Jill Stanek, the pro-life activist who pushed the "born alive" legislation in Illinois -- and has been a leading foe of Barack Obama -- suggests that some on her side have let perfectionism block sensible pro-life steps.
All children slated for abortion are going to die. But if given the opportunity, do we not rescue any of them? Purists say no, not unless we can rescue all of them.Somehow I doubt purists would have argued to let their own children die on the Titanic, since the number of people far outnumbered the seats on lifeboats.
Beyond the fact certain pro-life groups purposefully sentenced countless babies to death in the 2008 election is the fact they set back the entire movement. We could have won in South Dakota. Imagine how that victory would have snowballed around the country. That moment is now gone ... forever?
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Steve, please ask Jill why she didn't expose Bush for coming out publicly against the South Dakota Ban in 2006. That ban had no exceptions, Bush has quite a handful of them. Bush's opposition was like him saying, "If I can't kill these few kids, I'd rather it be legal to kill them all." They gave Bush his exceptions and he still didn't support it.
Maybe you could put this on your site. McCain was no different. He didn't support the SD Ban, and neither Bush or McCain would ever support a Personhood amendment, like Colorado had. They don't believe an unborn baby is a person. If you don't believe a Jew is a person, you're not pro-Jew. If you don't believe a black man is a person, you're not pro-blacks. If you don't believe an unborn baby is a person, you can't be pro-life.
Thank you, Mr. Waldman, for this illuminating link/post regarding infighting in the pro-life movement. Definitely seems as though the enemy has sown seeds of discord, paralleling the parable of the wheat and the weeds (Mat 13; 18-30)
Never new it was sound strategy to deliberately lose battles in the hope that the war would eminently be won.
I don't believe a peacock is a person either, Will. Can I be pro-peacock?
Jill Stanek has wrongly claimed that Obama supported infanticide.
Clarifying the record on the born-alive bill September 5, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/5cgcb6
The above link is an article in the Chicago Tribune by Rick Winkel, the Illinois Republican who introduced the bill in the state Senate. He said, "none of those who voted against SB-1082 favored infanticide," despite his disagreement with them. "Rather their zeal for pro-choice dogma was clearly the overriding force behind their negative votes rather than concern that my bill would protect babies who are born alive."
Jill Stanek, the former Illinois nurse, whose claims about a supposed rash of abortions of "born alive" babies at a Chicago hospital snowballed into the election-season charge that Obama supported "infanticide. FactCheck and PolitiFact have also debunked her accusations.
Winkel said, "I introduced Senate Bill 1082 because of a nurse's claims that abortions at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn resulted in living infants whom hospital personnel then allowed to die without medical or comfort care."
Winkel said, "In 2005, I joined 116 state representatives and 54 senators in voting for HB-984, which contained the same born-alive definition and neutrality language as Senate Bill 1082, plus some extra language to satisfy the most zealous pro-choice legislators, yet harmless to the bill's purpose."
"Born alive" votes fuel abortion fight
October 9th, 2008
http://tinyurl.com/3v6a7c
FactCheck:
'Born Alive' Baloney September 24, 2008
An abortion survivor claims she would have died if Obama had his way. She's wrong.
http://tinyurl.com/4bhb7n
It truly sadens me that some people defend 'abortion rights' on the rational of denial. "a SUPPOSED rash of abortions of "born alive" babies at a Chicago hospital" (emphasis mine) Please, at least admit the reality behind these events. The recently released film 22 Weeks accounts a TRUE story of infanticide in Florida.
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