Posted on 06/12/2006 5:05:28 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
You are 100% right. My brother worked at the Voice for years, Nat's a good guy and spot on re: pro-life.
You should hear Andrew Wilkow of WABC/WGY in NY, amazing breaking down every aspect of pro-life.
You don't know what you're talking about on this one... trust me.
He made sense then, but it is apparent from his marriage to the evil of abortion on demand that he was only speeching not preaching. For his immortal soul I can pray, but for his extortionist ass I can wish catastrophe. Jesse is no man of God, especially with this 180 treachery to black people on the issue of abortion.
No truer words were ever said.
Are you in the NY area? Come with me tomorrow night and ask him.
No, it's not my book... invitation was emailed to me.
Obviously, I can link you to the book:
http://www.defiantbirth.com/
Try the google page:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2005-01,RNWE:en&q=Defiant+Birth%3A+Women+Who+Resist+Medical+Eugenics
Ah, I see. Seems quite unlikely, though, that a father would have related this story to Nat Hentoff (and presumably also given Hentoff permission to relate it to the world at large in an article, since Hentoff still describes the man as "a fried of mine"), unless the father wanted to advance Hentoff's agenda, and thus was utterly opposed to his own wife's activities. But the scenario of two parents who disagree that seriously on a major issue, and discuss it at the dinner table, while their son has still not heard a peep about said issue at the age of 9, is also pretty hard to swallow. I mean how do you think this man's wife would have reacted to seeing their private family conversation sprawled across the pages of a major newspaper, with their innocent young son's part in it being exploited to oppose her position on this contentious issue in which she has a personal stake? Imagine if your spouse was pro-choice, and your 9 year old had expressed agreement with that position at the family dinner table, and your spouse had shared the child's words with a major columnist known to write pro-choice opinion pieces, and given said columnist permission to relate the child's words in a national publication.
Hentoff didn't mention the family's name. Privacy secure. Parents don't necessarily disagree seriously - father could be somewhat more troubled than the mother. I wonder how abortionists do explain their work to their children - "I dismember embryos and fetuses for a living?" Or, "I help women facing unwanted pregnancies."
Mrs VS
I entertained notions of doing a similar book a few years ago. I was collecting stories from women and have posted one or two here at FR (Perhaps you've seen The Danae Blessing Story, The Smell Of Rain), but I didn't put it all together for publication in the way that Melinda has.
Children also have a way of asking questions they sense are off limits unless a guest is at the table. Hint hint ...
However, let's discuss Hentoff's thesis which is that abortion, like slavery, devalues human life.Hentoff, or Jackson, are not the first to make this connection. It's practically trite by now. That said, it's true. Defense of slavery ultimately depends upon dehumanizing the slave. There is no defense for it.
That was Jesse Jacksons thesis....Now,Jesse thinks killing blacks is a good thing...Many formerly pro-lifers have turned pro choice...AND its all about power or money..With Jesse,it was both!!!!!
"Bringing Good Thing to Life":
Here is the Stealth Bomber flying under the Pro-Choice side's radar:
Bringing Good Things to Life (ULTRASOUND)
Bringing Good Things to Life (ULTRASOUND) · Citizen magazine ^ | June 2003 | Abortion Quotes
Watch GE 3D-4D new Ultrasound Commercial
Fetuses Can Hear Ultrasound Examinations
New Ultrasound Shows 3-D 'Fetal Portrait
Technology forces us to see that abortions end lives
10 FALLACIES IN THE ABORTION DEBATE
12 WEEK OLD BABY WALKS IN THE WOMB!
"Studies show that if women can actually see the baby through an ultrasound, they are more likely to carry them to term," she said.
The Womb as Photo Studio States May Ban Abortion If Roe Overturned
Unborn baby introduces comparison of candidates for President
Partial Birth Abortion Ban Court Transcripts
Foetuses [Fetuses] 'may be conscious long before abortion limit'
ultrasound Technology gives unborn fetus a 3-D image
Crisis Pregnancy Centers Find Success in Medical Model
The most powerful smiles in the world
"Mommy, what's An Abortion?":
A few weeks after I joined Free Republic, I chanced upon a discussion about abortion that, for some reason, had turned into an exchange involving mostly female members of the board.
I was struck by several salient points:
1- "Mommy, what's an 'abortion?'"
I can recall being in my teens before I ever heard the nasty word- but our women here reported that their children as young as 5 or 6 years were asking it... if this is "progress," please count me out.
2- then there were the childrens reactions- universal disgust and horror that "any Mommy could do that to her baby..."
3- but for me, the clincher was a brief exchange between two other women members-- they were talking about what their children remembered when they were in their wombs... one had asked her toddler
( who, she said, was not really talking yet- about 2 years old- "just babbles... )
she asked him:
"Do you remember what it was like being in Mommy's tummy?"
His answer chilled me to the bone, and still makes my hair stand on end. His reply?
"Wet..."
No guest, only hubby who is doubtless lamenting the perspicuity of the kid.
Unless that was the kid complaining that he had wet his diaper... I hope it wasn't that
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
Maybe Hentoff didn't HAVE a clear "agenda" at that time? Abortion was permissible in many places well before Roe v. Wade.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
It only has to happen "a little" before a kid would get curious.
Hentoff has always been intellectually honest, for a Lib.
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