by Carder
Since the Supreme Court decided it will not protect women’s health, I will.
~ Senator Patty Murray (D-Washington) announcing her intention to push for a bill that would require for-profit corporations to subsidize contraception for their employees, New York Times, July 8
[HT: Hot Air]
by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
Not necessarily pro-life, but you’re not pro-choice. You’re anti-choice….
Just remember that any time an abortion advocate uses the word “anti-choice”. If you support any legal restriction on abortion, whatsoever, you are anti-choice. If you think that there should be restrictions on sex-selection abortion, you’re anti-choice.
The landmark program has now served more than 200,000 clients and their families….
The program was the brain child of former Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey [a pro-life Democrat] and it enjoys the support of current Governor Tom Corbett, along with a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers….
And the program has had phenomenal success throughout the Commonwealth. Consider these figures from the 2010-11 fiscal year:
64% of women entering the program who were considering abortion chose childbirth
88% of women who were pressured by others to abort chose childbirth
67% of women who were pressured by others AND considering abortion chose childbirth
Why do abortion advocates support using tax dollars to promote abortion, but object to using tax dollars to promote life? And it’s not just the funding of life to which they object, as we have seen in their attacks on pregnancy resource centers. It seems to be the very existence of organizations offering alternatives to abortion.
Independence Day celebrates the United States’ freedom from tyranny…. But freedom from tyranny should not include the right to kill innocent persons because of their age, health, or condition of dependency. Such a circumstance is a contradiction, pure and simple. In fact, freedom of religion itself cannot truly be taken seriously when such a situation exists.
Today, Americans live in a nation that defines heinous acts like abortion by chemical, medical, or surgical means as an honest interpretation of justice for all.
Thus my caution is simply this: While some celebrate the Hobby Lobby decision, we must realize that far more than the religious freedom of Christian companies is at stake if true freedom is to be celebrated.
[Last photo via LifeNews.com]
by Hans Johnson
Created Equal recently partnered with Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust in Southern California, and met a young woman named Candace. She related that she became pregnant in college and considered abortion. But on campus she was drawn to pro-life photo displays of pre-born babies: “I had a class to go to. I didn’t have time to stop and read… but people stop and look at pictures.”
This prodded her to do her own research, which saved the life of her daughter. “I’ve learned that Planned Parenthood doesn’t give the entire story…. It’s not the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a life.”
Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.
[HT: Mark Harrington]
by Kelli
The organization’s message came after the recent uproar over the Supreme Court’s decision that for-profit company owners with religious objections to providing coverage for abortion-inducing drugs could be excluded from the Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate.
Taking to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, Planned Parenthood sent an additional “Happy 4th of July” message as a reminder for safe sex: “Whether you’re watching fireworks outside or making them in the bedroom, stay safe!”
Nice to know this is how Planned Parenthood translates “liberty and justice for all.”
~ Katie Yoder, Newsbusters, July 7
[HT: Susie Allen]
The abortion industry did its best to pitch the movie Obvious Child as an “unapologetic” but “hilarious” romantic comedy about abortion, even as the director and star eschewed such a depiction. See headlines right.
And therein lies the irony.
Abortion proponents want desperately to remove the stigma surrounding abortion, and they desperately hoped Obvious Child would be a “game-changing” vehicle to entice and persuade pop culture.
But those who invested and starred in Obvious Child pragmatically knew aversion to abortion would be exactly what kept pop culture from attending, thus their attempts to back away from the odious A-word. (The film distributor’s synopsis of the film doesn’t even include the word “abortion.”)
Neither tactic worked.
It is doubtful whether Obvious Child will ever achieve wide release (defined as showing in 600 theaters), because it is tanking only one week after it officially opened nationwide on June 27, earning 31% less this weekend than the first, with a meager draw of $1,854 per theater. Click to enlarge….
Obvious Child only started out of the gate well its first three weeks because the abortion industry mustered all the feminists it could find to attend special screenings (sometimes free) propped by star power in select theaters in abortion-friendly cities.
My son-in-law Andy Moore and I found it interesting that the theater where we attended a matinee showing of Obvious Child, along with a small sprinkling of women and one other guy, displayed no publicity poster inside or out – the most invisible advertising ever.
Using the romantic-comedy genre as its vehicle, Obvious Child sought to promote the third option an unintentionally pregnant mother faces – abortion. This in direct competition with rom-com Knocked Up, which promoted the choice of parenting one’s baby, and rom-com Juno, which promoted placing one’s baby for adoption.
Does Obvious Child succeed?
By that which is most important, the numbers, heck no. Knocked Up grossed a total of $148.7 million, and Juno grossed $143.5 million. Although it is still early, Obvious Child is obviously not riding any sort of wave and has grossed a paltry $1.9 million. Apples to apples, Juno was an indie film, too, and by this point it had earned $26 million. Pro-life indie films Bella and October Baby earned gross totals of $8 million and $5.3 million respectively.
An interesting financial subplot is that Obvious Child’s production budget has been kept a closely guarded secret. All that is known is writer and director Gillian Robespierre raised $37k on Kickstarter to get the film to the Sundance Film Festival last year and then sold the rights at Sundance to independent film distributor A24 for “low seven figures.” How embarrassing were Obvious Child to lose money, hence the shroud of secrecy.
Since Planned Parenthood’s influence in the production of Obvious Child is palpable, “a potent PSA,” as Breitbart calls it, no one should be surprised if it is later learned Planned Parenthood funded it in a small or large way. Here’s Mother Jones on Planned Parenthood’s fingerprints:
Planned Parenthood also consulted on the development and production of Obvious Child, vetting the script and allowing them to shoot in a clinic in New Rochelle, New York [picture, right]. “They were so supportive, a real friend of the film,” Robespierre says. “They read a draft of the script, they loved it, and they were so enthusiastic that we were making a movie that sort of takes away the stigma of the choice….”
Planned Parenthood then offered a few notes on the screenplay (what a nurse at one of their clinics would say to a patient, for instance). A few Planned Parenthood employees can be seen in the film as extras.
Aside from the movie’s vulgarity and unrealistic pro-abortion bent, what did I think of Obvious Child?
Well, it is certainly a niche film. If one is a pro-abortion feminist, ambivalent-to-pro-abortion post-abortive parent, liberal movie critic, or Planned Parenthood groupie; or if one likes poop/pee/fart/stained underwear/anal sex jokes coming out the wazoo, pardon the pun, one will like Obvious Child.
That said, the audience thus far has given it a total rating of 3.8/5 on Rotten Tomatoes, although rest assured the abortion industry stacked those reviews with abortion zealots.
Stripping away the plot and focusing on the rom-com aspect only, I would have given the film 2-1/2 out of 4 stars, as Andy would have, although pretzelizing a review in that way defeats its purpose.
As for the ins and out of Obvious Child’s implausible and unsettling plot line, I thought Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life nailed it at Breitbart. What she said.
Abortion enthusiasts gambled big on Obvious Child, and they lost, solely because they were obsessed with killing the obvious child.
by Kelli
On July 2, 1964, the Civil Rights Act was passed, which “forbade discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in hiring, promoting, and firing.”
From The Radiance Foundation comes this powerful video to remind us that we are of “one blood” and that every human life deserves the recognition of their civil rights, including the preborn:
A lot has changed in 50 years. Some things for the better. But the evil of racism will never be overcome until we stop dividing ourselves. The words of Martin Luther King never fail to stir the soul. His speech, “Where Do We Go From Here” delivered in 1967 to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) contained words rarely quoted. On this anniversary of the 50th year of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 may we remember to walk hand in hand, as one human race. Celebrate civil rights for EVERY human life.
[youtube]http://youtu.be/l2WXfhKEIwM[/youtube]
Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.
[HT: Alveda King; photo via wallpapersas.com]
by Carder
“What are you doing?”
“Don’t kill the baby.” He wouldn’t move the car, though horns blared all around us.
“Keep driving! I have an appointment!” I shook his headrest. This was not part of the script.
“Please don’t kill the baby,” he said again, turning around to face me. He had beautiful big brown eyes — almost black. “I will take care of you and the baby. I work two jobs.”
“Drive,” I told him.
“You are going by yourself?” he asked.
I said, “Drive.”
He drove. The camera wasn’t on. I didn’t have any of it on tape.
~ Writer Lisa Selin Davis (pictured with her daughters), describing her experience with a New York taxi cab driver who begged her not to “kill the baby” on her way to her scheduled abortion appointment, New York Times Opinionator, July 2
[Photo credit: Parenting]
I have a new poll question up. It’s one of those abstract questions I’ve been asked, but it does test theory against reality:
If in one hand I was holding an embryo in a petri dish, and in the other a newborn, and could only save one, I would…
Vote in the poll on the right lower side of the home page.
The previous poll question was in response to threats (idle, as it turns out, unsurprisingly) by abortion zealots in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision to overturn Massachusetts’ buffer zone law.
And pro-lifers by-and-large said, “Bring it on”…
As always, make comments to either the previous or current poll here, not on the poll site.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
