by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• In an attempt to further abortion worldwide, the United States and the European Union joined forces at the UN Commission on the Status of Women to ask for the deletion of “a reaffirmation that every human being has the inherent right to life, liberty and security of persons.”
• Authorities in Minnesota have charged a man with two counts of murder for killing his wife and his unborn child:
  

  The Dakota County attorney’s office charged Roger Earl Holland, 36, with two counts of second-degree intentional murder – one count in his wife’s death and one in her unborn child’s death. Bail was set at $1 million, or $750,000 with conditions….

  Holland called 911 last Thursday to report finding his wife, Margorie Ann Holland, in cardiac arrest at the foot of a staircase in their Apple Valley apartment, prosecutor James Backstrom said in a news release. Margorie Holland, who was nearly four months pregnant, and her unborn child died at a hospital later that morning.

I ate dinner last night with Youth Defence conference attendees from Belgium, France, Germany, and, of course, Ireland. I learned that Marches for Life have begun springing up all over Europe just in the past 5 years. For instance, from ABS-CBNnews.com, April 13, 2010: