Jodi Jacobson is editor-in-chief of RH Reality Check, a pro-abortion website dedicated “to safeguard…  sexual and reproductive health and rights against false attacks and misinformation.”

Jacobson has stated it is “profoundly disrespectful” to oppose late-term abortions, which she defines as “at or after 24 weeks or in the third trimester.”

Jacobson has described those who kill babies in the third trimester as “committed, ethical, moral medical professional[s].” She said pro-lifers were “lunatics” to call late-term abortionist George Tiller a “mass murderer” – himself a subsequent victim of murder. Rather, Jacobson maintained, Tiller was a “heroic, kind, compassionate, professional.” 

Jacobson opposes fetal pain bans on abortion after 20 weeks, denying the “false and completely disproven assertions” that late-term babies feel the torment of being torn apart.

Jacobson further denies that images of abortion victims are real. She claims they are “gory doctored photos.” Jodi has yet to respond to my 1-1/2-year-old question asking her to show me her reality of the products of conception following the abortion procedure, particularly late-term.

I was reminded of the particular photo above, and all of Jacobsons’s denials about the savagery of late-term abortions, when reading this tweet she wrote two days ago:

@top1percentile @Leslieannscott @Korea_Olympic What?? What is this? They were boiled alive? Seriously? This is horrific.

— JodiJacobson 🇺🇦 🩸🦷 @jljacobson@mastodon.social (@jljacobson) February 24, 2014

Jodi was accepting without question a photo and description she retweeted:

RT @Leslieannscott: “ @Korea_Olympic THIS IS KOREA. http://t.co/rpFFKgDLNZ http://t.co/1xTFDTMIE9” and awaiting next winter Olympics 2018

— Nigel Bennett (@top1percentile) February 23, 2014

I went to the trouble of locating the origin of that photo, at @picsofdogcatmeat on Instagram, dated 2013-12-04. The description states the puppies in the bin “were blanched in boiling water before the fur was removed. They were still alive after fur was removed & swimming for their lives in the boiling pot.”

I agree that picture looks “horrific.” But how does Jacobson know it’s real, that it wasn’t a “gory doctored photo”? How does she know the puppies were actually “boiled alive,” which she accepted without a shred of evidence? If the puppies were indeed boiled alive, how does Jacobson know they felt any pain during the boiling process? Where’s the proof?

And isn’t it perpetuating a “racist myth” to forward an undocumented, perhaps gory doctored photo, accusing the Chinese (but really Koreans according to the original tweet) of eating dog and cat meat? This is what liberals accused me of for a post I wrote in 2007, “Sweet and sour fetus: Chinese cannibalism,” which they frequently denied as urban legend but which was corroborated as recently as 2012 by the Washington Times and other news outlets.

Jacobson made $179,293 in 2012 in combined salary and compensation, according to RH Reality Check’s 990.

This might help explain Jacobson’s inhumane disregard for late-term aborted babies. But it doesn’t excuse it. Jacobson clearly knows barbarism when she sees it. She let the cat out of the bag in her tweet, pardon the pun.

But every woman has her price, as the feminist term for the saying goes.

Is it worth it, Jodi, to promote the same torture innocent babies endure that you find so “horrific” for puppies?

by Carder

The show follows Jessica Beth Giffords, a 15-year-old girl who is equal parts Justin Bieber superfan and aspiring pro-life celebrity, as she attends the Students for Life of America Conference.

Throughout the hour-long solo performance, Jessica interacts with six other characters based on real-life pro-life activists, from crisis pregnancy center directors to ministers to self-described “pro-life feminists.” We follow her as she absorbs the misinformation in an abstinence-only “sexual purity” workshop and struggles to contain her crush on a popular and flirtatious Christian boy who sports a purity ring.

This sexual struggle and the notion that girls and women can embody sexual desire outside of the context of heterosexual marriage is precisely what Students for Life finds so vulgar.

~ Playwright and actress Madeline Burrows, describing the plot of her pro-choice play, MOM BABY GOD, and the controversy surrounding it, via RH Reality Check, February 19

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

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• Big Blue Wave describes how use of the NuvaRing contraceptive seriously impaired the health of US Olympic hopeful Megan Henry (pictured left), a skeleton skater, who spent ten days in the hospital suffering from life-threatening blood clots (pulmonary embolism). This sidelined her training and dashed her hopes of qualifying for the Olympics.
• Clinic Quotes says a descendant of Margaret Sanger is continuing her legacy for “reproductive freedom”:
  

  Alexander Sanger, abortion advocate and descendent of Planned Parenthood founder and controversial figure Margaret Sanger, said the following: “Reproductive freedom is vital to humanity. It is even more vital than all the other freedoms that we cherish – freedom of religion, freedom of thought and speech, and the freedom to live our lives as we see fit. Humanity has these freedoms, or should have them, because they add to human happiness and make for a better world. So does reproductive freedom.”

  Really? Even more important than freedom of thought is the freedom to kill one’s children before birth? Remind me again… which side is extreme?

• At The Leading Edge, Brendan Malone is stunned that some Christian commentaries are chastising those who point out that the depression and subsequent suicide of Charlotte Dawson has roots (by her own admission) in her abortion.
• The Lost Generation has some practical advice for those who are being pressured to abort:
  

  Whatever your reason, you do not have to get an abortion. It is against the law for anyone to force or coerce you to get one. You are your child’s mother, and no one – not your boyfriend, husband, parents, pimp, teacher, or lady at the grocery store – can make you get an abortion.

• Live Action notes an instance of either Planned Parenthood’s brazenness or bad marketing. When 92% of pregnant women who go to PP end up killing their preborn children, it seems more than odd to sell onesies for infants (pictured right) bearing the PP slogan. (Maybe “I survived” should be printed beneath their “Care” logo on the front?)
• The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition welcomes this anti-euthanasia statement from the American College of Pediatricians in light of Belgium’s recent legalization of child euthanasia:
  

  The American College of Pediatricians is appalled by Netherlands’ recent legalization of Neonatal Euthanasia and Belgium’s legalization of euthanasia for terminally ill children of any age, and alerts healthcare professionals to the possibility of similar legislation in the United States.

The concept of euthanasia is based on a utilitarian worldview that defines the value of the individual in terms of that individual’s contribution to society. This ideology relegates neonates, especially those infants with congenital defects, to an expendable status….

Physicians are healers not killers. An individual’s future quality of life cannot be predicted by caregivers. The role of the physician is to promote health, cure when possible, and relieve pain and suffering as part of the care they provide. The intentional neglect for, or taking of, a human life is never acceptable, regardless of health system mandates. The killing of infants and children can never be endorsed by the American College of Pediatricians and should never be endorsed by any other ethical medical or social entity.

[Photos via army.mil; Live Action]

by Hans Johnson

At the 2014 Students for Life of America Conference, Stephanie Gray of the Canadian Centre For Bio-Ethical Reform spoke. (You can see the entire talk here.) In this excerpt, she argues for the necessity of using graphic photos to change some minds in order to stand up to atrocities like abortion:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/cVcZNDNBp84[/youtube]

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[HT: Susie Allen]

I’m suddenly hearing and reading about the television series, House of Cards, everywhere. The show’s backdrop, quoting Wikipedia:

Set in present-day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey), a Democrat from South Carolina… and House Majority Whip who, after getting passed over for appointment as Secretary of State, decides to exact his revenge on those who betrayed him. The series also stars Robin Wright….

House of Cards is produced by Netflix, which releases an entire season all at once for viewing via its livestream service. Netflix dumped all 13 episodes of season two on February 14. This season Underwood has been appointed vice president. We featured House of Cards in a quote of the day on February 22, wherein Underwood’s wife Claire (Wright) admitted in a CNN interview (screenshot below) to having three abortions – one because of a rape, which was a lie, but which was fine by feminists. As an aside, blog reader Del noted that Claire sure looks a lot like Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards. And both the fictional Claire and real Cecile are heads of large nonprofits. The resemblance is indeed notable up to this point. Beneath the facade, Claire is manipulative and evil. But I digress. Following the revelation of Claire’s three abortions, House of Cards mischaracterizes pro-life response in typical Hollywood style. According to National Right to Life News:

In episodes following the abortion becoming public, pro-life advocates are portrayed not only as angry and hateful–picketing Claire’s events with signs reading “Shame” and “Baby Killer”- but far worse. Claire’s husband… remarks that a portion of the country sees her as a “baby killer.” She receives death threats and in one episode, a deranged young man tries to bring explosives to her house after he finds out his own wife had an abortion without his knowledge.

But there is a point in the story line where fiction meets reality. Gregg Cunningham, CEO of Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, wrote in a February 23 email alert that some of CBR’s abortion victim imagery was used in a protest scene:

CBR appears in the credits of a recent episode in this series because we licensed the House of Cards production company to use our abortion photos. Though we did not expect our pictures to make the final edit, our photos did appear beginning near the 20 minute point of season 2, Episode 11. Our pictures are depicted on signs held by protestors who are seen from inside a slowly passing car.  Barack Obama is a fan of House of Cards and tweets about the series.  We thank God for the opportunity to force him to look at the bodies of the babies butchered by his abortion policies. A few years ago, British TV Channel 4 used substantial quantities of our abortion video in a widely-viewed documentary on abortion.  One London abortion clinic told a reporter the next day that their business had dropped off because of the documentary. Abortion imagery saves lives.

Here’s one screenshot of the abortion victim signage from inside the motorcade. Click to enlarge… UPDATE 11:10a: After I wrote this post I was reminded of two times, of I’m sure many, when President Obama was actually forced to pass photos of abortion victims in a motorcade. Who knows if he averted his eyes, but the truth was placed in front of him. These photos, which include abortion victims, come from Created Equal (click to enlarge)…

by Kelli

[Protestors] literally just go up to every car that comes up the street. They automatically assume that every African American driver is coming to the clinic…. They say some of the most disgusting, degrading and racist comments to them about killing the dream, killing the next Barack Obama, the next Martin Luther King.

~ Clinic escort Michelle Colon, who “has worked for 10 years at Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, where most clients are African American and most anti-abortion protestors… are white,” as quoted by The Huffington Post, February 21

[Screenshot via HuffPostLive]

by LauraLoo

A recent In the Market with Janet Parshall discussed studies that show  cohabitation before marriage increases a couple’s odds of divorce by 50%.  Mike McManus of Marriage Savers also examined this growing trend.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr5CmNzegjs[/youtube]

Have you ever cohabitated?  If so, did it end in marriage – or did the relationship end? If you married after cohabiting  did the marriage last? What words of wisdom can you share as to what you learned?  Finally, do you view this as “living in sin”?

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I’m reading the new book, Noah: The Real Story, my interest piqued on the topic in large part due to all the chatter about the upcoming movie, Noah, opening March 28.

The movie has a blockbuster budget of $130 million and features a stellar cast: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Anthony Hopkins, and Emma Watson.

Very few people have read the script or seen the movie, but the book I’m reading includes a summary by movie critic Brian Godawa of a script he read in the fall of 2013.

Potential spoiler alert…

So in that version of the script there was an infanticide element. Quoting from the book:

Noah decides the only reason God preserved him and his family is to make sure the animals on the ark return to the earth safely. If mankind disappeared, “it would be a better world.” His family should have no more births so that humans will eventually die out and then “the creatures of the earth, the world itself, shall be safe.” But one of his daughters-in-law is pregnant. If it is a boy, Noah will let it live; but if it is a girl, it will be killed. The woman gives birth to twin girls and Noah sets out to kill them both while the animals on the ark help pin down his family. but he is too weak to carry out his task. ‘I can’t do it,’ he says to himself and to God. “I am sorry.”

This, of course, places God at the most extreme end of environmental whacko-ness, upends His plan of salvation, and reverses the real close of the Noah story, wherein God tells him, “be fruitful and multiply; populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it” ~ Genesis 9:7.

So we shall see if that blasphemous plot line made the final cut. I’ve read Paramount Pictures is quite nervous about Christian reaction to the movie. At this point, from what I’ve read and seen, it should be:

One viewer, who declined to give his name because Paramount required him to sign a nondisclosure agreement, echoed the sentiments of others by criticizing the depiction of Noah as a “crazy, irrational, religious nut” who is fixated on modern-day problems like overpopulation and environmental degradation.

Russell Crowe didn’t help:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkTJm32bODs[/youtube]

View the trailer here.