Pro-Life Advocates Urged to Renew Efforts Against Abortion After Election Loss

Life News ^ | 11/5/08 | Steven Ertelt

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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Several pro-life leaders are hoping the majority of Americans who take a pro-life position on abortion will re-charge and re-energize following Tuesday night's election defeats. They say the pro-life movement must prepare themselves to take on a pro-abortion president and renew educational efforts.

"We have long known that the work of advancing a culture of life is not a short-term project," Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest told LifeNews.com.

"Recall that William Wilberforce fought against the slave trade for 45 years before he ultimately prevailed in his defense of life," she said.

"In 2008, it is clear that, despite the challenges still remaining, the pro-life message is steadily gaining ground," Yoest contends. "Momentum in the states has enabled us to make significant gains in protecting women and unborn children. Young people today self-report as pro life at a higher rate than their parents' generation."

After the elections, Father Frank Pavone spoke of a "great mistake" but an "abiding hope."

"Americans have made a grave mistake in electing Barack Obama to the presidency," he said. "Yet America herself remains great and is not a mistake, which is why so many of her citizens will continue, with even greater energy and determination, to defend her founding principles."

Pavone urged the pro-life community to rally together to oppose the coming Obama administration's efforts to roll back pro-life laws.

"The pro-life movement has made significant gains in the courts and in the law in these last eight years. For the next four, the movement will work to prevent the erosion of that progress," he said.

Bradley Mattes, the director of Life Issues Institute, encouraged pro-life groups and advocates to focus on education with the reality that legislative goals of ending abortion are now stalled.

“With federal legislation no longer an option for a minimum of two years, pro-life education is absolutely central and critical to our future efforts of ending abortion," he told LifeNews.com.

"The key to countering this devastating political loss is to change the hearts and minds of Americans on abortion and related life issues. That can only be done through effective pro-life education," he added.

Troy Newman, the president of Operation Rescue said he thinks the pro-life movement will ultimately prevail.

"Yesterday's losses are just a speed bump on the road to victory for the innocent," he told LifeNews.com. "Overall, Americans are more pro-life than ever before. Election cycles tend to be cyclical, and we are confident that we will once again have our day."

"These setbacks will only energize us. The fight is on," Newman explained. "We will continue to work though every available legal means to stop abortion. The person occupying the White House will not diminish that work."

"Now is not the time for discouragement, but a time to roll up our sleeves and continue the fight, having peace knowing that the results in God's hands and, ultimately, victory is assured," he concluded.

[penowa]

Yes, I’m an indy too. The RINOs are embarrassed by people like me, and I’m ashamed to be associated with them since they certainly don’t represent me any better than the Democrats do, so leaving was an easy choice.

[wagglebee]

The culture of death doesn't care about ending prejudice, death is their sole concern.

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Holy See: Aborting the Disabled No Cure for Prejudice - Finds UN Convention Fundamentally Faulty

ROME, DEC. 4, 2008 (Zenit.org).- The U.N. International Day of Persons With Disabilities focused attention on a convention that aims to stop prejudice against the handicapped, but the agreement is fundamentally flawed, attests the Holy See.

The U.N. day, celebrated Wednesday, had the theme: "Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities: Dignity and Justice for All of Us."

The convention has been signed by 136 member states, but the Holy See is not one of them and will not be if the wording is not changed. This is because in various propositions, the convention leaves the door open to aborting the handicapped because of their disabilities.

Though the Holy See contributed to the preparation of the text, its request to include an explicit rejection of the aborting of the disabled was not accepted...

[wagglebee]

A nation which refuses to protect the helpless has no moral authority.

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Opinion: Health Care Must Protect and Include our Youngest Neighbors!

In short, major health care “change” is coming to America. Now the real question is whether we help to shape it or stand on the sidelines and criticize it. The question for all who know the truth that children in the womb are human persons - and that they are our neighbors - is whether we will fight to protect them, and their mothers and fathers, from the continuing lie that abortion is ever “health care” and that the killing of innocent human life can ever be properly called a “reproductive service”. Medical science confirms what our conscience and the Natural Law has long confirmed, every procured abortion is the intentional taking of innocent human life. We have to ask ourselves what we will do to ensure that the taking of innocent human life by suction, surgical intervention, and chemical warfare on the womb is not considered a part of any definition of “health care” or "reproductive services" in this new effort...

