by Carder

… It has been exciting to be in the center of the issue so politicized by the political branches….

I make no apologies for the scholarship or result in the opinion….

I’m really not too bad a guy after all.

~ Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun’s  comments on his role in legalizing abortion in the Roe vs. Wade decision, as quoted by National Review, via Hot Air, January 22

by Kelli

Every drum beat in this video represents a life taken by abortion in America. The young man speaking, Josiah, is an abortion survivor.

Be sure to watch to the end…

[youtube]http://youtu.be/KzPAeH6dJPA[/youtube]

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[HT: Ryan O.]

by Kelli

Now, as women’s reproductive freedom faces an unprecedented onslaught of political and legislative threats, domestic violence is suddenly on the rise.

And yet especially in the context of reactionary backlash against the advances women over the last 40 years, the increase in domestic violence seems to fit with an overall backlash aimed at putting women in their places economically, culturally and politically.

~ Sally Kohn, making an attempt to link pro-life laws with a rise in domestic violence (despite the facts, as she herself admits), in an article entitled, “What Do Threats To Roe V. Wade And Domestic Violence Have In Common? Patriarchy.” The Daily Beast, January 22

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• An abortion clinic escort reviews the study which produced the “1 in 3″ women will have an abortion statistic and finds the study doesn’t really say that:
  

  It is misleading to assume that one-third of a given group of women (such as a group of female protesters standing on the sidewalk) will have an abortion, or that one-third of your friends will have an abortion. I am not implying that anyone who has used the “1 in 3” figure when discussing abortion has been intentionally trying to twist the facts or mislead people. What I am saying is that there are a lot of critical limitations to consider with research – things that don’t fit cleanly into sound bites or onto posters.

• Media Matters is hilarious. They have an article entitled, “How The Media Is Helping Conservatives Kill Roe v. Wade.”
• Gerard Bradley looks at the pro-life movement 41 years after Roe v. Wade:
  

  First, there would be — and should be — thanksgiving and even joy. It is evidence of Divine Providence and proof of human love that we are here at all. Quick quiz: which other developed democracy can claim a pro-life movement that is a fraction of the one in the United States? Answer: none….

  Almost no one now speaks of the unborn as “tissue,” a “blob,” or an internal organ of the mother. Most abortion proponents no longer speak of the unborn at all, because there is nothing they could plausibly say that would serve their “pro-choice” cause….

  Yet we have not won. We are not even winning. And the pro-life movement faces challenges greater than it has ever confronted.

by LauraLoo

On November 20, 2013, Melissa Ohden gave her life testimony at the University of Minnesota in an event sponsored by Students for Human Life on campus.  Sadly, her mother had been coerced into going through with a saline abortion – but Melissa survived.  She cites that approximately 64% (nearly two-thirds) of all women are also led to abort in the same manner.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVWBw6V2R6A[/youtube]

Melissa is expecting her second child and also recently wrote a letter to her preborn child, saying, “the culture of death is all around us.”

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by Carder

The succulent plants are growing in tiny hand-made planters made specially by a ceramic artist. The organization is neither pro-life nor pro-choice, but pro-compassion, offering gifts to women after abortion to show “love and empathy” not “shame and hate.”

Why plants? Because scientific research has shown a connection between plants and healing, and the women need to heal, body and soul.

These are muffled pleas for love.

~ Stacy Trasancos describing the work of Plants for Patients, a charitable organization that “hands out plants to abortion patients, succulents because they are ‘incredibly adaptable’ and ‘come in a vast array of colors and shapes’ like the women who experience abortion,” LifeNews, January 21

[HT: Carla; Photo credit: Wunderground]

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.

• Down on the Pharm exposes the truth about Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, whose claim to fame is her state senate filibuster in favor of late-term abortion. It seems that the twice-divorced candidate fudged information about her first divorce in her official bio. She also omitted the fact that her second husband paid for her college, cared for their daughter Dru (and her daughter from her first marriage, Amber) while she attended school in Boston, and they divorced right after he made Davis’ last tuition payment. He was then granted custody of both daughters and Wendy Davis was directed to pay child support.

  This story – where a former colleague is noted as saying ““Wendy is tremendously ambitious…. She’s not going to let family or raising children or anything else get in her way” – is a must-read.

  In typical biased fashion, mainstream media – instead of calling out Democrat Davis – pounced on conservatives for exposing the lies in her own bio.

• At Coming Home, Dr. Gerard Nadal calls for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s (pictured left) resignation over his declaration that those who don’t agree with him politically (including “right to lifers”) “have no place” in the state. Amazing how the party that celebrates “tolerance” shows little for opposing views:
  

  … [H]e defines people acting in accord with the tenets of his own [Catholic] Church as extremist and unwelcome in the state. That is a declaration of war on religion by the governor. This incendiary rhetoric is meant to turn New Yorkers against one another, breeding into the political bone marrow a strain of hatred and intolerance that will take generations to purge.

  Cuomo is now claiming that his comments were “distorted” and taken out of context.

• Big Blue Wave says while the creators of the MTV reality program “16 and Pregnant” claim they will show a teen mom’s abortion, the truth is that “if it doesn’t show the fetus being sucked by a vacuum, then they are not showing the abortion.”
• Live Action reports that “3D Babies, a California company, says it will create a fetal doll from the mother’s 3D/4D ultrasound pictures”:
  

  While a fetus figurine isn’t going to be everyone’s idea of a great investment, the fact that a fetal model can be crafted with accuracy is another blow to the abortion movement, which loses more ground every time something like this happens.

• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition’s Alex Schadenberg comments on a case in France similar to that of Terri Schiavo. The courts have intervened to save the life of a man whose wife wanted him to die via starvation and dehydration:
  

  The ruling goes against the wish of his wife and instead favours the parents’ desire to keep their son alive. The wife and parents… have long been in opposition over the issue and in recent months his brothers and sisters have become involved on opposing sides.

• Americans United for Life posts their report on the best, worst, and most improved states for protecting women from abortion industry abuses:
  

  For the 5th year in a row, Washington ranked as the worst state for life for failing to protect women from an unmonitored and under-regulated abortion industry, followed by California, Vermont, New York, and Connecticut. This year’s most improved states include Texas, Illinois, North Carolina and Kansas. To see the entire 2014 Life List, click here.

[Cuomo photo via AP]

by Hans Johnson

Caring for his son, who has severe cerebral palsy, changed the life of Pastor Lee Jong-Rak profoundly. Not only did it draw him to pastoral ministry, but to taking in other children with special needs.

In 2009, he set up a “drop box” for any unwanted child, to try to reduce the number who reportedly die on the streets of Seoul, South Korea, because of the shortfall in government help. According to Live Action:

The drop box is a metal container installed on the side of Lee’s home and ad hoc orphanage. Outfitted with gentle warming lights, soft blankets, and a sign which reads, “This is a facility for the protection of life. If you can’t take care of your disabled babies, don’t throw them away or leave them on the street. Bring them here,” Pastor Lee’s drop box has become a safe haven for the weakest of South Korea. Mothers are permitted to leave their infants in the drop box, which will cause a bell to ring inside Lee’s home, signaling that another little life is now under his care.

Here is a report by David Brill on SBS’s Dateline in Australia:

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

The young producer of an award-winning documentary found his own life to be  profoundly changed by his subject.

You can donate to Pastor Lee’s work here.

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[HT:Pastor Tim Harlow]