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February is to Abraham Lincoln impersonators what July is to ice cream men, Sunday is to preachers and 2 a.m. is to phone-sex operators.
And Littleton's John Voehl is no exception. He started the month by helping Governor Bill Ritter kick off Colorado's Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration on February 2. Today, on the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, he's at a banquet in Cheyenne, Wyoming, his only non-Colorado appearance. On February 20, he'll be back in Denver at Johnson Elementary School, and on the 21st, he'll be at the Commerce City library. To see Voehl's complete schedule, visit his website.
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Westword (Melanie Asmar): How did you become a Lincoln presenter?
John Voehl: In the summer of 1996, I had a friend of mine at work who needed a Lincoln character for a humorous skit for his Cub Scout campout. He was doing it based on the movie Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. I owed the fellow a favor. So I rented a Lincoln costume and I trimmed my beard Lincoln-style. And I was surprised by how much I looked like him. The scouts and their parents were drawn to me as Lincoln. They wanted to touch me and they wanted their pictures with me, and they wanted to know if the beard was real. And this one child said to me, "I thought you were dead."
WW: You said you were surprised by how much you look like him. Are you a dead ringer?
JV: I'm actually four inches too short to be Lincoln. He was meticulously honest in everything he did, so he said he was six-foot-four, nearly, because he was six-foot-three-and three-fourths. Facially, I resemble Lincoln. If I am wearing shorts and sandals in the summer and I have my beard Lincoln-style, I look like Lincoln. I don't need to put on a top hat or anything else.
WW: You had a glass-plate photo a la Matthew Brady taken of yourself as Lincoln. How much time and money have you spent trying to become Lincoln?
JV: A lot of what I read, I check out of the library, so that's not a direct out-of-pocket expense. Although I have thousands of dollars of income each year from Lincoln activities, most years I just break even because I have spent that much money traveling to presentations.
WW: Have you met other Lincolns in your travels? Is there an annual conference?
JV: I'm a member of the Association of Lincoln Presenters, which is a national organization of people that do what I do. And I have been to two of their conventions. I went to the one last year in Alton, Illinois, and there were seventy Lincolns there in costume.
WW: How many costumes do you have?
JV: I just have one. But my wife, who sometimes portrays Mary Lincoln, has a closet of dresses.
WW: Do you have a full-time job? Or are you Abe all the time?
JV: I do have a full-time job other than being Lincoln. I work for an aerospace company, and I handle large sub-contracts. I tell people it's my job to help spend their tax money.
WW: On your website, you talk about the "legendary" question-and-answer sessions after your presentations. Tell me about one.
JV: In the Colorado curriculum, students study the Civil War in fifth grade and eighth grade. So I regularly go to schools. Every year, I provide a presentation that's a half-hour, 45 minutes long. And then the students have questions they have prepared. And several times, I have had a Q&A go two and a half hours. Sometimes with eighth-graders, they're trying to ask the question I can't answer.
WW: Let me try. I'll start off easy. What's Lincoln's birthday?
JV: February 12, 1809. He was born in a log cabin. It was a Sunday morning. The log cabin had a dirt floor. He was born into a rather poor family.
WW: What was his mother's maiden name?
JV: Hanks. And the famous actor Tom Hanks claims to be a descendant of that family.
WW: What was his favorite song?
JV: As an adult, even prior to the Civil War, notably his favorite song was probably the song "Dixie," which was appropriated by the South as their sort of theme song. And as the war was ending and a band came to serenade him at the White House, he asked them if they would please play the song "Dixie." He said it was always one of his favorite songs.
WW: What was his shoe size?
JV: In the measurements of his day, it was 12 1/2 wide. But their shoe measurement techniques weren't the same as ours. So in our measurements, it would be a size 14.
WW: Okay, Voehl. You're good. Now, I think I have the correct spelling of your name, but I have one more question. How old are you?
JV: On February 12, as Lincoln, I will be 200 years old. And on the 14th, Valentine's Day, I will be a mere 57.
