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Is abortion the defining issue of the American left?
2012-02-07 07:40:00 Particularly since I moved to Los Angeles, I’ve observed that for many on the left cultural issues account for their political leanings. So focused are they on such issues as abortion and gay marriage that they assume these are the defining issues for the two major political parties in the United States. In reality, they ...
By: GayPatriot
Hell yes, abortion should stay legal!
2012-02-07 07:19:00 I wasn’t going to blog my two cents about the abortion debate that is raging across the internet right now, but the NY Post has removed three of my comments that civilly disagree with Michael A. Walsh in his piece No Middle Ground On Abortion. You don’t put baby in a corner, Mr. Walsh. It’s... Read more »
Abortion Kills
2011-10-18 23:56:00 From a brain dead Karen Finney, Hill: In America, women’s lives are expendable. That’s the latest message from the Tea Party Republicans’ war on women. Sound extreme? So does the idea that a woman could be denied a legal procedure that could save her life, not because she or her doctor made the personal, private decision about her healthcare, but because a member of Congress (possibly not even her own representative) said so. For the seventh time last week, led by Eric Cantor, congressional Republicans (aided and abetted by 15 Democrats) decided that rather than have a vote or serious conversation on job creation, their time was best spent voting on H.R. 358. Having nothing to do with Americans’ most urgent priorities, H.R. 358 does two things: prohibits federal funds from being used toward any healthcare plan that covers abortion care services (despite the fact that that is already law); and permits hospitals to deny a woman a legal medical procedure even if her life is at ...
By: BitsBlog
The abortion I never had
2011-08-30 16:38:00 I was reading Christina Hendriks’  heartfelt a-rticle about her experience of having an abortion and it brought back memories of my own near miss of that experience. “Back in the day” abortion is what my generation did.  I didn’t have one, but I probably would have.  I knew several women during that time who had several abortions... Read more »
Exploring blacks' high rate of abortion
2011-04-26 23:20:00 Among the most contentious issues in America today are race and abortion. Fuse them into a single issue and you've got a nuclear bomb. And so, when a Texas minister last month posted pro-life billboards in African-American neighborhoods in Chicago, more than feathers were ruffled. With a picture of President Barack Obama, they proclaimed, "Every 21 minutes our next possible leader is aborted." It's part of a national campaign that warns, "Black children are an endangered species." The campaign is designed to draw attention to the higher incidence of abortion among African-Americans. According to the Census Bureau, the rate of abortions in 2006 among black women was 50 per 1,000, compared with 14 for white women and 22 for "other" women. Those figures fairly...
Abortion Bill Succeeds In Creeping Me Out.
2011-04-14 22:40:00 Abortion Bill Succeeds In Creeping Me Out.
Texas Abortion Centers Killing Teen's Babies Without Informing Parents
2011-03-04 01:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston Texas has a parental notification law for abortions. Underage teens are not supposed to be allowed to have the procedure until her parents are made aware of the crisis. Unfortunately, it has been discovered that many abortion mills in Texas are breaking the law and killing the babies of under aged girls without informing parents. But there are more violations than just that. A three-month-long investigation by a pro-life group has also found that medical records are routinely and illegally destroyed and hazardous medical waste is commonly disposed of illegally....
What about Illinois' abortion clinics? Are they safe?
2011-01-28 22:17:00 The shocking "complete regulatory collapse" that allowed Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell to literally get away with murder raises a critical question: Are there any Dr. Gosnells in Illinois. According to a grand jury indictment as described by Medscape Today, Gosnell illegally aborted third-trimester fetuses, severed the spinal cords of babies aborted alive with scissors, and left a trail of injured and dead female patients in his wake over several decades. The Pennsylvania grand jury, which released its findings last week, said it was shocked not only by the medical "mayhem" of Dr. Gosnell but also by a pattern of "official neglect" that extended from the state medical board to physicians at Philadelphia hospitals who treated his patients for perforated bowels...
Right to Abortion about to Become Privilege of the Rich Only
2011-01-27 22:34:00 It's Pro Choice or No Choice: Get off your you-know-what, and get involved. Our very lives are at stake in this Congressional effort to make abortion unsafe and illegal.
Planned Parenthood Funding A Defacto Abortion Tax on America
2011-01-26 17:00:00 -By Warner Todd Huston With the anniversary of Roe v. Wade it is the perfect time to highlight the fact that the millions upon millions of federal tax dollars that have gone to fund the abortion mill organization Planned Parenthood is a defacto abortion tax levied on the American taxpayers. In 2008 alone, Planned Parenthood received nearly $350 million in federal funding. By Planned Parenthood's own reckoning, this funding went to eliminate babies for more than 324,000 women that year....
Frank Sinatra Forces Elizabeth Taylor to Have Abortion After Sexual Romp
2011-01-04 02:17:00 "Elizabeth Taylor got the same treatment toward the end of her unhappy marriage to Michael Wilding when she found herself pregnant by Frank [Sinatra] and wanted to marry him. He arranged an abortion for her instead."
Spain outlaws bullfights, allows abortion
2010-08-23 21:39:00 This is a very interesting moral view. It's cruel to kill bulls, but not babies. Also curious, the defense of bull fighting doesn't make the case that animals don't need the level of dignity nor protection that people do: They argued that Catalonia would lose tourism. Powered by b2evolution.
By: Asymmetric
Ald. Ed Burke: Simpleton on guns, abortion and gays
2010-07-03 21:02:00 He blames former President George W. Bush's advisor Karl Rove for making guns, abortion and gay rights into controversial issues. This bit of nonsense came during City Council debate on Mayor Richard M. Daley's new gun regulations. A news flash for Burke: those were controversial before Rove came alongBurke is widely credited with being a pretty smart fellow, but this is so ridiculous that it appears that he has come down with a case (as did Denny Craine on Boston Legal) of Mad Cow Disease.At the least, this lowers Burke's IQ level down to that of the average alderman, none of which had the guts to challenge the way that Daley rammed through this ordinance in record time, virtually without...
Illinois parents still left in dark about their child's abortion
2010-05-29 00:55:00 And if Planned Parenthood has its way, it'll stay that way. This is ridiculous. Fifteen years ago, the Illinois Legislature passed a law requiring a girl--a minor--planning an abortion to notify her parents. Every state surrounding Illinois has such a law, but since 1995 when it was passed, the abortion industry has successfully fought to keep the law in Illinois from being implemented. It's a long story, but the longest delay--about a decade--resulted because a partisan Illinois Supreme Court neglected (refused?) to issue regulations for how the law should be implemented. Apparently, even the supremes became embarrassed by this nonfeasance. But when they finally issued the regulations almost four years ago, the American Civil Liberties Union and the rest of the...
Bart Stupak, Anti-Abortion Congressman that held up Health Care Bill to Ret
2010-04-09 18:45:00 Bart Stupak will announce his retirement from Congress.
Good Friday pro-life protest at Aurora abortion clinic
2010-04-02 03:12:00 Beth Thrun of Batavia says the rosary outside the offices of Planned Parenthood in Aurora. (Chuck Berman / Chicago Tribune)After winning a settlement in a free speech lawsuit filed against the city of Aurora, pro-life demonstrators have set a protest outside a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in the far southwest suburb. The pro-life groups had contended that the police and other city officials were restricting how and where they could conduct their protests.Here is a summary from the Chicago Tribune...
Pro-life groups oppose Stupak abortion deal
2010-03-21 22:50:00 Reported LIfeNews.com:Leading pro-life organizations are unanimous in their condemnation of the a deal between Rep. Bart Stupak and President Barack Obama to exchange an executive order for votes from pro-life Democrats backing the pro-abortion Senate health care bill....
Test of executive order restricting abortion in health bill
2010-03-21 22:09:00 http://www.theatlantic.com/nati-onal/archive/2010/03/text-of-th-e-executive-order-on-abortion/3-7797/...
Support Choice, Oppose Abortion
2010-03-03 14:54:00 We have to let women make that call as they see fit. It puts men in a very unfortunate positon, in that currently we have no voice in post conception choice. I wish there were some way to work that out, but currently there isn't. Yet our lacking a choice should not in anyway prohibit a woman from having choices due her.
Correcting the b.s. on the abortion-breast cancer link
2010-02-13 00:37:00 Adam Jezek Normal 0 0 2010-01-06T20:39:00Z 2010-01-06T20:39:00Z 1 701 4001 Dennis Byrne, Ltd. 33 8 4913 11.518 0 0 0 This is a response to Dienne whose terribly misinformed post on abortion appeared on Eric Zorn's blog. The posting thread was whether the lieutenant governor position should be retained; Eric was shocked to agree with me that it should be. But commentator Dienne wanted to change the subject to abortion. What irked Dienne was that someone had the gall to lob a compliment my way: "Also, whether you agree with him or not he's often backing himself up with a solid argument." Dienne's response was: Yeah, like when he uses questionable studies quoted in other articles without...
Evidence of the abortion/breast cancer link
2010-01-26 19:31:00 Nothing rockets pro-choice militants into orbit faster than scientific evidence that abortion increases the risk breast cancer. Despite their insistence that ALL the scientific evidence "proves" that there is no link, quite the opposite is true. A recent study indicates that abortion increases the risk of a certain type of breast cancer by 40 percent.Here are some explanations. Please watch and listen with an open mind....
Test your abortion knowledge
2010-01-21 00:09:00 This Friday, Jan. 22, marks the 37th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion. There's a lot of fighting about whether the decision should be overturned, but, sadly, a lot of people don't know exactly what Roe says. Do you?You can test your knowledge about Roe and its companion case Doe v. Bolton going here. Haven't heard about Doe v. Bolton. Then you perhaps won't do so well on the test. Note this: You might not agree with the answers as given at the end of the test. If you do, let me know and we'll discuss it....
Breast cancer, oral contraceptives, abortion and lies (?)
2010-01-12 01:46:00 For years, the National Cancer Institute has been telling Americans that having an abortion and using oral contraceptives had nothing to do with an increased risk of breast cancer. But now, recognized experts in cancer have published a study in a reputable, peer-reviewed publication that finds that the contraceptives and abortions significantly increase the risk in a specific type of breast cancer called triple-negative..This should be earth-shattering news, backing as it does the assertions and scientific findings that have concluded that abortion raises the risk of breast cancer, but so far, the nation's major newspapers, wire services and news programs have ignored it, even though they all have access to the study and the press release describing it....
Is pro-abortion funding in Lincoln Park connected to Daley's award for
2010-01-05 10:42:00 While Americans passionately react to the Stupak amendment, 43rd Ward Ald. Vi Daley is being honored this month by Planned Parenthood of Illinois' at their "Future of Choice" celebration to mark 37 years since the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe Vs. Wade. Ald. Daley sponsored the "bubble zone" legislation which passed in the City Council in October. The ordinance restricts pro-life advocates from approaching women seeking services at reproductive health centers in Chicago. The ordinance is designed to protect women's safety and privacy. Daley referred to instances wherein women are often followed and photographed by pro-lifers. Controversy swirls around the ordinance, which, though modeling itself after like laws in other states, drew disapproval from the ACLU for...
The abortion debate: It's personal
2009-12-23 05:19:00 Members of Planned Parenthood protest against the Stupak Amendment concerning abortion coverage. Getty ImagesAs a kid, Corrina Gura was fascinated by babies.She remembers visiting the specimens of preserved human embryos and fetuses on display in the Prenatal Development exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry with her parents....
Shell game Will Pay for Abortion coverage (while pretending it?s not)
2009-12-20 12:04:00 Okay now. According to the Chicago Tribune, the Senate has compromised on the Health Care bill so that taxpayer money will not be used for abortions. The original compromise was that the government would subsidize the coverage of health insurance, but if the insurance company paid for routine elective abortions, the woman would merely have to ...
Why I?m Leery of the Manhattan Declaration
2009-11-30 15:15:00 Someone recently asked me what I thought of the Manhattan Declaration. For those who don’t know, the declaration I’m referring to links Catholics, Greek Orthodox, and Protestants together under the banner “Christian” to stand for life and traditional marriage in our culture. It’s an attempt to stick together as Christians in our opposition to these ...
Abortion, capital punishment and war -- One of these things is not like the
2009-11-29 04:00:00 [Cross-posted to The American Catholic] Ed Stoddard of Reuters' religion blog Faithworld carries a roundup of the skirmish between Congressman Patrick Kennedy, the son of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, has claimed that Rhode Island Bishop Thomas Tobin. In conclusion, Stoddard asks:This leads to a question about the consistency of views in the U.S. Catholic Church leadership. The Church opposes abortion and therefore liberal politicians who support abortion rights risk being refused communion. The Church supports a healthcare overhaul that would make the system more equitable. So does a conservative Catholic politician who opposes this reform risk being denied communion for ignoring the Catholic social teaching that justifies it? How about support for capital punishment, which the Vatican says is unjustified in almost all possible cases, or for war? In the build-up to the Iraq war, Pope John Paul was so opposed to the plan that he sent a personal envoy to Washington to argue again...
Planned Parenthood to Shut Down Five Clinics in Indiana
2009-09-15 05:47:00 According to the Associated Press, Planned Parenthood plans to close five of its clinics in the state of Indiana in anticipation of a shortage in federal funding for the nonprofit organization. The clinics are located in Anderson, Franklin, Kokomo, northwest Indianapolis and Shelbyville. The Indiana Family Health Council will begin distributing the funds for Title XX. ...
Keep abortion funding out of healthcare
2009-09-11 00:17:00 A new poll shows that even most American women don't want abortion funded through a government health care program....
Family Guy Abortion Episode Table Read
2009-08-14 16:29:00 Leave it to the folks over at Family Guy to push the envelope with the Griffin family. These clips were taken at at the table reading for what is sure to be one of their most controversial episodes to date. Family Guy will take on the abortion issue in a way only an ... Related posts:Cheryl Cole rocked by abortion rumorsEva Longoria wants a family over an OscarAnna Nicole Smith to be buried in Bahamas….or not
By: Celebridiot
Karen Cunagin Sypher Photos: Rick Pitino Adultery & Abortion Case
2009-08-12 13:48:00 Karen Cunagin Sypher accused Rick Pitino of assault, rape and offering her money to have an abortion, while the University of Louisville basketball coach claims the sex was consensual and accuses Karen of extortion. The classy lady asked for money in exchange for her silence (read Rick Pitino Extortion Case Details). Coach Rick Pitino?s wife Joanne ...
Tom Hayes - Let's talk about euthanasia and abortion
2009-08-04 19:56:00 Abortion is a proven "wedge" issue, in the finest tradition of Karl Rove's masterful divisive politics, and it's arguably being used that way again right now in the health-care insurance reform debate. The mainstream media is commercial, so they're far from immune from the effects of the money being spent to spin, shape, frame, and control this debate. Most of us, frankly, have "good enough" insurance, and we all get to make the choice to keep our current system. In fact, of the 5 out of 6 covered Americans, fully 3 out of 4 of them say they're mostly satisfied. So let's be clear: this isn't about the majority, this is about the 1 in 6 Americans who aren't covered. 1 in 6 - that's not quite 50 million Americans. Now, nobody's proposed socialized medicine - if they had the doctors wouldn't be mostly in favor of reform. But it's a tested sound bite that shaves off a few votes. Did you know they need more billing clerks at Duke Medical Center than they have nurses? Does...
