Thought For the Day
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 41 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Crisis pregnancy centers give women an alternative to abortion — and that’s a threat to PP’s business model.
Of course the abortion ghouls want them driven out of operation.
Especially now that times are tougher for the abortion industry (and for the politicians like Warren who’ve gotten used to the abortionists’ campaign contributions).
Praying for her politics demise. And I hope it’s humiliating too. What a horrible individual.
Sen. Menendez was the guy who stiffed his late adolescent hookers.
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https://markpshea.com/2022/06/29/roe-is-dead-now-we-have-to-get-to-work/
The window into the womb technology has saved hundreds of thousands of babies from being torn to shreds. You’ll find the ultrasound equipment in pregnancy care centers.
Blood money. Clinton’s last sentence nails it.
Last night’s webcast of America’s top pro-life advocates and their presidents/spokesman’s, was stirring and filled with hope in a post Roe America.
It was a two hour pitch for Life and the future defense for the unborn.
I’ll look for a recording of the talk and post it here incase anyone wants to catch it.
As everyone knows…the fight for Life is far from over.
Our 1/1240th American Indian Senator is proof that we have a long way to go until NOBODY contemplates the idea of abortion, much less initiates one for another.
Changing hearts isn’t impossible…but without God it’s improbable. He does the heavy work with His Mother, Our Mother, Mary.
All we must do is be present and give witness that Life is worth Living.
That babies in the womb deserve respect. That GOD makes a way when there doesn’t seem to be a way.
That fear isn’t a good reason to victimize the child in the womb.
That reproductive rights for ALL means all….including the fetus.
I wasn’t able to find a recording of the talk..yet. I checked YouTube.
Here’s the site we used to view the cast; https://lifebeyondroe.com/?inf_contact_key=9464bc2ed0ca8f39c62a9d9cf3a802bd
Dante would need to invent another place in Hell for ultra-evil democrats.
Abortion is murder.
Art,
That is OK with deluded demoncrat voters in NJ.
BTW. Pretty sure you won’t be going to Heaven if you ever voted democrat.
“you won’t be going to heaven if you ever voted Democrat”
If you voted Democrat 30 years ago or more, when pro-life moderate Democrats still existed, that’s one thing. But if you have voted Democrat anytime in the last 20 years, and have not repented of doing so, that statement might apply.
I voted for a Democrat who had been pro-life GOP (or so I thought–that story on another thread) but had to switch her party afflilation, cuz “reasons.”
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I’ve repented, but not gone to confession. I am definitely handing on to the last rung of Purgatory with very toasty feet.
Oh I meant to add to my earlier comment: In case anyone was wondering, Warren was Shea’s presidential pick. She’s the one he most frequently gushed over and would regularly defend against any and all attacks.
So yeah, I’m savoring the irony that he has gone on this rant about what pro-life people need to do, even as his preferred politician strives to make it harder for those things to be done by said pro-life people.
“We pro-life people now need to work to create the conditions where life can flourish, which means certain social guarantees, including healthcare, decent employment, education (through graduate school), housing, nutrition, freedom from war, and a safe and pollution-free environment.”
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What Mark Shea and those others fail to realize is that Europe has pretty much all of that–and a birthrate that has been less than ours for quite some time. I think we have finally caught up (caught down?) to them.
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If you want life to flourish, you must get rid of all the social guarantees, including Soc Sec, healthcare, schools, etc and the “administrative state” that controls it all.
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Corporations are paying for their women (oops! pregnant people) to have abortions because it is cheaper than paying for the, um, pregnant people leave/family leave they are mandated by law (and society demands) to provide.
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Many companies are hard pressed to retain the older employees who still realize that 2+2=4, and are not quite as mentally damaged as so many of those under 25. The last thing Management wants is to pay for a pregnant person to have a baby, take paid family leave, then use up all of the paid vacation, all the paid sick days, and all the paid time off and then decide, “Oh, you know? I’m gonna stay home with the baby–and no, Zoom life does not work for me. Bye.”
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I’ve seen this happen. Women who are very dedicated to their careers, who can’t n.o.t. work, who are going to smash the glass ceiling into a thousand little shards, go mushy with the coos of a baby.
