by Kelli

Wisconsin Assembly Bill 237 would ban abortions after 20 weeks “postfertilization,” which doctors would measure as 22 weeks of pregnancy since pregnancies are usually measured from the woman’s last menstrual period. If the bill becomes law, doctors who perform an abortion after this time could be charged with a felony and fined up to $10,000, or face up to three and a half years in prison.

In addition to those penalties, the bill would allow the father to sue the doctor for damages, “including damages for personal injury and emotional and psychological distress,” if the doctor performs or attempts to perform an abortion after the 20-week limit. The man does not need to be married to the woman or even in a relationship with her to sue her doctor, as long as the pregnancy is not a result of sexual assault or incest. The bill also says the woman can sue.

~ Laura Bassett, describing a proposed WI bill that would allow expectant fathers to sue an abortionist for the emotional distress of a partner’s late-term abortion, Huffington Post, June 3

[Photo via razorplanet.com]

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

• At Live Action News, Sarah Terzo refutes the outrageous claims of pro-abortion Methodist minister John M. Swomley, who argues that preborn children are not innocent (due to original sin) and therefore cannot be considered harmless if their existence produces a threat to their mothers. As outrageous as these arguments are, it is even sadder to hear them coming from purported representatives of the Gospel. Terzo rightly points out:
  

  Swomley’s argument would also justify infanticide. A baby outside the womb would still be considered to have “Original Sin” until baptism, in many faith traditions. Therefore, prior to the moment when the priest or pastor pours water on the child’s forehead (or baptizes him some other way) it would be permissible to kill the child.

• At First Things, Michael J. New points to a disturbing trend that should concern pro-lifers:
  

  Last week, Gallup released a poll which showed a large short term increase support for physician assisted suicide. In 2013, only 45 percent of Americans found doctor assisted suicide “morally acceptable.” Last week’s poll indicated that percentage had risen to 56 percent. It is likely that the fawning media coverage of Brittany Maynard’s [pictured left] assisted suicide this past November shifted public attitudes.

• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition reposts an article by disability rights expert Marilyn Golden on California’s assisted suicide bill SB 128, which is modeled after Oregon’s law. Unfortunately, not only does OR allow physician-assisted suicide, they keep very poor statistical records, leaving many questions unanswered and unanalyzed. Golden asks, “Is this the model California really wants to use for something this important?”
• JivinJehoshaphat dissects a pro-choice Salon article in which an abortion worker acknowledges the humanity of the preborn child while diminishing it:
  

  What I noticed is how Beeman admitted earlier that the unborn have tiny arms and legs, yet goes on to use the intentionally dehumanizing term “unwanted growth” to describe them as if the human individual these arms and legs were torn from was like a wart on a foot….My thought is that the idea that a woman should be able to kill the helpless human being living inside for whatever reason she wants is not a position most people are comfortable defending even if that’s the actual reason they favor legal abortion. It’s much easier to push those tiny arms and legs aside and imagine the unborn as a bunion or a pimple because making the bodily autonomy argument is much easier if another human being isn’t being torn apart.

• Fletcher Armstrong ran into an issue at Tennessee Tech University when school officials were unaware of their own policy “allow[ing] individual students (not just student groups) to host events on campus”:
  

  [W]hen national pro-life award-winner and TTU student Justin Brown contacted us about bringing GAP [Genocide Awareness Project], we were eager to go….
  As it turns out, every public university student has the same right that Justin exercised at TTU; their universities just don’t know it… yet. The rights of free speech and equal access to university grounds are individual rights, not group rights. They cannot be denied to an individual student simply because he hasn’t identified others willing to join him in that speech. TTU has figured this out, and they deserve credit for that.

• Clinic Quotes uncovers a statement from Lawrence McKinney, who was a Planned Parenthood board member in upstate New York. Note his sneering disdain for larger families (especially those on welfare):
  

  All I do actually is to multiply them by $600, which is deductible from their income tax and realize that I, with only three children, am paying for them. The McKinney suggestion, which has and will go nowhere is: 1) give everybody a tax reduction for four children and after that make them pay $600 for every other child. The only trouble with my system is that since most of the explosive families are on relief anyway, there is nothing to deduct from or to tax with.

[Photos via usmagazine.com and Fletcher Armstrong]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Canadian abortionist Wee Lim Sim has agreed to stop practicing after his “cluttered and unhygienic” clinic endangered patients:
  

  He agreed to resign from the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, and never re-apply, after admitting to professional misconduct. The committee went on to “roundly condemn” his ineffective infection control, improper delegation to his staff, poor record keeping, and rude, aggressive style of communication. Sim’s only response to the reprimand was “Thank you sir.” Outside the hearing room, however, he was flippant and dismissive of the misconduct to which he had just admitted.

  Here’s more background and a picture of Sim in his obviously cluttered clinic.

