Sarah Palin Speaks for Life
October 11th, 2008 at 01:44pm Mark Noonan
Obama couldn’t even drag himself to vote to protect babies born alive after botched abortions - contrast his cynical cowardice with Sarah Palin’s bold statement for life:
In this same spirit, as defenders of the culture of life, John McCain and I believe in the goodness and potential of every innocent life. I believe the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves. And who is more vulnerable, or more innocent, than a child?
When I learned that my son Trig would have special needs, I had to prepare my heart for the challenges to come. At first I was scared, and Todd and I had to ask for strength and understanding. But I can tell you a few things I’ve learned already.
Yes, every innocent life matters. Everyone belongs in the circle of protection. Every child has something to contribute to the world, if we give them that chance. There are the world’s standards of perfection … and then there are God’s, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before God, and dear to Him for their own sake.
As for our beautiful baby boy, for Todd and me, he is only more precious because he is vulnerable. In some ways, I think we stand to learn more from him than he does from us. When we hold Trig and care for him, we don’t feel scared anymore. We feel blessed.
It’s hard to think of many issues that could possibly be more important than who is protected in law and who isn’t – who is granted life and who is denied it. So when our opponent, Senator Obama, speaks about questions of life, I listen very carefully.
I listened when he defended his unconditional support for unlimited abortions. He said that a woman shouldn’t have to be – quote – “punished with a baby.” He said that right here in Johnstown –“punished with a baby” – and it’s about time we called him on it. The more I hear from Senator Obama, the more I understand why he is so vague and evasive on the subject. Americans need to see his record for what it is. It’s not negative or mean-spirited to talk to about his record. Whatever party you belong to, there are facts you need to know.
Senator Obama has voted against bills to end partial-birth abortion. In the Illinois Senate, a bipartisan majority passed legislation against that practice. Senator Obama opposed that bill. He voted against it in committee, and voted “present” on the Senate floor. In that legislature, “present” is how you vote when you’re against something, but don’t want to be held to account.
As I’ve said before, even if we lose on November 4th, we win. We’ve got Sarah Palin and coming up fast behind her is Bobby Jindal…and, additionally, even a defeated John McCain will be in the Senate to carry on the fight for life. You people on the left don’t realize your peril or how badly you’ve screwed up…and all you ever had to do to get it right was to come to the common sense and utterly human understanding that life is good, and worthy of our best protections. But, of course, I don’t think we’re going to lose - is a coward like Obama going to defeat a hero like John McCain? Is the culture of death really going to triumph over the Culture of Life? I don’t think so; I pray for McCain, for Palin and for Life - and, indeed, I pray for Barack Obama, that he will soon see how badly wrong he’s been and how easily he can repair the damage…life trumps all, even - believe it or not - the level of taxation and whether or not Iraq was a good idea.
Life and hope will always win - even if they suffer a temporary setback.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Life Issues, Republicans
20 Comments
1. merge divide | October 11th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
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2. Casper | October 11th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
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3. The Arctic Fox | October 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Once again, you start out with what - if not an outright lie - is a complete distortion.
This has been debunked, numerous times. By law any fetus is guaranteed a right to life when, quote, “there is… a reasonable likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb, with or without artificial support.” The legislation that Obama refused to back would not have changed that. He refused to back it because it gave the same protection to a fetus even if doctors gave it a zero percent chance of life - to make illegal a womans right to abort it even if it wouldn’t live more than a few hours at best. There is a HUGE difference between not trying to save something that most likely can’t be saved and “protecting babies born alive after a botched abortion” - the law is that such babies, if they have a chance of making it, are already protected.
Now to the double standards. When the kerfuffle broke out about Palin’s daughters baby, the Right was quick to say that no doubt Obama would use the “special needs baby” for politicizing at every opportunity simply because Palin had a special needs child. The Right were all over how terribly wrong and bad that would be. What have we seen since, and seen here? Palin using “special needs baby” lines politicizing at every opportunity. Double standards now, just as there are double standards in Washington. No sign Palin would reform them, every sign she uses them herself.
And then we get this:
Well - at least you’re getting used to the fact you’re going to lose, even if you are attempting to redefine losing as winning. McCain will most likely retire after this campaign. He will be too old in four years time to do this all again, and most likely to upset with the failure this time to even try. As for Sarah, well, I think she’s finished after losing in November too, because after all, the rabid Right need SOMEONE to blame so that the policies, such as they are, and the Reaganomics and the neoconservative BS remains blameless.
And back we go to the twisting and the hatred. Life is good. Life is worthy of protection. Trying to force something that’s not developed enough to survive, to live a few hours longer is not good. If anything, it’s trying to play God - not accepting that a dying or unsaveable fetus is dying or unsaveable, and punishing anyone who tries to say otherwise. The emperors new clothes. Just because someone has different political opinions doesn’t make them bad, or hateworthy, or any less human - so quit with the pseudo-caring patronizing; it’s blatantly fake.
But this isn’t about life. This is about scoring political points, at the expense of whoever disagrees. YOU are causing the setbacks, but you’re right, hope WILL always win. Especially come November.
4. js | October 11th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
your head is so far up your arse arctic fox…i doubt that the truth will ever make an impact on you;
“Abortion or Infanticide”
Dr. Joseph Melnick faced controversy after abortion on 13-year-old results in live birth.
Abortion Survivor’s Story
Amy tells of having survived three saline abortion attempts.
Ana Rosa vs. the National Abortion Federation
National Abortion Federation member Abu Hayat attempted an illegal third-trimeseter abortion in his New York office, resulting in the birth of a maimed baby girl.
Baby Ashley
Nicolette, a teenager, had to witness the death struggles of her premature daughter after doctors at Women’s Pavilion refused to remove laminaria.
“Baby Hope Continued”
Mona Charon brings us a closer view of the events surrounding the abortion death of Baby Hope.
“I was a survivor of an abortion. I can remain silent no more.”
Audrey tells her story.
Is Someone Who Survives an Abortion a Person?
A collection of stories of those who failed to die.
Rowan’s story
Mother tells how clinic workers left her born-alive infant to die.
Sharon’s Story
A miracle baby survived an IUD and an abortion attempt.
Tiny Tim
A nurse describes watching a live-born infant die after an abortion.
Sobrevivientes al aborto
A Spanish-language site featuring abortion survivors. Includes pictures of many survivors, including Joshua Vandervelden.
Failed Misoprostol Abortion Leads To Birth Defects
Dr. Claudette Gonzalez in Brazil examined 42 infants whose mothers took misoprostol in an attempt to terminate their pregnancies. The most common physical effects of misoprostol in the infants were arthrogryposis (contractures of joints), shortness or absence of fingers or toes, tapered digits, syndactyly (fusion of digits), cranial-nerve defects, and hydrocephalus (abnormal amounts of cerebrospinal fluid in the ventricles of the brain).
Illicit abortion drug causes birth defects
Abortion proponents blame the problem on abortion not being easy enough to get, rather than on the whole idea that abortion is a good option for women.
Pro Child/Pro Choice Rings Hollow
How can you tell an abortion-injured child that “choice” is good for children?
Women Who Change Their Minds After the Abortion
Abortion advocates say women only have abortions they “need.” But if the birth of this baby is truly going to ruin the woman’s life, wouldn’t she still “need” the abortion when she learned it had failed to kill the fetus?
Fetuses With Attitude
Some things are just too scary to contemplate. For Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder (D-CO), like other abortion-advocating members of the House Judiciary Committee, there’s nothing scarier than having a fetus speak about abortion.
The Ultimate Complication
Ximena Renaerts is quadriplegic, has cerebral palsy, and has the mental age of a three-year-old. Ximena was born following a failed abortion.
Baby Hope
An infant who lived for three hours after being aborted touched the heart of a nurse.
Christelle Morrison
Cristelle was aborted alive, then left in the snow to die.
Heidi Huffman
Heidi survived an abortion attempt in 1978.
Sarah Smith
Sarah survived the abortion that killed her twin brother.
Second Ohio Baby in Six Months Survives Apparent Beginning Phase of Three-Day Partial-Birth Abortion Procedure
“Baby Grace” survives abortion attempt.
Sarah Brown
Sarah was left profoundly disabled by an abortion attempt at George Tiller’s infamous Wichita abortion facility.
