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News Wednesday afternoon that an armed gunman had entered the cable TV headquarters of Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, Maryland and begun taking hostages alarmed people throughout the Washington, D.C. area and around the country. As law enforcement officials negotiated with the suspect, posts on social media outlets inevitably began arguing over the ideological motivations of the hostage-taker, James J. Lee. Conservatives were quick to point out the suspect’s radical environmentalist manifesto, while left-leaning sources disclaimed any connection. News a few hours later that the suspect had been shot and killed by police spawned a round of smug black humor, concluding that he had been successful in accomplishing one of his chief demands, a smaller world population.

The immediate verdict from the online world seems to be that Lee was simply insane, even as differently motivated voices tried to pin the source of his insanity on each other. If we take a step back, though, we can look at the demands he made — which law enforcement officials said “mirrored” those in his online manifesto — and see the wider context of Lee’s beliefs.

His focus on population control is clear from the beginning. Lee demands that the Discovery Channel and its affiliates must “Focus…on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution.” On the topic of immigration, he recommends that we “find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that” and in order to safeguard the future of wildlife, he writes that doing so “means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies!”

While his rhetoric is crude and offensive, that doesn’t mean his ideas don’t have wider currency. From the time of Paul Ehrlich’s infamous 1968 manifesto The Population Bomb to the work of groups like Zero Population Growth (first re-branded as simply “ZPG” and currently known as “Population Connection”), the specter of unsupportable population growth has been one of the environmental movement’s greatest scare stories. It’s the kind of all-encompassing disaster that was supposed to be hard to ignore — even if you didn’t care about the environment, the pitch goes, you have to be worried about overpopulation! You don’t want millions of people to starve to death or see wars spawned by a fight over food and scarce natural resources, do you?

But how does a concern over famines and resources depletion translate into the vicious anti-human ideology of a James Lee? The answer is clear — combine one old theory about the inherent limitations of mankind with one new theory about the alienation of human beings from the rest of the natural world. Lee provides us with all of the leads we need when he demands that the Discovery Channel “develop shows that mention the Malthusian sciences.”

Read more at American Spectator

The Malthusian Delusion and the Origins of Population Control

James Lee Discovery Channel bomber – Al Gore disciple

My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn – James Jay Lee’s bible

John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet

Call for two-child limit on families from the Government’s leading green adviser

Fewer Children to Save the Planet?

Environmentalism Is the New Religion

Inhofe: Some Senators Share Holdren’s View That Born Babies Are Not ‘Human Beings’

People asks: How many kids are too many?

In 2008, Angie Smith and her husband Todd (lead singer of the group Selah) learned through ultrasound that their fourth daughter had conditions making her incompatible with life.  Advised to terminate the pregnancy, the Smiths chose instead to carry this child and allow room for a miracle.

This is their story:

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Official “I Will Carry You” music video, dedicated to Audrey Caroline:

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You can’t put a price on human life…unless you’re a government health care bureaucrat.

If the Left was always this honest, our job would be so much easier.  Keep talking!  Tell America what you REALLY believe!   You’re doing us a great favor!

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Left-leaning New York Times economic columnist Paul Krugman says the so-called “death panels” established by President Obama’s trillion-dollar nationalized health-care plan will end up saving “a lot of money” for the government.

The comments from Krugman, who also writes on the New York Times blogs, came during a discussion of “Obamacare” on the ABC News Sunday program “This Week.”

Read more at World Net Daily

From Jill Stanek

April is Abortion Recovery Awareness Month. If you are struggling after an abortion, there is help, hope, and healing for you.

If you feel guilt or shame, anger, confusion, are depressed, have suicidal thoughts, nightmares, increased drinking or drug use, or trouble bonding with subsequent children, please know you are not alone.There are people all over the country that are waiting to offer you abortion recovery services. Here are just a few of them…

ARIN Abortion Recovery International
A wealth of information from feelings you may be experiencing after abortion, stories from those affected by abortion and a site locator to find abortion recovery resources near you.

National Helpline for Abortion Recovery
(5433)
Post abortive men and women are waiting to answer your call and refer you to abortion recovery services in your area.

Rachel’s Vineyard
A healing retreat weekend for abortion recovery. Retreats are held in many countries around the world.

Silent No More Awareness
Affiliates throughout the country are very active in getting the word out by speaking the truth that abortion hurts women and men. It is a place to find others that have found healing after abortion. You can also share your story on the website with those who truly understand.

Fatherhood Forever Foundation
Helping men find healing after abortion. 

Operation Outcry
If you would like to have your abortion story used to further pro-life legislation please go to the website and fill out a declaration. Operation Outcry has the world’s largest body of evidence on the harmful effects of abortion.

The most important thing to realize is that you are not alone in your thoughts and feelings. Others have traveled the path to find healing and you can, too.

If you are struggling, please reach out for help. We will share with you the same love and support we were offered.

I continue to walk the journey of abortion recovery. It would be a privilege and an honor to be here for you if you need me. Write me at carla@jillstanek.com.

