Women’s Groups Condemn Tebow Superbowl Commercial

In a totally hypocritical (but altogether non-surprising) stance, various women’s groups are up in arms over a commercial that will be airing during the Super Bowl. What, you ask, could possibly get these ladies’ dander up? Oh, it must be the perennial paragon of sexual crassness, GoDaddy.com. Or maybe another stereotypical Bud Light commercial where every girl’s brain has been traded in for a larger cup size. Actually, it’s neither of them. What these perpetual guardians of female equality are having a hissy-fit over is the Tim Tebow commercial. The St Petersburg Times reports that these women’s groups can’t stand that this commercial actually tells of how Tebow’s mother decided to give birth to her son. The nerve!

“An ad that uses sports to divide rather than to unite has no place in the biggest national sports event of the year – an event designed to bring Americans together,” said Jehmu Greene, president of the New York-based Women’s Media Center.

The center was coordinating the protest with backing from the National Organization for Women, the Feminist Majority and other groups.

The ad – paid for by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family – is expected to recount the story of Pam Tebow’s pregnancy in 1987 with a theme of “Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life.” After getting sick during a mission trip to the Philippines, she ignored a recommendation by doctors to abort her fifth child and gave birth to Tim, who went on to win the 2007 Heisman Trophy while helping his Florida team to two BCS championships.

“I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe,” Tebow said. “I’ve always been very convicted of it (his views on abortion) because that’s the reason I’m here, because my mom was a very courageous woman. So any way that I could help, I would do it.”

I can see them fuming at that one–how dare he imply that those who get abortions are not courageous! But wait, there’s more!

The protest letter from the Women’s Media Center suggested that CBS should have turned down the ad in part because it was conceived by Focus on the Family.

“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,” the letter said.

Terry O’Neill, the president of the National Organization for Women, said she had respect for the private choices made by women such as Pam Tebow but condemned the planned ad as “extraordinarily offensive and demeaning.”

Seriously, that’s just sad. Does anyone hear NOW or any other liberal women’s groups protesting the commercials of the companies I mentioned earlier? I don’t think so. Don’t forget–these females (I hesitate to call them ladies again) haven’t even seen the commercial or read the script. Let’s hear it for open-mindedness.

D.C. Leaning Toward Funding Abortions

Foxnews.com is reporting that the government of Washington D.C. is leaning towards allowing the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions.

“We’ve already started to study the issues,” a City Council staffer said, predicting the matter could come up in the spring — along with a change allowing the District to permit medical marijuana. One possibility is that abortion coverage could be added to the D.C. Healthcare Alliance, which is the city’s taxpayer-funded health program for low-income and other residents.

D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton applauded the passage Sunday of the $1.1 trillion spending bill, which contained the abortion provision.

She has argued that the restriction created “severe hardships” for poor women in the city and that the law singled them out for “unfair and unequal treatment” — since states can use their tax dollars for abortion services.

My question for Ms. Norton would be, “What about the severe hardships you’re creating for the babies of those poor women?” And doesn’t this legislation target poor and minority babies? How’s that for racist?

If I was a tax-paying resident of D.C., I’d be pretty upset for the city creating even more “services” with my tax dollars instead of using them for the highest-priority needs of the city.

What Abortionists Say

I found this post at Pro-Life Blogs. It was posted by Sarah Terzo at Clinic Quotes. I have to say that after reading it, I was appalled at the coldblooded and clinical way in which these “doctors” describe the acts they are committing.

