by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Los Angeles Times has a story on Hoag Hospital’s decision to merge with the St. Joseph Health System and stop performing abortions. To get an idea of how pro-abortion some people in California are, the attorney general of the state is now investigating whether Hoag performed less than 100 abortions a year and is making sure Hoag is “doing enough to ensure that there are accessible alternatives for elective abortions.”

 by LauraLoo The recent death of Jean Stapleton allowed me time to reflect on the stark difference in two TV sitcom moms from the 1970s: Edith Bunker and Maude. Edith Bunker was a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series All in the Family. On the other […]

It was definitely the most incredible moment of my life… I never imagined I would be in a delivery room with my mother in this particular situation. ~ Sara Connell describing the moment that her mother, Kristine Casey, gave birth to her own grandson via in-vitro fertilization, as discussed on an episode highlighting infertility, Katie […]

by Hans Johnson Saturday on the  Melissa Harris-Perry program an all-pro-choice panel discussed  the bill that would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks (passed by the House of Representatives Tuesday). Salamisha Tillet, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, had a rather puzzling take on the underlying motive behind the recent spate of legislation: … […]

The Associated Press tells us that the “GOP-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill.” But don’t worry, Politico adds. It is “largely symbolic: The bill will be dead on arrival in the Senate.” … The Democrats’ ill-fated gun restriction push was never a “symbolic effort” or “far-reaching,” was it? Coverage of the Newtown, […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Joe Carter responds to the NY Times story editorial on the passage of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act:
  

  Which Republican leaders made the claim? Peters doesn’t say. He also doesn’t explain how — or even if — the abortion issue hurt the GOP with women in 2012. But everyone at the New York Times already knows it did, and common knowledge doesn’t need to be supported with facts, right? And there is no issue here of married women vs. single women, when it comes to voting. Right? All women support abortion rights, or so Peters would have us think.

by LauraLoo This shadow dance about the life and loss of a mother moved Simon Cowell so deeply that it brought him (and other judges on Britain’s Got Talent) to tears. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErekHWtLYBI[/youtube] Encore – they’re amazing! Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions. [HT: GodTube]

Then she said she impregnated; that’s the night your heart died Then you gotta go and tell your girl and report that Main reason ’cause your pastor said you can’t abort that…. Now your driver say that new Benz you can’t afford that All that cocaine on the table you can’t snort that That going […]