by JivinJ

Abortion in India is illegal after 20 weeks, in large part to stop female feticide. Today's NewsTrackIndia.com details a Bombay High Court's decision to break the rule:

In this particular case, a pregnant petitioner when found during routine diagnosis in her 24th week that her unborn child was suffering from a congenital heart block, resorted to go for abortions. But, doctors denied as it was against the law. However, a paediatrician said, the baby would need the placement of a peacemaker immediately after being born.

Normally a peacemaker has four to five years of life. This way, the child would have to go for five peacemaker replacement surgeries throughout life. Doctors also said that even surgery is not the guarantee of a normal life. They also expressed fear of a possible intra-uterine death of the foetus and if survives, continuous ailment would also compromise the life of the child....

Most in the Evangelical world are familiar with Joni Eareckson Tada's story. Not sure if she's so well known in Catholic circles.

Joni was left a teen quadriplegic in 1967 after a diving accident. Her 1976 book, Joni, really impacted me.

Here's a clip of a great interview Larry King conducted with Joni...

My friend Adam McManus of the KSLR Take A Stand radio show is raising sponsorship for 75 wheelchairs for Joni's Wheels for the World ministry, which provides wheelchairs to disabled people in third world countries. By refurbishing used wheelchairs, total cost for each is only $150. Adam is only 8 wheelchairs away from his goal.

If you would like to pledge for an entire wheelchair, great. Call 1-888-294-5664, mentioning Adam's name.

Or if you would like to combine forces with me to sponsor one wheelchair, either email me or leave a comment with the amount you'd like to pledge, which is tax deductible. I'll discuss arrangements with you offline.

View Joni's recent Wheels outreaches to Cuba, Kenya and Peru.

Ok... wellll... um... hm.

I guess I can't formulate words to add to this one...

Read more here.

[HT: proofreader Laura Loo]

by Colleen W.

From the blogs and elsewhere today...

I reported last week that SD's only abortion mill, Planned Parenthood of Sioux Falls, apparently did not commit abortions last Monday, the first day a new law took effect forcing abortionists to tell mothers they planned to snuff a human life and may suffer psychological consequences.

The status now? The Catholic News Agency reported yesterday:

In an interview with CNA on Monday, July 28, Dr. [Allen] Unruh said there were still indications that no abortions were being performed at the Sioux Falls clinic. Sidewalk counselors had told him that none of the women who were apparently scheduled for abortions had showed at the clinic by 9:30 am.

But SD's Voices Carry blog cautions...

by JivinJ

Senator Tom Coburn is the bane of Majority Leader Harry Reid's existence for relentlessly and fiercely opposing wasteful spending. For example, as FRC reported yesterday:

Repeatedly... Reid... has decided to ramrod legislation through the chamber.... He attempted this - unsuccessfully - with a massive $11 billion spending bill last week. Mockingly called the "Coburn Omnibus" because it contained several programs and expenditures that the OK Senator opposed, Reid's bundle of fiscally irresponsible projects failed.

And now see this most pathetic display of revenge. Reported The Hill July 28:

Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) office hit back Monday at new attempts to prevent him from delivering babies for free, arguing the Ethics panel might as well investigate Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-VT) cameo in The Dark Knight.

Speaking of, a commercial break with the aforementioned...

Back to The Hill piece...

Many here have helped Phill Kline financially in his primary race against Steve Howe for Johnson County, KS, District Attorney. The election is one week from today!

Kline, of course, is the stalwart trying against all odds to enforce KS's late-term and underage abortion laws.

There is still time to financially help.

Meanwhile, some have been asking for a fundraising update. Financial reports were just submitted, and here's the status today from the Associated Press...

From the Associated Press, this afternoon:

A Romanian immigrant has given birth to her 18th child in British Columbia, making her the province's most prolific mother in 20 years...

by JivinJ

When last we left Detroit's Wayne State University in November 2007, Medical Students for Choice was hosting infamous late-term abortionist Alberto Hodari to speak words of wisdom.

You remember that speech, secretly taped by Students for Life infiltrators who caught Hodari on video stating he had a "license to lie," among other gems.

Then, of course, Hodari went on to achieve national recognition for being caught trashing aborted babies in a couple of his mill dumpsters.

But I digress.

The Detroit News reported July 24:

A student group at Wayne State is suing the university, its top officials, and the student council, alleging the group was denied funding and the use of university facilities because of its anti-abortion stance.

Wayne State University Students for Life filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Detroit....

Leslie Hanks is a dear friend of mine and friend of this blog. She posts comments here using the moniker, "lesforlife." She is an integral part of American Right to Life and also runs the Passionate Prolifer blog.

Leslie's family has recently received unfathomable news about one of her 22-month-3-year-old twin granddaughters, Tuesday. As her friend Judy explained in an email:

Tuesday... has just been diagnosed with adrenal cancer and is sufffering through chemotherapy since the tumor is inoperable.

Leslie came and ministered with us one day at Alternatives and soon afterward that killing kafe closed. Leslie boldly confronted Quennie DeHaan with her camera and asked him pointedly how he could do what he did. 85-year-old Quennie responded in a smart-a** manner but, it was apparent he had not been face to face with boldness like Les presented to this hired killer. I am convinced that it was just one more straw that caused this abortuary to close its doors and it remains that way to this day....

Don't forget the Stand with Phill campaign is ongoing, trying to raise $300k for a burst of final days advertising in Phill Kline's race against Steve Howe to capture the Republican nomination for Johnson County District Attorney. The election is in 8 days on August 5. Speaking of Howe, he just got a nomination he says he didn't want, according to the Kansas City Star blog:

Don't look for an endorsement from the Mainstream Coalition's political action arm on Steve Howe's campaign resume....

By Glenn McCoy...

I've resisted posting on this all week but can no longer. On July 22 the National Enquirer followed up on a story it published late last year about John Edwards allegedly fathering an illegitimate baby....

The current issue of Precious Times, a black Christian women's magazine, features a cover story about The View's Sherri Shepherd, with this quote:

Before I converted to Christianity, I was a Jehovah's Witness.

