Laura Ingraham Ensures McCain Hears Pro-Life Stance

LifeNews.com is reporting about the interview that conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham had with Senator John McCain. During that interview, she made sure he understood that true conservatives want him to select someone who has a pro-life record as his running mate.

“How could you consider selecting someone who opposed the federal partial birth abortion ban and was one of the eleven original cosponsors of the radical freedom of choice act as your vice-president?” Ingraham said of Lieberman.

Ingraham then took the opportunity to make her case, saying “from the conservative perspective we are literally imploring you to not turn your back on your great pro-life record over decades now.”

McCain heard about the abortion issue again in the town hall when a voter asked about whether he would pick a pro-life running mate. Another, according to the Washington Post, worried he would select someone who would “cause us to want to stay home.”

“I will nominate a person to be vice president, my running mate, who shares my principles, my values and my priorities,” McCain said to loud applause.

Rich Lowry on Obama’s Inconsistency

Rich Lowry has a great article on National Review about Obama’s inconsistencies between what he says and how he’s voted when it comes to abortion.

Obama’s problem isn’t his temperament, but the unsustainable exertions necessary to attempt to square his reasonable-sounding rhetoric on abortion with the extremism of his record.

APA Draws Criticism With Report on Abortion

According to The Christian Post, the American Psychological Association recently release a report which found that women who have had only one abortion during their first trimester do not have a higher risk of mental health problems than those who had their babies. That report, however, is drawing much criticism from pro-life groups who begged to differ, but were ignored by the APA.

“This finding was expected given the composition of the APA task force (pro-choice in a pro-choice organization) but provides testimony to the bias of APA in not even meeting with groups who represent women who believe abortion did lead to significant mental health problems,” said Dr. Warren Throckmorton, a psychology professor at Grove City College in Pennsylvania. “Several groups sought to meet with APA but were rebuffed.”

Over 600 women who had an abortion asked to meet with the APA to discuss their experiences of abortion and depression. They were, however, dismissed.

“The APA brushed them off, just like it dismissed any scientific study that didn’t agree with its agenda,” said Forney, whose organization raises awareness about the harmful effects of abortion and has had 2,326 women and men share their testimonies around the world.

For an organization that is so concerned about mental health, you’d think they’d want to perform a study that takes everything into account–not just those pieces of information that support their foregone conclusion.

Down Syndrome: Photos of Life

Barbara from MommyLife.net has posted this great video of the work of Conny Wenk. If you visit her website, you’ll see her high-quality photos. It’s unbelievable that some in the pro-choice movement are working to make it more sociably acceptable to abort babies who have tested positive for Down Syndrome. Found this post at Pro-Life Blogs

Voters Don’t Know Candidates’ Stances on Abortion

LifeNews.com is reporting that a new poll shows that half of voters don’t know that Senator John McCain is pro-life or that Senator Barack Obama is pro-abortion.

The survey shows that, when pro-life voters know that information, they support McCain by a three-to-one margin.

A stunning 38 percent of voters don’t know where either Obama or McCain stand on the issue of abortion. Some ten percent wrongly identify Obama as pro-life and 17 percent think McCain supports abortion.

Misdiagnosis Forces Woman to Have Abortion

Stuff.co.nz is reporting that a woman who was misdiagnosed with a drug-resistant tuberculosis ended up having to endure a toxic treatment which resulted in a medically induced abortion. Later, the medical professionals determined that the abortion was unnecessary.

The health board has apologised to the woman and says it fully accepts that failings resulted in “serious consequences” for her and her family - though no financial compensation has been paid.

The Dominion Post fought for four months through the Office of the Ombudsman to have the health board’s report into the 2007 sentinel event made public, after initial information requests were declined.

Though heavily abridged, it reveals a series of mistakes which led to the misdiagnosis and subsequent abortion, despite a senior public health officer having raised questions earlier about the test result’s validity.

Surprise, Surprise! 9th Circuit Rules For Pro-Life Protesters

Well, well, miracles still do happen! The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting that the normally liberal-leaning 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that some pro-life protesters were wrongfully detained by police after they drove a truck that showed graphic images of aborted babies around a middle-school before the school day began.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the abortion foes had a free speech right to drive the truck on public streets adjacent to the Los Angeles County school and that “the government cannot silence messages simply because they cause discomfort, fear, or even anger.”

