More powerful testimony by Abby Johnson, former director of Bryan, TX Planned Parenthood, who quit to join the Coalition for Life:
She describes how watching an abortion via ultrasound changed her life and her view of abortion.
As Johnson noted, ultrasound abortions are very rarely done in abortion clinics, because it makes the reality of life and death in the womb too obvious.
There was another server shutdown all day yesterday, or I would have posted something before this about the final vote on the health care bill in the House. It was certain exciting. The biggest and best news was that after months of underhanded maneuvering to keep the Stupak-Pitts Amendment keeping public-funded abortions out of health care from reaching the floor for a vote, Speaker Pelosi finally had to relent, because it was becoming increasingly clear that the legislation would not pass without it. The Stupak-Pitts Amendment passed resoundingly 240-194, with 64 prolife Democrats supporting it. The final vote on the health care bill was much closer: 220-215. There is no guarantee, however, that this amendment will stay in the bill in conference, or when when combined with the Senate’s own bill.
In spite of my sneaky suspicion that it’s not really Christian to do so, it does feel sweet to listen to the proponents of the Culture of Death wail and gnash their teeth over this defeat.
Planned Parenthood, for one, says that now it has no choice but to oppose the health care bill. Because you know, it was never about real health care for women for them, but about abortion.
These are the folks who would accuse of being single issue voters! Maybe Rep. Patrick Kennedy should stand up and tell them that one side should not deal in “absolutes.” On the other hand, I can’t really see him doing that.
The thing is, you can promote either absolute good, or absolute evil. I know which I would rather do.
There’s a whole lot more at Jill Stanek’s blog.
Shouts of “Kill the bill” and “Healthcare for all” by competing groups of demonstrators livened up the halls outside of Congressional offices yesterday. Protesters opposed to the Democrats’ health-care bill tore up copies of the legislation as the chanted. Arrested inside House Speaker Pelosi’s office was the frail, elderly Catholc prolife priest Fr. Norman Weslin, who was also tearing up bills. The video of this wild scene was evidently shot by someone in Randall Terry’s party (yes, he was there too). It’s up on his YouTube Channel.
The mainstream media has largely ignored the incident, as well as the protest of some 10-20,000 people outside.
Something tells me this fight is going to get even fiercer before it’s over.
Would you kill someone for a million dollars? That’s the question raised in the New film The Button. The couple who receive the proposal in the film evidently do some soul-searching for the answer. On the other hand, the pro-abortion comments I’m reading online makes it credible that many people would actually react as in this video (courtesty of www.Funnyordie.com).
Funny, yes — but chilling too.
There have reports that the health care bill is scheduled to come up for a vote as early as Saturday. However, support among Democrats seems to waning, and the vote may be delayed Jill Stanek has all the up-to-date info on her blog. Keep returning if you want to know the latest.
And be sure to call and e-mail your Congressional representative!
