A girl’s got to protect herself. I’m brushing up on my ninja techniques. Busy weekend. I won’t rest easy, but I hope you will.
(Image credit: My 10-year-old nephew, who was a baby only last week. How did he get to be 10? That means I’m…)
From the monthly archives:
October 2009
You Generation Y types probably have no idea who Scott Baio is, but Gen-X-ers like me should know. Baio was Chachi on “Happy Days” and spin-off “Joanie Loves Chachi,” and Charles on “Charles in Charge.”
I just learned this morning, through Jill Stanek, that Baio is pro-life and a conservative. He responded to someone on Twitter, and his leanings leaked out. He tweeted, “People that are Pro-Choice should ‘Thank’ their Mother for being Pro-Life.”
But, as Jill notes, the tweet is no longer there. “For whatever reason Baio – or his agent – apparently decided it best to remain underground with his pro-life convictions.”
That’s too bad. I’ve made similar complaints about Christian rockers who don’t like talking about their faith.
One actor who isn’t shy about his pro-life views is actor Jim Caviezel, probably best known for portraying Christ in “The Passion of the Christ.”
So few in Hollywood (or in the music business) hold views similar to mine. They’re like diamonds buried in a pile of manure. When I find one, I’ve got to pluck it out, clean it off, and present it.
Sparkly.
The 22nd SFLA National Conference will be held on January 23, 2010, at the Pryzbyla Center, Catholic University in Washington, DC, my old stomping grounds. (Left the capital a year ago after almost 10 years, and don’t miss it. Much.)
Top 5 Reasons You Need to Attend the 22nd SFLA National Conference:
- Find potential jobs and internships in the pro-life movement
- Meet other student pro-life leaders from across the U.S.
- Learn how to be more effective in saving lives on your campus
- Participate in March for Life and other pro-life events the same week
- Hear and meet national pro-life speakers and heroes
Check out the proposed schedule. No Lila Rose of Live Action or Erik Whittington of Rock for Life?
Read about both in my recent off-blog effort.
(Image: an “abortable” 12-week-old unborn baby from BabyCenter)
Later…A man who killed a 13-week unborn child faces murder charges. Unborn life is only worth protecting if the woman carrying him wants him. Otherwise…
The wanted unborn baby is protected under law. The unwanted baby is not.
Does that sound right to you?
Related: “old” article at Pajamas Media about NYT aborted baby photos.
We know a lot more about the development of babies in the womb since Roe v. Wade. A re-examination of the law is overdue (pardon the pun).
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If you live long enough, you’ll eventually see everything.
I used to watch “Law & Order.” Fed up over what I considered leftist preaching and no longer willing to suspend disbelief over the statistically weak saga of the Great White Defendant, I stopped.
Anyway, in the usual “ripped from the headlines” fashion, a recent episode was loosely based on the murder of infant killer George Tiller. An abortionist performing a partial birth abortion failed in his attempt, delivering a viable baby. He asked the mother if she wanted him to finish the job he botched, and she said yes. The abortionist kills the baby, which at that point is murder as defined by law. A “pro-life” man murders the child killer. One detective investigating the case is pro-life, and the other is pro-abortion. Interesting exchange between the two at the beginning of the episode.
Jill Stanek, pro-life blogger and former labor and delivery nurse, posted the episode on her blog. I watched it. Still not a fan of the show, but I’m pleased the writers, likely pro-abortion, crafted such a script. Kudos to the network for airing the episode. There are a couple of pro-life swipes here and there, but overall, it’s watchable. The show is, for lack of a better word, groundbreaking.
Ironically, groundbreaking was used to describe pro-abortion shows in the 1960s. How times have changed. If you have 43 minutes to spare, check it out.
(Photo source: National Medical Slide Bank/Wellcome Photo Library)
I’ve always said technology was on the side of unborn babies, more than mere clumps of cells or globs of tissue. These tiny souls have heartbeats and reflexes, including reactions to pain.
For these and many other reasons, I take what the “pro-choice” consider an extreme position. No matter how the baby was conceived or the financial or emotional state of the mother, unborn life should be protected. Period.
