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From Media Matters: In a Wall Street Journal op-ed (subscription required) that received no coverage at all in the rest of the MSM, former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) -- a conservative's conservative if ever there was one -- voices his utter disgust with the Christian right, and with the Republican Congress that panders to them.
The national representatives of the social conservative movement used to be sophisticated and tolerant. Today, they are sophomoric and angry. It's an embarrassing spectacle seeing leaders bullied around by the likes of James Dobson, or watching the Christian Coalition team up with MoveOn.org in support of bigger government. Armey expands on those comments in a Q&A with author Ryan Sager.
What's wrong with today's Republican Congress? And I thought Dick Armey couldn't possibly say anything I agreed with. Never say never. As long as we're on the subject of FOF thugs, Focus on the Family's Citizen Link is rejoicing that the US House has upheld "parents' right to be involved in pregnancy decisions of their daughters."
Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC), said the vote sends a strong signal to the Senate to do the same. If you could swallow the insane notion that physicians can be equated with statutory rapists, that might sound like a pretty clear-cut choice -- until you stop and remember that the only parental involvement stories in the news lately involve parents attempting to violently force abortions upon their resistant daughters. Yes, despite a great deal of sanctimonious braying from Stephen Peroutka's "Ecumenical Pro-life Center" . . .
"It's unbelievable that a child needs her parents permission to go on a school sponsored field trip, yet without this law a young girl, a minor of any age can be dragged across state lines into an abortion facility have an abortion without the knowledge of her parents." . . . at least once a teenager gains the safety of a health care facility, she can rely on licensed medical professionals to protect her from coercion, instead of hog-tying and kidnapping her, or forcing turpentine down her throat. And it's beyond hypocritical to complain that parental permission is needed for a field trip or for an aspirin from the school nurse, when a teenager is legally empowered to make any other decision regarding her own pregnancy, delivery or parenthood all on her own. She is the only person who may give informed consent for anything from amniocentesis, to an elective Cesarean section, to her own child's medical treatment. She, and she only, may consent to an adoption agreement. Once pregnant, she is solely entitled to make any of those decisions, but still is deemed too immature to decide whether she's ready to become a mother in the first place. Just one more of life's enduring mysteries. The anti-choice propaganda outlet LifeNews is outraged that California now prohibits the targeting of abortion providers on the Internet.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a measure prohibiting any Internet web site posting of the picture, home address, or telephone number of an abortion practitioner. The measure targets those who would threaten abortion practitioners but could be used to prosecute anyone publishing a pro-life web site. Umm . . . well, yes, a web site like that certainly could be viewed as threatening or intimidating. That's why The Nuremberg Files was shut down. (Someone remind me to "never say never" about Arnold Schwarzenegger, either) An email from Christian Family Coalition updates us on the latest innovation of CareNet's well-oiled anti-choice machine: the LifeDonor Network. And no, they aren't asking for your liver; money will do just fine.
Date: September 27, 2006 Even without the massive infusion of federal funding that would enrich CareNet's coffers should Congress approve the 95-10 Initiative of Democrats for Life, CareNet and Heartbeat International have created an extensive network to funnel unsuspecting women into crisis pregnancy center "ministries" from coast to coast. Now the LifeDonor Network enables its fan club to lie for Jesus with just a click of the mouse. Tax-deductible LifeDonor contributions fund Internet ads directing women to Option Line, where they are bombarded with scare tactic propaganda about such purported consequences of abortion as eating disorders, depression, suicidal thoughts, alcohol and drug abuse and, of course, that perennial crisis pregnancy center favorite, breast cancer.
Well sometimes it's heaven Somehow I can't help believing that Mrs. Parker would have understood perfectly.
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