by Carder

The famous Greek doctor Hippocrates, or texts attributed to him, recorded a lot of abortifacients — and, interestingly, his books also reveal that the Greeks had figured out the connection between copper and contraception that we still use today in copper IUDs. But one recipe stands out: It calls for mouse dung, honey, Egyptian salt, wild colocynth, and resin to be made into a suppository and put into the uterus.

Septic abortion strikes again: the possibility for infection just skyrockets.

~ JR Thorpe describing one of “nine terrible ancient methods of abortion,” as reported by Bustle via The Huffington Post, June 18

by Kelli

Self-proclaimed Christian minister Nikki Brooks decided to take on the pro-life response to the “Black Lives Matter” movement, explaining why she has “never shed a tear” over anyone’s aborted preborn child – other than three of her own children whom she mentions. Somehow at the end, her conversation seems to suggest that instead of crying for preborn children who have lost their lives, we should shed tears for children like hers whose parents are working to pay for them to attend expensive college classes:

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[HT: Saynsumthn’s Blog]

by Kelli

The problem that I have with this is it’s not the Republicans that are pushing social issues. The Republicans are defending them, for crying out loud! The left is who’s pushing social issues, and nobody ever complains about ’em doing so. The Democrat Party is the biggest purveyor of social issues. The Democrat Party is the biggest promoter of social issues. The Democrat Party’s agenda demands movement on social issues! This idea that the Republicans are pushing social issues is absurd.

They are oppressors.

~ Rush Limbaugh, “Our Overnight Orwellian Unraveling,” RushLimbaugh.com, June 15

[Photo via watchdogwire.com]

by Hans Johnson

Artist Rebecca Roher was already curious about her friend’s pregnancy, so when Guts, a Canadian online feminist magazine, asked her to do a comic strip on that very subject, she interviewed her through back and forth emails. The result was Mom Body, a frank detailing of her friend’s recent experience having a baby. [WARNING: It ends with one totally unnecessary profanity.]

The rest of the special edition in which the strip appears show’s an amusing “arm’s length” anthropological look at pregnancy and motherhood, but the strip itself has several undeniable truisms:

Every single human life is the result of a woman’s incredible transformation and sacrifice.

The desire to have a child is abstract[;] when you’re pregnant, it’s happening.

It’s all a very real experience for the women who go through it, while the men may prefer to remember it as a magical time. They can certainly agree that the result is enchanting:

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[HT: LauraLoo]

by Carder

I am a twenty-six-year-old female and I am currently 7 weeks pregnant. I have every intention of having an abortion, but I’m giving you a chance to stop it….

We have to acknowledge this and we have to stop it.

~ Anonymous pro-abort, alleging that she will obtain an abortion if she does not receive one million dollars in 72 hours, Pro-life Anti Woman via HLN TV, June 16

[Photo via i.imgur.com]

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

• Big Blue Wave takes exception to a San Francisco Chronicle headline that claims the courts are chipping away at abortion:
  

  When a law is legislated and a court upholds the law, the court is not chipping away at anything. The court is merely upholding a law that was democratically voted. American legislatures have passed very few pro-abortion laws. When a court decides to strike down a law that was democratically voted, in spite of the will of the people, in spite of previous jurisprudence, that’s when the court is effectively legislating from the bench and chipping away at whatever it is that it’s undermining.

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by Hans Johnson

Some new non-invasive tests for mother and in-utero child have a “search and prepare” mindset behind them. But last week a Swiss company called Genoma displayed a large ad in Spain (pictured right) for a blood test with the Orwellian name “Tranquility.” Hardly masking its “search and destroy” intent in a country that just rejected abortion restrictions, it was nothing short of creepy. And it was also used without the permission of the little girl’s parents.

For an example of a truly life-affirming ad campaign, there is Stillwater, Minnesota’s little two-year-old Izzy Bradley, who appeared in a Target ad after the company contacted the Down Syndrome Diagnosis Network, searching for children with Ds who would be willing to model. As reported by WCCO:

Heather Bradley described her daughter. “She is completely fun. She has lots of energy. She’s sweet. She loves her big sisters. Wants to be just like them,” she said….

Izzy’s mother is the head of the local chapter of the Down Syndrome Diagnosis Network, a group that offers advice and support to families.

“I really appreciate Target’s policy of including them in their ads. I think it really normalizes Down syndrome and helps people to see we’re really just like any other family,” she said…. “I’m really surprised at how much excitement has come from it. I’ve had people share it so many times. On Facebook, one site it’s got up to half a million likes…. I really just hope that if a new mom, or an expectant mom, were to see a little girl in an ad that they would just have that sense of hope for their child, and that they would know really there’s a great future for them,” she said.

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by Kelli

[Pro-abortion activist Steph] Herold suggests that instead of focusing on the lowered abortion rate, we should be asking “how do people’s perceptions of their community’s social norms around pregnancy impact what they think they should do about an unintended pregnancy?” Herold knows that the greatest threat to abortion is not public policy mandating waiting periods or access to ultrasounds prior to abortion. She knows that the greatest threat to abortion is changing the culture of abortion — the norms, values, beliefs and behaviors that surround abortion… [and] the ways in which the hearts and minds of young women and young men have changed about the reality and the humanity of the unborn child….

Even a loss at the legislative level can be a victory for the unborn child if the conversation surrounding the horror of abortion can begin again to stigmatize what should be a shameful act for all involved — including the lawmakers.

~ Sociology professor Anne Hendershott (pictured), Crisis Magazine, June 15

[Photo via tkc.edu]