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

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• ProWomanProLife showcases an article about the death of a young woman who used the NuvaRing contraceptive. Her lawyer now fights for justice against the manufacturer, which touts its product as being easy — but buried in the fine print of thousands of pages sent to the FDA are the results of 500 studies which included blood clots and death.

• ProLife NZ has a truly wonderful story about an RU-486 reversal. Ashley, at age 20, became pregnant and was pressured to get an abortion. Thankfully, she and her daughter Kaylie are alive and unharmed today – flourishing, in fact.
• At Pro-Life Action League, Ann Scheidler comments on the abortion industry’s tactics to force employers to pay for abortifacients, now in cases before the Supreme Court. The current propaganda is that women will be denied the use of birth control by their bosses. PLAL wonders when it becomes the responsibility of your employer to pay for your birth control.
  

  Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. The lawsuits challenge the government’s right to force the employer to pay for a woman’s birth control in her employer-provided health insurance. No one is telling women that they can’t walk down to the corner Walgreens and buy whatever birth control they want….

  What a sad commentary on womanhood. I find it so frustrating and truly disappointing that all the feminist movement has come to is contraception and abortion. It is bad enough that feminist leaders campaign for abortion on demand and free birth control, but it is a real indictment of 21st century women that they buy this definition of themselves.

• Alveda King of Priests for Life wishes she would have discussed her pro-life conversion with Nelson Mandela:
  

  I feel that I failed him by not reaching out to him and trying to get with him and sit down and have a talk about my transformation. How I came from thinking that it was okay to abort a child to knowing that it was wrong because it that’s a sacred human life. I failed but I pray that I don’t fail millions of others and I pray that that message will continue to resonate across the globe.

• At Life Training Institute, Jay Watts discusses Joseph Dellapenna’s book, Dispelling the Myths of Abortion History. Part 2 here.
• Right to Life of Michigan says pro-lifers gave an overwhelming response to a legislative calling campaign and Tweetfest on the Abortion Insurance Opt Out Act:
  

  Thanks to a great swell of grassroots lobbying effort, our message about voting on the Abortion Insurance Opt Out Act has been heard loud and clear in Lansing. Support for the measure is stronger than ever. There is no doubt in anyone’s mind at the Capitol that our initiated legislation has the votes to become law!

  Even Politico noticed:
  

  Michigan could become the 24th state to ban most abortions in exchange plans this week, after an unusual citizens’ petition drive that allows state lawmakers to resurrect a bill the governor had vetoed and vote it into law without his signature….

  Michigan legislators are expected to take a second stab at a ban this week. Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican, vetoed it the first time. Anti-abortion activists collected more than 315,000 signatures to allow the legislature to take it up again, and if it passes it would become law without Snyder’s signature, under a provision in the state constitution.

[Mandela photo via melty.fr]

by LauraLoo

As reported by LifeNews:

In one of his last films, which as not yet been released, [the late] Paul Walker played the husband of a woman who unexpectedly dies in childbirth.  In the film, his character’s daughter, born five weeks early, is hooked up to a ventilator which is her only chance of survival until she is strong enough to breathe on her own.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNoUaS5IHIo[/youtube]

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by Carder

As Americans, we should all be free to live according to our faith and to honor God in our work…. The Constitution protects that freedom so that the government cannot force anyone to act against his or her sincerely held religious beliefs.

But the mandate ignores that and leaves us with a choice no American should have to make: comply and abandon your religious freedom, or resist and be fined for your faith.

~ Dr. James Dobson of the Family Talk ministry, in light of his lawsuit against HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius  over the Obamacare contraception mandate, as quoted by World Net Daily, December 11

[HT: Laura Loo]

by Hans Johnson

The one-woman play “Mom Baby God,” written and performed by Madeline Burrows, is touted to be a “shocking look” at the pro-life movement based on her experiences observing conferences, fundraisers, and rallies. Audience members are given name tags as if they were attending a conference, and seven different characters parody speakers on topics such as abstinence-only education.

During a Q & A after one performance, Burrows said of pro-lifers: “One thing that really struck me was, they are really well-organized, really vocal, and really unapologetic.”

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students For Life of America, noted in a review that Ms. Burrows’ undercover research didn’t hold a candle to what pro-lifers - herself included – have uncovered about the abortion industry.

She concluded:

Some have asked if I’m upset by the creation of the play – that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s an honor to know that seeing 2,000-plus young people at the largest pro-life conference in America is cause for great concern for pro-abortion advocates. They should be worried.

Students for Life has helped start over 600 pro-life student groups in the last seven years, and we are currently working with over 760 active groups across the nation. No pro-abortion organization comes close in size to our grassroots momentum. All of the polling data is on our side. Technology is on our side.

We know this is the pro-life generation. They can try to mock us all they want, but the facts won’t change.

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by Kelli

Bill O’Reilly: But it’s a more permissive culture, you know… unfettered abortion, OK, for any reason, up until the birth process. There’s a struggle.

But it’s the reverse. I think there has been an interesting relationship between the new sides, the imaging, the sonograms, the idea of the fetus as a person and actual increase in resistance.

~ Transcript from a recent broadcast of Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor, in which columnist and pundit Charles Krauthammer notes a counter-cultural movement in the arena of abortion in America, Fox News, December 10

Video at link (quote begins at 4:01).

[HT: Susie Allen]

by LauraLoo

According to a report in USA Today, legal prostitutes who have a difficult time finding health coverage will have options starting in January to which they would otherwise never have had access.  The legal prostitutes at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Nevada attest to this fact and agree that Obamacare is their medical insurance miracle!

Warning: May be too risqué for some viewers.

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Last week Planned Parenthood of Arizona announced it was closing its Yuma clinic, located in the southwest corner of the state, near both the California and Mexico borders.

Not to worry, PPAZ plans to hire a roving reproductive needs administrator to schedule abortions via iPad.

PP’s Yuma facility had committed medical abortions until 2011, when a new law went into effect mandating that only physicians could dispense mifepristone (ie., RU-486), not nurses or medical assistants.

Apparently the clinic could not sustain itself without the financial help of kill pills. PPAZ CEO Bryan Howard said it was down to 200 patients a year.

But Planned Parenthood is not abandoning Yuma. It is taking applications for a “regional health coordinator” who will “provide information and referrals to difficult-to-access sexual health care, foster community partnerships, engage volunteers and activists, give presentations and promote inclusion of sexual education in local school districts,” according to YumaSun.com. More on those “difficult-to-access” referrals:

Planned Parenthood will facilitate access to hard-to-find sexual and reproductive health services with the on-the-go ability to book health care appointments. For example, the coordinator might be approached by an audience member after a talk requesting a referral. The coordinator would immediately be able to book the appointment at Sunset [Community Health Center] or RCFBH [Regional Center for Border Health] with a tablet.

Or, get real, one of PPAZ’s four abortion clinics. The YumaSun.com article basically stated PP Yuma wasn’t needed because “gynecological exams are now readily available at local clinics and pharmacies and grocery stores now offer health care products and services. For example, HIV tests can be purchased at stores, conducted at home and mailed in.”

What else is there? What other “difficult-to-access” and “hard-to-find sexual and reproductive health care” would need booking specifically by a Planned Parenthood agent other than the A-word?

Also interesting was that “Planned Parenthood offers a [comprehensive sex ed] curriculum at no cost and will train all educators and school nurses at no charge, Howard said.”

Really? Doing this out of the goodness of their hearts?

Rita Diller of American Life League calls this ”Planned Parenthood without walls: a new free-roaming business model for the abortion giant”:

With Obamacare providing new, lucrative streams of funding for developing and implementing Planned Parenthood sex education programs, and providing new funding to Planned Parenthood to navigate people into its health insurance scheme, it appears the abortion giant is poised to become even more entwined in the fabric of communities, maintaining operatives in areas where the organization exists in the shadows, as it were, with no brick and mortar presence.

Government funding is driving the Planned Parenthood abortion/sex education/propaganda machine. Through Obamacare, Medicaid eligibility is being exponentially expanded, providing another huge source of income for the abortion giant.

by Carder

I’ll never forget the day — it was a Sunday when I was cleaning pots and pans while everybody else was busy praying. A friend came running in and said, “Jones, your girlfriend’s on the phone and she’s crying.” So I ran out, knowing that I wasn’t supposed to leave my station or answer the phone. But I picked it up, and she was crying, as I have never heard a woman cry before. Ever. The only way that I can explain it is that her soul was crying. And she kept saying over and over and over again, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry. It wasn’t me.”

And then her father said, “Jason,” over the other line, “I know your secret, and your secret’s gone. She had an abortion.”

~ Hollywood filmmaker Jason Jones describing how his personal experience with abortion inspired him to be involved with the pro-life movement, via Live Action, December 10