“If I see a case…after twenty weeks, where it frankly is a child to me, I really agonize over it because the potential is so imminently there…On the other hand, I have another position, which I think is superior in the hierarchy of questions, and that is “who owns this child?” It’s got to be the mother.” (2)

The late Dr. James MacMahon, who performed D&X (also known as Partial Birth) abortions

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“I dare say any thinking sensitive individual can’t not realize that he is ending life or potential life.” (3)

Abortionist Dr. Charles Bender

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“A lot of people say they’re killing their baby. You get a lot of that. Some people afterwards get very upset and say ‘I killed my baby.’ Or even before, they say ‘My circumstances are such that I can’t keep it, but I’m killing my baby.’ They wouldn’t rather have the baby, and give it up for adoption either. If you go into that with them they will say that they could never do that…and yet they still consider it killing the baby…well, they are killing a baby. I mean, they are killing something that would develop into maturity…” (4)

Clinic Worker Dora Greenwald

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“When you do a D & C most of the tissue is removed by the Olden forceps or ring clamp and you actually get gross parts of the fetus out. So you can see a miniature person so to speak, and even now I occasionally feel a little peculiar about it because as a physician I’m trained to conserve life and here I am destroying life.” (5)

Dr. Benjamin Kalish, abortionist

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“It [abortion] goes against all things which are natural. It’s a termination of a life, however you look at it.”(7)

Abortionist Robert Harris

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“[The author] said “Is this a fair way of expressing what you have just said, Doctor? You tell the mother “because your baby is defective, you have the right to kill it or not to kill it. If you choose to kill it, I will do the killing.” “Of course,” he [the abortionist] said. “There is no other way to say it and be honest.” (8)

Conversation with an abortion doctor

If any of your pro-abortion friends tries to argue for abortion by using the “it’s not a baby yet” argument, just direct them to these quotes. And to Clinic Quotes. I daresay that most of your pro-abortion friends are not as jaded and coldblooded as these doctors.

Pro-Life Group Asks For Cheating Posters Removal

A Catholic pro-life group helped donate a nativity manger scene to Old City Hall in Toronto. They had put up a poster that explained who had donated the nativity scene, only to have the poster removed because it supposedly violated human rights. So now The Toronto Sun is reporting that this group, Gethsemane Ministries, is requesting that ads on streetcars that encourage cheating be removed.

“It is totally inappropriate for a city streetcar,” said Suresh Dominic, founder of Gethsemane Ministries and an anti-abortion activist.

“Forget the city’s streetcars, it should not be promoted at all anywhere in Canada,” Dominic said. “If we want to build this country as a stable nation, we should promote strong families.”

With God as Their Cover

Kathryn Jean Lopez has a great piece at NRO that discusses the anger of the Democrats and Pro-Abortion activists at Congressman Bart Stupak’s amendment to the House healthcare bill that would not allow federal funds to be used for abortions.

Abortion, they say, wasn’t supposed to be an issue in the health-care debate. By which they mean: The revolution must include abortion. “Reproductive rights are human rights” is the way Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood, put it. Abortion is, in fact, a “God-given right,” according to the Rev. Carlton Veazey, a Baptist minister and the president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice.

Huh??? Abortion is a God-given right??? He must be talking about one of those other gods.

Those who oppose abortion, of course, agree with them on the first part of that assertion, the “keep abortion out” mantra. However, the abortion advocates insist that it is “gender discrimination” to treat abortion as something other than just another medical procedure. They view the House version of the health-care bill as a “rollback” of women’s rights. The problem is: If you want government to take over health care in America, you can’t avoid stirring up this issue. Because the life-ending, do-harm “medical procedure” of abortion is legal — either you avoid government financial entanglement with it or you don’t, and, if you don’t, you violate the conscience rights of millions of Americans.

Read the rest of Lopez’s article.

Pro-Abortion Forces Have Donated 6 Times More Than Pro-Lifers to Congress

Jill Stanek links to an interesting article on OpenSecrets.org that shows that Pro-Abortion activists and organizations gave 6 times more money to Washington D.C. politicians than Pro-Lifers gave since 1989.

Overall, individuals and political action committees classified by the Center as part of the abortion rights lobby have contributed about $3.4 million to current senators since 1989. By contrast, individuals and PACs classified by the Center as part of the anti-abortion lobby have contributed just $559,000 to current senators during the same period.

Jill’s take on it:

Makes sense. Pro-aborts contribute to pro-abort politicians from their treasure trove of abortion profits, contraceptive sales – and taxpayer funding for “family planning.” Then pro-abort politicians turn around and give the abortion industry more taxpayer funding.

