Even a professor at Catholic University of America, Stephen Schneck, has proposed the absolutely insane argument that voting for Obama is a good thing because there will be less abortion under him than Romney because Romney’s policies will cause more poverty and therefore more abortions.

And this man has a PhD.–and more to the point– is paid by a Catholic university???

C’mon.

~ Michael Voris, incredulous over the recent statements made by Democrats for Life board member and co-chair of Catholics for Obama, Stephen Schneck (pictured above right), via Church Militant TV, September 28

Jonathan Last of The Weekly Standard totally deconstructs Professor Schneck’s argument with actual data.

Here are my top five favorite political cartoons this week, beginning with a twofer by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…

 by pro-abortion liberal Joel Pett, an interesting cartoon that could have connected the dots were Pett not so blind. The root of so much of the violence and societal chaos we see in America is actually “precradle to grave,” beginning with the murder of preborn babies at the current rate 1.2 million a year. Obviously this is a gateway to disregard for human life at later stages…

 a surprisingly observant cartoon by liberal Ted Rall at GoComics.com…

 by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…

“Come on now, let’s discuss this!” says the Lord.
“Though your sins are bright red,
   they will become as white as snow.
Though they are dark red,
   they will become as white as wool.
If you are willing and obedient,
   you will eat the best from the land.
But if you refuse and rebel,
   you will be destroyed by swords.”
The Lord has spoken.

~Isaiah 1:18-20, God’s Word translation

9/30, 8a: Here’s a good submission from reader David N.:

9/29, 7:13a: Per The Weekly Standard, September 28:

The Obama campaign has created a series of electronic greeting card aimed at women voters. “President Obama summed up the Republican Party’s approach to women’s health when he said ‘they want to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century,'” the Obama campaign website reads. “Send an eCard to say you won’t go back.”

Perhaps the oddest card in the series, though, is this one:

which my daughter was good enough to send to me…

Not sure any daughter would seriously send that to her mother, advertising the fact she’s sleeping around in college rather than studying.

The card would also show she’s totally ditching her Math 101 class. Even going so far as to divide $18,000 by 20 years equals $75 a month for birth control, which is akin to Sandra Fluke multiplication. Fluke testified bc could cost a college woman $3,000 over three years, which comes to $83 a month. Meanwhile the Target three miles from Fluke’s school sold the bc pill for $9 a month, and CVS for $33 a month.

But perhaps this is Obama-math, the windfall he plans to direct to Planned Parenthood once the government takes over contraceptive distribution.

Which elicits what we should deduce from the e-card, that the girl wants US to pay for her birth control.

But I digress. The question this weekend is what e-card would you send on behalf of women.barackobama.com?

If you go so far as to design a card, email it to me, and I’ll consider posting it.

An Associated Press article from late 2007… stated that his legislative career was “focused more on building consensus to improve the justice system and aid the poor” than fighting opponents on hot-button issues….

“That strikes me, from what I know of Barack Obama’s time in the state senate, as just being pure mythology and pure public relations invention,” [Eric] Kohn [former Cook County GOP Communications Director] told TheDC….

Perhaps Obama’s best-known and most controversial votes during his time in the state Senate were the ones he cast against the Infant Born Alive Protection Act, which would have mandated care for children who were delivered after an unsuccessful late-term abortion.

At the time, Obama argued that the bill was unconstitutional and would serve to undercut the Roe v. Wade decision, and questioned whether hospitals were actually allowing infants to die after failed abortions. He voted “present” on the legislation and changed his vote to “no” the following year.

Obama also voted “present” – and then, later, “no” – on bills that would have outlawed so-called “partial-birth” abortions in Illinois unless the life of the mother was threatened, and “no” on two bills that would have prohibited the use of state funds to pay for abortions. He voted “present” on a parental-notification law for minors seeking abortions.

The “present” votes, he later explained to Illinois Planned Parenthood CEO Pam Sutherland, were a strategy “to protect members… and women.”

“What it did,” Sutherland told ABC News, “was give cover to moderate Democrats who wanted to vote with us but were afraid to do so.… A ‘present’ vote would protect them. Your senator voted ‘present.’ Most of the electorate is not going to know what that means.”

Obama’s flawless pro-choice voting record earned him a 100 percent approval rating from Planned Parenthood, which remains one of the most powerful organizations in Democratic politics at both the state and local level.

~ The Daily Caller, September 25

Yesterday I described all the players who doomed Susan G. Komen for the Cure from within to lose  against Planned Parenthood’s assault when it tried to defund the abortion giant.

Today I will list “coincidences” from Karen Handel’s book, Planned Bullyhood, and also from my interview with her, that give evidence of the Trojan Horse.

