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

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• Stand True reports the Melinda Gates Family Planning Summit tried to eject Wendy Wright, who was there representing C-FAM, when she was recognized by abortion proponents:
  

  Attendance at the conference has been tightly controlled. Only supporting governments and organizations have been allowed into the event. All non-governmental attendees had to be approved by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which has been organizing “civil society” participation. IPPF has refused admittance to any group that is critical of the Gates family planning initiative which intends to raise $6 billion to target poor women for population control programs.

John Smeaton believes that though Gates (pictured left, with Microsoft-founder husband Bill) has publicly stated she does not want her $4B donated toward family planning in third-world countries to go toward abortion, it likely will anyway:


When “contraceptive failure” occurs, and a baby is conceived, family planning NGOs will promote chemical or surgical abortion as a back-up. Far from avoiding abortions, the Gates family planning summit may increase the number. Increasing contraceptive prevalence may often increase abortion rates, contrary to expectations.

• Stand for Life lists 15 things pro-lifers can do to “wake up” churches to the pro-life issue.
• Secular Pro-Life highlights the International Down Syndrome Coalition, “a religiously- and politically-neutral organization dedicated to supporting individuals with Down syndrome and their families.”
• ProWomanProLife wonders why most pro-choice blogs are anonymous, since abortion advocates are supposedly “testifying to the normalcy and neutrality of abortion,” and suggests that blogging anonymously may hurt your credibility. The comments section is particularly interesting.
• ProLife NZ brings to light the disturbing trend toward stifling free speech (in particular, pro-life speech) on college campuses around the world.

• The New Feminism addresses women who seem to believe that babies are “accessories,” and who “juggl[e] the ‘baby option’ with the ‘mortgage option,’ the ‘cruise option’ or the ‘new job option’:
  

  Our young women are entitled to the truth, not an illusion. Having a child may well be something a woman decides not to do, but it’s not an item you can expect to juggle like a new job, mortgage or car, a function of timing, dollars and favorable government programs. No, babies are not an accessory. A baby will take your life away from you – and hand back something so unexpected and magnificent that you will tear up your youthful To Do with a laugh, infused with the stunning wisdom nurturing women share.

[Photo via pestaola.gr; graphic via paintingthecanvas.com]

by LauraLoo

Melinda Gates announced, at an extraordinary summit in London, that the charitable foundation she set up with her Microsoft founder husband Bill was donating $560m to family planning services.

Given Gates’ partnership with the International Planned Parenthood Federation, it is likely that this “family planning” could include abortion.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXagOAbF0A8[/youtube]

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[HT: Drudge and The Independent]

Here’s why there’s ZERO chance of this happening.

-Rice is “mildly pro-choice”. Is that like being “a little pregnant”? Do you really think Mitt wants to reopen the discussion about his views on abortion?

~ DrewM. responding to the rumor that former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has emerged as the frontrunner for Mitt Romney’s Vice Presidential pick, Ace of Spades, July 12

by Hans Johnson

“You’ve got the cutest little baby face” – so the song goes. Well, perhaps not at first. Using scans of babies from one to three months after conception, animators for the BBC’s documentary Inside the Human Body show how three main features rotate into place in “a complicated ballet of growth and fusion of moving plates of tissue.”

It sounds like the meeting of tectonic plates on a tiny world. And it also reminds one of another song, sung 3,000 years ago by King David:

For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. Psalm 139:13 (NASB)

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[HT: Patty Ann]

What would you have done if you weren’t allowed an abortion?

If this pursuit turned up with no results, I would have given my child up for adoption.

~ “Jane” of thisismyabortion.com, as quoted by RH Reality Check, July 10

[Image via freethoughtblogs.com]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• At Jezebel, one anonymous woman who describes herself as “a visible pro-choice advocate and public figure,” explains why she won’t “come out” about her abortion and openly wonders if efforts by pro-choice groups to have women share their abortion experiences does more harm than good for the pro-choice movement.
• The New York Times reports Feng Jianmei, the woman who was forced into an abortion at 7 months in China, will receive a payment from her local government. According to the People’s Daily online the payment will be approximately $11,000:
  

  Zhang Kai, Deng [Jiyuan’s] attorney, submitted an appeal to the Ankang police and procurators on July 2, asking authorities to file a case and start investigations into the local officials involved. However, Deng [Feng Jianmei’s husband] returned home during the past weekend and decided to hold negotiations with the local government agencies.

  “I’ve given up legal appeals and agreed to take the compensation offered by the township government,” Deng told the Global Times Tuesday.

  “We just want our normal life back,” he said.

• The Des Moines Register is covering Sue Thayer’s (pictured left) whistleblower lawsuit against Planned Parenthood:
  

  The suit alleges the nonprofit organization illegally billed Medicaid for services related to elective abortions. Elective abortions, defined as abortions in which the mother’s life is not threatened, are not covered by Medicaid under federal and state law. The document also claims Planned Parenthood “unbundled” services related to elective abortions — such as blood pressure tests, blood tests and other procedures — and billed those to Medicaid, but not the actual abortions.

  The lawsuit also alleges Planned Parenthood staff in Storm Lake and other clinics prescribed birth control pills for as long as 14 months without a qualified health care professional ever directly seeing patients or conducting a follow-up visit. A qualified health care professional should have seen the women at least once every three months, the suit says.

by LauraLoo

Watch the first 100 nauseating seconds if you dare.

C’mon!!  Can this really be?

BabyBangs! introduces 5 styles of wigs plus headbands for your hair-challenged baby.

What’s wrong with baby girls the way they are?  

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[HT: ABC7 Chicago]

Yeah. Well it’s absolutely true that religious liberty is critical… that’s the reason why we exempted churches, we exempted religious institutions.

And that’s not fair.

~ President Barack Obama defending the Health and Human Services ruling on mandatory contraception coverage by religious-affiliated organizations during an interview with New Orleans’ WWL-TV, via Mediaite, July 10