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

• Wesley J. Smith says the bioethics community is finally beginning to criticize artificial reproduction techniques like IVF – but not for the reasons you might think:
  

  But now, in the ever more radical Journal of Medical Ethics, Cristina Richie, of Boston College’s Department of Theology, argues that these technologies should be regulated to limit the number of children – called “carbon legacies,” as a means of fighting climate change.

  Smith opines:
  

  I don’t know if Richie coined the term, but it is ridiculous. Children are children, not bundles of carbon producers…. No, grim is the exploitation of surrogates in biological colonialism and the eugenic impetus that has sunk its fangs deep into the heart of the industry. In the face of such human objectification, sorry, I can’t get upset about global warming.

I expect many pro-lifers are being drawn to pray at serial killer Kermit Gosnell’s abortion clinic if in the Philadelphia area, as my husband and I were over the weekend.

It is a macabre, ghostly place. Shocking to me was the clinic appears from the outside to have been left virtually untouched since the FBI raided it on February 18, 2010, over four years ago.

Also shocking was that life appears to go on unchanged around the building.

He believes himself to be innocent… in this larger spiritual sense. He believes he was performing a service for people that asked him…. He believes he was a soldier at war with poverty. He has a sense of righteousness, that whatever rule he broke, it was worth it. ~ Philadelphia reporter Steve Volt, discussing what […]

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

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• Wesley J. Smith reports on a life-affirming statement from the American Medical Association and the World Medical Association rejecting euthanasia and assisted suicide as incompatible with the role of the physician as healer. The groups believe these practices “would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.”

One of many complaints abortion supporters have against clinic regulations, which they call TRAP laws – Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers – is a requirement for wider doors and hallways than clinics apparently usually have.

“At no point does the width of doorways have any bearing on the medical treatment that’s being administered,” griped Planned Parenthood of Indiana Executive Director Betty Cockrum to jconline.com.

UPDATE 4/16 9:45a: Here’s a good piece on TweetFest Round 1, “Celebrities, politicians force media to look at abortion ‘House of Horrors.'”

4/15, 5:50p: Sign up now to participate in Round 2 of the #Gosnell TweetFest this Wednesday, April 17, from 8a to 8p EST.

Round 1 garnered almost 170,000 tweets, according to LifeSiteNews.com, with the hashtag #Gosnell trending in the number 1 spot, according to Lifenews.com. The TweetFest was credited, along with Democrat Kirsten Powers’ USA Today column, with finally getting the media to pay attention to mass murderer abortionist Kermit Gosnell. For example…

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A mother writes to Dear Abby, wondering why she has taken her daughter’s abortion so hard:
  

  Abby, I have taken this really hard. I have cried every day since she had the abortion, and I’m torturing myself thinking this is my fault because I went against everything I believe in when I supported her in her decision.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat USA Today, CNN and MSNBC covered last night’s abortion forum in Iowa: Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, trailing in Iowa polls, won the biggest applause from the crowd tonight – and aimed his remarks at his competitors. “I have some problems with some of the folks who running […]