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Texas is Anti Choice

ANTI-CHOICE LAWSBiased Counseling & Mandatory DelayTexas law subjects women seeking abortion services to biased-counseling requirements and mandatory delays. Details »Counseling Ban/Gag RuleTexas prohibits certain state employees and organizations receiving state funds from counseling or referring women for abortion services. Details »Public Facilities and Employees RestrictionTexas prohibits the use of public funds for the direct or indirect costs of most abortion services. Details »Refusal to Provide Medical ServicesTexas allows certain individuals or entities to refuse to provide women specific reproductive-health services, information, or referrals. Details »Restrictions on Low-Income Women's Access to AbortionTexas restricts low-income women's access to abortion. Details »Restrictions on Young Women's Access to AbortionTexas law restricts young women's access to abortion services by mandating parental notice and consent. Details »Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP)Texas subjects abortion providers to burdensome restrictions not applied to other medical professionals. Details »

via www.prochoiceamerica.org

I love this site. Just keeps getting better and better. NARAL does us a favor by finding those states that love abortion and those that don't. I was happy to find they think that my home state's Governor and both the State House and Senate are (their words) anti-choice. I think they have a problem with the word "life". Wonder why??

The Right Decision for Scott Roeder

STORY HIGHLIGHTSScott Roeder convicted of first-degree murderJury reaches verdict after about 40 minutes of deliberation Roeder testified he does not regret killing Dr. George Tiller Tiller ran a women's clinic where he performed abortions in Wichita, Kansas

via www.cnn.com

The verdict is just in on Scott Roeder and I believe it's the right one. The abortion movement is only made stronger when violence occurs. The decision by the jury is, obviously right. As a pro-life person, I also believe that Mr. Roeder's statement is (in a skewed way) right but his actions were very wrong.  In fact, the faulty logic in his thinking is a distant cousin to the strange logic used by the pro-abortion industry to justify their behavior.  Mr. Roeder...

""There was nothing being done, and the legal process had been exhausted, and these babies were dying every day," Roeder said. "I felt that if someone did not do something, he was going to continue.""

We in the pro-life movement need to DO SOMETHING... just not this.

Mercy Abortions: What Dr. Tiller Did?

Fewer than 2200/year or 0.2% of the 1.3 million abortions performed yearly are past 24 weeks.  But, the anti-abortion propagandists have successfully maligned procedures at this stage of pregnancy by calling them "Partial Birth Abortions" (not a medical term, but a political one).  Even pro-choice Democrats don't understand the reality of late abortion.

via www.rhrealitycheck.org

On the "Reality Check" web site (and yes, I do find the name of the site quite ironic), Ann Rose tries really hard to justify the late term abortion procedure. Now, this is really tough thing to do and most Americans would not support Ms. Rose's position. Read it for yourself and then... read the comments. I wonder if writing this makes Ms. Rose feel better about a procedure that is clearly the murder of an innocent human being. I would guess yes... and that probably why she spent so much time thinking it through. Nice try, but I'm not buying it... and neither do most people. Make up your own mind.

Kansas NOW Throws a Party and No One Shows Up.

There really is nothing like the pro-abortion press machine.  They really can make a mountain out of a mole hill quite effectively.  Case in point... an article in the Kansas Free Press promoting a candlelight vigil for the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and the celebrating the life of Dr. George Tiller.  This really is a must read. Some of the highlights from their spin machine.  

First of all, the outrage they feel at the "thousands of women who died prior to Roe v. Wade and the abortion providers and staff that the nation has lost to senseless acts of violence".  Hello... just this January, an estimate on the number of abortions as topping over 52 million children.  Now, I certainly feel bad for the small number of women who suffered injury or death seeking illegal abortions prior to Roe v. Wade, but c'mon, comparing the thousands to 52 million.  Wow.  And no where in the article is there a mention of the number 52.  Surprising?

Second, in reading the article, it sounded like a fairly significant event.  Wondering how many people actually skip dinner with the family to show up to support Roe v. Wade and "honor" an abortionist, I thought I'd check out the photos on the Kansas NOW site.  Heck, PBS even covered the event.  Must have been quite a shin-dig.  Boy was I a bit underwhelmed to find the Candlelight Vigil Photos from the vigil web site.  This looks really sleepy.  A lot of open chairs and a few votives doesn't seem to map to the coverage given by the Kansas "Free" Press.  Not sure how free these guys are...

