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Friday, July 30, 2010
 

 


 

 

The Abortion Distortion

By Dave Andrusko

Editor’s note. My family is on vacation until next Monday. While we are gone I’ll be running past articles that you've indicated you liked. This ran first May 5. Dave.

Even someone who writes as much as I do can use the occasional reminder that items that make their way onto the Worldwide Web have remarkable staying power. An example: I wrote a piece for "Today's News & Views" last December under the headline, "What Happens When a 'Pro-Choicer' Faces the Gruesome Truth about Abortion?"

Just today I received an email from someone who had just bumped into my piece on the Internet. Her request (ALL IN CAPITALS) was, "Where do I find this?!" referring to the article in New York magazine about which I had commented. As it happens you can find "Abortion Distortion: Just How Pro-Choice is America, Really?" at http://nymag.com/news/features/62379.today. There is much about Jennifer Singer's article that is even more true today than it was when first written. Let me talk for a few minutes about what she had to say, beginning with a couple of quotes from her article.
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Even the most radically pro-choice will tell you that the political discourse they hear about the subject, with its easy dichotomies and bumper-sticker boilerplate, has little correspondence to the messy, intricate stories of her patients.

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Do Babies Know the
Difference Between Good, Evil?

By Dave Andrusko

Editor’s note. My family is on vacation until next Monday. While we are gone I’ll be running past articles that you've indicated you liked. This ran first on May 13. Dave.

Those eight words were put in the form of a declarative statement, rather than a question, in a headline on Fox News this week. On the same topic, the Daily News of England wrote, “We're born to be moral: Babies 'can tell good from evil at six months.” The New York Times, in a magazine article, described the phenomenon as “The Moral Life of Babies.”

What are they talking about? Well, all are reflections of some ingenious work done for many years at the psychology department at Yale University. David Derbyshire summarizes “an astonishing series of experiments” as showing that “Babies aged six months old have already developed a strong moral code, according to psychologists.” Writing in the Daily News, Derbyshire adds, “They may be barely able to sit up, let alone take their first steps, crawl or talk, but researchers say they can still tell the difference between good and evil.”

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National Right to Life:
This shows the law allows
abortion funding

In New Rule Published Today, Obama Administration Backs Off Funding Elective Abortions in High-Risk Insurance Program -- But Vows This is "Not a Precedent" for Decisions on Future Health Programs

WASHINGTON (July 29, 2010) – The Obama Administration, caught in a spotlight of publicity generated by mid-July releases from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), today issued a formal regulation that will prevent federal funding of elective abortions in just one of the new programs created by the health care bill signed into law by President Obama on March 23.

At issue is the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP), also known as the "highrisk pool" program, which is one of many programs created by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). The high-risk pool program is completely federally funded ($5 billion), and may cover up to 400,000 people when fully implemented.

"Without blinking, the Obama Administration had approved high-risk pool plans submitted by at least three states that would have funded virtually all abortions – until NRLC raised the alarms starting on July 13," said NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson. "In the regulation issued today, the Administration tells states that elective
abortions may not be covere d in the high-risk pool program – but simultaneously, the head of the White House Office of Health Reform, Nancy-Ann DeParle, issued a statement on the White House blog explaining that this decision 'is not a precedent for other programs or policies given the unique, temporary nature of the program . . .'"

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June 2010 National Right to Life News
 

When They Say “A Woman’s Right to Choose” …

Editor’s note: The following essay was written for the National Right to Life Pro-Life Essay Contest. Maureen M. Mead of Blasdell, New York, won first place at the senior level—grades 10-12.

What is a right? Miriam-Webster Dictionary says that a right is “a power or privilege to which one is justly entitled.” Our founding fathers thought that every human being has unalienable rights, and one of these is the right to life. How then does our country justify abortion? Those in support of abortion will say that it is acceptable because of a woman’s right to choose. They say that it is the woman’s body, and thus she has the right to choose what to do with it, even if that means abortion.

People who use the phrase “a woman’s right to choose,” coined by pro-abortionists as a marketing technique and never meant to be a legitimate argument, are forgetting one important thing. Just because it is in your power to make a choice, that does not make the choice right. I can choose to walk down the street and shoot someone, but that does not mean that there should be a law allowing me to do so. A choice is always just a choice, it is not the outcome.

Yes, we have many choices to make, but just because we can choose to end another person’s life does not ever justify doing so. Yet there are those who argue, “Who are you to tell me what to do with my body?” The truth is, this does not just involve the woman’s body anymore. The baby in the womb is not simply an attachment or growth, but a new person, with rights to its body. This is not a potential for human life—this is a human being. As a human being, although small and hidden from view, this unborn child has just as much right to its body as the next person. We would not suggest that a mother could kill her three year old because her child is not big enough to have rights yet, but we deprive a infant in the womb its right to be born simply because it is so small.

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Summer is Short—Spend it Wisely!

By Joleigh Little

School’s out! Normally this means time for kicking back and relaxing, or working at that summer job. Of course both of those things are good.

But what if you had the opportunity to spend at least a part of your summer doing something bigger than that? Something that would change the world? Something kind of ... epic?

You don’t have to wonder any longer, because such a thing exists. And we can tell you where to find it!

Think about it for a minute. You are a teenager. Your entire life is ahead of you. You have talents, energy, optimism, passion, and time to share. You also have an almost unparalleled ability to make a difference in the world ... if you choose to do so.

So what’s holding you back? (Take a minute to answer that.)

If it’s that you don’t know quite how to go about making that difference, we can help! Consider taking a week—just one little week—six days, to be more accurate. And think about driving or flying to a picturesque location in the Midwest for a chance to learn how you can take your place in history.

Wisconsin Right to Life’s summer leadership camps for young people ages 13–23 will give you a running start on influencing policy in our nation and will show you how to save lives in the process.

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Soul or Cell

Editor’s note: The following essay was written for the National Right to Life Pro-Life Essay Contest. Anna Maria Divozzo of Ada, Michigan, won first place at the junior level—grades 7-9.

“I call Heaven and earth to witness this day,
That I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
Choose therefore Life”
(Deut. 30:19)

Women are sanctuaries of human life. We bear the most amazing privilege of having life formed within our bodies.

What a glorious gift from God, what a wonderful sanctity He has bestowed upon women. Women have the great responsibility, that most wonderful privilege, of bringing life into the world.

Pro-abortionists argue that the fetus is not yet a human life. But this has been scientifically proven to be wrong. Doctors are not just blotting out a live cell when they perform an abortion, they are quenching the fire of a new life and they know it.

Women know this too. As soon as she can feel the movement of human life within her, she knows. And how could she not know? Life within life; it is most wonderful. There must surely be a bond between the woman and the tiny human life she carries within her for nine long months—a bond that blooms into a mother’s love for her child, if only it were given the chance.

And after that, after sustaining this baby’s life with her own, she heartlessly and for her own convenience, snuffs out that life that had barely begun without every giving it a chance.

Our very own Declaration of Independence states that: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness ...”

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