Pro-life

Support family planning efforts this Valentines Day by making a donation to Planned Parenthood in President Bushs name.

When you do, we will send the President a Planned Parenthood Condom on your behalf, reminding him that investing in preventative reproductive health care saves Americans hundreds of millions of dollars a year and improves our communities quality of life.

On this day of love and compassion, you can make a difference in Orange and San Bernardino Counties by making a donation in President Bushs name.

After all, you know that love isnt just about chocolate, flowers and candy.

XOXO, Planned Parenthood

Yea nothing says love like a condom. I love you so much that I want to protect myself from any diseases you might give me. I love you so much that I don’t want there to be any fruit of our love in the miracle of life. I love you so much that nothing can keep us apart except of course that thin layer of latex.

You also have to wonder how Planned Parenthood improves a communities’ quality of life? This is a great community of people just as long as there are not too many people. Though I find it deeply ironic for Planned Parenthood to even use the phrase “quality of life” when they really mean “quality of death.” It is death that they make most of their money on and they think that for someone to have a better “quality of life” someone else must die for it.

Somehow I don’t think sending President Bush taxpayer-funded condoms is going to remind him anything except the stupidity and moral corruptness of Planned Parenthood.

This is all just Condomganda.

You can’t call it propaganda since they would have no truck with propagating. The selling of condoms as a wonderful thing reminds me of a fairly new series on TV. There is a wonderfully funny and eclectic show that started at the beginning of the season called “Pushing Daisies.” The plot line is that this boy discovers that if he touches something dead it comes back to life. The side effect though is that if he does not touch them again within a minute and returning them to death, someone else will die. Now you might wonder exactly how this related to condoms? In the series as an adult he brings his childhood sweetheart who was murdered back to life and he can never touch her again without her immediately dying. The same goes for his childhood pet dog who he had also brought back to life. Watching the show you get the sense of the loss of intimacy since he has to keep away from his dog and always uses gloves if he is going to pet him. The same goes for his childhood sweetheart and the show shows the lengths they have to go to try to show affection for each other without her dying, such as kissing through saran wrap.  The comic sadness of this is easy to see, yet somehow people see using a condom as something intimate and it is an act of separation on a couple of levels.

Thanks to Dawn Eden for the heads up and be sure to pray for the woman who is subject of her post ‘The right choice’ leads to a ‘fountain of pain’

London, Feb 7, 2008 / 04:41 am (CNA).-
A
British womans twin girls saved her life when, while still in the
womb, they kicked free a tumor growing in their mothers uterus, the
Daily Mail reports.

Though advised she needed to abort the twins so she could be treated
for cancer, the mother avoided harsh cancer treatment so her babies
could be born.

Michelle Stepney, 35, was expecting twins when she went to a hospital
with a suspected miscarriage.  The doctors realized that she
had cervical cancer, saying that the kicking of the twins had dislodged
a tumor.

Had the tumor not been dislodged, the cancer may not have been
discovered in time for successful treatment.

After the discovery of the cancer, Stepneys doctors told her that she
would need to undergo chemotherapy and a hysterectomy.  To do
this, she would need to abort the twins.

Stepney refused. “I couldn’t believe it when the doctors told me that
the babies had dislodged the tumor,” she said, according to the Daily
Mail.

“I’d felt them kicking, but I didn’t realize just how important their
kicking would turn out to be.”

I use to respect pro-life Democrat Ray
Flynn, not
anymore.

From a column in
the NY Sun

The Spitzer bill S.5829 is
euphemistically
called the Reproductive Health and Privacy Protection Act. It would
raise abortion to the level of a fundamental right, like the freedom of
speech, and would therefore prohibit virtually any restrictions at all.
According to an urgent “news & action update” released by the
New York State Catholic Conference and distributed at all masses last
week, the act would force doctors to perform abortions; force Catholic
hospitals to perform abortions; force health care insurance plans to
cover them; force employers to purchase abortion coverage; authorize
non physicians to perform abortions, and undermine parental involvement
in the life decisions of their children.

