By Dave
Andrusko
Part Three is
a smorgasbord of several items that are
important for our audience to know
about.
#1. Last
week, Time magazine's Amy
Sullivan unleashed her latest
pro-abortion salvo, this time aimed at
the United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops. Her litany is so wrong on so
many different fronts that the only
explanation is that she must have
composed her column from notes handed to
her by the pro-abortion Obama
Administration.
In many ways
the most important part of this assault
is how it is part of the daily offensive
undertaken by Obama and his allies to
marginalize anyone who has the audacity
to disagree. Wherever you might be on
the political spectrum, whatever your
position on abortion, this ought to make
you very, very afraid.
NRLC
Legislative Director Douglas Johnson and
Richard Doerflinger, Deputy Director of
the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities,
United States Conference of Catholic
Bishops, have responded thoughtfully.
Let me offer the first paragraph of Mr.
Johnson's rebuttal:
"From my
perspective as legislative director for
the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC),
about the only thing that is "revealing"
about the latest essay by Time
magazine's Amy Sullivan is how hard she
works to assist the Administration and
its congressional allies as they press
forward with another key element in the
pro-abortion public policy agenda. In
this case, the end goal of the
pro-abortion forces is to establish two
big new federal programs that will
subsidize abortion on demand, by
smuggling these programs into law
through the "health care reform"
legislation. The immediate goal of
Sullivan's latest essay is to try to sow
confusion regarding the efforts of the
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to
prevent the enactment of those
pro-abortion policies."
#2. It is no secret that the Obama
Administration has taken dead aim both
at Fox News and at conservative talk
radio. And it is no surprise that CNN,
which is getting shellacked in the
ratings by Fox News, should decide it
was time for a three-part series on talk
radio.
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Wesley Smith |
Why is this important to us? Because
both Fox and conservative talk radio are
among the few media outlets that give
the pro-life perspective a fair hearing.
Attacks by the Obama Administration and
its media lackeys (such as CNN) are
intended not just to stifle criticism.
It is also to set the stage for either
reinstituting the "Fairness Doctrine" or
some other mechanism to emasculate the
few media voices that do not kowtow to
Obama.
A friend sent me a link to the first
part of the CNN series. It is hard to
miss the message.
"Some say" (always a bad start) that
conservative talk radio "has made our
country viciously partisan." As for
listeners of conservative talk radio,
according to Carol Costello, they are
the kind of people who, if they cannot
be institutionalized, need at a minimum
to be psychoanalyzed on a regular basis.
#3. In Part Two, the final link is to a
piece written by bioethicist Wesley
Smith that appears at
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzVjMTU3ZGE2MDVkM2ZjMTg1YTY3NDIwYjdmOWZmYTE=.
"Hazardous
Pathway:
The road
to euthanasia" is must reading. Its
thesis is, "The United Kingdom
continues to provide vivid warnings
about the dangers of centralized
health-care planning-- a real
possibility under Obamacare." Smith then
offers a litany of examples to prove his
point.
Smith
concludes with this warning:
"Chillingly,
current Obamacare plans call for the
creation of many
cost/benefit/best-practices boards, the
full power of which won't be fully known
until the bureaucrats promulgate tens of
thousands of pages of regulations
between now and 2013, when the law would
go into effect. Making matters more
alarming, these boards would not only
govern treatment provided in any
public-option health plan, but would
also be empowered to set the standards
of care paid for by private insurance.
Unless the final version of Obamacare is
amended explicitly to prohibit such
centralized health planning, don't be
surprised if an American version of the
Liverpool Care Pathway comes soon to a
hospital or nursing home near you."
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