Uh; guess what, guys? The MSM is not going to get the word out about the relative values of embryonic stem cell research and that research in which nobody has to die. Therefore, it is up to us. This compilation from Do No Harm is terrific for use in educating others about the "dead end" of ESCR and the ever-lengthening list of medical applications already being used because of adult stem cell use.
This list would make a nice flyer to send around to friends, a great little poster in your church foyer...hey; you come up with your own ideas. Just spread the word!
Sunday, July 24, 2005
Seen Any Good Movies Lately?
Unless you're an aficionado of old films, the answer to the above question is probably, "No." But Debbie Schlussel has a recommendation for you -- a new movie that she is very high on.
Says Debbie, The Great Raid --a must see for all Americans. Screened it, today. EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT! Cannot say enough good things about it. It's about the rescue of U.S. POWs in Cabanatuan, Philippines, tortured by the Japanese, during World War II.
Click on the title of this post to read more of her interesting comments about The Great Raid.
Says Debbie, The Great Raid --a must see for all Americans. Screened it, today. EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT! Cannot say enough good things about it. It's about the rescue of U.S. POWs in Cabanatuan, Philippines, tortured by the Japanese, during World War II.
Click on the title of this post to read more of her interesting comments about The Great Raid.
Resisting United Nations Abortion Pressure
This excerpt from Catholic World News should prompt you to read the whole story...
However, in an unusual twist, Krisztina Morvai of Hungary [a member of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women], seemed to express dissatisfaction with the committee's relentless focus on widening the availability of abortion. Speaking soon after Pimentel, Morvai said, "One thing that is invisible and lost in the debate is that abortion is bad for women."
Morvai then added, "No woman actually wants to have an abortion. We have this illusion that women have free choices. But abortion is a terribly damaging thing psychologically, spiritually, and physically." She said that she hopes one day that "abortion will be the past," and that it will be considered "like torture in the field of human rights."
Friday, July 22, 2005
Not Every Conservative Is Pleased With John Roberts
Ann Coulter makes some important points in this piece, especially her observations on the administration's (and the Republican Party's) laziness, lack of imagination and sheer cowardice in avoiding what is a very winnable fight.
And Ann isn't the only conservative who has some heavy doubts about Robert's impact on, say, Roe v Wade. Take a careful look at the Town Hall columns of Charles Krauthammer and Ben Shapiro as well as the Weekly Standard piece by Fred Barnes.
And Ann isn't the only conservative who has some heavy doubts about Robert's impact on, say, Roe v Wade. Take a careful look at the Town Hall columns of Charles Krauthammer and Ben Shapiro as well as the Weekly Standard piece by Fred Barnes.
Novak Names Names
Bob Novak's enlightening commentary on the liberals' desperate fight to keep the (misnamed) Public Broadcasting Corporation from long overdue reform.
But to be frank; reform isn't really what is needed here. Just shut down the bloated beast altogether.
In this day of media overkill and out of control government spending, doing away with PBS should be a very easy choice to make.
But to be frank; reform isn't really what is needed here. Just shut down the bloated beast altogether.
In this day of media overkill and out of control government spending, doing away with PBS should be a very easy choice to make.
Yet Another Abortionist Scandal
From the regular reports of LifeNews.com comes this story...
Two owners of an abortion business in Miami have been arrested on charges that they were using two people without a medical license to perform abortions at their facility. Police arrested Jose Rodriguez, 52, and Magaly Gil, 56, both of Miami. They were released on $5,000 bond, according to a Miami Herald report.
Officials say the pair knew Kieron Nisbet, who performed abortions at their facility, was not licensed to practice medicine in Florida. According to the report, Nisbet performed abortions in November at their Best Care Women's Center abortion business. Nisbet also performed abortions at a Hialeah, Florida abortion facility, A Women's Care II, during the same time.
Police have tried to apprehend Nisbet, but the Herald reports he has fled to his homeland of Trinidad, an island in the Southeast Caribbean. Police put out a warrant for his arrest in April. State officials are trying to revoke the license for the A Women's Care II abortion business, but it is fighting the action and has taken their case before an administrative judge. However, the owners surrendered the license voluntarily on Monday after the Miami-Dade Police Department and the Florida Department of Health began a joint investigation.
Meanwhile, Rodriguez and Gill have gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up their use of unlicensed people to perform abortions. A former employee of the Best Care Women's Center abortion facility told police that the two ordered her to tell officials that Nisbet was not involved in the abortion facility. The owners also brought the employee to the Hialeah abortion facility to ''for the purpose of showing her a licensed doctor by the name of David Brown," the Herald reported. They told the employee to tell police that Brown had performed the abortions at both facilities.
Two owners of an abortion business in Miami have been arrested on charges that they were using two people without a medical license to perform abortions at their facility. Police arrested Jose Rodriguez, 52, and Magaly Gil, 56, both of Miami. They were released on $5,000 bond, according to a Miami Herald report.
Officials say the pair knew Kieron Nisbet, who performed abortions at their facility, was not licensed to practice medicine in Florida. According to the report, Nisbet performed abortions in November at their Best Care Women's Center abortion business. Nisbet also performed abortions at a Hialeah, Florida abortion facility, A Women's Care II, during the same time.
Police have tried to apprehend Nisbet, but the Herald reports he has fled to his homeland of Trinidad, an island in the Southeast Caribbean. Police put out a warrant for his arrest in April. State officials are trying to revoke the license for the A Women's Care II abortion business, but it is fighting the action and has taken their case before an administrative judge. However, the owners surrendered the license voluntarily on Monday after the Miami-Dade Police Department and the Florida Department of Health began a joint investigation.
Meanwhile, Rodriguez and Gill have gone to extraordinary lengths to cover up their use of unlicensed people to perform abortions. A former employee of the Best Care Women's Center abortion facility told police that the two ordered her to tell officials that Nisbet was not involved in the abortion facility. The owners also brought the employee to the Hialeah abortion facility to ''for the purpose of showing her a licensed doctor by the name of David Brown," the Herald reported. They told the employee to tell police that Brown had performed the abortions at both facilities.
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
Whose Who In "War of the Worlds"?
John Leo tracks down the comments of David Koepp, writer of the film's screenplay, given to a weird and little-read Canadian horror magazine. Koepp explains that the Martian attackers in the film represent the American military, while the Americans being slaughtered at random represent Iraqi civilians. Hmmm...one less reason to see this Hollywood drivel.
More on John Roberts
The news on this guy's pro-life credentials just gets more exciting. An adoptive parent of two and his wife Jane serving as a past vice-president of Feminists for Life! Oh, the left will go crazy.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Who Is John Roberts?
Wow. A friend of pro-life activism and clergy-led prayer at government school graduations nominated for the Supreme Court?
It certainly looks like W. held firm and gave the country a man who seems to be the real deal. Way to go, Mr. President! Now, true conservatives can finally take a breath again...and then begin to fight the full court press the Democrats and their media buddies will certainly launch against Judge Roberts.
Besides this brief ABC story, here's a few other takes:
Concerned Women of America's story on Roberts...
Power Line's invigorating comments are here...
Want Hugh Hewitt's opinion? Sure, you do. Go here...
The AP on Roberts' conservative stripes...
And finally, here's Michelle Malkin with her view (and a lot of links to others). Check it out...
It certainly looks like W. held firm and gave the country a man who seems to be the real deal. Way to go, Mr. President! Now, true conservatives can finally take a breath again...and then begin to fight the full court press the Democrats and their media buddies will certainly launch against Judge Roberts.
Besides this brief ABC story, here's a few other takes:
Concerned Women of America's story on Roberts...
Power Line's invigorating comments are here...
Want Hugh Hewitt's opinion? Sure, you do. Go here...
The AP on Roberts' conservative stripes...
And finally, here's Michelle Malkin with her view (and a lot of links to others). Check it out...
Nursing Home Residents Way Over Drugged
Our suspicions were correct.
We had seen, in the last several years of our visiting residents in nursing homes, that the people seemed to be less responsive, less alert and sleeping much more than in the eighties when we first started the visits. Off the record admissions from medical workers confirmed the reason for this was the residents were more heavily drugged. A key reason behind this was the lack of staff to take care of the residents. That's right; it was easier to have them sleep than to try and keep them occupied.
However, a second reason was the lowering of quality of staff hires. For instance, in order to get nurses to work at nursing home pay levels, the institution was accepting people whose heart wasn't devoted to quality care. The residents were merely burdensome "bed numbers" to many of this new generation of staffers and, when there was a conflict over the staff's comfort vs. the resident's best care, the residents lost the contest.
This story from Health Sentinel will open some eyes as to the tragic mismanagement of our society's elderly and infirm.
We had seen, in the last several years of our visiting residents in nursing homes, that the people seemed to be less responsive, less alert and sleeping much more than in the eighties when we first started the visits. Off the record admissions from medical workers confirmed the reason for this was the residents were more heavily drugged. A key reason behind this was the lack of staff to take care of the residents. That's right; it was easier to have them sleep than to try and keep them occupied.
However, a second reason was the lowering of quality of staff hires. For instance, in order to get nurses to work at nursing home pay levels, the institution was accepting people whose heart wasn't devoted to quality care. The residents were merely burdensome "bed numbers" to many of this new generation of staffers and, when there was a conflict over the staff's comfort vs. the resident's best care, the residents lost the contest.
This story from Health Sentinel will open some eyes as to the tragic mismanagement of our society's elderly and infirm.
Working Women More Likely To Divorce
In today's "Sociologists Discover The Obvious" category comes this story from the (U.K.) Telegraph.
RU-486: A Gotta' Have Drug
From LifeSiteNews comes this report...
The British Medical Journal reported Saturday that the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the RU-486 chemical abortifacient as an "essential" medicine for inclusion in a list of medicines required to be available to physicians working in developing countries.
Arguing that the combination of mifepristone followed later by misoprostol is a safe alternative to surgical abortion in countries where abortion is often illegal, the WHO authorized inclusion of the drug as essential to combat what it terms back-alley "unsafe abortions."
WHO director of medicines policy and standards and secretary of its essential medicines committee Hans Hogerzeil criticized the US, opposition to the inclusion of RU-486 as an "essential" medicine. The US did achieve one goal - the inclusion of a phrase in the essential drug list that reads, "Where permitted under national law and where culturally acceptable."
The UK's Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said it "hoped enough cultures rejected the drugs ... as they would bring innocent life to an end," as reported by the BMJ.
After news of the RU-486 inclusion by WHO, Planned Parenthood wrote to congratulate its members, saying, "More than 5,000 FreeChoiceSavesLives.org activists like you took action to protect these women by emailing Dr. Lee Jong-Wook at the World Health Organization (WHO)." Planned Parenthood congratulated its members for putting pressure on Jong-Wook to include RU-486. "Your emails urging him not to cave in to the inappropriate, ideologically-driven pressure it was receiving from the Bush administration's Department of Health and Human Services seem to have given the WHO the encouragement it needed to stop dragging its feet."
Concerned Women for America (CWA) posted on its Web site in January public documents revealing approximately 600 serious complications suffered by women who used the abortion drug RU-486 in the US.
The British Medical Journal reported Saturday that the World Health Organization (WHO) has approved the RU-486 chemical abortifacient as an "essential" medicine for inclusion in a list of medicines required to be available to physicians working in developing countries.
Arguing that the combination of mifepristone followed later by misoprostol is a safe alternative to surgical abortion in countries where abortion is often illegal, the WHO authorized inclusion of the drug as essential to combat what it terms back-alley "unsafe abortions."
WHO director of medicines policy and standards and secretary of its essential medicines committee Hans Hogerzeil criticized the US, opposition to the inclusion of RU-486 as an "essential" medicine. The US did achieve one goal - the inclusion of a phrase in the essential drug list that reads, "Where permitted under national law and where culturally acceptable."
The UK's Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said it "hoped enough cultures rejected the drugs ... as they would bring innocent life to an end," as reported by the BMJ.
After news of the RU-486 inclusion by WHO, Planned Parenthood wrote to congratulate its members, saying, "More than 5,000 FreeChoiceSavesLives.org activists like you took action to protect these women by emailing Dr. Lee Jong-Wook at the World Health Organization (WHO)." Planned Parenthood congratulated its members for putting pressure on Jong-Wook to include RU-486. "Your emails urging him not to cave in to the inappropriate, ideologically-driven pressure it was receiving from the Bush administration's Department of Health and Human Services seem to have given the WHO the encouragement it needed to stop dragging its feet."
Concerned Women for America (CWA) posted on its Web site in January public documents revealing approximately 600 serious complications suffered by women who used the abortion drug RU-486 in the US.
Monday, July 11, 2005
Silent No More: The Media Outreach
If you haven't seen or heard the Silent No More radio and TV spots promoting the pro-life cause, click on over and check them out. They are very good -- thoughtful, compassionate, and provocative in the best direction.