In 1993, my mother was dying from diabetic complications. My sister was heavy into drugs, and we would have to go and get her from crack houses. I was in a very physically abusive relationship. I was sleeping with a lot of guys and had more abortions than I would like to count. I had very low self-esteem and just wanted to die. I felt if someone killed me, it wouldn't even make a difference.

But God showed me that it would make a difference....

Laura Smith's mom Eileen forwarded this video of yesterday's court proceedings where a Cape Cod DA charged Laura's abortionist Rapin Osathanondh with manslaughter for "willful, reckless conduct," according to NECM.com, leading to her death:

Read previous posts on Laura's death here, here, and here.

This is related to my July 23 WND column, "McCain and Viagra."

Newsweek yesterday reposted an article by Jess Henig of FactCheck.org about this Planned Parenthood ad currently airing in DC and battleground states including CO, IA, MN, NM, OH, and WI, according to Henig:

Henig determined, in fact...

Whether or not you have cable, you can watch the 30-minute documentary "beingHUMAN: 40 Days for Life II" tonight on EWTN at 6:30p EST.

Instructions how to watch the show via the Internet are posted on page 2.

"beingHUMAN" will spotlight the highly successful 40 Days for Life campaign....

by Colleen W.

News from the pro-life blogs today....

On July 23 People magazine published "The former 'Pregnant Man' debuts his baby" with the first public photo of the beautiful little girl, who looks an awful lot like her... um....

As if the story of this baby's conception and prenatal carriage weren't strange enough, see if you can find a new plot twist in the story, not really a gender bender... I don't think... but still slightly confusing:

Archie will love this attention. It may give his blog a much needed traffic bump.

Again, here's what I actually wrote.

What the heck. I'm in a sharing mood today. Below is one of the more amusing samples of malignments I receive. It appears Alex considers me both a witch and a witch killer. And this line was... well... indescribable in unmalignable terms: "What part of having an abortion means that the woman believes her child is unworthy of birth?"...

UPDATE, 9:15a: Michelle Malkin has linked to Dawn's post, adding her own choice thoughts.

Credit for post title goes to Dawn Eden of Dawn Patrol, who also revealed this maddening information on her blog today:

Visit the USDA's WIC Learning Center, the official Web site for the U.S. government's Women, Infants and Children program, and you will find a link to the home page of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

WIC is supposed to be a low-income nutritional program!

WIC provides nutritious foods, nutrition counseling, and referrals to health and other social services to participants at no charge. WIC is effective in improving the health of pregnant women, new mothers, and their infants....

A fierce fight was launched last week over a proposed Department of Health and Human Services regulation that would attach financial strings to laws that have been in place for 35 years guaranteeing health care providers and institutions the right to practice medicine without violating conscience.

See my previous post for backdrop.

If you've paid attention to the news, you've seen the other side has inundated MSM outlets, the White House, and DHHS with ferocious protests.

Pro-lifers must fight back, and today....

Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO, has been touted as one of John McCain's potential vice-presidential picks.

But on July 7, Fiorina exposed herself as either a political airhead or saboteur by handing pro-aborts a wider opening to attack McCain than they could possibly have fantasized....

Since early this year, NARAL has been sounding the alarm that its polling showed independents and pro-abortion Republicans have taken McCain's "maverick" reputation to mean he bucks his party's platform and is pro-abortion.

But recently, pro-abortion groups have adopted the deceptive strategy of portraying McCain as anti-contraception.

Apparently, their follow-up polls showed McCain's simply being anti-abortion has not raised the dander of targeted voters, particularly in light of mounting evidence that Barack Obama is an abortion extremist....

So Fiorina could not have played more perfectly into pro-abort hands.

On July 10, a reporter asked McCain about Fiorina's mother of all verbal gifts to pro-aborts.

This prompted "some of the most riveting campaign footage of the entire year so far," reported MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. You can view it in its entirety online here....

Continue reading my column today, "McCain and Viagra," on WorldNetDaily.com.

[Photo courtesy of RTTNews]

by Colleen W.

News from the pro-life blogs today....

KELO News reported that the only abortion mill in SD, Planned Parenthood of Sioux Falls, did not abort yesterday in response to a newly enforced 2005 abortion law, which I reported on July 18.

Yesterday was the 1st day mill workers were to read a script to mothers at least 2 hours before a scheduled abortion stating "the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being," and "abortion increases the risk of suicide ideation and suicide." The law also states mothers must sign that they understand.

Here is the KELO video report on yesterday's non-goings on...

by JivinJ

On July 17 Bill O'Reilly took on "the Planned Parenthood fanatics" for an ad they are running against John McCain for his votes against forcing insurance companies to fund contraceptives, even if Catholic, for instance, and in violation of their beliefs.

I was glad O'Reilly took the position he did but winced at his rationale, which was a bit ill-informed (stating this was a taxpayer funding issue) and I thought sexist....

Here's a good one, as reported by Operation Rescue Saturday:

Operation Rescue's Truth Truck, driven by Mark Gietzen, caused a stir the St. Louis Planned Parenthood abortion mill on Saturday, July 19, when he drove onto their parking lot and parked near the front door as abortion-bound women entered the facility.

Security guards for PP immediately rushed to close the parking lot's iron gates to prevent the Truth Truck from leaving while they summoned the police....

With all the hoopla this week on media satire and bias, it's not surprising political cartoonists took aim at their own, with no ink left for our issue.

I'm posting what I thought were the funniest on those 2 topics, throwing in a bonus I'm connecting to this thread under the label, "media gaffe," as in unintentionally whispering into a hot mic.

By Glenn McCoy...

by Michael Ramirez...

The new poll question is up:

For China's human rights violations, should President Bush boycott the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics?

Here are the answers to last week's poll, which wasn't as clear as it should have been, my apologies. "Family values" incorporated "Same religious views" in my mind.

Don't know if that clarification would have made a difference in results, but here they are...

Men's apologist Mark Rudov wrote the following in an interesting July 19 Men News Daily column, "Obama's baby mamas," on the speech "misandrist" Barack Obama should have given on Mother's Day to balance his chastisement of absentee fathers on Father's Day:

Unmarried mothers must stop complaining that sperm owners aren't committed fathers. Here's a rule of thumb for every unmarried woman: if you have no wedding ring on your finger, assume the man with whom you're having sex will not hang around post-childbirth. Let that sink in the next time you roll the dice with an innocent child's future.

Women have 20 methods of birth control from which to choose, according to Planned Parenthood.

Women must stop passing the buck to men. Either men are equally responsible for pregnancy or they're not. If they are, give them an equal say in all decisions about abortion, adoption, and custody. Otherwise, all unwed mothers should be totally responsible - logistically and financially - for raising their children.

Agree or disagree?

That would be me.

Last night on CNN's The Situation Room, Barack Obama's hostility toward IL's Born Alive Infants Protection Act came up again, this time in a discussion of his opposition to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban:

This is the 2nd time James Carville has ducked discussion of Obama's opposition to Born Alive in favor of taking a swipe at me. Carville was obviously unprepared on June 30 for a debate on the merits of Born Alive, but almost 3 weeks later he still has had no time or an intern to do some really easy research?

Two points...

The 1st test tube baby, Louise Brown, will turn 30 in a week, on July 25. The July 17 issue of Nature takes a look at the next 30 years of IVF:

Already, modern societies are entering an era of personalized genetics....

True... no embryo will have the perfect genetic future. But these techniques could allow parents to create a top-5 wish-list of the characteristics they most want for their child - avoiding, for example, the Parkinson's disease that plagues the family - and choose the embryo most likely to meet those criteria.

Or the parents may focus on non-health-related aspects such as intelligence and ambition....

The magazine asked several researchers to speculate on the next 3 decades.

Davor Solter, developmental biologist at the Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore...

Right now my beloved friends at Pro-Life Action League are conducting their 9th annual Face the Truth Tour in the Chicago area. I always participate in this tour, but this year I can't since I'm in DC. But I really miss it.

Here is a 2-part excellent professional video presentation of the FTT Tours and their rationale. The 2nd video shows drivers complaining and answers questions re: children and malcontents (including some pro-lifers) being forced to see graphic images of aborted babies.

[HT: Nancy W.]

From today's Rapid City Journal:

South Dakota will begin as early as Friday to enforce a 2005 law that requires doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a human life....

An order issued by a federal judge means that as of Friday, there will no longer be any court order preventing the state from enforcing the law....

Planned Parenthood, which operates SD's only abortion clinic in Sioux Falls, will comply with the law....

"We will do what the law says, but clearly the law is extreme and flawed and wrong,"
[spokesperson Kathi] Di Nicola said.

PP believes the courts will eventually strike down the SD law....

I'd heard conservative commentator Cal Thomas had led Democrat strategist Bob Beckel to the Lord and have even observed Beckel's commentating style become less abrasive on Fox over the past year.

In the July 26 issue of World magazine Marvin Olasky interviewed the pair, and my name came up in a discussion of Barack Obama. Read the World magazine piece in its entirety here. World has graciously enabled a link to the article for my readers. Following is the relevant excerpt:

Beckel: Let me be purely pragmatic about this: In politics the reason common ground will work is that polarization is bad politics in the voting booth and common ground is good politics.... Barack Obama took the message and it has been with him throughout the Democratic nomination. That'll tell you something.

World: But how will he actually pursue common ground? Let's look at one of the most difficult issues - abortion. Jill Stanek, the IL pediatric nurse, has written about appearing before Obama's committee (when he was in the IL senate) on infant born alive legislation: After a "failed" abortion when the baby is born alive, do you try to keep him alive or do you just let him die? Stanek has commented that, despite his public demeanor, Obama was heartless and callous. How is Obama going to find common ground on abortion when he doesn't even want to protect an infant already born alive?...

Beckel: I was pro-choice all my life until I came to faith and now I find it very difficult to reconcile that in biblical terms. I've had to remove myself from a number of pro-choice groups; I was on their boards. In politics you pick your fights. It is the most difficult example you put forward on Obama. I don't know where he would come down, but my guess is you probably wouldn't be able to find common ground with Obama on that issue.

Many people consider that the most pressing issue, and I understand that, but let's keep in mind here that the hard pro-life faction in this country who demand no abortions, versus the hard pro-choice faction who demand abortion at any time, are about 15% on either side. So you've got about 70% who look for some compromise. You can say, how do you compromise life? That's what we would say, but that's the reality of where the American people are. Part of common ground is approaching those issues that are doable.

[Photo courtesy of World magazine]

Dick and Rick Hoyt are a father-and-son team from MA who together compete just about continuously in marathon races. And if they're not in a marathon they are in a triathlon - that daunting, almost superhuman, combination of 26.2 miles of running, 112 miles of bicycling, and 2.4 miles of swimming. Together they have climbed mountains, and once trekked 3,735 miles across America.

It's a remarkable record of exertion - all the more so when you consider that Rick can't walk or talk.

For the past 25 years or more Dick, who is 65, has pushed and pulled his son across the country and over hundreds of finish lines. When Dick runs, Rick is in a wheelchair that Dick is pushing. When Dick cycles, Rick is in the seat-pod from his wheelchair, attached to the front of the bike. When Dick swims, Rick is in a small but heavy, firmly stabilized boat being pulled by Dick.

At Rick's birth in 1962 the umbilical cord coiled around his neck and cut off oxygen to his brain. Dick and his wife, Judy, were told that there would be no hope for their child's development.

"It's been a story of exclusion ever since he was born," Dick told me....

Continue reading Team Hoyt's inspiring story at multi'merica.com.

And here's Team Hoyt in action:

[HT: friend Bruce T.; photo courtesy of Team Hoyt]

I reported earlier in the week that 8 Republican senators held a forum to spotlight the Democrat obstruction of judicial confirmations. This Congress has only confirmed 10 of President Bush's Circuit Court nominees (one step below the US Supreme Court), an unprecedented small number.

Today, Majority Leader Reid allowed the confirmation of 2 District Court judges (2 steps below the Supremes), trying to obfuscate his stonewall on more important confirmations. This after stating on the Senate floor the issue of judge confirmations is not important:

Housing is a difficult problem. Energy, a difficult problem with gas prices. Global warming. Education. But I'm telling you, Madam President, I can't ever remember going home and somebody telling me and saying, could you guys do some more judges?

But Minority Leader McConnell wasn't placated and stepped up his own blockage of business to keep up the pressue:

To that end, several events occurred today to underscore - again the Democrats' refusal to confirm Circuit Court nominees.

