After reading Robin Marty’s piece in Think Progress the other day about abortion doctor Cheryl Chastine (pictured right), I thought I’d peruse some of Chastine’s tweets to see what she has been up to.

Chastine is on the cusp of sacrificing a promising career as a legitimate ob/gyn to to take abortionist George Tiller’s place at his retooled abortion clinic in Wichita.

I’ve loosely followed Chastine’s whereabouts since I took part in Pro-Life Action League’s first protest and “outing” of her at her former Oak Park, Illinois, practice last April.

I say “former” because the doctors at her day job let her go due to the public turmoil created by pro-life exposure of her circuit-riding job.

So I was scanning @DrJaneChi’s tweets and was struck first by the amount of time she seems to have on her hands, not a surprise since her abortion clinic’s business is apparently slow, but second by Chastine’s adolescent foul mouth.

Here’s a sampling. WARNING: Vulgarity. Click to enlarge…

Do any of you women have an ob/gyn you can possibly imagine talking such trash, especially in public?

Abortion doctors frequently complain about stigma and lack of respect. Well, if abortionists want to be treated professionally, they need to act professionally.

But that’ll never happen, because abortionists kill babies, and from out of their mouths come what’s in their hearts, as someone once said.

Chastine only reinforces the caricature of her “profession.”

One other point of interest in Chastine’s tweets. She is a “lover of bunnies,” which all of her pro-abortion friends are happy to indulge. Overcompensating much?

by Carder

It’s all been rather overwhelming when you think about how many changes will have to be made…. But I am just trying to take everything one day at a time.

I know it will all work out. 

~ Kimberly Fugate, mother who expected triplets but actually delivered quadruplets, People, February 18

[HT: Laura Loo; photo (click to enlarge) via CNN]

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

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• Americans United for Life applauds a coalition of black pastors and leaders in Illinois who are urging the passage of laws to protect women from the same negligent treatment that resulted in the death of Tonya Reaves at a Chicago Planned Parenthood. Reaves died as a result of a botched abortion. Reaves’ family filed a wrongful death suit and PP paid $2M. The coalition is seeking passage of two bills that would require informed consent before an abortion and would also require abortion facilities to have the same standards as ambulatory surgical centers.

• Live Action News draws attention to the Life Film Fest, “which takes place in Hollywood [and] is dedicated to providing an outlet for aspiring pro-life artists to showcase their films and foster their craft.” Pro-life cinema is becoming more popular, as evidenced by the success of movies like Bella and October Baby.
• Down on the Pharm notices that Walgreens Pharmacy has seen fit to fire a Tennessee pharmacist for refusing to sell Plan B for religious reasons, despite “[having] to settle lawsuits in Illinois for similar firings.” Is “leave your religious beliefs at the door” their employment mantra? Now that the drug is available over the counter, it should be easier for a pharmacist to opt out of making the sale.
• Bound4Life says a Houston abortion facility has had its license yanked for violating the Texas law requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the abortion facility. 268 illegal abortions were found to have been performed there at the time of the inspection. In reference to this situation, Operation Rescue’s Troy Newman remarked, “If that abortion clinic’s abortionists are so bad that no hospital will have them, then the clinic is just too dangerous to operate.”
• Clinic Quotes shows the mentality that results when disabled babies are frequently allowed to die in pediatric hospitals:
  

  She [the woman who counseled the parents] reported that the parents had decided not only that they did not want to repair the child’s oomphalecele, but they wanted the child to die, and they were willing to do what they could to hurry that event along. The parents had left orders that the child not be fed. She reported that Berger was very upset with this turn of events…. Berger claimed that it was one thing for the physicians and the parents to handle this, and quite another for the nurses who had to deal with the infant every day and would be the ones to watch it starve….

Bill [a doctor] reported that the mother was discouraged because today the baby looks good. She was hoping that it would die soon, so seeing it looked healthy really discouraged her.

• The Leading Edge posts an insightful article in which a citizen of Belgium claims the reason why child euthanasia was legalized is related to why even late-term abortion was legalized:
  

  At the risk of over-simplifying for the sake of writing something that tries to make one clear point, I would like to suggest that a major cause of Belgium’s liberal abortion and euthanasia laws is an inability to deal with suffering.

• At Coming Home, Dr. Gerard Nadal responds to the recent passage of “civilizational suicide” – child euthanasia in Belgium. He recalls how the tender care of a terminally ill child was handled in America by his then fiancée, now wife, Regina, who was a night nurse for a child with leukemia. Her patient’s pain was managed and he received loving care from his parents and medical personnel until the moment of his death:
  

  Children such as Daniel simply do not think about suicide. They are hard-wired for hope in the future. In Regina’s quarter of a century as a pediatric nurse, never once has she come across a terminally ill child who ever wanted to end it all, who ever thought in those categories. That is a category introduced by the adults in their lives. The permanence of death simply escapes children.

[Photo via infowars.com]

by Hans Johnson

Just weeks after a panel on CNN refused to see the worth of a preborn baby’s right to life, there was outrage on the same network over that of an animal’s.  Controversy erupted recently over the decision (choice) of the Copenhagen Zoo to kill a young, healthy giraffe because they couldn’t use him in their breeding program.

