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A good day to remember why we yet can celebrate it

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Tranquility or Terrorism

baby-hands2The establishment media has made a career out of doing all it can to downplay the effectiveness of pro-life activity, and as the video points out, it has done so at the expense of truth and civility. For example, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow used her June 5 television program to report on American Life League’s Protest the Pill Day as an example of how pro-life Americans abuse language because we tell the truth about how the birth control pill works. Read more »

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Which Side Really Inspires Violence?

liberal hateIs the right responsible for inspiring murder, such as that of late-term abortionist George Tiller by Kansas native Scott Roeder? Some certainly seem to think so. For instance, the Friday before last Bill O’Reilly had as a guest on his show Joan Walsh, the editor of leftist news site Salon.com. She appeared because she had criticized O’Reilly for engaging in what she called a “jihad” against Tiller. Her thesis is that O’Reilly and, presumably, the rest of us who are passionately pro-life are culpable Tiller’s death. Read more »

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Is anyone really pro-abortion?

obama-pro-abortionIn his final debate with Senator McCain, Barack Obama declared, in his usual emphatic manner, “No one is pro-abortion.” Obama has an idealized notion of human beings (Republicans excepted), while perhaps feigning ignorance of what is really going on. Behind Obama’s declaration is the seemingly plausible hypothesis that no woman would ever get pregnant for the sole purpose of having an abortion. The grim facts, nevertheless, refute this hypothesis. Read more »

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Catholic Detractors Cannot Derail The Truth

catholic-truthMany foolish statements have been made over the past several days. What is curious is that the statements are being made by or about Catholics who have an obvious affection for misrepresentations, deceptions and assorted flagrant flirtations with all things consistently offensive to Christ and His Church. Read more »

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The Wages Paid To The Culture Of Violence

culture-of-violenceFor more than 36 years, America has denied that aborting a child prior to birth is the moral equivalent of murder; in fact many have glorified abortion as a human right and charged those who know otherwise with disrespectful, dishonest allegations such as fanaticism, terrorism and anti-feminism. But the results of this disconnect between the price one has to pay for stealing a duck egg and the price one has to pay for killing a preborn child are all around us. Read more »

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Media Madness: Men and Abortion

men-and-abortion2The planet is a strange place these days where hyped political rhetoric continues to grow ever more bizarre. Take, for example, the recent comments by Adam Reilly in his article, “The Blessing of Abortion.”
The man has a penchant for using emotionally charged words to misinform his readers regarding basic differences between those who support aborting children versus those who abhor it. For example, he focused on the pro-abortion zealot Katherine Hancock Ragsdale about whom I commented awhile ago.
She is the woman, you may recall, who defined abortion as a “blessing.” Read more »

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Dr. Tiller: Who will mourn your casualties?

abortion-crucifictionDr. Tiller: {confident} Yes, Socrates, I fully understand that abortion was as socially divisive as slavery or prohibition, but my sole reason for providing abortions services was about giving women a choice when dealing with technology that can diagnose severe fetal abnormalities before a baby is born.
Socrates: So you disparaged the solemn Hippocratic Oath that all doctors must take? – First do no harm.
Dr. Tiller: {robotic tone, defensive} I have many respected members of society that will vouch for me, people who have said many honorable things on my behalf: Read more »

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Our First Priority

no-rhinosNow we are hearing from many moderates in the mushy middle that the Republican Party should set aside some of the social issues and concentrate on economic issues where “everyone” can agree. I have mixed feelings about this message. On one hand we have the hypocrisy displayed by those pushing this view point as we have seen precious little economic common sense from those who want to elevate that to the top of Republican agenda. On the other, there is an element of truth to the position… Read more »

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Common Ground Quicksand In Obamaland

obama-abortionThe US News headline “Obama woos Catholics with nuanced abortion talk” sounded an alarm that I could not ignore or resist commenting about. After all, how many ways can this president insert his clever rhetoric into the Catholic arena before someone reveals the guile behind the smile?
It seems, at least according to US News, that Obama used his speech at Notre Dame to prove to the world that his allegiance to outright advocacy of abortion on demand was perhaps not as solid as one first might suspect. Read more »

