by Carder

As a mom, it wasn’t hard to say yes. I couldn’t refuse. If we can help to try to make people more aware, try to help.  Can’t believe that some children are asking for parents for the holidays. This is like, not normal. And there’s so many foster care children.

~ Singer Celine Dion, explaining her reasons for hosting the CBS special, “A Home for the Holidays,” in which she raises awareness for foster children, as quoted by Extra TV, December 18

by Hans Johnson

Lincoln and Jolene Taylor of North Salt Lake, Utah, were finally expecting after 16 months of trying to conceive – and only a month after a miscarriage. They had kept their spirits up thinking of a unique way to give the good news to family and friends when it finally happened for them. And then it did. Jolene said that it “felt like a miracle had occurred”:

We didn’t want to announce our pregnancy like everyone else…. We waited a long time for this baby, so we wanted the announcement to be awesome.

They liked the Toyota “Swagger Wagon” video and did a parody of it:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/eZ1oxXod9TQ[/youtube]

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[HT: Suki]

by Kelli

Piers Morgan: If you could relive one moment in your life, the moment that brought you the greatest satisfaction, thrill, sadness perhaps, the moment?

Barbara Walters: Can I tell you what I regret when you’re talking that way? I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family. I have one daughter. I don’t have brothers and sisters.

~ An interview in which “visibly moved” veteran reporter Barbara Walters appeared “close to tears” and regretful at “not making time to have more children,” as quoted by Daily Mail, December 18

Walters has one adopted daughter, Jackie.

[HT: Jill]

by LauraLoo

The new documentary, The 40 Film, features some of the biggest names in the pro-life movement, such as:

Joe Scheidler, Founder of Pro-Life Action League
Lila Rose, Investigative Journalist and President of Live Action
Star Parker, Founder and President of CURE
Rebecca Kiessling, pro-life speaker and conceived in rape
Abby Johnson, former Planned Parenthood abortion clinic director and senior policy adviser with American’s United for Life
Keith Mason, Co-Founder of Personhood USA
David Bereit, National Director of 40 Days for Life
Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life
Dr. Alveda King, Director of African-American Outreach-Priests for Life

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e34c2guDuzw[/youtube]

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[HT: Jill]

by Carder

Think of all not just the actual abortionists and their immediate staffs, but the manufacturers of the killing instruments, the builders of the abortion chambers, the landlords who own the building, the deathscorts, the politicians who support this either through commission or omission, the people who are the government workers who support these politicians, the Catholic clergy who don’t speak up, the Catholic clergy who actually support it.

Think of ALL of them and many more .. the people who vote these evil people into office, the people who make the advertisements for Planned Parenthood, the business that print up their posters, who maintain their websites, think of ALL of them and then ask yourself – do we REALLY have a REASONABLE hope that all men are saved?

Just a couple of seconds reflecting on the question proves its utter stupidity. How dare Catholic clergy make this inanity sound like the norm.

~ Catholic apologist Michael Voris, tearing into a salvation theory held by certain clergy, Church Militant.TV, December 16

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.

• Live Action News dissects Planned Parenthood’s 2012 annual report, which shows that the organization performed 327,166 abortions – allowing them to maintain their “largest abortion chain” status:
  

  For taxpayers who don’t want to fund abortions, this should be especially troubling, considering that Planned Parenthood is raking in a whopping $540.6 million in taxpayer funding, or $1.5 million per day. This accounts for 45% of their revenue. Compare that to their other sources of revenue — private contributions, 26%; non-government revenue, 25%; and “other”, 4% — and it is overwhelmingly clear why the abortion industry fights to keep organizations like Planned Parenthood on the government dole. Without taxpayers to leech off of, Planned Parenthood alone would lose half a billion dollars.

• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition updates us on five states (Connecticut, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Massachusetts) that are currently debating legalizing assisted suicide:
  

  Americans need to become more aware of the threat that assisted suicide poses. Even though polls indicate that more Americans oppose assisted suicide than support it, very few Americans are aware of the push being mounted by the assisted suicide lobby.