Pro-life voters are pushing for personhood bills and amendments, which would declare that a fertilized egg is a person under the law. Implications are far-reaching, as you might expect. Such laws would impact birth control (which may thwart implantation of a fertilized egg), in vitro fertilization, and abortion itself. If a fertilized egg is legally declared a person, then destroying the fertilized egg, regardless of its stage of development, would be illegal.
No personhood measure passed in the last election, but pro-life voters aren’t giving up. Michigan joins Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, and Montana in the effort to place personhood measures on state ballots. (Source)
A pro-life Democrat, Rep. Jim Slezack, is a leading sponsor of the Michigan amendment. The measure reads:
“Every human person has a right to life, which is the paramount and most fundamental right guaranteed under the constitution and laws of this state…With respect to the fundamental and inalienable right to life, the word ‘person’ applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, gender, health, function, condition of dependency, including physical or mental dependency, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of biological development, including fertilization.”
Yes, pro-life Democrats exist. I had the pleasure of meeting and discussing this issue with pro-life Democrat and FOX News analyst Kirsten Powers. We also talked about it on Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air.
More info:
PC or not, I laughed:
What a world we live in. Wearing a funny “illegal alien” costume, complete with orange jumpsuit, a green green card, and space alien mask, is tasteless. Actually being someone who jumps borders or overstays a Visa in violation of the law isn’t tasteless, I suppose.
To some people, this is fiction:
“But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.
“For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.” – 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18
For me, it is truth. The words fill me with deep longing. I count myself among those who belong to Him, including the men and women who saw Christ with their own eyes. I am a sister in Christ to the apostles Peter and Paul. I am a member of a body of believers that spans the globe. We are hopeful. We are waiting, watching, welcoming…
I can’t believe what I read. A Louisiana justice of the peace, in 2009, refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple. I suspect he’s a smoker of crack.
Keith Bardwell said, “I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house. “My main concern is for the children…I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves. In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.” Then he said, “I try to treat everyone equally.” (Source)
First of all, how has he gotten away with refusing to issue marriage licenses to interracial couples? Second, unless he knows of specific instances of children being abused or neglected, it’s not his business. Third, he may as well get out of the marriage business if he’s concerned about break-ups. The divorce rate in the U.S. is almost 50 percent.
There must be more to the story. Nonetheless, even if he was set up, he ensnared himself.
For liberals poised to use this silly incident to bolster arguments for homosexual “marriage,” see Loving the Interracial Marriage Distinction.
“Christian” Barack Obama believes the Christian worldview is inferior to the worldview he espoused in his recent Human Rights Campaign speech. The whole thing smells really bad, but I’ll post this excerpt: (emphasis added):
“My expectation is that when you look back on these years, you will see a time in which we put a stop to discrimination against gays and lesbians — whether in the office or on the battlefield. You will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman. You will see a nation that’s valuing and cherishing these families as we build a more perfect union — a union in which gay Americans are an important part. I am committed to these goals. And my administration will continue fighting to achieve them.”
“Gay Americans” who wish to be married have the same rights as the rest of us Americans. What they want, something I’ll always speak out against, is the right to render absurd the very idea of marriage, which is the God-ordained union of one man and one woman. They want to shift the very foundation of the nation in general and families in particular, and some have the shameless gall to equate sex between two men with blacks’ rights to equal treatment.
In a stunning display of irony, Obama signs off with this: “God bless you. God bless America.”
Got it, professing Christians who voted for this man? Obama asked God to bless that which God calls an abomination. To echo Dr. James White, Reformed Christian pastor, apologist, debater, author, webcaster, and blogger, Obama wants us to honor that which sent Christ to the cross. Christians cannot honor it.
I can’t post the video. To watch this “Christian” assuring those in rebellion against God that he hopes their rebellion will be glorified is stomach-churning. Watch at your own risk.
Dr. White offers a wonderfully edifying assessment of Obama’s speech. Download the 60-minute MP3. Follow him on Twitter at DrOakley1689.
Color me impressed that the left-leaning New York Times showed pictures of retrieved aborted babies along with this story (you can read the story without looking at the images, so no “graphic image warning” necessary):
“A theology professor at Madonna University and the director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, she said she had firsthand experience retrieving fetuses after abortions and photographing them. When we met two days later in her university office, she handed me proof: a series of 4-by-6-inch prints that she shot, which have been turned into portraits by Stephen McGee.