First, Judiciary Committee Republicans boycotted today's hearing, thereby preventing it from occurring....

It was one year ago today that Barack Obama spoke at a Planned Parenthood Action Fund event, uttering the now infamous line, "Well, the first thing I'd do as president is, is sign the Freedom of Choice Act. [Applause.] That's the first thing that I'd do."

You can view the entire 24-minute speech here or watch this clip:

Obama made his remark in response to a question from the audience...

by Colleen W.

On the blogs today...

The KS primary election is in less than 3 weeks.

The most watched and important race is for Johnson Co. District Attorney Republican nominee: Phill Kline vs. the establishment opponent who will drop the only criminal case in the U.S. against Planned Parenthood.

As many of you have followed, Kline filed 107 charges against Comprehensive Health of PP of KS and Mid-MO in October 2007.

Since then, PP has wielded all its influence in a state run under pro-abortion Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to delay the evidence from ever getting before a jury. PP's plan: run out the clock on Kline's term in office. Kline has courageously fought against overwhelming odds to enforce the law against this $1 billion abortion cartel.

Now, Kline needs the help of the nationwide pro-life community. There is no one else but us. The only way Kline can get his message of truth out is to go around the Kansas City Star with a final days, aggressive, multi-faceted ad campaign. (Recall KCS has pounded Kline since the day he took office, re-earning the "Maggie Award" PP gave it in 2006 for helping unseat Kline in the Attorney General's race.)...

I received the following email this afternoon from Eileen Smith, mother of Laura Smith, who died at the hand of MA abortionist Rapin Osathanondh on September 13, 2007:

It is with great joy that I announce an indictment has been handed down by the Barnstable County District Atty's Office Today for "involuntary manslaughter" on the dr. that killed Laura. Nothing can ever bring Laura back to us but today's actions by the DA brings comfort in knowing that justice will prevail....

CNN interviewed Dr. Alveda King, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, niece, today as one African-American voter who does not support Barack Obama due to his pro-abortion position.

Alveda is a formidable black spokesperson on the pro-life issue, and I'm glad this angle got CNN coverage. Alveda's interview comes 50 seconds in:

Paul Weyrich is considered the founder of the modern conservative movement. In a July 11 National Ledger op ed he wrote (entire piece reposted on page 2):

... The grand formalities of American election rituals hide a glaring fact: Americans can no longer claim that we are our own rulers....

We gave judges their robes and gavels so that they might resolve specific disputes between specific plaintiffs and defendants. We never gave them authority to issue commands to our elected lawmakers, forcing us down roads which we have not chosen to travel. Judges have no constitutional authority to make laws or to amend our national and state constitutions. They have no authority to redefine words and concepts in our laws to mean what they and their ideological partisans wish for them to mean....

[HT: reader John H.; photo courtesy of the National Ledger]

The New York Times published an article yesterday, "Abortion proposal sets condition on aid," which I thought sounded promising. Loved the definition of abortion!

The Bush administration wants to require all recipients of aid under federal health programs to certify that they will not refuse to hire nurses and other providers who object to abortion and even certain types of birth control....

Such certification would also be required of state and local governments, forbidden to discriminate, in areas like grant-making, against hospitals and other institutions that have policies against providing abortion....

The proposal defines abortion as follows: "any of the various procedures - including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action - that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation."...

Here we see a segue between the abortion and euthanasia mentalities. There is no difference between a 9-month-old preborn and a 9-month, 2-day-old postborn except location and how she breathes, is hydrated, and is nourished.

Nor are the mental capabilities between a disabled person like Terri Schiavo and a newborn any different.

Yet in both cases it is legal to kill the former but illegal to kill the latter. Why? Why was this so bad? From WKBT, July 14:

The two people arrested on... July 11 for their role in the death of a young infant made their first appearance in court on Tuesday.

19-year-old Indra Book and 21-year-old Adam O'Connor have been arrested after an investigation by La Crosse police.

Police say during August of 2007, Book gave birth to an infant in her home in La Crosse. The infant died within a few days. Book and O'Connor allegedly tried to cover up the death....

CNN reported July 11 that according to the National Institutes of Health, U.S. teen pregnancies in 2006 rose for the first time since 1991....

In the same article, CNN reported a "striking decrease" in the percentage of 8th graders smoking....

While federal health experts were at a loss to explain the spike in teen pregnancies, a CDC official said smoking abated due to "efforts convincing kids and adults not to smoke," according to CNN.

So teaching smoking abstinence works, reminiscent of last decade's "Just Say No" drug abstinence campaign....

Continue reading my column today, "Linking U.S. teen pregnancies and AIDS in Africa," on WorldNetDaily.com.

by Colleen W.

On the blogs today...

From the American Life League, posted on YouTube yesterday:

A bill to stop nonparental adults from trafficking minor girls across state lines for abortion has been introduced in both the US Senate and House for a couple years but never passed. Such legislation is currently being blocked from even getting a hearing by Democrats in control.

This is common sense legislation that would protect underage girls from sexual perpetrators. Liberals say they care about rape and incest victims - but in reality only to get abortions.

Last week, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) held a forum on HR 1063, the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act

In April and again in May, Rep. Franks sent a letter to Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), chairman of the Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, requesting an official hearing on CIANA.

Both letters going unanswered, Rep. Franks held a public forum July 10 on CIANA. Pro-life members of the Subcommittee gave statements, heard testimony from witnesses, and asked questions in the same fashion they would a regular hearing.

Here is the forum's introduction by Rep. Franks, who was born with a cleft lip, btw, one reason mothers abort today. See more clips from the forum here

Thanks to such outlets as YouTube and CSPAN, pro-life members of Congress are breaking through liberal/MSM censorship of our message and attempts to help young sexual abuse victims as well as mothers in crisis pregnancies. Pro-lifers applaud these brave lawmakers.

Yesterday I blogged on KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' chances of getting the VP nod from Barack Obama due to her scandalous support of Wichita late-term abortionist George Tiller, which includes hob-nobbing with him at the guv's mansion as well as hobbling numerous investigations.

Would an Obama/Sebelius ticket prove too pro-abortion for the American people, I wondered?

