The new poll question is up:

Off-topic question this week: The spike in gas prices, plus the Senate's May 13 vote to continue blocking ANWR and offshore oil exploration, has provoked an American uprising, size and strength yet unknown. What is your opinion of domestic oil drilling?

I'll be interested to compare answers between Americans and our International friends.

On last week's poll, "Other" came in 1st, followed by Romney, who barely edged out Lieberman, with Huckabee coming in 3rd....

On May 28, Denver pro-abort millionaires Joris and Regina Brinkerhoff planned an extravagent $275-a-plate fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains at their $5 million home at 1681 E. Cedar Ave., with its beautiful backyard view of the Denver Country Club.

I'm told the night was gorgeous - as was the location - for pro-lifers to help the Brinkerhoffs educate and entertain their guests.

Pro-lifers greeted guests to the mansion with "Baby" and "Killers" signs they were forced to drive between, large graphic photos of aborted babies, and even a bloody abortion doctor carrying bloody dolls thanking them for their help:

If guests tried to play smart and bypass the main entrance for the back, pro-lifers were one step ahead, also there to greet them with a truth truck, more signs, and sidewalk art...

Fr. Michael Pfleger has just burst on to the national scene in an unseemingly way, but he's been making unseemly waves in Chicago for years.

During Pfleger's 2002 stand-off against Cardinal George, for instance, here was a cartoon the Chicago Sun-Times printed about Fr. Showboat:

Catholics interested in reading about the colorful 2002 stare-down between Cardinal George and Pflegers, when the Archbishop blinked first, can read some news articles I've reprinted in full on page 2.

[HT: Ann Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League]

I recently wrote about liberal priest Michael Pfleger's connection to pro-abort Barack Obama's campaign. I picketed Pfleger's St. Sabina's Church on Chicago's south side in 2003 when Pfleger hosted pro-abort Rev. Al Sharpton to preach from the pulpit. I also went inside the church to hear them both speak.

Yesterday came news that Obama's Trinity United Church of Christ invited Pfleger to speak on May 25th, and Pfleger let loose with more of the same racism from the pulpit that those like Rev. Jeremiah Wright have been known to spew.

Obama quickly distanced himself from Pfleger, learning his lesson after foot-dragging to distance himself from Wright. Obama appeared to feign surprise in his statement...

When I think of dead stars Heath Ledger and Kurt Cobain, I think how comforted their families must be to have a piece of them left here on earth in their daughters, conceived in imperfect circumstances.

And a convenient abortion was recommended for at least 1 of them, according to the New York Post, May 28:

Frances Bean Cobain - the 15-year-old daughter of rockers Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain - would have been aborted in the womb if Love's handlers had had their way, an upcoming book claims....

On top of having frustrating site issues yesterday - my posts wouldn't upload - I received a rejection notice from the Democrat National Committee for my request to attend its Denver convention as a credentialed blogger this August... :(

I applied last month, making the pitch that I represented a signficant minority in the Party, but alas, they say there is no room at the inn. Click to enlarge:

We tracked the latter end of Nicole Richie's pregnancy (here and here) because she and boyfriend Joel Madden established a foundation to help pregnant and new moms in need and because Richie attributed motherhood with turning her life around.

This month Richie graces the cover of Harper's Bazaar with more sweet thoughts and photos of daughter Harlow in a feature article.

The website Shine wraps up the piece:

If you've ever wanted to see how dramatically motherhood could change a woman's life, look no further than Nicole Richie. She's on the cover of the current issue of Harper's Bazaar and says of her daughter, Harlow, "I owe the baby my life."...

I posted a YouTube video this week of actress Sharon Stone blaming karma for the devastating Chinese earthquake.

The Chinese, communists that they are, are taking a more heavy-handed approach than Americans when dealing with Hollywood liberals, banning Stone's movies altogether rather than boycotting them. But it's interesting to see retaliation for Tinsel Town's left-wing garbage spread across the globe. From the Associated Press, May 28...

On May 26, columnist Robert Novak wrote about "the leading prospect to become Barack Obama's running mate," pro-abort KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

Novak quoted a disclaimer Sebelius wrote when vetoing a pro-life measure in 2006: "My Catholic faith teaches me that life is sacred. Personally, I believe abortion is wrong."

Earlier this month, KS Archbishop Joseph Naumann wrote an open letter to Sebelius asking her not to receive communion due to her pro-abortion stance. He stated Sebelius indicated she felt resigned to support abortion: "The governor has spoken to me on more than one occasion about her obligation to uphold state and federal laws and court decisions."

Sebelius has an odd way of living out her personally-pro-life-but-obligated-to-be-pro-abort position.

Yesterday Operation Rescue released photos taken at a party hosted by Sebelius on April 9, 2007, for infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller and staff at the governor's mansion. OR stated its source said the party was "exclusively in Tiller's honor."...

It's all in the attitude. Every life has merit and is worth living. We mourn the loss of this fighter and express appreciation for her loving family. From the Associated Press, May 28:

Memphis, TN - A woman who spent nearly 60 years of her life in an iron lung after being diagnosed with polio as a child died Wednesday after a power failure shut down the machine that kept her breathing, her family said....

A court brief made public today revealed actual evidence for the 1st time that Planned Parenthood in Olathe, KS, created false documents when Johnson Co. District Attorney Phill Kline began breathing down its slimy neck.

Take a look. The 2 sets of documents below are supposed to be duplicates. Click to enlarge:

To cover up a misdemeanor, PP apparently committed a felony....

On Sunday, Sept. 28, the Alliance Defense Fund is planning a nationwide pastors' revolt to challenge an IRS tax code that has muzzled churches and pastors from expressing opinions on political candidates for over 50 years.

Challenged will be a 1954 change in the code called the Johnson Amendment, after then-Sen. Lyndon Johnson.

Johnson proposed the amendment to silence opponents to his second Senate race. Two nonprofit foundations were pouring money into a publicity campaign calling Johnson soft on communism.

There is no legislative history for the Johnson Amendment. According to the scant Senate record, then-Democrat Minority Leader Johnson stood up on the floor and proposed it as an attachment to an existing bill. After Johnson said the bill sponsor was in agreement, the presiding officer simply called for a voice vote. There was no debate....

ADF will challenge one specific part of the code....

On Sept. 28, approximately 50 pastors the ADF has chosen from volunteers nationwide will preach sermons to provoke the IRS on this point. This would immediately invoke a lawsuit that would find its way to the U.S. Supreme Court....

Continue reading my column today, "Revolt of the pastors," on WorldNetDaily.com.

Students for Life of America has discovered a $50 million lawsuit filed February 12 against Planned Parenthood Metropolitan in DC by the mother of a barely 14-year-old daughter whose abortion it botched, leaving the girl infertile.

John Valente, attorney for Emma Jean Butler, mother of Shantese Butler, has given SFL the go-ahead to publicize the lawsuit, on pdf file here.

Shantese's baby was conceived during a rape committed when she was 13....

On Monday presidential candidate Barack Obama misspoke when citing Auschwitz rather than Ohrdruf (pictured right), a sub-camp of Buchenwald, as one of the Nazi concentration camps his uncle helped liberate. According to the Associated Press:

The Barack Obama campaign said Tuesday the candidate mistakenly referred to the wrong Nazi death camp when relating the story of a great-uncle who helped liberate the camps in World War II....

On one certain day, a mother would have to pay $2,500 or more to get rid of her baby. A week later, the baby's market value has drastically improved and could theoretically be sold for $10,000. Why the remarkable appreciation? And why is selling babies online illegal when it is perfectly legal to advertise online to kill them? From the National Post, May 27:

A Vancouver couple have been arrested but will not be charged after posting an Internet ad on Craigslist, offering their seven-day-old baby for $10,000, police said Tuesday....

From the International Herald Tribune, today:

China: In response to inquiries from grieving relatives, local officials announced Monday that parents whose only child was killed or grievously injured in the May 12 earthquake would be exempt from the country's one-child policy.

The exception... said qualified parents could apply for legal permission to have another child....

Thousands of parents have openly challenged the government over why so many schools collapsed during the earthquake. An estimated 10,000 students are believed to have died....

Well, here's a major career 180 if I ever saw one. From News-Press.com:

Myra Williams has joined the Children's Museum of Naples [FL] as development director.

Williams brings more than 11 years of fundraising experience to her new position and is responsible for planning, developing and maintaining a comprehensive fundraising program.

For the past seven years, she served as the director of development for Planned Parenthood of Collier County Inc.

At first I thought this must be a human natural history museum, preserving for posterity the memory these small endangered creatures. In some countries, like Russia, they're all but extinct.

But no...

The facility isn't scheduled to open until Spring 2009, and it has hired the equivalent of a Nazi prison guard to raise funds for a Holocaust museum. Interesting that the exterior is Noah-themed, a reminder that only a few survive?

The board has to be stocked with pro-aborts. Otherwise, there is just no way they would have hired Williams. So this is a liberal feel good endeavor to assuage guilt or build resumes. When it opens, watch for liberal doctrine spread throughout.

But hey, they've picked a fundraiser who has learned from the best.

While enjoying the day with family and friends, as I will be, take time out to commemorate those who have fallen to preserve your freedom.

Arlington by Trace Adkins...

Please, no bashing today. Am calling a truce to focus on the meaning of Memorial Day, as President Bush expressed in his Memorial Day proclamation (which actually my daughter wrote)...

No political cartoons on our topic again this week, but here's another funny...

by Chip Bok...

A Cambodian named Kaing Guek Eav is scheduled to go on trial soon in his native homeland.

As a Khmer Rouge leader of a Phnom Penh torture center 30 years ago, Eav has admitted responsibility for the deaths of 12,000 to 14,000 people who were forced from there to their final resting place in mass graves in the Cambodian killing fields

"Some 1.7 million Cambodians, 1/4 of the population, died during the 4 years of Khmer Rouge rule," reported World magazine.

The government recently took Eav back to the scene of his crimes, including "a tree against which his underlings smashed babies' heads," according to World.

"Eav broke down in sobs," continued World, "But he did more than that. He knelt on the ground and prayed, because during the 1990s the torturer had made a professiona of faith in Christ."

Until caught Eav worked for a Christian children's relief organization, World Vision.

Eav has expressed profound regret and was apparently attempting to repay his debt to society in his own small way.

What do you think should be Eav's punishment, if found guilty?

The new poll question is up:

This weekend GOP presidential candidate John McCain is hosting several possible vice presidential picks at his home. He said last month there were ~20 in his pool. Of these top names floated, who would you choose?

The poll site, Vizu, only allows 10 spots for answers, which made it hard. I listed the most recently and commonly foated names....

I reported May 20 that Congressional Democrats were trying to sink a birth control pill subsidy into the War Supplemental Appropriations bill.

Here's the latest, from CQ Politics, today:

A proposal that would restore government subsidies for birth control pills and devices at university health clinics and Planned Parenthood centers was retained in the Senate version of the war supplemental spending bill sent to the House on Thursday....

On April 15, Democrat Senate Majority leader Harry Reid promised Senate Republicans the body would confirm at least 3 judicial nominees by the Memorial Day recess.

Well, recess officially began a few minutes ago, and Reid has officially lied. Since April only 1 nominee has been voted on, G. Steven Agee to the 4th Circuit, 96-0.

Yesterday came news that may be it for the year. According to CQ Politics:

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled Thursday that the window for action this year on appellate court nominees is beginning to close....

The investigation into illegal activity by a Planned Parenthood clinic in KS may be on the verge of breaking open. The other side is starting to blink.

The first blink came earlier this month when the KS Supreme Court unsealed a lawsuit Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri filed against Johnson Co. District Attorney Phill Kline for criminally investigating it. Light of day, yes.

Then yesterday saw a big blink, with KS Attorney General Steve Six retreating from a previous demand he had made of District Court Judge Richard Anderson to return potentially incriminating patient records to the AG so he could return them to the potential crook, PP....

