Today I'd like to draw attention to pro-life blogs that have been covering the Aurora Planned Parenthood scandal....

Veronica at the Planned Parenthood Aurora blog blames pro-lifers for the lack of participation by pro-aborts in the civil discourse, or perhaps it's noncivil discourse, because she says we scare them away:

I have heard from friends, read your comments & blogs. Why weren't there more pro-choice voices at recent City Council meetings? Why did supporters leave meetings early? It is my belief that the history of clinic violence keeps some silent. The fact that the anti-choice leaders picket clinic workers homes keeps us silent.

Do you agree with Veronica it is our fault pro-aborts are less likely to actively engage in the abortion debate?

Well, just because it's the weekend doesn't mean the news stops.

First, Eric Scheidler's delayed appearance from last week's Fox News Live will be TODAY, in less than an hour. It can come any time after 11a CST but is expected about 11:20a CST.

Next, the pro-life libel suit against Planned Parenthood has been delayed, I hear, because additional plaintiffs are continually being added. Look for that to be filed early next week.

Finally, here's the report of another sort of delay from the Aurora Beacon, today:

Kane County State's Attorney John Barsanti will wait until next week to issue his much-anticipated decision on whether officials from Planned Parenthood broke the law in applying to build a women's health center in Aurora....

Barsanti has been reviewing Planned Parenthood/Gemini Office Development's application, permitting and approval process for possible criminal fraud after anti-abortion activists raised concerns a couple of weeks ago. The state's attorney's office had been expected to release its report on Friday, but officials said the release has been put off to next week, noting "Monday is still viable."...

Read entire story on page 2. This will likely make Chicago PP that much more antsy to file their second promised motion for an emergency injunction.

It's the weekend and time to regroup, right?

With that in mind, here is my 7-year-old grandson Gabriel's current favorite song. His Vacation Bible School version was a lot less rock and roll, but this is the same inspiring tune. I love to hear him sing it in his small, clear voice... "Tell the world that Jesus lives, tell the world that, tell the world that..."

Barack Obama, who never saw a reason to abort he didn't support, has not surprisingly signed a press release PP wrote for him on the Aurora situation. According to the Baltimore Sun, a few hours ago:

Today, Sen. Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to weigh in on the battle over a Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora.

Not surprisingly, the abortion rights supporter from Illinois said he would like to see the clinic open soon....

From the Baltimore Sun, this afternoon:

You'll have two chances to see Clarence Thomas in the next few days, likely two more than you've had in a very long time.

The notoriously private justice will be on CBS' 60 Minutes Sunday and then on ABC throughout the day on Monday, culminating in an extended interview on Nightline. Monday is the first day of the new Supreme Court term.

Thomas is availing himself for interviews in advance of the release of his new book, "My Grandfather's Son."

Rush will also play a 1-1/2 hour interview Monday he taped with Thomas yesterday.

According to a CBS advance story yesterday:

In his first television interview, in which he discusses his childhood, his race, his rise to Supreme Court Justice and his job on the nation's highest court, Clarence Thomas says the real issue at his controversial confirmation hearings 16 years ago was abortion....

I have actually said every one of these except, "No texting at the table." That nuisance came after my kids were grown... lol....

[HT: reader rosie]

From the Daily Mail, September 27:

Kimberly [Mueller] is the smallest baby ever born in Germany and the youngest to survive.

She was just 10.2 inches long and weighed little more than a packet of butter [10-1/2 ounces] when she arrived in the 25th week of her mother's pregnancy....

Kimberly's progress was underlined when she arrived home this week weighing five and a half pounds and measuring 17 inches....

If you are a pro-lifer with a residence or business within one-quarter mile of the Planned Parenthood Aurora site, please email me. Click to enlarge:

As promised, CO Right to Life staged its first picket of Weitz Company Wednesday. Weitz is currently the general contractor for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains' planned 50,000 sq. ft. mega-mill in Denver.

Pro-lifers held their picket during Weitz's lunch hour. It included graphic signs and a touring Truth Truck (sans the stolen Sanger sign)....

Click to enlarge:

In this case, I agree with NARAL. If Verizon censors pro-aborts on the topic of abortion, that means it will censor pro-lifers. A private company has that right, but this was a bad call.

In any event, the decision has already been reversed.

Backdrop, New York Times, this morning....

From the Aurora Beacon today:

Denying anti-abortion activists' assertions, city officials on Wednesday said it doesn't appear that Planned Parenthood officials needed a special-use permit before building a women's health center on the city's far East Side....

At the Aurora City Council meeting this past Tuesday night, Mayor Tom Weisner headed off citizen complaints about PP occupying the building with no occupancy permit by having a statement read:

Ah, this could be the real reason Western Civilization is in the throes of an underpopulation crisis. Feminists and homosexuals have succeeded in emasculated men to the point their voices have raised an octave.

From BBC News, September 25:

Deep-voiced men 'have more kids'

Men with deep voices tend to have more children than those who speak at a higher pitch, scientists say.

Their finding is based on a group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania known as the Hadza, who can be studied without bias because they use no birth control....

It is a very small world.

Back in February I wrote a post for Illinois Review entitled, "Debbie does...??" and a related WorldNetDaily column, "The link between HPV and lung cancer."

In large part about Democrat IL state Sen. Debbie Halvorson - who was pushing mandatory HPV vaccinations of preadolescent girls - this section of my post combined with my title made liberals crazy and got me mention in the New York Times...

This legal precedent addresses the PP Aurora complaint that some aldermen opposing it are doing so because they oppose abortion. Nevertheless, the court concluded in the Collinsville case, the abortionist disguised his intent and lost constitutional standing. Click to enlarge:

I wrote about Christy Freeman 6 weeks ago.

Police searched Freeman's Ocean City, MD, home and grounds after she was hospitalized July 27 for retained placenta but denied having been pregnant.

They found four dead preborn babies - the newly delivered under her bathroom vanity, twins in a bedroom chest, and one in a Winnebago in the driveway.

According to several news sources like the Delmarva Daily Times...

Read about contest on page 2. Here's a previous winner:

I reported in July the New Jersey Health Department had closed the Alternatives abortion mill in Atlantic City for multiple health and safety violations, including this, lifted directly from the 116-page report, which I received:

The soiled utility room... is equipped with a garbage disposal. Staff member #6 stated the garbage disposal was used for the "disposal of tissue"....

Today came word the fetal garbage dump has disposed of itself. According to The Press of Atlantic City....

If the Aurora Planned Parenthood site in the Illinois prairie lands is ground zero, then the Denver Planned Parenthood site in the Mile High City is sky zero.

Last month, with a reporter in hot pursuit, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains was forced to come clean about its secret purchase of a city block of property and plans to break ground on a 50,000 square foot mega-mill this November....

A pro-life hero and friend Chris Danze alerted me this morning he and his wife will travel to Colorado in 10 days to help "get a construction boycott off the ground" at the site of Planned Parenthood's 50,000 sq. ft. planned mega-mill in Denver.

Little did Chris know in 2003 that his effort to block the construction of a Planned Parenthood mill in his home town of Austin, TX, would have such a long-lasting nationwide impact.

It was Chris's boycott that PP has acknowledged caused it to go stealth with plans for future mills, including Aurora, Denver, and Portland, OR.

You may not know what Chris accomplished. Here's a little history....

Video by Jeff at ChicagoProLifeActivist from last night's Aurora City Council meeting.

Speaking is Gay Bruhn, vice president of communication for Illinois NOW, and a resident of Aurora:

This information came to me late this afternoon, and pro-lifers hammered on it over and over at the Aurora City Council meeting tonight, which finished about 11p.

The deal is Planned Parenthood's created front company, Gemini Office Development, LLC, is a for-profit company, and PP is a nonprofit company.

Eric Scheidler told me the Aurora Zoning Administrator corroborated that as a nonprofit organization, PP requires a "special use permit" to occupy and operate in its building.

