Perhaps inspired by the determination of Operation Rescue leaders against late-term abortionist George Tiller in Wichita, or perhaps enraged by the audacity of Aurora's Planned Parenthood, it seems to me pro-lifers are just not taking it any more.

Three evidences....

Some of you have been following our daughter Daena's fledgling career move to DC earlier this summer. She just called and is in an AP photo bidding farewell to Karl Rove about an hour ago. She's in the lower right hand corner, above the two little American flags:

Read the story here.

I previously blogged on this here and here. On August 28, Kaiser Network reported:

The Texas Supreme Court on Friday declined to consider the case of three frozen embryos of a Texas couple who divorced before the woman underwent in vitro fertilization, the AP/New York Times reports. Several hours before a woman named Augusta Roman was scheduled to undergo IVF, her husband at the time, Randy Roman, insisted that the procedure be canceled and that the embryos be frozen. The couple later began divorce proceedings.

In the case, Augusta Roman is seeking to have the three embryos that survived the freezing process implanted, and Randy Roman is seeking to have them destroyed or to remain frozen indefinitely.

A Houston trial court ordered the embryos turned over to Augusta Roman, but an appeals court ruled in favor of Randy Roman. The state Supreme Court did not issue an opinion in the case. According to the AP/Times, a "major piece of evidence" in the case was a consent form the Romans signed on March 27, 2002, that said the embryos would be discarded in the case of divorce.

Two weeks ago I received this email:

Dear Jill,

I recently reached your website and quickly became interested in the things you and your guests had to say.

As a person who has had an abortion, I still remain neutral to the issue. I believe in a woman's right to choose. I understand people have a right to their own opinion but I don't believe in bashing other's decisions and being completely against something when so many people know nothing about it.

Until I had mine, I didn't realize the pain, both physical and mental, that a person went through. Five months later, I still think about it everyday, and just to clear things up, I don't regret it. I know what was right for myself with my circumstances. I don't agree with people rubbing it in my face. I don't think I need anybody's help to remind me what I did. I don't think people should judge until they know what its like to be in someone else's shoes....

Ten years ago today, Princess Diana was killed in a car accident in Paris. She is another of those pop icons I studied and admired. She was a wonderful mother and humanitarian. She used her spotlight for good. She was a gorgeous fashionista. She was flawed, but we all are.

At least for me, Princess Diana's death created another of those freeze frames in life, like when President Kennedy died, or 9/11, or the Challenger accident. I was in church when I heard, between Sunday School and the worship service. I was so shocked I couldn't concentrate after that, truly saddened.

When I spent one day in Paris a couple years ago, the tunnel where she died was a must see. Such a tragic, surreal place.

Where were you? What are your thoughts, good, bad, or indifferent?

Evan Marc Katz, author of two books, I Can't Believe I'm Buying This Book - A Commonsense Guide to Successful Internet Dating, and Why You're Still Single: Things Your Friends Would Tell You If You Promised Not to Get Mad, wrote a Yahoo article, "10 Classic Online Dating Mistakes That Women Make." He listed this as #10:

Mistake #10: Thinking That Your Great Date Actually Meant Something

Have you ever had a man say how much he likes you, how sexy you are, and how he's serious about finding a long-term relationship? Ever have an amazing date where the chemistry was great, the conversation flowed, and you hooked up with him afterwards.

Have you ever had a man do all of these things and then NOT call?

No, you're not crazy or delusional....

I said the other day I wasn't vouching, just reporting, on an August 26 Times Online article that reported Amnesty International may have "duped" some stars who sang on a recent fundraising album after which AI added abortion as a "human right." Specifically, the article tagged two potentially "duped" singers:

[Christina] Aguilera, 26, is a devout American Catholic. She is reportedly expecting her first child and has taken part in a television show in which she interviewed a teenager who had kept her baby rather than have an abortion.

[Avril] Lavigne, 22, is a French-Canadian from a tight-knit Christian family. Her song Keep Holding On is the backing track to a pro-life video on YouTube that declares "abortion is murder."...

I spotted this harebrained quote in today's Feministing, by Jersey Garcia, of Miami International Latinas Organizing for Leadership and Advocacy:

As the granddaughter of a poor, illiterate black woman living in a rural village in Dominican Republic, I know first hand what it is to not have choices or the resources to exercise our intrinsic right to sexual and reproductive health. My grandmother had 22 pregnancies, three miscarriages and two of her children did not reach the age of five. She never received prenatal care or contraceptives - and she never received information about her body or reproductive health.

And how exactly does Garcia know this firsthand? Because she's here? Is she wishing her own parent had been aborted? Is she using herself as an example that progeny of poor, illiterate black women remain equally ignorant?

[Photo courtesy of Feministing]

[Courtesy WorldNetDaily, August 29; HT: Robert King]

I linked to this story last week. Didn't know the details. And the Vatican is absolutely right. If you don't think so, explain.

From the Herald Sun, today:

A botched abortion of a fetus instead of its Down syndrome twin has prompted the Vatican to compare abortion to the Nazis' selective breeding practices....

This guy done good... delivered a baby breech - following proper medical protocol as near as I can tell - who was at least two weeks early. Plus the good captain was able to administer neonate cpr, which is far different than regular cpr. Wow. Don't quite track that he actually did that for "20 to 25 minutes," though. Hope baby is ok.

From the Associated Press, today:

When the cook on his shrimp boat went into labor 30 miles offshore [from Freeport, TX], captain Ed Keisel grabbed a new roll of paper towels and a first aid handbook and did the best he could.

To clarify exactly how the City of Aurora's investigation into Planned Parenthood's deception is going to proceed, because it has become a little confusing, I asked pro-life attorney Vince Tessitore of Aurora to explain. Tessitore is in the thick of it. He responded:

The Mayor said he has already started an investigation into the actions of both PP and the City by retaining attorney Richard Martens. He also said:

1) that if City Council choses to use someone else to conduct the investigation, that'd be fine

2) that PP would not be allowed to open pending the investigation

3) that the investigation report would be made public

4) that there would be no time limit on the investigation

At this point we're still looking into Martens and apparently so is the City Council. The Mayor said he would get a bio on Martens to the Council Members today.

Joe's Lab gives a good synopsis of the Aurora City Council meeting last night. I've asked Diane to repost her comment from another blog entry, because she gave a good synopsis, too. I've posted a photo montage. And I am getting citizen journalist emails on their perceptions of the meeting and will post those as comments.

Fran and I calculated 400 citizens attended. The main room had a capacity of 196, and there were people standing against all the walls and sitting on the floor. The halls on either side were full. And there were people outside who couldn't get in. So that's the count we came up with. The ratio of pro-life speakers to pro-aborts was 124:2....

by Fran Eaton and Jill Stanek

NOTE: WorldNetDaily.com is running a companion news article to my column today, entitled, "Deception built super-secret abortion clinic."

I'm not involved in municipal politics, but it would seem to me bad form for a business to sneak its way into a community by falsifying documents and submitting false testimony in planning meetings.

Yet that's exactly how Planned Parenthood came to build its largest abortion mill in the country in Aurora, IL, soon to be known as the "Auschwitz of America."

Six weeks ago, a pro-life construction worker at the 22,000 sq. ft. site became suspicious of the bulletproof glass and surgical suites, an abnormal mix for what a company called Gemini Office Development was touting as a generic medical center with no tenant yet.

The worker alerted Pro-Life Action League, and by July 27, the story was out. According to the Chicago Tribune:

"Frankly, I'm surprised we were able to keep it a secret for so long," said Steve Trombley, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area. "We didn't want anything to interfere with the opening."

That the clinic was kept hush-hush for so long was no accident. Planned Parenthood adopted the strategy after a 2004 boycott by contractors stalled work for two months on a clinic in Austin, TX.

It turns out Gemini was a front company for Planned Parenthood....

But Gemini withheld that information from the City of Aurora. On each of four construction permit applications throughout 2006 it listed itself as the owner and itself as the tenant.

Then five months ago, on its March 22, 2007, permit application for signage, Gemini stated the tenant was "unknown at this time," which was clearly untrue....

Continue reading my column today, "Planned Parenthood driven underground," on WorldNetDaily.com.

[HT: Right Ringtail via RealChoice]

On the pro-life blogs....

On August 24, 2006, the FDA made the morning-after pill available without a prescription to any adult (read: men, too) over 18.

In December 2003, on behalf of Concerned Women for America, I testified before an FDA committee against making the MAP available over-the-counter. My focus was on the danger to underage girls.

To celebrate the one-year anniversary, Christina Page at RH Reality Check wrote:

[H]ere's a retrospective of the arguments and forebodings the religious right made to influence the FDA's decision and mislead the public. Enjoy.

And wouldn't you know, one of my quotes made her list. I'm flattered. Here 'tis:

I was pleasantly surprised news organizations covering the Aurora Planned Parenthood protest Saturday approximated our numbers accurately, calling it "huge" even. Good photo in the Daily Herald.

But there were other signs of bias. Sometimes it is subtle, but it's usually there.

Chicago Tribune:

... Efforts to shutter the clinic continued with an abortion protest Aug. 16 that drew 400 abortion opponents... and a few dozen abortion-rights proponents....

Why are we "abortion opponents" and they "abortion-rights proponents"? The word "rights" codifies their position....

The pro-life protest against Planned Parenthood Aurora was scheduled for Saturday, August 25, at 9:00a.

But to ensure that constitutional freedom, Pro-Life Action League had to file a federal lawsuit against the City of Aurora and only got an emergency hearing Friday at 4:00p.

I spoke with PLAL's attorney, Tom Brejcha of Chicago's Thomas More Law Center, this morning.

Tom said they filed the lawsuit against Aurora ordinances that are clearly unconstitutional and subjectively enforced. There are two contentions....

The headline of this August 26 CNN story triggered the first gag: "Obama invokes Bible in NOLA." Then came the article:

"Getting ready to talk to you today, I recall what Jesus said at the end of the Sermon on the Mount," Obama said at New Orleans' First Emmanuel Baptist Church. "He said, whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on a rock."

"The rains descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house. But it did not fall, because it was founded on the rock," he continued....

Backdrop....

From the Chicago Tribune, July 27, 2007:

Neighbors who drive by the bustling construction site in Aurora think they are seeing the completion of the "Gemini Health Center," just as the sign says....

But in a few weeks the sign will be changed to reflect the true owners of the building: Planned Parenthood....

"Frankly, I'm surprised we were able to keep it a secret for so long," said Steve Trombley, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area.... "We didn't want anything to interfere with the opening...."

That the clinic was kept hush-hush for so long was no accident. Planned Parenthood adopted the strategy after a 2004 boycott by contractors stalled work for two months on a clinic in Austin, Texas....

From the Aurora Beacon News, July 29, 2007:

Aurora's Planning and Development Committee approved the final plan for the medical complex on Nov. 16, 2006.... The owner was listed as Gemini Office Development LLC, a subsidiary of Planned Parenthood....

It's one thing to play cards close to the vest; it's another to intentionally conceal information in legal documents and in legal city hearings.

On City of Aurora permit applications, Gemini never stated it was part of PP. On each of its construction applications dated March 23, 2006, July 27, 2006, November 22, 2006, and December 4, 2006, it listed "Gemini Office Development" as owner and "Gemini Office Development" as tenant.

Then on its March 22, 2007, application for signage, Gemini stated the tenant was "UNKNOWN AT THIS TIME," which was clearly untrue:

(Click to enlarge)

by Jill Stanek

by guest poster Fran Eaton, editor of Illinois Review

At the Planned Parenthood protest in Aurora today, I had a chance to ask Pro-Life Action League's founder Joe Scheidler if what the president of Illinois NOW told me was true - had he indeed been arrested 40 times, some for assault and battery?

[JLS note: Besides viewing a great interview with Joe, you can get a sense by this video of the energy of the protest today. You can see the picket at the main road in the background, and hear some of the chanting and car honks in support.]

Pro-abort trailer park feminist thought my WorldNetDaily column this week, "Liberal misogynitis," was "silly."

One of several points I made to demonstrate that in reality, pro-aborts, not pro-lifers, are the misogynists, was their promotion of abortion - of which way more than half aborted are female - had caused such a gender imbalance in Asian and Third World countries that a sex slave trade crisis has emerged.

To that trailer park feminist responded:

In other words, women who abort their female fetuses rather than bringing them in to an extremely hostile, sexist world are responsible for their own sexist oppression! How convenient!

What do you think tpf meant by that statement?

Today the protest/prayer vigil of the Aurora Planned Parenthood was held. The crowd was huge, somewhere between 750-1,000! It is the largest protest of any kind I have ever attended next to the annual March for Life.

I have to sort through over 150 photos to whittle down to 10-15 to post, but in the meantime I'll post one of Mary Kay (MK), Danny (Skinhead Dan), and me. Yes, Danny showed up. And he even surprised us by paying for our lunch, which was a kind gesture. (We happened to end up in the same restaurant affer the picket.)

For those who don't know, MK is one of our site moderators, and Danny has been a pro-abort commenter here for several months.

So our blog world and real world met today, and the experience was nice! I had never met MK before either. It was wonderful spending time with her face to face.

More later....

On the pro-life blogs....

Vital Signs links to an excellent August 23 Washington Times commentary with the reminder: "If Rudy Giuliani, or any other presidential candidate, believes his ability to win pro-life votes depends solely on promises about what sort of judges he would nominate, he is mistaken."

What's the new in color of the Internet, of the world? Stay hip. Read Reasoned Audacity.

Ah, it's that time again. The 2nd annual Wash for Life is September 15. Read details at Prolifeblogs.

Mark Pickup in HumanLifeMatters writes on the human journey, "During the last few days of [my 92-year-old mother's] life she... was unconscious. The nursing staff asked if the family still wanted meals brought for her. I said, "Yes" even though they remained uneaten.... I did not want the routine maintained for my mother's sake - she was unaware... I wanted the nurses to continue bringing the meals for their sake.... I believe it might have helped to refine the humanity of her nurses."

For those who want to get involved in the movement but don't know where, Fr. Frank Pavone has a suggestion.

NationalProLifeRadio links to the latest goings on at Tiller's mill - construction trucks with the company name taped over. Is there something to be ashamed of? [Photo courtesy of Operation Rescue]

JivinJehoshaphat links to a jaw-dropping commentary by infamous Princeton Professor Peter Singer wherein he admits "abortion ends a human life" but it should nonetheless be legal. He argues "birth is an arbitrary line, but since criminal law requires dividing lines, birth is the best we have," says JJ.

Jivin also links to what he thinks may be "one of the worst researched articles on stem cell research ever," in the Aspen Times. I agree. Need proof? How about, "Use of embryonic stem cells is illegal in the United States."

Obviously, feminists haven't gotten to the Argentinian government yet to terrify it into silence. Forest Nymph links to this piece, "Officials investigating laboratories that are hiding potential abortifacient effect of morning-after pill."

It's our fault Planned Parenthood is sneaking around, lying, and deceiving the public, so its says. More on that momentarily.

But it's interesting that we're apparently driving PP underground. We may not be impairing its bottom line ($902.8 million fiscal year 2005-06), but we are hurting its brand. That came home to me the other day when posting on PP/USPS's 1972 family planning stamp. I don't think it would see the light of day today.

So back to the sneaking, lying, and deceiving, here are excerpts from an enlightening article from RH (Reproductive Health) Reality Check yesterday about PP's new Denver mill....

The Kaiser Network is a pro-abortion, pro-embryo/cloning research organization that distributes a daily report on health policy from that slanted perspective.

Today's was the funniest ever....

Pro-Life Corner reported this, which occurred at the Northern Illinois Women's Center abortion mill in Rockford, IL, on August 21:

Ken Plez, Pat Brady and Kevin Rilott were praying quietly for an end to abortion.... A large white truck pulled in the clinic parking lot. Mr. Rilott walked over to the driveway of the clinic, without setting foot on clinic property, to try and talk to the father and mother.

The pro-choice man got out of the truck and immediately came at Mr Rilott saying, "You shouldn't be here, your upsetting my wife," and started to strike Mr. Rilott in the chest, ribs, and stomach. Mr. Rilott did not strike the man back but while he was being assaulted he reached in his pocket, got his cell phone and called 911....

Late-term abortionist George Tiller just reopened his mill after being closed for 25 straight days, the longest since he opened his chop shop in 1975, according to Operation Rescue.

