Alarm over “national shrine to abortion” planned on Washington mall

The Deacon's Bench ^ | May 9, 2014 | Deacon Greg Kendra

[NYer]

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Citing history textbooks, national parks and landmarks that mostly leave women out, lawmakers on Wednesday revived a long-stalled effort to create a National Women’s History Museum in the nation’s capital.

The Republican-controlled House voted 383-33 to create a bipartisan commission to study the feasibility of a museum on or near the National Mall and recommend whether it should be part of the Smithsonian. The vote came just before Mother’s Day, which several lawmakers noted. A similar measure is pending in the Senate.

Congress has allowed previous legislation calling for a women’s museum to die at least twice since 2005. The new bill would follow a process that was used for African-American and Latino-American museum proposals. The measure prohibits any federal funding for the museum’s creation in order to draw more Republican support.

Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York, who have championed the effort, said the contributions of women have been mostly left out of museums, statues and national landmarks. Not enough is taught about women’s history, they said, including details about how women gained the right to vote less than 100 years ago.

‘‘It is a story that everyone should know, how the process of the suffragists and their work that carried them from Seneca Falls, New York, to Nashville where you finally saw the ratification of the 19th Amendment,’’ Blackburn said. ‘‘These suffragists, they were conservative women who led this fight for women’s equality.’’

Pro-life advocates, however, are alarmed:

Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota spoke against the museum bill. She said the museum concept “will enshrine the radical feminist movement” and that there are no assurances it won’t become “an ideological shrine to abortion.”

The pro-life group Concerned Women for America is warning its members about an effort to promote abortion and pro-abortion activists that could be funded with taxpayer dollars. The women’s group tells LifeNews that the proposed National Women’s History Museum “will glorify abortion and fuel the radical feminist movement for decades to come.”

“How do I know this? As I told Fox News, Concerned Women for America has found that the National Women’s History Museum board is overwhelmingly filled with people who are pro-abortion and leftist in their ideology,” says CWFA president Penny Nance. Nance says the proposed museum’s website references Margaret Sanger nine times while shutting out pro-lifers — referencing Phyllis Schlafly only once and not mentioning Beverly LaHaye at all. It also highlights abortion activist Sandra Fluke, while ignoring Jeane Kirkpatrick.

Stay tuned.

[NYer]

FYI, ping!

[PGR88]

The National Mall is rapidly becoming a DC bureaucrat’s Disney-esq field of dreams.

It was meant to be an open green space, but the politically correct, post-modern memorials and their designs are coming ever faster

Someone needs to propose a 25 year moratorium on all building on the Mall

[Mouton]

It also highlights abortion activist Sandra Fluke...

I am beyond incensed about this whole idea. The fact that many in the GOP are behind this idea tells me it is time to toss this entire government OUT.

[madprof98]

A national shrine to Sandra Fluke? I’m trying to imagine what shape it might take . . .

[Cincinatus]

Idiocy, pure and simple.

[Viennacon]

A last hurrah. The abortion movement is dying a slow death in its craziness. Sane people find shrines to celebrate dead babies abhorrent

[Telepathic Intruder]

Sandra Fluke: “Contraception can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary”.

Obama: “Your parents should be proud of you”.

[C19fan]

We all know how this going to turn out. The reality is except for the Air & Space museum the newer museums stink. I went to the Native American one and it was awful although I heard it has good food. That is reflected in the attendance where about as many people go to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and American Art and Portraiture museum than the Native American one and those two are not even on the National Mall.
The African-American museum is under construction right near the History one and that will not be worth visiting too. I think we are going to have a “Studies” museum area with Women, Gays, Hispanics, Asian, etc.

[mountainlion]

Temple to Moloch, an ancient religion of pagans.

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[TheThirdRuffian]

I hear they are going to go old-school with the shrine and include an oven to throw kids into

[ZULU]

Are they going to include a Hall of Centerfolds?

[ifinnegan]

Yeah. You beat me to it.

A stature of Molech will be erected.

[sten]

I thought that shrine was going up in oklahoma

[I want the USA back]

Feminazis know that what they’re doing is wrong. To hide their deep sense of guilt, they hold marches, make videos, and build museums.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Sandra Fluke? How about a 20 ft. tall vagina that everyone can see from a mile away? I mean, why not go for broke here and make a statement? A giant vagina represents America's new conscience devoid of logic and full of emotion and tearful political correctness.

[SpirituTuo]

It will be housed in the Bill Clinton wing.

[Amendment10]

How ironic that such a shrine is being planned for Washington Mall. More specifically, as a consequence of parents not making sure that their children are being taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers, or how constitutionally enumerated protections work, citizens evidently don’t understand the following about so-called abortion rights. “Government” power to regulate abortion is not only uniquely a state power issue, but abortion is not a constitutionally protected right.

The cost of widespread ignorance of the Constitution is the following. As evidenced by the proposed abortion shrine in DC, corrupt federal politicians are exploiting low-information voters by promising constitutionally indefensible federal abortion protections to win their votes.

[Trod Upon]

Maybe they could have a giant statue of Margaret Sanger giving the MLK monument the finger.