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Rep. Chris
Smith
to Introduce No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
By
James Tillman
WASHINGTON,
DC, July 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) is planning to introduce the "No Taxpayer
Funding for Abortion Act" on July 29. If passed, this bill
would
establish as permanent many of the pro-life policies that currently rely
on
regular congressional re-approval, and which are attached as riders to
annual
appropriations bills.
"This
'as needed' approach," wrote Rep. Smith in a letter to his
colleagues,
"usually results in a debate over abortion funding anytime Congress
considers health-related legislation."
Smith s
proposed legislation would make permanent the Hyde amendment, which
prohibits
funding for elective abortions through any program funded by the annual
Labor,
Health, and Human Services Appropriations Act.
It
would also codify the Hyde-Weldon conscience clause within the Hyde
amendment,
which ensures that recipients of federal funding do not discriminate
against
health care providers because they do not provide, pay for, provide
coverage
of, or refer for abortions.
It
would also make permanent the Helms amendment, the Smith FEHBP amendment,
and
the Doman amendment, which respectively prohibit the funding of abortion
overseas, the funding of elective abortion coverage for federal employees,
and
the use of congressionally appropriated funds for abortion in the District
of
Columbia.
It
would also make permanent a few other pro-life policies.
Rep.
Chris Smith has also recently called
attention to the fact that $23 million of U.S. taxpayer funds have
been
dedicated to the civic education effort in Kenya in the run-up to a
referendum
on a new, pro-abortion constitution.
Many
of the grantees obtained the money specifically to work for the
pro-abortion
constitution.
"It
is unconscionable that U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing a massive one-sided
political campaign thinly disguised as civic education in another
sovereign nation," Smith said. "This is a very bad
precedent.
And it is illegal.
On The Wire...
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Congressmen Urge No Abortion on Military Bases
By
James Tillman
WASHINGTON,
D.C., July 14, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- Republican Congressman Todd Akin and Democratic Congressman Gene Taylor
have
sent a letter signed by 180 members of Congress to House and Senate
leadership
urging them to eliminate language from the FY2011 Defense Authorization
bill
that would permit abortions on military bases.
DoD
medical facilities should remain focused on providing the best possible
care
for our military service members and their families, not providing
abortion on
demand, said Akin and Taylor.
The
Blagojevich-appointed Democratic Senator Roland Burris offered an
amendment to
the FY2011 National Defense Authorization Act on May 27 that would permit
abortions in domestic and overseas military facilities. It passed
the
Senate Armed Service Committee by a vote of 15-12.
The
amendment would strike Section 1093(b) of Title
10 of the U.S. Code, which states that no facility of the
department of defense may be used for an abortion except in cases of rape,
incest, and risk to the life of the mother. The law has been in place
since
1996.
Akin
said that at a time when we are engaged in two wars, it is unfortunate
that
Senator Burris has decided to insert this contentious issue into the DOD
Authorization.
Akin
has said that such a bill would demand that all taxpayers be
co-conspirators
in killing children through abortion.
Rep.
Gene Taylor pointed out that in the past "military medical personnel
firmly rejected previous efforts to turn our nation s military medical
facilities into abortion clinics.
President
Clinton signed a memorandum permitting abortions at military facilities in
1993.
Even
before the current ban on abortion in military facilities was passed in
response to the Clinton memorandum, military physicians commonly refused
to
perform or assist in elective abortions.
This
led the administration to seek civilians who would do what military
doctors
would not. "If the Burris Amendment were enacted," the
letter
warns, "not only would taxpayer funded facilities be used to support
abortion on demand, but resources could also be used to search for, hire,
and
transport new personnel simply so that abortions could be
performed."
More
importantly, the letter states that "military treatment centers -
which
are dedicated to healing and caring for life - should not facilitate the
taking of the most innocent human life: a child in the womb."
A
similar amendment was offered in the house in 2006, where it failed by a
vote
of 191-237. This amendment offered abortion only on overseas bases;
the
Burris Amendment is more expansive in allowing abortion on both domestic
and
overseas military bases.
The
Defense Authorization bill passed by the House does not contain the
language
of the Burris Amendment. Senator Chris Smith has said that he does
not
expect the House to accept the bill if it returns from the Senate with the
Burris Amendment.
We
will stand very firm, Smith has
said. I believe there will be an overwhelming vote in the
House
to keep our military hospitals as nurturing centers, not abortion mills.
On The Wire...
Report
Debunking Fetal Pain Shows Stunning Lack of Scholarship :
NRLC
By
Patrick B. Craine
LONDON,
U.K., June 29, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- A newly-released report from the London-based Royal College
Obstetricians
and Gynaecologists (RCOG) purporting to show that unborn children do not
feel
pain before 24 weeks has made international headlines in the last few
days.
But according to pro-life leaders, the study ignores key evidence and is
little more than an attempt by abortion advocates to deceive the
public.
The
issue of fetal pain received significant exposure earlier this year in the
U.S. after a landmark law was
enacted in April by the Nebraska legislature restricting
abortion
after twenty weeks. The so-called Pain Capable Unborn Child
Protection Act was a response to the growing consensus that the unborn
feel
pain by that age, if not earlier.
In
the U.K. abortion for social reasons is restricted past the 24th
week of gestation (eugenic abortions are permitted up until birth),
although
there have been discussions in the last few years about dropping that
limit by
2-4 weeks. Such a move has been endorsed by Prime Minister David Cameron,
who
said in April that, "I think the way medical science and technology
have
developed in the past few decades does mean an upper limit of 20 or 22
weeks
would be sensible." However, the new report by RCOG is being
latched
onto by anti-life forces as evidence that there is no scientific reason
to reduce the abortion limit.
But
Mary Spaulding Balch, J.D., director of state legislation for the National
Right to Life Committee (NRLC), says that, An objective expert in
neurobiology would be appalled by the stunning lack of scholarship in the
RCOG
article.
She
noted that one of the authors is actually an abortionist, while the rest
are
largely abortion advocates.
The
authors of the report dismiss the notion of fetal pain prior to 24 weeks
based
on the fact that the unborn lack a complete nerve connection to the
cerebral
cortex before 24 weeks. But Spaulding Balch said this ignores the
seminal 2007 study from the medical journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences
entitled Consciousness without a cerebral cortex.
According
to that study even children born missing virtually all of the cerebral
cortex nonetheless experience pain, she said.
Ironically, the article concedes the evidence that by 20 weeks pain
receptors are present throughout the unborn child s skin, she continued,
that these are linked by nerves to the thalamus and the subcortal plate,
and that these children have coordinated aversive reactions to painful
stimuli, and experience increased stress hormones from it.
Paul
Tully, general secretary for the London-based Society for the Protection
of
Unborn Children (SPUC), observed that the 24-week limit on social abortion
is
a red herring in any case.
The
RCOG s claim about babies not feeling pain before 24 weeks begs the
question: Why do abortion doctors keep making this point when they support
the
abortion of babies up till birth?
Tully
says the suggestion that doctors performing abortions are not causing the
child pain by killing him or her is simply a way of denying that what
they
are doing is evil and they know it.
The
RCOG is trying to find a comfort zone for its members. It is not concerned
about the rights and the lives of the babies killed."
"The
RCOG knows better than most people how marvelous, sensitive, complex and
beautiful these babies are at every stage of development from conception
onwards, he said. Life does not start halfway through a pregnancy,
it starts at conception.
Breaking:
Florida Governor Crist Vetoes Abortion Ultrasound Bill
By
Kathleen Gilbert
TALLAHASSEE,
June 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) -
Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who has repeatedly claimed to be a
pro-life
politician, has vetoed a measure that would have required an ultrasound to
be
performed on abortion-bound women after weeks of high-pressure lobbying on
both sides of the abortion issue in the state, reported the Associated
Press
Friday.
The
bill was seen as potentially a key step forward for the pro-life movement
in
Florida. Had it become law, abortionists would have been obligated to
perform
an ultrasound to show women the child they sought to abort, and describe
to
them the parts of the baby as revealed on the ultrasound image.
A
few days before the veto, Crist, who is running as an independent for the
U.S.
Senate, had removed the pro-life section of his Web site.
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Conflict
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the abortion debate, is there a "Conflict
of
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Leading
Cause Of Death
According
to Dr. La Verne Tolbert, former board member of Planned
Parenthood in New York City from 1975 to 1980, over 20
million black babies have been aborted. If the brutal
death
of our children from legalized tax-payer funded abortion
does not move us to work towards the end of abortion,
perhaps the report from the National Vital Statistics
Reports: Volume 58, No. 8, released December 23rd, 2009
entitled "Deaths: Leading Causes for 2005"
will.
Black
Birth Versus Black Deaths
According
to the National Vital Statistics Reports: Volume 58, No.
