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The Pro-Life Week in
Review Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko Good evening and thanks for reading "Today's News & Views." Part Two discusses a TIME magazine essay that details how President Obama became so unpopular. Part Three is the second half of NRLC President Wanda Franz's review of an important new study on the mental health impact on women of abortion. Over at National Right to Life News Today (www.nationalrighttolifenews.org), you'll read a beautiful story from a Canadian pro-life activist about the speech he and his wife delivered at NRLC's national convention. There is also a very helpful educational resource. 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.
Let me briefly mention two items before discussing the Pro-Life Week in Review. First, I will not be posting on Labor Day. Second, thanks to all of you who, week in and week out, send such terrific responses. I have learned far more from my readers than they have from me. In Part Two today I finish the week of August 30 through September 3 with another look at the current political landscape. Once upon a time ObamaLand was green and lush. Now it more resembles a desert. Erosion has taken its toll--and the worse may well be yet to come, particularly for pro-abortion House and Senate Democrats thirsting for votes. Switching metaphors, I recently ran across a reference to something called an "acoustic cloak," which first received popular attention in mid-2008. It's beyond my comprehension, but the gist is that researchers believe they can produce a "cloak that can make objects impervious to sound waves, literally diverting sound waves around an object. " (Science20.com dubbed it "sound invisibility.") And one of the first uses of the material, we read, "is likely to be warships, hoping to avoid sonar radars which pick up on the noise that ships emit." But this theoretical construct has nothing on Obama. All during the 2008 presidential campaign, it was as if then-candidate Obama was surrounded by a cloak which made his real agenda invisible. It was as if doubts never needed to be deflected; they went around him. He was so glib the nation collectively never got a real "fix" on him. We did, of course, because we knew his record as a state Senator and a United States Senator (100% pro-abortion) and what he told the likes of Planned Parenthood's political arm ("me casa es su casa"). ObamaCare is only one of the many "accomplishments" that have warmed the cockles of the Abortion Establishment's heart. We also wrote this week about abortion statistics--the reassuring news illustrated beautifully that the abortion rate has gone down dramatically; a new study demonstrating the dramatic mental health consequences on women who've had a 2nd or 3rd trimester abortion; several stories on the decision by a federal judge to issue a temporary injunction on Obama's anti-life stem cell policy; a link to NRLC so that we can help plug you into your local pro-life group; a beautiful anti-euthanasia essay lifting up the value of human life; and a couple of stories that, alas, show just how much abortion has cheapened the value of human life. As we close the week, please remember the huge importance of linking material from "Today's News & Views" and "National Right to Life News Today" to your social networks. It takes just five minutes of your time and multiples many times over the impact of the work. Just go to http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/index.html and to http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org. There you will find "share" buttons for everything from Add.1o to Zanatic--which includes, of course, the social network giants, Facebook and Twitter. Have a great Labor Day! See you Tuesday. |
