A father I'd want on my side (Robert Schindler, Sr. - Father of the late Terri Schiavo)

Baptist Press ^ | 9/1/09 | Joni B. Hannigan

[wagglebee]

40 Days for Life continues to save lives.

Threads by Faith.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 8 - Be a Good Samaritan: Do not turn away from those who need our help!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 9 - GOD CAN USE YOU IN THIS BATTLE TO SAVE THE UNBORN!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 10 - IT'S NOT A BLOB OF TISSUE---IT'S A BABY!!!!

[Alamo-Girl]

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This is an excellent commentary comparing abortion to ACORN.

Thread by me.

Star Parker: Outrage over ACORN, but not abortion

The ACORN scandal shows that if Congress wants to act, it can.

Within weeks of Fox airing videos of a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute being advised by ACORN “community organizers” on how to evade taxes and set up a prostitution ring, our stalwart Washington legislators voted to cut off federal funds to the organization.

But similar publicized abuses at Planned Parenthood — workers agreeing to cover up rape or earmarking funds to abort black babies — all captured on video and audio — produced no similar action in Washington to cut off funds.

Why?

Of course, the scope of taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood is many times greater — a few hundred million dollars per year versus a few million.

But that’s no explanation.

Congress acts when voters demand it. And, sadly, the decibel level of outrage about abortion, let alone federal funds supporting abortion enablers, is not great enough. . .

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I posted this yesterday and opinions seem mixed. I am considering posting the Terri Dailies threads as a pro-life caucus, but I won't do anything until I hear from some of you.

Vanity About Possible Pro-Life Caucus

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I look forward to reading Bobby Schindler's speech.

Thread by me.

Terri Schiavo's Brother Bobby Schindler to Speak at University of Notre Dame

South Bend, IN (LifeNews.com) -- On the heels of pro-abortion President Barack Obama speaking at the University of Notre Dame and getting an honorary degree, a noted pro-life advocate will give a speech at its law school. Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schiavo, whose husband subjected her to a painful euthanasia death, will speak.

Schindler has been invited to speak today at The University of Notre Dame Law School as part of the Jus Vitae speaker’s series.

Jus Vitae is committed to the principle that the right to life is inherent and inalienable in every human being and cannot be abridged by any action of government or any group of citizens.

That is a far cry from the principles of Obama, the pro-abortion president who moved immediately to make taxpayers fund abortions, but who received a platform and award from the prominent Catholic educational institution. . .

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40 Days for Life continues to save lives.

Thanks to Faith for all of her work on the daily prayer threads.

40 Days for Life: 123 Babies Saved - So Far!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 11 - WHO WILL DEFEND THE UNBORN? WILL YOU?

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 12 - 27,000 BABIES THIS WEEK! PLEASE PRAY!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 13 - PRAY FOR FATHERS, TOO.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[floriduh voter]

Yes, if you do a new banner with Terri in it with others.

If you want Terri Dailies to be pro-life forum, as long as you leave her name somewhere or do a new collage with Terri, infants, seniors, the disabled, veterans, everyone who's at risk from the culture of death in a new collage JPEG. Maybe one of our talented graphic artists could do a new collage of people for your banner. I'm not that graphic artist. I don't have Lexmark any more. Can't do much with my current software.

Pro-Life News by Wagglebee(somethin' like that or put the Foundation in your tag line forever.

Pls help Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation www.terrisfight.org.

[wagglebee]

The more I think about it the more I think that everything should just be left the way it is. All I was going to do was pit “Pro-Life Caucus” at the end of the title of the monthly (or semi-monthly) Terrie Dailies thread.

[floriduh voter]

Okay. I just sent you a graphic idea. I liked it but I also like Terri Dailies cuz lots already know that includes all pro-life issues. The trolls always find you.

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Few things are more repulsive than this.

Thread by julieee.

Planned Parenthood Used Underage Girls in 10 Clinical Trials Pushing Abortion

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com)-- A new report from a Planned Parenthood watchdog group finds the abortion business used underage girls in at least 10 clinical trials over the last two decades to push abortion, birth control, and STD testing.

The news comes at a time when Planned Parenthood is facing criticism for videos showing it ignoring potential statutory abuse cases. . .

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This is one of the very best commentaries on abortion that I have read in a long time.

Thread by rhema.

