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Tuesday, June 5, 2012
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• Pro-Lifers Plan Major Anti-Obama Demonstration at Dem Convention
• Romney Adviser Put in Place Born Alive Law Obama Opposed
• Planned Parenthood Prez: Poll Showing Pro-Lifers Winning Irrelevant
• Obamacare Premium Could Give Abortion Industry $1 Billion Yearlys
More Pro-Life News
• Planned Parenthood: Sex-Selection Abortions Bad, But Don t Ban Them
• Republicans: Don t be Scared of Abortion, America s Pro-Life
• Push Girls Shows Respect for People With Disabilities
• Planned Parenthood Groupthink Justifies Abortion for Any Reason
• Join The June 8 Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally
• No Uterus, No Opinion Can Men Have a Say on Abortion?
• Florida Abortions Drop Again After New Pro-Life Lawsts
• Planned Parenthood Takes on North Dakota Religious Liberty Measure
• Pro-Life Group s Computers Seized, Fights Pro-Life Democrat s Lawsuit
• Pro-Abortion Web Site Hits Hillsdale College s Pro-Life Views
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Pro-Lifers Plan Major Anti-Obama Demonstration at Dem Conventions
Pro-life activists are planning a major demonstration highlighting the pro-abortion record of President Barack Obama at the summer Democratic convention where he is expected to become the party s nominee for another four-year term.
The pro-life advocates behind the expected protests announced their plans at a news conference on Friday and said they will be active on-site at the Time Warner Arena, the site of the DNC convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The organizations plan to publicly highlight the radical pro-abortion policies of President Obama along with his hostility toward religious freedom.
Abortion and religious freedom will be major issues in the 2012 Presidential election campaign, they say. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/04/pro-lifers-plan-major-anti-obama-demonstration-at-dem-convention/
Romney Adviser Put in Place Born Alive Law Obama Opposed
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has as a top adviser the former Bush HHS Secretary who put in place a federal version of a state law President Barack Obama opposed in Illinois to protect unborn children who survived botched abortions.
Jill Stanek has noticed what may become one of the biggest ironies of the 2012 election season.
Politico reported yesterday that former Utah governor and Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt is the most important figure in Mitt Romney s campaign you may have never heard of, adding Leavitt has been tapped to head Romney s transition process and is being buzzed about by insider Republicans as Romney s potential chief-of-staff. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/04/romney-adviser-put-in-place-born-alive-law-obama-opposed/
Planned Parenthood Prez: Poll Showing Pro-Lifers Winning Irrelevant
Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards appeared on MSNBC s Morning Joe program on May 30 to tout her group s new anti-Romney ad. But the conversation veered onto other interesting topics, as I wrote in my previous post.
One of those topics was the May 31 Gallup poll that found the number of Americans considering themselves pro-choice at a record low of 41%.
Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski broached that topic with Richards and got this eye-rolling response. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/04/planned-parenthood-prez-poll-showing-pro-lifers-winning-irrelevant/
Obamacare Premium Could Give Abortion Industry $1 Billion Yearly
An abortion premium in the Obamacare health care law received considerable attention during and after the debate on the controversial legislation.
With the presidential election in full swing, the pro-life Alliance Defense Fund legal group has a new video out explaining the premium and how it could funnel as much as $1 billion to the abortion industry. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/05/obamacare-premium-could-give-abortion-industry-1-billion/
Planned Parenthood: Sex-Selection Abortions Bad, But Don t Ban Them
The Planned Parenthood abortion business must be feeling the heat for its opposition to the ban on sex-selection abortions as one of its top officials has written a letter to the editor to the Washington Post to clarify its position.
The letter seeks to assure Americans that Planned Parenthood truly does oppose sex-selection abortions despite opposition to efforts to ban them and two expose videos showing Planned Parenthood staffers willing to arrange them for potential abortion customers.
In the letter, Chloë Cooney, director of global advocacy at the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, writes. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/05/planned-parenthood-sex-selection-abortions-bad-but-dont-ban-them/
Republicans: Don t be Scared of Abortion, America s Pro-Life
Those who insist that social and moral issues constitute an agenda separate and apart from economic issues should consider why socialist societies are secular, atheist societies. Do House Republicans risk being branded as extremist and out of touch by bringing abortion back into the national spotlight when supposedly the economy is all Americans care about today?
