Fighting for Baby Charlotte

Baby Charlotte's parents are fighting doctors in court to resuscitate their daughter if she stops breathing. I wonder if this a result of the national healthcare or the declining respect for life.

Who is Casey Sheehan

With all this focus on Cindy Sheehan, there as been only scattered reporting on who Casey Sheehan really was. Black Five blog has a page about him here.

Fetal Pain Article Biased?

No doubt you have seen in the mainstream media the report that new findings question whether unborn children feel pain. There are several interesting points. First, I am surprised at the amount of news coverage compared to that of in 2001 when Dr. Benatar presented his findings about fetal pain. Second, news reports are now coming out about the conflict of interest of several of the authors of the article. The primary author Susan Lee has previously interned for the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) Pro-Choice America. A second author on the paper, Dr. Eleanor Drey, is a director of a Women's Health Center (Abortion Clinic) in San Francisco. Having someone from the abortion industry write a review of fetal pain journal articles is like having someone from the tobacco industry review the current research on a cigarette/ cancer link. In 2004 the San Francisco Chronicle declared Dr. Drey a local hero and quoting her as saying:

"I always feel that I should be doing more. Everybody in this field, you're always worried that your patients might lose care just because of who's elected."

I think what she meant to say is this: "I am getting desperate because abortions are on decline. Everybody in the abortion industry is worry that they may have to stop making money. We need to start making up facts before we can't dig ourselves out of this hole."

Is fetal pain really relevant to abortion? It does make the issue more personal (nobody likes young children in pain). If the fetus feels no pain does that make her any less human or any less of a person?

When does personhood begin?

I wrote a response to a letter to the editor which said stem cells are not human beings. My editorial is here. It gets to the heart of the stem cell and abortion argument: When does a human being become a person (attain personhood)? When is a human being granted rights under the constitution? I think this is the heart of the issue.

Will the MSM catch on?

How long until the mainstream media catches on to this, or will they continue to ignore it? Cindy Sheehan (mother of a U.S. Soldier killed in Iraq) in 2004 praised the president, no big news. Now in 2005 she is making a stink in Crawford asking Bush for answers, and it makes big news. I've heard her story on NPR since Monday and they have yet to mention she earlier supported the president. Do you think they don't know or know and choose to ignore it?

Guardian of the Year

Micheal Schiavo has been named Florida's Guardian of the Year.

"The truth that has been kept from you by Bush, Rice and Rumsfeld is that there is no way out of Iraq without immediate withdrawal, and any delay on this means only more dead, more losses."

This could have easily been said by Kennedy, Schummer, Durbin or a whole host of other Democrats, but is actually from the recent video tape of Al Qaeda deputy leader Aymen al-Zawahiri. Guess who probably agrees with him.