UPDATE 4/15, 12:27p: Here were the tallies for yesterday’s votes to defund Planned Parenthood and Obamacare, fyi: House roll call vote on the Black/Roby resolution to defund PP: Passed 241-185-1.  231 Republicans voted FOR the resolution and 7 voted AGAINST the resolution (Bass, Biggert, Bono Mack, Dent, Dold, Frelinghuysen, Hanna).  1 Republican voted present (Amash).  […]

UPDATE 12/10, 6:20: Friend Sheila alerted me to this December 8 Washington Post article about Congressional one-hit wonders, with this laugher at the close: In Cubicle 48, Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-OH) is not as cheerful. Asked if there was anything he’d miss about Capitol Hill, Driehaus acted as if he’d been asked if he’d miss […]

Friends sometimes find themselves on opposite sides during political campaigns, when emotions can ride high. Fortunately, just as opponents usually shake hands afterward, so do those friends. But the rift that developed during the 2010 election cycle between Democrats for Life and basically the rest of the pro-life movement is irreparable, at least as long […]

An October 28 Christianity Today article entitled, “The death of pro-life Democrats,” included this sobering observation: Thanks to pro-life groups and backlash over health care reform, the Democratic pro-life vote in the House of Representatives is likely to halve on November 2, making abortion even more of a partisan issue. The actual decrease according to […]

On October 4 and 12 OH Democrat Rep. Steve Driehaus filed 2 complaints with the OH Election Commission to block the Susan B. Anthony List from erecting the above billboard (click to enlarge) 4 places in his district. (Read my previous posts on this topic here, here, and here.) Democrats for Life president Kristen Day […]

* Make sure you read on to the 2nd article for the shockingly low amount of money Democrats for Life is contributing to its candidates this election cycle. From Time’s Swampland blog on October 6: … At the same time, there has been a parallel movement within the pro-life world this cycle. Just as Tea […]

I’ve been writing today ( here) about the controversy surrounding the discovery that MD, NM, and PA had planned to use federal funds received for their Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plans via Obamacare for abortions until National Right to Life exposed them. According to Democrats for Life, forwarded me her group’s statement, adding, “People may not […]

Jason Jones (pictured above left), founder of Catholic Exchange today calling out Democrats for Life for “borrowing” his organization’s name for its new