One of my recent poll questions was on the pastors' revolt planned by the Alliance Defense Fund to challenge an IRS tax code that disallows churches and pastors from expressing opinions on political candidates.

I spoke with Erik Stanley a couple times this week, ADF's attorney heading up the initiative, and got more information....

Maria Chapman, 5-year-old daughter of Christian recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman, was killed Wednesday when accidentally run over in the family's Franklin, TN, driveway by one of her older brothers, compounding the tragedy. Wrote the Chapman's manager...

As we've been discussing the past couple days, Barack and Michelle Obama fully support partial birth abortion.

In fact, they've gone so far as to attempt to raise money by fear-mongering about the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, calling it a "legitimate medical procedure."

Obama should be proud of his support of pba. Commenter Cranky Catholic photoshopped a perfect ad for his consideration. But then again, if he's ashamed even to wear an American flag lapel pin, I doubt he'll go for this.

To avoid a counterattack, pro-life groups were asked to go mum on the Genetic Information Non-discrimination Act until the President signed it into law, which he did yesterday.

Now, here's what happened behind the scenes....

by JivinJ

According to the Washington Times today, religious and pro-life Brits are furious with Parliament's May 19 decision to allow creations of human-animal hybrids as well as "savior siblings". Both are perfectly legal in the US, btw:

Religious leaders and pro-life campaigners have angrily attacked the British government for its refusal to ban the creation of animal-human embryos and so-called "savior siblings" - research described by one Roman Catholic cardinal as a form of "Frankenstein" science....

By a vote of 342-163, Parliament crushed one key amendment to Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Human Embryology and Fertilization Bill that was aimed at stopping the use of "hybrid" human-animal embryos in stem-cell research.

The Brown administration has accepted claims by many leading scientists that such "human admixed embryos" are vital to the quest for cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, which the prime minister considers a key element of his embryo legislation....

Last April the US Supreme Court upheld the federal Partial Birth Abortion Ban. Liberty Council filed two amicus briefs on my behalf in support of the ban, and I was present in the courtroom for closing arguments.

Yesterday the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down VA's pba ban for the 2nd time, basically sneering at the US Supreme Court, which had asked it to reexamine its 1st decision in light of the Supremes' decision.

I probably don't need to say more than the 2 4th Circuit judges voting to strike VA's pba ban down were Clinton appointees. The lone judge upholding it was a Bush I appointee.

But I'll expound. What is the difference between the 2? I spoke this morning with reps from the VA Society for Human Life and the VA Family Foundation.

They said the only difference between the 2 is the federal law describes a baby as partially in the womb when the pba is started and the VA bill describes the baby as partially out of the womb when the pba is started.

From that the Clinton appointees decided an abortionist could violate the VA pba ban if starting a different abortion procedure and accidentally stumbling into a pba.

So in theory, an abortionist could be attempting a dilatation and evacuation (D&E) abortion, where s/he draws and quarters the baby en utero before removing the pieces, and somehow deliver a live baby past the navel (in a head first delivery) or up to the head (in a breech delivery) and violate the ban if then killing the baby....

On Jan. 24, when the pro-abort divide between Clinton and Obama supporters was escalating into civil war, NARAL President Nancy Keenan issued an appeal for all sides to remain calm and focused on the real enemies, preborn children....

NARAL tried to redirect attention to the "staunchly, rigidly, undeniably anti-choice" Republican nominee John McCain in its almost daily e-alerts, which I receive.

But NARAL was unsuccessful. Thanks to sexier issues like Bosnia and Jeremiah Wright, the mainstream media didn't bite.

Meanwhile, the infighting continued. The Clinton camp kept pounding Obama as being soft on abortion because he voted "present" seven times as state senator on abortion legislation and because he wasn't a woman....

NARAL's endorsement of Obama last week came as a big shock, but it shouldn't have. NARAL has been clear it is watching a bigger clock tick.

Still, feminists were infuriated....

NARAL wants to rebrand, and riding Obama's coattails is one quick way. And oh, how NARAL wants Obama's list, to lure stupid abortion-inclined abortion survivors. It doesn't want to die as old pro-abort white women die.

The Obama campaign certainly shared polling data with NARAL, confirming its fears about McCain....

Continue reading my column today, "NARAL fuels pro-abort civil war," on WorldNetDaily.com.

From the New York Times yesterday...

We have just learned Congressional Democrat leaders are trying to reinstate taxpayer subsidies of college birth control pills through the War Supplemental Appropriations bill, being debated in the Senate as I type.

Thus, our armed services will not be fighting only against terrorism but also to ensure frat boys and sorority sisters get cheap bc and their college "family planning" clinics get larger profits....

(UPDATE, 5-21, 2:30a: I've separated my Obama: "Lay off my wife" post into 2, so Michelle Obama's fundraising letter leeching off the partial birth abortion ban wouldn't get buried.)

In February 2004, Michelle Obama wrote a fundraising letter during her husband's 2004 US Senate campaign claiming the partial birth abortion ban "is clearly unconstitutional" and "a flawed law."

I'd like to ask Michelle to explain her legal opinion about this law the Supremes went on to declare constitutional. I'd like to ask Michelle how in the world she could in good conscience raise money from fear-mongering about this barbaric abortion procedure.

But Barack, bristling at a TN GOP ad taking Michelle to task for her "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country" line, has issued a warning to "lay off my wife." As a commenter on another blog wrote, "'Free speech for me but not for thee'" - A typical leftwing position. Don't get in the ring if you don't intend to fight."

So it's fine to kill late-term babies, but we can't risk hurting Michelle's feelings about it. Click to enlarge:

(UPDATE, 5-21, 2:30a: I've separated this post into 2, spotlighting Michelle Obama's fear-mongering fundraising letter here that leeched off the partial birth abortion ban so it wouldn't get buried.)

Michelle Obama has been speaking on her husband's behalf for years, interjecting her own ideologies along the way. That's fine.