Planned parenthood: There are more reasons than fear why children don't come out to play

Remember when we used to jump on our bikes with a sack lunch, take off on a summer morning and not come back until suppertime? And nobody worried. Mom said, "Be careful"; Dad was at work; siblings were otherwise occupied or along for the ride. What did we do all that time? Nothing special, which turned out to be very special.

When we speak of our childhood we don't mean babyhood or toddlerhood or the first day of school. We mean that burst of mobility after the training wheels came off the bike (or in my case, after my sister gave me a push to get me started but neglected to tell me how to stop). The speed! The rush of wind in your face! The thrill, the terror, and finally (after a few bad spills), the sense of control; of knowing just how tight you could take a corner and not crash. That's classic childhood, between the ages of, roughly, 7 and 13, that passes so quickly and lingers forever in perpetual summer. . .

Chabon makes an interesting comparison: "As the national feeling of guilt over the extermination of the Indians led to the creation of a kind of cult of the Indian, so our children have become cult objects to us, too precious to be risked." Children are not being "exterminated" except by abortion, but he shuffles the guilty feelings to other causes, even, ironically, overpopulation!

He may have touched the truth without realizing it. Once one accepts that a pre-born human has no inherent right to exist—that is, no rights an adult is bound to respect, that human is objectified. Rather than an independent person who must have freedom to grow and develop on individual terms, he becomes a project or an experience or a self-improvement program to be taken on when all conditions are right. One who will not grant the precariousness of life to an unexpected fetus may be less inclined to grant that precariousness to a 5-year-old on a tricycle. Someone who's so into control may find it hard to stop controlling.

Chabon tells of the thrill his own daughter experienced when learning to ride a bike, and the letdown when both realized there was no place he would let her go alone. "Even if I do send [her] out, will there be anyone to play with?"

There are a lot of reasons kids today don't come out to play. But we can't discount the fact that almost one-third of their peers are missing.

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ONE BILLION BABIES have been slaughtered worldwide in the past century, the Nobel Prize Committee seems to think this promotes peace.

Thread by tcg and me.

President Obama Receives Nobel Peace Prize. War on the Womb Continues

In it’s announcement the committee also said "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future…. "His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population." In its effusive praise of the President the committee continued with these words "Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future… His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world's population."

This announcement comes just as the debate concerning the funding of abortion in the current versions of “Health Care Reform” in the United States has roused all of the defenders of the first Human Right,the foundational human right, the “mother” of all rights, the Right to Life, out of various degrees of lethargy. In fact, the opposition to this huge piece of legislation is finding its strongest resistance now coming from the U.S. Catholic Bishops. They have made it clear that they will vigorously oppose this legislation unless it unequivocally EXCLUDES the taking of the lives of innocent children in the womb, and rightly so. . .

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Pro-Life Leaders Shocked at Vatican Spokesman "Appreciating" Obama Peace Prize

VATICAN CITY, October 9, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi has reacted to the Nobel Peace prize being awarded to President Barack Obama saying that the news "was greeted with appreciation at the Vatican in light of the president's demonstrated commitment to promoting peace on an international level and, in particular, in recently promoting nuclear disarmament."

Given President Obama's vigorous support for abortion, pro-life leaders reacted with shock and dismay to the reaction by the Vatican spokesman.

One pro-life leader, who wished to remain anonymous, told LifeSiteNews.com, "If Obama was good on international peace and nuclear disarmament but favored the killing of Jews, its not likely he would get either the Noble Peace Prize or be praised by the Vatican."

Human Life International President Fr. Tom Euteneuer reacted to Lombardi's statement saying, "I really don't know who Fr. Lombardi is speaking for. The pope is not mentioned and I am glad for that." Euteneuer who is currently at a conference in Germany added: "Fr. Lombardi must have forgotten that Pope John Paul II was not granted the Peace Prize in 24 years of peace-making around the world because the leftists on the Nobel Committee obviously don't give this Prize for actual results of peace."

American Life League President Judie Brown called Lombardi's statement "an insult to every practicing Catholic but at a more dramatic level a slap at Mother Teresa… who said 'the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion.'" Brown, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, said that she was "outraged" by Lombardi's statement and called on Pope Benedict XVI "to deal with" Lombardi "once and for all". . .

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The protection of life should be EVERYONE'S business.

Thread by EternalVigilance.

