Category: Pro-Life

I finally got around to installing smoke detectors in the kids’ rooms on Saturday, and I read something I didn’t know: smoke detectors are only good for 10 years. After that, you should throw them out. As we have a 40-year-old house and the previous owner was something of a penny-pincher, I’m assuming ours are at least that old.
Also, you can now buy lithium-powered sealed detectors whose batteries will last 10 years, and then you throw them out. They’re $20 at Home Depot, and they’re one less thing I have to worry about. Just one more thing to worry about during the holidays, yes, but you might want to take a few minutes to replace your detectors. At worst, you’ll lose less than an hour of your time, and at best, you will have prevented someone’s premature death. Maybe even your own!

Some people who claim to believe in ‘reproductive freedom’ apparently don’t believe in their opponents’ freedom of speech.
They decided to vandalize a statue of our Lady and paint slogans next to a pro-life memorial at a Catholic parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, over the weekend.
As an aside, so far the Boston Globe website has no coverage of this crime. Maybe they’ll get around to it eventually.
Pro-lifers continue to spread the message of life: Sarah Terzo’s Abortion Quotes page lets the people who’ve performed and experienced abortions speak for themselves.

…this past election, in more ways than one. Just when I thought my Casey Democrat heart couldn’t rejoice any further, I discover that in bucking the Democratic Party’s pro-abortion/anti-marriage platform, Casey democrats also bucked the [WARNING: Coarse Analogy] middle-finger that middle-America sent Hollywood Democrats. Democrats-for-Life has just posted the following score-card. If current trends continue, it appears that we may be the only Democrats left as voters continue to abort the political aspirations of Abortion Democrats.
[Update — just discovered from a fellow Casey Democrat, albeit one who stuck by the party this past election and tried to bring change from the inside, that not all of the above candidates won. Nevertheless, he said enough pulled through so that things are still looking pretty good.]

As I was walking through the halls of the Nameless Entity that I work for, I passed by a TV tuned to CNN. The caption under the talking head read “STEM CELL RESEARCH,” and the head was saying something about the quality of stem cell lines available to researchers. The head belonged to Mr. Jennifer Aniston, a.k.a. Brad Pitt, one of the world’s foremost cell biologists.
God help us all.

Kudos to Ray Flynn: he’s appealed to Gov. Schwarzenegger to reconsider his support for abortion and for research which destroys human embryos.
(Thanks, Amy.)