Now go sit in the corner.
Posted on 10/20/2005 11:19:11 AM PDT by Got a right to Life? . . Huh?
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-life group that monitors corporate donations to Planned Parenthood says it wants Phillip McGraw, Ph.D, better known as Dr. Phil, to stop promoting the nation's largest abortion business. Dr. Phil's opinion on abortion is unclear the group says, but Life Decisions International is calling on him to stop touting the abortion business.
LDI points to a recent Dr. Phil television program in which two viewers expressed opposing view on distributing condoms in school. Dr. Phil asked the guest who opposed condoms if she was persuaded by the view that teenagers will have sex anyway.
The guest said she knew some teens will have sex anyway, but said distributing condoms wouldn't lower the rate of sexually transmitted diseases.
McGraw responded: "That is absolutely not true. It is on the decline. Unwanted pregnancy is on the decline." The guest said that was because of the success of abstinence programs.
Dr. Phil replied, "The fact is that the research does not support what you're saying. If you look at the massive studies that are nationwide, if you look at the Planned Parenthood studies, the fact of the matter is that kids who go through a thorough sex education program of which making condoms available with some anonymity…that kids do use them when they have them."
Douglas Scott, president of LDI, said he's concerned that Dr. Phil would promote the abortion business because it makes Planned Parenthood look like "an agenda-free, independent research agency."
"Planned Parenthood 'studies' (actually conducted by its Alan Guttmacher Institute [AGI] affiliate) are usually long on opinion and short on 'study.'"
Scott also said Dr. Phil has partnered with a pro-abortion group, the Children's Defense Fund, because of its advocacy on other issues.
"Not every CDF program is intrinsically destructive to children. Not every Planned Parenthood project is intrinsically destructive to children," Scott said. "But everything these groups do, no matter how small or innocuous on the surface, promotes an agenda. And that agenda is unquestionably destructive to children."
Most seemingly bright minds still do not understand the fact that abortion is a human rights issue far more grave than slavery, the Nazi holocaust, and our world's most abhorrent examples of genocide.
No matter what your opinion about when life begins, a unique individual human life is destroyed in every abortion. There is no escape from that fact. To believe otherwise is willful self deception. A deception required by the conscience of those who conspire in the premeditated murder the young for the sake of convenience.
I think Dr. Phil has an Oprah-esque following, and it makes me nervous. Too many people suck their stuff up and take their words as Gospel.
Looking at Planned Parenthood studies about abortion is like looking at ACLU studies about religion in a sense anyways.
I like that...don't mind if I borrow that line every now and then do ya?
I think Dr. Phil is fairly intelligent. His problem is a common American shortcoming. He relies too much on worldly and ever changing standards of morality, and not enough on a standard that has and will last through all time.
Go ahead and use it! I heard it first at an Oregon pro-life conference. I wish that I could attribute the quote to the gentleman. I believe he is a Pastor or Priest.
I challenge anyone to find a position more hypocritical than living a full and free life while advocating the status quo in abortion policy.
Condoms should be used to protect form pregnancies, transmitted diseases, etc duh! What is not included in the abortion issue is that there are some technical difficulties in pregnancy for some people. (Huh?) Some may say but yes there are problems. What about the women who have decided to get pregnant because they and their spouse or lover choose to? What would happen if a very pregnant lady found out that if she had a child it would kill her. I mean come on! There should be something to be done about that. Yes, a child will be killed but what about the mother she is already on this earth and may be able to safely have children later. Say, a woman is pregnant of her own free will and in the early stages she finds out from the doctor that the child will be brain dead when her date is due what should happen then? Nothing? People don't look at this side of the issue. So when abortion is legalized and a pregnant woman finds out she may die from giving birth and she can't have an abortion where are her rights does she not have the right to live?
I challenge anyone to find a position more hypocritical than living a full and free life while a complicit party in a abortion.
Now go sit in the corner.
Mistake number one.
no i am not stupid thank you apparently you need to grow up and look at how things really are!
There is so much wrong with your post it's hard to know where to begin...
There is "something" that can be be done about the extraordinarily rare situation you mention in which a "very pregnant woman" finds out that delivering her baby would kill her. Very few people fail to recognize the need for safe and legal MEDICALLY NECESSARY terminations. The issue for most people of good conscience is with abortion on demand because a woman and/or her partner in conception do not care to follow through on the rather wonderful consequences of their perhaps ill-considered actions. To frame the debate on abortion as a choice between a child's right to live v. the mother's is disingenuous in the extreme.
The child, like the mother, is "already on this earth": Children are not conceived on another planet or somewhere in outer space.
FInally, and again, it is a very, very unlikely situation in which a woman suddenly finds out that if she gives birth she will die. Fear of death is not why most women who have abortions have them. Fear of responsibility, perhaps, fear of the real world, sure, but not fear of death. Children don't generally kill us, they just cost us money and sleep and our girlish figures. As opposed to abortions, the cost of which is so much higher.
I am not against the pro-life movement. I am just stating that medical issues are not even brought up that concern womens rights in the Pro-Life movement.
I know a child in a mothers'womb is on this earth. I was stating that a woman rights should be thought of too. Apparently I failed to mention that "accidents" of pregnancies should not be used as an excuse to have an abortion.
I agree, protect the LIFE of the mother at all costs. The problem I see is that abortion is legal and available for ANY reason at any stage of development. About 96% of abortions happen for reasons other than the health of the mother, the health of the baby, rape, or incest. In other words, about 3800 children per day die because a boy and a girl said "whoops, how did that happen? I can't deal. Let's kill it." The real hardship cases are about 160 per day.
Dr. Phil is P.T. Barnum with a degree.
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