Tag Archives: Abortion

Abortion clinics giving Sunday discounts

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It seems to be the only way for the death mills to avoid those pesky praying Christians.

Of course, the church always has a discount on what it is selling: salvation – and it’s free. Not just on Sundays.

From here:

American abortion clinics increasingly are offering discounts for their lethal procedures on Sundays.

For instance, Orlando (Fla.) Women’s Center advertises its Sunday abortion services in this way, according to The Christian Post: “LIMITED TIME SPECIAL! PRINT THIS PAGE AND BRING IT IN FOR $50 SAVINGS. ONLY ON SUNDAYS!”

A pro-life leader says the day of the discounts is connected to Christians’ presence with their churches instead of outside the clinics.

“I don’t think there is any coincidence … abortion facilities are facing increasing presence from Christians praying during business hours and are having to change up their business hours to try to avoid the attention,” said Michael Martelli, executive director of Maryland Coalition for Life, according to The Post.

United Church attendees are enthusiastic supporters of euthanasia and abortion

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This isn’t too surprising: on the rare occasion when I have had to sit through a United Church of Canada sermon, by the end of it I was longing for someone to put me out of my misery, too.

From here:

A majority of The United Church Observer magazine readers, most of them church goers, are more liberal in their views than the general Canadian population when it comes to ethical issues such as abortion, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, a survey has shown.

A significant majority (82%) of readers who participated in the poll said they support euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide when life support is disconnected at the request of a terminally ill patient. Only 48% of the general population gave their approval.

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83% of readers and 69% of non-readers believe the decision to terminate a pregnancy should be left to the woman; 9 % of readers and 19% of non-readers said there should be laws prohibiting/restricting abortion regardless of a woman’s wishes.

A different kind of chance encounter

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The headline blares: Women in chance sex encounters can receive the morning-after pill by courier.

Much as it find it revolting, at least I understand the concept of the convenience of having an abortifacient delivered to your door after filling out an online form. What mystifies me is the mechanics of a “chance sex encounter”. How does it work? With absolutely no volition on the part of the participants, does one accidentally bump into a person on the street, fall over and, by chance lose one’s underpants, insert one’s you-know-what into her you-know-what until there are fireworks and an offspring is conceived?

That must be it. I suppose it could happen to anyone.

“Clergy for Choice” pray to support abortion

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From here:

40 DAYS of PRAYER and CONTEMPLATON

Humboldt County Clergy for Choice invite you to set aside time with your family and community to support women and reproductive justice for 40 days from March 18th through April 27th.

The flyer has a prayer for each day. Here are some of my favourites:

Day 1: Today we pray for women for whom pregnancy is not good news, that they know they have choices. [like killing your unborn baby]

Day 3: Today we pray for our daughters and granddaughters, that they will always know the power of making their own good decisions. [and be grateful that they were not aborted by their parents].

Day 4: Today we give thanks for the doctors who provide quality abortion care, and pray that they may be kept safe. [so they can kill more babies.]

Day 14: Today we pray for Christians everywhere to embrace the loving model of Jesus in the way he refused to shame women. [after all, when he wasn’t busy healing people, Jesus aborted babies as a side-line. I’ve forgotten which Gospel that is in] .

Day 18: Today we pray for all the staff at abortion clinics around the nation. May they be daily confirmed in the sacred care that they offer women. [how to show you care: abort someone – sacredly].

Day 29: Today we pray that all women will know that they are created in the image of God, good and holy, moral and wise. [unlike unborn babies who were not created by God and are a just meaningless clump of cells].

Day 36: Today we pray for the families we’ve chosen. May they know the blessing of choice. [We mustn’t forget that abortion is a blessing]

To whom are these clergy praying? Moloch.

Ontario judge declares “your God is wrong” to pro-life supporter

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It is good to see judges taking an interest in theology. It’s a pity that this particular specimen seems to think that God is Canadian and is bound by Canadian law – or lack of it, really, since there is no Canadian law that limits abortion.

From here:

TORONTO, Ontario, March 22, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An Ontario Court of Justice judge erupted in a lengthy, angry tirade against pro-life activist Mary Wagner – and ejected a spectator from the public gallery – in a downtown Toronto courtroom Wednesday. The judge then sent Wagner to jail for an additional 92 days, added to 88 days already served prior to trial, after finding her guilty of mischief and two counts of failing to comply with probation orders.

The charges related to Wagner’s November 8 arrest at the site of the Bloor West Village “Women’s Clinic.” Wagner has been arrested on several occasions for peacefully entering abortion facilities in Toronto, where she presents women in the waiting room with a rose and offers them pro-life counseling.

The remarkable scene played itself out after Crown attorney Derek Ishak and defense counsel Russell Browne made a joint submission to Mr. Justice S. Ford Clements for time served plus a three-year probationary term. But Clements emphatically rejected the submission.

“She can sit in jail, if that’s the only way to protect people,” he fulminated, calling Wagner “cowardly” for “abusing other human beings” and not having the courage to make her views known through other channels. “This is an extraordinary waste of resources. Get a grip!”

“You don’t get it, do you? What’s the rule of law? You’re required to abide by it … You’ve lost the right as a citizen to be anywhere near an abortion clinic or to speak to an employee,” he said.

“You’re wrong and your God’s wrong,” he continued. “You have complete contempt … There is a right to (abortion) in this country … You don’t have a right to cause (abortion-seeking women) extra pain and grief the way you do.”

“[Abortion] is legal,” he continued, “that’s all you have to understand … You start causing people emotional pain and harm, you think that’s okay?”

He then asked Wagner whether she would stay away from abortion sites for three years as required by the proposed terms of probation.

“I will not,” Wagner replied firmly.

“Then you’re going to jail,” said Clements.

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Clements was unmoved. “You have, in some measure, displayed utter contempt for the courts and the rights of others,” he said. “You appear to be governed by a higher moral order than the laws of our country.”

“Your determination to break the law is a potential threat to the well-being of society and plants the seeds of lawlessness, perhaps even anarchy … You are unable to accord some civility and respect to others. Your view in law is wrong.”

Judge Clements was correct on two points: Mary Wagner is “governed by a higher moral order than the laws of our country” – admittedly, not an overly high hurdle; and Wagner has shown the courts the respect they deserve: “utter contempt”.

Other than that, the views and behaviour of the judge appear to be those of a demented imbecile.

 

All you need is love

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And some people love abortion. Abortion is evil, so love isn’t all you need: you should love what is right and good.

I love abortion. I don’t accept it. I don’t view it as a necessary evil. I embrace it. I donate to abortion funds. I write about how important it is to make sure that every woman has access to safe, legal abortion services. I have bumper stickers and buttons and t-shirts proclaiming my support for reproductive freedom. I love abortion.

Rev. Katherine Ragsdale would break the law to help a minor get an abortion

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Rev. Ragsdale is president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School and a lesbian. No-one was shocked by that, but she did cause a bit of a stir when she called abortion a blessing.

The best thing I can think of to say about her is: at least she is consistent. Consistently wicked.

From here:

(CNSNews.com) – Were Congress to outlaw the transporting of a minor without her parents’ permission across state lines to get an abortion, an abortion- and gay-rights activist testifying on Capitol Hill Thursday she would break the law to continue to help girls end their pregnancies.

Appearing as a Democratic Party witness at a hearing of the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Dr. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, president and dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass. recalled the time she took a 15-year-old girl she had never met before to get an abortion.

 

Researcher who suggested infanticide might be justifiable gets death threats

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The truly strange thing about this is that Francesca Minerva, the author of the paper, is surprised by the death threats. After all, she says, “this is pure academic, theoretical discussion.” It obviously hasn’t occurred to her that the death threats were probably just academic and theoretical.

As the journal’s editor, Professor Julian Savulescu noted,  Minerva’s argument that a newborn baby is not an “actual person” and, therefore, can be used, abused, killed and discarded is “largely not new”. It was used before in the Final Solution.

From here:

A researcher at the University of Melbourne has been the target of numerous death threats after she published a theoretical paper which argued killing newborn babies is no different from abortion.

The paper, written by Francesca Minerva and Monash University teaching assistant Alberto Giubilini, was published in the Journal of Medical Ethics last week and is titled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?”

It suggests newborn babies are not “actual persons” and do not have a “moral right to life” because they “both lack those properties that justify the attribution of a right to life of an individual”.

Dr Minerva, who said the last four days have been the worst in her life, has asked for people to understand the perspective of her work.

“This is not a political paper, this is not a proposal for a law,” she told ninemsn.

“This is pure academic, theoretical discussion.”

Dr Minerva said the paper was based on thirty years of medical ethics discussions.

“Both a foetus and a newborn certainly are human beings and potential persons but neither is a ‘person’ in the sense of a ‘subject of a moral right to life’,” the paper states.

“We take ‘person’ to mean an individual who is capable of attributing to her own existence some (at least) basic value such that being deprived of this existence represents a loss to her.”

They conclude their argument by stating: “What we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all the cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.”

Dr Minerva said she was not expecting the overwhelmingly negative reaction and believes her argument has been taken out of its academic and theoretical context.