Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah
Palin will headline an anti-abortion fundraising breakfast in Washington this
May.
Palin will speak to donors to
the Susan B. Anthony List — a group that backs candidates who oppose
abortion rights.
“Gov. Palin sees the value,
necessity and joy inherent in every human life,” said Susan B. Anthony List
President Marjorie Dannenfelser. “Gov. Palin is the modern personification of
the authentic leadership modeled by early women’s rights trailblazers like
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Our nation’s earliest women
leaders understood that women’s rights could never be advanced at the expense
of the broken rights of innocent unborn children.”
The May 14 breakfast will be
held at the Ronald Reagan building in downtown Washington.
In a long report by POLITICO’s Ken Vogel, it turns out that
a majority of the tea partiers are conservative women! Surprise main stream
media – we could have told you that!
Pro-life women leaders like Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann
are among the tea party’s most recognizeable figures, and are a part of the
expanding popularity of the tea party movement.
Great job to our favorite conservative women! Keep speaking
out!
…And
you thought Abortion was bad, check this out via RT.com:
The article titled “Finish it off so it doesn’t suffer,” which
calls for the euthanasia of disabled newborn children, has caused public
outrage in Russia and has led to fierce debates in the blogging community.
In the article under question, the author says that “the killing of the newborn is in fact the same as an
abortion or super-late term abortion”and calls disabled newborns “defective blanks” and “newborn idiots”.He states that
depriving disabled infants of life is “true
humanism”.
The Union of Russian Journalists has accused the author of the
article of breaching professional ethics.
Looks like Russia has its own Peter Singer
on its hands.
Recently former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin commented on the healthcare reform legislation making its way through Congress. In her statement, she makes it clear that she is very concerned that the current healthcare legislation would lead to the rationing of healthcare and a devaluation human life. Palin said,
The Democrats promise that a government health care system will reduce the cost of health care, but as the economist Thomas Sowell has pointed out, government health care will not reduce the cost; it will simply refuse to pay the cost. And who will suffer the most when they ration care? The sick, the elderly, and the disabled, of course. The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s “death panel” so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their “level of productivity in society,” whether they are worthy of health care. Such a system is downright evil.
Health care by definition involves life and death decisions. Human rights and human dignity must be at the center of any health care discussion.
Palin’s statement serves as a good reminder of what it really means to be pro-life. As pro-lifers, we believe in the inherent value of every human life. Period. We do not believe that people are only valuable if they are useful, meet a certain standard of intelligence, or are in a position to significantly contribute to society. We acknowledge that there are differences among people, of couse. People vary in height, weight, intelligence, beauty, level of ambition, personality, and countless other ways. However, we don’t believe any of these differences has a bearing on how valuable a peron’s life is. Physically fit people and disabled people are equally valuable; the mentally challenged and the precocious are equally valuable. Pro-lifers believe in the value and dignity of every human life, born and unborn. Since all people are equally human, everyone- regardless of other characteristics- has an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Based on statements that President Obama and people involved in his administration have made, we have good reason to believe that under the proposed healthcare reform people will not be treated equally, but will be discriminated against based on their perceived worth to society. Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an Obama health care advisor and brother to Rahm Emanuel, made the following statement in the Hastings Center Report, volume 26, no. 6, page 13:
…services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed. An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.
Unlike the pro-life community, Dr. Emanuel seems to think that people are valuable based on their utility to society, not simply by virtue of their humanity. For more on utilitarianism and rationing healthcare, see this recent blog post.
Sarah Palin ended her statement on the proposed healthcare reform by saying this:
We must step up and engage in this most crucial debate. Nationalizing our health care system is a point of no return for government interference in the lives of its citizens. If we go down this path, there will be no turning back. Ronald Reagan once wrote, “Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.” Let’s stop and think and make our voices heard before it’s too late.
Like Palin said, it is time to take a stand for Life and make our voices heard. Since Congress will not be passing healthcare reform until after they come back from their recess this September, we have been given an opportunity to voice our concerns about government-run healthcare to our senators and representatives. Contact your senators and representative about healthcare reform today!
In an interview with Fox Business, Marjorie Dannenfelser, co-founder of TeamSarah, defended Governor Sarah Palin’s decision to step down as governor of Alaska as a “fully human move” made on the basis of selfless motives such as wanting the best for her state. Dannenfelser pointed out that Palin’s decision has led to a surge of support for her on the grassroots level.
Governor Sarah Palin's strong pro-life leadership is the perfect example of the kind of woman we need in politics. Check out this montage of her remarks at the Vanderburgh County Right to Life dinner earlier this year. LIFE is the loving choice!
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is the featured guest at the Vanderburgh County Right to Life Banquet tonight in Evansville, Indiana. The appearance is her first major public event since the 2008 campaign.
