http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/ Copyright 2008 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:17:21 -0700 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I want to share with you some thoughts in the hopes that you would be encouraged to continue to pray and fight for life. President-elect Obama is a charismatic and eloquent speaker. Even though I was not able to tune in to his victory speech, I heard bits and pieces of it and I was moved. He promises to change America and has already begun setting up his cabinet for next year's transition. It seems like he will do a lot of great things for the country - improve our schools, make health care universal, pull-troops out of Iraq, stimulate the economy, and so on. BUT, let us also remember that President-elect Obama is, thus far, the most pro-abortion president in the history of the US. Already, he is looking to reverse the ban President Bush had set in place to limit Embryonic Stem Cell research in the US. He http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/continue_fighti.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/continue_fighti.php Abortion Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:17:21 -0700 This is the second in a series of posts on the power of words and why Christians need to be aware of the terminology we use when discussing important issues. The first post in the series is here. "Pro-choice" and "pro-abortion" , "anti-choice" and "pro-life". This has been discussed at length and I doubt I can add much to the conversation. Suffice to say that I am pro-life, certainly not anti-choice. I am not against women having all sorts of choices...when the choice is theirs to make. But I don't believe a mother can choose whether or not to kill an unborn baby any more than a father can choose to kill that unborn baby. And as far as "anti-choice" goes, given the high number of Planned Parenthood clinics in low-income communities and the coercive practices at many PP clinics, if anyone is "anti-choice" it is the abortion advocate. One http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/because_words_m.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/because_words_m.php Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:20:29 -0700 I regret to report it was pro-life dissidents who caused the defeat of the South Dakota abortion ban initiative and worsened the lopsided trouncing of the Colorado personhood amendment. According to Medical News Today: The defeat of abortion ballot measures across the country... may have been the result of divisions among anti-abortion groups.... Opposition to the measure in South Dakota came from the anti-abortion groups American Life League and South Dakota Right to Life.... In Colorado, the failed Amendment 48 measure... found opposition from Americans United For Life and National Right to Life.... Pro-lifers and pro-aborts on the same side? Hello? The fact is groups at both ends of the pro-life ideological spectrum are actively sabotaging pro-life efforts with which they disagree, bound by a common fault: perfectionism.... Continue reading my column, "Pro-life movement: Both ends against the middle," on WorldNetDaily.com. http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/new_stanek_wnd_76.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/new_stanek_wnd_76.php Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:03:20 -0700 This is truly terrifying. That video is just a sampling of this "Zogby Poll: Almost No Obama Voters Ace Election Test"57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing) 71.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing) 82.6% could NOT correctly say that Barack Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing) 88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing) 56.1% could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing). And yet..... Only 13.7% failed to identify Sarah Palin as the person on which their party spent $150,000 in clothes Only 6.2% failed to http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/and_they_said_s.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/and_they_said_s.php Elections Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:18:07 -0700 A short post this time around. With the passage of more state laws restoring or defending the traditional definition of marriage (particularly the high-profile Prop. 8 in CA), Christian leaders across the country have issued press releases proclaiming the good news. There is definitely reason to celebrate! Still, there was a disconnect in the voting this election cycle. Voters defended marriage -- and by extension, the family -- but many pro-life measures were defeated, sometimes by the same voters. In CA, specifically, Prop. 8 gained much more support when proponents ran some ads informing voters of the homosexual agenda (more on that in an upcoming post) and how it was being foisted upon their children in the public schools. So it seems that voters' support of Prop. 8 was at least in part driven by defense of the family. But then some of the same voters turned around and voted http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/pro-family_anti.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/pro-family_anti.php Abortion Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:57:10 -0700 Janis Clarke sings a song for the unborn at the press conference in front of the Marriot in Baltimore, which was challenging Catholic Bishops regarding the Eucharist and pro-abortion candidates. Eyeblast version Youtube version http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/janis_clarke_si.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/janis_clarke_si.php Pro-Life Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:53:44 -0700 "5 Myths About an Election of Mythic Proportions" 1. "President-elect Barack Obama transformed the face of the electorate! A wave of black voters and young people was the key to Obama's victory." "Or not. Exit polling suggests that there was no statistically significant increase in voting among either group. Black voters made up 11 percent of the electorate in 2004 and 13 percent in 2008, while young voters comprised 17 percent of all voters in 2004 and 18 percent four years later." 2. "The Republican Party suffered a death blow." "Republicans will be back on their feet sooner than many people expect. First, much of the Republicans' permanent political class has concluded that electing Sen. John McCain as president would have amounted to applying a Band-Aid to a gaping wound... Ra's al Ghul, a villain in the movie "Batman Begins," advocates destroying the city of Gotham to rebuild it from http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/election_myths.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/election_myths.php Elections Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:54:28 -0700 Last year Leticia casually mentioned to an email correspondent that she wanted to get mothers of children with Down syndrome together to march together in the March for Life. This year it is going to happen - click here. Note: Sarah Palin (and Trig) are invited. http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/mothers_of_chil.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/mothers_of_chil.php Announcements Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:05:52 -0700 It was the Sunday after the election, and everywhere I looked I could only see impending doom.There is no way God would have allowed Barack Obama to become president were He not finally turning America over to judgment, to whatever great or lesser extent that will be.I sat in my mother's church and was surprised to feel anger when the worship leader smiled and sang the same songs as ever, as if life hadn't drastically changed the week before, as if the Church itself wasn't indicted by Obama's election.Then my eye caught.... Continue reading my column, "How I got my groove back," on WorldNetDaily.com. http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/new_stanek_wnd_75.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/new_stanek_wnd_75.php Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:34:58 -0700 http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/abortion_absolu.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/abortion_absolu.php Abortion Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:00:07 -0700 http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/justice_wins.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/justice_wins.php Abortion Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:08:24 -0700 http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/phoenix_abortio.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/phoenix_abortio.php Abortion Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:47:38 -0700 http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/killing_is_so_e.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/killing_is_so_e.php Assisted Suicide Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:58:59 -0700 This may be a bit controversial (at least for some):The case has been made by a number of writers and ethicists, with quite a bit of persuasiveness, that it is no longer morally permissible to support the Democratic party. So many Democrats have come to that conclusion on their own, in fact, that I can't keep up on all the emails I get from people who have left the party over its radical, anti-life, anti-marriage, and anti-religious positions.... Unless one is working to change this party into a pro-life party, it's very difficult, if not impossible to justify supporting it.- Frank Pavone (read the rest here)No argument from me... http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/the_morality_of.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/the_morality_of.php Politics Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:12:12 -0700 Justice demands accountability the murder of an unborn child: The man who authorities allege used a chain saw and assault rifle to shoot into his estranged wife's apartment, killing her boyfriend and the woman's unborn child, will be charged in the slaying of the 18-week-old fetus, the Clark County district attorney said today. District Attorney David Roger said lawyers in his office reviewed the case and determined they will pursue an additional charge of "manslaughter, killing of an unborn quick child," against 25-year-old William John Keck. The obvious question is why the same value is not placed on the life of other unborn children who is killed via abortion?HT: prolifenews http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/when_justice_is.php http://www.prolifeblogs.com/articles/archives/2008/11/when_justice_is.php Pro-Life News Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:45:24 -0700