What we see when Priests for Life’s National Director Father Frank Pavone and Youth Outreach Director Brian Kemper are together.
What caption would you put?
In recent days, amidst cries of a media “blackout,” a number of journalists have admitted to either missing or dismissing the story of Dr. Kermit Gosnell over the past two years. As one of the many journalists who has been covering the Gosnell story since it broke in early 2011, all I can say is: We tried to get the story out there. But more importantly, this politics-of-media framework distracts from the circuitous politics that enabled, and resulted from, Gosnell’s actual crimes and the women who were affected.
Nine months after a grand jury concluded that the number of babies and women who died in Kermit Gosnell’s women’s health services clinic is “literally incalculable,” a pair of guerilla artists sent out invitations to a renegade art installation titled Regard, to be showcased by lights tonight at the former site.
“It’s important to honor people were murdered in this place,” says Jane. “I think it’s time to … take a moment to say we honor you. We see you.”
The artists say they wrote a mission statement to try to prevent their work from being co-opted by the anti-choice movement.
“I hope people come away from the work with the understanding that this piece was conceived with an eye toward compassion, rather than judgment,” says Jane.
Book Review: ‘Generation Roe’ a Savvy New Book By a Young Advocate
Generation Roe provides a savvy overview of how abortion came to be so inaccessible, marginalized, and stigmatized while disproving the tired media trope that “young women don’t care about abortion.”
What is so great about this book is Erdreich’s insistence on taking the pro-choice movement to task for actions that may, however inadvertently, have supported two consecutive calendar years that saw the highest and second-highest number of new abortion restrictions ever.
A report by the Health Service Executive has concluded, according to the Irish Times, that there was “an overemphasis by hospital staff on the welfare of Ms Halappanavar’s unviable foetus and an underemphasis on her deteriorating health.”
As reported by the Times, the report says, “The investigating team considers there was an apparent overemphasis on the need not to intervene until the foetal heart stopped, together with an underemphasis on the need to focus an appropriate attention on monitoring for and managing the risk of infection and sepsis in the mother.”
The final draft of the report did not mention the widely quoted comment by Burke about Ireland being a “Catholic country” where doctors would not end a miscarriage, but Burke admitted to saying this during testimony.
Wichita pastor seeks dismissal of stalking petition filed by clinic’s founder
Julie Burkhart, the founder of Trust Women, was earlier granted a temporary stalking order against Mark Holick. The Trust Women Foundation raised money to recently open South Wind Women’s Center, which will offer abortions up to 14 weeks of pregnancy.
Burkhart wrote in her petition that Holick had pointed a sign toward her house Feb. 15 that said, “Where’s your church?’
“My former boss was murdered in his church,” Burkhart said in the petition filed in Sedgwick County District Court.
Burkhart said in an interview with The Eagle that she interpreted the sign to be a threat against her. She had worked for George Tiller, a Wichita doctor who was shot and killed in his church by an anti-abortion activist May 31, 2009. Scott Roeder was convicted of murder in the case and is serving a 50-year sentence.
Burkhart said in her hand-written complaint that Holick was “engaging in behavior meant to scare and intimidate me. He also uses violent language, which I take very seriously.”
Nothing says #prolife like “Let me stalk you and fear for your life in peace!”
We have a voice, we have a choice. Poster I made in response to a triggering pro-life campaign on my campus.
