LifeSiteNews.com: US Pediatric Nursing Journal Toys with Condoning Infanticide
Writes countries must continue to examine the moral, medical, ethical and legal aspects of direct killing of disabled infants (LifeSiteNews.com)
Writes countries must continue to examine the moral, medical, ethical and legal aspects of direct killing of disabled infants (LifeSiteNews.com)
Steve Chapman takes on notion that banning guns will lower suicide rate. (Also, consider that gun control's island paradise Japan has one of the highest suicide rates.)
The Life / Death Clock attempts to add real perspective to the discussion
of the social costs/benefits of gun ownership in America.
State offers to pay for assisted suicide but not cancer treatment. Story here.
I noticed this article about a concealed carry being offered through a chamber of commerce elsewhere.
I have been promoting concealed carry through my own chamber, the Ladera Ranch Chamber of Commerce, which is part of the South Orange County Regional Chambers of Commerce. I flew to Utah last weekend and got approved this week as a Utah instructor, so I am now offering the class in the Chamber's online Business Directory (click the "Hot Deals" button).
I am also looking for community groups interested in promoting a class for their members as a charity event, and I have approached various Catholic groups and a domestic violence shelter. For these groups, I would consider donating my time and suggesting a donation in lieu of training fee.
...leaving the country as the most suicide-prone anywhere in the developed world and rendering government efforts to combat the problem a failure....“We live in an uncomfortable and restrictive society where trivial matters are important.....TimesOnline
A woman who underwent an abortion to terminate the life of baby Finley because he might have kidney damage was shocked when she discovered the child was meant to live.
Failed abortion proves a blessing.
A pro-life organization is urging parents and others to target local teachers' conventions as well as a national event in Washington July 2 with protests and pickets to try to convince leaders to abandon their pro-abortion agenda.
Targeting teachers with protests urged.
When it comes to the killing of an unborn child, California law seems more than a little confused. Because under the law, sometimes it's murder, and sometimes it's not.
Colorado voters in November will become the first statewide electorate in the nation to decide whether the unborn should be granted "personhood" under the law, pro-life advocates announced today.
Under pressure from officials, a popular company is offering its customers their money back after exhibiting plasticized humans that could be the bodies of China's persecuted victims
By just two votes, the California State Assembly passed a bill yesterday that detractors say allows doctors to push patients toward medically assisted suicide. The bill, AB 2747, enables doctors to provide a patient declared to have less than one year to live with a long list of end-of-life options, including a last-moments option that looks suspiciously like euthanasia.
Until Lutsenko's comment, the Communist Party of Ukraine was the only major political player advocating the death penalty's return.
"Her skin had already started to harden and her fingers curled. Death had set in,"
Link: Top Stories: A commitment to purity | ball, purity, wilson : Gazette.com.
This is the 10th anniversary of the Father-Daughter Purity Ball, one of the most successful - and controversial - ideas to come out of Colorado Springs' conservative Christian community. Fathers at the purity ball, held at The Broadmoor on Friday night, pledge not only to live purely, but to be the authority and protector of their daughters' purity.
Link: Abortionists use Mother's Day for fundraising.
Planned Parenthood, the U.S. abortion industry's biggest presence, is using Mother's Day to promote its conferences and raise funds, triggering a jaw-dropping reaction among those who battle its agenda.
Link: 'Right-to-die' cards for the healthy.
A city in the United Kingdom has started promoting "right-to-die" cards for its young, healthy residents, earning the condemnation of pro-life organizations who have called it a "move towards legal suicide."
Link: Poll: Catholics will vote pro-life.
There is no more pressing evil facing the United States than the deaths of 40 million or 50 million unborn children in the abortion industry since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court opinion, according to a new poll that also reveals Catholics are being prompted by the recent visit of Pope Benedict XVI to vote their life issue opinions.
Another great email from Fred:
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April 22, 2008
WHY DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING WAS A REPUBLICAN
By Fred Schnaubelt
Barack Obama has asked for a dialogue on race. Before beginning at the beginning of institutional racism in the U.S. do you remember Bull Connor in Birmingham, Alabama? He was the sheriff who unleashed police attack dogs and high pressure fire hoses on African-American children peacefully demonstrating in the 1960s. Those compelling TV pictures spread like a Rodney King beating across the country burning indelible impressions on me and all who watched. Bull Connor changed Civil Rights forever.
