Students Forced To Fund Lecture By Prostitutes

 20 Dollar Bills SC Students forced to fund lecture by prostitutes

Colleges ostensibly offer young adults their first independent exposure to new cultures and experiences.

While I expect – and even encourage – universities to offer presentations by those with whom I disagree ideologically, today’s leftist administrators rarely allow any traditional speakers to counterbalance that exposure.

A recent series of lectures by prostitutes and strippers at the University of New Hampshire shows the outrageous lengths schools will go to legitimize and normalize immoral lifestyles.

Adding further insult to the conference is the fact that students compulsorily funded it through mandatory student activity fees. About half of the roughly $2,250 it cost to host the obscene antics came from that fund.

Self-described “sex worker” Kitty Stryker began a petition to collect both money and signatures to show support for the college in giving hookers “a voice when so many would rather silence us.”

The event was organized as part of a class assignment and received sponsorships from campus groups (including Queer Studies and Voices of Planned Parenthood, among others.)

While the objectionable content of the lectures obviously disturbed many students, the issue of financial waste was also a major concern.

Young Americans for Prosperity New Hampshire Director Greg Moore wanted to learn more about funding for the workshop and filed the necessary paperwork to attain that information.

With college costs skyrocketing in recent years, he said that a rally on behalf of prostitution used “funds that could be used elsewhere to keep tuition down.”

There are two very good reasons this conference should have been nipped in the bud; one is moral and the other financial. Unfortunately, leftists are notoriously unresponsive to reason in both categories.

 

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Gosnell Guilty Of Murder And Manslaughter: Now What?

abortion is not health care1 Gosnell Guilty of Murder And Manslaughter: Now What?

By now, you’ve probably heard the news that late-term abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of three first-degree murder charges for killing live babies as well as involuntary manslaughter of a woman who died at his Philadelphia clinic. Eyewitnesses testified that Gosnell killed hundreds of babies born alive over the years, but physical evidence was only available to prove three of them. This is a guy that kept baby feet in jars as trophies.

Will this case lead to regulations being implemented in one of the least regulated industries in America? Gosnell is certainly not alone when it comes to seedy backroom abortion operations, unsanitary conditions, and untrained staff.

Right under our preoccupied noses and all across America, hundreds of abortion “providers” are making a killing in their completely legal, government-approved businesses. Many are just living the American dream. Yes, it’s true some take advantage of confused and scared young girls; but with the average price of an abortion being around $1,300 per customer, delivering death adds up to big profits.

Various sources confirmed that Gosnell performed thousands of abortions over a 30-year career; and his practice alone netted him about $1.8 million a year, much of it in cash. Authorities found $250,000 hidden in a bedroom when they searched his house. Gosnell also owned a beach home and several rental properties. 

Prosecuter Ed Cameron said that “He created an assembly line with no regard for these women whatsoever.” For obvious reasons, many of the youngest customers end up paying cash.

Is Gosnell the only twisted abortionist killing babies born alive? Are we so naive to think his clinic was the only one operating in such horrific conditions? 

Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser insists Kermit Gosnell is not alone:

“Exploitation of women and complete disregard for their health and well-being are problems endemic to the entire abortion industry. There are numerous examples of negligence and even death in abortion facilities across the country. Now is the moment to realize that abortion is neither safe, nor rare. Abortion is a brutal, painful procedure, both for the child that it kills and the woman that it wounds.”

Gosnell’s radical pro-abortion views, similar to President Obama’s, clouded his respect for life, causing a blatant disregard for one of God’s most basic laws: Thou shalt not kill. Obama even said, “God bless Planned Parenthood” in a recent speech, fully supporting their ‘work.’ 

When abortion was legalized via Roe v. Wade in 1973, at least the court had an (extremely weak) excuse that there was some confusion over exactly when life begins. With modern technological advances such as ultrasounds, however, and the fact that science proves a human heart begins beating at six weeks, this argument holds no weight whatsoever!

