Pro-Lifer Challenging Oakland Law

Walter B. Hoye is challenging a recent ruling by the Oakland City Council that prevents a person from standing within 100 feet of an abortion clinic, on public property, if they try to pass out pro-life literature or persuade women to choose alternatives to abortion. His challenge comes in the form of taking said actions within 100 feet of the clinic. He’s been arrested already. He might be arrested again.
Here’s his story…

I am praying with two African-American women (a ninety (90) year old and an eighty-four (84) year old) and a dear Catholic sister who is a very good friend of mine. We are asking God to use us to reach the men and women going into the abortion clinic, right across the street, with the love of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.

We agree that the women will stand across the street with literature sharing alternatives to abortion while I stand on the same side of the street near the door of the abortion clinic with the same literature and a sign that says “God loves you and your baby. Let us help you.”

As we take our positions, I am fully aware that this may be my last opportunity to do all I can to save my people.

This morning may be the last morning I will have a chance to stop the shedding of innocent blood in the African-American community.

This hour may be the last hour available to me to reach out to the men and women with child considering pre-natal murder.

NBC Refuses to Air Pro-Life Ad During Super Bowl

UPDATE: According to MSNBC’s blog, NBC has also rejected PETA’s ad. I still don’t see why they can’t air the pro-life ad.

Original Post:Catholic Culture is reporting that NBC has refused to air a Pro-Life ad that depicts an ultrasound of a baby and tells of the challenges that were against President Obama when he was born.

Network executives explained that their standards bar advertisements involving “political advocacy or issues.” But Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote.org, the group that produced the ad, noted that NBC has accepted an ad from People for Ethical Treatment of Animals, another advocacy group.

New Zealand Study on Mental Effects of Abortion

Medical News Today is reporting that researchers have recently completed a study to determine the mental impact on women who have had abortions.

The study found that women who had had abortions had rates of mental health problems that were about 30% higher than other women. The conditions most associated with abortion included anxiety disorders and substance use disorders. In contrast, none of the other pregnancy outcomes were consistently related to significantly increased risks of mental health problems.

However, the overall affects of abortion on mental health were found to be small. The researchers estimated that exposure to abortion accounted for between 1.5% and 5.5% of the overall rate of mental disorders in this group of women.

Writing in the British Journal of Psychiatry [the researchers] said: “Specifically, the results do not support strong pro-life positions that claim that abortion has large and devastating effects on the mental health of women. Neither do the results support any strong pro-choice positions that imply that abortion is without any mental health effects.

“In general, the results lead to a middle-of-the-road position that, for some women, abortion is likely to be a stressful and traumatic life event which places those exposed to it at a modestly increased risk of a range of common mental health problems.”

When I first read this article, the 30% rate of mental health problems caught my eye as being a rather large number. It sounds to me as if the researchers are saying that since having an abortion may not cause an actual mental disorder in a large number of women, this means the overall impact is small. I would think that a 30% higher rate of anxiety disorders and substance abuse would be something that women should be counseled about when weighing their options–especially since pro-abortion folks are constantly using the mental impact of a woman having to deliver her baby as an argument for abortion.

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.

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.

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.

The first post!

Hello! Thanks for visiting “Save the Little Humans”. My goal is to persuade:
- Those who are pregnant and considering abortion to consider the non-violent alternatives to abortion
- Those who call themselves pro-choice to see the act of abortion for what it really is–the taking of another (innocent) human’s life.
- Those who haven’t really thought much about the issue of abortion to see the truth and see through the arguments of the pro-abortion crowd
- Those who are pro-life but have remained silent on the sidelines to join the fight and DO SOMETHING to change the hearts and minds of a society that has continued to decrease the value placed on human life.

My main method of trying to achieve these goals is to publicize stories from a variety of sources that
highlight what is happening concerning abortion–stories about both sides of the issue, with a little of my own commentary thrown in for good measure.

I also plan to link to the leading voices from the pro-life movement and point to other bloggers like me who might not have the highest number of visits per day, but still are devoted to defending the lives of our “little humans”.

Finally, I would point everyone to Abort73.com. They are an excellent source of information for anyone looking to educate themselves on the issue of abortion. Video, audio, banners, flyers, clothing–they’ve got everything you’re looking for.

Read on and God bless you!

Mike