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*Life Links 11/20/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 19, 2009, 11:46 pm
Wesley Smith notes a changed clause in Senator Reid's health care bill could force insurance providers in states where assisted suicide is legal to include assisted suicide in their plans. If assisted suicide, or even euthanasia, are legally considered forms of 'end of life care” in a particular state'as it is now in Oregon, Washington, and Montana'it seems to me that the area's community health insurance option would be required to provide 'access” to it under this clause. How else can the
*Pro-Life Blog Awards - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 19, 2009, 5:31 am
American Life League has opened nominations for the 2010 Pro-Life Blog Awards. Nominations are due by December 7. You can nominate your favorite prolife blogger (hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge) here. Voters will then have between December 7 and December 20 to vote for their favorites.
*Embryonic stem cell 'desperately” need a success - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 19, 2009, 4:54 am
So says Advanced Cell Technology scientific director Robert Lanza while promoting his company's attempt to get the FDA to approve another clinical trial using cells created from embryonic stem cells. This clinical trial would attempt to treat blindness. ACT's other embryonic stem cell clinical trial (which plans on testing the safety of cells in paralyzed patients) has been postponed another year because cysts were discovered at the injection sites during animal studies."It has been over a dec
*Life Links 11/19/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 19, 2009, 2:43 am
Americans United for Life has posted a summary of Senator Reid's health care reform legislation (2.5 MB PDF) as it related to abortion. Their conclusion: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid last night unveiled a health care bill which provides for an unprecedented expansion of federally-funded abortion. The bill includes pro-abortion language and mirrors the false compromise Capps Amendment from the House debate — it allows the public option to include abortion coverage and provides federal su
*Life Links 11/18/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 18, 2009, 5:12 am
No surprise here. According to a CNN poll, the majority of Americans don't want abortion funding included in health care reform. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning indicates that 61 percent of the public opposes using public money for abortions for women who can not afford the procedure, with 37 percent in favor of allowing the use of federal funds.And by a 51 percent to 45 percent margin, those questioned in the survey think that women who get abortions shoul
*Life Links 11/17/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 16, 2009, 11:46 pm
Stephanie Simon has an article in the Wall Street Journal which is sure to get more than a few pro-choicers fuming. Simon notes the Stupak amendment is unlikely to change how abortion is paid for by the vast majority of women. Although the bill has stirred passions on both sides of the abortion-rights debate -- which are likely to be echoed when the Senate takes up its version -- the practical effect of the restrictions will be limited, statistics suggest and some experts in family-planning is
*Voting and Abortion Rates - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 16, 2009, 6:44 am
Michael Barone has an interesting post comparing the percentage of a state's vote for Barack Obama and the state's abortion rate. Not surprisingly states with high abortion rates tended to vote in higher percentages for Obama while states with lower abortion rates tended to have lower percentages of voters who voted for Obama. It would interesting to see these numbers on a county by county basis for various states.
*What? Embryonic stem cells aren't going to cure Parkinson's? - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 16, 2009, 5:38 am
The blog of the Center for Genetics and Society shares a bit of a piece by Constance Holden in Science entitled, 'Fetal Cells Again?” which discusses the rise and fall of the hopes that cell-based therapies could cure Parkinson's. A half-dozen years ago, in the heat of political and scientific excitement over hES [human embryonic stem] cells, Parkinson's disease was regarded as one of the prime candidates for stem cell therapy. But even as iPS [induced pluripotent stem] cells have opened new v
*Life Links 11/16/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 16, 2009, 3:07 am
President Obama is such a shameless liar. In a nationally televised address to Congress he claimed 'under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions” when the legislation at that time included abortion funding. Now that the legislation has been amended to remove abortion funding via the Stupak amendment and prevents abortion coverage from being federally subsidized, Obama is sending out David Axelrod to act like the Stupak amendment changes the 'status quo” and that Obama'
*Life Links 11/13/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 13, 2009, 12:12 am
The Republican National Committee Chariman Michael Steele has called for the removal of abortion coverage from their health insurance plan after Politico discovered that abortion was covered. The silliness of pro-choice arguments regarding the Stupak amendment continues. Wendy Norris is now claiming money was another probable reason for the Catholic bishops support of the Stupak amendment. Despite the vast majority of abortions being performed in abortion clinics and not hospitals, Norris t
*Michelman and Kissling whine about Stupak amendment - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 12, 2009, 6:37 am
Former NARAL president Kate Michelman and former Catholics for Choice leader Frances Kissling have an editorial today in the New York Times where they bitterly complain about how women won't be able to get federally-subsidized abortions and how the Democratic party isn't completely beholden to abortion activists. It's almost a lament for the power they thought the 2008 election would bring them. They're downtrodden. Many House members who support abortion rights decided reluctantly to accept t
*Life Links 11/12/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 12, 2009, 4:25 am
Is infamous Michigan abortionist Alberto Hodari closing up (at least some of) his abortion mills? LifeSite and LifeNews both have the account of Flint Right to Life's Judy Climer who claims his Flint clinic has a for sale sign. Hodari's Womancare clinic in Southgate is also for sale. Maybe he needs some cash to pay for all his legal troubles. In Japan, a group of scientists implanted the nucleus of an older woman's egg into the cytoplasm of a younger woman's egg and then fertilized those egg
*Life Links 11/11/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 11, 2009, 5:23 am
Liberals are making a lot of inaccurate and incredibly stupid claims about the Stupak amendment. Carlton Veazey from the Religious Coaltion for Reproductive Choice claims the Stupak amendment is "an encroachment on the separation of religion and state and an affront to a basic constitutional principle."Senator Tom Harkin thinks it's a slippery slope which could lead to the federal government not allowing people with federal housing loans to have abortions. In a guest post at the RH Reality Che
*Life Links 11/10/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 10, 2009, 12:04 am
In the Wall Street Journal, William McGurn has a piece on Bart Stupak appropriately entitled, "The man who made Pelosi cry uncle." It sounds like the prolife Democrats aren't going to accept the Stupak amendment being stripped from health care reform.As it is, Democrats now have to make some decisions that may anger their Planned Parenthood wing. The fight itself will be interesting, judging from a claim by Diana DeGette (D., Col.) in yesterday's Washington Post that 40 Democrats will vote agai
*Obama Opposes the Stupak Amendment - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 9, 2009, 11:49 pm
In an interview with ABC News, President Obama says more work needs to be done on how abortion is handled in health care because pro-choicers are mad. Saying the bill cannot change the status quo regarding the ban on federally funded abortions, the president said, "There are strong feelings on both sides" about an amendment passed Saturday and added to the legislation, "and what that tells me is that there needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we're not changing the status
*DeGette Letter Vows to Oppose Health Unless Stupak Amendment Removed - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 9, 2009, 7:33 am
The office of Diane DeGette (D-Colorado) has post this letter which has apparently been signed by more than 40 Democrats who claim they will oppose the final passage of health care reform legislation if it contains the Stupak amendment.
*Overheard - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 9, 2009, 6:23 am
One of the Abortioneers discusses why she "loves abortion." What do I mean when I say I love abortion? To me, there is absolutely nothing wrong or surprising with the supposed "controversial" statement. I love women, therefore I love abortion. Abortion is a part of women's lives.
What is Vice President Joe Biden spending his money on? - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 9, 2009, 4:19 am
How can a guy who gives next to nothing to charity and has made in the six figures for 3+ decades have a net worth of $27,000? Does he have all his money in his houses since 'federal financial disclosure laws don't require members to list the value of their personal residences” or is he just one of the most incompetent managers of money in world? HT: Joe Carter
*Life Links 11/9/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 9, 2009, 4:21 am
I share Ramesh Ponnuru's thoughts about the possibility of Republicans voting 'present” on the Stupak amendment to prevent it's passage. Bad idea. Democrat Diane DeGette claims she has more than 40 House Democrats who will vote against the final version health care reform legislation if it includes the Stupak amendment. Sarah Palin rallied prolifers in Wisconsin on Friday night. Palin didn't mention President Obama by name, but did take a shot at him for opposing an abortion-related measu
*Health Care Reform Passes with the Stupak Amendment - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 9, 2009, 2:29 am
By now you've probably heard that the House's health care reform bill passed but only after the House was allowed to vote on and pass the Stupak Amendment to remove abortion funding. The New York Times has an article on what happened behind the scenes. Basically, if the Stupak amendment didn't get a vote, then the Nancy Pelosi didn't have the votes to pass health care reform. Her attempts at winning them over had failed, and Ms. Pelosi, the first woman speaker and an ardent defender of abortio
*Pensacola Abortion Clinic Closes - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 5, 2009, 11:54 pm
One of Pensacola's two abortion clinics has closed after being unable to pay a $413,000 fine for having an expired lab license for 413 days. In January, a survey by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration determined that the center's lab license had been expired for 413 days. A fine of $1,000 per day was imposed.AHCA is responsible for the licensing and regulation of health facilities and for administration of Medicaid.Since January, the abortion clinic has remained in operation while
*Is child-killing pro-family? - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 5, 2009, 6:41 am
John Derbyshire is wondering what prolifers think about one blogger's contention that abortion is 'pro-family” because he believes abortions reduce the number of single-mother families (he likely hasn't looked for any historical proof of this). Let's consider another way we could reduce the number of single-mother families: killing the born children of single mothers. Would that be pro-family? Of course not because killing off some family members is not a proper means of strengthening fami
*Life Links 11/5/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 5, 2009, 2:36 am
National Right to Life's Douglas Johnson has issued a statement on Congressman Ellsworth's 'compromise” language in health care reform. "Any House member who votes for the Pelosi rule is voting to establish a federal government insurance plan, the public option, that the bill explicitly authorizes to pay for all elective abortions. When a federal agency pays for abortions, that is federal funding of abortion in reality, whatever contrived labels Speaker Pelosi or her acolytes slap over it. T
*Life Links 11/4/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 3, 2009, 11:53 pm
Amie Newman at RH Reality Check and Tracy Clark-Flory at Salon are questioning former Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson's prolife conversion by pointing to recent radio interviews (Newman has partially transcribed one interview) Johnson did on behalf of Planned Parenthood. The complete turnabout is very interesting. Newman and Clark-Flory both seem to hint at the possibility that Johnson was harrassed into conversion.I would note that much of what Johnson says in the transcribed intervi
*Life Links 11/3/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 2, 2009, 11:52 pm
Trespassing charges have been stayed against prolife University of Calgary students who displayed pictures of aborted children on campus after prosecutors finally realized how stupid it would be to try to charge students with trespassing on their own campus. No reason was given for staying the charges, but club treasurer Alanna Campbell said the charges -- laid about a year ago -- were ridiculous. "They recognized it was kind of silly to try their own students with trespassing on their campus,"
*Pro-choicers still whining about Law & Order - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 2, 2009, 2:25 am
The pro-choice flip out over the recent Law and Order episode 'Dignity” continues. Amanda Marcotte and Kathleen Reeves both weigh in at the RH Reality Check blog with assertions galore. Reeves even claims the reality that some children survive abortions and are born alive is a 'myth.” Ever hear of Baby Shanice? RH Reality Check's Emily Douglas even included the story about how abortion provider Pierre Jean-Jacques Renelique lost his license because of this horrible case in one of her pos
*Life Links 11/2/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 2, 2009, 2:52 am
A television station in Texas has the story about how local Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson resigned. Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure."I just thought I can't do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that's it," said Jonhson. She handed in her resignation October 6. Johnson worked as the Bryan Planned Parenthood Director for two years.According to Johnson, the non-profit was struggling und
Pumpkin Carving and Costume Pictures - JivinJehoshaphat Nov 2, 2009, 3:17 am
Our daughter went as a bumblebee but was completely opposed to wearing the hood.Here's my pumpkin - it's supposed to the Joker from the Batman movies. My wife went with Elmo.
*No room for discussion with backs turned - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 30, 2009, 12:59 am
The Daily Cal has dueling editorials by Alberto Gonzalez, president of the Berkeley Students for Life, and Alison Ostendorf, president of Berkeley NOW, regarding the recent Genocide Awareness Project display on campus. Ostendorf's editorial is telling because she claims there was no chance for debate because the display featured images of aborted children. She then goes on to list a bunch of things she doesn't know about Berkeley Students for Life including their "full arguments." She also claim
*"‘With all due respect, sir, you do not have a plan." - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 30, 2009, 1:15 am
At CNSnew.com, Fred Lucas has an article about Congressman Bart Stupak's continued efforts to get a vote on an amendment to remove abortion funding from health care reform legislation. Lucas notes how White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has changed his tune on abortion funding. Previously Gibbs had attempted to argue that the Hyde Amendment would prevent health care reform from funding abortion. On Tuesday, Gibbs notably did not repeat this assertion—which has been vigorously refuted b
*"I am an abortionist. ... That is what I do." - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 29, 2009, 8:43 am
So says LeRoy Carhart during an interview with CNN's Wayne Drash. Carhart admits to performing an abortion at 36 weeks on a child whose brain hadn't developed. He also says, "We do kill fetuses."
*Life Links 10/29/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 29, 2009, 8:20 am
So much for gold standard, eh? After tricking California's gullible voters into believing that embryonic stem cells were going to cure every malady known to man and intentionally downplaying the success of adult stem cell research, California's stem cell agency is now giving the majority of research grants to projects that having nothing to do with embryonic stem cell research. Here's a web page which has a portion of NY Times editorial after the passage of Prop. 71 (the proposal which lead to
*Life Links 10/28/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 28, 2009, 12:25 am
A 21-year-old man in Utah named Aaron Harrison has been sentenced to five years in jail after he beat up a pregnant 17-year-old girl in a failed attempt to kill the girl's unborn child. The girl, who apparently asked Harrison to beat her up because her boyfriend threatened to break up with her if she didn't get rid of the child, was originally sentenced to juvenile detention was released after a judge ruled that she was seeking an abortion and therefore couldn't be criminally liable. The girl,
*Life Links 10/27/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 27, 2009, 12:45 am
At the pro-choice blog Feministing, a blogger named Rose shares bits of a conversation she had with Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards regarding health care and abortion and the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA). Stephen Drake of Not Dead Yet isn't happy with the Princetonian's portrayal of his organization and its description of their protest against Singer. Friends of Scott Roeder (the alleged killer of George Tiller) are planning to auction off random militant anti-abortion items on eBa
*Overheard - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 26, 2009, 7:07 am
At the Abortioneers' blog, a post regarding Friday night's Law and Order episode: Besides the blatant anti-choice views throughout the epsiode, there was a blasphemous account of a doctor that would accidentally deliver a live fetus and offer to "finish" the procedure. It is heinous to insinuate that this would happen and that Dr. Tiller had ever done this.Unfortunately, it did happen. Abortion clinic owner Belkis Gonzales was arrested after killing a child who was born alive during a botched a
*Unborn Child Killed, Man Arrested - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 26, 2009, 7:17 am
A 37-year-old man named Joshua Woodward has been arrested on suspicion of murder because authorities believe he played a role in the death of his unborn child. The child miscarried at approximately 13 weeks. Every news story I've read on this incident calls the entity which was allegedly killed an "unborn child." The term "fetus" is nowhere to be seen.
College Students Freeze Their Buns Off Marching Against Global Warming - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 26, 2009, 3:25 am
Brrr......I love stories like this. In Grand Rapids, we're in the midst of experiencing one of coldest Octobers on record and they've been keeping records for around 100 years. The temperature is below average nearly every single day yet there are still a few goofs willing to freeze their kesters off and stand in the rain. We also got an appearance from our mayor George Heartwell. Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell was also among the group of 40 to 50 people that carried signs and banners
*Life Links 10/26/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 26, 2009, 4:08 am
Friday's Law and Order episode "Dignity" (clip here) was a 'ripped from the headlines” episode which focused on abortion and the murder of a late-term abortionist in a church reminiscent of abortionist George Tiller's murder over the summer. I watched the episode was surprised to see Law and Order's writers actually allow prolife arguments to be presented by someone other than an unflattering sidewalk counselor. There was even a segment which seemed based on Brenda Pratt Shafer's partial-bir
*Abortion in Health Care Debate Continues - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 23, 2009, 7:39 am
Michigan's Bart Stupak and other prolife Dems still aren't seeing eye-to-eye with the pro-choice leadership on abortion in health care refrom. Washington Post religion writer Anthony Stevens-Arroyo needs to get a clue. Seriously, how misinformed does someone have to be to still think that the Hyde Amendment (appropriations amendment which only applies to federal medicaid funding) prevents the funding of abortion in health care reform? It's like the Post went looking for someone who had less re
Friday Baby Blogging - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 23, 2009, 5:35 am
Modeling sun glasses and a hatSome more cat wrestling
*University of Michigan gets stem cell grants, Sean Morrison can't help but lie - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 22, 2009, 5:26 am
The Detroit Free Press has an AP story which is reporting that the University of Michigan has 'received 13 federal stimulus grants worth $6.8 million for stem cell research.” The AP story then proceeds to act like the grants are because of Proposal 2, a referendum passed in 2008 to legalize the killing of human embryos for research in Michigan, by claiming these grants are 'a sign of the state's growing clout since voters last year eased restrictions in the emerging field that seeks treatment
*Life Links 10/22/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 22, 2009, 3:28 am
Dede Scozzafava, a pro-choice Republican congressional candidate, called the police on the Weekly Standard's John McCormack after he asked her a couple of questions including her position on health care reform bills which fund abortion. The Scozzafa campaign originally claimed that McCormack yelled at Scozzafava but have now retracted that statement after audio recordings proved otherwise. The Washington Times has an editorial calling on John Boehner, Newt Gingrich and the National Republican
*Life Links 10/21/2009 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 21, 2009, 12:33 am
The Charlotte Observer reports that 15-year-old pregnant bus stop shooting victim Tiffany Wright was pressured to have an abortion by a person of interest in the case before she was shot. Police believe Royce Mitchell, though not the father of the child, should be charged with statutory rape. The documents, released Tuesday, say Mitchell took Tiffany ' his adopted sister ' to a Charlotte abortion clinic in July, but she was turned away because she was too far along at 21 weeks. So Mitchell plan
*Life Links 10/20/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 20, 2009, 12:15 am
At the Stand to Reason blog, Amy Hall has some good insights into the academic paper by abortionist Lisa Miller posted at the Abortioneers blog regarding how those in the abortion industry react to second-trimester abortions. It is utterly amazing to me that a person could see some of these things so clearly, could be informed so strongly by her own moral intuition, could grasp the contradictions, and yet could have a response that seeks to find a way to overcome the "visual and visceral ways in
*"the guilt, unconfrotmableness etc of my medical abortion back in april has played a huge part in my life." - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 19, 2009, 6:54 am
A young woman at LiveJournal's abortion info community is scared she might be pregnant again after having an abortion in April. If she is pregnant again, she plans on keeping the child because of her past abortion experience. If i have fell pregnant I AM KEEPING THIS ONE. As the guilt, unconfrotmableness etc of my medical abortion back in april has played a huge part in my life. to the point of regret....I am so so scared. Im not ready 4 a baby yet, im only 21 and my partner is 32. hence why i
*Law & Order: SVU finds new ways to bash prolifers - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 19, 2009, 4:58 am
I've seen bad writing on television shows before but I don't think I've ever seen a show which was as pointless this last week's 'Law & Order: SVU” episode entitled 'Hammered.” It was like part of the episode was written by a NARAL employee. The gist of story (a full recap is here) is that a guy wakes up to a murdered woman at his place. He has no memory of what happened the night before. We eventually find out the dead woman is an abortion provider so the detectives suspect the guy is p
