Posted on 01/13/2011 12:04:11 PM PST by Coleus
Please listen to this You Tube video of the NJ State Senate Budget Chairman berating a post-abortive woman testifying at a Senate Budget Committee meeting at the NJ Statehouse regarding the continued funding of Planned Parenthood. The funding bill has been vetoed by the governor every time a bill is submitted to him.
Listen, on media player, to the Actual Senate Hearing, slide the indicator to 41 minutes, 41:00 to hear the post-abortive woman and then NJ Right to Life with the truth about Planned Parenthood
Monday, November 15, 2010 11:30 AM Committee Room 4
You can also listen here to the archived audio on the NJ Legislature web site, slide the bar to 41 minutes 41:00.
Senator's contact info. is here, e-mail the Senator here, call his office: 201-804-8118
The woman's comments on You Tube are below:
Audio from November 15th 2010 N J State Senate Hearing
I'm writing this letter to inform the public about the appalling manner in which I was treated on Monday November 15th at the Senate Budget Hearing. I went to Trenton to present my personal testimony and provide reasons why I opposed bill S2393 sponsored by Senator Loretta Weinberg and Senator Paul Sarlo which would provide family planning centers and Planned Parenthood government funding. As I began to offer my testimony, the Bill Sponsor and Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Senator Sarlo, immediately interrupted me and told me that I could not talk about any personal experiences with Planned Parenthood that I could only speak on the bill.
I proceeded to speak on the bill just as Senator Weinberg and Planned Parenthood did. They spoke about Planned Parenthood's services, admitting they provided abortions. I saw no reason why I was not permitted to also speak about abortion, and explain why I felt that this same organization that promotes ending a baby's life and personally pressured me into an abortion was not relevant to the discussion. After Senator Sarlo tried to shut me down a second time, I spoke from the standpoint of what services Planned Parenthood provided. I was immediately told I could not speak at all and ordered to turn my microphone off.
While I was trying to speak, Senator Weinberg turned around, faced the audience and put her finger up to her head acting as though it was a gun and clicked her finger. I later learned, ironically, that Senator Weinberg and Senator Sarlo are also prime sponsors of the Anti Bullying Bill of Rights legislation. I felt this was a very insensitive and offensive gesture and shocked that legislators who claim to care so much about women's rights would treat a woman this way. These legislatures should be ashamed of themselves.
I am a registered NJ voter and concerned citizen who pays my taxes. I was treated disrespectfully, publicly humiliated, bullied and ordered to turn off my microphone all because my opinion differed from Planned Parenthood and the sponsors.
I wish to thank Senators Joseph Pennacchio and Michael Doherty for acknowledging that I had a right to testify and confirming that my perspective and experience was relevant to the discussion. I hope that no other person has to go through what I experienced that day in Trenton.
Only two paths following an abortion, whether that abortion was chosen with full knowledge of what it was or not -
you can repent and ask God for forgiveness,
or you can spend the rest of your life justifying your “choice”.
Those who choose the latter course HATE those who choose the former, more than they hate women who choose not to abort.
This woman was “pressured into and abortion”?? When will people take some responsibility for their actions? This woman is a confessed murderer, and should face up to that fact.
If we aren’t serious about our own position, how can we expect anyone else to take us seriously?
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I think she just did.
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I would submit that young women are told about planned parenthood early and often. They are seldom if ever pointed in the direction of an alternative to abortion.
Sure many young women make the wrong choice. I’m just not convinced that all these young women actually know they can get support elsewhere.
When they walk into the Planned Parenthood clinic, they see only once choice. Either butcher the child inside them, or face their parents and deal with the aftermath for the rest of their lives.
It’s easy for me to sit here and trash them. I wish it were easier for them to hear about places that would help them through their time of difficulty. If more of those places were available to women, or at the very least they got referrals to them as often as they did Planned Parenthood, a lot less Planned Parenthood clinics would exist.
When one's convictions are not strong enough, it is relatively easy to pressure or deceive them into doing something they otherwise would not.
For example, who committed the first sin? Adam. But why was it Adam when Eve actually ate the apple first? Because Eve was deceived but Adam did it because he wanted to and Eve already had and was not dead.
Your presumption as to the knowledge and the circumstances of all of the facts make it difficult for me to take you seriously. Especially since there are numerous cases of women/girls being pressured into an abortion by Planned Parenthood and "Loved ones".
Those interested in the Planned Parenthood and Sanger insidious beginnings see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEja-1emRic&feature=related
It is very difficult to face a crisis pregnancy without the love and support of friends, family, and yes, the baby’s father. The fathers should not get off scott-free: if they have abandoned the woman or threatened her, they have put her in a very difficult position. Not everybody is capable of being brave. Try to have sympathy for these women. Most of them go through hell and many of them are tormented by what they have done.
Utterly irrelevant.
The simple, unvarnished fact is no one is responsible for an abortion except the woman obtaining it. No one can force a woman to abort in the same way no one can prevent a woman from aborting. Any attempt to mitigate these facts is nothing but a diversion.
I’m not with these folks that blame only the girl/woman who gets the abortion.
In many cases, they are indeed pressured into it with various threats either implied or stated. They’re young, scared, and in most cases, being lied to.
Abortion seems relatively “easy” and consequence-free when faced with these in-your-face “alternatives”.
Has doing so, in any way, decreased the number of abortion over the past forty years?
I submit self-absorbed women *bask* in sympathy.
You couldn't be more wrong. Is not the "doctor" partly responsible for the abortion since he is the one performing the evil? Or do you subscribe to the stupidity of we all live in a bubble and that we can't be accessory to others sins? The woman never said that she didn't deserve the most blame but hers is not the only sin in the evil of abortion. We each have a responsibility to not lead others into sin and Planned Parenthood is an evil organization founded by a very sick individual.
Who else would you suggest blaming?
Those who lie and threaten the girl.
In these cases, the “mother” is as much of a victim of those who threaten, pressure, and lie to her as the dead baby.
Are you going to say that a 14 yr old being pressured by her parents, relatives and friends, and threatened by her “boyfriend” and being lied to by the Planned Parenthood rep is SOLELY responsible for killing the child? Seriously?
Yes, in individual cases where faith, compassion and healing are involved it has saved many people from being killed in the womb because the woman or man understood the great gift of life and chose life. Hate the sin and not the sinner.
I submit self-absorbed women *bask* in sympathy.
Yes, some people are egomaniacs but to ascribe this singular woman to that motive without the facts is libelous.
What part of "can not force" nor "prevent" don't you understand? The doctor is not the limiting factor when any that refuse can be quickly replaced.
I know you don't like this conclusion, but it *is* a fact
Yup, and so would you if you hadn't bought into the popular prejudice with its custom-crafted hypotheticals. Fourteen year old girls have been managing families for the entire history of mankind. They are not infants.
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