Jill Stanek is a registered nurse and a staunch advocate for human life.  She has testified before congress in support of the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act“, which would have granted protection and medical care for infants who survived abortions.   Barack Obama voted against such legislation 3 times!

In this 2000 interview, she renders Bill O’Reilly literally speechless as she describes cradling a 21-week-old aborted baby boy for the 45 minutes that he lived, so he wouldn’t have to die alone in a soiled utility room (other babies have lived up to 8 hours, struggling to breathe without medical care).

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In November 2008, Americans elected a socialist as their president. In March 2010, they woke up stunned to find themselves living in a socialist country.

Health insurers – once private companies – are now organs of the federal government. Every citizen is a ward of the state, which can now compel you to have insurance; punish you if you don’t; determine if your insurance is acceptable; punish you if it isn’t. Thousands of new federal bureaucrats will soon spill from the D.C. Beltway and flood the country, scrutinizing our finances to verify compliance with this new law.

A government that grants itself this kind of power over us can conceivably do anything to us. For our own good, of course. Such a country is in no meaningful sense “free.”

And this is only the beginning. Liberals are salivating in contemplation of all the fanciful window trimmings that can in the future be hung from this legislative framework. Public option will soon appear as prelude to single payer, as was the intent all along. Soon, Americans won’t even have the illusion of a choice – the government will move from subsidizer to provider, and it will be the only game in town.

Read more at American Thinker

Health Care Bill: How The House Members Voted

What are Democratic leaders saying? “If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That’s one of the arguments I’ve been hearing,” Stupak says. “Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue — come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we’re talking about.”

If Obamacare passes, Stupak says, it could signal the end of any meaningful role for pro-life Democrats within their own party. “It would be very, very hard for someone who is a right-to-life Democrat to run for office,” he says.

Read more at Hot Air

Country music superstars Randy Travis and Collin Raye are headlining a concert April 11 in Indianapolis to commemorate the 5-year anniversary of Terri Schindler-Schiavo’s court-ordered death by dehydration and starvation.

The concert is sponsored by the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation.

Read more at CNS News

Abortion kills a living child.  But this simple fact is often too easy to ignore since the victims of abortion – even when they survive – rarely ever speak about it.  But one victim who did survive an abortion and who is set to address the Canadian March for Life Youth Conference this May 14 in Ottawa recently shared her thoughts about the issue with LifeSiteNews.com (LSN).

“It is the very problem of abortion, itself, which is typically shrouded in secrecy and ends the life of the very person who could share the truth with the world, that makes statistically examining abortion so difficult,” Melissa Ohden told LSN.  

Ohden’s biological mother had an early induction abortion in 1977. However, Melissa was later born alive – a not uncommon occurrence in this type of abortion – and showed too many signs of life to go unnoticed by nurses attending the abortion. 
 
According to a 2007 UK study on abortions due to diagnosed disability, babies continue to struggle for life after being forced from the womb in 1 out of 30 cases. The study said the children, sometimes gasping for breath and crying weakly, survive for an average of 80 minutes – with some clinging to life for as long as six hours.  Most of the children were aborted between 20 and 24 weeks’ gestation.

“The sheer number of survivors really is overwhelming,” Ohden told LSN.

Read more at Life Site News

Pop quiz: What billion-dollar multinational receives hundreds of millions in tax dollars even though it is enormously profitable?

If your thoughts turned to defense contractors, you would be right about the purpose – killing – but wrong about the recipient. The answer, in fact, is Planned Parenthood.

According to its most recent annual report, in fiscal 2008, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest abortion provider, had annual revenue of more than $1 billion. Of this, about 34 percent was made up of government grants.

What you will not find on Planned Parenthood’s Web site is that the founder, Margaret Sanger, was a strong advocate of eugenics, a theory of “selective breeding,” and advocated “survival of the fittest” ideals. Her understanding of those most “fit” did not include blacks.

Sanger led something called the Negro Project, which in essence was an attempt to manipulate blacks into their own demise. In her own words, “We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population.” Sadly, today, black mothers are three times as likely to abort as white mothers, and the great majority of abortion clinics are in – you guessed it – minority neighborhoods.

Also missing from Planned Parenthood’s Web site is the number of lawsuits currently charging the organization with such crimes as not reporting statutory rape and other abuse.

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Canadian parents are forced to fight courts to save their disabled children’s lives, as the state determines which are worth saving and which are “allowed to die”.    Welcome to “Human Life according to Humanism, 101″. 

CTV Calgary reports:

A city judge has decided she needs more time to consider the arguments in the case of an Alberta family battling Alberta Health Services (AHS) to keep their son on life support.

This means that baby Isaiah James May will not be disconnected from his ventilator Wednesday afternoon as originally planned by AHS and the Stollery Children’s Hospital.

Madame Justice Michelle Crighton ruled Tuesday morning in an Edmonton courtroom she will come back with her decision on Jan. 27th after hearing from an independent expert in the emotionally-charged issue.

The lawyer for the May family wants the hospital and health authority to delay their plans for 90 days. Alberta Health Services told the court they are willing to wait only 30 days.