Third, and most disturbing is the glowing references made to Tiller by NOW as well as other late term Abortionists Warren Hern and Susan Wicklund.  Now remember, these guys perform late term abortions.  These are the most controversial of all procedures as they kill children that are viable outside the womb if allowed to be delivered.  So... when I read things like the following quotes, I just can't find a way to map it to the reality of what they are actually doing.  Think about it.  They are killing human lives and the glowing references keep coming:

"His purpose was to liberate and save women by providing them with abortion care."

"George was a wonderful, kind, generous human being and dedicated physician."

"We know that the Pro Choice movement lost one of our biggest heroes, a compassionate, extremely competent physician, a voice that spoke truth, a rock we all thought could never be moved."

Again, you're losing me on the compassionate, kind and "abortion care" comments.   Remember, these are kids he's been killing for the last several decades.  Then... and maybe most disturbing are the quotes from abortionists Wicklund and Hern around their own struggle: 

Wicklund is required to read abortion patients misleading, politician-penned scripts that refer to an embryo as an "unborn baby"

"We don't know how many more clinics will be burned, staff terrorized or doctors killed. We don't know if our government will actually step up and make sure abortion is treated as the basic health care we all know it is."

"And it is about your mothers and wives, your sisters and daughters and granddaughters and best friends. It is about someone else wanting to control us. It is about power."

God forbid we call a "fetus" an unborn baby in front of a mother that is discerning ending the life of her baby.  And we'd surely want to trade a baby's life for more power and control over our own lives...  Wow, the spin continues. The truth of the matter is that with Roe v. Wade, millions die and without it, perhaps a few do... No excuse for what happened to Tiller, but I just don't want to be played.  Let's tell it like it is, folks.  Agree?

Pro-Aborts: Stumped by Tim Tebow

Boy is the pro-abortion movement completely stumped on how to react to the upcoming Tim Tebow advertisement during the Super Bowl.  It seems to me that with every criticism of the ad from the pro-abortion movement, they seem to make a stronger case for the pro-life message.  Promoting the truth, in prime time, on one of the biggest advertising time slot in the world is really driving them crazy.  And it should.  It's tough to argue such a directly positive statement around the value of human life. 

So what are they left to say?  Here's the arguments they are unsuccessfully trying to debate:

• "CBS has no right to promote such a hot political topic." - So... we would rather see ads for beer and sex vs. a positive message about a mother making a decision towards life in a difficult circumstance. Why would we NOT want to see more positive ads on TV.  Perhaps they are so incensed because there is nothing positive to promote in their thinly veiled pro-death message.  Imagine the same ad from a mother that decided to have an abortion... even one that paints it as a positive thing for mother and child (if that's possible).  Creepy.
• "Focus on the Family has an agenda to push and they are doing it on prime time television" - Yes, they do.  ...and they should not apologize for using their dollars (which are entirely funded by grass-roots conributions vs. any other funds say... from... killing children) to promote their agenda.  I think they have come up with an ad that does a great job of telling a real story about a mother and son and the real decisions that are made in life.  Again, if Planned Parenthood wants to come up with a heartwarming ad about a mother making the decision to terminate her child's life, then make it so.  Not sure this will get the same reaction from the majority of Americans that are now pro-life.  Planned Parenthood does not need the publicity.
• "An ad that uses sports to divide rather than unite has no place in sports." - So does that mean that we should not have political ads run at any time on TV.  What about, say, a 30 minute infomerical by a presidential candidate.  Say... a presidential candidate that has a massive pro-abortion agenda.  Look, this is America and political discourse and debate is a way of life.  Deal with it and don't use the cover of a sports event to try to discount a message that is against your political position.
• And here is one that really sums up their rather weak position:  From the Planned Parenthood leaning Women's Media Center:  “By offering one of the most coveted advertising spots of the year to an anti-equality, anti-choice, homophobic organization, CBS is aligning itself with a political stance that will damage its reputation, alienate viewers, and discourage consumers from supporting its shows and advertisers."  Obviously a couple things going on here.  First of all, WMC is using the tactic of calling every name in the book (equality, choice, homophobic) in an attempt to confuse the issue.  Just tell me what is equal, promotes choice or accepting about the pro-abortion message.  Certainly they only like the idea of choice being promoted when it is promoting abortion. There is nothing equal about valuing the life of one individual (the mother and father) over another (the child).  And abortion is clearly a more serious targeting of a "class" of individual (the unborn) that results in the death of that unwanted, less than human person.  Sound familiar (insert slavery or homophobic reference here...)

No, Planned Parenthood and others on the pro-abort side.  There is no good answer for Tim Tebow.  That's because when it comes to the truth being discussed as pro-family and pro-life... the American people can't be fooled by your usual tactics.  Am I right?