I can’t wait until I have my children…. I love the idea that they don’t have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

I just want to build fun, great things for my family.

~ Actress Drew Barrymore, sharing her excitement over her pregnancy in an interview with Haute Living, via US Magazine, September 18

[Photo via Famous Wallpapers]

Guest post by Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue

Yesterday Operation Rescue reported that a woman is suing Planned Parenthood Birmingham for missing an ectopic pregnancy. Clinic staff and abortionist Aqua Don Emmanuel Umoren apparently lied when charting that an 8-wk, 4-day-old baby was seen on ultrasound and palpated on internal exam, going on to commit an unnecessary abortion. The mother ended up in the emergency room 25 days later and had to have a fallopian tube and her 13-wk-old baby removed. She maintains in her lawsuit she is now infertile.

This was just one of probably hundreds of abortion botches we wouldn’t otherwise know about were there not a lawsuit.

But the number botches we do know about through emergency ambulance calls to U.S. Planned Parenthood  clinics is alarming – 10 over the course of only 20 months. This volume certainly does not bode well for the supposed safety of legalized abortions.

The list:

1.      August 16, 2012:  PP Boise, Idaho,  Medical Emergency

2.      July 20, 2012:  PP Chicago, Illinois,  Tonya Reaves, died from botched 2nd trimester abortion

3.      July 7, 2012:  PP Boston, Massachusetts, Medical Emergency

4.      March 6, 2012:  PP St. Paul, Minnesota, Medical Emergency

5.      December 20, 2011:  PP Sioux City, Iowa, Medical Emergency

6.      October 14, 2011: PP Virginia Beach, Virginia, Medical Emergency

7.      April 14, 2011: PP St. Paul, Minnesota, Medical Emergency

8.      March 18, 2011: PP Everett, Washington, Medical Emergency

9.      February 12, 2011: PP St. Louis, Missouri*, Medical Emergency

10.   January 11, 2011: PP Boston, Massachusetts, Medical Emergency

*“From June 2009 until April 2010, nine ambulances have been at Planned Parenthood [St. Louis] and each time a client was transported to Barnes Hospital,” said sidewalk counselor Marty Bennet in a written statement

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

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• FRC Blog points out how Roe v. Wade itself, not the idea of overturning it, is what is truly radical.
• Fletcher Armstrong has more on the case of the director of the UK’s Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform, Andy Stephenson, who is on trial for violating the Public Order Act, which states no one can harass or cause alarm or distress to the public. What did Stephenson do that caused such alarm? He displayed a graphic photo of an aborted baby. (Update, 9/19: Live Action reports the charges have now been dropped):

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7mzR750pg4[/youtube]

• Live Action reports on the Virginia Legislature’s vote to make VA abortion clinics conform to the same health regulations as other outpatient surgical centers. The board of health had planned to use a “grandfather clause” to allow the existing 20 clinics to opt out, but the state’s attorney general stepped in and “warned that personal liability could result if the current grandfather clause was kept in place. The Board then voted 13 to 2 on Friday to reverse the earlier grandfather clause decision.”

• The Abolitionist Society of OK demonstrates how abortion proponents show their extreme pro-death mentality even when they might not mean to:
  

  A pro-abortion user posted a photo intended to mock the abolitionist position [pictured left]….

  Clearly the implication is that it would be better for this child to have been aborted….

  If we’re going to make the decision for someone else that their life is or is not going to be of what we think is sufficiently high quality, why stop with killing preborn children? Why make an arbitrary cutoff point at any age?

• ALL’s Judie Brown has some strong thoughts on the “hit parade of pro-abort Catholics” on display at the recent Democratic National Convention.
• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition writes about a Seattle attorney and two Montana senators who attempted to correct an inaccurate article on assisted suicide in the New England Journal of Medicine and were rejected. The “prestigious” publication first stated that they would not accept a rebuttal, no matter how inaccurate an article was proven to be. Later, they decided they would accept a rebuttal, but demanded the authors sign a non-disclosure agreement, even if the publication refused to print their rebuttal.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A Pennsylvania man attacked and tried to kill his girlfriend after demanding she get an abortion. From the Express-Times:
  

  Jashua Kinch-Rodriguez, 24, approached Jessenia Rosario about 9 p.m. Friday as she pulled into her apartment in the 100 block of South 12th Street, police said.

