It was the top story on Drudge yesterday morning and is making world headlines today.

Word has come out that Chinese pro-life dissident Chen Guangcheng made a daring escape under the cloak of darkness on April 22 to the U.S. embassy in Beijing, where he is now holed up. Chen was previously imprisoned for four years and was currently under house arrest for exposing China’s forced sterilization and abortion atrocities.

The renewed attention to China’s forced one-child policy is certainly an embarrassment to its government. Recall last December actor Christian Bale also brought attention to Chen after being blocked by goons while trying to visit him.

And the timing of Chen’s flight is inconvenient for ours, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner scheduled to travel to China later this week for diplomatic talks on the economy.

This stuff of movies has a subplot, since President Barack Obama and Clinton are both avid abortion supporters.

How uncomfortable for the Obama administration this incident must be, since it ultimately results in a clash of values, pitting political diplomacy against human rights violations of pregnant mothers and their babies.  The last thing they want to do is become actively involved in China’s abortion policy.

While Clinton and the State Department have repeatedly called for Chen’s release, they will now have to move beyond talking the talk to walking the walk. Recall Clinton also said in 2009, “But our pressing on [human rights] issues can’t interfere with the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crises.”

Also recall pro-abortion Vice President Joe Biden infamously told the Chinese last August, “Your policy has been one which I fully understand – I’m not second-guessing – of one child per family.”

So we know where the Obama administration ultimately stands. Global warming ranks higher than forced abortions. But Chen’s seeking refuge from the U.S. is something they can’t ignore. The world is now watching.

Presidential politics are now also at play, with Republican candidate Mitt Romney calling on Obama to “take every measure” to protect Chen. What will Americans think if pragmatic Obama does what he really wants to do and return Chen to the Communist regime?

Thus, once again abortion has taken center stage, as much as liberals and the mainstream media would like to make it go away. (The Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney notes in a piece today that WashPo totally bypassed what exactly makes Chen a dissident in a 1300 word story today, as do other news reports.)

In December 2011 Chen’s horrific field notes (link down at present/site sabotage suspected) were entered into the record at a Congressional hearing about China’s forced sterilization and abortion atrocities.

But the atrocities allegedly continue. Last month another dissident managed to post a photo and story of a full-term baby who was aborted alive and drowned in a bucket of water….

 by LauraLoo

Political fodder ran amok during Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner attended by President Obama and hosted by Jimmy Kimmel. 

Even though Obamacare and contraception both took a few hits, the majority of the evening’s jokes were at the expense of politicians, journalists and celebrities. 

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It is something no civilized nation indulges in.

Not to mention, of course, the danger of contracting HIV/AIDS, if the wife had it, and the husband thinks he can get away with unprotected erotic acts, because there is no worry about the wife becoming pregnant.

~ Marion DS Dreyfus discussing the possible health risks associated with having sexual intercourse with a corpse, American Thinker, April 28

This is in response to the claim that Egyptian husbands may soon have the legal right to have sexual intercourse with their wives for up to six hours after death.

[Photo Credit: History Link 101]

David Bowie fans will recognize the line in my subject heading from his classic song, Changes:

And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through

I thought of that line when viewing the following political cartoon by Jack Ohman at GoComics.com. Ohman is a liberal pro-choicer no less, who I’m sure doesn’t realize the tragic irony of his attempted wit…

Those children that baby boomers spit upon by promoting their abortions if inconvenient should not now be expected to give up their lifestyles for those same inconvenient baby boomers. Ohman’s cartoon signals the coming unrest.

Here’s another along the same lines, by conservative Michael Ramirez at Townhall.com. The tiny safety net is thanks to abortion…

More tragic irony abounds in pro-abortion/infanticide President Barack Obama. It should come as no surprise that he considers inconvenient old people no differently than inconvenient babies, despite his attempted cover-up, which he was outed on this week. From the Wall Street Journal:

ObamaCare slashes about $145 billion from Medicare Advantage, the program that allows one of four seniors to escape the traditional entitlement and choose commercial plans….

Medicare’s budget counters estimate that ObamaCare’s cuts in the Advantage program will result in enrollment falling by half. The cuts were scheduled to begin this year. But someone from the Obama campaign in Chicago must have conducted a poll in Tampa Bay or Scottsdale.

