by Hans Johnson

People who believe in the right to life may not be welcomed by New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, but their numbers are growing, they are getting younger and more determined,  and they have more reason than ever to believe in the success of their cause.

Perhaps the best summary of what was at stake at the March For Life was made by Fox News’ senior political analyst Brit Hume. See it here and please read the transcript. It’s the kind of crisp editorial writing for which David Brinkley was famous.

In his new book, Clarke D. Forsythe  says that the Roe v. Wade decision was not inevitable,  but was the result of a series of happenstances.  He also believes its expansive scope makes its overturn likely. The author was interviewed for CBN News:

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[HT: Susie Allen]

by Kelli

No one would have predicted that 40 yrs after Roe v. Wade, that teenagers and 20 year olds would be more pro-life than the generation that gave us Roe v. Wade. That tells you that truth is a very stubborn thing. Truth doesn’t go away just because people deny it…. And people, while they don’t want to accept it because it doesn’t fit with how they want to live their lives and the “freedom” that they have, they keep running into it, and when they hear it, they’re troubled by it….

I was doing an interview at a… TV station and they wanted to talk to me about a life issue….

The interviewer says, “the former Senator believes that life begins at conception.”

I interrupted him and I said, “No, I don’t.”…

He said, “You don’t believe that life begins at conception?… Oh, I’m sorry, I thought you did.”

I said, “No, I don’t believe life begins at conception – I know life begins at conception.”…

When you put that issue in the element of belief, in the element of faith, in the element of religion, you diminish the truth. Because the biological truth is, in every science text book in America, it [life beginning at conception] is a fact….

So while the other side would like to say this movement is about morality and beliefs and trying to force your views, they ignore the reality of the science behind this movement….

The bottom line is, truth is on our side. Science is on our side. Young people are on our side. This movement’s winning….

We’re about to make some big changes in this country. They’re coming.

~ Sen. Rick Santorum, speaking at FRC’s ProLifeCon on the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, January 22

[Photo of Senator Santorum and Jill at last week’s ProLifeCon]

Here is how NBC’s Kasie Hunt described comments made by former Gov. Mike Huckabee at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting on January 23:

Huckabee: Women "helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing them … birth control because they cannot control their libido"

— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) January 23, 2014

And here is what Huckabee actually said (video here) - the opposite of what Hunt said he said:

Women I know are outraged that the Democrats think that women are nothing more than helpless and hopeless creatures whose only goal in life is to have the government provide for them birth control medication. Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anyone else can do.

Our party stands for the recognition of the equality of women and the capacity of women. That’s not a war on them. It’s a war for them. And if the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control, because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. Let us take that discussion all across America, because women are far more than Democrats have played them to be. And women across America need to stand up and say, “Enough of that nonsense.”

Huckabee was dispensing obvious truth, that women are far more than the simple sexual objects Democrats view them as. He was also saying in so many words that women have a lot more important concerns than government handouts of contraceptives.

But liberaland has piled on, including Cosmo…

… following by venerable twerkster Miley Cyrus:

hey @Cosmopolitan I'm just sitting around unable to control my "libido" & my "reproductive system". WBU? How's your Friday?

— Miley Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) January 24, 2014

S. E. Cupp called it on CNN’s The Situation Room:

I’ve got to say that I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone. It is so 100% clear that Mike Huckabee was talking about the Democratic treatment towards women and not his own feeling or the Republican Party’s feeling about women.

I have never seen lazier, more intellectually dishonest analysis of this moment than I have today. I mean, it’s shocking to me. It is clear what Mike Huckabee’s intention was here.

Show me a poll where “government subsidy of contraceptives” ranks as even a blip as a priority of America’s women, particularly the poor. How insulting.

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards claims Republicans want to take us back to the 1950s.

If that’s so, Democrats want to take us back to the 1800s, when women were diagnosed with hysteria if their libidos weren’t satisfied, when a woman’s unquenched sexual appetite was the cause of all her problems.

No, what women want from the government is what men want – safe neighborhoods, good schools, low unemployment, national security, and a strong economy.

But Mike Huckabee was right. Democrats instead give them contraceptives and abortion – so they won’t become hysterical about all the failings of the political party currently running the country?

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The public editor of the New York Times feels the March for Life deserved more than just a photograph.
• Christopher O. Tollefsen writes in The Public Discourse about Roe:
  

  The court declined to answer this question: “We need not resolve the difficult question of when life begins.” But Justice Blackmun then proceeded to suggest that the reason this question did not need settling was its unsettle-ability. Doctors, philosophers, and theologians have failed to reach consensus; ancient and medieval theorists subscribed to different theories. Thus did Blackmun imply that the answer to this question was private in the following sense: our answer is largely a matter of private opinion, of speculation.