Last night The O'Reilly Factor featured a segment of various on-the-street interviews by Factor producer Jesse Watters (who always does a great job on these things) with governors attending a conference in Philadelphia over the weekend. Most of the governors confronted were from states that have not yet passed Jessica's Law, which would increase the criminal penalty for child rapists.

But the last governor confronted was Sebelius, for her support of Tiller. Click on the link below to view the video. You will then have to click on the "Demanding answers: The Factor confronts lax governors" tab. Sebelius' portion starts at 3:45:

[HT: reader Susan C.]

I've said before the UK press is much more willing to report and evaluate abortion honestly.

Yesterday's Daily Mail had this story: "Emotional toll: A young mother tells of the devastating legacy of having seven abortions."

You would never see such a story in the US MSM, even though such stories abound. This article spotlights that the American press is sabotaging an entire segment of the conversation about abortion.

As you read the story makes points studies repeatedly demonstrate but liberals repeatedly shun or deny...

Only this morning Operation Rescue outted Burtram Odenheimer, M.D. as "one of the physicians currently providing the second signature for patients of abortionist George Tiller that is required before they may receive post-viability abortions."

Continued the OR press release...

The Los Angeles Times already considers it one of "10 magazine covers that shook the world."

Don't know about that, but the July 21 New Yorker magazine cover is certainly the talk of the town today, along with over 1k news stories.

Obviously satirical, it features a cariacture of Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim with Michelle dressed in military garb carrying an AK-47. In the background is a photo of Osama bin Laden with an American flag burning in the fireplace.

Most are wound just a little too tight about the cover. Only Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune put it in context as "quite within the normal realms of journalism... just lampooning all the crazy ignorance out there," as quoted by CBS....

I just attended a US Senate forum on the status of President Bush's judicial nominees, held by 8 Republican senators: Alexander (TN), Allard (CO), Cornyn (TX), Dole (NC), Grassley (IA), Kyl (AZ), McConnell (KY, Senate minority leader), and Specter (PA, ranking member of Judiciary Committee). That's a lot of senators.

C-SPAN3 covered the hearing, of which I was unaware until I arrived, or I would have given you the heads up.

The purpose of the hearing was to dispel the so-called "Thurman Rule" excuse Democrats have lately been touting to halt the confirmation process, reiterate the emergency situation in many district courts, and underscore the erosion of the rule of law when there is such a critical shortage of judges....

On June 11 CBS News moved pro-abortion KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to the top of the list of Barack Obama's prospective running mates.

Pro-lifers await the day, as a Kansas City Star editorial columnist surprisingly got right on July 10. Recall Planned Parenthood bestowed its Maggie Award to the KCS in 2006 "for editorials supporting reproductive justice, family planning, and the right to confidential health care." So KCS is no friend, making this candid assessment of an Obama-Sebelius ticket remarkable....

Featured as a 2008 Human Rights Watch Film Festival Official Selection and a 2008 British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winner for Best Current Affairs program, "China's Stolen Children," will be shown tonight on HBO as part of its Documentary Film Series.

Scheduled for 9p EST tonight with an 85 minute run time. Narrated by Ben Kingsley. Check full schedule of all showings here. Watch video clip here. Read the synopsis here. Here's a synopsis of the synopsis...

by Larry Wright...

The new poll question is up:

What is the key ingredient to maintaining a strong relationship?

Pretty simple, straightforward.

Here are the answers to last week's poll. You're a bunch of hardliners...

CNN reported yesterday, "Teen pregnancies rose in the U.S. for the first time since 1991, the National Institutes of Health reported," adding a shocking statistic, "1/3 of girls in the U.S. got pregnant before age 20."

At the same time, CNN reported a "striking decrease" in the percentage of 8th graders smoking, down from 10% in 1996 to 3% in 2007.

While "[f]ederal health experts said they don't know why the teen pregnancy numbers went up," reported CNN, a CDC official knew why smoking abated:

He attributed the downward trend to efforts convincing kids and adults not to smoke, as well as policies that restrict smoking in public places and tax cigarettes.

Meanwhile, Rev. Sam Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda's National AIDS-Prevention Committee wrote a remarkable op ed, "Let my people go, AIDS profiteers," June 30 in The Washington Post that is well worth reading in its entirety (posted below). An excerpt...

by Colleen W.

On the blogs and elsewhere today...

Imagine selling illegal drugs that trigger an illegal, abnormal, potentially life-threatening bodily function with a 10+% failure rate requiring unguaranteed surgical intervention.

I sounded the alarm 3 weeks ago when reading that Women on Waves sells the RU-486 abortion cocktail (mifeprostone with a misoprostol chaser) over the Internet in countries where abortion is illegal.

Now, according to several sources today including Sky News:

Women living in countries where abortion is restricted... are using the internet to buy abortion pills that allow them to have a termination at home.

More than one in 10 customers on one of the most well-known websites needed a surgical procedure after taking the medication, a medical study has found....

The utterly subjugated Canadian pro-life contingent is breaking through the silence barrier (what we'd see in the US without 1st Amendment rights) to protest its Parliament's July 1 announcement to present abortionist relic Henry Morgentaler Canada's highest public award, the Order of Canada.

Liberals and the media are rallying around their hero. That's the backstory to this sad tidbit in a Canada.com pro-Morgentaler puff piece today - a vision of abortions to come if the US ever nationalizes health care:

Until last February, an abortion cost $350 at the Montreal Morgentaler clinic, and the clinic did more than 2,000 a year, or 10 to 15 a day. But things changed in February, after the Quebec government finally agreed to cover the cost of fees in private abortion clinics.

It had always covered the doctor's fee, but it drew the line there. Now, Quebec is one of seven provinces in Canada where the full cost of abortions in public hospitals, as well as private facilities, is covered.

"Now that abortions in private clinics are free, a lot of women who couldn't afford the $350 before are now calling us," [clinic manager France] Desilets said. "Calls have quadrupled since February."...

Relevant magazine must certainly be enjoying its 15 minutes. The backlash continues re: statements Obama made in a July 1 interview with the liberal Christian publication. I've previously dissected his "mental distress" and "Born Alive" comments, but Obama touched on 2 other topics that has pro-aborts fuming: partial birth abortion and abstinence education. On pba he said:

I have repeatedly said that I think it's entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother.

