My 4 grandsons (8, 5, 2, and 2) are spending the next 5 days with us during our church's Vacation Bible School.

So I'm taking this time off of blogging to spend with them.

When I took time off this past January, the monthly stats were higher than December! So I know you'll carry on just fine without me. If you have any news to report or discussion items, just add them as a comment to this post.

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I have a new poll question up:

A Time magazine poll just named Jon Stewart "the most trusted newscaster in America." Who would you choose?

Here are the results of my previous poll. Given the anticipated ideology of the bulk of the readers on my blog, the #1 answer wasn't a surprise. But pro-lifers apparently didn't automatically pick human embryo experimentation as their #2 answer...

Yesterday the National Right to Life Committee bestowed its first ever "Phony-Baloney Citation" to Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL), for claiming to seek "common ground" on abortion in a letter he co-signed this week to Nancy Pelosi proposing reproductive healthcare "reform."

But meanwhile Meek has racked up 30 anti-life votes in his mere 6 years as congressman, including opposition to parental notification, the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, and fetal homicide penalties. As recently as last week Meek voted against amendments to the healthcare bill that would have prevented mandated abortion insurance coverage and public funded abortion.

This week's question: To which politician(s) would you give a Phony-Baloney Citation?

UPDATE, 7/28, 7:20a: Doug Johnson of National Right to Life has corroborated my concern about taxpayer funding of federal employees' abortions at CQ Politics.
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CQ Politics' Jonathan Allen was responding to my post last night, "Breaking news: Legislation funding DC abortions includes abortion funding for 8 million federal employees."

Allen continued...

UPDATE, 5:35p: And it appears they've already kissed and made up? From The Hill, at least they're again willing to be in the same room together, but that's about all. Meanwhile liberals are now whining for attention...

Hours after calling their chairman a liar, Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee stood by that chairman's side and announced together that the once-collapsed healthcare negotiations are back on track....

The fact that talks have resumed, however, do not mean that any additional agreements have been reached. And as they stood by each other's side, both Waxman and Ross alluded to the fact that, substantively, talks haven't budged from where they have been stuck for days....

As the Waxman-Blue Dog drama played out, House Democratic liberals warned that they should not be taken for granted....

Woah. Read this, from The Hill this afternoon:

House healthcare negotiations dissolved in acrimony on Friday, with Blue Dog Democrats saying they were "lied" to by their Democratic leaders....

The 7 Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee stormed out of a Friday meeting with their committee chairman, Henry Waxman (D-CA), saying Waxman had been negotiating in bad faith over a number of provisions Blue Dogs demanded be changed in the stalled healthcare bill.

"I've been lied to," Blue Dog Coalition Co-Chairman Charlie Melancon (D-LA) said on Friday. "We have not had legitimate negotiations....

by intern Heather B.

President Obama's repeal of the Mexico City Policy, an amendment established "to restore the prohibition on funding of nongovernmental organizations that promote abortion as a method of birth control," has opened the door to a larger threat of devastating proportions to the international community....

UPDATE, 3p: From the Republican National Coalition for Life:

This was a useful exercise. The Republicans who voted against the Pence Amendment are listed below and should be among those targeted for a primary challenge in the 2010 Congressional election cycle.

If these Members represent you, please remember this vote along with others that do not reflect the values expressed in the Republican National Platform.

We appreciate the Democrats who voted for the amendment and hope this vote is an indication of their opposition to the pro-abortion Obama health care plan:

Democrats Voting Yes on Pence Amendment...

First, before you get too excited, the parameters, from The New York Times, today:

China is not doing away with the one-child policy, which still largely applies to urban residents, but is allowing more exceptions to the rule. Shanghai, one of China's biggest cities with 20 million residents, is leading the effort.

Now the full story, from the Times Online, today...

by intern Andy M.

In his weekly address late in December 2008, President Obama announced that he had chosen Dr. John Holdren to be his assistant for Science and Technology, and Dr. Holdren was instated to the position in March.

Unsurprisingly, Obama neglected to make reference to Holdren's extremist views on population control and instead focused on his expertise in relation to "the growing threat of climate change."

FrontPageMag.com sums up the key concerns that many are raising about Holdren...

This little preemie weighed 14 ounces and died a few minutes after being born. Shaunice was so precious to her parents they had her cremated to memorialize. The media loves this touching story, perhaps because it has a happy ending.

But the same schizophrenic media promotes the killing of babies the same age as Shaunice through abortion. The most recent example were the many stories excusing or promoting late-term abortions after the killing of George Tiller.

From the Associated Press, today:

Janie Brunson and her boyfriend sat at the Opa-locka [FL] bus stop, cradling the small, white box containing the ashes of a baby girl - the beloved remains of her 2nd miscarriage within 8 months.

The 23-year-old woman looked up to see a gun pointed at her. She begged the man not to take her baby's ashes.

But the man ignored her pleas, snatching the box and a gold chain....

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A July 23 article in USA Today entitled, "Abortion fight is 'enduring divide,'" began like this:

During confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, asked whether she believed court rulings on abortion had ended the national controversy.

In a departure from the oblique answers that marked the hearings, Sotomayor paused, then answered bluntly: "No."

The incendiary debate over abortion rights endures and can be jarring, as when abortion opponents interrupted at several points the Senate Judiciary Committee session with Sotomayor. The controversy has boiled up in other ways in the days since then....

Last night over 36k people accessed (or tried to access) the historic StopTheAbortionMandate.com webcast.

The audiotape will be available soon.

We have been given a To Do list, which we must start completing TODAY, if you didn't start last night....

UPDATE, 7/23, 7:15p: One last reminder that the StopTheAbortionMandate.com webcast is tonight - in 45 minutes, to be exact. You can still sign up to participate. Registration is over 27k now. Due to the high volume of participants, it is recommended that you access the website early.
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UPDATE, 7/23, 10a: Pro-lifers are signing up for tonight's webcast at a rate this morning of 150 every 30 minutes. This will likely snowball as the day goes on. The last count I got an hour ago was 22,276....

I previously wrote about the cantankerous passage in the House last week of a bill to allow publicly funded abortions in the District of Columbia.

Meanwhile a Senate companion bill (S. 1432) has passed out of committee and is on its way to a vote in the full Senate....

Obama made a very strange comment last night while trying to bolster support for socialized healthcare.

Transcript...

On June 9, 2008, RH Reality Check's Dana Goldstein queried,"The new anti-choice Democrats: Can we work with them?"

Well, certainly not right now.

I wrote last week that a bloc of 39 pro-life Democrats voted against taxpayer funded abortions in DC. Here was the final tally (click to enlarge):

The Democrat co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, Bart Stupak, was reportedly furious at the chicanery undertaken by his leadership to pass that bill. The silver lining, as told to me, was the Democrat pro-life caucus had grown stronger and more tenacious because of it....

by intern Anne Marie D.

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When last we left Georgetown University, a Catholic institution, it was covering up the "IHS" symbol for Jesus behind a podium at which President Obama was to speak earlier this year.

Now, the summer edition of Outreach, a newsletter published by Georgetown's Women's Law & Public Policy Fellowship Program, features interesting "highlights" of 19 fellows. First, the mission of the program, from the newsletter...

The Dem din is growing louder on the topic of abortion. Some good quotes in this CNN story tonight:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking at a news conference with advocates for health care reform, said... the House Democratic leadership has the votes to pass a health care bill - a claim that was immediately challenged by an anti-abortion caucus that fears the House bill will create a government-run insurance plan that covers abortion services.

"It would be easier to fit a camel through the eye of a needle than to pass this bill," Rep. Bart Stupak of MI said. He claimed the abortion issue would cost Pelosi too many Democratic defectors to get the bill through....

It's been awhile since I went off topic, but this one's fun.

Brett Breitbart made an intriguing comment last night on Hannity. He said Obama began losing his cool cat appeal with the American people after his latest teleprompter malfunction and goofy reaction. Strike 1...

Strikes 2 and 3 followed in quick succession when Obama threw a girly man pitch in "mom jeans" at the 2009 baseball All Star game...

On May 24, 2009, pro-life operating room RN Cathy DeCarlo was on call at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City, where she had worked for 5 years.

Mt. Sinai gets $200 million in federal funding annually, so even though it commits late-term abortions it is obligated by the Church Amendment not to force pro-life staff to help.

Dr. Michael Silverstein (pictured right) called the OR to schedule an "emergency" abortion of a 22-week pre-eclamptic patient. The patient was not on magnesium sulfate, her blood pressures were not in high risk range, and Silverstein even charted her as "Category II," not "Category I," meaning he thought she required surgery not immediately but within 6 hours....

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[HT: Adam J.]

LifeSiteNews reported yesterday:

... [W]hile remembered by many as "the most trusted man in America," many of Walter Cronkite's more radical, but lesser known views, would be considered repugnant even to many of his greatest fans.

For instance, up until his death Cronkite served as honorary chair of the Interfaith Alliance, an organization dedicated to countering the influence of conservative Christianity on federal politics....

By now you're likely one of 1.5 million people who have seen the graphic video of Neda Soltan dying after being shot in the chest on June 20, 2009, during protests in Iran following the presidential election.

The video shows Neda collapsing into the arms of 2 men, who try to stop her bleeding with their bare hands. Suddenly, Neda's eyes roll up and to the right, almost as if they are looking at the cell phone video camera chronicling her death. Blood begins pouring from her mouth and nose, into one eye and down her face. Cries erupt from the crowd, and you know Neda is dead.

I don't know how the tragic video of Neda's death is any less graphic than a video by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform showing the tragic, graphic deaths of children by abortion, but it is according to YouTube, which removed this video.

There's something about showing abortion that sets it apart from all other videos in the Big Brother eyes of YouTube.

YouTube allows almost any surgery video imaginable, like gastric bypass, gallbladder removal, toe amputation, appendectomy and brain tumor removal, and gross-out body parts videos like a buttock fecal fistula or peritoneal cancer - but not abortion.

Neither does YouTube have a problem with videos pertaining to the female anatomy like mastectomies, breast augmentations, hysterectomies or even baby deliveries - but not abortion, unless it is in the form of bloodless illustrations.

YouTube also seems to go out of its way to protect the abortion industry, particularly Planned Parenthood.

To date, YouTube has removed 8 videos posted by Lila Rose and Live Action Films shot undercover at PPs in several states....

But it's not only PP YouTube protects. It also provides cover-up for run-of-the-abortion-mill skanks....

Continue reading my column today, "YouTube serially aborts pro-life videos," at WorldNetDaily.com.

From the Associated Press, July 21:

Democratic lawmakers opposed to federal funding for abortions said Tuesday the House leadership's health care bill contains a "hidden mandate" that would allow taxpayer dollars to be used to end pregnancies.

It's the latest controversy to hit the health care overhaul in a week that has seen Republicans sharpen their attacks and some Democrats start to waver on President Barack Obama's top domestic priority....

"We cannot support any health care reform proposal unless it explicitly excludes abortion from the scope of any government-defined or subsidized health insurance plan," a group of 20 Democratic representatives said in a June 25 letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA....

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People held its national convention in New York City last week.

The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform and Pastor Clenard Childress of Blackgenocide.org also came to educate convention attendees (and NYC) on how abortion targets blacks for genocide, since the NAACP leadership is unwilling.

(More photos on page 2.)

A new pro-life children's website has been launched to teach the importance of the sanctity of life and to show children the love of their heavenly Father.

Morton's Trunk: Loving Life features a cartoon video entitled "Morton Hears the Womb," which presents a child-friendly explanation of the history of abortion as well as bad messages pregnant mothers in crisis are given by society. Most importantly, the cartoon ends with encouraging children to become involved in the fight. All this is presented in poetry form, similar to "Horton Hears a Who."...

First, the backdrop. In this short Fox News clip on July 17, pro-life Republican Congressman Joe Pitts (PA) explained the hidden abortion mandate in the Democrat healthcare plan.

Then came this in The New York Times, July 19...

In the latest edition of Science Matters, CA Right to Life's Josh Brahm describes a true miracle: restoration of eyesight in less than a month using contact lenses bathed in a person's own stem cells. But you wouldn't know this was an ADULT stem treatment if you rely on MSM headlines...

by Kelli

Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs...

by intern Heather B.

On June 26, 10k students from 12 schools trekked 3 km to promote a timeless message: life is precious.

The march for life in Coimbatore, southern India, bore a unique mission: to be an advocate for the annual 5 million victims of abortion in the world's most gender-imbalanced country: girls....

Just last week I wrote about Kristan Hawkins, executive director of Students for Life of America, and her valid concern that infant son Gunner would receive inadequate care under nationalized health care.

This morning Kristan made a compelling case during a Fox interview:

For more information go to healthcareforgunner.com.

Click to enlarge...

The Weekly Standard blog reported this July 9:

Time's Karen Tumulty concludes her latest column with some rather surprising figures:

On July 6, the National Women's Law Center released a poll of 1k likely voters conducted by the Mellman Group indicating that 71% favor including reproductive services such as birth control and abortion as part of health reform....

This is surprising because a slight majority of Americans think that abortion should be illegal, except in the cases of rape, incest, and to save the life of the mother....

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

May this song by Jon Foreman, the lead singer/songwriter of Switchfoot, bless you today.

Lyrics...

Murder has such a tragic ripple effect. Blogger Abbas_Princess mourned the senseless killing of her niece of nephew in "Death in the family" June 30:

I've held off for a couple of days writing this, hoping that my thoughts and emotions would sort themselves out into something coherent. They haven't as yet, but I shall write anyway.

It's not your usual death. However, it grieves me greatly. My life will forever be missing someone. Whenever I think of it, and the circumstances surrounding it, my chest constricts in a way I've never known, and I weep, not only for myself, but for Adam, for my children, for my parents.

But most of all, for my devastated dearest brother, who's first child was aborted by his ex-girlfriend at 11 weeks.

If I'm honest, and I'm so glad I can be here, I'm angry. Furious even. I loved that precious little life. I'd never met his girlfriend. But I adore my brother, and he was so overjoyed to become a father. It's all he's ever wanted. I'm angry because Rob didn't want her to. I'm angry because, as in his words, "But what could I do? She didn't want it."...

The placenta is an actual organ inside a pregnant mother's body.

I'm all for research of the placenta, and extracting stem cells for treatment.

But cooking placenta to eat or to pulverize into pills seems just a little too close to cannibalism to me, comparable to cooking and eating human liver. Maybe it's just me.

Here's the start of the Time magazine story (read the rest at the link) - a second person's account - followed by video, which kind've grossed me out. And it's hard to do that...

(Photos in this post, provided by Pro-Life Action League, were taken at the Truth Tour stop spotlighted in the following news story. The staff member in this top photo is Eric Scheidler of PLAL.)

On July 17 the Daily Herald reported...

First, for backdrop, read Ann Coulter's column this week.

Republicans danced between grilling Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor during confirmation hearings last week and ingratiating themselves to her. I appreciated their attempts to spotlight Sotomayor (and Obama's) radical pro-abortion positions....

by Pat Oliphant of GoComics.com...

But ultimately, although Sotomayor at the very least contradicted herself on the abortion issue and at worst perjured herself, Republicans caved....

I am reading the book, Heaven, by Randy Alcorn. Among other torments in Hell, Alcorn described the possibility of "diminishing personhood." Abortion proponents, of course, view preborn children as void of personhood. Interesting....

Am in DC at the moment and learned more today about the political super-underhandedness to lift a 15-year-old ban on taxpayer funded abortions in DC.

One for instance: A rule introduced on the House floor last night to lift the ban was losing when time ran out. But Democrat leadership refused to lower the gavel, holding the vote open until they had twisted for arms to switch (Berry, Dingell, Minnick, and Peters), and the rule passed 216-213.

One person on the scene said s/he had never seen Democrat Pro-life Caucus co-leader Bart Stupak so angry. The silver lining is the Democrat communist rule is coalescing pro-life Democrats into a stronger, more determined bloc.

On the Senate side, there was this interesting exchange, as reported by David Freddoso of The Washington Examiner July 16:

In a committee markup last week, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that residents of the District of Columbia have a disproportionately large number of abortions because DC is disproportionately African-American....

by intern Anne Marie D.

Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs...

Assisted suicide is currently banned in the UK (a point of contention for many), but not so in Switzerland, where a famous conductor and his wife chose to end their lives this week. From the AP comes the sad report:

British maestro Edward Downes, who conducted the BBC Philharmonic and the Royal Opera but struggled in recent years as his hearing and sight failed, has died with his wife [Joan] at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland. He was 85 and she was 74.

The couple's children said Tuesday that the couple died "peacefully and under circumstances of their own choosing" on Friday at a Zurich clinic run by the group Dignitas....

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From the Washington Times July 16:

The unborn have memories, according to medical researchers who used sound and vibration stimulation, combined with sonography, to reveal that the human fetus displays short-term memory from at least 30 weeks gestation - or about 2 months before they are born....

A call to NARAL Pro-Choice America for comment on the implications of the research was not returned....

The Washington Post featured an interesting profile on pro-life activist Randall Terry July 15. Here are excerpts:

Leaders of the antiabortion movement are cringing at Terry's sudden return. They say his incendiary rhetoric and showy tactics turn off ordinary Americans and reflect Terry's struggle to regain his glory years.

"It's sad in a way," said Fredericksburg antiabortion activist Patrick Mahoney, who was close to Terry at one time but, like others in the movement, is now estranged from him. "It's almost like a heavyweight boxer who's past his prime. The movement has gone by him."...

"The pro-life movement is getting its hind end kicked," [Terry] said, "because we think that we can literally upend the social order as it is now with a few phone calls, letters and 'We're going to sell a rose once a year and march once a year on the Capitol.' It's ludicrous."

He laughed. "I drive them crazy."...

UPDATE, 9:35a: The Americans United for Life blog has a new post entitled, "Sotomayor contradicted herself on what she knew about PRLDEF abortion advocacy." This includes a statement made by Sotomayor only yesterday morning during the Senate hearings on her Supreme Court confirmation explaining her involvement with the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund that directly contradicted with her testimony in the afternoon expressing ignorance about 6 radical pro-abortion briefs PRLDEF filed.
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In her testimony yesterday, Americans United for Life's Charmaine Yoest made the case that Sonia Sotomayor would be a pro-abortion radical on the Supreme Court.

Yoest detailed radical pro-abortion briefs submitted by the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, of which Sotomayor was a board member...

by JivinJ

UPDATE, 7/17, 7:15a:

Here is video of Charmaine's testimony yesterday:

You read it here first. Below is the text of the testimony that AUL's President Charmaine Yoest will give any moment now at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor in both pdf and Word formats:

Yoest Testimony.pdf

Yoest Testimony.doc

by Carder

Yes, Barack Obama. So wrote Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (pictured right) on July 9 in Newsweek magazine. Behold, willful ignorance:

In truth, though, Obama's pragmatic approach to divisive policy (his notion that we should acknowledge the good faith underlying opposing viewpoints) and his social-justice agenda reflect the views of American Catholic laity much more closely than those vocal bishops and pro-life activists.

When Obama meets the pope tomorrow, they'll politely disagree about reproductive freedoms and homosexuality, but Catholics back home won't care, because they know Obama's on their side. In fact, Obama's agenda is closer to their views than even the pope's....

On July 22 40 Days for Life will begin accepting
applications for the fall campaign, to run September 23 through November 1. National Director David Bereit expects this to be big, writing in an email alert...

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by intern Heather B.

It's time to make room on the bookshelf for another gem: My Sister, Alicia May gently portrays the familial love shared by a girl and her younger sister, who is "special for many reasons," among them being that she has Down syndrome.

The 13-page children's book takes the reader on a "day in the life of"-like saga narrating the blessings and hardships of growing up with a sibling who has Down syndrome. Written in the first person, each page draws a new example that beautifully emphasizes the joys experienced by a proud and patient older sister....

UPDATE, 9:12a: The Washington Post blog has thoughts about the minority's pick of Charmaine to testify on the pro-life issue today:

Yoest is a calm, articulate, smart abortion opponent -- the kind who gives abortion-rights supporters nightmares.

[HT: Colleen O'B]
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I previously wrote that Dr. Charmaine Yoest, President of Americans United for Life, would be the sole pro-lifer testifying at Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotmayor's Senate confirmation hearings.

Charmaine has posted on AUL's blog that today's the day. Here are details:

My testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take place tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon - please tune in and then let us know what you think. If you're not able to view the hearings on TV, you can view the hearings online at C-Span.org. We've heard that some of the Senators want to do some aggressive questioning, so we appreciate your support....

Bravo, bravo. Click on first few words in each piece for link to entire article...

On the abortion front, I'm struck by two dynamics at work in Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. One: Republicans are attacking the idea of a constitutional right to abortion with a unity and forthrightness not seen in years, grilling Sotomayor on how the Constitution could be construed to contain such a right.

Two: As Republicans lift their voices on the issue, Sotomayor is evading all questions about her personal views on abortion. While recognizing that she considers Roe v. Wade to be settled law, Sotomayor has gone out of her way to obscure her personal position, disavowing signs that abortion rights supporters and opponents have taken as evidence of her pro-abortion rights views....

(Read excerpts from 4 more articles on page 2.)

The boys are now here and blessings. But this is just another warning against defying one's biological clock as well as injecting oneself with large, prolonged doses of artificial female hormones to unnaturally procreate.

From The Times, today:

A pensioner who became the world's oldest mother at 66 through anonymous sperm and egg donations has died, leaving her twin sons orphaned and reigniting controversy over fertility treatment for older women....

Tomorrow, July 16, is not only my son Tim's 27th birthday(!), it is the day 40 years ago Apollo 11 left on its historic mission to the moon.

July 20 will mark the 40th anniversary of man's landing on the moon.

So it is fitting, as you will now see, for CatholicVote.org to have unveiled its 3rd "Imagine" ad in Houston today, and it's just beautiful...

I love this guy. Known as "America's toughest sheriff," Maricopa County (AZ) Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been featured on Fox News shows many times for his tough stance against illegal aliens.

But Arpaio's also tough on abortion. He tangled and lost in court to the ACLU in 2005, when according to LifeNews.com:

Arpaio had prohibited the taking of prisoners for abortions... because taxpayer funds would be involved in the transportation and staff time needed.

Arpaio... said the abortions would violate state laws against public funding of abortions, but a state appeals court ruled unanimously against his policy....

I previously posted about Live Action Films' latest video exposing Planned Parenthood's cover-up of statutory rape in yet another city and state, this time Birmingham, AL.

On July 10, LAF's Lila Rose went on Fox's O'Reilly Factor with AL Attorney General Troy King to discuss the Birmingham PP sting, which revealed PP was not only willing to cover-up underage rape but also to help minor girls avoid AL's parental consent law by getting false permission signatures:

King requested and got a copy of LAF's video to investigate PP's intent to break the law.

(FYI, late last week YouTube inexplicably censored LAF's undercover investigative video of the Birmingham PP without explanation, despite the fact LAF carefully followed their terms. In fact, YouTube has now removed all 8 of LAF's video exposes against PP.)

In his Jan. 22, 2009, proclamation lauding the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, President Obama wrote we must "reduce the need for abortion ... [by] find[ng] common ground to expand access to affordable contraception, accurate health information and preventative services."

Since then, "common ground" has become the talk of the pro-abort town.

A month ago, the pro-abortion website RH Reality Check, funded by Ted Turner, even launched an "On Common Ground" forum, inviting thinkers from both sides to publicly contemplate.

To date, of 15 contributors, only 2 are solidly pro-life - Kristen Day of Democrats for Life and Serrin Foster of Feminists for Life - and they have each only posted once.

The problem is pro-lifers fundamentally oppose every "common ground" plank Obama and pro-abortion strategists unilaterally established, which were, in English, widespread contraception distribution, comprehensive sex education and taxpayer funding of the "family planning" industry, i.e., Planned Parenthood.

The equivalent would have been for President Bush to say, "We must work to find common ground to stop government subsidizing of contraceptives, expand abstinence education and defund Planned Parenthood." Right....

Continue reading my WorldNetDaily.com column today, "'Common ground' vs. zodiac abortions."

According to Dr. Monica Miller (pictured right) of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, yesterday's protest of Barack Obama at Macomb Community College in Warren, MI, was a great success:

The protest was strategically placed - as Obama's motorcade went through the very entrance to the parking lot on the side of the street where CPLS members gathered to send this pro-abortion president a pro-life message....

Kristan Hawkins, executive director of Students for Life of America, has an op-ed in the Washington Examiner today regarding nationalized health care and the detrimental effect it would have on special-needs patients, including her new son:

When my son Gunner (pictured above with Mommy and Daddy and left) was born, it was the best day of my life. But it was followed soon after by the worst day of my life -- when he was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease. Gunner was just over two months old. I was shocked; I had never known anyone with CF.

Adding to this shock was finding out how Gunner would be impacted by the new nationalized health care system proposed by President Obama and Congress. It was worse than I'd ever imagined....

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From the Associated Press, July 14:

Norma McCorvey, 61, of TX, better known as "Jane Roe," began screaming that Sotomayor was "wrong" about abortion during the opening statement of the newest member of the Senate, Al Franken, D-MN....

Capitol Police identified the other three arrested as: Robert James, from VA; Andrew Beacham of IN; and Francis Mahoney of FL. Police did not provide their hometowns....

Sweetness & Light has noted the "suddenly meticulously informative AP," keen on getting the name, rank, and serial number of pro-life protesters at the Sotomayor hearings, when it doesn't bother with such details when covering liberal Code Pink protesters.

Wrote Sweetness & Light:

This stands in stark contrast to the way the AP and the rest of our watchdog media treat radical leftwing protesters, such as Code Pink.

You will never see a news report about a Code Pink demonstration even mention who the disruptors are, let alone that they are members of a small professional group of protesters who do these stunts for a living....

This special offer comes from YaMa'EL at DivinityCodes.com. There is no mention of discounts, such as for multiple abortions.

But included in this offer are "recodes [of] your DNA" so you're restored to your "I AM" god self, a statement so blasphemous I am pained to type it. Here's what else you get for the low price of $77.95 (click to enlarge)...

Last week Time magazine ran the headline, "Could abortion coverage sink health-care reform?" This seems to be a growing consensus - among liberals.

By pro-abortion dday at the Hullabaloo blog, July 14:

For the second day in a row, Chris Matthews [of MSNBC's Hardball] ranted about the prospect of a potential public health insurance option covering abortion services, and his lineup of talking heads agreed that this was "the last thing Obama needed" and that Obama was a hypocrite because he met the Pope last week....

Altogether, 5 protesters - all pro-life - have disrupted Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, 4 yesterday and 1 today. On page 2 were yesterday's. Two came during Franken's statement (last clip), 1 of those being Norma McCorvey, aka Roe in Roe v. Wade...

Today Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI) asked Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor questions on the right to privacy and Roe v. Wade:

Read the transcript of the exchange on page 2.

I previously wrote that Americans United for Life's president Charmaine Yoest will be the sole pro-lifer testifying at the Sotomayor hearings. She responded today...

After generously offering help with fundraising ideas for pregnancy centers, David Bereit and Shawn Carney of 40 Days for Life are hosting a free teleseminar and web simulcast TONIGHT entitled "How to Boost the Income of Your Organization's Upcoming Fundraising Banquet by 35.4%... OR MORE!"

Time: 9p EST (8p CST)

Format: Simulcast (Attend via phone or webcast - your choice)

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From the Associated Press, an hour ago:

A federal appeals court has revived the fortunes of a decades-old IL law requiring teenage girls to notify their parents before getting abortions.

The U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday reversed a lower court's ruling that had barred enforcement of the measure.

Here's a press release from the legal victors, the team at Chicago's Thomas More Society (which also successfully represented Scheidler before the U.S. Supreme Court in NOW vs. Scheidler) ...

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by intern Anne Marie D.

Note: Anne Marie is a nursing major. The following is an excerpt from her research paper on the link between abortion and breast cancer.

[JLS note: Anne Marie does a fabulous job explaining the ABC link in this piece!]

In essence, the case for a link between induced abortion and breast cancer, or the ABC link, is based on several simple biological principles. Minimal background in breast physiology will suffice to introduce these principles.

First, the main units of the breast are lobules, which consist of milk-producing glands and ducts, composed of individual breast cells. Four types of lobules exist. From the end of puberty until the 3rd trimester of her first full-term pregnancy, a woman's breast tissue is comprised of Type 1 and 2 lobules. Type 1 lobules, or ductal lobules, are associated with 80% of all breast cancers (Bachiochi, Ch. 8). Both Types 1 and 2 lobules are considered cancer-vulnerable....

Pro-abort Carolyn Carlin copied me on a letter she sent to FL Gov. Charlie Crist re: FL's Choose Life license plates. Click to enlarge:

Well, this will be fun....

UPDATE, 7/14, 8:05a: An expanded story is up today.

[HT: Kristen Day of Democrats for Life]
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Well, this one made me laugh out loud in my quiet, lonely upstairs office here. From Vindy.com Newswatch, today:

Upset by what is sees as U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan abandoning his pro-life position, Democrats For Life of America removed the congressman from its national advisory board.

"DFLA gave Congressman Ryan ample opportunities to prove he's committed to protecting life, but he has turned his back on the community at every turn," said Kristen Day, the Washington, D.C.-based pro-life organization's executive director....

From the Washington Post, within the hour:

The woman at the center of the Supreme Court's landmark abortion rights ruling was arrested today at the confirmation hearing for Sonia Sotomayor among a wave of anti-abortion protesters who lined the sidewalks outside the Senate office buildings and several of whom made it into the hearing room and disrupted in an attempt to disrupt the proceedings....

Pro-lifers should keep Obama's pledge to the Pope handy at all times.

Heretofore Obama and his people have been careful to say they want to reduce the "need" for abortion, not the "number." Big difference.

But about Obama's meeting last week with the Pope, Catholic News Service reported:

"The president explicitly expressed his commitment to reducing the numbers of abortions...." [Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi] said.

"Need" is not quantifiable, "number" is. In fact, Obama's commitment to the Pope directly contradicts a statement in May by Melody Barnes, his White House Director of Domestic Policy Council:

"It is not our goal to reduce the number of abortions.".... The goal, she insisted, is to "reduce the need for abortions."