Why he was closed all that time is not a trivial matter....

A guest columnist in yesterday's Times-Mail acknowledged global warming but said abortion eclipses it and may have snuffed its problem solvers. Same for Social Security.

Christ Hospital was used to demonstrate abortion's worst example. On that topic, some of you may not have seen the photos I took of the Comfort Room. All can be clicked for enlarged view.

I believe what Gore is presenting.... Indeed, the climate has been shifting and altering and, of course, we are responsible....

But I believe there is a bigger issue afflicting us. I believe the cause of protecting our environment is looming for this generation. I also believe that until we understand the socio-economic affect of abortion on our society, we will be unable to solve our environmental problems.

Simply put, we have probably destroyed those that could have pulled us out of this dilemma. So many things in our economy banked on the 40 million people who have been eradicated. Our Social Security system was based on succeeding generations supporting the current elderly population. What looked good on paper in the 1930s, diminished greatly at the dawn of abortion rights....

Yesterday AOL posted "Women behind the songs," and pop culture sucker that I am, I clicked through photos and tags.

I stopped on Candy Darling, for whom Lou Reed wrote and Velvet Underground sang, Candy Says, (also covered by Blind Melon), and to whom Reed was referring in Walk on the Wild Side ("Candy came from out on the Island, In the backroom she was everybody's darlin'...."). The AOL tag stated:

Lou Reed wrote this as an homage to Warhol "superstar" Candy Darling, who came to New York a shy young man and emerged as a glamorous blond woman. Reed channeled both Candy's delicacy and steeliness in lines like "I've come to hate my body/And all that it requires in this world" - a reference to the female hormones that enabled her gender change but ultimately took her life.

We hear a lot about men dying from overuse of male hormones (i.e., steroids) but not about anyone dying from overuse of female hormones (i.e., steroids)....

The Aurora Beacon News cut-and-pasted a Planned Parenthood press release and called it a news article yesterday. The velocity of the spin was equal to an F5 tornado.

(ABN is part of the Sun-Times News Group, which announced in an editorial last month it was "returning to our liberal, working-class roots...")

But we learned from ABN the 22,000 sq. ft. Aurora mill "will be Planned Parenthood's largest health center."

(That said, I'm not sure ABN can adequately assess scale, because we also learned that hundreds of pro-life protesters are actually "a handful.")

But in the no-spin zone, Eric Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League reported that PP should be investigated for fraud. In an email update yesterday, Eric wrote....

Last week Prolifeblogs.com was hit by 1 million spam attempts. Yes, 1 million.

Well, this week it's our turn. You may have noticed the site was slow yesterday. A few of you even commented on it.

I contacted my server, Hosting Matters, last night, and was told the attack on my site was actually causing problems for their entire system. The technical support agent said all we can do is "continue to hold things together until the storm dies down."

So, thanks in advance for your patience. This comes with our territory. Know that ace moderators MK and Bethany are doing their best to delete your multiple posts, one of the consequences of the storm. It's not your fault, so no need to apologize. But we're also having trouble accessing the administrative end of things, so there may be a slight delay.

On the pro-life blogs....

I'd like to welcome Americans United for Life to the blogosphere! Matthew posted a great quote yesterday from NRO on the faulty RU-486 study recently broadcast by MSM and the industry.

Judie Brown of American Life League was out of the country and her blog quiet. But she caught up the last two days with three posts, one yesterday afternoon linking to an hours-old AP story entitled, "Sales soar for morning-after pill." Just how much does Barr project it will make in 2007? Judie knows.

Big Blue Wave, certainly a cold and lonely conservative blog up north, has determined "The Number One Person Screwing Canada." I was pleasantly surprised by BBW's insight.

The SICLE Cell spotlights the upcoming book, My Child, My Gift, on the positives of handicapped children.

Dawn Patrol reviews the first of 3 CNN segments, "The God Warriors." Two night ago Jews. Last night Muslims. Tonight Christians. I've already seen clips for tonight. Get ready. Pro-lifers = terrorists.

La Shawn Barber has posted the most pressing problem in the black community, that "black men have abandoned their children." She includes a quote by the author of the book, He Talk Like a White Boy.

Generations for Life has the latest on the Aurora Planned Parenthood, uncluding a youth protest planned September 1.

Speaking of that mill, JivinJehoshaphat links to the Chicago Trib story on the arrest of two pro-aborts for shouting obscenities and kicking crosses at the construction site. No surprise. Violence begats violence.

Vital Signs links to what it calls a "somewhat surprising" editorial in the NJ Star Ledger that calls for more stringent investigations of its dangerous mills. Actually, I about fell over when I read it.

Ruben at NoRoomForContraception relays a conversation he overheard on a Coney Island bus into which he bothered to interject himself. Good for Ruben. He may have saved a life.

Does Google do this on purpose? Mark Pickup complains about a pro-abort ad it placed on his site - EMILY's List! - obviously without his permission.

Over at Prolifeblogs.com, Annie picks up where Judie Brown left off on morning-after pill windfall profits. There's another group raking in the cash. Initials, PP.

Who killed herself on August 22, 1986 after her abortion? Find out at RealChoice, where Christina also lists 5 other known post-abortive suicides, one who killed the father first.

The media reported last week on the "world's most famous fetus," nicknamed Bubba Waring, with a facebook page updated by mom Claire from his or her imagined perspective.

If only every preborn baby had a facebook page. Every one of them has a story, a history, from the moment of conception.

Ah, the aborted babies. How eerie would it be to view their pages, see photos of mom, dad, sibs, grandparents, read their biographies, many sad or tragic, suddenly cut off.

I can get a sense of all that at MyDeathSpace.com, a sad, creepy site about deceased MySpace members....

Here's an opportunity to learn the basics while furthering the work of the premier pro-life bioethics law firm in the country:

Legal Extern

Americans United for Life, a national public-interest bioethics law firm defending human life through vigorous legislative, judicial, and educational efforts, is seeking two highly-qualified and motivated law students to serve as legal externs during the fall semester. The externships are unpaid and may be undertaken for credit (as approved by their law school) or to fulfill other graduation requirements.

Start date is September 2007.

See page 2 for qualifications and contact info.

(Recall Dan McConchie is VP and Exec. Dir.)

I must spotlight reader Jacqueline's comment from the post on my WND column today, "Liberal misogynitis."

Now, this is the voice of an authentic feminist, exposing how modern day thiefs of a Godly concept have unfathomably led women to be further exploited, degraded, ashamed, and intimidated from being who they really are. I'm breaking up paragraphs for easier reading:

We're discussing misogyny.

No one suggests that men can't be successful or have civil rights if they are denied access to condoms and sterilization, but the mantra of the pro-choicers is that women can't be successful without access to pills that compromise our healthy reproductive capacity and surgery to kill any children that might be growing within us....

DomaniCell ("the leading service provider in the field of cell collection, processing, storage and therapies") accounced last week it is expanding its service to offer young, healthy adults the opportunity to proactively store some of their own stem cells now in the event they need them later for an unforeseen illness or accident.

Great idea. Exact match, frozen, ready, and waiting....

The word misogyny means "hatred of, or hostility toward, women," and in case you haven't noticed, liberals consider it the grooviest word to hit the planet since groovy.

Just this past week liberal bloggers used misogyny, misogynic, misogynist or misogynists 524 times, according to Google, always to denounce conservatives or liberals they accuse of behaving like conservatives.

This count doesn't include various ways the potheads have misspelled it, including misoginy, mysogyny, missoginist, misogenist, mysogynic, misogenetic, or the French derivatives mysoginie and mysogyne, because the French love the word, too.

Liberal bloggers love misogyny because they think sticking it the middle of a sentence about "right wingnut wackjob f--ers" makes them sound smart, or at least that they have an aristocratic strain of Tourette syndrome.

Recent provocative liberal blog titles on the topic include [See listing on page 2]....

And last week, actor Matt Damon sent liberal bloggers into cut-and-paste ecstasy when invoking the work misogynist to address comparisons made betweens spies Bond and Bourne....

With one comment, Damon elevated himself from the pack of liberal Stepford stars to cultural icon. "Matt Damon called James Bond a 'misogynist' [and] the 14-year-old girl in me just squealed," exclaimed blogger DollyMix....

Continue reading my column today, "Liberal misogynitis,"on WorldNetDaily.com.