But it's not fine to suddenly declare her untouchable, as Barack Obama attempted yesterday on Good Morning America, when complaining about an ad the TN GOP is airing that repeats back Michelle's own anti-American words. Here's the GMA clip:

Michelle can say whatever she wants unchallenged? I thought Barack and Michelle were feminists? Does Barack not think Michelle equipped to debate issues she espouses? Where are the feminist groups decrying Obama as sexist for trying to shield his Harvard-educated attorney wife, as if she is too weak to defend herself?...

There's good news and bad news for the pro-life community in Gallup's 2008 Values and Beliefs survey.

First, the percentage of Americans who say abortion is morally wrong far outnumbers the percentage who say it is not.

Still 4 in 10 Americans claim to have no moral problem with abortion, which is disturbing....

by JivinJ

Starting tomorrow night with NBC and MSNBC during the KY and OR primary coverage, a Democrat feminist group called Clinton Supporters Count Too plans to show its boycott muscle....

It seems much longer than 14 months ago when I first met moderator and friend Bethany via email. She had just miscarried her 6-week-old baby she named Blessing. Bethany sent me her story and photos of Blessing, giving me permission to post them.

Many mourning mothers have since written to thank Bethany for posting Blessing's photos. I just received another touching note this morning, also with permission to post...

The May 17/24 issue of World magazine featured an interview with Arthur Brooks, author of the book, Gross National Happiness. In this excerpt from the interview, Brooks examined factors that influence happiness and who is happier - conservatives or liberals, and religious or secular people.

Why am I happy?

World: OK - assuming the right definition of happiness and informative stats, what tends to make Americans happy?

Brooks: There are three basic things that make people happy: meaning in their lives, control over their environment, and success in creating value in the world. And the way people get these things is not with money or power or fame - it is with their values. People who are serious about healthy values in their lives, families, and communities are much happier than others. The data say that these values come in eight categories: faith, family, personal liberty, private morality, non-materialism, opportunity, work, and service to others. Many journalists and academics dismiss these as just "cultural issues." But what happy Americans know is that nothing is more important than these things for building true happiness.

Who is happier, conservatives or liberals?...

This week political cartoonists were too busy with other topics to wax on ours. So here are a couple off-topic funnies that cracked me up...

by Signe Wilkinson...

by Glenn McCoy...

The new poll question is up:

Which Democrat candidate would do more to further abortion ideology and the industry as president?

The most popular response to last week's poll question surprised me. Almost 85% of you think a pastor should steer clear of political talk? Not good....

Here is an off-topic but related question this weekend.

This week Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama was touring a Detroit auto plant when a female reporter tried to ask him a question...

Obama later apologized to the reporter for calling her "sweetie." Do you think he was displaying sexism in an un guarded moment, or are we all just hypersensitive to any "-isms" in these politically correct days?

by JivinJ

On May 13 JivinJ posted a story in (Prolifer)ations on accusations against pro-life OR congressional candidate Mike Erickson by his opponent Kevin Mannix of paying for a girlfriend's abortion in 2000.

A couple items in follow-up.

First, Mannix's mailer implicated OR Right to Life as having endorsed Erickson. I received an email of clarification from Lois Anderson, political director of the ORRTL PAC:

Hi Jill,

Just to make sure you know. We have solely endorsed Kevin Mannix for CD 5 in 2008. Erickson was endorsed in 2006 before she came forward with her story.

Second, Erickson is now saying he didn't do it. From the Oregonian, today...

I wrote in February that pro-aborts were raucously split in support of Clinton vs. Obama for president.

Ideologues like NOW (feminists 1st, abortion zealots 2nd) support Clinton. Hillary is a woman, and the presidency is their grail.

Pragmatics (abortion zeal and greed tied for 1st) support Obama. They expect him to do more to help the industry through government handouts, laws, and presidentially-overseen agencies.

So the NARAL board's May 14 announcement to endorse Obama is no surprise. The abortion industry funds NARAL. It's no dummy.

And the protest by feminist groups like EMILY's List is no surprise, nor defections of pocket NARAL affiliates, particularly NY, likely headed by rabid feminists.

Reported the New York Times, today...

The Obama campaign is mailing out the flyer below (see backside on page 2) in front of next week's KY primary.

To columnist David Broder's request for an explanation of its purpose, the Obama campaign responded via email (emphasis mine):

These fliers are part of the Obama campaign's sincere effort to communicate the values of Senator Obama's own Christian faith and the hope that people of all faiths and moral backgrounds will come together to address the needs of the "least of these" in our nation and in our world....

"Sincere"? "Values"? "Christian faith"? Obama's increasing gall is increasingly galling me.

"Least of these"? I'd like Obama's definition. I have one. How about live aborted babies left to die in hospital soiled utility rooms? No, the campaign won't like that one. How about late-term babies getting stabbed in the back of the head and their brains sucked out? No, it won't like that one either. How about 11-year-old girls being raped by their step-fathers? Ixnay. Oh, I give up.

And the line used to be "Faith, hope, and charity," btw. Now Obama's even trying to rewrite the Bible. Hide the 10 Commandments, quick.

He claims to be "do[ing] the Lord's work"? The man has cajones, I'll give him that.

[HT: Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America]

Saturday morning I worked on my computer comfortably located in my favorite recliner downstairs in the living room. When finished I placed the computer on the carpeted floor.

Sunday afternoon I chose another cozy spot to work, lounging in bed while watching old movies. So I retrieved my computer, arranged my pillows just so, found just the right old movie (Mr. Holland's Opus), and settled in to catch up on emails and such.

But as soon as my computer warmed up, what to my surprise should emerge but ants! Lots of them! And one of them even "jumped up and bit me," as Forrest Gump would say (although not in the buttocks).

What a coincidence that the Associated Press posted a story yesterday about "crazy ants" taking over Houston, including computers. I'm in Chicago. Are they taking over America this quickly? From the story...

This is one of those times I'm not sure what is going on, so I'm just reporting the latest.

When last we left the Roderick "Why Can't We All Just Brawl" King vandalism story (catch up just a couple posts down), University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point official Stephen Ward wrote in an email that while the Student Senate failed to defrock King, he had resigned.

But Students for Life of America reported in a press release late yesterday:

Contrary to Ward's e-mail, SFLA confirmed this afternoon by speaking with Erika Wardle, College of Natural Resources Caucus Chair and Student Senate member, that King is still a member of the Student Senate and was unanimously re-appointed to Student Senate for the 2008-2009 school year.

PFL further reported that the Student Senate found a provision in their constitution requiring the body to hold meetings before they can address the situation. Because the Student Senate has now adjourned for the school year, it will not take up the situation until its first meeting in the Fall 2008 semester.

The press release added that both the full Senate and the sabotaged Pointers for Life rejected the Senate Rules Committee's recommendation that King be forced to write a letter of apology and hold off on his reelection until the Fall. PFL nixed the idea because King stated during the meeting he wasn't sorry for vandalizing PFL's crosses.

There has been a movement afoot several years to define personhood.

But it hasn't driven by pro-lifers.

While our side has been arguing whether or not now is the time to nail this point down legally, the other side has been plodding full steam ahead to fill the void with their own definition of personhood. And it isn't pretty. Read all about the Personhood Theory on Wikipedia.

"Secular scholars" have been arguing with greater and greater success that personhood is defined by consciousness and self-awareness. This definition excludes a lot of people, like newborns, vegetative children and adults, and dementiaed elderly.

So it's time for ney sayers within the pro-life movement to just knock off complaints about various statewide attempts to define personhood as beginning at fertilization or risk the other side filling the gap.

Grand place to start: Colorado.

I couldn't be prouder of young Kristi Burton (below, left), who launched a ballot initiative in the Centennial State last year when only 19 years old to define personhood.

Yesterday Kristi and crew submitted 131,245 signatures (above, right) - 55,000 over the requirement - of CO voters wanting an amendment attached to the CO Constitution with these simple but brilliant 14 words:

The term person or persons shall include any human from the time of fertilization.

Now CO voters will decide in November whether they want to protect not just preborns but themselves. How foolish if they don't....

On May 9 ABC News unearthed disturbing footage from a 2000 Republican primary debate between John McCain, Alan Keyes, and George Bush showing McCain's surly pro-abortion side. View the video below:

McCain provoked President Bush on the exceptions they share: rape, incest. He tried to corner President Bush as a liar or hypocrite since he supported the pro-life plank of the Republican platform, which backed a human life amendment to
the Constitution.

Keyes, always clear, although these days so hostile he has alienated all but a core few, nailed them both on their duplicity, saying...

Continue reading my column today, "McCain and the pro-life plank," on WorldNetDaily.com.

by JivinJ

Abortion not only kills babies and sometimes their mothers, it kills miracles. It kills hope.

From HattiesburgAmerican.com, May 11:

Judy and Yu Loong [Liew] were born in Malaysia, and moved to the U.S. in 1996 to study at Mississippi State University. Judy earned a degree in industrial engineering, and Yu Loong obtained a degree in electrical engineering. They married in December 2004 and moved to Laurel [MS].

Life was good, and then it got even better in the fall of 2007 when they learned that they were expecting their first child....

All was well until a routine ultrasound... during the 4th month of her pregnancy revealed a complication. The doctor explained that the ultrasound indicated the baby's bones were not developing properly....

On Saturday, the day before Mother's Day, TN, pro-lifers organized a funeral "Procession of Healing" to commemorate 3,100 babies killed by abortion in Knox Co. last year.

Between 300-350 cars participated in the funeral procession that wove through Knoxville. Must have been quite something. Watch a VolunteerTV.com news video by clicking on the graphic below:

According to knoxnews.com:

Organizers formulated the idea after hearing of a funeral and burial of 25 aborted babies found in dumpsters behind a clinic in Detroit.

... Hodari's babies.

Balance, we must have balance. So VolunteerTV.com dredged up a pro-abort to condemn the mourning:

"I think that it is a little dramatic, and implies that it was a kind of intended murder, which I don't believe choice is," said Ina Hughs, a pro-choice advocate who also said she understands why healing is needed, but called the procession a mockery. "I think it denigrated the spiritual and ritual side of a funeral."

Notice Hughs avoided the word abortion, which rendered her statement incoherent. And why is healing needed? Exactly WHY?

On May 1 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point sophomore and Student Government Association senator Roderick King was caught on video vandalizing a UWSP-approved cross display commemorating aborted babies. In 1 week the video, posted on YouTube, has been viewed 38,000 times.

Since then a sidebar has developed involving fellow SGA senator Claire Smith, who wrote a juvenile and poorly crafted email blaming Pointers for Life, the group displaying the crosses, posted here first, for King's behavior. She was responding to a respectful complaint that the SGA had not reprimanded King.

Pro-lifer Milissa fowarded UWSP official Steven Ward a link to my posting of Smith's email. Smith first responded last night by shedding just a tad more light on King's SGA staus.

Later Ward forwarded Milissa an email he had just sent Smith. It is good to see at least 1 UWSP administrator appreciates the ramifications of King's actions as well as the significance of an immature little snit making matters worse. I also appreciate Ward's transparency. Here's his latest email...

From the Associated Press, May 12:

Warsaw, Poland - Irena Sendler - a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities - has died. She was 98....

Born in Warsaw, Sendler served as a social worker with the city's welfare department, masterminding the risky rescue operations of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi Germany's brutal World War II occupation....

First, an update on the Roderick King video. Due to racist comments it was garnering on YouTube, posters disabled comments and either intentionally or unintentionally privatized it, meaning embeds don't currently work. Students for Life is trying to correct that. For now the video can only be viewed on YouTube.

Moving on, reader Milissa has corresponded with University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point official Stephen Ward about the email Student Government Association Sen. Claire Smith wrote that I posted last week. In it she blamed pro-lifers for sophomore Roderick King's temper tantrum against small crosses commemorating aborted babies.

Ward responded with the news that King is out as SGA senator. But both Milissa and I have read Ward's email several times and are unclear on what happened. What is clear...

