by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Abortion Gang has a guest post by Canadian Mel Waters in which she describes her experience in Colorado for an elective abortion after 24 weeks at Warren Hern’s clinic. The story is sad on many levels:
  

  It was a long physical recovery; the mental scars have been a longer journey, and after 4 years I am still working through it. I can’t close my eyes at night without reliving the whole thing again, I still have nightmares!

• An abortion clinic in El Paso is shut down again after being open for part of the day on Saturday after they received an exemption that was meant for another clinic in El Paso. In another example of how abortion is a business, the clinic isn’t referring women to the abortion clinic in El Paso but instead to one of their affiliated clinics in New Mexico:
  

  They are not completely closed, though. They still take walk-ins and phone calls and instruct women requiring an abortion to go to their clinic in New Mexico.

• Cosmopolitan magazine has endorsed… drumroll… Wendy Davis! (I know, big surprise, right?) The start of the story mentions the pink shoes as if that’s a reason to vote for her:
  

  An 11-hour filibuster. A bold stand for women in a red state. Those pink tennis shoes.

  They’d probably call other media outlets sexist for mentioning the shoes. The end of this sentence caught my eye:
  

  A Davis governorship would represent all Texans, including those who are traditionally underserved by Austin, setting the state on the road to restoring basic women’s health care and ensuring that the children women do choose to have are cared for.

  Why the need to mention “the children women do choose to have”? Why not just say “ensuring that children are cared for”? In saying this, Cosmo concedes the reality that women are aborting “children” they don’t want.

[Photo via Live Action News]

by Kelli

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

• The Passionate Pro-Lifer has a revealing piece on infamous late-term Colorado abortionist Warren Hern, who is apparently an environmentalist doing his part to eliminate humanity, which he calls “a malignancy – in the planetary ecosystem. The human species now displays all the major characteristics of a malignant process.”
• Timmerie Millington has testimonials and video on individuals with Down syndrome, in honor of World Down Syndrome Day, held this past week:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVxz71ygHbk[/youtube]

• John Smeaton points out African mothers’ desire for real maternal healthcare. Most of the government funding goes toward groups like Ipas for abortion funding, while mothers who choose to give birth do so in substandard conditions.
• Human Life Matters points out Canada’s seeming disdain for the disabled, as evidenced by the open public discussion of euthanizing disabled children as well as the support for the parents who kill them. Would the same support be shown to parents if they “mercifully killed” their healthy children?

  Wesley J. Smith has thoughts on this topic as well.

• Reflections of a Paralytic asks, “what is normal?” as it relates to individuals with disabilities:
  
  

  Do we not all develop our own sense of “normalcy” based on our individual likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses, abilities and disabilities? Why would children with disabilities, though they may not be the picture of perfect health, be any different?

  In fact, researchers at Newcastle University recently… demonstrated that “disabled children… have the same range of happiness and unhappiness as all children.” As they grow up and develop their sense of self, “they see their disabilities as part as who they are… (and) they perceived their position in life no differently as their friends in the general population.” In other words, yes, children with disabilities will develop their own sense of “normalcy” just like anyone else and they will enjoy their lives immensely… if they’re given the opportunity.

by Kelli

The NARAL Men’s Leadership Council was created to encourage pro-choice men to share their stories and show their support for reproductive rights.

We know this isn’t just a women’s issue — this is an issue that affects families and women’s partners and spouses as well.

~ Press release from NARAL Pro-Choice Colorado in which the group appears to contradict the “no uterus, no opinion” and “abortion should be between a woman and her doctor” mantras, as quoted by The Denver Post, March 4

Note: Among the listed hosts of the Men’s Leadership Council is Colorado late-term abortionist Warren Hern.

[Photo via blog.talkingphilosophy.com]

by Kelli

Smith was sent to a Boulder, Colorado, clinic run by Dr. Warren Hern [pictured], one of only four late-term abortion providers in the U.S.

Smith, who suffers post-traumatic stress disorder related to the loss, attends two support groups (an infant loss group and an abortion support group) and serves as a mentor to other women who have gone through late-term abortions for similar reasons. She says that she wishes there were more options for women in her circumstances, lamenting the death of [abortionist George] Tiller and lauding the courage of Hern, who she describes as “an absolute angel who saved me and my daughter.”

~ Ananda Rose, describing the late-term abortion of “Julie Smith,” whose daughter had fetal abnormalities, Pacific Standard, August 25

[Photo via dailycamera.com]

News broke April 13 of a gruesome find in a Pleasant Grove, Utah, garage: the remains of a dead newborn infant stuffed inside a box.

The owner of the home, Darren West, called police, who found six more babies, also hidden inside boxes. Of the seven, one was apparently a stillbirth, but the rest were murdered after delivery.

West’s estranged wife, Megan Huntsman, readily admitted to killing her children. According to the AP:

Huntsman, 39, told police she either strangled or suffocated them immediately after they were born. She wrapped their bodies in a towel or a shirt, put them in plastic bags and then packed them inside boxes in the garage of her home….

During the interview with police, she was unemotional and matter of fact….

Of course, there is no difference, except the murder method, between Huntsman and Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia late-term abortionist found guilty of first-degree murder last year of severing the spines of three newborn infants.

And there are only inches of difference between Huntsman and the late-term abortionists Hollywood celebrates.

But no surprise, Huntsman’s murders are getting much more press. The media was uncurious about Gosnell because his occupation was one they cheer; plus, it was too uncomfortable for them to ponder how close Gosnell’s illegal method of killing was to his legal method.

But the media considers Huntsman’s crime “horrific and unimaginable,” because we all instinctively know a mother killing her own children is worse than when others do it (which is why there will always be a stigma attached to abortion, no matter how how the other side tries to normalize it – the revulsion is innate).

The media wonders why Huntsman didn’t abort. Again, killing one’s born children is unacceptable, while killing one’s preborn children – even at the same age – is acceptable:

Cheryl Meyer, a psychology professor at Ohio’s Wright State University… said “concealers” are typically teenagers who do not repeat the act.

“These are usually girls who are 17, get pregnant, become scared to death and don’t want to tell their parents,” said Meyer, who has written about mothers who kill their children. “They’re not 30-year-old women who can go have an abortion.”…

Defense attorneys also will try to determine whether Huntsman sought an abortion and if she told anyone about her pregnancies – all in hopes of understanding actions that otherwise appear incomprehensible….

In other words, it is “incomprehensible” to kill one’s own baby after birth, particularly because it is so convenient to kill that baby before birth.

Even in the days leading up to her delivery Huntsman could have reached out to any number of late-term abortionists, like LeRoy Carthart and Warren Hern, pictured right.

But Huntsman waited to commit her own 4th trimester abortion – perhaps because it was cheaper?

The abortion industry should make Huntsman a poster child to push for Obamacare to cover late-term abortions. Don’t they love personal stories of tragedy like this?

From moderator Carla comes a simple question: Why don’t those who support abortion believe what abortionists say about it?

For example, abortionist Curtis Boyd, who runs late-term clinics in Dallas and Albuquerque, made a “jarring admission” during an interview with WFAA in 2009:

“Am I killing?” Boyd said. “Yes, I am. I know that.”

During questioning in court in 1997 regarding his opposition to the Nebraska Partial Birth Abortion Ban, late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart testified:

Attorney for the Defense: In that situation… are you… when you pull on the arm and remove it, is the fetus still alive?

Carhart: Yes.

Late-term abortionist Warren Hern’s website, on third trimester abortions:

At this point, termination of pregnancy is considered a far more dangerous procedure and carries with it serious risks of complication.

Abortionists admit they’re killing babies, that older babies are still alive when drawn-and-quartered, and that late-term abortions are dangerous to mothers, etc., etc., etc. Why do pro-choicers ignore, deny, or minimize what their very own medical professionals say about abortion?