[BykrBayb]

How can they claim that their aim is to stop prejudice, when they promote the most violent practice of prejudice?

[wagglebee]

They play politics with women's health because they don't actually care about women.

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Researchers Who Deny Abortion/Depression Link Play Politics with Women's Health

STATEN ISLAND, Ny., Dec. 5 /Christian Newswire/ -- Leaders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign (SNMAC), the world's largest network of women and men harmed by abortion, today criticized a report by Johns Hopkins University researchers that claims there is no link between abortion and mental health issues. The report said efforts to show that psychological distress is higher among post-abortive women "appear to be politically motivated."

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Margaret Sanger was one of the deadliest and most evil people to ever live.

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Smithsonian Honors Racist Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger — On Your Dime

In October 2008, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery opened its “Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs” exhibit. The collection includes a broad range of history-making women, including First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln and runner Marion Jones.

Journalist, author, former ambassador and congresswoman Clare Booth Luce is one of the few conservatives to make the cut.

The exhibit is intended to honor women who are or were “significant figures in their chosen fields,” according to curator Ann Shumard. A total of 90 portraits are included in the photographic display.

Honored alongside these women is none other than Margaret Sanger — known racist and eugenicist — the founder of “non-profit” abortion giant Planned Parenthood. Sanger is described on the virtual tour of the exhibit as a “reformer” who faced “stiff opposition” with the “courage of a wounded tiger.”

I guess it does take “courage” to attempt to “exterminate the negro population,” or “segregate morons (mentally handicapped)” — which she described as “a dead weight of human waste.” The same “wounded tiger” advocated “prevent[ing] the multiplication of this bad stock” and believed “[Slavs, Latin, and Hebrew immigrants are] human weeds ... a deadweight of human waste ... [Blacks, soldiers, and Jews are a] menace to the race.” (Quotes compiled by American Life League)

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How can they claim that their aim is to stop prejudice, when they promote the most violent practice of prejudice?

It's simple, they truly don't care.

[wagglebee]

As evil as Baroness Warlock is, at least she is honest about her satanic agenda.

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Wesley J. Smith: Lady Warnock is the Future of Our Culture If We Are Not Careful

The UK's Independent has published an excellent feature story on the beliefs and theories of Lady Warnock, one of Britain's most influential moral philosophers. (We've discussed her views previously here at SHS.) Warnock is an enthusiastic purveyor of the culture of death, supporting not only euthanasia but a duty to die. From the story, byline Paul Vallely:

Surprisingly, perhaps, she is quite happy with the notion of the "duty to die", which most people find a good deal more controversial. A couple of months ago, in an interview with the Church of Scotland's magazine Life and Work, she said: "If you're demented, you're wasting people's lives--your family's lives--and you're wasting the resources of the National Health Service. I'm fully in agreement with the argument that if pain is insufferable, then someone should be given help to die, but I feel there's a wider argument that if somebody absolutely, desperately wants to die because they're a burden to their family, or the state, then I think they too should be allowed to die."

The journey from the right to die to the duty to die is a significant one, especially since there are many people in society who are uncomfortable even with the notion that individuals who want to end their lives have the right to ask others to help them kill themselves, or even do it on their behalf.

Warnock at least has the virtue of being honest. For example, I have argued frequently that once society accepts the philosophical premises behind assisted suicide--radical individualism and the propriety of killing as an answer to human suffering--there is no way to limit mercy killing to the terminally ill. Warnock so acknowledges:

Her philosopher's logic takes her further out along the limb where she perches perilously distant from public common sense. "Once that principle is accepted it is irrational to confine it to those who are terminally ill." Anyone who wants to die should be helped to do so--the old, the miserable, the mentally ill.

Regular readers of SHS know that this isn't just talk. The Netherlands is there already and the Swiss Supreme Court has issued a decree creating a constitutional right to assisted suicide for the mentally ill.

And of course, she opposes human exceptionalism, the concept of "rights," and thinks the "slippery slope" is nonsense--despite it being clearly evident in her own statements.

The article is too long and detailed to go into further, so I urge you all to read it for yourselves. And, unlike many such profiles published today, the reporter generously includes many rebuttals from fine spokespersons.

