Archive for the ‘Pro-Life’ Category

Barack Obama, March 29, 2008:

…look, I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16…

Because, of course, a new life is immediately comparable to a sexually-transmitted disease.

Sarah Palin, September 1, 2008:

“We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.

“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”

I hope the media will ask Senator Obama a simple question:

Is Bristol Palin being punished with a baby?

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Amanda Banks interviews Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi on this week’s edition of Indiana Right to Life’s “Real Talk, Real Issues” radio program. Brizzi digs into the inadequate “feticide” law in Indiana that declares viable life begins at 7 months in the womb.  You can listen to the interview below.   This is a law that desperately needs fixed as explained by Brizzi in the interview.

 

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I first saw this video on Red State. And in all honesty, this is the kind of ad that the McCain team needs to run again Senator Obama. To quote the author of the Red State post:

Americans need to know about Senator Obama’s extreme views on abortion and his unwavering support for infanticide. And the best way to do that is to shine a light on Obama’s callous disregard for the most vulnerable members of our society–the unborn and “just born”

As the Olympics start today, Congressman Pence’s statement regarding forced abortions and other human rights violations in China should give us a stark reminder of what really is going on there even when the games are taking place.

PENCE CALLS FOR END TO CHINA’S FORCED ABORTION POLICY
“China is a Police State”

WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Congressman Mike Pence gave the following speech on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives today (Thursday, July, 30th), speaking out against Beijing, China as the site for the 2008 Olympic Games and citing China’s official policy of forced abortion as going against the very ideals of the Games:

“I thank the gentleman for yielding, and thank him for his strong moral leadership on this issue. I want to commend the Ranking Member and the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee for having the moral courage to bring this resolution to the House before Congress adjourns.

“It is important that we speak truth to power. And with the 2008 Olympics in Beijing about to begin, it is important that the people of the United States be heard on our ideals as athletes from around the world and global media descend on China.

“It is important that we say as the late Tom Lantos, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a hearing last year, a few months before his death: ‘China is a police state.’

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(I wanted to blog about this earlier, and just forgot with my vacation last week.)

My good friend, State Senator Jim Merritt has taken on a good fight.

Merritt said that he and State Rep Mike Murphy plan to introduce a bill that would amend the murder statute to include a fetus at any state of development.

“The expectation of a child is a remarkable feeling… to have that stolen from you is just tragic,” Merritt said.

Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi has been calling for longer prison sentences for people convicted of harming a fetus during crimes against pregnant women since the arrest of a man who allegedly robbed a bank in Indianapolis and shot a bank teller. The man, Brian Kendrick, allegedly shot bank teller Katherin Shuffield, who was five months pregnant.

Kendrick has been charged with the shooting and faces four to 16 years if he is convicted.

Merritt and other supporters hope to change the feticide law during next year’s legislative session.

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When Barack Obama’s opposition to a bill that would ban infanticide was discussed on CNN, an Obama supporter replied that “the American people want to talk about gas prices”. Both Republicans and Democrats think they can use high gas prices to their advantage this election season and both will be talking a lot about them in the coming months. Certainly, the high cost of gas (reaching $4.00 a gallon and climbing) drives up the cost of everything else and threatens our economic stability.

But are gas prices the most important issue in this election? Far from it.

The most important issue we face in 2008 is the same as it was in 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004. The most important issue we face is the fact that fifty million people have been killed by a procedure deemed a “constitutional right” by the Supreme Court and that 1.2 million continue to die annually. To bring it down to the local level, the most important issue we face is that several people were killed yesterday in Bloomington, and it was completely legal to kill them. The most important issue we face, of course, is abortion.

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Bloomington Herald-Times, July 10, 2008

To the Editor:

I attended the City Council meeting last month where the councilors voted 8-1 to give a taxpayer subsidy to the local branch of America’s #1 abortion provider for the tenth consecutive year.

It is unfortunate that the City Council decided to put a political endorsement for Planned Parenthood above the requests of social service agencies that actually need the money, especially since Planned Parenthood and all of its affiliates combined for over a billion dollars in revenue in its most recent fiscal year and that the national branch saw a profit of $37.7 million, according to PP’s most recent fiscal report.

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I’ve never considered myself a “one-issue voter”, but there has always been one issue that has stuck out to me more than others. That is the pro-life issue. It may not be the leading factor in which candidate I choose to support, but it could be the deciding factor because I put so much emphasis on this particular issue.

That’s why I was glad to hear that Congressman Burton received the endorsement of the Indiana Right to Life in his bid for re-election this year.

Indiana Right to Life and their Chairman Mike Fichter made an endorsement today for Congressman Dan Burton and his “tireless work to protect the unborn.” Mike Fichter said, “Indiana Right to life makes tough decisions on endorsements every election; However, this decision was not difficult. Indiana Right to Life proudly and enthusiastically endorses Dan Burton for Congress.”

Dan Burton has a 100% voting record with Indiana Right to Life. Congressman Burton has also been proactive on life issues, authoring and co-sponsoring countless bills in the U.S. House to advance the Pro-Life movement.

Voters in the 5th District need to be certain that they have someone in Congress fighting for the lives of those who can’t fight for themselves. Time and again, Congressman Burton has proven himself to be that kind of congressman.

My below post on Joe Donnelly and pro-life issues has generated more discussion than I had anticipated. So in the same vein of pro-life issues, and with an eye to the upcoming Democratic Presidential primary in which Hoosier Democrats will finally have some relevance and be forced to choose between a proven liberal and a proven liberal, I am humbly submitting this video of Barack Obama recently expounding on his view of the life issue.

So Barack Obama believes that babies are a “punishment” and STDs are an undeserved consequence of irresponsible behavior? Look, we all mess up sometimes, but there are some things that are really important in life and you can choose to either do the right thing or the wrong thing but once you make that choice you have to live with the consequences of that choice. You are free to choose the path; you’re not free to choose the outcome of the path.

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Joe Donnelly, the blue dog Democrat representing Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District, spoke at a Notre Dame Law School event Wednesday. Donnelly’s primary topic was pro-life issues.

According the ND Observer (the campus newspaper), in the course of his discourse Donnelly declared that his party is not inherently pro-choice and that a “working majority” in Congress is pro-life. In response to that first statement I’d say that with specific respect to abortion, both of our current political parties were around before 1973 so both of them predate the era of abortion on demand.

This of course doesn’t mean that all Democrats are pro-choice, that Democrats today should be held accountable for the way their party ancestors behaved, or that being pro-life is synonymous with being a Republican. It does mean that inspite of its various flaws, the Republican party has a generally pro-life history and in the aftermath of a judicial ruling making abortion on demand legal, the GOP has on the whole taken the high road and strongly embraced then notion that life is precious and should be protected.

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Last year Rep. Mike Pence (R) began the fight to eliminate Title X funding for Planned Parenthood. Currently your tax dollars underwrite nearly one third of Planned Parenthood’s annual budget. Although they are the largest abortion provider in the world, Planned Parenthood is eligible to receive Title X funds as long as the money is not directly spent on abortions. This limitation, however, does not mean that sending roughly $300 million a year to the organization does not have negative consequences for women and their unborn children. The taxpayer funding that Planned Parenthood receives allows them to focus funds raised from other sources on the specific funding of abortions.

Pence began fighting to eliminate taxpayer subsidies to Planned Parenthood last year, but his efforts were unsuccessful with the amendment being voted down on the floor of the U.S. House. In spite of the defeat Pence was able to get his legislative concept out there and now he’s back working on eliminating the funding from the 2009 budget.

Legislative battles like the one Rep. Pence is waging are just as important as the overall goal of ending Roe v. Wade and precedents set by ensuing court decisions that made abortion on demand possible. The battle to protect life doesn’t just take place on the macro level. Seemingly micro changes in policy are important because each child and each mother spared the physical death and emotional trauma of an abortion, count towards the overall goal of protecting life and respecting freedom.

Senator Evan Bayh claims to be pro-life. His Senate staffers have personally assured me that he is pro-life.

Why then, this past Thursday night, did Bayh vote against the Allard amendment which would have allowed unborn children to receive health coverage under SCHIP? He chose instead to support Senator Boxer’s convoluted amendment which absurdly categorizes pregnant mothers as “children” in a desperate attempt to aid pregnant mothers without having to suggest that the unborn are in fact children who should receive individual medical treatment.

That same evening Sen. Bayh voted against the Ensign amendment which set aside funds for the enforcement of the Child Custody Protection Act (CCPA). The CCPA prevents under-age girls from being taken across state lines “in circumvention of laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.”

Forgive me for being skeptical of the Senator’s pro-life credentials.

Does he think unborn children deserve medical treatment? Does he believe that parents have a right to participate in the health decisions of their minor daughters, particularly whether they should have an abortion? Is Sen. Bayh afraid of the radical pro-abortion lobby? Pro-life Hoosiers want to know.