by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• Star Studded Super Step’s Andy Moore has birthed a new website, AbortionWiki.org, which intends to compile information on the global abortion industry into one online reference (a Wikipedia of sorts about abortion). A new advisory board for the site has been formed, consisting of many “all-stars” in the pro-life movement. Find and bookmark!
• Live Action has an interview with our own Jill Stanek on the things pro-lifers can do, here and now, to make a difference against abortion:

  Stanek’s best advice for those who want to help the pro-life movement is to pay attention to what is going on around you. She asks, “Where are you right now? Look around. Jesus reached out to his little circle in Jerusalem. He started at home. Don’t make it hard. Start at home.”

• Reflections of a Paralytic shares the story that even stunned CNN’s Anderson Cooper: thirtysomething man Trent Arsenault (pictured left) – who claims to be a virgin by choice so his sperm remains disease-free – has sired 15 children via sperm bank donations. The stunning (and disgusting) part? He shares video of his sperm collection techniques on a porn website.
• Vital Signs focuses on the “Heart for the Disabled” valentine project, sponsored by Joni Eareckson Tada.
• John Smeaton reports that Irish radio producer, Daniel Reardon, made a drama on abortion which was unfortunately never broadcast. The production will be available for free on Amazon tomorrow, January 28.
• Secular Pro-Life’s Kelsey Hazzard highlights her appearance on NPR’s “Tell Me More” panel discussion, which included abortion proponents. Unfortunately, the network’s heavy editing of Hazzard’s remarks (which has happened to other pro-life leaders on the program in the past) hindered the pro-life message from being explained with clarity. Listen to the program here.
• Suzy B posts the 2012 State of the Unborn Address by President Marjorie Dannenfelser:

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A district judge has denied a Justice Department attempt to stop Colorado-based sidewalk counselor Kenneth Scott from talking to drivers as they enter Denver’s Planned Parenthood.
• Overheard: Students for Life of America’s Kristan Hawkins in an interview at National Review Online:

  You know, I saw two bumper stickers on a car the other day, and it still frustrates me when I think of it: One side of the car had a “You Can’t Be Catholic and Pro-Choice” bumper sticker, and the other side had an “Obama 2012″ bumper sticker. Can you say disconnect?

• The Michigan Daily has an insightful piece by Cassie Balfour, a pro-choice student, who recently took the time to attend a meeting of the university’s pro-life student group:

  It’s pretty easy to be pro-choice at the University. I may have been raised in the religious west side of the state, but I grew up in East Quad, where being pro-choice is as ubiquitous as the Bob Marley posters pasted on dorm room walls.

  It’s easy to get trapped in an echo chamber when you think the Truth belongs to your side. But even if we can’t agree, we can occasionally step across the protest line, stop the chanting, and listen.

• Katrina Fernandez writes about beauty in the pro-life movement:

  The beauty I am referring to transcends age…. The passion that drove them to stand out in freezing rain for hours on end transformed their faces into an angelic beauty. These were the faces of people who knew they were supporting a just and noble cause.

  On meeting some of the pro-choice protesters at the March:

  I will never forget the one woman I met on Monday. She was there wearing an “I had an abortion” t-shirt. She said her abortion was 26 years ago and it was the best thing she’d ever done.

  Can you image living as long as she has and the only grand achievement she can claim for herself was having an abortion two and half decades ago? She even remembered she was 40 days gestation at the time she terminated her pregnancy. Someone who is unaffected by something does not remember those types of details.

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by LauraLoo

This perfectly describes our government’s overspending and who will pay for it.

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When last I wrote about ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy in September 2011, abortion proponents were “thrilled” that Christina had aborted husband Owen’s baby.

A recap: Christina (played by Sandra Oh) is a career-oriented resident surgeon who doesn’t want kids. Owen (played by Kevin McKidd), also a surgeon, does. The couple’s clashing belief systems create turmoil when Christina accidentally gets pregnant. But she ultimately gets an abortion with glum but supportive Owen by her side.

Pro-aborts were happy Christina killed her baby. The ACLU thanked Grey’s Anatomy for “provid[ing] an opening” to “change the culture.” NARAL gave show writers “kudos.” RH Reality Check thought the episode was “a reflection of current attitudes” and that ABC execs must have “realize[d] that a majority of their viewers think abortion should be safe, legal, and available.”

Not so fast.

The advancing storyline: Owen and Christina don’t talk about the abortion afterward and try to awkwardly move on.

But in the January 19 episode Owen snaps. You can skip to :41 in this well-acted, heart-wrenching scene:

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Planned Parenthood of Northern New England is running a “cheeky and irreverent” new ad campaign online, on buses, and in local newspapers…

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Center for Reproductive Rights has asked for a rehearing of Texas’ ultrasound law in front of the entire 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Abortions will resume at a Planned Parenthood in Columbia, Missouri now that the clinic has found a new abortionist.
• An Australian abortion clinic will stop performing abortions past 24 weeks. The clinic previously performed post 24-week abortions on women with “psychosocial reasons” including women who were “suffering mental health problems, have had a catastrophic change in their circumstances or have experienced difficulty accessing abortion services earlier.”

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by LauraLoo

It’s Maddie v. Daddy as Daddy interrogates his baby daughter to reveal her favorite parent.  What takes place is a ruthless contest of cunning and skill… with one of them clearly out of their league.

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It’s always interesting to hear how the other side views its political proponents.

When they have whined in the past that pro-abortion politicians aren’t vocal enough, I have always held the opposite view.

But not lately.

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Yesterday, as the March for Life was taking place, pro-life Arizona Congressman Trent Franks (pictured right) introduced the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

The backdrop, according to the National Right to Life Committee:

Article I of the U.S. Constitution established that the national seat of government would be placed forever not within any state, but in a special Federal District – and that the Congress would “exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District.”

But what would the Framers of our Constitution say if they returned today – and learned, to their horror, that well-developed unborn babies are legally being put to death, in terrible pain, virtually within the shadow of the U.S. Capitol?

And they are.

Washington Surgi-Clinic, located just eight blocks from the White House, advertises it will abort babies up to 26 weeks old (6-1/2 months)  “us[ing] a method called dilatation and evacuation (D&E).” Here’s a medical illustration of a D&E via National Right to Life. Click to enlarge….

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This must be seen to be believed.

A CBS slide show entitled, “Activists Hold Annual March For Life On Roe v. Wade Anniversary,” is inexplicably featuring seven photos of the exact opposite: a microscopic band of abortion proponents who protested the March.

There are no photos of pro-lifers!

Someone at CBS has a wicked (pardon the pun) sense of humor.

Meanwhile Matt at the St. Blogostine blog posted photos depicting the reality of the day, which must have been too big for CBS to see. Cold and rainy as it was, pro-lifers – mostly young people – came out by the hundreds of thousands…

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