*Life Links 10/19/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 19, 2009, 5:02 am
A Michigan-based researcher has authored a study showing how adult olfactory stem cells can help patients with spinal cord injuries. Amy Sullivan has an article in Time regarding the role of the Catholic bishops in health care reform. The Democrats who helped negotiate the Capps compromise, according to one person who was involved, felt confident it would "help clear the way for the bishops to support" the House health-reform bill. But just a few weeks after Rigali's initial letter, the Cardi
*Life Links 10/16/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 16, 2009, 12:47 am
Ed West shreds Alan Guttmacher Institute's "70,000 women die annually from unsafe abortion" estimate.I don't doubt many women die as a result of unsafe abortion, but no one can possibly have any idea of the real figure, especially as so much of it goes on it countries where there are virtually no statistics for anything.In its 2007 report, Unsafe Abortion, the World Health Organisation admitted: 'Where induced abortion is restricted and largely inaccessible, or legal but difficult to obtain, lit
*Life Links 10/15/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 15, 2009, 6:51 am
Here's the Alan Guttmacher Institute's most recent foray into guessing how many abortions occur worldwide using estimates from pro-choice organizations. Unfortunately, some news organizations take these ideological-based guesses as gospel. Here's a telling quote from AGI president Sharon Camp The researchers said preventing the need for abortion entirely was unrealistic, but said eliminating unsafe abortion by improving access to contraception and increasing pressure to lift abortion restri
*Life Links 10/14/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 14, 2009, 12:56 am
Scott Klusendorf shares about a recent debate at the University of North Carolina between himself and former ACLU president Nadine Strossen. Dawn Eden has a column in Headline Bistro about the work of Ashli McCall to educate others about hyperemesis gravidarum. McGill University student Birgitte Witt has an editorial in the school newspaper about how she's disappointed in McGill prolife club Choose Life because....well, because they're not pro-choice. She apparently is also ignorant of what h
*Life Links 10/13/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 13, 2009, 12:40 am
Keith Pavlischek writes about how a recent encounter and conversation with Sojourners' Rev. Jim Wallis has left him with the strong impression that Wallis is pro-choice. In addition, I told Wallis as bluntly as I could, that as far as I could tell his position and that of Sojourners was indistinguishable from the old Mario Cuomo position of being 'personally opposed” to abortion while wanting to keep the procedure legal. I suggested that neither he nor Sojourners could honestly be labeled pro
*Life Links 10/12/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 12, 2009, 8:44 am
In case you missed it, the New York Times had a long article profiling a trio of abortion protestors. The New York Times photojournalism blog even featured pictures of the remains of aborted children taken by Monica Migliorino Miller. Francis Beckwith wrote the following on the decision to give the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama based on Obama's potential to bring peace: Ironically, the fact that the unborn has not achieved certain powers and abilities it may only actualize in the future,
*Life Links 10/9/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 9, 2009, 12:37 am
In Winnipeg, two men have pleaded guilty to murder after killing a pregnant woman who was carrying one of their children. A teenager previously pleaded guilty to his role in the killing. Roxanne Fernando, 24, was lured to a violent death in February 2007, only weeks after discovering she was pregnant with Plourde's child....During the youth's sentencing, Crown attorney Brent Davidson told court Plourde pressured her to have an abortion. Fernando initially agreed to terminate her pregnancy but l
*Life Links 10/8/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 8, 2009, 6:41 am
At the LTI Blog, Serge links to the first part of a video(language warning) of the disruption of Jojo Ruba's lecture at McGill University. I'm embarrassed for the disruptive students. Rarely does my 22-month-old daughter have tantrums this childish. Bereft of any arguments, they're left to singing 'Old McDonald had a farm” and other songs loudly. The saddest part about is that they seem proud of their idiotic behavior. Other parts of the video disruption are on youtube as well. Just typ
*Life Links 10/7/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 7, 2009, 12:19 am
National Review has an editorial in response to a Nature editorial which argues for changing the definition of death to include individuals who aren't dead but "who will never again be the person(s) (they were)" to increase organ donations. The deeper flaw with the proposal is that it is grossly immoral, an attempt to legitimize the killing of vulnerable people while pretending something else is being done. Further evils would come in its train. The editorial concludes that 'concerns about the
*Issues which "may frankly be too dangerous for pro-choice movements to acknowledge" - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 6, 2009, 12:19 am
At the Abortioneers blog, one abortion clinic worker post the entirety of a journal article (with the exception of references) focusing on second-trimester abortions and why some abortionists don't perform them. It is written by a female abortionist who is extremely direct and the article includes a number of personal stories relating to abortion. She talks about "the personal and psychological aspects" of performing second trimester abortions, the "visual and visceral dimensions of second tri
*Life Links 10/6/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 6, 2009, 12:37 am
In the UK, a doctor is on trial after allegedly attempting to abort his mistress' child by spiking her drink with abortion drugs.Miss Prowse, who eventually gave birth to a healthy baby boy, said she agreed to have an abortion but then changed her mind. ...The court was told that Miss Prowse kept the remains of the drinks and, when analysed by police, were found to contain abortion drugs diclofenac, misoprostol and methotrexate.Miss Prowse said: "He told me if I had the baby it would 'destroy hi
*Life Links 10/5/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 5, 2009, 8:02 am
The Topeka Capital-Journal has a disturbing article about a female prison inmate who got an abortion after being allegedly raped and impregnated by a vocational teacher who would give inmates money and contraband for sexual favors. The teacher, Anastacio "Ted" Gallardo, was only sentenced to 2 years probation despite the accusations of rape and his admittance that he brought pills to the inmate in an attempt to induce an abortion. Gallardo, who stipulated at a court hearing he had sex with Keit
*More evidence of the public trending prolife - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 1, 2009, 6:38 am
The New Times has an article which discusses a recent Pew Research Center poll which showed a rather dramatic change in the percentage people who think abortion should be either always or mostly illegal . In 2008, a poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that those in favor of keeping abortion legal outnumbered opponents by 54 to 40 percent. The new poll, also conducted by Pew researchers, and released on Thursday, showed that the gap had narrowed considerably: 47 percent of those surve
*Life Links 10/1/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Oct 1, 2009, 4:27 am
Harlan Clark, the man who allegedly shot abortion protestor Jim Pouillon, has been ruled incompetent to stand trial. Shiawassee County District Judge Terrance Dignan, citing a written opinion by the state Center for Forensic Psychiatry, said Harlan Drake could attain competence to stand trial if provided treatment.Prosecutor Randy Colbry tells WNEM-TV that Drake was placed into the custody of the state Department of Mental Health to undergo treatment.If you wanted any more evidence that the edit