Obama must have repeatedly said that only to the pandering pro-abort in the mirror, because stalwarts were taken aback. They considered Obama's comment a direct assault on partial birth abortion.

Former Planned Parenthood CEO Gloria Feldt published a piece July 9 and 10 in both the Huffington Post and RH Reality Check explaining why she dissed a July 9 NY funder for Obama and voided her $4,600 donation check...

The New York Times on June 29 featured an 8,000 word expose on the world's underpopulation crisis. I've trimmed it to 2,500:

... In the 1990s, European demographers began noticing a downward trend in population across the Continent and behind it a sharply falling birthrate. Non-number-crunchers largely ignored the information until a 2002 study... gave policy makers across the European Union something to ponder.

The figure of 2.1 is widely considered to be the "replacement rate" - the average number of births per woman that will maintain a country's current population level. At various times in modern history - during war or famine - birthrates have fallen below the replacement rate, to "low" or "very low" levels.

But... [f]or the first time on record, birthrates in southern and Eastern Europe had dropped below 1.3. For the demographers, this number had a special mathematical portent. At that rate, a country's population would be cut in half in 45 years, creating a falling-off-a-cliff effect from which it would be nearly impossible to recover. Kohler and his colleagues invented an ominous new term for the phenomenon: "lowest-low fertility."...

Continue reading article on page 2.

[HT: reader Patricia; all graphics courtesy of NYT]

Last night I reported the Republican U.S. House leadership allowed its pro-life members use its Special Order hour to publicly expose Planned Parenthood as a racist organization, which also stands accused of committing multiple crimes across the country, and demand Congress defund it.

You can view YouTube videos of clips of speeches by many stalwart and eloquent pro-life congresspersons here. One who particularly impressed me was Rep. Michelle Bachmann:

I picked 3 from this heroic group, looked up their DC office phone numbers online, and simply called them today to leave a message of appreciation. You might consider the same. All the better if you find 1 from your state.

A group of black pro-life leaders will hold a press conference at the NAACP convention at the Hyatt Regency in Cincinnati July 14 to appeal to the NAACP to join in the call to Congress to defund Planned Parenthood for its documented affinity for killing black preborn children....

Last week Barack Obama raised eyebrows on all sides by tampering with a foundational principle of legalized abortion, the Supreme Court's purposefully vague and all-encompassing "health" exception.

As defined in Roe v Wade's companion case Doe v Bolton, it is: "all factors - physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age - relevant to the well being of the patient" (with Chief Justice Warren Burger accentuating, "the term health in its broadest medical context.")

The abortion industry has used this definition for 35 years to commit abortion throughout all 9 months of pregnancy for whatever reason, because whatever reason will fit into that "health" definition. Pro-aborts also try to add a "health exception" to any anti-abortion legislation presented so as to gut it.

Then along came Obama on July 1, the self-described constitutional expert. According to the Associated Press...

The Associated Press headline reads, "War Reporter now fighting baby drama." There was certainly the skulky and narcissistic way out of her "unplanned" pregnancy, which would have spared public humiliation and career concerns, but CBS News reporter Lara Logan chose the heroic option:

Lara Logan, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, tells The Washington Post she is pregnant, and the father is a married federal contractor whom she met while stationed in Iraq.

Logan's relationship with Joseph Burkett - who's in the midst of a divorce from wife Kimberly, with whom he has a 3-year-old daughter - has made media headlines, including the front page of the New York Post.

Logan is going through a divorce from estranged husband Jason Siemon, a Chicago-based energy lobbyist whom she married in 1998.

"Nobody likes to read about themselves like that, especially the way it's been sensationalized," [said] Logan, 37.... "I hated it. But I'm just going to rise above it and keep going."...

In June, I reported on two points from Barack Obama's Fathers Day speech: his chastisement of black men for abandoning their paternal responsibilities, and, his enlightening statement that "responsibility does not end at conception."

For that, Jill from Feministe accused me of being a "nutbag... total nutbag... [and] crazy racist", as did liberals on this blog in so many words.

It's hard to keep the finger-pointing straight, but yesterday it came to light. Jesse Jackson was caught on a hot mic a few days ago complaining in derogatory terms that Obama was actually the racist for making those remarks. According to the Associated Press...

In March, I reported (here and here) that the Planned Parenthood anti-mothership had closed five mills belonging to its PP of South Palm Beach and Broward Counties affiliate to make "necessary service upgrades," according to a PP prepared statement.

According to the Miami Herald, the necessary service upgrades involved trying to find $450k, which it did not. So, it has severed this limb, as reported July 1:

Planned Parenthood officially severed its ties Monday from five local clinics... whose top administrator has acknowledged a history of "terrible mismanagement and possibly fraud.''

The disaffiliation allowed the national organization to wash its hands of the local chapter....

by Colleen W.

Watch C-SPAN between 6-7p* EST tonight.

When the U.S. House completes business, Rep. Chris Smith will host a 1-hour Pro-life Special Order in the House of Representatives.

During this time House members will speak on the subject of taxpayer subsidies for the abortion industry and what their constituents are unknowingly supporting when millions of tax dollars are funneled to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

What is Special Order?

The first 2 hours at the end of legislative business each day are reserved for Republican and Democrat leadership for Special Order business. Tonight the Republican leadership has given its hour to Smith and others to speak for the unborn. It was kept quiet until now to ward off PP types from crashing the event.

*The Special Order should start very soon after the last series of votes. The timing cannot be predicted exactly but will begin sometime between 6 and 7 pm.

The Associated Press yesterday inappropriately associated pro-life activists with animal rights vandals and arsonists, demonstrating yet again MSM doesn't have an inkling who we are.

Pro-life picketers do not hide themselves, destroy property, threaten or hurt people, and certainly are not filled with "rage." On the contrary, we pray. Nor are most animal rights groups violent, although the AP implicates them as well:

In the hills above the University of CA's Berkeley campus, 9 protesters gathered in front of the home of a toxicology professor, their faces covered with scarves and hoods despite the warm spring weather.

One scrawled "killer" in chalk on the scientist's doorstep, while another hurled insults through a bullhorn and announced, "Your neighbor kills animals!" Someone shattered a window.

