September 2009 Archives

I walked out of a store and a group of college students were taking pictures of my van. I jokingly asked what they were doing and they commented about my pro-life sign which they photographed. I took the opportunity to ask how they felt about abortion and one girl spoke out and said they were indifferent.

INDIFFERENCE-the word which the world has embraced as their motto caused me to reach into my pro-life material and show the picture of Malachi, the baby who was pieced back together after being dumped out after an abortion. I gave them the colorful magazines with the developmental pictures and personal stories as we discussed the sadness of abortion. I gave them flyers inviting them to participate in the "Prayer On The Square," for the "40 Days For Life" along with info as to when our group was meeting at the Columbus, Ohio abortion clinic. I want to praise God for opening up a door so "unexpectedly." 

Alayna S., grandmother and nurse

On Monday, a star-studded pro-life line-up - Lila Rose, Judie Brown, Pastor Walter Hoye, and Bella movie producers Jason Jones and Leo Severino - announced the launch of the CA Human Rights Campaign.

This will be an effort to add the Human Rights Amendment as a CA ballot initiative in 2010.

If passed, the amendment would "recognize[ ] the inherent human rights, dignity and worth of all human beings from the beginning of their biological development," read a statement.

In other words, we have here another personhood initiative.

This followed the Aug. 24 announcement that the CO Title Board had approved language for a personhood ballot initiative redo there in 2010.

And the Sept. 2 announcement that the MT attorney general had approved language for a personhood ballot initiative there in 2010.

And the Sept. 11 announcement that language had been submitted to the FL secretary of state for a personhood ballot initiative there in 2010.

And the Sept. 17 announcement that pro-lifers had submitted language to the MO secretary of state for a personhood ballot initiative there in 2010....

Then there are the legislative personhood efforts....

So the personhood movement has quickly grown too big to contain, and it has not been just pro-aborts interested in doing so....

The most interesting educational component of personhood endeavors is what they force the other side to admit. From the LA Times...

Read my column, "The 3rd problem with personhood initiatives," in its entirety at WorldNetDaily.com.

The President had an extended and apparently enjoyable vacation in August. While at Martha's Vineyard, he had time to read, reflect and step outside the constraints of the ideologues that generally surround him. Fantasize, for a moment, how Obama's September 8, Joint Session speech would have been received had liberal democrats listened to opening remarks that included discussion of the following doctrinal "change"...
The scene: The Joint Session of Congress, September 8, 2009.

After ten minutes of applause, screams, tears, and chants of "Yes, we can!", the President ignores the teleprompter and opens by stating that he is now opposed to...

Time stops and all in the Joint Session become frozen. The reader is flashed back to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, August 2008...

While taking the kids to the Vineyard Vine's sponsored community fair, Obama saunters over to the National Right to Life booth. Initially in a defensive posture, his shoulders progressively lower as he flips through a pamphlet providing information on partial birth abortion. Despite the neighboring Planned Parenthood booth workers' attempts to pull the document from his hands (not to mention their attempts to have the Right to Life's models and illustrations removed from the fair as a whole on the grounds that they are offensive), Obama reviews illustrations of the procedure (http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/ ). He then reads an excerpt from the text: "Partial-birth abortions are usually performed in the fifth and sixth months of pregnancy. Keep in mind that in the fifth and sixth months, premature labor usually results in live birth, and after the fifth month, many born-alive babies survive indefinitely." 

Upon reflection at the cotton candy vendor, our now sticky-fingered President decides he regrets his 2001-2003 Illinois Senate "no" votes on legislation that would have defined any aborted fetus that showed signs of life as a "born alive infant". A "yes" vote would have entitled said infant to legal protection. In his mind, Obama plays back some of his words on the Illinois Senate floor in 2001:

Number one, whenever we define a pre-viable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we're really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a - a child, a nine-month-old - child that was delivered to term. That determination then, essentially, if it was accepted by a court, would forbid abortions to take place. I mean, it - it would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an antiabortion statute. "

Even then, he understood that, in such a late term procedure, babies are at times born alive and thus, do not need to be killed in order to save the life of the mother. 

While chilling at the beach, and after skimming Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman, a body guard hands Obama WON BY LOVE, the autobiography by Norma McCorvey. The Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, McCorvey chronicles her journey from being vehemently pro-abortion, to becoming a Christian through the love of an eight year-old girl, to spending her life encouraging women to make pro-life choices. He is moved by the exploitation she experienced by the lawyers who represented her in the Supreme Court case and by the reasoning behind her extreme change in philosophy...

The reader is returned back to September in Washington. The characters are now unfrozen (though some appear unchanged)...

As Obama stands before the Congress, he states that he is now opposed to partial-birth abortion, and possibly abortion in general. He then details a few of the many consequences of his decision: A loss of millions of dollars from pro-abortion groups, the loss of certain feminist voting blocks, and Obama's conviction to now nominate constructionist Supreme Court judges, judges who note that, unlike most rulings, the Roe v. Wade case included no analysis of legal precedent nor any analysis of the Constitution and is therefore vulnerable. "Blasphemy," cries Harry Reid. Obama can palpate the death rays emanating from the Nancy Pelosi's eyes and onto his moist, upper back. Over the din of Republican, as well as a number of Democrat cheers, he wonders what Michelle is thinking.

Last week in Cook County, Illinois, Derrion Albert, 16, was murdered after being in the wrong place at the wrong time as a gang fight broke out. What a tragic death for a kid who had a promising future.

As a father, my heart goes out to his family - I couldn't even imagine what they must be going through.

Unfortunately, Derrion wasn't the only black child killed last week in Cook County - an estimated 159 unborn children of color were also murdered last week - not by street gangs, but by gangs of doctors and nurses.[1] Like Derrion, they had promising futures that were brutally aborted. And like Derrion, they weren't potential humans, or 3/5ths humans, but rather, they were humans with lives full of potential.

Fox News Chicago aired a brutal and graphic video of Derrion's murder. Now that they have set a precedent of showing a brutal killing over the airwaves, it's time for Fox to show how brutal abortion really is.

The Fox news clip can be viewed at:

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/video_derrion_albert

Today is Stem Cell Awareness Day as proclaimed by Governors Arnold Scwartzenegger of California and Jim Doyle of Wisconsin. As promised, I will do my part to make the public aware of all of the recent advances that have been made in adult stem cell research.

First up: A girl in India is cured of thalassemia using the cord blood stem cells from her younger sibling. Thalassemia is a genetic disorder that requires regular blood transfusions. From DNAIndia.com:

On March 17, eight-year-old Thamirabharuni underwent surgery to receive the cord blood stem cell of her younger sibling, Pugazhendi. Thamira, as she is called, was suffering from thalassemia, a disorder that affects red blood corpuscles. A thalassemia patientmight require blood transfusion as frequently as once every week, and this disorder can be fatal in children.

Half a year after the successful operation, Thamira is brimming with joy and on the road to full recover. Born on November 21, 2001, in Coimbatore, she was a normal baby till she fell ill a year-and-a-half later and was diagnosed with thalassemia, needing blood transfusion every month.

Leftover fat from liposuction may be a key to advancing stem cell research, according to a new Stanford School of Medicine study.

Stanford researchers have found that globs of fat removed during liposuction contain cells that can be efficiently reprogrammed to become induced pluripotent stem cells -- a type of stem cell that does not require the use of an embryo.

Stanford surgery professor and study co-author Dr. Michael Longaker described the leftover fat as "liquid gold."

Lets keep going.

In the spring of 2004 we learned Advocate Health Care wanted to build a hospital in a southwest suburb of Chicago, my home turf.

Advocate owns nine Chicago-area hospitals, one of which is Christ Hospital, where I discovered as a labor and delivery nurse in 1999 that late-term babies were being aborted alive and shelved to die with no medical intervention....

Pro-lifers immediately opposed Advocate's expansion....

We organized a protest of Advocate at a public hearing to consider its plan. It was there we first encountered the Service Employees International Union, also protesting Advocate.

Advocate, as "metropolitan Chicago's leading private provider of health care and its third largest private employer," according to an SEIU flyer, had 25,000 nonunionized workers....

Working with SEIU against Advocate was the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, only I didn't realize it then....

So I introduced myself to SEIU organizer Joseph Geevarghese, saying I was glad we were on the same side.

Joseph said perhaps we could join forces. He was also working with a church organizer, he said....
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As the media started spending more time on ACORN last week, I realized it was connected to SEIU. I recognized some of its tactics.

I wondered if I had held on to that Advocate/SEIU file, now five years old. Reviewing it might be enlightening, I thought.

I did, and it was. I had kept pretty much everything - SEIU's Hospital Accountability Project newsletters, my invoices, and letters.... one from then state Sen. Barack Obama....

