by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A legislator in China has called for public hospitals to provide free abortions to students:
  

  Wei Aimin, a deputy of the Beijing People’s Congress and a lawyer with Beijing Dangdai law firm, told Beijing-based Morning Post that many students seeking abortions went to underground clinics to prevent their parents and teachers from finding out and because they could not afford to go to large hospitals.

  “All public hospitals in the city should offer abortions to pregnant students for free or for a minimal charge of 100 yuan,” Wei was reported as saying, “So they are not forced to go to cheaper unlicensed clinics.”

• A New York man has been convicted of assaults on his wife, including one where he killed his unborn child:
  

  Vikas Jagota of 28 Butternut Drive in New City was found guilty of abusing his wife and convicted by a jury on felony counts of abortion and assault and five misdemeanor charges. The 37-year-old Jagota faces a maximum of seven years in state prison when he is sentenced on March 18, 2014.

• When U.S. abortion advocates whine about restrictions on webcam abortions, remember that in Canada, RU-486 abortions aren’t available because no company is distributing the drugs:
  

  A manufacturer would have to apply to bring the drug to market in Canada. And Dr. Sheila Dunn, one of the authors of the commentary published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, said it’s not clear why no one has applied to market mifepristone in Canada before now.

  “We don’t ever know the reasons that people have for not bringing drugs into different countries,” says Dunn, a family physician who specializes in reproductive medicine at Toronto’s Women’s College Hospital.

  There were clinical trials of the drug in Canada early in the last decade. But one was stopped after a woman who received the drug died of a bacterial infection.

by Kelli

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• Down on the Pharm shares some information that probably should have been brought to women’s attention much sooner – Plan B and ella aren’t as reliable for females who weigh more than 176 pounds:
  

  The European manufacturer of Norlevo, which is their version of Plan B (Levonorgestrel) has very kindly decided to warn people that their product does not work for women over 176 lbs, and is less effective for women over 165 lbs….

  In fact, people ALSO could learn here that the newer morning after pill, Ella (ulipristal acetate) has the same problem….

  It appears that Mother Jones is the first of the mainstream media to let the kitty out of the bag in the United States. They note that the average weight of American girls is 166.2 lbs, which puts them over the weight limit for Plan B to work at its touted 60 percent effectiveness. The avg weight of Black and Hispanic women from 20-39 years of age is 186 lbs, which means that they can completely forget about Plan B.

  Any hospital or clinic using this drug as a part of rape treatment is therefore pushing ineffective treatment and charging fraudulently. Planned Parenthood and its ilk are doing the same.

• Abortion State says lawyers are reluctant to take on cases against Planned Parenthood because the powers that be are almost uniformly aligned in favor of PP. One attorney said taking them on “is like going up against The Mob,” as illustrated in a recent medical malpractice case. This entire article is worth a read.

• According to Abstinence Clearinghouse, Trojan Brand Condoms has a “report card” (graphic pictured left; click to enlarge) ranking colleges and universities on their sexual health, which they claim is based on “[several factors, not the least of which, is the] hours of operation of the student health center, student clubs that discuss sexual health, STD/HIV testing….” But, as AC points out, campuses that promote abstinence until marriage – the healthiest possible choice – obviously aren’t going to rank high on Trojan’s list:
  

  … [T]esting for STDs does not make a campus healthier, nor does having clubs that talk about sexual health issues. Having a student body that commits to remaining sexually inactive till marriage (i.e. abstinence) is the healthiest idea yet. However, Trojan Brand will not accept the healthy idea of abstinence in its ranking system of college campuses. Could this, in and of itself, not be considered a conflict of interest on the part of the Trojan Brand manufacturer? Without sexually active college students how much business would Trojan Brand stand to lose?

• Fletcher Armstrong challenges pro-lifers with the question, “When you suit up for pro-life work, what would you rather do, feel good or make an impact?”
• Despite his philosophical disagreements with Abolish Human Abortion (AHA), Josh Brahm provides proof that the group was falsely accused on Facebook of attempting to deceive abortion-minded women.
• At Live Action, Calvin Freiburger notes how abortion advocates are so extreme that they are now using non-terminally disabled preborn children (like those with spina bifida) to try and further their agenda for unlimited abortion. How incredibly sad that if a preborn child isn’t guaranteed the kind of “quality of life” to which the parents feel entitled, they willingly kill. What a morally bankrupt outlook on the value of the disabled.
• At Coming Home, Dr. Gerard Nadal shares a Unilever film/advertisement “that is taking on many parents’ fears and saying that there is every reason to bring their children into the world”:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/PWTVCkvQzY8[/youtube]

[Graphic via collegecandy.com]

by Hans Johnson

Serrin Foster, president of Feminists For Life, compares and contrasts the pro-life beliefs of the early feminists with the deceit used by the male founders of NARAL to convince women to support and promote abortion.

