Tuesday, April 1, 2008
6:43 am
We depart on our trek at 8am. For the fourth morning, I awoke at dawn to birds chirping, a cow or ox moo’ing, and other charming sounds outside my windows.
Pokhara is lovely, peaceful, and laid back - at least in Lakeside. I feel excited. My stomach cramps [...]
(CNSNews.com) - Planned Parenthood of Idaho has apologized for an incident in which one of its employees assured a caller that his donation could be used to abort black babies, the Idaho Statesman reported.”A fundraising employee violated the organization’s principles and practices when she appeared to be willing to accept a racially motivated donation,” Planned [...]
Once upon a midnight dreary, fingers cramped and vision bleary,System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:Having reached the bottom line,I took a floppy from the drawer.Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE commandBut got instead a reprimand: It read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".Was this some occult illusion? Some maniacal intrusion?These were choices Solomon himself had never faced before.Carefully, I weighed my options.These three seemed to be the top ones.Clearly, I must now adopt one....Choose: "Abort, Retry, Ignore".With my fingers pale and trembling,Slowly toward the keyboard bending,Longing for a happy ending, hoping all would be restored,Praying for some guaranteeFinally I pressed a key....But on the screen what did I see?Again: "Abort, Retry, Ignore".I tried to catch the chips off-guard....I pressed again, but twice as hard.Luck was just not in the cards,I saw what I had seen before.N
The waiting area was a corridor with a patio overlooking other buildings where umbrella-shaded chairs sat in silence. The sounds that were a constant in a place where silence was valued were crows taking flight, nurses walking by in ones and two and air-conditioners. The crows squawked and cawed with nary a care for the people they might offend. The nurses discussed the minutiae of everyday life as if several lives did not hang in the balance at that very moment in that very building and the air-conditioning, it did its job with as audible a protest as was possible.
How are the sick supposed to get better with all this noise around them? he wondered. A solitary nurse padded softly by in response.
A distant car horn’s blaring demand sounded like a shadowy memory over the roar of the power generators and the metallic ring of engaging brakes closer by. Suddenly aware of how the place sounded he wondered why he went there even when he didn’t need to. To the hospital inhabited by the ri
Call it the Rudy abortion test. Will Republicans and conservatives pass or fail?
While there obviously are pro-choice Republicans around, the GOP generally ranks as the pro-life party due to its presumed conservative roots. Conservatism sees intrinsic value in each individual - no matter the person’s stage of development - and defends his or her right [...]
:: EUROPA debatterar abort. Sverige har sin "abortturism". I Portugal går debattens vågor höga inför folkomröstningen om abort under helgen. EKOT SR (070210 Ekot 16.45) om aborter (Webbradio): i Europa och i Kina. Chen Guangcheng är fängslad för att han protesterat mot regimens tvångsaborter. KINA med sina 1.395.200.000 (1,4 miljarder) invånare kämpar för att slippa göra abort.REFLEKTION Kinas kvinnor kämpar för rätten att slippa göra abort. Rätten till liv och död för det lilla ofödda barnet har vidare perspektiv än vad opinonerna i EU, Sverige och Portugal gör gällande.Technorati Tags: abortion Pro-life - Andra bloggar om: abort, Rätt till abort, Ja till livet ::