It Is My Business - TOM SHAW

I have a confession to make. Simply, I have been unworried, untroubled and unconcerned. I was unwilling to take the time to study the subject of life and unenthusiastic about preserving it. Abortion didn’t affect me, so, why should I invest any thought into the debate? Although I did not believe in abortion, I was disposed to allowing the mother to make her own decision … she would have to live with it. In short, it was none of my business.

A few years back, during the process of a sexual assault investigation, I was sent to get evidence at a Planned Parenthood clinic. The alleged victim in the case decided to have an abortion and I was to pick up the aborted fetus and take it to the crime lab for DNA analysis. And to the clinic I went, totally unprepared for what I was to encounter. I told an employee that I was there to retrieve a fetus. I was immediately told that it was not a fetus, rather, it was a “product of conception.” Moments later, I was handed a small, plastic bag. (Another confession: My stomach turned violently and I almost vomited.) I did not see a “product of conception” in that bag, I saw a murdered baby. It’s hard to relate the emotional turmoil that I subsequently went through. I can, and frequently do, deal with dead bodies. But I was totally repulsed by the fact that riding next to me in my patrol car, in a cooler, packed in ice, was an innocent victim who was robbed of the opportunity to live its life.

It is my business. No longer will I allow those who support abortion to dehumanize a baby by calling it a “product of conception.”

It is my business. No longer will I fail to uphold my duty to protect all innocent life.

It is my business. No longer will I violate my oath by not defending the God given right to life.

It is my business. No longer shall I be complacent.

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40 Days for Life continues to save lives!

Thanks to Faith for all of her work on these threads.

Hospital Counselor Leaves Abortion Unit during 40 Days for Life

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 14 - THESE ARE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO ARE BEING KILLED!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 15 - ABORTION AFFECTS US ALL!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 16 - COULD YOU MENTOR A YOUNG MOTHER OR FATHER?

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 17 - A BABY IS NOT A PUNISHMENT!

[Alamo-Girl]

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The NYT finally did something right.

Thread by mlizzy.

Behind the Scenes: Picturing Fetal Remains

[There are no graphic images in the article proper. They are accessed through a slide show only.]

The photographs are graphic and detailed, showing the fingers or toes of aborted fetuses whose entire frames are no bigger than a cellphone. Since the mid-1990s, they have appeared all over the country — carried as posters by protesters, handed out with pamphlets or, in some cases, mounted like billboards on the sides of trucks.

Like many others, I often wondered about the source of these images. Who took the pictures? Where did the fetuses come from?

I had a chance to find some answers while reporting in late September on the death of James Pouillon, the anti-abortion protester who was shot and killed in Owosso, Mich. [See Saturday's presentation on the subject in The New York Times.]

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The macabre becomes reality.

Threads by honestabe010 and me.

Sunstein: Take organs from 'helpless patients'

TEL AVIV – President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission. . .

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Wesley J. Smith: Medical-Bioethical Elite Seek License to Kill for Body Organs

Oh-oh: Here they come. For years, organ transplant ethicists and some in the bioethics community have agitated to increase the supply of donated organs. There is nothing wrong with that in the abstract, of course. Increasing the supply would alleviate much human suffering and is devoutly to be wished.

But therein lurks a great danger. Increasing supply is a worthy goal only so long as the organs are obtained ethically. But there is a growing chorus among the medical and bioethical intelligentsia to obtain more organs by harvesting living patients. Yes, some of our most influential voices now seek a license to kill for organs.

They don’t put it that bluntly, of course. Rather—reflecting the spirit of our times—advocates argue that our definition of death should be changed to allow a great pretense that living patients are actually dead, thus permitting organ procurement. . .

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We've heard them all, but it's always good to be reminded.

Thread by NYer.

"Personally Opposed, But..." Five Pro-Abortion Dodges

In that passage from Orthodoxy so familiar that it is almost now cliché, G. K. Chesterton wrote that there are a thousand angles at which a man may fall but only one at which he stands. By this he argued for the unique, enduring character of orthodox Church doctrine, of the one, true, upstanding strand of Right Teaching. Though the same tired heresies may reappear to contest it -- mutated, renamed, warmed-over -- the old, wild truth remains standing, "reeling but erect."