In addition, the Conference warns that the state’s civil rights laws
protecting doctors and nurses who do not wish to be involved in
abortions would be in serious jeopardy. The state’s funding to abortion
alternative programs and agencies would be required to cover abortions.
Many regard this proposed law as ultra radical and beyond the pale, but
when it comes to abortion, Mr. Spitzer has consistently been loyal to
the abortion advocates who’ve helped fund his political career.

One of the first actions Mr. Spitzer took after narrowly winning the
attorney general race against Dennis Vacco in 1998 was to target the
crisis pregnancy clinics that rival abortion providers like Planned
Parenthood. In a speech at a NARAL luncheon in January 1999, he
announced that he would be establishing a reproductive rights unit
within the Bureau of Civil Rights. Ostensibly, the unit was to prevent
acts of violence and, Spitzer said, “the murder of doctors who simply
seek to fulfill their professional oath.” Now I wonder what oath he was
talking about, because the classical Hippocratic oath included a
commitment not to cause abortions. That oath, of course, has been
modified to meet the declining relevance of morality in the practice of
modern medicine involving reproductive rights.

Dawn Eden reports on Planned
Parenthood
Golden Gate chapter is currently attempting to censor the USCCB’s
pro-life ads.  Jill Stanek has more on this and
truth checks Planned Parenthoods “truth check” of the USCCB’s ads.
 Their email letter to subscribers starts by saying:

Many supporters like you have informed
us
that the antis are back at it again.

Antis is some strange shortcut slang, but
it sounds like something they would call us.  They will never
see that us as pro-life, but anti-abortion so antis is the natural
result.  So since they are against us pro-life supporters I
guest that makes them anti-antis.

Jill Stanek reports on the
Guttmacher Institute’s most recent report indicating that by 2005
abortion had dropped 25% from its all time high of 1.6 million in 1990
to 1.2 million in 2005.  Guttmacher is Planned Parenthoods
research arm and I am highly skeptical of anything that comes out of
them.  I was a little surprised to see so many Catholic
bloggers use the reported decline without the hefty barrels of salt
that should be seen when coming out of them.  It is in Planned
Parenthood’s best interest for there to be a reported decline in
abortion.  For one it helps to try to reduce it as a hot topic
and to make it a seem that the number of abortions will decline by
itself.  Another point is that they can claim that there
blanketing of contraception is working.  In an election year
they certainly want to make abortion less contentious among voters so
that pro-abortion politicians can get elected and to secure Planned
Parenthoods source of income as the largest abortion provider.

I surely want a decline in the number of
abortions at a substantial rate to be true but it looks like in the
case that Jill Stanek reports on that the statistics are quite
questionable and while there has been some decrease it is not as much
as they reported.  Jill had also made an astute observation
about the previously reported baby bump and the decline of some levels
of abortion.  Guttmacher claims that it is
contraceptives and the lack of access to abortion clinics that is the
cause of this reduction.  No surprise that they don’t see
there is more of a move to embrace life than to kill it.

What really drives me crazy about
mainstream reporting on the Guttmacher Institute is that they almost
never mention there connection to Planned Parenthood.  If an
institute funded by a tobacco company released research that cigarettes
were killing less people the media would laugh at such stories because
of the massive conflict of interest.  But they don’t see this
conflict of interest because of their own conflict of interest.

href=”http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2008/01/a_jesuits_perspective_on_abort.html”
target=”_blank”>Here is a wonderful guest opinion
on the Washington Post/Newsweek site by Dr. William Blazek, a Jesuit
scholastic and physician.

…A further note on killing the other
person: As a practicing physician licensed to care for pregnant women,
I believe that abortions kill a living human being in the earliest
stages of development. The moral question at hand is not if we are
killing; it is whether the victims have any claims as persons or not.
While the U.S. legal balance is at present skewed towards the denial of
rights for the unborn, Catholics and many Evangelical Christians argue
that both the mother and the unborn have rights. On a spiritual level,
a woman seeking an abortion should recognize that exercising her
choice will kill a vulnerable and defenseless human being. There is
no doubt about this. There is also no doubt that an action can be legal
and at the same time be wrong.

