by Hans Johnson

Most viral videos of returning servicemen involve them surprising their families with an early return. But this is a case where the family had a surprise for one Marine returning from seven months in Afghanistan.

Staff Sgt. Jeremy Cooper and his wife Melissa have five children, one of whom is Michael, who has cerebral palsy. They were told he would never be able to walk, but one day while his father was overseas, he stood on his own. With the help of therapy, he learned to walk beyond all expectations.

Unaware of this progress upon his return to Camp Lejeune in North Carolina in December 2012, Sgt. Cooper was ushered into a gymnasium to see Michael standing across the basketball court, and was stunned to see him greet him on foot.

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[HT: LifeNews]

by Kelli

Why don’t we ask the DNC: Is it OK to kill a 7-pound baby in the uterus?

I’ve supported both bills with and without (exceptions), you know. In general, I am pro-life. So I will support legislation that advances and shows that life is special and deserves protection.

~ Republican Presidential candidate Rand Paul, fielding questions on abortion in two different press interviews, as quoted by Philip Elliott, Associated Press, April 8

[Photo by Reuters via themalaysianinsider.com]

by Hans Johnson

Not a season will go by for a legal/crime television drama without an episode or two touching on the life issue. Usually the pro-life side will be personified by a wild-eyed religious bigot, and the pro-choice one by a sensible, pragmatic victim or observer.

But on a recent episode of CBS’s The Good Wife, a subplot featured a relatively calm, intelligent discussion of this most polarizing topic.

Lawyer Diane Lockhart, played by Christine Baranski, accompanies her husband on a hunting trip, and relates that she is a Democrat. This prompts a man in the party called R.D., played by Oliver Platt, to bring up abortion.

“The Supreme Court has upheld a woman’s right to choose since 1973″, says Lockhart. When R.D. counters that the same body was responsible for the Dred Scott Decision, the conversation heats up. Video clip from Newsbusters:

While Oliver Platt has aligned himself with fervently pro-choice Hollywood, it is hoped that the common-sense words of his character had an effect on him, as they surely must have on others.

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[HT: Katie Y.; photo via serietivu.com]

by Carder

Now when your mama was 17-years-old and got pregnant, everybody told her to get an abortion, right?

And they still trying to convince her right now.

~ Rapper Snoop Dogg poking fun at singer Justin Bieber on Comedy Central’s Roast of Justin Bieber, as quoted by Newsbusters, April 1

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

• Saynsumthn’s Blog shows the unintentional hilarity of some pro-choicers who thought they’d mock pro-life beliefs by writing “Not a chicken” on unfertilized Easter eggs.
• At the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, Alex Schadenberg says Democratic New Hampshire State Rep. Michael Cahill “offered euthanasia as a solution during the budget debate last week.” He reportedly stated, “Since we are refusing to raise revenues to fund services for the disabled, for example, have you looked at euthanasia?” If that was supposed to be a joke, it wasn’t a good one.

• 40 Days for Life reminds us that the pro-life movement is a movement of converts:
  

  We are not a movement of saints, but of sinners. We are a movement of converts. And among those converts are people who once stood firm in their belief in abortion. But they were wrong – and they admitted it.

  The pro-life movement is not led by those who wave their moral fingers at women who have abortions or workers who sell abortion. In fact, many of the leaders are women who have had abortions… and the people who sold them those abortions.

  Over the past 42 years, we have seen many hearts change. Abortion doctors, abortion workers, women who have had abortions, men who have paid for abortions and baby-boomers who sincerely supported “reproductive rights” have become pro-life.

• At Live Action News, Adam Peters discusses Ryerson University in Toronto and their refusal to allow a pro-life club member status on their campus under the guise of protecting the campus from “groups, meetings, or events that promote misogynist views towards woman (sic) and ideologies that promote gender inequity, challenges women’s right (sic) to bodily autonomy, or justifies (sic) sexual assault.” Peters responds, “If the RSU’s board members are serious about opposing misogyny, sexual assault, and gender inequality, then they should stop worrying about pro-lifers and take a look at the abortion industry; it enables all three.”
• Bound4Life, posts about a reported “breakthrough” in medical science which produces organs available for transplant. But this breakthrough is extremely controversial: the organs are harvested from aborted babies, transplanted into lab rats and grown for eventual transplant into humans – a process is known as xenotransplantation.

  Their reasoning for using organs from aborted humans is that the organs would simply go to waste otherwise. Our own Jill Stanek remarked on this process, as quoted by CNS News:
  

  It is easy to see where this is heading: toward the day when human beings will be grown in the lab specifically for organ and tissue harvesting. This is horrific on so many levels.

• Kansans for Life comments on a PBS show that features doctors and nurses treating pre-born children for defects and problems in utero instead of killing them via abortion:
  

  Twice Born focuses on treating serious medical problems detected in the womb, including invasive tumors, spina bifida, and twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. The first show was well-paced and personalized the staff, particularly one physician whose daughter has a degenerative disease.

  But beyond the pathos of the medical conditions depicted, and beyond the admiration for the dedication and compassion of the medical staff, a deliberate feeling kept rising in me: THIS is what medicine naturally aspires to… how marvelous… how noble! This is what physicians SHOULD be doing!

• Big Blue Wave says despite the pro-choice narrative attempting to paint Purvi Patel’s self-induced abortion/feticide as a “miscarriage,” it wasn’t:
  

  This is not about criminalizing miscarriage.

  Do you really believe that pro-life women such as myself, who have had miscarriages, would seek to criminalize a natural miscarriage?

  No.

  There’s a difference between a natural miscarriage, one whose cause is usually unknown and unprovoked and that induced by pills or other means.

[Photos via 40 Days for Life and nhpr.org]

by Hans Johnson

When Jen Cardinal saw her baby clapping hands in her 14-week ultrasound, it was too much to let go by. The doctor rewound the tape and sang with her as her husband filmed.

Naturally, there has been “controversy” over this video, with some calling the baby’s clap (Mrs. Cardinal insists the baby clapped three actual times) a “meaningless movement.”

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[HT: LauraLoo]

by Kelli

… [T]he ACLU wants to force religious organizations to pay for abortions for illegal immigrants who have been raped and become pregnant.

Six out of the nine national refugee resettlement groups in the United States are faith-based agencies….

~ Eric Owens, discussing the latest fang-baring against the Catholic Church, this time regarding the Church’s refusal to add abortion and contraception to the aid they provide illegal immigrants, The Daily Caller, April 6

[Image via prohuman.net]

by Kelli

From Ireland’s Youth Defence comes a video that examines what being “pro-choice” should really mean:

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If you’d like to help Youth Defence with the airing of this ad, you may donate here.

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[HT: Jill]