On July 24 President Barack Obama used his daughters as props to promote abortion, stating at an Oregon fundraiser (video here):

Mr. Romney wants to get rid of funding for Planned Parenthood. I think that’s a bad idea. I’ve got two daughters. I want them to control their own health care choices. We’re not going backwards, we’re going forwards.

We all know the word “choice” is a euphemism for “abortion.” And the fight to defund Planned Parenthood is all about abortion. So clear as mud, Obama was advocating the freedom for his daughters to abort his own grandchildren. I’m not the only one who took his statement that way. Wrote CP Politics:

President Barack Obama drew a sharp line between himself and GOP opponent Mitt Romney on federally funded abortion rights Tuesday, arguing that federal funding of Planned Parenthood is necessary to preserve his daughters’ right to chose.

This is at least the second time Obama has used his daughters to promote sex without consequences, which is creepy in itself, particularly given the fact they are only 14 and 11.

But the first time was when they were even younger – way younger. From the 2008 wayback machine, on a day Obama was promoting comprehensive sex ed:

I’ve got two daughters, 9 years old and 6 years old.  I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.  I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16.

It is just weird for Obama to discuss his daughters’ future sex lives, period.

Obama’s latest promotion of Planned Parenthood was further inappropriate given the fact Planned Parenthood had killed a mother only three days prior. Tonya Reaves was her name, Mr. President. That’s her photo, right. She was only 10 years older than Malia.

Of late Obama has embarked as much on a Planned Parenthood advocacy campaign as he has his own presidential campaign. Obviously, internal polling is telling the Obama reelection team two things:

• Obama’s fortunes rest on Planned Parenthood as much as we already know Planned Parenthood’s fortunes rest on Obama.
• More voters than not still think highly of Planned Parenthood.

BTW, the Obama girls will never set foot in a Planned Parenthood. They’ll always have first class ob/gyns and/or abortionists, not bottom feeders.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• In Russia, barrels filled with hundreds of unborn children were found in the forest. Here’s more information on the story along with a graphic photo of one of the children.
• An Australian abortionist who published advice on how to commit at-home abortions has been found guilty of unprofessional conduct:
  

  Dr. Adrienne Freeman will not be banned from practising but will face yet-to-be-determined sanctions for her actions.

  The Medical Board of Australia took Dr. Freeman to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) earlier this year over her decision to establish a website that advised how women could terminate a pregnancy using a drug regime and without medical supervision.

  The board alleged she engaged in misconduct by providing instructions for terminations that were unsafe, failing to warn users of the risks, and advising women on how to obtain an abortion drug without a prescription.

News about the visit the FBI paid to son-in-law Andy Moore is getting around – as far as New Zealand.

Today Andy’s attorneys, the Life Legal Defense Foundation, sent a letter to the FBI accusing it and President Obama’s Department of Justice of attempting to intimidate pro-life activists around the country:

Moreover, the government is on notice that the collusion between government agents and abortion clinic providers has been brought to light. The concerted efforts to systematically violate the free speech rights of these pro-life advocates, via fabricated FACE cases, will not be tolerated by our federal court system. We are aware of the stern warning issued by Judge Ryskamp in the U.S. v. Pine (10-CV-80971) matter that the government’s baseless FACE allegations unjustifiably burden a person’s First Amendment rights. Any further action taken by your agency to interfere with my client’s constitutionally protected free speech activities will be met with immediate legal action against the government in U.S. District Court.

Further evidence of the conspiracy between the government and the abortion business was made public when LLDF learned that the FBI set up a training program for police officers who are called to respond to conflicts between abortion businesses and pro-life demonstrators. Even more, the very training manual for the FBI event was written by Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation. To make matters worse your agency has listed pro-life activists as domestic terrorists simply because of their viewpoint on abortion.

LLDF sent a copy of its letter to the U.S. House Oversight Committee. As the letter states, the Obama administration is engaging in “McCarthy era surveillance and scrutiny of people because of their supposedly differing ideologies.”

This has become so obvious a Congressional investigation is in order.

by Hans Johnson

Saving the lives of as many babies as we can is our goal. But supporting the mothers who make the choice for life should also be our goal. One such organization is Teen Mother Choices International. Here is their introductory video:

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/9887770#at=0[/vimeo]

E-mail your video suggestions to dailyvid@jillstanek.com.

[HT: The Blaze]

There is ample biologic, physiologic, hormonal, and behavioral evidence for fetal and neonatal pain….

[Infants born at 20 weeks and beyond] are the patients that I perform procedures on every day and I can guarantee you that when I put a test tube in and I incubate a patient or put an IV in, they feel it.

~ Dr. Colleen A. Malloy, assistant professor at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, as quoted by John McCormack in the Weekly Standard, reporting on the effort to ban abortions beyond 20 weeks in Washington, D.C., July 25

[HT: Doug & Jill]

by LauraLoo

At a recent AIDS conference, Elton John called for compassion towards those suffering from HIV and AIDS – and admits he should have been dead (due to his past self-destructive behavior) decades ago.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12KDneDpH7Q[/youtube]

Of course every human being deserves compassion, but isn’t the real issue in this case about the sometimes devastating choices one makes in life and their consequences? Compassion only goes so far when you (or the person you love) prematurely ends up “six feet under in a wooden box.”  Elton wonders how he was fortunate enough to escape these consequences.  Perhaps the answer is a sovereign God who has extended greater mercy to Elton, and others like him, so they can repent of their sins and live for Him. 

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

The chairman of the U.S. House committee conducting an investigation of Planned Parenthood is now calling for a public hearing in light of the death of Tonya Reaves last week after a second-trimester abortion at a Chicago Planned Parenthood.

Congressman Cliff Stearns, Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, told Fox News Planned Parenthood has been stonewalling his investigation, and he now wants to “put them under oath”:

“I would like to find out how they spend our half a billion dollars, and I would also like to explore some of the safety aspects, particularly in light of this death, of this tragedy.”

Stearns claims that since he launched a congressional probe, all he’s gotten are thousands of pages of irrelevant documents and no answers to his questions.

Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood of Illinois could only go so far as to post an insulting, blameless, ambiguous tweet about Reaves’ death, with a link to an equally insulting, blameless, ambiguous Facebook post:

I was glad to read calls to Reaves’ family are now being answered by a personal injury attorney. I hope the family sues Planned Parenthood’s deep pockets off.

[HT: Rich]

South Dakota is one of five states with only one abortion clinic remaining: Planned Parenthood of Sioux Falls.

So the stakes are higher than ever each time the predominantly pro-life South Dakota legislature passes a law regulating and/or restricting abortion.

In 2005 it passed a detailed informed consent statute Planned Parenthood has been battling ever since.

Yesterday Planned Parenthood lost its fourth protracted complaint against the law, this one on the point that abortion places a mother at “increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide.” According to the 27-page majority opinion:

The statute does not require the physician to disclose that a causal link between abortion and suicide has been proved.  The disclosure is truthful, as evidenced by a multitude of studies published in peer-reviewed medical journals that found an increased risk of suicide for women who had received abortions compared to women who gave birth, miscarried, or never became pregnant.

Various studies found this correlation to hold even when controlling for the effects  of other  potential  causal factors  for  suicide,  including  pre-existing depression, anxiety, suicide ideation, childhood sexual abuse, physical abuse, child neuroticism, and low self-esteem.