Well, reducing the number is now your goal, Melody. And pro-lifers should jump on that statement. House Minority Whip Eric Cantor did, writing today...

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UPDATE, 11:50a: Great post by Wendy Long at National Review Online, "Partial-Birth Abortion questions for Sotomayor," since Sotomayor played a part in the 2004 case during the federal appeal sprocess.

[HT: moderator Carder]
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UPDATE 11:33a: If Sotomayor's confirmation is almost guaranteed, why debate?

Well, first there is this possibility, a quote by the Third Branch Conference's Manny Miranda in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, July 11...

That's right, she could Bork herself....

Because her personality is different than (Samuel) Alito's, (Chief Justice John) Roberts', Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, David Souter. Her personality could be more similar to Robert Bork, who basically Borked himself because of his demeanor and the way he approached the intellectual feast that was his hearing.

And so she might have that same problem. ... She has what I recognize as the Hispanic gene, which is the desire in an argument to get the last word.

But that's not likely. So this becomes as important. From the National Journal, July 11...

Citizens for a Pro-Life Society will picket President Obama TOMORROW at Macomb Community College in Warren, MI....

No political cartoons on our issues this week, but this one made me laugh, by Henry Payne of Townhall.com...

The issue of contraception is coming more and more to the forefront in the abortion debate, most recently by Ruth Bader Ginsburg's speculation to the New York Times Magazine that widespread access of the morning-after pill would render abortion obsolete.

Do you agree or disagree that the contraceptive issue is tied to the abortion issue?

Why or why not?

Do you think pro-lifers should accentuate or ignore contraception in our discussion of the sanctity of life?

by Kelli

Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs...

UPDATE, 5:18p: AUL's legal team has assembled a "Top 10 questions to ask Judge Sotomayor" and is giving us the opportunity to vote for the 1 we'd most like to see asked.
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Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee released its list of witnesses to testify at the confirmation hearings beginning Monday of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor.

I'm excited and proud that Americans United For Life's President Charmaine Yoest made the list of 14 for the minority party.

But I'm not excited she's the lone pro-lifer. Noted David Weigel of The Washington Independent, "The presence of only one pro-life activist on the list is striking." Indeed. It's as if Republicans can't read the polls, as if they have a (pro-)death wish.

Other witnesses on the Republican side: 3 will testify on the gun issue, 5 on affirmative action, 2 on constitutional law, 2 on presidential power (1 unknown: Peter Jeffries of P7 Enterprises).

And again, only 1 pro-lifer - on the issue of biggest concern to both sides re: Supreme Court nominees.

When last I saw MD Democrat Senator Barbara Mikulski, she was introducing Hillary Clinton at the pro-abortion EMILY's List "gala" (no food, no seats) in Denver during the Democrat National Convention last August, and she sure wasn't speechless then.

But the cat got Mikulski's tongue yesterday during a Senate Health Committee hearing after she introduced a murky amendment that caught the eye of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)....

The good news is the controversy about the 7th grader suing her school to wear her pro-life t-shirt got 2-1/2 minutes of air time on The O'Reilly Factor last night.

The other good news is neither O'Reilly nor Megyn Kelly considered the photos of preborn babies to be "graphic," as administrators at McSwain Elementary School in Merced, CA, asserted.

The bad news is both O'Reilly and Kelly still came down on the school's side in this case. Both thought the shirt could be considered "disruptive," particularly to younger children, since this is a K-8 school. Both thought it was the photos that did the shirt in. Not mentioned was similar if not identical photos are in same school's textbooks.

I disagree it was the photos alone that were problematic. I expect the 7th grader could have worn a wordless shirt with the same photos and been just fine. No, it was the combination of the word "ABORTION" with photos of beautiful preborn children that became "disruptive."

[HT: Judie Brown of American Life League, which designed the t-shirt]

From FRC's The Cloakroom blog today:

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted 12-11 today to add a provision to the Kennedy health care bill that would require abortion groups such as Planned Parenthood to be included in any health insurance network created by the bill....

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A week ago intern Andy M. reported on an article in AskMen.com entitled, "Dealing With An Unwanted Pregnancy," a how-to guide on getting one's girlfriend to abort. But if you click on the link you'll see it's now gone, and you're sent to the home page.

This is just too bad. Author Isabella Snow (AskMen.com's "sex ed correspondent") gave such helpful advice as...

Scott Rasmussen made a startling statement on The O'Reilly Factor last night, that there are now more conservatives than Republicans and more Democrats than liberals. Verrry interesting and verrry strange.

This was a side detail on a new poll Rasmussen reported, showing, "Voters now trust Republicans more than Democrats on 8 out of 10 key electoral issues."

These are: the economy, national security and war on terror, war in Iraq, immigration, government ethics and corruption, taxes, social security, and abortion (click to enlarge):

All of these simply are simply conservative solutions pitted against liberal solutions, and ours are slamming the competition's, encouraging news. (The losers? Health care and education.).....

Emmett Till is an important historical figure. It was photos of his disfigured, murdered 14-year-old body in Jet magazine that launched the civil rights movement in 1955. Pro-lifers use that example to explain the rationale for showing graphic photos of aborted babies.

That's the backdrop for this horrible story from the Associated Press, today:

Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots....

Frantic relatives of the deceased descended on Burr Oak Cemetery - the final resting place of lynching victim Emmett Till and blues singers Willie Dixon and Dinah Washington - in hopes someone could tell them their loved ones' remains were not among the pile of bones that littered a remote area of the property in Alsip, 12 miles south of Chicago....

UPDATE, 7/12, 7:15a: Here's more insight on Ginsburg's comments by Wesley Smith at First Things, including the fact some of her comments were views on abortion policy, which as a Supreme Court justice she shouldn't express.
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I've been reading and rereading Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's interview in The New York Times Magazine, upcoming in hard copy this Sunday but published online July 7. This part I understood:

Q: If you were a lawyer again, what would you want to accomplish as a future feminist legal agenda?

Ginsburg: Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that had changed their abortion laws before Roe [to make abortion legal] are not going to change back. So we have a policy that affects only poor women, and it can never be otherwise, and I don't know why this hasn't been said more often.

Ginsburg was saying that with or without Roe, women "of means" did and will have access to abortion due to the financial ability to get themselves to states where it was and will be legal. (And even if illegal they have had and would have access.) Roe is about making abortion available to "poor women."

This part I had trouble with...

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Two phrases from the Book of Esther often roll off the tongue in my Evangelical circle.

After beautiful Jewish girl Esther miraculously became Queen of Persia, a plot was hatched to kill all Jews in the land. Esther's cousin Mordecai, when asking her to plead with the King to stop the Holocaust, said, "And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" (vs. 4:14)

Mordecai's request was not so easy. Anyone approaching the King unsummoned risked death if he did not raise his scepter. So upon agreeing to approach the King to plead for her people, Esther acknowledged her potential fate by responding, "If I die, I die." (vs 4:16)

We often recite those quotes when trying to decipher the will of God and pushing forward.

So have Sarah Palin and her counselors. After she was nominated as the GOP VP candidate last summer, CNN wrote...

Where to begin...

I've been writing quite a bit on the new pro-abort tactic of wanting to find "common ground" on abortion.

One initial problem is the "common ground" parameters pro-aborts unilaterally set (kind of a "common ground" deal breaker from the get-go, I'd say) disallow any conversation on abortion when discussing "common ground" - on abortion. The closest they will allow is discussion of "reducing the need for abortion," but that cannot mean "reducing the number of abortions," no.

I say we discuss what Americans would consider "common ground" on this topic, such as banning 3rd trimester abortions, sex-selection abortions, and race-based abortions.

Americans by-and-large agree those are bad. Americans also by-and-large agree parental involvement laws are good as are laws mandating informed consent before abortion.

Americans would be surprised to learn the abortion lobby disagrees, which is why we can't discuss abortion when trying to find "common ground" - on abortion. Americans would be shocked to learn hard core pro-aborts even disagree that aborting a baby who would otherwise be born under the wrong zodiac sign is wrong.

But I digress....

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A July 6 press release:

Today the Internal Revenue Service was put on notice that the Thomas More Society in Chicago stands ready to defend the Coalition for Life of Iowa against the prejudicial questioning by the IRS, which has delayed granting tax exemption to the non-profit religious organization....

On June 29 Citizens for a Pro-life Society posted "Requiem for the disappeared" on YouTube. It juxtaposes video of a funeral held in May 2008 for 23 aborted babies found earlier that year in dumpsters of MI late-term abortionist Alberto Hodari with video of the actual retrievals and babies' remains.

I was struck by the song playing in the background, how perfect both the melody and words were for the video ("Do you see me? Do you know who I am? Do you hear me? Did you show me?.... Tell me who I am." - read all on page 2) It wasn't until I read the credits that I saw the lyrics were composed by CPLS Director Dr. Monica Miller, music by Mark Cabrera and Peter Mulka, vocals by Peter Mulka, and produced by Mediatrix Records. Wow. The video was also excellently produced.

So sad, so angering...

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UPDATE, 7/9, 9:20a: People have asked if this t-shirt is still available. I checked with American Life League, and there are 10 XLs left and "a boatload" of XXLs. They're cheap ($5.50). Order here.
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From Fox News, July 6 (Can't believe Fox called these images "graphic."):

Anna Amador has gone to court on behalf of her daughter, who she says was ordered by her principal to change her shirt on "National Pro-Life T-Shirt Day." The shirt the girl was wearing displays two graphic pictures of a fetus growing in the womb....

What is it with these burger joints selling more sex than food? Burger King has jumped on the trashy bandwagon with its latest campaign for the "BK Super Seven Incher." Just take a gander at the innuendo-laden ad:

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air noted...

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Some creatively painted pregnant bellies, from Parents.com:

David Bereit and Shawn Carney of 40 Days for Life have helped raise $21+ million to further the missions of pregnancy centers and pro-life groups.

Inundated with requests to share their fundraising advice, they've released a FREE, downloadable report for parties interested in making their fundraising banquets much more profitable, helping to save the lives of more women and babies.

Get the free report here!

I particularly like (and have begun using) their suggestion of pitching a 2-part pledge: 1 for a gift the night of the banquet and 1 for an ongoing monthly gift.

Another of their suggestions is to make sure banquets are not drawn out and end on time. I've observed pro-life organizations getting much better at this....

I have a new poll question up:

In the wake of revelations of SC Gov. Mark Sanford and NV Sen. John Ensign's affairs, a Gallup poll last month becomes more interesting. Of several potential moral wrongs listed, Americans ranked adultery as worst of all - 92%. Which TWO of the following do you consider the most morally reprehensible?

Here are the results of my previous poll. 3/4 of you do not consider pro-abort "common ground" propositions of comprehensive sex ed and widespread contraceptive distribution to be so...

Imagine if a pro-lifer were to pull a gun on a pro-abort outside an abortion mill.

Yet I can only find ONE mainstream news story on the opposite sort of incident that happened at a Phoenix, AZ, Planned Parenthood 5 days ago. And note no suspect name was provided, no mug shot....

Were the situation reversed, this man's name and face would be plastered everywhere, with commentary upon commentary vilifying the entire pro-life movement....

Moderator Bethany has entered the above photo of her 3 Chick-Fil-A fans in Chick-Fil-A's "Show us the cow" contest and has requested on her blog that we vote for her entry. Sure! Vote here. Grand prize is $1k savings bond, digital camera, 52 kids meals, a school party nuggets tray, Chick-Fil-A t-shirt, a "plush cow" AND a Pez candy dispenser, wow! Go, Bethany!

There were no cartoons specifically on our issue this week, but there were several on other subjects I thought were particularly witty, astute, or funny. It was hard to pick a favorite, but these 2 topped my list...

by Ted Rall of GoComics.com...

by Nick Anderson of GoComics.com...

See more contenders on page 2...

Happy Independence Day, a sacred American holiday only pro-lifers celebrate in its entirety according to the Declaration's 3 underpinnings, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Question 1: What are your weekend plans?

Question 2, submitted by friend Dr. Michael New: What should the official song of the pro-life movement be?

For example, Michael wrote his vote goes to, "Another somebody done somebody wrong song."

Dr. Monica Miller, Director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, issued a statement today revealing newly discovered information that MI late-term abortionist Alberto Hodari, pictured left, was fined $10k four months ago for his role in the 2003 death of 32-year-old Regina Johnson.

Johnson died from complications after a first trimester abortion committed at Hodari's Womencare abortion mill in Lathrup Village....

by intern Andy M.

"Dealing With An Unwanted Pregnancy" blares the title of the article on AskMen.com, a website which claims 7 million readers a month.

AskMen.com has been criticized for the way it objectifies women with its "Top 99 Women" poll among other unfavorable facets of the site.

This particular article lays out a guide for men who don't want their partners to give birth to their preborn children. Written by a woman, Isabella Snow, it purports to be an inside look at how women think and act in such situations.

"For some women, getting pregnant can start clocks ticking and make them suddenly want to be mothers, despite previous agreements," warns Snow. In other words, she's not in her usual state of mind: you are going to have to do your utmost to convince her to deny new maternal feelings.

The entire article is geared against innocent preborn life and instead focuses on wants and lifestyles, primarily of the father....

Here was a surprise, from Fox News, today:

AK Gov. Sarah Palin shocked the political word Friday by announcing that she will step down at the end of the month and transfer power to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell.

Palin made the announcement from her home in Wasilla, flanked by her husband, Todd, and family and state commissioners....

Palin's decision now allows her to avoid the difficult task of running for president while serving as governor.

Todd Palin told FOX News that his wife will concentrate on "doing the things for AK and the country" that she is passionate about and cannot do as governor with the limitation and constant opposition she deals with within the state.

More from MSNBC...

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RH Reality Check has launched a new "common ground" site, inviting pro-life and pro-abortion thinkers to explore areas where we can work together.

Of course, the upper echelon of the abortion movement has no intention of finding common ground, which Obama himself recognized in his Notre Dame speech as ultimately "irreconcilable," as The Guardian headline from that date indicated.

The tag on that headline reveals why the push for "common ground" by Obama and his minions: They're losing the PR battle. As I've said before, only those losing appeal for compromise. Winners don't have to and shouldn't. At any rate, pro-lifers never will.

Nevertheless, I have a "common ground" suggestion, inspired by New York City's planned anti-smoking campaign. Obama said yesterday in a meeting with Catholic reporters...

Today Orlando, FL, late-term abortionist James Pendergraft lost his appeal in the 5th District Court of Appeal, and the suspension of his license by the FL Board of Medicine stands.

According to a court document filed today, "Dr. Pendergraft violated sections 456.072(1)(k) and 458.331(1)(g) when he performed a third trimester abortion in his clinic, which is not a hospital."...

by intern Anne Marie D.

Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs...

The Center for Bioethical Reform is looking for at-home volunteers to help with their pro-life work:

If you can look up information on the Internet, we could use your help. If you can type into an Excel spreadsheet, we could use your help. If you can do both, we could really use your help!

This is a very important project that will last until the first of August. Please let us know if you have some time you are willing to commit... most of this can be done by e-mail.

E-mail CBR for more information or to volunteer.

by JivinJ

The UK's Daily Mail reported June 26 on exciting new technology developed by a Royal College of Art doctoral student.

This could have an even greater impact on humanizing preborn children than ultrasounds. This is truly amazing, and the prospects for it to help save preborn human lives are mind-blowing:

Now pregnant women could have the chance to hold a life-size model of their unborn baby....

Brazilian student Jorge Lopes has pioneered the conversion of data from ultrasound and MRI scans into life-size plaster models of living embryos using a method called rapid prototyping.

'It's amazing to see the faces of the mothers. They can see the full scale of their baby, really understand the size of it,' said Dr Lopes....

Continue reading "New technology creates life-size models of preborn children"

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

From a press release today:

CO Right To Life and Personhood USA will submit language for a new Personhood initiative to the CO Legislative Council Staff on July 2, 2009, marking the beginning of the 2010 Colorado Personhood Initiative. The state's largest pro-life organization joins with this national political action group based in Denver to fight for the affirmation of the rights of all humans from the beginning of their biological development....

Pro-aborts should have no trouble with this, since they already support the killing of preborn children pretty much the same way. From the Washington Times today:

Pakistan's top Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, is buying children as young as 7 to serve as suicide bombers in the growing spate of attacks against Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. targets, U.S. Defense Department and Pakistani officials say.

A Pakistani official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named because of the sensitive nature of the topic, said the going price for child bombers was $7k to $14k - huge sums in Pakistan, where per-capita income is about $2,600 a year....

In fact, Planned Parenthood Eastside is 1 of 7 PP clinics now closed in El Paso, TX.

Apparently chopped and dropped by the non-mother ship, the first sign of trouble came in early June...

by intern Anne Marie D.

One of the greatest contradictions in modern healthcare is the willingness of many health organizations to seek greater quality of life for patients with a particular disease, such as multiple sclerosis, at the expense of forfeiting the quality of life of human embryos. One such organization is the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. For a list of other organizations supporting embryonic stem cell research, click here....

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In November 2008 Animal Planet began airing a reality show Whale Wars.

The premise, according to Wiki:

The program follows Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, as he and his crew aboard the MV Steve Irwin attempt to deter Japanese ships that hunt minke and fin whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary in the name of scientific research. Environmental groups dispute the Japanese claim of research "as a disguise for commercial whaling, which is banned."

So at present, although controversial, the killing is considered legal.

Here's the trailer. You'll see the anti-whaling crew throwing "stink bombs made of glass bottles filled with butyric acid," according to Wiki, at the whalers. They respond by throwing "flashbang devices." Apparently the whalers also fire shots. Watson shouts, "I've been hit!" and shows a hole in his bulletproof vest directly over his heart. That incident has been disputed as staged...

American Life League's new video report, released yesterday, focuses on the ludicrous accusation by pro-aborts and their friends in the media of corporate pro-life responsibility for the shooting of late-term abortionist George Tiller. ALL shows many tv clips to make its point, including one by Keith Olbermann lambasting yours truly.

ALL then turns the tables, exposing liberal media hypocrisy that ignores vast pro-abortion threats and violence.

This is a great report....