Washington Times Columnist Cheryl Wetzstein interviewed me for this article on the new book Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture. Cheryl ably summarizes the basic premise of the book:
In blue states, families tend to be well-educated, have high-paying jobs, be tolerant of diversity and be politically liberal. They marry later in life, have children in wedlock and are dedicated co-parents….
Red-state families, however, seem to be stuck in a time warp — Read more…
I will be in LA this morning, representing NOM at a press conference for the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles. from their press release:
The Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, an organization of conservative Hispanics, will announce the details of a $1 million campaign in support of California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina at a press conference in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 27 at 11:00am Pacific Time.
NOM was asked to provide a speaker in support of this effort. When I became acquainted with their views, I was eager to help. The Partnership gives voice to the vast majority of Latinos who are pro-natural family. 56% of Latinos oppose gay marriage, compared to 42% of all non-Hispanic people. In 2008, for example, Latino voters helped provide the margin of victory for Proposition 8 in California restoring the traditional definition of marriage, supporting the initiative by 53% (compared to only 49% support among non-Latino whites).
Latinos strongly believe in the dignity of the human person. 57% believe abortion should be illegal, compared to 40% of all non-Hispanic people.
The Partnership supports Carly Fiorina because she believes in the right to life, from the moment of conception, and opposes same-sex marriage.
I am happy to stand in solidarity with my Latino sisters and brothers who share these views. See you in LA!
Recently (Saturday, June 10th) there was an awesome webcast called Ending Abortion. It’s well worth checking out.
You can download any (or all) of the ten hour-long sessions as an MP3 to your computer or ipod and listen to each at your leisure.
by Sheila Liaugminas
For the first time since 2002, the nation’s largest abortion provider has been called to an accounting. How much federal funding do they receive and how much do they spend, and therefore ‘need?’ It took 31 U.S. senators and congressional representatives asking for such a report to get the books opened for review. And what they found was a big discrepancy. Read more…
What percentage of women who had abortions in the year 2000 used some form of contraception during the month that they conceived?
A. 5%. The vast majority of women who come for abortions weren’t using any protection.
B. 27%. Contraception is pretty effective, but not completely. As long as women use their contraception correctly, they won’t get pregnant. Women who get abortions just don’t use contraception consistently or correctly.
C. 54%. Contraception is not as effective or easy to use as you think.
What do you think is the correct answer? Click here to take the quiz.
Ralph Reed declares our Supreme Court Confirmation process to be broken and he is certainly correct. The question is why?
The answer is one word: abortion. Actually, it is abortion and all its ill-begotten progeny, the entire sexual revolution. This is because the abortion rights fanatics are attempting to create something that simply cannot be: an entire society based on the premise that sex is a sterile activity, as I explain in my article at the National Catholic Register. Read more…
Marjorie Dannenfelser outlines her strategy for turning the ObamaCare fiasco into an opportunity for the pro-life movement. The core ideas: punish people who sell out (think Stupak), favor people who remain faithful (think Michelle Bachman), and build on the fact that the American people are growing in their opposition to federal funding for abortion, reaching 72% in November 2009 Quinnipiac poll.
The battle to dismantle this atrocity and to build a true Culture of Life is now underway, and a reckoning must happen for those Democrats – from old hands like Stupak and former House Pro-Life Caucus Co-Chair Alan Mollohan to new turncoats like Dahlkemper and Driehaus. Read more…
Isn’t this nice? I’m so glad Planned Parenthood has found even more ways of using my money to kill babies.
by Sheila Liaugminas
Planned Parenthood is at once a hugely profitable business and a taxpayer-funded non-profit outfit. Now they’re expanding into telemedicine, a new method of delivering abortion. Backed by citizens’ dollars. Read more…
According to Gallup’s recent Values and Beliefs survey, Americans are “sharply divided” on 4 issues: doctor-assisted suicide, homosexual relations, abortion, and out-of-wedlock childbearing. Close to half of us perceive these activities in particular as “morally acceptable;” close to half disagree and find them “morally wrong.” (The survey asked about 16 behaviors; these were the most evenly divided among those polled.) Curious? Listen in. (Click the POD icon.)
Categories: Abortion, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Gay and Lesbian, Homosexuality, Hook-up, Jennifer Roback Morse, Pregnancy Tags: Abortion, assisted suicide, Euthanasia, Homosexuality, morality, Same Sex Marriage
Ruth Institute president, Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse, has a podcast on this topic.
When will our media reflect America on abortion?
By WILLIAM MCGURN
During the health-care summit earlier this year, Vice President Joe Biden was roundly mocked for saying, “I don’t know what the American people think.” He was, however, showing a refreshing modesty. Especially when compared with those who believe the American people don’t know what they think—or cannot possibly mean what they say when they tell us what they do think. Read more…
Very thorough, well-researched article. Answers questions I’ve been wondering such as, Are some “contraceptives” actually “abortifacient”?
by William E. May, Ph. D., Senior Fellow
Andrew Koppelman and others say “It certainly does!”
Andrew Koppelman, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University, and others claim that contraception definitely prevents abortion. This April (2010) Koppelman posted a commentary, “How the Religious Right Promotes Abortion,” [1] that was immediately attacked byspokespersons of the “Religious Right” (e.g., Michael New of the Witherspoon Institute). Koppelman judges it to be “astoundingly stupid and tragic” to argue over this. Continuing, he said, “One of the rare areas of common ground between opponents and supporters of abortion rights is that neither side thinks that unintended pregnancy is a good thing. Read more…
Bishop Victor Galeone of St. Augustine tells a story that his mother told him, 30 years ago. I didn’t know that this kind of pressure was being exerted on the poor as far back as the Great Depression.