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Hi, All,
This may seem like an odd query (or not; perhaps it has been brought up
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PROVO — Now that guard Matt Carlino is leaving the BYU basketball program, there's even more attention on the recovery of Kyle Collinsworth.
Just months after returning home from an LDS mission to Russia, the versatile Collinsworth made a huge impact for the Cougars as the team's second-leading scorer and leader in both rebounds and assists.
The Provo High product was playing perhaps his best basketball of the year when he suffered a season-ending knee injury in the West Coast Conference championship game against Gonzaga.
Two days before BYU faced Oregon in the NCAA tournament, Collinsworth underwent surgery to repair a torn ACL in his right knee.
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"The doctors are really encouraged about how the surgery went," Rose told the Deseret News this week. "There's concern because you have to watch the process as it goes through. From the surgeon, and his feel for how it was repaired, if things go as planned, he should be back and ready to go for the season."
Collinsworth is scheduled to begin rehab soon.
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"When you judge the falls, that looked way worse (at Saint Mary's) than the fall when he injured it (against Gonzaga)," Rose said.
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E-Verify is not available because it is the only operation at the Homeland Security Department component funded by an appropriation, said CIS spokesman Bill Wright. The agency brings in enough in fees — about $3.1 billion — from immigration applications, petitions and other functions to otherwise support itself.
E-Verify compares information provided by new employees on their I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification forms against government records to confirm their eligibility to work legally in the United States. As a result of the shutdown, the agency said employers won't be able to use any of the system's functions, which include enrolling companies in the program, verifying employment eligibility, viewing and taking action on cases and running reports.
A notice on CIS's website posted Oct. 1 said as a result of E-Verify's closure, employees won't be able to resolve pending tentative nonconfirmation rulings until after the shutdown. If the information provided by an employer for an employee's E-Verify check matches up with government records, the potential employee receives an "employment authorized" response from E-Verify. If the information provided doesn't match up with government records, the system issues a tentative nonconfirmation ruling and the employee gets an opportunity to resolve the problem.
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COLLEGE STATION - Keitha Dickerson spent 12 minutes of the first half Saturday seated on the visitor's bench in Reed Arena. Plenette Pierson was over there next to her for nine minutes, and Katrisa O'Neal eventually joined her teammates.
But two fouls apiece on three of their starters didn't stop, much less slow down, the No. 14-ranked Lady Raiders as they routed Texas A&M 71-49, winning a fifth consecutive Big 12 game and remaining among the league leaders.
"Those are three important, key players for us and you know with them on the bench everybody else has to step up and play that much better," sophomore forward Amber Tarr said. "That's what was going through my mind. I just had to get in there and do a good job of not letting that hurt us."
Talk about a good job.
Tarr, sophomore post Tanisha Ellison and freshman guard Courtney Pastner all contributed in picking up the slack, helping Tech (16-2 overall, 5-2 Big 12) put together a 12-0 burst that turned a four-point lead into a 16-point margin with 4 minutes to play in the half.
Tarr had two 3-pointers in the run, including the basket that gave the Lady Raiders a 29-13 lead. Ellison blocked three shots in a span of about 3 minutes, and Pastner had one assist.
"Ellison, Tarr and Pastner gave us some big minutes," Tech head coach Marsha Sharp said. "That's two sophomores and a freshman who had to go in and hold down the fort for us until we could get to halftime and get our starters back in."
Once they got to intermission with a 36-17 lead, the Lady Raiders steadily ran away from the Aggies, outscoring A&M 26-16 in the first 10 minutes of the second half.
"My hat's off to Texas Tech," said A&M head coach Peggie Gillom, whose team (9-9, 1-6) lost its sixth consecutive Big 12 game. "They came in and outplayed us in almost every phase of the game.
"This is a different Texas Tech team from last year, and they're playing like it. I think they're out to prove something. Everybody pretty much thought they weren't going to be as good as last year. Yes, they've lost some players, but I think they're a good team."
