Abortion outrage: Where is it?

''People all over our country are hurting, and we are in widespread denial. A great lie has found its way into our national culture – a lie that has deadened our senses – that we can contend with life's challenges in a morally relative way. That we can live, produce, compete and deliver health care while we pretend that hard issues about life, about the unborn, are above our pay grade. If we want to insist that a culture of responsibility means taxing one American to pay for another's abortion, we have a long way to go. But this is where we seem to be today.''
The ACORN scandal shows that if Congress wants to act, it can.
Within weeks of Fox airing videos of a couple posing as a *imp and a prostitute being advised by ACORN "community organizers" on how to evade taxes and set up a prostitution ring, our stalwart Washington legislators voted to cut off federal funds to the organization.
But similar publicized abuses at Planned Parenthood – workers agreeing to cover up rape, workers agreeing to earmark funds to abort black babies – all captured on video and audio – produced no similar action in Washington to cut off funds.
Why?
Of course, the scope of taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood is many times greater – a few hundred million dollars per year versus a few million.
But that's no explanation.
Congress acts when voters demand it. And, sadly, the decibel level of outrage about abortion, let alone federal funds supporting abortion enablers, is not great enough.
A hint of the problem is evident in a new abortion survey released by the Pew Research Center.
The good news for pro-lifers is that sentiment continues to move against abortion. Forty-five percent now believe abortion should be illegal in most cases, up four points from a year ago, and 47 percent believe it should be legal, down seven points from last year.
But less encouraging is a drop in the percentage that sees abortion as a "critical" issue. Fifteen percent, down from 28 percent a year ago.
I think this is why Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion factory in the country, continues annually to get hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer funds, under both Democrat and Republican leadership.
It's why, despite opposition from Republicans and some conservative Democrats, we have health -are bills moving in both the House and Senate that will allow federal funds to subsidize purchase of insurance that will pay for abortions.
The outrage is not great enough. Too many still turn a deaf ear or a blind eye. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=111777

(Jill Stanek fought to stop "live-birth abortion" after witnessing one as a registered nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill. In 2002, President Bush asked Jill to attend his signing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. In January 2003, World Magazine named Jill one of the 30 most prominent pro-life leaders of the past 30 years. To learn more, visit Jill's blog, Pro-life Pulse.)

New pro-life films shine

Many excellent pro-life movies and documentaries have been recently released covering a wide spectrum of our issues. In fact, the movies seem to be coming so fast I have delayed posting this column several weeks to try to catch the latest. Even last week I read of one more but have to draw the line somewhere.

My star rating is out of four possible. Because of the volume, I am providing thumbnail reviews. Films are listed in alphabetical order.

22 Weeks

Stars: 3-1/2

Released Winter 2009. 28 minutes. Docudrama. Winner 2009 Excellence in Media Angel Award. Synopsis: Tells true story of April 2005 late-term abortion in Orlando, Fla., where baby survived but was denied help by clinic

 

Come What May

Stars: 2-1/2

Released Spring 2009. Dove-family approved. 93 minutes. Fiction. Synopsis: Pro-life college law student argues against Roe v. Wade in "moot court" while pro-abortion mother argues against parental notification before the U.S. Supreme Court. Patrick Henry College student production (and school infomercial) – impressive in that regard but not up to Hollywood standards. Good information on Roe v. Wade decision; good love story role modeling. $10-15 online. Purchase "Come What May" at the WND SuperStore.

Demographic Winter

Stars: 4

Released Spring 2008. 56 minutes. Documentary. Synopsis: Details the catastrophic social and economic consequences of the worldwide population decline. Sobering, must see – more than once. $18 online.

The follow-up to this movie, "Demographic Bomb," was released June 20, but I only have seen a press release about it. Purchase "Demographic Winter" at the WND SuperStore.

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''You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me!''

The presidency of George W. Bush – his popularity, approval numbers and so forth – was razed to the ground on the basis of one invalid claim: "Bush lied" (regarding his accusation that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed weapons of mass destruction, this being the justification for invading Iraq).

Let's assume, just for the sake of an amusing mental exercise, that President Bush's charge was indeed a lie. If this lie was Hurricane Katrina (actually an amusing if ironic analogy in itself), it pales beside the Great Flood of omissions, rationalizations and outright fabrications to which Americans are subjected on a regular basis by President Obama.

But it just doesn't matter.

One could enumerate the dozens of statements Obama woodenly delivered during the 2008 campaign that were assertions only a fool would believe, but could not be directly proven: His ignorance of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's racism, unawareness of William Ayers' terrorist past, and non-involvement with the nefarious Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Yet, these are trifles compared to the counterfeit oratory he's pulled off with impunity since becoming president.

Obama's goal? Replace the Judeo-Christian values that gave birth to the "land of the free" with failed radical leftist beliefs – get Brad O'Leary's "The Audacity of Deceit"

I had an acquaintance in high school who was a pathological liar. It was very sad, but almost comical to hear the effluvia of flamboyant falsehoods that spilled from his lips, not unlike Jon Lovitz's character on "Saturday Night Live." Every day he enthusiastically presented at least one grandiose fabrication to his associates. You knew he was lying. He knew he was lying. I suspect he knew that you knew he was lying. This means it's probable that he knew that you knew that he knew he was lying.

