I had never heard of the Al Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner before the flak that arose over President Obama being invited this year.

According to Wiki the event is “is an annual white tie charity fundraiser for [local] Catholic charities, held at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York on the third Thursday of October… in honor of former NY Governor Al Smith, the first Catholic presidential candidate. The first dinner was in 1945, the year after Al Smith’s death.”

Last night’s event raised $5 million.

Wiki goes on to explain the Al Smith Dinner’s foray into presidential abortion politics:

I see being a doula as a political act and I believe that abortion, pregnancy, and childbirth can be a radical act of love and resistance. I’ve held the hands of thousands of people during their abortions and the compassion and love that I’ve witnessed while supporting someone during their abortion has shaped the kind […]

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After the presidential debate Tuesday night, The Daily Caller’s Nicholas Ballasy caught up with Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards in the media spin room.

Ballasy asked a good question: “Do you think that that’s appropriate to get federal funding when you take such a high salary?” Richards earns over $400,000 annually.

During Tuesday’s debate, President Barack Obama advanced a falsehood:

… [T]here’s a grand canyon of difference between Obama, who’s very pro-choice, and, for example, the Republican ticket this year, which would give 14th Amendment rights, whatever that means, life, liberty, and property rights, to a fetus that had just been – or rather, an egg that had just been fertilized, right after sex, if […]

by LauraLoo Abortion rights supporters used to advocate that the unborn aren’t human beings in order to justify abortion. Obviously, that has been long disproven due to science.  Now they must find another excuse to justify killing the unborn, namely ”bodily autonomy.”  But is it really true that you have the right to terminate a life that […]

In the history of the United States there has been and there never will be a bigger supporter of Planned Parenthood in the White House than President Barack Obama.

People may wonder whether Obama actually likes Israel, but they will never, ever wonder whether he likes Planned Parenthood.

In fact, truth be told, Obama would obviously rather wear an “I ? Planned Parenthood” pin instead of American flag pin if he could get away with it.

Last night during his debate against Mitt Romney, Obama invoked his sacred cow, Planned Parenthood, five times: