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Say What?

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 26, 2004 ⋅ One comment

Maxine Waters, at the March For Women’s Lives event in DC, announced this uncommon defense of abortion: ?I have to march because my mother could not have an abortion.? I’ll leave that one alone. I believe it speaks for itself. Via Instapundit

Display Aborted Fetus Remains, Get Arrested

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 26, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

From the wire: Pro-life advocate Jeff White, formerly of Operation Rescue, was arrested and jailed this morning outside the Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C. for holding a two-inch vial containing the remains of a first trimester aborted baby, just little more than 24 hours before the March for Women’s Lives is due to step off [...]

Two Stories

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 23, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

I suggest reading two stories over at After Abortion. It’s the kind of thing that Planned Parenthood, if they were truly in favour of women’s rights, would post as counterpoint to their mantra of denial and coverup. But the good news, as these stories reveal, is that abortion is not unforgiveable, and despite its horror, [...]

Comfortable With Murder

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 6, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Zoe Williams has an article in the Guardian explaining why the program being aired on Channel 4 in Britain could alienate the filmmaker Julie Black from both the pro-abortion and the pro-life crowd. Her conclusion about the show is this: But this film could trigger one valuable shift – it could, indeed it must, force [...]

My Foetus

By jelewis8 ⋅ April 5, 2004 ⋅ 2 comments

I’m curious why a program like this would cause an uproar? It’s good fodder for pro-life groups who want people to understand what an abortion really does. And as Planned Parenthood advocates, it’s important to talk about it. Speaking of Planned Parenthood, something struck me while perusing their site. On their mission statement page, they [...]

Abortion Marginalizes Women

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 25, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Katie Hammar asks if the case of the woman who was recently charged with the murder of her unborn child because she refused a Cesarean section upon her doctor’s recommendations will be used by abortion advocates. And then, before you know it, she’s got you twisted around in the logic of it. After all, she [...]

Opening the Casket on Abortion

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 22, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

In the summer of 1955, a young man named Emmett Till took a trip to Mississippi to visit relatives. His mother warned him of hostility toward blacks in the South, but he failed to heed her warning. In August of that year, Emmett was beaten and shot to death by two white men, and then [...]

Abstinence: ‘Absurd and Outdated’

By jelewis8 ⋅ March 17, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Women’s Electoral Lobby spokeswoman Sarah Maddison, responding to Tony Abbott’s comments on the rates of teenage abortion in Australia, said the following: “Suggesting that teenagers should abstain from sex as a means of reducing the abortion rate is an absurd and outdated policy. It is educated and employed women in their 20s who are most [...]

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