On March 24, 2003, two representatives of the anti-abortion group Center for Bio-ethical Reform arrived at the Dodson Middle School in Rancho Palos Verdes 30-minutes before class began, at around 7:30 a.m. Center employee Paul Kulas drove the truck and center volunteer Thomas Padberg drove a “security vehicle.”

Assistant Principal Art Roberts called the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department while the two vehicles circled the campus on public streets.

Roberts later testified he saw “two or three” girls cry and had to admonish several boys to refrain from throwing stones at the truck.

Roberts also said it was more difficult than usual to get the children into school and that at least one class discussed the images rather than focusing on regular schoolwork. The truck also caused traffic congestion around the school, Roberts said.

The appeals court said the deputies were wrong to detain the men for as long as they did — 75 minutes — because no crime occurred. The protesters were allowed to do what they did.

“That conduct was disruptive only because of the audience’s reaction to the content of the speech,” Judge Harry Pregerson wrote for the unanimous three-judge panel Wednesday. “All of these reactions were triggered by the upsetting message on the truck not by noise, or physical obstruction.”

Imagine that–a court upholding a citizen’s right to free speech. So these protesters were brilliant in their tactic. They chose a middle school where kids are old enough to know what the message of the truck is all about. But they’re young enough to have not been brainwashed by the liberal education establishment about being pro-choice. And it was excellent that the children actually had discussions in class about the truck. However, I’d like to know what the teachers said. Still, this might have been the first time that these children actually saw what an abortion does to a baby. Because I’m certain that none of their teachers had previously shown it to them.

Abortions for Under-14 in Britain Increase

In a sad report from across the Pond, China View is reporting that the abortion rate for girls in England and Wales under the age of 14 rose by more than 20 percent in 2007.

A total of 198,500 pregnancies were terminated in England and Wales last year, an increase of 2.5 percent on 2006.

There was also a 10 percent rise among the under-16s to 4,376 abortions, and most striking was the rise in terminations among teenagers as a higher proportion of pregnancies were aborted.

“The increase in abortions in this age group fits the pattern in women aged under 18 generally, that is, a higher proportion of pregnancies are terminated,” Said Kaye Wellings, professor of sexual and reproductive health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

SD Doctors Must Obey State Law

And now for the good news. The Christian News Wire is reporting that the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that doctors must obey a law in South Dakota while the consitutionality of the law is litigated in court.

This decision requires abortion providers tell women, in writing, that the abortion procedure “will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being.”

A spokeswoman for the Intervenor Alpha Center, Kimberly Martinez, said, “We are delighted by the Court’s decision. Alpha Center exists to tell South Dakota women the whole truth about their pregnancies. Thanks to today’s decision by the court, women are now going to be given the truth by abortion providers, who have been fighting to avoid doing so for years.”

11-Year-Old Romanian Allowed to Have Abortion

The Christian Post is reporting that the Romanian government has ruled that an 11-year-old girl who was raped and impregnated by her 19-year-old uncle will be allowed to have an abortion.

Pro-life Christian Orthodox groups had threatened to press charges if the girl was allowed to have an abortion in Romania since it would be beyond the 14 week legal limit. The girl is 21 weeks pregnant.

The stance of the church groups was in contrast to the Romanian Orthodox Church’s official view that the decision should be left to the girl’s family. The parents initially wanted to travel to a country where it would be legal.

“We are talking about … the rights of this child who was subjected to rape and incest,” said Theodora Bertzi, a Labor Ministry official and who was sitting on a committee, made up of government officials and experts, who ruled on the case.

Constantin Stoica, spokesman for the Romanian Orthodox Church, to which more than 80 percent of Romanians belong, said Wednesday it was “an exceptional situation which must be treated in an exceptional manner and the family is the only one to take this decision.”

He said the church considers abortion a crime, but this belief applies to normal circumstances and not to incest or rape.

I don’t understand why the manner in which a woman becomes pregnant should determine if the baby should be killed or not. A baby is a baby, no matter where the sperm came from. Yes, the fact that this little girl was abused is a terrible crime. Yes, to carry the pregnancy to full-term and deliver the baby would be a traumatic experience. But to resolve the crime that happened to this girl by committing another crime–the murder of an unborn baby–is not right.

According to the article, the pro-life Christian Orthodox church groups offered to help the family with financial and spiritual aid and even offered to help raise the child if the girl gave birth. Think about the long-term effects on this girl if she has the abortion. When she’s old enough to understand what happened, she is sure to experience an agonizing guilt and horror at what her family made her do.