And that is what gets me: Those who support the sanctity/equality of human life have now been reduced to mere reactors to people with Warnock's views, when any attention is paid to them at all. At the same time she and others of her general ilk such have become voices of influence, respected by government leaders, media members hanging on their every word, their photographs appear in the world's most respected news magazines, published in venerable journals, honors bestowed, huge speaking fees given, the subject of sometimes fawning documentaries, and tenured chairs provided by the world's most prestigious universities.

But people who believe in the intrinsic value of all human life, who accept Jefferson's declaration of the inalienable right to life, who believe that one of our most important human duties is to care lovingly for those who can't care for themselves, are rarely accorded the same respectful treatment--no matter their credentials or eloquence--and indeed, are more often disparaged as basing their views in religion instead of reason (as Warnock does), besides being castigated as intolerant, moralistic, and judgmental. (As if only religious people believe in universal human equality and oppose euthanasia and the duty to die.)

The problem with all of this is that we are creating a society less able to love.

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

[Dante3]

". . . we are creating a society less able to love." How true.

Yesterday Sunny von Bulow died. This reminded me how differently she was treated from Terri. Sunny's children, not husband, were made guardian. And authorities investigated the case.

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The culture of death is working to make euthanasia a right and later a duty throughout the Republic and leftist judges are all to eager to help.

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Montana Judge: Man Has Right to Assisted Suicide

A Montana judge has ruled that doctor-assisted suicides are legal in the state, a decision likely to be appealed as the state argues that the Legislature, not the court, should decide whether terminally ill patients have the right to take their own life.

Judge Dorothy McCarter issued the ruling late Friday in the case of a Billings man with terminal cancer, who had sued the state with four physicians that treat terminally ill patients and a nonprofit patients' rights group.

"The Montana constitutional rights of individual privacy and human dignity, taken together, encompass the right of a competent terminally (ill) patient to die with dignity," McCarter said in the ruling.

It also said that those patients had the right to obtain self-administered medications to hasten death if they find their suffering to be unbearable, and that physicians can prescribe such medication without fear of prosecution.

"The patient's right to die with dignity includes protection of the patient's physician from liability under the state's homicide statutes," the judge wrote.

Attorney General Mike McGrath said Saturday that attorneys in his office would discuss the ruling next week and expected the state will appeal the ruling...

"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."

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And this angry white female is directly responsible for over ONE BILLION deaths worldwide in the last century.

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Angry White Female: Margaret Sanger's Race of Thoroughbreds

Sanger's plans for genetic cleansing for the sake of "racial health" were racist as well. She was horrified by the fertility of the immigrant "Slavs, Latins [i.e., Italians], and Hebrews," ...As for the black population in the United States, Sanger "did not want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population..."

[wagglebee]

The more evident it becomes that the RINOs only want our votes, the more obvious becomes that the day is rapidly approaching when we will just leave.

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Kathleen Parker Retreats But Still Blames Pro-Life Advocates for Election Loss

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Nationally syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker made herself the scourge of the pro-life community when she blamed emphasis of pro-life issues for allowing Barack Obama to win the presidential election. In a new article, Parker is backing down slightly from those arguments, but still bungles the facts.

Parker drew guffaws originally for blaming the presidential election loss on "oogedy-boogedy" pro-life advocates...

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Chuck Colson nails it here.

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Chuck Colson: Walking and Talking -- Pro-Choice as Rhetoric

The smartest thing “abortion rights” advocates ever did was to coin the phrase “pro-choice.” That shifted our attention towards the act of choosing and away from what was being chosen—the dismemberment of a human being in utero.

Eventually, however, at some point, “choice” has to go from mere rhetoric to an actual deed. Somebody has to actually perform an abortion if “freedom of choice” is to become a reality, as one medical student learned recently...

[Dante3]

Unfortunately too few Americans realize the danger of allowing judges make laws and rule on every aspect of our lives. This country has been unfortunately sliding towards a krytocracy and judges have gotten away with the most outrageous decisions. Crazy Judge Greer is not an isolated case.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

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I can’t believe that McGrath is appealing the ruling!

[wagglebee]

I don’t know anything about McGrath, so I don’t know whether to be surprised or not. I’m certainly happy that he’s appealing the ruling.