• The New Yorker has a lengthy article on infamous abortionist Steven Brigham (pictured left). The author is a daughter of an abortionist and her connections to the abortion industry helped her get an interview with Brigham. Most of it will be a rehash for pro-lifers who’ve followed his numerous exploits. The exception will be the abortion providers who still defend him.:
  

  Yet not all of his peers view him as a rogue provider. Among the expert witnesses at his trial was Gary Mucciolo, an abortion provider and an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at N.Y.U.; he argued that Brigham’s conduct did not deviate from medical norms. During a break in the proceedings, Mucciolo, who received fifteen hundred dollars from the defense, told me that he considered the trial “a witch hunt.” (Later, he added, “Does Brigham have a good track record? Frankly, I don’t know.”)

  Another abortion provider told me, “The real story is that the government, the insurance companies, and the hospitals don’t care. They don’t want us in business, and that’s exactly why people like Brigham exist — and you know what, maybe they should exist, because, if they don’t exist, women will get abortions even more illegally. It’s better than nothing, and nothing is coming.”

[Brigham photo via womenofgrace.com]

Here’s a nice graphic posted at Mother Jones today:

It correlates with Guttmacher’s January 2 report indicating that “more state abortion restrictions were enacted in 2011-2013 than in the entire previous decade”…

One more interesting graphic via Mother Jones:

Closing with a nice quote by Gretchen Borchelt, director of state reproductive health policy for the National Women’s Law Center, about 2013: “[It] was a terrible year for women’s health.”

Meaning 2013 was a good year for weakening the pro-abortion stronghold in the U.S.

by LauraLoo

NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue debates Live Action’s Pro-Life President Lila Rose about the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade on CNN’s Crossfire with Sally Kohn and Newt Gingrich.

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[HT: Kelli]

by Carder

The culture of death is too well represented here at the March for Life – another one of those realities that many people will want to kill the messenger for saying out loud and other people will want to deny and spin and stick their heads in the sand about.

In fact, many will probably say – oh, there goes ChurchMilitant.TV with all their doom and gloom again.

Shout out to the Church of Nice gang – we didn’t create the conditions of the doom and gloom.

We just trap and expose it.

~ Michael Voris reporting that his (admittedly “nonscientific”) poll of March for Life attendees showed 1/3 supported the use of contraception and 20% supported homosexual relationships, ChurchMilitant.TV, January 24

UPDATE 1/27, 11:15a: The deceased Munoz baby’s gender and name have been posted on the public Facebook page of Erick Munoz’s local union, Crowley Professional Firefighters Association L-4182:

Rest in peace, Marlise and little Nicole.

[HT: Leslie and Vanessa]

1/26, 5:15p: It’s Terri Schiavo all over again.

Another pro-death judge has inexplicably ordered the death of an innocent, helpless person due to a family’s wishes.

Despite a Texas law requiring that pregnant mothers be kept on life support until their preborn babies are viable, District Court Judge R. H. Wallace on Friday ordered John Peter Smith Hospital to remove Marlise Munoz’s life support by 5p Monday – and the hospital has already complied.

Munoz (pictured above right with her husband Erick and now 15-month-old son) was 33 years old and 18 14 weeks pregnant with her second baby when she apparently suffered a pulmonary embolism on November 26. Her husband and parents have been incomprehensibly fighting ever since to have her taken off of life support – knowing that in the process their child and grandchild would also die.

Their thinking made no sense to me from the get-go. Marlise wanted this baby, and the baby would have been a part of Marlise left alive on this earth. Yet due to a supposedly unwritten (like Schiavo) request not to remain on life support, the family stuck to this, never taking the baby  - or the mother’s wishes for her baby – into consideration.

Family statement fails to mention baby

Both mother and baby are reportedly now dead. The family has issued a statement of confirmation – oddly never mentioning the baby who died along with his or her mother:

The Muñoz and Machado families will now proceed with the somber task of laying Marlise Muñoz’s body to rest, and grieving over the great loss that has been suffered. May Marlise Muñoz finally rest in peace, and her family find the strength to complete what has been an unbearably long and arduous journey.

Hello? It’s as if the baby never existed. It just seems there is more to this story than meets the eye.

According to Erick’s attorneys, the baby was “distinctly abnormal…. the lower extremities are deformed to the extent that the gender cannot be determined.”

But medical professionals know you never know until you physically see the baby. And what does that say about the family – working overtime to kill a potentially challenged baby rather than raise the baby, or allow the baby to be adopted.

According to news reports, the baby would have been 23 weeks old tomorrow, the date set by the judge to kill her because, according to court documents, “the fetus gestating inside Mrs. Munoz is not viable.”

Yet the baby would have been considered potentially viable at 23 weeks according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (pg 1407).

As with Terri Schiavo, elected officials also failed this little baby, many of whom are pro-life – but bailed.

There is the legal question whether what just happened was a post 20-week abortion, now illegal in the State of Texas. Hospital personnel terminated this baby’s life, and neither the mother’s life nor health were in danger.