Anderson Cooper asked the zoo’s scientific director, Bengt Holst, why they just couldn’t transfer the animal to another zoo or preserve, and he answered that they couldn’t be sure if it would have a good life elsewhere – that it might be “substandard”. (If you think this sounds reminiscent of arguments against the adoption option you’re not alone.) In response, Cooper asked: “Doesn’t the life of the animal itself have some value…?”

Later, still puzzled, he turned to Jack Hanna of the Columbus Zoo and noted: “What he seems to be saying is that the animal itself doesn’t really have any right to live.” But just before this Hanna summed it all up: “Who are we to judge, Anderson, who should live and not live a short life?”

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[HT: Fr. Victor Felter]

Yesterday I reported that the University of Alabama had removed Bama Students for Life’s pro-life display only two days before its reserved one-month run was scheduled to end.

A school administrator told the group their display was taken down on February 6 due to complaints about photos it included of two mothers who died during abortions and two images of tiny abortion victims.

The group immediately retained Alliance Defending Freedom as legal counsel, sent the university a formal letter of complaint requesting an apology and another display opportunity, and scheduled two days of public events for February 19 and 20 to spotlight the school’s denial of their First Amendment rights.

And voilà, yesterday afternoon the school apologized and reversed itself. Students for Life of America has released this email sent to BSFL from Carl Bacon, Assistant to the Vice President for Collaboration & Director of Ferguson Center Student Union. Click to enlarge:

Bama SFL will now use the two days planned this week for public outcry to re-erect their display. In a statement, BSFL and SFLA accepted the university’s apology:

Bama Students for Life and Students for Life of America thank the University of Alabama officials for rethinking their decision and allowing pro-life students to openly express their First Amendment and free speech rights on campus.

I’d like to thank the University of Alabama for inadvertently helping to publicize the harm of abortion to both mothers and babies.

And I’m quite proud of BSFL, SFLA, and ADF for the strong, swift stand they took in defense of life and constitutional freedoms.

This is an incredible story.

On January 31 the Orange County Register ran an exposé on the whopping percentage commercial fundraisers bilk from nonprofits for telemarketing. In California, for instance, they get a ridiculous 63% cut of monies raised.

And buried in that story was this gem:

“I don’t blame the fundraisers,” [Doug] White [nonprofit ethics and fundraising consultant] continued. “They’re for-profit companies doing their job. I blame the nonprofits that use them over and over and over again.”

BIG NAMES

Some of those nonprofits are big-name national charities you’ve surely heard of - Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the American Civil Liberties Union, Medecins San Frontieres USA, Oxfam, Save the Children, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the U.S. Olympic Committee, the Natural Resources Defense Council - and those campaigns often wound up costing the charities money, rather than raising a single dime.

• One campaign for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in New York had revenues of $2 million – but the nonprofit wound up losing $1.8 million nonetheless, for a return of minus 92.8 percent, according to data collected by the California attorney general.

Of all the examples of incompetent waste listed in the article, Planned Parenthood’s was the worst - simply hard to fathom. And don’t forget, this is the same organization we taxpayers gave $540 million to last year.

Hello, Planned Parenthood donors. Next time a telemarketer calls begging you to donate to PP, you’d be smart just to hang up. Your donations are more than blown. They cost PP coin. The way I see it, you would save PP money by not donating.

And I wonder how this particular commercial fundraiser was connected to PP? Whose telemarketing friend did PP hire?

UPDATE 2/28, 9:40a: Pro-Life Action League’s John Jansen has done an excellent investigative follow-up to my post, with additional information on just who the telemarketer is.

by Kelli

I never knew how much love and pride I would feel.

~ X Factor creator Simon Cowell, taking to Twitter to announce the birth of son Eric with girlfriend Lauren Silverman, as quoted by People.com, February 16

Also, according to the People article:

The realization that he was going to be a father came when Cowell first saw a scan of his baby on the way….

“You literally see this thing which is now alive moving around. I feel very paternal right now,” he said following the ultrasound.

Cowell and Silverman previously made headlines when Silverman became pregnant by Cowell while still married to Cowell’s friend, real estate mogul Andrew Silverman.

[HT: Jill; photo montage (click to enlarge) via Mirror.co.uk]

by Lead moderator Carla

This Saturday, February 22, I will be doing a Winter Plunge to raise money for the Lakes Life Care Center in Forest Lake, Minnesota. This is different for me. Years ago, I ran a triathlon to raise money for another pregnancy center – and I realized that I am really not good at triathlons. But maybe I can handle freezing for a good cause. Jump in. Jump out!

I was asked by the director of this pregnancy resource center, Jill Wagner, to join her team. Jill is an old friend of mine. Actually, she’s the friend who tried to help me by driving me to my abortion appointment 23 years ago. As my roommate, she witnessed my desperation and my fear and offered me a ride to the abortion mill and spent her entire day there waiting for me. And that changed her. That is her story. She is now passionately pro-life and saves the lives of mommies and their babies from abortion every single day.

Would you please consider donating to this extremely worthy cause? My fundraising goal is $500. I am almost there!

If you’re not familiar with what a Winter Plunge is, watch this:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/er0L2I-cy08[/youtube]

BRRRR!! Again, click here to donate! Thank you!