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The Pro-Life Week in Review
Part One of Four By Dave Andrusko Good evening, and thanks for taking time to read Today's News & Views. Part Two catches you up on all things political. In Part Three Jonathan Rogers places the Right to Life Movement in its historical context. Part Four affords you the opportunity to help air NRL Educational ads on the radio. Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), Wesley Smith denounces the pro-abortion attacks on CPCs. Good news from Arizona, where at last a pro-life law is going to go into effect Monday, after more than a decade of delays! And I write about President Obama's appearance on "The Daily Show." Please send your comments on Today's News & Views and National Right to Life News Today to daveandrusko@gmail.com. If you like, join those who are following me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/daveha. Literally, moments before I sat down to write this blog entry, an old friend emailed me to say, "Just wanted to check in and see how you are doing as the big day approaches on Tuesday." Yes, indeed, November 2 IS a big day--for you, for me, and, most of all, for the cause for which we have devoted large chunks of our lives.
Not surprisingly, a lot of what we wrote about this week revolved around what may happen four days from today. I will offer my daily summary of all things political in Part Two but the operative thought is simply this: Pro-abortion Democrats are plummeting to new depths. Under the headline, "Democratic Closing Argument: Personal Attacks," ABC's Jonathan Karl wrote last night, "As you watch this year's ads -- and I've been watching all too many lately -- you'll notice a striking difference between Democratic and Republican attack ads: Democrats are attacking over personal issues, Republicans are attacking over policy." It's ugly, but it will get even uglier. With respect to the next 72 hours, perhaps the most important story we ran dealt with NRL's Educational Radio ad (http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Oct10/nv102810part2.html). You and I know that ObamaCare is saturated with abortion-promoting and rationing- guaranteeing provisions, but many Americans do not. Please go to this page and send what you can. In addition to all the political coverage, among my favorites is a blog I wrote about an article Prof. John Finnis produced that was adapted from his debate with Profs. Peter Singer and Margaret Little. (His article can be found at www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2010/10/1849.) Even those of us who've been around the block several thousand times may not know how radically anti-life Singer is (he appears to have aged badly, in that respect), or how cleverly academicians like Little can justify the unjustifiable. You can read my take on this at http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Oct10/nv102610part3.html. To be honest I don't get a lot of response from pro-abortionists, even though I know they read both TN&V and National Right to Life News Today. But when I wrote " Pro-Abortionists Angered by Growing Public Presence of Pro-Life African Americans," I received a scorcher of a response (http://www.nrlc.org/NewsToday/ProLifeAfricanAmericans.html). They simply don't want to hear that the "beneficiaries" of abortion on demand are raising their voices in opposition. There are dozens of different articles I could link you to, but in particular please check out "Cardinal-designate Burke Speaks About Principles to Help Catholics to Inform Their Vote" (http://www.nrlc.org/NewsToday/CardinalBurke.html); "Web-Cam Abortions Continue While Iowa Medical Board Deliberates: Web-Cam Abortions Continue While Iowa Medical Board Deliberates" (http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Oct10/nv102810part3.html); and "Lame Excuses Do Not Change the Truth that Democratic Party Mailing Was Anti-Catholic" (http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Oct10/nv102710.html). Part Two |