by LauraLoo

Were the twisted priorities of Hollywood liberals once again on full display during Sunday’s Golden Globe awards, or was this just a “joke” in extremely poor taste?

During his acceptance speech for the best TV comedy series, Dan Goor, co-creator of the show Brooklyn Nine-Nine, said he was happy he opted not to become a doctor as he had once planned, because winning the award was “way better than saving a human life”:

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by Carder

Topics like O-Care’s contraception mandate and infanticide will, I take it, be discreetly avoided….

Meanwhile, who’s listening to Obama’s sermons on sharing the wealth and remaining unmoved by them unless/until they know the Pope would like to see a bit more wealth-sharing too? My hunch is that people’s views of redistribution are similar to their views of contraception: They may admire the Vatican’s position as nobly motivated but ultimately they have to protect themselves.

~ Allahpundit speculating on the possible topics of conversation between Pope Francis and President Obama should they meet in the future, Hot Air, January 14

[Photo Credit: Social News Daily]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A 20-year-old college student is suing Houston Texans running back Arian Foster, claiming he is pressuring her to have an abortion:
  

  Norwood said everything changed when she told Foster she was pregnant and wanted to keep the baby.

  “He’s like, ‘You can’t have this, you can’t have this kid, like, we cannot bring a child into this, like, think about my kids,'” Norwood said.

  She said Foster began sending text messages urging her to end the pregnancy.

  “You just can’t bring a life into this world under these circumstances. It’s not fair to anyone. It’s not just about you,” read one message, according to Norwood.

• The Atlantic, in a piece on abortion clinics in Texas and its pro-life laws, mentions this tidbit:
  

  I discovered a similar problem when reporting on reproductive laws in Texas. Though countless abortion clinics and providers made themselves available to me, they could not put me in touch with a single woman who has so far been impacted by the new law. Even Susan, though she squeaked in just before the deadline, was ultimately able to terminate her pregnancy.

  When I asked roughly a dozen pro-choice groups for examples of patients who had suffered under the law, they responded either that nobody wanted to come forward out of privacy concerns, or that it’s hard to know when someone isn’t able to do something.

• Pro-choice groups in Michigan can’t get their act together. That’s good news for the unborn:
  

  Reproductive rights groups opposed to Michigan’s new abortion insurance law will not seek to overturn it at the ballot box in 2014.

  The ACLU of Michigan, along with state chapters of Planned Parenthood and the National Organization of Women, had been considering a referendum to repeal the law, which prohibits insurers from covering most abortions unless a woman or her employer has purchased an additional rider in advance.

  “The timing is just not right for a referendum or initiative at this point,” Rana Elmir, deputy director for the ACLU of Michigan, said Tuesday.

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

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• Jivin Jehoshaphat says abortion advocates can’t have it both ways when it comes to a new ultrasound study that purports to show how few women change their minds about abortion after viewing a sonogram. So, is viewing a sonogram inconsequential, or is it still an “undue emotional burden”?
  

  If they’re not going to change their mind then why is it a undue emotional burden? It’s not a physical burden because they already receive the ultrasound because as the first line (!) of the study’s abstract notes ultrasounds [are] a “routine part of preprocedure abortion care.”

• Judie Brown shares her thoughts on the Texas husband who is seeking to remove his pregnant wife from life support. Texas law prevents pregnant patients who are declared brain dead from being taken off life support:
  

  This preborn child is not viewed as a member of the family in either case. This baby is not seen as the gift this tragically ill mother is giving to her family as her legacy. Rather, the child is viewed as a problem standing between healthy family members and their wish to end their own grief over the possible actual death of this lovely woman who is with child.

  Babies not yet born do not have rights.

  Too many members of our society are quite comfortable with the idea that there really is no human being in existence prior to birth unless the mother explicitly endows her baby with the right to life. If that isn’t twisted and perverse, then what is it?

  Sorry Baby, you don’t exist.

• Live Action remarks on the latest Rasmussen poll which showed that while many people self-identify as “pro-choice,” they also approve of waiting periods prior to abortion.
• Big Blue Wave discusses a lesser-known method of feticide she labels “laser abortion,” typically used in multiple pregnancies when one child is deemed unhealthy. The method causes death by “cutting off the blood supply of the umbilical cord so that the fetus dies from lack of oxygen.”

• Clinic Quotes posts a quote from Frances Kissling (pictured right with infanticide proponent Peter Singer), president of Catholics for a Free Choice, who feels that people can be concerned for life yet still support abortion. It doesn’t make sense, but we hear from abortion-supporting clergy often the belief that acknowledging that abortion is difficult for the woman thereby makes the decision acceptable. In other words, it’s okay to kill the baby as long as you feel really bad about it. Kissling stated:
  

  [It is preferable to be] avoiding a coarsening of humanity that can result from the taking of life. Pro-choice advocates may bristle at such a claim, [but they would do well] “to present abortion as a complex issue that involves loss and to be saddened by that loss at the same time as we affirm and support women’s decisions to end pregnancies.

• Bound4Life features a post from contributor Jess Clark, who took a year off from blogging to concentrate on her son, who received a fatal diagnosis. She discusses the joy of caring for him during this critical time and the wonderful progress he has made:
  

  We are so thankful. We’re thankful for the pain, because it makes this joy so much richer and deeper in contrast. We’re thankful for the pain because we can come alongside other hurting people. We’re thankful for the pain because we found that even in the darkest, angriest places there is a God who knows us and He is never, ever changed. We’re thankful for the pain because it reminded us how very, very much we love our son, and how fleeting life is.

[Photos via news.com.au, blog.onbeing.org]

by Hans Johnson

As reported in stuff.co.nz:

The number of women having abortions in New Zealand has dropped to its lowest rate in almost 20 years and significantly fewer teenagers are having the procedure.

Wider use of contraception, better school-based education and even reality television are all thought to be behind the drop.

In 2012, 14,745 women had abortions in NZ, down from 18,382 five years earlier.

The number of abortions is at the lowest level since 1995, according to a report from the Abortion Supervisory Committee, which works to improve the quality of abortion services in New Zealand.

…The number of girls under 14 having abortions more than halved – from 104 in 2007 to 51 in 2012. The number of girls in the 15- to 19-year-old group also dropped substantially – from 4173 to 2489.

But pro-lifers see other reasons for the dramatic drop. LifeNews interviewed Ken Orr, spokesman for Right to Life New Zealand, who cites the dwindling number of physicians willing to get involved in abortion. And this video from LifeTV is skeptical of claims that contraceptives such as the Jadelle implant are responsible for the precipitous decline in abortions:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWwR2cmIG_g[/youtube]

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[HT: The Washington Free Beacon]

by Kelli

Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as ‘unnecessary.’

For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day.

~ Pope Francis, speaking in his “state of the world” speech to diplomats, as quoted by the Chicago Tribune, January 13

Note: Reuters was mocked for its headline regarding the Pope’s statements, characterizing them as “a nod to conservatives.” Reuters subsequently altered the headline (original pictured below; click to enlarge) to “Pope, after conservatives’ criticism, calls abortion ‘horrific’.”

[Photo via Baltimore Sun]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The current CEO of Massachusetts Planned Parenthood is a former legislator who sponsored abortion clinic buffer zone legislation. There’s one problem with this. It’s against Massachusetts’ law:
  

  Furthermore, the law has specific restrictions once people leave state employment. There is a “forever ban” on working for anyone other than the state on a matter that an individual worked on as a state employee….

  “It would appear that former State Representative Walz is covered by the definition of this statue. State Representative Walz was the leading sponsor of the Buffer Zone Law, and then was hired to a position directly related to the Buffer Zone Law that has paid $250,000 per year,” Lyons says in his joint letter with Lombardo to the attorney general.

• After reading this Time story, I think the author, Eliana Dockterman, doesn’t believe Pope Francis is really pro-life.
• Clarke Forsythe discusses the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear Arizona’s appeal on their 20-week abortion ban:
  

  The Court simply declined to hear the case, and the Court (as is usual) issued no opinion explaining why. (In legal terms, the decision to decline to hear the appeal is not “precedential.” Lawyers can speculate as to the reason, and the most likely is that there was no “split” or “conflict” between different federal courts of appeal, which would require the Supreme Court’s reconciliation of the conflict.)…

  States outside the Ninth Circuit can and should enact 20-week limits to protect unborn life and protect women’s health. The Court has often “passed” on issues several times – six or seven times on the issue of flag salutes by school children – before addressing them.

by LauraLoo

Thalia, a Latina superstar, has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and has more than five million Twitter followers.  But one of her most daunted feats was to think of a creative way for her two-year-old to ditch not just one binky (chupie) but a vast collection of binkies!

Thalia explains how she achieved detaching her child from the beloved binky in a new children’s book titled Chupie: The Binky That Returned Home.

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

Cute idea – bidding binkies bye-bye to Binkyland.

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