• An abortion clinic in Australia is trying to prevent pro-life protesters from protesting:
  

  The clinic, the court heard, wanted the council to use its power to demand names and addresses from protesters and to issue them with prohibition notices, or to consider imposing exclusion zones similar to those outside abortion clinics in parts of the US and Canada.

• In Dallas, four family members have been arrested for a horrific crime. They allegedly beat an 8-months pregnant 14-year-old girl for 6 hours to cause the death of her unborn child, who was conceived after the girl was raped by a family member. When the child was delivered stillborn, they tried to dispose of the baby by burning the child on a charcoal grill:
  

  Sharon Jones gave the girl “multiple doses of birth control pills, Plan B [emergency contraception] pills and cinnamon tablets … to abort the baby,” police said.

  After the pills failed to induce an abortion, Cecila McDonald pinned the girl down while Lonnell McDonald began “repeatedly bouncing up and down” while sitting on the girl’s abdomen. He also is accused of kicking the girl repeatedly.

  Cecila McDonald told her, “You ain’t about to get my kids taken away from me,” while Lonnell McDonald laughed, according to the affidavit….

  The attack didn’t stop until the girl began bleeding heavily. She said the baby was stillborn about two hours later.

by Hans Johnson

While mortality rates for childhood cancers have steadily dropped, damage to organs has posed health problems on its own later on – often resulting in fatalities. So in the 1990s a different approach came into favor: a more targeted use of radiation, as well as a scaling back of chemotheropy with less harsh drugs.

A new long-term study of 34,ooo patients has just been released which shows no setback in the forward progress of survivability, as well as fewer heart and lung complications. No one is more pleased than Marsha Stringer of Huntsville, Texas. Her two sons were both diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia –Garrett at the age of seven, and his younger brother Gatlin when he was only three. They are now 20 and 14 and doing fantastically well, as seen in this video from the AP:

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[HT: TheBlaze]

by Carder

Bruce Jenner wanted his first wife to get an abortion when she found out she was pregnant during the middle of their divorce in the late 1970s, his daughter said.

In the same interview where Jenner made his debut as “Caitlyn,” Casey Jenner (pictured) told Vanity Fair the story of her birth.

Jenner married Chrystie Crownover in 1972, and the two had a son, Burt. They found out she was pregnant with Casey halfway through their divorce, and Casey said her mom told her that Bruce first suggested getting an abortion but “rejected it after 30 seconds.”…

But Chrystie once said the plan for the abortion went a lot further than just “30 seconds.” In a 1981 interview with People magazine, she said she came close to going through with the abortion simply because Bruce wanted it, even going as far as to pay for it.

~ The Daily Caller, June 2

by Hans Johnson

Pedro Cortes served as Pennsylvania’s Secretary of the Commonwealth from 2003 to 2010 under Democrat Governor Ed Rendell. He “oversaw” Gosnell’s most frenzied period of misconduct, including:

… losing his admitting privileges at all local hospitals due to the number of seriously injured women being sent there by Gosnell; a two year lapse in Gosnell’s malpractice insurance; Gosnell being named as a defendant in 46 separate civil lawsuits; a number of six- and seven-figure awards against Gosnell; and, at least two women dying.

Following up on any of this would have led to the earlier discovery of the grisly conditions and illegal killing of babies. Instead, continuing the state’s neglect which began under the previous Republican Tom Ridge administration, there was no delay in license renewals.

And now, despite Gosnell’s convictions and the notorious scandal of his free rein for decades previously, newly elected Governor Tom Wolf has reappointed Cortes to the same job. Until the senate votes, he is acting secretary  once again.

While Tom Corbett (R) was the governor, Cortes was vice president of an election technology company, ironically called Everyone Counts.

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On April 25, the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform’s Gregg Cunningham debated Abolish Human Abortion’s T. Russell Hunter on the topic, “Pro-life Incrementalism vs. Abolitionist Immediatism.”

As faithful readers to my blog know, I followed up on Cunningham’s excellent dissection of Hunter’s flawed “immediatist” arguments with what ended up to be a nine-part series of posts.

But I wasn’t the only one who had points to make about the debate. Pro-life apologists Steve Hays of Triablogue, Scott Klusendorf of Life Training Institute, Dr. Michael New of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, Jonathon Van Maren of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, and Clinton Wilcox also of LTI had excellent thoughts of their own.

SO, we have compiled our writings into an ebook entitled, “Abolition of Reason: Pro-Life Apologists Deconstruct ‘Immediatist’ Ideology as Presented in Cunningham-Hunter Debate,” and are making it available free (by clicking on the title) to whoever would like to delve more into the cracked and dangerous theory of immediatism.

Chapters (click to enlarge)…

Please spread the word!

by Jill

This just posted by Created Equal… brings tears to my eyes! Set-up:

“It’s got me depressed already” a father exiting an abortion facility laments. Talking to our team standing with signs of abortion victims and counseling those entering the building, he declares, “I love what you guys are doing. I want to keep [my baby].” What happens next? Watch the video!

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