Here's another human interest story I could easily relate to our topic but will let stand on its own because it's so fun.

The 2nd Annual Windy City Ducky Derby was held August 10 to help fund Special Olympics Illinois.

And my friend Carol Renn won first place - a Dodge Caliber!

The waterway is the Chicago River.

Here's the beginning...

And the end...

Pro-abort Karen Tomb at RH (Reproductive Health) Reality Check told an interesting story the other day of stumbling across a U.S. family planning stamp from 1972 in a box of old keepsakes.

The stamp was apparently pushed by Planned Parenthood. Such an insidious and smart group. Said Tomb:

In announcing the appearance of the stamp at a gathering of Planned Parenthood Federation supporters, JT Ellington, the then-director of the Postal Service's office of communication, was quoted in the March 18, 1972 New York Times saying "We hope... this stamp will serve as a reminder to all members of our society... that a spiraling world population and the environmental and social ills that inevitably follow - is everyone's concern."

(For the latest on the "spiraling world population" 35 years later read this August 17 USA Today article.)

Tomb said, "[A]pparently family planning was not only supported by the Nixon administration, but enjoyed sufficient public acceptance to warrant a commemorative postage stamp...."

I think Tomb was acknowledging such a stamp would not see the light of day today, and I think she's right. What has changed? I don't think a Republican administration can be "blamed."

You may recall Twisty Faster at the I Blame the Patriarchy blog.

On Sunday Twisty verbally clubbed a "troglodyte" bill in OH that would require written informed consent from a father before aborting. And cavemen did not write this bill. Twisty complained they plugged all the loopholes:

Don't know who the father is? You have to buy paternity tests for the usual suspects. Were you raped? Relive the experience by providing proof of this to your abortion provider. Think you'll get your best gay dude friend to fake consent for you? It's "abortion fraud," a first degree misdemeanor. If you commit a second abortion fraud, it's a felony.

Let's park on rape....

Live in the Midwest? Join me this Saturday from 9-11 a.m. at a pro-life rally at the site of the new Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Aurora, IL.

Eric Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League said in an email he hopes this rally will put the fight against this PP's new 22,000 sq. ft. mill on the national map. He hopes the crowd size will make it "historic." Let's do our part to make that so. From Eric....

In pro-life cyberspace...

Feminists for Life has a good come-back when pro-aborts say, "You're pro-life now, but if you got pregnant...."

Catholic Pro-Life Committee has a slideshow up of its just held 2007 Pro-Life Boot Camp for teens. Had room for 45. Quota filled in June. Made more room. Ended up with 60 from around the country.

Generations for Life links to info and photos of the "huge community resistance" to Planned Parenthood's attempted sneak into Aurora, IL.

Mark Crutcher has a new post telling pro-lifers to "lose the rose-colored glasses" about pro-aborts who concede preborn babies are human but still killable.

Great title for Mother may I... be born's new post: "Preemies speak for life without saying a word" - on the NJ baby born April 25 weighing 11 oz. who just went home.

In 2003, 9-year-old pregnant "Rosita" was used in Nicaragua to promote lealized abortion. A movie was even made and shown on Cinemax. Now the shocking truth has come out. (I know. I sound like Fox... :) Read about it at 2SecondsFaster.

RealChoice posts the obit of a CA mother who died from a legal abortion on August 19, 1988.

I'd say this topic is related enough to include in (Prolifer)ations: "Women in combat, women as beasts," with a video link that Reasoned Audacity says is a "must see." I agree. I've watched it before, but it's one of those you can't view too often.

What are 10 facts women deserve to know about abortion? Vital Signs lists them.

She had to see that title coming.

Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice, who famously told Newsweek in 2005 she would from henceforth "write only for the Lord" after returning to her Catholic faith, has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president.

From her website, August 10:

To my readers....

My vocation at this time remains unchanged. I am committed to writing books for the Lord....This has become my life....

However, I have come to feel that my Christian conscience requires of me a particular political statement at this time....

My commitment and my vote... must reflect my deepest Christian convictions; and for me these convictions are based on the teachings of Christ in the Four Gospels....

To summarize, I believe in voting, I believe in voting for one of the two major parties, and I believe my vote must reflect my Christian beliefs.

Bearing all this in mind, I want to say quietly that as of this date, I am a Democrat, and that I support Hillary Clinton for President of the United States....

This month's issue of Marie Claire features an interview with Hillary Clinton. Gotta say the accompanying photo is the best ever I've seen of her. On the topic of abortion:

JC [Joanna Coles, editor-in-chief] : Next subject: abortion. Some women feel that your language is becoming much more moderate on the issue. What do you say to reassure them?...

What explains Quinnipiac's unusually high poll numbers in favor of abortion? Quoting from its August 16 press release:

American voters continue to support the Roe v. Wade decision 62-32%, consistent with past poll findings.

It always depends who was asked:

From August 7-13, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,545 American voters with a margin of error of +/- 2.5%, including 611 Republicans with a margin of error of +/- 4.0%, and 717 Democrats with a margin of error of +/- 3.7%.

Quinnipiac should rather have said, "American voters polled, 54% of whom were Democrat and 46% Republican, support the Roe v. Wade decision 62-32%, consistent with past poll findings."

Is it consistent? For Quinnipiac, it appears so. Its only other published political party breakdown from a May 2007 poll showed it asked then 51.5% Democrat and 48.5% Republican, which explains why answers were slightly more in line with other polls, although skewed left.

I called Quinnipiac and asked why it polled more Dems than Republicans. The spokesman said they do a straight demographic phone poll. They take responses from whoever picks up the phone until the quota is filled.

When shoddy abortion mills are exposed, proponent say they are anomalies.

An August 19 article in PressofAtlanticCity.com analyzed state inspection histories of all six NJ mills. To clarify, the following two mills are not the two closed earlier this year, which were Metropolitan and Alternatives:

Inspections are sporadic at best and, when they do occur, discovering serious violations is common.

Inspections remain overdue for the three other abortion centers - by as much as seven years in the case of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Shrewsbury.... The last inspection reports for all six clinics recorded violations....

The violations outlined in the six most recent abortion clinic reports are equally extensive.

A new study suggests political persuasions may be partially genetic in origin.

If this proves true, would you support or oppose aborting babies with a liberal genetic marker?

[HT: Mark Crutcher]

In pro-life cyberspace...

Barbara Curtis has two posts at Prolifeblogs.com spotlighting an extraordinary story in the September issue of Vanity Fair about famed playwright Arthur Miller's "missing act" - his son Danny, who was born with Down syndrome and who Miller had institutionalized at birth and never publicly acknowledged. Miller wrote "Death of a Salesman" and was married briefly to Marilyn Monroe. The story is extraordinary in its content and also that Vanity Fair told it.

As reported by Family Research Council today:

On Wednesday the New England Journal of Medicine published a study examining the effect of the abortifacient, RU-486, on women's chances of later having tubal (ectopic) pregnancies or miscarriages....

The results were released to Time, the Associated Press, and Reuters, which splashed grossly misleading headlines like: "Study Finds Abortion Pill Safe" (Time).

Actually, the researchers concluded only that there was the same risk to women and child of future miscarriages if they had used RU-486 or had a surgical abortion.

Stopping on that point, as Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, quipped, "This study is like comparing whether it is worse to burn your hand on a gas stove or an electric stove. You still end up burned." Continuing on:

The new study is problematic because it did not examine other, short-term risks, and it did not compare RU-486 and surgical abortion patients to women with no abortion history.

Thus, this study says nothing about future pregnancy outcomes for RU-486 patients versus women who never have abortions - a true measure of longer-term RU-486 safety.

The authors, including an NIH scientist, laid down the following unbelievable spin to explain the omission: "....women who have never had an abortion tend to have a different pattern of income, smoking rates and other health-related behaviors that would make a comparison difficult...."

Riiiiiight. More likely - but not politically correct - is that women who have abortions have a higher risk of future negative pregnancy outcomes. HHS Secretary Leavitt needs to look into having this study re-done using proper methodology and unbiased scientists.

The authors basically said women who don't abort are higher class, as they say, "don't drink, don't smoke, don't chew, and don't run with boys who do." Don't sleep around either.

Are abortion supporters going to take characterization that lying down?

We talk a lot about displays of graphic photos of aborted babies, but have you actually driven by one? Missionaries to the Preborn added this video to YouTube today, a simple, unnarrated, 3-minute drive-by of a just-completed Tour in OH:

[HT: Jim Finnegan]

Great title for a surprisingly great post by Lisa Wade on Huffington Post yesterday.

Writing about the movie Knocked Up, Wade's intent was certainly not to further the pro-life cause but rather to browbeat pro-aborts.

But she did both, starting with that excellent question in her title....

In Knocked Up, a one-night stand and an unplanned pregnancy are the fodder for an astoundingly, catastrophically tragic comedy. What's so funny?

An innocent child is forced into an experiment to see if a pot-bellied, pot-smoking, porn-peddler can get his sh** together and become a responsible adult....

We've got a good mix of pro-lifers and "pro-choicers" on this site who engage in healthy debate that is unedited 99+% of the time. I admire those from the other side who dialogue here, even if we are 180 degrees apart.

Yet when pro-lifers attempt to broach pro-abort territory, we are commonly greeted with a block. And as for that territory, I frankly find pro-abort blogs for the most part inane and adolescent.

This is typical: Yesterday I spotlighted comments by pro-abort blogger JJ of Unrepentent Old Hippie, who said she doesn't want to hear, see, or speak about abortion with us. This is the classic definer of a closed, foolish, afraid mind.

Her response reproves my point, although it's a fun read....

Great story from the Associated Press this morning:

A 35-year-old Canadian woman has given birth to rare identical quadruplets, officials at a Great Falls hospital said Thursday.

Karen Jepp of Calgary, Alberta, delivered Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia by Caesarian section Sunday afternoon at Benefis Healthcare....

The babies were born about two months early and were conceived without fertility drugs, he said. They weighed between 2.6 pounds and 2.15 pounds....

The chances of giving birth to identical quadruplets is about one in 13 million, Key said....

Medical literature indicates there are less than 50 sets of identical quadruplets, said Dr. Jamie Grifo, director of the NYU Fertility Center in New York.

The last reported set were born in April 2006 to a 26-year-old Indian woman.

We love this sort of story. We love multiples. Honest pro-aborts will admit feeling bad when hearing a mom has aborted twins. Why? I've heard of moms changing their minds about aborting when finding they're carrying twins. Why are twins more valuable than singletons?

Conversely, selective reduction is widely practiced on pregnancies of multiples. Recall this story. I'm sure this mom was given that option. What a wonderful miracle the world would have missed. Abortion robs us of miracles.

[Photo of Brooke Jepp being cradled by her dad is courtesy of the AP.]

Pro-aborts say geography matters: In one's uterine home, one can be aborted.

Pro-aborts say finances matter: If one can't afford a baby, one can abort him/her.

Pro-aborts say health matters: If a preborn baby is sick, s/he can be aborted.

Pro-aborts say mental health matters: It is excusable for an unstable caretaker to abort her preborn.

Pro-aborts say convenience matters: Cumbersome preborns can be aborted.

Is level of development the only difference between preborn and postborn abortion? Consider the correlations in this August 16 Associated Press story:

A man threw his seriously ill wife four stories to her death because he could no longer afford to pay for her medical care, prosecutors said in charging him with second-degree murder.

According to court documents filed Wednesday in Jackson County Circuit Court, Stanley Reimer walked his wife to the balcony of their apartment and kissed her before throwing her over.

The body of Criste Reimer, 47, was found Tuesday night outside the apartment building....

In the probable cause statement filed with the charges, police said Reimer was desperate because he could not pay the bills for his wife's treatment for neurological problems and uterine cancer....

[S]he could barely walk and would not have been able to climb over the railing of the balcony.... in ill health for several years. Her weight had fallen to 75 pounds and she was partly blind....

[Photo of Stanley Reimer courtesy of the AP]

I said yesterday I was impacted by an article stating lib bloggers do a much better job of linking and cooperating to one another than do conservatives. So I'm hereby launching a new post - daily? couple times a week? - spotlighting good information gleaned from other pro-life blogs.

And here we go....

Prepare for another Great Debate.

On March 14, 2008, the animated full-length movie, Horton Hears a Who, starring Jim Carrey as the voice of Horton and Steve Carell as the mayor of Whoville, will be released.

Most know the classic children's book is about, as the movie site synopsized, "an imaginative elephant who hears a cry for help coming from a tiny speck of dust floating through the air. Suspecting there may be life on that speck and despite a surrounding community which thinks he has lost his mind, Horton is determined to help."

Pro-lifers have taken the classic line from the book, "A person's a person, no matter how small," and run with it. I'm one of those running.

But when the movie debuts, pro-abort detractors will prefer to focus instead on...

[See newly released movie trailer on page 2]

Got leftover embryos in cold storage? Now you can use them to keep you out of cold storage.

According to ABC News, August 14:

StemLifeLine, a California-based biotechnology company, is now offering a controversial but potentially life-saving fourth option.

StemLifeLine allows families to "develop" remaining embryos into "personalized stem cell lines," the first theoretical step in creating cures for a host of debilitating and deadly diseases....

NY1 featured a story August 14 on a controversial billboard advertisement by Manhattan Mini Storage:

Tacky? I'd say here's another counterproductive move by pro-aborts. Americans, even if "pro-choice," don't find abortion cute or funny. Most commenters to NY1 agreed....

Rich Lowry at National Review said it better yesterday than I did in my "Thumbs down: Brownback" post last week:

The Brownback campaign is essentially premised on pro-life purity.... I admire those views and think they are very important.... But it's not any of the particularly whole-life issues... that are driving his campaign.

Instead, it's attacks on other candidates for not being pro-life enough, or more precisely for not being pro-life soon enough. I find this pointless. I don't believe that Mitt Romney is ever going to go back to being pro-choice. But, fine, maybe his conversion in 2004 is of too recent vintage to be believed.

Then, there's Fred Thompson. The former Tennessee senator converted to pro-life sometime after 1994. That's long enough ago to grandfather anyone in to his new position. But it's presumably not long enough for Brownback, who is running his campaign less on ideology than on chronology.

What would be long enough?....

In a tired "you can't be pro-life unless you're pro-socialized health care" reprimand at The Huffington Post yesterday, blogger James Heffernan strangely defended partial birth abortion by saying the ban against it "forbid[s] second-trimester removal of the fetus in an intact condition while allowing it to be ripped apart inside the uterus and yanked out piece by piece - a far more dangerous procedure, as leading experts in obstetrics and gynecology have repeatedly testified."

"Ripped apart inside the uterus and yanked out piece by piece"?

Isn't that a rather inflammatory and incriminating description of a dilatation and evacuation (D&E) abortion for a pro-abort to use?

And "a far more dangerous procedure"?

Was Heffernan saying D&E's are dangerous?

Again, whose side was Hefferman on? His bio says he "taught English at Dartmouth for almost forty years." One of his books is, Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions.

Hefferman certainly has a talent for cultivating linguistic picturacy, but I think he needs a pro-abort verbal intervention. Evoking imagery of a D&E abortion while branding it as "dangerous" doesn't help the other side much.

But it does give me an opportunity to display some visual art:

Do you like that, Professor Heffernan? Do I get an A?

[Visual art courtesy of FindLaw.com]

Blogger JJ at Unrepentent Old Hippie was "taken aback" yesterday when a spokesperson for the National Abortion Federation phoned in to a Calgary talk show featuring a guest from the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform. Under discussion was CCBR's launch of a truck truth tour, or "Rolling Fetus Roadshow," as JJ called it, on August 8.

I myself was taken aback when reading JJ was 52, because her vocabulary and logic were that of an adolescent.

JJ didn't think pro-aborts should engage us in debate, because first (italics hers), "There is no debate - there's only 'f*** off and mind your own business'."

JJ further thought pro-lifers should be ignored because we are driven solely by religious zealousness. She rejected our argument that life begins at conception as "a more ideological than scientific concept."

On that note, JJ wondered (italics hers), "where the f*** [do] they get those pictures anyway," implying graphic photos of aborted babies are fake.

In other words, JJ didn't want to see abortion, hear about abortion, or speak about abortion.

And she accused us of trudging in the "dark ages"?

