tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post2347431769084607368..comments2023-10-24T05:49:04.269-04:00Comments on The Chaliceblog: Two deaths, well, threeChalicechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07781469958573869914noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-79401156900174236702009-09-16T20:51:58.325-04:002009-09-16T20:51:58.325-04:00I believe Norman Borlaug is credited with saving t...I believe Norman Borlaug is credited with saving the lives of between 500 million and 1 billion people ... more than any in recorded history.<br /><br />Except Jesus, of course.hafidha sofianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-81057741777315091142009-09-14T18:40:30.657-04:002009-09-14T18:40:30.657-04:00"His dedication to his cause was unprecedente...<i>"His dedication to his cause was unprecedented," said Tony Young,....</i><br /><br />Does this sound like anyone we know?kimchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14020798623317549440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-30535340715081222392009-09-13T19:04:28.518-04:002009-09-13T19:04:28.518-04:00James Poullion spent his life waving signs at high...<i> James Poullion spent his life waving signs at high school students. </i><br /><br />Technically, he spent at least part of his life waving signs at an auto dealership calling the people who worked there baby-killers because the dealership had donated money to pro-choice candidates.<br /><br /><i>Pouillon was a polarizing figure in Owosso, a town of 15,000 best known as the birthplace of 1948 Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey. While inhaling oxygen from a small tank, he could usually be seen with his anti-abortion signs outside schools, the library, city hall, even football games.<br />"His dedication to his cause was unprecedented," said Tony Young, who tangled with Pouillon during protests outside his car dealership.<br />The county's chief assistant prosecutor, Sara Edwards, said there didn't appear to be a "triggering event" but Pouillon's presence outside the school seemed to aggravate Drake. It was "the fact that he was outside the high school with his signs in front of children going to school," she said. ...<br />Pouillon protested for years in front of Tony Young's car dealership, Young Chevrolet Cadillac, holding up anti-abortion slogans and graphic photos. The Michigan Court of Appeals in 1997 struck down a preliminary injunction restricting the protests and he continued until about five years ago.<br />"This is a guy who put himself out there every day ... for a cause he believed in, and (he) took a hell of a lot of abuse," said lawyer Michael Gildner, who represented Pouillon in a case that reached the federal appeals court. "It angered people, upset people on occasion. That's what free speech is all about." </i>PGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09381347581328622706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-17038185123145127422009-09-13T17:05:29.633-04:002009-09-13T17:05:29.633-04:00I know this is not exactly on your topic, but on T...I know this is not exactly on your topic, but on Tiller, just a clarification: he did not simply "end the lives of unwanted fetuses," as you say -- he performed late term abortions for pregnancies found to have severe or fatal birth defects discovered too late for standard interventions (in other words, fetuses that would not live past a few moments or hours after birth, if they even made it that far), for women whose fetuses had already died in utero but had not miscarried, and for women for whom carrying a fetus to term would mean at the very least "substantial and irreversible impairment of a major bodily function" -- a requirement under Kansas state law for late term abortion.<br /><br />This was not about "unwanted" fetuses in most cases -- many of these pregnancies were most wanted and cherished until things went horribly wrong medically.Jesshttp://jesspages.net/noreply@blogger.com