The most recent CBS poll shows President Obama’s approval rating has dropped 5 percent to 44 percent since he signed the pro-abortion health care bill into law. The Rasmussen poll has him down to a 46 percent approval rating.
Americans are unhappy with the health care plan for a variety of reasons, including the fact that it includes massive government funding of abortion and government subsidies to pay for abortion. The Obama Administration and the Democratic congressional leadership have shown their true colors - their commitment to abortion on demand for any woman who wants one … at any time during pregnancy…as many times as a woman requests one - with the taxpayers footing the bill for it all!
Are Obama’s sagging poll numbers an indication of sagging support for those members of Congress who helped ram Obamacare through?
Sen. Russ Feingold and House members Steve Kagen, Ron Kind and David Obey helped make Obamacare happen and they all they are all up for re-election in November. They must be held accountable for forcing all of us to participate in the destruction of human life through the use of our federal tax dollars - and for the increasing numbers of babies who will die as a result of Obamacare.
The good news about the election results is that the threat of losing all of the abortion restrictions so carefully constructed and fought for throughout the states over the past 35 years is energizing people to get involved.
Stopping FOCA will be a major project for Wisconsin Right to Life in the upcoming months. While pundits act as thought FOCA will not be an Obama priority (one even called it a suicide move for Obama), it is important not to give great credence to this rhetoric. To do so would be “suicide” for babies and mothers we have valiantly protected over the years.
Focusing on Obama is not the right strategy, anyway. Even though he promised Planned Parenthood that signing FOCA is the first thing he’d do as President, the bill has to get to his desk. This means the Congress, headed by ardent pro-abortionist Nancy Pelosi and sometimes right-to-life Harry Reid, will be in charge of when FOCA becomes a priority.
Make no mistake. Planned Parenthood and NARAL have fought abortion restrictions like parental involvement before a minor’s abortion and giving women full information prior to an abortion furiously in the legislatures and the courts for the past three decades. They salivate at the new Congress, viewing it as a means to realize their ultimate goal — abortion with no restrictions whatsoever and burying the right-to-life movement.
Stay tuned as efforts develop to make certain that, whatever we do in the next years, stopping FOCA is the ultimate effort to continue reducing abortions in our state and country.
A Rush Limbaugh caller related his recent heartwarming encounter with the McCain and Palin families. The McCain campaign bus pulled into Washington, Pennsylvania where Kurt (the caller) and his family waited for a glimpse of the famous duo. Kurt and his wife have a five-year-old daughter, Chloe, with Down syndrome and held a sign saying “We Love Kids with Down Syndrome.”
The McCain and Palin families saw the sign and gave a thumbs up. The Secret Service approached Kurt and his family and brought them to the campaign bus where they met the candidates and took lots of photos. I don’t know what touched me more — the photo of Sarah Palin holding little Chloe or Cindy McCain holding her hand over her heart.
To read the complete interview transcript with photos, please click here.
Contrast this incredibly beautiful human story with the continued hate which permeates our airwaves and the Internet. The South Carolina Dem leader who said Palin’s apparent only qualification for office is that she didn’t have an abortion. The Canadian OB-GYN who now worries that abortions will go down since Palin didn’t abort her baby. The posting on eBay to bid on a “prop” Palin kid with Down syndrome. Biden chiding Palin for not caring about her son because she opposes embryonic stem cell research. The rumor that Trig is really the child of Bristol Palin.
It is both our finest and worst hours as Americans. The presence and images of Trig Palin in the American consciousness gives newfound admiration for people with disabilities and the families who raise them. The ugly rhetoric illuminates anew the blatant discrimination against infants with disabilities and the audacity of parents who don’t abort them.
Such a clever title — I wish I had penned it. It belongs to our great friend Dr. David Prentice who recently examined what is going on in the cloning world. And the title aptly sums up the current scenario. Scientists desperate to create human clones are whining that they cannot get enough human female eggs.
Why the eggs, you ask? Well, cloning is so inefficient that it takes many tries, and thus a huge number of eggs, to create a single human clone. To create a human clone, the nucleus of an egg is hollowed out and the DNA of the person who is to be cloned is transferred into the egg. Only one company has verified in a published report that it created a human clone.
Scientists are pushing payments to women to produce the eggs they require. Even in California and Massachusetts where such payments are prohibited. Why the fuss if it’s just eggs that are needed? Because there is significant danger to women who undergo hyperstimulation to produce as many as 30 eggs at one time.
Prentice quotes Stanford professors Magnus and Cho who give these figures:
“Between 0.3 and 5% or up to 10% of women who undergo ovarian stimulation to procure oocytes experience severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, which can cause pain, and occasionally leads to hospitalization, renal failure, potential future infertility, and even death.” The problem is so serious and offensive that a group of women have created a Hands Off Our Ovaries website.
Prentice asks, as do we, why scientists are going through so much trouble and putting women at risk when there are easier, cheaper, and much more successful alternatives to advance research that are ethically impeccable. Why not advance the recent discovery of iPS cells taken from the skin of patients and the use of nasal adult stem cells? Prentice thinks there is an economic interest in cloning. In the end, it may be all about the money.
To read the full Prentice report, click here.