Pro-lifers contribute to pro-life politicians from their personal blood, sweat, and tears and get nothing personally back in return, just potentially saved lives.

Woman Tries to Abort Other Woman’s Baby

The Family Research Council’s Blog is reporting that a woman tricked her husband’s pregnant girlfriend (no this wasn’t an episode of Jerry Springer) into going to a pharmacy and taking a drug that caused her to go into labor in hopes of killing the baby.

Thankfully, the baby was born alive and is healthy. Incredibly, Jones tried another stunt to kill the baby: this time she tried to have poisoned milk given to the baby. That trick didn’t work, and it led to Jones’s arrest.

What a messed up world we live in. It’s kind of bizarre that the pregnant mother could be talked into getting the drug and then taking it without knowing what it was.

Senator Proposes New Amendment to Healthcare Bill to Protect Pro-Life Doctors

LifeNews.com is reporting that Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has proposed a new pro-life amendment to the healthcare bill currently in the Senate. This amendment would provide protection to doctors who are morally opposed to providing abortions.

Coburn says the amendment is sorely needed because, despite federal laws to protect conscience rights, there are still numerous examples of health care providers being pressured or forced to do or assist in abortions — and some cases have occurred as recently as earlier this year.

One of the most recent and horrifying stories Coburn notes concerns a New York nurse, Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo, forced to assist in a late-term D&E abortion on a healthy unborn baby. Her case is in the courts and the hospital is trying to get the case dismissed saying she has no right to sue under the federal conscience law currently in existence.

I blogged about this case in July. The wording of Coburn’s amendment would also protect healthcare facilities that do not provide abortions.

Let’s pray that this amendment survives the process.

Nurse Forced to Help in Abortion, Suing Hospital

The NY Post is reporting that a nurse who claims she was ordered by her employer to participate in a late-term abortion is now suing that hospital.

“It felt like a horror film unfolding,” said Catherina Cenzon-DeCarlo, 35, who claims she has had gruesome nightmares and hasn’t been able to sleep since the May 24 incident.

The married mother of a year-old baby was 30 minutes into her early-morning shift when she realized she had been assigned to an abortion. She begged her supervisor to find a replacement nurse for the procedure. The hospital had a six-hour window to find a fill-in, the suit says.

Bosses told the weeping Cenzon-DeCarlo the patient was 22 weeks into her pregnancy and had preeclampsia, a condition marked by high blood pressure that can lead to seizures or death if left untreated.

The supervisor “claimed that the mother could die if [Cenzon-DeCarlo] did not assist in the abortion.”

But the nurse, the niece of a Filipino bishop, contends that the patient’s life was not in danger. She argued that the patient was not even on magnesium therapy, a common treatment for preeclampsia, and did not have problems indicating an emergency.

What a nightmare. Read the whole story, but make sure you’ve taken your blood pressure medicine first.

7th Grader Forced to Remove Pro-Life Shirt

American Life League

And now on the Crazy California front, Fox News is reporting that the mother of a 7th grader is taking her daughter’s school to court because the principal forced her to change her pro-life t-shirt.

“Before Plaintiff could eat [breakfast] she was ordered by a school staff member to throw her food out and report immediately to Defendant Smith’s office, located in the main office of McSwain Elementary School,” the complaint reads.

“Upon arriving at the main office, Defendant Hernandez, intentionally and without Plaintiff’s consent, grabbed Plaintiff’s arm and forcibly escorted her toward Smith’s office, at all times maintaining a vice-like grip on Plaintiff’s arm. Hernandez only released Plaintiff’s arm after physically locating her in front of Smith and Defendant Rohrer…

“Smith and Rohrer ordered Plaintiff to remove her pro-life T-shirt and instructed Plaintiff to never wear her pro-life T-shirt at McSwain Elementary School ever again…

“Completely humiliated and held out for ridicule, Plaintiff complied with Defendants’ directives and removed her pro-life T-shirt, whereupon, Defendants seized and confiscated it. Defendants did not return Plaintiff’s property until the end of the school day.”