by Colleen W.

"Welcome" to Colleen, a graduate student interning for Students for Life who director Kristan Hawkins is graciously "lending" me a couple of hours a day. Colleen will compose (Prolifer)ations for the summer. JivinJ will still also contribute his valuable posts, but we just need to think of a new name. Suggestions welcome!

On the pro-life blogs...

To listen to my interview on Bill Bennett's radio show this morning discussing Barack Obama's opposition to IL's Born Alive Infants Protection Act click here.

Bill has also posted a link to the audio on his site.

A 527 has been launched and a website is in process to expose Barack Obama and his opposition to the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act, in other words, his support of infanticide.

I am making this public now since many Bill Bennett listeners are checking out this blog after his having publicized it this morning.

If you would like to donate to our 527 now, please make checks out to BornAliveTruth.org and mail them to:

BornAliveTruth.org will go live in the coming days, and online donations can be made then.

Bennett listeners, go here to see photos of Christ Hospital's Comfort Room. Go here to view Obama's votes and actions against IL's Born Alive Act. And to read further information on Barack Obama and Born Alive, go here to view my Obama archives.

[Graphic courtesy of The Husaria]

The date and time has changed 3x now, but I think tomorrow between 5-6p EST the CNN segment on Barack Obama and the Born Alive issue is finally going to air. This is what CNN interviewed me for last week.

Bill Bennett is appearing live on CNN's The Situation Room tomorrow during that time period and specifically requested that the segment await his ability to rebut and refute however Obama, his people, or CNN downplay Obama's actions against Born Alive. Recall the exchange between Bennett and Obama supporter Donna Brazile last week in which Brazile contended the topic of gas prices was more important than infanticide.

Meanwhile, Bill Bennett will interview me on his radio show tomorrow morning at 8:05a EST about same. Find station listings here.

In response to MoveOn.org's "Not Alex" ad comes this political cartoon by Chip Bok of Townhall.com:

Here's that ad, in case you missed it:

I wonder if Bok anticipated people like me interpreting his work as I have....

Reported TriCityHerald.com yesterday:

Planned Parenthood of Central Washington's [State] Teen Council spread the word about National HIV Testing Day today to about 250 people in Richland's Howard Amon Park, though the peer education group had to switch locations.

The teens had originally planned to distribute information at Richland's Wal-Mart about free HIV testing that will be at the Kennewick Planned Parenthood clinic Tuesday.

But after threats of a protest by a grass-roots Catholic anti-abortion organization, the American Life League, Wal-Mart requested Thursday that the PP-affiliated council not distribute information at the store....

Carol Costello of CNN contacted me this morning to be interviewed on my experience with Barack Obama and IL's Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

So I just got back from taping a segment at the Chicago CNN studio. I was told it would air during The Situation Room, on now. It hasn't aired yet.

UPDATE, 5:15p: Just talked to Carol, and she didn't get all of her interviews done in time, she said, so they postponed the segment until tomorrow between 5-6p EST.

SECOND UPDATE, 6/27, 5:35p: The segment will again be postponed - until Monday, between 5-6p EST. Bill Bennett was also interviewed for the piece and is scheduled to appear live on The Situation Room Monday. So he asked that the segment be held until then so he can discuss and rebut it after it airs.

By Ann Coulter, June 25:

Liberals dismiss studies that show a link between abortion and breast cancer, claiming they are biased because the people promoting the studies are "anti-choice." For the same reason, no one should believe the Democrats' "energy" policies.

Democrats couldn't care less about high gas prices. The consistent policy of the Democratic Party, going back at least to Jimmy Carter, has been to jack up gas prices so we can all start pedaling around on tricycles....

Recall Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk's June 23 press conference, when, according to USA Today:

The city's mayor said Monday there is no evidence a group of young girls made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, seeking to dispel an explosive theory put forth by the high school principal....

Just up on YouTube by Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, this is absolutely fabulous...

[HT: Fran at Illinois Review]

I was just clicking through the top 25 ad icons of all time and was most interested in #18, the Gerber baby.

I had always heard she was Brooke Shields.

A Google search confirmed I didn't invent that, as a snip from BecomeABabyModel.com reads:

But she wasn't. Here's more...

I wrote earlier this month actress Scarlett Johansson told the London Telegraph "she has regular email contact with presidential hopeful Barack Obama in which she offers advice and consoles him after difficult debates." Continued the Telegraph:

The Hollywood starlet said she had been communicating with the Democratic candidate for months and was "amazed" that he always found the time to reply....

"You'd imagine that someone like the senator who is constantly travelling and constantly 'on' - how can he return these personal emails?" she told the Politico website.

"But he does...."

She described how after a particularly tough debate earlier this year, she sent an email congratulating him for "holding his ground".

He responded that the questioning was "difficult" and he was being pounded on "one silly question after another."

I said at the time young Scarlett had received her last email from Obama, who if what she said was true, had engaged in a politically risky tête-à-tête.

Now, according to Us magazine, Obama is denying all but 1 email...

I've written before (here and here) about the Democrats' attempt to reinstate taxpayer subsidies of college and Planned Parenthood birth control pills in the War Supplemental Appropriations bill.

Recall PP CEO Cecile Richards famously lamented that without this subsidy's restoration, college women would have to choose between sex and food, i.e., buy birth control pills or eat.

Well, I guess now we'll see what their priority is. And maybe they'll get their free-sex partners to kick in a little to support the habit. Or would that make them feel too much like prostitutes?