Abortion Survivor Sarah Smith
Article with photos and text of Sarah’s speech given in Rome.
Bryan H.
Dr. Alan Beer at Planned Parenthood ruptured the amniotic sac, then referred Patient L. to University of Michigan Medical Center, where five days later she gave birth to a 2 lb. 3 1/2 oz premature infant boy of approximately 25-29 weeks gestation.
Pro Vita
Another site with photos of a gathering of abortion survivors. I can’t even identify the language, but the pictures are powerful.
The Abortion Survivors
Survivors share their stories on the Priests for Life web site.
Care call for abortion survivors
From BBC News.
Live births after abortion in the UK
Research in the UK indicates that more babies are born live during abortions done between 18 and 42 weeks than officials previously believed.
Survivors of Abortion
From Abortion Facts.
When a crying baby is not ‘alive’
At question is whether a six-pound, 19-inch baby girl was “completely separated” at delivery when her mother, Elizabeth Ehlert, killed her.
Pro-Choice Pro-Child? Ask Ximena Reanerts
A three pound baby born in a Vancouver hospital was left, shivering and gasping for breath, in a bedpan in a storage room for dead fetuses. She suffered horribly but escaped with her life.
Phoenix Doe, Abortion Survivor
This little girl was born injured at 37 weeks during an attempted abortion by John Biskind at Moshe Hachamovitch’s A to Z abortion mill in Arizona.
Pro-Choice Pro-Child? Baby Rowan
A mother talked into an unwanted abortion by a so-called Christian counselor tells of the horror of delivering her baby alive in an abortion clinic toilet.
Pro-Choice Pro-Child? Joshua Vandervelden
Dr. Benjamin Victoria attempted to perform an abortion on Linda Moie on January 12, 1979, at Fox Valley Reproductive Health Care Center in Wisconsin.
Pro-Choice Pro-Child? Baby Claire
Like Ana Rosa Rodriguez in New York, Baby Claire is missing her right arm at the shoulder due to an attempt to abort her.
http://realchoice.0catch.com/dreadcomplication.htm
5. js | October 11th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
abortion should be a crime
6. js | October 11th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
the shame of it all is that these infants are alive inside of thier mothers womb…nobody has the right to take that life…not even the mother who created it…
life begins at conception…and no medical doctor will dispute that fact
7. Now What? | October 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Jack asS,
you should be ashame of writing the above crap.
If you really believe any of it maybe it’s your head up Arctic Fox’s Arse.
Healthcare is my living and I am still pro-choice.
8. neocon | October 11th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Pro Choice over what Now What?
- Will you allow me the choice to send my children to the public school of my choosing?
- Will you allow me the choice to put some of my mandatory SS contribution funds into a private account?
- Will you allow me the choice to opt out of Obama’s UHC plan is he is elected?
- Would you allow the parents of invalids the right to choose to sustain the life of their daughter over the wishes of the husband?
- Would you allow public school’s the choice to inlcude creationism in their curriculum?
- Will you allow public school assemblies the right to choose prayer before school events?
Just how pro-choice are you?
9. Nate | October 11th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
- Will you allow me the choice to send my children to the public school of my choosing?
It would be nice if that could happen but it’s possible that a given school might not have enough resources to work with all the children choosing it. It would be even better to make all schools high quality so you’d not have to worry about which one for your children to attend.
- Will you allow me the choice to put some of my mandatory SS contribution funds into a private account?
If you want to take the risk sure — think about losing 50% over the past few weeks. but it should not change the resulting benefits of those who choose to stay.
- Will you allow me the choice to opt out of Obama’s UHC plan is he is elected?
to no health care? staying with a business plan?
- Would you allow the parents of invalids the right to choose to sustain the life of their daughter over the wishes of the husband?
wow, still stuck on schiavo? how about requiring everyone to have a living will (upon majority age) so that such issues are clear.
- Would you allow public school’s the choice to inlcude creationism in their curriculum?
outside of science since it’s not science. perhaps in social studies?
- Will you allow public school assemblies the right to choose prayer before school events?
anyone can pray anytime they want. an organized prayer does not belong in public school functions. perhaps churches need to start fielding sports teams, etc. that want the supernatural almighty behind them. other such things like a theater production or concert or whatever, do group prayers happen on broadway or in the public concert hall — no — and why would a group prayer be needed — what, so that no one forgets their lines? so that the violin strings don’t break? so, like, the supernatural is what makes a string break? what is up with that? again, anyone can pray whenever they want …
10. RB in NYC | October 11th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Palin is finished nationally if/when McCain doesn’t win. That’s just what happens to defeated VP candidates. Quayle, Edwards, Lieberman, none of them came close to their party’s nomination.
Once you have the stink of national defeat on you, it doesn’t wash off.
11. Ricorun | October 11th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
RB: Once you have the stink of national defeat on you, it doesn’t wash off.
Tell that to Nixon (he was VP, won the nomination for P, lost, then later won the nomination and won). Or Reagan (he ran for P and lost before he won). Or GHW Bush (he ran for P and lost before he won). Additionally Adelai Stevenson won the Democratic nomination twice (but lost both times) and Thomas Dewey won the Republican nomination twice (but lost both times).
Personally, I think Palin still has a bright future — assuming she polishes up some in the mean time. I may be premature in saying this, but I think McCain picked her too early, then mishandled her after he did (my Lord, he’s run a terrible campaign, but that’s another rant). And some have characterized her as Quayle in a skirt, or Bush in a skirt. She’s smarter than Quayle, and more well spoken than Bush. I think she’s more like Huckabee in a skirt. And I think both Huckabee and Palin have futures.
12. majoriot | October 11th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Deleted - slander.
13. CanadianObserver | October 11th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
That’s OK?
12. majoriot | October 11th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
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Yes, as Palin will tell you, it doesn’t really count if it brings American democracy to Iraq. Besides, Saddam was killing more Iraqi children than the U.S. has.
You need to show more support for your country’s war effort, majoriot. Where is your patriotism, anyway?
14. js | October 11th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
7. Now What?
now what exactly are you accusing me of? killing babies is a fugly business….you want prety pictures and signs that say “this way to you happy happy so good execution of the life you created” all over town?
get over it bimbo…if ya cant stand the truth…then you should fighting to change it..yes…it is sick…and yes…its fact…the whole truth….
then again…your record with the truth really sucks…doesnt it…
15. js | October 11th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
12. majoriot | October 11th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Yet Palin supports the murder of countless innocentchildren in Iraq.
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ok…ill bite…
show us exacly when palin said that…
if you dont…and in advance…because i know you cant…im calling you a bald faced liar.
16. js | October 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
13. CanadianObserver
go ahead…dig in to the lie…
document when palin said “supports the murder of countless innocentchildren in Iraq”
ill bet you even support obamasiah who claimed our troops are over there bombing women and children and other DNC senators and congress men that say our sons are in iraq raping and pillaging the country….
oh…sorry…did i say our sons…you are a frikin canadian peon…wtf are you doing here idiot…you missed the exit sign
morons go this way >—————->
bye sucker
17. CanadianObserver | October 11th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
16. js | October 11th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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We, along with other thinking countries, said no to Iraq, as we knew it had nothing to do with 9/11. We did, however, say yes to Afghanistan where the perpetrators were actually trained and where Bin Laden resided before he moved to Pakistan.
Got it?
18. js | October 11th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
tell that to the half million children that saddam let die so he could garner your support…
got it?
19. neocon | October 11th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
CO,
The vision was a little larger than catching Bin Laden, and taking out Saddam was crucial to that vision of bringing democracy to an oppressed ME region.
As evidenced by millions of Iraqi’s voting in three seperate elections and a current representative government of Iraq.supported by a 300,000+ ISF force, I’d say this vision is worthy of supporting.
But that would require someone like you willing to sacrifice for someone else. Sadly, I don’ think it’s in you.
20. js | October 12th, 2008 at 4:10 am
its pretty pitiful neo…CO thinks we went to iraq becuse of 9-11…he’s a clueless canuk…he would not sacrifice anything because his value system precludes the possibility that there might be something more important than the selfish little world he surrounds himself in….
if he were any difference…he would be working to change things in canada…instead of a foreign nation that he holds no accountablity in or for…