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

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• Wesley J. Smith says that in an attempt to further normalize the killing of others, comedies are now being made about euthanasia.
• At Stand True, Bryan Kemper wonders why society seems outraged over the burning of aborted baby parts for fuel, while there is little outrage over abortion itself. If these children are mere medical waste or products of conception, then why should we care about the inhumane disposal of their remains?

• Reflections of a Paralytic links to bioethicist Jennifer Lahl’s article on “social” surrogacy, which is “defined as the use of a surrogate mother to carry your pregnancy to term for social reasons vs. medical reasons.” Lahl continues:
  
  There is no medical reason the intended mother can’t get pregnant and carry her child to term; she just doesn’t want to get pregnant for a variety of reasons.

  In this article, we learn about women whose careers are taking off and they find that taking time out of the work force for pregnancy and childbirth would be a career breaker. One doctor at a fertility center in Los Angeles is happy to offer social surrogacy and says he’s been involved with about 20 such cases. He states, “They’re for reasons most people would find offensive” and “I don’t ask these people too many questions because I don’t want them to feel judged.”

• ProLifeBlogs notes a post at Life Site News which states that President Obama sent abortion-supporting “Catholics” to represent the United States at the canonization of two former Popes in Rome:
  
  According to a White House press release, Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-CA, and Katie Beirne Fallon, assistant to the president and director of legislative affairs, will be part of a delegation led by Obama counselor John Podesta. Becerra, who chairs the House Democratic Caucus, praised former HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius when she retired and has received 100 percent ratings from the Human Rights Campaign and NARAL at least once.
• At Real Choice, Christina Dunigan continues to point out how legal does not necessarily mean “safe” when it comes to abortion. The deaths of two women are mentioned in her post, one pre-Roe and one post-Roe.

• Secular Pro-Life posts damning testimonials of abortion workers who became pro-life. The recurring theme is greed and a lack of care for women:
  
  Joy Davis [pictured right], who directed six abortion clinics in Alabama and Mississippi but later became a pro-life activist, said that her boss, Dr. Tommy Tucker, was so greedy that he fired his anesthesiologist, the registered nurses and the lab technician. He trained Joy Davis to act as an abortionist. “I never spent the first day in medical school. I really know nothing about medicine, other than what I had seen other doctors do, but I started doing abortions.” Ms. Davis, who was only trained as an ultrasound technician, explained that staff had watched the doctors put women under anesthesia. “We started putting patients asleep ourselves, and we had no idea what we were doing.”
• ProWomanProLife has some interesting thoughts about pro-life incrementalism:
  
  This matters, greatly. It’s no great secret that the pro-life movement is not unified on this matter. And we need unity if we are going to stand up and fight together.I personally think, without wanting to be insulting, that those who are against incrementalism in the political sphere aren’t actually called to fight abortion in the political sphere. We need educators in the cultural sphere who won’t waver one bit: We know when life begins and we should teach this. But to preach non-incrementalism in the political environment is an exercise in futility.

  I say this as someone who is more on the educational side of the battle myself. (Three arms to being pro-life these days: Educational, Political and Charitable.)

• Reproductive Research Audit gives facts to support the idea that the Affordable Care Act does indeed fund abortion with taxpayer dollars.
• Right to Life of Michigan posts a slightly older man-on-the-street interview which proves that the media blackout on Kermit Gosnell was effective. (All the more reason to help fund the Gosnell drama.)

[youtube]http://youtu.be/UK9dGFH-iWA[/youtube]

[Photos via wellsphere.com and prolifeaction.org]

News broke April 25 that Donald Sterling, the owner of the L.A. Clippers, made racist remarks to his mixed race mistress, V. Stiviano (both pictured right).

According to TMZ.com:

L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling told his GF he does NOT want her bringing black people to his games … including Magic Johnson … and it’s ALL on tape.

TMZ Sports has obtained audio of Sterling making the racist declaration during a heated argument on April 9th with V. Stiviano … after she posted a photo on Instagram posing with Magic.

Sterling rails on Stiviano – who ironically is black and Mexican – for putting herself out in public with a black person…. Among the comments:

— “It bothers me a lot that you want to broadcast that you’re associating with black people. Do you have to?” (3:30)

— “You can sleep with [black people]. You can bring them in, you can do whatever you want. The little I ask you is not to promote it on that … and not to bring them to my games.” (5:15)…

— “…Don’t put him [Magic] on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me. And don’t bring him to my games.” (9:13)

Clippers team members staged a silent protest before Game 4 of the first-round NBA play-offs April 27 by wearing their warm-up shirts inside out.

Player J.J. Redick blamed their subsequent 118-97 loss to the Golden State Warriors on the controversy, saying, according to Yahoo Sports, “Maybe our focus wasn’t in the right place would be the easiest way to say it.”

Redick is simply a whopping hypocrite, himself a racist who has no trouble tossing racial slurs.

On March 24 I released an email Redick wrote to his attorney October 18, 2007, regarding his Hispanic girlfriend, Vanessa Lopez (both pictured right), who he had just coerced into aborting their baby via his infamous abortion contract.

Lopez forwarded the email to me, explaining that it had been forwarded to her by Redick’s brother attached to another email that contained a cartoon of a monkey eating fried chicken and a watermelon.

WARNING: Contains vulgarity and racial epithets:

The media was not interested when I originally posted the above email. Maybe now it will care?

by Hans Johnson

It seems negative campaign ads are the norm, but that’s not the case with this definitely positive one for Dr. Monica Wehby, a pediatric neurosurgeon in Oregon. She gained notoriety in 2009 for opposing the Affordable Care Act, and is now running as a Republican candidate for Senate, saying in her first ad that “It’s not brain surgery, Obamacare is bad for Oregon.” (George Will  awarded her the “best bumper sticker of the year award” for her slogan, “Keep your doctor, change your senator”.)

This second ad features Lexi Llebelt, who was advised to abort her child because of a congenital spinal abnormality, but was reassured by Dr. Wehby:  “She just hugged me and kissed my forehead and she said, ‘It’s going to be OK, sweetheart.’ After a series of operations once she was born, Gabby is now 12.

Update 4/29 4:00p: Unfortunately, Dr. Wehby also has taken the official position, according to the Wall Street Journal, as “oppos[ing] federal laws restricting abortion rights” despite the hopeful and very pro-life message of this particular campaign ad.

[youtube]http://youtu.be/KXqHI059n90[/youtube]

Why the disconnect? Why remain in opposition to restricting abortion when you have personally saved the life of a preborn child?

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[HT: Kelli]

by Kelli

… [W]hen it comes to commenting on domestic scandals, President Obama will never live down his cowardly refusal to speak out against Kermit Gosnell.

Here was a man who, for thirty years, murdered black infants in his Philadelphia abortion clinic, while his activities were allowed to continue because of the complacency and tacit approval of local, state, and federal agencies.

Here was a man who segregated his waiting room by race, and gave better, safer treatment to white patients. Here was a man involved in a murderous scandal that implicated — and still implicates — every level of political authority, and resulted in hundreds of born infants being decapitated, stabbed, and drowned in toilets.

What did Obama say about it?…

“I can’t comment.”…

Forget everything else the man has done. Forget everything else he’s said. All you need to know about Barack Obama the man, and Barack Obama the President, can be summed up by the fact that he immediately and forcefully commented when a black Harvard professor was arrested by a white cop; he immediately and forcefully commented when a black teenager was killed by a Hispanic neighborhood watchman; and he immediately and forcefully commented when a white NBA owner allegedly made some insulting comments about black people — but when an abortionist was allowed to murder black infants for thirty years in the middle of an American city, he said nothing.

In all three of the cases where he did comment, the facts weren’t yet fully known, and the incident had no relevance outside of the area where it occurred. In Gosnell’s case, the facts were established, and the incident encompassed a wide range of local, state, and federal authorities. Yet on the first three he pounced, while on the last case he ran for the hills.

That’s all you need to know about Barack Obama.

~ Matt Walsh, The Matt Walsh Blog, April 28

[Photo via krestaintheafternoon.blogspot.com]

by LauraLoo

Valeria Lukyanovas (aka “Human Barbie”) doesn’t look like your normal woman. She also has a bit of an unnatural revulsion toward families and children.

One of her most famous quotes is, “I’d rather die from torture because the worst thing in the world is to have a family lifestyle.”

Warning – Mild vulgarity:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjJOmDF7a6I[/youtube]

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by Carder

There’s like a Cirque du Soleil performance [in there]. It’s like alien stuff.

~ Actress Ginnifer Goodwin, discussing her active preborn baby on Jimmy Kimmel Live! via People,  April 25

[HT: Laura Loo; photo by Fame Flynet via US Magazine]

Happy Sunday! Here were my top five six favorite cartoons this week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of this post!

by Clay Jones at GoComics.com…

 by Walt Handelsman at GoComics.com…

 by Nick Anderson at GoComics.com…

 by Jerry Holbert at Townhall.com…

 and closing with a twofer by Henry Payne at Townhall.com…

But you, my dear friends, must remember what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ told you, that in the last times there would be scoffers whose purpose in life is to enjoy themselves in every evil way imaginable. Now they are here, and they are the ones who are creating divisions among you. They live by natural instinct because they do not have God’s Spirit living in them.

But you, dear friends, must continue to build your lives on the foundation of your holy faith. And continue to pray as you are directed by the Holy Spirit. Live in such a way that God’s love can bless you as you wait for the eternal life that our Lord Jesus Christ in his mercy is going to give you. Show mercy to those whose faith is wavering. Rescue others by snatching them from the flames of judgment. There are still others to whom you need to show mercy, but be careful that you aren’t contaminated by their sins. 

~ Jude 17-22, New Living Translation