The Lady Raiders proved that on both ends of the floor Saturday, combining their usual good defense with their best shooting performance since the seventh game of the season.
Tech scored 14 points off 16 A&M turnovers in the first half to build its lead. The Lady Raiders' man defense limited the Aggies to 32.3 percent shooting (20-of-62), a number that hovered in the 20s until late in the contest when the outcome was long decided.
Tech also shot 57.1 percent (28-of-49) from the floor, including a blistering 61.9 percent in the second half when seven of its 13 buckets were layups after breaking the A&M press.
Dickerson scored only four points in the first half but finished with 18 on 6-of-8 shooting. Aleah Johnson was 6-of-9 from the floor and scored 13, and Tarr, Pierson and O'Neal each scored 10. Point guard Melinda Schmucker-Pharies dominated the floor game with a season-high 13 assists and only three turnovers in 30 minutes.
"If you have players who get out and run as well as Keitha, Plenette and everybody, it makes my job kind of easy because they're going to get out front," Schmucker-Pharies said. "When you can get out and run, you just got to see them and connect."
Defensively, Tech shut down both of A&M's big threats. Forward Jaynetta Saunders scored 12 points, but eight came in the final15 minutes after Tech's lead had ballooned to 23 points. She hit her first two shots but finished the game 6-of-16 from the floor.
Post Prissy Sharpe had a worse day: 1-of-10 from the floor and three points to go with 10 rebounds. It was the lowest output this season from the senior who entered the game averaging 13.6 points per game.
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Park Goers React to Closing of Echo Park Swap Meet
Steve La
Reactions by park goers at Echo Park Lake were mixed yesterday to a park now vendor-free after last week's police crack down on an outdoor market authorities say was operating illegally.
Echo Park Lake, once swarming with hordes of swap meet vendors and shoppers on Sundays, was sparsely filled with a few dozen people. Some couples held hands and strolled along the banks of the lake, while families barbecued steaks and relaxed on the grassy knolls. Gone were the piles of used clothing, old laptops, power tools, food carts and other miscellaneous items sold by vendors that lined the sidewalks of the park.
"Honestly, I thought the swap meet added a lot of flavor to the neighborhood," said Dan Taylor, 32, of Echo Park, who was walking his dog. "I don't know why it was such a big deal."
People enjoying the park a week after the swap meet was shut down
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Another park goer echoed Taylor's sentiments.
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"I think every person should have a right to sell their stuff," said 27-year-old Maria, who declined to give her last name.
She said she has been coming to the park for more than 14 years and knew some of the vendors.
"They had families and weren't bugging anybody," she said.
Reyna Ruiz, 38, of Echo Park, disagreed.
"It should never have been here," Ruiz said. "The park looked too nasty because the vendors would leave trash around."
On the other side of the lake, Officer Joseph Torrance and Sergeant Joel Miller of LAPD's Rampart Division began patrolling at 8 a.m. looking to see if any vendors would return from last week's sweep.
Officer Joseph Torrance patrols Echo Park
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Officer Torrance said about half a dozen people did try to set up in the morning but quickly left when they saw the officers.
"For the most part, people have been understanding," Sgt. Miller said. "We've had over two dozen people come up today to thank us for how beautiful the park looks."
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Sgt. Miller told the Weekly that the ordinance in question was invalidated in 1974 and citations handed out to some vendors last Sunday would not be enforced.
Instead, police are now using a state law requiring sellers to have a permit to keep vendors out of the park, Miller said.
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Freed Ayatollah Again Makes Voice Heard
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
Published: February 1, 2003
QUM, Iran, Jan. 30— The invisible man of Qum has returned to the battlefield of Islamic politics.
Freed from the shackles of house arrest after five years on Wednesday, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri -- the man once destined to become spiritual leader of the Islamic Republic, who then became its most outspoken dissident cleric -- today did what he does best.