Final point, we kill the Church when, in ignorance, we hold it up to
ridicule. Last Spring, I asked several medical students in a seminar
whether they rejected Catholic teachings regarding reproduction and
artificial contraception. Several raised their hands. I prompted them
to articulate the position and to give their critique of it.
Conversation languished for some while. None in that group of
graduating physicians had an answer, yet these well-educated role
models were willing to publicly disagree with an argument they could
not explain. At a recent Christmas party, a gentlemen identifying
himself as a Catholic biologist was railing for research that would
result in the death of frozen human embryos. He justified the
exploitation, because they are just sitting there. I advised him that
the Churchs reverence for the protected status of a human person is
not based on level of activity but on an intrinsic dignity. He agreed
to consider that.

Hat tip
href=”http://somehavehats.typepad.com/some_wear_clerics/2008/01/a-jesuit-speaks.html”
target=”_blank”>Karen Hall.

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This year their is an interesting
juxtaposition of MLK’s birthday and
tomorrows walk for life which is the great civil rights movement of
today.  Though as bad as segregation was the intentional
murder of innocents is so much worse.

Margaret Cabaniss at Inside Catholic
was
shocked to see an actual sympathetic column from the Washington Post on people
involved in the
March for Life.  Here is a great quote from it.

Valentine,
who is majoring in human life studies at a Catholic college in Ohio,
said that every time he and his friends persuade a young woman not to
have an abortion, they throw her a baby shower to make sure she and the
newborn start out with the necessities.

He noted that the antiabortion movement
is becoming predominantly youthful while the abortion rights movement
is aging. “This conference shows that the youth are not the future of
the pro-life movement,” he said. “We are the movement.” 

Dawn Eden has a wonderful story an a Supreme Irony on someone involved
in the March for Life.

Gerald at the Cafeteria is Closed has some
good pictures of the San Francisco Walk for Life here and here.

American Papist who will be at the march
will be maintaining constant coverage of
the even.

In other news a speech by abortionist
Alberto Hodari, captured on video and posted on YouTube and the Students
for Life of America Web site  includes this:

“I’m not joking. I believed because it
was new, we used to let the boyfriend or husbands come into the room
when we were doing the abortion. It was that they heard that Caesarian
section or doctors allowed husbands in the delivery room. When I came
to America, nowhere. They wouldn’t even let me go see my wife deliver a
baby and I was a doctor. ‘Now you, stay outside.’ So gradually it
became we were very modern we let the boyfriends come in and they all
passed out. And more, one sued me because he fall, he broke his tooth,
he sued me. And so what do I do now if somebody comes? The state says
‘no.’ The state doesn’t say ‘no’, but I blame the state. They don’t
bother to check with the state. 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 they want to do or no.”

Dawn Eden reports on a Planned Parenthood’s
worker who in a blog entry mentions covering up the reporting
of child rape.  Planned Parenthood is very consistent in this.

Romney, WV 8 Jan 2008)  A time
capsule was placed under a bronze medallion bearing the inscription
CANON 915, at the center of a Millstone which is part of a Memorial
to the Unborn at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in Romney, West
Virginia. 

The time capsule was sealed with the bronze medallion on January 7th,
2008, the Feast of Saint Raymond of Pennafort, Patron of Canon Lawyers.

The capsule contains Church Documents, the Code of Canon Law, Bishops
statements, various articles and other items connected to contemporary
news regarding Canon 915.

