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.

• Wesley J. Smith reports on Belgium’s legalization of child euthanasia. Part of the reason it was legalized was because “doctors were already doing it even though it was against the law. This is typical euthanasia metastasizing: Doctors break the guidelines and then the answer is to expand the guidelines rather than punish the doctors.” Should we really then expect any safeguards or restrictions to be obeyed?
• ProLife NZ discusses arguments against abortion from four corners: medical, philosophical, biblical, and legal. A must read.

• At National Review, Alec Torres describes the less-than-free speech granted to a Students for Life group at the University of Alabama:
  

  Bama Students for Life had reserved the display case from January 8 to February 7, but when students walked by on February 6 they found the case empty. They were not informed that the display would be taken down, nor do they know when it vanished.

“You guys were lucky to get it up there as long as you did,” an administrator told President of Bama Students for Life Claire Chretien when she inquired about the missing poster. “If we get a complaint we have to take it down. If it upsets somebody we have to take it down.”

Alliance Defending Freedom is assisting in the group’s appeal. Their display is pictured at left (click to enlarge).

• Pro-Life in TN reports that a judge reduced the fines on an Illinois abortion facility from $36K down to only $77 because the owner claimed she was closing the facility, and that $77 was all she had left in her bank account. Not surprisingly, she was lying. The IL Department of Health found a lengthy list of infractions in the first inspection it conducted in 15 years, including delaying CPR on a patient that subsequently died. The owner reopened under a slight name change using the same website, address, etc. In Illinois, clearly abortion is legal, but not safe for women.
• Stand True advertises pro-life internships and ministry opportunities for students.

• Secular Pro-Life notes that NARAL is apoplectic over President Obama’s nomination of Judge Michael Boggs, a pro-life Democrat, to the federal bench. Ilyse Hogue of NARAL has even gone so far as to say that because of his pro-life views, Boggs is “anti-American”:
  

  According to NARAL, when Boggs was a Georgia state legislator more than a decade ago, he “tried to channel funds to anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers and make a parental consent law even more extreme.” In oldspeak, that means that Boggs 1) supported the creation of a Choose Life license plate, which facilitates pro-life people donating their own money to pro-life causes, and 2) supported a requirement that minor girls be accompanied to the abortion facility by a parent. It’s worth noting that this parent-must-accompany rule is designed to combat sexual abuse.

So the pro-choice lobby is twisting the facts, which is hardly news.

• Suzy B shares SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser’s comments on perinatal hospice made last fall. Families like that of Zion Isaiah Blick, who lived for ten days following birth, deserve support from perinatal hospice groups:
  

  Where a lethal fetal anomaly does exist, patients and their families can and should be offered the compassionate, ethical option of perinatal hospice to support them. Studies have shown that carrying a fatally ill child to term rather than performing a late abortion does not result in increased maternal mortality. On the other hand, it brings comfort to parents who can indeed parent their child as long as time permits. Perinatal hospice also allows families to mourn, the same way in which we would allow families with an adult member for whom treatment has become futile. There are now at least 127 perinatal hospices in the United States.

[SFL display photo via National Review]

by LauraLoo

Just in time for Valentine’s Day comes a surprising new ad from Asian lingerie manufacturer Wacoal titled “My Beautiful Woman”, based on a true story.

People talk behind her back that she had a baby at age 18 with her “sugar daddy.”

Jane runs ahead of her classmates every day after school to pick up her little girl, June.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPtOm9UXfnU[/youtube]

Today is a perfect opportunity to reach out to others and show love and to make a difference in someone’s life. Just like Jane.

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Kelsey Hazzard]

by Carder

~ Parodied graphic via Rey Flores Facebook page, February 11

[HT: Jill]

by Hans Johnson

Canada’s Alex Bilodeau explained his motivation after becoming the first freestyle skier to repeat his gold medal win: “When I’m on my skis my colleagues are my inspiration. They are pushing me every day to be a better skier – to go faster, to go longer. But a four-year process is very long, and when I wake up in the morning, it’s my brother.”

See the NBC background piece on Alex and his brother Frederic, who has cerebral palsy,here. Says Alex: “I always complain – and he has every reason in the world to complain, and he never does. And why is that? He enjoys life. He takes the best out of it.”

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

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Susie Allen]

by Kelli

I want to let you know that we as women know about babies. We love them. We adore them. But we also know that they have the challenges they bring.

They have colic, the sleepless nights, the finances, the disciplinary challenges, the education challenges, the birth defects, the mental health issues, the learning disabled… the list goes on and on.

And what women do know is that we know where our limits are. We absolutely know where our limits are – whether we’re ready, whether we’re physically ready, whether we’re emotionally ready, whether we’re financially ready to be parents – and we have the right to make those decisions.

~ Iowa House Rep. Beth Wessel-Kroeschell (D–Ames), stating her reasons for why she believes webcam abortions should remain legal in the state, as quoted by The Iowa Republican, February 12

Video here.

[Photo via wcfcourier.com]

by Laura Loo

A film recently released by Created Equal puts side-by-side footage of individuals responding to two eras of injustice: the Holocaust and abortion. Watch the comparison of responses…

Warning: graphic photos:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/27lOaf1NRAs[/youtube]

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT:  Mark Harrington]

by Carder

When I worked at an abortion clinic, my friends would always say there should be a TV show about it; at the time I couldn’t imagine any aspect of my life being interesting enough to be on TV, but given the growing interest in what other people’s jobs are like, and the ever-polarizing “debate” around abortion, a nuanced view of an abortion clinic could be just what the public needs to see.

So if that is something that interests you, I recommend you support this pilot for such a show….

~ The Pedgehog, encouraging readers to support a TV pilot titled Plan b, which  “sweeps us into the personal and professional lives of abortion clinic staff while at the same time contrasting it with the complex and contentious nature of a local pro-life organization,”  Anti-Choice is Anti-Awesome, February 6

WARNING: Video at link contains explicit vulgarity. Stupidity, actually.

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.

• Michael J. New believes other reasons may be behind the U.S.’s declining abortion rate:
  

  Interestingly, none of these analysts [who claim increased contraception is the reason behind the decline] is willing to consider that shifts in public opinion on abortion may be playing a role. May of 2009 was the first time that a majority of Americans identified themselves as “pro-life” in a Gallup survey. “Pro-life” has outpolled “pro-choice” six out of nine times since the spring of 2009….

  Since the abortion rate is falling while the unintended-pregnancy rate is stable, a higher percentage of women facing unintended pregnancies are choosing to carry their children to term. Data from the Department of Health and Human Services support this, pro-lifers should take heart in it.

• Abstinence Clearinghouse notes that Memphis Planned Parenthood likes to place edgy billboards in places that shock people, like the one pictured, which is near a crosswalk for an elementary school:
  

  Children reading these signs are being indoctrinated with a message that cannot protect them from pregnancy or STDs. The irony is Planned Parenthood promotes sexual adventures without discrimination and without promoting sex being reserved for marriage, while their purpose for creating the signs is to “prevent HIV and STD’s.”

  Let’s not forget that our these condoms come from our tax dollars sent to them from Washington.

• After Abortion lauds the work of Allan Parker, who founded The Center Against Forced Abortions as part of his work at the Texas Justice Foundation. If you or anyone you know is being coerced into an abortion, call (210) 614-7157 or email info@txjf.org.
• Americans United for Life is proud of the Oklahoma House Committee on Public Health’s “approv[al of] a perinatal hospice bill (OK HB 2685) to provide any woman seeking an abortion for an unborn child diagnosed with a fatal condition to be informed about perinatal hospice. It is partially based on Americans United for Life model legislation.” AUL notes, “Should Oklahoma enact this legislation, it will join Arizona, Kansas, and Minnesota as states that offer parents a compassionate response to a horrifying diagnosis.”
• Fletcher Armstong discusses the sidewalk outreach at the Passion Conference in Atlanta, which set out to encourage the 20K attendees to extend their passion to saving the most vulnerable among us – preborn children. The child of a woman in Nashville was even saved by the event, thanks to a cell phone and some pro-life graphics.
• Big Blue Wave says this Facebook meme (pictured below) posted by Secular Pro-Life exposes the weakness of the “miscarriages happen, so abortion is fine” argument.