Borrowing the kind of tactics used by anti-abortion demonstrators, animal rights activists are increasingly taking their rage straight to scientists' front doors....

The Christian Defense Coalition has launched a campaign featuring this ad exposing one of Barack Obama's many far left abortion positions:

Quoting a CBS News story on this today...

A CNN reporter interviewing me a couple weeks ago about Barack Obama's opposition as state senator to the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act groaned more than once that this topic was "complicated."

She was referring to Obama's various explanations through the years for blocking Born Alive and lately his outright denial that obstructing legislation declaring live aborted babies legal persons had anything to do with endorsing their death.

I finally emailed her, "It is clear: Obama strongly opposed legislation to protect abortion survivors. This is horrible, so of course he will try to make it 'complicated,' but it is not."

Obama has recently been ratcheting up the obfuscations....

Obama may have set a new record in a July 1 Relevant magazine interview, rattling four excuses in one soundbite, all previously outlined in my January 2008 column, "Obama's 10 reasons for supporting infanticide" - Nos. 1, 6, 7 and 10!...

Continue reading my column today, ""Botch an abortion? Obama would let baby die," on WorldNetDaily.com.

Holly Gatling of South Carolina Citizens for Life forwarded a link to the following archived 1957 Mike Wallace interview with Margaret Sanger. I'd never seen Sanger live. I'm not sure how long the interview lasted, 30-45 minutes, but I was spellbound. (Sanger was one itchy woman.)

Sanger was clearly hostile to the Catholic Church. Her talking points were remarkably similar to her Planned Parenthood progeny. She saw pregnancy prevention and population control as the cure for problems such as world hunger. She disagreed that birth control would lead to promiscuity.

The question is, 50 years later, where is any proof Sanger was right? Isn't there, rather, overwhelming proof she was wrong?

The Philip Morris cigarette pitches... wow, now those dated this piece more than anything else. Click on graphic below to link to video:

Interestingly, Sanger refused to call infidelity or murder sin but strongly condemned as sin bearing sick children or bringing children into problematic homes, i.e., eugenics. When Wallace asked Sanger if she believed in sin...

by JivinJ

Last January, I began reporting on the first vaccine to prevent an STD: Gardasil by Merck, to fend off HPV, the human papillomavirus.

Living in IL, I smelled a rat when bills began simultaneously popping up in state legislatures across the U.S. to mandate the 3-shot Gardasil regimen to all 11- and 12-year-old girls. I, along with several others, started blogging against the liberal and MSM tide, even getting a mention in the New York Times. Was the vaccine safe? Was it smart? Was there quid pro quo?

After TX Gov. Rick Perry went so far as to sign an executive order forcing the vaccine, it came to light that Merck had financial ties to the poke pushers.

Perry's exec order was overturned, Merck called off its legislative whores, and pro-family proponents won the day, even while liberals and MSM grumbled at our ignorance.

Well MSM is grumbling no more. Our concerns about the safety of Gardasil were warranted. Reported Katie Couric at CBS News last night:

Also read CNN, ABC News, and U.S. News & World Report, to name a few.

Nothing in the New York Times, though.

[HT: American Papist]

Press release received today:

The Gerard Health Foundation will award up to $600,000 in prizes to one to six individuals or organizations distinguishing themselves in preserving a culture of life.

Natick, MA - The Gerard Health Foundation today unveiled Life Prizes, a program that will award up to $600,000 to those who have succeeded in awakening the conscience of America to uphold and preserve the sanctity of human life through their leadership and advances in public advocacy, scientific research, outreach and public disclosure activities, legal action and other noteworthy achievements....

My post earlier today about the newly opened Denver Planned Parenthood referred to PP CEO Leslie Durgin who stated the building was "on budget".

Wait, not so fast, unless "on budget" means a 50% cost overrun.

Projected budget when this story first broke last August:

And two newspaper accounts within the last two weeks on the actual cost:

[HT: Will Duffy]

9News.com today called the newly opened Denver Planned Parenthood "Fort Knox," referring to its $300k security system. Of course, the real Fort Knox is tightly protected because of all the gold it stores, a fitting analogy to PP all the way around.

Denver PP CEO Leslie Durgin said the new abortion big-box, at 50k sq. ft. -- more than double the previous U.S. PP big-box record holder in Aurora, IL, at 22k sq. ft. -- was completed three months ahead of schedule and within budget.

Certainly, the schedule and budget were made generous, due to anticipated pro-life aggravators. Amplified by the added impetus for speedy construction to quell the pickets (which aren't going to stop, as promised) and negative PR, and that's not saying anything.

Click on image below to link to video:

Will Duffy and The Collaborators Project are to be commended for their tireless efforts in picketing PP construction aides like Weitz execs....

I always look forward to reading what Hollywood stars, being way more inventive than me or most I know, will name their children. Some are real misses, like the names Julia Roberts picked for her twins: Hazel and Phinneas. But some are real hits.

Here's one, as reported by Us magazine, July 7:

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban chose a "really adorable and original" baby name for newborn daughter Sunday Rose, baby name expert Pam Satran, coauthor of Cool Names and The Baby Name Bible, tells Usmagazine.com.

"Sunday [is] a choice to rival Tom and Katie's Suri and Brad and Angelina's Shiloh," Satran says.

Kidman, 41, gave birth to Sunday - who weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces - on Monday morning. It is the first child for the actress and Urban, 40. (Kidman has two adopted children - Connor, 13, and Isabella, 15 - with ex Tom Cruise.)...

Many people have emailed me about Barack Obama's July 1 interview with Relevant magazine, in which he stated...

Last year members of CO Right to Life openly challenged National Right to Life's support (among others) of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban by taking out newspaper ads and threatening a class action lawsuit.

The disagreement culminated in CRTL hosting a hostile hospitality suite at the 2007 NRLC convention and being ousted as an affiliate.

That led to the formation of American Right to Life, which is now focused on establishing personhood at conception through state and federal legislative efforts.

At the just held NRLC convention, ARTL surprised everyone by hosting a hospitality suite at the Crystal City Hyatt where NRLC was meeting. This info comes from ARTL, reporting about its 1st day, July 3. The controversy didn't make LifeNews.com. Also didn't see any MSM coverage, although MSM surely had no clue what was going on....