  Kinch-Rodriguez started arguing with her as she sat in her car’s seat, demanding she abort the baby and calling her a “whore,” according to court records. He then punched Rosario in the stomach and genitals with an open fist while screaming at her and threatening to kill her, police said. He also allegedly closed the car door on her legs.

  After Kinch-Rodriguez walked away, Rosario got out of the car and started going up the stairs to her second-floor apartment, where four other people were already inside, police said. Kinch-Rodriguez then produced a gun and started firing several shots into the apartment, nearly striking Rosario, according to court documents.

• I’m struggling to comprehend how these parents, discussed in Slate, can be so “me” oriented and have such a pathological desire to obtain a daughter. It’s sickening how they see their children as products to be bought and discarded if they’re not “useable.” No details are provided to how many of her daughter’s unborn siblings were killed solely because they were male:
  

  Three days after arriving in California, Simpson [not her real name] underwent egg retrieval surgery. Eighteen eggs were retrieved; of these, 11 were mature and were fertilized.

  Her husband left after the surgery to return home and take care of their three boys. After resting for five days, Simpson returned to the clinic for her embryo transfer. She was met with devastating news: all of her embryos were found to be chromosomally abnormal. None were useable.

  “I cried. And cried some more,” recalled Simpson. “All that money, the drugs, the travel, time off work. The money.”

  Despite the financial and emotional setbacks, she wanted to try PGD again, soon. Three months later, she was back in Laguna Hills. She had taken out $15,000 on a line of credit to pay for the second attempt.

  She went through the whole process again. This time, the embryos were good to go. An ultrasound was used to guide a catheter containing the embryos into her uterus. Six days later, Simpson took a pregnancy test. It was positive….

  After nearly four years and $40,000, Simpson’s dreams of being a “girl-mommy” were finally going to come true.

  Simpson gave birth to her daughter during a home delivery in her bathtub in 2009. “The moment she was born, I asked if it was still a girl,” she recalled.

  Simpson had to work six days a week right up until the delivery and months afterward to repay the loan she took.

  “My husband and I stared at our daughter for that first year. She was worth every cent. Better than a new car, or a kitchen reno.”

• The NY Times has a long piece on researchers using adult stem cells to create organs:
  

  Implanting such a “bioartificial” organ would be a first-of-its-kind procedure for the field of regenerative medicine, which for decades has been promising a future of ready-made replacement organs — livers, kidneys, even hearts — built in the laboratory.

  For the most part that future has remained a science-fiction fantasy. Now, however, researchers like Dr. Macchiarini are building organs with a different approach, using the body’s cells and letting the body itself do most of the work……

  So far, only a few organs have been made and transplanted, and they are relatively simple, hollow ones — like bladders and Mr. Beyene’s windpipe, which was implanted in June 2011. But scientists around the world are using similar techniques with the goal of building more complex organs. At Wake Forest University in North Carolina, for example, where the bladders were developed, researchers are working on kidneys, livers and more. Labs in China and the Netherlands are among many working on blood vessels.

[Photos via askaboutpregnancy.com, trdefence.com]

by Hans Johnson

Recently a shouting match on the topic of abortion occurred in West Palm Beach, Florida, among a crowd waiting for the presidential motorcade to pass by. One Obama supporter in particular made her opinion well known:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ksdqn4WP-o[/youtube]

BizPacReview then interviewed the woman, who said in a much calmer manner, “I don’t believe in abortions, if that’s what you mean. What I’m saying is, it’s between her and God. I’m a Christian person.”

Her support for the president was unwavering: “It’s not right to murder babies, but I’m still for Obama no matter what. It’s not his fault because people go around killing their kids.”

Asked if it was “a higher priority for your kids to get money to go to college than it is that they’re killing all these babies”  she said, “Yeah.”

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Recall my post about Planned Parenthood of Greater Orlando CEO Jenna Tosh  crying when pro-life activists picketed her Winter Park, Florida, home on August 18.

Jenna was rewarded for her embarrassment by a meet and greet with President Obama when he breezed through Orlando for an August 30 fundraiser.

YouTube won’t remove a video that has contributed to riots and murders of U.S. officials and troops throughout the Middle East, but it quickly removed the video of this pro-life protest. Outing people who kill babies is more dangerous to the world than dissing Muhammad. Nevertheless, the video is available now at Pro-LifeTube.com.

