Cher went on another Twitter rant this week, this time promoting abortion, contraception, and Planned Parenthood in her uniquely histrionic and foul-mouthed way.

Tweets are sometimes hard to decipher, as writers try to fit as much into the 140 character limit as possible.

But Cher’s tweets read more like hyper 13yo school girl meets illiteracy. Highlights (after removing unintended html language):

“Contraception is Illegal!”

“F*** THESE OLD WHITE MEN who couldnt laid WITH A FIST FULL OF HUNDREDS!”

“Guarantee if these old geezers gave birth there’d b contraception Machines every 50 ft! They’d be Cry “I was Raped ! U can’t expect me 2 have the Baby”yes M———-r we Can!”

“I no ur going 2say oh Cher another Rant!Yes it is! my god take my voice when I don’t stand up against injustice”

Well, wouldn’t that be interesting?

So here you go. Click to enlarge…

[HT: Andy at AbortionWiki.com]

The waiting is over. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has chosen Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate, as excellent a pro-life candidate as could be. Read Ryan’s voting record on pro-life issues here. (NARAL’s assessment is also a fun read.)

In a nutshell, Ryan’s rating at NARAL was 0% in 2011, and his rating at National Right to Life was 100% in 2011.

In 2010 Ryan penned, “The Cause of Life Can’t be Severed from the Cause of Freedom.” stating unequivocally that fiscal issues cannot be separated from social issues, as much as RINOs would like it to be. He publicly disagreed with Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels that a “truce” should be called on social issues.

That said, fiscal conservatives love Ryan for his outspokenness and innovative ideas to solve the country’s economic crisis. As the Chicago Tribune noted this morning:

Conservative leaders, increasingly anxious over the state of Romney’s campaign, had urged him to pass over reliable – but not particularly inspiring – figures such as Ohio Senator Rob Portman and former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty, and instead go for Ryan.

The Wisconsin congressman is a favorite of the conservative Tea Party, an anti-tax, limited-government movement that helped Republicans take over the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010.

All that said, only 11% of you picked Ryan as your choice for Romney’s running mate.

So what are your thoughts on Romney’s decision?

There were lots of interesting tidbits in Melinda Henneberger’s August 7 Washington Post piece, “Democratic abortion foes push for change in platform.”

For starters:

Democratic dissenters on the issue of abortion have made their case to the platform committee, arguing that the party should change its language enough to allow for some diversity of opinion on the matter and return to the “big tent” approach of the Clinton years.

[Democrats for Life president] Janet Robert, who founded Minnesota’s progressive talk radio station AM 950… was given seven minutes… to argue that the party simply cannot win back Congress without Democrats who differ from the ’08 platform on this one issue. She cited a slew of stats, including a Gallup poll from last year in which 44% of Democrats said abortion should only be legal “in a few circumstances.”

But with NARAL president Nancy Keenan on the platform committee, it ain’t gonna happen. Plus, the abortion lobby has more power than ever with ally Barack Obama at the helm.

Kicking the dogs

At any rate, Democrat leadership is apparently not interested in running socially conservative Blue Dogs, according to Henneberger:

There’s no question that Democrats won the House in ’06 by running more moderate candidates in districts the party would otherwise have lost to Republicans….

[But] Democrats no longer see outreach to social moderates – the Blue Dogs, many of whom were turned out of office in ’10 – as the path to regaining a House majority.

This year, the face of Democratic diversity is a pro-trade, pro-business fiscal conservative running to take back the suburbs.

Too big to buck

I give Henneberger’s piece a B+ for fairness. But she could have earned an A, had she made an observation she came thisclose to here:

But the abortion rights lobby writes big checks and wields such unlimited power that I’ve long thought abortion rights have become to the Democrats what the Second Amendment is to Republicans – who are so terrified of the “slippery slope” that even the most common-sense gun restrictions are out of the question. Nobody wants to buck the lobby with bucks.

On that point Ken Shepherd at NewsBusters.com noted:

Henneberger’s pro-gun control beliefs aside, it is a fascinating contrast, particularly given how every four years in the convention season the media insist on pushing Republicans to become more liberal on social issues like abortion but fail to question the Democrats’ unwavering dedication to abortion-on-demand.

If the media want to insist that the GOP are captive to special-interest, single-issue lobbies like the right-to-life movement and gun-rights groups like the NRA, fairness and balance dictates that journalists would similarly worry that the Democratic Party is too beholden to special-interest groups on the opposite end of the spectrum.

Population crisis

But there is a major difference between abortion proponents and pro-life and pro-Second Amendment proponents that shows the Democrat Party’s fusion to its pro-choice lobby even more fraught with trouble.

And the difference is that pro-lifers and pro-2Aers don’t kill over a million of their future supporters every year.

Gun lobbyists beget little gun lobbyists, and pro-lifers beget little pro-lifers.

But pro-choicers don’t beget – or if they do they don’t beget at replacement level.

Back to Nancy Keenan, I have a feeling she knows what’s really up, that her movement is in decline if for no other reason than attrition.

