Posted on 05/17/2009 4:10:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Edited on 05/17/2009 6:26:23 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Norma McCorvey, the "Roe" from the Roe v Wade Supreme Court Decision, was arrested today on the Notre Dame Campus while protesting the visit by Barack Obama.
Nearly 40 Protesters Arrested at Notre Dame
AP Sunday May 17, 2009
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Nearly 40 people were arrested Sunday as they tried to enter the University of Notre Dame to protest President Obama's appearance at commencement, police said.
At least 39 people were taken into custody on trespassing charges, police Sgt. Bill Redman said. Among those arrested were Norma McCorvey, the plaintiff identified as "Roe" in the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. She now opposes abortion.
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I would be interested in your comments on my #20 post
That swirly needs to be bigger, and it might actually work!
I have mixed feelings about Flip Benham, too. He was the man was was partially responsible for leading Norma McCorvey to Christ. On the other hand, when I had a friend who was not sure whether she should abort her baby, I put her in contact with Flip. I was there. He gave a firebrand speech to the girl rather than counseling her gently. As a result, she had an abortion the next day. This was almost 20 twenty years ago and I haven't talked to Benham since.
As far as I can tell from googling, none of the wire services have mentioned Roe/McCorvey in their headlines. They do mention her in the first or second line though. Most newspapers seem to be running with the Reuters version which is headlined “Obama urges “fair-minded” abortion debate”. Isn’t he just so reasonable and civil and dreamy?
Nope, not unexpected at all. It’s always interesting to watch the press avoid certain stories. As a general rule they love irony, and Jane Roe getting arrested while protesting abortion is so ironic that a magnet would stick to it, yet here they are pretending like it doesn’t deserve mention in a headline.
I watched him being interviewed on Fox and I thought he was remarkably articulate and forceful and I recall saying to myself at the time, would that we had so good as spokesman for the Republican Party.
Perhaps all of this is explained by the fact that I am becoming increasingly radicalized on this issue and probably across the board as well.
It is just like how Obama is seen as the leader of the Black Community, yet has no problem with the extreme amount of abortions going on to decimate their numbers. Sometimes cognitive dissonance is the only way to rationalize such paradoxical behavior.
Great point. I'll bet he gave a lot of people a new way to at least think upon these things.
Quote of the Day from this story:
‘Sunsara Taylor, a New York City resident and a member of the abortion-rights group Abortion on Demand, said outside the school’s gates that ‘there was a voice missing’ in the controversy over Obama’s visit.
‘If women don’t have a right to decide if they have a child, women aren’t free,’ she said. ‘We need to expand abortion access and abortion rights and lift the stigma. Fetuses are not babies and women are not incubators.’
She must think a lot of her mother (the incubator) and she was never a baby when she was a fetus.
I think I am living in Hell.
One problem in your logic, Randell Terry did form operation rescue which has been the catalyst to not only bring Norma McCorvey out of the pro-abortion life but many MANY others.
While the group does both clergy and lay people working for them, it can not be denied without Randall Terry forming a group that brought all these people together.
“Fetuses are not babies.” Well other than the fact that Fetus is Latin for Baby, WTF are they?! They only voice missing is the as yet to be born baby.
You must realize that a person whose soul is as dead as this woman will not acknowledge the unborn living child to be a baby even if shown 4D real time ultrasound of the child moving and yawning in the womb. To allow her mind to awaken to the truth would be too devastating for her guilty conscience, so she works hard to remain dead in soul.
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It is called “killing the messenger.”
All of us are flawed in one way or another. That is why Christ came to this world to rdeem sinners.
IF He could forgive us, why can’t we forgive each other?
I would say that our biggest flaw is none of us are willing to go out into the streets and shout the Gospel of Life from the rooftops as John Paul II told us in Denver in 1993.
Look at what the Tea Parties have accomplished so far.
Why is it that we are so passive when our most innocent — the unborn — the disabled — and the frail elderly need our immediate help?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiz4tfjSuPc
WHEN JESUS CAME TO OUR TOWN
By G. A. Studdert-Kennedy
When Jesus came to Golgotha
They hanged Him on a tree,
They drove great nails through hands and feet,
And made a Calvary;
They crowned Him with a crown of thorns,
Red were His wounds and deep,
For those were crude and cruel days,
And human flesh was cheap.
When Jesus came to our town,
They simply passed Him by,
They never hurt a hair of Him,
They only let Him die.
For men had grown more tender,
And they would not give Him pain,
They only just passed down the street,
And left Him in the rain.
Still Jesus cried, “Forgive them,
For they know not what they do,”
And still it rained the winter rain
That drenched Him through and through;
The crowds went home and left the streets
Without a soul to see,
And Jesus crouched against a wall
And cried for Calvary.
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