On May 8 Public Citizen, a group founded by Ralph Nader, filed a petition with the FDA to ban Johnson & Johnson's Ortho-Evra birth control patch. It stated:

Compared to standard 35 microgram estrogen/progestin oral contraceptives, Ortho-Evra results in:

60% more estrogen on average exposure;

greater variability in estrogen levels;

a possible two-fold increased risk of venous thrombosis (typically, painful blood clots of the leg which can travel to the lungs and cause death);

increased risk of side effects such as breast discomfort, severe menstrual pain, nausea, and vomiting;

a 50% increased likelihood of [contraceptive] discontinuation;

no improvement in contraceptive outcomes.

According to PC's press release...

On Friday Planned Parenthood used the Mother's Day holiday to once more carouse for cash, this time using mother and daughter pitchwomen Blythe Danner and Gwyneth Paltrow. See first appeal here.

I really don't have words to decry PP's gall.

But these 2 pathetic Hollywood liberals? It's beyond abnormal for a woman who is both mother and grandmother to promote mothers killing their own children while embracing a daughter spared from her own demise thanks only to timing and circumstance.

Did Blythe kill any of Gwyneth's siblings? Did Gwyneth kill any of Blythe's grandchildren? No problem either way. Let's hug.

I've highlighted the most bizarre statements.

[HT: John Jansen of Pro-Life Action League]

On May 9 ABC News unearthed disturbing footage from a 2000 Republican primary debate between John McCain, Alan Keyes, and George Bush showing McCain's nasty pro-abortion side. Click on image for link to view:

McCain provoked Bush on the exceptions they share: rape, incest. He tried to corner Bush as a liar or hypocrite since Bush supported the pro-life plank of the Republican platform (reprinted below) that excluded those exceptions by backing a human life amendment to the Constitution.

Keyes, always clear (although these days so hostile he has alienated all but a core few), nailed them both on their duplicity...

From the Associated Press, May 9:

It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman - she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join 7 sisters and 10 brothers. There are 2 sets of twins. "We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing....

The new poll question is up:

The Alliance Defense Fund plans a Sept. pastor revolt to defy a 1954 IRS tax amendment stripping churches and pastors of the right to discuss politics and candidates. ADF hopes this will spark a court battle ultimately finding it unconstitutional. Should pastors and churches be free to discuss politics?

49.4% got last week's poll question right...

So what do you think?

In his public message to Gov. Sebelius, KS Archbishop Joseph Naumann wrote, in part...

I am a brand new board member of Pregnancy Aid South Suburbs, a network of 3
pregnancy care centers and 1 maternity home located in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.

Tomorrow is PASS's annual Hike for Life, 1 of 2 annual fundraisers that is very important to PASS's financial stability....

On May 1 University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Student Government Association Senator Roderick King was caught on tape vandalizing a pro-life display of crosses commemorating children killed by abortion.

UWSP administration had given Pointers for Life authorization to display the exhibit. This didn't deter King from destroying it, nor did knock-kneed campus police....

From the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society website:

On Saturday, May 3, over 300 mourners gathered at St. Gerald's Church in Farmington, MI, for the funeral Mass to pay their respects to 23 victims of abortion killed at the Woman Care abortion clinics in Lathrup Village and Sterling Heights - owned and operated by abortionist Alberto Hodari....

(See more photos on page 2.)

A press release yesterday from the Indian Hindu reform group Navya Shastra called on Hindus to "allow daughters to impart final rites at the funerals of their parents."

A NS rep explained, "One religious reason why boys are favored among Hindus is because of the anachronistic belief that only a son can formally conduct this ceremony, so a girl is totally worthless in this regard."

I found this information fascinating. According to Webhealing.com...

by JivinJ

First, according to Box Office Mojo, Expelled is already ranked the #12th top grossing documentary after only 3 weeks out:

Expelled should break the top 10, although Moore fans can rest easy it will never beat any of his his top 3 atrocities. (Did not know Roger and Me was a Moore film until corrected by a reader Bystander.)

The highlighting was Mojos, indicating films currently out. So Expelled is beating the Rolling Stones, and I see another rock icon, John Lennon, at #21.

Speaking of, Yoko is suing Expelled's makers for using 15 seconds of John's song Imagine without permission....

I got a little misty eyed at the end. I think all mothers will. From The Today Show, May 6...

According to an email from Bella's promoters, Bella was the #1 selling dvd in Amazon's love/romance category yesterday and #5 on the entire Amazon site. That's great.

Promoters are encouraging store buyers to get Bella at Walmart because it's the largest dvd retailer in the world.

The plot thickens.

I wrote in this week's WND column that a group of KS pro-life leaders paid KS U.S. Senator Sam Brownback a surprise visit in his Washington, D.C., office May 3 to ask him to rescind his endorsement of Steve Howe for Johnson County District Attorney.

Pro-lifers have asked incumbent Phill Kline to reconsider running to retain the seat, because Kline is in the throes of a 5-year-long investigation against Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri, which operates an abortion mill in JoCo, for illegal late-term and minor abortions and fraudulent documentation.

The powers that be are now simply trying to run out the clock on Kline's tenure by stalling the investigation until after the November election.

It has now been learned on high authority that someone(s) secretly left cell phone(s) on in the vicinity of the pro-lifers' meeting with Brownback and piped the conversation to his offices in Wichita and/or Topeka, most likely both....

Yesterday WorldNetDaily.com covered the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point incident, wherein pro-abort Student Government Association member Roderick King vandalized a display of memorial crosses placed with permission by the campus group Pointers for Life.

The WND article included commenters to my post on King from TexasRed Bobby Bambino and Rae Patricia from Canada...

I think I've been away from the OR too long, because the video I just watched of what pro-lifers retrieved from the dumpster at the Women's Advisory Center abortion mill in Livonia, MI, made me queasy....

Washington, D.C.'s archbishop Donald Wuerl has responded to complaints he allowed Catholic pro-abort politicians receive communion during the Pope's April 17 Mass at Washington Nationals stadium. Catholic Online reported May 6 that Wuerl wrote in an April 30 Catholic Standard column:

I have always respected the role of the local church and the ministry of the individual bishop as shepherd of the church entrusted to his care....

A decision regarding the refusal of holy Communion to an individual is one that should be made only after clear efforts to persuade and convince the person that their actions are wrong and bear moral consequences....

Presumably this is done in the home diocese where the bishops and priests, the pastors of souls, engage the members of their flock in this type of discussion.

On one hand I think Wuerl expressed a valid concern of not wanting to usurp the authority of a politician's own priest or diocese. He is in a unique position as head of the Catholic Church in D.C., where so many out-of-town infamous Catholics work.

On the other hand, this could read like a cop out....

The video below is incredible. It reenforces the fact that the rule of law applies to all but pro-aborts.

On May 1 pro-abort University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point students, led by UWSP Student Senator Roderick King, vandalized in broad daylight and while being filmed a pre-approved display by the UWSP pro-life group Pointers for Life.

The display was rows of crosses called the Cemetery of the Innocents to commemorate babies killed by abortion....

On April 24, KS pro-life U.S. Sens. Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts issued a press release endorsing Steve Howe for Johnson County district attorney.

The release called the position an "open seat."

It is not.

Phill Kline is currently the appointed district attorney and has been urged to reconsider his decision not to run to retain his seat in November....

Kline is the only DA in the country with a pending criminal case against a Planned
Parenthood....

Brownback knows pro-lifers are encouraging Kline to stay... because many influential pro-lifers called him and asked him to wait for Kline to decide before endorsing. There was no hurry. The filing deadline is still over a month away....

But Brownback... endorsed Howe anyway....

The question is whose help does Brownback want?

RINOS and hacks want the Planned Parenthood investigation ended. They fear a run by Kline will stir more Democrats to vote than might otherwise.

They also consider the Johnson County DA position a launching pad to a bigger and better thing: The AG's office.

Was Brownback enticed to support Howe for a promise of support in his gubernatorial bid by non-conservative Republicans?

Or perhaps he fears sharing the ticket with Kline in 2010?

Last Thursday a group of Kansas pro-life leaders paid Brownback a surprise visit in his
Washington, D.C., office....

Continue reading my column today, "Is Brownback betraying pro-lifers?" on WorldNetDaily.com.

"Happy Mother's Day" greetings from Planned Parenthood are as grotesque as its "Choice on Earth" Christmas greetings.

Today PP CEO Cecile Richards issued an email plea for $ under the guise of a Mother's Day greeting and using her dead mother and daughter as props.

This pathetic woman is so psychologically and emotionally invested in abortion she has no semblance of a conscience left. If and when she has grandchildren, I'm sure she'll use them, too.

Note the numerous purposeful times she - or, rather, PP's pr firm - invokes the words "mother," "daughter," and "grandmother."

"Legacy"? What legacy? Pro-aborts can leave no legacy, another reason we can undoubtedly know our side will eventually win - through attrition.

[HT: John Jansen from Pro-Life Action League]

by Joseph Farah, CEO of WorldNetDaily.com, yesterday:

Barack Obama is so confident, so well-spoken, so self-assured, so articulate.

Most of the time.

If you want to see Barack Obama uneasy, at a loss for words, tentative, halting, just ask him one of the simplest and most profound questions to be debated in the public square for the last 35 years - since he was 12 years old.

The question: "Do you believe life begins at conception and, if not, when does it begin?"

I urge you to watch what happened when he was asked that question last month in a candidate forum at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.

Watch him melt. Watch him squirm. Watch him reach for words that fail him. Watch him admit he hasn't really come to grips with one of the very hottest public policy issues of our time. Watch him try to come up with an answer that won't offend anyone....

David Brody is reporting that National Right to Life generated anti-Obama calls yesterday and even this morning to IN voters in anticipation of its primary today. Short, sweet, straightforward and honest. Good for NRLC:

Hello, this is National Right to Life PAC, asking you to vote against Barack Obama in tomorrow's primary election.

Barack Obama has said that his first act as President would be to sign the Freedom of Choice Act, which would enshrine abortion on demand into federal law and would require tax funding of abortion. This bill would legalize partial birth abortion again.

Barack Obama even voted against saving the lives of babies who survive late term abortion.

You can vote in either party's primary. If you vote in the Democratic primary, please do not vote for Barack Obama.

Every word of that script is accurate. There is no need to exaggerate, as much as the other side would call it such.

And here's the gobbledygook response from turncoat, double-crossing, traitorous, supposedly pro-life former IN Congressman Tim "Benedict Judas Arnold" Roemer. If Roemer can sleep at night it's only because his conscience is dead, and he's dreaming about promises Obama has whispered in his ear to garner his support:

As a pro-life Catholic Democrat, one of the main reasons I endorsed Barack Obama is because he approaches issues from a non-ideological standpoint, and on issues like abortion, he deeply respects the views of folks on the other side of the argument. He believes that if we focus on what unites us, we can accomplish more than we ever will by retreating into our corners and shouting each other....

I've been tracking the movie Bella a year, since before it opened.

The Bella dvd goes on sale today. An email yesterday from its tireless promoters said Bella was the most popular presell dvd in its category yesterday on Amazon.

Bella tells the story of a world famous Latin soccer star who sinks into oblivion after accidentally killing a little girl. His life is set back on course when encountering a pregnant mother in crisis. Bella is a life-affirming, award-winning movie.

The aforementioned email said Bella's star, hunky and very nice Eduardo Verastegui, was to appear on Fox's Cavuto yesterday or today, O'Reilly yesterday, and The Today Show today at 10a EST. I can't find anything on the Fox website so don't think Eduardo appeared on a Fox show yesterday, unless someone saw something. Hoping it's tonight.

Here's the latest trailer on Bella. Love Wild Horses...

by JivinJ

I've often said the British press is far more honest and open about abortion than the American press. Here's another example. A reader wrote this question to doctors at The Times Online, May 2:

I had an abortion recently, and though my boyfriend and I agreed it was the right thing to do, I feel guilty and I've gone off sex. Will these feelings pass?