8,
released December 23rd, 2009, there were 587,000 live
births
and 452,000 abortions in Black America. Please notice
how
dangerously close the number of Black babies born in
2005 in
the United States of America is in comparison to the
number
of Black babies who lost their lives by induced
abortion.
When you do the math you'll also notice that the
difference
between the two numbers is only 135,000!
Black
Deaths From All Other Causes
The
total number of Black deaths from all others causes in
the
United States of America in 2005 was 292,808. I'll
address
this number next week. With over 20 million black babies
already dead from abortion and almost as many being
aborted
as there are being born, I have to wonder what keeps us
from
repenting for our silence and being publicly outraged in
and
out of our pulpits. Knowing all good things come from
above,
I can only imagine what blessings from heaven that we as
a
people have lost and cry.
Brothers, we really need to talk.
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Pelosi
- The Latest Poster Child for the Need to Deny Communion
Editorial by
John-Henry Westen and Kathleen Gilbert
June 1, 2010
(LifeSiteNews.com)
- It may come as a shock to some that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi addressed
a
group of Catholics last month telling them that public policy should be
"in keeping with the values of the Word," referring to
Christ.
Pelosi, who describes herself as "an ardent practicing
Catholic," is
a leading political advocate for abortion and homosexuality. Already
in
2008, her bishop, San Francisco Archbishop George H. Niederauer, said
publicly that he was considering denying her Communion.
Perhaps this latest scandal will tip the scales.
Pelosi, who
took
over the mantle of leadership for dissident Catholics
in Congress after the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy,
addressed the Catholic Community Conference on Capitol Hill May 6, telling
them that her "favorite word" was "the Word, and that is
everything."
"And that Word is - we have to give voice to what that means in terms
of
public policy that would be in keeping with the values of the Word,"
she
continued. "The Word. Isn't it a beautiful word when you think of it?
It
just covers everything."
Those words
of
apparent deep faith are contradicted by the fact that they are spoken by
the
most prominent abortion advocate in US politics. Boasting a 100%
pro-abortion
rating by NARAL, Pelosi in 2000 voted against banning partial-birth
abortions,
in which children are delivered breech up to the head before scissors are
jammed into the back of the skull and the brains removed.
But who can
blame Pelosi for creating such confusion? Statistics seem to indicate a
majority of Catholics agree with her positions on 'choice', contraception
and
'gay rights'. As well, there are likely a number of priests and
theologians
who have been giving her wrong direction, as now deceased Jesuit Fr.
Robert Drinan did and just as he and other dissident
priests did
with the Kennedys. While Pelosi has been publicly
reprimanded
by a good number
of bishops, including her own, she has never been denied
Communion.
Catholic schools and venues continue to invite her to speak at their
functions.
Denying
Pelosi
Communion would, in addition to dealing with the massive confusion and
scandal
being caused, be an act of pastoral charity toward the Speaker
herself.
As Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast once
explained in an interview: "The Church's concern is for
anyone
who persists in grave sin, hoping that medicinal measures may draw them
away
from the wrong path to the truth of our faith." He said that
"medicinal" remedies such as "denial of Communion" are
employed to "draw them back to the way of Christ, Our Lord, the Way,
the
Truth and the Life."
And Pelosi,
by
her comments at the May 6 event, believes there will be an accounting for
one's actions at the end of life. Speaking of "the Word made
flesh,"
she said: "He will come again. He will come again. So, we have to
make
sure we're prepared to answer in this life, or otherwise, as to how we
have
measured up."
While for
the
Vatican, from the Pope on down, it
is crystal clear that Communion "must" be denied to
pro-abortion politicians, the full body of U.S. Bishops has not yet
settled on
a stance.
However, the
obligation to deny Communion to persistent pro-abortion politicians also
has a
salutary effect on the bishops' own eternal calculus. Explaining his
own
decision to deny Communion to pro-abortion politicians, the retired bishop
of
Corpus Christi Texas, Rene
Henry Gracida, quoted a section from the book of Ezekiel
warning
religious leaders that they must warn those transgressing the law of God
of
their impending doom. If they fail in their task, they are held
responsible for the loss of the sinner.
" .when you hear Me say anything, you shall warn them for me. If I
tell
the wicked man that he shall surely die, and you do not speak out to
dissuade
the wicked man from his way, he shall die for his guilt, but I will hold
you
responsible for his death. But if you warn the wicked man, trying to turn
him
from his way, and he refuses to turn from his way, he shall die for his
guilt,
but you shall save yourself" (Ezekiel 33:7-9).
Are the
bishops
not being faithful to their calling when they refuse to deny pro-abortion
politicians Communion?
Former St.
Louis
Archbishop Raymond
Burke, who has been appointed to head the highest court in the
Vatican, had this to say on the matter: "No matter how often a bishop
or
priest repeats the teaching of the Church regarding procured abortion, if
he
stands by and does nothing to discipline a Catholic who publicly supports
legislation permitting the gravest of injustices and, at the same time,
presents himself to receive Holy Communion, then his teaching rings
hollow."
To
contact
Archbishop Niederauer:
info@sfarchdiocese.org
Abortionist
under Investigation for Forced Abortion Says he 'Lies' to
Patients
DETROIT, Michigan, May 25,
2010
(LifeSiteNews.com) A Michigan
abortionist is under renewed scrutiny over comments he made over two years
ago, in which he said that doctors have a license to lie to their
patients.
The comments were made by
Dr.
Abraham Alberto Hodari to medical students at Wayne University. Hodari
currently is facing a lawsuit for allegedly forcing a woman to submit to
an
abortion after she had changed her mind, killing the unborn baby that she
had
decided she wanted.
My wife says we doctors
have
a license to lie, and it s true, it s absolutely true. Sometimes you need
to lie to a patient about things that they want to do or no, Hodari told
a
gathering at Wayne State University on November 9, 2007.
He said it was not so much
the
case today, saying that the reason is that women are more educated,
between
CNN and the internet, the patients are more educated about what we do.
He then added, I have
great
satisfaction about what I do, and I never feel bad or worried about doing
abortions.
Hodari s remarks have only
added more ammunition to the lawsuit pending against him in Genesee County
Circuit Court.
NBC25 reported
on the comments and asked for an explanation from the abortionist. Hodari
claimed that he was only referring to situations where the woman s life
would be in danger, and said that a doctor must never tell a patient
you re going to die.
And in that respect, yes,
we
lie, insisted Hodari.
However, the context of
Hodari s remarks, in which he mentioned how proud he was to be an
abortionist, had nothing to do with telling women that they were
dying.
Caitlin Bruce is one
ex-client
of Hodari, who claims he did exactly to her what he told the Wayne medical
students: lied to her, and forced her to abort a baby she wanted. Bruce
that
Hodari and his assistant forcibly held her down to the operating table and
"ripped the life out of me that day."
Bruce s alleged forced
abortion happened at Hodari s Flint abortion center, the Feminine Health
Care Clinic.
Tom R. Pabst, Bruce s
attorney, told NBC25 that Hodari violated Bruce s right to back out of a
medical procedure and the video will serve as evidence against
him.
"Whether it's a sexual
advance or a medical procedure, if she says, No, stop, that's the end of
it," Pabst told the local news station.
"What he s saying is
that he knows what s better for your body than you do, and he s going to
go ahead and do what he thinks is best for a woman s body, not the woman.
To
me he s got it flipped."
Bruce's story aligns with
testimonies from other women who have described similar horror stories of
coerced abortions at Hodari's hands. A report by Operation Rescue
shows
Hodari has a record of 49 documented lawsuits over a span of
decades.
Hodari's practice has also
been
implicated in the deaths of at least four women from abortion-related
complications. In June 2009, the Disciplinary Subcommittee of
Michigan's
Board of Medicine fined Hodari $10,000 for negligence in connection with
the
botched abortion death of Regina Johnson.
Numerous complaints have
been
filed against the abortionist for improper disposal of human remains and
abortion records found in Hodari's dumpster. Hodari received a
sentence
of six months' probation on one such count in February.
In November, Hodari put his
abortion clinics on the market along with his collection of expensive
classic
cars and hastily filed for divorce from his wife of 29 years. Local
activists
told Operation Rescue that it appeared that he was attempting to liquidate
his
assets so he could flee the country, possibly to his former home in
Argentina.
On The Wire...
Nat'l Organization for Marriage: a Vote for
Kagan is a Vote against Traditional Marriage
By
Kathleen Gilbert
WASHINGTON,
D.C., May 10, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com)
- The pro-homosexuality views of Solicitor General Elena Kagan could have
dire
implications for traditional marriage in America should her nomination to
the
Supreme Court be approved, says the National Organization for Marriage
(NOM).
President
Obama on Monday nominated Kagan, who sports a pro-abortion and
pro-homosexuality record, for an opening on the Supreme Court left by
retiring
Justice John Paul Stevens.
