Category Archives: Life Issues

by | January 26, 2013 · 8:37 pm

MSM doesn’t like LIFE

2013_01 Thousands rally

I didn’t see any reports of numbers for the Gun Control March, but the USA Today article did say this:

“Marchers walked through the city in a line that stretched roughly two blocks.”

The numbers I saw for the Pro Life March ranged between “at least 300,000” to “over 500,000”, with even the liberal media reports admitting this year was “as big or bigger than last year”, while organizers said it was the biggest EVER.

I found this time lapse video of the 2011 Pro Life March. The camera guy’s note says that marchers were walking past him for an incredible 1 hour 31 minutes! (I wonder how many minutes it takes “a line that stretched roughly two blocks” to walk past a single point?)

How biased is the media on this issue? Well …

… the New York Times print edition has ignored the annual Pro-Life march in Washington entirely for five years running.

… in the last 10 years, when referencing either the march or the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, network news shows have used the word “life” only twice. Twice in 22 stories. Twenty-two stories total in 10 years on three broadcast networks that show news both morning and evening.

The Associated Press institutionalized the MSM’s pro-abortion bias with its famous style manual that instructed journalists to use “anti-abortion” rather than “pro-life” and “abortion rights” instead of “pro-abortion” or “pro-choice.”

The Washington Post and The New York Times both took this to the totally absurd length of actually changing Richard Doerflinger’s JOB TITLE. Doerflinger is Associate Director of Pro-Life Activities for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. WaPo and the New York Slime called him “Associate Director of Anti-Abortion Activities.”

When Republican strategist Juleanna Glover identified herself as “deeply pro-life” in an interview, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interrupted with, “Well, what I would call anti-abortion … to use the term that I think is more value neutral.”

We accurately describe the horrific loss of 6 million Jews as a Holocaust. But to the American media, 54 million dead babies is “value neutral.”

It’s not “neutral” values. It’s not ignorance. It’s out and out, eye-popping, mind-boggling Media MALPRACTICE.

Source:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/25/march-for-life-shows-media-march-in-lockstep-with-pro-abortion-groups/

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by | January 26, 2013 · 4:49 pm

Massive Crowds Attend 40th Annual March for Life

2013 March for Life

MRCTV and the Culture and Media Institute cover the March for Life on Friday, January 25, 2013

Video [1:29] @ http://www.mrctv.org/videos/massive-crowds-attend-40th-annual-march-life

Harvested @ Twitter:

  • I join all those marching for life from afar, and pray that political leaders will protect the unborn and promote a culture of life. – Pope Benedict XVI
  • Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal. – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • A church that is silent about abortion is silent about the Gospel. – Fr Frank Pavone
  • Abortion will end when Christians start to care. – Kelly Clinger
  • Blessings on everyone who marched in Washington yesterday. – Lila Rose
  • One day we will be here in triumph, because love & truth always triumph. -Rick Santorum
  • 80% of participants under the age of 20! We are a #prolife generation and we will continue to be a voice for the unborn!
  • When you don’t respect life, you won’t respect anyone.
  • The pro-life movement isn’t just about the infants, it’s about the women, the men, the siblings and the families.
  • This country is in search of truth, and they’re not finding much of it in Washington, D.C. – Rick Santorum
  • Largest human rights demonstration in the world!
  • Media that ignored the truth about Benghazi yet swooned over Michelle’s bangs is now ignoring half a million people at March For Life.
  • Wow. Media deliberately ignores 500K strong yet covers significantly smaller gun control protest. So much for reporting news!

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by | July 28, 2012 · 10:46 pm

Mitt Romney’s position on LIFE

I am firmly pro-life. I believe that if abortion were limited to cases of rape, incest, and circumstances in which the mother’s life is in peril, we will have gone a long way to ending abortion in this country. I support the reversal of Roe v. Wade, because it is bad law and bad medicine. Roe was a misguided ruling that was a result of a small group of activist federal judges legislating from the bench.

I support the Hyde Amendment, which broadly bars the use of federal funds for abortions. And as president, I will end federal funding for abortion advocates like Planned Parenthood.

I will reinstate the Mexico City Policy to ensure that nongovernmental organizations that receive funding from America refrain from performing or promoting abortion services, as a method of family planning, in other countries. This includes ending American funding for any United Nations or other foreign assistance program that promotes or performs abortions on women around the world.

I will advocate for and support a Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act to protect unborn children who are capable of feeling pain from abortion.

And perhaps most importantly, I will only appoint judges who adhere to the Constitution and the laws as they are written, not as they want them to be written.

As Governor of Massachusetts, I fought to promote abstinence education in the classroom, vetoed legislation to provide emergency contraception without a prescription, and vetoed embryonic cloning legislation. I am proud to say that each time I was presented with legislation on life issues, I sided with life. I remain strongly dedicated to that position.

I am running for president because I believe in America and know that our best days are still ahead. I believe that the principles that made America the leader of the world today—freedom, opportunity, and free enterprise to name just a few—are the very principles that will keep America the leader of the world tomorrow. These last few years have not been the best of times. But while we’ve lost a few years, we have not lost our way.

Source @ http://www.lifenews.com/2012/07/25/romney-lays-out-pro-life-agenda-he-would-take-as-president/

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by | July 3, 2012 · 6:02 am

Important resource for your Pro-Life “Others”

June 29, 2012: Rasmussen poll of likely voters:

Obama 45% vs. Romney 44% vs. Other 5% vs. Undecided 6%

89% of us have made up our minds. We need to focus on identifying, schmoozing and educating the 11% who are still Other or Undecided.

Below is a good article to use for the Pro-Lifers you encounter who do not recognize the moral validity of “the lesser of two evils” and will ONLY vote for someone who is ideologically pure.

The gist of “Romney’s Conversion on Abortion—Is it Authentic?”

The conversion of a political candidate prior to an election is naturally met with questions and even skepticism. Mitt Romney has been no exception. It has led even the casual observer to say, “Is this authentic?”

When he was first elected Governor of Massachusetts, it was generally presumed that his position was “pro-choice.” However, in February 2005, Romney declared that he was pro-life.

He tells us that he started to change his mind in November 2004 when a Harvard stem cell scientist said to him, “Look, you don’t have to think about this stem cell research as a moral issue because we kill the embryos after fourteen days.”

The man was acknowledging that embryonic stem cell research did in fact kill human lives that were already in existence.

Wanting to know more, Romney consulted a Pro-Life physician and professor at Stanford University Medical Center Neuroscience Institute. The two of them met for several hours, discussing the issue in great detail. After this, Romney stated that he was pro-life.

Life Issues Institute and I are confident that Governor Romney’s conversion is real, heartfelt and authentic.

The article also talks about the Pro-Life conversion of George H.W. Bush. You can read the entire article @ http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/19/put-the-debate-to-rest-mitt-romney-is-genuinely-pro-life/

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by | June 13, 2012 · 4:39 pm

For the first time in my adult life …

… I am PROUD to be an American Catholic!

Bishops Prepare for Largest Civil Disobedience Since the 60s by Andrew Bair – June 3, 2012

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/06/03/bishops-prepare-for-largest-civil-disobedience-since-the-60s/

The United States Catholic bishops are readying American Catholics for what may be the largest campaign of civil disobedience since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960’s.

In addition to 12 lawsuits against the Obama Administration including 46 plaintiffs from dioceses, hospitals and universities, the US Catholic bishops will urge Catholics to openly defy the Obama HHS Mandate. In June, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will distribute bulletin inserts nationwide, which reference Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his call for civil disobedience in response to unjust laws.

The USCCB bulletin insert quotes “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in which Dr. King writes, “I would agree with Saint Augustine that ‘An unjust law is no law at all.’… A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.”

The Catholic bishops also note in the document, “Some unjust laws impose such injustices on individuals and organizations that disobeying the laws may be justified. Every effort must be made to repeal them. When fundamental human goods, such as the right of conscience, are at stake, we may need to witness to the truth by resisting the law and incurring its penalties.”

The USCCB has organized a two-week campaign called the Fortnight for Freedom, which will extend from June 21st through July 4th to raise awareness about the threats to rights of conscience posed by the HHS mandate. The very same authority used by the HHS Secretary under the Obama healthcare law to mandate insurance coverage of contraceptives and sterilizations could also be used to force coverage of surgical abortions. The mandate is scheduled to go into effect on August 1st.

Recently, the USCCB released a document entitled “Our First, Most Cherished Liberty” in which the bishops emphasized they would not back down from their opposition the HHS Mandate. http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/our-first-most-cherished-liberty.cfm

EXCERPT:

We are Catholics. We are Americans. We are proud to be both, grateful for the gift of faith which is ours as Christian disciples, and grateful for the gift of liberty which is ours as American citizens. To be Catholic and American should mean not having to choose one over the other. Our allegiances are distinct, but they need not be contradictory, and should instead be complementary. That is the teaching of our Catholic faith, which obliges us to work together with fellow citizens for the common good of all who live in this land. That is the vision of our founding and our Constitution, which guarantees citizens of all religious faiths the right to contribute to our common life together.

Freedom is not only for Americans, but we think of it as something of our special inheritance, fought for at a great price, and a heritage to be guarded now. We are stewards of this gift, not only for ourselves but for all nations and peoples who yearn to be free. Catholics in America have discharged this duty of guarding freedom admirably for many generations.

In 1887, when the archbishop of Baltimore, James Gibbons, was made the second American cardinal, he defended the American heritage of religious liberty during his visit to Rome to receive the red hat. Speaking of the great progress the Catholic Church had made in the United States, he attributed it to the “civil liberty we enjoy in our enlightened republic.” Indeed, he made a bolder claim, namely that “in the genial atmosphere of liberty [the Church] blossoms like a rose.”

From well before Cardinal Gibbons, Catholics in America have been advocates for religious liberty, and the landmark teaching of the Second Vatican Council on religious liberty was influenced by the American experience. It is among the proudest boasts of the Church on these shores. We have been staunch defenders of religious liberty in the past. We have a solemn duty to discharge that duty today.

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by | March 29, 2011 · 10:36 am

The greatest honor

Reported @ http://www.thomasmoresociety.org/2011/0318/bomb/

Reported @ http://www.kaj18.com/news/incendiary-device-thrown-at-kalispell-vigil-participants/

Reported @ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51949.html

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