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Caritas Christi’s Deal With The Devil – II

deal-with-the-devilThe events in the Archdiocese of Boston that brought about the unbelievably bad news regarding the “joint venture” between Caritas Christi Health Care System and the Centene Corporation of St. Louis, Missouri, continue to unfold at a fast and furious pace. In view of public reports that Massachusetts regulators had approved a joint venture between the two entities in early March 2009, public expressions of alarm grew. Concerned Catholics could not help but say that this union would result in Caritas Christi being complicit in some way with providing or referring for surgical abortion, medical abortion, contraceptives or sterilization procedures – each of which are considered unacceptable according to Catholic teaching and Catholic healthcare ethics. Read more »

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Supreme Speculation

supreme-courtOver the past few months, since President Obama took over the reins of power, I have seen a mixed bag of responses from allegedly pro-life Americans. Some argue that we should not criticize the man but understand that he honestly wants to find common ground between those who favor killing and those who oppose it. Others point to his record, and carefully document the reasons why he never met an abortion he did not like. Read more »

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Some Thoughts About Motherhood

mothers-dayOn May 10, mothers from one end of this nation to the other will be honored by their children, and many will honor their own mothers as well. Personally, I had the most remarkable mother that any human being could ever hope to have. My mom, Bertha, was a solidly faithful, courageous and loving woman who gave her all to her daughters and to her son. My brother was with us for such a brief period of time, but each day was so special for all of us. Read more »

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Pragmatists Against Human Personhood

personhood-nowPersonhood: the legal recognition of a human being’s full status as a human person that applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, health, function, physical or mental dependency, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of their biological development.
American Life League is engaged in the ongoing development of what we now call human personhood apologetics.* When we see arguments against proposals that address human personhood, we examine them in order to discern how to effectively convince people who oppose our efforts that they are not addressing the subject – the preborn child – in the proper way. Here are a few such arguments, followed by our response to each: Read more »

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Napolitano Nastiness

janet-napolitano-obamiconClearly the Obama administration has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to Americans who wish to focus attention on the plight of the preborn, calling abortion by its proper name, and demanding equal rights and equal protection for all, regardless of age, health, place of residence or condition of dependency. Perhaps you are among the extremists this document is discussing; to my mind this sort of extremist is an American expressing his freedom of speech in an effort to bring an end to the heinous crime of direct abortion which is, after all, an act of murder. Read more »

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Planned Parenthood’s #1 Enemy

stop-planned-parenthood2In 1985, when an IBM executive by the name of James W. Sedlak started Stop Planned Parenthood, I really do not think he had any idea that his realization of a need and the subsequent implementation of his idea would result in such a phenomenal success. And yet that is exactly what has happened in the intervening 24 years.
What began as a part-time volunteer effort has today grown into not only the most effective anti-Planned Parenthood activity in the nation, but also the most effective pro-baby, pro-parenthood, pro-Christ effort that I have ever seen. Read more »

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Bizarre Bilge From The Culture Of Death

cult-of-deathBizarre bilge is news and comments that would be unthinkable in a truly civil society. Once you read the following collection of “news” items you will get a sense of what I mean by relegating anything associated with the deceptions perpetrated by the culture of death as bizarre bilge. Read more »

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North Dakota Bishops Nullify Personhood

personhood-nowIn these times of “accountability”, isn’t it time that the American bishops be held accountable for the scandalous anti-life policies that too many of them have been forming and advancing for the last 40 years? No one can get straight answers from them. They should be required to give complete explicit rational reasons for their positions and policies and be ready to fully defend them — like the rest of us are. Read more »

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Posterity’s Plague

baby-smileStar Parker has been a favorite of mine for years; in fact, she spoke at one of American Life League’s events in Florida ten years ago and wowed the audience with her insights. She has just had that effect on me again. Her commentary on the valiant Walter Hoye, an African American pastor who was sentenced to 30 days in jail for standing outside an inner city abortion mill holding a sign that said “Jesus Loves You and Your Baby, Let us Help You,” hit the nail on the head. Read more »

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Note Dame Sober Up

obama-abortionIn attempting to put a proper face on the ugly situation developing on the campus of Notre Dame University, home of the recent announcement that President Barack Obama would give the commencement address and receive an honorary degree, I fell upon an incredibly wise insight just uttered by Archbishop Charles Chaput. Speaking at the Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, the archbishop said, … Read more »

