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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Governor's House: POLITICAL PIMPERY IN COLORADO

by Lawrence Fox

Editor's Note on Aug. 19, 2015: A Denver-based Planned Parenthood abortion clinic was caught on undercover video (released July 30) dissecting aborted babies to sell their body parts for research. But despite requests from Alliance Defending Freedom, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper refuses to investigate the baby death camp. Colorado's "pro-life" "Republican" Attorney General Cynthia Coffman also refused to investigate. Further Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood is involved in a lawsuit for failing to report the abortion of a 13-year-old Colorado girl who had been sexually abused by her step-father from the age of six. Planned Parenthood also allowed her sexual abuse to continue when they did not contact the girl's mother, informing her of the abortion. In a deposition in connection with the lawsuit, a Planned Parenthood employee admitted that
“being 13 and pregnant alone is not a red flag” for the abortion provider.  How to Contact Gov. Hickenlooper here. The reason why Gov. Hickenlooper is reluctant to look into the abuses by Planned Parenthood is described below.)

In high school, I had a classmate named Oliver. He carried with him a wallet which contained photos of black girls who were available for the right price.



Black male classmates would get excited when he showed them the photos. Oliver’s task was to convince the girls (so it seems) that hooking up for money was a form of empowerment and a means to material gain. Oliver promised the girls (so it seems) that he would find boys for them to hook up with who were "safe" while they continued their life's adventure into empowerment and material wellbeing.

Oliver got paid for this exchange. Oliver was a Pimp.

Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper along with members of the Democrat State
Democrat Colorado Governor
John Hickenlooper
Legislature fund the distribution of contraception to high school girls in Colorado. Their task (so it seems) is to convince young girls and their parents that hooking up is a civil right, an expression of female empowerment. The use of state-funded contraception enables young girls to  experience pleasure without the risk of material loss (i.e. becoming an unwed mother or having to pay for an abortion).

Hickenlooper along with members of the Democrat State Legislature use taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. This is the organization in Colorado which distributes contraception to young girls and performs abortions to whitewash abuse from their rapists. I wonder if Oliver knew this organization was started by Margaret Sanger, who said, 
"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.”  She also boasted she accepted an invitation to talk to the women's branch of the Ku Klux Klan. "I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses...I was escorted to the platform, was introduced, and began to speak...In the end, through simple illustrations, I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.”
Margaret Sanger at her best 

But what Oliver never told his "girls" is that contraception does not prevent the spread of HIV, Herpes, Syphilis, and the Human Papilloma Virus (leading cause for Cervical Cancer). Contraception does not prevent the loss of virginity, depression and suicide among teenage girls resulting from sexual promiscuity. Contraception brings awful consequences, not freedom. 

Planned Parenthood receives tax payer 
money to distribute contraception to young girls, and kill their offspring when contraception inevitably fails. In turn, it takes a percentage of profits and contributes to the political campaigns of John Hickenlooper, the Governor of Colorado, and members of the Democrat State Legislature.

Hickenlooper and members of the Democrat State Legislature get money for promoting hooking up among young women in Colorado, and whitewashing the actions of their rapists. The Governor of Colorado and members of the Democrat State Legislature are fundamentally no different from my classmate Oliver.


Oliver was a Pimp.



Colorado Politicians are also violating their state constitution by funding Planned Parenthood's abortion activities with state taxpayer dollars. Their illegal actions guarantee that residents of Colorado are directly paying for abortions. Colorado Taxpayers Forced to Send $14 Million to Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz

Lawrence Fox has other sarcastic humor pieces about the culture of death. If you liked this you may enjoy U.S. President Creates Bureau of Vital Fetal Organs

This is the Fourth Undercover Planned Parenthood Video released July 30, 2015 by the Center for Medical Progress.


Wednesday, February 4, 2015

ABORTION IS IRRATIONAL, and Destroys the Foundation of Society

by Lawrence Fox


When confronted with a picture of a dismembered, bleeding, and perfectly formed little person, progressives say, "It only looks like a child and looks can be deceiving."

Aristotle argued that something was living (animated) when moving, taking nourishment, and developing. From the moment of conception, a little person (fetus) moves, takes nourishment, and develops towards his/her intended state of maturity. 

This development is not becoming human, but the ability to flourish, mature and eventually generate its own human likeness in union with another human.

Reason and faith tells us the substance (the thing in itself) of the little person, which moves, takes nourishment, and develops is humanity, and humanity exists at conception. 

Humans generate humans, not frogs. And at conception the human moves, takes nourishment, and develops toward adulthood. Yes! I repeated myself.

The argument that “only a person reaching a cognitive state with all recognizable features and existing outside the womb of the mother deserves protection” is satanic doublespeak. 

Humans acting out of fear gleefully terminate the lives of other humans at all stages of their development. All that is needed to implement termination is technology and a little irrationality. The fact the little person is tiny and helpless enables irrational humans to  terminate little persons with indifference.Yes, humans have progressively developed into technical terminators.

Less fear and more love  is required in this growing age of spiritual  destitution.

Abortion (termination of little people) occurs when humans act irrationally. Their violent acts are rooted in ignorance, moral weakness, and indifference. 

Such irrationality is expressed by slogans like, “Keep your rosaries off my ovaries.” Now that really explains the situation. An unfertilized egg emerges from the woman’s ovary and simultaneously the praying of the Rosary forces her to have sexual relations and conceive a child. She is angry that she -- as a consequence of her actions -- conceived a child. She is furious seeing the Rosary since it reminds her that she did conceive a child.  So goes the irrational train of thought and behavior.

Or consider another slogan, “A woman has the right to control her own body!” Those who pray the Rosary actually agree that a woman should control her own body and not ignorantly place herself in such irrational situations.