An excerpt from the response, which is worth reading in its entirety:

Lack of interest in sex after an abortion is so common that it can almost be said to be expected. Before long your libido is likely to have returned, but both you and your partner have to bear in mind that even now having an abortion is a huge event in anyone's life. It is possible, but by no means inevitable, that the changes this will have wrought in the way you feel about a future together may have irretrievably undermined your relationship. If this happens, neither of you should assume blame or feel guilty....

I had not researched the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male that has been all over the news lately thanks to Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Wright often invokes Tuskegee to substantiate his crazy claim that the US government created HIV/AIDS to wipe out blacks.

As if Wright really cares since he promotes abortion, which actually is wiping out US African-Americans. Thanks to abortion, blacks have lost their #1 minority status in the US to Hispanics.

But I digress.

On May 2, National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg wrote an eye-opening column everyone should read. Here are excerpts...

I know how these things work. Planned Parenthood et al have obviously hired an expensive and influential public relations firm to pitch 2 story lines to MSM, with great success I might add:

Abstinence education is responsible for every STD, case of HIV/AIDs, and unwanted pregnancy in the world.

If Roe v. Wade is overturned, aborting women will be shackled.

On the latter point, a May 2 New York Times editorial killed 2 birds with 1 stone cold lying editorial. It began by advancing evidentially challenged, faceless innuendo...

After a successful court battle, MO pro-lifers unveiled the newest state Choose Life specialty license plate on May 2.

You'd think pro-aborts would learn. They sue, they lose, all the way up to the US Supreme Court .

I spoke with Russ Amerling this morning, who heads the nationwide Choose Life effort, and got more on the status of lawsuits....

South Carolina Citizens for Life spotted a bombshell in Planned Parenthood Health Systems' 2007 annual report: On the last day of the year it purchased a building in Charleston, SC, with plans to "provid[e] a full range of preventative services... later this year. Photos, right, courtesy of PPHS's annual report.

Didn't mention the A-word.

An ob/gyn named Armstead "Bert" Pruitt currently practices in the building.

PP paid $1.25 million for it, according to the Charleston Co. Auditor via SCCL....

MSM political cartoons often reveal ideological hypocrisy from 1 to the next.

This week's offer many examples, but I'll focus on just 1 left-brained schizophrenic split.

The 1st cartoon notes how MSM (correctly yet gleefully) portrays the TX FDLS polygamist sect as raping underage girls in the name of God.

by Nick Anderson for the Houston Chronicle...

Compare that to cartoons 2 and 3, which turn a blind eye to a KS Planned Parenthood abortion mill that has been alleged to cover up rapes of underage girls by aborting them without reporting the abuse to authorities.

The Kansas City Star cartoonist goes so far as to portray PP as doing the work of God with KS DA Phill Kline as a Draconian-Frankensteinian figure after it, and then portrays Kline as Hannibal Lecter being restrained by the rule of law...

Anti-torture activist Dr. Steven Miles was scheduled to speak before Masses tomorrow at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Minneapolis until the Archdiocese there nixed him Wednesday because he is pro-abortion. In response Miles stated an interesting position, according to the Star Tribune:

Miles believes passionately that torture violates fundamental rights of life and dignity. And causes abortions.

"Torture causes women to abort at a horrendous rate," Miles says, "and people who have been tortured are much more likely to commit suicide. The point is that an anti-torture campaign is a pro-life campaign."

I find several holes and inconsistencies in that argument. Do you? Or perhaps you agree with Miles. If so, about what forms of torture do you think he is speaking?

The new poll question is up:

Do you think a pastor or priest would violate a church's tax exempt status to state from the pulpit: "We have a duty to elect candidates who will protect the lives of the unborn."

My goodness, I don't know what it was about last week's question that engaged so many people, but here are the results...

It is unprecedented that an entity being prosecuted files a lawsuit against the prosecutor, but that's exactly what Planned Parenthood of Overland Park, KS, did in June 2007 against Johnson Co. DA Phill Kline.

Kline had charged the clinic with aborting minor girls and not reporting the abortions to the state, and then falsifying medical documents to cover up.

Then PP asked the KS Supreme Court to seal the documents case, which incredibly it did.

Today, the Supremes unsealed them.

Here is what the court docs prove, now being given the light of day...

This Saturday, May 3, the Archdiocese of Detroit will provide a funeral Mass and burial for 25 aborted babies retrieved from the trash dumpsters behind late-term abortionist Alberto Hodari's Woman Care abortion clinics in MI.

Services will begin at 10:30a at St. Gerald's Church, 21300 Farmington Road, Farmington, MI. A private burial service will take place for the aborted babies immediately following the Mass at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Southfield.

Those not following the story can catch up here.

In a nutshell, in February and March pro-lifers led by Monica Miller,director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, discovered biohazardous waste, over 200 patient records, used syringes, and the remains of aborted babies in the dumpsters of 3 of Hodari's abortion clinics. Click to enlarge one patient record from Hodari's trash, left. You can view a YouTube video of what they found here....

We last left Yale art student Aliza Shvarts hiding out in her apartment, perhaps filming herself in her bathtub aborting more babies.

Shvarts and Yale were at an impasse. Yale was demanding Shvarts publicly admit her planned senior "performance art" project was a hoax. Yale Daily News detailed the project to a greater extent yesterday...]

by JivinJ

I just uploaded 2 recent segments to YouTube on Fox spotlighting Planned Parenthood's racism: accepting donations specifically to abort black babies.

Laura Ingraham on The O'Reilly Factor, April 25, 2008...

Brit Hume, April 24, 2008...

As an aside, Day Gardner, who you'll see speak in the video below and who is president of National Black Pro-Life Union, will appear tonight on Glenn Beck's t.v. show. He has invited her to discuss the Jeremiah Wright issue, and she's going to try to steer the conversation to Wright's promotion of abortion. Beck can be seen at 7p and 9p EST on Headline News.

"We're here to talk about race, because Planned Parenthood has made abortion about race" ~ great line by Rev. Clenard Childress of BlackGenocide.org at last week's press conference in D.C. by black leaders calling on Congress to defund Planned Parenthood.

Surprisingly, the press conference got lots of good press. Great sign. Here are clips:

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