I want to have another child, just because I want Milo to have a sibling and have someone to grow with…. My brother and I are so close, and I can’t imagine not giving my son that kind of relationship. ~ Actress Alyssa Milano (pictured with son Milo), People, September 9 [HT: Laura Loo]

by Kelli

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• 40 Days for Life announces yet another abortion center closing, this time in Midland, Texas which means “[t]hese latest closures bring the number of closed abortion facilities — where 40 Days for Life prayer vigils have been held — to 40!” The campaign begins on September 25. Be sure to look for a prayer vigil location near you.

by Hans Johnson

A typically unbalanced discussion on NOW with Alex Wagner seeks to assure viewers that babies feel no pain until well after 20 weeks’ gestation. So says panel “expert,” abortionist Anne Davis (pictured right), from Physicians for Reproductive Health, who conveniently happens to perform abortions late into pregnancy. According to host Alex Wagner:

We know that this isn’t really of course about fetal pain. It isn’t really even about, I mean, I would say, the protection of life. It’s about a concerted effort to roll back reproductive rights and make it harder and harder and harder for women to exercise control over their own bodies.

Not that it matters anyway, as another MSNBC host believes: “I don’t want to get bogged down [with the issue of fetal pain]. I think a great deal of people would agree that science and that public opinion is on your side,” Craig Melvin told pro-life Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).

Birth control is not a woman’s responsibility. Unfortunately, at this point in time, the pill version of birth control — and, according to many rabbis, one of the only halachically acceptable versions of contraceptive — is available for women only. But that doesn’t make fertility a woman’s-only issue. I would be the one who would get pregnant, but it would be our child. Ultimately I’m the one swallowing the pill, but he can and should be just as responsible for reminding me to take it.

by Kelli YouTube user entropyofmind (Melissa) recently asked a question directed to pro-life Christians: If we believe that abortion is the tragic taking of a human life and yet believe that children are innocent and go directly to heaven when they die, how can abortion be bad? Doesn’t it spare those aborted children pain? [youtube]http://youtu.be/yhn3kD7v8WM[/youtube] […]

I have been dreading this announcement…. I needed some time before being able to say it. Jack and I lost our baby boy last week. Having a late term miscarriage is by far the hardest thing either of us have ever had to go through. We appreciate all of your prayers and ask for privacy […]

Here were my top five eight (there were so many to choose from!) favorite political cartoons this week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of the post!

by Toby Toons…

 a twofer by Henry Payne at Townhall.com…

  Next to the might of God, the serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence for good. ~ Evangelist D. L. Moody (1837-1899)