Most of you are aware my site was compromised Friday.

Our web person got rid of the infection, but there was a hidden trigger that set it off again Saturday. Now that, too, has been found and dealt with.

We will likely never know whether this was a malicious or random attack. But objectively speaking, our topic would be a magnet for ne’er do wells.

So goes the territory. Thanks for your patience and kind words of support.

He raises the poor from the dust. He lifts the needy from the trash heap in order to make them sit with nobles and even to make them inherit a glorious throne.

1 Samuel 2:8, God’s Word translation

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.

• Welcome to our newest blog by University of Michigan Students for Life, which is celebrating the group’s first known baby saved in their Pregnant on Campus Campaign. The students used flyers, chalkings, and signage to acquaint students with resources available for them to choose life. Congratulations to them!

• ProLife NZ shares news of an anti-euthanasia flash mob in France. The secretly planned event was in counter-protest to a public pro-euthanasia demonstration:
  
  

  Seven hundred people, young and old, holding red hearts with the slogan “Caring, not killing,” filled the esplanade facing the Eiffel Tower and danced to the sounds of Paul McCartney’s “Live and Let Die.”

  …Participants [turned] to show the other side of their paper hearts bearing the words: “Solidarity with those who are the most fragile,” after which they lay on the ground to symbolize victims of euthanasia.

• Wesley J. Smith writes a tongue-in-cheek response to a recent article deriding the obese for driving up healthcare costs. Smith suggests if this lifestyle is to be punished, then the sexually promiscuous one should be as well:
  
  

  If that’s the kind of society we want, if we really intend to unleash the lifestyle police, then let’s also target the promiscuous. After all, under the LA Times’ logic… living promiscuously increases the likelihood of contracting a sexually transmitted disease, experiencing or causing an unintended pregnancy, suffering depression and other mental health problems, and so on. In fact, when you think about it, promiscuity leads directly to deadly and very expensive diseases such as AIDS — and in a much faster time frame than either smoking or overeating!

  Maybe this is an issue the First Lady would like to tackle as well. Then again, maybe not.

• Pro-Life Wisconsin reports that liberal blog Think Progress is shocked – shocked -to find that a conservative summit had a booth that displayed pro-life literature. They write:
  
  

  The next room… featured a bevy of literature warning women about the supposed dangers of birth control and telling them that “Chastity is the best choice for single people.” One handout explained that contraception is unnecessary because “Saving yourself for your future spouse is guaranteed to prevent pregnancy before marriage.” Another answered the question “Is it safe?” with a simple “No.” The literature on emergency contraception warned that it could cause cancer before telling women simply, “Be good to yourself. Don’t use the morning-after pill.”

  We are so busted. Informing the public on chastity and on how birth control pills work? Oh the disgrace!

• Soapbox Five examines abortion proponent Margie Kelly’s claim that fetal health is important – and that pro-lifers aren’t doing enough to address it:
  
  

  While glossing over the fact that she supports the idea of mothers killing their fetuses arbitrarily, Kelly blames pro-lifers for not doing enough to make the “fetal environment” healthier through environmental regulations which would lead to better health for mother and child….

  Is death at the hands of one’s mother preferable to being gestated in a potentially less-than-ideal environment? Clean water and air are hugely important for all human beings, but I have to ask: Abortion advocates… do you really want to say that pro-lifers aren’t doing enough to save fetuses because we aren’t focusing all our efforts on eradicating pollution?….

  Apparently Ms. Kelly has no problem with such a claim. Ms. Kelly believes women should be able to have their children scraped and suctioned from their wombs in pieces, but she also believes that fetuses should have the very best possible environment.

• Stand for Life posts a frightening 911 call following an abortion, in which abortionist Martin Haskell is heard laughing. Just another day for the abortionist who lacks admitting privileges at nearby hospitals:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI52qAjFZB8[/youtube]

A couple weeks ago a lady struck up a conversation with me as I sat enjoying the weather at an outdoor cafe in Washington, D.C.  Not long into it she wondered what I did for a living. I told her pro-life work, which always elicits an interesting response.

