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Thursday 12 May - Sunday 15 May
by Joe Scheidler
Troy Newman of Wichita, KS, reports that George Tiller's infamous Women's Health Care Services advanced his cause to shut down the mill recently through another reporting of a medical disaster at the mill. In his May 11 release, Newman shows an ambulance pulled up to the door of the mill where it remained for more than an hour-and-a-half before moving.
Ambulance at Tiller's Mill
Newman says this is the third time this year and the sixth time in the past 16 months that an ambulance has responded to an urgent call from clinic staff. The patient Tuesday had arrived at the mill slumped in her seat and white as a sheet according to pro-lifers.
After the ambulance drove away, other pro-lifers at the Wesley Medical Center noted that the ambulance did not drop the patient at the emergency room but drove on past. Newsman surmises that she was already dead. Troy calls Tiller's abortion mill a proven public health risk and is demanding that the Kansas Board of Healing Arts suspend Tiller's medical license pending a full, independent investigation into these abortion injuries.
The Kansas Legislature was unable to override the Governor's veto of a clinic licensing bill that would have provided some safety standards for abortion mills. As in most other states, abortion mills are virtually free to be as dirty, haphazard and dangerous as possible.
Newman lays the blame for this woman's injuries and possible death, directly on the Governor and legislators who sustained the veto. Dr. Tiller had contributed heavily to the Governor's election campaign.
Bible Ignorance
In our last Action News Hotline we referred to a Sun-Times column saying American public schools should teach the Bible, if only to help students understand their roots. An editorial in Thursday's Chicago Tribune, "Biblical Ignorance," sounds a similar warning: It says:
Trying to understand American literature and history without some knowledge of the Bible is like trying to make sense of the ocean despite a complete ignorance of fish. The Tribune editorial calls the Bible the most influential book in Western history.
Some statistics on American Bible ignorance as discovered by the Bible Literacy Project are that only one-third of teens know about Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus. Nearly a third didn't know who Moses was. Yet when English professors were asked a few years ago what book they wanted incoming freshmen to have read, 90 percent said the Bible.
It is sad that the Bible is such a neglected Book in our secular schools, not primarily because it leaves students with a vast gaping hole in their brains, but that it leaves a vast gaping hole in their souls. The Bible is more than a collection of interesting stories and unusual names. It is the Book God Himself wrote by inspiring the writers. But at least it's back in the news and may one day get back into the schools.
Intimidating Cross?
David McGrath, English teacher at the College of DuPage doesn't mind seeing all the crosses on the tops of Churches as he drives through Chicago, but he is upset when he gets to Effingham, IL and sees a giant Cross gleaming in the sun. He doesn't like it because it is intimidating.
Although he is a Catholic, he doesn't think the large cross is a good idea because it says you must believe in the cross of Christ. That, he believes, is shoving Christian beliefs down a person's throat. He compares it with PETA's members throwing blood on animal coat wearers and forcing students to hold days of silence for homosexual rights.
These are poor comparisons. The big cross doesn't damage anyone's clothes or force a person to keep quiet for a repugnant cause. It just stands there reminding people that someone died for them on a cross. Right near it is a Welcome Dixie sign almost as big. Maybe it's too big, too. But it isn't cramming Dixie down anyone's throats any more than the cross is.
Kass Has a Point
John Kass is upset that the father who stabbed his daughter to death on Mothers Day, is being charged with "rage," when the crime is an evil act of double murder. He's tired of society turning vicious criminals into victims right along with the real victims. He has a point.
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