Brothers and sisters, we urge you to warn those who are lazy. Encourage those who are timid. Take tender care of those who are weak. Be patient with everyone.

~ I Thessalonians 5:14, New Living Translation

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

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• At Priests for Life, Janet Morana discusses the decision of CVS to stop selling tobacco products in their stores because they want to “help people on their path to better health.” Morana sees another opportunity for them to make a positive impact on health:
  If CVS is serious about wanting to protect the health of its customers, I hope they took a good hard look at the women and girls whose health and fertility are jeopardized by continued sales of contraceptives and abortifacients.

• Reflections of a Paralytic features a radio segment in which he is interviewed about how biotechnology is commodifying women.
• Pro-Life Action League points out that while overall abortion numbers may be declining, that isn’t the case at Planned Parenthood, where numbers are increasing. According to PLAL, PP’s reports show that “Planned Parenthood performs about 40% of all abortions in the US and abortion income makes up over 50% of their clinic income every year.”
• Pro-Life in TN wonders who came up with such an audacious headline over at Politics USA, which reads, “Obama’s Culture of Life: The Abortion Rate Has Fallen 13% Under This President”. PL in TN remarks:
  

  No mention of the pro-life movement and the number of pro-life laws passed at the state level across the country. Nah… it is all about Obama… the president who voted in IL state senate against the ban of killing infants who survived abortions.

• At Secular Pro-Life, Clinton Wilcox responds to abortion-supportive blogger Deanna Young, who “has written a couple of articles defending the right to refuse argument….”
• Wesley J. Smith reviews a case in which a pregnant Canadian woman has been declared brain dead, but her husband is maintaining life support until their preborn son reaches the gestational age of viability. Wonder why this one isn’t making as much news as the case of Marlise Munoz and baby Nicole.
• At thirtyone8, Andy Moore posts video of a 20-week abortion performed by Dr. Dennis Christensen, who reportedly “performed abortions up to 22 weeks at a Madison Planned Parenthood clinic until retiring in late 2008.”It renders you almost speechless to note Christensen’s casual nature of examining dismembered baby parts and remarking on how he helped the patient “facilitate her decision not to parent at this time.” The patients (filmed from the back) speak of their reasons for aborting, all of which are lifestyle- and not health-related. I am amazed that the doctor would allow such a video to be filmed.

  (Abortions at this stage and later are what Texas Sen. Wendy Davis was standing for – in pink running shoes.)

  WARNING: Partial nudity; extremely graphic and disturbing…

by LauraLoo

A woman is set to become the first in the world to give birth from a transplanted womb after doctors successfully implanted an embryo into her body.

The unnamed woman, who was born without a womb, was one of nine womb transplant recipients in Sweden between September 2012 and April 2013.

What makes this even more remarkable is that the transplanted womb was donated by the woman’s mother.

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Is this taking medical science too far?  Your thoughts.

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

Psalm 139:13-16 is the go-to Bible passage 90% of the time for pastors planning sermons on the pro-life issue. In it, David eloquently describes human life as a continuum that begins at conception, with God as our Creator:

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.

Yesterday at the National Prayer Breakfast the same president who opposed bans against partial birth abortion and interstate trafficking of minors for abortion, who was willing to shut down the government to preserve Planned Parenthood funding, and who voted four times against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act, invoked likely this most sacred Scripture to pro-lifers in all of the Bible :

Today, we profess the principles we know to be true.  We believe that each of us is “wonderfully made” in the image of God.  We, therefore, believe in the inherent dignity of every human being – dignity that no earthly power can take away.

Thus, pro-abortion/pro-infanticide Obama agreed we are wonderfully “made,” not “born,” the sole interpretation of which can only be that he agrees we are human prenatally.

Obama also agreed we humans are “made in the image of God,” which he lifted from Genesis 1:26-27.

Obama concluded that since we are “wonderfully made,” and because it is “in the image of God,” we are bestowed an “inherent dignity… that no earthly power can take away.”

In the sentence prior to this section Obama acknowledged that killing the innocent is more than a wrong, it is a betrayal of God:

Extremists succumb to an ignorant nihilism that shows they don’t understand the faiths they claim to profess – for the killing of the innocent is never fulfilling God’s will; in fact, it’s the ultimate betrayal of God’s will.

Just who is this man?

I almost didn’t write this post, because I’ve run out of new words to describe Obama’s schizophrenic support of abortion while continuing to say things like this. But I fumed so much yesterday, I decided I had to say something. Just when I think Obama can no longer shock me by his audacity toward God, he does.

Commenters on Facebook shared their by now well-worn words for Obama: delusional, cognitive dissonant, shameless, zero integrity, sick in the head, liar, beast of the Book of Revelation, true politician, foul creature,  anti-christ, pure evil, and hypocrite.

But Obama actually came up for a new description of himself yesterday – “ignorant nihilist extremist” – since he is indeed one of those who pushes “the killing of the innocent.”

Obama’s mindset on abortion is simply impossible for me to fathom. How can he say we are “wonderfully made” and then go on about his day enabling “the killing of the innocent” preborn, who he knows are “wonderfully made… in the image of God”?

It has come to the point where I actually wince when he says these things and watch for lightning to strike.

by Carder

Now, bear in mind, the archbishop’s staff had been informed of this nearly two years ago and has stonewalled, foot-dragged, administratively delayed, passed the buck, looked into it and just about every other imaginable bureaucratic excuse you can dream up.

And yet, at the end of the day, these drugs are still being passed out like candy at these Catholic hospitals.

So why are the bishops kicking up such a fuss and spending zillions of dollars in federal court to protest something that they freely allow to happen, with their knowledge and consent right in their own dioceses?

Why are these institutions allowed to keep the name Catholic? Why are politicians allowed to keep advertising them selves as Catholic as they champion the culture of death? Why are homosexual men allowed to run rampant in the ranks of the clergy? Why are Catholic youth not being taught the evil of contraception?

The questions are almost endless and each one of these questions is part of a larger issue – the credibility crisis that a huge number of bishops have on matters sexual.   

~ Michael Voris tearing into Catholic bishops who fail to act on the revelation that Catholic hospitals are dispensing contraception in their pharmacies (among other issues), Church Militant.TV, February 4

Girl Scouts USA was a founding member of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts and is its largest member. In 2008 and 2009 over 60% of WAGGGS’ membership fees ($2.45 million and $2.3 million respectively) came from GSUSA.

Prominently displayed on every Daisy, Brownie, and Girl Scout uniform is the World Trefoil Pin, to “represent their connection to the worldwide sisterhood of Girl Scouting and Girl Guiding.” (Source for graphic here.)

The two groups are joined at the hip.

In March 2010 WAGGGS bragged that one of its delegates, Nefeli Themeli, was among a group of young people advocating for “[a]ccessible, affordable and safe abortions” at the 54th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Click to enlarge…

The above remained on WAGGGS’ website from March 2010 until October 2011. At that point heat obviously forced WAGGGS to hide “abortion” inside “reproductive health services.” Click to enlarge…

The above was on the site until just this year, when WAGGGS removed it entirely. But WAGGGS has forgotten to remove the declaration given by Themeli at CSW54 on its behalf promoting “access… to… reproductive health services,” i.e., abortion.

You’ll note GSUSA’s website has distanced the group as far as possible from Planned Parenthood…

But GSUSA CEO Kathy Cloninger sang a different tune when on The Today Show in 2004…

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This informative pdf gives several examples of both WAGGGS and GSUSA’s connection to International Planned Parenthood.

There is much more corroboration. Tragically, liberal feminists have poisoned the once noble Girl Scouts organization with a pro-abortion agenda. Pro-lifers have been trying for years to get people to notice. Finally, the organization overplayed its hand by calling late-term abortion filibusterer Wendy Davis “incredible” and abortionist protector Katheen Sebelius a woman of “courage, confidence, and character.” She’s a character all right. From the dark side.

But I digress.

All of this is to make the point that pro-lifers at large are calling for a boycott of Girl Scouts cookies this year, called “Cookie Cott 2014.” And this former Brownie is in.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• This is a great paragraph in the Washington Post’s GovBeat blog regarding which states have the highest and lowest abortion rates:
  

  The highest abortion rates recorded were in New York, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Delaware and New Jersey, with 27 to 34 abortions per thousand women ages 15 to 44. Wyoming, Mississippi, South Dakota, Kentucky and Missouri had the lowest, at one to five per thousand.

• A local Arkansas TV station has a story on a pro-life billboard and a woman who chose life for her unborn child.
• In Pennsylvania, a woman has been charged with “a felony count of medical consultation and judgment” after getting abortion drugs online and giving them to her teen daughter:
  

  On Feb. 6, 2012, her daughter was transported to the Geisinger Medical Center emergency room with severe abdominal pain. Medical records obtained by police stated she was “treated for an incomplete abortion and a urinary tract infection.”

• At The Nation, Michelle Goldberg writes about the New Yorker piece on abortionist Steven Brigham (pictured left):
  

  The important question, though, is what makes them vulnerable to exploitation. Without a doubt, Brigham’s ability to operate represents a legal and regulatory failure, one aided by official indifference to poor women’s health care. But, like [Philadelphia abortionist Kermit] Gosnell, his business depended on the stigma around abortion and the difficulty many women have in accessing safe procedures.

She should have stopped after the second sentence. Brigham has centered his operations in New Jersey and Maryland, both of which use state tax dollars to fund abortions and where access to abortion is not difficult.

[Photo via philly.com]

by Kelli

In January 2014, Zion Isaiah Blick was born. His story is special because despite a life-threatening diagnosis of Trisomy 18, his parents Robbyn and Josh chose to treasure him for as many minutes, hours, or days God would grant them together. The Blaze has more:

… Robbyn and Josh got word about 20 weeks into Robbyn’s pregnancy that Zion had trisomy 18, also called Edwards syndrome, a chromosomal condition associated with abnormalities in many parts of the body….

Robbyn shared… that Zion had a heart defect and that doctors very early on prepared her for the worst. But Robbyn’s outlook, as well as her husband’s — a pastor at Alpine Chapel in Lake Zurich, Ill., a Chicago suburb — was all about having faith in God and betting on Zion defeating the odds.

“Our choice is always life and giving him a chance,” Robbyn said.

So the Blicks let others know about their little boy and their choice of “having faith and having hope” in the midst of a diagnosis that doctors told them was “not compatible with life.”…

First doctors said he could very well die during the pregnancy…but he didn’t.

Then he might die during labor… but he didn’t.

After he was born, Robbyn was told to prepare for a few minutes with him. But Zion held on and got stronger….

Zion lived on after birth for ten days with his family and was loved every minute:

Zion Isaiah Blick from Alpine Chapel on Vimeo.

[HT: Dan McConchie; photo via The Blaze]