Newspaper: Planned Parenthood Ad on McCain, Palin "Distorts Record" on Women
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new television commercial from Planned Parenthood blasting John McCain and Sarah Palin is already coming under criticism from the mainstream media. The St. Petersburg Times, a Florida newspaper, says the ad distorts the record on the two candidates and their record on women. "Under Mayor Sarah Palin, women like Gretchen were forced to pay up to $1,200 for the emergency exams used to prosecute their attackers," the Planned Parenthood ad claims. It goes further to attack Senator McCain, claiming he "voted to let governments charge rape victims." LifeNews.com exposed the misleading nature of the ad on Wednesday and focused on Planned Parenthood's shoddy treatment of Palin. The Times takes on the phony charges against McCain. The Planned Parenthood ad attributes the McCain allegation to a vote on August 25, 1994 on a crime bill that included the Violence Against Women Act. The measure included a provision that required states to provide free forensic exams for rape victims. Planned Parenthood's logic is that because McCain opposed that bill, he voted to let governments charge victims for their rape kits. "That's quite a stretch," the Times responds. "Indeed, McCain voted that day against a conference report on the crime bill, but he opposed it not because of the Violence Against Women provisions, but because it included extra spending that McCain considered unrelated to crime," the newspaper explains. The paper explains that McCain supported the original bill including the Violence Against Women Act -- "So that alone is a significant contradiction of Planned Parenthood's claim." Full story at LifeNews.com.
NARAL Ad Attacking McCain, Palin on Abortion May Backfire, Rally Pro-Lifers
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- One of the leading pro-abortion groups in the nation has a new web site ad it is running on news web sites in battleground states. However, the NARAL commercial may backfire and energize pro-life voters behind John McCain and Sarah Palin because it highlights their pro-life views. The ad isn't what political observers might expect from NARAL -- with something akin to the ads the Obama campaign aired saying McCain is too extreme and featuring little in the way of the candidates' own words. NARAL includes eerie music and claims that McCain and Palin are extreme on abortion. It focuses on the candidates' opposition to Roe v. Wade, the case that allowed virtually unlimited abortions throughout pregnancy, and Palin's opposition to abortion in cases of rape and incest. But most of the ad allows the candidates to tout their pro-life views -- which could come back to haunt the pro-abortion group. The ad begins with music that appears to come from any B-rated horror flick and calls McCain and Palin, "dangerous, extreme and radical" on abortion. It then features a montage of the two explaining their pro-life views. Full story at LifeNews.com.
Republican Platform Better Than Democratic on Promoting Abortion Overseas
by Austin Ruse
New York, NY (LifeNews.com/CFAM) -- The platforms of the two major American parties show a stark difference in how each presidential candidate would approach United Nations (UN) issues. The Republican platform explicitly rejects various UN treaties while the Democratic platform makes clear its support for the agenda of wider access to abortion and a strengthening of the UN system of enforcing abortion rights. The Republican platform rejects by name two UN treaties that have been used by UN Committees, UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to promote abortion -- the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- and supports the continued defunding of groups overseas that promote or perform abortions. Specifically the GOP platform says, "Because the UN has no mandate to promote radical social engineering, any effort to address global social problems must respect the fundamental institutions of marriage and family. We assert the rights of families in all international programs and will not fund organizations involved in abortion. Full story at LifeNews.com
Even Two-Year-Olds Are Pro-Life, Understand Abortion Destroys a Human Life
by Maria Vitale
I am convinced that all 2-year-olds are pro-life. I formed that conclusion working a pro-life booth at a local county fair. As soon as a 2-year-old's eyes spotted one of the fetal models on the table, he or she would reach out with both arms with an impassioned plea to touch "the babies." One little girl giggled when a model of a 30-week-old unborn baby was placed in her hands. There was not one toddler who came up to the display who did not express delight with the fetal models. In short, they loved them. It is natural for children to be drawn to babies. It's in their DNA. They're amused and captivated by the tiniest human beings. That's why fetal models are a great teaching tool. They show what an unborn child really looks like at various stages of development. Teenagers often express surprise to learn that a child 12 weeks after conception has eyes, fingers, toes. That's because the handiwork of God is hidden, concealed within a pregnant woman's body. Full story at LifeNews.com
Arkansas Man Nearly Hits Pro-Life Advocates With Car Outside Abortion Center
Fayetville, AR (LifeNews.com) -- An Arkansas man nearly hit a group of pro-life outside an abortion business on Tuesday afternoon in this northwest city. Jason Bryant Shireman, 42, was apprehended by police and charged with three counts of aggravated assault following the incident. The pro-life advocates were standing on the curb just off of College Avenue in front of the Fayetteville Women's Clinic abortion business. According to the Northwest Arkansas Times, witnesses at the scene say Shireman purposefully drove his suburban onto the curb in an attempt to hit or scare the sidewalk counselors outside the abortion center. The pro-life advocates consisted mostly of students from Subiaco Academy who were taking part in the 40 Days of Life event. They were praying for the staff of the abortion facility and women going there for abortions at the time of the incident. The paper indicated Shireman told police that he drove onto the sidewalk to show the pro-life students "what he thought about them" but denied trying to hit them with the vehicle. The Times said Shireman was taken to the Washington County jail and later released on a $3,500 bond. He will make an appearance in court on October 29. Full story at LifeNews.com
