'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.
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
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
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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
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
100_9706.JPG - Killing clinic support -front lines
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
Saturday, July 23, 2005
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