On Oct. 14, little Shanice Osbourne was finally laid to rest 27 months after she was allegedly killed on the day she was aborted alive, July 20, 2006, by abortion clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez at A Gyn Diagnostics Center in Hialeah, FL.

Read the details of baby Shanice's death here.

Following is Miami's NBC6 news coverage of the funeral...

This is off topic, but I'm blogging on it because I was there.

The Los Angeles Times' refusal to cough up a damaging video of Barack Obama kabbitzing with PLO friend Rashid Khalidi should come as no surprise.

The LAT/Chicago Tribune sisterhood has been aiding and abetting Obama for years.

Jack Ryan

In 2004 Republican Jack Ryan ran against Barack Obama for US Senate.

Ryan was divorced from actress Jeri Ryan of Star Trek: Voyager and Boston Public fame. Their divorce records were sealed, as requested by both. They shared a young autistic son who they were trying to protect.

Obama's chief strategist, David Axelrod, interned for the Chicago Tribune in college and then worked there in "a high-profile job as the lead political reporter," according to the New York Times, from 1977-84....

UDPATE, 10/31, 11a: No surprise, YouTube pulled the Koppie ad, even though it aired on network television. It is available here now for viewing and embedding.

About the airing the Koppie campaign reported:

It aired about 6:29pm, set off and apart from the other billion political ads with, "The following commercial may not be suitable for children."... Chad needs to recover a few hundred more to get him out of the hole for this ad, but he's already eyeing a Monday ad on the Today Show ($1000). Ellen is only $510. If there's more $, he'll buy more ads.

Donate here.
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UPDATE, 10/30, 7:30a: The campaign notified me that due to a technical glitch, Koppie's ad didn't run on NBC last night but will run tonight.
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October 29: A campaign ad for IL Constitution Party US Senate candidate Chad Koppie that contains graphic images of aborted babies is scheduled to air 1x tonight during Chicago NBC News 6p hour, right before Barack Obama's 30 minute pitch...

A campaign spokeswoman told me stations are required by law to run federal candidates' ads, and this appears so. According to FactCheck.org...

Great minds think alike. The top cartoon is by Gary McCoy, the bottom by younger brother Glenn...

[HT top cartoon: Daena]

An October 27 comment (#25) on the pro-Hillary blog HillBuzz has been making the blogospheric rounds. I understand Rush even read it yesterday.

The scenarios presented seem plausible, creepy, even scary. About the disclosure that people are paid to demoralize on blogs, Stanek moderators can attest I've suspected this here for some time, which is why we've been banning more lately.

The following is quite a read. The dynamics of this presidential campaign can't be explained as pure politics. There's something seriously crazy about it. This information would help account for some of its surrealness....

Yesterday afternoon the Alliance Defense Fund and CO citizen Mark Hotaling held a press conference at the State Capitol to announce an $18 million lawsuit against Gov. Bill Ritter, Planned Parenthood, Boulder Valley Women's Health Center, and the CO Dept. of Health and Environment for illegal taxpayer funding of abortion.

The lawsuit came within days after plaintiffs learned the state had given $9 million to the 2 aforementioned abortion groups presumably for breast cancer screening, despite the fact the CO Constitution states no public funds can be used "directly or indirectly" for abortion.

According to the press release, as recently as 2001 PP and BVWHC were stripped of over $1 million in taxpayer funding "after an independent audit found and PP recently admitted that it's impossible to separate their abortion activities from their taxpayer subsidies."

But a surprise guest crashed the conference. When Leslie Durgan, Senior VP of PP of the Rocky Mountains and former mayor of Boulder, walked in, journalists recognized her and asked for comment. The cheeky child killer proceeded to take over the podium when the ADF attorney had finished his presentation. Her talking points fit nicely into the Rocky Mountain News article about the event.

The state contends the funds allocated were federal, so it's not violating the Constitution. Durgan disputed the amount listed in the contracts altogether.

UPDATE, 10/31, 8:20a:Dr. New's longer analysis of the CACG study is available here.
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During this election cycle a study on abortion released by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good has received plenty of attention from Democrats and Barack Obama supporters.

The spin is that state pro-life laws only have a small impact on abortion rates, and increasing welfare expenditures is the superior way to reduce abortion.

But in today's National Review Online, Professor Michael New of the University of AL and the Witherspoon Institute identified - surprise - errors in the study's methodology.

New conducted a proper analysis of the exact same data used by CACG and found pro-life laws - specifically public funding restrictions and informed consent laws - are effective at lowering abortion rates.

New also found the amount of money spent on welfare appears to have only a marginal impact on the incidence of abortion.

Students for Life of America has just released video on YouTube (and Eyeblast in the likely event YouTube yanks the video) of a counselor at the Freehold Planned Parenthood in NJ describing the induced labor abortion procedure to a prospective client, so she thinks.

The SFLA press release states...

In 2001, then IL state Sen. Barack Obama, for the 2nd year in a row, was the sole person opposing Born Alive Infant bills on the state senate floor.

Audio of senate floor debates is destroyed when transcripts are written. Until now, only the Chicago Tribune was known to have audio of this debate but had only released a very small clip.

But we now have it. A reader requesting anonymity sent it to me. Thanks to moderator Chris for making a YouTube video, accentuating Obama's talking points and irrationality...

In the audio, Obama argues against calling for a 2nd physician if the 1st physician - the abortionist - has decided the baby s/he has just aborted alive is non-viable....

That's the title of a post by Ruth Hunt today on RH Reality Check.

I read that and wondered who are they beholden to then? It appears the Obama campaign has accelerated the thought among some Catholics that abortion is but one issue of many and can be trumped.

