by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

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• At Priests for Life, Janet Morana discusses the case of Ariel Knights, who sought (and thought she had) an abortion after she was told her pregnancy was a risk to her life due to uterus didelphys, and her baby survived. Most revealing is that this article on the case minces no words regarding the substandard conditions of the abortion facility and stark facts of the procedure:
  

  When her name was called that March morning a year ago, she walked into a cramped room and climbed onto a table, positioning her lower body above a trash bag. When the doctor finished, Knights, still woozy from being sedated, was handed her things and shown the door.

• ProWomanProLife has been following the “Vagina Warriors” and their efforts to shut down (or shout down, as the case may be) any sort of intelligent discussion on abortion. Canadian MP Stephen Woodworth, a conservative who made a motion to study a legal definition of when life begins, was invited to speak at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, but was instead confronted with the “warriors’” pro-choice theatrics (pictured left).
• Wesley J. Smith says the state of Washington is attempting to pass a law that would require employers to pay for elective abortions through their insurance policies – yet another assault on business owners’ conscience and religious rights that could drive businesses out of the state. How far is the abortion industry willing to go to get taxpayer-funded abortions?
• Real Choice continues to chronicle women’s deaths from both illegal and legal abortion, showing that regardless of legality or time period, abortionist quacks abound.
• John Smeaton says Easter Sunday will also be the date of a temporary hold on an anti-life law in the Philippines.
• Bryan Kemper recently sent out a fundraising email that reached a pregnant, abortion-minded woman, who called Kemper to complain. During their conversation, he referred the woman to a counselor and she has chosen life for her preborn child. Wow!
• A Voice for Hope encourages you to take the time to listen to a panel discussion on pro-life and religious liberty from the recent CPAC conference:

[Photo via National Post]

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A record number of people wrote in to oppose the HHS Mandate regulations:
  

  Three years after Congress approved President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA), contraceptive care remains its most controversial provision, drawing not only more comments than any other regulatory proposal on any subject government-wide, according to an analysis of federal regulations on Sunlight’s Docket Wrench.

  More than 147,000 people and organizations have made their voices heard over the debate, most of them opposing the provision that requires that federal agencies have interpreted to mean that women have access to preventive services–including contraception – at no cost.

• The latest person to testify in the Kermit Gosnell murder trial is Philadelphia Fire Department Lt. Don Burgess, regarding his being called to Gosnell’s clinic as Karnamaya Mongar was dying:
  

  Burgess said they were led through a “maze to a room where we found a female nude from the waist down and with her feet in stirrups.”

  A female worker and Gosnell were there but neither was doing anything, and there was no sign emergency resuscitation had been tried.

  “The doctor was confused,” Burgess said, responding to questions from Assistant District Attorney Edward Cameron. “I asked him what happened, and he blurted out something I couldn’t understand.”

• Ohio pro-lifers are upset with the University of Toledo for helping to keep an abortion clinic open:
  

  He distributed paperwork showing that the Ohio Department of Health in March, 2012, levied a fine of $25,000 and threatened to shut down Capital Care Network for having no transfer agreement in place. The shutdown threat was canceled after Capital Care signed an agreement with the UT Medical Center, formerly the Medical College of Ohio, in August, 2012.

  “This abortion mill would not be able to exist without the University of Toledo and it’s time for the University of Toledo to get out of the abortion business, even if it’s indirect,” Mr. [John] Coats [of Ohio Right to Life, pictured left] said.

  Rep. Lynn Wachtmann (R., Napoleon) said he believes Ohio law already prohibits the arrangement under its ban on state-funded entities supporting abortion, but said he would soon introduce legislation to make the ban more explicit.

• In the Washington Times, Victoria Cobb writes about the abortion industry’s opposition to public oversight and how that endangers women:
  

  Some industry representatives claim they support regulations, but say that the proposed Virginia standards “go too far.” In fact, for several years they adamantly opposed legislation before the Virginia General Assembly that would have required only licensing, inspections and emergency equipment. Now we know why.

  The discovery of widespread violations of health and safety in the inspections — inspections the industry fought so hard to stop — reveals that it has no credibility when it comes to which regulations are necessary and which are not. An industry that has covered up for two decades the kinds of problems found in the inspection reports does not deserve to be listened to when it comes to how it should be regulated.

