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North Carolina "Choose Life" Design Shown at Capital

(4/14/09) Reporters with questions, legislators, and enthusiastic supporters got a look at North Carolina’s “Choose Life” plate as graphic artist Deborah Vernon Scott of Brevard unveiled the new design depicting the mountains and sea, along with these two words and the faces of two children.  Representing the sponsoring organization, Charlotte’s Bobbie Meyer of the Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship, explained the proceeds from the plate would be used to assist women and families in more than 85 centers across the state. “North Carolina’s pregnancy care centers offer information, emotional support and practical help to thousands of women who face the challenges of unexpected pregnancies” said Meyer.  Currently Executive Director of the Pregnancy Resource Center of Charlotte, an area lighthouse since 1982, she states: “The Choose Life license plate will help us assist more women with our services and encourage healthy, stable families in our communities.”

 

HB 168—‘Choose Life’ Special Plate, was introduced on February 17th which would authorize this design along with the more than 130 specialty tags currently promoting various North Carolina causes, interests, and recreational activities.  Nationwide, more than $10.3 million has been raised to fund ongoing pregnancy support and adoption efforts.  With a nine year wait, North Carolina is now the only state in the Southeast that does not allow the “Choose Life” message in the plate program.  Residents who would like to have this plate or are in support of allowing others to choose the tag, are encouraged to contact their representative and Speaker Joe Hackney (D-Orange).  The full North Carolina House, made up of representatives from 120 districts, has never had an opportunity to vote on the bill.

 

From the web: North and South Carolina Student Award

http://www.christianactionleague.org/news/a-right-to-life-club-in-every-school 

 

(10/17/08) In Brief: Representative Sue Myrick speaks to Charlotte Right to Life.  Charlotte Right to Life hosted Congresswoman Sue Myrick on Friday afternoon for a federal congressional update on legislation pertaining to our issue.  After speaking on bills taken up by the House this session, Representative Myrick took a number of questions from those in attendance.  The meeting concluded with recognition of her consistent pro-life voting record throughout her tenure including support for maintaining the Hyde Amendment, a provision preventing federal dollars from paying for most all abortions through the Medicaid program.  Prior to the Hyde legislation, the federal government was funding 300,000 abortions annually. 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 
 

                                                                                            

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 
 

 

 
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Pro-Life Democrats Tell Nancy Pelosi: No Health Care Reform With Abortion Funding (LifeNews.com) -- A group of 19 pro-life Democrats in the House of Representatives have joined together to craft a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The letter contained a non-perfunctory request that the House not advance any health care bill that doesn't specifically prohibit abortion coverage or funding.

Pro-Life, Pro-Choice and the rest of the story by Gallup:                                http://www.gallup.com/poll/118399/More-Americans-Pro-Life-Than-Pro-Choice-First-Time.aspx

Representative Chris Smith on the promise of adult cells and IPS:

Another Look - Stem Cell Debate - Bloomberg    cnn - chris smith on stem cells: "obama is behind the times" 

Resident Abortions in North Carolina

2006   29,430  (total occurrences 35,088)                            

2007   28,545  (total occurrences 33,233)       

2008   Not available

Abortions: Mecklenburg County Residents

2006    4,665        

2007    4,193  

2008    Not available

Mecklenburg County Abortion Occurrences 

2006    12,488

2007    10,635

2008    Not available

-- Data from the North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics, Division of Public Health     

                                                                                                                         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  

                                                       

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                      

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

       

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                

 

 

 

 
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Prenatal Testing for Autism?

The following was posted on John Smeaton's blog in response to the BBC Viewpoint http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7736196.stm.  Mr. Smeaton is director of SPUC--the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.

(01/07/09) Under the headline "Autism test 'could hit math skills,'" the BBC reports today that pre-natal testing for autism and the abortion of babies thought to be affected may not be far off.

In an interesting article, Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, the director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University, says that mathematical excellence and autism may be linked. He writes:

" … assuming such a test is developed, we would be wise to think ahead as to how such a test would be used. If it was used to 'prevent' autism, with doctors advising mothers to consider termination of the pregnancy if their baby tested 'positive', what else would be lost in reducing the number of children born with autism? Would we also reduce the number of future great mathematicians, for example? … Caution is needed before scientists embrace prenatal testing so that we do not inadvertently repeat the history of eugenics or inadvertently 'cure' not just autism but the associated talents that are not in need of treatment."

It's not clear what Professor Simon Baron-Cohen means in his final sentence above. Is he sounding a warning against the eugenic killing of the disabled? Or is he concerned principally, or solely, as the BBC's introductory paragraphs put it, that "caution is needed to ensure associated talents, like numerical abilities, are not lost if the test or a "cure" become available"?

Or is Professor Baron-Cohen unaware that we already have repeated the history of eugenics – both in Britain and elsewhere in the world – in our determined pursuit of the extermination of the disabled (as Alison Davis who has spina bifida and who is the leader of No Less Human, makes abundantly clear in her paper "A disabled person's perspective on eugenic abortion")?

The killing of disabled babies is infinitely more significant than any loss of human skills and talents. Whilst the Professor's article is interesting and thought-provoking, the BBC's headline provides a chilling reminder of modern Britain – in which countless human beings are killed as though they're rubbish, simply because they're disabled, and people in the media worry about the possible loss of math skills. Autistic babies should not be killed. Period.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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