Sheriff Bull Connor was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, a racist and a Democrat, even though many people today mistakenly believe he was a Republican.
Condoleezza Rice speaking at Vanderbilt University said that when she was growing up it was the Democrats who refused to register her father to vote but Republicans did.
Reverend Wayne Perryman, a Seattle minister and the author of Unfounded Loyalty, takes us back to the beginning of institutionalized racism in the U.S. He filed in December 2004 a class action suit against the Democratic Party for reparations for its 200 years of oppression. The Democrat Party, since inception until 1964 was the party of slavery, secession and segregation. wayneperryman.com
“Most people are either a Democrat by design, or a Democrat by deception,” writes Perryman. “They either know the racist history of the Democrat Party and still chose to be a Democrat, or they were deceived into believing it a party that sincerely cared about Black people.” Although he is quick to concede the Democratic Party of today is not the same as the party of the past.
1. Perryman, articulates the following chronology: “History reveals that every piece of racist legislation that was ever passed and every racist terrorist attack that was ever inflicted on African-Americans was initiated by the members of the Democratic Party. From the formation of the Democratic Party in 1792 to the Civil Rights movement of 1960's, Congressional records show the Democrat Party passed no specific laws to help Blacks and every law that they introduced into Congress was designed to hurt Blacks.”
2. History reveals that the Republican Party was formed in 1854 to abolish slavery and challenge other racist legislative acts initiated by the Democratic Party. Some called it the Civil War, others called it the War Between the States, but to the African-Americans at that time, it was the War Between the Democrats and the Republicans over slavery. The Democrats gave their lives to expand it; Republicans gave their lives to ban it.”
3. During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African-Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities. Senate debates revealed that the Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.”
Perryman’s indictment continues: From 1792 until 2004, the Democratic Party (the oldest political party in America) never elected a Black man to the United States Senate, while the Republicans elected three.
During the first civil rights era it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry L. Morehouse (Morehouse University) and General Oliver Howard (Howard University) who founded many traditional Black colleges. Republicans fought to open them while Democrats fought to close them which is why many traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.
In the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision Court records shows that it was the Democrats, with Chief Justice Roger Taney writing the majority opinion who classified Blacks as property rather than people. It was the racist laws of the Democrats that were responsible for two subsequent landmark cases: Plessy v Ferguson (separate but equal) and Brown v. The Board of Education. (“Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”)
Congressional records show that Democrats vigorously opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments (introduced by Republicans) to abolish slavery, give citizenship to all African Americans born in the United States and, give Blacks the right to vote. Democrats voted unanimously against the 15th Amendment.
Congressional records prove that Democrats worked hard and long to prevent passage of the following laws that were passed by Republicans to achieve civil rights for African-Americans:
Civil Rights Act 1866
Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Civil Rights Act of 1957 (Pres. Eisenhower signed, Sen. John F. Kennedy voted against)
During the 1960's many Democrats, including Senators Al Gore Sr., Robert Byrd and Sam Erwin fought indefatigably to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act (which passed only because more Republicans voted for it than Democrats). Democrat Senator Richard Russell addressed the Senate stating, “We will resist to the bitter end any measure which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races…” With 18 Democrat Senators he organized the longest filibuster (56 days) in Senate history.
After signing the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act and issuing Executive Order 11478, Richard Nixon, a Republican, started what we know as Affirmative Action.
Not widely known, it was three white persons in opposition to the Democrats’ racist practices who started the NAACP.
While Democrats would prefer it suppressed, it was Democratic Attorney General, Robert Kennedy working for his brother the President, who approved secret wire taps and hidden microphones under Dr. Martin Luther King’s bed. The tapes were sent to his wife. Given the historical record of Republicans and Democrats then is it any wonder that Dr. King, like his life-long- Republican father, would be a Republican.
Republican President Ronald Reagan, over the objections of racist Republican Senator Jessie Helms, signed the law making Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday a national holiday.
Today, after exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, Perryman says the average African-American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to eradicate the unique problems that African-Americans face today. The Congressional record shows that all legislation (since 1964) has had strong bi-partisan support.
So how did the Democratic Party turn things around and get the support of Black Americans? President Lyndon Johnson took a hint from Otto Von Bismarck, father of the modern welfare state who wooed voters by inducing them to become dependents of the government. With the right to vote “uppity” African-Americans were fast becoming the dominant force in Southern politics and to insure the very survival of the Democratic Party it was imperative they be co-opted. Johnson was able to contrive the most brilliant public relations turnaround in the history of the United Sates. This was done through redistributive economics, by in effect, paying African-Americans to vote for Democrats in spite of the racist history of the Democratic Party. It was accomplished primarily through promises and concessions and the redistribution of hundreds of billions of dollars in “entitlement” programs commencing with the “War on Poverty” and “Great Society” programs. Barack Obama is right about one thing when he speaks of “promises not kept.” That has been the hallmark of the Democratic Party.
Rev. Perryman admonishes both parties to remember their past. “The Democrats must remember the terrible things they did to Blacks and apologize and the Republicans must remember the terrific things they did for Blacks and re-commit to complete the work that their predecessors started and died for.”
Schnaubelt, a San Diego City Councilman from 1977 – 1981 was San Diego’s first elected official to hire an African-American Chief of Staff, brought Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams to address the City Council, and was credited by Clarence Pendleton for his conversion from Democrat to Republican when appointed Chairman of the Civil Rights Commission.
Fred Schnaubelt
will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself "as often as possible" while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
This baby lived for several hours after the emergency C-section, before dying of asphyxiation. Link: Emergency C-section at 8½ months delivers 'non-person'.
A Colorado judge has dismissed charges against a man who caused a fatal car crash because the victim, at 8½ months of a pregnancy, had only been scheduled for a C-section to be born and that had not yet happened at the time of the crash.
Link: Vote for Sarah's Law - California November 2008 Election.
The Solution Sarah's Law will require that a physician notify a parent (or, in the case of an abusive parent, an adult family member, such as an Aunt or Grandparent, can be notified) at least 48 hours before performing an abortion on a minor girl under the age of 18.
Link: Horton Hears a Who! a hit at box office | Entertainment | Reuters.
Carrey voices the title character, a rubbery elephant who stumbles upon a speck that happens to be a tiny planet, home to a city called Who-ville. Carell voices the excitable mayor. In a rare moment of synchronicity with moviegoers, critics were also enthusiastic about the film. Fox, a unit of News Corp, said "Horton" ranks as the fifth-biggest G-rated opening ever;
Link: Royal college warns abortions can lead to mental illness - Times Online.
Women may be at risk of mental health breakdowns if they have abortions, a medical royal college has warned. The Royal College of Psychiatrists says women should not be allowed to have an abortion until they are counselled on the possible risk to their mental health.
Link: Planned Parenthood: Wanting fewer blacks 'understandable'.
A student-run magazine at UCLA has revealed an undercover investigation in which representatives of Planned Parenthood, the nation's abortion industry leader, admitted willingness to accepting a financial donation targeting the destruction of an unborn black baby.
Link: Artist hanged herself after aborting her twins - Telegraph.
An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: "I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum."
A shopkeeper could face a murder charge following a fatal struggle with a knife-wielding raider.
Link: Kansas.com | 02/08/2008 | Shooting in Mo. didn't make Huckabee rethink gun rights views.
"Thank goodness there was a police officer there to stop the killer," he added. "Had there not been a law-abiding person - in that case a police officer - to stop him, more people would have been killed."
Link: Taking on the Courts.
Oklahoma's Governor Brad Henry and Attorney General Drew Edmondson are fighting for gun owners. The state of Oklahoma is appealing a judge's decision that said the state's law allowing legal gun owners to leave their firearms locked in their car while at work conflicts with the federal OSHA law, and that's good news. Oklahoma was one of the first states in the country to pass such legislation, only to see it caught up in a legal fight that's lasted for years. In the meantime, other states have followed Oklahoma's lead. You shouldn't give up your constitutional rights just because your employer is anti-gun. We wouldn't tolerate a company firing someone for having a Bible in their car, yet some companies have claimed they have the right to terminate you if you have ANYTHING they disapprove of in your vehicle parked on company property. These companies moan about property rights for businesses, but ignore the rights of individuals. I'm glad to see the state of Oklahoma isn't backing down from this challenge, and I hope they prevail in their appeal.
