I observe several firsts in response to NARAL’s outrageous ad against John Roberts, including chastisement by pro-abort legislators and other pro-abort organizations; public display of infighting within the NARAL, as demonstrated by its communications director quitting suddenly Friday; a retraction by NARAL; and now this, an editorial against NARAL from at least one nationwide newspaper, […]

NARAL’s communications director suddenly resigned yesterday, according to Fox News. He did not give a reason, but Fox News Democrat commentator Bob Beckel said this morning there is nongoing pro-abort infighting about whether to pull out all guns on this Supreme nominee or wait for the next one. Hat tip: Blogger A Certain Slant of […]

From today’s NYTimes, an op ed by John Tierney: My position on abortion has been, as politicians put it, evolving. I was once pro-choice and a contributor to Naral. Now I’m pro-choice but anti-Naral. The group has a genius for alienating potential allies, as demonstrated by the television commercial it introduced this week…. But Tierney […]

From yesterday’s Asian Pacific Post: A recent United Nations Population Fund report said the practice of gender selection is widespread in India, where affluent parents are killing tens of thousands of fetal girls per year, hoping for a boy instead…. According to a 2001 census, the overall birthrate for India was 927 girls per 1,000 […]

Scotusblog.com has posted insightful information re: the pro-life battle in the courts. It begins: The Bush Administration has mounted a wide-ranging challenge in the Supreme Court to the power of federal judges to stop new anti-abortion laws before they go into effect. In a friend-of-court brief filed Monday in a pending case from New Hampshire, […]

From today’s TimesOnline.com: Clinics could soon be screening embryos for genes that carry a predisposition to breast cancer and other tumours. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority announced yesterday that it is to consult the public about letting couples choose embryos free from genetic defects. The defects raise the risk of cancer but do not […]

This one’s cute, from NBCSanDiego.com, August 10: Annice Allen said she went to hospital thinking she was having severe menstrual cramps. Three hours later, she found out she was 23 to 24 weeks pregnant and gave birth to a 1-pound, 4-ounce girl she named Jimice. “The doctor says, ‘Ok, the fetus is 23 weeks,’” Allen […]

NARAL thought it would stop the bleeding by pulling its false ad insinuating that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts condones abortion clinic violence. Au contraire. FactCheck.org has just released an update to its original analysis of the NARAL ad to include an analysis of NARAL prez Nancy Keenan’s nonretracting retraction of the ad. States FactCheck.org, […]