Leroy Carhart Encounters Truth Once Again

This moment of grace for Leroy Carhart happened less than two weeks ago, on January 18th.  The Carharts and Monica Miller shared a plane ride.  Read what happened in Monica's own words.

This is not the first encounter he's had with the truth. He has been confronted several times at the Germantown abortuary where he murders babies not ten miles from my home.  We must pray for his conversion, as well as those of all the others involved in that horrid crime.  As things stand now, their eternal fates look very bleak.  Pray for the grace of repentance and conversion.  He could be the next Bernard Nathanson.

Is Nancy Keenan Starting To Smell The Coffee?

Nancy Keenan, current president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, has announced her retirement from her post effective the end of 2012.  In this Washington Post piece, Keenan says she fears that she is "holding the pro-choice movement back".  Whatever.

But what's really interesting is the distinctions that she sees between pro-life youth and pro-abortion youth; she dubs it the "intensity gap".  Here it is, according to the Post.   "While most young, antiabortion voters see abortion as a crucial political issue, NARAL’s own internal research does not find similar passion among abortion-rights supporters."  She's onto something, although she is not admitting to some very obvious causes.

These young people, pro-life and pro-abortion, have some key things in common:

• They are a generation who did not enjoy legal protection as persons while they were in their mothers' wombs.  The generations preceding them (including Keenan) did enjoy such protection.
• At least one third of their generation is missing due to abortion.  Those aborted individuals might have been a neighbor, best friend, sibling or spouse.  They know it.

So given all that, is it any wonder that the pro-life youth are so passionate to end the scourge that has robbed them of so many people in their lives while the "pro-choice" youth are less than enthused about the same scourge that has deprived them in similar fashion?

As Keenan leaves that atmosphere of death and darkness, let's pray that she continues to wake up.  Perhaps for that intention, we can ask for the intercession of Dr Bernard Nathanson, the late co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League who realized the errors of his ways, left that business and died an ardent pro-life Catholic.

Yoest-Keenan Debate On The Texas Ultrasound Bill

Last week the Fifth Circuit Court upheld the new Texas ultrasound bill that requires that a woman contemplating abortion be told what the sonograms of their babies reveal.  Abortionists already take sonograms of the babies so that they can plan the procedure and, most importantly, know how to charge the mother for the abortion.  However, many refuse to let the woman actually see the sonogram picture of her baby.  Why?  Because many, if not most women who see that picture opt against the abortion.

Well, the NARAL and Planned Parenthood types have now bunched their undies because they understand (rightly) that the number of baby-murders will drop in Texas, along with their cash intake.  Last week, Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life and Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL, appeared together on Fox News Channel to have a brief debate on the matter.  That and LifeNews' analysis is here.  However, if you cannnot see the embedded video of the debate on the LifeNews page, click here.

A few things to note about NARAL's conniption fit here:

1. Recall that NARAL has been spearheading a campaign for the past few years to silence pro-life pregancy centers, claiming that the pro-life centers "offer misleading information".  They claim that they want the women to "have correct medical information".  In Maryland, Baltimore City and Montgomery County had their measures enacted; fortunately, the courts have stymied the measures on constitutional grounds.  So after trying to accuse pro-lifers of not providing "accurate medical information", they're having hissies over abortionists having to provide - accurate medical information?
2. Keenan says the law "forces a woman to have an ultrasound against her will".  That's a flat-out lie.  A woman undergoing an abortion has an ultrasound taken as a routine part of the procedure.  The law merely requires that she be informed of the results of the ultrasound.  Throughout the debate, she repeats that line like a mantra.  That's all she apparently can think to say - and it's a lie to boot.
3. NARAL's antipathy to ultrasounds is understandable.  One of their founders was the late Dr Bernard Nathanson.  While he was in their camp, he was responsible for thousands of abortions, and helped the pro-abortion crowd come up with the slogan "pro-choice".  However, all that happened before the advent of ultrasound machines.  When Nathanson saw some ultrasounds, and one of an abortion in progress, he became convinced of the humanity of the unborn baby.  He did a 180-degree turnaround and became a staunch pro-life advocate (and a convert to Catholicism).

Bernard Nathanson, MD - Requiescat In Pace

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League who did a complete about-face and became a staunch Catholic pro-life activist, passed away today after a lengthy bout with cancer.  He is best known for his documentary on abortion called The Silent Scream.  More details of his life, his conversion and his tireless efforts for the babies can be found on Lifesitenews.

Eternal rest grant unto him, o Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him.  May his soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace.