Strictly Right Radio with Victor Davis Hanson

On this episode of Strictly Right, Andrew has a wide-ranging discussion with Victor Davis Hanson, talks about a sad story of government trying to replace the parents, the threat of radical Islam, and a tale of political correctness with Dennis Lennox.

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An Honest Look Into Planned Parenthood

It’s long (10 minutes or so) but I suggest you watch the entire video.

In the above video, we see two amateur investigative journalists posing as a pimp and a prostitute (a la James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles) to get the scoop on what happens in a Planned Parenthood consultation. In a similar fashion to the ACORN scandal in 2009, what they uncover is unheard of.

Planned Parenthood’s agenda is quite clear: abort as many children as possible. However, the “extras” contained in the above video are shocking. While aiding and abetting, Amy Woodruff from a New Jersey Planned Parenthood center advises the undercover investigators on how to get their underaged illegal immigrant prostitutes into the system without being reported to the authorities. She repeats on several occasions that what she’s doing is wrong, and even refers to one of her coworkers — the nurse practitioner of the center — as a term that can’t be published on Strictly Right, simply because that woman follows the law.

From LiveAction:

A Planned Parenthood manager in New Jersey coaches a man and a woman posing as sex traffickers how to secure secret abortions, STD testing, and contraception for their female underage sex slaves, and make their whole operation “look as legit as possible” in an undercover video released this morning.

Clinic manager Amy Woodruff, LPN, of Planned Parenthood Central New Jersey’s Perth Amboy center, warns the pimp and his prostitute to have their trafficked underage girls lie about their age to avoid mandatory reporting laws, promising, “even if they lie, just say, ‘Oh he’s the same age as me, 15,’…it’s just that mainly 14 and under we have to, doesn’t matter if their partner’s the same age, younger, whatever, 14 and under we have to report.” She says, “For the most part, we want as little information as possible.”

Woodruff also recommends how the pimp can get his prostitutes cheaper contraception by claiming they are “students”: “If they’re minors, put down that they’re students. Yeah, just kind of play along that they’re students–we want to make it look as legit as possible.”

If one of the young trafficked girls needs an abortion, Woodruff refers the pimp and prostitute to the Metropolitan Medical Association, where “their protocols aren’t as strict as ours and they don’t get audited the same way that we do.” The prostitute in the video asks how long after the abortion until the girls can have sex again, and when Woodruff says “minimum of 2 weeks,” she asks what sex acts the girls could still do to make money. Woodruff advises, “Waist up, or just be that extra action walking by” to advertise sex to potential clients.

Susan Boyle’s mother advised to abort pregnancy

Once again, the ongoing genocide — abortion — could have taken the life of a woman who became a global treasure last year.

Britain’s Got Talent alumni and singing sensation Susan Boyle’s upcoming book, entitled The Woman I Was Born To Be, features a section on when doctors will telling her mother that Susan would “never be anything” and how they suggested Susan be aborted to spare the burden of a child who may not be born in perfect health.

Fortunately, Susan’s mother Bridget held to her Christian values and opted against it, but the numerous examples of abortions that have been, well, aborted, are far from uncommon. NFL star Tim Tebow was almost aborted, motivational speaker Gianna Jessen only made it into the world because a doctor was stuck in traffic, Andrea Boccelli’s mother was encouraged to abort because he “might” have been disabled. Every abortion is a life prevented and a life taken, simply put. How one can argue that an unborn child is not a child when we’re able to look at what every one of these children has the ability to become is beyond me.

Kudos to Susan for speaking out about this. Her book will be a great one I imagine!

Arrested for Defending Life (Updated with Carleton Contact Info)

In the last year, post-secondary institutions in Ottawa have really been screwing up with this “free speech” concept that universities are supposed to embrace. Last March, the University of Ottawa made international headlines for threatening to criminally investigate Ann Coulter for a speech she hadn’t given yet; today, a group of peaceful students at Ottawa’s Carleton University were arrested and hauled off in a police van for doing the unthinkable: standing out against abortion on their own campus.

Four students were arrested this morning by Ottawa police for putting up a graphic anti-abortion display on the main quadrangle of Carleton University.

The students, all members of a pro-life group called Carleton Lifeline, applied for permission to put up the display two months ago but were turned down by the university.

The school said it did not allow large displays in the quadrangle and also cited the offensiveness of the photos.

The students were offered a room in which the photos of bloody fetuses could be shown and a table in the main university centre to invite fellow students to the display.

However, Ruth Lobo, one of the students arrested, said putting up the display was a matter of free speech and a personal obligation to “tell the truth about abortion.”

The four Carleton students have been charged with trespassing. A fifth man from Queen’s University was also charged.

These posters depicting the horrors of abortion are part of the larger “Genocide Awareness Project,” which has attracted similar controversies across the country. A couple of years ago, students at the University of Calgary were met with similar opposition and told to turn their signs around (so they were facing a fall) lest they send the police after them.

The notion that universities are biased towards the secular, humanist left is the worst-kept secret in North America. But the lesser known fact is how they resort to arresting their own students for refusing to toe the party line. Censorship techniques that could make Stalin blush. It’s interesting how university students are so actively in support of abortion but scared to face the a display of the outcome of abortions. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find an example of a prominent pro-life speaker who can speak on a college campus without a bodyguard.

Please express your concerns to Carleton University directly (and let me know via the comments section or email about any response or lack thereof.)

Lin Moody
Media Relations
613-520-2600 x8705
Lin_Moody@carleton.ca

Steve Blais
Media Relations
613-520-2600 x1391
Steve_Blais@carleton.ca

Nancy Pelosi, The Word

This answer is truly cringe worthy.

Speaking at a Catholic Community Conference on Capitol Hill last month, Nancy Pelosi said her favorite world is “the Word.” Why? Because the Word “is everything. It says it all for us. And you know the biblical reference, you know the Gospel reference of the Word.” Pelosi continued, stating,

And that Word is, we have to give voice to what that means in terms of public policy that would be in keeping with the values of the Word. The Word. Isn’t it a beautiful word when you think of it? It just covers everything. The Word.

Fill it in with anything you want. But, of course, we know it means: ‘The Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us.’ And that’s the great mystery of our faith. He will come again. He will come again. So, we have to make sure we’re prepared to answer in this life, or otherwise, as to how we have measured up.

So Nancy Pelosi believes that she must make policies “in keeping with the values of the Word.” Where’s the ACLU decrying this lack of a separation of church and state? What if George W. Bush, or any Republican for that matter, said anything remotely like that? Moreover, Pelosi’s words are the height of pathetic political posturing. Did she miss the part in the bible about the sanctity of human life? How about the biblical definition of marriage? As a hardcore liberal, the Speaker pursues an agenda that is antithetical to the “values of the Word.” It is an affront to thinking people for Pelosi to state otherwise. The Democrats live in a universe where their words and deeds have no relation. How else can Nancy Pelosi, one of the most pro-abortion members of Congress, claim that she advances legislation that keeps “the values of the Word?”

UPDATE: Andrew Lawton on the Michael Coren Show tonight!

You can tune into CTS Television tonight at 6:00 pm EST for another great bloggers panel! (The bedrooms of the nation are empty…no one was wearing pajamas though.) On Michael’s panel, M.J. Murphy and Dan Arnold represented the left, while Derek Fildebrandt from the Canadian Taxpayers Federation represented the right; and I represented the slightly more right.

The episode airs tonight at 6:00pm EST or tomorrow for a repeat at 12:30pm. I’ll post a link when it’s available online a few days later!

UPDATE: You can view the episode on the CTS website here.

Stupak is no more!

Christmas came early this year!

Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, who was the central figure in the abortion debate surrounding the health care law, announced Friday he will retire from Congress at the end of this term.

Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak, the central player in a grueling abortion debate underlying the health care law, announced Friday he will retire from Congress at the end of this term, because “it’s time to begin a new and exciting chapter.”

So now, the newest moral conscience of the Democratic Party since Ted Kennedy will fade into oblivion as we remember the valuable lessons he taught us: don’t trust a Democrat, and the pro-life Democrats still have a price-tag.

At school today I learned arithmetic…

…and got an abortion.

When she signed a consent form, Jill [A Ballard High School girl's mother] figured it meant her 15 year old could go to the Ballard Teen Health Center located inside the high school for an earache, a sports physical, even birth control, but not for help terminating a pregnancy.

“She took a pregnancy test at school at the teen health center,” she said. “Nowhere in this paperwork does it mention abortion or facilitating abortion.”

Jill says her daughter, a pro-life advocate, was given a pass, put in a taxi and sent off to have an abortion during school hours all without her family knowing.

“We had no idea this was being facilitated on campus,” said Jill. “They just told her that if she concealed it from her family, that it would be free of charge and no financial responsibility.”

Here at Strictly Right we frequently bash the modern education system for a plethora of reasons. They teach promiscuity, homosexuality, anti-Westernism, pro-racism and a variety of other socially detrimental qualities. My understanding was that schools’ advocacy of abortion was limited to teach girls it was an option, not setting it up for them. Parents need to give consent for a child to hop on a bus to go to a theater. However, to put them in a taxi and send them off to have their baby murdered in the school day, parents don’t even find out about it.

Parents, home-school your kids, seriously.

Rep. Bart 'Faust' Stupak Folds like a Cheap Suit

Surprise! Rep. Bart ‘Faust‘ Stupak wasn’t really interested in abortion – a little time to bask in the glory of the chosen one and a flimsy executive order was all it took to capture the votes of the Stupak coalition.

Let’s make a deal… Stupak vs. Faust:

Stupak’s deal gave the dems the five votes necessary to take control of American healthcare until, well, the end of time. In exchange, Stupak received an executive order that will hold until: (1) the next democrat President is elected after Obama and repeals it or (2) Obama changes his mind. Hopefully the messiah also threw in a visit to Stupak’s riding – that’ll be the nail in the coffin for Stupak.

Faust’s deal gave the devil his soul until, well, the end of time. In exchange, Faust received knowledge for the rest of his life. Faust dies, so does the knowledge, and he is damned for eternity.

And so it’s done. On March 21, 2009, the greatest healthcare system in the world was dealt a fatal blow… so reads the obituary.

Representative Bart Stupak and President Barack Obama

I’m sorry that I couldn’t find a photo of Stupak accepting political favors for his vote, which is funny because I thought CSPAN was going to be allowed to film all negotiations.