Waxman Eager to Mandate Abortion Coverage in Health Care Bill
2009-08-02 08:08:00 Of the issues that I have thought a lot about over the years, I have blogged the least about abortion. My views on the issue have been in constant flux. I used to consider myself a pro-lifer, having twice participated in the March for Life when I lived in DC. Perhaps, as part of my general ...
By: GayPatriot
Face the Truth: Abortion is baby murder
2009-07-17 11:45:00 I've always been pro-choice -- for the baby. The baby is the one who should get to choose. The fact of the matter is: Abortion is the murder of an unborn child. Protesters from the Pro-Life Action League holding "Baby Malachi" signs outside the American Medical Association convention in downtown Chicago on June 15, 2009. Photo by Sam Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League. The reason that abortion is legal in this country is that unborn children don't vote, and they don't make campaign contributions, so they don't have the political clout to get their safety protected. That's the same reason why there in no law requiring seat belts on school buses in Illinois and most other states. Until unborn children do have political clout, I...
Where does Sonia Sotomayor stand on abortion?
2009-07-15 19:12:00 A few of the Republicans did ask Sonia Sotomayor about abortion during her Senate confirmation hearings.But it's clear that she won't give her personal viewpoint. But which nominee ever has?When asked, she said that President Obama never asked her about her personal views on abortion rights. "I was asked no question by anyone including the president about my views on any specific legal issue," she said.So it looks like there's been no "litmus test."Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican from Texas, brought up quotes from George Pavia, a partner at the law firm where Sotomayor worked before becoming a federal judge in 1992. Pavia told the Washington Post that Sotomayor was an abortion-rights advocate.She said didn't know what he based that...
Appeals court activates long-dormant abortion parental notification law in
2009-07-14 21:48:00 "A victory for Illinois parents and children"Overshadowed by the Senate hearings on pro-choice Sonia Sotomayor's suitability to be a Supreme Court justice, a U.S. appeals court in Chicago on Tuesday gave new life to a long-dormant law that requires Illinois parents be notified when their minor daughter seeks an abortion.The three-judge federal appeals panel lifted a permanent injunction imposed by federal district judge David Coar that had been the latest in a series of continuing roadblock to enforcing the parental notification law passed in 1995....
Abortion Discussion, 6/22/09
2009-06-22 22:07:00 Luis lol looks like the internet here is fading out this is a topic i need to educate myself more in i am pro-life to a certain degree, an open to changing my views this is something of yours that has rubbed off on me. 3:38pmLeonard It’s such an important issue Luis. It begs something so much further. It ...
3 Reasons Why Murdering an Abortion Doctor Isn?t Being Called ?Terrorism?
2009-06-03 07:02:00 "...Timothy McVeigh bombing the Oklahoma City building is not terrorism."By Will PotterSimulposted with Green is the New RedJun 2nd, 2009Dr. George Tiller, one of the few late-term abortion providers in the country, was murdered inside his church on Sunday, and the only suspect is Scott Roeder, a man The New York Times said ?had professed an anti-government, anti-abortion philosophy.? U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called the murder an ?abhorrent act of violence,? but he hasn?t used the word ?terrorism.? Not once.Why?As a bit of context, if you?re new to this website, the FBI labels the animal rights and environmental movements as the ?number one domestic terrorism threat? even though those activists have never harmed a human being. At the very worst, underground groups like the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front have released animals from fur farms, destroyed SUVs and set fire to empty buildings.When animal rights activists or environmental activists are arrested...
Why Olbermann Is A Douchbag
2009-06-03 01:32:00 So, if FNC and Bill O’Reilly have a role to play in the death of Dr. Tiller then doesn’t MSNBC and Olbermann have a role to play in the shooting of two soldiers in Arkansas, leading to one of them dying, because of his anti-war rants? Or what about John Murtha and his convicting ...
