“We have a couple coming in for a sex-selection abortion,” [my clinic director] said. “The fetus is a girl, and their culture prefers boys. I want to know if you will be able to work with them without judging or being negative. Be honest. If you can’t be their advocate, I will. I need to know by four o’clock.”…

Lila Rose… is doing nothing to end sexism in the U.S. or in the world.

~ Eastern Illinois University professor Jeannie Ludlow, RH Reality Check, June 26

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Planned Parenthood in Columbia, Missouri is indefinitely suspending abortions – again:
  

  This isn’t the first time Planned Parenthood has suspended abortions at the Columbia clinic while doctors were unavailable. The clinic halted abortions for four months beginning last October after its lone Columbia physician was sent overseas on active military duty.

• Part of South Dakota’s informed consent law will go into effect on July 1:
  

  Women seeking abortions in South Dakota will be advised about the risk of adverse psychological outcomes and assessed by a doctor for the possibility that she was coerced into getting the procedure, under an agreement between Planned Parenthood and state officials.

• The Los Angeles Times is reporting that family planning officials who forcibly aborted Feng Jianmei at 7 months pregnant and then laid the child’s body next to hers for a picture have been supposedly punished:
  

  Following the outcry, a municipal government investigation found that forcing the young woman to terminate her pregnancy so late in its term violated her rights, the official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. The township also illegally demanded an approximately $6,200 payment for a certificate allowing her to have a second child, which her family did not pay, the report stated.

  The investigation found that officials “used crude means to violate her intentions,” Xinhua reported.

  The head of family planning in Zhenping county has been removed from his post, Xinhua reported. Other township, county and hospital officials were also punished, including another Zhenping family-planning official, who was given “administrative demerits,” the news agency reported.

  Meanwhile, the family of the woman is allegedly being harassed:
  

  The Chinese father of a forcibly aborted baby whose case prompted an international outcry has been beaten and forced into hiding, while his wife and other family members have been labeled traitors by fellow townspeople, the man’s sister said Tuesday….

  Apparently angered over the family’s contacts with journalists, the local government has since organized a backlash against the family members, calling them traitors and keeping them under surveillance, Deng Jicai, a sister of the 30-year-old father Deng Jiyuan, said.

by LauraLoo

Here’s the second video in the Pampers “A Parent is Born” series. 

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKmXbxon40c[/youtube]

To revisit the first video, click here.

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

[HT: Jill]

It’s bad when somebody presents a political view and somebody disagrees with them enough to do vandalism and damage to an innocent bystander such as Euro-Asian Automotive.

~ Euro-Asian Automotive owner George Rode lamenting the damage his business sustained as a result of vandalism of a pro-life billboard sponsored by StandUpGirl.com, as reported by KEZI News, June 26

According to KEZI, CBS Outdoor has removed the billboard and refused to honor a second billboard that was purchased by StandUpGirl.com. The group’s money was instead refunded.

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.

• ProLifeBlogs posts a C-FAM article describing abortion proponents’ defeat at the United Nations Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development last week:
  

  Along with the Holy See, Nicaragua, Chile, Russia, Honduras, Syria, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Egypt all rejected the introduction of “reproductive rights” into the Rio +20 outcome document.

• At LifeNews, Michael New examines the progress of the pro-life movement in the 20 years since the Planned Parenthood vs. Casey decision.

• Another reason not to socialize medicine: Big Blue Wave reports on UK infant Leon Gough (pictured left), who may have permanent brain damage because his critical brain surgery was canceled due to a doctors’ strike.
• Coming Home describes the reasons for the Catholic Church’s Fortnight for Freedom, a time of prayer for our country:
  

  … [T]he Federal Government has sought to attack the Catholic Church over an issue that is central to her identity and mission, the teaching that all human life is made in the image and likeness of God from the moment of fertilization and is to be respected as such until natural death.

  Our loss of freedom is centered on the mandate by the Federal Government that we pay not only for birth control pills, some of which are known abortifacients, but that we pay for sterilizations and known abortifacient morning-after pills such as RU-486 and Ella.

• Live Action responds to the liberal media firestorm which erupted when Fox’s Bill O’Reilly asked whether the US had become China in light of LA’s sex-selective abortion sting.
• The Leading Edge exposes the reasons why a proposed New Zealand law to ban child abusers from procreating may initially sound like a good idea, but really isn’t.
• Stand for Life has video of the New Abortion Caravan’s experiences traveling through Canada in an attempt to bring visual recognition to the impact of “choice”:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUIQlfx1zGA[/youtube]

[Photo via dailymail.co.uk]

The lips of the righteous know what is fitting,
but the mouth of the wicked only what is perverse. ~ Proverbs 32:10

Warning: Vulgarity ahead.

The other side has apparently determined it can no longer command attention by employing logic. As pro-life ideology begins to dominate politics as well as the thinking American mind, abortion proponents are increasingly exercising the use of shock to make their points.

The recent uptick in pro-abortion vulgarity can somewhat be traced back to Oklahoma Democrat state Senator Judy Eason McIntyre, who couldn’t deal with the passage of a personhood bill in her chamber in March. So she joined a protest holding the stately sign, “IF I WANTED THE GOVERNMENT IN MY WOMB I’D F*** A SENATOR.”

Now you can buy t-shirts.

Which is exactly what a pro-choicer known only as “O,” pictured left, did, and then became unrighteously indignant when booted off an American Airlines flight in May after refusing to turn it inside out or change it.

Abortion proponents saw this as viewpoint discrimination rather than an issue of decency. Fumed RH Reality Check Editor-In-Chief Jodi Jacobson:

But protest these laws and the War on Women with a t-shirt that gets right to the point? Let people know the basis of all of it, the people that “want government out of our lives” want to place it directly into our bodies? In a country supposedly founded on freedom of speech and expression, in which protestors can stand outside clinics harassing and threatening women and doctors, and run through every public square with gory doctored photos?…

Oh, no. You can’t do that. You can’t take that message that your body is your own anywhere. Because in the United States today, that is like taking your burqha off under the Taliban. That is “offensive,” “insulting” and “not for public consumption.”

I must momentarily digress. Jodi, please show me a photo of an abortion you think isn’t “doctored.” Show me your reality of the procedure.

The liberal Netroots Nation 2012 conference earlier this month had “vulgarity on steroids,” as Gateway Pundit called it, for sale. Check out these posters…

I didn’t even know what the word “p***t**g” meant. Had to ask someone if it was bad enough to censor.

As a bookend to this post comes final offensiveness from another female Democrat state legislator, this one Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown, who on the House floor on June 14 told Republicans, “I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no,'” regarding a fetal pain bill that would ban abortion after 20 weeks with no exceptions – even for rape. Her comment got her banned from speaking on the floor for a day…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDDUoXsSN5g[/youtube]

Brazenly, Brown was a participant in a reading of “The Vagina Monologues,” an obscene play about female sexual oppression, outside the Capitol a few days later.

In my view this coarsening of the conversation by the other side is one big panicked temper tantrum.

by Hans Johnson

China’s  One Child Policy has resulted in the deaths of millions of female babies. Though in India it is illegal to have sex-selective abortions, it is commonplace in the many rural villages – an estimated six million in the past ten years.

This practice has gotten more attention recently with the publication of the book Disappearing Daughters: The Tragedy of Female Foeticide  by Gita Aravamudan, a report on ABC’s 20/20 that can be seen here and here, as well as this video from the United Nations, which is not known for having pro-life sensibilities.

Kilash Boria, seen here on CBN News, has  not only followed in  his father’s footsteps  as a farmer, but also in his  side-business of making herbal abortifacients for women in his village.

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A June 25 article in Newsweek about the Personhood movement is shaking up the pro-abortion community. Just read a sampling of the 315 comments and counting that have poured in since it was crossposted on The Daily Beast since yesterday.

Why? Because author Abigail Pesta wrote a fair piece that positively portrays Personhood leader Keith Mason (pictured above with wife Jennifer) and legitimizes the movement itself, concluding:

The group has helped spark 22 “personhood” bills and ballot initiatives; while none has passed, in each ballot vote on personhood, the margin of defeat has declined….

Personhood efforts have existed for decades, but they have never taken hold in the public imagination the way Mason’s work has.

Pesta expounds in this video…

Bottom line, great news:

His group is now collecting signatures for ballot efforts in Colorado, Ohio, and Montana for the November elections and in Florida for 2014….

He says his team has gained more than 80,000 volunteers and more than a million signatures….

As Mason’s team gathers signatures for the fall ballots in his most ambitious season so far, opponents are bracing for a fight. Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other groups have filed lawsuits and launched extensive publicity campaigns. Personhood is a “formidable presence in every state,” says NARAL’s Crane. “If any one of these initiatives passes, it could work its way through the courts. And the courts can’t necessarily be counted on these days to make decisions that will protect women’s health.”

There are those on our side who don’t think the courts should be counted on to go our way either, for example:

Paul Linton, former general counsel for the pro-life group Americans United for Life, says personhood is “fundamentally flawed,” as “no justice on the Supreme Court… has ever expressed the view that the unborn child is or should be regarded as a federal constitutional ‘person.’”

But it does look as though we will someday find out, just another reminder of the importance of this election, since the next president may select up to three Supreme Court justices.

[Photo via Newsweek]