Watch Kristi Burton, founder Colorado for Equal Rights
She is The Roe Effect. She is the future. She is the Change.

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Thank you (foot)notes:

The Roe Effect on Wikipedia,

The Roe effect is a hypothesis about the long-term effect of abortion on the political balance of the United States, which suggests that since supporters of abortion rights cause the erosion of their own political base, the practice of abortion will eventually lead to the restriction or illegalization of abortion.

Is America Trending Pro-Life? Why Should a Marketer Care?

James Taranto, from The Wall Street Journal, says,

[o]ur theory is that abortion is making America more conservative than it otherwise would be.

We base this on two assumptions. First, that liberal and Democratic women are more likely to have abortions. Second, that children's political views tend to reflect those of their parents--not exactly, of course, and not in every case, but on average. Thus abortion depletes the next generation of liberals and eventually makes the population more conservative. We call this the Roe effect, after Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court's 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion.

An Alert Reader sends an old Paul Greenberg column; at the jump.

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Anderson Cooper Charmaine recently appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 to debate the teaching of Intelligent Design in the nation's classrooms. Rob Boston from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State was the combatant on the other side.

Watch the spirited exchange here. Please forgive the extra click through to the Family Research Council website.

The Alert Reader will notice that CNN has omitted Charmaine's Ph.D. suffix.

Again.

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See the Darwinian reaction at Talk to Action. It's annoying enough that the networks omit Charmaine's credential, but the only slight worse is misspelling our name. Spelling counts.

Also insulted by the assault on the religion of evolution is My Thinking Corner and Notes from Evil Bender. Talk to Action can't spell and Notes can't discern gender. The GLBT would be pleased.

DEFCON has FRC Defends Creation Museum on Anderson Cooper and some 67 comments.

the Jaded Skeptic, Odd Jack; An outpost maintained for SECULAR DIALOGUES, PROGRESSIVE DISCUSSIONS, and SOBER EXCHANGES...and some SILLY PRATTLE has The Blogswarm cometh

Spooky Paradigm has Intelligent Design Opens the Door for UFOs, Bigfoot, MIHOP 9/11 in Classrooms

Pharyngula has the transcripts. Which proves that the written word can, indeed, conflict with the actual visible debate. Watch the clip, listen to the cross talk, then read the transcripts. Amateurs think televised media is easy. (And oh, how the academy distains the 'shouting shows.' Professors hate them because they never get asked on. However, the academic opinion changes when invited.)

Then there's The Black Vault.

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Albert Einstein
Baby Boo, The Diva, The Dancer
living proof of The Roe Effect
at PrincetonCharmaine's speech at Princeton was noted in that area's newspaper of record the Daily Princetonian.

The reporter was remarkably fair and balanced working this liberal campus -- even considering the biased title:

Anti-abortion speaker sparks heated debate

It might have been more accurate to report,

Pro-Life speaker sparks heated debate

Which proves we each have our biases. Our own world-views.

Angela Cai, Princetonian Senior Writer reports and quotes Charmaine,

"I believe Roe v. Wade is on its way to extinction ... precisely because abortion harms women," [Dr. Yoest] said.

Speaking to a large audience..., Yoest faced a crowd of students and community members anxious to argue with her during the question-and-answer session that followed the lecture.

She maintained that the United States is "on the road, long term" toward the overturning of Roe v. Wade. "There is an intellectual rot at the heart of that decision," she said, noting that even many liberal scholars agree that there is no constitutional basis for the controversial 1973 Supreme Court ruling. She added that the case was an example of the inappropriate use of judicial power. [see the Alan Dershowitz quote on the slide presentation.]

Yoest argued that abortion's consequences hit home on a more personal level for many women who undergo the procedure. "It's very sad to me when you look at how many relationships break up after abortion when women say they had abortions to save their relationships," Yoest said. She described what she called the problems of Post-Abortion Syndrome, which include effects such as "drug and alcohol abuse, personal relationship disorder, sexual dysfunction ... and attempted suicide."

Alert Reader Jill noted that the title of the speech changed. Originally advertised as "How Abortion Harms Women," the more accurate and complete title is "The Politics of Abortion: Moving Toward a Post-Roe America." So Charmaine changed the title to reflect the added, expanded content.

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Mother May I be Born says,

While some in the audience nodded or facially expressed their approval of Charmaine Yoest’s anti-abortion message at Princeton University last night, others made it clear during questioning that Yoest spoke a foreign language which they had no desire to learn.

Do Elite Women Want to Breed?

Jessica at Bush v. Choice blogged.

See Charmaine's PowerPoint presentation on the FRCBlog. Thanks to the technical influence of Managing Editor Joe Carter.

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Two pictures
from Charmaine's PowerPoint at Princeton
See the Presentation here.
Thanks to Joe Carter
for uploading Information is good.

Reason and science.

Our friends on the left would prefer less information when it confronts their...religion. Its two sacraments are:

Abortion, and

Evolution.

And so Charmaine recently has braved to lecture liberals on abortion and evolution on CNN, MSNBC and Princeton University.

Alert Readers have noted that the Anderson Cooper 360 segment on CNN aired Wednesday night and will air again tonight, Friday, between 10 and midnite. Tivo and let us know.

What you think.

Her debate with Anderson Cooper was on the teaching of the theories of evolution and intelligent design in the classroom. Edu-crates do not care for I.D.

The academy at pharyngula seems less concerned about academic censorship as they do about the age of the earth. They swallow a camel and choke on a gnat.

Charmaine will also be on MSNBC LIVE today Friday, 6 April. She will be debating for the wisdom of viewing a picture of your baby before you have an abortion.

Backstory, from The Times and Democrat

S.C. House approves bill requiring ultrasounds before abortions By SEANNA ADCOX Wednesday, March 21, 2007 COLUMBIA, S.C. - The South Carolina House gave key approval Wednesday to a bill that requires women seeking abortions in this state to first review ultrasound images of their fetus before the procedure.

If enacted, it would be the first law of its kind in the nation. Some states make ultrasound images available to women before an abortion, but South Carolina would be alone in mandating women see the pictures.

It seems that liberals are most unhappy because 80% of women will stop their abortions after seeing a picture of their babies (in the womb). See the picture and the baby lives. Information can save a life.

Hit time is between 3:30 and 4pm Eastern Time.

Abortion and evolution. Today.

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Day care
Intelligent Design
Stem Cells Charmaine will be discussing Intelligent Design, Stem Cells, and Daycare over the next few days.

(And The Dreamer has a regatta, The Dude has a baseball game and The Diva will be singing on stage.)

Be sure to read Charmaine's article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sen. Casey confronts a moment of truth, where she says,

Sen. Bob Casey's first moment of truth in the U.S. Senate is approaching. And the issue is stem-cell research...

Given his campaign commitment to oppose federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, and given the role pro-life Pennsylvanians played in electing him, you would think the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 would be a no-brainer for Casey. Yet, suddenly there is some question about his position...

Despite the position candidate Casey took last year, bloggers pushing for embryonic stem-cell funding this year - bloggers including the Daily Kos and Californians for Cure -- have listed him as one of the "Swingable Seven," a group of senators who might be swayed on the issue...

Who would have thought that so soon in his Senate career young Casey would face a defining dilemma: Will he still follow in his father's footsteps, or trample on his legacy?

Thank you to NRO Web Briefing 3/30/07 for the link.

In reference to a previous article on day care Alert Reader Jill, from Writes Like She Talks (diplomatically) asks,

Dr. Yoest, this article, though obviously well-annotated for its time, is now almost 10 years old. Much has changed in the economy and in numbers of single-parent households. Mobility of jobs and therefore of families has increased.

Given your educational background, I would hope that you could provide a similarly well-annotated update to this nearly decade-old albeit thorough analysis...

Charmaine might be updating some of the data on air. She is scheduled to be on Fox News this Saturday, 31 March, to discuss the NIH's longitudinal study on day care by the NICH&HD. Hit time is between noon and 1, but is not confirmed.

She also did a tape-to-live segment for Anderson Cooper on Intelligent Design. Free Speech and open inquiry might still be possible in the public schools. Or should liberals censor and gag?

Anderson Cooper, CNN The segment is titled Intelligent Design, Creationism and Evolution in the classroom. Watch Charmaine debate Rob Boston from Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.

A Pew Forum poll from 2005 is the backgrounder and says,

Most Americans (64%) say they are open to the idea of teaching creationism along with evolution in the public schools, and a substantial minority (38%) favors replacing evolution with creationism in public school curricula.

While much of this support comes from religious conservatives, these ideas ­ particularly the idea of teaching both perspectives ­ have a broader appeal. Even many who are politically liberal and who believe in evolution favor expanding the scope of public school education to include teaching creationism.

But an analysis of the poll also reveals that there are considerable inconsistencies between people's beliefs and what they want taught in the schools, suggesting some confusion about the meaning of terms such as "creationism" and "evolution."

The Pew poll also has data on political party public perceptions,

The public also has distinctly different perceptions of both parties when it comes to dealing with religion and personal freedoms.

By a wide margin ­ 51% to 28% ­ the Republican Party is seen as most concerned with protecting religious values.

By a nearly identical margin (52%-30%), the Democratic Party is perceived as most concerned with protecting the freedom of citizens to make personal choices.

Tune in and let us know what you think.

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Thank you (foot)notes:

See the Congressional Quarterly quote on Stem Cell Research.

Also see Does God Belong in Public Schools? published in The Weekly Standard.

Be sure to visit What is Wrong with Sober’s Attack on ID? (Part III): Ignoring the Widely Discussed Positive Predictions of Intelligent Design at the Discovery Institute.

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