftermath, breast cancer. I know without a doubt that breast cancer risk information and photos of the child within me would have decided for me against having any abortions.
(Excerpt) Read more at pinkmoney.org ...
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Wednesday, April 06, 2005
My Two Terri s
Terri, meet Terri. You don’t know one another but we all have something
in common. I have had the pleasure to have been involved in heroic efforts
to save you both from the Euthanasia movement’s diabolic plans to steal your lives.
Uncanny isn’t it?
Theresa Corrao and I crossed paths in 1996. My husband and I were just about
to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. One fateful day, I heard a pathologist
named Paul Corrao on television stating that his sister Theresa was in a hospice
and was being severely overmedicated. He was trying to rescue her from the facility
and save her life. He mentioned one Susan Fox Buchanan – a Denver elder care “expert.”
Having sat in on numerous Governor’s Commission on Life and the Law meetings
in the late 1980s and early 1990s, that name jumped out at me as one heavily invested
in the pro-death ethic that so permeated the beautiful state of Colorado in those years.
I contacted Paul Corrao and warned him that there was an insidious plan afoot in my
state that he should be aware of. From that point forward Paul and I worked togetherto save Theresa from those who sought to destroy her. After all, Theresa had signed an advanced directive waiving extraordinary care hadn’t she?
Paul and I persuaded Theresa that life was worth living and that she actually might
like to sign a will to live. Unfortunately, Theresa Corrao had a severe bedsore that
needed surgical repair. Ironically, she worked for the hospital where the surgery
would take place and she had insurance to cover it with her employer, Columbia HCA.
During the planning stages for the surgery, Paul, insisted that the surgery be performed under a local anesthesia. As a pathologist, he believed that his sister’s liver was quite compromised by her treatment for breast cancer as well as the extremely high amounts of morphine used in hospice prior to her leaving the facility. As Paul left the hospital the evening before the surgery, doctors approached Terri and persuaded her to agree to a general anesthetic, possibly stating that they wouldn’t be able to manage her pain with a local.
Theresa underwent approximately 5 hours of surgery that fateful day. As I entered her room post surgery to confer with Paul, death was in the air. As he had feared, her liver was unable to process the anesthesia from such a lengthy procedure. Theresa Corrao died shortly thereafter, destroyed by the pro-death movement in Colorado – progenitor of the euthanasia movement, nationally.
Terri Schiavo’s loved ones were holding a 24hour prayer vigil for her in front of her
Pinellas Park, FL hospice. This event was to thrust her into the international spotlight, where she would remain, for the next 18 months. During that period, I would travel to Florida five times to work, tirelessly, to save Terri’s life. I had the honor and pleasure to work alongside hundreds, if not thousands of individuals dedicated to helping Terri’s parents and siblings spare her life.
This incredible woman inspired us all to work to protect her from the insidious conspiracy by the so called “right to die” forces which found themselves in the perfect storm of circumstances arrayed to deliver Terri to their dark plot.
Former husband, Michael Schiavo, was able to persuade nearly every level of government, judiciary and media that she wouldn’t want to live as a disabled
person. Despite heroic efforts and prayers by pro-lifers and disability activists
in the US, it apparently wasn’t meant to be.
As a member of a team of lobbyists working to pass the “Jessie Jackson sip of water compromise” I am pleased to say that we never gave up, as long as Terri held on, for
nearly 14 days without food or water – while not even an ice chip was allowed to quench her insatiable thirst.
Terri either passed or was pushed into eternity on March 31, 2005 at the end of Holy
Week. She and her family taught us a lot about love, perseverance and dedication to family.
Her president and governor taught us they knew - little to nothing - about the constitution, which guaranteed Terri due process of law and religious liberty, as well as freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.
As our nation this week mourns the passing of Pope John Paul and tries to make
sense of Terri’s senseless death and the Florida corruption which ensured it, I ponder the irony of losing 2 friends named Terri to a death machine that has its origin in my beautiful state, Colorado. Like the hospice grounds where Terri was held hostage for the past five years, what looks beautiful to the undiscerning eye, often has below the surface – deadly evil.
