“I can’t get over it”

By Tom Quiner How high are the abortion stakes? High. I just got back from the annual Life Chain. Hundreds of pro lifers stood along a very busy street praying and holding up signs in support of the most vulnerable members of society: the preborn. The vast majority of folks responding honked their horns in…

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Life Chain Sunday

Today is important. This is an election year. It is a very clear message we’re receiving from our candidates this year, clearer than ever before.

A vote for a Democrat is a vote for more human abortion.

A vote for a Republican is a vote for less human abortion.

This point is indisputable. That’s why our 90 minutes of public prayer on a busy thoroughfare can make a difference. Maybe, just maybe, an undecided voter driving by will by convicted to cast a vote for life instead of death; for freedom instead of tyranny…

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Pro-lifers make the honest choice

The ultrasound debate rages between pro-choice and pro-abortion advocates. And pro lifers are gaining the upper hand in defining terms in the debate. For example, saying, “the woman,” in referring to a pregnant mother is deliberate language used to dehumanize the unborn child alive within her. So if a mother really feels she has a choice, would she choose to end the life of her unborn child?

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Scenes from the Life Chain

By Tom Quiner When thousands of people gather for a cause, isn’t that news? You wouldn’t know it with the lack of coverage of the Life Chain in the Des Moines Register. Don’t worry, Quiner’s Diner was there. This was an ecumenical movement. I was standing in front of First Assembly of God Church on…

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Rick Santorum to participate in this Sunday’s Life Chain in Des Moines

By Tom Quiner Republicans and Democrats have differing viewpoints when it comes to the human fetus (Latin for offspring or Little One). Republicans view the Little One as being worthy of human rights. Democrats don’t. Republicans view the Little One as being a person. Democrats don’t. Republicans view the Little One as having a fundamental…

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The story the media doesn’t like to cover

By Tom Quiner Thousands and thousands of people across America lined the streets of their communities in prayer for the end of abortion.   Here in Des Moines, masses lined Merle Hay Road. The Des Moines Register did not photograph the event.  They didn’t include a single word of coverage in their Monday edition.  Keep…

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Here’s something Republicans and Democrats can agree on

By Tom Quiner Republicans and Democrats have differing viewpoints when it comes to the human fetus (Latin for offspring or Little One). Republicans view the Little One as being worthy of human rights. Democrats don’t. Republicans view the Little One as being a person. Democrats don’t. Republicans view the Little One as having a fundamental…

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