*Life Links 9/30/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 30, 2009, 12:29 am
An Arizona judge has struck down many of the provisions in a variety of prolife laws which were scheduled to take effect today. The preliminary injunction issued by Judge Donald Daughton of Maricopa County Superior Court allows a 24-hour waiting period to take affect, but he blocked requirements that a woman see a doctor in person for advance disclosures before getting an abortion.The so-called "informed consent" consultation can be by telephone and by a qualified staff member, Daughton said in
*Life Links 9/29/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 29, 2009, 12:20 am
A man from Tennessee named Tarence Nelson has been arrested and will face double murder charges after allegedly shooting and killing his 8-months pregnant girlfriend and their unborn child. Apparently, Nelson wanted Tonya Johnson to have an abortion.Witnesses told detectives that Nelson was the father of Johnson's child, and that he wanted her to have an abortion, but she refused.Ingram says Nelson's intent to kill the child was obvious by her wounds."It looked like he was intent on killing bot
*"it was the best kept secret of my life" - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 28, 2009, 8:24 am
At the blog a lion all my life, Selinaaa discusses her abortion (language warning) and what lead to it. i didn't cry, i didn't do anything really. i just sat there on the toilet with my mouth wide open. completely aghast, it never occurred to me to keep my child. almost immediately after realizing that i was really pregnant with this shameless (blank) CHILD i began to think about how to get money to get rid of it. i called several places and the price was pretty much $400 dollars. what i ha
*Misleader in Chief - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 28, 2009, 6:47 am
Ramesh Ponnuru and Michael Cannon point out 21 inaccurate claims from President Obama's address to Congress focused on health care reform. 8. 'Those of us with health insurance are also paying a hidden and growing tax for those without it — about $1,000 per year that pays for somebody else's emergency room and charitable care.” That number comes from a left-wing advocacy group. A Kaiser Family Foundation study debunked the group's analysis, reaching an estimate closer to $200 per year for a
*Life Links 9/28/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 28, 2009, 4:20 am
The LA Times has an article about personhood efforts in various states. Rita Marker shares how law enforcement personnel in one Washington city were recently trained to provide information about the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices (formerly the Hemlock Society) to cancer patients. The irony was not lost on one experienced negotiator in attendance: "I find it interesting that, as crisis negotiators, we are trying to talk people out of killing themselves. But by the end
*Judge: Woman too pregnant to serve jail time - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 24, 2009, 7:44 am
In an interesting case, a 19-year-old pregnant woman from Pontiac, Michigan was granted 9 weeks of reprieve from jail (she'll have to go after the 9 weeks is up) because she is due to deliver in 5 weeks. The judge didn't want her to deliver behind bars. Alexis Wilson faces 3-7 years in jail after she crashed a car into a pole and killed Tamia Williams, her pregnant passenger and Tamia's unborn child.Wilson, driving a rented car, slammed into a pole early that morning, breaking her pelvis and k
*Life Links 9/24/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 24, 2009, 4:03 am
A Catholic magazine in Poland which spoke out against a woman who wanted an abortion has been ordered by a Polish court to pay the woman $11,000 for speaking against her actions.Tysiac has become a symbol for the abortion rights movement because she challenged Poland's ban on abortion with the European Court of Human Rights. In 2007, that court ordered Poland to pay her damages of euro25,000 (nearly $37,000) because doctors refused to let her terminate her pregnancy despite serious risk to her e
*Life Links 9/23/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 23, 2009, 1:01 am
Abortionist LeRoy Carhart is apparently considered a "rock star" to some individuals who work in abortion clinics. Here's one of his fawning fans at the Abortioneers blog:This lovely fall day didn't seem like it could get much better until I got to actually talk with one of our rock stars. One of our celebrity doctors. Oh, how I swooned! Have you seen that commercial where they show the co-inventor of the flash drive walking down an office corridor, people in business attire are falling all ove
*Life Links 9/22/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 22, 2009, 12:31 am
Some pro-choice organizations are more than a tad miffed that the Democrats in power aren't making any efforts to overturn the Hyde Amendment and are promising that no federal dollars will be used to pay for abortion under health care reform. "But what we're being offered is not enough," she said, contending that President Obama had "traded many women's futures away" when he assured Congress on Sept. 9 that the new health plan would provide no public funds for abortion."In the day-to-day world
*Another example of pro-choice intolerance - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 21, 2009, 8:29 am
NAZ Today reports that a 69-year-old man protesting abortion outside a courthouse in Flagstaff, Arizona was assaulted by two women. Denise Redsteer 48, and Laura Chapman 48, both of Flagstaff were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and criminal damage.Chapman and Redsteer allegedly approached Johnny Wallace and began yelling profanities and grabbing at a sign he was holding up. One of the suspects kicked the sign and tried to take the sign. While trying to protect his property Walla
*Life Links 9/21/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 21, 2009, 5:19 am
ABC News has a story about Irene Vilar, an author who claims she was addicted to abortion and had 16 abortions in 15 years. She used abortion as a form of self-mutilation. Vilar's pregnancies became compulsively self-destructive: After her 9th and 10th abortions, she "needed another self-injury to get the high.""In the beginning I was taking pills and I'd skip a day or two or give up one month," she said. "I'd think I'll be better next time. But slowly, my days took on a balancing act and there
*Rick Snyder is not prolife - why is Jerry Zandstra endorsing him? - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 21, 2009, 3:45 am
On Friday, the Grand Rapids Press ran a print story (here's the online version) about how Jerry Zandstra, the chairman/president of the Pro-Life Federation of Michigan has endorsed Rick Snyder for the GOP nomination for governor of Michigan. The problem? Rick Snyder isn't prolife while all the other announced candidates (Attorney General Mike Cox, Congressman Peter Hoekstra, and Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard) are. Back in July, the Detroit News noted how Snyder voted in favor of Prop
*Does health care include abortion? - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 18, 2009, 12:31 am
AUL's Charmaine Yoest has a nice editorial in the Washington Times on abortion and health care. Lost in the debate over whether or not abortion "is in there" -- whether or not you can flip to a certain page and point to a particular clause related to abortion funding -- is an understanding among political elites that this is a watershed battle over definition. It's existential, if you will, and comes down to a very straightforward question: Is abortion health care, or is it not? An inadvertent
*'Honk for Abortions” - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 17, 2009, 8:17 am
That's what the sign of one 18-year-old said as she and her friend staged a small counter protest to a large protest being held at Planned Parenthood after a memorial service for murdered abortion protester Jim Pouillon. The other counter protester held a sign saying, 'My friend had an abortion - now she's in college and has a great future.” Now that's a less than thoughtful reason to favor abortion. Killing innocent human beings is okay as long as it leads to "a great future" for the woman
*Life Links 9/16/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 16, 2009, 1:02 am
Clarke Forsythe argues that Justice Blackmun's personhood remarks aren't a good reason for personhood initiatives. There are several fundamental problems here. First, this is a classic case of reading the language out of context. The phrase 'suggestion of personhood” in Blackmun's opinion clearly refers to the earlier phrase 'within the language and meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment.” It does not mean 'personhood” in any broader medical, moral, or legal sense. Blackmun is emphasizing th
*Are CPC's really coercing women into adoption? - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 14, 2009, 9:25 am
In case you missed it, the Nation ran an article (also on Alternet) entitled, "Shotgun Adoption" by Kathyrn Joyce. Her thesis is that adoption agencies and crisis pregnancy center coerce vulnerable women into making adoption plans. The article focuses much of its attention on Bethany Christian Services. As evidence for her claims, Joyce comes up with 2 women who claim they were coerced into adoption (one in 1999, the other in 1994), a woman who claims she was unsuccessfully pressured to relin
*Jim Poullion Links - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 14, 2009, 4:19 am
Abortion protestor Jim Poullion was shot and killed Friday morning while holding a sign outside of a Michigan high school. According to the Flint Journal, Poullion was allegedly killed by Harlan Drake because Drake disliked his prolife sign. Drake appears to have been on a killing rampage as he allegedly killed another man before Poullion and was planning on killing another. Drake apparently also attempted to commit suicide while in jail. The Flint Journal article also has a few notable quo
*Life Links 9/10/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 10, 2009, 8:19 am
Dinesh D'Souza tries to get to the bottom of the national tragedy of abortion at Christianity Today. Why then, in the face of its bad arguments, does the pro-choice movement continue to prevail legally and politically?I think it's because abortion is the debris of the sexual revolution. We have seen a great shift in the sexual mores of Americans in the past half-century. Today a widespread social understanding persists that if there is going to be sex outside marriage, there will be a consider
*"But facts are irrelevant." - JivinJehoshaphat Sep 8, 2009, 12:52 am
Everysaturdaymorning is the blog of a Louisville-based abortion clinic escort who chronicles the events outside the clinic where he volunteers. He recently traveled to Bellevue, Nebraska to spend time protesting Operation Rescue's protest of abortionist LeRoy Carhart's clinic. I've always thought it takes at least a little bit of willfully suspending reality to be a such a big abortion advocate. Everysaturdaymorning shares this following gem which reminds me why it's difficult to believe anyt
*Life Links 8/28/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 28, 2009, 12:20 am
Father Raymond de Souza has an interesting piece in the National Catholic Register thinking about how today's American political scene might have different had Senator Ted Kennedy held onto his prolife beliefs. Kennedy's family legacy, his impregnable position in Massachusetts (he won more than 60% of the vote the year after Chappaquiddick) and his national prominence rendered him immune from the pressures other politicians had to face. He could always choose his own path. Had he chosen to rema
*"50% Off Abortions with Student I.D." - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 27, 2009, 9:03 am
According a San Francisco Chronicle blog, that's how one hospital in China is advertising their services. Apparently, the above ad reads as follows:Students are our future, but when something happens to them, who will help and protect them? Chongqing Huaxi Women's Hospital has started Students Care Month, where those students who come to get an abortion can get 50% off if they show their student ids. Abortion surgeries are the most advanced in the world, won't stretch (your womb), won't hurt, i
*Life Links 8/25/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 25, 2009, 12:23 am
FactCheck.org has called out President Obama's fabrications about whether public funds would pay for abortions under current health care reform measures. Some excerpts:As for other types of abortions, the Capps amendment leaves it to the secretary of Health and Human Services to decide whether or not they will be covered. It says, "Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the public health insurance option from providing" abortion services that would not be legal for Medicaid coverag
*Life Links 8/24/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 24, 2009, 6:24 am
Time has an article on President Obama's lack of truth-telling when it comes to abortion and health care reform. But this last statement, while technically correct, does not tell the whole story. The health-care reform proposed by House Democrats, if enacted, would in fact mark a significant change in the federal government's role in the financing of abortions.....The member dues, or premiums, to pay for expanded abortion coverage would be segregated from the federal tax dollars by keeping the
*Life Links 8/21/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 21, 2009, 12:18 am
South Dakota's informed consent law has been upheld in part. From the AP:U.S. District Judge Karen Schreier's decision Thursday ends a lawsuit that Planned Parenthood Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota filed in response to a 2005 informed consent law that required several disclosures to women seeking an abortion.She sided with the state in ruling that doctors must make the biological disclosure "that the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being."But S
*'Abortion isn't always pretty.” - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 20, 2009, 3:20 am
Actually, it's never pretty. Here's one for the 'Those images of aborted fetuses are fake” or 'Those images of aborted fetuses are disgusting” response file. At the Abortioneers blog, one abortion clinic worker discusses her excitement to work in pathology (examining the remains of aborted children) and her thoughts on pro-choicers who don't like graphic photos.Anti-choicers hold up posters of what I see in pathology. Even though their photos are larger than life, I'm not bothered by the
*Sarah Kliff's Abortion Viewing - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 19, 2009, 1:16 am
In the last couple of days, Newsweek's Sarah Kliff has been writing up a storm about abortion, including her profile of Nebraska abortionist LeRoy Carhart, a piece noting Esquire's error in claiming Warren Hern is the last abortionist willing to provide late-term abortion and a piece on her experience viewing an abortion in Carhart's clinic. While reading Kliff's piece on viewing an abortion, I was left wondering: "Why didn't she witness a late-term abortion?"That was the focus on her other art
*Life Links 8/18/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 18, 2009, 12:16 am
Wesley Smith writes regarding a story that a woman in Tunisia is apparently pregnant with 12 children after using IVF. IVF has brought joy to millions of parents. But it has also fueled the hedonism front of the coup de culture. Moreover, because the reproductive industry, feminists, bioethicists, and others in the anything goes crowd resist any reasonable regulation, it has also opened the door to treating nascent human life as mere ore taken from a mine, set the Brave New World project on i
*Proud of you for making a decision? - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 17, 2009, 7:55 am
Shakesville has an open thread where commenters can share their abortion experiences with a fellow commenter who's planning on having an abortion. The final part of one comment has me scratching my head: "I am so sorry you have to make this decision. And I'm so proud of you for making one."