And yet, abortions that are neither safe nor rare continue every minute in America under the guise of ‘reproductive freedom’ and ‘women’s health.’ A baby is aborted every 26 seconds. The media does their part by withholding the gruesome details and facts about killing our own and calling it a ‘right’. They hide the truth in part to protect the Democratic Party (abortion is a money-making platform), and most of us carry on with our busy lives without batting an eye. 

Apathy has spread like a heartless disease throughout the United States. We have become desensitized to sin.

The root of this depravity is pure evil and goes against what the Bible teaches; but for the average abortion practitioner, it’s just another day at the office. Abortionists don’t care about morals. We cannot expect unbelievers to live according to godly values.

To them, the Ten Commandments are merely ten suggestions. Their consciences have been seared, and they are simply accommodating the desires of a selfish, depraved society. In today’s culture, they call it “choice.”

To Gosnell, he was just doing his job: helping young women, even underage girls, dispose of the growing lives within them at any stage of development.

To the generous taxpayers of America, we’re just helping fund the cause by generously providing Planned Parenthood with $11 every second through our tax dollars, totaling over a half a billion dollars annually. The biggest abortion business in America just eliminated two more human lives since you began this article. They perform one abortion every 94 seconds, totaling more than 335,000 abortions a year.

If you only care about money and you have no regard for God, the Bible, and life in general, it was a brilliant plan – and the devil is full of them. This dark agenda of death began with Margaret Sanger in the 1930’s and 40’s, which I expose in my book ERADICATE, in a chapter called, “Planned Parenthood’s Buried History.”

A majority of American citizens believe that abortion is wrong (and even say that there should be more restrictions placed on abortion), so what now? It’s been over 40 years since the legalization of the destruction of human life in a Mother’s womb, supposedly the safest place on earth.

What about the women who walk into abortion clinics? Some have stomachs the size of basketballs. Should they escape any scrutiny? Why don’t we hear more about those who decided to kill the precious life inside them?

The root of this tragedy is a much bigger problem; we have a hyper-sexualized, promiscuity-approving culture from Hollywood to government-run schools to the mainstream media. Sadly, some Christians are conforming.

We continue tolerating depravity in America often leading to death and vote for those who support it. We allow abortionists to play God – and most of us say nothing. If such an appalling case as Gosnell’s doesn’t cause more folks to speak up, I’m not sure what will.

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A Matter Of Trust

Obama Who Is Benghazi SC A Matter of Trust

I don’t mind doing in-depth analysis. I do a show that treats you like critical-thinking adults, not low-information voting children who can only handle enough truth and data to fit into a single Tweet.

But sometimes in-depth analysis isn’t required. Sometimes all the data and argumentation in the world simply comes down to one question—who do you trust?

The details surrounding the aptly named “gang of eight” immigration bill and Benghazi are complicated for sure. For those of us out here in the cheap-seats, they’re also largely unattainable. We simply don’t have the resources it requires to investigate them exhaustively. Therefore, we rely on those who do to make it plain for us.

But what happens when there are conflicting accounts of those details? Then, it becomes a matter of trust.

Over the years, I’ve often been accused of demanding perfection; but that’s not true at all. What I demand is the same thing you demand of me—integrity. Integrity isn’t perfection because only one Man is, which is why the rest of us need Him.

Integrity is a consistency between right belief and right behavior. Even the best of us fall down, make bad calls, have blind spots, and commit terrible mistakes at times. But over the long haul of someone’s life and calling, you either see that consistency or you don’t. They either get it right much more often than they get it wrong or they don’t.

When it comes down to Benghazi, who has integrity here?

Is it Gregory Hicks, a man the Obama Regime once thought enough of to make him their second in command in all of Libya? Or is it President Obama? Is it Hicks, who has faithfully served administrations in both parties during a 22-year career in the U.S. State Department that has spanned six countries (and has been awarded a dozen merit pay or honor awards during his tenure)? Or is it Obama, the man who tells the child killers at Planned Parenthood “God bless you,” tries to make Christian institutions and companies provide abortifacients for their employees, and has disregarded the Constitution countless times already?