Last Thursday, Republicans brought to a vote in the House a bill introduced by Arizona Republican Trent Franks that would have criminalized abortion based on sex. Although the bill received healthy support, 246 to 168, including 20 Democrats who voted for it, it was not enough to pass. The floor rule under which the bill was considered required a two-thirds vote for passage and it fell short of that. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/05/republicans-dont-be-scared-of-abortion-americas-pro-life/
Push Girls Shows Respect for People With Disabilities
Life in a wheelchair is not as awful as you might think. Last night, the Sundance Channel premiered Push Girls, a new reality series about four women in wheelchairs. All of them have spinal cord injuries at various levels, three from car accidents, one from a ruptured blood clot in her spinal cord.
I watched the first episode online here yesterday afternoon. I wouldn t exactly call it family-friendly television maybe it will get better, but as for the first episode, one of the girls talks openly about an on-again-off-again sexual relationship (yes, we can still have sex and get pregnant) she s in with a man and then the cameras follow her to a club on a date with another woman but I m excited about this series, nonetheless. It s great not because it shows the challenges that those of us in wheelchairs face, but for showing what we re still capable of and how life can still be enjoyed post-injury.http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/05/push-girls-shows-respect-for-people-with-disabilities/
Planned Parenthood Groupthink Justifies Abortion for Any Reason
A question I often pose to students as we study literature that takes place during the Holocaust is whether or not every Nazi soldier was a killer at heart or just following the protocol of the organization. It s so easy for us to make blanket statements that they are all evil, but the fact is, many were passive people who succumbed to groupthink and didn t actually consider their evil actions. They were absolutely guilty of them, but they hid behind the orders given them, the perceived good for the nation and the race. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/04/planned-parenthood-groupthink-justifies-abortion-for-any-reason/
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Join The June 8 Stand Up for Religious Freedom Rally
On Friday, tens of thousands of Americans will participate in the second round of the Stand Up For Religious Freedom rallies that will take place across the United States. The first round of rallies saw more than 60,000 people join rallies at dozens of locations nationwide to express their opposition to the HHS mandate the Obama administration put in place that requires religious groups to pay for birth control and abortion-causing drugs for their employees. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/04/join-the-june-8-stand-up-for-religious-freedom-rally/
No Uterus, No Opinion Can Men Have a Say on Abortion?
When arguing with supporters of legal abortion, the debate invariably turns, if the person promoting the pro-life perspective is a man, to the question of whether men should have any say on the topic of abortion. Oddly, the insistence that pro-life men not have an opinion on abortion is almost never applied to men who favor abortion they re always allowed to promote abortion despite the fact that they can t have an abortion either. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/05/no-uterus-no-opinion-can-men-have-a-say-on-abortion/
Florida Abortions Drop Again After New Pro-Life Laws
After the Florida legislature put several new pro-life laws in place, the state has seen a further drop in the number of abortions done. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/05/florida-abortions-drop-again-after-new-pro-life-laws/
Planned Parenthood Takes on North Dakota Religious Liberty Measure
Voters in North Dakota will consider on their ballots next week a measure including one that protects religious freedom. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/04/planned-parenthood-takes-on-north-dakota-religious-liberty-measure/
Pro-Life Group s Computers Seized, Fights Pro-Life Democrat s Lawsuit
A top-tier pro-life organization is still fighting a lawsuit from a former pro-life Democratic member of Congress who filed suit against the Susan B. Anthony List after it sought to run ads exposing his vote for pro-abortion Obamacare. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/05/pro-life-groups-computers-seized-fights-pro-life-democrats-lawsuit/
Pro-Abortion Web Site Hits Hillsdale College s Pro-Life Views
There are few better online suppliers of premium-grade pro-abortion deceit and hysteria than RH Reality Check, a website whose evidence-based approach to reproductive & sexual health and justice can t help but elicit guffaws from those who know better. http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/04/pro-abortion-web-site-hits-hillsdale-colleges-pro-life-views/
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