Raisin' and Falling (Excerpted Section on Abortion)

OpinionJournal.com ^ | April 29, 2004 | Peggy Noonan

[litany_of_lies]

What a poignant and sad story. The pro-life community indeed has its work cut out for itself, despite recent favorable developments.

[litany_of_lies]

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[cpforlife.org]

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[Notwithstanding]

Protect your kids.

Make sure they are morally strong and healthy

before

you expose them to small doses of moral disease
for purposes of innoculation.

Woe to you if you expose them before their moral immune system is fully developed...

[cpforlife.org]

Peggy is one of my favorites. She hits home like few can.

Very "poignant" indeed.

[Soundman4x4]

Peggy had a similar cultural moment with her friend. Last time it was after she went to watch taping of a Michael Jackson special.

Later, as we got into a cab, we said nothing. It was odd to go from such sound to such silence. But we were both pondering.

It wasn't that any individual moment during the evening was so stunningly bizarre. (Mr. Brando, for instance, was only as bizarre as Brando is.) It was that taken as a whole the night yielded an unmistakable sense of decay and disorder. "I feel like we are witnessing the end of our culture," I said.

"We are," he said. "It's a freak show now. The whole thing, it's just a freak show."

Two-and-a-half days later came 9/11 and the ending of a world. When my friend and I talked again he said, "Remember that night? You could see it coming then."

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[cyn]

Indeed! Peggy Noonan goodnight bump.

[DestroytheDemocrats]

It is scary. Some Democrats have truly gone over to the dark side and they think it is the light.

[cgk]

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[cgk]

This is P. Diddy's Broadway debut play, isn't it? Typical.

[TheMole]

It happened to me the other day at a play, a press preview of the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansbury's "Raisin in the Sun."

Emphasis added by me. Everyone in the audience was there on a press pass.

[BfloGuy]

I'll admit that sometimes I find Peggy Noonan's work to be "syrupy".

But, this is excellent (most of her work is excellent) and this becomes "Email Forward" material.

[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[CalifornianConservative]

Still, Noonan's point is chilling. We've GOT to take back our media from the Commiethink automatons. Hitler Youth was scary, our modern media is a horrorshow.

[Aquinasfan]

They heard the young woman say she was about to end the life of her child, and they applauded.

They need to see the pictures of the dismembered babies.

[TigersEye]

Abortion is not about saving women’s lives!

Total Abortions since 1973
44,670,812

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Why the drop after 1960? (in deaths of women from illegal abortions)

The reasons were new and better antibiotics, better surgery and the establishment of intensive care units in hospitals. This was in the face of a rising population. Between 1967 and 1970 sixteen states legalized abortion. In most it was limited, only for rape, incest and severe fetal handicap (life of mother was legal in all states). There were two big exceptions — California in 1967, and New York in 1970 allowed abortion on demand. Now look at the chart carefully.

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Abortion Statistics - Decision to Have an Abortion (U.S.)

· 25.5% of women deciding to have an abortion want to postpone childbearing

· 21.3% of women cannot afford a baby

· 14.1% of women have a relationship issue or their partner does not want a child

· 12.2% of women are too young (their parents or others object to the pregnancy)

· 10.8% of women feel a child will disrupt their education or career

· 7.9% of women want no (more) children

· 3.3% of women have an abortion due to a risk to fetal health

2.8% of women have an abortion due to a risk to maternal health

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So how many women’s lives have been saved by abortion?

Only about 3% of abortions since 1972 were reported to be “due to a risk to maternal health.” A reasonable person would recognize that not all of those cases represent a lethal risk. But let’s say they did. That means that nearly 45 million fetuses were butchered to save the lives of about 1.3 million women.

Abortion was legal in all 50 states prior to Roe v. Wade in cases of danger to the life of the woman.

[TigersEye]

The Planned Parenthood Conspiracy

(the racist beginnings of the "pro-choice" movement.)

Finally, Margaret Sanger and her organization began to be primary sponsors of abortion rights during her lifetime. But because she had associated herself with Adolph Hitler, praising him for his racial politics of eugenics, she changed the name of American Birth Control League to Planned Parenthood during WWII in order to disguise her racist past. (13) Today, her organization, Planned Parenthood, is still in the forefront of advocating abortion as a means of eliminating the unwanted and "unfit."

[litany_of_lies]

"a press preview"

Nice catch. Missed that.

These are the people we depend on to give us what's going on in the world straight with no filtering--fat chance.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Mr. Silverback]

Once again, the pro-aborts cheer on a sacrifice to Molech.

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