by intern Andy M.

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Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards sent the following email this afternoon, which appears to breathe a sigh of relief - the worst is over, the other side has just one more hurdle to jump to ensure public funded abortion coverage is included in nationalized healthcare.

Furthermore, the email confirms 8 different ways (highlighted and circled) what they've steadfastly denied: Abortion coverage is part of the plan. Click to enlarge...

Josh Brahm's latest edition of Science Matters is not only hysterical and well done, it is also good ammo to keep in one's back pocket the next time a pro-abort claims the product of the union of human sperm and human egg is not a human...

MI pro-life Democrat Congressman (and co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus) Bart Stupak has been a real hero on trying to nix public funding of abortion in healthcare. I can't imagine how we'd stand a chance of stopping it without him.

That's why I didn't jump on Stupak when the following video was released from an October 24 Cheboygan town hall meeting....

Specifically, Stupak said...

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Yesterday morning as staffers exited the Metro station near the Cannon House Office Building in DC, they were welcomed to their work day by a ghoulish street drama: Randall Terry and followers enacting Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi being tortured in hell.

According to Talking Points Memo the group shouted: "Staffers, Hill rats, join Nancy Pelosi in hell!" and "Kill the bill, not babies."

Terry's press release (with contact person Catherine Veritas, clever), stated they were warning Pelosi and Reid of a "wrath to come" for pushing the "child-killing in healthcare." Here's video:

Terry's presser further stated his group planned to take their street play to Pelosi's office. Don't know if that happened.

What I find troubling in all this is while the other side scoffs at Terry, and we pro-lifers back away in embarrassment, the day may actually come when Pelosi and Reid find themselves in hell and remember this. Then it won't be so funny.

Jivin J reported earlier this week on Terry's Pelosi/Reid Halloween "Burn in hell" video contest.

Repeating yesterday's Red Alert: Call your congressperson and tell him/her to vote NO on Pelosi's healthcare bill.

This analysis of Pelosi's healthcare bill comes from National Right to Life:

Regarding the health care bill unveiled today by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), a spokesman for the nation's largest pro-life organization said, "A vote for this bill is a vote to establish a federal government program that will directly fund abortion on demand, with federal funds."...

Well, take a look who was at Nancy Pelosi's press conference this morning when she unveiled her version of nationalized healthcare - with no abortion exclusion and plans not to allow any. How appropriate that infamous late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart should be on hand to cheer Pelosi on...

Concerned Women for America's president Wendy Wright spotted Carhart and snapped the photo. CWA just issued this statement...

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[HT: Lisa M.]

My computer has been hacked and my facebook account compromised. Don't answer any emails from me open any emails from me wanting you to view a video. Don't open any videos it looks like I sent you.

INCREDIBLY, McAfee's server is down! They can't help me right now. "Call back in 2 hours." I cannot believe it.

Was perusing Twitter last night and spotted this (click to enlarge)...

My first thought was cooksandbooks is an idiot. Cookie is lucky to be alive and doesn't get that she is merely a survivor of prenatal Russian roulette.

Then I backed up and noticed she was responding to RealScottBaio, and I thought... the real Scott Baio? Chachi?

Sure enough, I verified Baio's Twitter account, and here's what he tweeted that made cooks boil over...

It turns out Baio is a hardcore conservative.

The interesting thing is I prepared this post last night, and this morning that tweet is gone. For whatever reason Baio - or his agent - apparently decided it best to remain underground with his pro-life convictions.

That's really too bad. Because when checking into Baio a little bit I found he and wife Renee founded The Bailey Baio Angel Foundation following a (thankfully) mistaken adverse newborn diagnosis of their daughter Bailey, now almost 22 months old.

The organization is "for special needs children and to raise awareness to expanded newborn screening," according to Baio's Twitter page.

So Baio's pro-life heart is in the right place. He's just not ready to wear it on his sleeve.

Hysterical, by the Pat Toomey campaign, Specter's Republican nemesis...

[HT: Sean Hannity]

I wrote Monday that the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform had finally succeeded in bringing its Genocide Awareness Project graphic abortion photos display to one of the most liberal college campuses in the US, Berkeley.

From the Daily Californian, today...

Ok, game on. From Congress Daily (subscription only), today:

House Speaker Pelosi is planning to roll out the House Democrats' healthcare reform legislation Thursday morning....

The timing is "to... keep[ ] the leaders' promise of a 72-hour public viewing period."

Then the rubber meets the road. Before Pelosi can officially introduce the bill in the House next week, a majority of House members must vote to allow that to happen. ...

by JivinJ

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[HT: Pete K.]

"Causes are the new black," quipped the moderator as he introduced actor Anthony Edwards, first up on a celebrity panel discussing how social media has impacted the lives of pop stars.

This was at the Blog World and New Media Expo in Las Vegas 10 days ago.

Edwards' cause is funding the construction of what will be the largest children's hospital in Kenya, via his organization Shoe4Africa.

My ears perked up at the moderator's observation, because I'd noticed this recurring theme the previous two days during BWE panels and keynotes.

My husband and I had registered to attend BWE along with about 1k other bloggers.

We knew we'd be entering liberal land, with such sessions offered as, "Blogging for change: How to influence health care through blogging." But we were putting up with a little left ideology to get valuable New Media tips, because the other side is progressive on that front, too.

