How Pro-Life Voters Are Gaining In Importance and Influence

The 2014 election cycle is setting in.  Primary races are gearing up.  Some issues, like free silver and Medicare coverage of prescription drugs, lie in history.  Others never fade.

Abortion has remained one of the most divisive social and political issues and will likely remain so.  Signs indicate, however, that the pro-life side has pulled even with abortion supporters and may soon pull ahead.

The West Virginia Second District Congressional race demonstrates the issue's importance.  Charleston area Republican candidate Charlotte Lane, long known for favoring abortion rights, issued a recent and very public mea culpa.  She apologized for her previous support of abortion and pledged to oppose it from this point on.  That could come from personal conviction.  It could stem from the fact that Eastern Panhandle based candidate  Alex Mooney has a long and very public record aggressively fighting for the pro-life cause.  Regardless, it illustrates trends within West Virginia and around the nation.

During the tenure of a liberal, abortion supporting president, pollsters have seen more Americans opposing the practice.  Last summer for the first time in decades, support for abortion dipped below 50 percent.  Rasmussen, often criticized as leaning conservative, published that 46 percent identified as pro choice, 43 percent as pro life.  The Gallup Poll showed a different result.  Forty-eight percent opposed abortion while support for the practice was set at five points lower.

Immigration will likely tip this balance even further against abortion.  National Catholic Register's Peter Jesserer Smith reported that Hispanic groups are only now tapping their potential to support the pro-life cause.  Over half of Hispanics oppose abortion and many are first generation migrants from countries that strongly oppose the practice.  Most still identify with a Roman Catholic faith that staunchly opposes abortion. 

The groups have formed to counter efforts by those such as Planned Parenthood to crack into the Hispanic culture to promote pro-abortion ideals.  One such attempt is a telenovella aimed at Hispanic teens called East Los High.  Planned Parenthood plays a major role in shaping the storytelling on the program.  

This type of message, however, has grown rare on mainstream television and motion pictures.  Characters advocating abortion are almost always sinister and selfish characters.  Keeping the baby, regardless of circumstances, is portrayed as the virtuous choice.  Modern technology has nullified the old arguments that an unborn child is not human.  

The changing social currents on other major social conservative issues have strengthened the hand of those opposed to abortion.  Gay marriage at one point attracted much more support and attention among conservative groups.  As state legislatures and courts have acted, however, opposition to gay unions has declined considerably.  Abortion opponents will have more resources as gay marriage opposition dissipates.

For the foreseeable future, which in politics means the next two major elections, abortion will remain an important issue that divides constituencies.  Conservatives can take heart, however, that as on issues of small government and taxes, they know that more and more people are with them.

Dehumanizing

They are coming. Obama's people have gone to Spain to look into the controversial body scanners now used in some European airports. James Carville, Democratic strategist, complained about their photographic accuracy in a typically vulgar way, but he raised a good point. Transportation Safety Administration officials, with these scanners, can (when the scanners are brought in) examine the nude bodies of men, women, and children to their hearts content. We would like to expect 100% professionalism, but let's be realistic. Some bodies will be ogled, others laughed at. That is human nature and allowing ourselves to sink to this condition is disgusting. I would rather drive eighteen hours to a destination than allow mine and my children's bodies to be illuminated for the edification of TSA employees. We are human beings.

That is the point. Obama's change, when you see the big picture, promotes dehumanization. Health care deform emphasizes cutting Medicare costs. How do they do that? By rationing health care to the elderly because their lives mean less. Who says that? Obama's own advisors!

Obama's health and economic plans require each working citizen to give up more and more of their hard earned reward for work. Why? So it can go to people who did not earn it, or to reward groups that support Obamunism. Each individual has the right to the rewards for his work or risk,justly earned. Obama and the left do not believe that you have the right to keep it. It belongs to the collective mass. Decisions are to be made by them of course.

Abortion rests on the premise that children in the womb have no worth. Their deaths are meaningless to the Left.

Kevin Jennings, Obama's appointed czar of safe schools, encouraged a minor child to have sex in a bus station with a much older adult. He wrote that in his own autobiography. The humanity of this child was stripped by a radical left winger who did not see fit to give him reasonable advice. And now he makes policy to guide the school that educate small children!

Body scanning strips away human dignity by exposing its nudity. And it makes us no safer. Terrorists will have a harder time blowing up airplanes, so what? They can carry bombs into crowded terminals, football games, shopping malls, etc. Full body scanners will only perpetuate the ripping away of the dignity of each individual. It will also destroy what is left of the air travel industry. Sure some have to fly, but fewer and fewer will choose it when they have other options.

