Pro-life

New Orleans, Sep 30, 2008 / 03:20 am (CNA).- Archbishop of New Orleans Alfred C. Hughes has criticized a Louisiana lawmaker’s proposal to pay poor women to sterilize themselves, calling it “seriously wrong,” “blatantly anti-life,” and a “form of eugenics.”

Louisiana’s Rep. John LaBruzzo, a Republican from Metairie, last week said he is studying a plan to pay poor women $1,000 to have their Fallopian tubes tied.

His proposal would also cover other forms of birth control, such as vasectomies for men, and could also encourage tax incentives for college-educated, higher-income people to have more children, the Times-Picayune reports.

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Kudos to Martin Sheen for his radio ad critical of the Washington state physician-assisted suicide initiative.

A reader sent me a link to Coalition Against Assisted Suicide which is fighting the so-called physician assisted suicide bill in Washington state. Along with the following video of a dying man who is fighting against this.

Update: Here is an excellent blog post on John Peyton.

Washington state is looking to follow Oregon in providing so-called physician assisted suicide with Initiative 1000. Recently a Lourdes the Pope said.

"A society unable to accept its suffering members and incapable of helping to share their suffering is a cruel and inhumane society."

and

"Dignity never abandons the sick person," he declared, adding that people must accept death at "the hour chosen by God."

So the communications director for I-1000 promptly sent political bloggers a memo titled "Pope Keeps God on Schedule, Auto-Dial.

"The Pope does not go into detail about God’s appointment book, although many doctors note that God is, in fact, kept waiting past the chosen hour (rather like we are kept waiting at the doctor’s office) due to medical interventions that artificially extend life (but do not end suffering). Perhaps God is running late."

It is not a new thing that Catholic bashing is being introduced in this campaign since as the editorialist of this article noted that last month they made a big deal of the $132,650 donated by the local diocese for the Coalition Against Assisted Suicide when it is the pro-suicide camp that is being extremely well funded by a large percentage as is usually the case. Their ads said the Catholic Church was "pouring" in money when in fact their own side was getting money poured in.

• 170,000 from former Gov. Booth Gardner
• 300,000 from Oregon Death with Dignity.
• Denver groups donated 265,000
• Out-of-state donors such as the Hemlock Society bring the total to 1.906 million raised.

They then go on to claim

"The five out-of-state dioceses and archdioceses who are currently funding the campaign against I-1000 have been plagued with lawsuits and allegations of child abuse," reads the pro-I-1000 release.

When any stick will do priestly abuse is always the first club to grab. And of course physician assisted suicide never leads to abuses or pressure from family members as Oregon has proven – oh wait the facts don’t back that up.

Sometimes in the culture of death you can almost believe that people get together to find more ways to kill people. Abortion, ESCR, cloning, euthanasia, IVF, the new eugenics, etc. While their motives are suppose to be compassionate they don’t want to actually "suffer with" anybody and their is some sort of body bag at the end of the advocacy.

I was wondering how Sen. Obama would respond to abortion survivor Gianna Jessen’s ad for BornAliveTruth.org ad. I certainly did not project that he would run an ad that showed a picture from the video along with pictures from other ads and calling it “sleazy” and calling her ad a “despicable lie” and “taken out of context.”

Well I guess Obama should know about despicable lies. The truth is that he voted against Illinois’ Born Alive Infant Protection Act four times and the last time he voted against a bill identical in wording to the Federal version. What is out of context? His ad quotes a Chicago Tribune article saying “None of those who voted against SB1082 favored infanticide.” Well all of those who voted against the bill allowed infanticide and thought a dead baby is a better conclusion than challenging abortion in any way. They made a political calculation that a dead baby was better than any chance no matter how slim that it would affect abortion even if the bill specifically excluded that. For Obama infanticide is alright and truth is “sleazy.” Of course Obama also called the NRLC liars for proving that he did vote against the bill identical to the Federal version which was passed 98-0.

Via Jill Stanek come these two statements along with coverage of this.

Mr. Obama is clearly blinded by political ambition given his attack on me this week. All I asked of him was to do the right thing: support medical care and protection for babies who survive abortion – as I did 31 years ago. He voted against such protection and care four times even though the U.S. Senate voted 98-0 in favor of a bill identical to the one Obama opposed. In the words of his own false and misleading ad, his position is downright vile. Mr. Obama said at the recent Saddleback Forum that the question of when babies should get human rights was above his pay grade. Such vacillation and cowardice would have left me to die if his policies were in place when I was born. Thank God they were not.

Jill Stanek: It is despicable, repulsive and beneath contempt that Barack Obama would attack Gianna Jessen. She is a courageous abortion survivor and living miracle who would not be with us today if Obama’s policies had been in place when she was born. Mr. Obama continues to mislead the American people on this issue, he voted four times against medical care and protection for babies who survive abortions in the Illinois State Senate, while the U.S. Senate was voting 98-0 to pass an identical bill. Mr. Obama needs to come forward and tell the American people that he understands people like Gianna Jessen, and that he will support and enforce Born Alive Infant protections — that these are living, breathing human beings who have come into our world and deserve protection in the law and should receive medical care at health care facilities. These babies have the same rights as the rest of us.

The one good thing about Obama’s “sleazy” ad is that it will keep this issue in the news. The more people know about this the better.

The above video put out by CatholicVote.com has been seen on many blogs and it was done by the wonderful Grassroots Films for Fidelis which runs the site. I knew when I first saw it that progressive Catholics would be quite upset about it.

Catholic blogs such as Cosmos-Liturgy-Sex and Bettnet and no doubt others have received the same “comment” by someone named Kathy that includes the following.

If you forward this video or link to the website in your official capacity you may be in violation of IRS regulations and Church policy. You will also be distributing materials that contradict Church teaching.

It then goes on to say that their are “other intrinsic evils” involved this campaign season such as racism (I didn’t know anyone was running on a pro-racism platform). Ironic since I thought that lying and making false claims was also evil, though maybe the person is just woefully ignorant about blogs and the IRS along with Church teaching.

David at C-L-S does a good refutation of the claims made in the “comment” which are typical progressive boilerplate for why you should vote for Obama. Dom at Bettnet also has his own comments.

Deal Hudson reports

In response to a questionnaire submitted by ScienceDebat2008, the McCain campaign indicated a McCain administration would continue the present limitations on research instituted by President Bush and would seek to outlaw somatic cell transfer completely.

Deal credits McCain adviser Sen. Brownback for this. The above statement pretty much matches what the campaign site says in regards to McCain not supporting creation of human embryos. I guess he needs to let his spokesman Brian Rogers in on this. Now we just need a congress that would actually seek to ban all aspects of human cloning completely.

BornAliveTruth.org is a 527 political organization whose mission is to educate the public on the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act and Senator Obama’s record opposing this act.