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Abortion is fetal murder. Pro-choice means acceptance of abortion which is pro-murder and anti-life. Prolife is pro-justice and pro-dignity so Let’s stop using the enemy’s euphemisms!

Pro-abortion Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) told MSNBC that there are not 50 pro-life votes in the Senate to pass an anti-abortion funding amendment. He said, “There aren’t more than four or five Democratic senators that I would say are anti-choice. There are at least, I think, two Republican senators who are pro-choice.”

Link: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/68075-brown-senate-gop-cant-get-even-a-majority-for-abortion-provision

Calling things what they are

While pro-abortion strategy will include threats, we as affirmers of the sanctity and quality of life must contact our members of Congress with encouragement for those who are already strong for life to remain steady, and invite their reluctant colleges to join them. We must assure all members of Congress that we are looking for leaders who support life, and will do everything we can to support them. We must encourage prolife candidates to run for office as well.
Kate Michelman and Frances Kissling have written a NY Times op-ed today threatening Democrat Congressmen with electoral challenges from the left if they don’t commit themselves to defeating the Stupak/Pitts amendment.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/opinion/12michelman.html?_r=1

Senator Nelson gets it. NARAL doesn’t!

Pro-life Democrat Senator Ben Nelson (NE) said Monday of the health care bill, “If there’s public money going to fund abortions, I can’t support it, period, no matter what else is in it.” Nelson is said to be pressing for Stupak amendment language in the Senate bill.

Link: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/11/09/senate-controversy-over-abortion-already-underway/
Link: http://www.lifenews.com/nat5643.html

There were more than 40 prolife votes for the Stupak-Pitts Amendment! Would you call the votes mixed-choice folks?

The President of NARAL, Nancy Keenan, says that there are 41 pro-abortion Senators, 40 pro-life, and 19 “mixed-choice folks.” With the possibility of needing 60 votes to pass an amendment in the Senate, the abortion language that Majority Leader Harry Reid includes in his health care bill will difficult to change.

Link: http://www.rollcall.com/issues/55_55/vested/40487-1.html

Rev. Frank Pavone is right on it. He gets it! People should know the impact of their members of Congress on the sanctity and quality of life. To read more, visit www.priestsforlife.org.
Voting Records to Go To All Churches, Leading Priest States
Washington, DC – Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, stated this morning that the voting records of members of Congress on the Stupak-Pitts amendment to HR 3962 (and other abortion-related votes) will be distributed to every Catholic parish in America, with instructions to each pastor on how to make clear to his congregation the implications of how that congregation’s representative voted. “Whatever one’s position on abortion itself,” Fr. Pavone commented, “the vast majority of Americans have always opposed the idea that taxpayers should fund it. Our plan to inform pastors of these voting records is phase one of a year-long effort to activate Churches as never before regarding what they can legally do in preparation for next year’s midterm elections. Publishing voting records in a non-partisan fashion is certainly one of those activities.”

Fr. Pavone also said that in his role as President of the National Pro-life Religious Council, he would also involve Churches of other denominations in this project to educate voters on the outcome of the Stupak-Pitts amendment.

Check out the similarities between the decision of Abby Johnson and a recent Law and Order episode. Ms. Johnson, a former director of a Planned Parenthood facility quit and became pro-life after actually viewing an ultrasound of an abortion as it was taking place. The Law and Order episode explores contemporary abortion issues.
Ms. Johnson’s real life prick of conscience lines up with the abortion issues in the recent Law and Order episode. They should meet. Ms. Johnson’s change of heart and the show’s headline inspired account of the murder of a fictitious abortion doctor which occurs in a church, similar to the real life murder of abortion doctor George Tiller, brings the abortion controversy to the forefront again.
The decision that Abby Johnson made and the issues raised on Law and Order are lessons of great hope. No one can escape the power of the truth. They can try to deny it, ignore it, or hide it, but they can’t escape it. As a post-abortive mother, I had to learn these lessons the hard way.
We at Priests for Life minister all the time to former abortion providers, supporters and post abortive women. We love them, and guide them to repentance and healing. And we see people who, like Abby Johnson, repent of abortion only after they have seen it face to face. Let’s hold all of them up in prayer.

A 19-year-old San Antonio man said he murdered a restaurant owner during a burglary to get $300 to pay for his girlfriend’s abortion. His lawyer is trying to keep the man’s confession from being introduced in the capital murder case.

Link: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/68996317.html

http://www.nbc.com/Law_and_Order/video/clips/dignity/1169056/

In the real world, Abby Johnson’s conscience pricked her, causing a change of heart. She quit her job as director at Planned Parenthood and joined a prolife ministry. A similar thing happens on this “Law and Order” episode. Please watch the trailer.
In the show’s customary ripped-from-the-headlines style, the new episode focuses on the murder, in a church, of a doctor who performs late-term abortions. Though the episode, which will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific time, begins with the disclaimer that the story “is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event,” its outlines closely track the case of Dr. George R. Tiller, a prominent provider of late-term abortions who was shot and killed in a church in Wichita, Kan., on May 31.
Leading up to what is essentially a character-driven debate about abortion, NBC has tread a fine line between promoting the episode and its topic to attract viewers to an otherwise slow night of television and trying not to draw too much attention to it.
The network ranks last this season among the four major broadcast networks in total viewers and among young adults. It has promoted its abortion episode to television writers, sending a screening copy along with a letter from Dick Wolf, the creator and an executive producer of the series, who called it “the most controversial episode of the series” since it first addressed the topic in its debut season.
The network similarly promoted an episode of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” that was broadcast on Wednesday that dealt with pedophila.
But Mr. Wolf and NBC executives declined to be interviewed about the decision to explore the topic of abortion. In response to questions, NBC and the producers issued a statement that said: “For 20 seasons the Emmy-winning ‘Law & Order’ has explored a variety of controversial topics, and the episode ‘Dignity’ does just that. Viewers will see a balanced, thought-provoking drama about abortion.”
“Law & Order” has twice before addressed abortion, in 1991 with “Life Choice,” a first-season episode about the bombing of an abortion clinic, and in 1995, its fifth season, with “Progeny,” which also focused on the murder of a doctor who provided abortions.
Friday’s episode does weave some significant twists of plot and character into the drama, with police officers and assistant district attorneys sometimes taking forceful stands on one side of the abortion debate or the other, only to later express doubt when their involvement in the case becomes more personal.
Abortion has been a sensitive topic for networks and advertisers at least since 1972, when an episode of “Maude” on CBS wrestled with the topic. The broadcast drew many complaints and most advertisers shunned the episode when it was repeated during the summer.
The Fox network said in July that it would not show an episode of its popular animated series “Family Guy” dealing with abortion that would have shown this season. Fox said in a statement that although it would not broadcast the episode, “we fully support the producers’ right to make the episode and distribute it in whatever way they want to ‘Family Guy’ fans.” The program’s producers sponsored a live reading of the script last summer to promote the show’s nomination for an Emmy for best comedy series, and they said it would be included on a DVD of the season’s episodes.
Carrie Drinkwater, a senior vice president for broadcast television at MPG, a media planning company, said that most advertisers have clear guidelines about when they will not advertise on an episode of a show that deals with a topic like abortion. It is likely that some scheduled advertisers dropped out of Friday’s broadcast, she said. She said while her firm has clients that sometimes advertise on “Law & Order,” none had been scheduled to have commercial spots in this episode.
An NBC executive said that the network had sold a full complement of advertising for the episode, but he declined to identify which companies would be advertising.

On the heels of releasing the new Martin Luther King Jr. and Planned Parenthood PDF, this breaking story came in. So, not only is PPH still maintaining that Martin Luther King, Jr. supported their nefarious deeds, even though he never even attended their awards ceremony to pick up the award they so often boast about. His wife, Coretta went to the ceremony. Look for the upcoming PDF on this whole thing.

Also,PPH is now taking a former employee to court, because she just couldn’t continue to work for them. They say she is a danger to their clients. Nevermind that the real danger is from the things PPH does to babies and women behind closed doors. Here’s the story:

Planned Parenthood Leader Resigns After Watching Abortion Ultrasound (Video)
Monday, November 2, 2009, 5:28 AM
Jim Hoft
The leader of Planned Parenthood in College Station, Texas left her post after watching the ultrasound of an abortion procedure.
Abby Johnson told reporters that Planned Parenthood changed it’s business model from one that pushed prevention,
to one that focused on abortion.