Then there are politicians, judges, and religious leaders who promote irrationality. They sanctify rulings which uphold the right of humans to be utterly irrational -- even to the point of terminating little persons, who move, take nourishment, and develop as humans naturally do. Such rulings are meant to bind society to a collective state of irrationality. Irrationality has become easy to accept, easy to defend, and easy to implement thanks to technology, which profits from irrationality.

America has declined so fast since 1973 when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion.  I shiver when I hear people mindlessly mutter, “Hope and Change.” 

“We're building a brighter tomorrow” makes me nauseous as I watch America collectively heave with its own irrationally. 


There may be bright spots in America where common sense reigns, but more and more Americans are living the nursery rhyme: “Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men could not put Humpty Dumpty back together again.”

With 57 million little people missing in action since 1973,  the Ponzi schemes of progressive America (Welfare, Food Stamps, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Public Education, Healthcare) are collapsing, while the National Debt is rising to the tune of $2.37 billion per day to $18.1 Trillion on Feb. 5, 2015.

With 57 million people missing, America now is running across the border to find a surplus population  to pay taxes to keep the various Ponzi schemes afloat, but the opposite takes place. So much for welcoming your tired and your poor. We want your money. 

The vast majority of those who run across borders to pay off our debt depend heavily upon the very same Ponzi schemes which are rapidly coming to an end in the United States. 

The Psalmist wrote, “Foundations once destroyed, what can the just man do?” Pray that God expedites a merciful cleansing so the foundations of sanity can be once again restored.


 


Monday, February 2, 2015

To be Human or Not to Be: That is the Question About Abortion

by Christopher Ziegler

New Jersey Pro-Life Witness
Twitter Handle @CZWriting
reprinted from Times of Trenton with author’s permission

(Editor’s Note: Mr. Ziegler wrote this piece in response to several articles marking the 42nd anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Jan. 22, 1973, that legalized abortion.)


This is the question I believe a person should answer when deciding his or her position on abortion: Is the fetus human or something less than human?

That is, does a fetus, existing in utero, constitute a human life? If our answer to this question is “no,” we have very little cause to say abortion is wrong and should be illegal. But if our answer is “yes,” then it would be heartless not to say abortion is wrong and should be illegal.

I found it curious that most discussions about abortion avoid asking this vital question. Instead, they focus on a series of peripheral issues, such as the passage of recent state laws meant to limit access to abortion. But before we can address the rightness or wrongness of these laws, we must first determine the rightness or wrongness of abortion. And we cannot do that until we decide whether the fetus constitutes a human life.


Many pro-choice advocates dodge this question by recasting the issue as pertaining solely to women. When I was pro-choice, I would defend my position by claiming that the issue was really about women’s reproductive rights. I told myself that because it sounded a lot better than the truth, which was that I wanted to do certain things without having to face certain consequences. Saying that I supported women’s rights made me feel deep, when in reality my position was cowardly.

The Achilles’ heel to such arguments is this: What about the baby girl in the womb? Wouldn’t she have rights, too? For, surely, at least half of all the aborted would have grown to be women. To deny their rights, merely because they cannot plead their case, would be unfair. Hence, this invocation of women’s rights is simply a dodge to avoid the real question.


If the fetus is not human, there is no need to invoke women’s rights. But if it is human, then no one’s reproductive rights can trump someone else’s right to life.

Some men prefer to say, “It's a woman’s choice,” because this is an easy way to absolve themselves of responsibility. It unfairly puts the burden on the woman whether or not to abort. But there has never been an abortion where a man was not at least half responsible.

If these men were willing to consider their share of responsibility, there probably would be fewer unwanted pregnancies in the first place.

I do not mind the fact that many Americans are pro-choice. I used to be one of them, and it would be foolish to expect unanimity on all issues. But I do very much mind the fact that those who call themselves pro-choice do not more honestly state their position. They should be more open about what they honestly believe — that a fetus is not a human life. And then they should have to defend that position.

Instead, they typically raise issues that don’t help us answer the question one way or another. Planned Parenthood, for example, cites a study that claims 1.06 million abortions were performed in the U.S. in 2011, down from 1.21 million in 2008. I’m not sure what, if anything, this is supposed to prove.

18 weeks from conception
If the fetus is not human, it would not matter if there were 5 million abortions one year and five the next. Conversely, if the fetus is human, then one abortion, performed any year, is too many.

Many will say that a fetus is not a human life, but only a potential life. This argument is superficially convincing, because it is easy to fudge what we mean by “potential.”

However, what we mean by “human life” does have a precise scientific definition. According to National Geographic’s “In the Womb,” at the moment of conception, “an individual unique set of DNA is created — a human signature that never existed before and never will be repeated.”

Unfertilized eggs and unused sperm are potential life. But a fertilized egg, from the moment of conception onward, is no longer a potential life. It is an actual human life, already in progress. And what astonishing progress it makes in an unbelievably short span of time!

Some will admit that abortion ends life; yet argue that homicide is justifiable in certain circumstances, including cases of abortion. But anyone who has felt the softness of a newborn baby knows this is heartless.

Pretending the condition of a newborn is somehow radically different during the period of gestation is just wishful thinking.

Abortion is, in fact, the worst form of murder, because it involves dismembering the helpless and innocent. That is why I mark the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade  by considering the millions of men and women who have lost their chance at life.

Mr. Ziegler is celebrating The Feast of the Presentation, Feb. 2, 2015, by renewing his consecration to Jesus through Mary.

Woman of Gen: 3:15
 I will put enmities between thee and the woman, and thy seed and her seed:
she shall crush thy head, and thou shalt lie in wait for her heel.

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