Life Links 10/30/08

Students for Life of America has another video out. This one includes a Planned Parenthood employee in New Jersey admitting that aborted babies can be born alive. It’s hard to understand at least on my tiny speakers but the Planned Parenthood employee is asked, “Could the baby be born alive.”

Her response is, “For the most part no, but it does happen.”


Michael New discusses a recent study by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good which argued that welfare programs have helped reduce the number of abortions performed more than abortion restrictions.

CACG missed an opportunity with their abortion study. They commissioned a methodologically rigorous analysis of a complicated issue — the incidence of abortion at the state level. However, their primary interest seemed to have been making the case that welfare spending was the best way to reduce abortion. They did not engage previous research on pro-life legislation. And tellingly, they failed to publicize their own findings which indicated that certain types of pro-life laws were effective. The pro-life community might have been more receptive to them had they been willing to acknowledge their own finding that public-funding restrictions reduce abortion rates. Instead, many pro-lifers simply wrote them off as group whose objective was to provide political and religious cover for pro-abortion supporters of Barack Obama.

Albert Mohler links to and discusses an article in the Boston Globe and a quote from Nicolas Cafardi, a prolife supporter of Barack Obama.

Those fighting for the abolition of slavery pressed on against obstacles and set backs worse than these because, after all, these were human lives they were defending. What if they had listened to those who, after Dred Scott and the Missouri Compromise, said that the battle was "permanently" lost? What if they had been intimidated by critics accusing them of "single-issue" voting?

If every single fetus is an unborn child made in the image of God, there is no moral justification for settling for a vague hope of some reduction in the number of fetal homicides. If the abortion fight is "permanently lost," it will be lost first among those who claim to be defenders of life -- those who tell us that the argument is merely changing.

Those South Dakota pro-choicers from other states flown in to South Dakota in an effort to defeat their attempt to pass an abortion ban sure know how to commit voter fraud.