by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
April 27,
2008
Pro-Life Leader Father Frank Pavone Mocks Roe
v. Wade Abortion Poll
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director
of Priests for Life, told LifeNews.com he thinks a
recent poll on Americans' attitude about Roe v. Wade doesn't tell
what they really think about abortion. As LifeNews.com reported, Knowledge
Networks, Yahoo and the Associated Press teamed up for the poll, which
showed 66 percent of Americans want Roe v. Wade to remain in place while
32 percent want it overturned and two percent don't know. “How
can we expect Americans to tell us whether they want Roe vs. Wade reversed
when we evade critical details of what Roe vs. Wade says?” asked
Fr. Pavone. Consistent with a long tradition of polling questions on
Roe, this month’s poll question hides the fact that Roe permits
abortion throughout all nine months of pregnancy. A majority of Americans
have never agreed with such an extreme policy.” Despite the polls
on Roe, other surveys show Americans actually oppose what it does. An
October 2007 CBS News survey found 54 percent of Americans take one
of three pro-life positions opposing all or almost all abortions and
another 16 percent want more restrictions on it. The survey found that
16 percent of the public only favors allowing abortions "only to
save woman's life" and another 34 percent think abortions should
only be allowed in the very rare cases of rape, incest or to save the
mother's life. Another four percent of Americans want all abortions
to be made illegal. In total, 54 percent of Americans oppose 98 percent
of all abortion cases Roe authorized.
Dr.
Alveda King Says Planned Parenthood Should be De-Funded
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., says a new study released by Students for Life
of America reinforces the call of black leaders to eliminate federal
subsidies to Planned Parenthood. “It’s time to let freedom
ring for the babies,” said Dr. King. “The Students for Life
report on Planned Parenthood’s targeting of African Americans for
abortion spells out why taxpayers should not be forced to contribute
to that organization. The government should not be subsidizing racism,
but that’s exactly what it’s doing through Planned Parenthood.”
The study examines programs and incidents dating from Planned Parenthood’s
founding through the most recent scandal of seven Planned Parenthood
chapters’ willingness to accept donations for the exclusive purpose
of aborting black babies. “Defending human life is part of the
civil rights struggle and I and my fellow pro-life African American
leaders are not going away,” added Dr. King. We are uniting civil
rights and moral rights to fulfill the dream of what my uncle called
‘the beloved community.’ America needs to know that black
leaders do support life. We start where life begins, with the babies,
and we will march on until abortion, racism, and all society’s
ills bow to the truth that we are all one race.”
Catholic
St. Thomas Law School: No Credit for Planned Parenthood Volunteering
St. Paul, MN (LifeNews.com) -- Thomas Mengler, Dean of the University
of St. Thomas School of Law in Minneapolis, has ruled that students
may not count volunteer work at Planned Parenthood as part of their
required service hours. The university’s student Public Service
Board (PSB) had previously decided to count volunteer work at the notorious
abortion provider toward the graduation requirement. "Volunteer
service at Planned Parenthood, whatever the nature of that service,
advances the mission of Planned Parenthood, an organization whose mission
is fundamentally at odds with a core value of the Catholic Church,”
Mengler said. The Dean continued, “Such service does not constitute
'qualifying public service' for purposes of satisfying the School of
Law's graduation requirement of 50 hours of public service.” Patrick
Reilly, President of The Cardinal Newman Society, praised the move.
“Dean Mengler has taken a clear position in support of the law
school’s Catholic mission and opposed to the reprehensible activities
of Planned Parenthood. He has set an important example for other law
schools that have all but abandoned a distinctive Catholic identity.”