He talked.
He talked to a delegation of Parliament deputies seated cross-legged at his feet in a simple office decorated with artificial plants and machine-made rugs. He delivered speech after speech to hundreds of men and black-veiled women who rotated in and out of a warehouse-like auditorium. He chatted with almost anyone who turned up to see him: students, relatives of political prisoners, journalists and folks from his hometown of Najafabad, about 100 miles south of here.
Ayatollah Montazeri considers himself in the ''reformist'' camp of President Mohammad Khatami. But while Mr. Khatami is a conciliator, Ayatollah Montazeri is overtly hostile to the conservative clerical establishment.
As one of the country's senior clerics -- he is certainly considered a far more learned cleric than either Mr. Khatami or even the country's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- every word he utters carries extraordinary weight.
In his conversations today, the 80-year-old ayatollah once again wasted no time in attacking the conservative clerics for their repression and for trying to still his voice.
''They kept me isolated from society for five years and wasted five years of my life this way,'' he said in a brief interview in his office. ''It was such a cruel thing to do. I could have been useful, given advice, but they deprived me from doing it. This is oppression.''
His words made clear that he would keep his pledge to accept no conditions for his release and to speak out just as loudly and clearly as before.
He told members of Parliament and students that the harsh sentences given political prisoners by two special courts -- one for political activists, one for clerics -- were ''baseless,'' adding, ''They do not exist in the Constitution.''
Rather, he said, these courts ''have alienated the clerics, have jailed religious and revolutionary figures'' and should be disbanded. He called on the authorities to ''come to their senses'' and release all political prisoners.
Even more stunning, he said Ayatollah Khamenei was ''not infallible'' and could be challenged by Parliament.
As for Iran's place in the world, he said: ''Chanting death to this and that is not the way to run a country. We have lost our prestige in the world. We are constantly falling behind.''
At the same time, he is firm in his opposition to American foreign policy, arguing today as he has since the days of the 1979 revolution, that the United States wrongheadedly supported Israel and meddled where it should not. The American government ''is stretching its leg beyond its territory,'' he said in the interview. ''It wants to interfere into the affairs of other parts of the world.''
Talking is what Shiite Muslim clerics like Ayatollah Montazeri are trained to do. In principle, the clerical system is supposed to be a democratic, even chaotic one in which students are trained to speak their minds and challenge the authority of their professors. Qum, the dusty 1,000-year-old city on the edge of Iran's great salt desert 90 miles south of Tehran, is the national headquarters for that discourse.
So Ayatollah Montazeri has been talking again since Wednesday, when the five-year house arrest that barred him from delivering sermons, training seminary students or conducting public activities was lifted.
That freedom arrived only after pressure from some of Iran's other senior clerics and members of Parliament and reports from relatives that he suffers from diabetes, heart problems, convulsions and depression and was sleeping 16 hours a day.
Today, the aging ayatollah's round face is thinner, his grizzled beard whiter than five years ago. But he does not look like a man on his deathbed.
In one of the sermons to his followers, he kept it apolitical, advising them as ''brothers and sisters'' to seek knowledge and ''don't chant slogans about it.''
The ayatollah has been a son of Qum since he arrived as a student in the 1930's. He became a leader of the religious opposition against the American-backed shah, who was overthrown in the 1979 revolution, and he spent time in prison.
Afterward, the leader of that revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, often referred to his younger charge as ''the fruit of my life,'' and he was designated to be Ayatollah Khomeini's successor after his death.
Paradoxically, Ayatollah Montazeri was one of the architects of the clauses in the Constitution calling for ultimate rule by a single supreme leader. On foreign policy, he succeeded in channeling money, weapons and other support to Islamic political movements around the world. He denounced Saudi Arabia for what he called its ''filthy'' regime and routinely condemned the United States as evil.
When an American warship in the Persian Gulf shot down an Iranian civilian airliner in 1988, he called for retaliatory attacks on American military, political, cultural and economic installations.


