Pro-life

A Catholic pharmacist who refused to fill a prescription for the pill is ordered to attend an ethics class.

Jill Stanek posts a series of three pro-life advertisements that were refused to be run in a newspaper for being too graphic.
Now of course there is something strange about a graphic being too graphic, but I can understand the point in some circumstances. These ads though are not dismembered babies, but simply ultrasounds with captions.
The truth though is just too graphic for abortion supporters which is why the language of obfuscation is always used – choice instead of the dividing line between life and death.

MORE than 200 Catholic doctors, all members of the Guild of St Luke, are set to resign from the Australian Medical Association and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners over RU-486.

Guild president, Dr Terrence Kent, a Brisbane GP, said the group which is meeting on Sunday "will be recommending that members resign from both the AMA and the RACGP due to lack of consultation with members of these two groups on their decisions to support removing authority for approving RU-486 from the Health Minister and giving it to the TGA."

Two doctors have already resigned from the AMA, which has more than 5670 members in Queensland.

"Not only does RU-486 always result in the death of an innocent human being, complications including maternal death make it totally unacceptable," Dr Kent said.

"The horrific experience that doctors would inflict on young women by giving them this pill to take would be most traumatic to the patients we are supposed to be caring for. They would take the pill then wait several days for the process to be completed with concomitant pain, bleeding and passage of a dead embryo. Surely this would be psychologically damaging and a totally undesirable experience."

In her letter of resignation to the AMA, Dr Belinda Goodwin said she no longer wanted to be represented by an organisation whose national president, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, told the Senate Committee regarding RU-486 that "it is certainly far safer to terminate a pregnancy with RU-486 than to take the pregnancy to term".

She said the comments were "outrageous and send the wrong message to women". [Source]

Americans are growing ‘impatient” as they wait for a woman to be elected president, 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Saturday night.
“People are saying,’ Well, at least we’re ready,'” Clinton told interviewer Jane Pauley, as the two held a public chat for charity in San Francisco.
“There’s a feeling that it’s time,” she added.
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"Commander in Chief? started out as the season?s most talked-about new show, but the initial hype didn?t translate into solid ratings ? and ABC has shelved the White House drama.

The network announced over the weekend that it is pulling the show ? which stars Geena Davis as the first female president ? until spring to make way for a new comedy, "Sons & Daughters.? The "Commander" show will be off the air for at least six weeks, the New York Post reports.

More proof that health concerns don’t matter as long as it is used for abortion.

Cantebury Tales has a great quote from Malcom Muggeridge and a good series on contraception.

Canon lawyer Ed. Peter’s discuses the canonical issues regarding the Schiavo-Centonze marriage. I am sure many when they heard of this story that he got married in a Catholic church wondered what the ****? Well it looks like that is a valid response. Though considering that this is Bishop Lynch’s diocese this is to be expected.

Update: Jimmy Akin has additional information and some contact information to protest this scandalous situation.

By now many have already seen this picture of a women in protesting the San Francisco Walk for Life of a pregnant women with her belly exposed and words on it saying "My baby is prochoice."

Seems to me like a rhetorical slip up. Shouldn’t that be My fetus is prochoice? And how can a tissue mass or product of conception have a moral position. A non-person can not hold a moral position. Though then again reason has never been a strong suit of those promoting abortion. For example this report from the anti-march.

Some sang "If you don’t like abortion, don’t have one” to the tune of "If You’re Happy and You Know It."

Others have made the rejoinder "If you don’t like slavery, don’t have a slave."

Of course they also use the language of rights but never tell us where rights come from. If from the government then they can simply be given or taken away. Of if from society again they can be given or taken away. It is really only in the context of God given rights that any argument about rights that can’t be taken away can make any sense. Randomness does not confer rights on it’s random creation. They are usually referring to rights that are inherent and can not be taken away, but somehow this "inalienable" right to abortion trumps the inalienable right to life.

I prefer this picture myself.

Thanks to Letters From a Young Catholic for this heads up.

Priests for Life (PFL) has set up a politically active "training center" in Amarillo, TX, right in the back yard of Planned Parenthood of Amarillo and the Texas Panhandle (PPATP). Father Frank Pavone, director of PFL, has named this new organization, "Missionaries of the Gospel of Life."

He aims to train priests and seminarians to fight euthanasia and abortion exclusively. "The order will have a decidedly political bent, and will be active rather than contemplative," Pavone told the Los Angeles Times in March. In June, the all-male order started its first "discernment retreat" for 35 men looking to devote their lives to eliminating access to abortion. PFL has also launched a $12 million national media campaign aimed at restricting the right to abortion.

All-male order how sinister. What a shock that s Society of Apostolic Life which includes priests and deacons would actually be all male. Though I doubt if they ever called the Sisters of Life all-female.

PPATP, which operates three clinics in the area, was forced to quickly upgrade its security. "Since January, the number of protestors has significantly increased and the nature of the protests has intensified," said Claudia Stravato, CEO of PPATP. PPATP worked with PPFA and security vendors to assess its security needs, install security hardware, and develop and train staff in security procedures.

Yes peaceful protestors from Priests for Life are just so dangerous – dangerous to their financial bottom line. Just too bad children in the womb can’t upgrade their security and hire staff to protect them. I mean if I was an infant again in the womb the first thing I would install would be a one way door so that I could get out and nobody else could get in. A metal detector to warn me of scalpels coming in to my domain and a biological hazard detection system to warn me of saline or other toxic biological warfare. I would get a phone to dial 911 if it would do any good.

Child in the womb: Help me there is an intruder on my premises trying to kill me

911 Operator: Can you describe you assailant?

Child in the womb: Not really, I can only see is this big tube coming at me making a sucking sound.

911 Operator: Where are you currently located.

Child in the womb: In my mother’s womb and she is located at 212 Elm St.

911 Operator: Sorry I can’t help you. You are not a victim and this is not a crime. That is not an assailant but a doctor sworn to protect human life.

Child in the womb: But I am human life.

911 Operator: Sorry again but the Supreme Court decided you weren’t.

Child in the womb: What that makes no sense. I mean I can think and breathe and have a beating heart and can feel pain. I know something bad is happening to me.

911 Operator: Well I don’t really understand myself, but it has something to do with penumbras or something.

Child in the womb: Help me it is starting to hurt.

911 Operator: I would tell you to suck it up, but that is being done for you. Have a nice day.

I was thinking more about Dawn Eden’s latest post on PP’s merchandise and specifically this item.

I had commented on her site "Now as for me keeping my Rosary off their ovaries – no problem. I can’t thinks of any conceivable circumstance where that could happen anyway. I mean be serious."

Later I was thinking abut what kind of mind set would come up with this anyway. It seems obvious by the creator of this and those who like this bumper sticker that they seem to be bothered by those who would pray Rosaries outside of abortion mills. Why is that? I mean if I was an abortion supporter and either believed that God approved of abortion or didn’t believe in God at all why would I care if somebody prayed the Rosary? In these circumstances wouldn’t I be pleased that pro-lifers were wasting there time doing something? If God approves of abortion their prayer and time was wasted. If you believe there is no God then again they are wasting there time. A bunch of pro-lifers wasting there time should be seen as optimum by abortion supporters. If they are bothered by seeing people praying perhaps they at some level sense the efficacy of this prayer. To paraphrase Shakespeare – Me thinks they doth protest too much.

Update: A reader sent in this graphic.