Before I get to that column, I want to excerpt from another posted by Deal Hudson yesterday, blaming the bishops themselves for the problem:

I never thought it likely that Catholic voters could be persuaded to support a candidate with both the most extreme record on abortion and who favors gay marriage. Yet, barring a miracle, that paradox is only a week away.

If Obama wins on November 4 with the help of Catholic voters, the biggest factor in his favor will be the bishops' own document and Web site, "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship" [adopted in November 2007]....

Former ACLU attorney and current US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg spoke at Princeton over a week ago, on October 21, and I'm not surprised pro-abort bloggers have steered clear of discussing it. Read The Daily Princetonian's account to know why:

When asked about the discrepancy between her support of a woman's right to choose and her disapproval of Roe v. Wade, which opened the door to legalized abortion in 1973, Ginsburg said that she was surprised by "how far the court had gone [in this decision]."

"It would have been easy for the Supreme Court to say that the extreme cases are unconstitutional" without broadening the decision to the 50 states.

Ginsburg said that the abruptness of the decision, which declared many state statutes unconstitutional, created a "perfect rallying point" for people who disagreed with the notion that abortion should be a woman's choice. She added that the decision may have also stifled dialogue with state legislatures....

The bad guys are trying to get votes the old fashioned Chicago Way in SD's abortion ban referendum. But they lack the gravitas of the Windy City's vote fraud gangstas: They were caught on tape.

Reported the Argus Leader, October 27...

Click to enlarge...

According to CBN today...

I blogged in July on the movie, Hype:The Obama Effect, which includes an interview with me on Barack Obama's opposition to Born Alive.

Reported the Associated Press yesterday:

Readers of OH's 3 largest newspapers, along with papers in FL and NV, are finding an anti-Barack Obama DVD in editions this week.

Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group based in Washington, plans to release a 95-minute film in the five swing-state publications to highlight Obama's record on abortion rights, foreign policy and his past associations.... The group said it planned to spend more than $1 million to distribute about 1.25 million copies of Hype: The Obama Effect....

Pro-aborts are bantering a new theory: that the U.S. Supreme Court is awaiting the election of a Democrat president to "throw a wrench into the plans of a new administration" by overturning Roe v. Wade.

That theory relies on another theory that Justice Anthony Kennedy has converted from being "tepidly pro-choice" to pro-life over the course of time. Roe was decided in 1973. Kennedy came onto the Supreme Court in 1988 and was initially considered an anti-Roe vote. Then came 1992, as CNN reported in 2004:

As lawyers and court watchers have long suspected, the Supreme Court was ready to effectively overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion in 1992, but Justice Anthony M. Kennedy got cold feet, and the vote went the other way....

In 2006 the Council of Europe reported worldwide sex trafficking had reached "'epidemic proportions' over the past decade," according to the Associated Press.

A significant reason for the surge is the shortage of girls created by sex selection abortions, particularly in Asia, but now infiltrating the Asian cultures in the U.S. according to the Boston Globe.

It is widely acknowledged that legalized prostitution exacerbates the problem. Explains the 2005 report,"The demand for victims of sex trafficking":

Analyzing trafficking and prostitution as parts of an interlocking system reveals how the components are linked, and studying the dynamics of supply and demand for victims reveals what keeps the system working. The trafficking process begins with the demand for women to be used in prostitution.

A major U.S. sex trafficking gateway? San Francisco. Reported the San Francisco Chronicle in 2006...

... or perhaps it depends on the editor. Despite the tragic story it was reporting, The Tenneseean still had to maintain political correctness when reporting it in its print edition in liberal Nashville:

But when reporting the story online The Tennessean went the compassionate route...

By Elaine Lafferty in The Daily Beast, a great read from an authentic feminist on her experience with the VP wannabe, October 27:

It's difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin's "intelligence," coming especially from women such as PBS's Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I recall, has not herself heretofore been burdened with the Susan Sontag of Journalism moniker.

As Fred Barnes - God help me, I'm agreeing with Fred Barnes - suggests in the Weekly Standard, these high toned and authoritative dismissals come from people who have never met or spoken with Sarah Palin. Those who know her, love her or hate her, offer no such criticism. They know what I know, and I learned it from spending just a little time traveling on the cramped campaign plane this week: Sarah Palin is very smart.

UPDATE, 10/28, 7:40a: WorldNetDaily.com has more info on 22 Weeks, including the fact a screening before Congress is planned January 22, 2009, the 36th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision.
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I began writing about the death of Baby Rowan soon after it happened in 2005, having received a call from his distraught mother, who had an instant change of heart when seeing her baby.

He was aborted in an Orlando, FL, abortion clinic toilet and survived for several minutes. The Born Alive Infants Protection Act should have protected him but didn't. State and federal prosecutors failed him. Clinic workers went so far as to turn away EMTs at the mill door who the mother had called to help her baby.

Now a short movie has been made of that tragedy, 22 Weeks. Here's the trailer...

I've previewed 22 Weeks. It is excellently directed and acted and is a devastating story to watch, particularly when knowing it really happened.

22 Weeks will be screened twice in the coming days...

by JivinJ

October 21 was the student Pro-life Day of Solidarity. How did it go?

Bryan Kemper of StandTrue.com reported 250,000 students on 4,700 campuses in 25 countries not only stood as silent witnesses to 1/3 of their generation now dead by abortion but for all babies aborted.

Bryan reported at least 49 babies were saved. Here are stories of a few...

Last week actor Stephen Baldwin caused a liberal stir by calling Barack Obama a "cultural terrorist" and jokingly challenging him to a boxing match, which he was attending at the time, adding, "I'd like to knock some good sense into Barack. I wouldn't hurt him. But if he wins the election, he'll hurt me. He's a cultural terrorist."

On his Saturday radio show, which Baldwin co-hosts with Kevin McCullough, Baldwin explained his thinking has to do with Obama's opposition to Born Alive...

This new video by America's Choice Now is great, well done. It mentions Barack Obama's opposition to Born Alive. The end is convicting, heart-breaking...

I checked the ages, and they're accurate. It should also be noted that Antonin Scalia at age 72 is no spring chicken either. We stand to lose even more ground under an Obama presidency.

[HT: Illinois Review]

Press release just issued:

CHICAGO - BornAliveTruth.org released its second ad today featuring abortion survivor Gianna Jessen responding to Senator Barack Obama's direct attack on her. See the ad here.

Additionally, Focus on the Family Action, a CO-based family organization, is kicking off a $500,000 radio ad buy featuring the original Gianna ad revealing Senator Obama's voting record on born alive infant protections. See here.

Gianna's first ad will air on radio stations across CO and the new Gianna response ad will air on TV in Cleveland, and will be featured on TheDrudgeReport.com [later today] and at BornAliveTruth.org.

The total ad buy for both radio and TV will be close to $600,000....

Read the rest of the press release on page 2. Here's the new ad, which is excellent...

Two good cartoons this week by Chuck Asay of Townhall.com...

The new poll question is up:

This week the media reported Sarah Palin's new wardrobe cost $150,000. It didn't report how much her 3 amigos' suits cost. It didn't report how much Michelle Obama's wardrobe cost. Do you think this is but one example of the media's sexist or ideological prejudice against Palin?

Shock, we pretty much agreed on the answer to last week's question...

This question was posed on Planned Parenthood's Teenwire website:

PP's research arm, The Alan Guttmacher Institute, published a study in November 2006 estimating, "Among women having abortions in the United States, about one-half have already had a prior abortion."

If one's first abortion is the fault of inadequate sex education or nonavailability of contraception, whose fault is a repeat abortion, after one has presumably been armed with sex ed instruction and contraceptive(s) of choice at the abortion mill after the first go-around?

(BTW, Teenwire's response to the question is a whole other weekend question.)

[HT: reader Brandon C.]

Here's a disturbing and blatantly false ad by HowMuchTime.org ("a group that NPR says 'shares leadership and an address with NARAL Pro-Choice New York'", according to Wendy Long at NRO), supposedly depicting shaken and crying post-abortive women getting their mug shots taken after being arrested in the wake of a McCain-Palin win and the overturn of Roe v. Wade....

The ad is supposedly set to run in 6 supposed "swing states": CO, MO, OH, OR, PA, and WI, as well as SD because of its abortion ban initiative. The press release doesn't indicate a dollar amount being spent, usually meaning "not much." The biggest splash usually hoped for in that case is free media upon an ad's announcement.

Wendy Long rebuts the ad here.

Also read AUL's Clarke Forsythe's article, "Why the states did Not prosecute women for abortion before Roe v. Wade."

I don't have anything to add except this is typical lying and fear-mongering from abortion proponents, and why should anyone be surprised?

The problem, as usual, is that MSM should be anticipated to pick up this sound bite with no questions asked, and it will eventually make its way accepted into the American conversation on abortion. Our side must aggressively meet this head on with facts.

(Credit to blogger Leslie Carbone for the title.)

On October 22, after going through all the proper channels and receiving all the proper authorizations, the Cornell University student group Cornell Coalition for Life posted a series of posters called the Elena Campaign in both the Art and Engineering quads, the latter display pictured left.

These are, quoting a Students for Life of America press release, "a series of light-hearted educational signs with pictures and text detailing the biological development of an unborn child." Here's the 1st in the series of 6, for example:

(See the rest of the Elena Campaign series on page 2.)

The Art quad display was never touched, but within an hour after it was erected in the Engineering quad, according to the Cornell Daily Sun today...

I get disparaging emails from time to time and dismiss them.

The following, though, made me angry not so much because the author calls pro-lifers zealots and jihadists. I've heard worse.

What got me was Peter's repulsive assertion that Jesus may have sent Barack Obama "to help you."

This is a ludicrous pitch gaining traction among guilt-ridden Christian/pro-life Obama supporters that his radical pro-abortion positions and plans juxtaposed with his liberal plans to lower the abortion rate by expanding the welfare state and comprehensive sex ed will result in a net lowered abortion rate. (And again, why do abortion proponents care one way or the other whether the rate of abortion is lowered? What's wrong with abortion? Where is the MSM asking this simple question?)

Neither of the latter address the root cause of abortion: promiscuity. They encourage it.

From Peter, with typos corrected:

How sweet.

A lovely little website of like-minded holier than thou, pious, self rightous, zealots. All patting each other on the back. A real mutual admiration fest. No opposing viewpoints. Just you and Jesus.

Coincidentally, that's how fanatical jihadists operate. They have the same M.O.D. Like minded people who answer directly to what their God is telling them. Congratulations.

That'd be funny if when you got the pearly gates, Jesus asked why you so fervently opposed Obama when He specifically sent him to help you. I'm not saying that God did send Obama, I'm saying, "what if he did" and you misunderstood Jesus's direction?

Nevermind. You're right. You're always right.

During The O'Reilly Factor on Sept. 29, host Bill O'Reilly said, "Apparently, you violate a woman's privacy if you set any restrictions on aborting a fetus at all or even try to protect a baby after its birth. If you do that, extremists will claim you are violating a woman's privacy rights."

O'Reilly would not have included "or even try to protect a baby after its birth" a few months ago, because it wasn't commonly known until then that abortion extremists like Barack Obama consider it a "burden" to the mother's "original decision," as he
put it, to give abortion survivors lifesaving medical help.

But the debate over Obama's opposition as state senator to the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act has provided an unforeseen teaching opportunity to the American public, much as the debate over partial-birth abortion did a decade ago....

Continue reading my column, "How the Born Alive debate has changed the abortion debate," on WorldNetDaily.com.

On October 20, 2008, Hannity's America aired an expose on Barack Obama's collusion with Planned Parenthood.

Hannity reviewed PP's legal troubles including falsifying building documents in IL (including a clip of an interview with Chicago PP's Steve Trombley), covering up rape in OH, and its general willingness to accept donations specifically to kill black babies.

Hannity also took the opportunity to remind viewers of Obama's opposition as state senator to IL's Born Alive Infants Protection Act and replay BornAliveTruth.org's Gianna ad.

Great segment...

[HT: LesforLife]

I reported in June that a pro-life pharmacy would be opening soon in Chantilly, VA.

Well, today's the big day. Reports Washington Times:

When Divine Mercy Care Pharmacy opens Tuesday... there will be no birth-control pills, condoms, cigarettes or pornographic magazines. There will, however, be booklets on natural family planning.

DMC Pharmacy is one of the country's few "pro-life pharmacies" that refuse to dispense contraceptives on moral and health grounds, arguing that they cause abortions, lead to promiscuity or endanger a woman's health.

"Birth control is not health care," said Robert Laird (pictured right), executive director of DMC, the Fairfax nonprofit that will own and operate the 1,500-square-foot store at 13945 Metrotech Dr. "We are catering to a special niche of people who like the pro-life message in their business."...

I reported in August that 18 pro-lifers were arrested while peacefully conducting a Truth Tour picket (pictured right) in Hartford Co., MD.

Even as pro-abort commenters here argued in vain against the pro-lifers' First Amendment rights by saying they violated some highway law, the county and City of Bel Air tried to quietly drop charges 10 days later.

No dice. The pro-lifers sued.

Now, WorldNetDaily.com reported yesterday....

CBN's David Brody interviewed GOP VP pick Sarah Palin for a segment to run tomorrow, October 21.

Brody asked Palin's analysis of Barack Obama's self-characterization of being a "strong Christian family man" versus his stance on abortion.

Palin listed Obama's outside-of-mainstream positions like opposition to parental notification as well as the Partial Birth Abortion Ban but reserved most of her critique to Obama's opposition as state senator to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act...

Transcript of Brody's question and Palin's response is on page 2.

From the Associated Press, October 18, the dispute between the Catholic right and left is growing sharper...

Denver Roman Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput labeled Barack Obama the "most committed" abortion-rights candidate from a major party in 35 years while accusing a Catholic Obama ally and other Democratic-friendly Catholic groups of doing a "disservice to the church."...

Read the rest of the story on page 2. I love Chaput. Here's a great line from later in the story:

"To suggest - as some Catholics do - that Senator Obama is this year's 'real' pro-life candidate requires a peculiar kind of self-hypnosis, or moral confusion, or worse."

"Or worse." Those words would make me nervous if I were on the Catholic left, implying purposeful attempts to mislead the flock, which renders harsher consequences.

Meanwhile, click here to view Catholics United's deceptive mailer mentioned near the end of the AP article. Here's the front...

Dawn Patrol caught the following disturbing blog post early yesterday and fortunately captured it, because not only was the post removed by late morning, by late evening the entire blog, PuduOverload, was gone.

About the blog name, Dawn noted:

The one writing... is a first-year medical student who loves baby animals - she named her blog Pudu Overload as a tribute to the world's smallest deer. She is also a supporter of legalized abortion.

Pudu wrote, according to Dawn, that she removed her original post due to "complain[t]s of receiving 'hate-spam' from 'the whole antiabortion crew.'" Dawn asked Pudu to forward any hate comments, but she did not respond. Click to enlarge...

There is still time to register your middle school, high school, or college for the 5th annual Pro-Life Day of Solidarity TOMORROW, sponsored by StandTrue.com.

TOMORROW students all over the world will silently protest abortion by wearing red duct tape, a red arm band, and/or a pro-life t-shirt . There are also flyers to download and distribute to explain the silence. Home school students can participate by distributing flyers at malls and other public places....

Pro-lifers are getting the message out about Barack Obama's radical opposition to declaring abortion survivors legal persons in innovative ways.

Pharmacists for Life president Karen Brauer has posted the following banner near a road by her "pharm" in Lawrenceburg, IN...

(See more photos on page 2.)

Sam Stein in the Huffington Post reported today that the Republican National Committee has released a mailer in NC attacking Barack Obama on his opposition as state senator to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

And it's perfect...

By Chuck Asay of Townhall.com, note the NARAL Grim Reaper in the lower left corner, walking with the Supreme Court's Ruth Bader Ginsburg (good eye, Chris!). Only missing is Grim Reaper II, Planned Parenthood. Click to enlarge...

TheWeeklyOffender.com emailed me the graphic below with this note:

I have attached a piece of artwork I did, I hope you like it and can see it for its true representation of Barack Obama.

UPDATE, 3:30p: Sorry, too many people I respect thought this artwork was too graphic, so I've asked the artist to post it on his website so I can send you there to view if you'd like. Will let you know if/when he does.

UPDATE, 8:30p: Ok, go to TheWeeklyOffender.com to view the artwork and report back thoughts. As for me, while the piece was brutal and shocking, I thought the artist accurately portrayed the subject. The real shock is, then, that it is brutally accurate.

The new poll question is up:

Were it discovered that John McCain or Sarah Palin launched their politicial careers in the home of a former abortion clinic bomber, would it be a major story in the mainstream media?

This, of course, provides a comparison to Barack Obama's association with former domestic terrorist William Ayers.

My previous poll question asked who of the 4 presidential/vice-presidential candidates did you think is the best debater. You picked Obama...