“The first image in the pile gave me a clue to the source. It showed a cardboard box with six or seven large, sealed plastic bags with something red inside. There were names on the bags in black ink and, on the box, there was a date written with felt-tip marker: Feb. 27, 1988.
“Mrs. Migliorino Miller said this was one of the many boxes filled with fetuses that she, her husband and several others pulled 21 years ago from a loading dock in Northbrook, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. Acting on a tip, between February and September of 1988, she said they retrieved around 4,000 fetuses that had been shipped there from a dozen or so abortion clinics nationwide. (A protracted lawsuit tied to their efforts ended in 2003.)
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“Last year, she said she found 23 fetuses in trash-hauling bins outside two Michigan abortion clinics, leading to a state investigation of the companies’ removal procedures; in 1987, she said a tip led her to a Chicago alley with dozens of boxed-up fetuses in a trash-hauling bin…That was when she took her first fetal pictures. She described her initial motivation as journalistic. “We felt it was very important to make a record of the reality of abortion,” she said.
“The process was a challenge: the fetuses, hard to handle; the scent of the formaldehyde solution, enough to burn the nose. Shooting could only be done up close. She recalled renting expensive macro lenses to get within millimeters of the fetuses.
“She pointed to one of her snapshots showing a tiny hand with visible wrinkles. ‘In order to get that detail,’ she said, ‘you need to get a camera right on top of that.’”
When people say that pro-life people ought to shut about child killing and adopt “unwanted” babies or give these women more money to take care of their kids, it’s absolutely maddening. Permissiveness, not personal responsibility, selflessness, and sacrifice, is always the focus.
Some homosexuals are peeved President Barack Obama didn’t say more about their “rights” in a Human Rights Campaign speech delivered yesterday. I have yet to hear/read the speech, but apparently Obama pledged to end the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but stopped short of retracting his opposition to “gay marriage.” Naturally, bloggers on the left are buzzing.
My opposition to homosexual “marriage” and belief in God’s prohibitions against the practice itself are well-known, and I’ve got the “Religious bigot!” creds to prove it. But I’m surprised the White House called homosexual bloggers pushing the prez on the “right” to marry “left fringe.” NBC’s Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood said an Obama advisor told him “those bloggers need to take off the pajamas, get dressed and realize that governing a closely divided country is complicated and difficult.”
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The pajamas snark is so 2004. (Et tu, Sarah Palin?) I thought Obama’s advisors were youngish and “hip”? There are lawyers, doctors, teachers, students, etc., following the issues, researching the issues, doing independent reporting, blogging about what’s important to them, and offering unique perspectives and observations. But the White House knows that. The advisor was trying to be dismissively funny.
(I oppose what most leftist bloggers support, but I take it a bit personally when political types and mainstream media insult bloggers, because I am a blogger.)
Calling the country’s division on the issues “complicated and difficult” is an understatement, but it shows that Obama is trying to play as close to the middle as he can while maintaining his fan base core supporters. He’s between the proverbial rock and a hard place, and I hope his support among “left fringe” devotees wanes.
Update: 10/12: Hadn’t realized Glenn Reynolds linked to this post. Vetting problems, indeed.
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The literary term irony is used in different ways. For example, something that appears to mean one thing but actually means another is irony. The incongruity between the actual result of an event and the expected result of an event is irony.
Our president appointed a homosexual activist named Kevin Jennings to head the Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. Jennings’s present job entails “creating safe schools, responding to crises, drug abuse and violence prevention, ensuring the health and well being of students and promoting development of good character and citizenship.”
Twenty-one years ago, while Jennings was a high school teacher, a teenage boy (a student) told him he was “involved” with a man he met in a public bathroom. Jennings didn’t call the police and report the molestation/statutory rape, however; he told the boy to use condoms. (Source)
This is irony: A man charged to lead an office focused on the well-being of children failed to protect a child preyed upon by an adult. Rather than calling the boy’s parents and/or child protective services and/or warning the kid to stay away from strange men in public bathrooms, he advises him to use a condom to avoid contracting nasty diseases while being buggered.
Then again, should we be surprised?
Totally and absolutely disgusting.
And ironic.