 

This well-worn lesson takes on a new freshness, I think, when applied to the culture war. The wild truths that inform Christian ethics -- our insistence on a moral universe, on a real human nature with its own teleology, on the transcendent significance of human acts and human relationships -- also reel but remain erect in the face of perennial challenges. We are not gods. Moral truth is something we discover, not invent. From the Garden of Eden to the Supreme Court of the United States, we have fought the same battle under different banners.

 

In what is probably the modern culture battle par excellence, the fight against abortion, we see displayed with perfect clarity the principle of a single upright truth (that directly killing an unborn child is an evil and a crime) being contested by a rotation of errors; taking turns or working in tandem, passing in and out of fashion, each seizing upon the vocabulary, events, and moods of the cultural moment until the next comes along to supplant it.

 

In some cases cultural developments render one of them obsolete. In the years shortly after Roe v. Wade, abortion debates inevitably featured three words the pro-abortion side considered a trump card: "blob of tissue." This factually empty but sound-bite-perfect catchphrase made a great impact with its implication that the fetus was roughly equivalent to a ball of snot. Which put abortion about on par with picking your nose: bad form, a messy affair that ought to be kept private, but nothing to get overly excited about.

 

Of course, advances in the study of human embryology, most notably the window to the womb afforded by the sonogram, all but pulled the teeth from the "blob of tissue" canard. The 1980 film The Silent Scream, an ultrasound depiction of an abortion at eleven weeks, provided a chilling, graphic look at abortion's inner workings. And today, expectant mothers keep pictures of their "blobs of tissue" on the refrigerator. They make copies and stuff them into Christmas cards.

 

So that particular line was no longer viable. But it wouldn't be the last. More would follow, and we who are engaged in the culture have surely heard most of them. However, even for those who have heard them all, I think it can be valuable to gather them up and define them; to identify their originators, exemplars, and champions; to understand their appeal; and to consider how to counter them. Let us now look, then, at five (a nice number, though by no means exhaustive) of history's most insidious pro-abortion arguments. . .

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Young people know that a third of their generation has been murdered.

Two threads by me.

Hundreds of Thousands of Pro-Life Students to Stand in Solidarity on Abortion

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Hundreds of thousands of pro-life students are ready to stand in solidarity on abortion as the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity takes place a week from Tuesday. Last year, from over 4,700 campuses in 25 countries participated in the event and sponsors expect even more this year.

The day sees the students at middle and high schools and on college campuses wear pro-life t-shirts, sport red tape on their mouths to show how the unborn can't speak up, and the distribution of fliers educating students and the public about abortion.

The event's man sponsor, Stand True Ministries, tells LifeNews.com, one of several groups supporting the event, that at least 58 young women canceled appointments for abortions after the special day took place last year.

Bryan Kemper, the pro-life group's president, says students are always excited every year to bring attention to the devastating travesty of abortion that is killing 4,000 unborn children and injuring women every day.

"The students are speaking loud and clear; they want an end to legalized child-killing," he said of the students and young adults involved in the effort. "We are getting thousands of e-mails, comments and Internet messages from students thanking us for giving them a peaceful way to stand up and be counted."

The students themselves notice the profound effect the event has each time.

"I got one girl to not get an abortion because I took a zero in class for this and she started crying," one student wrote. "She pulled me into the bathroom and told me she was pregnant and was going to have an abortion and she said because of how much this meant to me she didn't! We both sat in the bathroom and cried for a few minutes and she put the baby up for adoption!"

Another student talked about a friend's reaction.

"She's about a month or so pregnant. I have her for a couple of my classes. She kept glancing at my shirt all day and she took a flier. But she didn't say anything," the student related about last year's event.

"Then today in 6th I was getting up and she came up to me. And in front of the whole classroom she began weeping and fell into my arms. She said she didn't want to have an abortion anymore," the student said. . .

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Pennsylvania School Targets Student With "Abortion is Not Health Care" T-Shirt

Scranton, PA (LifeNews.com) -- Officials at a Pennsylvania school targeted a middle school student who came to class wearing a pro-life t-shirt with the message, "Abortion is Not Health Care." Officials at Crossroads Middle School in Lewisberry ordered the student to remove the shirt on the day of President Obama’s public address to students.

School officials deemed the shirt “inappropriate,” saying it might insult somebody -- even though the school routinely allows students to wear other shirts with other potentially offensive messages. . .