I hope by now you’ve seen the ad on the right side of my home page linking to the Commit to Vote website.

This is really exciting. Explains CitizenLink.com:

Six organizations are working together to make a difference in the November election — and they’re doing it by reaching out to their own constituents, in the largest collaborative effort in the history of the pro-family movement.

“What we have seen in many elections in the past is that they can be won or lost by less than a thousand votes,” she added, noting that the 2000 presidential race came down to 537 votes in Florida. “It can make a huge impact on the results of this election and the number of lives we’re able to save from the policies stemming from a new administration and a new Congress. Some people think, ‘My vote doesn’t really count’ – but it does.”

Hey, are YOU registered to vote? If not, do it NOW!

Comedian and political pundit Dennis Miller appeared on NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno this week, schooling Jay in some of the basic ideals of conservatism.

Leno’s wife, Mavis, is a staunch abortion proponent, serving as the chair for the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls, an effort which includes pushing for the right to abortion.

If that’s not extreme enough, in 2005, Mavis Leno labeled both Terri Schiavo and preborn humans, “imaginary people”:

Our current conservative, religious government is obsessed with women on life support and with fetuses because they are imaginary people….

Watch Miller take on Jay’s questions regarding the 2012 campaign, including the so-called “war on women” and MO Rep. Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” remarks:

[HT: Fox Nation; Jill]

Without explicitly mentioning abortion, the former Republican presidential candidate propelled the crowd to its feet by championing the GOP as the one party that lifts up all children – “born and unborn.”

It’s a story the American public is well familiar with…. But on Tuesday, Santorum’s personal anecdote resonated in an entirely new manner with an emphatic crowd of approximately 20,000 attendees, representing a party that has been harangued over its longstanding anti-abortion position in the wake of Rep. Todd Akin’s controversial comments over “legitimate rape.”

~ Huffington Post, reporting on former presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s speech at the Republican National Convention last night

[Photo via the Associated Press/Huffington Post]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• There really must be something in the records of Planned Parenthood in Kansas as they’ve asked for the records back. We know it’s not patient privacy Planned Parenthood is concerned with, it’s covering up their willingness to not report statutory rape.
• In the New Yorker, Jeffrey Toobin is disappointed that the President and the Democratic party have focused so much on the hard cases of abortion and failed to make an argument for why abortion should be generally available:
  

  But as framed by Democrats and the President, the current debate about abortion—centered as it is around rape victims and the health exception — put women in the position of supplicants, seeking permission to end their pregnancies. Most people, fortunately, think there are circumstances where that permission should be granted. But true freedom is not freedom to ask permission — it’s freedom to make a decision. That’s what pro-choice really means, and it would be healthy for abortion-rights supporters to say so clearly and often.

• Jeff Jacoby notes something that anyone with any political sense knows but is often hidden by the media – both major parties have positions on abortion which aren’t middle of the road:
  

  The 2012 platform, in language recycled from 2008, vows to “oppose any and all efforts to weaken or undermine” the availability of abortion. While solid majorities of Democrats back some limitations on abortion – 59 percent would ban partial-birth abortions, for example, and 60 percent endorse a mandatory waiting period – the official position of their party is that even common-sense restrictions are unthinkable.

In 2000, the Democratic platform said the party’s goal was “to make abortion less necessary and more rare.” The 2004 platform declared, “Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.” But even calling for abortion to be “rare” is now too much for the Democrats’ platform committee, which deleted the word in 2008. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that Nancy Keenan [pictured above left], the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, is a committee member.

• The Telegraph has a piece on international couples coming to the U.S. and paying big bucks for sex-selection IVF. Notice the dehumanization in the article where the author claims “eggs” go through pre-implantation genetic diagnosis:
  

  He said women first attended Londonclinics which were affiliated with Fertility Institutes, where they were given drugs to stimulate egg production, before flying to the US for the rest of the treatment.Eggs are then collected, fertilised in the test tube, and then screened for genetic abnormalities and gender using a now well established technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)….

  He admitted clients from some countries were almost exclusively interested in boys. Demand from China – currently under pressure to revoke its controversial one child policy – was 98 per cent for boys, he said, while from India it was 97 per cent.

[Photo via kctv5.com]

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.

• The Anti-Abortion Gang displays the lack of logic among abortion proponents, who can’t seem to figure out that the opposite of choosing life for one’s preborn child is… choosing what, exactly?

• Americans United for Life reports on the insidious court decision to allow taxpayer funding of (unsuccessful) embryonic stem cell research instead of successful adult stem cell research, despite the fact that the Dickey-Wicker Amendment “expressly prohibits NIH from funding research in which human embryos ‘are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death.'” The court got around this by saying, essentially, “the government [can] fund any research using human embryos, as long as the researchers kill or harm the embryos before getting the money.”
• FRC Blog adds Biola University to the growing list of evangelical colleges filing lawsuits against Obama’s HHS abortifacient contraception mandate.

• Down on the Pharm reminds us of liberal, pro-abortion Whoopi Goldberg, who used her talk time on The View to defend Hollywood producer and pedophile Roman Polanski for sodomizing a thirteen year old girl, claiming it wasn’t “rape-rape,” but “statutory rape.” Pharmer shows this to be a symptom of a larger issue:
  

  The left has been supporting numerous government programs which are going to make life as difficult for U.S. females as it is for women in China.

  After the HHS mandate and Obamacare complete the intended purpose of removing the pro-lifers from health care, females will lose autonomy over their bodies. The government, with its planned parenthood, will continue the “educational” programs of grooming them for early sex, and it will decide when and if they have babies, birth control, abortion or sterilization. That the males are also being groomed for this is going to exacerbate the problem.

