February 2008 Archives

Lest yee be tempted to swoon along with the PhenomObama for President movement, let a former senator who never minced words on behalf of the unborn bring you back to reality.

Take a look at Obama: A harsh ideologue hidden by a feel-good image," one of Rick Santorum's "The Elephant in the Room" columns, which was published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on February 28.

Next, consider this fact-filled question and answer from Santorum concerning warm-yet-fuzzy Barack Obama's cold-heartedness:

Who would oppose a bill that said you couldn't kill a baby who was born? Not Kennedy, Boxer or Hillary Rodham Clinton. Not even the hard-core National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL). Obama, however, is another story. The year after the Born Alive Infants Protection Act became federal law in 2002, identical language was considered in a committee of the Illinois Senate. It was defeated with the committee's chairman, Obama, leading the opposition.

Then remind yourself that actions speak louder than words.

He was the sharpest and drollest person I'd ever heard speak:

Henry Gibson: Mr. Buckley, I have noticed that whenever you appear on television, you're always seated. Is that because you can't think on your feet?

Buckley: It's very hard to stand up carrying the weight of what I know.

-- Appearance on "Laugh-In," 1970

(from "Buckley Athwart History," selected WFB quotes, Wall Street Journal)

"Above all, conservatives tend to intuit that materialist terminology is insufficient to express the depth of American attachments to their ideals. It remains, for some reason, arresting that one speaks of the "sanctity" of life, of our "devotion" to our ideals, of the "holy" causes in which we engage. American conservatives never exclude those who discountenance transcendent perspectives, but we tend to live by them." [emphasis added]

-- "To Preserve What We Have," essay in The Wall Street Journal, 2002

I never met the man, though we remotely shared a state of residence, but when I was a teen, I remember "meeting" his brother James...

Well, I just watched an undercover video filmed by the Humane Society at a California beef plant where cows were supposedly tortured and killed, and I must say I'm disgusted.

Prime-time news shows aired clips of this video last week with no warning of its graphic nature. I'm glad my 7-year-old grandson wasn't around, or I might have had to explain where hamburger comes from.

What's wrong with these Humane Society people? Don't they have better things to do with their time? Perhaps they could alleviate this problem, if there really is a problem, by pasturing their own cow herds if they really cared.

Anyway, I'm quite sure this video is a fake.

And even if not, I don't believe cows feel pain when being plowed by forklifts. No one can prove to me that they do. Flinching when prodded with pokers is a visceral response. Struggling when dragged by cow hooks is a primal reaction, certainly not related to pain. Cows can't talk; therefore cows can't feel pain. That's just a fact....

Continue reading my column today, "The slaughterhouse rules," on WorldNetDaily.com.

Planned Parenthood has such a grip on our culture. The truth needs to be heard. I want to link to www.blackgenocide.org but the site is down as I write this. Try this one: Klanned Parenthood. The watch this investigative report:

Full story here: Planned Parenthood: Wanting fewer blacks "understandable"

Today's young women are taught that Margaret Sanger was a hero. Far from it. Here is Margaret Sanger - in her own words - on courting the Ku Klux Klan for support for the ethnic cleansing she was pushing:

See also: Abortion and African-American Genocide

Planned Parenthood: Predators, profits and black genocide

I'm on Planned Parenthood's email list. They just sent out marching orders to Virginia supporters:

Planned Parenthood is prevention!
Today Senator Ken Cuccinelli (R-37) offered an amendment to the budget that would prohibit Planned Parenthood from receiving state funding. Senator Janet Howell (D-32) spoke about the critical services Planned Parenthood provides to women, families and teens every day across Virginia. Senator Dick Saslaw (D-35) warned of the dangerous precedent being set by singling out one agency for state funding eligibility.
Despite these efforts, the amendment was accepted on a vote of 20-Y, 20-N, with the President of the Senate, Lt. Governor Bill Bolling, casting the tie-breaking vote.
THERE IS STILL TIME TO STOP THIS AMENDMENT WHEN THE SENATE HAS THE FINAL READING OF THE BUDGET BILL TOMORROW. PLEASE ACT NOW!

Send a letter to the following decision maker(s):
Senators that voted to defund Planned Parenthood

Below is the sample letter:
Subject: Stop attacking Planned Parenthood - oppose Sen. Cuccinelli's budget amendment
Dear [decision maker name automatically inserted here],
The amendment offered by Senator Ken Cuccinelli (R-37) is an unprecedented attack on a community organization receiving funding to provide essential services to Virginia's women, families and teens.

The services funded by state money are PREVENTION programs aimed at reducing teen pregnancy, screening for cervical cancer and providing abstinence-based education.

I urge you to oppose this ideological attack on Planned Parenthood.
Sincerely,

I guess that means it would be a good idea for you to write your state senator 2/28 to let him or her know you support cutting funding of Planned Parenthood - which somehow manages to rake in state and federal funds while making millions from its abortion industry each year.

Oh, and be sure to sign up for Planned Parenthood's email list - and even snail mail list - yourself. It's a great way to get news you need!

Please pardon my delayed reaction in posting this commentary from mid-February on the rise and fall of Rudy Giuliani.

The point of this noteworthy opinion piece by Paul Kengor, the executive director of the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College, will sooth pro-lifers' politically rattled nerves. (Hattip: The Bulletin, which publishes Kengor's commentaries) .

In "Remembering Rudy: Giuliani's Ghost at the Potomac," which you will find in its entirety here, Kengor writes:

No doubt, it was Giuliani's social liberalism, particularly on life issues, which ultimately killed his candidacy. Rudy was considered solid on most other domestic as well as foreign issues, from taxes to terrorism. Abortion was his doom.

By Ruben Obregon

New research, published by Child Trends in the journal Demography, confirms a long know fact that teens have a mixed track record with contraceptives. This research concludes that "Overall, teens do not use contraceptives consistently, which places them at risk of unintended pregnancy and STIs."

The research shows that across all relationships, 59% of teens always used contraceptives,17% sometimes used them, and 24% never used them.

This means that 41% of teens never or inconsistently used them, and research shows those with such a history were likely to continue in that pattern. This highlights the fact that overall, contraceptives can't solve the problems of adolescent pregnancy, child-bearing, abortion, and disease.

Despite this problem, contraceptive advocates keep pushing pills and condoms instead of pushing for a positive cultural change.

True, long term reductions in teen pregnancy, abortion, disease, and child-bearing are realized by decreases in the number of those who have ever engaged in sexual intercourse. Reliance on contraceptives - especially condoms - to solve these problems only sustains them in the long run.

Why do teens have such a poor track record with contraception? Child Trends' research identifies relationship types and characteristics of partners as factors in the consistency of contraceptive use.

The researchers found that communication about contraception among involved teens is associated with increased use, and that relationship type - casual or romantic - and partner differences - age, race/ethnicity, and social networks - may affect the ability to comfortably negotiate contraceptive use.

This may explain why some who consistently used contraception with one partner did not consistently use it, if at all, with another partner.

Not only the type, but the number of relationships is related to the consistency of contraceptive usage: 62% of teens who had just one sexual relationship used contraceptives consistently compared to 53% who had five or more such relationships.

The researchers suggest refining pregnancy prevention programs to account for relationship and partner differences. Unfortunately the authors do not even come close to suggesting that maybe contraceptive use among adolescents has been a bust, and that maybe abstinence is a better solution to the very problems they are trying to solve.

Good luck finding a news magazine to read as you wait in line to check out at the supermarket. The racks are filled with tabloids and celebrity-obsessed magazines. What's a shopper to do?

I skip the candy bars placed nearby to tempt the hungry shopper and devour my weekly dose of junk reading.

Two recent headlines on Life & Style Weekly magazine intrigued me. A January issue, here, raised the question, "JAMIE LYNN [Brittany Spears' pregnant younger sister]: BABY IN DANGER Is she turning into Brittany?"

Hmmm! Young and pregnant Jamie Lynn is carrying a "BABY."

In February, I learned here that a pregnant Angelina Jolie visited Iraq. Life & Style Weekly questioned the sanity of this trip with the headline "THIS IS CRAZY! She prides herself on being a great mom, but Angelina put her unborn babies in danger in Iraq for publicity."

Hmmm! Older and pregnant Angelina is carrying "unborn babies."

Neither of the pregnant celebrities had unborn embyros, fetuses or blobs of tissue tucked inside their wombs.

Try telling that to NARAL, Planned Parenthood or NOW.

This post is a little long because I give you right here the full press releases about Nebraska bill LB 606 from Nebraska Right to Life and the Nebraska Coalition for Ethical Research as well as personal responses from Greg Schleppenbach and Chip Maxwell. I do so because the press will almost assuredly omit much of these releases and because they are not yet on websites where I could send you via a link.

But don't fret; it's very interesting stuff. It will show show you once again how powerful, how slick, and how determined are the cloning and ESCR forces -- and therefore how careful, prayerful and determined pro-life advocates must be in opposing such schemes.

It's interesting to watch pro-aborts fight. They confine themselves to a war of words when picking on someone their own size. No dismembering, no decapitating, how refreshing.

Right now they're engaged in a rarely seen public snarl over which Democrat presidential candidate to support. This will likely stop after they pick a nominee, so the pack can resume attacking the Republican.

Meanwhile, the rift is revealing....

The grumpy old feminists, who for half a century have been decrying sexism, are herding around Hillary because she's a woman, the epitome of chauvinism.

There are reports lesbians are also flocking to Hillary, but I've thought for some time grumpy old feminists and lesbians were one and the same. The president and vice president of NOW in my state are live-in lesbian lovers, for instance. So that may not be news.

On Obama's side we have....

Continue reading my column today, "Divine secrets of the political yo-yo sisterhood," on WorldNetDaily.com.

Peter Shinn, President of Pro-Life Unity, founder of ProLifeNews.tv and also the Monthly Call for Life spoke at the Capitol about the need for people to get more involved in the process of ending abortion. One of the current bills is HR 618, a Right to Life bill sponsored by Congressman Duncan Hunter.

Shinn said:

Click here to continue reading at ProLifeNews.tv

Former President Bill Clinton had a little temper tantrum in response to taunts from pro-life students while stumping for his presidential wanna-be wife Hillary in Steubenville, Ohio, on Sunday night.

Bill said:

"I gave you the answer. We disagree with you," Clinton said. "You wanna criminalize women and their doctors and we disagree. I reduced abortion. Tell the truth, tell the truth, If you were really pro-life, if you were really pro-life, you would want to put every doctor and every mother as an accessory to murder in prison. And you won't say you wanna do that because you know, that you wouldn't have a lick of political support. Now, the issue is who, the issue is, you can't name me anybody presently in politics that did more to introduce policies that reduce the number of real abortions instead of the hot air putting out to tear people up and make votes by dividing America. This is not your rally. I heard you. That's another thing you need is a president, somebody who will stick up for individual rights and not be pushed around, and she won't."

In my six years observing and writing about abortion, I've neither met nor heard of an anti-abortion activist advocating the criminalization of women for either wanting or having abortions.

Once again, Bill Clinton has proven himself to be a liar.

No wonder his pants are on fire.

1. What does chastity mean? The simplest answer is refraining from sexual intercourse before marriage and then practicing fidelity during marriage.

2. Why should I practice chastity? Well, there are a whole lot of reasons including the often-overlooked spiritual values of purity. But here are a few specifics:

Princeton Professor of Jurisprudence Robert P. George offered words of wisdom worthy of Valentine's Day notation in his closing remarks to some 100 pro-lifers on campus February 5.

(Please see my February 7th post for more details on the meeting.)

Pro-lifers often assume that "if we think better [and] make better arguments," then we will win the abortion battles, said George. "But love wins" because "love conquers death."

"We must love the other side, [love] women faced with choice, [love] post-abortive women, even [love] abortionists," the unapologetically pro-life professor stated.

In light of responses that I've received to my February 12th post, "Deliverate Pro-Life Divisiveness is Self-Defeating," (posted here on my website and here on ProLifeBlogs) allow me to add another group in need of shared love to George's list. All-or-none and incrementalist anti-abortion advocates must love one another, despite their different approaches to winning right to life wars.

For as the wise Ivy League advocate for the voiceless concluded, "By loving, we will win."

Happy Valentine's Day!

oooo and xxxx

The grisly execution called "late term abortion" ought to vaporize public support of abortion on demand. Yet, There Is None So Blind As He Who Will Not See. This child survived an abortion attempted during her mother's 22nd week of pregnancy - do you see?

Please consider attending Arizona Right to Life's Annual Benefit Gala & Silent Auction next Saturday evening, Feb. 23rd. AZRTL's annual galas are fun with lots of interesting speakers, and you'll be helping save the lives of the unborn. Charitable and nonprofit organizations across the country all took a hit financially this past year because of the economy. If you're thinking about attending a charitable event, please consider the AZ Right to Life dinner.

Washington, D.C. (12 February 2008) - "It is outrageous that YouTube would black-out our video warning the public about a Planned Parenthood sex video while it continues to carry the original Planned Parenthood video," said Jim Sedlak, vice president of American Life League.

The "inappropriate nature" cited by YouTube management is the very same centerpiece of a publicly aired Planned Parenthood television advertising campaign which is still being hosted by YouTube as of Monday afternoon and has not been flagged.

"Such duplicitous acts cannot go unchallenged. We've let them know we will not be silent. We have already filed a complaint with the online service and will do whatever we can to see that this discriminatory action is overturned by YouTube," said Judie Brown, President of American Life League.

Current efforts to create divisiveness within the pro-life movement are deeply distressing. A new political action group, the "alternative" American Right to Life Action, seems bent on trying to destroy the National Right to Life Committee.

As American RTL Action's President Steve Curtis said in a press release on the group's website:

"American Right To Life has Jesus Christ as our authority, not the situational ethicists, legal positivist lawyers and moral relativists of the pro-life industry at National Right To Life."

Such posturing for power within the pro-life community is self-defeating. Why can't American RTL Action be one wing of the movement without attacking the NRLC for being another?

If changing hearts and minds about abortion is truly the goal, the pro-life movement needs more than one approach. People are not all the same. Different hearts and minds are changed in different ways. While a faith-based rationale might appeal to one person, it could discourage another person from considering the pro-life point of view.

The folks at American Right to Life seem to be pleased that their logo appeared in a photograph that ran in The New York Times in February 2. A link to the photo can be found under "See our ARTL logo in the NY Times." on the group's homepage.

Two men hold ARLT's banner in the background of the picture, while a woman facing them bears a sign with the message "I am Catholic Conservative - I support Mitt Romney." A caption under the photo reads, "As Mitt Romney campaigned Friday in Denver, abortion opponents and Romney supporters exchanged words."

Why any pro-lifer would celebrate inclusion in a picture depicting pro-lifers going after one another is beyond me!

This image is an abortion advocacy and NYT's dream come true.

Right to Life Montgomery Country recorded a message to America from Alveda King, Niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.. She says that:

"African Americans, we have a heritage of brotherhood, we have overcome much to survive. But today, there's a genocide threatening to erase our hope and eliminate our future. It is three times as likely to strike black women. It has claimed 14 million of our children..."

Of course she is referring to abortion.

Click here to hear the Montgomery County Right to Life message with Alveda King and go to BlackGenocide.org for more information.

Pro-lifeness is alive and well at Princeton University, if a reception and meeting of nearly 100 students, professors and guests gathered in Whig Hall on Tuesday evening is any indication.

Members of the Princeton Pro-Life and Anscombe Society student organizations joined Princeton Professor Robert George, who is a member of the President's Council on Bioethics, in kicking off pro-life activities this spring semester.

