Friday, January 14, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Real Men Do Get Flu Shots
Volunteer and nurse Kristie Chapman administered free flu shots at Lois' Lodge today. The male customers found the Pooh bear comforting. ;-)
Shock: 41% of New York City Pregnancies End in Abortion | LifeNews.com
Shock: 41% of New York City Pregnancies End in Abortion | LifeNews.com
Gotta wonder about who those babies may have grown up to be..........
Gotta wonder about who those babies may have grown up to be..........
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
January is Declared Choose Life License Plate Month
Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship
Press Release Contact: Bobbie Meyer, State Director
January 5, 2011 Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship
Contact info: 704.281.8631
For Immediate Release
January is declared Choose Life License Plate Month.
The Carolina Care Pregnancy Care Fellowship (CPCF) announces that January as been designated as Choose Life License Plate Month. The Choose Life license plate is a specialty license plate approved in 26 states that has raised over $13.6 million dollars to help pregnancy care centers, maternity homes and adoption agencies. In advance of the opening of the new session of the General Assembly, CPCF along with its coalition members have given January special designation to highlight their determination to keep pressing for the plate. For eight years, the legislation for the choose life place has been denied a vote even though more than 130 other specialty plates have been approved. The Pro-Life community is hopeful that the new legislature will be more responsive to their request for the plate.
The 2009 session of the General Assembly saw the number of sponsors rise from 12 representatives in the House to 38. According to Bobbie Meyer, State Director of the CPCF, “This year we hope to receive approval from committee chairs and reach the threshold of a supermajority in each chamber, 30 Senators and 72 Representatives. Our coalition members will be at the General Assembly for the filing of the bill to convince legislators that we have a need for this bill.”
Funds from these plates would be dedicated to pregnancy care centers in North Carolina who are working tirelessly to offer expectant mothers the support and resources they need. There are currently 80 pregnancy care centers that served over 30,000 women in North Carolina last year alone. North Carolina’s pregnancy care centers offer information, emotional support and practical help to thousands of women who face the challenges of unexpected pregnancies. The centers offer a variety of free services from pregnancy tests to parenting classes, baby supplies, to ultrasounds and STD testing by medical personnel. Each plate sold will provide $15 toward assisting these centers to offer services, all at no cost to taxpayers.
With the change in the legislature, CPCF is hopeful that the General Assembly of North Carolina will now give us the right to purchase a voluntary specialty license plate that will benefit our families. North Carolina is the only state in the Southeast that prohibits the sale of the Choose Life plate. CPCF believes our new North Carolina Choose Life license plate will be a positive addition to our wonderful state and contribute to the well-being of the youngest generation of citizens. See also www.ncchoose-life.org.
This new determined effort is being supported and planned by Rep. Mitch Gillespie, sponsor of the Choose Life plate legislation; the Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship; NC Right to Life; the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Charlotte and Raleigh; Russ Amerling, National Director of Choose Life license plates; The North Carolina Family Policy Council; Civitas NC; The Christian Action League; and NC Pro-Life Democrats.
Family Research Council- And Down Will Come Baby
Family Research Council 1/12/11 
And Down Will Come Baby...
There are times in the pro-life movement when words are just inadequate. Yesterday, when the Guttmacher Institute announced a spike in U.S. abortions, reporters hurried to file their stories. And while most of them managed to communicate the data--almost none conveyed the loss. Instead of reflecting on the 1,212,350 unique members of society that America will never know, the headlines all minimized the tragedy that is "choice."
Papers from the Wall Street Journal to the Washington Post explained the news with the sensitivity of a sports column. It's "just 1%," the Journal reported, or a "slight rise," said the AP. Factually, they're both right. But in terms of casualties--real human victims--this "slight rise" means that our country dug 6,150 new graves in 2008. That's more than the entire student population at Yale, Princeton, Brown, or Dartmouth.
Where is America 's perspective? On Saturday, the entire nation grieved with Arizona after the haunting Tucson shooting spree. Who among us, after reading their stories, would say the gunman "only" killed six victims? Yet somehow, in a society calloused by convenience, it's acceptable to describe the loss of millions of unborn children as "just" this or that. However political this debate has become, it's important to remember the moral crisis that got us here. And until we address that fundamental problem, these statistics are bound to yo-yo into the new century.
In the meantime, there are ways to cut down on the number of abortions in America. For starters, we can stop paying for them! Unfortunately, the last Congress made that even more difficult by stuffing millions of abortion dollars into the health care law. Then they funneled even more into Capitol Hill's backyard by agreeing to subsidize abortion in Washington, D.C.--something pro-life Members are fighting to overturn. After the new Congress convened, Congressmen Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) wasted no time introducing a bill called the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" which would wipe the slate clean of most government projects that force Americans into the abortion business.
On the state level, legislators can look to Nebraska for inspiration. Last year, the Cornhuskers passed the Abortion Pain Preve ntion Act, which uses the science of fetal pain to ban abortions after 20 weeks.
What the Left can't seem to admit is that America 's abortion rate had fallen because of the hard work of the pregnancy resource centers, abstinence education, and pro-life laws. But despite its own findings, Guttmacher, which was once the research arm of Planned Parenthood, is using the report to advance their political agenda of more abortion, more access to abortion, more abortion doctors, and more restrictions on abortion protestors. Obviously, the organization is going to bat for its old friend Planned Parenthood, whose relationship with the government has been an especially lucrative one for the abortion industry. But in the end, it's a partnership that Americans can't afford--not from an economic standpoint and certainly not from an ethical one.
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