On My Mind… The Broken Wing

Our Government is caught up in a fur ball of activity. Endeavoring to tip the scales of justice towards Roe V Wade  Senators are turning the search for a new Supreme Court Justice into a candidate-feeding frenzy. I have watched in awe as the pro-choice Senate has ripped into Samuel Alito like piranhas, dissembling him chunk by document chunk.

  There is a fear of pro-life America, the majority, incidentally, slipping a ringer in to the nations highest court because that just may bring an end the American Holocaust once and for all. You see if that happens, the abortion-4-profit coffers will dry up, profiteers in human abortion misery will go broke, and of course we all know what that means… just follow the money.  You can make your own assumptions.

  Pro-lifers will see the selection of a pro-choice candidate as having been bought by special interest money, and they would be correct. There is huge money in keeping Roe vs Wade on the books, and pro-choice is spending it, a resource pro-life America doesn’t have. Money does talk, and enough of it will make some one be willing to throw even you under a bus.

  Cannot administrators see that it takes two wings in balance to fly America? There are left and right wings, and a lot of feathers on both. An imbalance on either wing means an this Eagle will spiral to it’s death on the ground. I prefer we soar into a new future. --Joe

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 28, 2005

On the matter of abortion in general, 54 percent of Americans oppose either all or most abortions as thirty-nine percent of those polled believe abortion should only be legal in a few rare circumstances, such as rape, incest or to prevent the death of the mother. Another 16 percent say abortion should never be legal.

Just 42 percent generally support legalized abortion with 26 percent saying it should always be legal and 16 percent saying it should be legal in most circumstances.

But on the question of a Constitutional amendment banning all abortions except for those to save the life of the mother, Americans oppose it by a 61-37 percent margin. The number favoring such a ban could have been significantly higher had rape and incest been included in it.

Meanwhile, as the Supreme Court considers a case this week on a New Hampshire law to require parental notification before a teen girl can have an abortion, 69 percent say that's a good idea and just 28 percent oppose it.

Americans also support Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's decision in a 1990 appeals court case about a Pennsylvania law that allows husbands to know when their wives are considering an abortion. Some 64 percent support that idea while just 34 percent were against it, Gallup reported.

The CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll was conducted November 11-13 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

I guess some of us may have had the opportunity to say this at one time or another in our lives: "The silence is killing me."  Well... it is me, anyway.

 I never thought I would find myself praying for noise. You see I do not believe I am hearing enough shouting from the rooftops, and have not caught anyone on a soapbox lately. This troubles me.

 We Americans are sadly famous, or infamous for non-participation in our legislature (somewhere around ninety-five percent of us do not even vote in local, state, or national elections). How then can we complain when special interest groups with their "mega-dollar coffers" push legislation based on paid-for representation?

Do the math:

 Quite simple really, yet sad when knowing that all it would take to stop special interest money machines would be to speak out as one.

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 10, 2005

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- College-aged women tend to have the highest rate of abortions in the country and a new Congressional measure is intended to give them the financial and practical pregnant support necessary to help them avoid abortions.

This week, pro-life lawmakers introduced the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Students Act of 2005.

The measure would establish a pilot program to provide $10 million for 200 grants to encourage institutions of higher education to establish and operate a pregnant and parenting student services office. The office would serve pregnant and parenting students and help students who are considering adoption instead of abortion.

On many college campuses, student health insurance pays for abortions but won't provide students with the support needed to carry a pregnancy to term. Most student health offices have staff that will gladly refer students to local abortion centers but won't advice them of abortion alternatives.

Feminists for Life, a national organization that has long addressed the needs of women in the abortion debate, says this new bill changes that scenario.

“We are so pleased that we can share what we have learned from pregnant and parenting students through our efforts hosting FFL's Pregnancy Resource Forums at top campuses across the country," says FFL President Serrin Foster.

"Today's parents need creative solutions that challenge the status quo," Foster explained. Because of the bill, "more women, children and families will be better served.”

Senator Elizabeth Dole, a North Carolina Republican and the only pro-life woman in the Senate, and Rep. Melissa Hart, a Pennsylvania Republican, are the lead sponsors of the measure.

Research from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, the research arm of Planned Parenthood, points to the need for the legislation.

According to AGI, forty-five percent of women who have abortions are of college-age, 18-24 years old. Women with some college had a pregnancy rate that was lower than average, but still “had the highest abortion rate of any educational group.”

“The statistics support what pregnant and parenting students have been telling Feminists for Life for years-that they need more resources and support,” Foster said.

Among women who had abortions, 71% of 18-19 year olds and 58% of 20-24 year olds said having a child would interfere with their education or career.

“We need to listen," Foster said.

Colleges who participated in the grants authorized by the legislation would host an initial pregnancy forum to better understand how to help students. The forums would help set goals for improved services and access to services including housing, child care, maternity coverage and riders for additional family members in any student health care plan.