From Medical News Today, June 23...

Wrote Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters.org yesterday:

Who cares if Barack Obama won't protect a child who is born alive after an abortion? Gas is over $4/gallon!

So argued Donna Brazile when Bill Bennett pressed her on the matter today. The issue arose during a post-Obama press conference kibitzing session on CNN's Situation Room. Bennett was making the point that the complaisant media in attendance had failed to press the candidate on tough issues.

Here's the clip. (Thanks to Mark for being so kind as to post it on YouTube.)

Read transcript of Brazile/Bennett exchange on page 2.

Continued Mark...

In "Diablo Cody got me pregnant," Manhattan Monarch wrote today:

The conclusion is unanimous: the supposed pregnancy pact fulfilled by over a half-dozen teenagers in Gloucester, MA is a result of their enjoying the Cody-penned teen pregnancy comedy, Juno. It's funny to hear the same folks that praised Jason Reitman's indie hit for its implicit pro-life message now bashing it just as fervently as a brainwasher of innocent children's minds....

Every morning I read my Bible and pray. Otherwise I know I'd not fare well mentally through the day trying to promote the sanctity of life against anti-life liberals and media. Today though, despite the great start, I'm really close to losing it.

This just blows my mind. Click to link to video:

I almost can't get my arms around this one. The audacity of Obama to push abortion to its most radical ends - pba, live birth abortion, and FOCA - and then relish kissing babies? He really is maniacal....

In today's Washington Times, Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, describes a maddening political phenomenon:

Imagine you are the Karl Rove for your very own Republican candidate. Say you have stumbled upon a position your candidate holds that garners 68%+ support in public opinion polls. The issue polls best among women and young people - often tough nuts for the GOP to crack. Say you noticed Democrats getting wise to the popularity of the issue and are running and winning campaigns that include it in their election platforms. You notice that your candidate's own Democrat opponent, however, takes the 32%- stance....

Time magazine revealed last week at least eight students at Gloucester High School in MA have entered into a "pact," according to Principal Joseph Sullivan, to get pregnant and raise their babies together....

Sullivan has now gone mum, certainly after school and city lawyers told him to shut up....

It's no wonder Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk disallowed Sullivan from speaking at her June 23 press conference, telling the world he had gone "foggy in his memory," and there was "no evidence" of a pregnancy pact....

Kirk tried to shift blame for the pregnancies to state and federal government funding reductions "resulting in cuts to programs and services... including support for health education."

Not so fast. Last spring, MA Gov. Deval Patrick rejected $700,000 in free money for abstinence teaching from the federal government. Meanwhile, Patrick approved a budget increase of $800,000 for comprehensive sex ed funding, bringing the total to
$3.8 million annually....

Had this been a school system that taught abstinence, you'd best believe sex ed would be central to the story.

Had Patrick rejected comprehensive sex ed funding and increased abstinence funding, the New York Times would be pointing it out, not me....

Continue reading my column today, "What the media is ignoring about the pregnancy pact," on WorldNetDaily.com.

[Photo of Kirk courtesy of Agencies]

Access Hollywood reported yesterday:

Jason Bateman has come to the defense of the Oscar-nominated film, Juno, claiming the movie should not bare blame for the flood of teen pregnancies in Gloucester, MA....

As the media quickly honed in on the story, it was branded "the Juno effect" and commentators openly discussed whether the film... along with the teen pregnancy of Jamie Lynn Spears, who at 17, became a mother last week, affected the Gloucester girls....

"I don't know the specifics, but I can speak about what sort of responsibility entertainment should hold for social behavior," Bateman, who starred as one half of adoptive couple the Lorings in Juno, told Access Hollywood. "... Look, if you're going to blame a movie or song for your actions, whether they be good or bad, I think you're looking at the wrong things to influence your life."...

Following up on a story from April (read previous posts here and here), from the Associated Press, June 20:

Indianapolis - Police arrested a man early Friday for allegedly shooting a pregnant bank teller during a robbery, causing her to lose her twins.

Detectives charged Brian Kendrick, 29, with attempted murder, two counts of killing a fetus and robbery....

During an interview about her place of work, former George Tiller employee Tina Davis described an alleged murder to Operation Rescue's Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger that was committed at the infamous late-term abortionist's mill by hired hand Shelley Sella.

Click here to hear the 1:38 audiotape. Read the transcript here. An excerpt:

JivinJ and I wrote in May about accusations that supposedly pro-life OR congressional candidate Mike Erickson had taken a girlfriend for an abortion in 2001.

Yesterday the Oregonian published the heartbreaking story from the aborting girlfriend, who only provided her first name, Tawnya. Aside from outting Erickson, this tragedy reiterates that abortion is not a great American right. It is an act of desperation. It is used by coercive men to exploit women. Here is an excerpt...

I'm looking for information on the Gloucester school system's sex ed program, and so far neither the mayor, superintendent of schools, nor GHS principal have returned my call.

If you are a parent in the school district or know anything about the school's sex ed program, please email me.

Thanks.

The technical term for a preborn crocodile is fetus. When born it is called a hatchling. Someone needs to tell AOL to stop the conservative crocodile spin. The following story demonstrates it is trying to humanize crocodiles. Why, look at this article's title: "Baby crocs communicate before hatching." Shameful.

Meanwhile, MSM continues to dehumanize preborn humans by calling them embryos and fetuses. And imagine an MSM article exploring preborn human communication. Ain't gonna happen.

