Conservative Culture

 Our State Sen. Keith Faber supports and with good reason. It is on the way for the Governor to sign. Let’s see how he responds (being a minister and all) to giving the mother an opportunity to actually see the movement of her baby before “choosing” to have the baby terminated.

 Columbus, OH (LifeNews.com) — The Ohio Senate approved a pro-life bill that would require abortion practitioners to give women the option of seeing an ultrasound of their developing baby. The measure now heads to Governor Ted Strickland and a leading pro-life group is asking for people to call the governor and urge him to sign it.

When used in pregnancy centers, ultrasounds persuade large majorities of women not to have an abortion. Lawmakers hope requiring abortion practitioners to do them will help reduce abortions further.

The Ohio House approved the Ultrasound Viewing Option Bill, H.B. 314, in December on a 73-20 margin.

On Thursday, the Senate followed suit by approving the bill 24 to 8 and now it goes to Governor Strickland, who is a longtime abortion advocate.

Ohio Right to Life is asking for pro-life advocates to call the governor and urge him to sign the bill into law.

“Tell the Governor that, just as patients are often shown x-rays before surgery, ultrasounds provide scientifically accurate information that women should have an opportunity to view in order to make a more informed decision,” the group said in an action alert.

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This will be hard to scrub for the election. He attended there for sometime and this looks more like friends than just a brief photo op with a stranger.

HT Atlas Shrugs

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No one asks what is wrong with the parents not preparing their children for education? People expect the government to solve the problem. When government steps in they not only make it worse in most cases it causes a false sense of security that shouldn’t exist. When only 50% graduate from the “no child left behind” government schools where will the blame fall? On the government or parents or both? In Ohio the rate is better than others but I wouldn’t call it great either. One can only wonder what options these people will have. And they tell us we need illegal immigrants to work on the farms harvesting.

In Ohio, nearly 83 percent of public high school students in suburban Columbus graduate while 78.1 percent in suburban Cleveland earn their diplomas, well above their local city schools.

One note, this should be a clear call for vouchures for those parents who are involved and want to save their children from the failure of the government school system. I would say public but I am uncertain they deserve that title anymore.

Last note: Take a look at Powells statemnt “we must invest in the whole child”. Does that should a bit like it takes a village rhetoric?

WASHINGTON —  Seventeen of the nation’s 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the lowest graduation rates reported in Detroit, Indianapolis and Cleveland, according to a report released Tuesday.

The report, issued by America’s Promise Alliance, found that about half of the students served by public school systems in the nation’s largest cities receive diplomas. Students in suburban and rural public high schools were more likely to graduate than their counterparts in urban public high schools, the researchers said.

Nationally, about 70 percent of U.S. students graduate on time with a regular diploma and about 1.2 million students drop out annually.

“When more than 1 million students a year drop out of high school, it’s more than a problem, it’s a catastrophe,” said former Secretary of State Colin Powell, founding chair of the alliance.

His wife, Alma Powell, the chair of the alliance, said students need to graduate with skills that will help them in higher education and beyond. “We must invest in the whole child, and that means finding solutions that involve the family, the school and the community.” The Powell’s organization was beginning a national campaign to cut high school dropout rates.

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