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The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday on a hearing held June 23 in the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution re: the constitutionality of Roe v. Wade. That these questions are being openly asked and debated in the US Senate is profound....

Dr. Frank forwarded this column, published in Canada's Western Catholic Reporter, June 20. There is no Internet version available:

Embrace the life God offers

By Mark Pickup

Sitting closer to the end of my life than its beginning, I find myself wishing I'd had more children. Deep into the sorrow and pain of progressive multiple sclerosis, it is only Christ and my family that give me any joy and consolation. Christ and my family are all that gives context to my life and suffering now. I wish I'd been more open to the prospect of new life when I was a young husband....

The inference in this comment on Rich Miller's blog...

But now Stanek and her allies have given Madigan a reason to strike back at them. If Speaker Madigan makes life miserable for pro-life forces over the next few years (and I suspect he will) they have no one to blame for Madigan's opposition to them but themselves.

... is that the only way IL pro-lifers can expect to get ahead politically is by smiling sweetly and knowing our place, which is in the corner, where we quietly await any crumbs tossed our way. I'd like to see you hand that line to the unions or the Med Society or Planned Parenthood.

Will Mike Madigan lower his hand of blessing toward pro-lifers if we make waves? Get real. He's too politically smart to demonstrate passive aggression in this case.

IL Democrats/liberals do not operate in a void. The conversations being held nationally as to what to do about pro-lifers (who are no longer being ignored or disparaged, take note) are also being held here.

Not only did IL pro-lifers score huge upsets in the last election (Slone, Welch), but pro-lifers made net gains in both the House and the Senate.

Further, pro-life Dem Grunloh was in large part defeated by pro-life GOPer Reis because Madigan held up Grunloh's Born Alive and Marriage Amendment bills, rendering him impotent and vulnerable on the point of legislative ineffectiveness.

Further, downstate Dems are sick to death of the anti-gun, pro-gay, anti-life, pro-tax agenda being forced down their throats by Chicago Dems. If Mike Madigan does not want a coup on his hands (like GA rural Dems forming a bloc against Atlanta Dems), he has to placate them. Hence, the Born Alive bone this session.

Finally, if Madigan is honestly pro-life, will he let aggravating pro-lifers override his concern over the lives of prenatal children by holding up legislation that would save their lives? If so, then he's not really pro-life.

My, my. Rich Miller's blog readers are easily antagonized. For their responses to my post yesterday about Michael Madigan (and my response to theirs), go here.

Interesting read on RedState.org.

Meanwhile, NY Gov. George Pataki, who also has national aspirations, hasn't indicated whether he'll sign a pedophile thrill pill bill into law (making the morning after pill available over-the-counter, even to young girls) that the NY legislature approved earlier this week. Pataki's reportedly feeling the pressure from both sides.

It's interesting that Pataki's signing is even in question, since he and his wife are card-carrying pro-abort members of the misnamed Republican Majority for Choice. If they're really in the majority, why is Pataki even pausing to mull over his thrill pill bill decision? It should be a no-brainer, like pba.

Operation Rescue West reports that not one but two abortion mills owned by Tammy Sobieski are being closed.

Sobieski's WomanCare abortion clinic in West Palm Beach has been evicted, allegedly because she misrepresented her plans for the site to the owner.

Poor Tammy. She must have been preoccupied trying to cover for her lies, because in addition to that it appears she neglected to renew her lease by June 19 at her Cocoa, FL, location and is being tossed from there as well by an owner who doesn't like the business she's in. She has to be out by August 19.

Hat tip: Operation Rescue West

[Photo credit: Operation Rescue West]

Fox News is currently conducting a poll that asks, "What constitutional amendment do we need most?"

Banning abortion is one of the five options and is currently in first place at 36%.

Go here to vote.

Hat tip: Denise at Ohio Right to Life

Britney Spears released a new single June 14, "Someday (I Will Understand)," a song she wrote to her prenatal baby.

Baby upstages Britney in the music video, stealing every scene in which s/he appears inside Mom's beautiful, 5-months-pregnant belly.

Words to song on page 2.

Reuters reported today:

The most-used Internet site, has shut down all its user-created Internet chat rooms amid concerns that adults were using the sites to try to have sex with minors....

The user-created chat rooms in question, where Internet users converse in real time, had names including "Girls 13 And Under For Older Guys" and "Girls 13 And Up For Much Older Men" and were all listed under "education chat rooms"....

The concern over online safety for children using the Internet has surged with the number of people using the Internet, which allows for anonymous and sometimes hard-to-trace communication and content....

Also surging is the number of men who support minor girls getting contraceptives and abortions without parental consent.

Hat tip: LifeSiteNews.com

This will be interesting only to IL pols:

IL Speaker of the House Michael Madigan was subpoenaed June 17 to give a deposition on what part he played, if any (ha), to stop the Illinois Choose Life license plate legislation last year.

(Side note: Workers at Madigan's law office told the process server he wasn't in. But she smelled a rat and barged into his inner sanctum where - voila! - she spotted him and served him. She said he was unpleasant. Actually, she said he was "arrogant.")

Madigan's daughter, AG Lisa, is fighting the subpoena.

Another legislator who shall remain nameless for the moment is presently dodging and weaving the server.

For backdrop read: "Choose Life, Inc., sues to halt specialty plate distribution," 6-28-04

The cover of the July issue of Good Housekeeping shows former Good Morning America host Joan Lunden showing off her second set of surrogate twins born within two years. At age 54, Lunden was pushing the Brave New World envelope, I thought.

But, instead, pro-lifers should give her kudos. Reported GH....

There is so much to be infuriated about re: yesterday's Associated Press story on the embryo/cloning stem cell conference that opened June 21 in San Francisco. Like men going through mid-life crisis, embryonic stem cell proponents' own own hype has caused panicked insecurity with a public display of impotence and fessing up of the truth. Read for yourself....

Polskie Radio reports today:

14 giant anti-abortion billboards have been put up in the city centre of Lodz in central Poland. All of them abound in drastic scenes, and they are displayed right next to war images [Rwanda, Yugoslavia]. The organizers think it's a good way to appeal to people's conscience.

The audio of the story quotes Marek Chorodniczy of Fronda, a Catholic magazine:

"This exhibition has been prepared in a very clever way. The pictures definitely negate the view of pro-choice circles. They shouldn't be shocked by such pictures. If they treat abortion as a normal thing, I would expect them to look at them as an ornament. However, if it does upset them, they must consider abortion a homicide."

Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL, had this to say about legislation introduced June 21 in both the US House and Senate called "The Parents Right to Know Act," which would require clinics receiving Title X federal funds to notify parents of minors seeking contraception at least five days before writing a prescription:

"Anti-birth control zealots behind this bill are determined to impose their values on others, even if it means more unintended pregnancies and an increased need for abortions."

Is that a threat, Nancy, of increased abortions? Why? If abortions are so physically and psychologically beneficial to women and pose no moral dilemma, why would more abortions in America not be better?

[Quote credit: Ms. magazine's feminist wire daily newsbrief, June 22; photo credit: NARAL]

From Citizen Link, today:

U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback believes a hearing he's holding Thursday on Capitol Hill could eventually lead to the overturning of the Supreme Court's infamous Roe v. Wade decision.

Brownback, R-Kan., will convene the Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights subcommittee to examine the consequences of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, the other 1970s-era Supreme Court decision that helped give America abortion on demand.

"A number of legal scholars both from the left and the right believe that Roe v. Wade is badly decided law, so we're going to start going at the core issue of Roe and this decision," Brownback told CitizenLink. "I believe you'll see Roe v. Wade overturned."

Norma McCorvey (the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade) and Sandra Cano ("Jane Doe" of Doe v. Bolton) are expected to be witnesses at the hearing....

[Photo credit: Reuters]

IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich has Gavin Newsom Syndrome. Newsom is the San Francisco mayor who defied California law and proclaimed gay residents in his city could marry.

Blagojevich, a lawyer who has admitted he surfed during Constitutional Law class, has caught the fiat bug and defied IL law and order twice now.

Last year Blagojevich defied the FDA and set up a plan for IL residents to buy drugs from Canada.

This year Blagojevich defied IL law that clearly states medical professionals are exempted from participating in work they find morally offensive and ordered pharmacists to dispense the morning after pill whether they wanted to or not.

Paul Caprio of FamilyPac has taken the latter issue on, releasing an update yesterday....

Hat tip: Pharmacists for Life

Kathryn Jean Lopez, editor of National Review Online, writes....

Hat tip: Reader Arlene

Related:
"Rapper to premiere pro-life video on MTV," 6-9-05
"Rapper's pro-life video is booming," 6-10-05
"Can I live?", 6-19-05

The Chicago Tribune ran a story on June 20 focused on the incredibly important point: How does the morning after pill work, i.e., is it an abortifacient?

The story had many refreshingly correct components, properly laying out the science of the debate. I was particularly pleased when it pointed out that pro-abortion medical organizations like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say pregnancy does not begin until implantation, which completely undermines their assertion that the morning after pill does not kill a baby.

The Trib just couldn't resist advancing its liberal agenda, however, which was to thrust that some scientists believe the morning after pill does not stop a 5-9 day old embryo from implanting in the uterus. This was evidenced by the headlines used. The front page headline was....

Related:
Pharmacists for Life's "Kemical Killing" links to numerous studies of the modes of action of the morning after pill.

Am picking up on this one late: "Culture of Death - Baby Rowan's Story," by Chuck Colson on Breakpoint, June 9, 2005

New York Times, June 15 [see page two for full article, which is no longer available on the Internet without paying for it]:

Studies Rebut Earlier Report on Pledges of Virginity

Challenging earlier findings, two studies from the Heritage Foundation reported yesterday that young people who took virginity pledges had lower rates of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases and engaged in fewer risky sexual behaviors....

Independent experts called the new findings provocative, but criticized the Heritage team's analysis as flawed and lacking the statistical evidence to back its conclusions....

The authors of the new studies... said their findings contradicted those published in March in The Journal of Adolescent Health by Dr. Peter Bearman, the chairman of the sociology department at Columbia University, and Hannah Brückner of Yale University. The earlier study found that a majority of teenagers who took the pledge did not live up to their promises and developed sexually transmitted diseases about the same rate as adolescents who had not made such pledges. It also found that the promise did tend to delay the start of intercourse by 18 months.

Who were the NY Times' "independent" experts?

The team needs to do "a lot of work" on its paper, said David Landry, a senior research associate at the Alan Guttmacher Institute [research arm of Planned Parenthood]....

Dr. Bearman [author of study being critiqued!] said: "... The use of self-report data for S.T.D.'s is therefore extremely problematic."

Hat tip: Reader Kevin

From yesterday's Herald-Mail Online in Maryland:

When Hagerstown mom Angelique Bowman first spotted the posters of bloody aborted fetuses Monday afternoon as she strolled down West Washington Street holding the hands of her sons Dushion, 2, and Thavies, 5, she was shocked.

"I got a little annoyed because they are so graphic," said Bowman, 28. "I had my kids with me and I didn't expect to see that."

But a few blocks, some conversations with the protesters and a pamphlet later, Bowman said she was convinced that the images were "what it takes" to convey what the protesters call "the truth" about abortion.

"I never realized that this is what it looks like, that it takes so much mutilation," Bowman said.

Reactions such as Bowman's were what members of the Baltimore-based anti-abortion group Defend Life were after when they set up their posters... on either side of the Hagerstown Reproductive Health Services clinic....

Yesterday, The Motley Fool reported:

... But when it comes to [private] investing, it's best to view the subject [of embryonic stem cell research] with as much detachment as possible....

Sure, federal support may increase the chances that embryonic stem cells will yield novel treatments. But the path to success is still likely to be peppered with setbacks and failures over a period of years and at a cost of millions, if not billions, of dollars. Federal investment is not a magic wand that will produce cures overnight.

Further, even if national legislation does fail, as seems likely, public investment in embryonic stem cell research will increase substantially anyway. California voters approved a referendum that will allocate $3 billion in state funding over 10 years to the field, and New Jersey is considering spending hundreds of millions on stem cell research and a research center at Rutgers University.

Despite the promise suggested by early studies, embryonic stem cell research remains highly speculative. More concrete results, not the amount of cash being poured into research, are the best basis for investing decisions.

PalmBeachPost.com reports today:

Randall Terry, the anti-abortion activist who was a prominent voice in the losing battle to keep Terri Schiavo alive, said Tuesday he's going ahead with a Republican primary challenge of state Sen. Jim King in northeast Florida.

King drew the ire of social conservatives this year when he and eight other Republican senators blocked legislation that aimed to reconnect Schiavo's feeding tube....

Terry founded the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue in the 1980s but has since parted ways with the organization. He has lived in Ponte Vedra Beach since 2003.

[Photo, courtesy of ChristianWireService.com, is of Terry, Bob Schindler, and Bobby Schindler.]

KaiserNetwork.org reports today that the pro-abortion American Medical Association passed a resolution yesterday at its annual meeting "saying pharmacists should be required to fill all valid prescriptions or refer patients to another pharmacy or pharmacist immediately."

So much for choice.

LifeSiteNews.com says the AMA action is "target[ing] Catholic and pro-life pharmacists for extinction."

Reuters reported, "[T]he AMA included in its resolution a statement that it may seek to gain permission for doctors to dispense medications to their own patients if there is no other pharmacist within a 30-mile radius willing to fill their prescription."

The "may" is critical, meaning this likely won't pan out. There has been no long term testing conducted on the impact of these mega-doses of hormones on underage girls and women, and the AMA knows it. Is "willfully ignorant dispensing of medications" sueable for malpractice? We'll likely someday see.

Stem cells are the future of medicine, so private investers will indeed sink money into stem cell research they believe will pay off. Witness a report in the June 27 issue of Business Week :

Doctors, patients, and quite a few investors are counting on ViaCell to unlock the therapeutic promise of umbilical cord stem cells. These have been used, on a small scale, to treat more than 30 different diseases. Now ViaCell would like to make such cells available on a much larger scale. Backed by a $20 million partnership with biotech giant Amgen Inc., it has launched clinical trials to test whether doctors could use its specially-prepared cells in transplant procedures, instead of bone marrow. And a big boost could come from Washington, which is weighing laws to fund a national storage system for cord blood, currently in short supply.

What? You hadn't heard about a federal funding proposal that would aid umbilical cord stem cell research? All you've heard is that evil extremists are basically sentencing diabetic children and Michael Fox to death by banning embryonic stem cell research? Read on:

On May 24, the House of Representatives passed a bill that proposes a federally funded system for storing umbilical cord blood. The bill got little attention because on the same day, the House also passed legislation that aims to free up federal funds for embryonic stem-cell research -- touching off a storm of controversy and a veto threat from President Bush. Amid the din, [ViaCell CEO Marc] Beer was quietly cheering the umbilical cord bill. "It's a great validation," the CEO says. "It's a shame no one heard about it." If positive news on cord stem cells continues, doctors, patients, and investors will be all ears.

... although I expect MSM will cover theirs.

Hat tip: Reader MQuinn

From today's Electric New Paper, Singapore:

Australian movie stars, sportsmen and entrepreneurs alike are shelling out A$40,000 ($52,000) a pop for stem-cell treatment in China.

The controversial process is illegal Down Under, so they are queuing up for this 'fountain-of-youth' treatment overseas....

The radical procedure that uses fertilised eggs harvested from genetically-perfect female Chinese donors is said to wind back the clock on a range of diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, arthritis and chronic fatigue [emphasis mine].

How quickly the embryonic stem cell industry is morphing women into human hens. Where are the feminists?

11:55 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT:

... And for the good of our legal system, I will also continue to nominate federal judges who faithfully interpret the law and do not legislate from the bench. Every judicial nominee deserves an up or down vote on the floor of the United States Senate, and I thank you for your strong support of the fair-minded jurists I have named to the federal courts.

Building a more compassionate society also depends on building a culture of life. A compassionate society protects and defends its most vulnerable members at every stage of life. A compassionate society supports the principles of ethical science. When we seek to improve human life, we must always preserve human dignity, so that's why we stand against cloning. A compassionate society rejects partial-birth abortion. And I signed a law to end that brutal practice and my administration will continue working to defend that law. To advance a culture of life, I was proud to sign the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.

A compassionate society will not sanction the creation of life only to destroy it. At the White House I recently met with 21 remarkable families, each of whom either adopted or gave up for adoption frozen embryos that remained after fertility treatments. The children I met confirm our shared belief that America can pursue the tremendous possibilities of science and at the same time remain an ethical and compassionate society. With your continued dedication and work, we will continue building a culture of life in America, and America will be better off for it.

The photo, left, is of a reporter holding a dead puppy and was posted in the June 18 Roanoke-Chowan News Herald, accompanying an expose that two PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) workers who were caught killing dogs and cats and throwing them in dumpsters.

Why do you think the newspaper posted a photo of a dead animal pulled from a dumpster?

When viewing the photo, were you disgusted by the vicious act committed against helpless animals, and their gross disposal, or were you disgusted by the photographer?

What about an analagous photo of a baby killed by abortion?

In its report, Pilot 13 News wouldn't show video of the dead animals, but it did show the dumpsters and the animals' remains in garbage bags. Would that Pilot 13 News cared as much about the disposal of dead aborted babies.

Hat tip: www.PETAkillsanimals.com

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin began her June 17 screed against pro-lifers by quoting from Jesus' "judge not lest ye be judged" speech in Matthew 7:1-5.

Marin was ticked that the American Life League publicly called Catholic Church leadership into account for handing pseudo-Catholic US Sen. Dick Durbin his communion wafer on Sunday after he voted against the partial birth abortion ban the Friday before... and the Unborn Victims of Violence Act the Friday before that... etc., etc., etc. ALL took out a full-page ad in the June 16 Sun-Times.

Fellow CWA-er Mary Lynn Ferkaluk has submitted a great rebuttal to Marin's piece, which follows.

Related:
"How the most misquoted Bible verse is destroying America," 6-20-05

[Photo is of Carol Marin from the Chicago Sun-Times website.]

In his piece yesterday, "Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up (For Something)?", op ed writer Doug Wrenn called MA governor and potential '08 presidential candidate Mitt Romney into account for waffling on the pro-life issue.

I'm not ready to discard Romney, because he recently took a strong and unpopular stand against embryonic stem cell research. He may be honestly transitioning from "privately pro-life" politician to one who is publicly pro-life, and if so, he needs pro-life support and encouragement.

But if the aforementioned is true, Romney needs to grow cahones, and quickly. Gullible pro-lifers are entities of the past. We will no longer accept crumbs and placations.

Wrenn stated:

[A] former Connecticut Republican state representative once told me that even pro-life Republicans soon become 'pro-choice,' or at least, very silent, because that is the only way that they can supposedly get elected and continue to get elected in Connecticut. This person told me that the pressure from so called 'pro-choice' groups in the state's capitol in Hartford creates a stifling pressure and that the pro-life groups supposedly do not give enough support to elected officials who agree with their cause, so the pro-life politicians soon quietly capitulate to the perceived pro-choice majority [emphasis mine].

Three points: 1) pro-aborts are and will always be loud bullies; 2) just because pro-aborts are loud does not mean they are in the majority - they are not; and 3) some of the blame for political wimps and capitulators rests on pro-life shoulders for not giving proper support.

A June 17 Associated Press story - about a bill making its way through the WI Assembly that would ban University of WI health clinics from dispensing or advertising the morning after pill - stated this:

The morning-after pill, a heavy dosage of hormonal birth control, can work to prevent a pregnancy up to five days after unprotected sex by preventing ovulation or fertilization.

Since the reason pro-lifers oppose MAP is because it may cause early abortions, you'd think the AP would get that critical point right. But investigative reporting is reserved only for those times it might work against conservatives.

If the AP spent five minutes looking into this, it would discover that although MAP makers deny the MAP aborts, they confess:

From Plan B MAP website: "Plan B is believed to act as an emergency contraceptive principally by preventing ovulation or fertilization (by altering tubal transport of sperm and/or ova). In addition, it may inhibit implantation by altering the endometrium" [emphasis mine].

Implantation of what? The embryo. Into what? The uterus.

It takes 5-9 days after fertilization for an embryo to implant in the uterus. Since the 1970s, the pro-abort American Medical Association and Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists both state pregnancy does not begin until implantation, which is how pro-aborts deceive mothers to think they are not killing their babies when using birth control pills or the morning after pill.

Semantics aside, the embryo is living inside his or her mother during the 5-9 days before s/he implants in the uterus - whether or not pro-aborts say she is pregnant. (See Nova Online 6-minute video, "The first two weeks" to view the miracle of the implantation process. Note the "nonpregnant" woman is called a mother.)

FYI, AP, MAPs may cause week-old embryos to die.

Our DC source reminds us that the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is on Capitol Hill this week using children to try to "guilt" funding for human embryonic stem cell experimentation.

We in IL observed one such lobby day this year when parents of diabetic children shamelessly checked their blood sugar in the hall outside legislative chambers to garner sympathy.

We now learn that all JDRF children lobbyists and/or guardians must sign a loyalty oath before being allowed to lobby. It is posted on their website and states:

By signing below, I also indicate my understanding that... if there is discussion of such controversial topics as embryonic stem cell research, I will either embrace the JDRF legislative position on such topics or will not work against the JDRF position

Our source translates to legislators: "This pledge means that all the children with diabetes who also have moral problems with killing human embryos for research are screened out by JDRF before they come to meet with your offices. So please keep in mind when meeting with them that JDRF has selected these children and their families based on their loyalty to promoting embryo-destructive research."

Ohio's Advertiser-Tribune.com editorial board draws stem cell ethics into its well-written opposition of public-funded ESCR today. Read the entirety for yourself, but here's the open and close:

Politicians often prefer to delve into an issue that pulls heartstrings rather than engage in the often harder, much less glamorous work of doing things like building fiscally responsible budgets. So now we have congressional Republicans, who seem to have forgotten that voters put them in the majority to get busy on issues such as tax and entitlement reform, wandering into a needless confrontation with their own president over federal subsidies for morally perilous stem cell research.

A casual observer could be forgiven for believing that the future of such research hinges on federal funding, or for believing that the debate is between "scientific progress" and flat-earthers. For that is how the issue is cast by the Beltway media hoard. The stem cell research lobby is more than happy to capitalize on well-intentioned emotional pleas for research funding, for the focus on the emotive handily distracts from what is really a classic effort to extract subsidies from taxpayers for things the private sector can do itself. It would be wrong to ignore the moral peril involved in stem-cell research....

Meanwhile, private industry, which stands to reap huge financial rewards if stem cell research results in the development of new treatments for particularly dreaded diseases, has invested millions in research and is doing just fine without help from the government. That research will continue, with or without the fat subsidies proposed on Capitol Hill.

In 2005, Kansas pro-abort Gov. Kathleen Sebelius vetoed a bill that would regulate abortion mills, saying that all doctor offices should be regulated.

But Kathy Ostrowski of Kansans for Life wonders if anyone has had the following experiences in other doctors' offices?

• Have you ever called for a doctor appointment and were told certain days were "sale days"?

• Have you ever made a doctor appointment and were told to bring a friend along with you to your appointment to monitor your surgery recovery instead of any medical staff?

• Have you ever entered a doctor's office that didn't have any identifying sign and the front door deceitfully bore the name of a construction business?

• Have you ever entered a medical facility and a handwritten note was posted telling you to guard your valuables?

• Have you ever entered a medical facility with a dead rodent on the floor in plain view?

• Have you ever entered a surgical suite that had equipment set up on the floor instead of a counter?

• Have you ever entered a surgical suite where picnic tablecloths covered equipment and there was no disposable covering on the exam bed?

• Have you ever entered a surgical suite that was carpeted?

• Have you ever been in a medical facility where there the staff had no medical training and hadn't undergone criminal background checks?

• Have you ever been injected by a physician or (nonmedically trained) attendant who used a pre-filled, unlabeled syringe instead of filling the syringe in front of you?

• Have you gone to the bathroom at a doctor's office and the toilet was stained with blood?

• Have you ever seen a specialist who had never studied the medical specialty he was performing?

• Have you ever been treated by a physician who kept emergency equipment locked in a closet and was not certified to give advanced CPR?

• Have you begun a gynecological procedure by pulling your pants down instead of removing your clothes and donning a gown?

• Have you ever spent your recovery time on a dirty couch without medical staff or monitoring machines?

• Have you ever been sent home from the doctor's office with verbal instructions to take unidentified pills in an unmarked envelope?

No, Kansas does not need abortion clinic regulations.

[All of the above outrages were experienced at Krishna Rajanna's abortion mill. Documentation for these conditions is available through KFL/Topeka office, www.topeka@kfl.org, phone 785-234-2998.]

The opening paragraph of June 18's Flint Journal story breathlessly reported: "The reaction didn't get violent as it did last year, but emotions clearly were running high as people viewed graphic photos of aborted fetuses exhibited by an anti-abortion group at several local stops Friday."

Then quoted were a "sobbing" woman and a woman who had miscarried, both distraught by the photos.

It wasn't until paragraph 5 did the reporter reveal that last year's "violence" was at the hand of an angry, white pro-abort woman who "was so incensed by the posters that she drove her car over a curb and wrestled the group's leader, the Rev. Matt Trewhella, to the sidewalk.... Amanda Crim of Davison later pleaded guilty to assault and battery in Flint District Court."

[Photo credit of car over curve, August 2004: Missionaries to the Preborn]

WorldNetDaily.com ran another headline story today on the alleged fetus-eating abortionist in Kansas.

It turns out it that fetal cannibalism is legal in Kansas, drawing attention to the need to outlaw it, perhaps also in other states. There is more than just the obvious reason to consider such a law. It would also:

1) add to the stigma against abortion/abortionists (since the example would be the alleged cannibalistic act by an abortionist)

2) further humanize embryos/fetuses to the American mind.

3) add one more law that equates preborn humans with postborn humans - toward the eventual collapse of Roe v. Wade

I can't believe this is a topic we have to cover, but yet I can believe it.

Related:
"Fetus eater loses medical license," 6-12-05
"New WND.com column, 'Fetus eater loses medical license," 6-15-05
"More on cannibal abortionist and KS health board that enabled him," 6-15-05
"More photos from fetus-eating Rajanna's abortion mill," 6-17-05
"'Dirty,' 'unkempt,' 'dangerous,' alleged 'cannibal' abortionist to appeal license revocation," 6-18-05

Rapper Nick Cannon is offering t-shirts just like he and the kids wore in the video for his pro-life hit, "Can I live?"

Hat tip: Caron Strong of Operation Outcry

Related:
"Rapper to premiere pro-life video on MTV," 6-9-05
"Rapper's pro-life video is booming," 6-10-05

Thursday, the University of Western Ontario gave an honorary degree to 82-year-old abortionist Henry Morgentaler, owner of eight abortion mills, despite a petition drive that collected 12,000 names in protest (plus 10,000 in support) and a withdrawal of at least $2 million in bequests.

A pro-abort defender of Mongentaler's receipt of the honor noted "the largest ever turnout of faculty for a Convocation event."

Apparently some faculty won't give up personal time to honor graduating students but will to honor an abortionist. Neither could faculty on the honorary awards committee find any more deserving a recipient.

BTW, Morgentaler is a Nazi death camp survivor... turned proprietor.

The Discovery Health Channel will air "14 children and pregnant again!" tonight for the last time in June.

Incredibly, the channel promo reads:

The Duggars are letting God dictate how many children they have and, with nine boys, five girls, and one on the way, Jim Bob and Michelle feel blessed many times over! Find out how the Duggars coordinate a household that would challenge any manager.

Reports Right.Girl, who saw the show last night:

It was a GREAT hour. It covered all of the supposed problems with raising a large family. They answered every issue one by one and proved each issue on film. Absolutely AMAZING this family is - the way they budget, the way they shop, they way they practice the "buddy system" - each older child has a "little buddy" under their care that they are responsible to dress, watch, etc. - awesome, they way they show the utmost respect for each other and their parents, and so much more. I was amazed at these kids. They are all perfect little ladies and gentlemen. You have GOT to see this show. I am just amazed!

Hat tip: Dr. Frank

A source tells me radio's Rusty Humphries said on the air Thursday night that he spoke with someone at the Kansas City district attorney's office and asked why wasn't the cannibal abortionist arrested for eating aborted fetuses?

The response: It's not illegal.

The Associated Press and Kansas City Star report that abortionist Krishna Rajanna plans to appeal the Kansas Board of Healing Arts unanimouos decision to yank his medical license after determining he was a "danger."

Note that KCS reporter Dawn Bormann spent one short paragraph capsulizing the reason for Rajanna's license revocation ("dead mouse in the clinic hallway, filled syringes in an unlocked refrigerator, carpet in a surgical area and a facility that was generally unkempt" - um, Dawn, what about fetuses in the freezer?) but TEN paragraphs trying to exonerate Rajanna of the most heinous accusation - of eating aborted fetuses - that she mentioned "resurfaced in Internet news reports" (here, here, and here).

George Neumayr of The American Spectator began his commentary today on Durbin, the Democrats, Schiavo, and Guantanamo with this:

If Terri Schiavo had been dehydrated to death at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Dick Durbin would be reading her autopsy report from the Senate floor. It would be an occasion for great moral anguish. How did the U.S. sink so low as to adopt such Nazi-like callousness toward disabled prisoners of war? one could imagine him saying. Instead, Democrats -- even as they spent part of the week crassly celebrating, with news of Schiavo's autopsy report in hand, the human rights abuse of euthanasia against the disabled -- are in a moral lather over the paucity of proper air conditioning terrorists receive at Guantanamo Bay.

Hat tip: Matt Abbott

Click here to see the full-page ad American Life League took out in yesterday's Chicago Sun-Times, in conjunction with the first day of the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops' spring meeting being held in Chicago.

The ad drew the ire of liberal Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin who - surprise! - also doesn't think Durbin should apologize for his "American-soldiers-are-comparable-to-Nazis" remark earlier this week.

Well, this is honest art work, accompanying yesterday's cover story in Pitch.com, "Mm, Mm Good: Startling allegations against an abortion doctor have been the centerpiece of two years of legislative warfare in Kansas." Maybe it will give fence-sitting "pro-choicers" pause to rethink.

The news org is left-wing, but the piece is mostly accurate, says Kathy Ostrowski, Legislative Research Director of Kansans for Life.

Kathy Ostrowski from Kansans for Life has provided more photos, below, taken by an informant in August 2003 inside abortionist Krishna Rajanna's mill.

Incredibly, the Kansas Board of Healing Arts had these photos in their possession for a year before taking action against Rajanna. See yesterday's WorldNetDaily.com headline story, "Regulators dragged feet on 'cannibal abortionist': Activist group first provided grisly photos of clinic nearly 2 years ago."

Rajanna's "recovery room"

Why was a food processor in Rajanna's utility room?

Fetuses in the Freezer

Rajanna shopped at Price Chopper. How appropriate.

World Magazine's June 18 issue contains an incredible expose by Lynn Vincent entitled, "Death by drowning," adding one more woe to abortionist George Tiller's growing list of killer legal headaches.

Vincent brings forth evidence that Tiller may be covering up live birth abortions at his mill - i.e., snuffing babies - in violation of the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

Tiller is already being investigated for allegedly not reporting suspected sexual abuse of underage girls who abort at his Women's Healthcare Services in Wichita, KS. And he's being investigated for potentially illegally aborting late term neonatal babies.

Now add postborn baby murder to the list.

Related articles:

"Rowan's story: Mother tells how clinic workers left her born-alive infant to die," World Magazine, 5-7-05

"Labor and delivery: A gruesome Florida abortion saga reveals sordid—and possibly illegal—practices in late-term procedures," World Magazine, 5-28-05

From DC source:

A short while ago Dr. Weldon offered an amendment to cut off National Institutes of Health funds to any entity involved in human cloning, and the amendment failed by a vote of 29-36.

If the researchers who are tirelessly working in the US right now to clone humans are somehow successful in the next few months or year, these are the names you need to remember. Those who voted against the Weldon Amendment are responsible.

Dr. Weldon and his staff are heroes for leading the charge. They have been working tirelessly for weeks on this and have endured incredible attacks and pressure. Even with all the attacks and threats of future penalties, Dr. Weldon was willing to do this for the cause, and for that he deserves a huge amount of credit. Reps. Wicker and Wamp also gave outstanding speeches in favor of the Weldon Amendment.

Votes follow....

FYI, I'll be on the Blanquita Cullom radio show this afternoon at 1:20p CST to discuss my "Fetus eater" column. The show can be heard live on the Internet.

Later I'll be visiting with Al Kresta of Ave Maria Radio in person at the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops conference in Chicago. I'll be on at 4:30p CST going over the Christ Hospital story. The show can be heard live on the Internet.

Here's a bite from President Bush's speech at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast this morning, with Congressmen Nancy Pelosi (pro-abort Democrat), Chris Cannon (pro-life Republican), Hilda Solis (pro-abort Democrat), Rahm Emanuel (pro-abort Democrat), and Luis Fortuno (pro-life Republican) also in attendance:

For Hispanic Americans, a love of neighbor is more than a gospel command -- it's a way of life. We see the love of neighbor in the strong commitment of Hispanic Americans to family and the culture of life. For Hispanic Americans, families are a source of joy and the foundation of a hopeful society. We're working to support and defend the sanctity of marriage and to ensure that the most vulnerable Americans are welcomed in life and protected in love. (Applause.)....

Many in the Hispanic community understand that by serving the least of -- nuestros hermanos y hermanas -- that we're serving a cause greater than ourselves.

By my count, this makes the third lawsuit filed by pro-family groups against the CA embryonic stem cell initiative.

Kaiser Network reported yesterday that the National Association for the Advancement of Preborn Children has filed suit against the new law saying it violates an embryo's constitutional rights and freedom from slavery.

Although naysayers indicate the lawsuit has little chance, the Chicken Little San Francisco Examiner warns a successful lawsuit "could end the whole practice of in vitro fertilization because of the liabilities surrounding 'murdering' an embryo or violating its rights," and "granting independent personhood to an embryo could nullify Roe v. Wade.

We can only hope.

Hat tip: IFRL News

Related:
"CA embryonic stem cell initiative: dying in the petri dish," 6-7-05

New Hampshire is a small red jewel in a bauble of eastern liberal blues. If pro-abort Republican Senate prez Tom Eaton and "pro-choice champion" Republican House conferee Rep. Liz Hager want to keep it that way, they had better resist their losing political leanings and battle off the abortion industry mob, which is "up in arms" to restore $550,000 (31% cut) state legislators cut from the budget for "family planning clinics."

According to The New Hampshire Union Leader , Planned Parenthood is threatening that this action could close "at least" one clinic. Is that really a threat?

A Stanford University press release today, advertising an upcoming "first time ever"(!) "advanced"(!) training program on creating and maintaining embryonic stem cell lines, used the seldom used "prospects grim" sales approach:

[I]t isn't as simple as just buying the [embryonic stem] cells and launching a new research program. The cells are in limited supply and are notoriously difficult to maintain in a lab. They can't be frozen easily, they are sickly, they quickly form new cell types rather than remaining as stem cells and the cell population changes over time.

Elsewhere the release calls embryonic cells "persnickety," making them sound like rambunctious little children. Wait, they are.

So what's the obsessive attraction to ESCs? It can only be Stem Cell Delirium in conjunction with Mad Hype Disease.

JivinJehoshaphat cuts to the chase of Terri Schiavo's 39-page autopsy report and posts what we care about: whether she was in a persistent vegetative state (supposedly), if she felt pain (supposedly not), and how she died (duh).

A Socialist Work Online column defending Gerardo Flores' right to stomp his prenatal babies to death closes with this double-wincer:

Now, two teenagers' lives are destroyed--because Texas politicians wanted to score another hit against a woman's right to control her own body.

Related:
"Abortionist convicted of murder - why?"
"They named their twins - after killing them"

Kansans for Life was instrumental in bringing abortionist Krishna Rajanna to his too slow justice, and KFL has provided additional inside info. (See WorldNetDaily.com news article "Abortionist accused
of eating fetuses - Kansas City clinic closed as grisly house of horrors" and my column, "'Fetus eater' loses medical license" for backdrop.)

Reports KFL:

KFL is responsible for shining the light on the state's coddling of abortionist Krishna Rajanna. We alerted the public (and physicians) to the shameful way the Kansas Board of Healing Arts does not aggressively protect women in abortion clinics.

Legislative Research Director Kathy Ostrowski first met with the informant in August 2003, interviewed her, and gave her contact information. We assumed state agencies were conducting investigations.

When preparing testimony for the abortion clinic licensure bill in February 2004, Kathy was shocked to find out...

