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Peace & Life Connections #156
April 19, 2013


Drones / Abortion - Both Kill Innocent Lives
 
156 protest 2        On April 13, Pat Mahoney, Tony Masalonis and Bill Samuel joined others in each location to witness at both Planned Parenthood and in the anti-drone action at the White House, placing roses at both locations.
        Bill reports: “While we were at PP, one woman who had paid for an abortion changed her mind after talking with folks witnessing. PP refused to give her money back. Pat is helping her with that. Then we joined the anti-drone action called by ANSWER at the White House. The crowd there was diverse, with people from countries which have suffered drone strikes. There were no negative reactions directed to us with our message connecting the abortion and drone issues, and several positive ones, both from others witnessing and from tourists. Several took photos of our banner.”
        See other photos on the Facebook page.

 
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Murder Trial Media Coverage
 
        It’s easy to account for why the outrage at the Boston Marathon got media coverage overshadowing the trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell. Even though his 8 counts of murder (7 infants, 1 woman) and mass injury were greater than that at Boston, in Boston it was concentrated in time, new, and very public, whereas Gosnell’s carnage stretched over years and behind closed doors. However, it’s harder to account for lack of coverage before the Boston event. As Slate’s David Weigel put it on April 12 while puzzling over this, “It's just the story of a potential mass murderer who operated for decades as government regulators did nothing.”
        Yet a follow-up article from Weigel was admiring the tactic used to get more media coverage: pro-lifers used Twitter. This tactic can be creatively applied to all issues of violence.  
        Meanwhile, New York Times editor Margaret Sullivan tried to explain that the lack of coverage wasn’t entirely ideologically motivated made a remark which from our perspective is right on point: "many terrible crimes don’t get much coverage, including the deaths of children in drone strikes in Yemen and Pakistan."
 
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Doing Personhood Right
 
        Subscriber Edward Chow shares this idea: “I think this may be the first time ever that Congress has legislation that addresses the idea of personhood more fully. H.J.Res 29 proposes a Constitutional amendment that eliminates the idea of corporate personhood while H.R. 23 proposes that the federal government defines life of a human person to begin at fertilization.
        “What would a merging of [the two] look like? The summary of the new merged legislation could be: ‘Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing that the rights extended by the Constitution are the rights of natural persons only, the lives of whom begin with fertilization.’ . . .
        “When I was at Walk for Life 2012 in San Francisco, one of the signs I had said ‘Embryo = Person’ on one side and ‘Corporation ≠ Person’ on the other side. I got positive comments from both a fellow Walk-for-Lifer and a counter-protester.”
 
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Quotation of the Week
William Brennan
Dehumanizing the Vulnerable: When Word Games Take Lives
 
156 world        A remarkable strain of consistency permeates the language employed to highlight the human and spiritual nature of individuals and groups subjected to massive victimization. The contemporary opponents of abortion and euthanasia rely on the same range of positive expressions to defend the unwanted unborn and born of today that were used to defend Native Americans, African Americans, Soviet people, Jews, women, and other targets of past oppression.
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