"It's quite remarkable" to find 15 or 16 pro-life faculty members at an ivy or any university, said the professor before acknowledging other supporters including a rabbi, several ministers and two Catholic priests in attendance.

The list of conservatives that are publicly vowing to never, ever vote for John McCain is impressive. It includes Anne Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and now James Dobson. But, beloved though these conservative fighters are by folks like me, they are forgetting how "clear and present danger" a Democrat President will be on the priority issue of abortion.

By Ruben Obregon

For the past year, news stories and studies have credited improved contraceptive use for 86% of the decline in teen pregnancy between 1995 and 2002. So far, this figure has remained largely unchallenged - until now.

I don't believe this figure accurately describes why pregnancy rates declined.  Of course, I could be wrong - I'm not a statistician after all - and so I'd like to see what others think of my analysis.  Regardless of where you stand on abortion and or contraception, I'd be interested in reading your opinion...

Here is why I believe this study has serious problems:  (a full analysis can be found below).

1.  Essentially, the study focuses on abstinence among those who have ever had sexual intercourse, and not among all teens.  Granted, the study does take into account abstinence among all teens aged 15-19 in building the pregnancy risk index, but this is not the same as calculating the pregnancy rate, which is a different statistic.

The authors found that the 86% reduction in the pregnancy risk index, which they defined as the "percentage of women who were sexually active multiplied by contraceptive risk index",  is due to improved contraceptive use.

This is not a finding that contraceptives are responsible for 86% of the decrease in pregnancy rates. But nevertheless the authors go on to credit the majority of the decline in the teen pregnancy rate with improved contraceptive use. *

Yet, without calculating the contributions of increased abstinence among all teens, and not just among those with a sexual history, one cannot accurately claim that contraception is responsible for a majority of the decline in teen pregnancy, as the authors attempt to do in this study.

2.  In my opinion, in order properly contrast abstinence among all teens and contraceptive use in relation to overall pregnancy rates, a more thorough methodology is needed. 

For example, such a methodology would have to first calculate the percentage of decline in the pregnancy rate is attributable to an increase in the number of teens who have never had intercourse, and then calculate how much of the remaining percentage is due to improved contraceptive use and increased abstinence among the sexually experienced.

Yet, such a methodology poses a problem for Santelli et all and the Guttmacher Institute - it would demonstrate that abstinence has indeed made significant contributions to the decline in teen pregnancy. 

Why did these Guttmacher researchers change their methodology?  I can only speculate that since past Guttmacher studies - including those written by Santelli - have shown that increased abstinence has has a significant impact on teen pregnancy rates, a change was needed.

A change had to be made in order to better attack funding for abstinence until marriage programs. After all, increased abstinence is bad for business for both the Guttmacher Institute and Planned Parenthood.

The change in methodology, in my opinion, reflects the fact that these researchers cannot win nor frame the debate if their own studies continue to demonstrate the effectiveness of abstinence on teen pregnancy rates.

In my opinion, at best the 86% figure given by the authors reflects a change in contraceptive use among those with a sexual history, and does not reflect the impact of increased abstinence among all teens.

* The teen pregnancy rate is the number of pregnancies per
1,000 women aged 15-19

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People are making too little out of embryo destruction. If we continue to focus on the facts that abortion by surgical procedure mutilates children and that abortion hurts women rather than emphasize the personhood and right to life of all unborn children, we will never win the fight against the killing of embryonic children.

Can we say that a woman had changed her mind about the morality of abortion if after having seen an image of a surgically aborted child, she chose to have a chemical abortion, or because she was too far along to have a chemical abortion she chose to give birth, but would be willing to chemically abort her next child in the early stage of her pregnancy?

Can we say that anyone who sees an image of the mutilated body of an aborted child will become pro-life and defend the right to life of all unborn children from the moment of conception?

Can we say that people will not reject the killing of embryonic children until they see an image of a destroyed embryo?

We must equally defend all unborn children from the moment of conception by emphasizing his/her personhood and right to life.

No matter how small, a person is a person. Let us unite in our defense of each and every one of us.