Read my complete column today, "What I know about ACORN, the SEIU, and Obama," at WorldNetDaily.com.

Tomorrow September 23, 2009 is Stem Cell Awareness Day as proclaimed by Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger (CA) and Jim Doyle (WI). Stem Cell Awareness Day was conceived by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) which presides over a 3 billion dollar budget for embryonic stem cell and cloning research. The mission:

For the millions of people around the world who suffer from incurable diseases and injury, Stem Cell Awareness Day is a day to celebrate the scientific advances made to-date and be hopeful of what is yet to come.

So I will do just that. And I ask you to join me. On September 23rd, write, blog, e-mail and talk about the many advancements in ADULT stem cell research that are already helping patients and making their lives better whether in the United States or around the world. Let us make people aware of the difference between the life-affirming adult stem cell research that is making great progress and the life-destroying embryonic stem cell research that has yet to even begin human trials.

For 36 years, pro-aborts have engaged in a risky public-relations campaign to detract from their mounting preborn baby body count.

It is pro-lifers, not pro-aborts, who are violent, they have said. While collectively and openly advancing the abortions of over 50 million children, they have held up as evidence 6 unbalanced people calling themselves pro-life, but repudiated by the pro-life community, who have aborted 8 abortion workers.

Totally illogical, but nevertheless, with liberal media and political support, the accusation has stuck.

Not that I've ever minded. Having such a reputation has brought me closer than anything else to knowing how Hell's Angels must feel when walking into a bar, which is kind of cool, even as I laugh at the absurdity of pro-lifers metaphorically dressed in biker leather.

But with the murder of pro-lifer Jim Pouillon on Sept. 11, that particular debate between pro-lifers and pro-aborts changed. Their post-born killing slate is no longer clean. It was only a matter of time.

I hesitate to discuss Jim's death in purely pragmatic terms. If I were to be killed for my pro-life convictions, I'm sure it would hurt my family to read the ridiculous and cruel comments by pro-aborts as we argued about me on the Internet as if I were just a debate topic, not a real person.

Then again, maybe not....

Continue reading my column today, "Pro-life martyr Jim Pouillon," at WorldNetDaily.com.

Friends of the unborn,

Tommorrow marks the official kick off for Organized for Life! Thanks to all of you who are helping us get this revolutionary pro life campaign statrted. Good luck out there this week to everyone who volunteered to go out and start spreading the message of life. Its a sacrifice you won't regret making. We'll be checking up with you later this month to see how its going.

If you haven't signed up yet or want to read more about this door-to-door effort, go to oflusa.com for more information.

Today we're in Minneapolis, MN, helping out with the Center for Bioethical Reform's Genocide Awareness Project. At this moment we are streaming Stephanie Grey, speaker at the Pro Life Institute, one of the best pro-life debate trainers around. She and Mark Harrington, Director of CBR West, are providing great information on why all abortions are bad and why it's important to know what we are talking about regarding life issues.

I highly recommend everyone go to http://prolifeunity.com for the live internet project! If you can't tune in now, we're recording the session so you can view later. If you click on the play button in the middle of the video below you can watch the video from 2 - 7 pm Central time.

http://prolifeunity.com for a live broadcast of the Pro-Life Aplogetics training from 2 - 7 pm Central time

Thoughts of Ted Kennedy stir quite competing emotions in me.

Sadness and compassion are 2 I feel when considering Kennedy's family history.

All 3 of Kennedy's older brothers were killed young while serving their country. This meant that after his father died in 1969, Kennedy was forced at the age of 40 into the role of patriarch of a large clan that included 2 widowed sisters-in-law and 13 fatherless nieces and nephews.

Kennedy was present, for instance, at Ethel's delivery of daughter Rory 6 months after husband and father Bobby was assassinated.

But in an awful twist, John Jr. died in a plane crash on his way to Rory's wedding in 1999, yet another example of the seemingly never-ending Kennedy family tragedies.

And I feel bad about all that.

Then there's the Chappaquiddick Kennedy, which stirs shock and disbelief, and the rabble-rousing Kennedy, whose poor example did nephew William Kennedy Smith no favors, which stirs disgust.

And there is the Liberal Lion Kennedy, who wrought catastrophic harm to preborn human life.

This Kennedy infuriates me.....

Continue reading my column today, "Ted Kennedy's letter to the pope," at WorldNetDaily.com.