by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Planned Parenthood of Arizona is suing to prevent a state law regarding abortion drugs from taking effect:
  

  The 2012 law now being implemented says any medication used to induce an abortion must be administered “in compliance with the protocol authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration,” as outlined in the final labeling instructions for that drug.

  In the case of RU-486, that means only through the seventh week of pregnancy. But Planned Parenthood advertises that it uses it into the ninth week.

• At the Huffington Post, a University of Michigan student (who is a former Planned Parenthood intern) has a rambling, poorly edited piece regarding access to abortion which has a number of gems:
  

  In fact, I did not know anyone who was pro-life growing up except for the one house in my town that posted pro-life lawn signs….

  Other laws were put in place to incite guilt and trickery like prohibiting doctors who work for a state-funded women’s health service from referring patients elsewhere for an abortion….

  All of these circular mechanisms entrap women with financial and emotional burdens that actualize into limited freedom….

by LauraLoo

Girl Scouts of America CEO Anna Marie Chavez has been accused of being “misleading and deceitful” by angry GS moms who are participating in this year’s national cookie sale boycott.

There is plenty of hard evidence to support these reformers for their reasons for the boycott:

1.  The Girl Scouts organization no longer stands “committed to serving God” as their CEO claims.

2.  The Girl Scouts “have not now [nor] ever have had a relationship with Planned Parenthood” is an outrageous claim to make, given the fact that former Girl Scout’s CEO Kathy Cloninger is on record in 2004 admitting the organization’s relationship with Planned Parenthood on the Today Show.

3.  Chavez insists that “reproductive issues are deeply private matters best left to families” and that she “finds it deeply unsettling that anyone would use the Girl Scout brand to have very adult conversations.”  Yet these GS moms say the “hypocrisy of such a statement is unsettling” due to the organization’s promotion of Wendy Davis as 2013 Woman of the Year, which specifically points to Davis’ filibuster of a late-term abortion bill.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIV75yox9dY[/youtube]

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[HT:  Austin; graphic via pinterest.com]

He may beat his wife, but at least he supports late-term abortion!

Let’s see if this old endorsement survives the current cycle.

~ Guy Benson, noting the irony of the Florida Chapter of the National Organization for Women 2010 endorsement of Congressman Alan Grayson’s run for Congress in light of recent allegations by estranged wife Lolita Grayson of domestic abuse, Hot Air’s Green Room, March 4

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.

• Abolitionist Society exposes abortion’s role in society’s eugenic attitude toward children with special needs. But the average family choosing to abort a special needs child does so for one of two reasons unrelated to eugenics:
  

  The argument from the desire to eliminate pain…. [and] [t]he argument from the desire to preserve a personal level of living.

• A Culture of Life explains how the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists changed their definition of pregnancy to accommodate potentially abortifacient birth control pills. However, they calculate due dates by last menstrual period, which is about two weeks prior to conception. Hmm.
• Clinic Quotes posts a quote from abortionist Dr. Maureen Paul which explains why she chose her profession – because carrying her child to term and placing him/her for adoption was so painful for her:
  

  I confided in a family friend and asked to borrow the $300. But he told my parents, who immediately pulled me out of school. They took me to a local hospital, where I went before a committee that had to decide whether there was a valid medical reason to give me an abortion.

When my request was turned down, I had no other option but to carry the baby to term and put [it] up for adoption. It was the most painful experience of my life. Though I wanted to have children one day – and years later had a daughter as the result of an intended pregnancy – I bitterly resented being forced to have a baby against my will. I consider that an act of violence against women.

• The Guiding Star Project asks if population control by way of contraceptives (the Melinda Gates philosophy) is the new “white man’s burden” and questions the motivations behind this movement:
  

  Although the post is titled the “New” White Man’s Burden, to be accurate, the West imposing population control on others is not new. Indeed, the then top-secret government report that first highlighted the “necessity” of telling other people how many kids they can have was written 40 years ago already, having been written in 1974. This report, called The Kissinger Report, outlines the increasing need for minerals and fuel from developing nations and categorizes their increasing populations as a threat to US interests.

It proposes population control as the means in which we will have continued access to their resources that we want. Thirteen counties were considered of particular threat to US interests: Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand, and Turkey. Since the initial report, many agencies have contributed and fought for the cause of population control. Though many agencies claim they want women to have “access” to birth control, time and again, abuses occur that shows that they don’t want women to have mere access; they want the vulnerable poor to do as we tell them and stop having children.

• 40 Days for Life shares a video that contain some amazing statistics – the staggering number of abortions worldwide (42 million annually), along with some good numbers about babies saved and abortion workers leaving the industry through maintaining a pro-life presence outside abortion facilities. A new 40 Days campaign starts in one week.

40 Days for Life: Save Lives. Change the World. from 40 Days for Life on Vimeo.

[Photos via womenofgrace.com and guidingstarproject.com]

by Hans Johnson

Pamela Rauseo was driving down the Dophin Expressway with her five-month old nephew Sebastian de la Cruz when she noticed the infant, who had been born prematurely, wasn’t breathing. She stopped the car, got out and screamed for help. Right behind her was pulitzer prize-winning photographer Al Diaz of the Miami Herald , who found police officer Amauris Bastidas while Rauseo performed CPR on her nephew. Also aiding them was Lucila Goday, who had her 3-year-old son in her car.

As this trio worked on the baby until paramedics arrived, Diaz took a series of dramatic photos. Here is a report from ABC’s GMA:

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These reports from ABC World News with Diane Sawyer and Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends show how to perform CPR on babies.

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[HT: TheBlaze]

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Loved this, via People:

You’ve heard of moms-to-be eating for two. Well, an expectant Olivia Wilde was dressed for two at the Academy Awards on Sunday.

“We’re wearing Valentino,” Wilde joked….

Wilde, who is expecting a boy with fiancé Jason Sudeikis, also talked about how the couple remember their baby’s due date – which is just two months away, on May 4.

“May the fourth be with you,” they said together.

And I loved this headline, from JustJared.com: “Bruce Willis cradles Emma Heming’s growing baby bump at Vanity Fair Oscars Party 2014“…

One preggers mommy became part of a gag during the Big Show, as explained by  hollywoodlife.com:

The internet went ablaze during the Oscars on Mar. 2 when host Ellen DeGeneres asked the audience if anyone wanted pizza and pregnant Kerry Washington eagerly raised her hand….

Every pregnant lady loves a good snack, and Kerry Washington is no different!…

However, when Ellen showed up with three pies and handed slices out, Kerry ended up turning her down. What happened to make Kerry change her mind? Well, it’s a simple answer – the Scandal actress is actually gluten-free!

Later on, Kerry shared a photo of herself snacking on pizza in the green room backstage….

Huffington Post proclaimed Washington’s the “most elegant baby bump at the Academy Awards.”

But wait, there’s one more! And it’s with good reason Chris Hemsworth’s wife Elsa Pataky was “flaunt[ing a] massive baby bump at Oscars 2014” – there are twins in there! They’re due some time this spring.

by Kelli

Let’s back up just a second and look at what they are proposing to do — They’re proposing to try to create disease-free children by a type of genetic engineering. And the proposals aren’t actually to treat anybody; they’re to create new individuals that they hope won’t have a disease….

Trying to create and destroy and recreate genetically engineered children, essentially designer babies, is a completely unethical way to go about tackling this problem [of treating disease].

~ Dr. David Prentice of the Family Research Council, discussing the FDA’s consideration of technology to create three-parent babies, as quoted by One News Now, March 3

[Note: Gattaca is a 1997 sci-fi film which “presents a… vision of a future society driven by eugenics where potential children are conceived through genetic manipulation to ensure they possess the best hereditary traits of their parents.”]

It appears Live Action isn’t the only organization nailing Planned Parenthood in undercover investigations.

Add none other than Vanity Fair to the list.

I’m late reading a 10,000 word exposé in the magazine’s January issue on the dangers of a hormonal birth control device called NuvaRing.

The article is scathing, heartbreaking, and maddening. It is hard to fathom how birth control rings could still be on the market, when the FDA concluded back in 2011 they increase the risk of blood clots, known as venous thromboembolism, by 56%, and “carry a 90% greater risk of VTE than birth-control pills with earlier forms of progestin,” according to the article. (NuvaRing uses a third generation progestin called desogestrel.) It is here Vanity Fair’s sting against Planned Parenthood comes in. From the piece:

What were young women being told by their doctors? As part of my reporting, I asked two college students to go to clinics in New York, inquire about using NuvaRing, and detail their families’ histories of heart issues.

Planned Parenthood, with its distribution centers all over the country, has been a target sales market for NuvaRing. At a clinic it operates in Brooklyn, one student mentioned to the attending nurse practitioner that she had Googled NuvaRing and was aware of the lawsuits alleging that it can cause blood clots. “I have a history of heart disease and diabetes in my family,” she said. “You yourself have a history of heart disease?” the nurse practitioner asked. “No, but my father has it. And my mother has type 2 diabetes.”

Both facts were indicators of potential problems, but the nurse practitioner did not seem to be alarmed. “Then no. NuvaRing is safe for healthy young women…. Of course, with all birth-control methods, there are side effects…. new yo [sic] You seem a good candidate. Would you like to try it?” (Planned Parenthood, asked to comment, responded that the federation “does not publicly discuss private patient matters.”)

By the direct quotes provided, it is clear the Vanity Fair investigator either audiotaped or videotaped her office visit. Plus, the author would not have relayed that conversation if she did not have corroboration.

Meanwhile, according to Planned Parenthood, NuvaRing is awesome.

One problem with NuvaRing is its potential to dispense spikes of hormones. NuvaRing has never been tested outside a temperature range of 68-77 degrees.

A lawsuit has been filed by the parents of Erika Langhart, pictured right, who died at age 24 on Thanksgiving Day 2011 of a massive pulmonary embolism. She was using the NuvaRing. Named in the lawsuit are the drug’s manufacturer, Merck, and…

… the McKesson Corporation, the largest distributor of prescription drugs in North America. According to the plaintiffs’ claim, McKesson, based in San Francisco, would have to show that its delivery systems of cargo trucks and planes had kept the NuvaRing temperature-controlled.

It would seem to me, as a “target sales market for NuvaRing,” Planned Parenthood may eventually have to answer this question as well.

And also answer for the fact it apparently isn’t properly screening candidates for NuvaRing.

On February 14, Langart’s parents condemned a $100 million dollar settlement offered by Merck on the heels of the Vanity Fair article to resolve 3,800 lawsuits. According to the agreement, 95% of plaintiffs must agree to Merck’s terms, which includes the stipulation it does not have to accept any blame.

Even if 95% agree, the remaining 5% can still sue. Langhart’s parents will be in that group. “We would rather, quite frankly, die than take blood money from Merck,” wrote Karen Langhart.

Money quote from the Vanity Fair article, by lead attorney for the plaintiffs, Hunter Shkolnik. Upon hearing an odious deposition by the original maker of NuvaRing, he told the author:

“I called my daughters and said, ‘Do not ever use any third- or fourth-generation birth control. It could kill you.’”

Here are cliff notes on the Vanity Fair article, fyi.