Terri, meet Terri. You don’t know one another but we all have something
in common. I have had the pleasure to have been involved in heroic efforts
to save you both from the Euthanasia movement’s diabolic plans to steal your lives.
Uncanny isn’t it?
Theresa Corrao and I crossed paths in 1996. My husband and I were just about
to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary. One fateful day, I heard a pathologist
named Paul Corrao on television stating that his sister Theresa was in a hospice
and was being severely overmedicated. He was trying to rescue her from the facility
and save her life. He mentioned one Susan Fox Buchanan – a Denver elder care “expert.”
Having sat in on numerous Governor’s Commission on Life and the Law meetings
in the late 1980s and early 1990s, that name jumped out at me as one heavily invested
in the pro-death ethic that so permeated the beautiful state of Colorado in those years.
I contacted Paul Corrao and warned him that there was an insidious plan afoot in my
state that he should be aware of. From that point forward Paul and I worked togetherto save Theresa from those who sought to destroy her. After all, Theresa had signed an advanced directive waiving extraordinary care hadn’t she?
Paul and I persuaded Theresa that life was worth living and that she actually might
like to sign a will to live. Unfortunately, Theresa Corrao had a severe bedsore that
needed surgical repair. Ironically, she worked for the hospital where the surgery
would take place and she had insurance to cover it with her employer, Columbia HCA.
During the planning stages for the surgery, Paul, insisted that the surgery be performed under a local anesthesia. As a pathologist, he believed that his sister’s liver was quite compromised by her treatment for breast cancer as well as the extremely high amounts of morphine used in hospice prior to her leaving the facility. As Paul left the hospital the evening before the surgery, doctors approached Terri and persuaded her to agree to a general anesthetic, possibly stating that they wouldn’t be able to manage her pain with a local.
Theresa underwent approximately 5 hours of surgery that fateful day. As I entered her room post surgery to confer with Paul, death was in the air. As he had feared, her liver was unable to process the anesthesia from such a lengthy procedure. Theresa Corrao died shortly thereafter, destroyed by the pro-death movement in Colorado – progenitor of the euthanasia movement, nationally.
Terri Schiavo’s loved ones were holding a 24hour prayer vigil for her in front of her
Pinellas Park, FL hospice. This event was to thrust her into the international spotlight, where she would remain, for the next 18 months. During that period, I would travel to Florida five times to work, tirelessly, to save Terri’s life. I had the honor and pleasure to work alongside hundreds, if not thousands of individuals dedicated to helping Terri’s parents and siblings spare her life.
This incredible woman inspired us all to work to protect her from the insidious conspiracy by the so called “right to die” forces which found themselves in the perfect storm of circumstances arrayed to deliver Terri to their dark plot.
Former husband, Michael Schiavo, was able to persuade nearly every level of government, judiciary and media that she wouldn’t want to live as a disabled
person. Despite heroic efforts and prayers by pro-lifers and disability activists
in the US, it apparently wasn’t meant to be.
As a member of a team of lobbyists working to pass the “Jessie Jackson sip of water compromise” I am pleased to say that we never gave up, as long as Terri held on, for
nearly 14 days without food or water – while not even an ice chip was allowed to quench her insatiable thirst.
Terri either passed or was pushed into eternity on March 31, 2005 at the end of Holy
Week. She and her family taught us a lot about love, perseverance and dedication to family.
Her president and governor taught us they knew - little to nothing - about the constitution, which guaranteed Terri due process of law and religious liberty, as well as freedom from cruel and unusual punishment.
As our nation this week mourns the passing of Pope John Paul and tries to make
sense of Terri’s senseless death and the Florida corruption which ensured it, I ponder the irony of losing 2 friends named Terri to a death machine that has its origin in my beautiful state, Colorado. Like the hospice grounds where Terri was held hostage for the past five years, what looks beautiful to the undiscerning eye, often has below the surface – deadly evil.
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