Posted on 02/02/2007 3:49:53 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Yeah, that's something. Frankly, I couldn't care less about all the hubbub. IMO, it's all for show and publicity. Even in death, she's got to ham it up for the cameras. It's not just the lawyers making money off this but all the players are getting their 15 minutes. The only one it's hurting is the baby. Sadly, Anna Nicole couldn't get past her own demons to change her lifestyle enough to be there to love and raise her daughter.
Although he's been a Republican all his adult life, John Danforth isn't as comfortable in the party as he used to be. In fact, he's appalled by what he considers its takeover by the Christian right.
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He woke up to this change while observing the party's rush to support the Christian right's efforts to invalidate the Florida court rulings in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case, he said.
He was dismayed because he doesn't want religious people and politicians interfering with his own end-of-life decisions, and because the party's behavior contradicted its core principle of limiting federal power, he said.
Danforth: 'Wedge issues' used to shore up GOP base
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Thread by wagglebee...
FLORIDA, United States, February 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The survival of pre-term baby Amillia Taylor, at 21 weeks gestation the youngest know child to survive premature birth, has produced an increase in media debate on the abortion issue.
Mainstream media outlets in the United States have acknowledged that the baby’s life raises “big questions” about legal abortion, . Weighing less than 10oz and just nine ½ inches long, Amillia was born one month earlier than the date considered viable for most babies, 25 weeks. About half of the babies born at 25 weeks will survive. Abortion laws are often based on an assumption of viability, with the cut-off being set at the point where babies would be likely to survive outside the womb.
Mainstream Media: Pre-term Baby’s Survival Will Have Big Impact on Abortion Debate
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Thread by wagglebee.
LONDON, February 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The National Director of the UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children in a February 16 interview with Zenit Catholic news agency, denounced Prime Minister Tony Blair and Labour party policies that, he said, “have plunged Britain into an ethical abyss.”
Smeaton told Zenit that among the first things Blair did when coming to power in 1997 was to implement a program of abortion and contraception for schoolgirls as young as 11 without parents' knowledge or consent.
Blair also brought forward discussion of laws surrounding end-of-life care that led to the 2005 Mental Capacity Act, set to come into force in April, that in some cases requires doctors to starve and dehydrate patients to death.
Britain Dragging Other Countries into Ethical and Moral Abyss - SPUC Director
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The only thing that interests me about Anna Nicole is the miraculous siring of her baby by numerous fathers. Lots of kids today don't even have one father. But if you have a billion dollars, you get to have all the fathers you want.
Like all serious liberals, Danforth is reliably wrong every time. It is a fine art. Serious liberals work hard to ignore facts and thought. Remarkably, by the time they have had their second cup of organic masala breakfast chai, they have pushed away all vestiges of reasoning and personality. Then they are ready to absorb their views from the atmosphere. (Or from "All things Considered" on NPR, which is the same thing.) By quarter past nine in the morning, they are all chanting the same conclusion. It is wondrous to watch.
Ye gods! In England!? Just a few decades ago, the average age when English misses even found out about sex was in their late 20s, and "doing" it was five to nine years after that, or 2.7 years after getting married.
I hear the non-sound of NPR more as dead air with an occasional dead opinion rattling out without echo. Rather than atmosphere, I perceive it as deep space approaching perfect vacuum. It has been long since I listened to the sounds comprising "Left Wings Considered."
Speaking of chia, one sound that sticks is that of a very sleepy sounding John Edwards (I think) in desperate need of five cups of real coffee or even strong tea. Once again it has been a long time since I accidentally touched an NPR channel, although in Canada, I found some remarkably close copies with their CBC, I think it is.
Ah, God's little everyday miracles! A "clump of tissue" turns into a precious baby. I wonder if any feminists are feminine enough to coo over the baby? Or are they just stirring their pots and muttering, "Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble"?
Shame! Shame! Bleih! Ick! Ptui! Sound the alarms! Yeechhh!
We're back to 1789. The French practiced an uncommon lot of euthanasia back then, and carried the severed heads away in big baskets.
The pregnancy-center clinic, with its new ultrasound machine, has been open only since December, but already the staff can count the women who came in considering an abortion and changed their minds: five women converted, six lives saved, they declare, since one was carrying twins. "They connected," nurse Joyce Wilson says, recalling the reaction of the women who saw the filmy image of their fetus onscreen. "They bonded. You could just see it. One girl got off the table and said, 'That's my baby.'"
"Another got up," Deborah Wood says, "and said, 'This changes everything.'"
Wood is the CEO of Asheville Pregnancy Support Services in Asheville, North Carolina, one of the thousands of crisis pregnancy centers in the U.S. that are working to end abortion. Hers is the new face of an old movement: kind, calm, nonjudgmental, a special-forces soldier in the abortion wars who is fighting her battles one conscience at a time. Her center helps women navigate the social-service bureaucracy, sign up for Medicaid and begin prenatal care. She helps pregnant girls find emergency housing if their parents threaten to throw them out. Free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds are just the latest service.
The Grassroots Abortion War (Protestants only)
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The pictures are stunning, one showing a large adult hand with tiny translucent feet inbetween the fingers. It takes a leap to imagine they are the feet of a living human being.
And more so, they pioneered a scarcely recognized first in genocide, erasing some 600,000 Christian men, women, and children in a state sponsored program to rid France of pesky Catholic Christians. It happened mostly in the western parts of France, the areas of the Vendee. The Loire river was called the Government Bathtub, wherein thousands, many couples joined with rope went for permanent baths thrown off boats.
Villages there, including the one where we lived, were depopulated down to most living things gone save for wolves, rats and carrion loving critters.
Mainstream Media: Pre-term Baby’s Survival Will Have Big Impact on Abortion Debate
That and his great misunderstanding of the Second Amendment eradicate any further interest in this guy from me.
Ping to Reagan Man thread...
On Wednesday, Giuliani reiterated his own position.
"I'd advise my daughter or anyone else not to have an abortion," Giuliani said. "I'd like to see it ended, but ultimately I believe that a woman has the right to choose.
Rudy Giuliani: 'A Woman Has the Right to Choose' Abortion
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And not so incidentally, helping themselves to all those pesky Catholics' church property. A good role model for the Nazis of the modern era.
And not so incidentally, helping themselves to all those pesky Catholics' church property. A good role model for the Nazis of the modern era.
Yes, to both posts ;-)
A little noticed factiod is that the government owns the churches. In our little village in France, the mayor, a member of the Communist Party, ruled on the use of the church, an historic thousand year old church. He could decide its use for anything at all. Although he didn't interfer much with the goings on, he was empowered to do so.
I watch the boob tube so you don't have to. The Nicole Body of Evidence episode may be made into a series with this as a pilot starring Larry the Judge and Marilyn Monroe as Nicole and Tom Cruse as the body in the morgue until the end of the first season.
It will be billed as a sitcom.
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