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? More…
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Scenes from the Life Chain 3
By Tom Quiner
Pro-life candidate, Rick Santorum
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 Merle Hay. We had several hundred folks in our little section of the street (which stretched several miles every direction). Walnut Creek Community Church had 127 folks from their church alone, prayerfully and respectfully standing along the road, most of whom were teens or young adults.
I talked to people from the Cathedral, First Assembly, All Saints, and of course, my parish, Holy Trinity.
Up near St. Theresa’s at Merle Hay and University, presidential contender, Rick Santorum, the most pro-
life candidate this year, joined the Life Chain. Mr. Santorum is the real deal when it comes to Life issues.
I talked to an interesting woman from Walnut Creek Community Church. She is interesting because her mother attempted to abort her three times in 1961 when abortion was still illegal in every state.
Her mother lived in California. She was pregnant out of wedlock. She was getting major pressure from family members concerned about the stigma associated with these situations then.
Her sister found her an abortionist, who on three separate occasions tried using the “hook” to abort the woman to whom I was talking. She was situated too high in the womb for the abortionist to accomplish the deed.
So she lived.
Her mother raised her and treated her very well. At the age of thirteen, she tearfully told her daughter that she had tried to abort her three times. She apologized. She begged for forgiveness.
And the daughter forgave.
As I talked to this woman who is now fifty, I said that I sensed no bitterness or anger in her. In fact, her eyes twinkled with happiness. She said, “heck no, I’m not bitter. Jesus told us to forgive. That’s what He’s all about, isn’t it!”
She loves her mother, who is now sixty-nine.
She said something important: “I am so glad I was born. If I hadn’t been, we wouldn’t even be talking right now.”
It hit me. When we talk about choice, we’ve got it turned around. The people we should be talking to are the ones in the womb. This stranger on the life chain yesterday speaks on behalf of all the pre-born with her resounding endorsement of life: ”I am glad I was born.”
That’s news you won’t see in the newspaper.
Rick Santorum to participate in this Sunday’s Life Chain in Des Moines 2
By Tom Quiner
Join Rick Santorum at this Sunday's Life Chain
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 right to life. Democrats don’t.
Democrats and their judicial soulmates have had far more power than Republicans over the past thirty-some years when it comes to formulating policy affecting Little Ones. They have stripped just about every human right away from them.
Interestingly, though, both current Democratic President Obama and previous Democratic President Clinton have expressed the same sentiments, that abortion should be legal, but rare. Clearly, they sense there is something wrong with the wanton destruction of Little Ones, but they have been unwilling to do anything about it.
There is something Democrats can do with Republicans this Sunday. They can join us in prayer on behalf of Little Ones everywhere during the annual Life Chain. Here in Des Moines, the faithful will come together in respectful prayer along Merle Hay Road, stretching from St. Theresa’s Church to the First Assembly of God church.
Rick Santorum
Presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, will be joining the chain in front of St. Theresa’s Church on Merle Hay and University Avenue. Join the Chain this Sunday and shake his hand. Mr. Santorum is passionately pro-life. He believes that Little Ones are entitled to full human rights at their conception.
Although Republicans will be praying for the end of abortion, Democrats can pray that a conflicted woman carrying a Little One will have a change of heart and let her child be born.
Democrats can pray that adoption will flourish in a land where broken-hearted couples unable to conceive pray daily for a Little One.
Democrats can pray that abortion won’t be needed because fathers and mothers recognize the humanity of the Little Ones in their mothers’ wombs.
The Democratic Party still has a sizable number of the faithful in their ranks. Republicans extend a hand of friendship to join with us in prayer starting at 2 PM on Sunday, October 2, that abortion will never be needed in America again.
We can agree on that, can’t we?
Like this:
The story the media doesn’t like to cover 6
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 Life Chain in Des Moines, Iowa, October 3rd, 2010
The Des Moines Register did not photograph the event. They didn’t include a single word of coverage in their Monday edition. Keep in mind, the Register provides Planned Parenthood lavish news coverage and editorial support. They provide little to none to pro life causes.
Quiner’s Diner was there. We are providing you the photographic coverage of an event the mainstream media does not consider newsworthy. Do you think they would have covered this event if it was a rally in support of abortion rights?
No need to answer.
Thanks to Lisa Bourne for providing photographs near the front end of the chain at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church.
Here’s something Republicans and Democrats can agree on 1
By Tom Quiner
Join us at the Life Chain tomorrow at 2 PM at the First Assembly of God Church on Merle Hay Road
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 right to life. Democrats don’t.
Democrats and their judicial soulmates have had far more power than Republicans over the past thirty-some years when it comes to formulating policy affecting Little Ones. They have stripped just about every human right away from them.
Interestingly, though, both current Democratic President Obama and previous Democratic President Clinton have expressed the same sentiments, that abortion should be legal, but rare. Clearly, they sense there is something wrong with the wanton destruction of Little Ones, but they have been unwilling to do anything about it.
There is something Democrats can do with Republicans tomorrow. They can join us in prayer on behalf of Little Ones everywhere during the annual Life Chain. Here in Des Moines, the faithful will come together in respectful prayer along Merle Hay Road, stretching from St. Theresa’s Church to the First Assembly of God church.
Although Republicans will be praying for the end of abortion, Democrats can pray that a conflicted woman carrying a Little One will have a change of heart and let her child be born.
Democrats can pray that adoption will flourish in a land where broken-hearted couples unable to conceive pray daily for a Little One.
Democrats can pray that abortion won’t be needed because fathers and mothers recognize the humanity of the Little Ones in their mothers’ wombs.
The Democratic Party still has a sizable number of the faithful in their ranks. Republicans extend a hand of friendship to join with us in prayer starting at 2 PM on Sunday, October 3, that abortion will never be needed in America again.
We can agree on that, can’t we?
