Lost in all the hub-bub of Tuesday’s primary elections was this – from American Papist:
Yesterday Alaskans voted to approve “Ballot Measure 2″ which requires that parents in Alaska be notified before their teen age 17-or-younger daughter has an abortion. Alaskans passed this pro-life initiative 55-44, though the Anchorage Daily News didn’t even bother to mention the final figures in their coverage.
Let’s get this straight – Planned Parenthood opposes the idea that girls under 18 should have to inform their parents they intend to get an abortion, despite the medical risks associated with abortion, despite the fact that most every other non-emergency procedure already requires parental notification if the patient is a minor, and despite the fact that a majority of Americans support parental notification laws.
Planned Parenthood and the ACLU funneled $800,000 into its campaign to stop Measure 2, five times as much as supporters (the Knights of Columbus was the biggest financial supporter of the measure)…
And that is pretty much it – an insane position is taken by the extremists of the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. They spend bags of money trying to sucker people in to backing insanity – and they are turned back at the polls by the common sense of the people. Even if you are pro-choice, I can’t imagine why anyone would deny parental notification for abortion – its just common sense. And thus the left hates it.
Issues such as abortion have taken a back seat to the very understandable concerns Americans have over the economy – but we must never let up for a minute in advancing the cause of life. If we don’t have a right to life, then we don’t have any rights at all. This is the fight for the future of our nation – whether we are rich or poor or what have you, if we aren’t a pro-life nation, then we aren’t a nation worthy of our Founders.
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