After getting the damaging video removed from YouTube, Tosh complained to the Winter Park City Commission, which quickly enacted an “emergency public safety ordinance” that banned public protests within 50 feet of a private residence. On September 10 the Commission voted 4-1 to make the ordinance permanent. A second vote on September 24 will ratify the ordinance.

Voting against the ordinance was Winter Park Mayor Ken Bradley, who rightly understood it to be an assault against free speech.

Also now opposing the ordinance is the Orlando Sentinel, which posted an astute editorial on September 16:

We might have been inclined give city officials a hearty attaboy for being so responsive to a resident – had commissioners not managed in the process to abridge everyone else’s free-speech rights.

Winter Park modeled its measure after ordinances that passed constitutional muster, so we aren’t arguing legal merits.

But we do question the knee-jerk response to a single citizen’s complaint – precipitated by the distribution of pro-life handouts and, nearly a week later, some nonviolent picketing. And we question the need for a new law when laws exist to protect citizens against protests that grow unruly.

And we question why government officials are so quick to crack down on freedom of speech. Imagine the outcry if commissioners had tried to go after the Second Amendment.

Having to push past protesters toting signs that read “Jenna Tosh kills babies and hurts women” certainly is unpleasant. We sympathize with her.

However, her need to avoid disturbing, anti-abortion expressions outside her home shouldn’t trump the rights of the many to exercise their First Amendment rights within public areas in residential areas.

That’s something Bradley wisely understood: “I just can’t vote to stop free speech,” he said.

On Sept. 24, the ordinance is up for a final vote. This time, commissioners should follow their mayor’s lead.

City Attorney Larry Brown, pictured right, thinks the ordinance will withstand constitutional muster. He cited a similar ordinance that had – but another that had not. I spoke with pro-life activist Jay Rogers last night, who told me he has already been contacted by three separate legal groups that specialize in upholding pro-life free speech. If Winter Park officials insist on ratifying the ordinance, a court challenge is promised. Brown’s reputation will then be on the line, although any public humiliation he suffers will surely be offset by the fattened paycheck he gets from the city for the extra hours he has to spend on this.

Some unintended consequences, quoting the Winter Park/Maidland Observer:

UCF’s Brett, a constitutional law specialist, said that depends on the ordinance covering all of its bases, which cities frequently fail to do.

He said that the ordinance might be challenged based on infringing on free speech rights at businesses, churches, public parks, etc., that are within the no-protest zone in neighborhoods.

“What happens if you have a Baptist church that’s sponsoring an operation rescue rally, and that happens to be in a residential neighborhood?” Brett said. “Not only do you have conflicts of free speech, but also conflicts of free exercise of religion.”

Does the Commission really want to waste taxpayer money on legal fees and continue to draw controversy? If so, it doesn’t understand pro-life activists, who the press is siding with.

Orlando pro-lifers don’t actually mind this skirmish, Rogers told me. Abortion proponents and the media frequently attempt to ignore their protests. Now, thanks to Tosh’s (exaggerated) complaints, they’re not. All the attention only spotlights the atrocity of abortion as well as the scandal brought to bear against those committing it.

At 28 years old, Tosh is an unseasoned abortion industry hack. Veterans would have told her to ignore the protest and let the controversy die down.

Tosh has only inspired more of the same in more creative ways. I’ve been told the plans.

Winter Park, welcome to the fact that abortion brings chaos to society. No justice, no peace.

[Photo of Brown via Seminole Voice]

I know he’s loved, and that makes me happy. It’s just that I’d do anything for the chance to experience the happiness of motherhood myself….

I’d produced 19 healthy eggs at the age of 31, so I didn’t for one second believe that we’d have any trouble conceiving. But every month, when I discovered I wasn’t pregnant, I felt the same sickening disappointment….

[My doctor] told me: “I’m sorry, we don’t give IVF to women aged 40 and over.” To be honest, it felt like a slap in the face.

I’d helped out the NHS [National Health Service – government healthcare] as an egg donor, and granted the gift of life to another woman. Now, when I desperately wanted a baby of my own, the NHS wouldn’t help me in return.

They were happy to exploit my fertility when I was young, but now that I wasn’t so fertile, doors were suddenly slamming in my face.

~ The UK’s Louise Milano, remarking on the pain of having never met a biological son born via IVF from her egg donation 13 years ago, as well as her own inability to conceive years later, as quoted by The Daily Mail, September 12

[Photo via The Daily Mail]

by LauraLoo

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