Scores of NRTL conventioneers are streaming into the ARTL suites to enjoy good food and drink, and to consider the moral argument for the personhood strategy toward ending "legalized" child killing....

The Hyatt told ARTL that we could place a poster advertisement for our hospitality suite on a tripod in their lobby inviting folks to our Regency Suite to celebrate the "personhood amendment on CO's November ballot!" Four things happened immediately after Hyatt personnel placed our poster in their lobby....

The National Right to Life Committee held its annual convention July 3-5 near DC. Most of its workshops were tightly controlled retreads led by centralized players, a real waste of the talents, ideas, thoughts, and accomplishments of state and local affiliates. (The inestimable question: Control at what cost?)

But its 2 keynote speakers, Fred Thompson and Karl Rove, scored points and made the news. MSM accentuated the negatives they said about Obama while burying McCain's positives.

This I don't necessarily mind. Given McCain's baggage as well as reticence thus far to make a public case for himself and against Obama on the pro-life issue, our motivator in 2008 will have to be hate, not love. And all the better to garner the independent vote if mainstream articles lead off with examples of Obama's radical abortion support.

Read ABC News, New York Times, and LifeNews.com coverage of the Rove speech.

Also read The New Republic's take on the convention, along with The Carpetbagger Report and Politico, which included a couple good lines by Thompson...

by Chuck Asay...

The new poll question is up:

A congressional candidate running on a pro-life platform was recently exposed as paying for a lover's abortion in 2001. In 2004 it was deemed newsworthy that presidential candidate Dr. Howard Dean once served on a Planned Parenthood board. Should one's abortion history be a part of political campaigns?

Here are the answers to last week's poll. You were allowed up to 3 choices...

The Los Angeles Times reported July 3:

The 1st Amendment rights of two anti-abortion activists were violated when they were ordered to stop circling a Rancho Palos Verdes [CA] middle school in a truck displaying graphic photos of aborted fetuses, a federal appellate court ruled Wednesday....

[A] U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel unanimously ruled that school officials and sheriff's deputies violated the men's free speech rights by ordering them to leave the school's neighborhood....

by guest columnist Joseph Wildman

On July 17, 2007, Senator Barack Obama spoke to President Cecile Richards, Steve Trombley, and other senior leaders at a Planned Parenthood Action Fund meeting.

To this cheering...audience, Senator Obama promised, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act." These words inspired and rightfully energized the PP... leadership....

According to ABC News yesterday:

Thomas Beatie, the transgender man who made headlines as the so-called "pregnant man," gave birth Sunday to a healthy baby girl....

The birth, at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, OR, was natural, according to a source, who added that reports that Beatie had had a Caesarean section are false.

"She's really cute, really pretty,'' the source [said]....

The source said Beatie was resting and the family was focusing its attention on the new baby....

The inexplicably pro-abortion National Education Association is holding its national conference in DC this week as our state affiliates across the country.

(Who can forget infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller being invited to speak at a conference at NEA headquarters in March, which Students for Life caught on videotape?)

Yesterday pro-lifers held protests not only at the DC annual meeting site but at NEA meetings across the country. The goal, according to a statement by Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, an organization of young people born after abortion was legalized on January 22, 1973: "to persuade the NEA... leadership to repeal its abortion-related resolutions and policies and to become neutral on abortion."

Added Gingi Edmonds, Survivors spokesperson...

From LifeNews.com today:

A new report shows voters are interested in the position Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama takes on abortion. The Internet traffic monitoring firm HitWise indicates abortion is now the number one political issue voters are looking for when they conduct a search on Obama's campaign web site.

Hitwise analyzed the top 200 U.S. search terms that sent visits to the presidential candidates' websites for the first half of 2008, revealing the types of content searched for the most among Internet users.

Issues like education, the environment, health care and immigration are important to visitors on Obama's web site, but HitWise says abortion tops them all.

On June 25, CNN's Wolf Blitzer asked conservative commentator Bill Bennett what question he would ask Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama if he could.

Bennett said he would ask Obama:

Why are you to the left of NARAL, Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein when it comes to abortion? Are you really there?.... I got to question the guy's moral judgment who doesn't see a problem with killing a baby after it's been born.... What is the answer to that question?

Bennett was speaking about Obama's opposition to Illinois' Born Alive Infants Protection Act as state senator....

(To which Obama defender Donna Brazile responded, "Bill, you want to have a conversation about narrow issues... but the American people want to talk about gas prices....")

Over the years, Obama or his surrogates have mischaracterized Illinois' Born Alive Act and his reasons for opposing it at least 10 different ways.

But Obama's most flagrant lie, perpetuated by both NARAL* and the Obama campaign* after CNN ran a fair analysis on June 30 of Obama's opposition to Born Alive, is as NARAL wrote in a rebuttal....

Continue reading my column today, "Obama's biggest lie about supporting infanticide," on WorldNetDaily.com.

*See NARAL press release on page 2. Go here to read Obama's attempted refutation that he is pro-infanticide.

Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey is credited with "revolutionizing" American sexual thought and practices in the 1950s and 60s, including normalization of homosexuality, porn, pedophilia, and abortion.

In reality, Kinsey was a pedophiliac homosexual sado-mashocist who likely died of self-inflicted wounds at age 62. His "ground-breaking" books, The Kinsey Reports contained data obtained from pedophiliacs, which he did not report.

Dr. Judith Reisman has been at the forefront of exposing Kinsey for years. Yesterday she released a 2-part YouTube video, The Kinsey Coverup.

[HT: Dr. Frank; photo courtesy of JAMD]

by JivinJ

American Life League has issued its latest ALL Report. This one launches from the June 23 Wall Street Journal front page story, "Planned Parenthood hits suburbia," about PP's attempt to rebrand and sell upscale abortions.

The report includes Chicago PP CEO Steve Trombley's most recent infamous line....

CNN's Carol Costello did a good deal of research and fairly reported Barack Obama's opposition to the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act when he was state senator.

Bill Bennett added important info in a follow-up debate against James Carville.

Costello's follow-up should be to answer the question she closed with: Did Barack Obama reject the opportunity to vote for a bill identical to the federal bill?