Abortion: Save the Turtles Kill the Babies
`Priests for Life' director inspires Connecticut
By Rita Reali News Editor
WETHERSFIELD, Connecticut
As he trod along the shore in Florida - having given a pro-life sermon at a church across the street - Father Frank A. Pavone noticed a large sign that warned beach-goers not to disturb the giant sea turtles or their eggs.
In Florida, giant sea turtles, and their eggs, are protected by local, state and federal law.
Unborn humans are not.
Father Pavone, national director of the New York City-based Priests For Life, pointed out the disparity in concern for the sanctity of life at Sacred Heart and Corpus Christi churches April 10 and 11.
"If in this country we don't have the right to choose to smash the egg of a sea turtle, why do we have the right to choose to smash a baby?" he asked, gazing out into a sea of faces. "Isn't there something wrong with this?"
Calling Christians "the people of life," Father Pavone urged an end to abortion. He said the so-called "safe and legal" procedure takes more lives each year than the total number of lives lost during every war in which the United States of America has ever been involved.
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In his speech Pro Cluentio, delivered in 66 BCE, Cicero refers to a case he had heard of in which a woman from Miletus was sentenced to death for having aborted her pregnancy, upon receiving bribes from those who stood to inherit her husband's estate if produced no heir. Cicero said that in doing so she had "destroyed the hope of the father, the memory of his name, the supply of his race, the heir of his family, a citizen intended for the use of the republic".
Those who defend paternal rights believe it is unfair that women are often given greater reproductive liberty: a woman can choose whether to abort a pregnancy, or carry it to term, and then whether to parent the child or place it for adoption.
All of these decisions, it is argued, can result in emotional, financial, and other consequences for the biological father, and yet the man's opinion in the matter is seldom consulted in the decision-making process or given weight in legal considerations.
If the man desires to be a father, the woman can still have an abortion, regardless of the deleterious effect to his mental health; if, on the other hand, he doesn't desire to raise a child, then the woman can give birth and he may still be liable to pay child support.
Some supporters of paternal rights seek to grant men social equality with women. Supporters, however, downplay the concept of men having the ability to impose their wishes in the abortion decision with any finality.
A term which is used by some is "equal choice," meaning that the masculine and feminine choices are of equal importance, if not identical in nature: it is asserted that the woman can choose whether or not to carry the pregnancy to term and the can man choose whether or not to assume financial responsibility for the child which might result. Their stance is that granting a man the ability to forego fatherhood and the requirements thereof does not diminish the "woman's right to choose."
Those who oppose paternal rights hold that, because it is the woman who must physically go through the nine months of pregnancy and risk its associated complications, her will in the matter should be conclusive.
In their opinion, permitting the man to opt out of any parental duty if the woman chooses motherhood is unacceptable, effectively allowing him influence or control over her ultimate decision, as she might not be able to financially support a child herself if she decides to carry to term.
They concede that the current situation in many nations is slanted in favour of women but claim that the physical responsibility placed upon women by pregnancy balances out the financial responsibility which a child places upon men.
A 4th-century BCE Greek writer from Alexandria, Egypt, Sopater, quoted the lawyer Lysias, who had referred to a trial in Athens in which a man named Antigene accused his wife of having deprived him of a son by having an abortion.
Abortion kills 4,400 babies each day in the United States - which translates to one every 20 seconds.
"There's no -crime, no disease, no natural disaster, no war that claims more lives than abortion does," he said.
He brings a positive message to the pulpit, starting by outlining the alternatives to abortion and urging reconciliation for women who have had abortions.
"There is a very strong emphasis on forgiveness for those who have been involved in this but who want to find healing and peace," he told The Catholic Transcript.
Many Catholics underestimate the effectiveness of the greatest tool in the pro-life arsenal.
"As Catholics, the best weapon is the Eucharist," he said.
Priests For Life was founded in 1990 by Father Lee Kaylor of San Francisco. Its founders set out to defend life, focusing mainly on abortion and euthanasia.
"These two issues are [the] flash points of the battle of the culture of death," Father Pavone said. He said Priests For Life defends life across the board.
"If human life is sacred under one set of circumstances, it's sacred under another as well," he said.
The group has 5,300 members in the United States and Canada, with offices in Dallas, Washington D.C., St. Paul, Milwaukee and Rome.
Father Pavone became national director of Priests For Life in 1993. He spends 90 percent of his time traveling as far as Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, India and the United Kingdom.
"I get enough invitations to be on the road 100 percent of the time if I wanted to," he said. Three other member priests also work full-time. "We get enough invitations to keep them busy, too. ... There is a real thirst for the pro-life message."
In late May a Connecticut superior court judge ruled that in Connecticut, a man charged with fatally stabbing a pregnant woman can be charged with murder. The baby, delivered by cesarean section after the mother's death, lived six weeks.
"Even [when states] formulate a law which would protect unborn children from circumstances like this, they would put an exception in there for abortion," he said, "some statement like, 'It is understood that this law does not apply in cases of abortion.'"
He said he wants to give people confidence that they can work together to end abortion.
"The message of Priests For Life ... is, 'Yes, we are making progress and there is something you can do about it,' " he said, "and we want to encourage people to have the sense that we are making progress."
For more information on Priests for Life, call (888) PFL-3448, write to P. 0. Box 141172, Staten Island, N.Y. 10314 or visit www.priestsforlife.org, their website.
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Hillary Clinton and the Black Panthers: Shows her Subversive Roots
© John Puzzo 2008
Hillary Clinton and the eternal truths that define her: Every time she lies, her thighs grow larger, she was a radical activist while at Yale Law School, and she remains a left wing radical even in her aspiration to be president of the United States. Shudder the thought.
On January 28, 2008, Hillary returned to Connecticut where she went to Yale Law school, worked with the Black Panthers, the ACLU, and later interned with a communist lawyer (not Bill), met Bill, and began her aspirations to become the evil queen.
She came here on a campaign stop. Not so curiously, this episode of her life, which would have figured prominently in any honest press account, was omitted. The local press reported that she spoke fondly of her days at Yale, where I was a student three years after the events described below. Even Jane Fonda, 'Hanoi Jane' for those of you in Rio Linda, made an appearance in New Haven to ‘support’ the Black Panthers who were on trial for the torture murder of fellow Panther, Alex Rackley in May, 1969.
The present Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, spoke admiringly (politics and strange bedfellows) as he introduced Hillary yesterday to Connecticut at 'the Learning Corridor,' the NEA's local fortified castle. "I admire and respect her as the most experienced and able candidate who will be ready to lead from day one, particularly on economic issues that are so profoundly significant today," Blumenthal said. http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2008/01/24/connecticut_attorney_general_endorses_hillary_clinton/
Blumenthal’s connection to the 1969 Black Panther murder trial is unknown, but he was there at the time (...and he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal) when members of his Yale Law School class volunteered their services for 'the defense.' Most prominent among these was Hillary Rodham (Clinton). Linked as we are to the past, an unwillingness to remember unhappy events and embarrassing episodes in our history does nothing for our future. A keynote of the 1969 Black Panther platform was a call for killing whites, especially white leaders and police, facts that gave many contemporary State Attorneys’ General headaches.
Throughout most of her life Hillary Clinton has supported Marxist groups such as the Black Panthers and the ACLU, the ‘vanguard of revolution’ called forth by Lenin himself. The Black Panthers were openly allied with communist movements around the world and held a place of affection in the heart of Fidel Castro. A keynote of the Panther platform was a call for killing whites, especially white leaders and police.
On May 20, 1969, Black Panther Party founder and national chairman Bobby Seale spoke at Yale University, having been invited there by campus revolutionaries. The next day, Alex Rackley, a New York Black Panther who had allegedly come under suspicion of being an informer, was kidnapped, tortured, and killed in the wetlands of Middlefield, Connecticut, his body dumped into the Coginchaug River.
Rackley’s body was found with his wrists tied, a noose made from a wire coat hanger around his neck, and had extensive burns on wide areas of his torso, wrists, buttocks, thighs, and right shoulder from the boiling water that was poured over him. According to the confession of one of the torturers, he had also been beaten with a club around his face, groin, and lumbar region and stabbed with an ice pick. Rackley was killed by several shots to the head according to the testimony of one of the shooters.
National Panther ‘field marshal,’ George W. Sams, whose nickname was, ‘Crazy George,’ was the prime suspect in Rackley’s death. George was
"...the ugliest bastard I’d ever seen...talking crazy, his eyes deep, beet red . . .stunk like ten dogs, " testimony of Frances Carter, who was arrested (but later released) for Rackley’s murder.
‘Crazy George’ gave testimony that he killed Rackley on orders from Seale, who had been in New Haven to speak the day before the murder.
Seale was arrested and went to trial in New Haven, accused of ordering Rackley’s murder with the words, “Do away with him.” Along with other Yale law students, Hillary volunteered to ‘monitor’ the trial for the American Civil Liberties Union
At their peak, the Panthers had around 5,000 committed members in 20 chapters but an estimated twelve thousand Panthers and supporters showed up in New Haven who were housed and fed by community organizations and Yale students in their dormitories.
Showing their appreciation to the Yalies, left wing terrorist bombers exploded two devices in the Yale hockey rink. Connecticut National Guard tanks ringed the city and Guardsmen, bayonets affixed to their weapons, patrolled the streets. They had been issued live ammunition.
‘Insight’ magazine, relying on primary and other firsthand sources, back the contention that Hillary was a campus leader during the Panther protests with direct involvement with the ACLU. In this capacity, as reported by author Joseph Farah, she assisted Seales' lawyer, Charles Garry, identified under oath as a member of the Communist Party (CPUSA), “who in turn worked with Robert Treuhaft, longtime attorney for the CPUSA and a frequent defender of the Panthers in their ongoing violent confrontations with authorities…”
“The fact is that the Panthers were torturers and murderers of black people,” said David Horowitz, himself a former Panther supporter and 60’s radical. “And Hillary Clinton and Bill Lann Lee (later appointed to a top federal post during by Bill Clinton) organized…demonstrations to get them off…[they were] a bunch of revolutionary law students who were trying to obstruct justice; that’s what it was about. A guy was tortured and murdered; the government was trying people for the crime.… The Panther leaders who were on trial all thought it was okay to torture and murder somebody. That’s what Hillary Clinton was defending…” [see: freerepublic.com]
“Was Hillary was a “revolutionary”? Horowitz says that “the people she was with at the time were communists.… These people didn’t want civil rights, they wanted a Soviet state. We all knew it. She knew it. This was the communist left, the New Left, the hate-America left.” Citation: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/812576/posts; citation referenced January 26, 2008.
After she graduated Yale Law Sdhool, Hillary moved to Oakland, California, where she went to work for a communist attorney. “Treuhaft and his wife, celebrity writer Jessica Mitford, were by Mitford’s sworn account hard-line Stalinist communists…The House Committee on Un-American Activities listed Treuhaft as one of the most “dangerously subversive” lawyers in the country. Hillary biographer David Brock quotes a historian’s assessment of Treuhaft as “a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB…As an established radical student leader dating to her days at Wellesley College, with additional credentials and connections developed in the Panther episode and other protests at Yale, Hillary won an internship with Treuhaft in Berkeley, Calif., the nerve center of the revolutionary left, where Treuhaft was known fondly as “The Red Lawyer.”