On October 16 Matt Lauer interviewed Angelina Jolie on NBC's Today Show re: her new film, Changeling. The full interview is below, but there were a couple spots to investigate others' thoughts on.

The first came when Jolie described her character in Changeling, at 4:06 in the video...

Ever since I held a baby with Down syndrome until he died, I've had a special place in my heart for these special people. So this MSNBC newscast of Sarah Palin's special fans choked me up...

The LA Times blog considers this broadcast evidence news coverage of Palin is fair and balanced, so we're apparently paranoid whiners for complaining otherwise.

[HT: Hot Air via moderator Carder]

Gianna Jessen and I taped an interview last week with Dr. James Dobson for a Focus on the Family radio broadcast.

That broadcast will air today. Click here to find stations and air times in your area.

Click here to listen to the broadcast online or download it.

The show is in part a discussion of our testimonies and in part a discussion of Barack Obama's radical support of the abortion to the point he opposed giving legal personhood status to abortion survivors.

When John McCain brought up Barack Obama's opposition to the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act during last night's presidential debate, Obama indignantly responded:

If it sounds incredible that I would vote to withhold lifesaving treatment from an infant, that's because it's not true.

Savvy strategy, and not the first time his side has used something close to this line. When National Right to Life first outted Obama in August as having voted against the identical version of Born Alive in IL that passed overwhelmingly on the federal level, Obama's incensed campaign at first denied it all, saying in a written statement:

The suggestion that Obama - the proud father of 2 little girls - and others who opposed these bills supported infanticide is deeply offensive and insulting.

Is the too-crazy-to-be-true strategy of denial working? Maybe. Bearing in mind the following comes from an Obama aide via Byron York in National Review Online today, still...

Rush Limbaugh, yesterday:

Rush: Isn't it interesting, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama wants to take from the rich to give to the poor when it comes to money; when it comes to human life, Obama is willing to allow babies to be killed in order to get their mothers' votes....

CBS News' Bob Schieffer asked this during last night's presidential debate:

Sen. McCain, you believe Roe v. Wade should be overturned. Sen. Obama, you believe it shouldn't. Could either of you ever nominate someone to the Supreme Court who disagrees with you on this issue?

McCain began with the Republicans' wimpy, worn response. Democrats have no problem saying one's position on Roe v. Wade is a deal maker or breaker; why don't we?...

The 3rd and final presidential debate finally saw the abortion issue broached... barely, but enough to force Barack Obama out of his fox hole to attempt to explain away his opposition as IL state senator to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

McCain was weak on the draw, but at least he provided an opening:

Sen. Obama, as a member of the IL State Senate, voted in the Judiciary Committee against a law that would provide immediate medical attention to a child born of a failed abortion. He voted against that.

And then, on the floor of the State Senate, as he did 130 times as a state senator, he voted present.

Then there was another bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the state of IL not that long ago, where he voted against a ban on partial-birth abortion, one of the late-term abortion, a really - one of the bad procedures, a terrible. And then, on the floor of the IL State Senate, he voted present....

Many people have been asking for it, and here 'tis - BornAliveTruth.org's Gianna ad in Spanish. Please distribute widely to Spanish groups, friends, family.

Thanks to pro-lifer Hector Ferrar for helping translate.

Many people have sent me a link to this excellent commentary by Princeton's Robert George yesterday.

A must read.

Americans United for Life has written an open letter to CBS News' Bob Schieffer, who is moderating tonight's debate between John McCain and Barack Obama. AUL is calling on Schieffer to address an important topic ignored in both previous debates: abortion.

To that end, AUL has submitted excellent questions for Schieffer's consideration:

While each candidate's position on Roe v. Wade is well known, it remains unknown what restrictions on abortion each candidate would support in order to achieve the widely agreed upon goal of reducing abortion. And that is the question I encourage you to ask: What restrictions on abortion would you support in order to achieve the widely agreed upon goal of reducing the number of abortions in our country?

Possible follow up questions include:

A recent study by Dr. Michael New (University of Alabama) found that parental involvement laws reduce abortion by 13-31%. Do you support the right of parents to be involved in the medical decisions of their minor daughters when abortion is being considered?

Do you support taxpayer funding for elective abortions?

Do you support laws that mandate abortion clinics meet minimum health and safety standards commonly applied to other types of medical practices?

Do you support laws requiring abortions be performed by licensed physicians?

What questions would you ask?

I would ask:

Do you support laws allowing a doctor who has aborted a baby to be the only practitioner assessing that baby for viability if s/he survives?

World magazine included an inspiring feature story about Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann in its October 4/11 edition. I became aware and impressed by Bachmann during her stand to defund Planned Parenthood as well as her debate on Larry King against PP CEO Cecile Richards.

Below is the first portion of Bachmann's story. World magazine has graciously made the entire article available to Stanek readers by clicking here, normally only perusable by subscription.

Apparently there is a long-running play called Words of Choice that has pro-aborts bonding in group hugs.

Yesterday's Words of Choice blog gave us a peek into their world when excitedly recounting a performance before world renowned abortionist George Tiller in way off-Broadway Wichita:

On October 9, the cast of Words of Choice... presented the premiere performance of Words of Choice II in the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Wichita....

Wichita, of course, has some of the serious highs and lows of the fight for reproductive freedom.

The highs include Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation's most accomplished and dedicated ob-gyns and abortion providers. He performs difficult surgeries that many women are unable to access elsewhere. Women travel from throughout the country to see Dr. Tiller and his incredible and caring staff. Other highs are the members of NOW that carry forward the ideals of reproductive freedom, and the Maggot Punks, a group of mostly-young people who unmask and bark back at the virulent elements of the Religious Right....

On October 10, the National Right to Life Committee announced the ABC Radio Network had refused to run the audio version of the following anti-Obama ad during the Sean Hannity radio show.