[Fetusmobile photo courtesy of CCBR]

UPDATE, 1:30p: "Abortion billboard trucks cause media uproar, provoke pro-abortion advocate to publicly debate issue"

Children of God for Life, an associate of American Life League that has Fr. Tom Euteneuer and Judie Brown on its board, has released an updated list of vaccines using aborted fetal cell lines and their ethical counterparts. You can download a pdf copy to print here. Click to enlarge:

The Politico yesterday that really impacted me. Entitled, "GOP lags on the Internet frontier," it was also about social conservatives lagging behind social liberals on the blogosphere:

But Patrick Ruffini, the former e-campaign director for the Republican National Committee (and briefly an adviser to the Rudy Giuliani campaign), argues that there's a deeper problem on the Republican side of the online equation.

He notes that conservatives don't lack for their own YearlyKos, as thousands of right-wingers have been gathering for years at the annual CPAC conference. And he argues that in sheer traffic terms, sites like the Drudge Report and Free Republic still outdraw their left-wing competitors - which is true....

[Hat tip for the great question: Nathan Sheets]

Be sure to vote, and then make your comments here, not on the poll website.

And wow, the number of respondents more than doubled on my last poll question after doubling just a month ago! Thanks for participating. Statistics and geographical locations are interesting, aren't they?

The very pretty stats in response to that poll were....

The abortion industry cannot let the Partial Birth Abortion Ban go, for three reasons....

So the industry has embarked on an interesting public relations campaign.

Although it maintained for 15 years during PBA Ban court battles that the number committed was infinitesimally small, now it says the ban has created havoc in the industry.

And while it has always claimed legalized abortion is the safest surgical procedure in the history of the world, now it says the ban has forced "dangerous" abortions on mothers and abortionists.

It launched its PR campaign on July 30 with the help of United Press International, in one of the most egregious displays of journalistic deception I
have ever read....

The "more dangerous... medical procedure"?

Visualizing a preborn baby's internal organs by ultrasound and injecting the heart medication
Digoxin in an FDA-unapproved use through the mother's abdomen and into the heart of her thrashing baby (no one likes needles) to cause an instant, deadly heart attack....

Pay attention. Since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the PBA ban this past April, paranoia has apparently struck the entire late-term abortion industry, forcing these specialized deed-doers out in the open. And there are apparently quite a few, with lots of spectators....

But despite the media's best help, the pro-PBA campaign is ill-conceived, availing itself to an array of pro-life inquiries and talking points. These are....

Continue reading my column today, "Killer cupid abortionists,"on WorldNetDaily.com.

This is another of those posts that has nothing to do with our topic but is such an interesting human interest story I had to blog on it.

One of our moderators, Bethany, does something called "Once-a-month cooking," which is self-explanatory, although daunting. OAMC's motto, "Cook for a day, eat for a month."

There is a system to this that involves using some of the same ingredients for many dishes. A book has even been written.

I don't know how she moderates so well here while attending to her family, her own blogs, drawing murals, and doing OAMC, but Bethany does. Last Friday Bethany did all her shopping - with three kids! - which included being accidentally charged for 682 bags of noodles.

Then Bethany did all her cooking over the weekend, and voila, while I'll be facing a discontented husband at 6p every night wondering what's for dinner, Bethany will have taken hers from the freezer an hour before and be serving it to a smiling family.

Go to Bethany's blog to see photos of dishes she prepared this month. She also posted a grocery list and recipes.

Here's to Bethany, our very own Proverbs 31 woman.

The Wichita Eagle has an editorial today calling on late-term abortionist George Tiller's new judge, Tony Powell, to recuse himself from the high profile case against Tiller.

Tiller is charged with 19 misdemeanor counts for violating a KS law mandating that an abortionist get a second opinion as to the necessity of a late-term abortion from a doctor s/he has no financial ties to.

Wichita Eagle editors found it "startling that presiding Criminal Court Judge Greg Waller last week assigned Powell to this case in the first place, given the potential conflict of interest."

It turns out Powell is a staunch pro-lifer and former legislator who helped write the law Tiller is charged with, which is actually funny. But who would better understand its intent?

But Wichita Eagle editors had nothing to say about "potential conflict of interest" when Waller himself was assigned to the case, and it was revealed last week that two of Tiller's attorneys endorsed Waller's reelection in 1998, and one of those attorneys contributed to Waller's '98 and '06 campaigns.

The Associated Press reported August 9 that the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor is suing MI Democrat Gov. Jennifer Granholm for discrimination:

Granholm, who wants to lift Michigan's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, has a link on her state [taxpayer funded] Web site that encourages citizens to sign a petition asking the state Legislature to pass bills that would lift restrictions on such research.

The law center says Granholm refused requests from its clients to place their own petition on the Web site opposing embryonic stem cell research....

Granholm spokeswoman Liz Boyd said the lawsuit is being reviewed.

"Under no circumstances will the governor abandon her fight to lift the restrictions on stem cell research in Michigan," Boyd said.

Apparently Granholm's people did a quick review, and apparently the governor is abandoning this part of her fight.

A check today showed the link Granholm previously promoted, www.michigan.gov/stemcell, is gone.

So is her taxpayer funded webpage promoting the petition.

But sorry, Guv, it's cached. (Click to enlarge.)...

Over at the liberal blog Feministing, commenters were getting depressed Friday. Example:

I think reading Feministing (and Feministe) might be negatively affecting my mental health. Every f***ing day I read stories about sh** like this... and feel like the rape culture is literally closing in on me.

Yes, we're the "rape culture."

Feninisting blogger Cara thought she'd lift sagged spirits by posting pro-abort Sonya "The Drama" Boom Renee's dramatic poetry recitation, "What women deserve," from the 2006 International World Poetry Slam Finals.

Cara said she "was almost in tears towards the end." I don't know how someone can be so inspired by abortion that they cry about it, but there you go. Pretty pathetic.

But I gotta say Sonya was good. Too bad she wasted her talent promoting wanton illicit sex and chopped babies.

Sonya eloquently promulgated an abundance of tired pro-abort lies and cliches. Can you name some?

Warning: Sonya apparently couldn't convey her message out without an f*** this or sh** that, a sure sign of ignorance. And she apparently thought shouting them loudly made them more true.

[HT: Nathan Sheets]

Reader Sarah from the UK sent me a link to a 1983 PBS Frontline episode entitled, "Abortion Clinic." I was previously unaware of it (am I alone?) and viewed it Saturday, finding it deeply disturbing yet remarkable. It has not been far from the front of my mind since. I'm angry all over again. Abortion is so incredibly vile.

"Abortion Clinic" won the Emmy in 1983 for Outstanding Background/Analysis of a Single Current Story.

Frontline made "Abortion Clinic" available online for its 20th anniversary in 2003, saying, "Two decades later, it remains one of the most powerful stories Frontline has ever told."

"Abortion Clinic" was filmed in Chester, PA, a small industrial town south of Philadelphia that had a 30% unemployment rate at the time, according to Frontline.

The mill is the Reproductive Health and Counseling Center, located then in the former library of Crozer Seminary. (Crozer was an American Baptist Church school, a pro-abortion demonination, which explains the sale approval. Noteworthy is that Martin Luther King, Jr., graduated from Crozer.)

Made 24 years ago, "Abortion Clinic" is not something I think could be filmed today. Clincs have clammed up, as have pregnant mothers, as has the mainstream media.

There are six chapters to this episode, all which I recommend viewing.

What you will see in this segment is the abortion of Barbara - everything but the blood and guts. It was distressing to know I was watching a child being killed. It was distressing to juxtapose the mother's obvious emotional trauma with pro-aborts who deny abortion is psychologically damaging. The sound of the suction machine was even distressing.

Click on the photo below. Moderator Bethany has kindly created a link:

The next video clip is of Helen's abortion, this one complete with some blood and guts. Note the assistant keeps the suction cannister covered while in the room. Note the fleeting glimpse of complete little body parts.

At last week's YearlyKos Convention, Hillary Clinton stated, "I believe marriage should be left to the states."

Hillary and liberals say they want each state to decide whether marriage should be between one man and one woman, not the federal government.

Yet Hillary and liberals don't want the legality of abortion decided by the states, which is all the overturn of Roe v. Wade would do.

Why not? What's the difference?

Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh had a caller on who spotlighted Christ Hospital, its involvement in the hideous practice of aborting babies alive and letting them die, and the connection to Barack Obama, who as state senator spoke and voted against IL's Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

The fired nurse mentioned in the call was, as most know, me.

Rush is currently showcasing the call on his home page. (Click to enlarge.)

You can read or listen to a transcript of the call here, or read the relevant portion on my page 2.

Until Christ Hospital stops aborting, its reputation will continue to be dragged through the mud, of couse, rightfully so.

As for Obama, there is no way he can explain this one away, although he has tried - giving four different answers by my count.

The question is whether or not MSM will force him to address his support of aborting babies alive and letting them die.

Rush is optimistic, telling the caller, "This stuff will all come out. I'm going to tell you something. Aside from the most-informed audience in media, which is you and everybody else listening to this program, most people really start paying attention to this stuff after Thanksgiving, when the primaries start."

There's a new pro-life book out for children, "Angel in the Waters."

You can read it online, where you can also order it. It's touching and beautiful. How someone could remain pro-"choice" after reading it is beyond me.

Try it.

I've posted my autumn speaking schedule.

Check it out, and if you live in near where I'll be, make arrangements to swing by!

On August 10 the Hays Daily News reported that Sedgwick County, KS, Chief Criminal Judge Gregory Waller said, "I don't see any reason to respond," to charges by pro-lifers he could not remain unbiased in the case against late-term abortionist George Tiller on 19 misdemeanor charges.

Hays News reported that two of Tiller's attorneys endorsed Waller's reelection in 1998. One of those attorneys also contributed $500 to Waller's campaign in 1998, the maximum allowed, and $275 last year.

Later that day came this press release sent by Operation Rescue....

There is way more going on with this story than meets the eye.

You've likely heard about it by now. Four babies were discovered July 26 in an around the Maryland apartment of Christy Freeman after she was taken by ambulance to a hospital for hemorraging with retained placenta but denied having a baby.

Police searched and found not just the 26-week-old baby Freeman had just delivered - under her bathroom vanity - but two more in a bedroom chest and another in a Winnebago in the driveway.

The state attorney originally charged Freeman with murdering the baby she had just delivered, under a 2005 Maryland fetal homicide statute passed in response to the murders of Laci and Connor Peterson that targets criminals intending to kill a "viable fetus."

Then, last week, the state attorney changed course and instead charged Freeman with murdering "Twin One," as they call him/her, after the coroner concluded s/he was "full-term or near full-term," and after Freeman confessed to letting the baby drown in the toilet where delivered.

Yes, two of the found babies were apparently twins, the ones found together in the bedroom chest, delivered in either 2003 or 2004. (There are two dates out there.) Freeman has not said how Twin Two died, nor has the coroner reported yet.

When reading various news reports, it was on these points I became confused and called Denise Burke, vice president and legal director of Americans United for Life, who was quoted in at least one news story re: this case....

For the first time in five years, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform Midwest was able to exhibit graphic signs showing the truth about abortion in downtown Dayton, OH, during lunchtime on August 3.

CBR was only able to exercise this First Amendment educational freedom following a unanimous decision by the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a police stoppage of a similar CBR demonstration in 2002 was unconstitutional.

The August 3 CBR event two two-pronged. While organizers staffed a display of huge photos comparing abortion to genocide at the Montgomery County Courthouse from 11a to 2p, CBR's billboard trucks with photos of same circled downtown.

In a related shocking free speech exercise, the local media, the Dayton Daily News, videotaped the event showing both sides of the debate - including the graphic photos - with no commentary, making it available to readers online with the caption: "Abortion: Right or Wrong? You decide"

See video here.

Biased I may be, but the Planned Parenthood hack who backed away from the "pro-abortion" label in the video looked defensive and only substantiated that there is something bad about abortion.

Question: Are pro-choicers confident enough in their position to support individual states deciding how to handle abortion?

In the August/September issue of libertarian Reason magazine, senior editor Radley Balko analyzes how the U.S. Supreme Court wresting the decision from Americans was a bad legal decision that resulted in chaos.

Balko first runs through an interesting list of some who think the Roe v. Wade decision was poor:

In 1985 a prominent liberal legal figure argued that Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional right to an abortion, was a "heavy-handed judicial intervention" that "was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict." The writer was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court - and also now a strong supporter of Roe.

Ginsburg isn't the only backer of abortion rights to have taken issue with the 1973 decision. In 1995, for example, the University of Chicago's Cass Sunstein, a superstar among liberal law professors, wrote in the Harvard Law Review that the high court “should have allowed the democratic processes of the states to adapt and to generate sensible solutions that might not occur to a set of judges."....

Pro-choicers who have recently criticized Roe v. Wade include The Washington Post's Benjamin Wittes and Richard Cohen, Harvard's Alan Dershowitz, and Slate's William Saletan.

Balko explains how the Roe decision resulted in chaos....

Gary Bauer, president of American Values and chairman of Campaign for Working Families, wrote an important op ed in yesterday's National Review Online that articulates the pro-life movement's "fresh strategy." The whole piece should be read for encouragement and to understand and latch on.

Excerpts...

This cartoon ran in newspapers today...

... based on this exchange between Stephanopoulos, Romney, and Brownback during the August 5 Republican debate...

(See video on page 2.)

Pro-lifers have had numerous heated exchanges on this blog and in print and radio about the Supreme Court's Partial-Birth Abortion Ban decision, lifting the lid on familial differences of opinion on how to win the war against abortion. Accusations by pro-lifers against the ban are still quite fierce. You can catch up on the conversation by scanning blog posts here.

As one of those called "duped" by the ban, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life has weighed in with his thoughts on his blog, where you can read why he thinks the ban is good.

As for the in-fighting, Pavone noted some pro-lifers will always complain:

This important victory has also taught us how our movement handles victory. Some segments of our movement have been bitterly divided in the wake of this decision. Some groups have complained about how other groups have exaggerated the significance of the decision. Some leaders have warned that because no state can legitimize even a single abortion, it is quite wrong to be happy about a decision that still leaves abortion legal, with just the slightest modifications needed in a single procedure.

Of course, even when Roe vs. Wade is reversed and the legality of abortion is determined state by state, the same argument will be made. Abortion will still be legal in most places, and one will still have to say that no state can legitimize even a single abortion. But to fail to see at that moment that progress will have been made will be as much of a mistake as it is to fail to see the progress made now. In short, we should never exaggerate our progress, and neither should we fail to recognize it.

[Hat tip: Reader Carder]

On Aug. 4, White House journalist Helen Thomas celebrated her 87th birthday.

I'm 51 and already worried about someday being a burden, dependent on others to care for me.

Thomas apparently is not. That or she hasn't connected the prenatal-to-octogenarian dots.

At a recent Planned Parenthood of Greater Iowa fundraiser, Thomas said:

"Let's return to the true ideals of the Bill of Rights. The issue is not the right to live. The issue is the kind of life. The issue is freedom without government or outside interference."...

Helen's phraseology is interesting. "Kind of life" refers to "quality of life," the primary reason mothers abort....

Thomas' "kind of life" standard is perplexing, given her age. Because in that circle of life, Thomas is daily edging closer to a time when she will be as mentally and/or physically helpless as a fetus....

Continue reading my column today, "Helen Thomas' kind of life,"on WorldNetDaily.com.

I posted August 2 I had to moderate comments, i.e., force people to sign in, due to a spike in spam comments I was receiving - 500 to 1,000 a day.

Behind the scenes my server and moreso my kind and patient friend Tim from ProLifeBLogs.com have been working to upgrade my site with software and stopgaps to halt the spam. (One interesting find: 155,000 spam comments my software had automatically saved as "junk" of which I was unaware. No wonder things were bogging down a bit.)

Tim completed the additions and changes last night, so I have dumped that aggravating authentication process once again, which kept many willing commenters off due to its own glitches.

All can once again post freely. Thanks for your patience.

On August 4 the Wall Street Journal publicized a new way to waltz through labor, belly dancing:

These days, alternative techniques to ease labor run the gamut from hypnotherapy to "water births" in a large bathtub. But some women disillusioned with routine use of drugs and medical interventions during labor are turning to an unusual solution - belly dancing. They're restoring the titillating dance of seduction -frequent entertainment fare in night clubs and Middle Eastern restaurants - to what they say were its origins in childbirth, while enhancing maternity wards with swirling motions and mesmerizing music.