According to Aurora zoning ordinances, a special use permit requires public notice in a local paper and public hearings, and property owners nearby can raise objections to the use. If 20% object, a supermajority of the City Council (2/3) must approve the use....

Midnite, one of our longtime commenters, is having a birthday today. Happy birthday, Midnite!

I thought this would be a good time to celebrate other site contributors....

If the Aurora Planned Parenthood site in the IL prairielands is ground zero, then the Denver Planned Parenthood site in the Mile High City is sky zero.

Last month, with a reporter in hot pursuit, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains was forced to come clean about its secret purchase of a city block of property and plans to break ground on a 50,000 square foot abortion mill this November

PP has admitted to several news outlets it went stealth with plans to build in Denver, Aurora, and Portland, OR, to avoid such pro-life boycotts as were undertaken at the Austin, TX, PP mill in 2003, which delayed its opening several months.

In Denver, pro-lifers are already realizing PP's fears. Two weeks ago they conducted a lit drop in the African-American neighborhood of the proposed PP. Here is what an RH Reality Check columnist called a "lie-packed brochure." Sorry, Jim, it was footnoted, although Jim is likely ticked because one of his inadvertently PP-damning columns is cited in it three times (click to enlarge):

Jeff from ChicagoProLifeActivist has posted a 5-minute video of clips of pastors speaking at the September 15 Jerich March finale. It's just great. See Rev. Johnny Hunter and others - black, white, Catholic, Protestant, and even a biker pastor - speak with passion and cohesiveness.

Other PP Aurora-related events...

The Lufkin Daily News yesterday called it "what may be the largest simultaneous anti-abortion protest in American history." Called 40 Days for Life, it starts this Wednesday in front of an abortion mill near you.

Numbers in the Bible, like 7, 12, and 666, for example, hold meaning. The number 40's signficance offers the introduction to this 1 minute video about 40 Days for Life:

Explained LDN:

The 40 Days for Life event is a nationwide campaign in 90 cities across 33 states....

The vigil is scheduled for Sept. 26 - Nov. 4.

The campaign focuses on 40 days of prayer and fasting, calling for peaceful vigils outside clinics in combination with educational outreach, a campaign press release stated.

Held once a year since 2004, 40 Days for Life has established a great track record, involving four components: prayer and fasting, peaceful vigils in front of abortion mills - around the clock if possible, and a neighborhood door-to-door flyer distribution education drive.

Its success must be why the abortion industry is gearing up against it.

Go to Planned Parenthood Houston's website and click on its Superheroes button warning that "extreme protesters are on the horizon!" and you'll open up this page of anti-40 Days for Life opportunities (click to enlarge)....

On behalf of a number of Aurora citizens who took part in the 40 day prayer vigil, Tom Brejcha of the Thomas More Society will file a $7.5 million lawsuit against Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area and its CEO Steve Trombley Tuesday.

The lawsuit is in response to Trombley's September 4 letter to Aurora aldermen, which he also sent to the Aurora Beacon....

The last time we discussed The View conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck, she had just announced she was pregnant, which caused liberal co-host Rosie O'Donnell to blog she was hence too delicate to debate any longer about 9/11 conspiracies or the Iraq War. But when Rosie couldn't help herself and broke her promise, she stepped in it and then tried to blame Elisabeth two days later. But when Elizabeth more than held her own, Rosie got her feelings hurt (interesting to rewatch) and quit the show early. Score one for the power of pregnant mothers.

That was May. My, how Elisabeth has blossomed throughout the summer, to the point she is gracing the cover of the November issue of Pregnancy magazine. So cute, and one tiny sign we are breaking the stronghold of liberal political correctness

Elisabeth answered questions of interest in an interview inside....

Since June 22, I have posted information about Dan McConchie, a pro-life leader and friend, who was involved in a harrowing motorcycle accident that day. Dan is Vice President and Executive Director of Americans United for Life.

I will move this post up as I receive new information on Dan's condition, so well wishes and prayers can be added to just one post. I will move old updates to page 2, in reverse chronological order. Also see updates Dan's family is posting on this website: prayfordanielmcconchie.com.

From Dan McConchie
Sent September 20, 2007

Well, the good news never stops....

Three questions to choose from on Planned Parenthood Aurora:

If PP is found guilty of defrauding the City of Aurora, what do you think should be the consequences, if any?

What do you think will be the actual outcome of this real life drama?

Who should play CEO Steve Trombley in the t.v. movie?

On the pro-life blogs....

Gotta start with a fantastic find by Big Blue Wave: Bono's explanation of grace vs. karma. Wow. BBW also found in a Muslim Q&A how they are to view abortion....

Poll

The Naperville Sun is currently running this poll question (right column): "Do you think a Planned Parenthood facility should go into operation on the Naperville-Aurora border?" The poll is running 60-39% in our favor. Go vote!

UPDATE, 9/24, 7:50a: The poll is still open, and it is running 62-37% in our favor, with 5,225 votes cast so far.

[HT: moderators MK and jasper]

Party

Jeff from ChicagoProLifeActivist reported on the celebration held last night for pray-ers and activists involved in the effort to stop Planned Parenthood Aurora....

That's us. We're the new media. We find, report, and discuss what the old media, known in the blog world as MSM - the mainstream media - can't or won't.

A citizen journalist using the pseudonym Laura Mansfield incredibly found the most recent al-Quaida/bin Laden video before they were ready to go public with it:

I know many here can identify with Mansfield's blogging habits, outlined in an accompanying September 20 AP story. And if a pro-lifer substitutes the words "abortion industry" or "Planned Parenthood" for "jihadists," one can personally relate what she does with what we do....

Actress Ellen Burstyn was in town attending the Toronto Film Festival the week September 6-14 in part to attend a screening of the classic movie in which she starred, Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.

While being interviewed on CFRB radio, the 74-year-old actress was asked what was the lowest moment of her life.

And for the first time, she publicly disclosed it:

Burstyn: You know, I guess, I hate to talk about this on the air, but having an abortion. You know that was really an extremely painful experience.

Interviewer: Did you feel you didn't have a choice?

Burstyn: At the time I was just young and dumb, I didn't really want to have a baby then. It was the wrong thing to do and I really didn't understand that till later. That was very very painful, that was probably the worst. I try not to allow regret to settle over me like a shroud, because I think its an unhealthy way to live.

[HT: LifeSiteNews.com via moderator MK; photo courtesy of Evan Agostini/Getty Images]

Planned Parenthood Aurora is conducting business at its Aurora address. Here is its contact info, lifted today from its website (click to enlarge):

UPDATE, 9/24, 7:55a:: The PP Aurora website is still listing its Aurora address as its business contact....

UPDATED post...

In federal court today, Planned Parenthood Aurora lost its motion to force the City of Aurora to let it open. Judge Norgle allowed Aurora to complete its investigation into PP's alleged fraud first.

So what is its timing? According to the Daily Herald, today...

Planned Parenthood Aurora just lost its request in a Chicago federal court to open. More to follow.

UPDATE, 12:39p: Per Aurora resident and attorney Vince Tessitore, who was present at the hearing: "Planned Parenthood lost. The judge will grant them leave to amend their complaint and try again. They can come back with an amended complaint, which I expect they will do. But for now they're not allowed to open. It's up to the City to let them open."...

My pro-abort sparring friend, columnist Eric Zorn of the Chicago Tribune, has weighed in on the Aurora Planned Parenthood situation.

And with a title like this, "In defense of Planned Parenthood's deceptions in Aurora: Sometimes the only way to get fairness will make your foes cry foul," you know madness is coming.

In fact, when I read Eric's piece about 2a this morning, I found so much wrong with it, I knew I'd never get to sleep if I gave it too much thought. So I closed it up, like a surgeon who has found a body overridden with cancer.

But I've already received two emails on Eric's column this morning from pro-life friends, so I can tell you're feeling feisty. In fact, John Jansen wrote me, "After reading it, I felt like the mosquito at the nudist colony: I simply don't know where to begin."

Ok, have at it....

Well of course Planned Parenthood representatives didn't tell the truth to Aurora city officials while they were building a new clinic in the western suburb....

A good conversation was launched from the September 18 post, "Hydration, nutrition, and the persistent vegetative state," and I have been asked to bring it forward to the home page. I'm going to pull a few a few thought provoking comments to continue the discussion....

I posted the City of Aurora's court documents filed in opposition to Planned Parenthood's motion for a preliminary injunction to open despite Aurora's ongoing investigation into its deceptive practices.

Now, here are Planned Parenthood's.

The case will be heard today in federal court in Chicago before Judge Norgle at 10a.

Notice
Motion
Steve Trombley supplemental declaration

The last is most intriguing. It contains in Exhibit 2 (pages 7-18) a series of emails and a phone log for February 20-March 6 that seem to show contact was made between Steve Trombley and an Auroran official named Bill Wyatt. They also seem to show contact was made with Mayor Tom Weisner. It will be interesting to see this shake out.

The emails also seem syrupy Eddie Haskell fake, but that's an aside.

UPDATE, 7:27a: Bill Wyatt is Bill Wiet, Mayor Weisner's current chief of staff and then-community development director [HT: OpenlineBlog.com]

From the Chicago Tribune, late tonight:

Clinic battle intensifies in Aurora
Mayor seeks criminal probe of permit process
By James Kimberly | Tribune staff reporter
10:41 PM CDT, September 19, 2007

The Kane County state's attorney has been asked to see whether Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area committed any crimes in how it obtained a permit to build a clinic on the city's east side.

The request came from the City of Aurora and escalates an already contentious battle over a planned abortion clinic from a mainly procedural and civil dispute into a potential criminal one.

This would seem to me to impact the federal court hearing later this morning on PP's request to force Aurora to let it open.

Read complete article on page 2.

UPDATE, 11:58a: From an Auroran source: "[D]on't be excited about [the criminal review]. It could a ploy by Weisner to say there wasn't anything 'criminal' found, so case closed. The fact he is in favor of John Barsanti is very suspicious since Barsanti endorsed [City Council member Richard] Irvin for mayor. That would be more of a conflict than what Weisner complained about before."

[Photo of Planned Parenthood Chicago CEO Steve Trombley courtesy of me]

In the middle of a left-slanted-but-hey-it's-publicity Washington Post article, today:

In recent years, antiabortion groups have also raised permit or zoning issues or organized boycotts to try to stop clinics in New York, Ohio, Texas, New Hampshire and Iowa, according to Planned Parenthood.

But the Aurora battle is the most contentious and involving one of the largest facilities yet. The result is likely to have ramifications for both sides' tactics nationwide.

Read entire article on page 2.

[Photo courtesy of the Washington Post]

Aurora attorney and resident Vince Tessitore received the following letter today in response to his letter to the City of Aurora yesterday demanding that it enforce ordinances against Planned Parenthood for unlawfully occupying its mill after its temporary occupancy permit expired Monday.

Tessitore used the word "occupancy" twice, and "occupy," "occupying," and "occupation" each once. He couldn't have been more specific on what matter he wished addressed except had he added "occupied," "occupier," or "occupationality" perhaps.

Yet Aurora corporation attorney Alayne Weingartz responded that she would check whether PP had opened for business, a poorly disguised blow-off.

Meanwhile, Aurora police harrass pro-lifers if they sneeze on Planned Parenthood air space.

Click to see enlarged pdf view:

This story aired tonight on ABC World News with Charles Gibson.

The title of this story is favorable, implying there is no question Planned Parenthood Aurora committed a cover-up, just whether it was justified.

Cecile is lying, of course, about the Austin mill. PP is anti-choice when it comes to contractors and workers having the freedom to decide whether to help build their abortuaries. In Austin, when they knew, they declined.

PP didn't give contractors and workers In Aurora the choice. I wish they could sue for violating some right to something. Maybe they can. I don't know if I could handle finding out I had unknowingly helped with abortion.

Deception or Necessary Precaution?
Planned Parenthood: Concealed Name to Protect New Clinic's Construction Workers
Sept. 19, 2007....

Don't know who cancelled who. Barry Manilow says he "bowed out" and The View says it cancelled him before he could.

Bottom line is Manilow didn't want to sit at the same roundtable as token conservative View co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck. Manilow told TMZ: "I strongly disagree with her views. I think she's dangerous and offensive. I will not be on the same stage as her."

Here's his version of the story (click to enlarge):

And here's The View's version....

Roger from FamiliesAgainstPlannedParenthood.org took photos of Planned Parenthood Aurora's nonopening party last night, with, of course, pro-lifers were on hand to also celebrate.

See more photos on page 2.

Meanwhile, the Aurora Beacon reported today....

Planned Parenthood Federation CEO Cecile Richards sent out an email alert late yesterday afternoon retreading soundbites from previous emails and asking again to donations for Aurora PP's hot pink ribbon campaign:

But there were no hot pink ribbons to be seen anywhere at the mill when I attended the Jericho March protest Saturday.

I asked Jeff from ChicagoProLifeActivist about it. He said PP displayed tiny hot pink ribbons on strings for awhile that actually made it look like the mill was fortressed by hot pink barbed wire, but PP took them down.

Rats, I thought. Would have loved to see that.

Well, I just spotted photos of the pink barbed wire on Planned Parenthood Aurora's website:

Indeed!

[HT: Brian Burch for the PP email and moderator MK for telling me about PP Aurora's website]

Jeff at ChicagoProLifeActivist did some sleuthing yesterday. Jeff created all graphics and photos on this post.

Steve Trombley, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area's CEO, has been saying lately that while PP admittedly hid its ownership of the Aurora abortion mill by creating a front advance company, still PP was forthcoming.

Two examples of Trombley before:

"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... and, at this point, I don't anticipate anything will stop that from happening." ~ Chicago Tribune, July 27

[Trombley] said that Gemini, a limited liability partnership, was set up to mask Planned Parenthood's involvement to keep protesters away while the $7.5-million clinic was being built. "It should be evident... why we did that," Trombley said. "This land was zoned for medical services. The city didn't ask what type of medical services." ~ Los Angeles Times, August 31

And Trombley after (click to enlarge):

What about this "newspaper notification"and "public hearing" that "they made public"?

Jeff discovered the newspaper notification was posted by the IL Finance Authority, not PP, and in the Chicago Sun-Times - a newspaper 40 miles from Aurora - on April 20 on page 74 with PP/Gemini's names buried....

Here are the papers Aurora attorneys filed today in opposition to Planned Parenthood's motion for preliminary injunction, to be heard Thursday before Judge Norgle in federal court at 10a.

Defendant's response

Affidavit, Alayne Wiengartz, Aurora corporate attorney

Planned Parenthood vs. City of Manchester

I'm interested in opinions on the strength of the response by legal eagles in the crowd.

[HT: Tom Brejcha]

When Catholics speak on the pro-life issue, I listen, even though I'm not Catholic. The Catholic Church has thought through every nuance of the pro-life issue, often ahead of Her time. Pope Paul VI's Humanae Vitae, for instance, written in 1968, was profound and prophetic. That's just one example.

If I say the Catholic Church is inspired on the pro-life issue, my Catholic friends will flog me and say it is inspired on every issue. But at risk of flogging (wasn't Luther also flogged?.. :) I will say it anyway, because I want to impress upon my Protestant friends the importance of Catholic teaching on the pro-life issue, and that they should embrace it.

So when the Vatican released a statement September 14 on the topic of providing artifical hydration and nutrition to persons in a persistent vegetative state, I was very interested....

If Planned Parenthood Aurora's temporary occupany permit expired yesterday, can its people still occupy the building? Apparently not. Click to enlarge:

Does this mean they will have to cancel their little abortion soiree tonight? I'd say so.

I have a new poll question up:

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

Next week I'll ask the same question of Democrats.

The very pretty stats for my last poll are....

Did you vote in that poll? If so, click to enlarge this map and find your little flag....

An email alert from Planned Parenthood Federation that pro-lifer Brian Burch received last night (click to enlarge):

I wonder what they'll serve. Baby back ribs? Kiddie cocktails?

I'm sure pro-lifers can help PP devise a menu.

From the Chicago Tribune, today (read entire story on page 2):

... Seldom do opponents and supporters of abortion rights agree across one of the nation's most contentious political divides. But as Planned Parenthood fights to open a 22,000-square-foot clinic in Aurora this week, both sides concur that this city of 170,000 is a pivotal battleground on the national stage.

"It is playing out very big across the country," said American Life League Vice President Jim Sedlak, who travels extensively, seeking ways to shut down abortion providers. "Aurora has shown the pro-life community that given the right set of circumstances, they can get thousands of people out, and now everyone wants to do that."...

In a recent e-mail to supporters, Cecile Richards, Planned Parenthood Federation of America president, highlighted the struggle in Aurora.

"Something amazing is happening. Right now, this very moment," Richards wrote. "Ground zero in the fight for women's access to reproductive health care just landed in a town in the middle of America."...

Eric Scheidler, an Aurora resident and spokesman for the Pro-Life Action League, says he has been inundated with calls for advice from allies in Georgia, Florida, New York, Oregon and throughout the Midwest.

"I've never seen an issue that galvanized the pro-life community like this," Scheidler said. "Trying to get even 40 people to get out to an abortion picket is like pulling teeth. I'm getting 100, 200, 300 people, day after day."...

[Photo courtesy of Chicago Tribune]

What I get from this story is that Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner had something to be nervous about, which may be why he at first to appoint an independent investigator into Gemini/Planned Parenthood fraud who was a "friendly."

That aside, this story further corroborates PP's deceptiveness. PP called a city official to express "interest[] in relocating their offices from Naperville to Aurora" - when PP already owned the office building in question, and it was near completion? If the story as outlined by the Beacon is true, this only strengthens Aurora's case that PP/Gemini practiced deception against it.

In the Aurora Beacon, today....

Look quick. The Aurora Planned Parenthood saga is the lead story on the Fox News Chicago site right now. Eric Scheidler has something important to say. Go watch the news clip.

You'll see in that clip PP CEO Steve Trombley has found another straw to grasp. Even though Gemini and PP deceived the City of Aurora about the intended occupant of its building, Steve says the City should have known by the looks of the plans.

FNC is also asking this poll question: "Would you want a Planned Parenthood clinic in your neighborhood?" Go vote. On right side of home page.

UPDATE, 9/18, 7:23a: Well, I told you to look quick. The Aurora PP saga is now rotating as top story (which is still good). It can be viewed here, where you can also still vote on the poll, which has been running 70-75% against PP. The story is actually very fair. I even think Trombley weakened PP's credibility even further via this story.

This one is easy but critical.

From the Aurora Beacon, July 29:

Trombley said those threats [of protests] won't affect progress on the $7.5 million project.... He said $5 million already has been raised for the project, with the remainder coming from donations as well.

"The more protesters out in front, the faster we'll probably raise it," he said.

Speaking was Steve Trombley, Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area's CEO.

There's also this in the Chicago Tribune, July 27....

A full page ad featuring 21 "religious leaders" called for a "Day of Prayer" yesterday in the Aurora Beacon, Chicago Tribune, and Daily Herald. The ad stated it was "Paid for by Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area."

So we had dueling clergy in the newspaper yesterday, because 121 pro-life clergy from churches in the Aurora Planned Parenthood area also took out a full page ad in the Aurora Beacon and Naperville Sun.

I scanned the entire ad in sections and pieced it together, but it's not clear. (Click to enlarge.)

So following is the enlarged message and enlarged list of signers. (Click both to enlarge.)....

This was just published by Time Magazine an hour ago:

In Illinois today, a federal judge is expected to hear an intriguing argument in the abortion debate. At issue: Is Aurora, Ill., a city of nearly 175,000 about an hour's drive west of Chicago, trying to stop Tuesday's scheduled opening of the nation's largest Planned Parenthood clinic because of political pressure from anti-abortion activists? Or was the clinic's true nature - that is, its Planned Parenthood genesis - not readily apparent to city officials when they originally approved permits for the building? Or is it a bit of both? The case is already one of the most heated in the nation's grassroots abortion wars, and protests in Aurora this past weekend drew hundreds of anti-abortion demonstrators....

(Continue reading story on page 2.)

UPDATE, 4p: On this point in the Time article, "The group [PP] says abortions accounted for 3% of its services nationally last year," here is this direct quote from PP Chicago CEO Steve Trombley, from the Aurora Beacon, July 29:

"There's a need for this service," Trombley said, citing Aurora's population boom and burgeoning populations in Kane and surrounding counties. "Ninety percent of medical services are for preventative gynecological services. Only 10 percent of what we do relates to abortion services."

1. Tiller faces criminal misdemeanor charges on 19 illegal late-term abortions committed in 2003 not signed off by an unaffiliated physician. For this Tiller could lose his license and spend a year in jail for each convicted count.

2. Tiller just lost his battle to block a grand jury from being convened to investigate illegal late-term abortions Tiller may have committed since 2003, with a petitioner request that Sedgwick County DA Nola Foulston and AG Paul Morrison, both with ties to Tiller, not be involved in this investigation.

3. KS legislators conducted a 2-day hearing earlier this month investigating Tiller's late-term abortion practices to consider finding and strengthening loopholes in current late-term abortion laws. As part of this, one of Tiller's patients, Michelle Arnesto-Berg, testifed that when he aborted her in May 2003 she signed no consent form, was asked for no medical information, and was never diagnosed with any condition that met the legal requirement of "substantial and irreversible impairment" for abortions after 22 weeks. Only recently Michelle learned Tiller charted her baby as nonviable, which was news to her. Hear Michelle's testimony here.

Here is the Los Angeles Times front page story, today. Tiller's quote at the very end of the story is most interesting....

[HT: Operation Rescue; photo courtesy of LAT]

This information comes from pro-life attorney Tom Brejcha, who just left the hearing:

U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle has denied Planned Parenthood's request for an order that Aurora allow it to open tomorrow.

There is a very short schedule for the next hearing. Each side has 24 hours to file papers to respond. They will be back in court Thursday morning. This hearing will include witnesses if appropriate if either side brings them.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall refused to take the case. She said this wasn't related to the Pro-Life Action League case currently before her. Turns out PP wanted its case to go before Kendall, which was likely a tip-off she may lean in favor of abortion.

This is great news.

UPDATE, 1:20p: Eric Scheidler just emailed this additional information on today's hearing, which he attended:

Planned Parenthood was asking Federal District Judge Charles Norgle to issue an injunction that would have required the City to let them open for business WITHOUT concluding the investigation into PP's dealings with the City.

Judge Charles Norgle listened to arguments from PP and the City for an hour, and decided a full hearing was required.

The hearing has been set for Thursday at 10 a.m. That means that Planned Parenthood will not open until Friday at the earliest.

One important point to keep in mind:

The question here is not whether PP can ever open. The question is whether their opening can be DELAYED while an investigation is concluded into the allegations raised into wether PP defrauded the City.

That question may be settled Thursday after a full hearing.

UPDATE, 1:47p: Here's the Chicago Tribune story on the hearing.

UPDATE, 7:43p: Here's a CBS 2 news t.v. report, which includes Eric Scheidler [HT: Paul W.]

FYI, I'll be on my friend Kevin McCullough's radio show on WMCA in New York sometime after 2:20p EST this afternoon, which can be heard live via the Internet if you don't live in the area.

We'll discuss the Aurora Planned Parenthood situation.

Kevin wrote a column on this yesterday, which was the most read on Townhall.com for the day.

Update, 12:40p: My segment will air at 3:20p and be available by podcast after 4p.

Here's another photo montage of Saturday's protest, formally called the Jericho March, at the Aurora Planned Parenthood abortion mill.

This little video has a 60s psychodelic edge to it with well done graphics work. It appears the "new media" role pro-lifers have had to assume, since MSM supports abortion, is growing not just to encompass journalism but also to bump up against liberal Hollywood with our own creative documentaries. Starting small, but who knows? www.fightingirishthomas.net made this one:

[HT: reader Mike]

Please alert me to other coverage in comments section.

ABC 7 News (scroll to "Protesters march against opening of abortion clinic")
Beacon News, which included the Steve Trombley Quote of the Day, "We believe people of good will can differ," never mind PP's lying, deception, and fraud.
Chicago Tribune
Daily Herald
Fox News (featuring a shot of our own MK)

[HT: moderator MK; OpenLineBlog]

In addition, Fox Valley Clery for Life and Fox Valley Families Against Planned Parenthood took out two impressive, informative, and striking full page ads in two newspapers this morning, the Beacon News and the Naperville Sun. 121 local clergy members signed the first, as opposed to 9 nonlocal PP faux clergy - 1 an unacknowledged PP board member - who voiced support of PP earlier in the week. Click on ads to see enlarged view....

The largest abortion provider in the U.S., Planned Parenthood Federation, recently embarked on a national abortion building campaign.

If you are an abortion proponent who (inexplicably) believes, as the Clintons do, abortion should be "safe, legal, and rare," do you support or oppose PP's expansion program, which will obviously result in more abortions. (As it is said, "If you build it, they will come.")

Why or why not?

Tomorrow morning at 9:00a is an important protest at the intended site of the Aurora Planned Parenthood abortion mill. We have to match or surpass our previous number of 1,200.

The situation is now getting national traction. For the first time, as far as I know, the Associated Press covered the story today, as did many other media outlets. I'm sure many will show tomorrow....

From today's Chicago Tribune:

[Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area CEO Steve] Trombley conceded Planned Parenthood was coy during the application process because it did not want to tip off its opponents while the clinic was under construction. But Trombley denied Planned Parenthood ever defrauded or deceived the city. "In no way did we deviate from the letter of the law," he said....

When Gemini told the city it was unsure who its tenant would be, that was technically true at the time because the decision had not yet been made as to because which entity related to Planned Parenthood would occupy the building, Trombley said.

First, Trombley spoke as if Gemini were in charge (Gemini "owner," PP "tenant"), when in fact, it is the other way around. PP owns Gemini. Trombley told the LA Times August 31...

... Gemini, a limited liability partnership, was set up to mask Planned Parenthood's involvement to keep protesters away while the $7.5-million clinic was being built.

"It should be evident... why we did that," Trombley said. "This land was zoned for medical services. The city didn't ask what type of medical services."

Trombley can now try, but there's no avoiding boneheaded things he has said on the public record, the classic, of course, being, "Frankly, I'm surprised we were able to keep it a secret for so long."

It's straightforward. PP created Gemini. Now, according to Trombley, that Aurora didn't connect the dots is its own fault for not investigating Gemini or scouring public notices in other cities' newspapers.

Further, in court documents PP filed yesterday it called Gemini "a wholly owned affiliate."

Also according to those court documents, "In 2002, PPCA began planning for a new medical facility to provide services in Chicago's western suburbs... Ultimately PPCA obtained a parcel of land... in Aurora."

But PP didn't create Gemini until it was needed for concealment. See Gemini's incorporation papers here, filed with the state on April 24, 2006 (click to enlarge):

According to FOIAd documents, Gemini's first construction permit was filed July 27, 2006 (click to enlarge):

(Kathleen M. Howard, photo right, is a Perkins Coie attorney, PP's legal consultant per tax returns.)

And what did Trombley mean by saying they didn't "technically" lie about the occupant because they weren't sure "which [PP] entity" that would be?

PP only has two entities: expresses and mills. Expresses don't commit abortion and don't have surgical suites, and mills do commit abortions and do have surgical suites.

And PP/Gemini were flummoxed about that throughout the process of constructing a medical building containing surgical suites? Give me a break.

[HT: John Jansen of PLAL for Gemini incorporation papers]

"Day of Conception," wherein the government promoted marital noncontracepted conjugal relations.

Pro-aborts on this site scoff. It appears their scoffing may echo in emptier and emptier hook-up bars or bathroom stalls.

In his September 12 Breakpoint, Chuck Colson referred to this August 20 commentary in the Wall Street Journal by social scientist Arthur Brooks....

Posted by the Chicago Tribune:

After a hearing this morning, Planned Parenthood and Aurora officials are waiting to hear which federal judge will hear their dispute over whether a Planned Parenthood clinic can open Tuesday as scheduled.

Planned Parenthood filed suit Thursday seeking an emergency court order requiring the city to permit a new clinic to open, and the case was assigned randomly to U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle....

Planned Parenthood Chicago's motion for an emergency injunction will be heard this morning at 9:30a in U.S. District Court in Chicago. A pro-life attorney will observe and report.

Here are the legal documents. Note PP and Gemini are now public BFFs:

Notice
Motion
Complaint
Brief

Like a bad neighbor, PP is there.

First it lied so people could die.

Now it has the gall to ask the federal court to grant it the occupancy permit Aurora is withholding pending an independent investigation into whether PP compromised the integrity of Aurora's permit process by shading the truth or outrightly lying in its communications through its alter ego Gemini Development....

Dear ,

Planned Parenthood is under attack.

To be absolutely clear: the largest anti-choice protest we've seen in a very long time is happening at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora, Illinois, at this very moment.

It's easy to ignore if you don't live there or aren't a woman trying to seek health care services at the clinic. But I hope you won't ignore it, because what's happening in Aurora is what's happening to all of us who care about choice in America.

We are facing no less than the most emboldened protest by the most radical anti-choice people I've ever encountered. They've made our brand new health center in Aurora ground zero in their fight against women's access to health care. And they are determined to keep our clinic from ever opening.

News alert from the Aurora Beacon:

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Chicago on Thursday afternoon seeking an emergency injunction to allow the Aurora women's health center to open next Tuesday as planned. The petition was filed in response to the city's indication that the controversial clinic likely will not be granted a final occupancy permit in time....

From pro-lifer Dan Gura via Republicans for Fair Media, today:

On September 12, WLS-TV [local ABC affiliate] anchor Ron Magers introduced a... segment, Ministers Voice Support for New Clinic, with "There's new support for a controversial plan to open a Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora. A group of ministers came out in support of the clinic Wednesday."...

Only one was identified by name, Rev. Randall Doubet-King, who said, "Each year, Planned Parenthood provides tens of thousands of women and families in this region with services they need and deserve to make the choices they need to make."...

I googled Doubet-King....

I was not surprised to learn he was a retired Pastor with the United Church of Christ....

[But also,] on April 23, 2004 Planned Parenthood sent out a press release which announced:

Rev. Randall Doubet-King Receives Planned Parenthood Davis Award for Distinguished Service.... Rev. Randall Doubet-King is truly an outstanding clergyman and advocate for reproductive rights. His work with Planned Parenthood Chicago Area has enriched a variety of essential programs and projects and his frequent presence in the press as a pro-choice clergy voice has been an invaluable asset to our movement....

It also lists his accomplishments:

Rev. Doubet-King serves as board chair for Planned Parenthood Chicago Area and chair of their PPFA Vision for 2025 Stewardship Committee.

For WLS-TV News to fail to mention that the "minister" whom they interviewed is not only a shill for Planned Parenthood, but a highly placed cog in their mill's wheel of death, is to do a grave disservice to the truth.

It is such sloppy journalism to have missed that. Googling the name indeed immediately draws Doubet-King's connection to PP.

And why wasn't the press conference in Aurora? Speaking of, how many of those "clergy" were from Aurora?

Jeff from Chicago Pro-Life Activist has put together two video montages, 4-6 minutes each, of highlights from the Aurora City Council meeting on September 11 concerning Planned Parenthood's attempted sneak into the community.

The montages include testimony from both pro-lifers and pro-aborts. In video II you'll start to hear chatter for and against a parental notification ordinance now being proposed in Aurora, a positive outcome of this mess.

Jeff did a great job pulling from 3 hours of video. You will see that the pro-lifers testifying were articulate, sensible, respectful - and adamant.

As an off-topic pop culture feature, on September 10 I posted Britney Spears' poor performance at the MTV Awards the night before.

On the O'Reilly Factor last night, comedian and Hollywood insider Dennis Miller made sobering points:

I don't want to be the last person to tell a joke about Britney Spears before she kills herself. I'll be honest with you. That girl looks like she's right at the brink. I guess it's the only punctuation mark that a Marilyn Monroe act-alike can put on themselves, or a Chris Farley with John Belushi. I don't know what's going on there, but it looks so dangerous to me right now that I just hope somebody steps in.... This girl looks right on the brink of ending it to me....

Carl's Jr., a company that can be called nothing less than creative for connecting a sexy Paris washing cars to hamburgers, is at it again.

And here's one for their Hardee's brand....

Here's an email I received today:

I was adopted at birth in 1963, when abortion was illegal. Supposedly I should be "pro-life" because the odds are I would have been aborted. But I am very much in favor of abortion.

When a child is born to two parents, that child is something like them. In cases of adoption this is not necessarily the case. Adoption can turn out well but it can also become a nightmare for all concerned....

This seems cut-and-dry. There is no question the Born Alive Infant Protection Act applies here. Passed in 2001, it states any human born alive, no matter the circumstances and no matter the gestational age, is constitutionally protected as a legal person.

And it's a good thing we have BAIPA, because legalized abortion has completely radicalized thinking on personhood. From the Kansas City Star, September 11:

A federal magistrate judge has questioned defense arguments that Lisa Montgomery should not be charged with kidnapping because the child she abducted was not a legal person....

One of our young pro-life feminist commenters, prettyinpink, advocates accomodating pregnant mothers to lower the abortion rate.

One of our moderators, Lauren, has told her horror story of being discriminated against in college when she became pregnant.

Is this an example of discrimination? From the Associated Press, September 12:

A breast-feeding mother who wants extra breaks so she can pump milk during the licensing exam that she needs to secure a prestigious medical residency has asked a Massachusetts judge to settle her dispute with the board that administers it....

Stalwart commenter John McDonell has submitted this great short video which teaches pro-lifers to respond to four common concerns:

1. What is the real issue in the abortion debate
2. Are the unborn human?
3. What about rape?
4. What about abortion for life of the mother?

The cogent apologist is Stephanie Gray, Executive Director for the Canadian Centre for Bioethical Reform:

Listen and learn. Thanks, John!

Amanda, who wrote the Penance email I posted September 7, wrote a response to all your comments that I don't think anyone saw because it slipped off the main page by the time she did. Here 'tis:

September 10
10:54a

This is the Amanda that originally wrote the letter. (No, I do not know any of you.) I just wanted to thank you for your kindness and support. It means a lot to me....

Married couples only, of course.

From CBC News, September 11:

Don't be surprised if the streets are empty and curtains drawn in this central Russian region Wednesday as residents take up an offer by the regional governor to help stem Russia's demographic crisis.

Ulyanovsk Gov. Sergei Morozov has decreed Sept. 12 a Day of Conception and is giving couples time off from work to procreate.

Couples who give birth nine months later on Russia's national day - June 12 - receive money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes....

Russia, although the world's largest country in terms of land mass, now has just 141.4 million citizens, making it one of the most sparsely settled....

On September 10, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform set up its photo mural exhibit at Middle Tennessee State University and MSM outlet WKRN was there to give a slanted report. Hard to believe it couldn't find one student who supported the display, particularly since CBR can only come to campuses if invited by a student group, but not a shock.

But here's the shock. While I'm used to pro-aborts rejecting the comparison between abortion and historical human atrocities, I'm unused to pro-aborts not even comprehending the concept.

Three students were quoted in the story, the third the worst:

"I think comparing mass graves from the Holocaust and Darfur and pretty much directly comparing them to women who just aren't ready to have a child, that's egregious, terrible."

"The Jewish people, African-Americans, everybody else that is displayed here that has died in a genocide is a horrible, horrible thing. And the fact that they would abuse this and use this for their own political agenda is disturbing."

"I find it horrific. I mean, I think comparing dead fetuses to a black man being hung and the Holocaust... I mean, one is hatred, the other one is a personal choice."

Click on image to get to video link.

I myself have a comprehension problem. I really cannot comprehend the blindness. Really can't.

[HT: moderator jasper]

First, my new friend Jeff at Chicago Pro-Life Activist is preparing a video/photo montage of last night he'll get to us asap. I'll post a few photos now to give you a sense.

Eric Scheidler warned in email updates he had heard Planned Parenthood Chicago CEO Steve Trombley requested (ordered?) Chicago PP personnel to show for this meeting, and they did. Here is the scene that greeted us....

Last week, I detailed how it appears Planned Parenthood mega mills popping up across the country are not happenstance but the culmination of a five-year plan not only to expand, but also exterminate competition....

But pro-lifers interrupted the plan in 2003. Led by concrete contractor Chris Danze, they initiated a boycott of construction workers, equipment and supplies throughout the building of a $6.2 million Planned Parenthood mill in Austin, TX....

Kevin Cosgrove's 911 call....

(Click to enlarge)

The only entity likely happy about the Aurora Planned Parenthood battle is the Aurora Beacon, which is selling a lot of ad space these days.

I was flabbergasted when hearing about the full page ad Planned Parenthood took out today with a large photo of a bombed abortion clinic and again accusing Joe Scheidler and Pro-Life Action League of violence. Steve Trombley obviously took Tom Brejcha's letter to cease and desist as a dare.

Obviously, PP's goal is to turn public opinion away from who it considers ringleaders of the movement to keep PP out of Aurora.

I'm biased, but it seems to me this is another colossal bad move on PP's part....

... I'm looking for the best YouTube video that encompasses both the factual details and emotion of that terrible day.

Would like it to be five minutes or less.

Please post your suggestions in comments.

Thanks.

With the attention on Planned Parenthood of Chicago for attempting to slither into Aurora with what it brags will be its largest US abortion mill, the time seems perfect to post audiotapes of the undercover calls Life Dynamics made to Illinois abortion clinics in the spring of 2002.

An LDI activist called over 800 Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation clinics nationwide, posing as a 13-year-old girl impregnated by her 22-year-old boyfriend.

While this is considered statutory rape in all 50 states, over 90% of clinic employees taking the call nationwide offered to conceal the crime.

In IL, all 21 clinics that were called - 100% - offered to aid and abet in the cover-up. Of those, 12 were Planned Parenthood facilities, including all 3 in Chicago.

The calls were made in TX, where it is legal to record phone conversations without the other party knowing. Although these calls are inadmissable in court other than to prove perjury, they demonstrate intent and experience with the scenario.

Listen to the calls for yourself....

Per Joe Scheidler's weekly hotline, an August 31 Los Angeles Times story was "[o]ne of the most comprehensive stories to come out of the battle against Planned Parenthood so far."

Continued Scheidler....

Jeff from Chicago Pro-Life Activist has posted last night's Planned Parenthood segment from Hannity's America on YouTube:

I thought the segment covered a lot of ground in six minutes: Planned Parenthood's fraudulent construction practices, its treatment of aborting mothers as cash cows, and its cover-up of minor rape/incest. Thoughts?

WorldNetDaily.com featured a story today on the latest development in the Aurora Planned Parenthood battle: its false accusations against Joe Scheidler and Pro-Life Action League as being violent, and their demand to retract or face a lawsuit.

Included in the story are links to documents on this blog.

Jeff at Chicago Pro-Life Activist has produced a well-done video of Friday night's prayer vigil at the Aurora Planned Parenthood site.

Per Families Against Planned Parenthood, 300-400 attended. FAPP has an account of the evening.

[HT: Jeff at Chicago Pro-Life Activist]

Tonight, Hannity's America on Fox News Channel will feature an investigation of Planned Parenthood. The show will air 8p CST and 11p CST.