Life Site News reports that these kinds of life/death legal battles for disabled children are becoming more common:  “Baby Isaiah’s Case Part of a National Trend Say Advocates for the Disabled”

Rudi Stettner of Rant/Rave observes:

There is something profoundly dehumanising about sitting in judgement over the value of a life. It reduces a human life to the level of a corporation being dissolved in bankruptcy court. There is a malignant temptation in human nature to view those of lesser means and abilities as children of a lesser god. This ultimately demeans us all.

The border between the disabled and the dependent is not a towering wall. Every day, those of us who are robust and healthy slip past the border separating those who are healthy and economically productive from those who are disabled and incapable of being economically productive. Indeed, the traffic sometimes goes in both directions. There have been miraculous recoveries from vegetative states. The presence of hope from knowing that we do not know everything keeps us humble and protects us from despair.

Everyone should be encouraged to fight death as long as they wish to do so. To cling to life and the hope that it will be good is a primal urge. It is an illusion to believe that those who cling in the face of diminished hope are taking from the rest of us. To the contrary, they are enduring that the times of our lives that are racked with pain and infirmity will have dignity and meaning.

The Mays deserve our prayers, encouragement and support. Theirs is a battle for hope and for a future for their son. It is ultimately a battle that we will all face. In encouraging them, we are giving solace to those who in the future will fight for life against daunting odds. A life is not a profit loss statement. It is a gift on loan from G-d. If we lose sight of that, we are all diminished.

How anyone can do such a thing to an innocent baby is incomprehensible.  They have denied their humanity and become monsters.

Are these the people you want in charge of health care? Making life and death decisions for the unborn, the disabled and elderly? You will be FORCED to pay for abortions under this bill. The blood of the innocent cries out for justice…heaven help us all!

I came across this article about babies who survive abortions and how they are legally treated. Here is an excerpt:

“On July 20, Allison Baker, a former employee in the Labor and Delivery Department at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, Ill., a suburb of Chicago, testified that she personally witnessed three babies who had been born alive during such abortions. On the first occasion, Ms. Baker said, “I happened to walk into a ‘soiled utility room’ and saw, lying on a medical counter, a (22-week) fetus, naked, exposed and breathing, moving its arms and legs. The fetus (she was cautious and used the medical term for a pre-born child) was visibly alive, and gasping for breath. … I did wrap the fetus and place him in a warmer and for two-and-half hours he maintained a heartbeat, and then finally expired.”

Jill Stanek, who is still employed at Christ Hospital, told the panel, “It is not uncommon for one of these live aborted babies to linger for an hour or two or even longer. … One of them once lived for almost eight hours.” She said that one night she personally rocked a 21 to 22 week infant to keep him from dying alone in the soiled utility room.

Ms. Stanek related stories she had been told by other nurses. One was haunted by the memory of attending one of these procedures where the baby “came out weighing much more than expected, almost two pounds.” Another “told me about a live aborted baby who was left to die on the counter of the soiled utility room wrapped in a disposable towel. This baby was accidentally thrown into the garbage, and when they later were going through the trash to find the baby, the baby fell out of the towel and onto the floor.”

Stanek was taken aback when another nurse told her about how this procedure was done on a patient who was 23-plus weeks pregnant. She told members of the committee that, according to statistics, this baby had a 39 percent chance of survival, but since the patient chose to abort there was no neonatologist, pediatric resident, neonatal nurse or respiratory therapist present for the delivery. “Instead, the only personnel present for this delivery were an obstetrical resident and my co-worker.” The baby, who, according to Ms. Stanek showed early signs of thriving, was not taken to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for specialized care, but was left to die in the Labor and Delivery Department.”

Read on, if you’ve got the stomach.

Abortion staff ignores baby boy born alive?

Obama Blocked Born Alive Infant Protection Act

H/T Rosie

No rationing or “death panels”, huh?  All you need is a hyped-up swine flu scare, and they’ve got it already!

Florida health officials are drawing up guidelines that recommend barring patients with incurable cancer, end-stage multiple sclerosis and other conditions from being admitted to hospitals if the state is overwhelmed by flu cases.

The plan, which would guide Florida hospitals on how to ration scarce medical care during a severe flu outbreak, also calls for doctors to remove patients with poor prognoses from ventilators to treat those who have better chances of surviving. That decision would be made by the hospital.

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The “Progressives” have long tried to hide their deeply ingrained ties to the Eugenics Movement in the early 20th century, but history doesn’t lie. The current spectres of abortion, euthanasia, genetic testing, embryonic stem cell research, “designer babies” and other ethical issues in respect to human life have their roots in this dark chapter of American (and subsequent European) history.

In light of the current health care debate, especially in regards to the threat of government bureaucrats rationing care and and deciding who is “worth” the cost of treatment or not, it is imperative that we understand the roots of eugenics and Social Darwinism in “progressive” politics, and its implications for our future.

No, abortion doesn’t have anything to do with eugenics. Nothing to see here. Move along, folks…

In an astonishing admission, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she was under the impression that legalizing abortion with the 1973 Roe. v. Wade case would eliminate undesirable members of the populace.

“Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of…”

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