ALL CHILDREN DESERVE BIRTH

(Also posted at Thoughts and Faith to Share)

The last time we ran the call for web site unity we received a bunch of responses and we almost doubled the number of people who were helping the Pro-Life movement with their web sites.

ProLifeUnity.com along with ProLifeBlogs.com has developed a new method of uniting our efforts through an application we call the Action Code. This single line of code will help get out Pro-Life Action Calls without having to go through the mainstream media. Imagine 1,000 websites who might have 1,000,000 visitors. Now imagine an Action Call going out to all of those visitors with one click of the mouse. For the first time in history our Pro-Life messages get out faster, to more people and with the least amount of effort than ever before!

How does it work? All you have to do is put this code in the sidebar of your website, preferably somewhere up at the top where it will be noticed.

Click here to download the zipped Action Code file. After you put the code on your site, email us with your site link.

After we have confirmed that it is working properly we will add you as a member of ProLifeUnity.com.

When a Pro-Life organization has an Action Call they will either post it themselves or send it to ProLifeUnity.com for us to post it for them. When the Action Call is posted it will automatically show up on all member sites without you having to do a thing. It's that easy!

There are currently 25 members and we are averaging over 300,000 page views per month!

Won't you please help us help the unborn today? Be a part of history and go to ProLifeUnity.com and click on "Code Members" at the top. You too can join this list of top Pro-Life websites who support Pro-Life Action Calls. When you become a member, we will do a screen capture of your site banner & welcome you to the effort. Then you too will become a part of history!

While the pro-life themed movie Juno soared past the $100 million earnings milestone last weekend, its critically acclaimed anti-life counterpart, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, opened in just two theaters nationwide.

4 Months is not a "gripping portrayal of life" as review website Rotten Tomatoes described it. It is the blatant promotion of death, in this case a late-term baby in 1987 Romania, when front alley abortions there were illegal.

Four months, three weeks and two days refers to the length of time a promiscuous college student waited after conceiving before deciding to abort, in other words, the gestational age of her baby when killed.

Baby had no lines but merits commendation for giving a dead-on performance on that bathroom floor.

Mainstream media critics all loved 4 Months - giving it 70 positive reviews to three negative - and have been promoting its American opening hard, also pushing for an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.

Both efforts failed. Reviews indicated critics braced for the former, since American moviegoers so lack appreciation for great movies.

But they were completely unprepared for the Academy snub....

Continue reading my column today, "4 months, 3 weeks, and 2 theaters," on WorldNetDaily.com.

Non-stop chatter about Super Tuesday from politicians, media and political punditry is getting to me. Yak, yak, yak!

If Republicans pick John McCain, yeah or nay this or that. If Republicans pick Mitt Romney, yeah or nay this or that. If Democrats pick Barack Obama, yeah or nay this or that. If Democrats pick Hillary Clinton... Nevermind. I'd best not even go to that dark, dismal, dreary and dreadful scenario.

For no matter what pundits or presidential wannabes say, more than 3,300 unborn babies (based upon Guttmacher Institute's count of 1.21 million abortions in 2005) will be aborted today.

What's a pro-lifer voter to do in presidential decision-making?

During his remarks to pro-life bloggers before this year's March for Life, Hadley P. Arkes, the Edward N. Ney Professor of Jurisprudence and American Institutions at Amherst College, made points worth noting. (You will find Arkes' presentation here on video, courtesy of The Family Research Council.)

"We're at the endgame on abortion," said Arkes. "If we had political leadership we could have already accomplished this." President Bush artfully evaded his responsibility on the issue, he said.

Arkes explained that presidents have the power to affect the public's thinking. People in authority have the opportunity to teach, he said. "The Gipper did it gently with his stories."

The professor stressed the need for a president who frames the issue of abortion and addresses it with the nation.

Good luck finding him (forget her) among the presidential hopefuls.

What does Al Qaida and our "Civilized Nation" have in common?

Both believe the lives of individuals with Down syndrome are expendable when those with more typical genetic patterns think so.

