by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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by LauraLoo
CelebTV reports on actor Brad Pitt’s recent Esquire Magazine interview in which he “opens up about loving the life he’s living” with actress fiancée Angelina Jolie and their six children:
I always thought that if I wanted to do a family, I wanted to do it big…. There’s constant chatter in our house, whether it’s giggling or screaming or crying or banging. I love it….
I just haven’t known life to be any happier.
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[HT: Daily Mail and People]
Joining the BusNuns this time is ol’ Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) who has a perfect pro-abortion record. She is rated 100% by NARAL. What a distinction!
These Nuns keep some odd company, don’t they?
~ Father John Zuhlsdorf, noticing the Nuns on the Bus Tour sponsored by NETWORK Catholic Social Justice Lobby, which had as its speaker pro-abortion congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (pictured), What Does the Prayer Really Say?, May 31
In April, Hans posted video of a woman at Ohio State University knocking down signs that had been erected by Created Equal showing the atrocity of abortion.
The vandal was identified as OSU student Calysta Santacroce, and Created Equal filed charges.
On May 7 criminal charges were lowered to “disorderly conduct” on the condition that Santacroce plead guilty and pay restitution of $126 to Created Equal, which she paid in cash that day.
When the judge asked Santacroce to explain herself, she said it had been a bad day, and she did something she knows she shouldn’t have. “He [CE staff member] provoked me,” Santacroce claimed.
When the judge asked how so, Santacroce responded, “He asked me, ‘What do you think of my signs?’”
Santacroce was fined $50, in addition to the restitution.
Here again is that video. Warning: Profanity…
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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
by Hans Johnson
Last February, Erica Nigrelli, an English teacher at Elkins High School in Missouri City, Texas, was visiting a colleague’s classroom when she passed out. She was 36 weeks pregnant at the time. Her husband Nathan, also an English teacher there, was among those who attended her. Her heart had stopped, and it took the use of CPR and a defibrillator by school nurse Jennifer Longoria, her assistant Maxine Reeves, and athletic trainer June Tomlin to get it going again till paramedics arrived.
The emergency C-Section that delivered baby Elayna was technically post-mortem because Erica’s heart had stopped again. She was revived and later diagnosed with hypertropic cardiomyopathy.
Here is the initial report from CNN:
Erica’s co-workers were honored at a city council meeting.
You can see how the Nigrelli family is doing now in this interview with CNN’s Early Start.
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[HT: TheBlaze]
Did doctors in a country that bans abortion under any circumstances manage to terminate the pregnancy without violating the law?…
On Monday, doctors removed Beatriz’s fetus — which had a severe defect that prevented the brain from developing — through an incision in her abdomen….
Yet the procedure was not an abortion, the health minister said, because the fetus was delivered, placed in an incubator and provided fluids. It lived for five hours.
One Salvadoran anti-abortion group called the outcome a victory, describing the procedure as an induced birth in which the baby died of natural causes. Some abortion-rights advocates welcomed the outcome, too, saying it showed that El Salvador’s ironclad restriction did not have to imperil women with dangerous pregnancies, even when the fetus had little or no chance of surviving.
“It is an abortion,” said Alejandra Cárdenas, legal adviser for the Center for Reproductive Rights. “They are interrupting an unviable pregnancy.”…
Motivation has become a determining factor in distinguishing abortions from early deliveries, some doctors say.
“An abortion is done with the intent of killing the baby,” said José Miguel Fortín Magaña, director of the Institute of Legal Medicine, which evaluates medical issues for the nation’s highest court. “An induction is done with the intent of saving the mother.”
~ Karla Zabludovsky, reporting on the early delivery of a child in a high-risk pregnancy in El Salvador, The New York Times, June 4
[Photo via rawstory.com; sign translated: "Beatriz has a right to live. Respect sexual and reproductive rights."]
Four months ago Diana Jimenez had an epiphany.
“I was pro-life but had no idea what an abortion looked like,” Diana told me today by phone. “Then I actually saw a video of an abortion, and my heart broke in pieces.”
A senior nursing student at Biola, a Christian university in La Mirada, California, Diana (pictured right) promptly launched a pro-life group and invited Gregg Cunningham, executive director of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, to speak. After a great deal of energy was expended to publicize, only four students showed up.
Diana was compelled to attempt greater outreach, and the clock was ticking, with graduation just around the corner.
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As reported by Fox News, one of the most outrageous pieces of testimony from yesterday’s House hearing on the IRS scandal came from Sue Martinek of the Coalition for Life of Iowa, who detailed her extensive back-and-forth in 2008 and 2009 with an IRS agent out of the Cincinnati office after she applied for tax-exempt status. Martinek said her group was asked to make an incredible concession in order for the application to be approved:
[The agent] told me verbally that we needed to send in a letter with the entire board’s signatures, stating that… we would not picket, protest, or organize outside of Planned Parenthood. Upon receiving such a letter, she indicated that the IRS would allow our application to go through.
Below is the full testimony of Ms. Martinek:
Iowa anti-abortion group leader describes ‘harassment’ by IRS from Chris Sweigart on Vimeo.
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“You only have one child.”
WARNING: THIS ONE MAKES ME MAD! Well, there are a few methods that you can use to keep away unplanned pregnancies. If you didn’t want them then don’t have them.
Or better yet, give them to someone who actually wants a child.
~ Preschool teacher Karen Harrington (pictured), responding to parents who make excuses as to why their enthusiasm slacks off at the end of the school year, Mrs. Karen’s Preschool Ideas, June 2
(Among the excuses parents with multiple children have given is that Karen can’t possibly understand their feelings, because she has only one child.)
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
As Democrats consider whether to use the so-called nuclear option to rewrite the Senate’s filibuster rules, one issue in particular has some liberals worried: abortion.
Changing the rules to make it easier to confirm President Barack Obama’s executive branch or judicial appointments may help the White House in the short term…. But privately, that base and abortion rights supporters are concerned how a future GOP president and Senate could take advantage of the new setup.
One Democratic aide described abortion rights groups as “wary of using the nuclear option to lower the threshold to 50 votes for judges because they’re afraid of what it could mean for women’s health,” although no group would go on the record, citing sensitive congressional negotiations. And several Democratic senators agreed the future of abortion rights is one of the top concerns for the party in the fight over rules….
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has threatened to use the nuclear option to speed things up. Simply put, the Senate would vote by a simple majority to prohibit filibusters on certain types of nominations – bringing the threshold to 50 votes rather than the 60 needed to break a filibuster.
~ Politico, June 6
[Photo from classic movie, Mr. Smith goes to Washington, where Jimmy Stewart plays a new ideological senator who filibusters for 24 hours straight to spotlight his cause]
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