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Skip to comments.New Study: Top Reason for Women's Abortions is No Supportive Partner, Father
Posted on 01/16/2009 10:55:06 AM PST by wagglebee
LifeNews.com Note: Dr. Wanda Franz is the president of the National Right to Life Committee and a former professor of clinical psychology at West Virginia University.
The pro-life movement in this country has been very successful in reducing the numbers of abortions and the abortion rate (the number of abortions per 1,000 women of child-bearing age). In 2005, the abortion rate was down 33% from its peak in 1980/81, the same level it had been in 1974.
If the abortion rate had not decreased from its peak value in 1980/81, but simply stayed the same, there would have been 50% more abortions in 2005: 1.8 million, instead of the actual 1.2 million.
This decrease in abortion has been greatest among adolescents and young people.
While abortions have decreased in women having their first pregnancy, the number of repeat abortions has increased. Today, 47% of all abortions are obtained by women who have already had at least one previous abortion.
In addition, most abortions occur now in the group of women who already have one living child. Thus, the demographics of abortion are changing. Today, the women, who are in need of pro-life support, are often those with families. No research has been done on this population group, until now.
A new study by Priscilla Coleman and colleagues has been published in the International Journal of Mental Health Addiction. This study uses data from the Fragile Families and Well-Being Study.
The sample was drawn from hospitals in 16 cities around the country, which had high numbers of unmarried births. The final sample consisted of families with one child. The mothers then either aborted or gave birth to a subsequent child.
The family characteristics indicated that the families met the requirement of being fragile: 87% were not married, 41% had less than a high school education, and 32% had an annual income under $15,000. Racial breakdown was 24% white, 56% black, 15% Hispanic, 1% Asian and 4% American Indian.
The ages of the participants fell into the age range when most abortions now occur, that is, 64% were between 20 and 29 years of age.
In this sample, 76.9% of the women with a subsequent pregnancy reported that the same man fathered both the first and second pregnancy. This is a surprisingly high level of stability, given the fragility of the family unit.
This study looked at the reasons women chose childbirth or abortion for their subsequent pregnancy. It is unique, in that, it examined the decision-making process in the context of the relationship with the father of the child. No other research on abortion decision-making has taken the family context into account.
This is an especially important issue for our future consideration, since so many abortions are currently performed on women with other living children, implying the presence of the father of the children.
The results of the study indicated that the most important factors in determining the women's choice to abort a second pregnancy were those associated with the father's inability or unwillingness to provide assistance in rearing the first child.
Women were significantly more likely to abort if they reported that the father of the child cannot be trusted to "watch the child for a week," "take good care of the child," "watch the child when the mothers needs to do things," "does not support the mother's way of raising the child," "does not respect the schedule and rules" for the child, etc.
In addition, it was found that mothers who were married to the father were significantly more likely to deliver the baby.
What is especially interesting are the variables that did not appear to influence the choice of abortion vs. delivery.
For example, the difficulty of raising the child, based on poor temperament of the child or the need for frequent medical intervention, did not affect the choice to abort. In addition, financial considerations were not important in the decision.
Employment and income did not predict the decision to abort. Surprisingly, aggression directed toward the mother by the father was not a factor in the choice to abort.
On the other hand, women who chose to abort the second baby, demonstrated more substance abuse following the abortion; and they were more apt to be physically abused by the father.
The results of this study are counter to the prevailing opinion that women abort because of poverty and financial considerations. Instead, these mothers were more apt to make the decision based on whether or not they would be supported in their role as a mother by a father who had already demonstrated an ability to care for one of his children.
Furthermore, marriage was a protective factor in determining the parents' decision to keep and raise their child.
This study supports the idea that abortion occurs in the context of a family. It requires both a committed mother and father to assure the choice to deliver and care for a child. Fathers are, not only important, but possibly decisive in the choice to have an abortion.
And the left totally opposed to this.
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The left believes in self actualizatin. It's a movement of narcissists.
Depravity breeds depravity.
I wouldn't define this as a high level of stability, given that the woman in question has aborted two of the father's children. If anything, it indicates to me that the relationship is extremely unstable.
I think it's because women aren't taught how to pick a good man. I have three sisters and each one recieved that instruction.
Quit hopping in the sack with any male that happens by.
My son's birth-father was in prison serving a 3-4 year sentence by the time his birth-mother found out she was pregnant with him. She already had an infant at home, and another disabled daughter living with grandmother. Talk about a "crisis pregnancy!"
I thank God every day that she decided to spare his life in spite of her circumstances.
This is not news to me, as someone who worked at a CPC for years.
If they don't know the dad. . .
if they don't like the dad. . .
if the dad is a flake. . .
and most importantly, if the dad wants her to abort. . .
They abort, almost every time.
I don't blame just the fathers. These women choose to have sex with men they don't know, don't like, or who are flaky.
Also, in defense of fathers, there have been a handful who have tried valiantly to get their girlfriends (it's never their wives) to keep the baby.
But men, to keep abortion rates low, wait until you are married (most of the unmarried women who came to us HAD BEEN USING BIRTH CONTROL. It DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK) and be very, very suppportive should you impregnate somebody.
Wow, what a great story!
I don't think the first child was aborted in all of these cases. In at least some of the cases, the father's attitude towards the first child is the reason the woman is seeking the abortion of the second. I think they are loosely using stability to mean that the man and woman are involved in a long term relationship. Apparently, instability would be when the father of the first child is different from the father of the second. Interesting information, although I do not trust this website much.
I have mostly found that woman do not want to abort, that they do so out of fear. If that fear can be alleviated, they are much more likely to go ahead with the pregnancy.
How are men to be "supportive" when the law and the culture tell them that it's none of their business whether the woman aborts?
The men throw up their hands and say "it's your choice, that's what we've been trained to think!" and the woman is left to make the decision over the life or death of her baby all on her own conscience.
Every policy of the left (doing Satan's bidding) is anti-family.
The family is the primary target of evil, because it is the primary threat to his victory.
#6, further comment on that quote...just because it was the same father does not mean it is a "family unit",either.
The family is the primary target of evil, because it is the primary threat to his victory.
Absolutely correct!
Good point.
I really don't think the issue is marriage in and of itself.
Men who make good fathers are probably much more likely to get married. Men who continue a long term relationship with the mother of a child, that don't want to get married are probably going to be lousy fathers.
There is kind of a catch-22 quality to this situation. Is it better to raise a child as a single mother or with a lousy dad?
But this can't be true, can it? I thought that the top 3 reasons were rape, incest and endangerment to the mother. /s
At least that's what the pro-aborts keep telling us.
Why are these stupid women then having sex and putting themselves in the position of getting pregnant by a man they believe is unwilling or unable to provide assistance in rearing children? I'm sorry, but the stupidity of this baffles me.
Yep, and it's "safe and legal and rare," though it seems that we need government to make it more common because 3500 murdered infants PER DAY just isn't rare enough.
What a wonderful story. Your son looks very happy!
There's also nothing empowering about a woman having sex with a man she doesn't know or trust.
Wow, if one was to read Ann Coulter's latest book they would see much the same thing printed on those pages. Single mothers cause much of the problems in this country by the simple fact there is no nuclear family to support her and the children. Hence, more abortions, more child murder after they are born(both are murder, I just wanted to differentiate between the two)by single moms wanting to be with a new boyfriend or to go out partying or children beaten to death by the new boyfriend(with mom's help), more crime committed by the children after(IF)they grow up.
Those aren't the only 2 options, tho. Adoption is one.
There is no catch 22, there is one simple solution, you don't the children to begin with unless you know you are going to have a partner(or at least strongly suspect such)who will stay with you and help raise them. This means, in simple English, that if you aren't married, don't have children, period. Read Ann Coulter's new book it explains many things and shows the statistics to back them up.