This wasn't the first time I'd entered their world, having been one of only two conservatives blogging at the Democrat National Convention in Denver last year.

But since I don't read them much, I was unaware liberal bloggers become grumbling, self-centered navel gazers when not talking politics.

At least that's what Day One keynote speaker Chris Brogan seemed to say....

Continue reading my column today, "Might preborns become a trendy cause?," at WorldNetDaily.com.

On October 27, CNN profiled Operation Rescue's Troy Newman and NE late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart in a lengthy article, along with "Perspectives on abortion" video vignettes.

Newman's analysis: "Not a perfect article. But it better than what I thought CNN would do."

There are 6 videos, and I've uploaded Newman and Carhart's to YouTube...

by Kelli

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

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by JivinJ

Yesterday was a landmark day for abortion awareness. The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform was finally able to launch its Genocide Awareness Project at one of America's most liberal universities: University of CA at Berkeley.

In addition to this feat, GAP unveiled a new set of 28 signs "that not only show the truth of abortion, but also highlight the hypocrisy of our current President, who talks about justice but denies it to the most helpless of all," according to an email from CBR's Fletcher Armstrong. Click on all photos and signs to enlarge...

In 2007 I posted and updated on the hit-and-run motorcycle accident involving Dan McConchie of American United for Life.

Dan has emailed information and a request:

Friends,

As you know, I suffered a spinal cord injury 2 years ago and have no use of my legs. The most promising area of research to improve function in spinal cord patients is in the area of adult stem cells. But, as my friend Dr. David Prentice has said, treatments are not ready for prime time... yet.

There is great research being done. Unfortunately, thanks to the protective nature of the FDA, the best research being done on this is happening overseas. At this point, clinical trials in the US for spinal cord injuries may be years away.

You can help change this....

Well, this unfolding story is tragic and curious. From the Los Angeles Times, yesterday:

A 37-year-old man was booked early this morning on suspicion of murder in the death of an unborn child believed to be his, Los Angeles police said.

Joshua Woodward, whom police described as a businessman with "ties to Chicago and Miami," was taken into custody by homicide detectives about 3:15 a.m. today.... He was booked... and is being held in lieu of $2 million bail, police said.

Woodward's arrest followed an investigation of "the suspicious circumstances of a miscarriage" reported Oct. 19, around the 13th week of gestation, police said. They released no other details....

Most interesting is phraseology. S/he is an "unborn child" when the mother wants him/her but "fetus" when she doesn't. And it's "murder" when the mother doesn't want her "unborn child" killed and "abortion" when she wants her "fetus" killed.

Searching for any liberal blog opinion on this story, I came upon the following entertaining (if I can use that word related to this topic) YouTube video in a post by RAMZPAUL....

I'm honored Andrew Breitbart has invited me to join the blogging team at BigGovernment.com.

My specific area of interest is the symbiotic relationship between SEIU, ACORN, and Barack Obama.

My 1st post went live a little while ago and is currently the featured story.

by JivinJ

When last we saw Pierre Renelique, the State of Florida had revoked his medical license, and he was one of the well-deserved targets of a civil lawsuit.

Renelique was the abortionist on call when in 2006 A Gyn Diagnostics abortion mill owner Belkis Gonzalez allegedly killed an abortion survivor and threw the little girl in a biohazard bag onto her Hialeah, FL, clinic roof to hide the baby from police.

Renelique had been called several times while the baby's mother, Sycloria Williams, was in active labor but failed to show.

It got worse. According to records...

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Will the Obama administration now place CBS in timeout next to Fox until they both learn to propagandize properly?

A 60 Minutes story last night did the liberal thrust for nationalized healthcare no favors.

The exposé, "Medicare fraud: A $60 billion crime," investigated what "has become one of, if not the most profitable, crimes in America... push[ing] aside cocaine as the major criminal enterprise."...

[View 60 Minutes piece on page 2.]

UPDATE, 10/26, 10:15a: Thanks to moderator Bethany for finding the L&O "Dignity" episode online! Here 'tis...

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Unable to watch Friday night's "ripped from the headlines" Law & Order episode about the murder of an abortionist in church, I thought I'd view it on the Internet tonight.

Unfortunately, I found NBC does not air full episodes of L&O. I'll have to see if past shows are available on cable t.v.

Meanwhile, pro-life reviews have been favorable, including comments on the post I wrote giving a heads up on the episode. Here's a sample why, a longer clip made available by NBC, where a post-birth partial birth abortion (yes, that's right) is detailed...

I have a new poll question up (lower right side of home page):

The Life issue gets blurred when it comes to war. Do you think President Obama should send more troops to Afghanistan?

Re: my last poll, over 2/3 disagreed that John McCain would have been worse than Barack Obama as president. On its surface, I totally agree. But I think I worded the question poorly. I got it from O'Reilly, so I took it to mean as reader Michelle wrote me...

Just in time for Halloween, here are some trick-or-treats from a mixed bag of liberal and conservative political cartoonists...

by Glenn Foden at Townhall.com...

by Don Wright at GoComics.com...

Yesterday I posted a CNS News article and video wherein RI Congressman Patrick Kennedy accused the Catholic Church of not being pro-life for opposing any nationalized healthcare bill not explicitly excluding taxpayer funded abortion coverage (which Kennedy called an "absolute red herring").

