Billboards around Mbabane have promoted "First World by 2022". Naturally we think of "first world" in terms of material well-being. With an eye on the future, are there connections between marriage and material prosperity? According to familyfacts.org, there are indeed. Some highlights from first-world research referenced at that site:
*Married couples made $12,500 more than couples who were living together unmarried.
*Married couples had a greater likelihood of getting rich (earning 10 times more than the poverty level) than unmarried people.
*Low-income married couples accumulate more money than unmarried low-income people.
*Marriage helps women economically. Women in this survey who were married were two-thirds less likely to be poor than unmarried women. Furthermore, the chances of being poor was the same for married women from disadvantaged families than it was for married women from non-disadvantaged ones. The authors of this study wrote, "The deleterious effect associated with a disadvantaged background is completely offset by marrying and staying married."
As Swaziland looks to attain first-world status, let her consider what the first-world has learned about marriage: strong and lasting marriages make for greater prosperity. It IS possible to have both love and money. May Swaziland work to build strong marriages and families on her way to first-world status.
Rudy Poglitsh
rPoglitsh@live.com
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Abortion in Reality
Abortion proponents invariably advance their position with phrases like "reproductive rights", "freedom of choice", and "a woman's control over her own body". We can clarify the abortion debate by considering what really happens in an abortion. Read this excerpt from court hearings concerning a ban on a partial birth abortion in the United States in 2004.
Lawyer: Then you remove the fetus with the towel, you put it on the table, and you turn back to the woman to deal with the placenta, right?
Abortionist: That’s right.
Lawyer: If you can’t do that, you know you are going to have to crush the head, and so you take a clamp and you grasp the cervix to elevate it, and then your assistant there in the operating room will pull down on the fetus’s legs or back,
gently lowering the fetus’s head toward the opening of the vagina, right?
Abortionist: Right.
Lawyer: That is when you put two fingers at the back of the fetus’s neck at the base of the skull where you can feel the base of the skull, and then you puncture the skull with the scissors, right?
Abortionist: I usually can see it as well as feel it. But yes.
Lawyer: At that point you see some brain tissue come out, and you are 100 percent certain that you are in the brain, so you open the scissors to expand the hole, remove the scissors, and put the suction device in the skull, right?
Abortionist: Correct.
Upon learning what really happens in a partial birth abortion, Congress and the American people strongly supported the law banning this procedure. The law was upheld by the Supreme Court.
The abortion method called "D and E", meaning "Dilation and Evacuation", is the most common form of abortion performed after the third month of pregnancy. The United States Supreme Court described a "D and E" abortion in its 2007 decision "Gonzales versus Carhart":
The doctor grips a fetal part with the forceps and pulls it back through the cervix …, continuing to pull even after meeting resistance from the cervix. The friction causes the fetus to tear apart. For example, a leg might be ripped off the fetus as it is pulled through the cervix and out of the woman. The process of evacuating the fetus piece by piece continues until it has been completely removed.
Whenever we get into a discussion of abortion, we can ask the question: Is it right to allow the killing of a baby through limb by limb dismemberment? The answer is obvious: of course not. Remembering the reality of abortion makes the finding an answer to the abortion question much simpler. It is never right to deliberately kill an innocent human being at any stage of life. Abortion is a particularly disturbing denial of the right to life, due to the age of its victims and the manner of the killing.
May Swaziland never accept abortion the way so many other "advanced" societies have. No to abortion; yes to life.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
more letters at http://letterstotheTOS.blogspot.com
Lawyer: Then you remove the fetus with the towel, you put it on the table, and you turn back to the woman to deal with the placenta, right?
Abortionist: That’s right.
Lawyer: If you can’t do that, you know you are going to have to crush the head, and so you take a clamp and you grasp the cervix to elevate it, and then your assistant there in the operating room will pull down on the fetus’s legs or back,
gently lowering the fetus’s head toward the opening of the vagina, right?
Abortionist: Right.
Lawyer: That is when you put two fingers at the back of the fetus’s neck at the base of the skull where you can feel the base of the skull, and then you puncture the skull with the scissors, right?
Abortionist: I usually can see it as well as feel it. But yes.
Lawyer: At that point you see some brain tissue come out, and you are 100 percent certain that you are in the brain, so you open the scissors to expand the hole, remove the scissors, and put the suction device in the skull, right?
Abortionist: Correct.
Upon learning what really happens in a partial birth abortion, Congress and the American people strongly supported the law banning this procedure. The law was upheld by the Supreme Court.
The abortion method called "D and E", meaning "Dilation and Evacuation", is the most common form of abortion performed after the third month of pregnancy. The United States Supreme Court described a "D and E" abortion in its 2007 decision "Gonzales versus Carhart":
The doctor grips a fetal part with the forceps and pulls it back through the cervix …, continuing to pull even after meeting resistance from the cervix. The friction causes the fetus to tear apart. For example, a leg might be ripped off the fetus as it is pulled through the cervix and out of the woman. The process of evacuating the fetus piece by piece continues until it has been completely removed.
Whenever we get into a discussion of abortion, we can ask the question: Is it right to allow the killing of a baby through limb by limb dismemberment? The answer is obvious: of course not. Remembering the reality of abortion makes the finding an answer to the abortion question much simpler. It is never right to deliberately kill an innocent human being at any stage of life. Abortion is a particularly disturbing denial of the right to life, due to the age of its victims and the manner of the killing.
May Swaziland never accept abortion the way so many other "advanced" societies have. No to abortion; yes to life.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
more letters at http://letterstotheTOS.blogspot.com
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Adultery and Abortion II
Thank you, Mr. Editor, for passing along Planned Parenthood's response to the bogus sex trafficking ring. Indeed the sex trafficking ring was a hoax; it would be wonderful if all sex trafficking rings were false. This does not, however, change the fact that Planned Parenthood nurse Amy Woodruff took the actors posing as pimp and prostitute seriously. Woodruff advised them on how to access abortions and contraception for teenage prostitutes, and on how post-abortive prostitutes could continue to encourage the sex business. Ms. Woodruff would have done very well to refuse any sort of conversation with the actors, and called the police right away. Instead, she gave advice to assist their evil activity.
After initially hinting the video was a hoax, Planned Parenthood fired Ms. Woodruff and released the following statement: "We were profoundly shocked when we viewed the videotape this morning, which depicted an employee of one of our health centers behaving in a repugnant manner that is inconsistent with our standards of care and is completely unacceptable". Planned Parenthood confirmed the video was credible by firing the employee who was at the centre of the controversy and publicly acknowledging the seriousness of what took place. This firing and the Planned Parenthood statement were not hoaxes.
Sadly, this is not the first time Planned Parenhood abortion clinics have been found facilitating the exploitation of women and children. Over a dozen similar undercover operations have found Planned Parenthood employees willing to take donations expressly for aborting black children, helping girls avoid laws mandating that their parents be told about an abortion, and giving false medical information in order to encourage women to choose abortion. Visit www.liveaction.org to hear and view these taped encounters.
The point is this: an inherently evil and destructive act (abortion) will naturally breed other evil acts. May Swaziland never tread the road of abortion, a road which leads to myriad other abuses of women and children. No to abortion; yes to life.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
more letters at http://letterstotheTOS.blogspot.com
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