Interesting. I've never been in a position to talk to a woman who was considering an abortion, so I have no personal experience here. I have talked to women who have had abortions, but the conversations were brief.
I was talking about those who are already pregnant, in the context of encouraging them not to have an abortion. When working with pregnant women, who are contemplating abortion, it is rarely effective to tell them they should not have gotten pregnant to begin with.
wagglebee, thanks for allowing me to ask! Next week I hope to be to the point of collecting the data.
I disagree with this whole thing and it's rationalizations. The top reason for abortion is submission to a moral depravity that results in a callous disregard for life.
Adoption is clearly the very best solution to this problem. I always encourage women to go the adoption route.
Strangely enough, the men who do not want the child and encourage the abortions, are usually against adoption. Many will refuse to consent to the adoption or even worse they sometimes threaten to seek sole custody of the child. This is terrifying to a woman who lacks the money for legal assistance, and she will almost always do what he wants.
I don't understand it, probably because it doesn't make sense, but these situations never have a good outcome.
Women having sex with and getting pregnant by men who are bad choices for fathers do generally have a bad outcome. It seems to be a big secret, tho.
I do agree with that. Once they are pregnant you have to deal with that. However, we need to do far more as a society in encouraging women to NOT have sex with men who they would not want to be married to and have children with. And we need to stop this nonsense that sex and marriage and children are not connected.
"I disagree with this whole thing and its rationalizations. The top reason for abortion is submission to a moral depravity that results in a callous disregard for life."
That is fine if your purpose is to sit back and judge the actions of others. Some of us are actively trying to prevent the abortion of children by working with women who are considering it. Every time a woman chooses life over abortion, a murder is prevented.
It may not solve the problem of moral depravity, but I would argue that it produces better results than judging women who are already in a bad situation.
1) Men made all the laws.
2) Men impregnate the women.
3. It takes 2 to tango.
Yep, men made the laws, and made them so that they didn't have any responsibility for getting free sex.
Like being duped?
Oh, and as for "men impregnate women" - that sounds... well, rather radical lesbian of you...
It takes two to tango, and if the woman says no, sex doesn't happen, unless a crime is then committed.
I was just providing some balance.
The fact is that men are the leaders. They could solve this mess; but, they like it as is it.
As Ann Coulter says,
the biggest supporters of "abortion rights" are men aged 18 through their late 20's.
Yeah, they're really into "women's rights" I bet.
It's very sad to see when a man decides to leave his pregnant wife, leaving her with the responsibility of raising a child on her own, I have seen this happen all too often. It is also sad to see so many marriages destroyed by pornography, which is all too acceptable and prevalent today. There is definately an all out war against the family, and it is only getting worse. There is no honor for mothers and fathers and the media certainly discourages marriage and famly.
p.s. I said "single women" when I meant "single moms."
"That is fine if your purpose is to sit back and judge the actions of others. Some of us are actively trying to prevent the abortion of children by working with women who are considering it. Every time a woman chooses life over abortion, a murder is prevented.
It may not solve the problem of moral depravity, but I would argue that it produces better results than judging women who are already in a bad situation."
First, I commend you and others actively working to save children's lives.
I'm not judging the women, I'm judging the actions of the man and woman involved.
"How are men to be supportive when the law and the culture tell them that its none of their business whether the woman aborts?"
As I said, I don't think it's all the men's fault. I agree our laws are hideous. They forbid a man from protecting his child. What sort of Satanic law is that?
But my advice still stands. In three years, I had ONE married woman abort (that I know of). The father was pushing it. He wanted to get their business more established before she had a baby.
So wait until your married, because birth control fails FREQUENTLY. If you are married, it is highly unlikely she will abort. And should you impregnate somebody, step up. It does make a difference.
