Matt C. Abbot has a good column on men and abortion.
The proposed resolution came in response to the NAACP’s recent endorsement of abortion rights.
Grier also is a member of Life Education And Resource Network, or LEARN, a pro-life African-American group which charged the NAACP with censorship for barring the resolution.
"Each day 1,452 Afro-American women are victimized by the abortion industry — 81 percent of those women register some type of psychological complaint, said Rev. Clenard H. Childress, Jr., director of LEARN. "The NAACP’s refusal to allow this resolution is nothing less than censorship. The present leadership is charting a course without a moral compass."
Childress said the NAACP has "made decisions without consensus or caucus."
…African-American women make up 13.7 percent of the U.S. population of women of childbearing age, yet the abortion rate among black women is three times higher than of white women, the group says. For every five African-American women that get pregnant, three will abort.
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This is one reason why I am glad that President Bush will not speak at the NAACP convention. It is hard to figure out why the NAACP are such pro-abortion zealots. It would seem to me that if some of your ancestors were once declared property and being only 3/5 human that they might be sensitive to the plight of the unborn where the same thing has happened. That they would keep far away from a group like Planned Parenthood which was founded by the racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger. Yet the opposite is true. If you place more abortion clinics in neighborhoods mainly inhabited by poor blacks you are doing a service to the community, not trying to wipe out "human weeds" as Margaret Sanger put it. The Dred Scott decision and Roe v. Wade are but two legal peas in a pod where the rights of a whole group of people are given to someone else’s will. Master/Slave or Mother/Child you are only a person if the one above you deems that you are. Some slaves were freed from the plantation and allowed to live elsewhere and some mothers allow their child to live apart from the placenta. If a slave master killed their slave that was their right under law. If a mother kills her child that is her right under law.
As I once quipped with a slogan for Planned Parenthood, "Keeping Minorities – Minorities." And maybe the Supreme Court’s slogan should be "Dehumanizing people for over two hundred years."
Although it has been several months since the Food and Drug Administration approved the prescription of Morning After Pills, a federal mandate has stirred controversy and ultimately lead to the resignation of two State Health Department nurses, Lenita Ackles and Linda Bell, from their posts.
The federal government currently mandates that all agencies and clinics receiving federal funds distribute MAPs.
MAPs are considered to be emergency contraceptives and are primarily used in the event of unprotected sexual intercourse, when a condom breaks or after a sexual assault.
Pills are available by prescription. The pills induce a menstrual period within two weeks of taking the dosage. During the cycle, the pill flushes the egg, which may already be fertilized, and prevents implantation.
Lenita Ackles, former Alabama Department of Public Health nursing supervisor for Calhoun, resigned on March 19 from her post after 13 years.
Ackles said she was pressured into prescribing the pills.
"I asked them what choices I had and they told me that I would either have to write up the other people who refused to prescribe the pills or be written up myself," Ackles said. "I didn’t want to be written up, so I resigned."
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From an article by Joe Beck.
As a Catholic who favors abortion rights and opposes the death penalty, I came away from an interview with Bishop John D’Arcy relieved that he has no interest in starting a conflict over denying Communion to those of us who disagree with church teachings on political issues.
There is something deeply wrong when a Catholic pro-abortion reporter can come away from an interview with one of our bishops and feel relieved.
A woman has become pregnant after having an ovary tissue transplant for the first
time, it has emerged.
The breakthrough gives hope to thousands of cancer patients whose treatment
can make them infertile.
It may also potentially help women who want to give themselves another chance
at motherhood after the menopause.
Doctors from Universite Catholique de Louvain in Brussels are treating the
woman. News of her pregnancy was revealed at the European Fertility Conference
in Berlin.
The baby, a girl, who was conceived naturally, is due at the beginning of
October.
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du Meau]
As Meau said this is true reproductive technology.
The Vatican’s conservative policies on birth control have received a blow
from one of the Roman Catholic Church’s most loyal regions after opinion polls
showed
overwhelming support in Latin America for measures of contraception.
Contraception is not a conservative policy but part of the truth
of human sexuality. The truth can never receive a blow, the blow falls on those
who don’t follow the truth.
The move also represents an assault on US policies which, under George Bush,
have blocked aid to organisations supporting abortion.
The polls, released at an inter-governmental health conference in Puerto Rico,
show at least three quarters of those questioned in Mexico, Colombia and Bolivia
supporting contraception being made available to adolescents and even higher
majorities in favour of the use of condoms to prevent HIV/Aids.
And every country that starts by legalizing contraception will
also legalize abortion not long afterwards.
The surveys, carried out by separate polling organisations late last year,
questioned at least 1,500 respondents in each country with surprisingly similar
results.
Although in each case those questioned supported the church’s humanitarian
and spiritual roles, they also wanted liberalisation of its policies and claimed
that using contraception did not prevent them from being good Catholics.
Help us with the poor and other humanitarian needs, but please don’t force
us to change our lifestyle. Latin America has often been economically poor
and unfortunately they are now becoming spiritually poor.
…Roberto Blancarte, a Mexican sociologist of religion
told the group Catholics for a Free Choice: "We are seeing a silent
revolution among Catholics in Mexico and Latin America. This is the first
survey on what Catholics really
think about sexual and reproductive health and rights and it shows us that
there is a big breach between Catholics and the bishops."
A US official at the conference was quoted as saying that criticism of the
Bush administration’s policies was unfair and that the president wanted to
support reproductive health measures, including family planning, but abortion
could play no part in that.
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Saying that there is a breach between Catholics and the Bishops
is not much of a defense for supporting their views. After all there was a
breach between Judas and Jesus. It is good that the Bush Administration is
preventing funding for abortion but the code words family planning only mean
planning to not have a family. G.K. Chesterton has put it so much better.
"What is quaintly called Birth Control . . . is in fact,
of course, a scheme for preventing birth in order to escape control." ("The
Surrender upon Sex" The Well and the Shallows)
"Normal and real birth control is called self control." ("Social
Reform vs. Birth Control")
"Birth Control is a name given to a succession of different expedients
by which it is possible to filch the pleasure belonging to a natural process
while violently and unnaturally thwarting the process itself." ("Social
Reform vs. Birth Control")
"We can always convict such people of sentimentalism by their weakness
for euphemism. The phrase they use is always softened and suited for journalistic
appeals. They talk of free love when they mean something quite different, better
defined as free lust. But being sentimentalists they feel bound to simper and
coo over the word "love." They insist on talking about Birth Control
when they mean less birth and no control. We could smash them to atoms, if
we could be as indecent in our language as they are immoral in their conclusions." ("Obstinate
Orthodoxy" The Thing)
When New Zealand’s top Catholic bishop charged
that
liberal government policies are turning the country into a "moral wasteland" he
unfortunately was not engaging in hyperbole. Judging by this
article he is dead on.
The Care of Children Bill before Parliament re-affirms a 27-year-old law allowing
girls under the age of 16 to have an abortion without their parents’ consent
or knowledge.
Catholic schools say the law may force them into a legally dangerous situation
if they help a girl obtain an abortion without having access to her family’s
medical history.
"This legislation gives carte blanche approval to send a youngster down
the road to get an abortion," New Zealand Catholic Education Office executive
director Pat Lynch said.
"How does a guidance counsellor know whether a young woman might have
complications from anaesthetic or clotting problems?" Brother Lynch said.
"It seems to me we are talking about a life or
death situation, let alone the morality of it. Schools could open themselves
up to litigation. Surely
parents who brought a youngster into the world have a right to know (if their
child is pregnant). It would be very unwise for schools to get involved in
this."
Girls have been able to seek an abortion without parental consent since 1977
following a Royal Commission into contraception, sterilisation and abortion.
Brother Lynch said the new bill was an opportunity to have this clause overturned.
Christchurch’s St Mary’s in the City school principal
David O’Neill said schools were being put in a "horrible situation" but
were legally obligated to help a pregnant student obtain an abortion.
"It puts a huge amount of pressure on principals to make a decision like
that," he said.
"Schools have to look at this and ask themselves
what they will do in this situation."
I would like to see the direct quote of what the Catholic schools
there are saying. I really hope that the view portrayed in this article is
mistaken. That the only concern about a school helping a young girl get
an abortion is the concern about family medical history and getting sued. For
this Catholic school principal to say that they were in a "horrible situation"
but were legally obligated to help is really scary. By the moral law we are
obligated to fight against and to resist unjust laws and not to say "oh well,
it’s the law."
And another story from New Zealand School says sorry over students’ pre-ball
condoms
Teenagers at an Auckland high school were offered complimentary condoms when
they bought tickets to their school ball.
The students, from Edgewater College in Pakuranga, were handed an envelope
containing a condom, sexual health advice and pointers on sensible behaviour
surrounding alcohol and transport home from the ball.
The ball was held last Friday night at Sky City and was a huge success, according
to the school.
But some parents were left seething over the pre-ball freebie.
"What kind of a message is this sending out?" said
one parent, who declined to be named.
(CNSNews.com) – A pro-life group is warning that a popular song advocates
violence against pregnant women.
Black Americans for Life, an outreach of the National
Right to Life Committee, said the remixed version of singer Usher’s song "Confessions," featuring
rapper Joe Budden, suggests violent action against a mother when she is unwilling
to abort her child.
"These lyrics are demeaning and outright violent toward both women and
unborn children," said Day Gardner, director of Black Americans for Life.
"It is appalling to suggest that a man attack a woman to cause the death
of her unborn child. As women and as mothers, we simply cannot allow ourselves
or our unborn children to be treated as objects of such abuse," Gardner
said.
The song includes lyrics such as:
"….Pray that she abort that,
If she’s talkin’ ’bout keeping’ it,
One hit to the stomach,
She’s leakin’ it…"
Gardner said the lyrics illustrate the need for legislation like the Unborn
Victims of Violence Act, also known as Laci and Connor’s law, which makes it
a federal crime to harm or kill an unborn child when committing an act of violence
against the mother.
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His lastest article about the Federal Marriage Admenment Catholics must proclaim, protect truth about marriage, family
After a long battle with the state, an administrative court has awarded a San
Diego-area crisis pregnancy center a license to expand its services.
California’s Department of Health Services admitted
it was imposing arbitrary rules to prevent the East County Pregnancy Care
Center of El Cajon from being
licensed, according to Scott Lively of the public-interest group Lively & Ackerman,
which argued the case.
This was an important case, Lively said, since many CPCs seek to be licensed
and have faced similar problems.
"The decision is a wonderful affirmation of the crisis pregnancy center’s
equal citizenship in the communty as service providers," Lively told WND. "The
accusation in the past from the liberal side has been that CPCs are really
thinly veiled attempts at shutting abortion clinics down, and that they don’t
have an actual standing in the community of their own."
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