http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prochoice/ en-us Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:40:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134907/posts It wasn’t that many years ago that Tom Daschle was the pro-life movement’s worst congressional nightmare. Over the years, as a Senator and Senate Minority Leader, he constantly supported pro-choice legislation and initiatives. In 1997, for example, Daschle proposed what he called a "compromise" regarding partial-birth abortion, banning the procedure while allowing exemptions for any woman who claimed mental or physical health reasons for having such a late-term procedure. Most saw this tactic as a smokescreen to guarantee the option to abort children by this grisly procedure akin to infanticide. Describing himself as a Catholic, in 2003 the 61 year-old... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134907/posts#comment Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:40:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134712/posts For years the "pro-choice" mantra has gone something like this: abortion should be between a woman and her doctor, we can't tell women what to do with their bodies, women have a right to choose, etc. Yet, a recent forced abortion incident in China proves so-called "pro-choice" advocates are nothing more than pro-abortion. Arzigul Tursun and her family understand the length to which the oppressive Chinese population control regime will go to keep to its limited birth quotas. Six months pregnant, Tursun found herself captive at a local hospital with the impending threat of a forced abortion. But "pro-choice" groups... LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134712/posts#comment Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:00:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127906/posts By McCainiac Let's say you have two candidates, Candidate X and Candidate Y. Candidate X has a very poor track record as a fiscal conservative but is a rabid social conservative whose is solidly pro-life. Candidate Y has a reputation and record as a very fiscal conservative but has a slightly different opinion on abortion than the pro-life party line. Which candidate would win the Republican nomination for President? I think any honest Republican knows the answer to that hypothetical scenario. Candidate X could be George W. Bush. Candidate Y could be Barry Goldwater. When it comes to the Presidency,... ModernConservative.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127906/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:25:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126778/posts A Grave Mistake and an Abiding Hope November 6th, 2008 by Fr. Frank Pavone Americans have made a grave mistake in electing Barack Obama to the presidency. Yet America herself remains great and is not a mistake, which is why so many of her citizens will continue, with even greater energy and determination, to defend her founding principles.The man elected to the Presidency said during the campaign that he does not know when a human being starts to have human rights. How can one govern from that starting point of ignorance? Governing is about protecting human rights; to do it... CatholicExchange.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126778/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 06:45:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110485/posts An abortion centre that performs abortions up to the sixth month of pregnancy has worked out an arrangement with two area hotels to provide substantially discounted room rates for women seeking abortions. Based on reports from local citizens participating in the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil outside the Cherry Hill Women's Center, New Jersey Right to Life has confirmed that the Clarion Hotel in Cherry Hill offers a reduced rate of $59 for a room originally priced at $109 to those women who provide a receipt from the abortion mill that says they have to stay overnight. In addition,... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110485/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:35:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2110483/posts An abortion centre that performs abortions up to the sixth month of pregnancy has worked out an arrangement with two area hotels to provide substantially discounted room rates for women seeking abortions. Based on reports from local citizens participating in the 40 Days for Life prayer vigil outside the Cherry Hill Women's Center, New Jersey Right to Life has confirmed that the Clarion Hotel in Cherry Hill offers a reduced rate of $59 for a room originally priced at $109 to those women who provide a receipt from the abortion mill that says they have to stay overnight. In addition,... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2110483/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:33:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075447/posts News from the Trenches (Editor’s Note: We reprint the item below at the request of Jack Smith, editor of The Catholic Key, official newspaper of the Diocese of Kansas City. In his blog entry below, Mr. Smith points out that a group calling itself “Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good” is really a front organization sponsored by the Democratic National Committee. “This group has been treated as legitimate by CNS and other Catholic news sources,” noted Mr. Smith in an email to California Catholic Daily.) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2008 Cardinal George Slams 'Common Good' Fraud Catholics in Alliance for... California Catholic Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2075447/posts#comment Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:51:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074096/posts Reading the words carries an impact, but nothing compared to when you listen to them: It happened when a Planned Parenthood worker is asked to accept a donation specifically to abort a black child, and her response is: "Understandable, understandable." Now, however, those interested in the controversy over Planned Parenthood's large role in the nation's abortion industry may have to settle for seeing those words, since YouTube has decided to censor several audio recordings that had been posted by pro-life activists documenting the corporation's willingness to accept donations on the basis of race. worldnetdaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074096/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 22:55:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073893/posts Hello, I’m going to go against what a very nice, well-meaning freeper warned me NOT to do just after joining FR and start an abortion discussion thread. Why? Because I’ve been thinking about these things, and my views on the issue are changing. I would like people’s input and hope that that input can help me shape my thinking(as I wrote in my introduction thread, I’m a 25 year old who is in this election for the first time going to vote republican)… Anyways, this isn’t a troll thread. I’m finding my views on this issue are morphing the more... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2073893/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 18:02:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2072000/posts I wonder to myself how people can read the Bible, believe in God, love Jesus and or sit in church every Sunday and think it is okay to be Pro-Choice instead of Pro-Life. I have tried not to be tunnel visioned about this. And, as the elections heat up every cycle, I come back to this same head scratcher. People who know me know that I truly do not understand this. I have never gotten a reasonable answer. Associated Content http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2072000/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:32:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071219/posts I heard John Roberts' angry question towards Palin's choice for her baby (born April 18 this year) questioning whether Sarah could take care of a baby with Down's Syndrome and also manage to be Vice President. This was echoed on TV (again voiced by democrat male reporter), and by several seminar-callers to radio shows on Friday afternoon. Several radio show hosts - most in-depth was Hugh Hewitt with two interviews with DS organizers - skewered John Roberts about his attitude, and his assumption that having a child "with special needs" (as he put it) would take too much time, that... CNN, Townhall, Beltway Blips http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071219/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:04:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2068027/posts Because I am addicted to arguing, I sometimes stray from Free Republic to go lock horns with liberals in their haunts. I don't go to DU, they delete you the minute they sense your shadow casting its blue shade across their tofu. I go to IMDb, where everyone roams free. The Obamites hold forth endlessly about how Bush has crippled women's sexual freedom. Any restriction on abortion, you see, cripples women's sexual freedom. How can anyone get laid if you can't have RU-486 via drive-thru?Now, I'm not really particularly interested in the abortion issue. I used to care, and was... IMDb http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2068027/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:52:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065519/posts Infidels are Cool discovered this shocking audio from 2002: VIDEO LINK Barack Obama argues for death of babies that survive an abortion in 2002: In this audio Obama coldly claims two doctors helping a baby born alive after a botched abortion would be a burden when he was arguing against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act at the Illinois state legislature April 2002: "Essentially adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision..." Speechless.HotAir confirmed the legitimacy of the... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065519/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:34:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065427/posts In wombs all across America, unborn children suck their thumbs and think, “I hope the next vice president isn’t in favor of aborting me!” OK, no they don’t. But plenty of Republican voters are apparently thinking it for them, which brings us to the latest symbolic litmus test to which John McCain is being subjected to mollify the conservative base, which still can’t quite come to grips with the fact that McCain is the Republican nominee for president. McCain, who thinks for himself and has been known to come to conclusions with which this column disagrees, let slip in a... North Star Writers Group http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2065427/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:45:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064355/posts By Michelle Malkin  •  August 19, 2008 09:11 AM Scroll down for updates… Wouldn’t put it past him. Would you? Which is why, despite all the encomiums he’s received from his Saddleback appearance, I haven’t joined the ga-ga bandwagon (and won’t).Rich Lowry reports: NR has learned that the McCain campaign has been calling key state GOP officials around the country the last couple of days and sounding them out about the consequences of a pro-choice VP pick. The campaign is asking about the reaction of conservative grass-roots activists to such a pick and whether a pro-choicer can be sold to them.... michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064355/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:45:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064309/posts According to National Review, McCain has been calling around floating the idea of a Pro-Choice VP. This is our opportunity to influence McCain's decision. Here, we'll post phone numbers, email addresses, and templates so you can contact your local and national party headquarters and let McCain know how Conservatives really feel. It is time to remind folks of the FReeper Voice! To start, here are the contact numbers to a lot of talk shows. The Alan Colmes Show Alan Colmes 1-877-FOR-ALAN M-F, 10pm - 1am ET Battle Line with Alan Nathan Alan Nathan 1-800-510-TALK M-F, 12pm - 3pm PT Bill... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064309/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:50:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048566/posts DENVER - The request befuddled Leah Daughtry. The experienced political hand in charge of planning next month's Democratic National Convention - a self-described "black chick from Brooklyn" and ordained Pentecostal minister who keeps a Bible in her purse - didn't know what to tell the atheists. Daughtry, 44, was preparing for an Aug. 24 interfaith service that will open the Democrats' gathering here - a first for a party that hasn't always gotten God. Before her was an angry letter from a secularist group that wanted to know whether atheists would be on the podium. "Atheists speaking at an interfaith... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048566/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:27:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044890/posts In his column of June 24, Wall Street Journal writer William McGurn looked at the mostly NARAL-friendly Catholics named to the Obama campaign’s National Catholic Advisory Council. Noting that Obama enjoys a NARAL approval rating of 100%, and that — while in the Illinois State Senate — he voted against a measure similar in intent to the unanimously approved 2002 Federal Born Alive Act, McGurn wonders how the council and other Catholics for Obama can rationalize support for a candidate who stands in such profound contrast to the church’s firm teaching that abortion is “an intrinsic evil.” The…line of argument... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044890/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:24:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042280/posts An abortionist who claims to have destroyed more than 20,000 unborn children and who once was Hillary Clinton's OB-GYN says he is doing "God's work" when he terminates a pregnancy. "Embryos and fetuses spontaneously aborted – most, but not all of those 'canceled' by 'God' – are ... luckless human souls," wrote William Harrison, referring to an ancient poem describing the plight of mankind. "But a few spontaneous abortions occur in desired pregnancies with no discernable abnormalities. For those girls and women and their families whose circumstances would make their babies 'luckless human souls,' I 'cancel' them before they become... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042280/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 09:39:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2040211/posts Back in my pro-choice days, I read that in certain ancient societies it was common for parents to abandon unwanted newborns, leaving them to die of exposure. I found these stories to be as perplexing as they were horrifying. How could this happen? I could never understand how entire cultures could buy into something so obviously terrible, how something that modern society understands to be an unthinkable evil could be widely accepted among large groups of people. Because of my deep distress at hearing of such crimes against humanity, I found it irritating when pro-lifers would refer to abortion... America Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2040211/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:19:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038446/posts Return to the Article June 30, 2008Obama's Callous IndifferenceBy Peter Kirsanow Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen declares that Barack Obama is " 'likable enough' -- in fact, so much so that he is the most charismatic presidential candidate I have seen since Robert F.Kennedy." Well, even though I've  never spoken with Obama, I don't like him very much  (I did testify with him [and a few others] once about a bill he'd sponsored on voter intimidation, but at the time he didn't impress me as unlikable, just a little intellectually lazy) . This hasn't always been the case.  Until... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038446/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:42:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030929/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- To draw attention to the way abortion disproportionately affects the African-American community, black pro-life advocates will be protesting outside the upcoming annual meeting of the nation's largest organization representing blacks. The NAACP protest will also reach the Democratic presidential candidate. Rev. Clenard Childress, a New Jersey pastor, told LifeNews.com about the protest and said pro-abortion presidential candidate Barack Obama and former candidate Hillary Clinton will be at the convention.  "Because 2008 is an election year, the presidential candidates will undoubtedly speak at the convention. This gives us a national stage to make our case to the... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030929/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:10:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030102/posts by Steven Ertelt Bristol, England (LifeNews.com) -- A new report indicates a teenager died just one week after having a legal abortion -- providing more evidence that legal abortions are not safe for women. Manon Jones, an 18-year-old student from Caernarfon, Gwynedd experienced heavy bleeding after the abortion and eventually died. After the abortion, Jones felt light-headed over subsequent days and began experiencing abnormal bleeding. She then became what is believed to be the fourteenth woman to have died after using the dangerous abortion drug LifeNew.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030102/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:02:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017659/posts Upcoming Schedule Sunday, May 18, at 11:00 AM About the Program Susan Wicklund takes your calls about her book, "This Common Secret: My Journey as an Abortion Doctor." About the Author Susan Wicklund has worked as a doctor in the women's reproductive health field for over twenty years CSPAN Book TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017659/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 14:56:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2017485/posts In February 2004, U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law stopping doctors from stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls. Michelle called partial-birth abortion "a legitimate medical procedure," and wouldn't supporters please pay $150 to attend a luncheon for her husband, who would fight against "cynical ploy[s]" to stop it? But that's not why Obama's opponent Alan Keyes said Jesus Christ wouldn't vote for him. Obama recalled Keyes' statement in a recent USA Today opinion piece... WorldNet Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2017485/posts#comment Sat, 17 May 2008 23:06:27 GMT