“Treuhaft’s associate in cases involving the Panthers was Jack Palladino, who ran an investigative agency in partnership with his wife, former Students for a Democratic Society organizer Sandra Sutherland. Palladino, surfaces again in the Clinton story when he was called upon to silence “bimbo eruptions” in the early days of presidential campaigning.” op cit: freerepublic.com
After the trial, Hillary co-edited (with Dick Blumenthal?) the commemorative issue of ‘Yale Review’ celebrating the Panthers. It was “laced with cartoons of police officers depicted as pigs, including one who was decapitated and dismembered:” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/812576/posts; citation referenced January 26, 2008.
Speaking decades later, Seale remembered the day, "Our guns were loaded. [and, quoting revolutionary guru, Franz Fanon] “You are a revolutionary 24 hours a day.” http://www.gadflyonline.com/8-6-01/FTR-bobbyseale2.HTML#top; (citation referenced January 26, 2008)
Hillary Clinton and the eternal truths that define her: Every time she lies, her thighs grow larger, she was a radical activist while at Yale Law School, and she remains a left wing radical even in her aspiration to be president of the United States. Shudder the thought.
On January 28, 2008, Hillary returned to Connecticut where she went to Yale Law school, worked with the Black Panthers, the ACLU, and later interned with a communist lawyer (not Bill), met Bill, and began her aspirations to become the evil queen.
She came here on a campaign stop. Not so curiously, this episode of her life, which would have figured prominently in any honest press account, was omitted. The local press reported that she spoke fondly of her days at Yale, where I was a student three years after the events described below. Even Jane Fonda, 'Hanoi Jane' for those of you in Rio Linda, made an appearance in New Haven to ‘support’ the Black Panthers who were on trial for the torture murder of fellow Panther, Alex Rackley in May, 1969.
The present Connecticut Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, spoke admiringly (politics and strange bedfellows) as he introduced Hillary yesterday to Connecticut at 'the Learning Corridor,' the NEA's local fortified castle. "I admire and respect her as the most experienced and able candidate who will be ready to lead from day one, particularly on economic issues that are so profoundly significant today," Blumenthal said. http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2008/01/24/connecticut_attorney_general_endorses_hillary_clinton/
Blumenthal’s connection to the 1969 Black Panther murder trial is unknown, but he was there at the time (...and he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal) when members of his Yale Law School class volunteered their services for 'the defense.' Most prominent among these was Hillary Rodham (Clinton). Linked as we are to the past, an unwillingness to remember unhappy events and embarrassing episodes in our history does nothing for our future. A keynote of the 1969 Black Panther platform was a call for killing whites, especially white leaders and police, facts that gave many contemporary State Attorneys’ General headaches.
Throughout most of her life Hillary Clinton has supported Marxist groups such as the Black Panthers and the ACLU, the ‘vanguard of revolution’ called forth by Lenin himself. The Black Panthers were openly allied with communist movements around the world and held a place of affection in the heart of Fidel Castro. A keynote of the Panther platform was a call for killing whites, especially white leaders and police.
On May 20, 1969, Black Panther Party founder and national chairman Bobby Seale spoke at Yale University, having been invited there by campus revolutionaries. The next day, Alex Rackley, a New York Black Panther who had allegedly come under suspicion of being an informer, was kidnapped, tortured, and killed in the wetlands of Middlefield, Connecticut, his body dumped into the Coginchaug River.
Rackley’s body was found with his wrists tied, a noose made from a wire coat hanger around his neck, and had extensive burns on wide areas of his torso, wrists, buttocks, thighs, and right shoulder from the boiling water that was poured over him. According to the confession of one of the torturers, he had also been beaten with a club around his face, groin, and lumbar region and stabbed with an ice pick. Rackley was killed by several shots to the head according to the testimony of one of the shooters.
National Panther ‘field marshal,’ George W. Sams, whose nickname was, ‘Crazy George,’ was the prime suspect in Rackley’s death. George was
"...the ugliest bastard I’d ever seen...talking crazy, his eyes deep, beet red . . .stunk like ten dogs, " testimony of Frances Carter, who was arrested (but later released) for Rackley’s murder.