The program's impetus was the Aurora situation and the tremendous uprising against it. But also covered will be PP's other dubious activities. In fact, show producers asked pro-lifers providing background info to keep it quiet until a few days ago so they could do some digging of PP without it knowing.

The segment is supposed to air about 8:30p CST. It will feature one or more of the Scheidlers, and we hear it will also feature Chicago's own Yvonne Florczak-Seeman, who had five abortions and is now pro-life.

This is not Planned Parenthood's week.

[HT: Tom Brejcha, Rock for Life, Eric Scheidler]

On the pro-life blogs....

La Shawn Barber links to her Examiner piece, "End birthright citizenship." It questions whether the 14th Amendment's Citizenship Clause was intended for "babies of people who'd entered and remained in the country in defiance of U.S. law to become Americans simply because they were born on American soil." I question, too.

Big Blue Wave has posted a short video clip of former abortion RN Joan Appleton speaking about the mind of an abortionist. Crazy evil.

On the eve of British scientists being given the nod to create human-animal hybrids, Judie Brown was reminded of the Twilight Zone.

When the Feminists for Life bloggers get angry about something, you know it. And la_veuve_chibi is really mad about this.

Forest Nymph links to this Bromley Times story, "Amnesty [International] suffers huge membership fall out over abortion issue."

Eric Scheidler at Generations for Life reports on how well Planned Parenthood's phone campaign to Aurorans is going. Signs anyone? No.

JivinJehoshaphat links to the post, "Scheduled for September 10." That's Monday. Yuck.

My doesn't this sound familiar, from MInTheGap:

In 1995, [pro-choice feminist] Naomi Wolf wrote a remarkable article for the New Republic. In it, she said the following about the Pro-choice position:

Clinging to a rhetoric about abortion in which there is no life and no death, we entangle our beliefs in a series of self-delusions, fibs and evasions. And we risk becoming precisely what our critics charge us with being: callous, selfish and casually destructive men and women who share a cheapened view of human life.

Notice the underlined words, and then it starts to make sense why those that argue the Pro-Abortion decision must change the topic, answer a different question, or do something to change the topic....

Mother May I... Be Born reports that Students for Life has updated its blog just in time for the start of school. Featured is a demonstration video, "How to make a Cemetery of the Innocents display":

Pro-abort CO Gov. Bill Ritter is saying that despite the state constitution forbidding "direct" or "indirect" funding of abortion, he thinks Planned Parenthood should get tax $$ for "family planning." Puleeze. The Passionate Pro-Lifer is on it.

Fr. Pavone promises church "control freaks" can't control us.

I've been called a lot of things, but not yet this: "forced pregnancy activist." But Nathan Sheets located the spat utterance at Feministing.

And last but not least, The Truth about Margaret Sanger found morphthing.com and came up with a photo of what a child of Hitler and Sanger would look like. My, we're an imaginative bunch.

Yesterday Amanda Marcotte lamented having to sit through a karaoke version of Brick by Ben Folds Five.

When her mom saw the face she made as the singer started and asked Marcotte why she didn't like it, she responded, "Because the point of the song is that his girlfriend sucks for getting an abortion because it was such a downer for him. Boo-f***ing-hoo. How dare you get pregnant on accident with my sperm."

She blogged, "In fact, the song may even be more self-centered and horrible than I put it to my mother. It's indescribably mean, with the lyrics about how his girlfriend turned into this albatross around his neck with this abortion, or actually a brick."

Was the song "indescribably mean"? Was its point as Marcotte described? Read lyrics here. Read backdrop on Wikipedia.

[HT: moderator Lauren]

From the Boston Globe, September 4:

Paris Hilton has vowed to have children by next year.

The hotel heiress, who is currently single, is ready to become a mother and is preparing her body so it is in prime condition for conceiving.

She said in an interview with Elle magazine: "I want kids next year, so I've got to get my body ready."...

It was recently reported that Paris, 26, had been feeling broody since close friend Nicole Richie fell pregnant.

A source said: "Paris told me, 'I want lots of babies and a more simple life away from the celebrity spotlight. I did a lot of soul-searching about my partying and then I heard Nicole was pregnant and I decided it's time for me to grow up and take responsibility - and the best way to do that is to become a mother.' "

Hm. So many directions I could take this. But I'll just make the point least likely to be noted and leave the abundance of other rich fodder for commenters.

That is, if it's true preborn babies are parasites, as so many abortion proponents on this site claim, why is it women prepare for them? One normally doesn't get one's body in shape to welcome a parasite (or in Paris' case, "parisite"). One usually gets one's body in shape to try to rid oneself of a parasite, like a cancer bug.

Or is it that one woman's parasite is another's butterfly? But that won't work either. That would be to say the definition of these beings is abstract, when scientifically that's not possible.

I knew it.

Steve Trombley, CEO of Planned Parenthood Chicago, must retract the "false, libelous and malicious statements" in his letter or face "legal redress," this according to a letter just sent electronically to Trombley by Tom Brejcha, attorney for the Scheidlers and Pro-Life Action League. Brejcha successfully represented PLAL before the US Supreme Court.

The entire letter is on page 2, but here is its bottom line:

Should you not retract your false and libelous assertions against Eric Scheidler, or the Aurora protesters, or Fox Valley Families promptly by follow up letter, or by newspaper advertisement, or by public testimony at Aurora's next council meeting next Tuesday evening, we shall seek legal redress.

Moreover, we shall press Aurora officials to seek redress for your false and misleading statements during the permit process when, as you were quoted in the Chicago Tribune, you took pains to keep your actual plans "secret" for as long as possible. As former Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis insisted, "the best disinfectant is sunlight." Those who try to confuse, deceive or mislead public officials must be held accountable.

Note that if you were present at any of the protests, Tom is representing you as well.

From the Aurora Beacon, yesterday:

Responding to criticism by anti-abortion activists and some Aurora aldermen, Planned Parenthood officials on Wednesday said they were truthful with the city about the development approval process for a clinic proposed for the city's far East Side.

Steve Trombley, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area, sent a three-page letter to all 12 aldermen and Mayor Tom Weisner in the wake of accusations that the agency defrauded city staff about the women's health center, scheduled to open Sept. 18....

"I'm not sure what he (Trombley) was hoping to accomplish," with the letter, Weisner told The Beacon News.

Well, I am. Here's the first intent, quoting Trombley's letter...

(Also see full letter on page 2.)

The Chicago Tribune reports today:

The opening of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora likely will be delayed as officials investigate whether the group's occupancy permit application was proper, Mayor Tom Weisner said Thursday.

But PP Chicago CEO Steve Trombley is optimistic that won't happen, anxious for the profitous killing to begin:

Trombley said the group had "no reason to believe that the city will not complete its review by the 18th," adding that it was critical for the clinic to open that day because several patients have scheduled appointments.

But OpenlineBlog is reporting a new investigator has not even been determined yet to complete its "review" (nicely done, Steve). Recall the mayor's first pick was found to have ties to a City Council committee that was part of the investigation....

I received this email today from Amanda:

Dear Jill,

I have decided it's time for me to face what I have done in the past. It isn't religion that has driven me here, but my own life and the life of my surviving child each day, mine under the shadow that follows me, my past....

I received this email today from Nicole:

Jill,

I saw your website from a link on another blog, which (of course) took your comment out of context.

Anyway I'm glad it brought me to your site because I like the discussion that I saw in the comment section.... Unlike a lot of other sites where people insult others and pass judgment (I get very upset with people just revert to insults), I saw that most people on your site were respectful and intelligent in their comments, and it made me want to participate....

Here's what we did on Labor Day. We watched the first two Bourne movies on dvd at home and then drove to the theatre and watched the third. Ooh la la, they were great.

And never mind that Matt Damon is a flaming liberal who tosses around the word misogynist. He was born to play Bourne. Wish there were more to come, but alas, he says no. Bad abortion joke: My husband quipped #4 could be Bourne Alive.

At any rate, I guess we were not alone in our analysis. Moviefone took a poll on Summer movies 2007, and out of 14 categories (click to enlarge):

And the theatric bane of pro-abort existence, Knocked Up, was popular, too....

After the GOP presidential debate last night, Sean Hannity asked Gov. Mitt Romney to explain one of his answers.

Hannity: You were asked a question about abortion and the issue of - you think Roe v. Wade should be overturned, but you accept that America is in a different place right now. I wanted you to expand on that a little bit more in terms of what your opinion was....

There have been many comments on statistics the past few days. This will add to the conversation.

Poodwaddle.com

A note on this clock from the designer....

Why are both these cartoons true?

Townhall.com, September 4

Tribune Media Services, September 6

I am pleased to announce the addition of three new moderators on the blog to work beside our experienced aces, Bethany and MK.

You all know Jasper, Lauren, and Valerie. They have been loyal, reliable, and astute commenters for some time, and they have all agreed to come on board as moderators, for which I am very appreciative.

It's not that the crowd has grown too rough for Bethany and MK to handle alone.

It's that it has grown too big, a good problem. Traffic to the site has increased more than 300% since January, now over 30,000 unique visitors a month. And in August we reached a milestone of 1 million hits for the month.

Thanks to all for your interest and participation in this blog. Your comments make it such an interesting and informative read.

And thanks to Bethany, Jasper, Lauren, MK, and Valerie for moderating. It takes quite a bit of time and energy.

In addition, Jasper has agreed to scout out each day's quote of the day, which will be a big help. Thanks to him for that, too.

Hey, she stole our line.

A couple hours ago Planned Parenthood prez Cecile Richards sent the following email to her list, acknowledging Aurora as "ground zero" in the war over abortion, just a few days behind Eric Scheidler. At least we agree....

[Photo of Cecile Richards and babies courtesy of Vogue, July 2006 issue]

I obviously don't have the cutthroat business drive that Planned Parenthood executives have. Few do.

So I couldn't understand why PP was erecting its huge Aurora, IL, abortion mill in DuPage County, which was already disgraced by four independent mills, while neighboring, baby-booming Chicago collar counties remained abortion free.

But it hit me when listening to one of 124 citizens speak against the Aurora mill during the 7-1/2 hour city council meeting last week.

This person told council members their accountability reached beyond Aurora, since PP would feed mothers and children to this mill from PP expresses in neighboring communities.

Of course, I realized. Master plan. My mind began defragging random newspaper clippings and dates it had stored....

Master plan. Build satellites first. Then build the anti-mother ship. Then zap the competition to pieces, like a D&E abortion....

Planned Parenthood, the Wal-Mart of the abortion industry....

Who will rescue these poor mom-and-pop chop shops from the savage Planned Parenthood abortion cartel?

Continue reading my column today, "Planned Parenthood aims at mom and pop chop shops", on WorldNetDaily.com.

This is unconfirmed. Not even on the wires yet. But a reliable source just informed me Dr. D. James Kennedy passed away this morning. More forthcoming.

Update, 9:17a: Just called Coral Ridge Ministries. They are unaware. Holding for confirmation from someone.

Update, 9:29a: Confirmed, Sun-Sentinel....

On the pro-life blogs....

New addition to my blogroll, After Abortion, had a couple good posts, a quote to ponder and a suggestion to "[g]o to this website and just look at all the photos. Just do it. Guaranteed to make you feel a lot safer being inside, away from the elements, and might even just make you feel a lot humbler (as it did me)." I did go, and it was quite spectacular.

Americans United for Life has posted its review of 2007 state legislative sessions. Find yours.

In America, the Juvenile Diabetes Association leads the charge to fund human embryo experimentation. But the Canadian Diabetes Association is trying to walk the fence. Read CDA's gobbledygook on the Big Blue Wave.

Dawn Eden links to a new married's sex diary, or rather, her not-tonight-dear-I-don't-feel-like sex diary she thinks may be linked to hormonal contraceptives.

Gotta lift this from Elizabeth Andrews' blog, "Modesty, it's everywhere you want to be":

But go there anyway for a funny line on how to end a date.

Generations for Life links to what John says is a "good write-up" in the Aurora Beacon on Saturday's Youth Rally. The Beacon to date has treated the Aurora Planned Parenthood scandal as a PP lovefest, so I was interested to read the link, but it unfortunately doesn't work. Not John's fault. Maybe they'll fix it soon. Anyway, John has some good photos.

JivinJehoshaphat links to an op ed where the writer calls those who want to ban cloning in MO "an insurgency." The man needs to return to his spider hole.

Hm. The Constitution uses male pronouns to describe qualifications for President. Does this mean women are excluded? MInTheGap ponders.

Whoops, they botched it again. Real Choice links to a September 1 Journal Star article about a woman who is suing Planned Parenthood of Lincoln, NE, for what was found to be "catastrophic perforation" of the uterus.

NationalProLifeRadio reminds us the monthly Call for Life is this Friday. What's that, you ask? Find out.

What happens when someone wants life-saving treatment but his or her guardian disagrees? Not Dead Yet describes an actual case.

The Passionate Pro-Lifer is in the thick of the PP Denver battle. She links to an article on the intended abortion fortress (50,000 sq. ft.).

Fr. Frank Pavone basically says to stuff it if you're pro-abortion but upset that the wrong twin was aborted in Milan. Well, he says it a little more politely. He's a priest, after all.

Over at ProLifeBlogs, MommyLife is looking for Evangelicals who stopped contracepting for Biblical reasons.

At Pro-Life Community Journal, James writes on Reverend Falwell's mixed legacy. Thought-provoking.

Nathan Sheets introduces us to a novelty: an almost aborted pro-life Jewish comedienne.

"The United Nations, long a promoter of abortion for 'population control' as well as the liberation of women from traditional roles, is now experiencing a change of heart...at least when it concerns one particular motivation for abortion." Find out what that is at Vital Signs.

From Eric Scheidler, hot off the press:

I've just gotten word that Fox News Channel (national) is going to be out at the Planned Parenthood site between 2 and 3 p.m. today.

They're interested in what we're doing here, and they're in the Chicago area all day conducting interviews on the Planned Parenthood situation.

So if you can make it, come out to the Vigil site at 2 o'clock to help show how broad the opposition to Planned Parenthood is. There's even a chance - if you're willing - that they might interview YOU.

If this story gets out on a national outlet like Fox News Channel, it could be a huge breakthrough for us.

Aurora, Illinois is becoming GROUND ZERO in the fight against Planned Parenthood. Thanks to us, America is beginning to learn their truly sinister nature.

Hope to see you out there today!

At long last I've got this video formatted correctly and posted on YouTube.

On September 29, 2000, I was interviewed on the O'Reilly Factor about my experience as an RN at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, IL, holding a live aborted baby.

Bill O'Reilly was uncharacteristically speechless a couple times throughout, which may be why he chose to replay this as one of his five highlights of the year on December 28, 2000.

I have received a copy of an August 31 memo Aurora Mayor Tom Weisner sent to aldermen. Click to enlarge:

At the August 28 Aurora City Council meeting, the mayor promised an open, thorough, independent investigation of Planned Parenthood and its false front operator, Gemini Office Development.

This means the mayor has reneged on at least that portion of his word for an investigation with no timeline, requiring in an August 31 memo to aldermen that it be completed by September 12 - when the investigator has not even been chosen yet!

Here is a video of the mayor's August 28 promise otherwise....

I wasn't able to attend the Teen Rally this past Saturday at the intended Planned Parenthood abortion mill in Aurora, IL, but our moderator MK did and sent this photo:

According to Families Against Planned Parenthood, about 500 youth and 250 supportive adults attended. Imagine that, the intended targets protesting Planned Parenthood's destructive philosphy and business. There are also at least two YouTube videos....

This question is for abortion proponents:

Would you mind if an abortion clinic located in your neighborhood?

I have a new poll question up:

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

The very pretty stats for my last poll were....

Did you vote in that poll? If so, click to enlarge this map and find your little flag.