I said yesterday that MSM's pro-embryonic stem cell stories usually contain incredible, minimized truths for the beholding eye. Here are a few in a Houston Chronicle article today, entitled, "South Korean will urge research into customized tissue for patients (bold emphases mine)....

MSM does its best to slant almost every news story in favor of embryonic stem cell research, or at least not against it. But in the interest of "fairness," it is forced to quickly type - in teeny-tiny font size - little truths in the midst of its spin, expecting people not to notice. Most don't. But these embryonic truths are indeed buried in most stem cell stories, for the discerning eye to spot.

Such as today....

Rapper Nick Cannon's pro-life music video is getting considerable play on Black Entertainment Television. In fact, "Can I Live?" just came in #2 in the video countdown of most popular videos aired on BET! (It was to play on MTV's Total Request Live yesterday, but I didn't spot it.)

The song has an incredibly well presented pro-life message and speaks to young people in a format they respect. The link I gave yesterday wasn't as good as this one: http://www.nickcannonmusic.com/index_main.html Click on "watch the video."

Hey, all you pro-life rappers out there - wanna request BET and MTV to play the video? Go to these links....

(Photo credit: AP)

The Washington Times reported yesterday:

Of President Bush's nearly 50 threats to Congress about vetoing legislation, only 17 contained explicit language that the president "will" wield his veto pen.

Nearly all of those "will veto" warnings were for legislation involving what Mr. Bush has called "the culture of life," such as the stem-cell research bill that passed the House this month....

Andy Schlafly has written a warning against one potential Supreme Court nominee, Michael W. McConnell, a former Bush nominee who was sworn in as 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge on January 3, 2003

Andy writes in his piece, "McConnell: A New Type of Souter":

Judge Michael McConnell is shaping up to be the next David Souter, the notorious Supreme Court nominee of the first President Bush who betrayed Bush's supporters.

History is repeating itself with the recent pressure on Bush to appoint Judge McConnell to the Supreme Court. Unlike Justice Souter, McConnell has written voluminously and his backers claim those writings prove him to be conservative....

Tonight, the Senate confirmed the following circuit court nominees:

1. Bill Pryor (11th Circuit): 53-45-2
Democrats voting for: Nelson (NE) and Salazar
Republicans voting against: Chafee, Snowe, and Collins
Not voting: Jeffords and Murkowski

2. Richard Griffin (6th Circuit): 95-0

3. David McKeague (6th Circuit): 96-0

Blogger JivinJehoshaphat says, "According to Nick Cannon's official fan club site his prolife music video 'Can I Live' will appear on MTV's Total Request Live today. It's a true story about how his mother wanted to abort him, but ended up choosing life."

The video is viewable on Cannon's site. It's excellent.

My column today reveals that anti-lifers are trying to use our own terminology against us. How fun! How full circle!

Read "The anti-life name game" on WorldNetDaily.com.

The walls appear to be closing in on abortionist George "Tiller the Killer," owner and proprietor of Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas. If so, thanks will incredibly go in part to the uber-liberal LA Times, as reported tonight by Bill O'Reilly....

Frist's office reports, "The nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals was approved by a vote of 56-43-1. All Republicans voted for Brown, plus Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE). Sen. Chafee did not vote."

5:25p correction: Sen. Jeffords did not vote for Brown. Sen. Chafee voted aye with all 55 Republicans.

An anti-ESCR commentary in today's Washington Times includes this nugget:

Weldon said some researchers have a selfish motive for focusing on embryonic stem cells. "If you developed a highly successful intervention for treating sickle cell anemia with cord blood, that is not really a patentable intervention under our current laws," Mr. Weldon explained. But, he noted, someone who developed the same treatment with embryonic stem cells would become a millionaire.

Caron Strong, director of Operation Outcry, recommends reading "No, I will not help you get an abortion," by Dr. Samuel Nigro, from the Spring 2005 issue of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons.

Brad Mattes, Executive Director of Life Issues Institute, suggests perusing "Life in Post-Roe America" by Thomas Glessner. Glessner presents a likely scenario leading up to and directly following the day when Roe v. Wade is overturned.

Glessner is president of National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, which provides legal assistance to pregnancy help centers, so I understand his perspective for stating:

The starting place for state and local leaders to begin this task [building the culture of life] is to support the work of the pro-life pregnancy help centers in their communities.

I would add that other components are critical as well, such as political involvement and activism.

Reasoned Audacity posts links today to pro-aborts willing to argue that stomped-sons killer Geraldo Flores (see posting below) should not have been convicted for their deaths.

Also, Deacon Keith Fournier wrote a good piece on this, forwarded to me by Dr. Frank, which includes this practical advice for pro-lifers....

NBC5.com reported today that 19-year-old Gerardo Flores was convicted yesterday in Lufkin, Texas, of two counts of murder for stomping on the stomach of his girlfriend, causing her to miscarry twins. [Photo, left, is mug shot taken at Angelina County Jail]

Erica Basoria was 16-years-old at the time, and asked Flores to help her abort. She was not charged due to her legal right to abort. [Photo, right, is from Lufkin High School yearbook.]

Flores received an automatic life sentence.

I wonder, why? He was just committing an abortion.

Japan Today reports today:

Italians will be asked to vote on Sunday on whether to jettison articles of a law which give embryos the same rights as born children, limit access to fertility treatment to "stable heterosexual couples," restrict to three the number of eggs that can be harvested and fertilized at any one time, and end the ban on embryo research.

The law, passed just a year ago, is being fought by women's rights groups through a referendum. The article concludes:

Italian bishops have called on Catholics to boycott the vote as turnout must exceed 50% in order for the referendum to succeed.

Last month [Pope] Benedict praised the commitment of Italian bishops in their opposition to the relaxation of the law.

If Italian Catholics can't stop something like this, then Rome has become the shoemaker's wife.

On Sunday, June 5, Gov. Rick Perry (R) signed the Texas Parental Consent Bill into law at Calvary Christian Academy in Ft. Worth. A friend was there and wrote details on the event....

Wired News reported June 5 that rifts over money and conflict of interest "threatens to hinder the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine even before it awards its first grant."

Voters approved the $3 billion initiative ($6 billion after paying off loans) last November, but almost immediately it ran into trouble. Lawsuits were filed, and grants were halted. Forbes reported in February...

