Planned Parenthood Abortionist Calls Aborted Baby’s Heart “Cute”

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The Center for Medical Progress has released an eleventh undercover video–this time showing an abortion doctor from Planned Parenthood describe the process of picking through organs from aborted babies.

Dr. Amna Dermish is the protege of Dr. Deborah Nucatola; you may recall Dr. Nucatola was featured in the Center for Medical Progress’ first video released, in which she discussed abortion and the harvest of organs from aborted babies while casually sipping wine and eating salad.

At one point in this newest video, Dr. Dermish describes how one of Planned Parenthood’s “POC [products of conception] persons” picks through the organs of aborted babies, saying, “She’ll pull out, like, kidneys, and heart, and, like, heart we’ll frequently see at nine weeks [gestation], and she always looks for it. . . . Well, it’s cute.”

You can watch the video below. Warning: The content is graphic.

You can also watch the unedited footage of the conversation below. Warning: The content is graphic.

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Researchers Try to Label “Homophobia” a Mental Disorder

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A new column from our friends at the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview highlights recent “research” attempting to peg homophobia as a psychological disorder.

Eric Metaxas writes,

“‘Live Science’ reports that researchers at the University of Rome Tor Vergata asked 560 university students to report their feelings about homosexuality, then gave them a standard psychiatric evaluation. . . . .

“Lead researcher Emmanuele Jannini concluded, ‘After discussing for centuries if homosexuality is to be considered a disease, for the first time we demonstrated that the real disease to be cured is homophobia.’

“Well, this was red meat for progressive websites and news outlets, who gladly trumpeted the results.

“I can’t help but think of C. S. Lewis’ chilling and prophetic essay, ‘The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment.’ Lewis believed that persecution in the future would look less like jack-booted thuggery, and more like therapy: ‘…certain schools of psychology already regard religion as a neurosis,’ he wrote. ‘When this particular neurosis becomes inconvenient to the government, what is to hinder the government from proceeding to “cure” it,’ with mandatory re-education or other forms of treatment?”

Of course, as Metaxas points out, there are a number of problems with how this “research” is being analyzed and applied–not the least of which being the fact a phobia is “an irrational and debilitating fear,” something that is not the basis of Christians’ objections to homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage.

Christians object to same-sex marriage not because they are afraid of something; they object in large part because same-sex marriage ignores two the fundamental truths about marriage: That men and women are each made distinctly in the image of God, and that marriage unites these two halves of God’s image.

You can listen to Metaxas’ full commentary below–or click here to read it.

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A.G. Rejects Another Marijuana Measure

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320px-Cannabis_PlantYesterday Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s office rejected another ballot proposal legalizing marijuana.

The proposal by Mary Berry of Summit would amend the Arkansas Constitution to legalize “the cultivation, production, distribution, sale, possession, and use of the cannabis plant (genus cannabis) and all products derived from the cannabis plant” in Arkansas.

The amendment would allow adult individuals to grow up to 36 marijuana plants at a time, provided they first pay the state for a license to grow and use marijuana; it prevents the State of Arkansas from levying more than a five percent excise tax on marijuana; and it allows children to use marijuana for so-called “medical” purposes, provided the child has a “written recommendation” from a doctor.

It also releases all currently incarcerated prisoners whose only violation is a marijuana-related offense.

The amendment’s ballot title concludes, “Voters should note that the listed activities with respect to the cannabis plant are unlawful under federal law and that the amendment can have no effect on federal law.”

This proposal would write marijuana into Arkansas’ constitution. Like many past proposals, it lets people grow marijuana at home; and like virtually every marijuana law we know, it let’s children use “medical” marijuana with a doctor’s note despite the lack of evidence that marijuana is effective treating certain illnesses.

Just yesterday we shared a column about the negative effects of marijuana.

Marijuana has been shown to interfere with cognitive functions as well as portions of the brain that manage reward-responses and interpersonal relationships.

We have written before how under federal law marijuana cannot be prescribed by a doctor through a pharmacy–that’s why these proposals either legalize marijuana outright or make “medical” marijuana available with a note from a doctor rather than a prescription.

A growing body of scientific research says marijuana-use during younger years is associated with adult-onset schizophrenia.

Marijuana-related accidents are killing and injuring more and more Americans.

And far from quashing the black market, marijuana legalization seems to fuel illegal drug sales.

Allowing people to grow, use, and sell marijuana is reckless policy, plain and simple.

Photo Credit: “Cannabis Plant” by Cannabis Training University – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.

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