Recent polls have trended pro-life, some to historical highs (click all to enlarge)…

Republicans had difficulty getting sea legs when Supreme Court justice David Souter Huffington Post May 18: The rationale is gradually being put in place for Republicans to mount a filibuster of Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. On Sunday, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions, suggested that the country had moved to […]

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It’s hard to find news in MSM on this Tulsa World today: [Gov. Brad] Henry also signed a measure banning abortion based on gender. That’s it. But I’ve checked with 2 national pro-life groups this morning, and to their knowledge this is the 1st sex-selection abortion ban to pass in the country….

Today the polling inc./WomanTrend. AUL detailed the findings in a letter to senators: By overwhelming majorities, Democrats, Republicans and Independents agreed that judges should exercise restraint and check their own beliefs and predispositions at the courthouse door. They agreed on upholding common sense abortion regulations already in place in the states, including parental consent laws, […]

UPDATE, 5/24, 6:15a: Someone wrote the obvious yesterday: Obama has to make a recess appointment with a Democrat majority? _______________ On May 13 Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

by Michael Stokes Paulsen wants to know how serious President Obama is on finding common ground: Mr. President, you say that abortions are never undertaken lightly, and without acute anguish. I wish this were always true; and so do you, apparently. But some abortions – many, actually – are had for many reasons we would […]