Abortion Provider Dr. George Tiller Assassinated
2009-06-02 22:13:00 Dr. George Tiller, a man who dedicated his life to women’s rights and reproductive freedoms, was murdered in the foyer of his church while handing out the church bulletin. Dr. Tiller had become subject to much scrutiny from anti-choicers not only in his hometown of Wichita, Kansas, but across the country due to the ...
By: Menstrual Poetry
Shooting puts abortion foes on defense
2009-06-02 19:37:00 Shooting puts abortion foes on defense WICHITA, Kan. - The slaying of a Kansas abortion doctor put the anti-abortion movement on the defensive Monday with prominent leaders delicately distancing themselves from the accused killer while positioning their stand as one shared by a majority of Americans. Already reeling from the failure to dominate last year’s election ...
By: TexasFred's
Abortion Doctor Killed in Church
2009-06-01 19:53:00 I support a woman?s right to choose but I also think that abortion is used far too often in this country as a means of birth control. People who think abortion is wrong have every right to express their opinion and they are not responsible for the criminal actions of a few individuals. ...
AG Holder orders protection in wake of doctor slaying
2009-06-01 19:26:00 AG Holder orders protection in wake of doctor slaying WASHINGTON (AP) ? Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered increased security for a host of unnamed individuals and facilities in the wake of the slaying of abortion Dr. George Tiller. Jeff Carter, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service, confirmed Holder’s move early Monday. Carter said the Judicial ...
By: TexasFred's
Killing Abortion Doctor = Terrorism
2009-06-01 00:04:00 Throwing acid in a young girl’s face to prevent her from going to school. Strapping on a bomb and detonating it in a crowded restaurant. Walking into a church and killing a man who performs abortions. How is one of the above acts any different from the other? Terrorism is defined as the systematic use of terror or violence especially as a means of coercion. Dr. George Tiller was killed today. The goal was not only to end his life, but to send a clear message to abortion providers all over the country. And the rest of us, too. Free-thinking and rational people who want to live by the rule of law should be alarmed. This act of terrorism by a radical anti-abortion wingnut must remind us to be ever-vigilant when it comes to extremists in our own country as well as overseas. The fact that Dr. Tiller was murdered during a church service is mind-boggling. The anti-abortion movement that advocates stalking doctors and harming them is, at its core, motivated by religious fanatics (as ...
Kan. abortion provider was polarizing force
(AP)
2009-05-31 22:56:00 AP - When George Tiller was young he dreamed not of being one of the most visible and strident advocates for abortion rights, but of becoming a dermatologist.
Sunday at the TexasFred House
2009-05-31 19:40:00 Geithner calls for closer economic ties with China BEIJING (AP) ? After years of acrimonious economic relations with China, the U.S. insists it wants to turn the page and develop closer ties with the world’s third largest economy. Full Story Here: Geithner calls for closer economic ties with China Of course Lil’ Timmy wants closer ties with China, his ...
By: TexasFred's
Obama @ Notre Dame
2009-05-17 15:47:00 President Obama is set to give the commencement speech at Notre Dame University today, and many people are upset by this. Notre Dame being a Catholic school and Obama’s support for abortion and stem cell research, I can understand their anger over him speaking and the University giving him an honorary doctorate. And ...
Gay Marriage: The New Abortion in Confirmation Hearings?
2009-05-05 20:44:00 Over at his blog Legal Insurrection, Cornell Law Professor William A. Jacobson speculates that gay marriage will come up when President Obama’s nominee to replace Justice Souter faces his (or her) Senate confirmation hearings. In Supreme Court confirmation hearings it has become the new abortion. “Unlike abortion, gay marriage has not gained wide political acceptance ...
By: GayPatriot
Abortion? As Unthinkable as Racism
2009-05-01 14:40:00 John Piper has some great remarks on the connection between racism and abortion. The link between the two gives hope that as the one used to be accepted and now is unthinkable, so the other will fade away as well. clipped from www.desiringgod.org We should seek to stigmatize abortion by associating it with racism as closely ... |
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