*Rick Pitino Admits to Affair and Giving Money for an Abortion - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 12, 2009, 12:44 am
Rick Pitino, head coach of Louisville men's basketball team, apparently paid for the abortion of a woman he had sex with in 2003. The woman, Karen Sypher, is currently charged with lying to the FBI and trying to extort $10 million dollars from Pitino. About two weeks after meeting Sypher at the restaurant, Pitino told police that she called, told him she was pregnant and that he had to be the father. Pitino told her when they met again that he had five children and she had four, and that he
*Trust women? Apparently, not all women. - JivinJehoshaphat Aug 10, 2009, 5:10 am
Speaking of the long Esquire article on Warren Hern, one item that stuck out to me was Hern's discussion of his decision not to perform an abortion on a woman who was around 35 weeks pregnant. The pregnancy resulted from rape. (Reporter:)You wanted to cozy up to the next question but there's no time, so you just blurt it out: What are your limits? When would you tell a woman no?(Hern:)There's no specific answer to that. I'm in the process of turning down somebody who's going to be thirty-four,
*A Prolife Civil War? - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 31, 2009, 1:16 am
At Alternet, Cristina Page claims the prolife movement is on the verge of a civil war (!?!?) because of Tim Ryan got botted from the advisory board of Democrats for Life. She perpuates the lazy and thoughtless assertion that Tim Ryan was kicked off the advisory board of Democrats for Life merely because he supports contraception. Page fails to note that James Langevin is still on that same board even though he's signed on as a co-sponsor of Ryan's contraception supporting legislation. She al
*Life Links 7/29/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 29, 2009, 12:40 am
Scott Roeder has pleaded not guilty to the murder of abortionist George Tiller. During Tuesday's hearing Roeder was identified by two ushers who chased him until he pull his gun on them. Terence Jeffrey notes how John Holdren, the new White House science advisor, doesn't (or at least didn't when he co-wrote Human Ecology) have the most scientific criteria for who is a human being (my emphasis). On page 235, while making an argument for legalized abortion, the authors use language that on its f
*Life Links 7/28.09 - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 28, 2009, 12:18 am
In Time, Nancy Gibbs (who notes her growing concerns with how assisted suicide is practiced in Switzerland. Some euthanasia activists, including Dignitas founder Ludwig Minelli, believe in death on demand. "If you accept the idea of personal autonomy," he argues, "you can't make conditions that only terminally ill people should have this right." Autonomy and dignity are precious values; the phrase sanctity of life can sound sterile and pious in the face of profound pain and suffering. But Mine
*Life Links 7/27/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 27, 2009, 4:49 am
The New York Times has a long article on abortionist George Tiller, efforts to shut down his clinic and Tiller's efforts to kill the prolife movement. Confident and dryly mischievous, he told friends he had come to see himself as a general in an epic cultural war to keep abortion legal, to the point of giving employees plaques designating them 'Freedom Fighters.” His willingness to abort fetuses so late in pregnancies put him at the medical and moral outer limits of abortion. Yet he portrayed
*Does reproductive rights language undermine a man's investment in pregnancy? - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 20, 2009, 7:43 am
At the Daily Dish, Conor Friedersdorf has a couple of posts which mirror some of my thoughts from a few years ago. He writes, A culture that tells men they shouldn't have any part in decisions about abortion, as portrayed at the "abortion party," inevitably discourages them from responding to a pregnant girlfriend by asking, "What should we do?" And the notion that at most men should signal mutual investment in the process, and graciously support whatever the woman decides, may sound wonderful
*Life Links 7/20/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 20, 2009, 5:27 am
Robert George, Patrick Lee and Maureen Condic respond to Ronald Bailey regarding Bailey's argument that embryos aren't living human beings because scientists can take mouse iPS cells put them together with a blastocyst which can only form placental tissue and create mouse embryos.For people who advocate the killing of embryonic human beings in the cause of biomedical research, the Holy Grail is an argument that would definitively establish that the human embryo, at least early in its development
*Defaming Democrats for Life - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 16, 2009, 2:47 am
I knew some pro-choice feminist bloggers were lazy but come on. Jessica at Feministing, Jill at Feministe and Amie Newman at the RHReality Check all claim Tim Ryan got kicked off Democrats for Life advisory board because he supports contraception or as Jill puts it 'Congressman booted from Democrats for Life because he wants to reduce the abortion rate.”None of them took a second to review Congressman Ryan's voting record to see if it made sense for a prolife group to continue to have someone
*Life Links 7/15/09 - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 15, 2009, 12:36 am
Charlie Savage has an interesting piece in the New York Times about the Sotomayor hearings, abortion, Gonzalez v. Carhart, settled law and precedent.Jonah Goldberg notes the lack of news about or follow up questions to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg rather noteworthy quote in her recent interview with the New York Times. He also discusses abortion's eugenics roots.In First Things, Hadley Arkes discusses empathy and apathy. After discussing Laci's and Connor's law and court cases involving partial
*Why does evidence matter? - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 13, 2009, 4:35 am
At Bench Memos, Wendy Long shares some questions from Cathy Cleaver Ruse regarding a question Judge Sonia Sotomayor asked regarding the case against the federal ban on partial-birth abortion.In the case, National Abortion Federation v. Ashcroft, the National Abortion Federation claimed that partial-birth abortion was the safest abortion method in some cases and therefore the law banning the practice was unconstitutional. The Department of Justice requested the medical records to back up this cla
*When reality gets in the way of your story line? Deny reality - JivinJehoshaphat Jul 6, 2009, 7:08 am
After reading this post (language warning), I think the above must be Amanda Marcotte's policy when it comes to abortion. She writes, If you correctly assume that the anti-choice movement is motivated primarily by a misogynist need to punish women who have unapproved sex, then you can see how offering social support to mothers is already, from their point of view, a compromise of their basic beliefs, from two angles: This is completely absurd. Could Amanda for one second explain how the work
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*Pro-Choice Ads on Nickelodeon (338 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat May 6, 2005, 3:28 pm
In the culturally-conservative town of Grand Rapids pro-choice groups don't make the largest impression. West Michiganders aren't prone to buy the "no one knows when life begins" line or fall in love with the vague assertion "women have the right to choose." We're more likely to point to the scientific evidence regarding the beginning of human life and ask what exactly do woman have a right to "choose."
Much to my chagrin, I have been informed that Grand Rapids' patchwork pro-choice group
*Pro-choice Ads Removed from Nickelodeon (225 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat May 16, 2005, 9:28 am
The pro-choice ads that had been running on Nickelodeon and other networks in Grand Rapids area have been removed from stations aimed at children.
My contact, who sent a letter to Nickelodeon, received a phone call from Nickelodeon's main office in New York apologizing for the mishap. It seems that the fault lies with the cable provider, Comcast, who allowed the ads to be played locally on cable networks aimed at children.
Right now it isn't certain if the pro-choice group intentionally bo
*Life Links 6/15/07 - Republican Presidential Candidates Edition (190 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Jun 15, 2007, 2:23 am
Fred Thompson sent a video in for National Right to Life's Convention. HT: The Corner Mitt Romney on stem cell research. I'm not sure McCain making the right move attacking Romney's prolife credentials. Remember this is the same McCain who's in favor of expanding the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
*Life Links 6/13/07 (167 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Jun 13, 2007, 4:46 am
A man in Sweden has been sentenced to one year in jail after mixing abortion pills into his girlfriend's food. Having completed her meal, the woman became nauseous, began bleeding and was close to having a miscarriage.A 19-year-old writes into the Mirror's (a UK online newspaper) Dr. Miriam about her feelings after an abortion. I wonder how much of the $450 million New Jersey lawmakers want to spend on stem cell research will be spent on adult stem cell research. Michigan State professor Leon
*Terri Schiavo's Brain (162 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Jun 17, 2005, 3:28 pm
Some on the left side of the political spectrum like E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post and Brian Dickerson of the Detroit Free Press are requesting that some on the right apologize for some things that were said regarding Terri Schiavo's condition. But I'm wondering why they don't ask those on the left to do the same thing. For example, Max Blumenthal in the Huffington Post who described Terri Schiavo as "a woman with the mental capacity of a celery stalk."Or Ellen Goodman who said, "Her cere
*Controlling Terri (160 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Mar 27, 2006, 11:01 am
On Sunday, my wife and I watched the majority of Matt Lauer's interview with Michael Schiavo's interview on Dateline regarding the life and death of Terri Schiavo.