December 8, 2011:  Komen places a conference call about its decision to defund Planned Parenthood with its public relations representative from SKDKnickerbocker, Hilary Rosen.

December 16, 2011: Komen president Liz Thompson speaks to Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards by phone, but Richards already knows everything.

First week of January 2012:  A brief snippet about Komen ending PP grants appears on a radio show out of Ohio. Komen has no idea where it came from.  (JLS note: I kind of know where it came from. There was a pro-lifer on the Komen board who tipped Life Decisions International off, and LDI went public before getting a fierce call from the source telling LDI to unplug the news, that the situation was very dicey. Read more here and here.) Handel speaks by phone with Rosen, asking for an update.  Rosen says it appears PP is going to just let things go because the organization has other issues.  This turns out to either be a lie or an epic fail on Rosen’s part to properly perform her job as liaison between Komen and PP.

January 23, 2012: Komen receives a call that Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, saying she needs to speak with Nancy Brinker “urgently – that day if possible.” She then fails to follow-up and strangely reschedules the “urgent” call for one week later – January 30.

January 30, 2012: Komen gets a bombshell. An Associated Press reporter contacts Komen and says he is writing a story on Komen and Planned Parenthood. Meanwhile, Rosen and other reps from SKD have coincidentally come to the office without Handel’s knowledge. Handel asks Rosen if she thinks PP is going to “DEFCON 4.” “Oh no,” is Rosen’s response, “I don’t think this is any big deal.” Meanwhile, the Wasserman Schultz call happens, and she knows about everything “in great detail… somehow… privy to what had been going on within our organization,” writes Handel. Brinker says the call got “extremely ugly” with Wasserman Schultz telling her Komen would “regret the decision.”

January 31, 2012: The infamous Associated Press story comes out. As I described in this post, Planned Parenthood had tweets and Facebook updates ready to launch. Also, within 48 hours PP lobbyists had gathered signatures of 26 senators on a letter to Komen.

Rosen is absolutely nowhere to be found after January 30. According to Handel she didn’t even attend the murder board session to prep Brinker for her disastrous interview with Andrea Mitchell.

According to Handel in our interview, “This is unconfirmed but I heard from several sources that at some point on February 2, I believe after the Mitchell interview, Rosen called and said she was resigning the account because she just couldn’t take it anymore. That would explain how she felt she could send that congratulatory tweet the following day,” which was positively scandalous in light of her role at Komen…

Congrats to Susan G. Komen for the Curesgk.mn/w7MEZR. No room for politics in fighting cancer.

— Hilary Rosen (@hilaryr) February 3, 2012

Guest post by Joel Brind, Ph.D.

We could all go along happily with his anti-smoking crusade. After all, everybody knows cigarette smoking – and maybe even second-hand smoke – causes cancer.

Then there was the elimination of trans-fat. Well, okay, there’s some evidence that’s bad for you, and no one could taste the difference if a food has any in it or not.

Then we started getting a bit more troubled: We don’t get to choose how much salt content or the volume of a soft drink we can buy? But we still managed to chuckle a bit at the new restrictions on bottle-feeding infants in hospitals. At least we all know it is better for babies to be breast fed. So we could still be amused at our “Nanny Bloomberg,” for we could be sure of at least one thing: All those things he has mandated are beneficial to human health.

But now our nanny mayor wants to give our school children – orally and by injection, without parental knowledge or consent – cancer-causing steroid drugs.

Say what!? You read that right: cancer-causing steroid drugs. You thought “the pill” was harmless, right? Just a little bit of harmless hormones, to stem the tide of costly, unhealthy teen pregnancy. Sorry, “hormonal contraceptives” are indeed cancer-causing steroid drugs. Who says so? Why, the World Health Organization says so, but why pay any attention to them? They’re only class 1 carcinogens for breast cancer, cervical cancer and liver cancer, according to the WHO.

And the reason I put “hormonal contraceptives” in quotes is that it is not true. The pill contains no hormones – artificial or otherwise. They are steroid drugs that act like hormones (hormone agonists, to be professionally precise). In fact, hormones would not work as a pill, so they have to be synthetic drugs. In fact, they are really the same type of steroid drugs that professional athletes can go to jail for taking. They are just the female version (which makes the breasts grow), rather than the male version (which makes muscles grow).

If you read the small print on the package insert for “the pill,” you will find increased risk of stroke, because these steroids can cause blood clots. But cancer? How long have researchers known that? Not too long. The first high-profile, peer-reviewed paper that documented the increased risk of breast cancer was just published in 1987, only a quarter-century ago. Of course there have been scores of papers since then.