[My mother] continued: “I’m going to tell you something that I’ve told no one except your father. It was during the Depression years. The social worker came by to see how things were going. I told her that everything was fine except that I had missed two of my periods in a row.
“‘Oh that’s very bad news, Signora Rita! I’ll come back on Thursday afternoon and take you to see this doctor, and he will make your period come.’ Read more…
According to the Catholic Register (Canada), have been charged with non-academic misconduct for their graphic displays of the results of abortion:
The charges resulted from a Genocide Awareness Project display the group hosted April 8 and 9. Its display, which compares abortion to atrocities such as the Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust, had been hosted without incident eight times since 2006. On April 8, campus security allegedly asked the students to turn their signs inward or leave the campus grounds. They refused. Read more…
Yesterday’s Dear Abby column inadvertantly highlighted how far the Abortion Culture has advanced. As you read the column, reprinted below, keep these thoughts in mind:
1. An engaged couple of 30 year olds “terminated” a pregnancy. Remember how the “hard cases” of rape and incest were the justification for legalizing all abortions? So much for hard cases.
2. To the pro-life sister in this story, called Nicki, as well as to others in similar situations: I would urge you not to shun your sister and future brother-in-law over their abortion. You have obviously made your point. I would urge you to keep the lines of communication as open as possible. They may need help, like, on the anniversary of the abortion, or on the anniversary of when the baby would have been born, or when your sister wakes up with night terrors, or …. Post-abortion counselors have noticed that the decision to abort is often made in a crisis atmosphere. When the crisis recedes, the conscience returns. You might be ready to provide information about Rachel’s Vineyard or other post-abortion counseling services.
3. I wouldn’t give a nickel for the marriage this engaged couple is creating. Read more…
Want to have fun? Promote life? Win a free i-Pod Touch?
Then check out the American Life League’s annual photo contest/scavenger hunt!
WHAT: American Life League’s National Pro-Life T-Shirt Week and “Yo! Where’s the Shirt?” Photo Scavenger Hunt.
Thousands of young people across the country will take to the streets and the schools a civil rights message for the 21st century: All human beings deserve human rights. Read more…
I’m waiting for someone in the MSM to get the message that the face of the pro-life, pro-marriage movement is female. But, hey, at least someone is noticing that conservative women are capable of running a grassroots movement:
Politico has gotten the message that the Tea Party grassroots movement is largely female.
“Most of the women do not want a large, top-down movement,” Walker said. “We like the local flavor and independence of the tea parties. We don’t need anyone to tell us what to do from D.C. or a large organization to lead us. We’re capable of handling most of it on our own.”
When will they notice the women-led social movement to help women in crisis pregnancies, and to support sexual integrity, and to support lifelong married love? Oh well. Regular Ruth Readers know.
We are so all about women that the Ruth Institute is in continual danger of being perceived as a Chick Outfit.
I would imagine that the Duke University Department of Literature had a big problem with this. You see, the Duke University Women’s Center went and just killed satire. Those professors who taught satirical works as part of their curricula are likely out of a job.
To wit:
DURHAM, N.C., March 29, 2010—Duke University’s Women’s Center has canceled an event about motherhood because the sponsor was engaging in pro-life expression elsewhere on campus. A Women’s Center representative told Duke Students for Life (DSFL) that “we have a problem” and an ideological “conflict” with the event, Read more…
If you go to PersonhoodUSA.com and click on the map of the United States, you’ll see there are now thirty-one states where they are working on putting a Personhood Amendment on the ballot. (Thank you, Kristi Burton!) You can also look at the top of the page and see links to sites where you can find the language of a few of the states’ Personhood Amendments, including the California Human Rights Amendment.
Language is critical when writing a law Read more…
by Michael J. New
Published March 15, 2010 in National Review.com.
Ever since the inauguration of President Obama in January 2009, he and his Democratic colleagues have known that abortion would be a key stumbling block to the enactment of health-care reform. There are several reasons for this. First, most Americans oppose government funding of abortion. Second, the Democratic party has recruited many pro-life candidates to run in conservative districts, and these Democrats would find it politically difficult to support health-care reform that includes public subsidies for abortion. Finally, President Obama and other Democrats sound disingenuous when they say they want to reduce the incidence of abortion, but then subsidize it through health-care reform. Read more…
It seems the Girl Scouts have allied themselves with the likes of Planned Parenthood.
I’ve seen more than a few boxes of Do-Si-Dos and Samoas around lately. It’s hard to look askance at the Girl Scouts when there’s so much sweetness in the air, but there is reason for keeping the Girl Scouts out of the “mom and apple pie” pantheon. For one thing, the organization has a think tank, a nongovernmental organization, and a welcome mat out to Planned Parenthood.
At a meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women this month, the World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides held a session for young people in which the International Planned Parenthood Federation reportedly distributed a brochure about living with HIV titled “Healthy, Happy and Hot.” (Gratitude to U.N. watchdogs like C-FAM for keeping an eye out for such nefarious nonsense.) Read more…
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