My faith is very deep and has been my whole life. I love my faith and my faith has nothing to do with whoever he [Father Frank Pavone] is. The arrogance of it all! It’s like something ancient, medieval…. The Church taught me as I was growing up that every person has a free will […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A 17-year-old girl in India died after a forced abortion.
• The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments regarding Massachusetts’ 35-foot abortion clinic buffer rule:
  

  The justices today said they will hear an appeal from abortion foes seeking to overturn the Massachusetts law as a violation of the First Amendment. The challengers say they have a right to hand out leaflets and start conversations with women entering abortion clinics.

by LauraLoo

Along with other Democrats recently voicing their approval on abortion-related topics, Chelsea Clinton recently lamented that her great-grandparents, who conceived her grandmother in an unplanned, unwed pregnancy, did not have access to “crucial” Planned Parenthood services.

So what is Chelsea saying? Is she in one sense wishing away her beloved grandmother, thereby wishing away her mother and herself? Is she, like some PP supporters including President Obama, using family members in an extremely awkward fashion to pander to pro-choicers and Planned Parenthood?

Hot Air notes:

There are some brave, noble souls fighting the good fight, hoping against hope that the current situation can be salvaged, but it cannot. It is unreasonable and naive to conclude that in the West all of a sudden there is going to be this great pro-life, anti-same sex marriage, anti-contraception movement. In short, an anti-selfish […]

Following are my top five favorite cartoons for the week that was. Don’t forget to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of the post.

We begin with two I certainly wouldn’t call “favorites” but am posting because they have to do with our topic and show how liberals are lamely trying to spin the House’s passage of a bill that would ban abortions past 20 weeks in the U.S. because babies feel pain by that time…

by Mike Luckovich at GoComics.com…

 by Nick Anderson at About.com…

For the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life. ~ Job 33:4, New Living Translation

by Hans Johnson Three-year-old Grayson Clamp has been deaf all his life as a result of a genetic disorder called Charge Syndrome. His parents Len and Nicole, who felt called to help medically-challenged children, met him as a newborn and soon adopted him. Not having cochlear nerves,  a cochlear implant was, as one would expect, […]

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

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Wesley J. Smith says that laws dealing with Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) “are increasingly authorizing doctors to unilaterally overturn surrogate wishes and patient advance directives….”

  The laws vary from state to state, but in Vermont and Maryland, a physician can place a Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order on a patient’s chart without the consent of the patient or designated patient advocate. Smith writes:
  

  Not coincidentally, Vermont has a single payer healthcare plan it can’t pay for. Some have called for the cost savings to come from assisted suicide legalization – now done – and healthcare rationing.