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Philippe G. Vidon
309 Bray Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210
(315) 470-4765/470-6536
Highest Education
Ph.D., York University, ON, Canada (Geography - Hydrology/Biogeochemistry), 2004
Areas of Study
Water Quality, Riparian Zone/Watershed Biogeochemistry and Hydrology, Watershed Management, Best Management Practices, Surface and Subsurface Hydrology, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Mercury, Carbon Cycling, Greenhouse Gases (N2O, CO2, CH4)
Course(s) Taught
Watershed Hydrology (FOR 340/540) Spring
Advanced Watershed Hydrology and Biogeochemistry (FOR 796) Spring
Selected Publications
Vidon, P., 2015. Field Hydrologists Needed: A call for young hydrologists to (re)-focus on field studies. Hydrological Processes. In press.
Vidon, P., Carleton W., Mitchell M., 2014. Mercury proxies and mercury dynamics in a forested watershed of the US Northeast. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 186:7475-7488, DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-3941-0.
Vidon, P., Jacinthe P.A., Liu X. *, Fisher K. *, Baker M. 2014. Hydrobiogeochemical controls on riparian nutrient and greenhouse gas dynamics: 10 years post-restoration. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 50(3):639-652, DOI:10.1111/jawr.12201
Passeport E., P. Vidon, K. Forshay, L. Harris, J. Lazar*, S.S. Kaushal, D.Q. Kellogg, P.M. Mayer, E. Stander. 2013. Ecological engineering practices for the reduction of non-point source N in human influenced landscapes: A guide for watershed managers. Environmental Management Journal. DOI:10.1007/s00267-012-9970-y, 51:392-413.
Vidon, P., and Cuadra*, P.E., 2011. Phosphorus dynamics in tile-drain flow during storms in the US Midwest. Agricultural Water Management, 98:532-540, DOI:10.1016/j.agwat.2010.09.010.
Vidon, P., C. Allan, D. Burns, T. Duval, N. Gurwick, S. Inamdar, R. Lowrance, J. Okay, D. Scott, S. Sebestyen, 2010. Hot spots and hot moments in riparian zones: potential for improved water quality management. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 46(2):278-298. DOI: 10.1111 ⁄ j.1752-1688.2010.00420.x.
Current Graduate Advisees
Alison Bressler
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Vidon
- Area of Study: Water & Wetland Resource Studies
My undergraduate research focused on LID features in suburban South Carolina in order to reduce large scale eutrophication. My current research is focusing on the impact of willow birch on water quality, quantity, and associated ecosystems services in addition to investigating the broader social implications of growing willow birch as a biofuel source.
Timothy Koch
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Vidon
- Area of Study: Water & Wetland Resource Studies
- Undergraduate Institute: SUNY Center Albany (Environmental Science)
Personal Statement
After undergraduate I did an internship with the US Forest Service conducting watershed health surveys throughout the Pacific Northwest. Looking at land use on watershed maps and then hiking across the land to get to the sampling locations really got me interested in watershed science. I would like to look at the impact of land cover change on ephemeral stream channel morphology and water quality from a managerial view point in order to best mitigate these changes in the future.
Favorite Quote
As for me, if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water. -The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Katherine Powers
- Degree Sought: MS
- Graduate Advisor(s): Vidon
- Area of Study: Water & Wetland Resource Studies
Personal Statement
As an undergraduate at St. Lawrence University, I conducted research under Dr. Amanda Lavigne regarding the potential power output of pre-existing micro-hydro dams in Northern New York. This experience greatly influenced my MS concentration of Water and Wetland Resource Studies, as well as my focus on holistic, interdisciplinary approaches to environmental issues. With my current research I plan to discuss both the ecological risk assessment and public risk perception of hydraulic fracturing. Beyond academic courses and research, I work for the SUNY-ESF Outreach Office as a STEM Mentor, teaching 1st and 4th graders at Van Duyn and Dr. King Elementary Schools.
Molly Welsh
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Vidon
- Area of Study: Water & Wetland Resource Studies


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