Feminists for Life holds to the slogan, “Women deserve better than abortion.” And they do. Foster says, no matter the problem, it “solves nothing.”

Here is the interview on the Catholic TV Network:

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[HT: Kelli]

by Kelli

“I feel like God wants me to do this job,” said [Mississippi abortion clinic owner Diane] Derzis, who has a raspy smoker’s voice and a penchant for brightly painted fingernails and chunky jewelry.

“I thank God every day I had that abortion,” said Derzis, who later divorced and doesn’t have children. “It was not a great experience, but you know what? I had a safe abortion. And that’s what counts.”

~ ABC News, November 23

[Photo via knoxnews.com]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas, resumed abortions on Friday after their abortionist obtained admitting privileges at a local hospital. This was the same Planned Parenthood which cancelled Marni Evans’ abortion. By the way, Evans has deleted her tweets asking various media individuals to contact her about her cancelled abortion.
• Vladimir Putin has signed a law to make abortion ads illegal in Russia.
• State officials in Delaware have reached a consent agreement with former Planned Parenthood abortionist Timothy Liveright after the state found he was a “clear and immediate danger to the public”:
  

  A hearing on the complaint was scheduled for Friday but was canceled after Liveright signed a consent agreement drafted by the attorney general’s office. Officials refused to disclose details until the agreement is accepted by the Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline at its January meeting.

• The Miami Herald has an article on the frequent use of misoprostol (aka Cytotec) as an abortion drug in Haiti:
  

  “There is no control over the medication. People go to any pharmacy and ask for this medication and they give it to them,” said Dr. Vladimir Larsen, head of the Society of Haitian Obstetrics and Gynecology , which has conducted two studies in the last four years on the widespread popularity and use of misoprostol.

  When Nadia, 19, asked a friend to purchase misoprostol at a local pharmacy to terminate her five-week pregnancy, she wasn’t prepared for how her body would react. The friend bought three pills and told her “they said take two and insert the third.”

  “You hear people talk. But you don’t realize where it can have you end up,” Nadia said from her hospital bed after an incomplete abortion. Two days after secretly downing two pills, the teen landed at the emergency obstetrics center run by Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders in the city of Delmas in Haiti’s capital. She had shivers, heavy bleeding, a fever and a headache….

  A Miami Herald reporter easily purchased the pill from pharmacies, and street merchants near the country’s public State University Hospital. Every vendor quoted a different price and instructions on how much to take to terminate a 12-week pregnancy. Almost all suggested it be taken as part of a cocktail mix of wine or beer, as they dug deep into colorful cone-shaped buckets to retrieve the pill from a silver package. They simply smiled when asked why it was hidden.

by Hans Johnson

Years before the succes of Duck Dynasty, Willie and Korie Robertson scraped up enough money to adopt their son Will.

They have four others. Foster child Rebecca, who was an exchange student, and three biological: John Luke, Sadie, and Bella.

Willie spoke to People about  his adoption of Will, Jr.:

“It’s never been a secret. For one thing, he’s biracial, so it was obvious. But here’s the thing: when we look at him, we don’t see an adopted kid. It doesn’t even cross our minds. He’s as much ours as our biological children.”

As for rumors that they’re adopting again: “I will never say never. Adoption is something very close to my heart. We are not currently in the process of adoption, but I always keep an open mind and heart to it.”

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[HT: LauraLoo]

by Carder

This composite material will be tailored to enhance the natural sensation during intercourse while using a condom, which should encourage and promote condom use….

This will be achieved by combining the strength of graphene with the elasticity of latex to produce a new material which can be thinner, stronger, more stretchy, safer and, perhaps most importantly, more pleasurable.

~ Dr Aravind Vijayaraghavan describing the “next-generation” condom using the material graphene, made possible by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, AU News, November 1

The BBC reports that the HIV team senior program officer Dr Papa Salif Sow said a “redesigned condom that overcomes inconvenience, fumbling or perceived loss of pleasure would be a powerful weapon in the fight against poverty.”

[HT: Laura Loo]

There seemed to be a Thanksgiving theme this year among political cartoons. Here were my top six favorites. Vote for yours in the poll at the bottom of the post.

by Robert Ariail at Townhall.com…

 by David Donar at TheModerateVoice.com…

 by A. F. Branco at TeaPartyTribune.com…

 by Henry Payne at Townhall.com…

 by John Darkow at ColumbiaTribune.com…

 by Rick McKee at Cagle.com…

Read “Obamacare Thanksgiving II” edition here.