Expectant mothers can choose from an increasing array of prenatal belly-dancing classes and educational materials. The first instructional prenatal belly dance DVD in the U.S. was released 16 months ago....

Some belly-dance movements mirror those of labor. The idea is that the pelvic gyrations help disperse the pain of contractions, orient the fetus and propel the baby into the world. In early labor, when contractions are relatively mild, the expectant mother may find comfort in dancing slowly and hypnotically, using hip circles, crescents and figure eights. As labor gets more intense, the movements may progress to a rapid rocking of the pelvis from side to side - a technique known as the shimmy - to help position the baby correctly and relax the pelvic floor. In the final phase of pushing, a full body undulation known as the camel roll can help the baby move into the birth canal....

"The movements that women make when they're belly dancing are the same movements that I am trying to get them to make to bring the baby down," says... doctor, Elizabeth Allemann.

Sure enough, I found pregnant belly dancing demonstrated on YouTube....

.... a remarkable athletic feat and celebration of pregnancy and its beauty, if nothing else, although the moves do look therapeutic. (Stick with the video past the intro. There are close-ups.)

[Hat tip: Kaiser Reports]

This cartoon by Ted Rall was published in newspapers yesterday:

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What falsehoods/spin about sex did Rall perpetuate? What falsehoods about abstinence? What truths?

Why would people disparage promoting abstinence to our youth?

The Chicago Tribune reported on July 27 (read complete story at bottom of post):

Neighbors who drive by the bustling construction site in Aurora [IL] think they are seeing the completion of the "Gemini Health Center," just as the sign says. So do the painters, carpenters, electricians and other tradesmen who have been working on the project for the last eight months.

But in a few weeks the sign will be changed to reflect the true owners of the building: Planned Parenthood. At 22,000 square feet, this is among its larger facilities in the nation, providing a wide range of women's health services -- including abortions....

The $7.5 million facility... adjacent to a Dominick's [grocery store], is scheduled to open Sept. 18. In the planning stages since 2002, it is Planned Parenthood's first full-service site in the Chicago area in 20 years and the only one to perform abortions outside of a Near North Side Chicago location. Private donors contributed $5 million toward its construction....

The first two paragraphs of the July 30 UPI article likely duped the vast unwashed:

Several U.S. health officials argued that the passage of the Partial Birth Abortion Act is forcing more dangerous procedures to occur.

Health officials through agencies like Michigan's WomanCare have pointed out that since the U.S. Supreme Court passed the act, they have been forced to use medical procedures that make abortions increasingly risky and painful....

Let's translate.

The "U.S. health officials"? Only one was identified: Alberto Hodari, a late-term abortionist.

The "agencies"? A group of six MI late-term abortion mills (seven in August!) named WomanCare.

Whoops. Hodari is WomanCare's "medical director," i.e., lead abortionist.

(A July 30 Detroit News article from which this piece was spawned named other "U.S. health officials" and "agencies": Renee Chelian, executive director of Northland Family Planning Centers, another group of late-term MI abortion mills; Kate Palmer, "a health care advocate at a local abortion clinic"; Janet Crepps, an attorney with the Center for Reproductive Rights; and Vicki Saporta, president of the National Abortion Federation. All unbiased, and none with self-interests, to be sure.)

The "medical procedures that make abortions increasingly risky and painful"? Injecting the heart medication Digoxin into a preborn baby's heart to cause an instant heart attack and death, which is off-label use according to the FDA.

The journalistic deception here is staggering. Not only is MSM clearly attempting to portray the PBA Ban as dangerous to the health and safety of women according to many health authorities, but also that it's all our fault.

[Photo of Hodari courtesy of Detroit News.]

USA Today reported August 2, "doctors are becoming more assertive in refusing to treat patients for religious reasons," expanding on refusing to commit abortion to refusing artificial insemination, refusing to prescribe the morning-after pill, refusing to administer chicken pox and measles vaccines that were developed with aborted fetal tissue, and refusing assisted suicide.

The State-Journal Register reported August 3 that a federal judge has ruled IL pharmacists can refuse to dispense the morning-after pill.

One of the problems, according to John Lynch, Washington Hospital Center medical director, as quoted by CNN, is, "Our technology is ahead of our morals. From an ethical point of view, we haven't learned when to use our technology."

In light of exploding technology and evolving morals, and bearing in mind there is a growing shortage of medical professionals in all fields, how do you think the question of health care ethics should be handled?

On August 1 I posted findings of the New Jersey Dept. of Health and Senior Services in its investigation of the Alternatives abortion mill in Atlantic City. The NJHD report is 104 pages, and so far I've spotlighted findings of 1/3 of the report. Today I'll cover the next 1/3.

NJHD closed the mill June 22 for multiple violations. The mill remains closed for "fail[ing] to submit a plan on how it would fix the violations," according to the AP.

The following infractions are lifted directly from the report; no spin. This information is both macabre and fascinating, some of it like reading a diary.

Having worked in a hospital, I find the medical negligence staggering, and it appears the entire staff, certainly the doctors, consumed drugs like candy. At Christ Hospital, where I worked, an anesthesiologist died within the last five years of a Fentanyl overdose - while on shift. He laid down between epidurals and never woke up.

But I digress. Here's the next portion of the report....

This was the June 25 story on LifeSiteNews.com:

One of the most frequently downloaded iTunes in Canada, a French-language song entitled "Degenerations," vividly portrays a woman's sorrow and pain after having an abortion.

Continued LSN....

Spam comments to my site have gotten out of hand this week for some reason. They've been coming in at a faster and faster rate, but suddenly I'm getting 500-1,000 a day. Bless her heart, moderator Bethany is trying to delete them and can't physically keep up.

I'm sorry to have to put the site in authentication mode, meaning you'll have to sign in before posting. When I do this, comments drop, and I hate that. That said, signing in should be a one time deal once every two weeks.

If you run into trouble signing in, please email me at jillstanek@comcast.net.

Thank you for your patience. Your comments, each and every one, are valuable. I appreciate your taking the extra time to publish your thoughts.

Operation Rescue is reporting late term abortionist George Tiller's Wichita mill...

... is closed this week and will not accept appointments for next week, when Tiller is scheduled to be arraigned on 19 criminal counts of committing illegal abortions without obtaining the signature of a doctor who was not financially or legally affiliated with him. Women's Health Care Services is referring patients to abortionists in Kansas City and Oklahoma....

NARAL has just released this fun little video in an email entitled, "Justin Timberlake's '08 endorsement?"

Just goes to show snakes can be funny as well as cunning.

In its email NARAL encouraged readers to "[h]elp keep pro-choice issues front and center in 2008."

For once, I totally agree with NARAL.

New poster Oliver made an insightful comment July 31.

In the interest of developing pro-life apologetics I'd like to spotlight it for us to flesh out his thoughts, since the concept of the right to bodily autonomy is frequently cited pro-abort rationale....

[The photo above is of two preserved human specimens, a female and her eight-month-old preborn baby, in the Body Worlds display. Many bodily autonomy apologists do not deny there is a baby; they simply say the baby does not have the right to usurp his or her mother's bodily autonomy.]

Biblically, one definition of a fool is a person who doesn't know when to shut up.

The blogger who on the Wonkette site won the award for crassest comment about Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' July 30 seizure, ("Chief Justice John Roberts has died in his summer home in Maine. No, not really, but we know you have your fingers crossed.") is at it again.

Today, after listing my blog "among some self-righteous conservative folks" who thought the comment was asinine, Culture Warrior quipped, "From all of this outrage, you would think I actually took a shot at the guy."

Now, this is the same blogger who called Ann Coulter the c-word and accused her of an unspeakable act for "spew[ing] unparalleled hate" by her f-word (the other one) joke about John Edwards.

Touche.

I said I would relay contents of the investigative report by the New Jersey Dept. of Health and Senior Services re: the Alternatives abortion mill in Atlantic City, which I have just received in the mail.

NJHD closed the mill June 22 for multiple violations. The AP reported July 24 it remained closed, "as it again failed to submit a plan on how it would fix the violations."

It's no wonder. There are so many. The investigative report is 105 pages. Due to the volume of violations, I will today spotlight 20 from only the first 30 pages, by no means a comprehensive listing. These are lifted directly from the report....