‘Crazy George’ gave testimony that he killed Rackley on orders from Seale, who had been in New Haven to speak the day before the murder.
Seale was arrested and went to trial in New Haven, accused of ordering Rackley’s murder with the words, “Do away with him.” Along with other Yale law students, Hillary volunteered to ‘monitor’ the trial for the American Civil Liberties Union
At their peak, the Panthers had around 5,000 committed members in 20 chapters but an estimated twelve thousand Panthers and supporters showed up in New Haven who were housed and fed by community organizations and Yale students in their dormitories.
Showing their appreciation to the Yalies, left wing terrorist bombers exploded two devices in the Yale hockey rink. Connecticut National Guard tanks ringed the city and Guardsmen, bayonets affixed to their weapons, patrolled the streets. They had been issued live ammunition.
‘Insight’ magazine, relying on primary and other firsthand sources, back the contention that Hillary was a campus leader during the Panther protests with direct involvement with the ACLU. In this capacity, as reported by author Joseph Farah, she assisted Seales' lawyer, Charles Garry, identified under oath as a member of the Communist Party (CPUSA), “who in turn worked with Robert Treuhaft, longtime attorney for the CPUSA and a frequent defender of the Panthers in their ongoing violent confrontations with authorities…”
“The fact is that the Panthers were torturers and murderers of black people,” said David Horowitz, himself a former Panther supporter and 60’s radical. “And Hillary Clinton and Bill Lann Lee (later appointed to a top federal post during by Bill Clinton) organized…demonstrations to get them off…[they were] a bunch of revolutionary law students who were trying to obstruct justice; that’s what it was about. A guy was tortured and murdered; the government was trying people for the crime.… The Panther leaders who were on trial all thought it was okay to torture and murder somebody. That’s what Hillary Clinton was defending…” [see: freerepublic.com]
“Was Hillary was a “revolutionary”? Horowitz says that “the people she was with at the time were communists.… These people didn’t want civil rights, they wanted a Soviet state. We all knew it. She knew it. This was the communist left, the New Left, the hate-America left.” Citation: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/812576/posts; citation referenced January 26, 2008.
After she graduated Yale Law Sdhool, Hillary moved to Oakland, California, where she went to work for a communist attorney. “Treuhaft and his wife, celebrity writer Jessica Mitford, were by Mitford’s sworn account hard-line Stalinist communists…The House Committee on Un-American Activities listed Treuhaft as one of the most “dangerously subversive” lawyers in the country. Hillary biographer David Brock quotes a historian’s assessment of Treuhaft as “a man who dedicated his entire legal career to advancing the agenda of the Soviet Communist Party and the KGB…As an established radical student leader dating to her days at Wellesley College, with additional credentials and connections developed in the Panther episode and other protests at Yale, Hillary won an internship with Treuhaft in Berkeley, Calif., the nerve center of the revolutionary left, where Treuhaft was known fondly as “The Red Lawyer.”
“Treuhaft’s associate in cases involving the Panthers was Jack Palladino, who ran an investigative agency in partnership with his wife, former Students for a Democratic Society organizer Sandra Sutherland. Palladino, surfaces again in the Clinton story when he was called upon to silence “bimbo eruptions” in the early days of presidential campaigning.” op cit: freerepublic.com
After the trial, Hillary co-edited (with Dick Blumenthal?) the commemorative issue of ‘Yale Review’ celebrating the Panthers. It was “laced with cartoons of police officers depicted as pigs, including one who was decapitated and dismembered:” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/812576/posts; citation referenced January 26, 2008.
Speaking decades later, Seale remembered the day, "Our guns were loaded. [and, quoting revolutionary guru, Franz Fanon] “You are a revolutionary 24 hours a day.” http://www.gadflyonline.com/8-6-01/FTR-bobbyseale2.HTML#top; (citation referenced January 26, 2008)
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