by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Jordan Sekulow and Matthew Clark on Planned Parenthood’s abortion prayers:
  

  While admitting that aborted babies are “our children — even those we decide not to bring into the world,” Faith Aloud cannot debunk the claim that abortion is murder. Faith Aloud’s Web site states, “When you hear something over and over, like ‘abortion is murder’, it can get into your head — like a commercial. But if you really believed that abortion was the same as murder you probably wouldn’t even be considering it.”

  All Planned Parenthood and Faith Aloud can do is rationalize the taking of another human’s life under the guise of prayer.

• A Minnesota man has been arrested after beating his pregnant ex-girlfriend and attempting to kill his unborn child:
  

  Kenneth L. Turner, 28, assaulted his ex-girlfriend at a home for three hours, at one point ordering her to lie on her back and stomping on her stomach with both feet, the charge said. He told her she didn’t deserve the baby and that he was going to kill it, the complaint said.

  The woman is two months pregnant. It’s unclear whether her embryo suffered any permanent injuries.

  Turner was charged with felony first-degree attempted murder of an unborn child and felony domestic assault. He has previous domestic assault convictions and two other violent felony convictions.

• I can’t believe Planned Parenthood is wasting money on this ad. It’s completely unpersuasive. An abortion clinic nurse practitioner isn’t going to vote for a pro-life candidate because showing women their ultrasounds is “cruel” and women will get black eyes if they are given their ultrasound photo? The arguments against ultrasound legislation are getting weaker and weaker:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElWC0QRsmJw[/youtube]

by LauraLoo

Beloved American Bandstand legend Dick Clark passed away yesterday at the age of 82. 

Here’s one of my favorite AB segments – loved dancing to that song when I was a teen!  What are some of your fondest memories of Dick and AB?

Dick Clark was also such an outstanding entrepreneur/capitalist, broadening his scope even further to introducing the genesis of New Year’s Rockin’ Eve in Times Square.

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

This New Year’s Eve won’t be the same without Dick Clark! 

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I’ve spent the last decade or so trying not to get pregnant. Thanks to the simple and effective methods offered by modern medicine (and the feminist movement), it hasn’t been hard. For women in my millennial-ish age group, too-early pregnancy has been the freedom-choking bogeyman that kept you from getting to do all the things women are ready and able to do now — college, jobs, geographic relocation, delaying marriage, the list goes on….

[T]he control we’re now able to exert over our lives doesn’t extend to the biological, whether we like it or not.

~ Melissa Lafsky, The Daily Beast, April 17

[Photo via coastalhealthmatters.com]

Time magazine unveiled its 2012 Top 100 Most Influential People in the World today, and I wasn’t surprised to see Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards’ name once again, despite her bleak poll results.

In fact, of the 25 on Time’s list who had more negative votes than positive, Richards scored the lowest by far, with 45,395 no’s. Mitt Romney came in second with 14,003. Pro-lifers made it clear the Planned Parenthood brand remains vastly tarnished, and abortion remains as controversial as ever.

Additional stats, from LifeNews.com:

This year, Richards placed 84th in the most influential list. Last year, Richards clocked in at the 69th most influential spot.

Time chose Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, who gained fame after Rush Limbaugh called her a slut for complaining that her Catholic institution wouldn’t pay for her contraceptives (and who was also nominated to the Top 100 but lost), to pay tribute to Richards:

Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards, 54, is a role model for all of us as she leads women in pursuit of unfettered access to health care and reproductive freedom. She is also my advocate and that of every woman in America, as I learned firsthand when I was publicly disparaged for speaking out on an issue she has been working on every day for years.

Our most basic health care needs – needs that impact our families and our larger economy – are still being questioned. As we look to inspire the next generation of women to join this fight, we’re fortunate to have Cecile as our mentor. There is no better advocate.

Of course Richards is certainly no advocate for “every women in America” unless that means advocating to kill them.

Pro-lifers were rooting for Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who made the list, as did Tim Tebow. Both had positive poll results: Dolan 42,796/23,653; Tebow 11,502/8,999.

[HT: LifeNews.com]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Vanessa Williams said this about her abortion in an interview with a Fox affiliate:
  

  Who knows how life would have been different? I think the bottom line is I definitely would have been where I am now even if I’d gone down another path. It doesn’t take away from the drive or the talent. You can make your life whatever you want with or without a child.

• Apparently, Politico has no understanding of what an apology is. From Sarah Silverman, this clearly isn’t one:
  

  In her apology, Silverman tweeted:”It wasn’t funny for me to talk so casually about abortion. But when they take our right to choose away it will be HILARIOUS!” And: “The government should STAY OUT of our PRIVATE LIVES except when it comes to who we marry & what we do w our uteruses!!”

• “I had an abortion” t-shirts are sparking controversy at UNC-Wilmington:
  

  The shirts were for sale on University of North Carolina Wilmington’s campus Monday in connection with a panel discussion about abortion and Jennifer Baumgardner’s book signing. The author and abortion rights advocate started making the shirts in 2004, to encourage people to speak about their experiences. The sales sparked other students to rally with their own shirts, saying things like “I haven’t killed a baby.”

• Pro-lifers in Ohio have been working on new legislation to keep funds away from Planned Parenthood:
  

  Under the proposal, local public health departments get the top funding priority, followed by federally qualified community health centers, private primary-care centers and, last, Planned Parenthood and other stand-alone family planning centers.

  “We refer to it as defunding Planned Parenthood because a lot of the money, in fact, will go to the top three (categories), but it doesn’t preclude Planned Parenthood at the end of the day from receiving money,” said Mike Gonidakis, president of Ohio Right to Life.

• Pro-choice intolerance is alive and well in Connecticut where a number of students attempted to prevent the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform from setting up a Genocide Awareness Project display at the University of Connecticut. Two students, Brenna Regan and Logan Place, who refused to stop interfering after authorities showed up were eventually arrested:
  

  Regan described the images on display as “imposing and attacking.” The posters included bloody images of aborted fetuses, detached baby heads and dismembered limbs….

  “If the UConn Police would rather arrest UConn students than stop a hate speech, so be it,” Place said.

  At the Hartford Courant, student Cindy Luo has a rather delusional perspective of the protest and arrest:
  

  Protesters gathered on Tuesday to try and reason with GAP members, asking that they at least take into consideration the emotional health of students, but they refused to stop displaying these images. This showed that they don’t actually want to have an informed, civil discussion, but rather want to traumatize people who may have had abortions or might be facing such a decision.

  Trying to prevent a pro-life group from setting up a display using force proves the pro-life group doesn’t want to have a civil discussion?

[Photo via ThePhoenix.com]

by LauraLoo

First Lady Michelle Obama is not the only person who feels her husband Barack Obama has brought U.S. civilization out of the dark and into the light.  Meet a couple of misguided ladies who love the President for “Obama money”:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIkksi344cM[/youtube]

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[HT: WLS890AM Chicago]

Being pregnant is the most frightening thing that happens in your life….

I knew in high school that’s something that I was not prepared to do, or fight, or struggle with.

~ Singer and actress Vanessa Williams revealing her abortion experience during high school in her upcoming book, You Have No Idea, as quoted by New York Daily News, April 17

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Erin McCann, a student at the University of Maine, provides your typical assertion-filled, argument-free piece opposed to the Genocide Awareness Project.
• Mississippi’s governor has signed the bill to tighten abortion regulations. Abortion advocates claim the legislation could put the state’s lone abortion clinic out of business since two of their three abortionists don’t have admitting privileges:
  

  The clinic’s owner, Diane Derzis, said in a telephone interview this month that all her doctors are obstetrician-gynecologists, but only one has admitting privileges at an area hospital. She vowed to fight to remain open.

• In a new book, actress Vanessa Williams discusses an abortion she had in high school:
  

  Vanessa Williams, now a mother of four, said she first got pregnant when she was in high school but decided to have an abortion — another secret she kept from her mother.

  “Being pregnant is the most frightening thing that happens in your life,” she said. “I knew in high school that’s something that I was not prepared to do, or fight, or struggle with.”

• The Irish Times has a piece on four women who aborted children with genetic abnormalities or a condition where the child would die shortly after birth. The women refer to their aborted children as babies throughout the piece but there really aren’t any quotes for why they had abortions instead of bringing the children to birth:
  

  “Having to walk around Birmingham for five hours when you’ve just ended your baby’s life, you’ve had an anaesthetic and are bleeding and cramping…. I believe in a loving, caring, understanding God and that I won’t be damned for what I did….

[Photo via escharnian-tales.com]