Recent news headlines on Life issues by Bill Beckman of the IL Right to Life Committee

March 27

by JivinJ

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

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[HT: Tim Stanek]

I saw this interview on Fox the other day and am so glad someone put it on YouTube.

I can't tell you how perfectly I thought our side, Fr. Jonathan Morris and Martha MacCallum, argued against admittedly fallen liberal Catholic Phil Donohue. This was a grand debate where the liberal clock was cleaned.

Fr. Morris employed wonderful skill against Donohue, who threw 9 pieces of mud against the wall to try to move the discussion away from abortion and human embryo experimentation - including Catholic opposition to condoms, a Holocaust denying priest, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the Catholic Church's history of anti-semitism, George Bush, the lack of priests and nuns, and dropping church attendance....

My Mom told me Rush spoke on his show Friday about President Abortion's votes against Born Alive while state senator in conjunction with Notre Dame inviting him to speak at its commencement.

Thankfully, reader Jeff G. sent me the transcript. Rush got the concept right, although Obama voted 4x against Born Alive, not 3...

The Most Anti-Life President in U.S. History to Speak at Notre Dame

March 27, 2009

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: This Notre Dame business, I have to admit that I'm perplexed. Notre Dame is what? Notre Dame is the only university that I know of that has a giant mosaic of Jesus overlooking the football field, with arms up-spread as though Jesus is signaling touchdown. That's why they call it Touchdown Jesus at Notre Dame. They're a Catholic school....

by JivinJ

Hey, our very own Bethany was spotlighted in her town's newspaper yesterday!

Go here to read the impressive article about our dear moderator. I'll bet you didn't know she is not only a talented artist but also a quilter, seamstress, chef, mom, and wife!

Congrats, Bethany, for getting a little well-deserved recognition... :)

M. Susan Pine, president of FACE Life, reported that pro-lifers at Mary Mother of Light Maronite Catholic Church in Lake Worth, FL, have just replaced - for the 3rd time - a pro-life banner facing the Planned Parenthood next door.

Susan reported the others were all stolen, by whom I wonder? Of course, MSM doesn't report these sorts of pro-abort malfeasance

But this sign is bigger and more securely attached. "If they steal this one it will require a pick-up truck!" reported Susan.

Glenn Foden at CNSNews.com...

Gary McCoy on MSNBC...

I have a new poll question up:

Do you think Fr. John Jenkins, president of Notre Dame University, should disinvite President Barack Obama to be this year's commencement speaker?

Here are the results of my previous poll. Over 80% thought Obama stepped into the presidency and delivered exactly the agenda at exactly the speed you thought he would...

I received this message from E. D. on Facebook:

A story for you, because you inspired me to it.

I work in a call center for prescription meds. A woman called thinking we were her health care, and she asked if abortions are covered.

I didn't tell her we were not the right company, I just said, "I'll take your baby."

She said, "What?"

"I'll take your baby and adopt it for my own, please don't kill your daughter."

She got mad and said,"Lady, I don't need no preachin'. Just give me the information."

So I said, "Well, you'll have to call a different number," and then I gave her the number of the local Care Net crisis pregnancy center.

I figure if Rahab was honored for lying to save the Israelite spies in Jericho, then I can take liberties with the truth to save a life, too.

E. D. is right. Throughout the Bible people were blessed for lying if to save lies. There was the aforementioned Rahab; there were the Israelite midwives; there was Jonathan and Michal who lied to their father and king, Saul, to save David's life; and there were the wise men, who God Himself told to disobey King Herod and leave town without saying where baby Jesus was.

Do you agree or disagree with pro-life tactics such as E. D. described?

UPDATE, 3/28, 10:15a: Although written a few hours before the Tiller verdict, this post by National Review Online's Denis Boyles in The Corner, which should be read in its entirety, sums up what happened:

I've spoken to several people who are very close to this case, and the expectation is that Tiller will be acquitted.

The state's lackadaisal case, one knowledgeable observer said, was "embarrassing." The state assigned a single prosecutor to the case. Tiller has a 5-member team, including a former US Attorney. The state called one witness - Kristin Neuhaus, the doctor who signed off on Tiller's near-birth abortions. She was given immunity by [pro-abortion Attorney General Steve] Six and, not surprisingly, was an extremely hostile witness....

You read that right.

As opposed to the 60,000 babies he has aborted, George Tiller's legal troubles have lived to see another day.

Immediately after a jury yesterday cleared the KS abortionist of 19 charges of breaking KS law by getting a 2nd opinion for late-term abortions from an abortionist with whom he had financial ties, the KS Board of Healing Arts released the following statement (click to enlarge)...

WIBW.com reported a little while ago that radical pro-abort KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed 28 bills today. #12 on WIBW's list was this:

Modifying the Woman's Right-to-Know Act

SB 238 modifies the Woman's Right-to-Know Act by requiring physicians who utilize sonogram equipment in connection with an abortion procedure to inform the woman that she has the right to view the ultrasound image. It also requires physicians who utilize heart monitor equipment in connection with an abortion procedure to inform the woman she has the right to hear the fetal heartbeat. Finally, SB 238 requires facilities in which abortions are performed to post certain notices, and requires KDHE to make information regarding fetal development available in printed, electronic and video format....

All will recall President Abortion mocking Special Olympians on the Jay Leno show as being at bad at bowling as he is.

Then came Sarah Palin, with a future Special Olympian of her own, criticizing Obama for being so calloused.

This is where Raving Theist picked up the story:

... Palin condemned his "degrading remark about our world's most precious and unique people."

This observation was too much for talk show host Bill Maher, who led a panel consisting of Senator Bernie Sanders, actress Kerry Washington and New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin in a round of hooting, hand-clapping laughter at Palin's presumed stupidity. Things got a bit uncomfortable, however, when Maher specifically challenged Palin's description of the disabled:

What a cruel man.

[HT: moderator Bethany]

The Washington Post reported today:

Recently back from Mexico, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton... spends the day in TX.....

In the evening, Clinton attends a gala in Houston to receive the Margaret Sanger Award from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America for her advocacy of "women's health and rights throughout her public service career."

Added the National Journal:

HRC accepted the invite well before she became Sec/State, but her appearance is a stark reminder of the big role HRC has played in abortion-rights politics ... and the bigger role women played in her '08 campaign.

Can't respond to this any better than Family Research Council did last night:

Of course, the question remains whether this award is even an honor. If "no one is pro-abortion," as Barack Obama insists, then why agree to be celebrated by the number one supplier of abortion in America?...

When last we left Planned Parenthood of Arizona , Lila Rose and LiveActionFilms.org had released a 2nd video of employees at a 2nd and 3rd PP in the Grand Canyon state showing a willingness to cover-up underage rape.

The 1st video showing the 1st cover-up, released February 3, resulted in a whole bunch of nothing happening.

This likely had to do with the fact that AZ Attorney General Terry Goddard was coincidentally scheduled to give the keynote address at a PP event that night, obviously in the bag for the US's largest chain of chop shops.

The 2nd video released resulted in an interesting denial by Goddard to the Arizona Republic that his office was investigating PP despite a letter from the Pima Co. attorney to the contrary (click to enlarge)...

Goddard must have decided not to worry because, as AR reported, PP AZ has conducted an investigation of itself, and things amiss are now fine...

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

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UPDATE, 12:35p: Troy Newman of Operation Rescue just texted the Tiller jury has gone into deliberation.
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Today, as a freak blizzard prepares to descend upon much of KS, a jury of 6 is anticipated to hand down a verdict of abortionist George Tiller on whether he sought a 2nd opinion for late-term abortions from a doctor with whom he had financial ties.

First, Jenn Giroux explained in Renew America today there are reasons to remain pessimistic, although Giroux closed her piece by saying Tiller's March 25 verbals slips on the stand may have turned around an anticipated bleak verdict for the good guys:

... [KS Gov. Kathleen] Sebelius['s]... hand-picked successor to [Attorney General Phill] Kline, Paul Morrison... filed the weakest charges possible, probably planning to plea Tiller out.... But before the plan was fully implemented, Morrison was forced to resign in scandal....

Sebelius... picked Stephen Six [pictured left together] to fill out Morrison's term.

Six is a KS trial attorney who has not held any public position except one provided by Sebelius....

Six had his hands full. He had inherited Morrison's "technical" charges against Tiller (Morrison having rejected anything more serious)....

Per Politico.com today:

I'm sure Sebelius' hearing dates were carefully planned not to compete with Tiller trial headlines. Nevertheless, try as Sebelius and the Obama peeps might to avoid visual reminders, here we are to stir them up.

I think the Tiller trial's closure will mesh nicely with the Sebelius hearings - seamless fodder to remind all how rabidly pro-abort Sebelius is.

[HT: Kristina]

The CultureWarNotes.com headlines make the implication:

First, on March 26 came this piece by Austin Ruse, president of Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute, in The Catholic Thing...

I just stumbled upon these excellent commentaries by Michael Voris for RealCatholicTV.com on Notre Dame's invitation of President Abortion to be its featured commencement speaker in May and recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree.

This one was released yesterday...

And this one was released March 23...

Pro-life stalwart and friend Leslie, who blogs at The Passionate Pro-Lifer and comments here as well, lost one of her precious twin granddaughters, Tuesday, on January 30, to cancer.

So Leslie had been missing from the sidewalk counseling scene at the Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood mega-abortion mill while in mourning, until this past Saturday when she ventured back. She described the following incident on her blog:

I'm not certain how long Ron has been an "escort" for evil, Planned Parenthood in Denver. But, I can say this, he has gone out of his way to be unkind to those who try to rescue those being unjustly led to the slaughter.

Today, on my first venture to CO's slaughterhouse for some time, I was astonished to be approached by a Planned Parenthood death-scort....

by JivinJ

UPDATE, 4:35p: Matt Abbott at RenewAmerica has posted a letter written from black priest and member of Notre Dame's Admissions Advisory Board, Fr. John Raphael, to Fr. Jenkins:

... I have spent 18 years working with blacks and whites, Protestants and Catholics, to bring more African Americans into the pro-life movement. During the last 2 months the Obama administration has already begun to aggressively roll back the gains made in defense of life over the course of the last 15 years....

[T]he historical significance of the first African American president is emptied of its meaning if this same president refuses to embrace the rights of the unborn....

As an African American and a priest, as a principal of a Catholic high school and a member of the Admissions Advisory Board of the university, I cannot adequately express in words how deeply this action offends those who are committed to carrying out the task of Catholic education and witnessing to the Gospel of Life in the context of a Catholic school. Even if the university chooses to cooperate with certain policies of the president that are not contrary to the teaching of the faith, the conferral of this type of public honor is wholly gratuitous and incongruous with the mission of any Catholic institution....

[HT: Cy Hunter]
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American Papist got the scoop and has more details, but here is an email sent from Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olsted to Notre Dame Prez Fr. John Jenkins yesterday...

See previous posts, "Tiller trial opens to abortionist fatigue," and "Tiller trial Day 1 recap."

Day 2 of the trial of KS abortionist George Tiller, accused of breaking KS law by getting a 2nd opinion for late-term abortions from an abortionist with whom he had financial ties, saw that abortionist, Ann Kristin Neuhaus, retake the stand.

IMO, the most interesting Neuhaus factoid was that she wore the same jacket as the previous day and looked "disheveled," according to Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue, twittering from inside the courtroom. Tacky.

But maybe Neuhaus is just broke after several medicinal practitioner malfunctions. Despite her protests, prosecutor Barry Disney reminded the court Neuhaus has been disciplined by the KS Board of Healing Arts once for failing to keep proper records of controlled drugs dispensed and another time for failing to provide informed consent, failing to properly monitor aborting patients, and forcibly aborting a mother against her will - for which her license was revoked.

So Neuhaus had her license back but no patients when taking Tiller's gig to rubber stamp his post-viable abortions.

But enough about Neuhaus. On to Day 3 and Tiller's testimony. On the stand Tiller appeared zombielike. Perhaps he accidentally lobotomized himself when trying to suction brains out of a half-born baby....

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

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[HT: Tim Stanek]

by Bernadette P.

From the blogs and elsewhere:

From RealCatholicTV.com...

[HT: Nancy W.]

UPDATE, 10:20a: Petition signatures at NotreDameScandal.com just topped 160k.
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Tom Roeser, chairman of the board of Catholic Citizens of Illinois and popular radio talk show host, has proposed on his blog:

What can authenticist Catholics do about Notre Dame which has invited Barack Obama to be its 2009 commencement speaker-an invitation Obama has accepted?

Catholics can...(a) write the president, Rev. John Jenkins, CSC but will get a very nice letter back.

They can (b) write the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Francis George and they will get a very short, crisp letter back saying he does not have jurisdiction over Notre Dame, thank you and please pray for me as I pray for you as we pray for all etc.,etc., etc.

They can (c) write the bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Bishop John Michael D'Arcy and ask him to pressure Notre Dame to change its mind. They will get a pro-forma letter back.

They can (d) make a list of the trustees of the university and write them, try to pressure them. Not very effective.

Finally, by organizing a group of alumni they can write to and visit the bishop, Bishop D'Arcy and urge him to employ the "nuclear option."...

The number of petition signers at NotreDameScandal.com has grown to 135k,

Meanwhile 11 Notre Dame student groups have formed a coalition repudiating the University for inviting Obama. They released a harsh statement today...

Recent news headlines on Life issues by Bill Beckman of the IL Right to Life Committee

(Thanks to administrative assistant Kelli, we can renew this great weekly post!)

March 20

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a daily break from the grind...

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by JivinJ

Developing...

KS late-term abortionist George Tiller is on the stand and KWCH is showing it live on the Internet.

Go here to access live stream.

Background info, Stanek previous posts:

I don't know who I'm madder at, USA Today or myself.

Last week USA Today editorial writer Louise Branson e-mailed me a request to:

... write a short piece for us about the regulation of fertility clinics in the aftermath of the octuplets scandal, and praising the proposed GA legislation as the standard that should be set nationwide. The piece would need to be around 350 words. It would be an opposing view to our editorial that would warn against the kind of regulation that brings anti-abortion politics into the issue.

"Absolutely," I responded. With a pro-abortion audience in mind, I wrote a piece explaining the harm of egg harvesting to women, the vast number of human embryos killed throughout the in vitro fertilization process, and how human embryo research proponents use the "leftover" embryos excuse to push their agenda. I closed by describing common sense regulations.

I received this response:

Sorry to be a pain, but could I get you to re-do it a bit.... We were hoping to see a piece that would... say the best way to prevent another Suleman case would be to limit the number of embryos that could be implanted and also define an embryo as a person.... We would be less interested in all the medical details as our debate is on how best to regulate fertility clinics.

I was taken aback. USA Today was telling me how and what to write? I responded...

Continue reading, "How USA Today used me (and I let it)," at WorldNetDaily.com.

On March 18 USA Today printed an op ed I wrote about the need to regulate the in vitro fertilization industry.

There is a backstory.

Following is the original op ed I submitted to USA Today, which its editors rejected.

The sensational story of Nadya Suleman giving birth to octuplets after in vitro fertilization of multiple embryos has spotlighted the need to regulate this Wild West of women's reproductive care.

Currently sea turtles in the U.S. enjoy more procreative protection than women and children.

The procedure to garner eggs for IVF is potentially dangerous to women.

They inject numerous drugs and synthetic female steroids, including estrogen, a known carcinogen, over several weeks to stimulate several eggs to abnormally mature at once....

From Christian Newswire this afternoon, by pro-life activist and writer Gingi Edmonds:

Some of you may have seen the major news story of the private plane that crashed into a Montana cemetery, killing 7 children and 7 adults.

But what the news sources fail to mention is... the [cemetery] contains... the Tomb of the Unborn... erected as a dedication to all babies who have died because of abortion.

What else is the mainstream news not telling you? The family who died in the crash near the location of the abortion victim's memorial, is the family of Irving 'Bud' Feldkamp, owner of the largest for-profit abortion chain in the nation....

Fox News reported yesterday a Dept. of Homeland Security satellite, the MO Information Analysis Center, considers "anti-abortion activists" as potential domestic terrorists according to a leaked report (click to enlarge):

In a strange twist, Missourians United for Life has requested intervention from the ACLU....

by Kelli K.

The Susan B. Anthony List has just launched Stop the Abortion Bailout, a grassroots campaign with the goal of sending 200k letters to the Senate to get 41 senators to filibuster any funding of abortion providers in the FY 2010 Budget.

Great idea. StopTheAbortionBailout.com lists specific funding requests by the abortion industry.

SBA has produced 2 videos supporting the Stop the Abortion Bailout campaign, the first a commendation by Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) and the 2nd a short version of the now well-known speech by 7th grader Lia, recipient of the SBA List Young Leader Award...

UPDATE, 3p: The bishop of the Notre Dame's Diocese, Fr. John D'Arcy, has announced he will NOT attend the commencement:

On Friday, March 21, Father John Jenkins, CSC, phoned to inform me that President Obama had accepted his invitation to speak to the graduating class at Notre Dame and receive an honorary degree. We spoke shortly before the announcement was made public at the White House press briefing. It was the first time that I had been informed that Notre Dame had issued this invitation.

President Obama has recently reaffirmed, and has now placed in public policy, his long-stated unwillingness to hold human life as sacred. While claiming to separate politics from science, he has in fact separated science from ethics and has brought the American government, for the first time in history, into supporting direct destruction of innocent human life.

This will be the 25th Notre Dame graduation during my time as bishop. After much prayer, I have decided not to attend the graduation....

[HT: Milissa K.]
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UPDATE, 2:50p: Fox News reported at lunchtime NotreDameScandal.com had 65k petition signatures. Sorry, old news. It just topped 80k.
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Read previous post here.

Here's a letter to the editor in today's The Observer, Notre Dame's school newspaper...

by Bethany Kerr

babyfaithhope.blogspot.com is a blog with an amazing testimony.

It is written by a 23-year-old, unmarried woman, Myah, who in her last year of university (with no maternity leave), found herself pregnant with a baby girl who was diagnosed with anencephaly, which is a birth defect considered to be "incompatible with life."

Myah was given the option to abort, but refused. She carried her baby to term, and miraculously, little Faith Hope has lived 32 days as of yesterday!

Here is Myah's testimony from her sidebar:

When I was 19 weeks pregnant, I was told my baby had no brain.... I was told my baby was only alive because she was attached to me but that she couldn't survive on her own. The doctor said I could continue the pregnancy safely, but my baby would die shortly after being born....

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

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by JivinJ

See previous post, "Tiller trial opens today to abortionist fatigue."

Yesterday the trial of late-term KS abortionist George Tiller opened.

Tiller is accused of 19 counts of violating KS law by seeking a mandated 2nd opinion for late-term abortions from someone with whom he had financial ties, Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus.

Yesterday on the stand Neuhaus came down with Hillary Clinton I Don't Seem to Recall Syndrome, even though the prosecution has granted her a wide swath of immunity.

First, this little nugget, from the Los Angeles Times...

Eric Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League intercepted this email (click to enlarge):

Note the letter appears disturbed by clergy involvement with the IL FOCA bill, then hypocritically closes with a request for clergy involvement.

Here's a great little YouTube video by Mary-Louise Kurey, head of the Chicago Archdiocese Respect Life office, who explains the problems with IL's FOCA...

I previously reported that pastor Walter Hoye had been handed a 30-day sentence for violating a new Oakland, CA, law creating a free speech buffer zone around abortion mills. Well, the sentence has begun. Reported the San Francisco Chronicle on March 21:

A pastor at a Berkeley church was jailed Friday for 30 days after unsuccessfully arguing that an order requiring him to stay 100 yards away from an Oakland abortion clinic violates his right to free speech.

Walter Hoye, 52, of Union City was the first person convicted under an Oakland ordinance barring protesters from coming within 8 feet of anyone entering an abortion clinic.

In February, Judge Stuart Hing of Alameda County Superior Court sentenced Hoye to three years' probation and 30 days in jail, and ordered him to pay $1,000....

UPDATE, 4:45p:Email alert from Eric Scheidler of Pro-life Action League:

I've never seen a campaign take off like this!

It's easy to understand why Obama would be eager to speak at Notre Dame. He's looking for legitimacy with Catholics....

The following incident occurred Saturday at the Jewel grocery store in St. Charles, IL.

This goes to show what one pro-lifer can do, in this case stalwart Nancy Weber...

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

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by JivinJ

UPDATE, 12:05a: Operation Rescue is twittering the Tiller trial. (Say that 3 times.) Follow oprescue.
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UPDATE, 11:05a: Kathy Ostrowski, state legislative director for Kansans for Life, discusses the anticipated Tiller defense at KansasLiberty.com as well as reminds us Tiller was outted for committing illegal late-term abortions by the very mothers he aborted in a 2005 LA Times puff piece.
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Per the LA Times:

For activists on both sides of the debate over legalized abortion, the criminal trial of Dr. George Tiller, which begins Monday in a Wichita courtroom, is an oddly unfulfilling culmination of a struggle that has wrenched KS for years....

Although neither side will discuss the evidence, the state is expected to contend that Tiller's relationship with Ann Kristin Neuhaus, the 2nd doctor who signed off on the 19 abortions in question, violated the physician independence provision. Each count carries a maximum penalty of as long as a year in prison and a $2,500 fine....

"The attorney general's office is not very excited about this case," said Joseph Aistrup, a political science professor at KS State University....

by Peter Brookes of Times Online...

Read background info to this post here and here.

[HT: Facebook friend Rick Moore via proofreader Angela]

With news this week 2 more Planned Parenthoods have been added to the list of those covering up child rape comes this question from reader yor bro ken:

If a minor female is not mature enough to consent to sex with an adult male, how is she mature enough to consent to the elective surgery of abortion?

With additional news a lesbian who attempted forced insemination could be charged with attempted rape, yor bro ken asked a germane follow-up question:

Technically speaking, there are different classifications of rape. "Insertion" is not limited to a male body part but can be any object. So how is the adult abortionist's vaginal insertion of any instrument for abortion in the case of a minor girl, particularly without parental notification, not statutory rape or some other form of sexual assault?

This one's personal. I had a child in special rec bowling, and my 2 others were allowed to bowl in this special league - every Monday afternoon when they were growing up, followed by kiddie cocktails with their Dad, who picked them up after work.

You wouldn't believe how well some of these truly special people can bowl, including my own! Obama is an ass, truly.

From TMZ,com, March 20...

Barack Obama made history as the 1st president to appear on Jay Leno last night. Wanting to prove he is capable of speaking without a teleprompter, Obama proceeded to prove he is not. Joe Biden's foot-in-mouth disease must be contagious.

As the mom of a child who actually bowled in a special recreation program, I was offended. And Obama actually doesn't know what he's talking about. Those kids could bowl him under the alley.

Even Keith Olbermann winced, wondering, "What do we do - what does he do - about that?"...

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

UPDATE, 12:20p: Here's a list of organizations supporting IL's FOCA as well as politicians, including AG Lisa Madigan.

[HT: liberal water carrier Archpundit via Cal S.]
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UPDATE, 10:50a: A pro-life legislator makes a good point: The abortion industry would flock to IL if IL FOCA passes because they wouldn't have to have malpractice insurance.
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Well funded, well organized, Obama-inspired radical IL pro-abort politicians and groups have reintroduced the state version of the Freedom of Choice Act.

While IL is already the abortion capital of the Midwest, with no enforceable law stopping it (including the 14-year-old IL Parental Notice Act, still stuck in court), and IL taxpayers already fund Medicaid abortions, IL's FOCA would do additional harm to mothers and children in the Prairie State as well as create an opening for other states to pass their own FOCAs.

Just one unbelievable component: IL's FOCA would allow nonphysicians to commit abortions and disallow civil lawsuits or criminal penalties for negligence or malpractice for abortions committed in "good faith," i.e., "I didn't mean to kill her."

IL's FOCA had 42 House co-sponsors but is beginning to lose ground. 4 have removed themselves since last week. On the other hand the bill is on its 2nd reading now, so a vote is imminent....

Priests for Life has released an excellent new ad, "Everyone against abortion please raise your hand." On YouTube less than 2 weeks, it is closing in on 50k page views. This is the sort of ad that will move one off the "pro-choice" fence. Hurts to watch.

Q&A on the child in the ad here.

(JLS note: Welcome to our new intern, Bernadette! I sure have missed (Prolifer)ations these past few months and the opportunity to spotlight important news other great pro-life blogs are catching. Bernadette is a hardcore pro-lifer attending a midwest Catholic university, majoring in psych and maintaining a 4.0 GPA! This is finals week, but Bernadette insisted on starting right away. And thanks to new administrative assistant Kelli for shepherding Bernadette and beginning to help - a lot! - with some of the functions on the blog.)

by Bernadette P.

From the blogs and elsewhere...

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

by JivinJ

A senate staffer doing research for her boss stumbled on the following February 11, 1992, New York Times article and sent it to me.

She wrote, "So many people have referenced [Josef Mengele] recently with the stem cell decision, mostly along the lines of, 'Yes, let the scientists do whatever they want, and say hello to the next Mengele.'"

Yes, Mengele was ahead of his time on both the abortion and human experimentation fronts....

The Argentine authorities were either unwilling or unable to bring Nazi war criminals to justice even when they had them in custody, archives made public for the first time today show.

The archives on 5 Nazi war criminals that were made available by Argentina show a pattern that confirms what many have said for years, that war criminals found a safe haven here and that this country was probably one of the easiest in which to disappear and escape justice....

I previously wrote on this horrific April 2008 AFP story:

An elderly Austrian... confessed... to imprisoning his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering her 7 children, prosecutors said.

Josef Fritzl, 73, "has admitted building the dungeon and to holding his daughter and three children there," prosecution spokesman Gerhard Sedlacek [said].

Fritzl also admitted incest "but insisted there was no force involved," said Sedlacek. One of the children died at an early age....

The case just went to trial, and finally after 3 days Fritzl pled guilty, after viewing videotape testimony from his daughter. Reported the Associated Press today...

Live Action Films today released video #4 in its Mona Lisa Project. This is a series of short films secretly shot at Planned Parenthoods around the country last summer exposing mill workers perfectly willing to help underage girls who had been statutorily raped by adult men get abortions without notifying authorities.

First, let's review.

LAF released its 1st 2 videos (read here and here) exposing 2 IN PPs in December. These resulted in a sacrificial firing of 1 staffer, resignation of another but most importantly an attorney general investigation.

Video #3 showed a Tucson, PP aiding and abetting underage rape. PP of AZ said they would investigate. Big whoop. That was 6 weeks ago with silence since.

Video #4 continues the exposure of PP of AZ child sex abuse. It captures PP workers at 2 Phoenix chop shops engaging in yet another rape cover-up.

The LAF press release reminded us PP of AZ has a history...

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

by JivinJ

In an otherwise good piece condemning President Obama for his executive order authorizing taxpayer funding for embryonic stem cell research last week, columnist Charles Krauthammer got one thing wrong:

Obama's address was morally unserious in the extreme. ... Yet ... he went on to declare that he would never open the door to the "use of cloning for human reproduction."

Does he not think that a cloned human would be of extraordinary scientific interest? And yet he banned it.

On the contrary, Obama did not....

Had Obama meant he blanketly opposed cloning, he would have said he opposed cloning, period. But he added that tag, "for human reproduction."...

I know Obama was parsing. While he says he opposes birthing human clones, Obama supports growing human clones to kill for research.

I know because I was in Springfield lobbying for the opposition in 2003 when Obama as IL state senator sponsored the Stem Cell Research Act along with five other hard-left liberals, and it included authorization to experimentally clone and kill....

Continue reading my column today, "State Sen. Obama sponsored 'clone and kill' bill," at WorldNetDaily.com.

USA Today requested an op ed from me on the topic of in vitro fertilization regulation, and I was grateful for the opportunity. It is published today. Here's a snip:

The sensational story of Nadya Suleman giving birth to octuplets after in vitro fertilization of multiple embryos has spotlighted the need to regulate this Wild West of women's reproductive care.

Now is the time for pro-lifers to introduce legislation in their states regulating IVF and, with it, the creation and care of embryos....

A movement in this direction is gathering force. Louisiana has had a law since 1986 defining ex-utero embryos as human beings with inherent rights. Embryos cannot be destroyed for research. Court disputes over abandoned embryos must be decided in the best interest of the embryo. At least 5 other states are considering legislation defining an embryo as a person....

The Suleman case has exposed a need to regulate the IVF industry, the sooner the better. Currently sea turtles in the US enjoy more procreative protection than women and children.

And here is USA Today's editorial opposing IVF regulation.

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

[Hat tip: Hot Air - no kidding - via Jill's hubbie Rich]

by JivinJ

Jury selection began yesterday for the long delayed trial of Wichita, KS, late-term abortionist George Tiller, accused of getting nonobjective 2nd opinions from business associate Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus.

The charges, though far less than they should have been, vindicate relentlessly maligned Phill Kline - again, who got the evidence.

Meanwhile Kline is being punished - again. Recall the words of rabid pro-abort, Sebelius-picked, KS Supreme Court Justice Carol Beier (former National Women's Law Center attorney), who strangely wrote Kline deserved "sanction by this court" when handing down a verdict clearing him of complaints filed by Planned Parenthood. She was really, really mad about that, as I previously indicated.

Beier got what she wanted when the Supreme court-appointed Disciplinary Board for Attorneys notified Kline and 2 subordinates in February regarding complaints of ethics violations, as yet unnamed.

This is where it gets interesting. Two reporters got tips about the secret ethics complaint, John Hanna of the Associated Press, and Ron Sylvester of the Wichita Eagle. Here's his story...

The Disciplinary Board previously wrote it was immune to open records requests, i.e., fishing expeditions. Click to enlarge...

Well, this is great! Cardinal Francis George just released a YouTube video calling on Catholics to tell the Obama administration to back away from plans to stop enforcing the conscience rights of health care providers. "No government should ever come between a person and God," he said.

The Cardinal made a great point. We support conscientious objection to fighting in wars, and we support doctors to conscientiously object to administering the death penalty. ''Why shouldn't our government and our legal system permit conscientious objection to a morally bad action, the killing of babies in their mother's womb," said the Cardinal. ".... No one should be forced by the government to act as though he or she was blind to this reality."

Good for him and the USCCB.

[HT: moderator Carder]

Newsbusters reports:

Josh Brahm of Right to Life of Central CA has done the definitive dissection of the comprehensive media failure in reporting on President Obama's recent Executive Order allowing federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Brahm's "9 Things the Media Messed Up About the Obama Stem Cell Story" is an exceptional magnum opus that must be read in its entirety to be fully appreciated. It identifies each of the 9 errors, links to well over 40 specific instances of media bias and/or ignorance, and tell us why those errors are significant. I thought I was reasonably knowledgeable in this subject area until I read Brahm's work....