But still he lied.

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"This sort of violence [is] seriously damaging to the pro-life cause."

Those are the words of Jim Hughes, president of Canada's Campaign Life Coalition and vice president of the International Right to Life, speaking with LifeSiteNews.com regarding the May 31 murder of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller in Wichita.

Mr. Hughes is exactly right. The murder of Tiller has allowed the abortion-rights community to shift the national focus off of our quest to save innocent life and onto one fanatical individual.

I want to say that I have been appalled and troubled by the abortion policies of Dr. Tiller. His practice of killing viable late-term babies was indefensible, even though he has been touted as a hero by the left. But he did not deserve to die, no matter how shocking his cold-blooded practices.

I'm probably going to step on a few toes here in adding that some of the statements following Dr. Tiller's death also can serve to damage the pro-life cause. While most in the pro-life community fully condemned the murder of Dr. Tiller, some have argued that his murder was the equivalent of killing a Nazi guard at Auschwitz or Jack Ruby gunning down Lee Harvey Oswald. Such suggestions are dangerous and not based on any biblical teachings.

Open your eyes to the ugliness inside the abortion industry with "Lime 5: Exploited by Choice"

Further, I have seen a few pro-life leaders defending the action of placing Dr. Tiller's and other abortionist's home addresses on the Internet. This, too, is dangerous policy and only trouble can come from it. All Americans deserve to live under a mantle of presumed safety.

Don't worry; I am still as pro-life as ever. I have not joined with the sanctimonious leftist media critics who have, in the wake of the Tiller murder, tried to paint the pro-life movement as a faction of dangerous whackos.

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Of George Tiller's soul, God is now the judge; though I have no doubt that from a human perspective his enthusiastic practice of child murder for profit will forever deserve our unequivocal condemnation. This of course implies no approval of the apparently deranged act that took his life. The aim of all authentic pro-life people is to restore respect for innocent human life. We rightly condemn and lament an action that harms the good we seek to achieve.

The diverse reactions to Tiller's violent death have highlighted the moral chasm that now divides the American people, and indeed perhaps the whole human race. The rabid proponents of the view that people act with some right when they kill their innocent children seem ready to build worshipful temples in memory of a man most pro-life people regard as a mass murderer. Their praise of his unswerving fortitude and courage, and his supposedly sincere Christian faith, remind me of Himmler's speech to the SS officers at Poznan, Poland, in 1943:

"Most of you will know," he said, "what it means when 100 bodies lie together, when there are 500, or when there are 1,000. And to have seen this through, and – with the exception of human weaknesses – to have remained decent, has made us hard and is a page of glory never mentioned and never to be mentioned." Of the extermination of the Jews Himmler went on to say, "We have the moral right, we had the duty to our people to do it, to kill this people who wanted to kill us." Can the proponents of the right to child murder assert even so specious a lie as this against the slaughtered innocents whose only offense was to come to life in answer to the same Divine vocation that called every one of us into existence?

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Now that all responsible people have had the opportunity to denounce the murder of abortionist George Tiller in his Wichita church on Sunday, maybe it's time to raise a question about this tragedy.

What was George Tiller, notorious late-term abortionist, doing in church any way?

Not only was he in attendance, reports indicate he was a member of the Reformation Lutheran Church.

Not only was he a member of the church, reports indicate he was an usher.

Not only was he an usher, reports indicate his wife was in the choir.

I was shocked and dismayed when learning Kansas abortionist George Tiller had been murdered by a vigilante.

Tiller was a ghastly late-term abortionist, but he should not have been murdered, just as he should not have murdered 60,000 children throughout his years of practice. I pray for Tiller's soul. I pray also for Tiller's wife, four children and 10 grandchildren, not only for their tragic loss but also for the tragic legacy Tiller left behind....

Even a moderator on my own blog discovered that the hospital where his baby was just delivered, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

in Lebanon, N.H., commits late-term abortions.  

The reality is late-term abortions are committed pretty much in every pocket of the country, contrary to claims by the other side.

I'm not sure why the other side wants to pursue this point, since most Americans find late-term abortions disgusting.

But if they so wish, I'm happy to.

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George Tiller

Late-term abortionist George Tiller was shot and killed this morning as he walked into his Wichita, Kan., church to attend Sunday services.

Tiller was a controversial figure in the abortion debate, accused on 19 counts of illegally aborting viable babies in violation of a state law that requires a second physician – without legal or financial ties to the abortionist – sign off on the procedure once the unborn child reaches a state in which it could survive outside the womb.

Tiller was acquitted of the charges in March but still faced potential disciplinary measures from the Kansas Board of Healing Arts.

The Wichita Eagle reports Tiller was shot just after 10 a.m. at Reformation Lutheran Church, where he was a member.

The paper reports police were searching for a white male driving a powder blue Ford Taurus in connection with the crime and now reports that emergency dispatchers have communicated the suspect is in custody. Police have not yet announced whether the suspect is a member of the church's congregation.

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''Drive, ambition and the lust for competition makes many men false; to have one thought locked in his mind and another resting on his tongue. It is not drive and ambition but rather the father of lies that begins the process.''