Donna and I had the wonderful experience of attending 3 Pro-Life events this past week. On Thursday, it was Kansans for Life 6th annual banquet with Dr. Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King, as the main speaker. There was also a preacher from Wichita who was on fire! She is coordinating an event down there April 4th & 5th that those who believe in protecting the unborn should put on their calendars.

On Friday, the Black Americans for Life had their first annual awards banquet and Dr. King was again the featured speaker. What a crowd! There was not enough room for the almost 300 people who showed up. It was wonderful to see so many African-Americans concerned about the devastation abortion has visited on their community.

Lastly, on Saturday morning we took part in a prayer vigil at the 109th and Roe Planned Parenthood abortion mill. It was gratifying to see so many folks from both dinners show up to witness for the unborn. As always I am struck by the compassion that those who believe in life have for women who have been and are being manipulated by a multi-billion industry.

Make no mistake folks, for abortion clinics, the bottom line is the bottom line.

I left off with examining Koster’s political reasons for jumping parties, now I look at the Kansas chameleons.

For formerly high profile Republicans now Democrats Paul Morrison and Mark Parkinson.

Advantages:

Again, they got an immediate positive push in the media.

They were now completely free to accept money from the gambling and abortion industries in Kansas. (Morrison’s biggest single contributor through the efforts on his behalf by PAC’s in his Attorney General race against the incumbent Phill Kline who was aggressively investigating Abortionist George Tiller on criminal conduct was the aforementioned Dr. George Tiller.)

Disadvantages:

None really due to the media having already plowed the field for several years portraying the rank and file Republicans as wild-eyed religious fanatics knocking down the sacred separation of church and state as they trampled on privacy rights and science alike. Of course, Morrison and Parkinson did not want to hang with crazy people, who would?

(I will post the bulk of my presentation on the white hot battle of our time for America, traditional values vs. Secular-Progressives in a day or two.)

Attending the National Right to Life conference held in Kansas City June 14^th – 16th, I was struck by the compassion and love these folks have for babies, their mothers, AND women who are suffering from the effects of an abortion. Pro-lifers are driven to envelope these hurting women in their loving arms to provide support and tangible help to heal post-abortive women physically, mentally and spiritually. They are in the vanguard of demanding scientific studies of abortion’s effects on women and on promoting the few well-designed studies that have in recent years begun to be published in the medical journals over the objections of those whose abortion agenda overrides any concern they purport to have for women.

As with other contentious issues, it is troubling how science is being co-opted by an agenda. It appears the American Psychological Association (APA) and the American Psychiatric Association have adopted the pro-abortion agenda among other secular-progressive causes. To have good public healthcare policy, we must have unbiased information based on where the data leads. Now that the scientific studies are beginning to show that abortion and its after-effects are more dangerous to women than carrying a baby to term, the pro-abortion movement is working tirelessly to suppress and belittle these studies.

Abortion has now been shown to significantly increase the risk of breast cancer, major depression, anxiety disorders, suicidal thoughts, and alcohol and drug abuse. After-effects also include adjustment disorders, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, parenting difficulties and an increase in death from violent and natural causes. Clearly, abortion is not a benign medical procedure and it must stop being promoted as such.

This is not only a moral and political issue it is also a medical one, and those of us who truly hold the health and well being of our wives, mothers, sisters and daughters in our hearts have to press for more studies. We must demand laws which protect the women in our lives by requiring full disclosure of the latest medical information to those considering abortion as well as having this information taught to our young women and men in their health classes.

It is time for the vast majority of Americans, pro-life and pro-choice, to work together in defense of women by cutting through the agendas to provide women the information they desperately need in their time of crisis and decision. The exploitation of those we love must stop.

Resources: The recent study conducted by a pro-choice researcher that has generated a lot of doublespeak from the pro-abortion factions is of interest. A good pro-life prospective is on the pro-life nrlc.org website, the pro-abortion position is at the Guttmauer Institue website. The study itself can be read at this page. Please read the study and comments and determine for yourself who is worried about women’s health and who is protecting their agenda.