by Kelli

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• In the New York Post, Scott Gottlieb has a column on how Obamacare, while granting free contraceptives to women, actually takes away real life-saving screenings and care for women.
• Michael New debunks arguments often made during election season – specifically, that more generous welfare programs will reduce abortion rates and that pro-lifers have not benefited from electing Republicans.
• At ProWomanProLife, Andrea Mrozek links to Jennifer Fulwiler’s article on why she lost faith in the pro-choice movement.

• Reflections of a Paralytic notes how movies like Gattaca and Cloud Atlas, on the issues of eugenics and human cloning, are becoming a reality.
• At Pro-Life Action League, Joe Scheidler writes about the continued intimidation of praying pro-lifers outside a Chicago abortion clinic – this time, by police who say they “don’t like to keep coming” there.
• ProLife NZ has thoughts on why the controversy over abortion will “always be with us.”
• At Pro-Life Wisconsin, Kristin Van Spankeren writes about what it’s like to be a “pro-life people pleaser in a pro-choice community.”
• Secular Pro-Life posts a lengthy synopsis of a debate from the 2012 Texas Freethought Convention between two atheists – one pro-life and one pro-choice.

• Wesley J. Smith discusses a European Court of Human Rights ruling which “appears to require Poland to squash the conscience rights of doctors who do not wish to be complicit in a legal abortion.”
• At New Feminism, Marjorie Campbell writes an open letter to NOW president Terry O’Neill, encouraging her (and other feminists) to not only stand up for obvious instances of misogyny and violence against women, but against the ones to which the NOW typically turns a blind eye:
  

  It is vital that those of us fighting and struggling for the dignity of our gender dialogue on the scope of degradation of the female – including females aborted due to sex selection, females used and degraded in pornography and prostitution, females reduced to indentured pregnancies, and females killed as “incidents” by drones and military strategies.

If we do not insist that the condition of being female is never a justification for destruction and exploitation, that – in fact – the condition of being female is as worthy and equal to that of the male – then we will fall short of creating a world where the female can live with the same respect and dignity of the male.

• Women’s Rights Without Frontiers president Reggie Littlejohn had the opportunity to co-present the anti-gendercide film, It’s a Girl, in British Parliament this week. View the trailer below:

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[Images via Reflections of a Paralytic and concordatwatch.eu]

by Kelli

Created Equal’s Justice Ride is targeting battleground states with graphic abortion images this election season to educate the public on the reality of abortion:

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You have to love the young woman’s completely absurd comments at 1:30 in this video:

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[HT: Jill]

They came in droves seemingly out of nowhere, standing hours in line to quietly cast their vote for traditional marriage by simply buying a chicken sandwich.

These were the Chick-fil-A people, who, at the behest of Gov. Mike Huckabee, flocked to restaurants in the chain all across the country on August 1, “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day,” to show their support for CEO Dan Cathy, who had been maligned for expressing support for traditional marriage.

The Chick-fil-A people are who Rush Limbaugh was speaking of yesterday, the vastly underestimated bloc of believers who are quietly chomping at the bit to vote next Tuesday.

Rush further defined them as pro-lifers:

They’re trying to re-create what happened in 2008 without considering what happened in 2010…. But 2010 does matter. It really happened. And it was devastating for the Democrats, and it’s not done one thing but get worse since then. It hasn’t gotten any better….

To sweep 2010 away doesn’t mean because it wasn’t a presidential race, there weren’t any candidates…. 2010 was an uprising in this country against Obama and everything he stands for and an uprising against the Democrat Party….

And Daniel Henninger today, Wall Street Journal: “Romney’s Secret Voting Bloc.” I love this. I love this. Because I think this is true as well. He starts out this way:

“You’ve heard about Mitt Romney’s problems with the women’s vote, the black vote, the Hispanic vote, the union vote and the young Democrats vote. But there’s one major voting group that’s fallen off the map since the primaries… the evangelical vote.” The evangelical vote.

What would you call them, the religious right, the value voters, or (as they would say at Planned Parenthood), “The damn pro-lifers.” Some moderate Republicans would say “damn pro-lifers,” too, but they’re not being counted on. They’re not being polled. They’re not being factored. They’re not considered a constituency.…

But the point is, they are a large part of the Tea Party.  They are a large part of the what happened in 2010.  And the evangelicals, the media hates ’em, the Democrats hate ’em, and they tell themselves that they don’t matter.  They’re just a bunch of really dumb, stupid, single-issue people

Have you heard any discussion of this voting bloc in this whole campaign?  You haven’t, have you?  They are 24 million votes.  They always have been.  And they are way under the radar of the Drive-Bys, at least publicly.  I’m sure that Axelrod and Plouffe and these guys live in mortal fear of them.  They’re never gonna acknowledge it.  But, you see, the media and the Democrats are not interested or even curious to learn anything about these people.  They so despise them and resent them, and conservatives in general….

They love to report on the Obama agenda, the War on Women and the gay activist vote, blacks, illegals, college students, but in the 2002 midterms, they got gobsmacked. I remember I was on election night coverage with Tom Brokaw and Tim Russert, and they had no idea what hit ’em.  And in the exit polls of the midterms in 2002, the value voters, the number one issue for Republicans that voted in the midterms was values, Democrat Party values.  And everybody was shocked.

Now, the evangelical vote doesn’t vote every year.  They don’t vote every election.  They are the kind that will sit out elections if they’re single issue or maybe their top two issues are not met. It’s spending and it’s life, and if those things are not addressed, they’ll sit out rather than vote.  But if they show up and vote, they’re never accounted for.  And Henninger’s piece here is all about there’s a whole bunch of them that are going to vote.  In fact, Franklin Graham, Billy Graham’s son, has just fairly recently began to mobilize his flock in this regard…

One of the things about the evangelicals: They don’t talk to pollsters. They don’t talk to them. Go back to 2008. One of the reasons that McCain chose Palin was because the evangelical vote didn’t want anything to do with McCain.

They tried to rally the evangelical vote with the selection of Palin. It didn’t quite work. They didn’t vote in 2008. A lot of people just didn’t vote. Now, this is why the selection of Paul Ryan was inspired. Ryan is… I mean, he’s clean and pure as the wind-driven snow and he means it. He’s just… He’s a good boy. He’s a good boy, and he inspires confidence. “We can do this! We can do this!” meaning, fix this problem.

Every night, we do our prayers…We pray to God, so sweet. She says, “God, please bring me a bunk bed and a baby sister.”

And I say, “I can do one of those things, I know for sure. The other one, we’ve got to keep praying on.”

What do you say to her when she wants that and can’t understand why God’s taken so long?

~ 48-yr-old actress Halle Berry, explaining how her 4-1/2 yr-old daughter, Nahla Ariela (both pictured right) prays for a sibling, as quoted by People, November 1

by Hans Johnson

One-year-old twins Chloe and Alexis Radner take one look at each other and agree that Daddy plays good acoustic guitar.

However, lightning doesn’t always strike twice, as when they appeared on Today.

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[HT: Randi G.]

If Barack Obama really does think his ad’s messages are cool, he’s revealing more about the way he thinks of women than he may realize….

That’s why, when I go to the polling station in a few days and pull back the curtain, like Lena Dunham, I’m going to vote for the candidate who really cares about and understands women. News flash: It won’t be anyone who views women as sex objects — or sells himself as one.

~ Anne Morse, BreakPoint, October 30

I’m so sad to report one of the bloggers we feature in our top blogs section (right side of home page) has passed away.

Barbara Curtis, who ran the Mommy Life blog, suffered a massive stroke on Sunday and passed away yesterday, October 30. See funeral arrangements here. Barbara had nine biological children, one with Down syndrome, and she adopted three more children with Down syndrome.

We often featured many of Barbara’s posts, but one highlight was when Barbara’s daughter Maddy auditioned for American Idol in 2010. Here’s her audition and family backstory, including a segment featuring Barbara…

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Life is so fragile. Barbara lived every minute and left a wonderful legacy. She lived her pro-life convictions. We will miss her.

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Thanks to pro-lifers Michelle Wolven and Catherine Davis, a small group of us have been on this story for weeks.

While Michelle and Catherine were digging through online records of Georgia abortion clinics, they stumbled on the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder’s wife Sharon Malone Holder (both pictured right) co-owns with her sister an Atlanta area abortion clinic building.

The building is located at 6210 Old National Highway, College Park, Georgia.

The business itself is called Old National GYN. Click on deed above and see below…

The story was so big, Catherine handed it off to Watchdog.org reporter Troy Anderson.

Anderson’s article, “Holder’s family papers over his ties to abortion doctor,” was published in Human Events today.

Anderson’s story deepens beyond the obvious breaking news that Sharon Holder, an OB/GYN herself, co-owns a building – and has for many years – that operates as an abortion clinic.

Clinic abortionist indicted on Medicaid charges

What’s more, the abortionist at Old National, Tyrone Cecile Malloy, was indicted last year by a Georgia grand jury on charges of Medicaid fraud.

The paper trail backward, according to Anderson:

The same tax records show the building was formerly owned by Dr. Mack A. Jones, late husband of another of Holder’s sister-in-laws, Vivian Malone Jones. Her death, announced in an Oct. 14, 2005 obituary in The Washington Post, reported that she was Malone Holder’s sister.

The other two sisters apparently inherited the building at that time.

Paper trail cover-up attempt

Anderson further detailed how, after he alerted the Holders and sister co-owner Margie Malone Tuckson 0f the information he had, requesting comment, the family quickly moved to put the abortion clinic building into a blind trust.

Explains a lot

Pro-lifers agree Holder’s ties to the abortion industry explain a lot – his attacks against pro-life activists and that he looks the other way on abortion industry skulduggery. Details Anderson:

Critics say it may also explain why Holder has been eager to prosecute pro-life advocates who counsel women outside abortion clinics….

“There is a clear conflict of interest when the man charged with pursuing those that abuse the system is also one who is engaged in some way with the business,” said Davis, whose organization brought the issue to the attention of Watchdog….

In recent months, judges have blocked Holder’s efforts to punish pro-life supporters counseling women outside abortion clinics. In one case, Holder’s Department of Justice agreed to pay Mary “Susan” Pine $120,000 for its filing of an “improper lawsuit” against her, according to a statement by Liberty Counsel, an Orlando, Fla.-based nonprofit legal firm. Pine counseled women on the sidewalk outside a Florida abortion clinic….

Karen Handel, the former secretary of state in Georgia and a former senior vice president of public policy for the Susan G. Komen Center, said she was “shocked” by the findings of the Watchdog investigation.

“It certainly underscores the deep ties the Obama Administration has to the abortion issue,” said Handel, author of the new book, Planned Bullyhood: The Truth Behind the Headlines about the Planned Parenthood Funding Battle with Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

“This certainly seems to shed some additional light into why Obama and his team seem obsessed with protecting Planned Parenthood and abortion rights at the expense of other important issues in the country.”…

Davis pointed to cases in which activists have sued Planned Parenthood for alleged Medicaid fraud – in Georgia, Iowa, Texas, New York, and Massachusetts – but where Holder’s Justice Department has failed to act.

“The U.S. attorney general has not at all pursued a case against any of them, including this one in Georgia where his wife owns the property,” Davis said.

Also add to the mix the DOJ’s October decision not to investigate an Indiana abortion clinic Allen County Right to Life alleges is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.