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January 10th, 2011 by Joel

41% Of New York City Pregnancies Terminated in 2009

Leaders of various faiths denounced figures that showed that 41% of pregnancies in the city were terminated in 2009. They also criticized sex-education programs in the public school system that include distributing condoms.

“That 41% of New York babies are aborted, a percentage even higher in the Bronx and among our African-American babies in the womb, is downright chilling,” said the archbishop, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in New York City. “I invite all to come together to make abortion rare,” he added.

Church Leaders Blast NYC Abortion Numbers – Metropolis – WSJ.

I would after to agree with some who note that for the most part, (male) Religious Leaders are only concerned with femininity when it comes to controlling their body.

However, 41% of pregnancies terminated is a pretty outstanding number. Can this be regulated by laws? Hardly.

I would prefer other avenues of support for these women, which would be more effective than laws, but what about you? Should our concern with these numbers be about laws and regulation, or should we start somewhere else?

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November 19th, 2010 by Joel

Birth or Not?

It appears that the website is down -

A US couple’s decision to let the public vote on whether or not they should keep their baby has dismayed prolifers.

Pete and Alisha Arnold, both 30, have set up the website, www.birthornot.com, to allow people to place their vote, as well as share their thoughts and see pictures of the foetus – nicknamed “Wiggles” by the pair.

Alisha is already 17 weeks pregnant, meaning that the unborn baby is entering the stage of growth where it is able to suck its thumb and hear voices. (here)

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Disgusting – even if this is an attempt at making a statement.

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November 12th, 2010 by Joel

Do not take Planned Parenthood’s Sex Tips

Lifesite News is reporting,

The world’s leading abortion provider is continuing to promote a graphic brochure advocating casual sex among youth. According to International Planned Parenthood Federation, the brochure called “Healthy, Happy and Hot” has become their most popular publication.

Aimed at young people with HIV, the brochure contains sexually explicit language and promotes casual sex with multiple partners, as well as oral, anal, and homosexual sex.

“Some people like to have aggressive sex,” says the brochure.  “There is no right or wrong way to have sex.”    It encourages young people who might have sex after drinking or using drugs to “plan ahead by bringing condoms.”  Another section suggests readers visit family planning clinics for help in preventing or aborting unplanned pregnancies.

The publication encourages youth to keep their sexual activity secret from their parents, as well as visits to family planning clinics.  “You should find out whether there are any centers near to you where you can go without needing the permission of your parents or guardians.”

The brochure criticizes countries with laws requiring disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners.  Such laws violate the rights of people living with HIV, the pamphlet argues.

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Why? Why is stuff like this printed, sold and financed by…. well, do some research…

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October 20th, 2010 by Joel

President Obama is the Angel of Death – Colorado 62

I can only shake my head, in disgust, and wonder at the depravity of such…

You know how I feel about elective abortion; I do not think that the right to is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. Neither are a few other ‘rights.’ You also  know how I feel about civility in discourse. I find that this ad is disgusting, and beneath us as Americans. They seek to politically declare what a ‘person’ is (which is a theological concept debated today) and yet attacks the personhood of President Obama.

We need to do better then this.

You can read the background of the ad here.

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August 12th, 2010 by Joel

Pelosi is no theologian

Okay…I admit, the reporter is awesome. Great question:

You said at a recent Catholic Community Conference that your favorite word was ‘The Word, as in the word made flesh,’ and that we need to quote, ‘give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the Word.’So, when was the Word made flesh? Was it at the Annunciation, when Jesus was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit, as the Creed says, or was it at the Nativity when he was born of the Virgin Mary? And when did the Word get the right to life?”

Oh, I can’t tell you how much I loved that question. And Pelosi’s bizarre-take-2 response, which is actually untrue, I might add:

Whenever it was, we bow our heads when we talk about it in church, and that’s where I’d like to talk about that.

Pelosi refuses to say when Jesus got the right to life – Jill Stanek.

Republicans make bad examples of pro-family valued people and Democrats are worse theologians. (Politicians, I mean)

It is a fair question – I mean if the Word is to be used for public policy, then let’s do so completely. Christ was born to an unwed teen with no hope for an education, etc…

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August 3rd, 2010 by Joel

Adult Stem Cells and Success

Stem Cells are the big rage in medical science, and rightly so. Like anything good, it pays to get back to the source to heal health fissures which have developed over time. Embryonic stem cells, harvested from aborted fetuses, have yet to be proven to work successfully, and yet there is huge money being invested into that area  – all the while, medical science is actually showing results from adult stem cells.

A few months ago, Dr. Thomas Einhorn was treating a patient with a broken ankle that wouldn’t heal, even with multiple surgeries. So he sought help from the man’s own body.

Einhorn drew bone marrow from the man’s pelvic bone with a needle, condensed it to about four teaspoons of rich red liquid, and injected that into his ankle.

Four months later the ankle was healed. Einhorn, chair of orthopedic surgery at Boston University Medical Center, credits “adult” stem cells in the marrow injection. He tried it because of published research from France.

Read the rest here:

Heal thyself: Patients use own stem cells – Health – Cloning and stem cells – msnbc.com.

With the measurable success of adult stem cells verses that of embryonic stem cells which is none, why is it then that we should continue to be told that we must spend money in that area?

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June 25th, 2010 by Joel

Andrea Bocelli, A Life Saved

Just think of the talent, perhaps economic or art or politic, that has been culled from the human race by elective abortion.

Bocelli, who is blind, didn’t expect the fuss over his testimony but voiced his pro-life stance clearly in a recent interview with Italian newspaper Il Foglio, as reported by LifeSiteNews.com.

“Because of my personal convictions as a devout Catholic, I am not only fighting against something, I am fighting for something – and I am for life,” the world-famous tenor said.

In the video, Bocelli does not make arguments defending the dignity of human persons in the womb, but rather tells a short story of how he came to be.

Read the story here:

via Renowned Singer Andrea Bocelli Tells Abortion Story | Christianpost.com.

It is a cliché, but just imagine the difference an abortion might make….

Economic – There’s a preacher and wife who are very, very, poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she’s pregnant with her 15th. They’re living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion? John Wesley

Birth Defects – The father is sick with sniffles, the mother has TB. They have 4 children. the 1st is blind, the 2nd is dead, the 3rd is deaf and the 4th has TB. she finds she’s pregnant again. Given the extreme situation, would you consider recommending abortion? Beethoven

Rape – A white man raped a 13-year-old black girl and she got pregnant. If you were her parents, would you consider recommending abortion? Ethel Waters

Doesn’t want to run a young life – A teenage girl is pregnant. She’s not married. Here fiancée is not the father of the baby, and he’s very upset. Would you consider recommending abortion? (You know this one, right?)

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June 19th, 2010 by Joel

How many abortions did you pay for between 2002-2009?

My guess is that it would be a lot more than you either would like or know about. The list of organizations, which spent 1 BILLION dollars of your tax money on abortions are not government clinics, but private groups, and sometimes, businesses:

The GAO report showed the following government funding:

– Advocates for Youth, $8.7 million.

– Guttmacher Institute, $12.7 million.

– International Planned Parenthood Federation, $3.9 million.

– Planned Parenthood Federation of America, $657.1 million.

– Population Council of the United States, $284.3 million.

– Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, $300,000.

And this occurred during the Bush years, when the GOBP controlled the White House and Congress.

“Additionally, for federal fiscal years 2002 through 2005, complete obligation and disbursement data for awards made through USAID’s overseas-based missions were not available,” the GAO said in the report. “As a result, obligations and disbursements in this report may understate the actual amount of federal funds provided to the selected organizations and their affiliates.”

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A group responded to the GAO report of course, without announcing any supporting evidence, states that funding has dramatically increased under the current President’s term.

I can think of nothing else to say, but what Henry David Thoreau said after his imprisonment for refusing to may a poll tax which supported slavery.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

You may read more about proper civil disobedience here. Mind you, I am not one for nullifying every action of the Federal Government, but seeing as it is my money, and I do not want my money paying for elective abortions, I am hard-pressed to test my resolve as to the obedience to my proper government.

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May 25th, 2010 by Gez

First UK television advertisement for an abortion clinic airs

Channel 4 in the UK has broadcast the first ever British television commercial for an abortion clinic. Marie Stopes International, a multi-national organisation that runs over 600 abortion clinics worldwide, ran the advertisement. Marie Stopes got around a ban on the advertising of abortion services by commercial organisations in the UK as Marie Stopes is a charity. According to the BBC they carry out 65,000 abortions a year in the UK, and their website states they performed 557,000 abortions worldwide in 2009.

The television commercial:

More: Abortion services to be advertised on UK television for first time | The Guardian

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May 22nd, 2010 by Joel

NAE to partner to reduce number of abortions

The NAE has released a statement indicating that they are moving in the direction to focus on abortion, not laws which seek to prevent abortion.

In an effort to pursue common ground towards reducing the number of abortions in the United States, the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), representing 40 denominations, scores of evangelical organizations and millions of American evangelicals, today announced a new initiative focusing on respecting sex and respecting life. The NAE Generation Forum will explore practical and realistic approaches to curtail the high abortion rate in this country. Particular focus will be placed on young adults since they, not teenagers, have the majority of abortions.

“America has an abortion problem,” said Leith Anderson, NAE President. “Yes, we are grateful that the abortion rate has declined. But, a million abortions in the United States every year is unacceptable. The NAE is engaging a fresh national dialogue seeking effective ways to significantly reduce the number of abortions.”

Polling indicates that most Americans would like to see fewer abortions. The NAE recently partnered with Gallup, Inc. to poll evangelicals on their views about abortion. Nearly 9 out of every 10 evangelicals believe abortion is a serious problem in our country and that it should be an important priority for our nation to work together to reduce the number of abortions. Significant majorities of the respondents indicated support for a wide range of possible methods for decreasing the abortion rate – from parental consent and waiting periods before abortions to efforts at making adoption, pre- and post-natal care, and contraceptive services more accessible.

In response to this survey and with the desire to make measurable progress in reducing abortions, the Board of Directors for the NAE unanimously adopted a resolution supporting constructive efforts toward decreasing the number of abortions in America….

(View full text of press announcement here.)

(View full text of NAE resolution here.)

Moving in the right direction or not? Thoughts?

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May 19th, 2010 by Joel

Rape, Hey, it’s not that Bad, Really. Kinda like Divorce

I would like to say that there are better ways of saying that the life of the unborn is more precious than anything else, but this is not the way to even come close to thinking about starting to say something important:

You made fun of what I said about Christian women rather being raped than commit murder by saying that I haven’t asked a lot of women about this. That was snide but it didn’t answer my point, which is that rape doesn’t justify murder. Rape is nasty and it’s a sin (it’s adultery because they aren’t married and if the woman is a virgin or married it’s theft) but you can’t kill someone because of adultery or theft. Would you kill someone who your husband had relations with? That’s murder. Would you kill someone who stole your car? That’s murder. If killing for rape is murder than killing for just attempting to rape is even worse. The person’s dying for something they haven’t even done.

Atheists always use rape as an argument for justifying killing because they want to justify abortion. But is rape really that bad? It’s a horrible experience but you get over it with time. If you use it to justify murder you’re never going to get over it. Imagine you have a painful divorce. Would you murder your children after because they remind you of your ex husband? Of course not. I think any woman would easily tell you that a painful divorce is worse than rape but it’s not an excuse to kill your baby, so why is rape?

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Really? Rape is bad because it might be a theft if the woman is either married or a virgin? And then, rape is something you can ‘get over?’

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