A
vote for Elena Kagan as Supreme Court Justice will be a vote for imposing
gay
marriage on all 50 states, said Brian Brown, President of NOM, in a press
release following the nomination.
The
pro-family group points out that the timing of Kagan's nomination is
critical
in the fight for traditional marriage, as the Supreme Court is likely to
vote
on two key marriage cases in the next two years. The cases are Perry v.
Schwarzenegger, which challenges California s Proposition 8 and seeks a
ruling that would impose gay marriage on all 50 states, and Gill et al
v. Office of Personnel Management, which will ask the Supreme Court to
overturn the federal definition of marriage as the union of husband and
wife
in the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Brown
notes that a controversial brief authored under Kagan as solicitor general
regarding DOMA, "explicitly and gratuitously rejected the key legal
defense for marriage as the union of husband and wife that such unions
uniquely protect children by encouraging responsible procreation."
"Kagan s
brief was designed to, and in fact will, undermine the legal defense of
marriage currently before the federal courts, said Brown. While the
brief urges the California district court to dismiss the
charges
against DOMA due to lack of standing, it nonetheless states that,
"With
respect to the merits, this Administration does not support DOMA as a
matter
of policy, believes that it is discriminatory, and supports its
repeal."
NOM
Chairman Maggie Gallagher noted that the legal tactic has been used before
to
undermine traditional marriage, such as in the case of California Attorney
General Jerry Brown. In these cases the bureaucrats and lawyers "who
initially claim they are defending a law, actually file briefs that
undermine
the law and substantially contribute to its legal defeat."
"This
tactic is not only wrong, in the sense that it fails to defend marriage,
it is
deeply duplicitous or at least intentionally misleading, stated
Gallagher.
Gallagher
told LifeSiteNews.com (LSN) Monday that the Justice Department brief had
been
reworded after an initial draft upholding the child-centered reasoning
behind
traditional marriage was vociferously attacked by homosexualist activists
- a
change Kagan would have overseen.
"The
Solicitor General is responsible for the kind of legal argumentations
made," said Gallagher. "The way in which she defended it ... in
fact, will undermine the law. So, there's now on record that the
government of
the United States has rejected the main reason for marriage, [while] every
state supreme court that has upheld marriage has done so on the grounds
that
marriage is related to responsible procreation."
Gallagher
noted that NOM might have "held off weighing in on this so quickly,
except there seemed to be a concerted effort to suggest that somehow her
statements would lead you to believe that she's moderate on the gay
marriage
issue."
"On
the one hand she's saying she's going to defend DOMA, on the other hand,
guts
the legal record in a way that makes it much more likely that we'll lose
that
federal DOMA case," said Gallagher.
Both
Gallagher and the Family Research Council (FRC) have also criticized Kagan
for
her extremism when, as Dean of Harvard Law, she barred military recruiters
from entering campus in the height of the Iraq conflict, as a means of
protesting the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" rule banning open gays in
the
military.
"Ms.
Kagan's incredibly hostile view of the military suggests she is out of
touch
with mainstream sensibilities and obedience to the rule of law," FRC
president Tony Perkins noted in an email to constituents Monday. Gallagher
agreed that the anti-military move was "an indicator of a pretty
radical
vision of what gay equality requires from the rest of us."
While
Kagan has not publicly self-identified as homosexual, Internet news
services
have played host to strong rumors that her relationship with a female
partner
is an "open secret" at Harvard Law. Last month, the White House
forced a CBS news blogger to retract a statement asserting that Kagan
would be
the first "openly gay judge," whose female partner "is
rather
well known in Harvard circles."
And
while Brown states that "we have no quarrel with Elena Kagan s
personal
character, or with her intellectual brilliance, or technical
qualifications," the group considers the media's downplaying of
Kagan's
pro-homosexuality views alarming.
The
current PR campaign designed to portray Kagan as opposed to imposing a
constitutional right to gay marriage based on her responses during the
confirmation process for Solicitor General is similarly clearly wrong and
misleads the public about her core values and commitments to
Constitutional
law, added Gallagher.
Meanwhile,
pro-homosexuality groups have applauded the appointment of Kagan as a
supporter of their cause.
"We
are confident that Elena Kagan has a demonstrated understanding and
commitment
to protecting the liberty and equality of all Americans, including LGBT
Americans," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights
Campaign, a
leading homosexualist group.
From The Mail Box ... 40 Days For Life Is A
Movement
Dear Reverend Pablo,
As we open the second week of our 40 Days for Life
campaign, I'd like to salute the many people around the world who have
officially joined this amazing
effort to pray and fast for an end to abortion.