Pity Right to Life of Michigan. For years, it endured the unrelenting serial killing by Jack Kevorkian, known as Dr. Death. Kevorkian assisted in the suicides of 130 patients in his home state of Michigan. Didn’t matter if they were terminally ill. Didn’t matter where they lived. Didn’t matter where the suicide took place. If they wanted death, Dr. Death was happy to oblige. Kevorkian helped people put bags over their heads in vans in parking lots. He hooked them up to machines where the patient could push a button and – voila – death-dealing drugs entered the bloodstream. Even the proponents of euthanasia squirmed at the mention of his name.
Kevorkian deftly defied laws and slipped out of the hands of prosecutors on many occasions. Finally, he overstepped his bounds and created a videotape in which he directly killed a patient. It was aired on national television and they got him. After serving eight years in prison, he was recently paroled. Kevorkian remains a deeply controversial figure as he collects speaking fees of up to $50,000 at universities which, for whatever reason, allow him to spread his message.
Here’s the real kicker. Kevorkian now plans to run for Congress in Michigan. Pity Right to Life of Michigan.
The right-to-life movement is not sorry to see Governor Eliot Spitzer leave public office. He is well-known as a zealot prosecutor, but few outside of New York know the zeal with which he pushed his pro-abortion views. Unborn children were less than zeroes in his view, and he wanted to do everything in his power to ensure that not a single protection was left for them.
At his January 9 State of the State address, Spitzer said: “Given the continued efforts at the federal level to dismantle protection for women’s reproductive health and privacy, I ask you to pass the ‘Reproductive Health and Privacy protection Act’”—known as RHAPP.
Here are some of the disastrous provisions of RHAPP:
Remove criminal penalties even from unlawful abortions.
Forbid any protections, such as parental notification, even for young teenagers
Effectively prevent even an unborn child who is the intended victim of a crime from being recognized as a victim
Mandate Medicaid funding for abortion-on-demand through all nine months of pregnancy
Redefine pregnancy as beginning at implantation – not fertilization
Negatively redefine fetal viability
Will Lt. Governor David Paterson be any better? Time will tell.
We all know that abortion is the deliberate destruction of the life of an unborn baby. What is not commonly known are the side effects to women who abort. One of them is that women who have one or more abortions face a drastically increased risk of having a premature baby or a low weight infant.
Scientists from VirginiaCommonwealthUniversity published a report late last year in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. After examining data of over 45,500 mothers giving birth in the U.S., they found that 11% of all women had low weight infants and 14% had premature births. Women who had one abortion were almost three times more likely to have a low weight infant. Women who had two prior abortions saw their risk increased to five times more likely to have a low weight infant. Three abortions carried nine times the risk.
Women with one prior abortion were 70% more likely to experience a premature birth. This risk was increased to two times more likely to have a premature birth with two prior abortions and three times more likely with three or more abortions.
The scientists concluded that: “Previous abortion is a significant risk factor for low birthweight and pre-term birth and the risk increases with the increasing number of previous abortions. Practitioners should consider previous abortion as a risk factor.”
Late last year, scientists in Japan and Wisconsin announced that they were able to use ordinary human skin cells to create iPS cells which appear to have the same capabilities as embryonic stem cells. The moral brilliance of this discovery is that they did not have to destroy embryos to obtain the cells. Other labs around the world have already replicated this process.
This discovery simply blew up the idea that we have to kill living human embryos to advance medical treatments. And, by taking cells from a specific human and treating that same person with their own cells, the rejection factor is eliminated. That blows up the idea that we need human cloning to address the rejection problem.
Some scientists dismissed the discovery, stating that the method used to create iPS cells had tumor-formation problems. Professor Shinya Yamanaka, the Japanese scientist who made the discovery, immediately solved that problem and is now moving ahead to create iPS cells from human patients suffering from ten different diseases. Great news indeed for morality in research and humanity in general!
Healthy Wisconsin, the state senate Democratic Party universal health care plan, has been resurrected in the waning days of this legislative session.
Many object to Healthy Wisconsin because of its cost. Wisconsin Right to Life has argued vigorously that Healthy Wisconsin, because it covers everyone for everything, would force taxpayers to pay for any abortion a woman wants. It could be the second, third, or fifth abortion. Or a coerced abortion. Or an abortion because the woman doesn’t want stretch marks.
True to form, when you don’t have the facts, you make them up. Authors of Healthy Wisconsin talk out of both sides of their mouth. On the one hand, they state that Healthy Wisconsin will allow all citizens to enjoy the same health care benefits as state employees. Then, they claim that Healthy Wisconsin doesn’t mean taxpayer-funded abortions even though we taxpayers have been paying for abortions for state employees for years.
A public hearing is being held today. Stay tuned for any further progress on Healthy Wisconsin before Thursday’s adjournment.
Planned Parenthood is airing radio ads right now falsely claiming that right-to-life Speaker Mike Huebsch, Rep. Jim Ott, Rep. Mark Honadel and Rep. Karl Van Roy want to send women who have abortions to prison.
Why all the distortion and at this time? For several important reasons:
The first is purely political. PP has targeted these four legislators for defeat in November and wants to “bloody them up” early and often.
PP is running scared. Essentially PP is admitting that the days of Roe v. Wade may be numbered. It knows that Wisconsin’s abortion ban will go into effect when Roe is gone and their abortions clinics will be shut down. Lots of abortion revenue at stake here.
The evident hypocrisy is that PP helped create and fully endorsed a statute in 1985 which negates penalties for women under Wisconsin’s abortion ban. Our guess is that in their zeal to score political points it forgot that messy little detail.
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