Our wonderful moderator Carla, who has a unique post-abortion ministry, gave her testimony 4x during worship services yesterday at Faith Community Church, in Hudson, WI.

Carla is a gifted speaker with a touching story. She is there for you if you need her at Carla@jillstanek.com.

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind.

Click on Elwp.com for larger view of this video...

[JLS note: This may be the wittiest video I've ever viewed.]

[Hat tip: Hisman]

Well, this makes for a nice lesbian companion to my previous post, "TV star and 'wife' switch embryos." In the Berkshire Eagle, March 12, located in MA where homosexuals can legally marry:

A woman who allegedly intended to artificially inseminate her wife with her brother's semen has been charged with domestic assault and battery....

Jennifer Lighten, 33, told police that Stephanie Lighten [pictured right], her wife, was "all liquored up" when she returned to their... apartment, where the defendant then allegedly tried to use a syringe to inseminate her....

Jennifer told investigating officers that Stephanie "has been talking about trying to impregnate (her) for some time," police said....

From Strollerderby, the following is quite the twist on sexual and reproductive "freedom." Click to enlarge...

To answer the question, I think this is neither silly nor sweet. Doubting the odds that both women were infertile, I expect simple artificial insemination would have sufficed....

by Gary Varvel of Townhall.com...

by Gary Varvel of Townhall.com...

"Pro-choice" 150 years ago...

What's the difference?

[HT: Facebook group Memeshock]

by Bobby Bambino

The Life Training Institute, a Christian pro-life apostolate featuring Scott Klusendorf and Dr. Julie Parton, is an invaluable resource for pro-lifers. Scott is a pro-life speaker who can be heard on YouTube here and here.

LTI distributes a wonderful podcast dealing with pro-life arguments and responses to pro-choice arguments. Some of the issues that they have
dealt with in detail are...

by JivinJ

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

Dr. Judith Reisman, expert on Alfred Kinsey, the "father" of the American sexual revolution, has a new piece in Salvo magazine:

... [W]hen Al Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) hit the nation, it did not just cause a sexual revolution, it caused a sex science revolution.

Kinsey's sex "findings" displaced the common law and Judeo-Christian theories of human sexuality, which had dictated our conduct, culture, and sex-crime penalties. The ideals of delayed rewards, complete abstinence before and fidelity within marriage, said Kinsey, were scientifically false, constraining, repressing, and, (most condemnatory), "hypocritical."

The test of a good scientific theory is its predictability. Kinsey predicted that when people believed his theories and data, divorce, venereal disease, "illegitimacy," sex crimes, and all sexual dysfunctions would decrease. You many have noticed that Kinsey's predictions didn't quite pan out. The science was bad....

FRC Action is on fire! It just sent out the following email alert. Here is the link to create an email to send to Matthews. Click to enlarge:

UPDATE, 3/13 12a: Whoops, he said it before. Bill Clinton on Larry King Live February 17:

But this stem cell research, if the stem cells are frozen embryonic stem cells, if they are never going to be used to be fertilized, to bring a life into being, then I think making them available for medical research is the pro-life position and I honestly don't understand - I would understand it if we were going and raiding stem cell banks, where these stem cells were going to be used to actually fertilize eggs and have babies.

A couple commenters thought Clinton meant to say "implanted," but never mind the fact he said "fertilized" 6x, the above interview makes clear he meant "fertilized," which he defined as "to bring a life into being."...

UPDATE, 3/12, 9:45p: The Steele abortion flap has grown throughout the day.

For conservatives, Steele is becoming the focus of pent up wrath toward Republicans who tell pro-lifers what they want to hear to their face but then melt on the pro-life issue when in a different crowd or when it's time to vote. Wrote Tony Perkins of FRC in a press release this afternoon:

This only serves to reinforce the belief by many social conservatives that one major party is unfriendly while the other gives only lip service to core moral issues, which is why many have dropped their affiliation with the GOP. If such a visible Republican leader continues in this same vein I am sure the trend will continue. The prospects of more social conservatives leaving may excite the "big tenters," but that will only last until they find the Big Tent is empty.

Those were words to be taken seriously.

Meanwhile, the opening schism got lots of press. My Politico quote as well as quotes from other pro-lifers ended up on CNN and CBS as well as People for the American Way (two times) and even Celebrity Gossip Guide. All smell blood. Politico even did a follow-up story.
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UPDATE, 3/12, 11:35a: Steele's nemesis for the RNC top spot, Ken Blackwell, has weighed in...

by JivinJ

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

[HT: commenter Maria]

Pro-abortion feminist journalist Miranda Spencer wrote a 2,600 word article for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting in February complaining that MSM does not spotlight factors contributing to the "epidemic" of breast cancer enough.

Spencer, who supports giving US taxpayer money to international abortion groups as well as the United Nations Population Fund, which helps the Chinese government coerce women to abort, had a lot of nerve, particularly by naming her piece, "Overlooking evidence."

Of course Spencer refuses to acknowledge the obvious and proven link between abortion and breast cancer and instead blamed this "leading cause of death in women in their late 30s to early 50s" on the fact that The New York Times, et al, do not talk enough about the hazards of flame retardant clothing....

Dan Gilgoff of US News & World Report wrote an insulting piece today, "Octo-Mom as a poster girl for opponents of embryonic stem cell research," a typical example of MSM spinning a story to fit the liberal agenda.

Gilgoff first quoted Americans United for Life prez Charmaine Yoest from a Fox interview to support his contention:

The last time Art and I debated just a few weeks ago we were talking about the octo-mom, where embryos were given the opportunity and they become babies. You have two options here: allow them to develop [to] become babies, or experiment and destroy them.

Yoest's point obviously was embryos grow into born babies if given the chance.

Then Gilgoff quoted me from a recent WND piece...

UPDATE, 3/12, 9:30p: LifeSiteNews.com has more insights on Killing Girls:

"Killing Girls has also been my most difficult film to produce, mainly because it was next to impossible to find finance," said Ireland-born producer and director David Kinsella. "Everybody was telling me that I could not show this or that! ... I was being suffocated by all the negative criticism towards our film. So I decided to make a film straight from my heart and soul and forget all the negative reactions.

"At times I felt totally helpless during the filming, the screaming from the hospital are tattooed on my soul, the sound of a baby crying during the abortion," he said. "I was totally shocked."...

Anna Sirota, script writer and narrator of Killing Girls, said she too was shocked "not just because this was so painful and cruel, but also because I could not understand how easy it is to give and to take lives, how mechanical the whole abortion process looks."

Sirota has given birth to one daughter and had four abortions.

"The project started to become an obsession. Maybe I was trying 'to excuse' away my sins... I still have no answers," she said.

A documentary about late-term abortions in Russia, 7 years in the making, has just been released. [JLS note: I have been watching for this film for a year.]

Killing Girls has already been nominated for best documentary film in 3 European film festivals and through the wonders of technology is available to download online for $14.99, which I did last weekend. (DVD is also available for $22.99.) Here's the trailer:

by Carder

If money were no object, I would arrange for a varied group of bloggers to meet and host a face-to-face discussion over the reason that brings us to Pro-Life Pulse in the first place.

Since reality gets in the way, let's instead watch a panel discussion hosted by Pajamas TV, a conservative online network of bloggers, at the Conservative Political Action Committee's Conservatism 2.0 Convention recently held in DC.

On the panel: DC Examiner columnist Scott Ott of ScrappleFace (news satire); John P. Avlon, Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; libertarian law professor and blogger Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.com; and his royal rapidness, comedian AlfonZo Rachel, of MachoSauceProductions.

Facilitator Bill Whittle asked the panelists (fast forward to 1:37:40) if abortion is a social choice, murder, or something in between. The video takes a moment to load.

To summarize:

3/11, 12:15p: Contrary to what has been reported elsewhere, Congress yesterday did NOT sneak back into the stimulus package the universally scorned "birth control bailout" of expanded Medicaid funding for contraceptives to Planned Parenthood.

What Congress DID do yesterday was restore a loophole the Bush administration removed (which I've written on before, so PP will once again get to buy birth control pills from drug companies at discount prices and take advantage of higher income women by reselling them at high prices. For the past 2 years PP has been forced to pay the same for bc pills as everyone else.
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3/10: More to follow... boarding plane...

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

Here's a catchy pro-life tune, just up on YouTube. Written by Tony Funderburk of Denver Bible Church and converted to video by Rachel Troyer, also from DBC, it encourages pro-lifers to stay at it, we win...

[HT: Darrell B.]

3/10, 11:10a: Although the proposed rescission was posted online March 7, the official printed publication date is today, March 10. Staff for the Department of Health and Human Services has informed our people that the email address for comment, proposedrescission@hhs.gov, is now active. Deadline for submitting comments is April 9.
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3/7: Read yesterday's post for background.

I received word yesterday that the email address provided by HHS for comments to Barack Obama's plan to overturn enforcement of healthcare providers' conscience rights - which only last 30 days - was no good. Day 2, and it's still no good:

The rule change request was dated March 5, 2009, and it stated...

Courtesy of OutOfTheBlu.com.

by JivinJ

UPDATE, 3/10, 2:15a: The poll is closed, and there is a new question up. Can't find results of previous CNN daily polls. Anyone?
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CNN is asking the question, "Should embryonic stem cells be used for research?"

Pro-lifers should vote NO now to influence how CNN reports this story. At present we're getting clobbered.

Find poll on right side of CNN's home page, and vote.

Then spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

In January NE late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart had to close his mill for damage after an accidental fire.

Carhart reopened to brisk business this past Saturday, according to pro-life activist Larry Donlan on the scene. And Carhart aborted yesterday, too - a Sunday. (Does this mean he skipped church?)

But Carhart forgot one thing, to get his occupancy permit.

This morning Donlan notified Bellevue building inspectors. I just called Steve Carmichael of the City Planning Dept. and asked if Carhart was shut down.

"I left him a voicemail," Carmichael told me, "because he wouldn't answer the phone. I said he could not open until his deficiencies were completed and he got a final permit for occupancy."...

About St. Joseph's Health Centre in London, Ontario, LifeSiteNews.com reported March 5:

A LifeSiteNews.com exposé on the practice of "early inductions" on babies with lethal fetal anomaly at a Catholic hospital has resulted in the matter being reviewed by the Vatican....

London Bishop Ronald Fabbro... informed LSN that he has launched an investigation.... The matter has also been referred to the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith.

The procedure - "early induction" of unborn babies with "lethal fetal anomalies" - refers to artificially causing the child to be born prematurely at 21-24 weeks - earlier than any child could survive without extreme medical intervention....

In 2004 I began reporting (read here and here) on 2 US Catholic hospital systems committing induced labor abortion: Providence on the west coast and Loyola in Chicago.

Loyola sent me its policy, which stated...

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

On Fox & Friends Weekend yesterday Charmaine Yoest of Americans United for Life excellently debated Obama's plan to foist immoral and failed human embryo experimentation on taxpayers...

Not only does embryonic stem cell research kill humans to pursue antiquated research, America simply can't afford it. Three strikes, but Obama can't see past his ideological blinders to count. From today's Washington Times...

The ignorance of blacks - even black churches - to the eugenic underpinnings of Planned Parenthood could not be any more epitomized than as described in today's Virginian-Pilot:

At New Light Full Gospel Baptist Church, congregants' benchmark on most topics is "the Word," meaning the Bible.

But on a recent night, more than 50 New Light adults and teens opened up to words from an additional source - Planned Parenthood, on stopping teen pregnancy.

Among many faith-based groups, few organizations are less popular than Planned Parenthood, a provider of women's health services, sex education and abortions.

Yet on this night, teen pregnancy was something Planned Parenthood speaker Margie Rashti [pictured left] and New Light members all agreed was troubling and preventable.

"We come together as a team, working to try to pass down wisdom to the young ladies and young men who are part of this pandemic we call teen pregnancy," Elder Frankie Fells said in his opening prayer....

AK Gov. Sarah Palin's Supreme Court pick of former Planned Parenthood member Morgan Christen (right) was complicated.

According to several news reports but synopsized on conservatives4palin.
com:

Gov. Palin's power to appoint judges is very limited in this process....
[S]he can only choose names from a short list supplied to her by the Judicial Council. And in this instance, they sent her 2 names that she would never choose on her own, but she had no recourse to demand more names. No, this Alaskan system is not ideal.

We're told 6 candidates applied and the AK Judicial Council (stacked 4 lawyers against 3 Palin picks) forwarded only those 2 for Palin to pick between. According to conservatives4palin.com...

by Lisa Benson of Slate, this cartoon is painful, really, when realizing real people in real wheelchairs will be sacrificed if universal health care prevails. (Actually, they already are as pro-euthanasia/pro-suicide thinking takes hold in America.) And, of course, there are also the babies...

by Glenn Foden of Townhall.com, this cartoon points out liberal hypocrisy, because Octomom is one entity they do not want to help, although she is no different than people who purchased homes they couldn't afford...

Hey, I'm on Twitter and Facebook!

Be my friend?

Weekend Extra

Recalling recent liberal attempts to pooh-pooh pro-life concerns about the rise of the phoenix FOCA (Time magazine and Washington Post), Matthew Bowman wrote this news on the Fidelis blog March 6 with great wit:

A mythical US Congressman from NY, Jerry "Loch Ness" Nadler, is going to reintroduce Barack Obama's "mythical" Freedom of Choice Act "sooner rather than later," according to his mythical spokesman Ilan "Sasquatch" Kayatsky. Senator "Bigfoot" Boxer is expected to follow suit-it's a mythical "priority" for them, and for their new President.

Indeed, from STLToday.com, March 6:

The Freedom of Choice Act failed to get out of subcommittee in 2004, but its sponsor is poised to refile it now that former Senate co-sponsor Barack Obama occupies the Oval Office.

A spokesman for... Nadler... said the legislation "is among the congressman's priorities. We expect to reintroduce it sooner rather than later."...

Ilan Kayatsky, Nadler's spokesman, said he anticipates that the bill's other original sponsor, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA, will introduce FOCA in the U.S. Senate. "We expect it to be more or less the same bill with some minor tweaks," Kayatsky said.

I have a new poll question up:

Are you at all surprised at the scope and speed by which President Obama is enacting his liberal agenda?

Here are the results of my previous poll. That's great that over 60% of you have contacted your elected official(s) within the last month...

President Obama announced plans March 6 to begin taxpayer funding of human embryo experimentation, bad enough.

The question remains, however, whether Obama will also lift the ban against creating embryos specifically for research, rather than relying on "leftover" embryos in fertility clinics. Some researchers want unfettered access to human embryo creation and destruction. From the Washington Post today:

"We're all waiting to see what the details of the policy will be," said George Daley, a leading stem cell researcher at Children's Hospital Boston. "If the policy were limited to lines exclusively from frozen embryos left over at IVF clinics, that would be a very restricted course and exclude some very important lines."

Do you think Obama will lift that ban as well?

FYI, several member of Congress spoke during a Stem Cell Special Order March 5 against embryonic stem cell research and for adult stem cell research. Watch video here.

This is absurd. Three federal laws have been on the books for decades protecting healthcare providers' right of conscience.

All President Bush did was enact enforcement measures. Read the 2nd paragraph below. In other words, protecting the conscience of heathcare workers not to abort, etc., "limits access to patient care." What else can the next step be but to remove protections?

The Proposed Rule to rescind the Conscience Regulations was published today in the Federal Register, the 1st step to overturning the Rule...

From the Washington Post:

President Obama is planning to sign an executive order on Monday rolling back restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, according to sources close to the issue.

Although the exact wording of the order has not been revealed, the White House plans an 11 a.m. ceremony to sign the order repealing one of the most controversial steps taken by his predecessor, fulfilling one of Obama's eagerly anticipated campaign promises....

by JivinJ

See previous post, Fireworks between Brownback and conservative leaders.

From CBN's Brody File, today:

The Brody File has learned that the Family Research Council is taking a "temporarily leave of absence" from the socially conservative "Values Action Team" meetings on Capitol Hill because of Senator Sam Brownback's support of pro-choice HHS Secretary-Designate Kathleen Sebelius. FRC says they may rejoin the meetings AFTER the Sebelius nomination is finished.

Senator Brownback chairs those "VAT" meetings every week on Capitol Hill and he is one of the biggest pro-life defenders in the Senate. However, he issued a statement this past week in support of Kathleen Sebelius. Pro-Life groups believe her record on abortion is extreme and have been very disappointed that he has not come out against her....

by Bethany Kerr

Here's a YouTube blast from the past (26.6 million views!) to give us a break from the daily grind...

I have one more post left in me to write about Senator Sam Brownback's endorsement of KS Gov. Kathleen Sebelius for HHS Secretary, and then I'll move on.

First, read today's "Brownback - Turncoat" by Fr. Tom Euteneuer of Human Life International. Here's an excerpt, but the entire piece is a must read:

Senator Brownback seems not to understand the Church's profoundly wounded heart with regard the slaughter of the innocents. The Church tells us never to participate in that slaughter, no matter what the cost; we do not give aid and comfort to the enemies of human life, we do not stand by while the innocent are being dragged off to a violent murder, and under no circumstances do we endorse the political aspirations of their executioners. Politicians who sell the lives of babies for political gains are the worst kind of turncoats....

Contrast that with this, sent yesterday...

With all due respect to Kansans for Life, and I have friends in that group, please don't tell me not to get upset with Sam Brownback. He may have done great things in the past, but as of now he is no different than Doug Kmiec. It is of no help to the movement to excuse major betrayals....

Yesterday President Obama hosted a health care summit at the White House. It has already been noted no pro-life healthcare groups were invited.

But pro-abortion groups were present in abundance. Following is Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards' statement.

Listen carefully. Richards wants universal health care because the "millions of women who come to us are primarily low income." PP's clientele keeps it from raising its prices, which have increased only slightly over the decades. PP needs government intervention to increase its profit. This is one of 2 reasons why PP wants mandated taxpayer coverage for all PP's services, including, of course, abortion.

(Richards also stated that within her 887 clinics 97% of services are for "preventative health," i.e., not abortion. I've previously explained how this largest abortion provider in the US skews stats. Interesting, btw, is the fact Cecile never mentioned the A-word in her statement.)...

Our pro-abort friends at RH Reality Check were kind enough to upload this interview I saw on Fox with US Senator Tom Coburn on March 3 and hoped would end up on YouTube.

In the interview Coburn discussed not only the harm that would befall women if the US restored taxpayer funding to the United Nations Population Fund but also his response if, as a doctor, he were compelled to abort.

The latter is lately in the news since President Obama plans to lift enforcement of healthcare providers' conscience protections.

Coburn: I'll never do it. Never do it.

Megyn Kelly: You'd rather go to a jail cell.

Coburn: You bet. Anytime.

I love Tom Coburn!

Also see previous entry, Free Coburn!

Gary Bauer and Daniel Allott have coauthored an op ed piece in today's Washington Times that a Tweeter titled better than the WT: "26 years of pro-life policies undermined in 44 days under Obama's leadership."

A philosophical shift has taken place in the abortion rights movement. After confronting either a pro-life president or a pro-life majority in Congress for 26 of the last 28 years, abortion advocates have now secured sympathetic majorities in all three branches of government.

And change in government has brought change to a movement that's moved beyond working to secure a woman's right to choose abortion. Its new goal is much more audacious - to coerce others into violating their consciences and participating in the murder of innocent human life. It's a shift from merely being "pro-choice" to being "pro-abortion."

This fundamental shift is personified most vividly in President Barack Obama. And it is exemplified most strikingly in his ambition to enact policies that would force millions of pro-life Americans to pay for and perform abortions....

I don't become frightened, because my God is in control. But everyone better get clear quick that there are major pro-abortion government policy changes underway. One only has to refer as far back as today's White House Healthcare Summit to understand.

[HT: Claude]

From CBN's David Brody:

The White House is holding their big Health Care Summit in an attempt to begin the conversation about how to reform the healthcare system with the goal of bringing America some sort of universal health care system. There's just one problem. Where are the pro-life leaning medical groups who may have a thing or two to say about reforming healthcare in this country?...

I do see Planned Parenthood on the list. The Human Rights Campaign is on the list. National Council of La Raza is there. The Children's Defense Fund is there. The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is there. The National Partnership for Women and Families is on the list. Shall I go on? You get the idea....

[See list of invited participants on page 2.]

Because I was on vacation in January I never got a chance to mention Newsweek quoted me in a piece it did on the anniversary of Roe v Wade:

"He's [Obama] got the House, he's got the Senate, so I think we may go more guerilla warfare, or go back to working harder on your own turf, protesting at your abortion clinic in your town," says Jill Stanek, a prominent pro-life blogger.

There was more, but that was the germane part to this post.

So pro-aborts have taken my "guerilla warfare" statement and run with it. Again, because I was on vacation, I didn't get a chance to post this NARAL email alert either...

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind...

by JivinJ

Pro-life stalwarts in the US Senate are battling provisions in the Omnibus spending boondoggle that includes pork for the abortion industry.

Wicker Amendment

I thought Ms. already had Helen Thomas?

Former IL Gov. Rod Blagojevich's openly lesbian sister-in-law Deborah Mell (who I met once in Springfield when we were lobbying opposite sides of a bill - I forget which) was elected state rep in November.

Mell has the distinction of being the only House member to oppose his impeachment.

Mell is proposing mandatory infertility coverage with a twist...

HB4331 - Illinois

Home > Illinois > HB4331
Chief Sponsor: Deborah Mell

Latest Update: Monday, March, 02nd 2009

INS CD - INFRTLTY COVERAGE

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no group policy of accident and health insurance providing coverage for more than 25 employees that provides pregnancy related benefits shall contain a provision that covers the diagnosis and treatment of infertility only if the individual was covered under the policy for at least one year. Deletes a definition for "infertility".

... So infertility would include a lack of desire to consummate.

[HT: Fran at Illinois Review]

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a break from the daily grind.

This video starts out very slow, but continue watching. It's amazing.

[JLS note: My heart was pounding throughout this video!]

UPDATE, 3/4, 4:15p: Attorney Tom Brejcha of the Thomas More Society, lead firm in the aborted baby's mother's civil lawsuit, has just issued this statement:

While we most certainly welcome the bringing of criminal charges against Ms. Gonzalez, whose abortion business represents nothing less than a serious public health hazard, we must express our grave disappointment, indeed our outrage, that no homicide charges have been brought on account of the wrongful death of this little girl.

Not only the coroner's report, but also eyewitness testimony, prove that this infant was born alive then brutally killed. That constitutes homicide under the law of FL and treating it as anything less than that ignores fundamental legal principles and offends simple human decency. We demand that Dade County's law enforcers add a homicide charge, or at least an attempted homicide charge, without any more delay.

UPDATE, 3/4, 10:30a: Drudge is carrying this story, top of the fold (click to enlarge)...

I find the title of the Associated Press story interesting, given there were no murder charges...

[HT: Colleen]
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UPDATE, 3/4, 6a: Here's a CBS News video report...

Congratulations to Ángel Soto, writer and director of 22weeks, which just won its first award, a Silver Angel, "for excellence in production on a film with social impact," on the 2009 Angel Awards!

22Weeks tells the true story of a young woman locked in the bathroom of an abortion clinic after her aborted baby was born alive in April 2005.

The case was never prosecuted, despite passage 3 years earlier of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

The film includes the reenactment of an actual 911 call.

Go to BornAliveTruth.org to view the trailer.

... One beneficiary of Kathleen Sebelius' good cheer toward abortionists was Krishna Rajanna, who owned a Topeka chop shop.

After it was discovered he kept a filthy mill with evidentiary photographs of a dead mouse in the hall and aborted babies in the refrigerator, the latter which staffers said they saw Rajanna eating in soup, legislators introduced clinic regulation legislation. Sebelius vetoed that twice....

All this information and more is waiting in the wings for Sebelius' confirmation hearing, but will it ever see the light of day?

Likely not, thanks to KS Senators Sam Brownback and Pat Roberts....

But here is where Brownback in particular made a common pro-life politician's mistake, which too many pro-lifers accept: Casting dreams for what he could do for us tomorrow, Brownback didn't do the right thing today.

I don't care what pro-life politicians promise they will do for me tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. I only care what they do for me today. In fact, they're only where they are today because they cast dreams in a previous campaign to do something for me today....

Now to the damage abortion loving Sebelius could do as HHS secretary....

Every week conservative leaders meet with congressional leaders at separate off-the-record House and Senate Values Action Team meetings.

Senate Sam Brownback hosts VAT meetings on the Senate side.

Today's VAT meeting saw the room uncharacteristically packed with pro-family group leaders as well as congressional staffers....

I'm thinking there needs to be a new official abortion classification: Toilet Abortions. Recall I reported one just the other day as well as closely related Shower Abortions.

But there is no correlation between wanton legalized abortion and infanticide of children being born. No. As friend Sandy noted, the parents of this girl must have been conservative. That explains it. Note this baby was left in the care of the mother who tried to kill her and who had apparently murdered the baby's sibling. Reported Fox News March 2:

Authorities investigating a teacher's aide accused of trying to drown her newborn girl in a toilet have found the decomposed remains of another infant at her southern IL home.

The remains apparently had been at Elyse Mamino's home in the St. Louis suburb of Belleville for more than a year.... No charges in the child's death had been filed as of Monday.

Mamino, 23, was arrested last week and charged with attempted first-degree murder. Authorities allege that in November, she was at a house party in nearby Columbia when she gave birth in a bathroom and tried to drown the baby....

UPDATE, 4:10p: Word is Glenn Beck will cover the Sebelius/Medicaid controversy (show on now) and O'Reilly may as well.

Call on Brownback and Roberts to withdraw their support of Sebelius. This issue is mushrooming.
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UPDATE, 3:30p: Read emerging revelations implicating Sebelius in potential Medicaid fraud/favoritism by KHI News Service.

Kansas Meadowlark has a synopsis of that story, an easier read.

[HT: Matt Lewis; Wendy Wright]
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UPDATE, 3:20p: The fallout against Brownback continues. Read LifeSiteNews.com story quoting Judie Brown and Austin Ruse.

Also be sure to note new ad above Stanek logo. Sign American Life League's the anti-Sebelius petition.
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UPDATE, 2:10p: Per the Susan B. Anthony List on Twitter moments ago:

Brownback is taking heat for his decision to endorse Sebelius for HHS. And rightly so. He is so wrong on this issue.

From Ben Smith on Politico moments ago...

by JivinJ

by Bethany Kerr, to briefly ease our minds from the daily grind...

I previously referred to Chris Matthews' appalling reference last night on Hardball to pro-lifers opposing the Sebelius nomination for HHS Secretary as "terrorists... verbal terrorists." But Matthews' remark deserves its own spot in the sun.

Thanks to NewsBusters for posting the video on Eyeblast...

The story, per Geoffrey Dickens of Newsbusters...

Jivin J reported last week the Obama administration plans to overturn an HHS rule implemented by the Bush administration that protects medical professionals. Tthe Wall Street Journal explained what this rule does:

[The rule] says hospitals, pharmacies and other entities that be charged with discrimination and lose federal funds [Medicaid, Medicare, SCHIP, etc.] if they pressure employees to take part in treatments to which they object on religious or moral grounds....

Still... Obama in August criticized the then-proposed rule and said he was "committed to ensuring that the health and reproductive rights of women are protected."

In other words, Obama doesn't want federal medical worker/entity conscience protections enforced. Obama considers it "protect[ion]" to force health care providers to participate in abortion.

Yesterday CNS News reported US Senator Tom Coburn (R-TN), an ob/gyn, is telling Obama, "Go ahead. Make my day."

Coburn... [said] many medical practitioners, including himself, will go to prison before agreeing to engage in medical practices they morally oppose, such as abortion....

The Obama administration's "review" is considered the precursor to rescinding the regulation.

"I think a lot of us will go to jail," Coburn told CNSNews.com when asked what would happen if the administration reverses the policy. "Let's see them prosecute the first one of us for not doing that."

[Graphic work by John Francis Borra at Veritatis: The Cartoon]

I previously reported separate Japanese and U.S. "Nobel Prize worthy" breakthroughs, reprogramming adult stem cells to become the equivalent of embryonic stem cells. Jivin J reported this morning on something I think bears repeating. A Canadian research team discovery that actually predated the aforementioned is finally getting headlines, thanks to a paper published March 1 in Nature, as reported by the National Post (click to enlarge)...

Presdient Obama's promotion of taxpayer funded embryonic stem cell research is completely unnecessary and even backward. Why is he pushing it?

UPDATE, 4:15p: Arlen may need a double martini tonight. This just in, Specter's punishment for supporting Obama's spendulus plan...

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Here's one that made me laugh in the midst of pain, by Jessica Coomes today on the The Express Times blog...

Recalling the July 2006 story of the abortion survivor zipped moving and breathing into a biohazard bag at a Hialeah, FL, abortion mill, read this from Fox News, February 27:

A University of AZ sophomore was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder and child abuse, Wednesday, after she gave birth to an infant in a communal university shower hall and then placed the child in a plastic bag....

Sarah Tatum, 19, who allegedly hid her pregnancy from the other students in her dorm, telling them that she had been gaining weight due to a thyroid problem, was discovered by two of her hallmates in the shower hall... with a bag of what they thought were bloody clothes....

When the pair looked more closely at the bag, however, they realized that it was moving and that Tatum had placed her child inside.

"The plastic bag was the kind with the draw string on top," said Jaime Perez, a... freshman, who... is a close friend of one of the hallmates who found Tatum. "She tied the bag so tight that the policeman had to cut it with a knife."

Added the AZ Daily Wildcat today...

UPDATE, 10:25p: Politico's Ben Smith called Brownback/Roberts' endorsement "a setback to the attempt to rally conservative Catholics against Kathleen Sebelius...."
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UPDATE, 10p: Headline seen on Twitter: "Who broke Brownback?"

Also read Jenn Giroux's op ed in Human Events.
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UPDATE, 1:05p: Here's an interesting headline, just posted by CNN:

More from the story...

by Bethany Kerr, to give us a daily break from the grind.

These kids are so talented...

Bonus: That video was shot 2 years ago. Here were the Tuttles a tad more grown up in January 2009.

by JivinJ

by Gary Varvel at Townhall.com...

... an example that being anti-life encompasses a whole lot more than just being pro-abortion. It's a narcissistic state of mind.