The current issue of Time magazine features model Jamie Grumet nursing her 3-year-old son. The photo has obviously caused a stir. The range of reactions were boiled down in this Associated Press article:

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

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• Secular Pro-Life responds to the charge from abortion defender Amanda Marcotte that informed consent laws assume “women are too stupid to understand abortion” and are misogynistic:
  

  Informed consent laws do not operate on the assumption that women are stupid. They do, however, assume that abortion facilities cannot be trusted to provide full and accurate information in the absence of legislation. I’m perfectly fine with that assumption.

  Planned Parenthood abortion centers have been caught on tape distributing incredible lies about prenatal development; one counselor even went so far as to claim that an eight-week-old fetus has “no arms, no legs, no heart, no head, no brain.”

  In short, women aren’t too stupid to understand abortion – but abortion facilities are too greedy to explain it properly.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell leveled the name “forces of darkness” at people opposed to America’s leading abortion provider while speaking at a Planned Parenthood fundraiser.
• An Indian woman was found alive after being thrown into a river with her arms and legs bound. She was allegedly tortured and thrown in the river after refusing to have an abortion:
  

  The woman had reportedly worked as a domestic help for the Bhubaneswar-based retired district judge, Sameer Ray for five years and had allegedly married his only son, Satyabrat. The marriage was reportedly never accepted by the family. According to the victim, she told the family that she was pregnant when they decided to fix Satyabrat’s marriage with someone else. The family then allegedly hired goons to eliminate her.

Bravo, Publix. I watched the following ad and was saddened to think how much pro-abortion feminists are throwing away by their “choice.” They can’t embrace pregnancy, motherhood, or Mother’s Day without darkening it with a reminder that still and all they advocate mothers killing their own children. At any rate, get out the Kleenex… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwPInEIkVS0[/youtube] […]

As best as a mere male can, I understand the dilemma of many. I’ve said before: The Tempter has crouched on my shoulder five times and whispered in its vulture voice: “You’re too young, too unmarried, too poor, too old….” My blood runs cold when I think of five great children who might not have […]

by LauraLoo Happy Mother’s Day to all the great moms, step-moms, moms-in-law, grandmoms, etc.! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWHhx_svpBg&feature=related[/youtube] Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.

Update 5/12 7:15a: A young gun at Feministing – who apparently doesn’t mind that Nancy Keenan and all those aging abortion proponents set their sights on her not so long ago – is denying an intensity gap while elegantly admitting, “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but in the last year or so, sh** has gone totally f***ing haywire in this country…. anti-choicers are gunning harder than ever [the gun analogies just keep coming] right now to take away hard-win reproductive freedoms.”

The ability of pro-abortion abortion survivor to articulate their message is impressive. Take a look, abortion movement, this is your future.

UPDATE 9:50a: Douglas Johnson, Legislative Director of National Right to Life, adds this thought:

Theodore Shulman entered a guilty plea in a federal court in Manhattan yesterday. But the only press coverage seen, so far, is a short story in the New York Daily News, and an even shorter Associated Press piece.

Neither the Daily News nor the AP mentioned that Shulman is the son of famed feminist author and activist Alix Kates Shulman, whose works include Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen. I think that if a pro-life activist had entered a guilty plea to making death threats against prominent pro-abortion leaders, that story would be covered much more widely – and if the offender also were the son of a famous pro-life author and activist, that association would be highlighted. Maybe the “mainstream media” should also enter a guilty plea – guilty to bias by grossly selective perception regarding what constitutes “news.”

I should also highlight the fact that Alix has spoken of aborting four of Shulman’s siblings, “and not one was the result of carelessness.” Theodore has commented on those abortions, saying two came before him and two after. Shulman has one living sister, Polly. One doesn’t have to be a psychiatrist to figure out why Shulman is messed up. He needs our prayers.

6a: From the New York Daily News, last night: