2/24, 6:40a: Conservatives are ripping Politico’s Alexander Burns for incorrectly identifying the object of Newt Gingrich’s criticism as Barack Obama’s opposition to a partial birth abortion ban rather than the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. Read this Newsbusters piece and this Red State piece. I’m also heartened by the volume of commenters who called Burns out… who correctly identified and explained Obama’s BAIPA flak.

2/23, 10:36a: When I wrote yesterday of the unforeseen consequences for the Left of making an issue of contraception, I didn’t see this one coming. But it’s rich.

Last night during CNN’s Republican presidential debate, Newt Gingrich deftly turned a question about birth control into an indictment against the media for suppressing President Barack Obama’s opposition to the Born Alive Infants Protection Act when he was state senator…

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Gingrich said:

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The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.

Far fewer than 90 percent of women support abortion, at least in the abstract, so there is some question as to why so many are choosing it when they find they are carrying children with Down Syndrome. A number of studies have attempted to provide an answer. One, conducted by the Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, found that, because of pressure from hospital staff, one in four pregnant women “felt obliged” to undergo amniocentesis. Of those who tested positive for a birth defect, one in three believed she was “more or less forced” to have an abortion.

~ Tucker Carlson, in Slate’s reprint of his 1996 Weekly Standard article on the eugenic nature of prenatal testing, February 21

GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum came under fire this week for his comments against Obamacare’s free prenatal testing provisions, stating that it “ends up in more abortions and therefore less care that has to be done because we cull the ranks of the disabled in our society.”

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 The ninth wildly successful 40 Days for Life campaign kicked off today, Ash Wednesday, and will run  through April 1. Already, according to the 40 Days header, four precious babies have been saved.

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Out of necessity abortion proponents have had to shift the debate from abortion to contraception, as the Washington Post explains:

For years, abortion rights advocates have battled an intensity gap: Their supporters don’t feel as strongly about protecting abortion access as antiabortion voters do about restricting it.  This has been especially true for younger voters….

Keenan’s opponents unexpectedly came up with an answer: Widen the reproductive-health debate to include family planning and contraceptives.

It is a foregone conclusion that President Obama’s contraceptive mandate was a calculated political move to win back young and female voters. We shall see if it works.

One risk to this strategy in my mind is that pro-aborts will have to divide energies.

Another risk is if abortion is no longer the promoted  topic, will pro-lifers be able to get more done under the radar, with less pressure? A February 21 piece entitled, “We’re winning one war on women, but losing another,” Ms. blog worries:

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A Wisconsin teen who concealed her pregnancy, gave birth at 6 months in a bathtub and buried her child in her backyard will not face charges after a judge ruled there was no evidence the child was born alive.
• The retired Massachusetts judge who ordered a schizophrenic woman to have an abortion and be sterilized is defending her much maligned and overturned decision. Her decision also cost her a chance at another job:

  “I viewed the interruption of Mary’s full medical regimen as potentially life-threatening. If Mary understood this, which my observation of her behavior, demeanor, and responses indicated that she did not, I believed then, as I do now, that she would elect to abort the pregnancy in order to protect her own well-being,” [Christina] Harms wrote in her letter to her former colleagues on the bench.

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The January 12 Gallup poll (click to enlarge) tells us three things:
 

1. Despite the din, conservatives outnumber liberals 2:1.
2. Conservatives are winning over coveted moderates, not liberals.
3. #1 and #2 have occurred since Obama took office.

 
An eye-opening point from the Wall Street Journal, January 18:

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by LauraLoo

Foreign video depicts beautiful photography and background music of pregnancy from 0 to 9 months. Glory to God!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVutXcycUjQ&feature=related[/youtube]

Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.

And now these liberal government-types, who make for a socialist-oriented governement, are pushing to make church-owned hospitals implement Obamacare.

This is about more than birth control pills for zits; this is about abortion. But their selfishness, self-righteousness, and denial keeps them from admiting that it’s a form of extermination.

~ Alfonzo Rachel, PJTV’s ZoNation, February 21