From AOL, today:

The sounds "umph, umph, umph" might not resonate with you, but for baby crocodiles still in their shells, they are telling mom, "Let us out!"

Biologists have known that shortly before hatching, crocodiles make noises within their eggs. A new study, which involved playbacks of the pre-hatching calls, reveals these calls from the egg tell siblings it's time to hatch and tell moms it's time to uncover the nest....

This is Part III of a 3 part series on today's Wall Street Journal article, "Planned Parenthood hits suburbia."

See Part I here and Part II here.

Reporter Stephanie Simon accompanied her piece with a blog post at WSJ's Front Lines. In it she quoted me from a conversation we had on PP's expansion a couple months ago:

After decades of quiet expansion through a network of small, often somewhat shabby clinics, PP is poised to make a splash.

With annual revenues topping $1 billion last year, the nonprofit has gone on a building spree, laying out a network of upscale suburban clinics designed to feed into large regional health centers.

PP's strategy for growth has emboldened its perennial foes in the antiabortion community. Rep. Mike Pence... plans to push legislation this summer to end federal funding of PP. Conservative activists are chiming in, arguing that the group has proved it can do fine without tax dollars.

"They're a magnificent fundraising machine. They really are," said Jill Stanek, an antiabortion blogger. "I would think everyday people on the street would stop and think, "Why are we funding this group?'"...

This is Part II of a 3-part post on a front page Wall Street Journal article today entitled, "Planned Parenthood hits suburbia." (Read Part I here and Part III here.)

Following are informative charts that accompanied the story. The source for all stats was PP. Click all charts to enlarge.

It's true. PP is the Wal-Mart of the abortion industry, running out the mom and pop chop shops thanks to taxpayers, whose subsidies allow PP to unfairly undercut the competition....

PP claims it is reaching out to higher class clientele, but the stats don't bear it out. It would help if PP would plop its mills in other than poor minority neighborhoods, as it is in Denver...

A front page story by Stephanie Simon in today's Wall Street Journal focused on Planned Parenthood's nationwide expansion strategy:

Flush with cash, Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide are aggressively expanding their reach, seeking to woo more affluent patients with a network of suburban clinics and huge new health centers that project a decidedly upscale image.

I've reported on this for awhile (here and here).

The article also spotlighted PP's abortion feeders, its "Expresses":

PP has also opened more than two dozen quick-service "express centers," many in suburban shopping malls. Some sell jewelry, candles, books and T-shirts, along with contraception.

"It is indeed a new look...a new branding, if you will," said Leslie Durgin, a senior vice president at PP of the Rocky Mountains.

View merchandise photo here.

In the process, PP has changed its mission statement...

USA Today questions today whether there was a pregnancy pact at Gloucester High School in MA that resulted in at least 8 of 18 girls all under the age of 16 - likely Freshmen - getting pregnant simultaneously on purpose.

Whether or not there was a pact, which the Time reporter who originally wrote the story stands by, the question remains, as Ray Lamont, editor of the Gloucester Daily Times, told USA Today: "'Pact' or not, these kids thought it would be cool to be moms together. Where did they get that idea?"

The standout line in the article was:

"This is not a story about sex education," says Sarah Brown of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. "This is a story about a failure to take childbirth seriously. These girls could have had condoms distributed in their living rooms, and they still would have gotten pregnant."

Of course it's not a story about sex education, because only comprehensive sex ed is taught in MA public schools.

The governor last year went so far as to reject federal abstinence funding, which PP of MA gleefully reported:

Had this been a school system that taught abstinence sex ed only, you'd best believe that point would already be central to the story.

Why is no MSM outlet researching Gloucester's sex ed program? Could it be because PP and the comprehensive sex ed crowd are in the thick of it? Could it be this drama starkly highlights the difference between abstinence and comprehensive sex ed teaching?

Compared to abstinence education, comprehensive sex ed is values free, except perhaps to teach the "value" of how to avoid getting pregnant when having the sex it promotes.

Abstinence education focuses on self- and other-respect. It focuses on goals and dreams that having premature sex can stop. All this was abysmally lacking in the sex ed provided these girls.

Developing story....

[HT: proofreader Laura Loo]

The new poll question is up and has to do with last week's Gloucester High School pregnancy pact story:

What would you do if your teen attended a high school where some girls made a pact to get pregnant? Pick up to 3 answers.

[HT: Greta Van Susteren]

Just as with last week's poll, some readers wondered if liberals were raiding the site to skew the answers...

by Glenn McCoy, June 20:

UPDATE, 6/22, 6a: Comments back up. Thanks for your patience.

Sorry all. The site has been compromised and you're unable to make comments right now. Working on it.

Pro-aborts are lambasting ProChoice.com because it presents the other options to unplanned pregnancies.

Since when do pro-aborts own the term? They push one choice, abortion, and we push the 2 other choices, parenthood and adoption. We're 1/3 more pro-choice than they are.

But writes our high strung friend Jessica at Feministing.com...

Who was the Jane Roe of the infamous 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, legalizing abortion on demand?

She was Norma McCorvey, and according to Catholic News Agency she has made "her first-ever television commercial to lament her role in the case."

There are things you may not know about McCorvey. Find out by viewing the ad, produced by Virtue Media:

[HT: moderator MK]

Gloucester High School in MA has "sex ed classes that end freshman year," according to Time. (When do they begin?)

Now it has been learned that several female students entered into a pregnancy pact. When? According to the Boston Globe:

A large number of the pregnancies are among younger students, [local hospital official Cindy] Donaldson said.

