Some pro-life news

Some stories from CMR:

Give your right leg to stop and abortion?
What an amazing story from Mary's Aggies.

After being run over by a man who was driving his pregnant wife to get an abortion, this is the story:

Mrs. Krail, who was badly shaken when she arrived on the scene, said she then had a chance to confront the man along with his pregnant wife.

"I thought, 'What would Jesus do?" she told LSN. "So I walked over and I said, 'Hon, I'd like to talk to you. I forgive you for hitting my husband.' And he said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry,' and his whole face just changed.

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A disturbing though

We're in a deep financial crisis and yet President Obama still feels the need to spend taxpayer money on abortions and embryonic stem cell research. In fact we've spent so much money that our government has now emptied the pockets of our children and is currently robbing our grandchildren.

So our country is essentially making our grandchildren pay for the extermination of our children.

Stem cell logic?

Even though research has shown that adult stem cells can be transformed into essentially the same thing as embryonic stem cells we're still going to destroy embryos in order to get their stem cells.

Adult stem cells can be obtained from umbilical cords, from placenta, and from amniotic fluid. And adult stem cells also have a proven track-record of actually helping people.

And we know that embryonic stem cells thus far have proven to be not beneficial whatsoever.

But counter intuitively, it's exactly the lack of success of embryonic stem cells that inspires Obama to pour more money into it.

Now, on the other hand, if there had been some successes with embryonic stem cells that too would be another reason to pour more money into it.

So since the success of ESC research has obviously no bearing on whether or not to fund it, the reason for it must be elsewhere. See, Obama knows ESC is a loser political issue for Republicans and Obama knows it. Polls indicate that the public supports stem cell research. Whether that's because the people don't understand the difference between ESC and adult stem cells is beside the point politically.

Democrats want to be on the side of helping sick people and say Republicans are against it because they're anti-science.

Whether or not it does one person the least amount of good, it's worth it for Obama to spend taxpayer money on it because it buys him an issue to use as a cudgel against conservatives.

It's all politics. And sometimes politics has a body count.

Abortuary Underemployment

In the age of skyrocketing unemployment, it is good to know that there are still jobs that are hard to fill.

Did you know that March 10th is National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers? It seems that the poor dears are very under appreciated these days. Katha Pollitt, writing at The Nation, laments that baby boomer baby killers are beginning to hang up their hangers and they are increasingly difficult to replace. In a stunning paragraph, even for these people, Pollitt manages some of the more gruesome callousness you are likely to see, at least until Obama does something else to legitimize baby killing.

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and, from Jimmy Akin:

General Theory of Media Incompetence

For a very long time I have held what might be termed the Special Theory of Media Incompetence, which is: The mainstream newsmedia is spectacularly incompetent when reporting stories concerning religion, morality, etc.

It's hard to read a story about one of these subjects in the mainstream media without cringing at the problems with it.

For example, consider the following four-sentence story from the Associated Press that appeared yesterday:

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says human cloning is "dangerous, profoundly wrong" and has no place in society.

Obama made the comments as he was signing an executive order that will allow federal spending on embryonic stem cell research.

Some critics say the research can lead to human cloning. Obama said the government will develop strict guidelines for the research because misuse or abuse is unacceptable.

He said he would ensure that the government never opens the door to the use of cloning for human reproduction [SOURCE].

First, there is the second sentence (green quote) flat-out factual error that the new executive order "will allow federal spending on embryonic stem cell research."

WRONG!

President Bush's previous executive order already allowed the spending of tax-payers' money on ESCR.

What is new is that President Obama's executive order will allow the spending of tax-payers' money on the fresh killing of new babies, as opposed to researching cell lines derived from embryos that had already been killed in the past.

So this is just ignorant reporting by a mainstream media hack.

It would also be easy to be distracted by the reported claim (blue quote) that the president believes human cloning to be "dangerous" and "profoundingly wrong" and ask, "Why on earth would he believe that? If you're willing to munch up babies to get at their stem cells--or even just because they're inconvenient to their mothers--if you're willing to treat human life so cavalierly in the interests of science and expediency--then on what possible ground do you view human cloning as wrong?

Surely such language would be simply that of political expediency rather than an actual moral conviction.

But let's look closer at what actually is being said here.

Is the president really say that he views human cloning as dangerous and profoundly wrong, as the first sentence of the story indicates?

If he did, it would seem there is a significant caveat, because the fourth sentence (red quote) speaks of him restricting the practice of reproductive human cloning (i.e., allowing a cloned human to survive to maturity instead of being killed while still at a gestational stage).

Any way you look at this story, there is a problem.

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It is as follows: The mainstream news media is spectacularly incompetent at reporting stories on virtually any subject.

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