That one is a no-brainer. But so is this next one.

When it comes to illegal immigration, who has the integrity here?

Is it former U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (the man now at the head of the Heritage Foundation), or is it the group of current U.S. Senators that make up the “gang of eight?” I really admire DeMint, but he isn’t infallible (and I have disagreed with him before.) But if you could only choose one to get into a Constitutional foxhole with, who would you rather have your back? Jim DeMint, or John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Bob Menendez, and Charles Schumer?

Case closed.

 

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Obama: Abortion Foes Want The 50s

abortion is not health care Obama: Abortion Foes Want the 50s

 

The almost bone jarring contrast of Obama’s speech at Planned Parenthood freezes every normal sense of credulity in unbelief.  The story of one baby born alive in the Pennsylvanias’ Gosnell horror mill is that the child was swimming in a toilet trying to get out. It was pulled from the toilet only to have its spinal cord snipped while the mother was still in the room.

Yes, Mr. Obama – give us the 50s – any day.

The main stream media reported that Obama delayed his now famous (or infamous) speech at Planned Parenthood so he could visit and console the families of those who lost loved ones in the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion.

It seemed for a moment that the president had a heart and perhaps he could put some priorities in order. That is called PR or in a far more honest vein it is pure propaganda.

After hearing of the horrors and murders in Pennsylvania under Dr. Gosnell we may be better served to see the president skip both visits and instead visit the Gosnell clinic for a pause and a prayer – if the ghosts of those murdered there would allow it.

Had he visited the clinic on the day the baby was swimming in the toilet, would he have pulled it out and demanded its life be preserved? Would he in a moment of honest conscience stood with the helpless?

Mr. Obama has already answered that question. In the speech made at Planned Parenthood he clearly stated where he would stand. He said “You’ve also got a president who’s going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way.” Fox News April 26, 2013

Mr. Obama sees himself as leading the nation into the 21st century and justifies his abortion stand as protecting women’s health. We can only wonder if he skipped every biology class ever offered in high school and college. Being pregnant is not a health problem and living perfectly viable unborn human beings; in or out of the mother’s womb, don’t have any health problems, unless the will to live is now considered unhealthy.

Yes, we’ll take the 50s any day, when pregnancy was not a health problem and no president would be found fighting for the freedom to kill the unborn.

Much about the 50s was all that was ever right with America. Women didn’t think they were in a war with conservatives, but knew they were only in a war with over eager young men, who usually lost which in turn produced a situation where there was no need for an abortion. Yeah, we’ll take those days.

We will also take the 50s presidents who left a legacy for us rather than a stream of blood from our own offspring.

President Truman who took up after Franklin Roosevelt from 1950 to 1952 faced and reigned in the reckless power of the corrupt unions instead of coddling them to buy votes as Barack Obama has done. He also gave us the Truman Doctrine which served to halt the expansion of communism in Eastern Europe. Mr. Obama has brought more communistic socialism into a once free nation than any president in history.

From 1953 to 1961 we were graced with one of the best presidents in our history. Eisenhower knew the strategies and planning it would take to win the greatest war in history. Mr. Obama doesn’t understand the war on terror and can’t discern between an act of terrorism and ‘work place violence’ as the Fort Hood massacre resplendently illustrates.

Obama has given us failed green projects like Solyndra and bailouts while Eisenhower built the nations highway system, being used to this day.

Americans have rated Eisenhower among the top ten presidents of all time. Only liberals would dare to put Mr. Obama anywhere on the ratings scale.

Don’t make light of the 50s, but hang your head in shame for even suggesting that those days of yore can be legitimately compared to anything you have accomplished in almost five years in office.

The 50s is when the phrase from our Declaration of Independence actually had some meaning, namely “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”

Everything this administration has pursued ends in death and little or no happiness for anyone in this nation, let’s see.

Taxing the rich – death of free enterprise

Running guns to Mexico – death for border patrolmen

Dropping bombs from drones – death of non-combatant people including Americans Ignoring cries for help for embassies under attack – death for our ambassador and several brave U.S. Servicemen

The fight to abort perfectly healthy unborn children – death on a grand scale, 60 million and still counting!

Obamacare – death or at least the suggestion of it in assisted suicide counseling

Fighting the Canadian pipeline – death to ending our dependence on foreign oil from flighty nations and some of our worst enemies

Reckless spending – death to the fiscal wellbeing of the future generation and any hope of financial recovery.

Promotion of the gay agenda and same sex marriage – death to all morality, and the oldest God given convention since the beginning of time.

Yes, Mr. President the 50s looks pretty good standing next to you.

(First published in American Thinker)

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Delaware First State Since Roe V. Wade With No Surgical Abortions

Delaware SC Delaware First State Since Roe v. Wade With No Surgical Abortions

Planned Parenthood of Delaware has suspended surgical abortions, making Delaware the first state to offer no surgical abortions since Roe v. Wade decriminalized abortion in 1973.

According to LifeNews, the Planned Parenthood clinic in Dover has suspended surgical abortions, and the Wilmington affiliate has closed entirely for administrative functions.

As Breitbart News earlier reported, a series of five 911 calls placed from Planned Parenthood of Delaware, for women in abortion-related emergency situations, has prompted a new state investigation. Two former nurse employees have described horrific and unsafe conditions in the clinic. Additionally, pro-life organization Operation Rescuediscovered that another employee, abortionist Eric Schaff, had a history of disciplinary action for falsifying medical records in New York prior to moving on to work in Delaware and Pennsylvania.

Read more at Breitbart.com. By Dr. Susan Berry.

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Gosnell Crimes Driven By Lifestyles Of Lust

Closing arguments are being made in the grisly murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. The case leads us to wonder: how has “reproductive care” come to this – the murder of newborn infants by snipping their spinal cords?

Perhaps the root cause can be found in the widespread glorification of sex. Not sex within marriage, but promiscuity, hook-ups, and pornography (in other words – just plain lust personified.) A culture of licentiousness has convinced people that sex is only about pleasure and should be “consequence-free.”

Obama and Planned Parenthood Gosnell Crimes Driven by Lifestyles of Lust

An Honest Laugh

I remember getting a hearty laugh from a woman who was a rather popular liberal talk show host on the subject of sex when I told her, “If you can get the milk for free, why buy the cow?”

“Why buy the cow?” is the refrain today of millions of carnal-minded men who see a woman as the object of his pleasure rather than seeing her as a person with dignity. Such a belief is the product of our Planned Parenthood-inebriated society. And PP will no doubt be tooting its horn through the puppet media in 2016 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the opening of one of society’s most sordid snake pits – the first birth control clinic in the nation. That shameful event took place in New York City at the lead of Margaret Sanger, whose American Birth Control League was later renamed Planned Parenthood as an attempt at image control.

Stay Out of the Bedroom

Sanger justified contraception over the claim that women should have control over when they have children. Huh – when to have children? How about staying out of the bedroom? Try using periods of abstinence – a system whose effectiveness has kept pace with the artificial methods in every era, from the 1930s to the 1950s with the temperature method, to the 1960s with the sympto-thermal method, and forward.

And yet the very twisted thinking about contraception that was supposed to liberate women has turned women into objects of use. Hmm… contraception. This matter is no longer a “Catholic only” issue. Today, many Christians are questioning what contraception has to do with love, or are wondering if the Bible has anything to say about it. What has been known as the sin of Onan throughout the centuries has been a tool for teaching that masturbation and contraception is wrong. In Genesis 38:9-10, Onan was struck dead by God as a punishment because of his unnatural act by “spilling his seed on the ground” when he had intercourse with his deceased brother’s wife. (The article “The Sin of Onan Revisited” offers a thorough explanation in the light of modern challenges to this teaching.)

Beauty and Meaning

Although Christians differ on this subject, it should not be a matter of contention (or ignored), but a launching point for further discussion, especially in our troubled times when the beauty and meaning of sexuality has been so misconstrued.

Someone once told me that a wise priest once said, “No abortion ever came from an act that did not involve contraception.” It’s also been said that abortion follows contraception as night follows day. That is certainly true, as seen in U.S. Supreme Court decisions allowing the sale of contraceptives and later abortions: judges today continue to quote a so-called “right to privacy.”

It’s simple logic – when birth control fails, the resulting pregnancy is seen as a mistake. Then abortion is trotted out to “fix” the problem.

President Obama’s decisions, appointments, and disappointments on abortion are pointed out in this video, “Barack Obama’s Track Record on Abortion”:

“Perfect American Family”

I remember an incident when I was a sidewalk counselor outside of an abortion clinic in a large city. A minority couple crossed the street toward the clinic. As I walked with them, trying to discourage them from entering, the man exclaimed to me with a kind of mock pride: “We have enough children – two. The perfect American family.” Does that make your blood boil, or what?

The Gosnell trial – an event that has been nearly completely avoided by the kow-towing mainstream media – should make every American do an about face toward this growing horror. Preacher Bradlee Dean and his ministry, The Sons of Liberty Radio, clearly point out Gosnell’s horrific acts in his column, “Advocates of Murder No More” (Disclaimer: the Sons of Liberty Radio is a client of our PR firm, TreeFrogClick, Inc.)

Video: Bradlee Dean on “Abortion” from his documentary “My War”:

Dean rightly lays blame, too, at the complacent churches throughout America. “Three hundred thousand pulpits have become accomplices to murder by their silence….” He also points to an unrelenting assault against the unborn by the government, with its chief offender being President Obama himself (who wimped out when asked about the Gosnell case, blabbering about whether “violating medical ethics” was involved.)

It’s time to stand up for life, and for a true respect for the dignity of the person in his or her sexuality. If you feel you are at a loss regarding what you can do to stand up for these values, at least give Dean a “like” on his Bradlee Dean Facebook page.

Kermit Gosnell Trial: Much Ado About Nothing

Abortion Protestor SC Kermit Gosnell trial: Much ado about nothing

What’s the big deal?

I mean, why are we surprised that an abortionist and his staff would, behind the walls of an always-lethal abortion clinic, commit one of the most horrific serial killings in American history? What did you think abortionists do, heal people?

Why are we taken aback that there was no oversight and no regulation, or that Planned Parenthood, though privy to the clinic’s filthy, medieval conditions, refused to report it to the Department of Health? After all, Planned Parenthood, Barack Obama, and the DNC have vehemently opposed all laws – such as those in Virginia, Mississippi, and elsewhere – designed to prevent exactly the same kind of squalid conditions found in Gosnell’s clinic (and others), laws that simply direct abortion mills to meet the same minimal safety standards required of all other medical facilities.

You didn’t really buy that whole “women’s health” nonsense, did you?

Sucker.

Seriously, there are so few sociopathic doctors left willing to hack alive those inconvenient little buggers; so you anti-choice nuts need to just chill. Who cares about “blood smeared walls”; or babies left to drown in toilets; or snipped spinal cords; or dismembered body parts kept in jars; or screaming, crying newborns silenced by decapitation? What did you think women were “choosing” with abortion, some kind of medical treatment? We’re not removing a tumor here. You’ve got to kill a few babies to make a “reproductive freedom” omelette. Besides, there’s billions to be made in the death racket.

Let’s keep it real. The only difference between what happened in Gosnell’s Philadelphia clinic and what happens every day in Planned Parenthoods across the country can be measured by a matter of inches – by the child’s proximity to her mother in the room. Whether the baby is in the womb or 12 inches removed, a dead baby is a dead baby, right? So why all the drama? Relax. You know, Roe v. Wade and all.

Besides, what’s an abortionist to do (wink, wink) if that resilient little pest does survive, if she’s born alive? I appreciate President Obama’s candor on the matter. Like he said, laws preventing abortionists like Gosnell from finishing her off are “really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.” Snippety-snip, eh, Barack? You know, choice and all.

