I wrote yesterday that Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell basically pulled a Bart Stupak.

McDonnell blew an opportunity that comes along only rarely in public life, to be an honest-to-goodness hero. Like Stupak, McDonnell more than squandered it. He ended up hurting the pro-life cause by weakening sound, proven ultrasound legislation.

But what about feminists?

They are presently congratulating themselves for cleverly equating transvaginal ultrasounds to “forcible rape,” but their victory will be short-lived.

They, too, blew it, digging themselves into a hole pro-lifers should not let them climb out of.

Abortion proponent Carole Joffe, professor at UCSF’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, recognized the problem in a February 29 piece she wrote at Slate entitled,”Crying rape: Pro-choice advcoates should quit calling ultrasounds rape”:

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Maryland prosecutors have dropped murder charges against abortionists Stephen Brigham and Nicola Riley. It appears Brigham is being let go because he injected the unborn children with fatal chemicals while in New Jersey, killing them there (despite not having a valid medical license there), creating a jurisdictional issue:

  As first reported Tuesday by the Cecil Whig newspaper, [Cecil County State’s Attorney Edward D.E.] Rollins said in a news release that after consulting expert witnesses, prosecutors realized that fetal demise “created a jurisdictional issue.”

  Thus, Rollins said, Maryland “cannot successfully prosecute these matters at this time.” However, he added, “the investigation is continuing.”

  Lawyers for Brigham and Riley argued that prosecutors had misinterpreted Maryland’s fetal homicide law and its abortion law regarding the issue of fetal viability.

  Brigham’s lawyers argued that the abortion law gives the attending physician the responsibility for determining whether a fetus is capable of surviving outside the womb. “And under the law, it doesn’t matter if others disagree,” Brown said….

  Brown said the latest crisis “has been very stressful for Dr. Brigham. He’s eager to get back to his life and his practice.”

  So post-viability abortion caravans will continue unless New Jersey prosecutors step up and charge this guy with something.

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by LauraLoo

In a world that is becoming more tolerant of homosexuality, CNN’s Piers Morgan interviews born-again Christian Kirk Cameron on the topic of homosexuality.  Kirk believes homosexuality is unnatural, detrimental and ultimately destructive to many of the foundations of civilization.

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

How would you answer Piers’ question if posed to you:  ”What would you do if one of your kids told you they were gay?”

Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptzi4ZrkiJE[/youtube]

You better knock us out now. You and the President better knock us out right now, because Cecile, I can promise you – Here comes the Catholic Church.

~ Fr. John Hollowell responding to Cecile Richards’ call for women to post videos on YouTube, to “have their say” via Live Action, March 5

As I wrote a couple weeks ago, pro-life activist Todd Bullis recently relocated from California to Texas.

Recall Todd launched “The Church Project” while in California, showing graphic images of aborted babies on Sunday mornings in front of churches professing to be pro-life but bearing no fruit.

To say the least, Todd had interesting experiences at those churches – from being hosed by an off-duty police officer congregant at one church to having signs flipped over by a congregant at another.

Todd plans to continue his project in Plano.

This past Saturday Todd and his son decided to test the waters by holding a little two-person picket on a random high traffic street corner. Todd had run into rudeness when attempting to communicate his future plans in person to the Plano police department, so he decided to check out the lay of the land.

Plano Police Officer Steven Sanders, Badge #1439, responded to a complaint, and as Todd explains in his video, went above and beyond the call of duty to harassment.

Sanders refused to let Todd videotape him, claiming Todd’s camera just might be a gun. But I found a photo of Sanders, right, in a cigar club puff piece.

Sanders went out of his way to make trouble for Todd. For instance, Todd had parked his car in an empty church parking lot, not even knowing it belonged to a church a block away. Sanders said he was going to encourage the church to file trespassing charges.

I’ll let Todd take it from here…

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Jonah Goldberg on Democrats’ dishonesty over Obama’s contraceptive mandate:

  The Obama campaign insists that “if Mitt Romney and a few Republican senators get their way, employers could be making women’s healthcare decisions for them” and require that women seek a permission slip to obtain birth control.

  It’s all so breathtakingly dishonest. Rather than transport us to President Franklin Pierce’s America, never mind Charlemagne’s Europe, the Blunt amendment would send America hurtling back to January 2012. That’s when women were free to buy birth control from their local Ralph’s or Wal-Mart, and religious employers could opt not to subsidize the purchase. What a terrifying time that must have been for America’s women.

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Three weeks ago Virginia Senator Jill Vogel’s ultrasound bill, SB484, had passed in the Senate and was on its third (last) reading in the House, thisclose to moving from the General Assembly to pro-life Governor Bob McDonnell for his signature.

Meanwhile feminists, incited by their recent bludgeoning of Komen, had launched a campaign to defeat the bill with the histrionic (and intellectually embarrassing) claim that transvaginal ultrasounds – not mentioned in the bill but an important diagnostic tool alongside abdominal ultrasound to determine a baby’s gestational age, location of placenta,  whether the baby is alive, whether the pregnancy is ectopic, and whether there is more than one baby – was equal to “forcible rape.”

Making the feminist “forcible rape” charge even more of ridiculous is that the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood requires two ultrasounds before abortions and describes vaginal ultrasounds as “feel[ing] similar to a vaginal exam” and “not painful”…

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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.

• The Teenage Life Club is hosting a 2012 Pro-Life Letter Campaign with the goal of having 1 million letters sent to the White House and the Supreme Court this month.
• The Abolitionist Society points out a severe lack of decorum at an Oklahoma anti-personhood rally in February. Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre (pictured far left) of Tulsa happily posed holding a vulgar sign.
• Abortion State outlines the hard fought victory with the Washington Supreme Court for conscience rights for pharmacists:
  
  We applaud the court’s decision because it was the right one…. We provided the only public reporting on the incestuous business relationships between Planned Parenthood of Western Washington, the UW School of Pharmacy/Don Downing, Barr Labs, the Board of Pharmacy and the governor of Washington. ALL of them colluded against pharmacists (and others) who said, “Plan B kills and we don’t want to be part of it.” Specifically, they targeted Christians and people of conscience.
• Coming Home believes the only solution to the war against the Church over the HHS mandate is to vote the Obama Administration out of office.
• Culture Campaign has several links discussing HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ comments on how the contraception mandate will be funded – by saving money on childbirth. FoxNews has video:
  
• Live Action says China is attempting to use kinder, gentler words to enforce its barbaric One-Child Policy:
  
  Similar to Planned Parenthood in the U.S., the Chinese government wants to promote the murder of children by making it sound more interesting, advisable, and good. They try to excuse away their promotion of death with upbeat words. Neither one of these abortion giants have any desire to stop abortion. They simply want to not sound like the bad guy.
  
  So now maybe China can just add “please” to the end of former statements like, “If you escape… we’ll hunt you down; if you want to hang yourself, we’ll give you the rope.”
• In other news out of China, Big Blue Wave points to a Chinese study showing a link between abortion and mental health issues.
• Bryan Kemper uses pro-choice terminology to translate familiar passages of the Bible. For instance, John 1:14 might read, “The Word became a blob of cells and oppressed Mary.”
• Americans United for Life highly recommends the upcoming film, October Baby:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_9l7lEe-AA[/youtube]

[McIntyre photo by Sarah Phipps via The Oklahoman]