And yes; they need prayers and financial help to get the widest broadcast of these excellent spots.
And yes; they need prayers and financial help to get the widest broadcast of these excellent spots.
The Obvious Ignored
Hollywood's box office woes continue (despite a brief respite provided by the new Fantastic Four flick) but the most obvious reasons for the decline in movie-goers are routinely ignored. Writing in the LA Times web site, Govindini Murty gives industry powers a heads-up.
By the way, the gal most definitely has a handle on what's happening. Govindini Murty is an accomplished insider -- an actress, screenwriter, co-director of the Liberty Film Festival, a film columnist for Newsmax.com, editor of Libertas, a leading blog for conservative discussion...and a quite witty writer. Check out her fine article.
By the way, the gal most definitely has a handle on what's happening. Govindini Murty is an accomplished insider -- an actress, screenwriter, co-director of the Liberty Film Festival, a film columnist for Newsmax.com, editor of Libertas, a leading blog for conservative discussion...and a quite witty writer. Check out her fine article.
Leftists Working Hard to Discourage Military Enlistments
The latest attack on the U.S. by its Fifth Column enemies is aimed at stopping the Armed Forces from enlisting new recruits. Faced with a flagging anti-war movement, leftist agitators have shifted gears and are now subverting the War on Islamist Terror by trying to destroy America’s ability to maintain a fighting force. Though so far limited in success, this counter-recruitment movement is growing quickly and threatens to wreck America’s ability to defend itself from its enemies...
Read the rest of this sobering article from Rocco DiPoppo over at FrontPageMag.
Read the rest of this sobering article from Rocco DiPoppo over at FrontPageMag.
Old Guard Media Won't Give Bush A Break
Yawn. So who's surprised by this news? Still, the Washington Times story detailing a new study by the D.C.-based Center for Media and Public Affairs is a very revealing one and a good read. Like always, guys...it's up to us to get the truth out.
In a similar vein, check out how the liberal media rate in their coverage of Ed Klein's negative book on Hillary Clinton (almost non-existant) and Kitty Kelley's negative book on George W, (deep and wide).
In a similar vein, check out how the liberal media rate in their coverage of Ed Klein's negative book on Hillary Clinton (almost non-existant) and Kitty Kelley's negative book on George W, (deep and wide).
Saturday, July 09, 2005
Who Cares If It's a Child? 3D Ultrasound Not Enough to Change British Medicos
In the beginning of the pro-life movement, there was a slogan so popular that it almost became a mantra: "If wombs had windows, there would be no abortions."
But users of that slogan did not realize the extreme selfishness of the sexual revolution. As any sidewalk counselor or CPC worker can tell you, the "windows to the womb" which a gracious God has given us through modern technology are routinely closed by men and women who clearly see the truth of a child's humanity but then wickedly reject that child's right to life.
Here's a chilling story about how Dr. Stuart Campbell's pioneer work in 3D ultrasound technology was callously ignored by most of the members of the once-prestigious British Medical Association.
But users of that slogan did not realize the extreme selfishness of the sexual revolution. As any sidewalk counselor or CPC worker can tell you, the "windows to the womb" which a gracious God has given us through modern technology are routinely closed by men and women who clearly see the truth of a child's humanity but then wickedly reject that child's right to life.
Here's a chilling story about how Dr. Stuart Campbell's pioneer work in 3D ultrasound technology was callously ignored by most of the members of the once-prestigious British Medical Association.
Embryonic Stem Cell Cures... And Other Fairy Tales
A guest column in the Town Hall lineup today focuses on the concentrated campaign of lies, distortions and false hopes which embryonic stem cell profiteers are waging against the sanctity of life. The columnist is Jean Swenson, a well-informed, compassionate advocate of adult stem cell science -- the one that's already working to help people.
By the way, Jean Swenson is not an indifferent spectator of the issue. She is a quadriplegic who very much desires cures for illnesses, diseases and injuries (like the one to her spinal cord). However, she insists that the best chances for such cures lie in the direction of morally-acceptable medical research.
This is a very good piece and one which you'd do well to pass around.
By the way, Jean Swenson is not an indifferent spectator of the issue. She is a quadriplegic who very much desires cures for illnesses, diseases and injuries (like the one to her spinal cord). However, she insists that the best chances for such cures lie in the direction of morally-acceptable medical research.
This is a very good piece and one which you'd do well to pass around.
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