John Piper writes at Desiring God:

Bombing, Abortion, & Down Syndrome February 2, 2008

Al Qaida has moved another step toward western standards of abortion barbarity in using Down Syndrome women to blow boys and girls to pieces. The news is that this was not suicide bombing, but the detonation of retarded girls at a distance.

The disgust one feels for the kind of heart that does this could reveal to England and America how we should feel when we screen for Down Syndrome babies and then kill them. Compare the stories:

Read his comparison here.

Thanks Christy and Leslie and for the tip - and thanks, John, for the insight.

Lord, open our eyes that we may see. Open our hearts that we may hear.

Pro-Life Unity joins with many organizations, including the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, Blogs for Terri, Defend Life, American Life League, Delaware Pro-Life Coalition, ProLifeBlogs, Operation Rescue and more, calling out for citizens everywhere to help stop the murder of an innocent girl.

Lauren Richardson accidentally overdosed on heroin in August of 2006 and severely damaged her brain. She was pregnant at the time, and most likely, because of that reason, she was kept alive in order to deliver her child. Lauren delivered a healthy baby girl in February of 2007.

Click here to continue reading at ProLifeUnity.com

The dehydration of people who are elderly stroke or dementia patients, people of all ages with brain injuries, and others with profound cognitive incapacities who require feeding tubes goes on ALL THE TIME in ALL FIFTY STATES to people who are both CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS. And society generally applauds. - Wesely Smith

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Judie Brown, president of American Life League, released the following statement concerning an order by Delaware Court of Chancery Master Sam Glasscockon to give guardianship of Lauren Richardson to her mother, who wants to remove Lauren's feeding tube.

"Lauren is 23 years of age and, due to a heroin overdose, is now in a persistent vegetative state. At the time of the overdose, Lauren was expecting the birth of her baby and reports indicate that she was 'kept alive' to allow her to give birth, which she did in February of last year. Her daughter is now about to celebrate her first birthday, but Lauren may never have another birthday.

In a case that parallels that of Terri Schiavo, Lauren Richardson, a 23-year old non-dying citizen of Delaware, is being dehydrated and starved to death by order of the state, against the wishes of her father. - details at Defend Life, the Delaware Online and LifeNews. Update: see JillStanek.com for more.

A press release by the Delaware Pro-Life Coalition explains:

Lauren is a disabled, non-dying citizen of Delaware who gave birth to her child last year against all physical odds. She has continued to fight for her life. WE APPEAL TO THE
CITIZENS OF DELAWARE TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT HER LIFE AS A DISABLED PERSON BY SUSTAINING HER FOOD AND WATER. SHE WAS CREATED BY GOD AND HAS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE UNTIL HER NATURAL END OF LIFE.

Programs are available throughout the state and by private agencies to tube-fed, disabled citizens; they affirm human dignity and support the families of such individuals. To die by dehydration and starvation because the court deems it "necessary" is the ultimate in human abandonment by society. To use the law to impose death rather than support human life in all of its frailties is a crime against humanity.

WE BELIEVE LAUREN WANTS US TO AFFIRM HER LIFE.

Visit LifeforLauren for more information about what you can do to help.

Pro-lifers should be giddy about a court ruling in their favor earlier this week. For the notoriously liberal Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in favor of Arizona anti-abortion advocates' right of free speech in a 3-0 decision on Monday.

The court made it clear that members of the Arizona Life Coalition should enjoy the same freedom of expression on their bumpers -- i.e. their automobile bumpers -- as members of other non-profit groups like the Wildlife Conservation Council do.

If we're going to save critters, why not save tiny humans, too?

In rejecting the ALC's application for a "Choose Life" specialty license plate, the Arizona License Plate Commission "clearly denied the application based on the nature of the message," said Judge Richard Tallman, according to the San Francisco Chronicle here.

This news serves so many so well. For the proceeds from "Choose Life" license plates support pregnancy centers' adoption efforts, maternity homes and non-profit adoption agencies, as explained here on Choose Life, Inc.'s website.

Here's to the sweetness of justice being served!