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Holocaust Then and Now

holocost-then-nowWe have frequently argued that one of the main reasons why we want to redefine the “pro-life” movement as the pro-human personhood movement is that it is a positive, upbeat way for us – in this age of iPhones, MySpace, Face Book, Twitter and Blackberries – to bring the humanity of the child, from his first instant of existence, right into your telephone, so to speak. We realize that there are literally millions of young people who have either never thought about the fact that a child dies during an abortion, or have grown up accepting as fact that abortion is part of health care. Read more »

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Obama Chronicles IV: Rebelious Sebelius

sebeliusKathleen Sebelius, current governor of Kansas and alleged Catholic, has distinguished herself in many ways. Most disturbing among them is her long-held support for the act of abortion. It is this single attribute that perhaps makes her attractive to President Obama, as he sets his sights on her as his nominee for the post of secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. Read more »

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Peculiar Penchants

personhood-nowIt is perpetually true that when a genuine threat to the status quo becomes more than an idea in someone’s imagination, those who are most threatened by innovation become overcome with anxiety from which flows a whole lot of garbage. Such is the case with the growing popularity of personhood not only within the pro-life movement but within the political structure of various state legislatures as well. Read more »

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Democracy and Demagogues

pelosi-popePope John Paul II wrote in Splendor of Truth that genuine democracy requires equality among all the members of society. There is no doubt he was referring to every human being, born and preborn. He would therefore, undoubtedly be very proud of the state of North Dakota. Read more »

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Death By Induction

baby-handsRecently a friend advised me that St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital in London, Ontario, Canada, was providing something called “early induction of labor” for expectant mothers based on physician claims, such as the one voiced 24 years ago, that if the preborn child was not delivered early, the mother would die. Read more »

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Picture This

baby-in-wombUnder the guise of “access to primary care,” the Regents of the University of California have been conducting an experiment on women in Concord, Los Angeles and San Diego… The purpose of this experiment? “Demonstrate the role of advanced practice clinicians in expanding early pregnancy care.” That’s Orwellian for “training non-physicians to perform first trimester abortions.” Read more »

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Obama Chronicles: Acrid Atmosphere

obama_roarWhile it really isn’t surprising that President Obama would be working his way toward some sort of politically motivated abortion program, it is quite interesting that he has chosen to use his new White House Office on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships as the vehicle. The irony of this relationship, however, might escape some people. I cannot see how a relationship can actually exist between people’s supposed belief in God, their apparent willingness to overlook what abortion does to children and negotiating ways to supposedly reduce the death count rather than eliminate it. I must be missing something. Read more »

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Catholic is not an adjective, its a way of life

catholic-christianityA series of events over the past few days have brought to light, once again, how difficult it is for some people who call themselves Catholic to practice the faith they claim as their own. At the same time, these events have confirmed the strength and courage required of those who not only wish to be identified as Catholic, but are also willing to step out in faith, go against the tide and actually make a difference for the Lord in this otherwise abysmal world of ours. Read more »

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Incompatible Ideologies

skull-crossbonesIt is becoming increasingly clear to me that I’m out of step with the rest of the world. And boy, am I glad! It’s not just me, either. Everyone who fully embraces a pro-life philosophy, in fact, has absolutely nothing in common with those arbiters of popular culture who espouse a philosophy of personal pleasure above all else. Read more »

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Time, Talent and Intolerance

baby-hand1Preborn children are criminally assaulted daily, their human dignity is ignored daily, and there is no way that America’s moral standing can be restored as long as our government sanctions the murder of innocents on our own soil. That being said, why would the USCCB spend a millisecond congratulating Obama? What is to be gained by applauding a man committed to continuing the killing and enshrining the “right” to do it in our laws? Read more »

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Obama Nation Chronicles II: Let The Killing Escalate!

obama-nation2It’s so hard for me to believe that so much debauched thinking could come from so few people, but what I have learned from the news in the past couple of days confirms the fears expressed by so many during the election season. Obama is indeed totally committed to aborting the future of the nation and, sadly, the world. Read more »

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Kudos, Krispy Kreme!