But this one was new. “So, are you one of those pro-life crazies?” she asked.

A bit taken aback I hesitated, then answered, “By the definition I expect you use, yes, I am. I believe in protesting and showing photos of aborted babies.”

“That’s good,” she said. “I always ask that question to people who tell me they’re pro-life, and if they say they’re not radical about it, I ask them how can they consider themselves pro-life. If they really believe abortion kills babies, they should be going all out to stop it.”

I told her she’d make a great pro-lifer.

This brings me to a new flier making waves, coincidentally in that same neck of the woods. It is directed at Todd Stave, who I wrote a couple weeks ago has launched a new website, Voice of Choice, to out pro-life activists, and who is co-owner of the Germantown, Maryland, mill where late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart kills children. A pro-life activist in the area has determined “no justice, no peace” for Stave and has been distributing this flier. Click to enlarge…
 
 
The flier is getting press. From Washington Jewish Week, March 28:

When Gary Cohen first saw the flier that was left in his Rockville door last week, he was “horrified. It was horrible. It freaked my kids out. The whole thing was really over the top.”…

The fliers were distributed March 21 in one neighborhood in Rockville and another in Potomac. Living in the two neighborhoods are the landlords of a woman’s clinic in Germantown that performs abortions.

Todd Stave and his sister, Nancy Samuels, own the Germantown building, having inherited it when their [abortionist] father passed away….

I’ll have more on this in my weekend question tomorrow, but for now, what do you think of the flier? Someone from the other side sent it to me, wanting me to condemn it, but I couldn’t. I responded by asking what was inaccurate about it.

by LauraLoo

With the help of Mommy and Daddy, sister Ace pays tribute to her special brother Archie – who is perfect in her eyes. 

Archie was born in Bulgaria.  His biological mom did not keep him for her own so now he has a new loving family to call his own!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ_i3yioHlo[/youtube]

If this video doesn’t move you to joy or tears, nothing will.  Glory to God!

Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.

[HT: Monte H.]

I never have believed that Jesus Christ would approve of abortions and that was one of the problems I had when I was president, having to uphold Roe v. Wade.

And I did everything I could to minimize the need for abortions. I made it easy to adopt children, for instance, that were unwanted and also initiated the program called Women and Infant Children, or WIC program, that’s still in existence now. But except for the times when a mother’s life is in danger or when a pregnancy is caused by rape or incest I would certainly not or never have approved of any abortions….

~ Former president Jimmy Carter during an interview on the Laura Ingraham Show via Hot Air]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Here’s a quote you wouldn’t normally see at RH Reality Check:
  
  

  Yet both sides agree there is a moral urgency to ending the contamination of human beings from toxic chemicals, beginning in the womb. Government interest in fetal life shouldn’t be limited to blocking women’s right to choose. Instead, governments should choose to protect the interest in a healthy fetus by protecting women’s health, specifically women’s right to bear children and their right to a healthy pregnancy.

  Interestingly, Margie Kelly thinks that “by separating fetuses from the fetal environment [by displaying prenatal photos and ultrasounds], [pro-lifers] make women into enemies of the fetus.”

• Former abortionist Krishna Rajanna (pictured left) was caught dumping patient records in a recycling bin at an elementary school:
  
  

  The Star reported that the woman found more than 1,000 records, and Rajanna confirmed that he left about that number in the bin. The Star said the records contained names, birth dates, telephone numbers, Social Security numbers and the patients’ health histories, including whether any abortions were performed, for patients from almost every county in the Kansas City area and beyond, from Topeka to Freeman, Mo.

  It’s not that he didn’t really care that much about privacy, it’s just that he was so focused on “protecting the environment by not burning the paper records of the services they’d received.”

• Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards recently spoke at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy. Note her focus on social media:
  
  

  Planned Parenthood uses Facebook, Twitter and text messaging to deliver sex education to young people without having to get it through the Legislature. She noted that the number of people who visit Planned Parenthood online is equivalent to about 160,000 classrooms.

  “We have seen what young people and Planned Parenthood supporters can do in the face of censorship,” Richards said. “Technology has the power to connect people, to get our message out and drive social change.”

[Photo via deathroe.com]

The mainstream media is reporting that donations to Susan G. Komen for the Cure have dropped substantially in the wake of its decision and subsequent reversal to defund Planned Parenthood.

According to MSM, this must be due to disgruntled Planned Parenthood supporters, for instance this March 23 CBS News story:

“I wouldn’t want to be a part of an organization that had made such a terrible political mistake.”

Eve Ellis sat on Komen’s New York City board and raised more than a quarter million dollars but now says to restore trust top administrators including the national foundation’s board and founder and chief executive Nancy Brinker must leave.

“Besides being sad and besides being angry, I was also embarrassed because I had raised this money for an organization that seemed to be different from what I thought it was.”

Liberals must pursue this story line. The subliminal message is: Don’t mess with Planned Parenthood. It cannot be that pro-life withdrawal of support is the – or even a – problem.  It is apparently inconceivable that pro-lifers previously unaware of Komen’s relationship with PP might be backing away. From NPR, March 26:

People who were upset enough to withdraw, of course, didn’t show up Sunday. Amarie Whetton, part of a women’s health group from Raytheon Missile Systems, says fewer people raced on her group’s team this year.

An insinuation, from the Associated Press, March 19:

But [Komen Arizona chapter executive director Jaimie] Leopold confirmed another reason for the drop is… lingering mistrust….

Planned Parenthood of Southern Arizona has never received funding from the local organization because it has never applied. However, if it did, Planned Parenthood would be considered just like any other health-care providers that apply for grants….

“People, donors need to have confidence in where they put their money. We’ve been working to engage the community,” Leopold said. “We are committed to demonstrating we are a trustworthy philanthropy.”

The meme is also implied in photos, like this one in the Baltimore Sun…

But here’s a flashback to February 2, two days after Planned Parenthood leaked the news that Komen was defunding PP, from the Daily Caller:

In the wake of this week’s announcement that Susan G. Komen for the Cure will no longer be awarding grants to Planned Parenthood, the breast cancer organization’s donations have gone up 100 percent in the last two days.

It would have gone the other way had liberal types withdrawn enough support to make a dent. In fact, pro-lifers who had withheld donations from Komen started to give. And then stopped, of course. An objective MSM would have more likely concluded Komen’s new fundraising woes were due to its continued connection to PP.

A Daily Mail blogger (of course, in the UK) pegged the likely scenario:

My take is pro-life women are upset with the cave-in to Planned Parenthood and sacking Komen….

Obviously, the pro-abortion crowd is not as big about supporting Komen. Liberals are less charitable with their money than conservatives are. Or maybe there are just more pro-life women.

Had Komen stuck to its guns, conservatives would have supported it and Komen’s coffers would have increased in size.

In reality, Komen has alienated both ends of the ideological spectrum now. But it would have fared better sticking with pro-lifers.

A little aside, from my inside source. When Komen announced its original decision, a pro-life leader organized people and groups to send flowers of thanks to Komen. In all, Komen received over three dozen flower arrangements. Poignantly, the flowers did not arrive until after Komen reversed its decision. They were placed in Komen’s DC office’s war room, where I’m told Nancy Brinker read every card. That must have garnered a little guilt.

But Brinker is pro-abortion, don’t forget. And she’s aligning herself with her abuser. From the Washington Post, March 29:

“No one likes a dust up,” said Brinker. “We’ve passed through this. [Planned Parenthood president] Cecile Richards came to Texas and said, ‘We like Komen. Let’s move on. We’re through this.’ But the residual effects in the media has been difficult.”