But what about the more modern injectable form, the “depo” that is also included in the Mayor’s plan for NYC schoolgirls? Isn’t that safer, since it contains no estrogenic drugs?

Yeah, they are newer, and it takes years for stuff to cause cancer. So the first good study in the peer-reviewed medical literature just came out a few months back. A prominent, National Cancer Institute-funded group just published their findings: Yes indeed, “depo” significantly increases the risk of breast cancer…

I think Mayor Bloomberg should certainly have known about all this. But even if all his politically correct wizards of smart conveniently ignored the cancer risks of contraceptive steroids, he could have just called me. After all, I’ve been a full-time professor on the faculty of Hizzoner’s own City University of New York, teaching human biology and endocrinology for almost 27 years now (and researching steroid hormones and drugs for more than 30 years).

Seriously Mr. Mayor, if you really want our city’s citizens to be healthier – not sicker – please, call me!

Readers are encouraged to forward this post to the mayor’s office. Just maybe it will wake him up. Here’s the link to his contact page.

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

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• ProLifeBlogs has a Wisconsin Right to Life post on the Obama campaign’s dishonest phone calls to Catholic voters in an attempt to get them to believe Obama doesn’t support abortion and that Planned Parenthood is really about “children get[ting] health care and prenatal care.” After promoting abortion ad nauseum to the American public via the Democratic National Convention, this is incredible. But could it be an indicator that abortion isn’t as winning an issue as they expected?

• ProLife NZ shares the horrific story of one mother who was pressured by her physician to terminate her child, prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome. The doctor was high-ranking fetal medicine advisor, Professor Peter Stone (pictured left), who also happens to have “been extensively involved in developing screening practices for Down syndrome in New Zealand” and “trains our medical students at Auckland University“:
  

  He recommended terminating the pregnancy and offered a late-term abortion in Australia, despite the fact that the unborn child was protected under New Zealand law.

Not only that, but Prof. Stone appeared to botch the diagnostic amniocentesis by removing almost all the amniotic fluid, nearly causing the death of the child. A must-read case.

• The Road to Roe has an interesting post on Justice Lewis F. Powell’s unexpected vote for Roe v. Wade. Powell was considered a “careful, restrained, lawyerly judge,” but according to reports from Powell’s former clerk, John C. Jeffries, “he voted his ‘gut,’ which was influenced by his wife and daughters.” There was also a “sense of momentum” and “lack of antiabortion sentiment” in the courtroom:
  

  Describing Powell’s vote as “a personal attitude” more than anything else, Jeffries says it was “easy” at the time. But one of the take-aways from that chapter is Powell’s admission to Jeffries after leaving the Court that “the abortion opinions were ‘the worst opinions I ever joined.’”

• Reflections of a Paralytic applauds an effective smackdown on the “war on women” meme – from Oklahoma’s pro-life Democrat Rep. Rebecca Hamilton (pictured right):
  

  When you have people who claim that they own the whole question of “women’s health” but who don’t report sexual abuse and rape of minor children or human trafficking, you know you are dealing with a callous and deliberate lie. When you see people who won’t “judge” attempts to buy an abortion to kill a baby simply because she is a girl saying that anyone who wants to reduce their government funding is “waging war on women,” you should be able to see that the real issue is not women and their well-being but government money.

• At National Review, Michael New disputes pundits who have claimed that universal health care (such as MA’s state health care, also known as “Romneycare”) lowers abortion rates. The reality is that it has little to no effect. In a second post, New describes why anti-abstinence education contraception proponents don’t see the big picture when it comes to teen pregnancy rates.
• ProWomanProLife applauds Canada’s attempt to open discussion on the issue of when life begins. Though the measure failed, there are some positive takeaways, according to PWPL’s Andrea Mrozek:
  

  [S]ince M-312 called only for discussion, voting in favour of it is a vote for debate and democracy and that can only be a good thing. Minister Ambroseis to be commended for having an open mind.M-312 was not expected to pass, and indeed it didn’t. However, it advanced our ability to respectfully ask questions and debate the issue of when life begins…. All Canadians, whether pro-life or pro-choice are served well through respectful debate.

  There is a stranglehold on freedom of expression around abortion, a dictatorial attitude that somehow all women are supposed to be fervently pro-choice…. This is simply not the case; women don’t have one mind on this issue, as with so many other issues.

• Mommy Life has video on a young lady with Down syndrome, Sarah Green, who went from cheerleader to Homecoming Queen! Clearly, a Ds prenatal diagnosis need not be a death sentence:

[Stone photo via University of Auckland; Hamilton photo via patheos.com]