NRLC reported ABC emailed that the ad, "while supporting aspects of a Pro-Life position, weighs more heavily toward electioneering." Well duh. It is indeed an electioneering ad, paid for by NRLC's Political Action Committee, the function of which is to electioneer, allowed under federal law.

So today LifeNews.com reported that ABC Chicago is refusing to air the ad below, by Caring Outreach...

Today WI RTL released its 2nd in a series of 4 anti-Obama pro-life e-cards.

Last week's card focused on Barack Obama's radical opposition to Born Alive and Partial Birth Abortion legislation. This week's is on another out-of-mainstream abortion position Obama has taken. Click on the graphic below to view the e-card and send to friends and family:

I used to list my friend Nathan's pro-life blog on my blogroll. We became email friends first and then met last year at a pro-life event in OR.

We went to dinner and laughed with friends at a great organic restaurant (where I discovered organic beer is even better than beer laden with artificial ingredients and preservatives).

Quirkily, Nathan and I share a love of the scent lavendar. He gave me a bottle of lavendar lotion he made (which is sadly almost gone).

Nathan told me he had emerged from the homosexual community and still battled feelings I couldn't understand but empathized with.

A few months back, Nathan returned to the homosexual lifestyle. He and I have played phone tag ever since. I wanted him to know I was still his friend.

Yesterday on his blog Nathan answered the question, "Am I still pro-life?" Opening the post, I was afraid I'd be hurt by what he had to say, but I was not. Here is an excerpt...

Below is an interesting endorsement on several counts.

First, I just have to say the photo of Obama holding a poodle - in front of Abraham Lincoln, no less - makes me want to puke.

Second, all the legislators the Humane Society touts as pro-humane treatment of animals are radically anti-humane treatment of preborn humans - Obama, Boxer, Durbin, and Biden....

On September 25, Time magazine's Michael Scherer wrote in a web article entitled, "Smear Wars: Welcome to negative ad season," which was included in the October 6 print edition:

BornAliveTruth.org has been advertising in swing states with the misleading claim that Obama supports the death of fetuses born after failed abortions. (Obama opposed an IL senate bill he said could have jeopardized other abortion statutes; at the time, IL law required doctors to save the lives of all viable fetuses after birth.)

He followed it up with a September 29 MSNBC appearance stating:

So the Born Alive Truth ad, it is true that Obama when he was in the State House in IL opposed a bill that would have declared a human person those fetuses who survived an abortion. What's not true is that it somehow meant he supported infanticide. At the time it was very clear under IL state law that any viable fetus who survived abortion had to be saved by the doctors during the procedure.

I appreciate that Scherer took my call after the first article was posted, and I note he avoided calling abortion survivors fetuses in his third botch. But botch he threepeated....

Here's a bizarre one.

Attempting to make smarty Sarah Palin look dumb, liberal blogger Gawker posted fake SAT scores and high school grades forged from pro-lifer Dawn Eden's SAT scoresheet.

Read all about it at The Dawn Patrol.

A commenter on The Straight Dope found Dawn's original and wrote:

[T]he scanned copies are at exactly the same angle, not perfectly square with the scanner's edge. The "blocked out" bits for both copies are identical: look at the "telephone number" space, for example. The remaining dot clutter is absolutely identical in both images. The dates are identical, except that "85" was changed to "82". Interesting that the "report date" of both tests would be March 23rd; in 1985, the date on the real results form, that was a Saturday, which is a typical day for SAT testing. In 1982, the date on Palin's photoshopped form, March 23rd was a Tuesday. And the real form has the same 5-3-3-1-2-3 that appears on the altered form, in precisely the same spots in the boxes.

I'm reminded of the forged documents swallowed whole by Dan Rather disparaging George Bush's National Guard record.

Liberals clearly can't let their candidates win on their own merits. But they need to find another felonious method. Forgery clearly isn't their strong suit.

These 4 new ads are fabulous, all promoting CO's Personhood Amendment 48, which simply states, "The term 'Person' or 'Persons' shall include any human from the time of fertilization."

I came across a nice blog post over the weekend by Values Voter News that JillStanek.com "has moved up into the top 7000 blogs according to Technorati!!!"

Sure enough, I'm currently ranked at 6,816. I asked a couple web friends if 7k is an important miltestone to get excited about, and neither were aware.

Nonetheless, the number of readers continues to grow rather than shrink, and this blog's worldwide ranking according to Alexa also shows steady growth.

Thanks to all of you for reading this blog, commenting, telling friends, and linking to posts.

This gives me a good opportunity I too rarely get to also thank moderators Bethany, Bobby, Carder, Carla, Chris, Jasper, and MK for overseeing half of the blog - commenting. Thanks to Angela and Laura Loo for making corrections. Thanks to Jasper for his quotes of the day. And thanks to Chris and Tim for improving the look and function of the site.

We all have the same goals: to increase prominence of pro-life issues, community, and politicians; expose the falsehoods of the pro-abortion ideology, abortion industry, and politicians; and point out MSM's good, bad, and ugly coverage of pro-life/anti-life happenings.

The Matthew 25 Network is the repulsive group audaciously promoting Barack Obama as a leader of Christian values based on this of all verses, Matthew 25:40, Jesus speaking:

Speaking of the least of these, Matthew 25 is also behind the Prolife ProObama website.

So word came today via CBN's David Brody:

And here's the ad...

MSM has a persistent problem calling abortion survivors babies, as evidenced in the title and verbiage of the Miami Herald article below on this week's funeral for Hialeah, FL, abortion survivor Shanice Osbourne. See my previous posts on those plans here and here.

The MH reporter, Elinor Brecher, also tried to portray Shanice's live birth as iffy. It was not, and this is not the ongoing question here. The question is whether to prosecute Shanice's death as murder....

Moderator Chris reminded me to check on the outcome of the Alliance Defense Fund's Pulpit Freedom Sunday. Read my previous posts here, here, and here.

ADF planned a coordinated effort by pastors on September 28 to defy the IRS gag rule dating back to 1954 disallowing them and churches from taking political stands. Around the nation pastors purposefully violated the gag rule, such as by endorsing a political candidate. They planned to submit transcripts and video/audiotapes of their sermons to the IRS. The hope is to invoke action by the IRS, get this into court, and overturn this 54 year old First Amendment violation.

I emailed Erik Stanley, ADF's lead attorney on the project, who gave me this update...

Yesterday I posted an Associated Press article that included excerpts from Sarah Palin's October 11 speech in Johnstown, PA, when she took on Barack Obama for various heinous positions on the life issue.

The Republican National Coalition for Life has distributed that entire segment of Palin's piece, which is simply excellent. Here 'tis:

In this same spirit, as defenders of the culture of life, John McCain and I believe in the goodness and potential of every innocent life. I believe the truest measure of any society is how it treats those who are least able to defend and speak for themselves. And who is more vulnerable, or more innocent, than a child?

When I learned that my son Trig would have special needs, I had to prepare my heart for the challenges to come. At first I was scared, and Todd and I had to ask for strength and understanding. But I can tell you a few things I've learned already.

Yes, every innocent life matters. Everyone belongs in the circle of protection. Every child has something to contribute to the world, if we give them that chance. There are the world's standards of perfection... and then there are God's, and these are the final measure. Every child is beautiful before God, and dear to Him for their own sake....

By Henry Payne of Townhall.com...

Likewise, MSM has been mesmerized by Barack Obama's lies on the Born Alive issue.

Ready example. Yesterday Sarah Palin continued pounding Obama on his Born Alive vote, coming closer than ever to saying he endorsed letting little preborn babies like Trig die in hospital soiled utility rooms only because they were abortion survivors.

Yet, MSM simply repeated Obama's lie about his vote again. MSM has yet to investigate. From the Associated Press, yesterday...

Pro-life/anti-life news didn't stop yesterday, even though I wasn't around to report it. Imagine that.

So I'm offering an extra weekend question to play a little catch-up.

Oklahoma legislators recently passed a comprehensive pro-life law ensuring mothers are not coerced to abort by forcing abortion mills to post signage; ensuring health care professionals are not coerced to abort or recommend to abort; forcing abortionists to follow FDA guidelines when administering RU-486; and forcing abortionists to provide ultrasounds before abortions....

Sorry I was out of pocket yesterday. Gianna Jessen and I taped a radio show with Dr. Dobson of Focus on the Family to tentatively air October 15.

This weekend's question has to do with Barack Obama and Jesus Christ.

Just released was this video of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan calling Barack Obama the Messiah...

By Rich Noyes and Matthew Balan of the Media Research Center, today:

Two of the 3 presidential debates have now passed without either candidate being asked about abortion, an issue that nearly four out of ten voters said was "very important" to them, according to an August Pew survey. What makes the abortion issue especially salient this campaign year is Barack Obama's extremely liberal record - which may also explain why the big broadcast networks have practically avoided the subject.

TV reporters barely mentioned Obama's pro-abortion stance during the primaries - from the launch of his candidacy in January 2007 through the end of the primaries in June 2008, just 6 out of 1,289 network evening news stories about Obama (0.46%) mentioned his position on abortion; none discussed it in any detail. It was thus unusual when ABC's Terry Moran pointed out, in a February 25, 2008, story on World News, that Obama was "considered a reliable liberal Democratic vote in IL... opposing efforts to ban so-called 'partial birth abortions.'"...

By Amanda Carpenter at Townhall.com this afternoon:

GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin described her rival Barack Obama's radical position on abortion as "absolutely atrocious" on Laura Ingraham's radio program Thursday.

Palin specifically attacked Obama for his votes against the Born Alive Infant Protection Act as an IL State Senator....

FYI, I'm tentatively scheduled to be interviewed by G. Gordon Liddy today at 12:30p EST to discuss my WorldNetDaily.com column about the murdered abortion survivor in Hialeah, FL.

The State of Washington has an initiative on the ballot to legalize physician-assisted suicide, I-1000.

According to noassistedsuicide.com...

by JivinJ

On Oct. 14, little Shanice Osbourne will finally be laid to rest 27 months after she was allegedly killed on the day she was aborted alive, July 20, 2006, by abortion clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez at A Gyn Diagnostics Center in Hialeah, FL.

In addition, notice of intent to initiate a civil lawsuit for medical negligence, wrongful death and personal injury has been filed against Gonzalez, abortionist Pierre Jean-Jacques Renelique and their conglomerate of four Dade Co. abortion clinics by Pennekamp Law in conjunction with the Thomas More Society.

Finally, some semblance of peace and justice?

On a hot summer day a little over two years ago, Sycloria Williams was in the throes of an induced-labor abortion of 22-week-old Shanice when the baby delivered alive.

A clinic worker, along with Williams, witnessed Gonzalez cut the cord and place the moving, breathing baby in a biohazard bag partially filled with chlorine bleach and zip it shut....

Continue reading my column, "Killed abortion survivor finally gets funeral," on WorldNetDaily.com.

By Terrence Jeffrey in today's Townhall.com, an excellent, clarifying commentary:

The most telling debate Barack Obama ever had was not with John McCain but Patrick O'Malley, who served with Obama in the IL Senate and engaged Obama in a colloquy every American should read.

The Obama-O'Malley debate was a defining moment for Obama because it dealt with such a fundamental issue: The state's duty to protect the civil rights of the young and disabled....

