UPDATE 7:42a: Sign the new petition at ProtectOurGirls.Com, which calls for an immediate ban on the horrific practice of sex-selective abortions in the U.S.

6:45a: Pro-life group Live Action has just gone public with the first video from  its latest undercover investigation: sex-selective abortions.

This first sting was conducted at a Planned Parenthood in Texas.

The Daily Caller broke the story a few minutes ago:

Live Action says Planned Parenthood and other U.S. abortion providers are willing to assist in the termination of baby girls for pregnant women who choose abortion because they want to have baby boys. And the pro-life abortion watchdog says its video series and a new website will expose it all.

“This was a multi-state, national investigation demonstrating that this is a widespread problem across our country,” Live Action president Lila Rose told The Daily Caller in an interview Monday.

“First of all, the statistics and studies indicate that we are adding to the growing problem across the world of sex-selective targeting of unborn girls for abortion. We are going to be demonstrating — starting with this video from Texas — that the abortion industry in the United States is aiding and abetting this horrific problem.”

The first in what Live Action says is a series of videotaped incidents exposing American abortion facilities’  willingness to assist in sex-selection abortions took place at a South Austin, Texas Planned Parenthood clinic. In the footage, a Planned Parenthood counselor appears to readily assist and advise a Live Action actor who said she was trying to obtain an abortion if her baby is female.

“In this video, what is astounding is that Rebecca, the Planned Parenthood counselor, starts arranging with the actor about how to get a late-term abortion,” Rose said. “To wait until her pregnancy is so developed that — and using Medicaid for this, using the state to pay for the ultrasound to determine the gender, and then to do a late term abortion if it was a little girl.”

Live Action would not say how many abortion providers complied with their investigators’ requests or how many they visited. The group did provide The Daily Caller with a link to its unedited video footage from the South Austin clinic.

I was shocked at how cavalierly the Planned Parenthood employee recommends waiting until after 20 weeks to abort a baby girl….

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We don’t need another political fight about ending a woman’s right to choose, or getting rid of Planned Parenthood or taking away affordable birth control. We don’t need that.

We’re not turning back the clock. We’re not going back there.

~ President Barack Obama at the Iowa State Fair on May 24, as quoted by CNS News

by LauraLoo

Yesterday Chris Hayes of MSNBC (in his infinite wisdom) explained why he cannot call members of the military ‘heroes’.

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Well, I can think of a few reasons not to call you an American, Chris.  The term traitor fits folks like you who desecrate our selfless and sacrificial military!

I wish everyone a blessed Memorial Day.

Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.

[HT: 89 WLS Chicago]

Your silent tents of green
We deck with fragrant flowers;
Yours has the suffering been,
The memory shall be ours.

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Here were my top five favorite political cartoons for the week, starting with a great one by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…

 by Glenn Foden at Townhall.com…

 by Chuck Asay at Townhall.com…

 Liberal Signe Wilkinson at GoComics.com employs a common pro-abortion tactic, which is to attempt to detract from our focus – saving preborn babies from slaughter – to another issue, while also trying to put us on the defensive. Don’t let them throw you off-topic and take you down a rabbit trail. Feel free in comments to recommend good pro-life responses to this maneuver…

 The most vulnerable of the vulnerable – preborn babies with minority and/or poor mothers – are primary targets of the abortion industry and Democrats. It is also they who push the overpopulation myth, which has resulted in the worldwide white population headed for extinction.

SO, this cartoon by liberal cartoonist Clay Jones at GoComics.com actually portrays the opposite of reality. It is liberals who are responsible for the dearth of Caucasians, and if liberals had their way, lots of those minority storks would be shot down…

When reading “empty,” think uterus…

You important people, how long are you going to insult my honor? How long are you going to love what is empty and seek what is a lie?

~ Psalm 4:2, God’s Word translation

The new frontier in abortion restriction is writing laws governing why women are allowed to terminate their pregnancies. And they’re more popular than you might think….

So-called “motivation bans” have started small and without much controversy; at the federal level, a bill known as PRENDA aims to outlaw abortion based on the race or sex of the fetus and would allow parental or spousal intervention to stop a woman from aborting her pregnancy. Even though the bill nakedly sucks a**, the prospect of outlawing sex-selective abortion is a popular one — according to LifeSite News, more than 75% of Americans say they’d support a ban on the practice….

Earlier this year, the push to expand the list of “unacceptable reasons to have an abortion” to include fetal abnormality intensified. At a Catholic Church-sponsored conference this January, the anti-choice Family Research Council… devoted an entire day to discussing motivations of parents who chose abortion because of a genetic defect like Down Syndrome, and how the Faithful can fight for laws aiming to prevent the termination of these pregnancies.

~ Erin Gloria Ryan, Jezebel, Mary 24

[Graphic via Jezebel]