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As many abortionists are found to be over the course of time, abortionist Reginald Sharpe is a menace to society.

The rap sheet against Sharpe is long.

Sharpe’s medical license was placed on probation in 1998 for illegally administrating drugs and was suspended in 2005 after he botched an illegal 27-week abortion. Sharpe was busted in 2008 for illegally dumping patient records, aborted babies, medical waste, and syringes. In 2010 Medicaid revoked Sharpe’s certification for unspecified “fraud and abuse, false billing, or kickbacks.”

In addition, Sharpe has been sued at least five times:

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by Hans Johnson

In this season of Resurrection, consider the story of Kayli Whistler, diagnosed with Trisomy 18, who was pronounced dead during a heart operation. After 32 minutes she revived and is now almost four years old. View her Facebook page here.

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: GodTube]

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Former Planned Parenthood manager Abby Johnson’s amazing conversion story is well-known in the pro-life world: After visualizing an abortion on ultrasound, Abby walked out of her Bryan, Texas, PP clinic in October 2009 and walked into the Coalition for Life office headed by Shawn Carney, who now coleads the 40 Days for Life ministry.

Since then Abby has never looked back, releasing the best-selling exposé, UnPLANNED, in 2011 and launching the And Then There Were None ministry last year.

ATTWN reaches out to abortion workers to encourage them to leave the trade.

To date ATTWN has helped 47 souls escape that bloody industry. ATTWN helps former clinic workers in four important ways, providing:

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by LauraLoo

As reported by Newsbusters:

On her MSNBC show this morning, MH-P repeatedly revealed how little respect she has for life in its early forms.

At one point, [Melissa] Harris-Perry callously spoke of how much it costs “to have this thing turn into a human.”

Watch as MH-P makes light as she accidentally breaks a model of a fertilized egg, claims there is no science supporting the notion that life in its early forms could be considered a person, and dismissively refers to that early life as “this” and “this thing.” You really have to watch and listen to hear the dismissivness, the virtual contempt, with which MH-P speaks of “this thing.”…

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  [Apparently], it is much more important for the school to have Planned Parenthood at Benson than it is to have a teacher teach computer science and math.

~ High school teacher Bill Diss (pictured), who was escorted by police out of his classroom at Benson High School in Portland, Oregon, last week because of his opposition to Planned Parenthood’s presence on campus, as reported by Christian News Network, March 22

[HT: Barb and Brian; photo via Catholic Sentinel]

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I have a new poll question up:

Is it fair to equate abortion with slavery?

Virginia Democrats are attacking Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli for comments he made last year connecting the two, this on the heels of Susan B. Anthony List president Marjorie Dannenfelser doing the same at CPAC.

Cuccinelli was spot on:

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Here were my top five six favorite political cartoons this week. Vote for your favorite in the poll at the end of the post.

by Steve Kelley at GoComics.com…

 by Dana Summers at GoComics.com…

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When they neared Jerusalem, having arrived at Bethphage on Mount Olives, Jesus sent two disciples with these instructions: “Go over to the village across from you. You’ll find a donkey tethered there, her colt with her. Untie her and bring them to me. If anyone asks what you’re doing, say, ‘The Master needs them!’ He will send them with you.”

This is the full story of what was sketched earlier by the prophet: Tell Zion’s daughter, “Look, your king’s on his way, poised and ready, mounted On a donkey, on a colt, foal of a pack animal.”

The disciples went and did exactly what Jesus told them to do. They led the donkey and colt out, laid some of their clothes on them, and Jesus mounted. Nearly all the people in the crowd threw their garments down on the road, giving him a royal welcome. Others cut branches from the trees and threw them down as a welcome mat. Crowds went ahead and crowds followed, all of them calling out, “Hosanna to David’s son!” “Blessed is he who comes in God’s name!” “Hosanna in highest heaven!”

As he made his entrance into Jerusalem, the whole city was shaken. Unnerved, people were asking, “What’s going on here? Who is this?” The parade crowd answered, “This is the prophet Jesus, the one from Nazareth in Galilee.”

~ Matthew 21:1-11, The Message translation

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