For Governor Palin to go to a place like Indiana to
advocate for women, unborn children, and those with special needs
speaks volumes about who she is and where her heart is. This type of decision leaves media, beltway, political, and feminist elites scratching their heads. But
spending time at a pro-life banquet and a charity event to support
families of children with Down Syndrome is a good choice for her
because it's a reflection of not only her values, but her true persona:
outside the Washington Beltway, beyond elite insider politics.
She's just being who she is, and what annoys
Washington insiders doubly attracts real Americans. They are hungry for
authenticity, and they have found it in her. Governor Palin sees the
value, necessity, and joy inherent in every human life, and that
quality rises above and beyond political gamesmanship.
The program begins tonight at 7:00 EST, and the event organizers have set up a live webcast accessible here: http://www.mogulus.com/vcrtl
While in Indiana, Palin is also doing a fundraising event for SMILE, a local charity to support families of children diagnosed with Down Syndrome.
Governor Palin released this video last week to national organizers of the Special Olympics. She reminds us all how every child is a blessing and deserves the same opportunities in life.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, daughter Bristol, and grandson Tripp all sat down with Greta Van Sustren to discuss their family's response to a surprise teen pregnancy. Throughout the interview, Palin stresses the importance of a strong family support structure and shows the love her family brings to the unexpected blessing of Tripp.
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was interviewed by Glenn Beck today, and toward the end of the interview she was asked about how Trig, her youngest son with Down Syndrome, has changed her life.
She said, "Every innocent life is created for a purpose, for a destiny. That, to me, is what Trig represents."
Amen, sister! What a blessing it is to have someone of Sarah's stature confidently and continually professing the truth that every life is sacred.
PALIN: Susan
B. Anthony. I have great respect there for the history. She was a
pro-life feminist and those things that she stood for, and she was so
far ahead of her time. It amazes me.
This is so appropriate, considering that Susan B. Anthony was a trailblazer for women. Like Palin, Susan B. Anthony valued every human life, born and unborn. She even referred to abortion as "child murder." Three cheers for authentic pro-life female leadership!
It looks like Sarah Palin won't be fading away. Not if Saxby Chambliss has anything to say about it. "I can't overstate the impact she had down here," said Chambliss shortly after his surprisingly solid 15-point victory in the December 2 Georgia Senate runoff. Chambliss, who went from a 49.8-46.8 percent lead on November 4 to a 57-43 victory over Democrat Jim Martin in the runoff (Georgia law requires an absolute majority), credited Palin with helping his campaign "peak" with four hugely attended election-eve rallies.
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Enthusiasm for Governor Sarah Palin is high among families with special needs. From the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel:
Listening to a political speech is not what most children envision as a
good time on a Saturday. Not so for Keith Johnson, 9, and his three
siblings. It was the second time in less than 10 days that the Johnson
family had attended a Palin rally. They had also traveled from their
Crawfordsville home to Noblesville on Oct. 17 to hear the woman who
Keith says is one of his heroes.
“I'm embarrassed to say how
early we came,” Keith's mother, Becky Johnson, said. The family had
arrived at the coliseum at noon, wanting to ensure what happened in
Noblesville didn't occur again. At that event they were so far away
from Palin, “the kids really didn't get to see her. They were really
disappointed.”
On Saturday the Johnsons were front and center in
the bleachers, the children chomping on snacks until the toe-tapping
music of country singer Hank Williams Jr. reverberated around the room.
Hours
before Palin entered the arena, Keith and his sister Mariah, 7, took
turns waving a yellow, hand-printed sign, “Vote for Trig's Mommy.”
When asked why that particular sign, Keith pointed to his sister Gabby, 4.
“My sister has Down syndrome and Trig has Down syndrome, too,” he said.
Governor Palin surprised the citizens of a small town in Ohio after she stopped at the local Wal-Mart to pick up some diapers in between campaign stops today.
One citizen's comment:
“It was so exciting,” said Pat Miller of Patriot, accompanied by
her daughter Amber, a student at South Gallia High School. “She seemed
to be very sweet, and if she could stop and take the time to buy some
diapers for her son, it tells you that for her, family is first.”
A really heartwarming piece was posted by Lisa Schiffren on The Corner today, and I had to pass it along. Make sure you read the article! Every life matters, folks. Every single one.
Teenagers Acting Better Than Their Elders
I was going to e-mail this story about a town in
Texas where the high-school kids voted a classmate with Down Syndrome
homecoming queen to all of the people I know who have expressed horror
or contempt for Sarah Palin for not aborting Trig. But that would have
taken too long. And it wouldn't change anyone's mind. It would be nice
to know how these teens emerged with such kindness and maturity from
the angst-ridden, self-absorbed high-school years. If an educator had
anything to do with it, we should be hearing more from her.
The Susan B. Anthony List is dedicated to advancing, mobilizing and representing pro-life women in the political process.
Its connected Candidate Fund increases the percentage of pro-life women in politics.
Recently former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin commented 