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.

• Fletcher Armstrong shares commentary from Center for Bio-Ethical Reform director Gregg Cunningham regarding Biola University’s discipline of nursing student Diana Jimenez, who posted graphic abortion signs on campus. Cunningham says at least one child’s life was saved as a direct result of Diana’s display.

• At Live Action News, Rebecca Downs tells it like it is for the new “hero” of the radical abortion industry, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (pictured left), who filibustered under the guise of “women’s health.” In reality, she filibustered for infanticide:
  

  It would seem that when abortion advocates fight for abortion tooth and nail and say that they are supporting women, they are actually the ones taking advantage of women. They are just using women, and turning their reproductive function of conceiving children, to represent some sort of “choice.” That choice is really the cruel dismemberment or poisoning of children with nothing but the intent to kill them.

  It’s almost funny how pro-abortion organizations or individuals hardly ever use the word ‘abortion,’ because deep down, they know how divisive it is, but also how downright unpleasant. So, instead of fighting for abortion, they say that they’re fighting for women.

• Wesley J. Smith says something similar about Wendy Davis’ defense of infanticide, further opining that the abortion industry would love to see Roe overturned, with an even more radical ruling taking its place.
• Down on the Pharm has some interesting theories on why Texas abortionist Douglas Karpen’s late-term abortion/infanticide facility is still open.

• Expose Abortion quotes late-term abortionist Warren Hern (pictured right), who says most women choose abortion for reasons other than medical concerns:
  

  At times, medical considerations enter into the picture, but decisions are usually made on the basis of such factors as desire or lack of desire for parenthood, stability of relationships, educational status, emotional status, or economic status, among others.

• Kansans for Life says the Kansas Pro-Life Protections Act went into effect today with only two minor provisions blocked.
• At Bound4Life, Ellie Saul mourns the self-imposed fertility dearth for women in America, where “one and done” has become the mantra for many – even for Christians. Saul says the church needs to go back to viewing children as a blessing, not as a hindrance to gaining greater wealth:
  

  We have two choices, as always. We can either keep flowing in the current of the system of the world that chooses barrenness and death for convenience without making any sudden movements or changes… Or we can choose life. We can choose to purposely oppose death by choosing and celebrating life as a reward and a gift from God.

[Photos via guardian.co.uk and coloradodaily.com]

by Kelli

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

• At Live Action News, Kristen Hatten reacts to a very disturbing Huffington Post article written by a man who says he is “not happy about” finding out his wife is expecting twin boys after they pursued IVF hoping for a (single) girl.
• Michael New has two great posts at National Review Online addressing emergency contraception, the Pill, and whether or not these methods of attempting to prevent unintended pregnancy actually work. New argues that what is truly needed is a more chaste culture.

• Clinic Quotes shares a startling admission from late-term abortionist Warren Hern (pictured left), who claims that “abortion, almost more than any other operation, demands experience to develop skill.” Despite this, CQ points out that “Planned Parenthood and other pro-choice organizations have push[ed] for laws allowing nurses and other non-doctors to perform them.”
• Culture Campaign shares the discovery of a deadly new strain of rapidly-progressing gonorrhea which is considered to be even more lethal than AIDS/HIV.
• Ethika Politika comments on a Wall Street Journal article by Sarah Elizabeth Richards, who believes that egg freezing is a good, no-strings-attached way of becoming a mother, without any need for a man:
  

  The importance of Sarah’s story is to listen to Sarah herself. Sarah isn’t someone just “using” frozen eggs because it is the only way for her to have a baby. She is using it to fulfill her calling as a woman, to be a mother and to have children. These are the ideals that society and nature have always held up for women; it is very normative and correct. Yet, she seems to embrace this reproductive technology as a means to detach herself further from obligations to men (and to society) and to anything beyond her career.

• Big Blue Wave shares a video created to oppose Quebec’s campaign to legalize euthanasia:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/0giQwjORpN8[/youtube]

[Photo via dailymail.co.uk]