On the heals of a story published in the Guardian Newspaper about how fewer babies will create a cleaner environment, White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, announced in a briefing with the media (everyone except FOX News) that an additional benefi…

Here’s some napalm for this fire:

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/10/company-uses-aborted-fetal-tissue-in-anti-aging-cream/

NOW this could start a lively debate or two on the House Floor.

Just what the doctor ordered.

“Texas has no shortage of amazing criminal justice stories. Here’s the latest to hit my radar screen: State law says it’s OK to show pornography to children — as long as they’re your children and the stuff is otherwise legal (no kiddie porn, in other words).
Now a Panhandle prosecutor wants the Texas attorney general’s office to check his reading of the penal code section on showing harmful material to minors. An AG’s spokesman said the matter is under review and declined further comment.

Randall County District Attorney James Farren’s request grew out of a divorced Dallas-area woman’s experience. Her three grade-school-aged daughters were living with their dad earlier this year when he allegedly got liquored up late one night and showed two of them porn on his computer. They later told a counselor, who alerted authorities. Amarillo police investigated, found the girls believable and sought advice from the DA’s office before proceeding.

Farren concluded that that his hands were tied. No search warrant ever got issued, so there’s been no independent look at evidence.

“We have to convince the Legislature to review this issue,” Farren told me.

State Sen. Bob Deuell, a Republican from Greenville, said he will push for change in the next legislative session.

“It’s not going to be an easy issue,” he warned. Why? There will be talk that the state is trying to dictate what parents can teach their children.

Such concerns influenced the writing of the law in 1973, said former state Sen. Tati Santiesteban. The El Paso Democrat, who still practices criminal defense law, said he chaired the subcommittee that did the writing.

“Our discussion was about the invasion of privacy into the home” and “being a parent and wanting to teach my child about sex,” he told me. “Who in the hell is the government to come and tell me what I can show to my children?”

Sexual material that parents show their children needs to have a legitimate educational purpose, said Deuell, who’s a family practice physician.”

Elective: In medicine, something chosen (elected). An elective procedure is one that is chosen (elected) by the patient or physician that is advantageous to the patient but is not urgent.

Elective surgery is decided by the patient or their doctor. The procedure is seen as beneficial but not absolutely essential at that time.
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Definition
An elective surgery is a planned, non-emergency surgical procedure. It may be either medically required (e.g., cataract surgery), or optional (e.g., breast augmentation or implant) surgery.

Read more: http://www.surgeryencyclopedia.com/Ce-Fi/Elective-Surgery.html#ixzz0VG5qvaQA

–Almost all procedures covered by insurance are considered “elective” if medically required. You wouldn’t have to go to the doctor for a shot or drugs if you had the flu, so that would be considered elective.

Jimbo3 on October 28, 2009 at 11:45 AM

That’s not true, and really misleading. Say I had an infection. The doctor tried an antibiotic injection, but the infection got worse. Surgery is the only option. Your saying the surgery is ‘elective’? BS.

Flu shots before you have the flu is elective. Anti-viral shots after you get the flu, and your tempurature hits 105 deg. is not elective.

Plastic surgery to get bigger breasts is elective. Plastic surgery to restore breasts after a masectomy is not elective.

What’s going on in your mind?

Memeorandum…
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I expect that Stupak will go back to his previous ways after this though. He is a Dem, after all. We will have to wait and see. But this is good news. We must defeat the Obama Agenda here.

It would appear that Rep. Bart Stupak takes his Roman Catholic faith seriously, unlike the many apostates/heretics littering congress who *claim* to be of the RC faith. God Bless him.

OmahaConservative on October 28, 2009 at 12:45 PM

So that’s why he’s a Democrat?

You are a Democrat. You believe in big-government solutions to problems. If you didn’t, you wouldn’t be caucusing with Democrats and taking their money for your campaigns.

OmahaConservative on October 28, 2009

Unlike Indiana’s Joe Donnelly who is just looking for a semantic rock to hide behind so that he can vote for this and still strut his sorry a$$ through St. Anthony’s on Sunday.

It would appear that Rep. Bart Stupak takes his Roman Catholic faith seriously, unlike the many apostates/heretics littering congress who *claim* to be of the RC faith. God Bless him.

OmahaConservative on October 28, 2009 at 12:45 PM

If Harry Reid took his LDS faith seriously, he wouldn’t be supporting abortion either.

But I bet he’s blowing a gasket over Rep. Bart Stupak right now…

If he doesn’t get a chance to offer an amendment on abortion: Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) on Tuesday threatened that he may work with Republicans to torpedo healthcare reform unless he gets a vote to strip abortion-related provisions out of……

Big John on October 28, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Yep. I know, hence the sarc tag.

He may be a Democrat but at least he’s not a raving liberal, baby-killing lunatic.

Big John on October 28, 2009 at 12:13 PM

There’s some “change” I can support.

God Bless Bart Stupak. (wait, did I just say that about a democrat??? /)

OmahaConservative on October 28, 2009 at 11:01 AM

He may be a Democrat but at least he’s not a raving liberal, baby-killing lunatic.

What though the odds be great or small,
Old Notre Dame will win over all,
While her loyal sons are marching
Onward to victory!

After all, Rahm Emanuel recruited the ones who were newly elected in 2008 based solely on the fact that they really were acceptable to moderate Republicans. Otherwise, they could not have won in districts that McCain carried.

One of the ways Emanuel was able to do this was to recruit some pro-life Dems who would pass the muster for more conservative voters.

I can hope against hope that maybe they fear they are losing the Democratic Party they knew and that the Don’t. Like. It.