This week President Obama invoked the term “social Darwinism” to disparage a trimmed budget plan proposed by Republican Congressman Paul Ryan….

If I could go back and make the decision you made, I would do it. I don’t regret having her or anything, but you made a very, very smart decision…. I would trade places with [you] any day. ~ Brianna telling sister Brittany (both pictured right) she wishes she had gotten an abortion. Both sisters […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• In Mississippi, abortion clinic protesters got a scare when a man stopped his car and slashed up their sign with hunting knives.
• Francis Grady, a 50-year-old man with a fairly extensive criminal past, has admitted he tried to burn down a Planned Parenthood in Wisconsin.
• The Washington Post profiles “anti-abortion grandpa” Dick Retta, a sidewalk counselor who has been sued under the FACE Act:
  

  Retta’s lawyer, Jim Henderson, denies in court documents that Retta blocked the woman from entering the clinic. She had approached Retta for help, he wrote, and volunteers were leading her into the clinic against her wishes. He said Retta didn’t shout or yell but said to the woman, “don’t let them force you to have an abortion,” a statement protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

by LauraLoo Lee Strobel speaks on his conversion from atheism to Christianity. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUGoizS9fpY[/youtube] Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.

We don’t wish to take the country back in time; rather, we aspire to move it forward, beyond a time when women are treated as objects and pitted against their children and their religious institutions — and toward a time when truly emancipated women embrace their intrinsic dignity and, with it, their authentic womanhood. ~ […]

by LauraLoo I learned of a new invention by Chicagoland resident Mark Atkins called the Drain Genie.  He’s entered a national contest to win shelf space at Wal-Mart.  Here’s how it works: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkg_yGTAzq8[/youtube] Wow, what a great idea!  The last time I needed a plumber, I paid $300 for a 10-minute visit.  Purchasing it online is easy (link above). I love […]

Vote tally on Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010

House: 219 aye (all D) , 212 no (178 R, 34 D)

Senate: 56 aye (all D) , 43 no (40 R, 3 D)

Vote tally on Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003

House: 281 aye (218 R, 63 D), 142 (4 R, 137 D, 1 I)

Senate: 64 aye (47 R, 17 D), 34 no (3 R, 30 D, 1 I)

Responding to a question on Obamacare during an April 2 press conference, President Obama admonished the U.S. Supreme Court not to take the “unprecedented and extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress”…

You know how everyone is like “Jesus hates reproductive freedom?” Well, you know what predates Jesus by a couple thousand years? You guessed it! The above visual [click to enlarge] was created by Heather Ault, an artist and pro-choice activist with hopes of reframing the abortion debate not around politics, but around human history. 4,000 […]