• Kansans for Life says “The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new rules for political activity by nonprofits – overturning more than 50 years of settled law – in order to conceal the true political record of pro-abortion politicians.”
• Abstinence Clearinghouse links to blogger Matt Walsh’s response to a young man who was ridiculed by his high school sex ed instructor for believing in abstinence.
• Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life explains the ruling of Doe v. Gomez, decided on December 15, 1995, which obligated Minnesota taxpayers to pay for abortions, “something not required by the U.S. Supreme Court“:
  

  The Supreme Court’s Doe v. Gomez decision established a new state constitutional “right” to abortion on demand. This supposed right would remain protected by the state Constitution even if Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision legalizing abortion in the United States, were to be overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Doe v. Gomez allows abortions for reasons such as “stress” or “discomfort.” It forbids the state to “interfere” in any way with a woman’s “decision making” regarding abortion.

  Doe v. Gomez also obligates the state — and thus, taxpayers — to pay for abortions…. From June 1994 (under an earlier decision) through 2011, state taxpayers paid more than $19.9 million for 62,252 abortions, according to MDHS. In 2011 alone (the most recent statistics available), state taxpayers paid $1.2 million for 3,693 abortions (MDHS). The state does not report how many women have been hurt or killed from these abortions.

• Down on the Pharm updates readers on a previous blog about Joshua Ackley (pictured right, foreground), a publicist representing Girl Scouts of America by day and Homopunk band member by night. Since this news about Ackley’s lifestyle has been exposed, he has been moved to a less visible position within the GSUSA organization. Apparently, “[the] worry among the scout moms was that, with this stuff on his mind, he’s not the person to be interacting with the girls, or representing the scouting organization.”
• Judie Brown of American Life League explains the difference between ethics and morality:
  

  We see that ethics today are not always grounded in sound, moral reason and common sense. In fact, as one expert defines it, today we actually have two sets of medical ethics—and the worst of it is that the wrong-headed set is prevailing. On the one side we have secular bioethics. On the other we have the moral law.

  The problem with secular bioethics is, of course, that the natural law is tossed out the window in favor of what one or two so-called experts believe to be the best idea at any given time for deciding what is acceptable and what is not. This is where professionals like [the pro-infanticide] Dr. Minerva found their calling.

  But on the other side of the aisle we find the professionals, including physicians, educators, lawmakers, and common ordinary folks like you and me who understand that making rational decisions or providing intelligent solutions to complex questions requires a grounding in the moral law.

by Hans Johnson

Comic writer and performer Gavin McInnes is known for sparking conversation. Most recently he has stirred a controversy concerning his YouTube video “How To Fight A Baby”, in which he has a mock wrestling match with his infant son. Some fear this borders on risking “shaken baby syndrome.”

So, do you think this kind of roughhousing crosses the line? Speaking for myself, I have always been a little nervous about that typical scene of the father tossing his child in the air, even though the chance of a cramp or pulled back muscle would have to be one in a million. But this looks harmless to me. The head is supported, the “smackdown” could not be more cushioned, and most of all, the boy is delighted.

This is McInnes and son on Inside Edition:

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

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by Kelli

Contrary to what we see in the movies and television shows, plenty of women have abortions, and many of those do so without guilt or regret…. My own experience, at any rate, supports that. First, there was my grandmother. She told me that after she had my mother, her fourth child, she was fed up with having children. So when she got pregnant the fifth time, she had an abortion. The tone in her voice was matter-of-fact….

This unrelenting subliminal message from movies and television… may well have some influence at the margins, and enough so to elect a few extra pro-life conservatives here and there, perhaps just enough to make the difference…. At most, we can keep watching the movies and television shows, waiting for the day when women on the screen start having abortions, and doing so without misgivings or regrets. Then we will know that the pro-choice forces have finally gotten the upper hand.

~ disinterested spectator, lamenting that so few abortions are portrayed positively by Hollywood, The Daily Kos, December 15