If you want life to flourish, you must get rid of all the social guarantees, including Soc Sec, healthcare, schools, etc and the “administrative state” that controls it all.
Yeah, sounds like a plan.
Looks like I need to expand my list of logical fallacies to include arguing good people don’t meet someone’s concocted definition of ‘good enough’ which makes it legitimate to advance [contrary to Church teachings] abortion [which is murder].
“If you want life to flourish, you must get rid of all the social guarantees, including Soc Sec, healthcare, schools, etc and the “administrative state” that controls it all.”
It’s no longer that simple. Ordinary senior citizens rely on social security, so there has to be a transition to an alternate private plan or system that is age-graduated.
Same with Medicare and Medicaid.
Public schools have been around for a very long time. Yes, they need a massive cleanup to get rid of the infestation of liberal progressivism. But home schooling and private schools are not always available to the run-of-the-mill parents. Time / schedule constraints impact home schooling capability, and family finances (or lack thereof) impact ability to send children to private schools.
Administration State? Agree this is a big issue. So which depts and agencies do we get rid of? US NRC (one of my favorite hobby horses; sorry, Don; don’t ban me) that has standardized nuclear engineering & safety codes across all 50 states (a good thing)? Or the FBI (which perhaps most of us agree should be completely revamped)? How about the EPA? Or the FDA that ensures the food ywe eat and the medicines we get are provided consistent with a strict safety regimen (yeah, I know – COVID-19 vaccines!)? I could go on but you get the idea. Saying the “we should get rid of the Administrative State” is appealing rhetoric, but there are details that must be considered, and the devil is in the details. I don’t like corproate socialism any more than anyone else here does; but strict libertarianism or Ayn Rand objectivism can’t be implemented overnight (nor should be).
I agree Lucius. My day job involves reviewing state regulations — the problem isn’t that regulations, per se, are bad; but many are poorly written, outdated, contradictory, or don’t provide an appeal mechanism for persons adversely affected. Another common problem is that the standards or criteria for granting licenses, benefits, etc. aren’t made clear and the agency’s decisions could be made arbitrarily.
“Yeah, sounds like a plan.”
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It is not a plan. I am making an assertion–based on what I’ve read and seen in my life. I can’t prove it.
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“It’s no longer that simple.”
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It is not simple at all. I fully expect it to be brutal. I’d like to be optismistic, but I don’t see how this is going to end well.
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Agreed, DJH. Change would be brutal and it won’t end well under the current climate.
Yes, Elaine, 100% correct. Disclaimer: forgive my hobby horse example, Don. In my nuclear world there are US NRC Regulatory Guides that endorse industry standards that are decades old instead of embracing recent changes and technologies. One example – there are thousands of similar ones: US NRC RG-1.171 on Software Unit Testing for Digital Computer Software Used in Safety Systems of Nuclear Power Plants endorses the 1987 version of ANSI / IEEE Std. 1008, IEEE Standard for Software Unit Testing. That standard was intended for old runtime software systems whose code is written in things like PL/M, Pascal, etc. on UV PROM chips for Intel 8086 and Z80 and Motorola 6800 microprocessors. Many modern protection systems now don’t even use microprocessors and UV PROMs, but instead complex logic technology like ASICs, CPLDs and usually FPGAs wherein Boolean logic is embedded in hardware that’s configured by hardware description languages like VHDL and Verilog. Applying IEEE Std. 1008-1987 to such things is like applying rules on vacuum tube technology to integrated circuit operational amplifiers. There are better IEC standards out there that the Europeans use, and better CSA standards that the Candian Nuclear Safety Commission endorses, but the US NRC sends representatives to sit on the IEEE committees where it can have a voice; it has no seats on the IEC or CSA committees. It’s like territorial turf war. Sure, the NRC promised back in 2015 to come up with a plan for modernizing its regulatory guidance on the standards it endorses for digital I&C software QA and engineering, but it’s seven years later and the progress has been glacial to say the least! Yes, I was brought up on vacuum tubes and magnetic amplifiers and pneumatic I&C (a real joy to work with! – sarcasm), so I have seen the whole gamut of technology changes. Sadly, our civil masters – er, servants – in Washington, DC can’t see beyond the next Congressional appropriation.
It is not a plan.
No kidding.