A father I'd want on my side (Robert Schindler, Sr. - Father of the late Terri Schiavo)

40 Days for Life continues to save lives!

God Bless Faith for all of her work on these threads.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 18 - NEVER GIVE UP! DEFEND THE BABIES!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 19 - GOD HAS A PLAN FOR EVERY LIFE!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 20 - TAKE 30 SECONDS TO PRAY, PLEASE!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 21 - NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!

40 Days for Life consists of 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion,
40 days of constant, peaceful vigil outside abortion centers and Planned Parenthood offices
and 40 days of active pro-life community outreach.

Your community may be participating in this prayerful vigil.
If so, please join others in your area
or unite with thousands across America
during these 40 days in Autumn
as we pray for an end to abortion in this nation.

I'm beginning to believe that the culture of death believes we will become so horrified by their uncaring neglect for the sick and elderly that we will beg for euthanasia.

Thread by markomalley.

Pathway for the elderly that leads to legal execution

At around 4am on Monday, a friend of mine was woken by a call from the private care home in south-west London where her 98-year-old grandmother is resident.

"Mrs ------- has breathing difficulties," the night manager told her. "She needs oxygen. Shall we call an ambulance?"

"What do you mean?" my friend responded. "What's the matter with her?"

"She needs to go to hospital. Do you want that? Or would you prefer that we make her comfortable?"

Befuddled by sleep, she didn't immediately grasp what was being asked of her. Her grandmother is immobilised by a calcified knee joint, which is why she is in the home. She's a little deaf and frail, but otherwise perky. She reads a newspaper every day (without glasses), and is a fan of the darling of daytime television, David Dickinson. Why wouldn't she get medical treatment if she needed it?

Then, the chilling implication of the phone call filtered through – she was being asked whether her grandmother should be allowed to die.

"Call an ambulance now," my friend demanded.

The person at the other end persisted. "Are you sure that's what you want? For her to go to hospital." . . .

This is repulsive.

Thread by NYer.

Mature audience: Woman describes performing abortion while pregnant herself (Graphic Alert!)

WARNING:this post contains a graphic description of an abortion that may not be appropriate for some individuals. Please read with care.

I think it's important in the debate about abortion to have an honest dialogue about all parties who are involved.

I think this blog, written by a female abortionist, goes far in revealing the sort of extreme cognative dissonance that is necessary for someone to perform abortions.

And yet, even in this situation, it's impossible for her to avoid her own humanity - and the humanity of the young human person she is destroying:

When I was a little over 18 weeks pregnant with my now pre-school child, I did a second trimester abortion for a patient who was also a little over 18 weeks pregnant. As I reviewed her chart I realised that I was more interested than usual in seeing the fetal parts when I was done, since they would so closely resemble those of my own fetus.

I went about doing the procedure as usual, removed the laminaria I had placed earlier and confirmed I had adequate dilation. I used electrical suction to remove the amniotic fluid, picked up my forceps and began to remove the fetus in parts, as I always did. I felt lucky that this one was already in the breech position – it would make grasping small parts (legs and arms) a little easier.

With my first pass of the forceps, I grasped an extremity and began to pull it down. I could see a small foot hanging from the teeth of my forceps. With a quick tug, I separated the leg. Precisely at that moment, I felt a kick – a fluttery “thump, thump” in my own uterus. It was one of the first times I felt fetal movement. There was a leg and foot in my forceps, and a “thump, thump” in my abdomen.

Instantly, tears were streaming from my eyes – without me – meaning my conscious brain - even being aware of what was going on. I felt as if my response had come entirely from my body, bypassing my usual cognitive processing completely. A message seemed to travel from my hand and my uterus to my tear ducts. It was an overwhelming feeling – a brutally visceral response – heartfelt and unmediated by my training or my feminist pro-choice politics.

It was one of the more raw moments in my life. Doing second trimester abortions did not get easier after my pregnancy; in fact, dealing with little infant parts of my born baby only made dealing with dismembered fetal parts sadder.

... and yet, she continues to perform abortions to this day.

There are several more examples in the same post of similar, incomprehensible thoughts and experiences related by the abortionist-writer.

If anything we've ever read has convinced us we need to pray for an end to an abortion, for the conversion of those who perform them, and work with greater self-conviction in the knowledge that our cause is just and desperately-needed in this world ... this was it.

This is an incredible story of love.

Thread by me.

Miracle Baby: Mother Successfully Battles for Right to Deliver Healthy Baby Despite Terminal Cancer

LONG BEACH, California, October 15, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - When I pulled up to the Long Beach Family Planning Associates Abortion mill at on February 3, 2009 at 8:30 a.m., I saw my fellow street counselor Charlotte talking to an Hispanic man named Carlos, who was visibly very upset. As soon as I exited the car, Charlotte motioned me to come over to join the conversation.

Carlos explained to me that his wife and mother of five children, named Nereyda, was in the abortion mill because their H.M.O. insurance company would not treat her for her serious stage 4 sarcoma cancer - unless she aborted her 5-month-old unborn child. I replied in Spanish that this was illegal, and that we could help them obtain care without having an abortion.

He smiled and called his wife's cell phone inside the clinic and told her to come out immediately. She came out within thirty seconds, crying and very upset. She explained that the HMO had called her for fourteen days in a row, pressuring her into the appointment at the Long Beach Abortion mill. After consoling the couple, I called an adoption counselor to help us find a sympathetic social worker, who met the three of us for breakfast to discuss a plan to keep the baby.

Next, we called a Spanish speaking social worker who again insisted that Nereyda could not be treated for her aggressive stage-four cancer without getting an abortion before her consultation, ten days away. We told the social worker that Carlos and Nereyda had the right to medical treatment because she was paying for her insurance through her employment. I told the social worker that I would go with the couple to the consultation, which made Carlos and Nereyda feel better. I was happy to go with them.

At the consultation, there attended one thoracic surgeon, one internal medicine cancer specialist and one high risk obstetric doctor. The thoracic surgeon displayed Nereyda's MRI scan - revealing a huge tumor spreading tentacles around her heart, lungs, and other vital organs. I had never seen a tumor like that! I turned my head away from Carlos and Nereyda so they would not see that I was weeping.

I asked God for healing as I watched Nereyda holding her womb - concerned not at all for herself, but only for her unborn baby. The doctors said that this was one of the worst and fastest spreading cancers they had ever seen, and that without being able to shrink it with radiation and chemotherapy, it was inoperable, and Nereyda would die within two months. The high risk OB-GYN doctor us that Nereyda would have to abort the baby as soon as possible so she could begin the most aggressive therapy to prolong her life.

Carlos and Nereyda once again insisted they would not abort the unborn baby. With my background as a former pharmaceutical representative, I asked the doctors if they could use a drug called Adriamycin, which would not harm the baby in utero. The doctors said that they could use Adriamycin, although it would not provide the best or most aggressive therapy. I explained this to Carlos and Nereyda, who said that after the birth of the baby they would permit the use of stronger drugs. The doctors finally agreed, prescribing some very potent synthetic pre-natal vitamins, and reluctantly writing the couple's wishes in Nereyda's chart.

When the doctors asked us if we wanted the insurance company to provide us with an advanced health care directive, I answered that we would produce one. Later I explained to the couple that, had we not taken the initiative, the directive supplied by the HMO would have almost certainly reinforced the original decision to abort the child in case Nereyda took a turn for the worse. With the providential help of a doctor, a lawyer and a former corporate attorney - all strongly pro-life - I was able to draft a health care directive that ensured the baby would be safe from abortion.

Later that month, I sent emails out to many people requesting their prayers for Nereyda's health and for the birth of a healthy baby.

While Nereyda's cancer remains, she was able to deliver a boy by caesarian section on May 18, 2009 - three months after the doctors said she had two months to live. I was overjoyed to visit three days later to meet their new son, Angel Jesus Candalario.

Since then, the tumor has shrunk from chemotherapy - but Nereyda still needs our prayers.

This is a wonderful miracle and a touching testimony of one woman's faith and obedience to God, despite the consequences to herself. I know Nereyda is a living saint!

Wesley J. Smith has written two excellent commentaries about what we can expect from Zero and his death panels.

Threads by me.

Wesley J. Smith: Assisted Suicide Advocates Seek to Euthanize The Rule of Law

When is suicide, not really suicide? When assisted suicide advocates decide that promoting their agenda requires the deconstruction of accurate and descriptive language.

It is one thing when ideological activists try to redefine terms to win a political debate. It is quite another when a judge does it by judicial fiat.

But that is precisely what may happen in Connecticut. After advocates failed to legalize assisted suicide in the last legislative session, two Connecticut physicians—aided by the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society)—filed a lawsuit requesting a court order unilaterally changing the definition of suicide. When a doctor lethally prescribes an overdose of drugs to a terminally ill patient for the purpose of self killing, the lawsuit claims, it should not be legally considered a suicide, but rather, “aid in dying.”

The term “aid in dying” was coined by Compassion and Choices several years ago as a euphemistic advocacy tool to better promote its death agenda. Opinion polls clearly demonstrate that the public reacts negatively to the terms “suicide” and “assisted suicide.” But if the same act is camouflaged by a soothing sounding term that masks the harshness of what is being done, public opposition softens. Hence, the group’s “Language Matters Press Kit” asserts that it is wrong to call self killing by a terminally ill patient with the assistance of a doctor “suicide” because the word “is politicized language that implies a value judgment and carries with it a social stigma.”