The marker and capsule are especially meant to bring attention to the
present scandal by which some of the faithful may be caused to falter
in their belief in the Real Presence of Jesus Christ in the Most
Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.  This stumbling block comes
at a time when surveys suggest many Catholics do not
realize:   The most August sacrament is the Most
Holy Eucharist in which Christ the Lord Himself is contained, offered,
and received and by which the Church continually lives and grows
[Can.  897]

In particular, this disbelief is reinforced and deepened when Catholic
politicians who publicly support the grave sin of abortion or
euthanasia are allowed to receive Holy Communion, despite their gross
disregard for Catholic teaching.  According to (then) Cardinal
Ratzinger, their formal cooperation becomes manifest – understood, in
the case of a Catholic politician, as his consistently campaigning and
voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws [Memo to U.S.
Bishops, 2004]

Some of the faithful in witnessing manifest grave sinners receiving
Holy Communion are confronted with the temptation to question; 1. the
gravity of the abomination of abortion, and 2. the Holiness and
Presence of Our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament of the
Altar.  They may even fall into to thinking; If these
politicians dont have to listen to Church teaching and can still
receive Holy Communion, why cant I?

…Fr. Kuchinsky noted:  It is shameful that many of those
who are entrusted with the custody of the Mystery of Faith would
permit people so obviously tied up with such a demonic project as the
systematic destruction of the unborn to approach the sanctuary to
receive the Bread of Life.  This scandalous situation is a
grievous one and greatly offensive to the faithful who have any measure
of piety for the Holy Eucharist.  Yes, we pray for the lost
souls who enable the heinous crime of abortion.  But, I also
pray that one day those who are uncomfortable enforcing Church law in
this the most important of issues will also understand the great
sorrow, scandal and confusion they have caused for so many of the
faithful by their failure to act and rally the other ministers of Holy
Communion to defend the Holy of Holies from sacrilege.

Archbishop Burke last year wrote an extensive article on  The Discipline Regarding the Denial of Holy
Communion to Those Obstinately Persevering in Manifest Grave Sin

For those attending the March for Life this year:

The Catholic Information Center, downtown Washington’s “street parish” — thought to be the first U.S. Catholic bookstore on Facebook — is poised to be “Blogger Central” on the day of the 2008 March for Life, with free wireless Internet, a 15% discount for pro-life bloggers, and a tea party, plus celebrity book and DVD signings.

“Our store and chapel have traditionally been a respite stop for March-for-Life participants,” noted CIC manager Kevin Jones. “This year, we wanted to do something more, so—since we already offer free wireless internet—we decided to create some special incentives to encourage marchers to show their support for the Culture of Life on the web.”

The 15% discount for pro-life bloggers will apply all day on January 21-22. To receive the discount, pro-life bloggers must register in advance by e-mailing their name and blog URL to info@cicdc.org by Friday, January 18. On the day of the march, those who have registered may give their name to the CIC cashier to receive the discount on anything the store sells, including books, rosaries, jewelry, prayer cards, religious decorations, and stationery.

For the purpose of this discount, and to encourage pro-lifers to have a strong Web presence, the CIC is defining a “pro-life blog” as any family-friendly Web site that actively promotes the culture of life. This includes MySpace and Facebook pages, so long as they contain a prominently displayed pro-life item.

The bookstore recently augmented its own Web site, www.cicdc.org, with a “Catholic Information Center” Facebook page — believed to be the first-ever Facebook fan club for a U.S. Catholic bookstore.

Bloggers who visit the CIC during the afternoon of January 22 will find a special treat: a tea party immediately following the March for Life, from 3-6 p.m., hosted by Dawn Patrol blogger Dawn Eden. Eden, who has appeared on EWTN’s “Life on the Rock,” will be signing copies of her book The Thrill of the Chaste: Finding Fulfillment While Keeping Your Clothes On, which will be available for 25% off the cover price.

“I can’t wait to meet fellow pro-life bloggers from around the country and connect faces to names,” said Eden. “Many of us are already planning to come to the Blogs4Life conference at the Family Research Council earlier that morning, before the March. The tea party is a great change to relax and get to know each other better after the long day and, thanks to the wi-fi, do some ‘liveblogging’ for the folks back home.”

The CIC is located at 1501 K Street NW, and will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the day of the march. Mass will be in the chapel at 12:05 p.m., and the Blessed Sacrament will be exposed there from 1-4 p.m. For more information, contact CIC manager Kevin Jones, (202) 783-2062, or e-mail