She recently joined the Pro-Life organization in her community.
KBTX reported, via Free Republic:
Planned Parenthood has been a part of Abby Johnson’s life for the past eight years; that is until last month, when Abby resigned.
Johnson said she realized she wanted to leave, after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure.
“I just thought I can’t do this anymore, and it was just like a flash that hit me and I thought that’s it,” said Jonhson.
She handed in her resignation October 6. Johnson worked as the Bryan Planned Parenthood Director for two years.
According to Johnson, the non-profit was struggling under the weight of a tough economy, and changing it’s business model
from one that pushed prevention, to one that focused on abortion.
“It seemed like maybe that’s not what a lot of people were believing any more because that’s not where the money was.
The money wasn’t in family planning, the money wasn’t in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem
with that,” said Johnson.
Johnson said she was told to bring in more women who wanted abortions, something the Episcopalian church goer recently
became convicted about.
“I feel so pure in heart (since leaving). I don’t have this guilt, I don’t have this burden on me anymore that’s how I know this
conversion was a spiritual conversion.”
Johnson now supports the Coalition For Life, the pro-life group with a building down the street from Planned Parenthood.
Coalition volunteers can regularly be seen praying on the sidewalk in front of Planned Parenthood. Johnson has been meeting
with the coalition’s executive director, Shawn Carney, and has prayed with volunteers outside Planned Parenthood.

“Dr. King was a Star Trek fan…” Nichelle Nichols (AKA Lt. Uhura)

People often wonder why Alveda King, a licensed minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, often refers to Star Trek and other “sci-fi” films, movies, television projects, music projects, etcetera to illustrate points. My nephew, Derek Barber King, Jr. launched his television ministry recently, citing the film “The Matrix” to make a point about reality. His text was powerfully presented with scriptures from The Holy Bible, and his Matrix and reality analogy fit in with his message.
Young Derek and I are maybe “chips off the old block.” When I was a little girl, and a teenager, my dad, Rev. A. D. Williams King, often took the family to the movies to see Superman, Hercules, and other fantasy films. My dad was an avid comic book collector. When Star Trek and The Jetsons came out in the mid-1960’s, I remember saying that one day, everything we saw on screen would happen in real life one day. For instance, the Jetsons’ moving sidewalk is in almost every airport nowadays. Captain Kirk’s communicator became a flip cell phone. Lt. Uhura’s earpiece is a Bluetooth, and her communications panel is now a GPS system.
I often cite a classic Star Trek episode in my lectures, the one where a race of beings was in danger of annihilation because of a skin color battle. Acts 17:28 says that we are one blood. That means that we are really one human race. In one of my favorite Star Trek shows, there were two “races” on one planet. They were identical except one group was black on one side and white on one side And the other group was white on one side and black On one side. They fought over eugenics and genocide, with one group trying to totally annihilate the other group.
In yet another Star Trek episode, Captain Kirk led the humans and His arch enemy led his “race.” They were losing to a common enemy until they learned to put their differences aside. There is much to be learned in living together as one race of humans in what my Uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., my father, Rev. A. D. King and those in the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement termed “The Beloved Community.”
My Uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. also saw the value of Lt. Uhura’s role in terms of race relations. Nichelle Nichols, who gave us the first role of Lt. Uhura on Star Trek, considered quitting Star Trek midway through its first season, when her character had been given little to do beyond perpetually opening hailing frequencies. In one interview, she famously described Uhura as “a glorified telephone operator in space”. Then, at a civil rights protest, she met Martin Luther King Jr. — who told her that he was a big fan of Star Trek. According to Nichols, when she told King she was thinking of quitting the show, he was shocked. “Don’t you know you have the first non-stereotypical role in television?” she recalls King saying. “For the first time the world will see us as we should be seen — people of quality in the future. You created a role with dignity and beauty and grace and intelligence. You’re not just a role model for our children, but for people who don’t look like us to see us for the first time as equals.”
In the more recent release of Star Trek, Lt. Uhura is recognized as a talented, brilliant officer, ranking top of her graduating class. Because Nichelle Nichols took us where no Black woman had gone before, our young women today have a classic role model that has bridged the generation gap in a positive manner.
What does all of this have to do with the prolife movement, my critics ask? Well, people respond to illustrations and anecdotes. It just so happens that Star Trek was part of my reality when I was growing up, so it is not so strange that I can find relevant comparisons to use in my talks.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. The
Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice his children
For immediate personal comfort and safety.” Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
How can the dream survive if we murder our children? We must value marriage between one man and one woman, purity in all sexual relationships, procreative reproductive health, and a biblical world view.” Dr. Alveda C. King, Post Abortive Mother, Minister, Activist

Beaming off till next time…