"It's very sad," she said. "A good portion of them are sophomores."

and, according to Time...

On May 14 came this video and story from CNN about 2 particular victims found in the rubble following the devastating earthquake in China:

The Associated Press followed up yesterday...

Jill at Feministe took a swipe at me June 17 for my post, "Obama: 'Responsibility doesn't end at conception.'"

According to Jill I am a "nutbag... total nutbag... [and] crazy racist," and she filed her piece under the tags "A**holes, Crazy Conservatives... Racism... [and] Stupidity."...

From Newsmax.com, June 18:

In coming weeks, John McCain is planning to confront Barack Obama on three issues dear to conservatives' hearts.

First is Obama's support of the recent Supreme Court ruling that gives foreign enemy combatants detained at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detention in federal district courts....

Second is Obama's opposition to the Defense of Marriage Act, which says a state is not required to recognize same-sex marriages that are performed in other states. Congress overwhelmingly passed the bill in 1996, and Bill Clinton signed it into law.

Third is Obama's vote in 2002 as an Illinois state senator against a bill to define as a "person" a fully born baby who survived an abortion. The bill was intended to make it clear that if an abortion were botched, an infant born alive would not be killed and would receive medical care. Twice, Obama voted against various versions of the bill and twice voted "present." The Illinois bill did not pass....

by JivinJ

Confirming the phrase, "What goes around comes around," Women on Waves has endured much misery during its 9-year run.

WoW hit on the idea in 1999 to hoist pregnant female passengers in ports of call where abortion was illegal, transport them out to international waters, abort them, and return the barren bonnies to their motherland.

The craven crew hit their first snag in 2002 when the Dutch government refused to issue a permit to their converted fishing trawler over safety concerns....

In March 2002, then IL state Sen. Barack Obama and I engaged in an interesting exchange during my testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he was a member.

I was speaking in favor of the IL Born Alive Infant Protection Act for the second time, which had failed the year before.

The previous year, I had told Obama and the committee of my experience holding a live aborted baby until he died in my capacity as a labor and delivery nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, IL.

That year, I described Christ Hospital's Comfort Room, unveiled in December 2000 to counter my public statements that personnel were shelving babies to die in the department's soiled utility room next to dirty linens, bloody and biohazardous waste, and a urinal....

I did not mention the Comfort Room when I testified again in 2002. But Barack Obama
remembered....

Continue reading my column today, "Barack Obama and the Comfort Room," on WorldNetDaily.com.

See more photos of Christ Hospital's Comfort Room that I submitted to then state Sen. Obama and other members of the IL Senate Judiciary Committee on page 2.

From U.S. News & World Report yesterday:

The nation's largest abortion-rights group today released a poll of likely women voters in 12 battleground states that suggests... John McCain could lose the support of significant numbers of independent and pro-choice Republican women - if they are educated about the AZ senator's antiabortion voting record.

Ok, underlined are your first clues this article is biased, in fact, just a reworking of the NARAL press release.

For instance, the USN reporter merely reordered NARAL's "McCain's votes against birth control access" to "his votes to limit access to birth control," which is pure spin. McCain opposed forcing insurance companies, such as those owned by Catholics, to fund contraception against their moral beliefs. As usual, so much for choice....

Can't believe scientists had such a basic human function as ovulation wrong. Just goes to show science has a lot still to learn about a woman's reproductive cycle. (And if they had this wrong, how much do they not yet know about the birth control pill's mode(s) of action?)

From Sify News:

A researcher associated with the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels has accidentally captured the images showing the production of an egg inside a woman's body, something known as 'ovulation' in medical terminology.

Jacques Donnez has revealed that he captured the event while preparing to carry out a partial hysterectomy on a 45-year-old woman.

Observing ovulation in humans is extremely rare, and previous images have been fuzzy.

"The release of the oocyte from the ovary is a crucial event in human reproduction. These pictures are clearly important to better understand the mechanism," New Scientist magazine quoted Donnez as saying.

Most scientists believe that the release of an egg occurs as a sudden, explosive event.

However, Donnez's pictures show it taking place over a period of at least 15 minutes.

The researcher says that shortly before the egg is released, enzymes break down the tissue in the mature follicle, a fluid-filled sac on the surface of the ovary that contains the egg.

He says that this prompts the formation of a reddish protrusion, and after a while a hole appears, from which the egg emerges, surrounded by support cells.

Donnez says that it then enters a Fallopian tube, which carries it to the uterus....

[HT: proofreader Angela, friend Arlene, reader Robert King]

by JivinJ

The Washington Post has an encouraging - albeit biased - story today on the developing phenomenon of pro-life pharmacies:

When DMC Pharmacy opens this summer... in Chantilly [VA], the shelves will be stocked with allergy remedies, pain relievers, antiseptic ointments and almost everything else sold in any drugstore. But anyone who wants condoms, birth control pills or the Plan B emergency contraceptive will be turned away.

That's because the drugstore... will be a "pro-life pharmacy" - meaning, among other things, that it will eschew all contraceptives.

The pharmacy is one of a small but growing number of drugstores around the country that have become the latest front in a conflict pitting patients' rights against those of health-care workers who assert a "right of conscience" to refuse to provide care or products that they find objectionable....

Yesterday at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago, Barack Obama gave a good Father's Day speech on the responsibility of black men to be good fathers.

Obama once again uttered the strange line, "We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception."

When does Obama think that responsibility begins? Is he saying there's a problem in the black community where 70% of men think they are responsible to impregnate women, but hang on, there's more to it?...

What a tragic story. Clearly this poor mother's captors are deranged. This is about more than an out-of-wedlock pregnancy. From the Associated Press, June 14:

An Italian woman whose family kept her locked in a room for almost two decades after she was accused of becoming pregnant out of wedlock has been freed by police, authorities and media reports said.

Police said they found the 47-year-old woman Friday in a filthy room in the family's home near Naples.

Just a few minutes ago doors opened to the Kettering University auditorium in Flint, MI, where Barack Obama is scheduled to give a speech at 11:45a EST on jobs and the economy.

Little did Flint Right to Life and Black Americans for Life know when they co-sponsored this billboard in front of the college awhile back that it might be read by such a prominent promoter of black genocide:

[HT: Judy Climer, president of FlintRTL]

As a wife to a fisherman and mother of two sons, I found this one pretty funny. Click to enlarge:

Happy Father's Day!

The new poll question is up:

A t-shirt with this logo was recently made available: "When environmentalists start saving babies, I will start saving trees!" Thoughts? Choose up to 2 answers.

Re: last week's poll, about midweek a faithful reader wrote wondering if liberals were emailing friends to skew the poll to favor Democrats...

I am not Catholic, but since the Catholic Church has written the most extensively and perfectly on the pro-life issue, and since the Catholic Church wields a great deal of influence in this arena, I like to follow Catholic conversations.

On June 7, Doug Kmiec, chair and professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University, and former dean and St. Thomas More professor at Catholic University of America, wrote a column on Catholic Online explaining his endorsement of Barack Obama for president....

On May 24 the Orlando Sentinel published a story describing Terri Schiavo as "brain dead," even worse than the oft-cited yet wrong "persistent vegetative state" MSM more often attributes to her. Brain dead is what one is at organ harvest time, kept alive only by machines.

After repeated attempts to contact OS by phone and email, Terri's brother Bobby Schindler finally got through to a Mr. Dana Eagles, informing him OS's depiction of Terri was "patently false."

He directed Eagles to the press release the family recently issued reexplaining for the millionth time Terri's correct diagnosis, "disabled" or "brain-damaged." Bobby even offered to send Eagles Terri's medical documents indicating not even doctors paid by Terri's husband Michael ever diagnosed Terri as "brain dead."

The next day came this email to Bobby...

Pro-abort groups and individuals from around the country are expected to pour money into the primary and general election races against KS Johnson Co. District Attorney Phill Kline.

Kline is the only DA in the U.S. prosecuting Planned Parenthood, and likely the only DA in the U.S. with the intestinal fortitude to do so. Anyone keeping even minimal track of his progress knows the fight is not only uphill but personal. Unwarranted vicious attacks against Kline by MSM et al for merely trying to enforce KS law show serious his criminal investigation has become. For instance, read this June 10 DailyKos hit piece.

Pro-lifers cannot abandon Kline, particularly when he is so close to succeeding. Please donate to his campaign online at klineforda.com, or mail a check to Kline for DA, PO Box 2202, Olathe, KS 66061-2202.

And I received this email last night from Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-life Society, which spearheaded the effort to retrieve aborted babies from Alberto Hodari's dumpsters and give them a proper burial. Recently CPLS discovered more aborted babies in another abortionist's dumpster and needs to underwrite another funeral...

Pro-abort bloggers Christina Page on the Huffington Post and Scott Swenson on RH Reality Check are attempting to spin Barack Obama as "centrist" on abortion, or even "pro-life."

Beyond the fact that this is a wild lie, the question is why, according to them, would this be a good thing?...

by JivinJ

I have a feeling loose-lipped Scarlett has received her last email from Barack.

From the London Telegraph, June 11:

The actress Scarlett Johansson has revealed that she has regular email contact with presidential hopeful Barack Obama in which she offers advice and consoles him after difficult debates.

The Hollywood starlet said she had been communicating with the Democratic candidate for months and was "amazed" that he always found the time to reply.

"You'd imagine that someone like the senator who is constantly travelling and constantly 'on' - how can he return these personal emails?" she told the Politico website....

The pro-abortion women's PAC EMILY's List has learned through experience how to put on a happy face in the aftermath of huge losses.

In 2002 17 of EMILY's 21 endorsed candidates lost in the national election.

In 2004 10 of EMILY's 13 endorsed candidates lost in the national election.

In 2006 16 of EMILY's 18 endorsed candidates lost in the national election.

Now, the group's leadership has apparently gone hysterical after seeing its hard-fought presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lose to Barack Obama. Reported the Washington Independent on June 11:

Ellen Moran began to laugh. This wasn't a snicker or a snort, but a full-throttled laugh that caused Moran to jerk her head back toward the ceiling as she contemplated the question before her. It was the early afternoon of June 6 and the 42-year-old executive director of EMILY's List had just been asked whether she believed if the political group could have done anything differently during the presidential run of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in which the political group played an integral part....

BraveNewFilms posted 3 ads on YouTube June 10 taking on John McCain's various pro-life votes. The ads are funny (particularly that nurse!) albeit dishonest (surprise) interpretations of McCain's record.

"Why Do Women Give McCain a Zero?": Pro-abort interpretation of McCain's opposition to forcing insurance companies to fund contraception, even if Catholic and in violation of their beliefs (Murray/Reid prevention‐package amendment to Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, S.3, 3/11/03):

"McCain Women's Clinic, part 2": Pro-abort interpretation of McCain's vote against a new government-funded comprehensive sex ed program (Lautenberg/Menendez amendment to Child Custody Protection Act, S.403, 7/25/06)...

A friend sending me an article on the ACLU's $335 fundraising effort included this thought:

In an Obama administration with a Democrat-controlled Congress, pro-life efforts would likely gravitate to "outside the beltway" activities, i.e., activities at the state level.

Our enemies seem to have anticipated that. They are gearing up, as the article below documents. Are pro-life efforts and plans also gearing up at the state level?

Here is the June 10 ACLU press release:

The ACLU today announced the... largest fundraising campaign on behalf of civil rights and liberties in American history. The $335 million... unprecedented effort [is] to build the organization's infrastructure by increasing funding to key state affiliates nationwide....

The Republican National Committee began running this anti-Obama ad June 3. I had forgotten the job of IL state senator is part-time, making Obama's resume even slimmer.

I'm glad the RNC noted Obama's "present" votes on abortion but note the RNC didn't take a position for or against abortion in the ad. Shrewd or scared?

Good for the judge for giving the maximum sentence. Bad that the maximum sentence for illegally giving permission to kill a preborn is only 1 year. From the Atlanta Journal Constitution, today:

A Hall County woman is serving a year in jail for pretending to be a girl's mother when she signed off on the girl's abortion.

In reality, Cindi Cook was the mother of the girl's boyfriend, who also was 16 when she became pregnant in early 2007.

Displeased that the baby would ruin her son's chance of going to college, Cook, 44, pressured the 16-year-old girl to have the abortion in the spring of 2007, found a clinic that would do it without her present, and paid for the procedure....

Last week, a judge sentenced Cook to a year in jail - the maximum for a misdemeanor - for interfering with custody and violating a parental notification law....

James said his office is now investigating whether the facility - Northside Women's Clinic in Chamblee - broke a state law that required parental notification when a girl under the age of 18 has an abortion....

Yesterday, Barack Obama met with church leaders - in the Chicago highrise office building where my husband works, incidentally - to perhaps discuss the wonderment that lightning doesn't strike whenever he invokes the name of Christ in the same breath he condones abortion.

Ok, I doubt that but do admire his chutzpah for continually taking the risk. According to the Associated Press:

As one clergyman put it, when Barack Obama met with Christian leaders in Chicago today, the discussion "went absolutely everywhere."

The presumed Democratic presidential nominee met privately with the group [of ~30], which included conservatives, and discussed Darfur, the Iraq war, gay rights and abortion.

Bishop T.D. Jakes, who heads a Dallas megachurch, tells the AP that Obama discussed his "personal journey of faith." And he says some of the participants clearly have political differences with Obama. Jakes, who does not endorse candidates, says he would also like to meet with John McCain.

Obama's campaign says the event included "prominent evangelicals and other faith leaders" and there will be more such meetings in the months to come....

I'm not crazy for signage on any girl's butt. If my daughter were still the age to be attracted to backside messaging, I'd nix the purchase. It draws the young male eye to the wrong place.

But if a teen queen insists on wearing such advertisement I'd rather it be something along the lines of, "Look but don't touch." Even that is a bit dichotomous, attracting a young voyeur to a hot spot only to tell him to go away.

At any rate, K-Mart apparently considers abstinence a fad, a good thing. So it is currently marketing "True Love Waits" on jogging pants:

Saturday evening we attended one of our more memorable weddings, not only because a dear friend got married.

As Nancy and Cary exchanged vows on the canopied porch of a new local restaurant, the sirens went off, meaning a tornado had been spotted. We tracked the twisters in the bar as they hopscotched to the south and east of us.

Meanwhile, we learned later, our friend Darryl and son Joel - we all attend the same church - did some storm chasing, as the local Fox affiliate profiled. Click on graphic to link to video:

Running over live wire... real smart, Darryl.

Sure to send shock waves throughout KS, Johnson Co. District Attorney Phill Kline announced tonight he will seek re-election, just one day short of the filing deadline.

Actually, Kline was appointed to his position by county Republicans in December 2006 and will run to retain his seat.

The question whether Kline would seek to stay in office has been debated for months....

by JivinJ

A June 8 article in The Independent is refreshingly politically incorrectly honest. A few good points from it:

1. The strategy by homosexuals and liberals to portray HIV/AIDS as an affliction on the general population has been proven wrong.

2. Abstinence and fidelity teaching prevent HIV/AIDS, a disease mostly of those engaging in high risk sexual behavior.

3. Circumcision works....

Brent Bozell's June 7 column, "Nightmare on Prom Street," in Townhall.com, takes wimpy educators to task for letting teens bump and grind their way through prom dances.

Meanwhile, Janet Crouse reported in Townhall.com, June 6:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just released its 2007 report "Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance"....

The good news is that fewer teens engage in risky behavior. The bad news is that far too many of them still do!...

While pro-lifers debate whether the 2008 SD ballot initiative banning almost all abortions and the CO initiative declaring personhood from the moment of fertilization are good ideas, here is a thought from the other side. Quoting from the Communist publication Workers World, June 6:

"These situations like South Dakota and Colorado are going to keep playing out all over the country. They are very difficult to fight on a state by state basis, especially when leaders for reproductive rights are entangled in the electoral process, believing that somehow Democrats are going to protect women's rights." ~ Debbie Johnson of the Detroit Action Network For Reproductive Rights...

by Ben Sargent...

Today is Protest the Pill Day '08: The Pill Kills Babies. It marks the 43rd anniversary of the Supreme Court's Griswold vs. Connecticut decision that freed Planned Parenthood exec Estelle Griswold to peddle birth control pills legally she had been peddling illegally. And the rest is history. We can certainly look back over the past 4 decades and see the number of "unwanted" children conceived has dropped, right?

Since that time the contraception/abortion industry has engaged in a cover-up to keep women ignorant about the fact the bc pill may abort 5- to 9-day old preborn children by making the uterus impermeable to their attachment.

Several supposedly feminist writers have taken offense to my WND column this week publicizing The Pill Kills Day....

The new poll question is up:

On June 4 Republicans shut down the Senate to try to force Democrats to confirm 7 more of Bush's circuit court nominees before his term ends, which would bring the number (15) to that confirmed during Clinton's last 2 years. Do you think Republicans should continue the shutdown indefinitely until Democrats yield?

Last week's off-topic poll yielded landslide results...

Following my column, "June 7: The Pill Kills Day," I received emails expressing similar thoughts from good pro-life friends like this:

[B]efore going along with American Life League's campaign against birth control pills, your blog (and column) should do more than merely read off the FDA's label regarding birth control pills and leave it as if the FDA's label is gospel truth.

The FDA label says the same thing about emergency contraception and recent study after recent study is showing how unlikely it is that EC has a post-conception effect.

There are numerous scientific studies on this issue and not one of them (at least that I've read) has conclusively proven that birth control pills prevent the implantation of conceived embryos....

I've written for a long time about Senate Democrats obstructing confirmation of President Bush's circuit court nominees.

In fact, one would have to go back to 1848 to match their pace. During the last 2 years of Clinton's reign, 15 nominees were confirmed by a Republican-controlled Senate. During Bush's last 2 years, 8 nominees have so far been confirmed. The typical average is 17.

I've written for months that Republicans were becoming increasingly exasperated with Democrat stall tactics, obviously to keep as many spots open as possible pending the hopeful election of a Democrat president, despite the fact some are now considered "emergency vacancies."

On May 22, as the Memorial Day deadline approached when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had promised 3 confirmations and only produced 1, Republicans rattled their sabres louder.

So it should have come as no surprise when on June 4, Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell used a parliamentary procedure to shut down the Senate to force movement from the Dems on judges. He demanded a 491-page bill be read in full, his prerogative....

See previous posts here and here.

The Politico reported yesterday:

Sen. Barack Obama on Thursday batted down rumors circulating on the Internet and mentioned on some cable news shows of the existence of a video of his wife using a derogatory term for white people, and criticized a reporter for asking him about the rumor, which has not a shred of evidence to support it.

"We have seen this before. There is dirt and lies that are circulated in e-mails and they pump them out long enough until finally you, a mainstream reporter, asks me about it," Obama said to the McClatchy reporter during a press conference aboard his campaign plane. "That gives legs to the story. If somebody has evidence that myself or Michelle or anybody has said something inappropriate, let them do it."...

by JivinJ

Michelle Malkin's column yesterday, Planned Parenthood's obscene profits, began with this intro on her blog:

My syndicated column this week turns the spotlight on the nefarious business practices of the government-funded, billion-dollar Planned Parenthood empire. Congress has interrogated banking, energy, tobacco, and oil execs-treating them like serial killers before the cameras. When will they go after a corrupt industry that has real blood on its hands?

On a related front, pro-life groups are pushing Bush to de-fund the abortion industry. "Centrist" Republicans are balking. Conservative GOP Rep. Mike Pence, leading the effort to cut the abortion subsidies, is "befuddled" by the White House's reticence on the issue. Me, I'm no longer befuddled by Beltway GOP leaders unwillingness to lead on basic conservative issues. It's the fecklessness we deserve.

Read Malkin's excellent column on page 2.

On June 3, Chicago Cardinal Francis George placed liberal big mouth Fr. Michael Pfleger on a 2-week leave, a sentence much too light and years too late for Catholic Citizens of IL, which has started a drive to get Pfleger pfired.

Meanwhile, Pfleger's parish members pfreaked, just as they always do when the Archdiocese threatens to remove him. This time they added a teen hunger strike as a piece de resistance. From the Chicago Sun-Times, yesterday:

Defiant St. Sabina parishioners demanded Cardinal Francis George reinstate their controversial pastor, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, just hours after he was removed Tuesday from his post against his wishes....

June 7, 1965, was an important day in American history.

On that day, the U.S. Supreme Court found a "right to privacy" in the Constitution in its Griswold v. Connecticut decision, which allowed Planned Parenthood operator Estelle Griswold to sell birth control pills
legally that she had been selling illegally.

Griswold was cited eight years later in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.

But I digress. Well, maybe not.

Did you know the birth control pill can cause chemical abortions?

No, probably not, unless you're a radical pro-lifer like me, or a radical pro-abort. We all know.

But radical pro-aborts don't want you to know. And they call us theNeanderthals....

So the American Life League is launching Protest the Pill Day '08: The Pill Kills Babies this Saturday, June 7....

The National Organization for Women is planning counter protests. I wonder how much they're paying picketers, since they only seem to arouse paid personnel to demonstrate against us, particularly on a Saturday. I'm always embarrassed for them.

Continue reading my column today, "June 7: The Pill Kills Day," on WorldNetDaily.com.

