Abortion news
First, this unusual billboard ad for a storage company in New York.
There is a billboard on Manhattan’s West Side Highway, at 44th Street and 12th, Avenue that shows a large wire hanger with the inscription, “Your closet space is shrinking as fast as her right to choose.†The ad was placed by Manhattan Mini Storage, owned by Edison Properties.
But then, Catholic League President Bill Donohue points out, it’s not all that unusual for this particular company after all.
New Yorkers are accustomed to Manhattan Mini Storage posting billboards that bash the Bush Administration, but when it makes the leap from partisan politics to crude cultural commentary, it is stepping on dangerous turf. Why a storage company finds the need to advertise its support for abortion is a story all of its own, but when it seeks to depict the pro-life community—which is primarily Catholic and Protestant—as oppressive, then a line has been crossed.
Those who like this billboard would no doubt be aghast at the sight of a billboard that featured a bloody baby who survived a botched abortion. They would be even more incensed if the picture were accompanied by the remark, ‘This is what happens when abortion fails.’
Speaking of botched abortions, George Tiller remains in the news, especially with one of his longtime clinic staffers stepping down….and away from the horrors.
Embattled late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller suffered another setback on Wednesday when pro-life advocates announced that one of his lonetime abortion facility employees is quitting her job. Marguerite Reed said she would not be returning to his abortion business if it reopens…
Reed, who had worked for Tiller for 12 years, was the employee who made a controversial call to 911 after mentally disabled Texas teenager Christin Gilbert suffered from a botched abortion.
Gilbert was bleeding heavily for over an hour on January 13, 2005, when Reed finally called an emergency dispatcher. She asked for an ambulance but wanted it not to put on its lights and sirens to avoid attracting attention to the abortion center.
“Please! Please! Please! No lights and no sirens!” she told emergency response, according to a transcript.
The dispatcher said that Reed was “evasive” and uncooperative in an attempt to not alert pro-life advocates that Gilbert was in serious condition. The 19-year-old eventually died and Tiller escaped prosecution in the case.
He is, however, facing charges on other violations.
Terrible stories like this are out there daily.
An Ohio teenager accused of attacking his pregnant girlfriend and killing her unborn child after she refused to have an abortion will be charged with murder. Alfonso Price, a 15-year-old, allegedly attacked Kerria Anderson, 18, because she refused to have an abortion of her baby who Price fathered.
Price reportedly kicked Anderson, who was eight months pregnant, in the stomach and hit her causing her to miscarry the old unborn child…Anderson was eventually able to contact authorities from an adjacent store but the baby girl wasn’t able to be saved. Her skull had been fractured in the attack.
Isn’t this outrageous? Why aren’t more people outraged?
They’re not hearing about a lot of these incidents. But many states’ legislators are, and they’re making new laws as a result.
The case brings more attention to violence against pregnant women, especially those whose refusals to have abortions spark violent rage in their partners.
Ohio is one of 35 states that have a law protecting pregnant women and their unborn children and providing them with justice when they are injured or killed in an attack.
Louisiana is among the latest to pass a law requiring what any other medical procedure requires: informed consent.
Louisiana is the next state to have a law go into effect that tells a woman considering an abortion that her baby will feel considerable pain during the procedure. The measure also requires abortion businesses to give women the option of seeing an ultrasound of their unborn child beforehand…
Bordlee, the director of the Bioethics Defense Fund, said the bill requires abortion practitioners to give women a statement saying, “by twenty weeks gestation, the unborn child has the physical structures necessary to experience pain.”
That may sound like stating the terribly obvious, but as the South Dakota abortion task force study revealed – after hearing from about 2,000 post-abortive women testifying to their traumatic experiences – women seeking abortions very often believe they’re removing a blob of tissue that would have later become a child. They’re very often told that’s what it is, by abortionists and their staff, and only when they come to learn or realize later that it was a child from conception, they suffer devastating post-traumatic disorders. Check out the study, it’s amazing.
So, while the momentum is growing across the country to improve laws to protect women, part of it is an education campaign to change hearts and minds along with the laws. The women who have suffered have plenty to say, they’ve found their voice, and it is powerful.
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