Posted on 11/05/2008 3:56:52 PM PST by wagglebee
Yes, I’m an indy too. The RINOs are embarrassed by people like me, and I’m ashamed to be associated with them since they certainly don’t represent me any better than the Democrats do, so leaving was an easy choice.
Thread by GonzoII.
ROME, DEC. 4, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The U.N. International Day of Persons With Disabilities focused attention on a convention that aims to stop prejudice against the handicapped, but the agreement is fundamentally flawed, attests the Holy See.
The U.N. day, celebrated Wednesday, had the theme: "Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities: Dignity and Justice for All of Us."
The convention has been signed by 136 member states, but the Holy See is not one of them and will not be if the wording is not changed. This is because in various propositions, the convention leaves the door open to aborting the handicapped because of their disabilities.
Though the Holy See contributed to the preparation of the text, its request to include an explicit rejection of the aborting of the disabled was not accepted...
Thread by tcg.
In short, major health care change is coming to America. Now the real question is whether we help to shape it or stand on the sidelines and criticize it. The question for all who know the truth that children in the womb are human persons - and that they are our neighbors - is whether we will fight to protect them, and their mothers and fathers, from the continuing lie that abortion is ever health care and that the killing of innocent human life can ever be properly called a reproductive service. Medical science confirms what our conscience and the Natural Law has long confirmed, every procured abortion is the intentional taking of innocent human life. We have to ask ourselves what we will do to ensure that the taking of innocent human life by suction, surgical intervention, and chemical warfare on the womb is not considered a part of any definition of health care or "reproductive services" in this new effort...
How can they claim that their aim is to stop prejudice, when they promote the most violent practice of prejudice?
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STATEN ISLAND, Ny., Dec. 5 /Christian Newswire/ -- Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), the world's largest network of women and men harmed by abortion, today criticized a report by Johns Hopkins University researchers that claims there is no link between abortion and mental health issues. The report said efforts to show that psychological distress is higher among post-abortive women "appear to be politically motivated."
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In October 2008, the Smithsonian Institutions National Portrait Gallery opened its Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs exhibit. The collection includes a broad range of history-making women, including First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and runner Marion Jones.
Journalist, author, former ambassador and congresswoman Clare Booth Luce is one of the few conservatives to make the cut.
The exhibit is intended to honor women who are or were significant figures in their chosen fields, according to curator Ann Shumard. A total of 90 portraits are included in the photographic display.
Honored alongside these women is none other than Margaret Sanger known racist and eugenicist the founder of non-profit abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Sanger is described on the virtual tour of the exhibit as a reformer who faced stiff opposition with the courage of a wounded tiger.
I guess it does take courage to attempt to exterminate the negro population, or segregate morons (mentally handicapped) which she described as a dead weight of human waste. The same wounded tiger advocated prevent[ing] the multiplication of this bad stock and believed [Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to the race. (Quotes compiled by American Life League)
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It's simple, they truly don't care.
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The UK's Independent has published an excellent feature story on the beliefs and theories of Lady Warnock, one of Britain's most influential moral philosophers. (We've discussed her views previously here at SHS.) Warnock is an enthusiastic purveyor of the culture of death, supporting not only euthanasia but a duty to die. From the story, byline Paul Vallely:
Surprisingly, perhaps, she is quite happy with the notion of the "duty to die", which most people find a good deal more controversial. A couple of months ago, in an interview with the Church of Scotland's magazine Life and Work, she said: "If you're demented, you're wasting people's lives--your family's lives--and you're wasting the resources of the National Health Service. I'm fully in agreement with the argument that if pain is insufferable, then someone should be given help to die, but I feel there's a wider argument that if somebody absolutely, desperately wants to die because they're a burden to their family, or the state, then I think they too should be allowed to die."Warnock at least has the virtue of being honest. For example, I have argued frequently that once society accepts the philosophical premises behind assisted suicide--radical individualism and the propriety of killing as an answer to human suffering--there is no way to limit mercy killing to the terminally ill. Warnock so acknowledges:
The journey from the right to die to the duty to die is a significant one, especially since there are many people in society who are uncomfortable even with the notion that individuals who want to end their lives have the right to ask others to help them kill themselves, or even do it on their behalf.
Her philosopher's logic takes her further out along the limb where she perches perilously distant from public common sense. "Once that principle is accepted it is irrational to confine it to those who are terminally ill." Anyone who wants to die should be helped to do so--the old, the miserable, the mentally ill.
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Yesterday Sunny von Bulow died. This reminded me how differently she was treated from Terri. Sunny's children, not husband, were made guardian. And authorities investigated the case.
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A Montana judge has ruled that doctor-assisted suicides are legal in the state, a decision likely to be appealed as the state argues that the Legislature, not the court, should decide whether terminally ill patients have the right to take their own life.
Judge Dorothy McCarter issued the ruling late Friday in the case of a Billings man with terminal cancer, who had sued the state with four physicians that treat terminally ill patients and a nonprofit patients' rights group.
"The Montana constitutional rights of individual privacy and human dignity, taken together, encompass the right of a competent terminally (ill) patient to die with dignity," McCarter said in the ruling.
It also said that those patients had the right to obtain self-administered medications to hasten death if they find their suffering to be unbearable, and that physicians can prescribe such medication without fear of prosecution.
"The patient's right to die with dignity includes protection of the patient's physician from liability under the state's homicide statutes," the judge wrote.
Attorney General Mike McGrath said Saturday that attorneys in his office would discuss the ruling next week and expected the state will appeal the ruling...
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
Thread by GonzoII.
Sanger's plans for genetic cleansing for the sake of "racial health" were racist as well. She was horrified by the fertility of the immigrant "Slavs, Latins [i.e., Italians], and Hebrews," ...As for the black population in the United States, Sanger "did not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population..."
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Nationally syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker made herself the scourge of the pro-life community when she blamed emphasis of pro-life issues for allowing Barack Obama to win the presidential election. In a new article, Parker is backing down slightly from those arguments, but still bungles the facts.
Parker drew guffaws originally for blaming the presidential election loss on "oogedy-boogedy" pro-life advocates...
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The smartest thing abortion rights advocates ever did was to coin the phrase pro-choice. That shifted our attention towards the act of choosing and away from what was being chosenthe dismemberment of a human being in utero.
Eventually, however, at some point, choice has to go from mere rhetoric to an actual deed. Somebody has to actually perform an abortion if freedom of choice is to become a reality, as one medical student learned recently...
Thanks for the ping!
I can’t believe that McGrath is appealing the ruling!
I don’t know anything about McGrath, so I don’t know whether to be surprised or not. I’m certainly happy that he’s appealing the ruling.
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