The Left wants to erase all vestiges of individuality and rights. They believe in the collective. If we believe we have no rights and no dignity, they believe they can impose upon us what they see fit. Obama and the Left have systematically attacked many aspects of our individual humanity in their evil radical plans. It's time for freedom loving Americans to push back hard and strip them of their authority instead of allowing them to strip us of our humanity.

A Chilling Look At the Mindset of an Abortion Advocate

In yesterday's Charleston Gazette, WV Free director Margaret Chapman Pomponio leads her commentary with the following:
I work for a reproductive justice organization. That means that for almost 10 years, I’ve been advocating for West Virginia families to improve education on reproductive decisions, increase access to affordable birth control, and protect personal decision-making, including decisions about whether or when to have a child. This means that we at WV FREE support access to abortion care because it’s what women sometimes need as part of their basic health care.

This is part of a plea on behalf of including abortion services into any government run health care operation. Think of what she says for a second, though. She claims that abortion is part of "their basic health care!" (I added the ! of course.)

In what universe is the killing of a child, along with the harsh psychological consequnces suffered by many of the mothers, on a par with getting a broken bone set or getting antibiotics for an infection? That is what most people consider "basic health care."

They would love for us to look at abortion as routine, something between getting a splint for a broken thumb and removing an appendix. We need to continue to fight this attitude on every level and remind people of what abortion really is.

It's not a "fetus," but a living and breathing child of God.

It's not a "procedure," but the vacuuming away of a viable human life, piece by painful piece.

And women don't "need" it except in rare, life threatening cases. The vast majority of mothers made a conscious choice to engage in behavior that created the child. If they made the choice to take that action, then they have the responsibility to live with the consequences of those actions regardless of age or circumstances. That responsibility runs at the very least to bringing it to term and delivering it alive. The law says that after that, you can drop it off anonymously at certain prescribed spots and never deal with the child again. At least the child is alive and the mother is not traumatized by murdering her baby inside of her. Our law and society have created scenarios where all the mother has to do, if she is completely unfit or unable to take care of the baby, is let it live and we take care of the rest. That baby could cure cancer, create a unified field theory, or compose wonderful music. Unfortunately the law also gives her the option to murder as well so we might never get the benefits of those unknowable lives. I agree completely with providing birth control to the poor as well as education on how and when to use it. Killing a child when one does not have to goes way beyond the pale of acceptable behavior.

I saw my first child born at 19 and despite all the trouble and sacrifice, would never, ever wish away one second of her existence to make my life more convenient, or to extend my college "fun time."

At some point, we will all have to reckon in some way with the horror of what our law has allowed to happen for almost four decades now.

House bill to allow DC abortion funding and medical marijuana

WEST VIRGINIA

Democrats — Mollohan, N; Rahall, N.

Republicans — Capito, Y.

Voting yes were 215 Democrats and 4 Republicans.

Voting no were 38 Democrats and 170 Republicans.

Abortion Doctor Killed

Last weekend Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed in his church while serving as an usher.

To begin with no one should be shot and killed while serving as an usher in church. Regardless of how heinous the target, respect ought to be shown to the house of God. Not even Dr. Joseph Mengele (the Auschwitz in-house doctor that performed experiments on Jewish prisoners) should be cut down in the aisles of a church.

And let's be honest, this guy was heinous. He was one of the few in the United States performing late term abortions, killing the baby after the 21st week of pregnancy. Left wingers will make political hay out of this to try and head off gun rights and anti abortion activists. However the vast majority of anti abortionists decry any violent act against abortion doctors because it only harms the pro life cause.

Pro abortion activists and Tiller's family claimed that a good man was taken down, one that "dedicated his life to providing women with high quality health care." Abortionists prey on unsure and insecure young women, offering them what seems like an easy way out of a tough situation but neglecting to tell them about the years of emotional scarring and suffering.

A child is a gift from God and a test of the body, mind, and spirit. Be a good parent and you cannot fail to emerge a better person in the process. However few would be parents know whether or not they are up to the task until it is sitting in their arms. Then something biological kicks in and you just know you were born to do this most sacred of jobs, regardless of your personal, financial, or any other situation. A human being has the natural right to live. If you don't believe me, check out the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. None of the authors associated with these works would think highly of "Doctor" Tiller and his work.

