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The Pro-Life Week in
Review Part One of Three By Dave Andrusko Let me begin by asking that you please read Part Two. This post is one I've run every year since September 11, 2001. You will learn a great deal about the people who compose the greatest Movement for social justice of our time.
As always, we've covered everything from A to Z this week. However, no story generated near the response evoked by the latest atrocities committed by abortionist Steven Brigham. No matter how many states suspend or revoke his license; no matter how hard the IRS breaths down his neck; no matter how brazenly he maneuvers to evade the system, it seems nothing can shut him down. (See www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept10/nv090910part3.html) Second only to Brigham in
generating email is the piece I wrote yesterday about Men and
Abortion. The article that sparked my comments was not written
by a pro-lifer, but to the author's credit, it included the work
of Project Joseph. The remark was close to flippant, but the
writer is on to something: "Men have long taken the back seat in
the national conversation about abortion, but now, even if
they're not driving it, they've at least graduated to
passenger-seat status." As I said, that's a stretch. Men are
still, at best, in the back seat. But at least they are being
allowed in the car. (See The parallel is an obvious one, but it's beginning to wend its way into the public commentary of erstwhile supporters of pro-abortion President Barack Obama: "the incredibly shrinking presidency." As his approval ratings whoosh their way down to the 30s, there are a lot of explanations for his fall. I talked at length about what I saw them to be this week, and do again in Part Three today. An update here on a story we've covered for several weeks. As you recall earlier this week U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth denied the Obama administration's request that he lift his August 23 preliminary injunction that prevents the Obama administration from continuing to fund research that requires the destruction of human embryos. The Obama Administration then appealed that to a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Without getting into the merits of the issue, the panel lifted the temporary stay. The appeals court panel wrote in its one-page decision, "The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the merits of the emergency motion for stay and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion." We also had occasion to write extensively about statistics that illuminate the real situation of abortion in America (www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept10/nv090110.html) and a study that documents the emotional aftermath f or women who abort (www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/Sept10/nv090310part3.html). This represents the best in pro-life scholarship. Finally, even though we've been running "National Right to Life News Today" for months, only some of our TN&V readers know that it exists, functioning as a "late-edition," a second look at the day's events from the pro-life perspective. The URL is www.nationalrighttolifenews.org. This week we looked at a ton of stuff, including developments in Canada [and the blog of a Canadian activist, talking about the speech he gave at the NRLC Convention last June], hands-on instruction for grassroots pro-lifers, and a debunking of the latest misinformation about embryonic stem cell research from actor Michael J. Fox. Again, this blog becomes better known everyday to the extent that YOU post its contents on your social networks. How? Just go to www.nationalrighttolifenews.org and http://www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/index.html. There are share buttons there for everything from add.io to Zooloo--with the more familiar Twitter and Facebook in between. Have a great weekend and please read Part Two. Please send your comments to daveandrusko@gmail.com. |
