The topic (abortion) is controversial, and the subject (Supreme Court Justice Scalia) is a lightening rod for many on the Left, but Ms. Ho does a good job covering the story fairly.

History will show that Scalia is one of the greatest justices to ever have served on the Supreme Court. When you take away emotion and ones ‘political perspective,’ Justice Scalia’s intellect and common-sense should, and must, be the benchmark for all future justices.

Scalia stands by his ‘originalist’ views on Constitution

By Catherine Ho

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said judges should not shape abortion laws in the United States, and that attempts to advance abortion rights through the courts instead of voter-approved measures are sneaky.

The associate justice, speaking for 30 minutes at the annual meeting of the Washington Metro Area Corporate Counsel Association on Thursday, drew many laughs as he reiterated his views that the Constitution should be interpreted strictly. He repeatedly called himself an “originalist” and at times blasted the interpretation taken by other justices who regard the Constitution as a “living” document that should evolve along with the society it governs.

Scalia, the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court, delivered the keynote address at the meeting, attended by more than 100 in-house lawyers at the Ritz-Carlton in Tysons Corner.

“The Constitution is not a living organism, it’s a legal text for Pete’s sake,” he said, adding that criticism that originalism doesn’t allow the court to deal with modern times is “absurd.”

“Originalism has something of a bad name, certainly in academia,” he said, joking that it’s seen as “almost like a weird affliction, like you’ve acquired a taste for human flesh.”

Scalia said those who believe proponents of “living Constitutionalism” — the idea that the Constitution should be interpreted differently as times change — are interested in flexibility are “crazy.”

Supporters of that approach are actually promoting more rigidity in the law because they want their personal views on issues like abortion, homosexuality and the death penalty “to be the law coast to coast, now and forever,” Scalia argued.

“I have three colleagues who believe the death penalty is unconstitutional,” he said, emphasizing that citizens have never voted to outlaw capital punishment. “What wasn’t a prohibition voted on by the American people has somehow become a prohibition.”

Abortion rights are not protected by the Constitution, and should be determined by voters, not the judiciary, he said.

“I’m not saying you shouldn’t have the right to an abortion,” said Scalia, who has previously spoken out against Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court case that established a woman’s right to an abortion. “But don’t tell me the American people demand that you have it and wrote it in the Constitution, because that’s not true.

“Most rights are adopted in a democracy by persuading [fellow voters], not by sneaking it compulsory through the back door, making it mandatory and permanent … that people never voted for,” he said.

In a victory for life that was largely ignored by the mainstream media, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for the State of Texas to immediately begin the enforcement of the law that requires doctors to conduct a sonogram before an abortion can be performed.

Planned Parenthood: Seeing a Baby Before Abortion is Abhorrent

By Katie Pavlich

The taxpayer funded abortion factory Planned Parenthood making millions in profits by preying on women, specifically minorities and teenagers, seems to think a woman seeing her baby before making the ultimate decision to end her pregnancy is an “abhorrent” standard. The classification comes after a federal appeals court upheld a law that requires doctors to give women considering an abortion an ultrasound and full information before performing the procedure.
Writing for the court, Chief Judge Edith Jones was frank about the other side’s failure “to demonstrate constitutional flaws with the law,” which requires women to have a sonogram 24 hours before an abortion. Judge Jones said the state has “legitimate interests in protecting the potential life within her.”

“Denying her up-to-date medical information,” Jones wrote, “is more of an abuse to her ability to decide than providing the information.”

Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said in a statement that the Fifth Circuit ruling “sets an abhorrent precedent” as other states prepared to consider similar laws to help women receive factual information about their baby and his or her development before making a life or death decision to have an abortion.
But why is Cecile Richards so against giving women ultrasounds?
What Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council finds abhorrent is Richards’ reaction to the ruling.

“Her organization recognizes that the biggest weapon in the abortion debate is the ultrasound machine,” Perkins said. “For thousands of women, this window into the womb is the only persuasion they need to reconsider abortion. And, as Richards’s group has proved, pro-abortion activists will do everything in their power to stop mothers from recognizing the personhood of their unborn babies.”

“This is a country where Americans can’t even play paintball without signing a paper acknowledging the risks. How does it possibly make sense to let women undergo a major surgical procedure without giving them all the facts?” he said. “The media may be calling it a victory for pro-lifers, but in this case, women and their babies are the real winners. While Texans still have the right to “choose,” at least they’ll finally know what they’re choosing.”