Or, as Gosnell attorney Jack McMahon noted during the trial, it’s “ludicrous … to say a baby is born alive because it moves one time.” You anti-choice zealots don’t get to define the terms here. One man’s “alive” is another woman’s “unwanted pregnancy.” Potato, potahto.

And why are we stunned that the mainstream media have spiked a story with all the bloody and salacious newsworthy trappings that – had abortion not been involved – would have filled the news cycle 24/7?

You think some now-barren, 40-something copy editor who’s had five abortions wants to draw attention to its grisly reality? You think she wants to be reminded of her own string of dismembered little choices? No, better to sip appletinis with the boys down at the National Press Club and pretend it never happened.

Now that’s reproductive freedom! That’s freedom of the press!

In reality, to the media, this stuff is old news. Gosnell is on trial for doing something nearly indistinguishable from partial-birth abortion – a “never necessary” procedure (according to the AMA) Obama vocally endorsed. He said that banning it was part of a concerted effort “to steadily roll back the hard-won rights of American women.”

Furthermore, why are we surprised that this rush-to-judgment-when-it-suits-his-political-agenda president suddenly “can’t comment” on Gosnell “because it’s an active trial”? Remember? This is the same race-baiting “community organizer” who said that Cambridge police “acted stupidly” when arresting a combative black Harvard professor who, as it turned out, was himself acting stupidly. Don’t forget, this is the same president who had no problem laying guilt on a “presumed innocent” George Zimmerman, saying, “If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon.”

Funny, I actually do have a son; and, when he was born, he looked a lot like those little boys Gosnell and Planned Parenthood kill every day. Come to think of it, most of them looked almost identical to Trayvon, skin color and all.

Curious.

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., called Obama out on his refusal to address Gosnell: “Mr. President, your silence on this issue is deafening,” he said.

I agree. The left’s silence – to include the mainstream media – speaks volumes. It’s a tacit endorsement of Gosnell’s gruesome practices. And why shouldn’t it be?

To “pro-choicers,” it’s not that old Kermit did anything wrong; it’s just that he got caught doing it. He was careless. He pulled back the curtain of “reproductive freedom” to reveal abortion’s house of horrors. Kermit Gosnell is liberalism personified, and liberalism relies on deceit. The “progressive” culture is a culture of death. Moral relativism is as moral relativism does.

Speaking of moral relativism, on Friday, Obama gave the keynote address at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser. Nice timing. Even as the Gosnell mass-murder trial wraps up, Obama was lending the full weight of his presidency to a mass-murder celebration.

His message? All you Planned Parenthood-hating, anti-Gosnell right-wingers better listen up: “No matter how great the challenge, no matter how fierce the opposition, there’s one thing that the past few years have shown,” he promised. “That Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere. It’s not going anywhere today. It’s not going anywhere tomorrow.”

Yeah, we’ll see about that, slick.

 

Obama: Abortion Foes Want Return To 1950s

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says there’s an effort in states across the country to turn back the clock on abortion to the 1950s.’

He says at a gala for Planned Parenthood that when politicians turn the abortion-rights group into a punching bag, they’re really telling women they’re on their own.

Obama says he fought for his health care law to ensure individuals have the right to make their own medical choices. He’s asking medical providers and abortion rights supporters to, in his words, “get the word out” about the law’s benefits.

Read More at OfficialWire . By Darlene Superville.

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If I Were A Killer

abortion is not health care1 If I Were A Killer

This is just a hypothetical story
Of someone, let’s just say it’s me
I’d gain acceptance for my murderous ways
By stalking a defenseless prey

I’ve been reading some horrific accounts about the demonic medical practice of Abortion. I’m going to spare everyone the gory details because I can’t bear to even get through a few sentences without wanting to fall to the ground in shame and disgust. I just want to know – how in the world did we let this happen? How is it that the miracle of life has been so thoughtlessly and so brutally interrupted (often merely for the sake of convenience)?

What a wretched society we’ve become – the blood of the pre-born innocents is on our hands!

Lets consider some of the statistics:

* According to their official report, Planned Parenthood performed 334,000 abortions in 2011. They also received a record level of taxpayer support: $542 million in fiscal 2012. Planned Parenthood is the nation’s largest abortion provider, with 995,687 abortions performed in the past three years.

Other telling statistics as reported by the Guttmacher Institute in August 2011 are as follows -

* Nearly half of pregnancies among American women are unintended, and about four in 10 of these are terminated by abortion. Twenty-two percent of all pregnancies (excluding miscarriages) end in abortion.

* Eighteen percent of U.S. women obtaining abortions are teenagers; those aged 15–17 obtain 6% of all abortions, teens aged 18–19 obtain 11%, and teens younger than age 15 obtain 0.4%.

* Women in their 20s account for more than half of all abortions; women aged 20–24 obtain 33% of all abortions, and women aged 25–29 obtain 24%.

* Thirty-seven percent of women obtaining abortions identify as Protestant and 28% as Catholic.

* Women who have never married and are not cohabiting account for 45% of all abortions

* The reasons women give for having an abortion underscore their understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and family life. Three-fourths of women cite concern for or responsibility to other individuals; three-fourths say they cannot afford a child; three-fourths say that having a baby would interfere with work, school, or the ability to care for dependents; and half say they do not want to be a single parent or are having problems with their husband or partner.

A majority of individuals, both within the church and on the outside, have completely disregarded the Biblical, traditional belief that the act of sexual intercourse is a special, sacred union between husband and wife. Such a standard is now mocked and ridiculed as outdated, old-fashioned, and unrealistic. There once was a time when prudence and piety were two of the most virtuous characteristics one could exhibit. Such noble and practical attributes are basically non-existent in today’s edgy and ‘advanced’ world.

We are currently living in a highly sexualized society. Our modern culture has little regard for modesty, chastity, and purity.

Regardless of these realities, as parents, don’t we want our children to conduct themselves in a respectable and honorable manner? Shouldn’t they learn the importance of self-respect? If we really possess a mutual concern for humanity, shouldn’t our children be taught to soberly view and respect the opposite sex?

May the young man behave honorably towards the young lady. These are our sons and our daughters – the future of America, precious souls with fragile emotions. How easily damaged they can become.

When raised properly (with a correct understanding of the precious gifts bestowed by our Creator), sexual intimacy and the sanctity of a life formed out of a loving conception will be held in the highest regard as life’s most essential, experiential realities. Ultimately, abortion is the emotionally damaging and spiritually damning consequence of a demonic social standard intent on devouring our youth!

Supreme Court would agree to hear my case
And find me innocent of crime
Holding public rallies to incite sympathy
Creative actuality

In 1973, the tragic verdict was reached in the Roe vs. Wade case, which established the legality of pregnancy termination via medical procedure (abortion). This was a devastating verdict that set a sweeping death precedent. The ‘wisdom’ applied by a few court justices would seal the tragic fate of thousands of unborn lives ultimately deemed disposable.

Supporters for the sanctity of life lamented the shocking decision:

The sweeping judgment of the U.S. Supreme Court…is a flagrant rejection of the unborn child’s right to life. The Court has chosen to ignore the scientific evidence regarding the unborn child’s human growth and development during the first six months of life…the Court has failed to justify its opinion on theological, historical or scientific grounds. Nonetheless, during the first six month of the child’s life, the Court has made the doctor the final judge as to who will live and who will die. This seems to reverse the history of American jurisprudence that prohibits the deprivation of the right to life without due process of law…

…no Court opinion can change the law of God prohibiting the taking of innocent human life.

-Statement of the Committee for Pro-Life Affairs (NCBB) January 24, 1973

If I were a killer
I’d smile just like the boy next door
If I were a killer
I’d say I do it for the poor
If I were a killer
You’d bring me victims more and more

One of the most appalling developments related to this shameless abortion horror are advocacy efforts that promote carrying out this dreadful procedure on a live baby outside the womb. According to recent news reports, a Florida Planned Parenthood lobbyist has spoken out in favor of ‘infanticide’ for cases in which babies are born alive after botched abortions.

If I were a killer
I’d hide behind a doctor’s door
If I were a killer
I’d scrape you off my office floor

On the heels of the Kermit Gosnell (the doctor who stands accused of murdering seven babies born alive in Philadelphia) trial, Alisa LaPolt Snow, who lobbies for the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified against proposed legislation that would grant abortion survivors the same legal rights and protections as other children. The proposed bill ‘inserts politics where it doesn’t belong’ and ‘attempts to interfere with a woman’s ability to make her own personal medical decisions,’ claims Snow, in defense of her inconceivable opposition to H.B. 1129, the Infants Born Alive Act.

When the life of a defenseless newborn hangs in the balance – should a physician have the freedom to play judge, jury, and executioner?

More importantly, why are we even asking such a question???

These disturbing developments are prime examples of why compromise is not an option! The envelope continues to be pushed while the rational conservative, as well as society as a whole, repeatedly comes up on the losing end!

Silence is not an option!

Take back! Choose life!

* Words in italics by Ben Huggins of Galactic Cowboys, as featured in the song, “If I Were A Killer”, which was released in 1993.

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Obama’s HHS Mandate Disrespects Catholics Everywhere

Obama Pope Birth Control SC Obamas HHS Mandate Disrespects Catholics Everywhere

The HHS initiative is anti Catholic in its inception and its implementation. The Obama administration has demonstrated its disdain for Catholics and religious freedom in general. The initiative is a disgrace for what it intends to do.

Anyone who looks at the situation through an objective lens can see that this administration is trying to impose its will on Christians and especially Catholics. The government exists at the will of the people, and yet this administration constantly tries to pull the wool over our eyes as if we were children who cannot see through their obvious attempt to usurp our right to practice our religion as it has been prescribed for more than 2000 years.

The Obama government actually thinks it can change thousands of years of tradition and beliefs.  Secretary Sebelius and the Department of Health and Human Services should be ashamed of exploiting young women the way they are doing. They are encouraging women to go out and have sex with anyone and not worry because any mistake can be corrected within 72 hours, and all of this should be funded by their employer. It doesn’t matter whether or not their employer happens to be the Catholic Church, whose teachings specifically forbid the very action the government is championing.

In spite of the Constitution and the First Amendment (freedom of religion), the Catholic Church is being forced to fund contraception and short-term abortion. Of course, if the pill doesn’t work, the women can still “correct their mistakes” as the president so eloquently put it. He proved this was his view when he was a State Senator in Illinois. He voted to allow out-of-uterus abortion regardless of the term. This borders on infanticide and should be treated that way. Illinois’ morals are a question for another time. Now if all the precautions and pills fail, the women can still go to Planned Parenthood and have it taken care of right up to the day the baby is born.

At a recent Congressional hearing on abortion, Planned Parenthood was asked what should be done for a baby who is born and and still fighting for its life. Their answer was that the decision is up to the patient and the doctor. Of course, they were referring to the mother as the patient. They had to be reminded that since the baby was now a living person, he/she becomes the patient. Once confronted with the reality, having been caught off guard,  the Planned Parenthood spokesperson could not answer the question. And Planned Parenthood receives government funding. Do you see where this is going?

This is all part of a secular conspiracy to blunt the influence of the 1.2 billion members of the Catholic Church. This feeling of entitlement is instilled to keep the women dependent on the federal government for their every need. One thing the women should remember is: what the government gives to you, the government can take away. When that time comes, it is too late because you are so dependent you don’t even notice your rights slipping away. Once Socialists gain power, they throw away the vehicles they used to get it. Stalin massacred 20 million people after taking control of his government.

Soon, the Supreme Court will render its decision. The walls and doors of many buildings in DC have pictures and drawings of Christian and Catholic tradition and symbols on them. I hope the Supreme Court Justices are inspired by those images and hand down a ruling that reaffirms the rights of people of faith (and more specifically, the Catholic Church) to administer to people the way Jesus would.

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