On May 1 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point sophomore and Student Government Association senator Roderick King was caught on video vandalizing a UWSP-approved cross display commemorating aborted babies. In 1 week the video, posted on YouTube, has been viewed 38,000 times.

Since then a sidebar has developed involving fellow SGA senator Claire Smith, who wrote a juvenile and poorly crafted email blaming Pointers for Life, the group displaying the crosses, posted here first, for King's behavior. She was responding to a respectful complaint that the SGA had not reprimanded King.

Pro-lifer Milissa fowarded UWSP official Steven Ward a link to my posting of Smith's email. Smith first responded last night by shedding just a tad more light on King's SGA staus.

Later Ward forwarded Milissa an email he had just sent Smith. It is good to see at least 1 UWSP administrator appreciates the ramifications of King's actions as well as the significance of an immature little snit making matters worse. I also appreciate Ward's transparency. Here's his latest email:

The fact that UWSP is receiving "international attention" is also encouraging. Even the Huffington Post covered the King story with no defense of his actions.

[Photo courtesy of the Wausau Daily Herald]

From the Associated Press, May 12:

Warsaw, Poland - Irena Sendler - a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities - has died. She was 98....

Born in Warsaw, Sendler served as a social worker with the city's welfare department, masterminding the risky rescue operations of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi Germany's brutal World War II occupation....

First, an update on the Roderick King video. Due to racist comments it was garnering on YouTube, posters disabled comments and either intentionally or unintentionally privatized it, meaning embeds don't currently work. Students for Life is trying to correct that. For now the video can only be viewed on YouTube.

Moving on, reader Milissa has corresponded with University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point official Stephen Ward about the email Student Government Association Sen. Claire Smith wrote that I posted last week. In it she blamed pro-lifers for sophomore Roderick King's temper tantrum against small crosses commemorating aborted babies.

Ward responded with the news that King is out as SGA senator. But both Milissa and I have read Ward's email several times and are unclear on what happened. What is clear...

On May 8 Public Citizen, a group founded by Ralph Nader, filed a petition with the FDA to ban Johnson & Johnson's Ortho-Evra birth control patch. It stated:

Compared to standard 35 microgram estrogen/progestin oral contraceptives, Ortho-Evra results in:

60% more estrogen on average exposure;

greater variability in estrogen levels;

a possible two-fold increased risk of venous thrombosis (typically, painful blood clots of the leg which can travel to the lungs and cause death);

increased risk of side effects such as breast discomfort, severe menstrual pain, nausea, and vomiting;

a 50% increased likelihood of [contraceptive] discontinuation;

no improvement in contraceptive outcomes.

According to PC's press release...

On Friday Planned Parenthood used the Mother's Day holiday to once more carouse for cash, this time using mother and daughter pitchwomen Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow. See first appeal here.

I really don't have words to decry PP's gall.

But these 2 pathetic Hollywood liberals? It's beyond abnormal for a woman who is both mother and grandmother to promote mothers killing their own children while embracing a daughter spared from her own demise thanks only to timing and circumstance.

Did Blythe kill any of Gwyneth's siblings? Did Gwyneth kill any of Blythe's grandchildren? No problem either way. Let's hug.

I've highlighted the most bizarre statements.

[HT: John Jansen of Pro-Life Action League]

On May 9 ABC News unearthed disturbing footage from a 2000 Republican primary debate between John McCain, Alan Keyes, and George Bush showing McCain's nasty pro-abortion side. Click on image for link to view:

McCain provoked Bush on the exceptions they share: rape, incest. He tried to corner Bush as a liar or hypocrite since Bush supported the pro-life plank of the Republican platform (reprinted below) that excluded those exceptions by backing a human life amendment to the Constitution.

Keyes, always clear (although these days so hostile he has alienated all but a core few), nailed them both on their duplicity...

From the Associated Press, May 9:

It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman - she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join 7 sisters and 10 brothers. There are 2 sets of twins. "We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing....

The new poll question is up:

The Alliance Defense Fund plans a Sept. pastor revolt to defy a 1954 IRS tax amendment stripping churches and pastors of the right to discuss politics and candidates. ADF hopes this will spark a court battle ultimately finding it unconstitutional. Should pastors and churches be free to discuss politics?

49.4% got last week's poll question right...

So what do you think?

In his public message to Gov. Sebelius, KS Archbishop Joseph Naumann wrote, in part...

I am a brand new board member of Pregnancy Aid South Suburbs, a network of 3
pregnancy care centers and 1 maternity home located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.

Tomorrow is PASS's annual Hike for Life, 1 of 2 annual fundraisers that is very important to PASS's financial stability....