Perkins is right, ultrasounds decrease the chance of a woman having an abortion significantly. Abortion is big business for Planned Parenthood and the acceptance of a child in the womb as life, viewable through an ultrasound, threatens them. Not to mention it is really disgusting the president of a taxpayer funded organization, views a mother’s ability to see and hear her baby’s beating heart before choosing to take it away as “abhorrent.”

Ultrasounds are the single easiest way to prevent abortion. You can donate here to make sure crisis pregnancy centers have the equipment they need to save babies.

What most people do not realize is that Planned Parenthood has a business model to help ensure profits (in a ‘non-profit’ sense) and survivability. Part of their model includes exporting their ‘services’ overseas to developing nations. This model means that indirectly U.S taxpayers will be funding abortions overseas.

Planned Parenthood will receive funds from the United Nations (as well as other international ‘relief’ groups), which receives a large chunk of its funding from, that’s right…you guessed it….US!

Planned Parenthood International’s Plan for Africa: 82 Percent Increase in Abortion Services by 2015

By Penny Starr

 (CNSNews.com) – In its strategic plan for the Africa Region for 2010 to 2015, the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) states that it is working toward an 82 percent increase in abortion services.

That number is in Figure 2, the “performance framework” of the plan (page 7), under “performance milestones/benchmarks” and notes its expectation of an “82 percent increase in abortion services: 212,021 services by 2013, and 273,656 by 2015.”

CNSNews.com asked Paul Bell, senior communication officer with IPPF based in the United Kingdom, a series of questions about the group’s strategic plan, including whether the 82 percent increase and the more than a quarter million “abortion services” projected by 2015 represent abortion specifically or abortion and other services. Planned

Bell said the numbers include various things, including “post-abortion care services following unsafe abortion,” counseling services, post-abortion family planning services, and medical and surgical abortions.

“IPPF does not seek to ‘increase’ the number of abortions, but to make abortion accessible and safe wherever women seek such services,” Bell said in his response to the questions via e-mail.

According to Figure 2 in the strategic plan (on page 7), increases in “New Family Planning Users” is listed separately and states an expected 68 percent increase in “new users” of family planning by 2015 and a 64 percent increase in the “volume” of family planning services.

Also, in Table 1 – “Key result areas, outcomes, outputs and selected indicators, IPPFAR strategic plan 2010-2015” —  “safe abortion” is a separate “key result area.”  This information is also repeated under “performance benchmarks”: “82 percent in safe abortion-related services (2009 as baseline).”

The only other service listed under “safe abortion” (in Table 1) is a “50% increase of post-abortion family planning services (baseline 2009).” A 50 percent increase in “policy initiatives” and “legislative changes” in “support of safe abortion” also are listed under “safe abortion.”

According to a Fact Sheet from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America — the U.S. counterpart to the international organization (current as of September 2010) – “abortion services” are listed as “abortion procedures.”  It specifically says:

“Abortion Services – 3 percent of services in 2008

Abortion Procedures                           324,008”

Three percent of Planned Parenthood’s services were abortion:  324,008 in 2008, according to the fact sheet).

The Strategic Plan for the Africa Region states that the “Five A’s of programmatic emphasis” are: Access, AIDS, Abortion, Adolescents and Advocacy.

When asked by CNSNews.com why two other “As” were not included in the plan – abstinence and adoption — Bell said the IPPF does not have a “mandate as an adoption agency” but that clinics operated by the organization “do provide counseling and referral for adoption services.”

The IPPF’s latest annual report for 2010, however, does not have any statistics on or references to adoption.

CNSNews.com also asked Bell why abstinence was not mentioned in the strategic plan.

Bell said IPPF “provides a comprehensive approach to sexual health information and sexuality education, of which abstinence is included,” but added that, “as abstinence is a component of sexuality education it wouldn’t appear as a major element in a top-level strategy document.”

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed an executive order that put the “Mexico City Policy” into place. This policy prohibited taxpayer funds to be provided to non-governmental organizations around the globe that promote or provide abortion. Each Democratic president has reversed the policy – Carter, Clinton and Obama – and both Bushes reinstated it.

Bell said abortion services account for less than 2 percent of IPPF’s “overall work.”