Kennedy's bishop, Most Rev. Thomas Tobin was quick to respond, and WOW. Here's the text of Tobin's statement, via The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence...

Please give a warm welcome to our autumn interns, who have graciously decided to remain on with us after finishing up their work as summer interns:

Andy M. hails from New Zealand and is active with Prolife NZ. He is studying political science.

Heather B. is a college junior studying psychology and music. Her writings have been seen in various local and national publications.

Andy and Heather have been with us since the spring, and will be taking care of our (Prolifer)ations posts twice weekly, with the occasional additional article here and there.

We're so glad to have them!

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I intended to write a post touting Sarah Palin's upcoming book, Going Rogue, anyway. Now, more the reason. What I was originally going to say...

According to CNSNews.com today:

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) told CNSNews.com that the Catholic Church is doing nothing but fanning "the flames of dissent and discord" by taking the position that it will oppose the health-care reform bill under consideration in Congress unless it is amended to explicitly prohibit funding of abortion.

"I can't understand for the life of me how the Catholic Church could be against the biggest social justice issue of our time, where the very dignity of the human person is being respected by the fact that we're caring and giving health care to the human person - that right now we have 50 million people who are uninsured," Kennedy told CNSNews.com when asked about a letter the US Conference of Catholic Bishops had sent to members of Congress stating the bishops' position on abortion funding in the health-care bill....

Friday night, NBC's Law & Order , which follows the headlines, will dramatize this one: A 3rd trimester abortionist is shot in church. The episode will air at 8p ET/7p CT.

Preshow reviews...

by JivinJ

All I did yesterday when preparing my post, "Obama uses Fox decoy to throw off scent," was click on the MoveOn.org petition site to view:

But I most certainly did NOT fill out the petition form. Yet today I received this email:

I complained to MoveOn.org, not that I think it will do any good. Beware, MoveOn.org is dishonest, as if you didn't suspect that already.

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On October 17, the National Abortion Federation held a "Remembering Dr. Tiller" event at the Westin Hotel in Denver, with 200 abortionists from around the world attending. I simply can't imagine being in a room full of abortionists. Their hands, yuck. What did they talk about? Although the thought of all this truly creeps me out, this is the sort of event where I'd like to be a fly on the wall.

Jeanne Tiller accepted the award on behalf of her husband George, who was murdered May 31.

American Right to Life got wind of the event beforehand and were able to strategically place cars across the street from the Westin, honoring one of their maxims, "no child killing with tranquility."

ARTL also strategically placed pro-lifers with banners at the hotel's drop-off point. International abortionists were likely unfamiliar with American-style pro-life protests showing the truth of abortion with graphic photos.

According to ARTL, one idiotic abortionist had the nerve to accuse pro-lifers - one holding photos of a ripped off baby's head - of intolerance.

ARTL also had pro-lifers planted inside the hotel. When seeing Jeanne Tiller walk through, they handed her 2 pieces of literature. One was a pamphlet that included photos provided by Tiller himself of a post-abortive baby staged with her parents, along with her mother's emotional recantation after she came to her senses.

The other was read, "Jeanne Tiller gets an award for this?" showing what her husband did to earn millions of dollars.

A undercover pro-lifer on hand to observe reported Jeanne did an about-face, asked the concierge how to get to the parking garage, and did not return until 8p, when she was to receive the award.

An extended New York Daily News excerpt from my previous post, "Obama's pro-abortion base 'livid,'" makes a good intro to this piece:

But increasingly, noisy factions on the party's most liberal flank - among them gay rights proponents, pro-choice activists and immigration reformers who Obama courted last year - are incensed that their causes have taken a backseat to the White House's all-out push on health care reform.

What to do? Throw off the scent; chase a Fox. The backdrop, according Politico:

White House senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday that the Fox News Channel is "not really a news station" and that much of the programming is "not really news."...

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The headline of an October 18 New York Daily News piece caught my eye...

The relevant excerpt...

by JivinJ

The documents, released Tuesday, say Mitchell took Tiffany - his adopted sister - to a Charlotte abortion clinic in July, but she was turned away because she was too far along at 21 weeks. So Mitchell planned a trip to an Atlanta clinic within days where Tiffany's pregnancy could be terminated....

by JivinJ

It is utterly amazing to me that a person could see some of these things so clearly, could be informed so strongly by her own moral intuition, could grasp the contradictions, and yet could have a response that seeks to find a way to overcome the "visual and visceral ways in which first and second trimester abortions are different," rather than to reflect logically on what these things might mean and ask the question, How on earth could one person's "hopes and wishes" magically transform "unspeakable violence" against another person into something acceptable that one ought to work hard to encourage?...

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UPDATE, 4:25p: Per YahooNews.com:

Sarah Palin is going to sit down with Oprah Winfrey.... [T]he former governor of AK and Republican vice presidential candidate will appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show on Monday, Nov. 16....

[T]he interview will be Palin's first about her new book, Going Rogue: An American Life, and it will be the first time Palin and Winfrey will meet.

Palin's book was No. 4 on Amazon.com's best-seller list on Tuesday. It's slated to be released Tuesday, Nov. 17, the day after Palin's interview with Winfrey.

[HT: Administrative assistant Kelli]
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The press release came via email yesterday...

UPDATE, 10/20, 9:05a: At present, David Bereit, national director of 40 Days for Life, is scheduled to go on Laura's show at 11:15a EST to discuss Planned Parenthood's government sponsored attack on 40 Days.
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UPDATE, 10/20, 12:30a: Laura Ingraham is going to cover this story on her radio show today.
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President Barack Obama spoke October 16 at a volunteerism forum hosted by former President George H. W. Bush at Texas A&M University.

During his remarks, Obama plugged his new government program, serve.gov:

And that's the point I want to emphasize today: that service isn't separate from our national priorities, or secondary to our national priorities - it's integral to achieving our national priorities. It's how we will meet the challenges of our time....

UPDATE, 12:18a: Here's a template for the pro-life pumpkin pictured below, courtesy of American Life League.
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American Life League has a boo-tiful idea: Carve a pro-life pumpkin this Halloween. I don't know why someone didn't think of this before. Explains ALL...

President Ronald Reagan enacted the Mexico City Policy in 1984, which prohibits taxpayer funding to international abortion groups that promote or commit abortion.

Since then it has been on again, off again, depending on the ideology of the president in power. Presidents Bush 41 and 43 upheld it; Presidents Clinton and Obama struck it.

And pro-aborts don't like that. They're whining it's unfair for the international abortion industry not to know if US taxpayers will be aiding and abetting preborn baby killing....

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From the Christian Post, October 18...

I'm heartbroken to announce the death of a frequent commenter and friend to this site, Doyle Chadwick. I've just received the following information in an email from a friend at TN RTL. Doyle was from Knoxville:

He died in a rough plane landing today after taking a pro-life dad and two of this children for a ride. The 3 passengers are at home with little to no injuries - miraculous. Please pray for God's mercy because Doyle always described himself as an atheist or agnostic.

The photo is from Doyle's Facebook page.

This is so upsetting and just another reminder that man knows not his time.

I extend our condolences and prayers to Doyle's family.

The axing of Rush Limbaugh as one of the investors purchasing the St. Louis Rams is certainly not funny. It has serious ramifications as another hypocritical but effective liberal attempt to marginalize conservatives for our beliefs. Wrote sports columnist David Moulton at Naples.com:

[I]t's the hypocrisy that burns me. We've got players in this league who allegedly have killed people and others who have been accused of obstructing while others did the killing. We've got members of the media covering this league who have called the President of the United States "a fascist."...

The Miami Dolphins new owner, Stephen Ross, may bring on board as a minority owner the singer Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas. Fergie has a solo song called London Bridge. In it the S word is used 2 dozen times, the F word is used a handful and the lyrics are at times sexually explicit. The song ends with Fergie saying ...

Shi**in on the world. F*** you bit**es.

And Rush Limbaugh can't be a small part of this league?

by Dana Summers at Townhall.com...

Added Jarrett Skorup at the Washington Examiner:

But maybe the NFL is right; maybe they just want to avoid people who make controversial statements.

Uh...except when they don't.

Apparently, liberal talk show host Keith Olbermann isn't too controversial for them: He does NBC's Football Night in America. A guy not shy to controversy.

Oh, and what about the new partial-owner of the Miami Dolphins? That would be Stacy Ferguson, better known as "Fergie" of the Black Eyed Peas. She was voted in on Tuesday without a single peep of opposition. Controversy? Divisive? Try:

"I have had lesbian experiences in the past. I won't say how many men I've had sex with - but I am a very sexual person."

or

"A war is goin' on but the reasons undercover. "The truth is kept secret, it's swept under the rug."

or even in song

I'ma get get get get you drunk. Get you love drunk off my hump. My hump my hump my hump my hump my hump My hump my hump my hump my lovely little lumps

Nope, not a whiff of controversy in there at all.

"We're held to a higher standard here," Commissioner Roger Goddell said.

Right.

by Glenn Foden at Townhall.com...

Wrote Rush himself in an October 16 Wall Street Journal op ed:

Not to be outdone, Jesse Jackson, whose history includes anti-Semitic speech (in 1984 he referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to NYC as "Hymietown" in a Washington Post interview) chimed in. He found me unfit to be associated with the NFL. I was too divisive and worse. I was accused of once supporting slavery and having praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s murderer, James Earl Ray....

Numerous sportswriters, CNN, MSNBC, among others, falsely attributed to me statements I had never made. Their sources, as best I can tell, were Wikipedia and each other. But the Wikipedia post was based on a fabrication printed in a book that also lacked any citation to an actual source.

I never said I supported slavery and I never praised James Earl Ray. How sick would that be? Just as sick as those who would use such outrageous slanders against me or anyone else who never even thought such things....

[T]his spectacle is bigger than I am on several levels. There is a contempt in the news business, including the sportswriter community, for conservatives that reflects the blind hatred espoused by Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson. "Racism" is too often their sledgehammer. And it is being used to try to keep citizens who don't share the left's agenda from participating in the full array of opportunities this nation otherwise affords each of us. It was on display many years ago in an effort to smear Clarence Thomas with racist stereotypes and keep him off the Supreme Court. More recently, it was employed against patriotic citizens who attended town-hall meetings and tea-party protests.

These intimidation tactics are working and spreading, and they are a cancer on our society.

Yes, here's some of that cancer, from liberal political cartoonists this week.

by Lalo Alcaraz of GoComics.com...

by Steve Benson of GoComics.com...

[Photos of Rush via the AP; photo of Fergie via Getty]

by intern Andy M.

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

We checked out the Las Vegas strip last night, starting with Jimmy Buffet's Margaritaville, where, of course, we had margaritas and "Cheeseburgers in Paradise." We sat on the 2nd floor balcony, with a great view...

We then strolled to Bellagio's to see the famous pool and fountain from the final scene in Ocean's Eleven. On the way we passed Caesar's Palace...

Just attended the session, "The new celebrity," about how social media like Twitter have impacted the lives of pop stars.

On the panel were Robin Antin of the Pussycat Dolls, rapper and record producer Jermaine Dupri (also apparently on-again boyfriend of Janet Jackson), actor Anthony Edwards, and singer Matt Goss.

They maintained social networking either brings them closer to fans, takes them from national to global, or helps them publicize their causes. (Moderator: "Causes are the new black." Read my observation from Day 1.)

An Anthony Edwards lol: "I would have reconsidered making Revenge of the Nerds had I known I'd be speaking at this event."...

The photo right is of bloggers on break at a blog convention, lol.

A couple Blog World Expo sessions yesterday were over our heads, such as the one on search engine optimization (seo). Indeed, we've learned that much being taught here is at the 301 or 401 level, and our knowledge base is somewhere between 101 and 201. Rich and I are hoping to integrate some of this stuff by osmosis.

But the class, "Writing killer blogs," by Wade Kwon of Birmingham Blogging Academy, was quite helpful. I'm posting Kwon's presentation, basically because I can, via a web tool I just learned of, SlideShare, which enables uploading and sharing of PowerPoint and other presentations....

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by JivinJ

I don't doubt many women die as a result of unsafe abortion, but no one can possibly have any idea of the real figure, especially as so much of it goes on it countries where there are virtually no statistics for anything.

In its 2007 report, Unsafe Abortion, the World Health Organization admitted: "Where induced abortion is restricted and largely inaccessible, or legal but difficult to obtain, little information is available on abortion practice. In such circumstances, it is difficult to quantify and classify abortion. What information is available is inevitably not completely reliable." The United Nations Population Division calls the estimates "quite speculative since hard data are missing for the large majority of countries."...

I'm not sure about the crowd, but the presenters I heard yesterday were clearly liberal hipsters. I don't mean "hipster" in a bad way. These were just very web savvy people, and yes, they give off a cool vibe we conservatives just don't... :)

News to me was their obvious concern for the plight of the people of the planet as well as the animals of the planet and the planet itself. I know I'm generalizing, but it had previously seemed to me their basic solution for worldwide hunger, poverty, and disease was abortion. No. And they translate their concern into raising money on the Internet....

UPDATE, 3:33p: Breaking per RedState.com: "Scozzafava possibly mulling party switch." What a slap to the NRCC that would be. Wonder what Newt is thinking.

[HT: moderator Carder]
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UPDATE, 9:50a: Erick Erickson at RedState.com writes today about Newt's endorsement of Scozzafava, "Today Newt Gingrich takes himself out of the 2012 running."

[HT: Matt Lewis]
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Every election season the Republican establishment angers pro-lifers by supporting pro-abort candidates. While this year is no different, enter the tea partiers, who are boisterously organized in every state.

We often chatter about organizing a 3rd party. Apparently we have without really planning it. We now have the Republican Party, Democrat Party, and Tea Party.

I cannot believe the GOP establishment still doesn't get it. Social conservatism cannot be ignored while touting fiscal conservatism. If the 3-way race in NY causes the Democrat to win, it will be the Republican Party's fault for touting a pro-abort candidate who is simply a liberal in all areas. It didn't have to be this way. When will they learn?...

1:57p MT: Highlights from "Why blogs are your #1 search marketing tool":

1st generation blogging: Citizen journalism

2nd generation blogging: Thought leadership

3rd generation blogging: Empowerment; all about search acquisition, about leveraging blogs to leverage search terms

3 ways to drive traffic: 1) Direction navigation; 2) Referrals; 3) Searches...

by JivinJ

The researchers said preventing the need for abortion entirely was unrealistic, but said eliminating unsafe abortion by improving access to contraception and increasing pressure to lift abortion restrictions was a worthwhile and achievable goal....

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by JivinJ

Husband Rich and I registered several months ago to attend the Blog World Expo, being held in Las Vegas tomorrow through Saturday....

Lunch Break today is courtesy of the Huffington Post:

Now this is great TV! As part of their ongoing series of parties and events at the White House, the Obamas hosted a Latin music celebration (or, "Fiesta Latina") on Tuesday night. The performers included Gloria Estefan, Marc Anthony, Jose Feliciano, Los Lobos, the New York bachata band Aventura, the Mexican singer Thalia, among others. In the video below, the Obama family is onstage and dancing -- Michelle with Malia, and Barack with Sasha -- and Jennifer Lopez, wearing gold, is swaying just behind them.

Click on graphic for link to video...

MI Right to Life's Brian Cusack made the point at a banquet I recently attended that there is a schism between believing what 53% of Americans responded to a December 2005 Zogby poll, that "abortion destroys a human life and is manslaughter," and putting it into practice.

Cusack called it "the great disconnect" that people would willingly stand by and even condone what they consider "manslaughter."

A clear example of the great disconnect came Oct. 9 when the Nobel Peace Prize committee chose Barack Obama as its 2009 recipient.

Obama had only been in office 12 days when nominations closed and had furthermore done "jack and squat" in the nine months following, as a Saturday Night Live skit recently put it.

But the committee awarded Obama because he gave the world "hope for a better future," according its statement.

The disconnect, of course, is Obama is the most pro-abortion president in US history, to the point of advocating postborn baby killing if it would interfere with preborn baby killing.

Actually, from a pro-abortion perspective, Obama has done "jack and pot" since becoming president....

Continue reading my column today, "Obama's polar opposite lost Peace Prize," on WorldNetDaily.com.

From WLS-Ch. 7 (of course), October 13...

WLS-Ch. 7 morning news anchor Judy Hsu gave birth this morning to a baby boy as she and her husband rushed to the hospital on the inbound Eisenhower Expressway [in Chicago], the station reported.

"We were heading down the Eisenhower," Hsu said during the station's 11a. news broadcast. "At a pretty fast speed."

"I said, 'Do you need to pull over?' Judy said, 'I don't know!' " Tracy, her husband, said....

I previously wrote about Irene Vilar, who has written the book, Impossible Motherhood: Testimony of an abortion addict. In it she tells the story of her 16 abortions in 15 years.

Well, this morning Drudge if featuring an October 14 Daily Mail piece on Vilar. (Click graphic to enlarge.)

(I'm not sure who's right - whether Vilar had 15 abortions in 16 or 17 years. What a repulsive point to query.)

The more publicity Vilar receives the better. Why? As DM wrote:

However, pro-choice campaigners said Mrs Vilar's book raises uncomfortable questions about abortion as a form of birth control.

The fact is, over 90% of abortions are for convenience, i.e., "a form of birth control."

I was pleased to see both the National Right to Life Committee and Steve Ertelt at LifeNews.com cover the New York Times October 10 photo essay of aborted babies.

I wondered if they would acknowledge the piece since both, the last I knew, opposed the use of graphic photos of aborted babies in pro-life advocacy [clarification: in public protests].

Hopefully as time goes on, maybe even thanks to the NYT piece, they will see their value. One less argument to have. It would be great if LifeNews.com would begin covering activist protests.

I've searched a couple times the last few days for pro-abort thoughts on the NYT piece, but haven't found anything. Did anyone else?

Dave Andrusko of NRLC wrote quite positively about the photo exposé, even linking to the photos - twice - and describing them. Andrusko also had good insights on the comments to the article....

Americans United for Life has posted a snappy new video entitled, "Don't be fooled" - about abortion in healthcare. Can't believe how much info AUL stuffed into 1:24...

From KFBB in MT, October 12:

One of the state's 5 Planned Parenthood clinics is closing its doors for good. The announcement came today, as officials say the Kalispell clinic will shut down, due to a decline in patients.

The clinic plans to close on November 20th. Officials say the decision is purely financial, as the Flathead area has been hit especially hard during the economic downturn....

by intern Heather B.

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

Last week the Chicago City Council approved an abortion clinic bubble zone "at the behest of Planned Parenthood," according to the Chicago Sun-Times, that:

... creates a protection zone within a 50-foot radius of the entrance to any hospital, medical clinic or health care facility. Within that zone, no one could get closer than 8 feet to pass materials, display signs, protest, educate or counsel another person without their consent.

Mayor Richard Daley, a Catholic pro-abort, says he'll sign the ordinance...

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by JivinJ

In addition, I told Wallis as bluntly as I could, that as far as I could tell his position and that of Sojourners was indistinguishable from the old Mario Cuomo position of being "personally opposed" to abortion while wanting to keep the procedure legal. I suggested that neither he nor Sojourners could honestly be labeled pro-life because, for that term to mean anything, it has to involve advocacy for the legal protection of the unborn. Wallis was equally frank in response. He simply rejected my suggestion that the "legal protection of the unborn" had anything to do with being pro-life. Both of us left that conversation with a clear understanding that Wallis was, quite simply, pro-choice on abortion....

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[HT: Jessi B.]

Letterman and Obama garnered much attention by political cartoonists this week....

First Obama...

by Tom Coles of GoComics...

and by Chip Bok of Townhall.com, what many news pundits have been speculating... kiss the surge good-bye?

Today the New York Times features a quite fair characterization of pro-life activists and activism on its front page - above the fold. Pro-lifers are portrayed as smart, convicted, and compelling. Oh, sure, I could nitpick. But really, the tone of the story is one of respect for our beliefs: what we do, and why we do it.

What's more, and just as importantly, the NYT Photography, Video, and Visual Journalism online section features a photo exposé of remains of aborted babies. That story, too, is very good. Click to enlarge....

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On October 8, Kate Gosselin did a bit on the Jay Leno show, treating paparazzi like her own kids... hilarious...

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Roxanne Fernando, 24, was lured to a violent death in February 2007, only weeks after discovering she was pregnant with Plourde's child....

During the youth's sentencing, Crown attorney Brent Davidson told court Plourde pressured her to have an abortion. Fernando initially agreed to terminate her pregnancy but later had a "change of heart," setting in motion a disturbing chain of events, he said....

"It would be the fetus that would drive the planned and deliberate killing of Ms. Fernando," said Davidson....

Fernando was taken to a remote area near Mollard Road and Ritchie Street in northwest Winnipeg and repeatedly beaten with a broken hockey stick until she was dead. Her body was then buried in a snow-filled ditch.

UPDATE, 10:07a: theblogprof has a great post outlining Obama's pro-abortion/infanticide "accomplishments," closing with, "The Nobel Peace Prize is a mockery." [HT: Suzie A.]

And the instant analysis of the award is a collective scratching of heads, even at CNN, which interrogated 1 of the committee members:

Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit has a bunch of incredulous snips. It appears at the moment the Prize is backfiring on the Nobel committee and drawing scathing analysis of Obama's "accomplishments"...

by JivinJ

Live Action is seeking high school and college students who would like to contribute writing and art to their student-run magazine, The Advocate, which is distributed nationwide. Over 30,000 copies of our most recent publication are in distribution and we expect and even great number for our next release.

Contributors who have their submissions published will also receive a cash prize of $250.

For their 6th issue, they are looking for the following pieces:

Pro-life artistic submissions:

Pro-life article submissions:...

by moderator Carla

I am seeking submissions for a book - a book of letters and poems from mothers who have aborted to their lost children. The purpose of the book is to allow mothers to express their grief and love, and to demonstrate the very real pain and loss caused by abortion.

I would gratefully welcome your contributions. The book will be made available worldwide through Amazon.com, and I have a commitment from a donor to distribute 1,000 copies to pregnancy resource centers and related organizations. Contributors will also receive a free copy of the book.

The target publication date is December 22, 2009. If you are interested in participating in this project, please observe the following guidelines...

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Well this is very interesting and makes total sense.

From what I'm reading the psuedo-feminists are either dismissing the following study (Amie Newman at RH Reality Check: "So, if you're a lap dancer you shouldn't take the pill and women who don't take the pill are attracted to dominating men? Can we put some parameters on what actually gets researched in this country? Please?") or not liking it (Feminist Philosophers: "I just fear that this will be picked up by some groups as another excuse to fulminate against oral contraception, because 'oohz noz! they are messing up the human race!'")

Also don't forget estrogen from the Pill is water has been found by several studies to feminize male fish. So women on the Pill may be getting what they're helping create, wimps.

From the Daily Mail, today:

It ushered in the 1960s sexual revolution and gave women control over their own fertility.

But the Pill may also have changed women's taste in men, according to a study.

Scientists say the hormones in the oral contraceptive suppress a woman's interest in masculine men and make boyish men more attractive. Although the change occurs for just a few days each month, it may have been highly influential since use of the Pill began more than 40 years ago.

If the theory is right, it could partly explain the shifting in tastes from macho 1950s and 1960s stars such as Kirk Douglas and Sean Connery to the more wimpy, androgynous stars of today, such as Johnny Depp and Russell Brand....

by JivinJ

The deeper flaw with the proposal is that it is grossly immoral, an attempt to legitimize the killing of vulnerable people while pretending something else is being done. Further evils would come in its train. The editorial concludes that "concerns about the legal details of declaring death in someone who will never again be the person he or she was should be weighed against the value of giving a full and healthy life to someone who will die without a transplant." Whether someone is actually dead is not a "legal detail." And note the expansiveness of the language. There will always be people whose lives do not seem "full and healthy," in comparison either with who they once were or with others deemed more deserving of life....

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I don't know why human rights organizations should be surprised. Obama's actions on this front are consistent with his pro-death mentality. From the Washington Times, this morning:

Human rights groups are beginning to question President Obama's commitment to their issue as the administration engages authoritarian regimes, retains the option of sending terrorist suspects abroad to places where they might be tortured and puts off a presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama.

Mr. Obama's decision to wait until after he visits China in November to meet with the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists - who was on Capitol Hill Tuesday receiving an award - comes after a series of decisions that have underlined a classic tension in U.S. foreign policy between the head and the heart....

The Population Research Institute has posted yet another clever cartoon on YouTube, this one 1:10 long.

The description:

Everybody needs a friend they can trust. So let him into your life and see it change today!

Like it? See PRI's 1st cartoon, "Obamacare: Seniors need not apply."

Very instructive video. Please watch. It has applications to the pro-life fight against the liberal MSM. We need also to analyze why Lila's Planned Parenthood videos did not have in a similar devastating impact... at least yet.

[HT: CWA's Wendy Wright]

I didn't know the potato heads at Toys R Us were featuring Whoopi Goldberg on the cover of their 2009 "Differently-Abled Kids" catalog and ad campaign until she defended pedophile rapist/sodomist Roman Polanski on The View last week, after which bloggers quickly took note of the paradox.

I could have told Toys R Us Goldberg was a poor fit, certainly not the "child advocate" it boasted her to be in a press release. She's had multiple abortions - between 4 and 7, depending on the account. Serial-killing one's own children is about as child-unfriendly as one can be.

In early stand-up routines and in the book The Choices We Made: 25 Women and Men Speak Out About Abortion, Goldberg stated her first abortion was self-inflicted in a park at age 14, after being impregnated at 13.

That one happened because, "Whoopi led a bohemian lifestyle... and engaged in promiscuous activities," according to biographer Ellesse Chow.

Which brings us to Polanski. Most now know that in 1977 the famous film director at age 43 primed a 13-year-old with drugs and alcohol before raping and sodomizing her, after which he fled the country to escape prosecution....

There is no explanation for Goldberg's shocking statements in Polanski's defense except to recall Goldberg herself had consensual sex at age 13, which apparently was only the beginning. She bragged on The View in 2008 she had gone on to nail "about 50" lovers in her lifetime....

Continue reading my column today, "Toys R Us linked to 'not rape-rape' Whoopi," at WorldNetDaily.com.

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[hat tip: Scott J.]

by JivinJ

I am a plaintiff in the IL Choose Life specialty plate lawsuit against the State of IL (specifically Secretary of State Jesse White), which, btw, implicated former state Sen. Barack Obama.

Reported The Washington Times this morning...

by JivinJ

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UPDATE, 3:45p: Moderator Carder found the YouTube clip below of pro-abort Grayson hypocritically calling on Congress to "Choose life" to vote for extended healthcare coverage of children under S-CHIP....

Grayson got one fact way wrong: "[I]n America we have 25k children who die every year without reaching their first birthday."

Actually, the figure is 1,225,000, since 1.2 million are killed by abortion annually. How audacious for Grayson to close with, "I turn to the other side of the aisle. Let's save those lives. Let's choose life." Gag gag gag.
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OpenCongress.org lists NARAL Pro-Choice America and Planned Parenthood as top contributors ($5k each) to the 2008 campaign of pro-abort Congressman Alan Grayson. Grayson also supports human embryo experimentation.

So never mind Grayson's lack of decorum for his inappropriate statements on the House floor last week, first saying Republicans battling the Dem healthcare plan would prefer people to "die quickly," followed by an "apolog[y] to the dead... that we haven't voted sooner to end this [healthcare] holocaust in America."...

But backing up, this pro-abort had a lot of nerve. As Rush explained on his show October 1...

Michelle Obama prequeled her disaster of a speech to the International Olympic Committee with a disaster of a speech to Chicagoans who had worked to bring the Olympics to the Windy City. Much attention has been paid to the "sacrifice" portion of her narcissistic discourse, but here is the part that seethed me...

This week liberals suffered 4 embarrassments via Alan Grayson, David Letterman, the Obamas, and Roman Polanski. Cartoonists on both sides of the political spectrum scribbled their take in rare agreement...

Gary Varvel at Townhall.com, on Grayson...

Jeff Danziger at GoComics.com, on Letterman...

I have a new poll question up (lower right side of home page):

Do you agree with Glenn Beck that John McCain would be a worse president than Barack Obama?

[HT: Bill O'Reilly]

Here are the results of my previous poll. Almost 2/3 agreed...

Yukon asked on the US Message Board:

Many Conservatives, and even some Liberals, claim that same sex marriage and abortion are "sins" and the "Bible says it is wrong."

I ask any of you to please indicate the passage in the Bible where claims such as these are made? Show me one verse. Use whatever Bible you choose but where does it state this?

We don't have to delve into the homosexual issue unless you'd like, but what is your response to his question re: abortion?

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Love the Drudge headline!

I was one of those Illinoisans who didn't want the Olympics to come to Chicago because I knew no matter what they said taxpayers would pay for it in high leaps and bounds, to try to apply sports rhetoric to it....

by JivinJ

Shiawassee County District Judge Terrance Dignan, citing a written opinion by the state Center for Forensic Psychiatry, said Harlan Drake could attain competence to stand trial if provided treatment.

Prosecutor Randy Colbry tells WNEM-TV that Drake was placed into the custody of the state Dept. of Mental Health to undergo treatment....

From the Pew Research Center, today...

Daughter Daena and I made it a point to stop by the Polish Embassy this spring during DC's annual open house of embassies. She's 50% Polish after all.

While waiting in line to get scrumptious pierogi, kielbasa, and Żywiec beer, we perused a display of renowned Poles.

And there he was, Roman Polanski, famous film director. "But he's a child rapist!" I exclaimed, embarrassing Daena, unaware of his past, to no end. But when a guy a few feet behind us pronounced the same indictment after spotting Polanski's picture, I felt vindicated.

But the blind spot re: Polanski's sordid past was evident.

Youngsters in the crowd can read the New York Times PG13-to-R-rated backstory on page 2, including grand jury testimony from the 13yo Polanski raped and sodomized.

That was in 1977. When Polanski realized he might end up in prison, he fled the country and has for 32 years not restepped foot back on US soil. However, last week when the now 76yo ventured to Switzerland to receive a film festival award, he was nabbed....

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[HT: Commenters Betty A. and Jacqueline]

It's interesting that this Twitter post...

... has made national news, including a featured story on AOL this morning...

by JivinJ

The preliminary injunction issued by Judge Donald Daughton of Maricopa County Superior Court allows a 24-hour waiting period to take affect, but he blocked requirements that a woman see a doctor in person for advance disclosures before getting an abortion....