I wrote May 23 that Senate Republicans were threatening to do something if Senate Democrats didn't fulfill promises to confirm more judges.

When I emailed a source asking what that was, the source responded, "As [Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell] told the Senators, 'You will recognize it when you see it.'"

Well, this afternoon we're seeing it....

From an American Life League press release this morning:

Jim Sedlak, vice president for ALL, issued the following statement about Habitat for Humanity of Sarasota, FL ending its cooperation with Planned Parenthood:

"We received news this morning that the Board of Directors of Habitat For Humanity of Sarasota, Inc. voted last evening to disengage itself from Planned Parenthood and not go through with a planned land deal. We are extremely pleased that the Habitat board saw fit to take this action."

Backdrop, from Family Research Council...

Read my previous posts on this tragedy here and here. According to the Associated Press, today:

Chinese police on Wednesday blocked access to several schools that collapsed in last month's massive earthquake, a day after a group of parents protested that their children had died because of shoddy construction of the schools....

Students' deaths have become the focus for Chinese, both inside and outside the disaster area, fueling accusations about corruption in school construction. Angry parents and even rescuers have pointed to steel rods in broken concrete slabs that were thinner than a ball point pen....

Read my 1st post on this here. HillBuzz is reporting this morning:

Here's what's known so far:

The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event.

Michelle Obama appeared as a panelist alongside Mrs. Khadijah Farrakhan and Mrs. James Meeks....

by JivinJ

I reported May 29 on a private party pro-abort KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius hosted for late-term abortionist George Tiller and staff on April 9, 2007.

Whoops, the plot thickens, as it always does when involving KS and abortion.

Timeline:

April 28, 2008: Operation Rescue requests receipts for the event via the Open Records Act.

May 23, 2008: The Greater KS City Women's Political Caucus reimburses the state $848 for the event.

May 23, 2008: Governor's office sends OR the receipts with a cover letter stating...

The Clinton camp is denying the Associated Press story that she plans to concede to Obama tonight only on the point he has enough delegates.

Rumors why she's staying in the race: VP spot, Senate Majority Leader spot, Supreme Court spot, DNCC speaker's spot, or a shakedown to force Obama to help pay off her $17 million campaign debt.

Meanwhile the following YouTube video from Saturday's Democrat Rules Committee meeting has gotten over 1 million views. Harriet Christian's outburst followed its decision to allow disobedient FL and MI only half-votes, a big nail in Hillary's nomination coffin. The video demonstrates the anger Clinton's feminist supporters feel about the impending Obama nomination, and what at least one of them plans to do about it:

Will the Obama and Clinton supporters eventually make up and unite if only to get a Democrat in the White House? Maybe so but hope not. I've been part of one campaign (no, not my own) where that never happened. Feelings can get very raw in political fights.

Democrat strategist Bob Beckel, known to underplay problems within his Party but still somewhat of a straight shooter, just mentioned on Fox & Friends he is worried about a rumor he's heard about Michelle Obama - a bomb Republicans are supposed to drop tomorrow.

Beckel wouldn't elaborate but here's the scoop, from Poligazette.com, yesterday...

by JivinJ

From Mark Steyn, who I've decided I have a crush on, an excerpt from his column, Sexism, not Obama, beat Hillary, May 31:

Sex-selective abortion is a fact of life in India, where the gender ratio has declined to 1,000 boys to 900 girls nationally, and as low as 1,000 boys to 300 girls in some Punjabi cities.

In China, the state-enforced "one child" policy has brought about the most gender-distorted demographic cohort in global history, the so-called guang gun - "bare branches." If you can only have one kid, parents choose to abort girls and wait for a boy, to the point where in the first generation to grow to adulthood under this policy there are 119 boys for every 100 girls. In practice, a "woman's right to choose" turns out to mean the right to choose not to have any women.

And what of the Western world?...

Thanks to all you readers who are contributing to the continued growth of JillStanek.com. Last month saw another record set of 94,000 unique visitors and 4.3 million hits. We've seen traffic increase by 1/3 just since January, when there were 60,000 visitors.

Because of this, the site software experiences panic attacks every now and then, like last week.

In an effort to keep our wonderful moderators from experiencing similar panic attacks, we're adding to the Mod Squad, as they're affectionately known.

Thanks to Bobby Bambino, Carder, Carla, and Chris Arsenault for agreeing to help moderate this motley crew!...

Clever title AOL gave this news story.

Most of singer Madonna's music and performances disturb me, which is I'm sure part of her plan. But there are a couple things I admire about Madonna, her personal discipline and her willingness to adopt an African baby as well as fund African orphanages and make a documentary spotlighting the plight of poor African children.

Some say the adoption was a publicity stunt. If so, it was a life-altering one. From the Associated Press, May 28...

by Gary McCoy, May 29...

According to People magazine, May 30:

Angelina Jolie, who is expecting twins this summer, says being pregnant makes her feel womanly and sexy.

"It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason," she says in the July issue of Vanity Fair. "It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing."

Plus, the actress says that her partner, Brad Pitt, "finds pregnancy very sexy. So that makes me feel very sexy."

The 32-year-old - already mom to Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 2, - also says she is awed by what the human body can do.

When giving birth to daughter Shiloh, "I had a C-section and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice and I didn't find it a painful experience," she tells the magazine.

"I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do."

Do you agree pregnancy makes a woman "womanly and sexy"?

[HT: proofreader Laura Loo]