The Juno Effect and Abortion
Anyone who has seen the Oscar-winning film, Juno, couldn’t help but wonder if it could be a vehicle that encourages teen pregnancy. After all, the title character who is all of 16 does accidentally get pregnant and doesn’t seem to be very disturbed by her condition and it all ends relatively happily.
Thus was born the much-dreaded “Juno Effect,” the conclusion of impressionable teens that, “That woman is in the movies (or on TV, or in a magazine)! That makes her glamorous! Maybe if I get knocked up, I’ll be glamorous, too!”
Said effect never really occurred since data shows that teen pregnancy, despite the efforts of Planned Parenthood, actually showed a downtick of 2% between 2007, the Juno year, and 2008, what could be termed the Bristol Palin year.
Liberal recorders of pop culture, such as Mona Ackerman, Time magazine, and Linda Hirshman, jumped all over the idea that a movie could or would inspire teen pregnancies, an inspiration that never existed, and predicted catastrophic rates of impregnated teenagers: http://bit.ly/8XUQaA
There’s something about liberals which makes them always think . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1623)
Showing posts with label ABORTION. late-term abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ABORTION. late-term abortion. Show all posts
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Justifiable Murder? Who Was George Tiller?
Justifiable Murder? Who Was George Tiller?
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! (”Bartleby the Scrivener,” Herman Melville)
That fatalistic sense of imminent doom, of forlorn despair and depression over one’s life and over the state of the human animal for different reasons must have afflicted both George Tiller and the man who killed him last May, Scott Roeder.
Roeder, according to his ex-wife, was upset over his inability to pay bills; he went from job to job seeking something, anything, that would fulfill his failed life and give it purpose.
He finally settled on what he saw as the greatest evil in America that he felt was in his power to somehow rectify: abortion. A particular purpose he embraced was fellow Kansan Tiller and Tiller’s chosen occupation of snuffing out the lives of infants in partial birth abortions.
Dr. George Tiller was living a life that was the virtual antithesis of Roeder’s, but was he any less disturbed?
A physician son of an abortionist with an inherited and successful abortion practice, he was married and active in his new church, the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita.
Indeed, almost every account of his murder includes within the first few paragraphs the fact he was killed while serving as an usher, handing out church bulletins in the lobby after Sunday services when Roeder accosted him, put one bullet into his eye and fled.
What’s rarely included in obituaries or articles on the slain Dr. Tiller is that he was handing out those bulletins at Reformation Lutheran because he had been excommunicated from his previous church, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod: http://bit.ly/awWKwL
That latter church had expelled him because of the nature of his medical practice at Women’s Health Care Services. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1533)
Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity! (”Bartleby the Scrivener,” Herman Melville)
That fatalistic sense of imminent doom, of forlorn despair and depression over one’s life and over the state of the human animal for different reasons must have afflicted both George Tiller and the man who killed him last May, Scott Roeder.
Roeder, according to his ex-wife, was upset over his inability to pay bills; he went from job to job seeking something, anything, that would fulfill his failed life and give it purpose.
He finally settled on what he saw as the greatest evil in America that he felt was in his power to somehow rectify: abortion. A particular purpose he embraced was fellow Kansan Tiller and Tiller’s chosen occupation of snuffing out the lives of infants in partial birth abortions.
Dr. George Tiller was living a life that was the virtual antithesis of Roeder’s, but was he any less disturbed?
A physician son of an abortionist with an inherited and successful abortion practice, he was married and active in his new church, the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita.
Indeed, almost every account of his murder includes within the first few paragraphs the fact he was killed while serving as an usher, handing out church bulletins in the lobby after Sunday services when Roeder accosted him, put one bullet into his eye and fled.
What’s rarely included in obituaries or articles on the slain Dr. Tiller is that he was handing out those bulletins at Reformation Lutheran because he had been excommunicated from his previous church, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod: http://bit.ly/awWKwL
That latter church had expelled him because of the nature of his medical practice at Women’s Health Care Services. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1533)
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Committing Political Harakiri
Committing Political Harakiri
Literally, hara-kiri or harakiri involves “ritual suicide by disembowelment” committed by samurai warriors for their shameful actions, so maybe desparate kamikazi attacks better describes some Republicans’ statements in the wake of Scott Brown’s laying waste to Martha Coakley last week in Massachusetts.
By any estimation, except White House flak Robert Gibbs’, Brown’s victory and accession to the Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy seat in the U.S. Senate marked a monumental step toward a resurgent Republican Party and signalled an unmistakeable sense that November 2010 and November 2012 could mean a major shakeup, a sea change, in both the national and local landscapes.
In a Sunday interview with Chris Wallace on that enemy cable news channel, Fox News, master spinmeister Gibbs cited a Washington Post poll which purportedly showed Coakley’s ignominious shellacking really represented an endorsement of President Obama and his policies.
I heard of a poll that proves pigs learning to dance the tarantella means they are honoring Fred Astaire’s memory.
Gibbs’ sideshow aside, some GOPers still fail to grasp the import of last Tuesday and, worse, fail to appreciate the negative effects of carping over issues that may be consequential but not consequential enough to undermine the opportunity Brown’s win brought to the Republican table.
In short, if any Republicans set up roadblocks that negatively affect the excellent GOP chances this coming election cycle and for the next presidential election, they should leave the party or, at the very least, keep their mouths shut.
Case in point are those pro-lifers who are making an issue of Senator Scott Brown’s record on the abortion issue. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1443)
Literally, hara-kiri or harakiri involves “ritual suicide by disembowelment” committed by samurai warriors for their shameful actions, so maybe desparate kamikazi attacks better describes some Republicans’ statements in the wake of Scott Brown’s laying waste to Martha Coakley last week in Massachusetts.
By any estimation, except White House flak Robert Gibbs’, Brown’s victory and accession to the Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy seat in the U.S. Senate marked a monumental step toward a resurgent Republican Party and signalled an unmistakeable sense that November 2010 and November 2012 could mean a major shakeup, a sea change, in both the national and local landscapes.
In a Sunday interview with Chris Wallace on that enemy cable news channel, Fox News, master spinmeister Gibbs cited a Washington Post poll which purportedly showed Coakley’s ignominious shellacking really represented an endorsement of President Obama and his policies.
I heard of a poll that proves pigs learning to dance the tarantella means they are honoring Fred Astaire’s memory.
Gibbs’ sideshow aside, some GOPers still fail to grasp the import of last Tuesday and, worse, fail to appreciate the negative effects of carping over issues that may be consequential but not consequential enough to undermine the opportunity Brown’s win brought to the Republican table.
In short, if any Republicans set up roadblocks that negatively affect the excellent GOP chances this coming election cycle and for the next presidential election, they should leave the party or, at the very least, keep their mouths shut.
Case in point are those pro-lifers who are making an issue of Senator Scott Brown’s record on the abortion issue. . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1443)
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