Pro-life

A PHARMACIST refused to sell the morning-after pill to a mother-of-two because of his Catholic beliefs.

Kerrie Gooch, 24, who has a nine- week-old baby and a two-year-old was forced to go to a clinic.

She plans to sue if she falls pregnant. Furious Kerrie asked yesterday: "What gives him the right to play God?"

She added: "Everyone is entitled to an opinion but I don’t want someone making a decision like this for me. [Source]

That is pretty funny coming from someone who is willing to conduct chemical warfare on God’s plan for human sexuality. Nice of her to allow others to hold an opinion just as long as they don’t get in her way.

Chicago, Nov. 22 (LifesiteNews.com/CWN) – Embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) supporters were stunned by the recent defeat of a bill granting state endorsement to ESCR in the state Senate. After an emotional debate which was concluded by a tear-jerking email plea from the late actor Christopher Reeve, the chamber voted 28-29 against the measure.
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Captains Quarter’s reports on an exhibit by Josef Mengele the notorious Nazi doctor and pulls out one statement which measures his self-delusion.

Of his own actions in "selecting" whether victims at Auschwitz were to live to work or to be experimented upon, or to be dispatched in the gas chambers, he wrote: "I gave life in Auschwitz, I did not take it."

This creepy statement got me to thinking about a modern context to this statement. How many doctors doing embryonic stem-cell research have the exact same attitude. That the mythical benefits of ESCR will give life not take it. That the deliberate destruction of a human being in the process should be ignored in favor of the potential benefit. The embryo is the modern equivalent of the Jew – after all with this attitude neither are "really" persons deserving of protection. And if products such as soap or miracle cures can be made of them so much the better. Josef Mengele spent the last years of his life in hiding from the authorities for his crimes. We are much more enlightened now. A doctor of his caliber could have instead received a grant and moved to California to be funded by taxpayer money in ESCR.

RightWingSparkle has an interesting account from protesting an abortion clinic.

A couple of interesting things. There was LOTS of media. One cameraman started kind of following me around. I guess because I was speaking to many of the people and he wanted a good shot of something, because nothing exciting was going on. I spoke to a Hispanic grandmother who had been praying the rosary. She pointed to one of the policemen on a horse and said "That is my nephew." She smiled at him and did a little wave. He kinda smiled back and shook his head. "I kid him that one day he will have to arrest me." she giggled. I smiled. "You do this often?" I asked. "I come every Saturday and silently pray the rosary." she answered.

Scary stuff. These people.

Then a very strange thing happened. Suddenly from the 2nd story balcony of the abortion clinic they brought out a 9 foot purple paper mache woman. Her arms were attached with elastic and they had sticks glued to the back of her hands so she could wave back and forth. Some woman from the balcony shouted that she was the goddess of something ( I couldn’t understand her and I never found out what goddess, seems the reporters there weren’t that interested in finding out) I turned to the cameraman that had been following me and said, "Aren’t you going to film that???" He looked reluctant…"I guess so" he said. "YOU GUESS SO???? THIS isn’t newsworthy???? THIS isn’t interesting enough for the local news????" I said.

He filmed it, but I never saw it on any news station or written up in the newspaper. It occurred to me later that the station may have told him to only film that which made the pro-lifers look nutty, not the other way around. I just can’t explain it any other way.

Somehow the words "suitably chastened" and Arlen Spector to me don’t go together. I guess time will tell.

Sen. Harry Reid the new minority leader who has been reported as being pro-life starts out by warning Republicans about a rule change to a simple majority on cloture instead of the sixty vote super majority now used. So the first act of a pro-life Senator is to warn against changing the rules that so far have prevented pro-life judges from reaching federal courts and especially circuit courts of appeal. We will just have to wait to see which one wins out – pro-life sympathies or party loyalty.

(AP) — Illinois senators are debating whether to encourage stem cell research here by giving the state’s official stamp of approval to the work that raises touchy ethical questions.

The legislation, which could be considered by the full Senate on Thursday, would make it official state policy to permit stem cell research. It also would require that patients at fertility clinics be told they could donate unneeded embryos for research, and it would ban cloning for the purpose of reproducing people.

Unlike a measure approved in California and a proposal in Wisconsin, the Illinois legislation would not provide any public funding for embryonic stem cell research.

The Senate Executive Committee voted 7-5 for the bill, dubbed the Ronald Reagan Biomedical Research Act because the late president had Alzheimer’s disease and his wife, Nancy Reagan, supports stem cell research. [Source]

What a slap in the face of Ronald Reagan’s beliefs and legacy.

London, England (LifeNews.com) — A British girl who triggered a national controversy after she had an abortion without her mother’s knowledge is pregnant again. But this time, student Melissa Smith intends to keep the baby.

Her mother Maureen told the BBC, "She’s 15, she made her own mind up. She was hell-bent on replacing the one she lost, basically."

Maureen also told the BBC, "Me and my family are supportive 100 percent. We’ll be there for her — like we said previously."

Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the pro-life group known as LIFE, Rachel Heath, said, “It is not uncommon for women who have an abortion to become pregnant again soon after.”

"Many women find the pain of their abortion difficult to bear and go on to have an ‘atonement’ baby. This is often by the same father," Heath said.

"I hope this time the school health worker leaves (the girl), her boyfriend and family alone to prepare themselves for the birth of their child," Heath added. [Source]

ANN ARBOR, MI —The Thomas More Law Center has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Fort Myers, Florida, and several of its officials for policies and practices curtailing the free speech rights of pro-life sidewalk counselors to pray and handout pro-life informational literature.

The Law Center filed suit on behalf of Judith Minahan, Edward and Marilyn Melone, and John Vetter, all of whom are Christians motivated by their faith to expose the evils of abortion. They seek to pray on the public sidewalk outside a Fort Myers abortion clinic and counsel expectant mothers in a non-confrontational manner to find alternatives to abortion.

The City of Fort Myers and its officials, however, require pro-life advocates to obtain a permit before more than two of them may engage in such activity. They are also prohibited from approaching people and distributing informational literature. As a result, if three pro-life advocates pray on the public sidewalk without a permit and hand out literature, they are subject to arrest.

According to Edward L. White III, the Law Center attorney handling the case, “Our clients simply want to peacefully pray and present a pro-life message on a public sidewalk without fear of arrest. We are seeking relief from the federal court to allow them and other pro-life advocates to do so freely without being subject to further violations of their constitutional rights.” [Source][Via AMDG]

PEORIA, Ill. – Federal employees in part of Illinois now have the option of enrolling in a Catholic-run health insurance plan that does not cover abortion, contraceptives or fertility treatment.

Enrollment opened Monday for the plan, which officials said was the first of its kind to be offered to federal workers.

"I see it as allowing the individual government employee to exercise their moral judgment and to follow their moral conscience in terms of how they want their benefit dollars spent," Philip Karst, executive director of the Illinois Catholic Health Association, told the Chicago Tribune.

The insurance is offered by Peoria-based OSF HealthPlans to 4,000 eligible residents of 27 counties of central and northern Illinois, not including Chicago. It is administered by a company owned and operated by an order of Roman Catholic nuns, the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis.
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Karst and other proponents of the plan, which offers low-cost, high deductible coverage, say it allows subscribers to select coverage that is in keeping with the moral position of their faith.

Opponents see it as a move to extend religious influence.

And then of course we have the mandatory rebuttal by Gloria Feldt, president of the Planned Parenthood.

"It’s inappropriate for federal dollars to subsidize a plan that is blatantly designed to foster one religious point of view," said Gloria Feldt, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "This is just another part of the Bush administration’s attacks on access to family planning and birth control."

And just exactly why is a pro-choicer against choice in a instance where this insurance plan is only one of 249 plans available? Oh I forgot – any threat to PP ‘s abortion money pot is a threat against the religion of Moloch.

Here is an article by Matt C. Abbott about The Womens Center, a pro-life crisis pregnancy center located in Chicago.