Never mind that it is accurate. The dictionary definition of “suicide” is “the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally.” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suicide And forget for the moment that fear of stigma can save lives. C & C is blatantly promoting a postmodern word engineering scheme that would sacrifice accurate and precise legal lexicon on the altar of emotional personal narratives. . .

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Obamacare: Government Funded Studies Pushing Toward Futile Care Rationing?

I have been warning for nearly ten years that the Medical and Bioethics Intelligentsia were committed to imposing futile care theory on the most weak and vulnerable patients. Lately, we have been discussing the pronounced threat of health care rationing under Obamacare. Today, I noticed two new studies in the New England Journal of Medicine that could be abused by health care rationing and medical futility advocates to justify policies that prevent certain patients from receiving wanted life-extending treatment.

One deals with late stage dementia as a terminal illness, and the other with providing kidney dialysis for the frail elderly. Both suggest that a better way to go for the wellbeing of the patient may be to switch from life-extending treatment for these patients to a hospice-style palliative care approach. From the story:

A surprising number of frail, elderly Americans in nursing homes are suffering from futile care at the end of their lives, two new federally funded studies reveal. One found that putting nursing home residents with failing kidneys on dialysis didn’t improve their quality of life and may even push them into further decline. The other showed many with advanced dementia will die within six months and perhaps should have hospice care instead of aggressive treatment. Medical experts say the new research emphasizes the need for doctors, caregivers and families to consider making the feeble elderly who are near death comfortable rather than treating them as if a cure were possible — more like the palliative care given to terminally ill cancer patients.

“Consider”-yes. Impose, no. . .

The push for personhood is growing.

Threads by EternalVigilance.

Democrat-Led Personhood Amendment Introduced In Michigan Legislature

Lansing, MI - Michigan has joined with dozens of other States that are seeking affirmation of personhood rights for all humans. Rep. Jim Slezack (Democrat) is the the lead sponsor of the amendment, and is cosponsored by Paul Scott, Tim Moore, Richard LeBlanc, James Bolger, Kevin Green, Rick Jones, Pete Lund, Matt Lori, John Walsh, Kenneth Kurtz, Tom McMillin, Robert Dean, Bob Genetski, Wayne Schmidt, Joe Haveman, Kevin Daley, Marty Knollenberg, Eileen Kowall, Goeff Hansen, Dudley Spade, Joel Sheltrown, and Jeff Mayes.

The Michigan Personhood Amendment states: SEC. 28. (1) EVERY HUMAN PERSON HAS A RIGHT TO LIFE, WHICH IS THE PARAMOUNT AND MOST FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT GUARANTEED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THIS STATE.

(2) WITH RESPECT TO THE FUNDAMENTAL AND INALIENABLE RIGHT TO LIFE, THE WORD "PERSON" APPLIES TO ALL HUMAN BEINGS, IRRESPECTIVE OF AGE, RACE, GENDER, HEALTH, FUNCTION, CONDITION OF DEPENDENCY, INCLUDING PHYSICAL OR MENTAL DEPENDENCY, OR METHOD OF REPRODUCTION, FROM THE BEGINNING OF THEIR BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING FERTILIZATION. . .

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PERSONHOOD MOVEMENT LAUNCHES IN NEVADA

Washington, DC (22 October 2009) – Nevada became the seventh state to launch a “personhood” initiative yesterday.

The amendment reads simply:

“In the great state of Nevada, the term ‘person’ shall apply to every human being.”

“We are thrilled the people of Nevada are finally taking steps to fulfill the dream of the civil rights movement,” said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. “They are working for the fundamental right to human personhood, without which, no other rights exist. For the people of Nevada and the six other states pursuing personhood initiatives, this is about human rights and justice.”

As a citizen-led initiative, approximately 97,000 signatures are needed for the proposed amendment to get on the 2010 statewide ballot. Nevada joins Montana, Michigan, Colorado, California, Florida and Missouri. . .

Zero is now pushing abortion online.

Thread by me.

Obama Volunteer Web Site Serve.Gov Promotes Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama promised when he was a presidential candidate in July 2007 that he would be a lapdog for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. Obama is now making good on that promise by promoting Planned parenthood on his new volunteerism web site, Serve.gov.

Last week, Obama announced the web site and the organizational partnerships.

"This summer we launched United We Serve, a nationwide effort calling on all Americans to make service part of their daily lives," he said.

And we partnered with more than 400 organizations; made more than 250,000 service opportunities available on serve.gov; and watched as nonprofits, and foundations, and corporations, and individuals spent hundreds of thousands of hours serving their communities," Obama added.

One of those organizations, according to Houston Conservative Examiner writer Lisa Stauber is Planned Parenthood. . .

This woman is a disgrace.

Thread by NYer.

Nun Volunteering as Abortion Clinic Escort in Illinois

LifeSiteNews.com) - A Dominican nun has been seen frequenting an abortion facility in Illinois recently - but not, as one might expect, to pray for an end to abortion or to counsel women seeking abortions, but to volunteer as a clinic escort.

Local pro-life activists say that they recognized the escort at the ACU Health Center as Sr. Donna Quinn, a nun outspokenly in favor of legalized abortion, after seeing her photo in a Chicago Tribune article.

"I've called her sister several times, and she never responded," local pro-lifer John Bray told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN). "But it's her."

Amy Keane, a pro-life witness for 11 years, says Quinn has acted as escort for "six years, at least." Keane described one incident in which Quinn began shouting at the pro-lifers as they spoke to a woman about to enter the abortion facility.

"[Quinn] was so angry, and burst out very loudly so everyone could hear: 'Look at these men, telling these women what to do with their bodies!'" said Keane. "She was so angry, that it really took all of us aback." Keane says that the group was peaceful, and that the men present were not among those engaging the woman. . .

Ken Connor tells us exactly what will happen under Zero's death panels.

Thread by me.

Ken Connor: Rationing and Death Panels - End of Life Care Should Not End Life

The subject of how best to honor and care for those facing death due to terminal illness or old age has always been controversial. As talk of "death panels" and "rationing" stirs debate over the government's proper role in health care, two new studies funded by the National Institutes of Health are lending new weight to the argument that, when it comes to providing end-of-life care for the elderly and terminally ill, sometimes less is better.

The studies, featured in the New England Journal of Medicine, document how certain medical therapies implemented in the final months of a patient's life often cause emotional and physical stress and pain, effectively negating any positive benefits associated with such treatments.

However, those worried that a government takeover of health care will result in health care rationing in keeping with Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel's "complete lives" theory view these studies with alarm—and for good reason. In a culture where "quality of life" is increasingly viewed as the predominant justification for abortion, assisted suicide, and even infanticide, there is a legitimate concern that these kinds of studies will be used by the government to advance policies that endanger society's most vulnerable members. . .

40 Days for Life continues to save lives thanks to everyone's prayers.

Please check out Faith's wonderful threads.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 27 - 299 Babies Saved!!! To God be the Glory!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 28 - SEEK JUSTICE! DEFEND THOSE WITH NO VOICE!!!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 29 - 50 Million Babies Killed! Our Country is Immersed in Sin!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 30 - Will YOU defend the babies?

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 31 - 4000 BABIES DIED TODAY IN AMERICA! WILL YOU REMAIN SILENT?

"They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons; they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters... and the land was polluted with blood. Then the anger of the lord was kindled against his people, and He abhorred his heritage; he gave them into the hands of the nations, so that those who hated them ruled over them. Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power. (See Psalm 106:37-43)

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40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 18 - NEVER GIVE UP! DEFEND THE BABIES!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 19 - GOD HAS A PLAN FOR EVERY LIFE!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 20 - TAKE 30 SECONDS TO PRAY, PLEASE!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 21 - NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!

Pathway for the elderly that leads to legal execution

Mature audience: Woman describes performing abortion while pregnant herself (Graphic Alert!)

Miracle Baby: Mother Successfully Battles for Right to Deliver Healthy Baby Despite Terminal Cancer

Wesley J. Smith: Assisted Suicide Advocates Seek to Euthanize The Rule of Law

Obamacare: Government Funded Studies Pushing Toward Futile Care Rationing?

40 Days for Life Participant in Fresno, California Assaulted by Abortion Advocate

My Day at Planned Parenthood

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 22 - GOD IS THE AUTHOR AND GIVER OF LIFE!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 23 - SHUT DOWN EVERY ABORTION CLINIC!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 24 - Even a 30 second prayer can be used by God!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 25 - PRAY FOR HEARTS TO CHANGE!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 26 - 1.4 MILLION BABIES KILLED EACH YEAR IN AMERICA!

Democrat-Led Personhood Amendment Introduced In Michigan Legislature

PERSONHOOD MOVEMENT LAUNCHES IN NEVADA

Obama Volunteer Web Site Serve.Gov Promotes Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz

Nun Volunteering as Abortion Clinic Escort in Illinois

Ken Connor: Rationing and Death Panels - End of Life Care Should Not End Life

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 27 - 299 Babies Saved!!! To God be the Glory!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 28 - SEEK JUSTICE! DEFEND THOSE WITH NO VOICE!!!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 29 - 50 Million Babies Killed! Our Country is Immersed in Sin!

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 30 - Will YOU defend the babies?

40 DAYS FOR LIFE - DAY 31 - 4000 BABIES DIED TODAY IN AMERICA! WILL YOU REMAIN SILENT?