krispy_kreme_logoAmerican Life League’s press release of this past Thursday started a chain of events that is both heartwarming and instructive. And, if I may say, it was also an eye-opener for me, as never before in my 37 years of pro-life activity have I been described in so many unflattering ways. Practically every epithet, from “wing nut,” to “nut case,” was used, including a few I cannot repeat. It seems some people just didn’t appreciate the fact that we take our work seriously, especially when it comes to helping others see the power of words. Read more »

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Apathy Blankets North America With Shame

apathyIn a recent tribute to pro-life Congressman Henry Hyde, who died in 2007, Congressman Chris Smith said of him, “Hyde was the star, a trailblazer. It’s tougher to blaze the trail than to follow on. Henry taught me the lesson that some things are worth losing elections for, and life is one of them.” Read more »

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The Grammar of Right Thinking

thinkerNot a day passes without one headline or another grabbing my attention and riveting me to a search engine on my computer, sort of like a mad dog! But I learned that one of the best ways to share the undeniable truths that are not yours or mine, but God’s, is to focus on those aspects of daily life that prompt us to think about what kind of people we are. Whether we are Americans or Brits or Africans or Sudanese or claim any other cultural identity, we all have the same gift from God – written on the heart of every man. Read more »

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Murder Most Foul

baby-handWhile it is truly heartbreaking to read this report and realize that a little boy has apparently died a horrible death at the hands of his own father, it seems to me that, if this is true, it is but another example of how the culture of death has made it easy to solve problems by employing acts of violence. Read more »

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ADVANCE THE TRUE PRO-LIFE ETHIC

baby-hands2Every year, at about this time, many Americans make what are commonly known as New Year’s resolutions. It is no surprise to any of us mere mortals that most of these resolutions may not last beyond the time it takes to enunciate them. But I think that there are a couple that all of us in the pro-life community could adopt with gusto and keep, regardless of the political atmosphere, cultural meltdown or increasing lack of belief in God. Read more »

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Gallup Says America is Losing Faith

losing-faithThe new Gallup poll that found that among those queried, 67 percent “think religion is losing its influence on U.S. life.” The USA Today reporter compared this percentage to that of a Gallup poll conducted three years ago, when it appeared that Americans “were nearly evenly split on the question.” But you see, the wrong question was asked to begin with, and that is what is causing me not a little concern. Read more »

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WILL OBAMA BE PLANNED PARENTHOOD’S SANTA CLAUS?

The list of organizations endorsing the goals set forth in this publication reads like the “who’s who” of America’s most committed abortion advocates. Everything from Planned Parenthood to the Sierra Club to NARAL is included. My guess is that the combined energy of all those listed means that President-elect Obama is in for more pressure than he could possibly imagine. But then again, he is a Chicago politician, so he probably knows how to keep or break a promise, depending on the stakes. Read more »

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Father Joseph Illo: “God Requires This Of Me”

I have been awestruck by the heroic Catholic priests who have asserted Catholic teaching without apology, particularly on the subject of Obama and those Catholics who voted for him. In fact, one might say that there is a new breeze blowing through the Church, and it is so refreshing that I can only pray it becomes a full-force wind. Read more »

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Pay-Grade Sophisms

We cannot go back and undo history, but we can begin now to make history. Pro-life Americans have a golden opportunity to take each and every sophism that we encounter, and shed the light of truth on it for all to see and understand. There is absolutely nothing that would do the babies more good than for each of us committed to this struggle to address personhood whenever there is an opportunity to speak about the reasons why we are pro-life. Read more »

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Texas Takes Friendship To A New Level

Just a few days ago in Corpus Christi, pro-life activists took to the streets to protest the killing of preborn children. It all started at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, and according to news reports, “hundreds of Catholics filled the streets.” In fact, the news item was so heartening that that it reminded me of the old days when protests were in their prime and the media was hard-pressed to ignore them. Read more »

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Parsing Words Or Counting Parts?

The challenge of speaking to America about the horrific nature of abortion became obvious once again when, a few days ago, the Washington Post published an article entitled “A Hard Choice.” The subtitle, “A young medical student tries to decide if she has what it takes to join the diminishing ranks of abortion providers” gives the plot away. Read more »

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