But she’s apparently so used to leading people to slaughter she can’t stop herself from carrying on.

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.

• Pro-Life Action League reports on the audacity of one abortion clinic: After being fined $36K for violations related to the death of a woman and their first inspection in 15 years, the clinic changed its name and location to avoid the fine.
• Secular Pro-Life discusses the report of a Louisiana charter school which “reserves the right” to give a pregnancy test to any of its female students, and if the student refuses, will assume she is pregnant and place her on home study. SPL rightly points out policies like this “stigmatize pregnancy” and in essence, encourage abortion. The latest reports suggest that the school may now be re-evaluating the rule.

• Timmerie’s Blog notices that the thought police are out with the difficult-to-miss mantra of “You need birth control!”:
  The advertisements for artificial contraception that I am personally inundated with are maddening. Planned Parenthood and other pro-abortion organizations are successfully doing everything they can to indoctrinate people to the mindset that:

1. They need birth control

2. Catholics are proponents of artificial contraception and abortion

Needless to say, they are reaching their audience, and consistently. On my 5 minute drive to school I see at least five signs saying, “Someone you know needs birth control.” Every day, I am targeted with digital advertising for artificial contraception and “family planning services.”

• Pro-Life in TN highlights three ardent Planned Parenthood supporters – all incumbents who were defeated in their primaries in liberal Memphis, Tennessee. Could their support for PP have contributed to their defeat?
• Fr. Frank Pavone reminds people of faith that our goal is not only about changing hearts and minds but laws and public policy. He offers an excellent brochure, available in both English and Spanish, to teach the “relationship between the civil law and the moral law, and the responsibilities of public officials to defend human life.”

• The New Feminism heralds New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (pictured right) veto of “legislation that would have allowed commercial surrogacy in the state… without protections for women who serve as surrogates and no regulation of the fertility industry.” The legislation was opposed by both pro-choice and pro-life groups.
• At National Review Online, Michael New notes reasons why a recent New York Times article misleads readers regarding young Republicans and their views on social issues like abortion.
• Real Choice comments on the CDC’s release of their latest abortion death numbers, which are from 2007.
• The University of Michigan Students for Life group has once again had its on-campus dialogue board stolen. So much for tolerance at a university that supposedly “regards open-mindedness, progressivism, critical thinking, and intellectual honesty as its four cardinal virtues!”
• Moral Outcry’s Matt Lockett discusses his call to focus his pro-life ministry on the Hispanic community.
• Wesley J. Smith remarks on an opinion piece in the New York Times that pushes back against anti-human exceptionalism:
  Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles – a pro human exceptionalism opinion piece in the New York Times blog – the newspaper in which we have previously been told that plants are ethical and peas are persons – and by a philosophy professor, no less!

[Photos via feministcampus.org and njtoday.net]

by LauraLoo

Revealing Politics decided to play along with our President’s distraction from the economy.  They sent their resident “expert on female issues,” Caleb Bonham, to interview attendees of the Obama/Fluke campaign event.

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[HT: Jill]

We hold that if Cardinal John O’Connor didn’t invite pro-abort Bill Clinton in 1996, and if Cardinal Egan didn’t invite pro-abort John Kerry in 2004, then on what grounds could your Eminence find to invite Obama in 2012, when he has proven handily and has worked arduously since 2009 to act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles; more especially in regard to his aggressive promotion of abortion, embryo stem-cell research, artificial contraception, and homosexual marriage in this country and throughout the world?

~ Partial text of the Petition to Stop the Al Smith Scandal, in which the bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, has invited President Barack Obama to the Al Smith Fundraising Dinner, in spite of the fact that the Archdiocese is currently involved in litigation against the HHS over the contraception mandate, via David L. Gray, August 2

Church Militant TV and Crisis Magazine also weigh in.

[HT: The Washington Times]

I mentioned the other day I’d read three crazy pro-abort tweets in a row (tweet #1 here, tweet #2 here).

Following is tweet #3, by RH Reality Check:

The linked article at Zee News states:

According to a latest study researchers have found that new mothers have a better memory – the findings that counter the belief that women experience a decline in memory and cognitive function after they have children.

Suddenly becoming forgetful has long been seen as part and parcel of becoming a mother.

But scientists say so-called ‘baby brain’ may be a myth and, in fact, having a child may actually improve a woman’s memory.

In a series of experiments, new mothers scored better on tests of visuospatial memory – the ability to perceive and remember information about their surroundings – compared with women who didn’t have children.

And the reason it was crazy for RH to post this information is, of course, because RH and its feminist friends push nonmotherhood – contraception and abortion.

Which makes them not so smart, right?

by Hans Johnson

A recurring theme in science fiction is portraying euthanasia as a pleasant, voluntary experience for the victim. This is not lost on Planned Parenthood, which released this video to “inform” the “one third of women who ‘experience’ abortion.” Notice the pleasant smiles throughout, especially that of the “patient’s” mother, who you would think is sending her daughter off to have her teeth cleaned.

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[HT: Jill]