by Hans Johnson

A photo reminiscent of the iconic Boys Town image “He ain’t heavy, Father. He’s my brother” taken on a family visit to Boise, Idaho has gained some fame of its own.

Jesse Cottle, 28, lost both legs when he stepped on an IED in Afghanistan in 2009. Not long after he met Kelly, 24, at a swim meet in San Diego  where he was trying out his prosthetic legs.

She says: “His personality and who he is just outweighs his injuries by so much that you forget about it after a while.”

Jesse explains how this snapshot has struck such a cord for himself as well as so many others in this report for ABC’s Good Morning America:

This kind of change is incredibly dramatic. What we’ve been seeing since 1982 was a slow decline, but this kind of change … [is] so different from what’s happened in the past. ~ Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager at Guttmacher Institute, commenting on a Huffington Post report (“Anti-abortion laws take dramatic toll on clinics nationwide”) […]

UPDATE 9/8, 5a: Should’ve thought of this yesterday. Have added a poll asking the weekend question at the bottom of the post.

9/7, 9:20a: Should the United States use force in Syria to stop dictator president Bashar al-Assad from using chemical weapons against his own people, particularly children?

President Obama has made this more than a generalized question on war and death and brought it close to home for anti-abortion Americans by using children as his rationale. Quoting from NBC News:

by Kelli

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• Americans United for Life shares a press release detailing notable pro-life legislative successes this year.
• At ProWomanProLife, Andrea Mrozek discusses why she believes the Pill is still so popular despite it being “anti-feminist”:
  

  I believe it is because it is very much promoted in med schools which look to pharmaceuticals for solutions. Doctors are schooled first, later wined and dined by pharmaceutical companies. They are not schooled or wined and dined by Creighton practitioners, for example.

by LauraLoo When a baby is first born it is one of the most touching and special moments of parents’ lives.  This doctor takes the occasion to the next level by singing Happy Birthday to every single newborn. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5-Z2ZUiIbM[/youtube] What an uplifting and thoughtful sentiment! Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions. [HT: GodTube]

In September 1988, pro-lifers held a mass funeral in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for 1,200 aborted babies found on a medical laboratory loading dock in Northbrook, Illinois. See photo, right.

To mark the 25th anniversary of this solemn occasion, Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, Priests for Life, and the Pro-Life Action League are co-sponsoring a National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children on Saturday, September 14, asking pro-lifers to hold memorial services at 39 grave sites of aborted babies across the country. In addition, services will be held at hundreds of memorial sites dedicated to aborted babies.

 
If you are not ready to be a father, the following arguments may help you convince a girl to get an abortion. The first two methods I describe below have worked for me in separate instances for the two abortions I have paid for….

by Hans Johnson Andy and Sarah Justice, having tried unsuccessfully to conceive in their 3 1/2 years of marriage, considered a fertility specialist but balked at the expense. The Tulsa, Oklahoma couple then turned to adoption through an agency affiliated with a faith-based crisis pregnancy center. They got surprising news when they accompanied the birth mother […]