• Generations for Life says September 6 is Pro-Life Chalk Day:
  

  The idea is simple:

  Pick up some sidewalk chalk
  Find an area that has a lot of foot traffic
  Use your chalk to write pro-life messages

  Find ideas here.

[Photo via Telegraph]

by LauraLoo

This month, pro-lifer Kevin Rilott was attacked by a man at a roadside protest in Rockford, Illinois. Pro-Life Action League has posted the video on YouTube, along with this information:

On August 16, 2012, the Pro-Life Action League joined the Rockford Pro-Life Initiative for a Face the Truth Day. At the first site at Riverside Boulevard and Alpine Road, a man leapt from his car and attacked pro-life activist Kevin Rilott, head of the Initiative.

The man had already caught Kevin’s eye for splashing pro-lifers up the road with a dark liquid, so he caught the entire incident on video.

The police have been provided with this footage and it is hoped charges will be filed against him soon.

WARNING: This video contains EXTREMELY graphic language. Not for sensitive ears.

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

[HT: Jill]

UPDATE 8/29, 6:55a: Drudge Report has been featuring the SBA List ad since yesterday, which is wonderful for publicity…

8/28, 11:10a: Kudos to the Susan B. Anthony List for working so hard to educate the public – and mainstream media – just who it is that is extreme on abortion: Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.

I’m currently on a “Women Speak Out: Abortion is NOT Health Care” bus tour of battleground states with the SBA List team.

And today SBA List launched a new television ad in Missouri spotlighting Obama’s opposition as state senator to the Illinois Born Alive Infant Protection Act…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwFIEprF_9Y&sns=em[/youtube]

SBA List is investing $150,000 for the initial television ad buy. It features abortion survivor Melissa Ohden, an awesome pro-life advocate I met on the tour a few days ago.

SBA List purposefully chose Missouri to launch the ad to redirect the conversation starting by Todd Akin to the real radical on abortion, our current president.

“In light of the recent national discussion over abortion, it’s important Americans know the President’s best-kept secret: his extreme record on abortion.  Melissa Ohden’s powerful story draws a stark contrast to his unbending support of abortion and the abortion industry and reveals the human face to this debate.” said SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser in a statement. “President Obama’s appalling record on abortion is not just limited to his four votes to deny rights to abortion survivors but spans to his recent heartless refusal to support bans on sex-selection and late-term abortions. These actions fly in the face of mainstream American views and run counter to the President’s first term pre-election talk of finding common ground. Recent polling reveals the majority of Americans support bans on these horrific practices.”

Democrats and feminists have mounted a sustained attack against Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin for using the term “legitimate” rape, feigning horror at the implication there might be such a thing as “illegitimate” rape.

One liberal of distinction notably missing from the conversation is Whoopi Goldberg, who in 2009 defended director Roman Polanski by claiming his rape of a 13-yr-old in 1977 “wasn’t rape-rape,” she said. ” I think it was something else, but I don’t believe it was rape-rape.”

The conveniently ignored reality today is that just as men can victimize women by rape, women can victimize men by falsely accusing them of rape. It’s as old as the book of Genesis…

Joseph was well-built and good-looking, and after a while his master’s wife began to desire Joseph and asked him to go to bed with her. He refused…. Although she asked Joseph day after day, he would not go to bed with her.

But one day when Joseph went into the house to do his work, none of the house servants was there. She caught him by his robe and said, “Come to bed with me.” But he escaped and ran outside, leaving his robe in her hand….

[S]he called to her house servants and said, “Look at this! This Hebrew that my husband brought… came into my room and tried to rape me, but I screamed as loud as I could. When he heard me scream, he ran outside, leaving his robe beside me.”…

Joseph’s master was furious and had Joseph arrested and put in the prison….

Ironically, the legalization of abortion in 1973 was based on the false claim of pregnancy by rape. From About.com:

[Norma McCorvey] initially said that her third pregnancy, the one in question at the time of Roe v. Wade, was the result of rape, but years later she said she had invented the rape story in an attempt to make a stronger case for an abortion.

Nevertheless, when it comes to Republicans, “rape is rape,” said President Obama of Akin’s comment, adding, “the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn’t make sense to the American people and certainly doesn’t make sense to me.”

Obama could have strengthened his statement by saying, “Rape is rape-rape,” but I digress.

His point is that we should take a woman’s word for it.

Thus, Obama would apparently take umbrage with the plot of To Kill a Mockingbird, wherein a white attorney defends a black man against a white woman’s false accusation of rape…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44TG_H_oY2E&sns=em[/youtube]

Now enter former president Bill Clinton, a touted speaker at the upcoming Democrat National Convention. A letter writer at DailLobo.com reminds President “Rape is Rape” Obama:

[Clinton] was accused of sexual harassment, sexual assault and rape, respectively, by Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick. The only case to come to trial resulted in Clinton paying an $850,000 settlement to [Paula] Jones, and perjuring himself with regard to his relationship with Monica Lewinsky.

In all, Clinton has been “implicated in at least five instances of rape, including the rape of former Miss America Elizabeth Ward Gracen,” quoting godfatherpolitics.com.

If “rape is rape,” then why are Democrats and Obama showcasing Clinton?

Because they’re hypocrites, of course. And don’t expect the hypocritical mainstream media to point this out.

And there’s more. Akin’s opponent, pro-abortion Democrat incumbent Claire McCaskill, was incredulous that Akin could be “so ignorant about the emotional and physical trauma brought on by rape.”

Meanwhile McCaskill refuses to support a law that would make it illegal for adult nonparents to traffick minors for abortions from a state with parental notification laws, such as Missouri, to a state without them, such as the one next door, Illinois, often, obviously, to cover up rape-rape.