Saw 'Lincoln'. Great movie! I was comparing the fight for freedom for slaves as being similar to the fight we have today to consider all unborn humans having equal rights.
You see some, if killed, are considered murder victims.
What is the difference if one is killed by an assailant wielding a gun, or a medic weilding a curette?
Unborn babies are people too and the unwanted as well as the wanted have a right to be born.
Monday, January 28, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
BORN ALIVE
An unplanned pregnancy may often be a crisis, but everyone hates abortion, even the most ardent pro-choice people (whose views I respect) have that view. So we are all happy that having a mom look at an ultrasound of her fetus before she makes up her mind about abortion usually results in no abortion! How happy that should make everybody who hates abortion.
There have been a few abortion survivors and surely they, grown now, need to be listened to. After all, they were directly involved. One survivor had recurrent nightmares of being in the womb and being attacked - as a teen, she found out that her mother had had an abortion that failed.
Another had recurrent nightmares that she was trying to hide in her room from a large knife that approached her. Another was born alive and rescued from a trash can after she cried.
They are persons now, and they were persons then.
http://www.theabortionsurvivors.com/
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/i-am-an-abortion-survivor-giving-voice-to-the-491-canadian-babies-born-aliv
GOD holds out His mericful and loving arms to all of us harmed by this.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
KUDOS for IRISH OBSTETRICIANS
Ireland is one of the safest countries in the world to have a baby. The easiest figures for me to lay my hands on for this blog are from 2010: Ireland: 6 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births; http://www.indexmundi.com/ireland/maternal_mortality_rate.html
the figure for the USA is 20 - http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/maternal_mortality_rate.html
CSPAN brought us the recent proceedings from Dáil Eireann (the Irish Parliament) which involved Obstetricians explaining their role in protecting a mother's life in pregnancy when there is a serious medical issue. This is in the wake of the very tragic death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish hospital; the pro-choice lobby point to Ireland's politicians failure to legislate on the 1993 X Case as a contributing cause of death.
So what is a doctor to do when faced with an obstetric emergency? If the only option to save the mother is to terminate the pregnancy, they do that.
'We never kill babies,' emphasized the very impressive Dr. Rhona Mahoney, Master of one of Ireland biggest Maternitiy Hospitals, The National Maternity Hospital (commonly known as Holles St) in Dublin, in response to a question from the Floor of the House. Holles St. is the busiest maternity hospital in Ireland.
Dr. Mahoney went on to say that it happens that she and her colleagues have to terminate pregnancies early because of a risk to a mother's life, but that the baby is given every care available. Unfortunately, sometimes the baby is just too young and small to live.
I can't tell you how refreshing it was to hear a discussion about crisis or problem pregnancies where the word 'baby' is not taboo.
And KUDOS to Irish OBs - the professionalism of the Team who gave their presentations - Dr. Rhona Mahoney, Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith, Master of the Rotunda Hospital and Dr. Mary McCaffrey from Tralee Hospital, County Kerry, was evident. Their love for their patients and their dedicatation to Mothers and Babies was there for the world to see.
Watch the Full Session here http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/CurrentAb
the figure for the USA is 20 - http://www.indexmundi.com/united_states/maternal_mortality_rate.html
CSPAN brought us the recent proceedings from Dáil Eireann (the Irish Parliament) which involved Obstetricians explaining their role in protecting a mother's life in pregnancy when there is a serious medical issue. This is in the wake of the very tragic death of Savita Halappanavar in an Irish hospital; the pro-choice lobby point to Ireland's politicians failure to legislate on the 1993 X Case as a contributing cause of death.
So what is a doctor to do when faced with an obstetric emergency? If the only option to save the mother is to terminate the pregnancy, they do that.
'We never kill babies,' emphasized the very impressive Dr. Rhona Mahoney, Master of one of Ireland biggest Maternitiy Hospitals, The National Maternity Hospital (commonly known as Holles St) in Dublin, in response to a question from the Floor of the House. Holles St. is the busiest maternity hospital in Ireland.
Dr. Mahoney went on to say that it happens that she and her colleagues have to terminate pregnancies early because of a risk to a mother's life, but that the baby is given every care available. Unfortunately, sometimes the baby is just too young and small to live.
I can't tell you how refreshing it was to hear a discussion about crisis or problem pregnancies where the word 'baby' is not taboo.
And KUDOS to Irish OBs - the professionalism of the Team who gave their presentations - Dr. Rhona Mahoney, Dr. Sam Coulter-Smith, Master of the Rotunda Hospital and Dr. Mary McCaffrey from Tralee Hospital, County Kerry, was evident. Their love for their patients and their dedicatation to Mothers and Babies was there for the world to see.
Watch the Full Session here http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/CurrentAb
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