Jill Stanek points out this gymnastic twist of AP language is support of Barack Obama.
[Obama] voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive….
One vote that especially riled abortion opponents involved restrictions on a type of abortion where the fetus sometimes survives, occasionally for hours. The restrictions, which never became law, included requiring the presence of a second doctor to care for the fetus….
Abortion opponents see Obama’s vote on medical care for aborted fetuses as a refusal to protect the helpless. Some have even accused him of supporting infanticide….
Obama — who joined several other Democrats in voting "present" in 2001 and "no" the next year — argued the legislation was worded in a way that unconstitutionally threatened a woman’s right to abortion by defining the fetus as a child.
Laura Ingraham has some nice "Former Embryo" T-Shirts on her webstore and now I know why she doesn’t have "Former Fetuses" shirts. By the AP’s definition there would be no such thing since once you are born you are still a fetus.
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Speaking of protecting the helpless, I just received this from the Pro Lofe organization in Dallas. Please forgive me for using this method to try and get help for this baby, it is a matter of life and death.
Spina Bifida Baby to be Aborted if not Adopted
Dear Friend,
As we reflect this month on 34 years of abortion under Roe, our friends
at Hope for Orphans remind us that behind every abortion is a very real
struggle between life and death. They have again asked for our help in
finding a forever home for a baby in need.
A crisis pregnancy center in Toronto has been assisting a mom who is
expecting twins next month. Recently she found out, that one of the
babies (a boy) has Spina Bifida. This is a birth defect in which the
spinal cord has not developed properly. According to the doctors this
little unborn child’s condition is severe. He is probably paralyzed from
the waist down and will need a shunt because of hydrocephali (water on
the brain).
The Mother cannot face this challenge and is booked to have a selective
abortion of the spina bifida child in a few weeks.
The pregnancy center feels that if they can offer this mom a promise
that a family will adopt the handicapped child she will carry him to
term.
If you or someone you know would be willing and able to provide a home
to this baby in need, please reply ASAP for more information.
Call:
(972) 790-9044
Thank you and God bless you,
Kyleen Wright, president
Texans for Life Coalition
http://www.texlife.org
I will ask friends/fam to pray for the baby,Semperfi.
As to the language thing, I am at my wit’s end. This is so similar to the gender argument in the SIMPLE truth that is denied by tricky language. How do you know a man is a man? Who is to say what defines ‘female’??
Pretty soon we’ll be calling a carrot a ‘vegetable’? Why wouldn’t we call infanticide ‘infanticide’? And why can’t the same people who see that a military ‘target’ is a human person, see that a baby is baby? Why is it that they can prove their point with pictures of dismembered Iraqis but a picture of a dismembered baby is ‘propaganda’? Are we SURE we’re not living in the Twilight Zone?
Actually, according to the AP, the word “Former” on Laura’s shirts would be incorrect. We’re all still fetuses. 🙂
If it’s conceived like a baby, looks like a baby, and cries like a baby- it’s a baby.
If it belongs to a group of a**holes, sounds like an a**hole, and reasons like a Kennedy- it’s a ???
My wife has a close relative whose baby was diagnosed as having spina bifida, hydrocephalia, and many other defects. She was unmarried and dad was nowhere to be found. She went against the current of public opinion and had the baby. A beautiful HEALTHY baby. Please let us all pray.
Prayer is a wonderful idea, in any case. There are so many cases of healthy babies who were misdiagnosed as defective…yet in general we hear about them through personal contacts. Where’s the PRESS on this?
This just in from my local Catholic Left: It seems that although Barack Obama was a sign of hope for them a month ago, even they are getting nervous about the strength of his popularity. “It’s almost like people think he’s another Messiah…”
Is this another example of God working in “mysterious ways”? Here are Oprah, Nancy Pelosi and Obama permitted to reach ridiculous heights of power and fame, and the very ones who supported them are seeing this finally as “maybe not good.” THAT’s a hopeful sign.
when i first heard about this, all i could do was cry for those poor babies. I dont know why so many women hide behind abortions saying its their “right” when its also their right to use protection and to be responsible individuals. My mother was asked if she wanted to abort me, stating that I would be mentally retarded. Alas, here I am. My best friends mother was told that her daughter (my friend) had Downs Syndrome. Needless to say, we are both glad we’re alive.
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