{"id":149,"date":"2014-01-29T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harrison.wvforlife.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-10-05T18:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T22:41:24","slug":"1-easy-step-to-help-the-cause-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/2014\/01\/29\/1-easy-step-to-help-the-cause-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"1 Easy Step to Help the Cause of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dougjoseph.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/D.Joseph-response-to-SOTU-2014-01-28-at-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-338\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dougjoseph.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/D.Joseph-response-to-SOTU-2014-01-28-at-10.jpg\" alt=\"D.Joseph-response-to-SOTU-2014-01-28-at-10\" width=\"760\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our president just finished his State of the Union address. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UZdl44R6HEQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I watched it live on YouTube<\/a>. (The live link is gone, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=state+of+the+union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">archive links<\/a> abound.) \u00a0Many statements were laudable. Some represented some degree of obfuscation and thus were irritating. Sometimes I agreed, while at other times I disagreed strongly. However, one phrase in particular both &#8220;stuck out&#8221; and especially irritated me. There was nothing terribly wrong with the statement itself. What was wrong was the conflict between the statement and the <i>extreme<\/i> pro-abortion attitude of the man who issued the statement. <strong>He indicated that the best thing we can do for our children is to invest in early education (referring to pre-K schooling).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Barrack Obama is the most extremely pro-abortion president in\u00a0<i>history<\/i>. (Some time ago he actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=president+obama+speaks+at+planned+parenthood&amp;oq=president+obama+speaks+at+the+plann&amp;aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l2.9619j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;espv=210&amp;es_sm=119&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">attended the annual &#8220;Planned Parenthood&#8221; conference, officially addressed them, and concluded by telling this tax-supported, baby-murdering organization, &#8220;God bless you.&#8221;<\/a> Thus, it galled me to hear him say that what was most beneficial for our children was to invest in early education.<\/p>\n<p>After his speech, his supporters (who organized the follow-through) invited online viewers to go to a <a href=\"http:\/\/wh.gov\/sotu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">White House-operated website<\/a> and watch while questions from Twitter and the blogosphere were answered by a panel appointed by the administration. The hashtag (to post a question or participate in the conversation) is: <strong>#SOTUchat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, I fired up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DougGJoseph\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my Twitter account<\/a>, put in the hashtag, and tweeted this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23SOTUchat&amp;src=hash\">#SOTUchat<\/a> Mr Pres. does that investment in early education of children include not ripping them to pieces while inside their mothers&#8217; wombs?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Doug Joseph (@DougGJoseph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DougGJoseph\/statuses\/428387434426945536\">January 28, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Feel free to copy and paste. If you have a Twitter account, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/retweet?tweet_id=428387434426945536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retweet<\/a>\u00a0it. If you have a Facebook, a blog, or whatever, <em>use your platform<\/em> say something for the cause of <strong>Life<\/strong>. Regardless, do something, even if it&#8217;s just teaching your family in devotions or discussing it with a neighbor or coworker. Do something to participate. Be part of the Pro-Life Generation that will see Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton overturned in our lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> If you are looking for solid stats and amazing information to bolster your argument in favor of life\u2014great information that is usable in everything from family devotions to debates with liberals\u2014click to watch the awesome video below.<\/p>\n<p>During quite a few of these frozen days of being snowed in, I spent many, many hours editing the video of a major Pro-Life event, at the request of Dr. Wanda Franz, Ph.D., who is the former head of the National Right To Life Committee, and current President of <a href=\"http:\/\/wvforlife.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Virginians For Life<\/a>, and Mary Anne Buchanan, who is the Program Director for <a href=\"http:\/\/wvforlife.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Virginians For Life<\/a>. Recently I finished the DVD production phase, and this past Monday I mailed out the DVDs to the WV For Life office. The next phase was to distill the video stream for YouTube. Last night I finished that aspect of this project, and started the <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Im5pFzDfpWA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upload to YouTube<\/a>. Early this morning (in the wee hours) the upload to YouTube was finally completed. Behold:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"40 Years of Roe: The Nation&#039;s Tragic Experiment\" width=\"605\" height=\"454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Im5pFzDfpWA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Share this link to an awesome Pro-Life video:\u00a0http:\/\/youtu.be\/Im5pFzDfpWA<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our president just finished his State of the Union address. I watched it live on YouTube. (The live link is gone, but archive links abound.) \u00a0Many statements were laudable. Some represented some degree of obfuscation and thus were irritating. Sometimes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/2014\/01\/29\/1-easy-step-to-help-the-cause-of-life\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 Easy Step to Help the Cause of Life<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,1,32],"tags":[34,35,36,37,38,25],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-general","category-politics-2","tag-abortion-stats","tag-doe-v-bolton","tag-prolife-cause-is-winning","tag-roe","tag-roe-and-doe","tag-roe-v-wade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wvforlife.com\/harrison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}