Abortion survivor Gianna Jessen is in the news again, this time for abridgment of her right to free speech. This is deja vu for me, since my own speech was banned after I posted about this good lady several years ago. Ladera Ranch Community Services (LARCS) banned me, along with my entire family, from posting on the community intranet, LaderaLife, for a period of six months. LARCS claimed my post was graphic, but my post simply referred to the fact she survived a saline abortion. My post contained no photograph and simply linked to a news story about her. That online news story had a beautiful photo of her, certainly nothing graphic.
Consider that LaderaLife, operated by the private developers of Ladera Ranch through LARCS and Ladera Ranch Maintenance Corporation (LARMAC), was the main community forum for this high-tech broadband-wired community of some 24,000 people, and thus had a quasi-public function. Consider that John McCain, supposed hero of campaign finance reform, locally pulled in maximum donations mainly from developer types and people who work with developers, according to the OC Register's political contribution database. Consider that John McCain, supposedly pro-life, was just endorsed by Republicans for Choice.
The anti-life crowd cannot respond with arguments, or insults, or shout these abortion survivors down. The only thing they can do is keep them from speaking, and keep us from speaking about them.
Link: Lawsuit after abortion survivor's speech banned (WorldNetDaily).
A lawsuit has been filed against the school district in Rapid City, S.D., after a facilities manager refused permission for a community group to use an auditorium to feature the testimony of an abortion survivor.
Link: Survival of early babies 'doubles' - Telegraph.
A study at one of Britain's top neonatal units found that one third of babies born between 22 and 25 weeks' gestation survived in the early 1980s but this had risen to 71 per cent by the late 1990s.
Link: WorldNetDaily: 94% of evangelicals rank abortion No. 1.
A new report from the Barna Group warns political campaigns that assuming the evangelical vote is "splintering" over abortion would be a mistake, with 19 of every 20 members of that group citing that issue as their top concern.
Link: Organ Donation Report Suspends Presumed Consent Scheme but Pro-Life Advocates Warn of Danger.
LONDON, January 17, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The British government's plans to consider a presumed consent scheme for organ donations was put on the back burner this week as a government appointed taskforce recommended alternative methods to increase organ donations by 50 per cent. But the wording of the recommendations has alarmed pro-life advocates who warn they may increase threats to the lives of vulnerable patients.
Link: Number of abortions lowest in decades in US, survey finds - The Boston Globe.
The number of abortions being performed in the United States has dropped to 1.2 million a year - the lowest level since 1976, according to a new report.
Link: Michigan, Louisiana and Pennsylvania "Most Pro-life States".
January 15, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Americans United for Life (AUL) today released its fifth annual ranking of the most and least pro-life states, based on laws in the states. For the third year in a row, Michigan topped the list, followed by Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Kansas.
Link: Orange Ukraine - Words and Deeds.
Protect Family Values, Respect for Parents, and Children's Rights (+) I'm giving this promise a tentative positive after reading about the new budget. It looks like both the promises to new mothers and disabled children have been covered. This positive is conditional on the budgeted payments actually coming into effect, of course, as well as dealing with the majority of other sub-pledges. sub-pledges include: a) Reverse population decline (-) b) Increase support for new mothers tenfold (+) c) guarantee good healthcare for pregnant women. d) provide assistance to those raising children or caring for the elderly e) revive state kindergartens and nurseries, ban the sale of preschools (-) f) provide credit to homebuyers (-) g) eliminate child homelessness (-) h) provide free medical care to disabled children (+) i) establish a family doctor system (-) I'm going to give this more minor issue a weak negative rating. As with everything else, the benefits for families are on the budget, but the economy is so weak it is questionable whether or not they are affordable.
Per W.Ex's correspondents in Ukraine, annual payments are now 12,000, 25,000, and 50,000 hryvnas, respectively, for one, two, or three children (about $2400, $5000, and $10,000, respectively, in US dollars). These are very large payments by Ukraine standards. More evidence that the sin of abortion leads to more sin and unaffordable statist largesse. (Witness the invasion of illegals in the US.)
Link: News: Businessman Carl Karcher dies at 90 | karcher, carl, day, children, anaheim - OCRegister.com.
He was a vocal opponent of gay rights and abortion, backing his words with money to support controversial initiatives. But he and his wife were also generous donors to less polarizing causes such as homelessness and education, awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars in college scholarships. Karcher traveled in elite circles, counting former President Ronald Reagan and entertainer Bob Hope as friends. A Catholic, Karcher had several audiences with Pope John Paul II, including one where he jokingly offered the pontiff a Carl’s Jr. coupon. The pope nonetheless knighted him into the Order of Malta, one of the highest honors a layperson can attain.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Black pro-life leader rips Obama.
"Senator Obama doesn't care that abortion has obliterated the rights of more than 15 million black children since 1973," Gardner said in a statement. "He doesn't care that abortion is the No. 1 killer of African-Americans surpassing deaths caused by accidents, heart disease, stroke, crimes, HIV-AIDS and all other deaths – combined! "He won't make one of his powerful speeches decrying the injustice of abortion providers as they plant killing centers firmly in black communities – making it easier to kill black children. Instead, he actually applauds their efforts! These children are denied their most basic human right, which is the right to life, a right which our ancestors so proudly worked for, marched for and many of them died for."
Link: Pro-life Women Jailed for Having Begged an Abortionist to Quit a Decade Ago.
LINCOLN, Nebraska, January 4, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life activists Shari McKee and Melissa Abbink were jailed on December 28th, 2007, for speaking to Lincoln abortionist Winston Crabb on two occasions in front of his home 10 years ago. Abbink faces five months in jail while McKee has been sentenced to serve eight months behind bars.
Link: Top Islamic Council Declares Victims of Rape Must Abort Child.
CAIRO, Egypt, January 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Islamic Research Council of Al-Azhar, considered by many to be the highest seat of Sunni Islamic learning in the world, has issued an edict declaring that women who become pregnant because of a rape must abort their child. "A raped woman must terminate the pregnancy immediately upon learning of the pregnancy if a trusted doctor gives her clearance for the abortion," the Council said, according to AFP news. The Council continued, saying that this would promote "social stability."
Link: Chief Rabbis of Israel Rule Abortion "a Grave Sin".
JERUSALEM, January 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Chief Rabbinate of Israel ruled on December 24 that abortion is a grave sin and that abortion is delaying the coming of the messiah.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Sidewalk counselor's bones broken while on clinic duty.
"It is unbelievable that an officer would allow an attacker to go free after inflicting life-threatening injuries on an elderly gentleman, then threaten to arrest the witness to the crime," said Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue.
Link: Abortion Triples Chances of Future Low Birthweight Babies New Study Confirms.
Women who have had an abortion run three times the normal risk of having a subsequent low birthweight baby, suggests research in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Link: The Associated Press: Thompson Touts Gun Rights in S.C..
White House hopeful Fred Thompson called his trip down an aisle of rifles, shotguns and pistols at a gun show Saturday "a day in paradise," and criticized his leading Republican opponents for past positions on gun control and abortion.
Link: WorldNetDaily: Pro-life truck impound 'attack on black families'.
The state of Georgia apparently has a problem with free speech, especially when that speech involves opposition to an abortion industry that appears to target black families, according to officials with The Life Education And Resource Network. That organization, which in conjunction with an effort called Black Genocide works to "reveal the disproportionate number of black babies exterminated by the abortion industry in America," came to the conclusion after a recent impoundment of a truck in an Atlanta suburb.
Link: Texas Court: Fetus Death Can Be Murder.
Texas laws allow the killing of a fetus to be prosecuted as murder, regardless of the fetus' stage of development, but they do not apply to abortions, the state's highest criminal court has ruled.
Fred Thompson gets NRLC nod. Worth noting he is also the candidate most clearly supporting the Second Amendment, including Right to Carry.
Link: Abortion Foes Throw Support to Thompson - New York Times.
A prominent anti-abortion group has decided to endorse Fred D. Thompson’s presidential bid, giving the candidate a boost in his efforts to court conservative voters.
Link: Media Ignore Major Insurance Report Stating Abortion is "best predictor of breast cancer".
The mainstream media have again almost totally ignored a new study published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons that found that abortion is the "best predictor of breast cancer" in eight European nations.
Study located here:
http://www.the-actuary.org.uk/pdfs/07_11_30-31.pdf
More on ABC link:
http://www.abortionbreastcancer.com/abc.html
