UPDATE 1:30p: Victoria Jackson at rally in Ft. Lauderdale!

9:07a: Today pro-lifers in 140 cities from coast to coast will Stand Up for Religious Freedom to protest President Obama’s healthcare mandate, which will force religious entities to provide contraceptive, abortion drug, and sterilization coverage in their insurance plans. All rallies will be held at noon local time.

Quoting one of the organizers, Eric Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League:

This Rally has exploded into what may well be the single largest nationwide pro-life event in history. You’ll be telling your
grandchildren about it one day!

Click link above for locations. I’ll be attending the rally in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

If you can’t attend, you can participate by helping underwrite the significant cost of putting these rallies together, including the production of thousands of signs, to PLAL.

Jill Stanek writes the most popular pro-life blog in the nation. Keith Olbermann once named her “the worst person in the world.” In an average year, Stanek’s writings would qualify her for this list, but this is a special election year and she may play a major role in beating Obama.

~ Paul Cooper placing blogger Jill Stanek as Number Nine of Planned Parenthood’s Ten Most Feared Enemies in 2012, PJ Media, March 19

by LauraLoo

Biblical prophecy in action?

I wonder when the United States will follow suit?  Will it be in our lifetime or our children’s lifetime?  All I know for sure is that it’s coming – just as surely as the Lord Jesus’ second coming.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4q7iRmEwKs[/youtube]

Interesting side note:

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They are handed leaflets with fanciful claims about how abortion will raise their risk of cancer and mental illness. They are shown ‘life-size’ models of their unborn baby and subjected to ‘pavement counselling’ to encourage them to ‘choose life.’ For the present at least, women are no longer tormented with ‘gifts’ of little knitted baby bootees, a feature of some previous vigils.

Of course, society should debate the rights and wrongs of abortion. There are places for that and persons who are ready and willing to engage with the issues. Outside a clinic is the wrong place, and women in immediate need of care are the wrong audience.

~ Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the UK’s largest independent abortion provider, CNN, March 19

[Photo via 40 Days for Life]

UPDATE 6:30p: My apologies to everyone for my misunderstanding of who Mitt was referring to in the video. Of course it was President Obama, not Rick Santorum. Thanks for your feedback!! LL ;)

by LauraLoo

Where else but Illinois do we continue to experience either the most politically corrupt or politically absurd?

Illinois’ presidential primary on Monday (before Mitt Romney won on Tuesday) was no exception.  Get a load of Mitt’s response to a young woman looking for a certain type of “free stuff”.  (Part of me wonders if she was a plant.)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6aLpf5OMKw[/youtube]

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It is so hard for me to not engage. It is so hard not to get angry. It is so hard not to scream the truth at the antis.

What coping mechanism do you use when you are angry at antis?

~ Abortion clinic escort Servalbear describing frustration with pro-life protestors, Every Saturday Morning, March 17

by Kelli

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Generations for Life has more information on the upcoming Nationwide Rallies for Religious Freedom to be held this Friday, March 23rd. Find your nearest rally location here.

• Abolitionist Society effectively dismantles the popular anti-personhood, straw man “argument” which claims that if human rights should be granted to zygotes, then human sex cells should also be granted personhood rights.
• The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition notes that the bill attempting to legalize assisted suicide in Vermont has failed.

• At Pro-Life in TN, Susie Allen writes about Mother Jones’ attempt at cleverness by suggesting that women “knit a vagina or womb and send it to [their local] Congressman with a note to chastise or appreciate” based on whether or not the representative supports Obamacare’s contraception mandate. Strangely enough, the site lists message suggestions, one of them being “We do not need government interference with our doctors or our healthcare” despite the fact that they are demanding that everyone – including the Church – pay for their contraceptives.
• At Americans United for Life, Mary Harned details the anti-woman philosophy that undergirds Roe v. Wade. She sums up:
  
  

  So, what does Roe truly mean for America?

  It means the virtual obliteration of societal encouragement and affirmation for women who want to bring “unexpected” children into the world. It means that women today are condescendingly told that, without abortion, they are unable to realize their full potential. It means that men are helpless to plead for the lives of their unborn babies. And it means that approximately 52 million unborn American children, robbed of any “rights, freedoms, and opportunities,” have been aborted since Roe.

• At Live Action, Kristi Burton Brown has a story from one of the often-forgotten victims of abortion – the father who loses his child.
• Jay at LTI shares the story of how one reader’s family was affected by a past rape and resulting pregnancy.
• At Ethika Politika, Jacqueline Harvey describes why she refused to accept a blanket prescription for the Pill to “treat” her endometriosis, and instead found help through diet and lifestyle changes:
  
  

  Unlike Sandra Fluke, I know all too well about the medical “need” for contraception. I assert the medical need is not for contraception, but for real medical treatments. Instead, women are reduced to settling for the side effects of a drug that was not designed to treat any medical ailments, but intended to allow people to have sex without pregnancy….

  It baffles me that it is self-proclaimed feminists who are indignant about not getting free contraception somehow fail to see that women with real health problems are woefully neglected.

[Father and child photo via thetyee.ca]

by LauraLoo

Supermodel Elle MacPherson gave a revealing interview recently to Howard Stern about her brand of politics.

Sure, she’s been gorgeous and successful for years, but all that beauty can’t hide the ugliness – now that we know she’s a socialist who’s rooting for Obama to be re-elected in November.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo4bh2PxxOM[/youtube]

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