In response to my WND column last week - discussing GOP House pointless passage on an embryonic kill bill (thereby betraying the base of the party and the President) - blogger Obiter Dictum complained yesterday that pro-lifers against ESCR are actually anti-life.

She directly implied that pro-aborts like Mark Kirk - a previously untouchable Republican golden boy because of his naval service - is pro-life for his support of ESCR, stating, "Two weeks ago, these [Kirk, Judy Biggert] and other solons took the ultimate pro-life stand: passing HR810 (aka "the stem cell research bill") by a 238-194 margin."

As Isaiah 5:20 says....

Until public pressure apparently forced her, Orange County (FL) Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Jan Garavaglia refused for several weeks to autopsy a baby (pictured right) who was reported aborted alive by his mother on April 6 at Orlando's EPOC abortion mill.

Finally on April 27, after the incident made the papers, Garavaglia conducted an autopsy that found "no air... in the lungs" and concluded, "Forensically, there was no evidence that the fetus was born alive."

Now we learn that the father of the abortionist in question, Harry Perper, is 72-year-old Dr. Joshua Perper, who is downstate Broward County's chief medical examiner.

The elder Perper likely had no influence on Garavaglia's footdragging.

The elder Perper likely had no influence on Garavaglia's findings, which required quite the medical leap. (Does she draw the same conclusion when autopsying a dead person with a plastic bag over her/his head - that the person never lived?)

But this sure smells funny.... although perhaps I'm paranoid because I live near Chicago....

When commenting on the FL botched abortion post yesterday, Pat L., of Bucks Co. (PA) Pro-Life Coalition, reminded us of KS abortionist Tiller the Killer's botch last week, which Operation Rescue West documented.

ORW also documented (with photos) Tiller's January killing of Anna, a 19-year-old girl from TX with Down syndrome, therefore the victim of sexual assault, which would have been covered up if not for the fact that Tiller killed her.

(The above photo of Tiller and wife Jeanne is from the 2003 Reformation Lutheran Church directory, of Wichita. The church is part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America denomination, which is pro-abortion, and thus a fit place for Tiller to "worship.")

Pro-life journalist Matt Abbott spotlighted new Operation Outcry director Caron Strong (photo right) yesterday for RenewAmerica.us.

Caron, who is post-abortive, said this in Matt's piece: "We are to love the woman considering abortion as well as the post-abortive woman. We are to love that woman even as she walks into the abortionist's door."

Some pro-lifers believe that to support abortion clinic regulations is to condone abortion. I disagree. First, clinic regs are proven abortion mill door-shutters, since mills are all about $ and not about cleanliness and safety. Second, since we know the aforementioned, do we want the mothers to die along with their babies? What if we're talking about our teenage neighbor... or our sister?

To digress, Matt (photo left) deserves his own moment in the spotlight. He has been an activist in the movement for many years. Matt is known for getting more letters to the editor published than anyone I know. He does it by keeping his points pithy - one to two sentence zingers.

National Right to Life national convention, June 16-18, Minneapolis, MN

Operation Save America national convention, July 16-23, Denver, CO

Generations for Life (subsidiary of Pro-Life Action League) youth leadership conference, October 22, Chicago, IL

I'm surprised CBS News 4 out of Miami/Ft. Lauderdale included this tidbit in its piece on Gov. Jeb Bush's signing last week of a law regulating Florida's abortion mills:

One supporter on hand for Tuesday's signing was Dr. Randy Armstrong, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Hillsborough County who provides emergency room coverage at University Community Hospital.

Armstrong, who does not perform abortions (JLS comment: if abortions aren't bad, why note that?), said he has seen "and continues to see" the problems that result from lack of regulations of abortion clinics. In the last six months of 2004, nearly three dozen women were admitted into the hospital because of complications from second-trimester abortions.

Yesterday in Virginia the 4th U.S. district court of appeals overturned a law passed in 2003 banning partial birth abortions.

Meanwhile, in Mississippi, a U.S. district court judge ruled that a law passed there in 2004 requiring that late term abortions be committed in hospitals and surgical clinics is unconstitutional. The judge determined that access trumped safety.

Do you see the importance of electing conservative judges? Everywhere, activist judges are scrapping common-sense abortion laws and regulations passed by the people and their representatives. Pro-aborts are only able to sustain their evil trade through the courts.

I point out in today's WND.com column that GOP House and Senate rifts and betrayals all revolve around the issue of life. Read "The big blink" exclusively on WorldNetDaily.com.

MA Gov. Mitt Romney is to be commended for standing against embryonic stem cell experimentation (even though he failed). Yet, as this June 2 AP article reveals, Romney and other politicians who are "personally pro-life" yet publicly pro-abortion are increasingly running out of wiggle room. While pro-lifers have been exerting greater pressure for these political schiophrenics to match their walk with their talk, nervous pro-aborts now apparently want their talk to match their walk. I say, bravo. Let's get them off the fence either way.

LifeNews.com posted short bios earlier this week of the eight potential Supreme Court nominees whose names are most often bandied about, all of whom sound good.

Meanwhile, NARAL sent out a Supreme Court e-alert warning to its "Gen Pro-Choice" list today (with the slogan, "not just your mother's pro-choice movement")....

.... first asking its apparently minds-filled-with-mush young recipients to vote for one of these Supreme candidates: Cartman from Southpark, Paris Hilton, Darth Vader, the cast of O.C., or Wonkette (popular sex-crazed liberal blogger).

Then, in response to a fake letter to the editor asking if it will really matter to protest President Bush's SC pick, "Ask Genny" says:

This might be ancient history, or maybe you know where this is going...

Robert Bork was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1987. He was super-conservative and staunchly anti-choice. And let's not forget that he had the support of an incredibly popular president at the time -- Ronald Reagan. But when it came to a vote on him in the U.S. Senate, he was trounced in a BI-PARTISAN 58-42 vote. Why? Lots of reasons, but high on the list was public outcry. You do not want to be at the dinner table with my Mom when his name comes up. She will bend your ear for hours about how hard she and a whole lot of others worked to stop him from getting on the Court. And may I remind you: this was before the internet was there to help (emphasis theirs).

President Bush, the nominee, and Senate Republicans had better stock up on Bepto-Bismol to stomach what's coming, although seven Senate GOPers already demonstrated they didn't have the stamina for a lesser challenge.