Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Planned Parenthood Launches Sexist Attack on President Donald Trump’s Judicial Nominees

Planned Parenthood Launches Sexist Attack on President Donald Trump’s Judicial Nominees

 NATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   JAN 2, 2018   |   11:17AM    WASHINGTON, DC
Planned Parenthood blasted President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees this week in a sexist attack against men.
The No. 1 abortion chain in America claimed Trump’s nominees are bad news simply because 81 percent of them are men.
“If confirmed, they could reshape the judiciary for years to come. Courts matter,” CEO Cecile Richards wrote online this week.
Except, Planned Parenthood does not care if the nominees are male or female. Their attacks against Trump’s conservative female nominees have been just as vicious.
Margot Cleveland, writing for The Federalist, pointed out:
“Women, what women?” they scoff, finding sexism a sturdier basis of attack than judicial philosophy—or at least more easily translated into a midterm campaign theme: The War on Women II.  But Richards cares nothing about the sex of the judicial nominees. It’s all about judicial philosophy. Natch. It’s all about abortion.
Just one month ago, Richards penned an op-ed for The Hill targeting Seventh Circuit Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Why target Barrett if Richard’s complaint is the lack of female nominees to the federal bench? Well, Richards finds Barrett problematic because Barrett “has been a vocal opponent of Roe v. Wade, and she has publicly said that employers should be able to deny their employees access to birth control.”
The issue is not really about men or women, as Cleveland pointed out. It’s about abortion. The judicial system has been the abortion industry’s lifeline in the past few years after pro-life lawmakers passed a record number of laws protecting unborn babies in the past decade. However, pro-abortion President Barack Obama stacked the court with liberal judges who have been siding with Planned Parenthood and other abortion advocacy groups.
Now, Trump and his conservative nominees pose a threat to the abortion industry’s future. And that’s what really is worrying Planned Parenthood.

at

New Legislation Would Legalize Abortion in Malta, a Strongly Pro-Life Catholic Country

 INTERNATIONAL   MICAIAH BILGER   JAN 2, 2018   |   4:49PM    VALLETA, MALTA
Pro-life advocates in Malta raised concerns this week about a new bill that they fear could covertly legalize abortion in the predominantly Catholic country.
The Times of Malta reports the legislation in question is the Gender-based Violence and Domestic Violence Bill, which came from the Council of Europe Convention for protecting women from violence.
In a statement, the country’s Democratic Party said the bill could decriminalize abortions in Malta. The pointed to language in the bill about criminalizing forced abortions but not abortions that women consent to.
“Parties shall take the necessary legislative or other measures to ensure that the following intentional conducts are criminalised: (a) performing an abortion on a woman without her prior and informed consent …” the bill states.
Here’s more from the report:
The party explained that in terms of Malta’s criminal code, performing an abortion on a woman was an offence both if it is without “her prior and informed consent” and even if it is done with her consent.
The article in the new Bill however, led to the understanding that legislative measures to ensure that abortion was criminalised would only be taken if the abortion was performed without the prior and informed consent of the woman.
This, it insisted, was unacceptable and abortion should continue to be a crime even if the woman consented.
Malta should have made its reservations to this clause of the convention, PD said.
The party also complained that in terms of the Bill, the unborn child would no longer be considered to be part of a family unit or household.
The government responded by calling the claims unfounded.
“Article 39(a) of the Istanbul Convention dealing with forced abortions and forced sterilisations has been part of the Laws of Malta since June 2014 … yet abortion remains illegal, contrary to the PD’s insinuations,” the government said in a statement. “The recasting process that Parliament is currently discussing will not change that; instead, it will protect all persons who fall victim to gender-based violence and sanction perpetrators appropriately.”
The small Mediterranean nation is one of the few countries left in Europe that protects unborn babies’ right to life. Ireland, which also is under intense pressure to legalize abortion, has a vote on its pro-life constitutional amendment slated for the summer of 2018. Malta appears to be one of the latest targets of abortion activists.
A few years ago, international abortion supporters accused Malta of “torture” because the country protects unborn babies’ lives and prohibits abortions. The accusation came from the International Commission of Jurists, a human rights organization, in a report to the Human Rights Council.

at

Activists in Ireland Exploit Disabled Babies to Try to Legalize Abortion on Demand

 INTERNATIONAL   SPUC   JAN 2, 2018   |   3:08PM    DUBLIN, IRELAND
Irish health minister Simon Harris has “warned” campaigners not to make non-fatal disability an issue during the referendum on the Eighth Amendment, the Times reports.
“The committee [considering the Eighth Amendment] did not recommend disability as a grounds for abortion nor do I think it should have, I would abhor that idea,” Mr Harris said. “People may try to make this an issue during the campaign but it’s not grounds for an abortion. If you look at what the committee considered and what it accepted and rejected, the idea of abnormalities that are not fatal was not put in as a grounds for abortion.”

Misleading terms

While the committee rejected the legalisation of abortion on grounds of “foetal abnormality” that would not lead to death before or shortly after birth, it recommended abortion up to birth for “fatal foetal abnormality.”
Organisations such as Every Life Counts campaign against terms such as “incompatible with life” and “fatal foetal abnormality” as being “hurtful, medically meaningless and misleading.”

Disability bias

As Martin McCaffery, a neonatologist and professor of pediatrics at the university of North Carolina, wrote in the Irish Times, the committee did not hear “from one physician describing counselling in which parents are told that with continued care their anencephalic child would likely be born alive, have a meaningful if short life, and the child’s birth would reduce later maternal mental health challenges. No doctor testified that labelling infants with trisomy 18 as ‘lethal’ is inaccurate and steeped in disability bias.”
The committee also recommended permitting abortion with no restrictions up to 12 weeks, and up until birth on the grounds of the mother’s mental health, both of which grounds could be used to target children with disabilities.
Follow LifeNews.com on Instagram for pro-life pictures and the latest pro-life news.

Targeting the most vulnerable

SPUC’s Dr Anthony McCarthy commented, saying: “It is clear that the health minister wants to distance himself from the unpleasant reality that the proposed legislation would certainly lead to babies with disabilities being aborted simply because they are disabled. Bearing in mind that ‘fatal foetal abnormality’ is not a medical term, and most babies with life-limiting conditions do live for some time after birth, what he is actually saying is that babies with more severe disabilities than others do not deserve to live.”

Pro-life?

Mr Harris, who previously described himself as pro-life, also told the Times that “I did completely change my mind on abortion. I don’t know why I had the initial view I had. I came into the Dáil at 24 years of age, never had kids and I just had a traditional view. Since becoming a TD and particularly since becoming health minister, the more I meet people and listen to their experiences I genuinely have had a radical change in my view on this. I am not ashamed to say that.”
He also denied reports that the Government was planning to postpone the referendum.
LifeNews Note: Courtesy of SPUC. The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children is a leading pro-life organziation in the United Kingdom.

at

Pro-Life Pioneer Joe Scheidler Will Receive Award at Walk for Life West Coast

 NATIONAL   ROSE TRABBIC   JAN 2, 2018   |   5:26PM    WASHINGTON, DC
Pro-life pioneer Joe Scheidler, who has often been described as the “grandfather” of the American pro-life movement, has just signed on to speak at the 14th annual Walk for Life West Coast on Saturday, January 27, 2018. He will also be honored with the 2018 St. Gianna Molla Award, which recognizes those who have made a special contribution to the pro-life cause. Over 50,000 participants are expected at the rally and walk.
Mr. Scheidler has been fighting for the rights of the unborn even before the infamous Roe v. Wade decision. After working for other pro-life organizations for several years, Joe founded the Pro-Life Action League to serve the need he saw for pro-life Americans to take bold, direct action to save babies from abortion in their own communities. His 1985 pro-life activists manual, “CLOSED: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion”, put pro-lifers throughout the United States and the world to work effectively fighting abortion. Mr. Scheidler’s commitment and determination have been an inspiration for generations of pro-life activists who have followed.
Joining Mr. Scheidler in speaking at the rally are also Terry Beatley, founder of the Hosea Initiative; pro-life OBGYN Dr. John Bruchalski; and Rev. Clenard Childress, Jr., the founder of the website www.blackgenocide.org.
Organizers have also released a powerful new promo video and encourage people to share this on social media. The video may be viewed directly at https://youtu.be/A32Tp93cst8 or on the main website, www.walkforlifewc.com
The 2018 Walk for Life West Coast will begin at 12:30 PM with a rally in the city’s Civic Center Plaza. Following the rally, participants will walk down Market Street to Justin Herman Plaza.
Founded in 2005 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents, the Walk for Life West Coast’s mission is to change the perceptions of a society that thinks abortion is an answer. For more details, and to view a powerful promo video for the walk that can be shared on social media, please visit: www.walkforlifewc.com

at
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Contact Form

Name

Email *

Message *