Then-IL state Sen. Patrick O'Malley, whom I interviewed this week, contacted the state attorney general's office to see whether existing laws protected a newborn abortion-survivor's rights as a U.S. citizen. He was told they did not....

Wisconsin Right to Life is producing a series of 4 e-cards to expose Barack Obama's radical position on abortion. WIRTL released its 1st e-card today, focused on Obama's radical opposition to Born Alive and Partial Birth Abortion legislation. Click on the graphic below to go to the site to view the e-card and send to friends and family:

UPDATE, 10/9, 3p: I'm told the ad buy in NC, PA, and WI was large, which is good.
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According to NPR:

A brand-new nonprofit organization with a classic attack-group name is airing TV ads in battleground states knocking Obama on his abortion stance.

The Committee for Truth in Politics, which was incorporated just one week ago in NC, is running the ad in PA and WI [and NC]. Showing images of a cooing, yawning baby, the ad says, "Sen. Obama, why did you vote against protecting infants that survive late-term abortions, not once but four times?" It concludes, "Call Senator Obama. Tell him to stop trying to overturn these basic human rights."

The ad echoes the recent message of Born Alive Truth, an IL 527 organization.

The incorporator and sole director of the Committee for Truth is NC attorney Bill Peaslee, formerly the chief of staff, legal counsel and political director for the NC Republican Party....

Great ad! I also read on Free Republic that the group filed suit for the freedom to run the ad despite the dastardly McCain-Feingold Act...

The Rocky Mountain News covered the story this way, along with festive pink pictures:

A river of pink flooded downtown Denver this morning as more than 60,000 people ran and walked in the 16th annual Komen Race for the Cure to support people affected by breast cancer.

That was the liberal half of the news. The other half of the news was that CO Right to Lifers wanting ignorant women to learn a significant but covered up cause of breast cancer - abortion - parked a Truth Truck along the parade route and also picketed with signs....

I have reported on this poor baby several times. Finally she will be laid to rest...

Watch this one quick, because Planned Parenthood has been getting to someone at Google/YouTube and getting them to take down these videos...

From the Students for Life of America press release today...

by JivinJ

The new poll question is up:

You've now seen them all in action. So who is the best debater?

My previous poll question asked who you thought won the first presidential debate...

By Wayne Staskal in Townhall.com...

Backdrop, by United Press International, September 27...

A new website, ProlifeProObama.com, has just been unveiled by the pro-Obama Matthew 25 Network (click to enlarge)...

Think the site's theses have merit? Think the attempt to persuade pro-lifers to vote for Obama will work?

I've thought the world of Archbishop Raymond Burke for years for strongly upholding the sanctity of life wherever he served, one of too few stalwarts to refuse communion to known pro-abort politicians. I've been happy to see Burke rewarded for his steadfastness with a steady stream of promotions, most recently to Rome. From there Burke still strongly speaks, stating in a recent interview, "At this point, the Democratic Party risks transforming itself definitively into a 'party of death' due to its choices on bioethical issues."

Burke was quoting from Ramesh Ponnuru's book, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts and the Disregard for Human Life.

Coincidentally, the banner ad at the top of my blog showcases Ponnuru as a speaker at next week's Americans United for Life gala.

Ironically, AUL received this anonymous graphic in a response envelope, equating AUL, its new prez Charmaine Yoest, and Ponnunu with another party of death...

For the 2nd time pro-lifers have introduced an initiative to ban abortion in SD. The 2006 initiative lost 56-44%. Exit polls showed it would have won had it included exceptions.

The 2008 ban includes tightly scripted exceptions. In a poll conducted September 18, it was winning with likely voters 49-41%....

The following letter and chart were just publicly released.

The Hyde Amendment restricts federal taxpayer funding for abortion under Medicaid only for cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. In FY2007 the number of funded abortions more than doubled - attributable to an increase in abortions paid for under the rape exception, entirely concentrated in 1 state, IL. Abortions funded under that exception in IL increased from 20 in FY2005 to 84 in FY2006 and 363 in FY2007

Word is IL Department of Public Health officials are dragging their feet on the DHHS investigation, the cause for DHHS's delay in response to congressmen. IDPH is now saying it'll have the requested info in December - conveniently after the election. I have 2 guesses where the spike in "rape" abortions will be found: either among Planned Parenthood mills or Cook Co. Hospital. Click to enlarge:

Doug Kmiec is a constitutional law professor at Pepperdine University, former law school dean of Catholic University of America, and former legal counsel to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush.

Kmiec's Republican and Catholic credentials have given him heightened prominence as a Barack Obama apologist. Kmiec just published the book, Can a Catholic Support Him?: Asking the Big Question about Barack Obama, and is currently participating in a nationwide "Faith, Family and
Values Tour" on Obama's behalf....

So given Kmiec's credentials, I was surprised to read his frankly daft defense of Obama on the IL Born Alive Infants Protection Act. From his book....

Where to start?

First, I'd recommend Kmiec give up and simply declare this muddled section, "a non-viable, but temporarily alive, but unborn child with a transient heartbeat," the fault of an aberrant manuscript transcriber.

Then, Kmiec could not possibly have read the Born Alive Act before writing....

Kmiec is in serious need of his own law clerk. Not only did he miss the aforementioned, he expressed further ignorance of IL law by stating, "[T]here isn't a county recorder in the country who would record a live birth" of a "temporarily alive" child.

On the contrary, the state of IL requires that all babies born alive, no matter what gestational age and no matter how fleeting their lives, be issued legal birth certificates....

According to Kmiec, very premature babies are not legal persons. If this were true, bashing them over the head to expedite the end of their "temporarily alive" status would be legal....

Continue reading my column, "Seriously, Doug Kmiec is a legal scholar?" on WorldNetDaily.com.