Unfortunately, Matt only had a couple of semi-tough questions for Michael and didn't follow up with tough questions when Michael said a number of things that didn't make sense to me. I am grateful though that Lauer shot Schiavo down when Michael tried to play that lame "they'd cut Terri's arms and legs off" card. It showed that M
*Michael Schiavo Interview (160 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Mar 23, 2006, 4:46 pm
Via Prolife Blogs, I've read a partial transcript of Matt Lauer interview with Michael Schiavo and his wife Jodi. An excerpt:
On his marriage to JodiLauer: People have often asked. Michael why didn't you divorce Terri, you were living with Jodi.
Michael Schiavo: Why do I have to divorce Terri? Terri wasn't like a football— an inanimate object you pass back and forth. She was my wife. You mean because your wife gets sick, do you give her back?
Jodi Schiavo: I would think so much less of Mich
*Food and Water (156 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Mar 31, 2006, 9:55 am
Rev. Robert Johansen has a long article about the causes behind Terri Schiavo's death. Some excerpts:
"Those fighting to save Terri's life did not recognize what they were up against and were unprepared for its demands until it was too late. The shift in our culture that made her death possible began long before March 31, 2005, and the elements of that shift need to be identified if we are to learn from what happened.....
Over and over on the various cable news programs and in the print media
*Erring on the side of death (145 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Mar 22, 2006, 9:17 am
According to the leader of an investigative panel that Governor Mitt Romney appointed, "''Haleigh (Poutre)'s case represents a frightening confluence of a healthcare system ignorant of abuse and a child-protection system ignorant of medicine."
They also note that Haleigh almost died because "flawed or insufficient information was given to the state agencies, medical centers, and court systems that were supposed to protect her."
Prolifeblogs notes, "Although the panel ripped the system and re
*Life Links 8/30/07 (141 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Aug 30, 2007, 7:52 am
A man in West Virginia has been charged with breaking the state's Unborn Victim of Violence law after he killed his pregnant girlfriend and her 4-year-old son. One alderman in Aurora is hoping to draft an ordinance which will require the new Planned Parenthood facility in Aurora to obtain parental consent before performing abortions on minors. Researchers in Thailand have used adult stem cells to treat chronic foot wounds of individuals with diabetes.
*Senator Frist Disappoints (136 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Jul 29, 2005, 10:15 am
Senator Bill Frist, the Senate Majority Leader, has come out in favor of H.R. 810, a bill which would expand the federal funding of embryonic stem cell research even though President Bush has threatened to veto this legislation.
Numerous prolife bloggers are discussing Frist's position including:
Freedom Of....
Pro-Ecclesia
Scrappleface
Kathryn Jean Lopez is all over his Senate speech at the Corner including the favorable responses from numerous pro-choice senators.
I am cont
*Life Links 3/20/06 (128 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Mar 20, 2006, 11:40 am
Dory at Wittenberg Gate has posted Bloggers' Best for Terri Schiavo: Anniversary Edition, pt. 1 Steve Wagner of STR spent four hours discussing abortion with a large group of college students, many of whom were pro-choice. How many pro-choice speakers would be willing to spend four hours discussing abortion with a room filled with prolifers? Governor Granholm says she will sign Michigan's ultrasound viewing legislation to the dismay of the ACLU. I guess telling women considering abortion
*Stem cell research news (124 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Jun 27, 2005, 9:27 am
Here's the MSNBC's long article and interview with James Thomson, the first person to isolate and culture embryonic stem cells. Some excerpts:
Some of Thomson's other pronouncements might seem more surprising: that supporters of stem cell research are overestimating the prospects for transplantation cures, that the current stem cell lines aren't well-suited for such applications anyway, and that there's no need to resort to therapeutic cloning right now — or perhaps ever.....
MSNBC: Does
*Life Links 2/19/08 (123 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Feb 19, 2008, 1:21 am
Erin O'Brien should be careful about who she's calling illogical. We could say it is illogical by pointing out that an 18th-century slave is different from a 21st-century fetus because affording slaves the full rights they deserved as human beings did not undermine the choices, rights or bodily autonomy of another human being.Um... The slave owner might disagree with that. Slave owners felt that granting slaves full rights infringed on what they considered their property rights. Their choice
*How is Feeding Someone "Artificial Life Support?" (108 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Feb 11, 2005, 9:32 am
George Felos, Michael Schiavo's attorney, was recently quoted as saying, "Assuming the mandate does issue on Feb. 22, then the last stay in place automatically ends and Mr. Schiavo is authorized to direct the removal of the artificial life support."
Note to Mr. Felos: Feeding someone isn't artificial life support.
Are women that nurse their children keeping them alive artificially?
How is starving and dehydrating someone letting them die naturally?
If I forget to feed my cats, am I remov
*Free abortions in Arkansas (106 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Sep 28, 2005, 9:49 am
According to this Associated Press article, abortionist Jerry Edwards has already performed six abortions for free on hurricane evacuees at his clinic in Little Rock.
*Should women be punished for having abortions? (105 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Jul 13, 2005, 9:26 am
Numerous pro-
choice bloggers have linked to this video in which someone interviews prolife demonstrators from the Pro-Life Action League while they hold signs displaying images of aborted children in Libertyville, Illinois.
The film is produced by AtCenterNetwork which calls itself a "group that works for justice and nonviolent resolution of conflicts." The videos on the site are copyrighted by Lee Goodman, who is a former Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Illinois and is pro-ch
*Being Careful with Fetal Pain (104 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Aug 29, 2005, 3:45 pm
Justin Taylor of Between Two Worlds has some noteworthy thoughts about fetal pain and the possible dangers of reinforcing a functional view of personhood at the Reformation 21 blog. "Nonetheless, I wonder if some of our language as Christians can unwittingly reflect or reinforce a functional view of personhood. For example, once, when a friend held our infant daughter in his lap and observed her facial expressions, he exclaimed, "She almost looks like a little person!" (Er, she already is a per
*The Human Cloning Ban that Wasn't a Human Cloning Ban (99 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Aug 5, 2005, 3:23 pm
A new "ban" on human cloning has been introduced in the United States Senate. From what I've seen it hasn't gotten much press but maybe it will in the future. It's co-sponsored by Dianne Feinstein and Orrin Hatch.
S. 1520, whose text is here, is entitled The Human Cloning Ban Act of 2005. Sounds good, huh? It's not.
By reading the language of the "cloning ban" you can easily see that it doesn't ban human cloning at all. It merely bans and provides penalties for the implantation of a hu
*Zogby Poll on Abortion (97 hits)- JivinJehoshaphat Mar 22, 2006, 4:24 pm
The results of a recent Zogby poll on abortion are available online here. It was a large poll with 30,117 respondents and has a low margin of error of +/- 0.6 percentage points.
Things that I find interesting include:
Individuals who said they would support a Democrat congressional candidate were much more likely to answer "not sure" when asked about a specific policy/law than individuals who'd favor a Republican congressional candidate.
17% of individuals who'd support of Democrat for Con
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