Count me as one who is shocked and appalled at a shooting inside the bounds of a church, but I have little sympathy for the target. As far as I am concerned he was little better than the aforementioned Dr. Mengele. Both took an oath to "do no harm" and both performed shocking and very painful procedures on human beings that they knew would result in torturous death.

Obama Gives the GOP a Nice Bright, Shining Gift of an Issue

Obama (and no, I have not brought myself to put the words "President" and "Obama" together in the same sentence. My mouth chokes on that word combination) just gave the GOP a gift to help us in the midterm elections.

Congratulations, taxpayers of the United States, your hard earned dollars meant for supporting basic services here and expanding democracy around the globe now go to pay for abortions . . . in other countries! Not satisfied with encouraging baby murder here, Obama insists that we pay for murder around the globe.

President Bush cut off funds to international organizations that deal in abortions, an entirely reasonable policy move since every poll shows that Americans on the whole disapprove of the practice. Look for this to be an opening move in a liberal campaign to restore abortion to a culturally acceptable choice. I can remember in movies where abortion was considered as casual as lighting up a cigarette. Thankfully, not anymore. If conservatism accomplished anything, it was pushing abortion into a near pariah category.

Obama does not just want to roll back tax cuts and close Gitmo. He wants to reinvigorate currently moribund liberal ideals. His ambition is to be the liberal version of Reagan, but in some parts of the country he looks more like Big Brother. In DC there are ( I kid you not) hundred foot tall banners of him in malls; his face is on subway tickets and almost anywhere else you can think of. It's a culture war launched against the values you and I hold dear. And I should not neglect to mention that entire subway stations in DC are covered from ceiling to floor in anti-coal propaganda (of course the subway, lights, and much of the rest of the region get their power from coal powered plants.)

As far as abortion is concerned, Obama tried to dampen the impact by using Obamaspeak. "In the coming weeks, my administration will initiate a fresh conversation on family planning, working to find areas of common ground to best meet the needs of women and families at home and around the world." If you don't know the buzzwords, you'll miss the point. "Family planning" always means "abortion."

Some culture war issues are, in my opinion, fading. Gay unions are increasingly accepted and it is ludicrous to fight the concept. Young voters just do not care. Abortion is always and will always be the brutal murder of innocents. Abortion groups need to get back behind the party that helped them the most, giving money and support. Thankfully Obama gave an issue to galvanize us.

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George Mason researchers claim that 800,000 fewer people attened the Obamaguration than originally thought. Satellite imagery helped bolster that claim.

It's like missing a crowd the size of the city of Atlanta.

Oops.

Conservatives Should Not Knock "Knocked Up"

At first glance, a movie called "Knocked Up" may sound like the typical Hollywood flick that trashes traditional values and mocks morality. After all the title suggests the kind of vulgar insensitivity that Hollywood seems to have about sex, children, and commitment. Some conservative writers panned the film, probably without seeing it. I am glad I gave it a chance.

Certainly this film has its moments that you do not want your children to see. The main male character smokes more pot than George Burns smoked cigars. On the other hand he also is unashamedly proud of his religious faith, in this case Judaism. Like many men of his age, twenty-three, he devotes his life to good times, meaning getting high and chasing women. The female lead has just found out that she has gained an on air position with that most shallow of networks, E!. Both have lifestyles into which a child will not fit.

They meet at a bar and end up at her place, the back room off of her sister's house. Here comes another scene that you would not want your children to witness. As you might have guessed, she gets pregnant.

The film's important message starts here. Its two least appealing characters encourage the couple to get an abortion, although neither can actually say the actual word. The male character's fat and obnoxious friend advises that he take his girl to a shmabortion clinic. The girl's mother, a shallow and materialistic baby boomer, tells her that her career is too important and that she must "take care of it." The mother gets particularly nauseating when she mentions that another family member preserved her career by "taking care of it" and "she has a real baby now." Obviously the writing team, led by Harold Ramis of Ghostbusters fame, wanted to make the abortion option look as unpalatable as possible. Neither character considers it for a second. The rest of the film shows the two trying to figure out how to commit to each other as much as they have to the unborn child. The male gives up drugs and gets a real job, enabling his girlf friend to move in with him. Along the way the girl's sister's marriage comes close to divorce, but they manage to struggle back to happiness.

This movie in the seventies would have shown a happy pair of people going their separate ways after an abortion while the married family would have broken up. Although "Knocked Up" is no traditional morality tale, it shows people struggling through real life challenges and making the right decisions along the way. Hollywood does excrete a lot of filth, but this film carries some good messages.