Bell said the IPPF does “excellent work,” including “ providing millions of people around the world with access to maternal and child health services, including nutrition and vaccination services; family planning and contraception services that help prevent unplanned pregnancy and abortion, and allow women and men to better space pregnancies that improve the health and outcomes for both mother and child; pre- and post-natal care.”

The complete transcript for the questions and answers between CNSNews.com and Bell are presented below:

CNSNews.com: “The plan focuses on the “Five A’s” — Access, AIDS, Abortion, Adolescents, and Advocacy. Can you tell me why IPPFAR has not included anything in the plan about adoption?”

Paul Bell, IPPF: “ IPPF’s mission is to improve the quality of life of individuals by providing sexual and reproductive health services.  While we have no mandate as an adoption agency, individual Member Associations of IPPF do provide counseling and referral for adoption services.

CNSNews.com: “Can you tell me why IPPFAR has not included anything in the plan about abstinence?”
Paul Bell, IPPF: “IPPF provides a comprehensive approach to sexual health information and sexuality education – an approach that helps empower people to make informed decisions about their sexual lives and health, and which does not prioritize one approach over another but takes an evidence-based approach.  This provides for a wide range of approaches, including delaying sexual debut and abstinence.  As abstinence is a component of sexuality education it wouldn’t appear as a major element in a top level strategy document.”
CNSNews.com: “In Figure 2: IPPFAR Performance Framework, 2010-2015, under performance milestones/benchmarks, in the second column of the top row it states: an 82 percent increase in abortion services, followed by numbers for 2013 (212,021) and 2016 (273,656). Do those numbers represent abortions specifically or other services, including abortions?  If those numbers do not represent abortions, or a combination of other services and abortions, can you tell me exactly what those numbers represent?”

Paul Bell, IPPF: “The numbers seen in relation to abortion services include post abortion care services following unsafe abortion, counseling services related to abortion, post-abortion family planning services and safe abortion services including medical and surgical abortions. IPPF does not seek to ‘increase’ the number of abortions, but to make abortion accessible and safe wherever women seek such services. Unsafe abortion is a significant health problem in African countries, accounting for up to 30% of all maternal deaths in some countries, the majority of this burden of death and ill-health falls disproportionately on poor women and girls.  IPPF’s Member Associations are all registered, legal entities in their respective countries; as such they work within the legal framework governing access to abortion services in each country.”

Paul Bell, IPPF: “Globally, IPPF’s abortion services account for less than 2% of our overall work.  I would hate to think that your article would only focus on abortion (and abstinence) to the neglect of all the other excellent work IPPF does, including providing millions of people around the world with access to maternal and child health services, including nutrition and vaccination services; family planning and contraception services that help prevent unplanned pregnancy and abortion, and allow women and men to better space pregnancies that improve the health and outcomes for both mother and child; pre- and post-natal care; Gynecological and Obstetric services (16.6 million in 2010); cervical and breast cancer screening; and our work on prevention, treatment and care of HIV, last year reaching more than 12 million services worldwide.”

Gun lovers. Herewith are thirteen things to remember when carrying your weapon.  BTW- this list is not original.  I’ve Google up the bullet points but alas …I got nada in regards to who penned it. If and when someone schools me on who the author is you can rest assure that I’ll give him or her proper praise.  Enjoy.

1. Guns have only two enemies rust and politicians.

2. It’s always better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.

3. Cops carry guns to protect themselves, not you.

4. Never let someone or something that threatens you get inside arms length.

5. Never say, “I’ve got a gun.” If you need to use deadly force, the first sound they hear should be the safety clicking off.

6. The average response time of a 911 call is 23 minutes; the response time of a .357 is 1400 feet per second.

7. The most important rule in a gunfight is: Always win – cheat if necessary.

8. Make your attacker advance through a wall of bullets . . . You may get killed with your own gun, but he’ll have to beat you to death with it, because it’ll be empty.

9. If you’re in a gunfight:

- If you’re not shooting, you should be loading.

-  If you’re not loading, you should be moving.

-  If you’re not moving, you’re dead.

10. In a life and death situation, do something . . . It may be wrong, but do something!

11. If you carry a gun, people call you paranoid. Nonsense! If you have a gun, what do you have to be paranoid about?

12. You can say ‘stop’ or ‘alto’ or any other word, but a large bore muzzle pointed at someone’s head is pretty much a universal language.

13. You cannot save the planet, but you may be able to save yourself and your family.

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