There are six campaigns in progress in Canada:
Calgary,
Edmonton and Red Deer, Alberta; Toronto and Guelph, Ontario; Montreal,
Quebec;
and Kelowna,
British Columbia.
In Kelowna, the 40 Days for Life vigil is outside
Kelowna
General Hospital, where abortions have taken place for years. There has
been a
regular prayer presence there -- but 40 Days for Life is bringing many
more
people to the sidewalk to pray.
In Australia, Sydney has launched its first-ever 40
Days
for Life campaign, and I'm really thrilled to see this mission expanding
Down
Under, with Melbourne
also joining second-time participant Brisbane this
time,
and other cities planning for the future.
The 40 Days for Life team in Sydney hit the ground
running, gathering the enthusiastic backing of Catholic Bishop Julian
Porteous,
who said, "As a society we cannot allow ourselves to accept the fact
of
abortion as acceptable, because we would be taking the view that human
life is
expendable."
The bishop added that 40 Days for Life "is a
peaceful, prayerful campaign, and has my full support."
40 Days for Life also has a European presence.
Belfast,
Derry and the rest of Northern Ireland are all joined with you in prayer,
but
with an additional intention -- to protect all of Ireland, where abortion
remains illegal.
Those who support abortion, of course, are vigorously
doing everything they can to change that.
Just this month, the European Parliament adopted a
report
that says, "Women must have control over their sexual and
reproductive
rights, notably through easy
access to contraception and abortion." Pressure,
obviously, is building.
Please keep
praying!
On My mind ... He is Legion, he is many, and
he
currently rules. -- Pablo
I wake up
each day with a prayer on my lips.
I then spend
the day worrying, in fear, for our country. I tell myself to trust in God,
but
I am mindful of free will, and free will is what troubles me. I pray that
God
gives us guidance and direction, but then I get the feeling that The Lord
has
given us just what we asked for just what we deserve. This nation has
fallen. It has become as Sodom and Gomorrah.
-
A nation
where women have the choice to kill infants within the womb, and have
done
so at the current rate of approximately one every 3 seconds over
43,000,000 since Roe v Wade.
-
It is a
nation where crime,
drugs and violence have become so every day, that the mainstream media
seems to report nothing else of value. Just watch the first ten
minutes of
any news broadcast and you will see what unfolds.
In
light of all of this it is no wonder that some of us fall deep into a
bottle
of booze, or needles and drugs seeking to medicate, seeking a means to
escape, when our souls are so angered, weak and troubled.
There
is one way we can repair the damage to our nation: we require a spiritual
awakening a return, en masse, to our fundamental need for God in our
lives.
This may not be the answer everyone wants to hear, but it is the only
answer
that will work. There is power in prayer, and strength in unity and
fellowship. Our path has been time tested, and laid out for us. We need
only
embark upon it and we will succeed in not only finding answers, but
finding
solutions that will heal our nation. May we find that the countless that
have
sacrificed their lives for our nation will not have done so in
vain.
Pablo
S.
Prescott
Valley, AZ
On My Mind I have been
asked
more than once: "what exactly is a ProLife Joe"? I rather like
answers in a nutshell. --Pablo
Ordinary
Joes make up the world, combined with a far too minimal smattering of
extraordinary people. And, too, sadly for us, maladjusted self-seeking
Joes
and Janes are in the mix as well. They are legion, and they are
many.
The
Definition of a ProLife Joe, (or Jane), is not complicated, but expansive.
Following are a few key bullet points:
-
ProLife
spiritual Joes do not covet the personal freedom to extinguish life on
demand-- from the womb, to partial birth and beyond.
-
ProLife
Joes are not selfishly interested in their wants and needs: they well
know
how to sacrifice and give of themselves, and do so
willingly.
-
ProLife
Joes are for the greater good, not the greater
gain.
-
ProLife
Joes take responsibility for their procreative and proactive actions
or
inactions.
-
ProLife
Joes are willing to speak out against issues involving the taking of a
life. Death is death, whether from abortion, assisted suicide, or any
and
all other nefarious means we humans have devised in an effort to
accomplish the inhuman task of infanticide, patricide, and genocide.
In
summary, ProLife Joes are ordinary men who are willing to stand up, speak
out,
and are willing to lead, to help bring about an end to the climate of
death
that has evolved in our society, and the world at
large.
Live
for Life. Be a
ProLife Joe.
--Pablo
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