So in November 2010 Mr. Obama’s Medicare team announced a nationwide Medicare Advantage “demonstration project” that would test if paying insurers bonus subsidies would improve quality over the next two years. Lo and behold, according to a new investigation by the Government Accountability Office, or GAO, the $8.35 billion pilot program is just enough to reverse 71% of the Advantage cuts that would have hit seniors in the runup to November. And behold again, the demonstration project turns into a pumpkin in 2013.

Hence, astute political cartoons like this one by Lisa Benson at Townhall.com…

This was quite the ironic week for cartoons. When I speak to young people I point to empty bleacher sections and say they represent their aborted friends. I was reminded of that section of my speech when viewing this cartoon by Eric Allie at Townhall.com. I realize Allie didn’t intend for it to mean as I took it. He intended to point out the flagging youth support for Obama, which to me was ironic to begin with, since Obama so strongly advocated their deaths…

Final irony, by Glenn McCoy at Townhall.com…

The Lord made his people very fruitful; he made them too numerous for their foes….

~ Psalm 105:24, New International Version

UPDATE 4/29, 1:54p: Ashley has engaged in the conversation on Twitter, fyi…

4/28, 3:14p: Pro-abortion Hollywood star Ashley Judd was one of several lesser knowns to recently mock the demise of Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign with a spoof that made analogies to abortion…

On April 23 Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly dedicated a segment of his show to Judd, predicting her career would certainly suffer for her overt support of abortion, in particular a new television show in which she stars (and which I heretofore had never heard of), Missing….

But if I had heard of Missing, and was a fan, I’d stop watching it. I wouldn’t want to give anything related to Judd my business, and I wouldn’t be able to get past reminders of abortion if watching her anyway.

How about you? Do you boycott t.v. shows, movies, concerts, cds, etc., of famous people who promote abortion? If so, who?

There’s a good chunk of women who overestimate the effectiveness of the pill and condoms. About 45% of a group of 4,500 women looking to use these methods as a way to not have babies, put too much faith in these anti-baby having products. problem, science says, is that people conflate “ideal use” and “typical use.”

“We need to do a better job of educating the public – women and men – on the failure rates with typical use,” explains researcher David Eisenberg.

So here’s some education, ladies. On the Pill, the pregnancy rate with “typical use” is about 9% per year and using condoms, it’s between 18-21%. A lot higher than you thought, right?

~ The Atlantic Wire, April 27

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• Wesley J. Smith posts the latest on a study of children conceived via IVF. Research shows a 37% higher risk of birth defects – and scientists can’t find the reason for it.
• Women’s Rights Without Frontiers points out a real war on women – forced abortion and gendercide in China.
• Right to Life of Michigan has the miracle story of twins who were born at 25 weeks, a month after their mother suffered two brain aneurysms and was declared brain dead.
• Secular Pro-Life does a detailed breakdown of pro-choice and pro-life polling demographics.
• Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life encourages Gov. Mark Dayton to consider the lives and health of women by signing into a law a recent MN Senate bill banning RU-486 webcam abortions.

• Pro-Life Action League says groups under the banner of UniteWomen.org are planning rallies against the supposed “war on women” tomorrow. Their website purports to “[support] diversity and [welcome] men and women of all ages without regard to their… religious or spiritual beliefs” while mocking religion with various items for sale (note one t-shirt design, pictured left). Even protestors’ babies can get in on the action by wearing “My mom made a choice” onesies. These should be classy events, as always.
• Timmerie’s Blog reports that while other states are making pro-life gains, California moves closer to a bill that would allow non-physicians to perform abortions.
• Suzy B updates readers on Ireland’s continuing fight against making abortion legal:
  

  This week, Ireland’s Dail, their legislative branch, defeated a bill that would have repealed the nation’s abortion ban by a landslide 109-20 margin. The bill would have legalized abortion, allowed doctors to perform abortions without a woman’s consent, and even made certain pro-life activity and protesting punishable by law. It would have also gutted the conscience protections that doctors currently enjoy in Ireland.

• Moral Outcry rejoices that Gov. Phil Bryant will sign the bill that may end abortion in Mississippi. Not long ago, Planned Parenthood mocked and belittled the state during the fight to pass a personhood amendment:
  

  Their wounding statements made me think of the scripture, “Nazareth! Can anything good come from there?”… “Come and see,” said Philip. –John 1:46. The very state that Planned Parenthood schemed to manipulatively belittle in an effort to preserve their “baby womb-tomb empire” would be the very place Hope would be birthed. I believe God was echoing back: Watch and see the good that will come out of Mississippi.

• John Smeaton shares a video poem entitled, “Interview With a Unborn Child”:

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[Image via Pro-Life Action League]