by LauraLoo

What a great way to explain to children where babies come from!

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It’s the greatest thing I’ve ever been a part of. When I am at work, she’s what I’m thinking about, and when I’m not at work, she’s who I’m hanging out with…

I think [parenthood] brings out the child in all of us. That’s what’s so beautiful. It reminds you of the fascination you had with things, and how you can spend hours just being with someone.

It’s amazing.

~ Actor Chris Hemsworth, on being father to 18-mo-old daughter India, Parade, October 31

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

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• At National Review Online, Wesley Smith wonders why Planned Parenthood  has to close so many clinics in Texas due to the new law requiring the abortionist on call to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles:

  If abortion was really only 3% of PP – as the organization claims – would a safety restriction of this kind really force 12 PP clinics to close?”

  If they were serving women for routine medical needs, STI testing and giving out free birth control, this would not be needed. Time to get your talking points freshened up. It’s all about abortion, abortion, abortion.

• Pro-Life Wisconsin applauds the DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the HHS mandate in favor of Catholic business owners:

  Justice Janis Rogers Brown nails it when she writes that the burden of the HHS mandate “becomes substantial because the government commands compliance by giving the Gilardis a Hobson’s choice. They can either abide by the sacred tenets of their faith, pay a penalty of over $14 million, and cripple the companies they have spent a lifetime building, or they become complicit in a grave moral wrong…. If that is not ‘substantial pressure on an adherent to modify his behavior and to violate his beliefs,’ we fail to see how the standard could be met.”

  Bring on the SCOTUS!!

• Pro-Life in TN reposts a piece by Family Action TN that explains how Tennessee could soon take the mantel from Texas as the pro-life epicenter:

  On November 4, 2014, Tennesseans will go to the polls to vote on a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would put the constitution back where it was before four activist judges re-wrote it in 2000.  If voters approve the amendment, Tennesseans will once again be back in control of what abortion policies our state will have.

• In a shocking exclusive, Abortion State (Washington) reports that a police record it has obtained shows Planned Parenthood Bellington tried to cover up the rape of a 10-year-old by a 31-year-old illegal immigrant:

  The police record, authored by Deputy Smith, states the following:

  “On the afternoon of 09 18 2012, I contacted Mt. Baker Planned Parenthood to obtain a copy of the records documenting ’s treatment at their care (sic!) facility. I was referred to their records contact….  Sherry who told me Planned Parenthood would not follow the mandated reported (sic) law as codified in RCW 26.44.030.12(b) and refused (to) provide medical records. I then advised Planned Parenthood that I would seek a court order for their records….”

• Suzy B explains how Republican Tom Ridge, the pro-abortion former governor of Pennsylvania, has a lot of nerve to set his sights on pro-life conservatives:

  Earlier this week… Ridge went on an all-out verbal assault against social conservatives, including pro-lifers, within the Republican Party. He called social conservatives “narcissists and ideologues” that are “too damned self-righteous” and are imposing “tyranny” on the nation. He said that pro-lifers had forgotten about the separation of church and state and he laid the blame for electoral losses at their feet….

  Ridge’s own self-righteousness is alarming considering his record on abortion. In the wake of the Kermit Gosnell trial in Philadelphia, many Americans wondered how such a monster could work undetected for such a long period of time. The grand jury in the case placed the blame squarely upon Governor Ridge. Describing Ridge’s administration, they said the following:

  “…the Pennsylvania Department of Health abruptly decided, for political reasons, to stop inspecting abortion clinics at all. The politics in question were not anti-abortion, but pro. With the change of administration from Governor Casey to Governor Ridge, officials concluded that inspections would be ‘putting a barrier up to women’ seeking abortions. Better to leave clinics to do as they pleased, even though, as Gosnell proved, that meant both women and babies would pay.”

At National Review Online, Michael New picks apart a Politico op ed that tried to say abortion is a winning issue for Texas gubernatorial candidate and late-term abortion supporter Wendy Davis:

Davis’s 13-hour filibuster of a 20-week abortion ban this past June certainly raised her national profile. It may well help her raise money from supporters of legal abortion outside Texas. However, there is little evidence that Senator Davis’s extreme position on abortion has endeared her to Texas voters.

When I went to RH Reality Check yesterday to read an article, I was greeted by this (click to enlarge)…

Sure enough, liberals are up in arms about a comment Jim Bob Duggar made during Family Research Council’s recent Values Voter Summit…

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Transcript:

I heard Governor Huckabee speak and he was sharing how he had taken his daughter Sarah over to one of the concentration camps…. He said, as they were walking out of that concentration camp, he said little Sarah… looked up at him and said, “Daddy, why didn’t somebody do something?”

And, you know what? That’s where we’re at in our nation. Do we want our children, when we’re going to tell them about how great America was, they’re going to look at you and say, “Why didn’t somebody do something?”

Asked later to clarify what he meant, the 19 Kids and Counting patriarch specified he was indeed speaking about the abortion holocaust. From the Daily Press:

… Duggar did not back down.

“Let me clarify,” he said. “We have since 1973 (when Roe v. Wade was decided) had 55 million abortions, so what we have going on is a baby holocaust,” Duggar said.

For the record, here’s the definition of “holocaust”:

So the term “holocaust” can be appropriately used to describe the mass genocide of babies via abortion, and it can also be used to compare abortion to the Jewish Holocaust, although as tragic as the latter was, its death toll pales in comparison to the former.

It’s fascinating how abortion supporters heard Duggar’s comment. Note that RH Reality Check – a website dedicated to promoting abortion – totally missed a point that would have hit it on the head if a hammer:

[T]his is both unacceptable and insidious. Unacceptable, because there is no way in which losing a democratic election is akin to genocide. Unacceptable because there is no way in which tolerating a health care policy you don’t like is comparable to having soldiers rip families from their homes and send them to camps where slave-labor, starvation, and gas chambers were the norm. And it’s insidious, because oceans of pain and suffering can be dismissed if the injustice that caused them has to be ‘like the Holocaust’ before it’s worth fighting.

Jezebel whined:

[O]ne might think Duggar had realized that perhaps he went a little far with his comparison of liberal Americans to Nazis.

How, exactly? Credo concluded:

There is no way in which it’s acceptable to suggest that a mom deciding not to add to a family that may be struggling is committing a crime of genocide. There is no way in which the medical professionals who help her are like soldiers ripping families from their homes and sending them to camps where slave-labor, starvation, and gas chambers were the norm.

Yes, way.

[Bottom photo by Dr. Monica Migliorino Miller]

by Hans Johnson

Many frightening costumes were to be seen this Halloween, but none as troublesome as a display that unmasked a spooky fact of life in America. Students for Life America planted 915 crosses at the U.S. Capitol, representing the number of children killed  through abortion every day  by Planned Parernthood.

Kristan Hawkins, president of SFLA, spoke to CBN News about this event, Kathleen Sebellius’ recent testimony, and Planned Parenthood’s stake in Obamacare.

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[HT: Kelli]

Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s book Double Down: Game Change 2012 notes President Obama commenting on drone strikes, reportedly telling his aides that he’s “really good at killing people.”…

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism estimates that a total of 2,528-3,648 people have been killed by CIA drone strikes in Pakistan since 2004, and between 416-948 of them being civilians. The group labels 326 of such events as “Obama strikes.”

~ CBS DC, November 3

[HT: Laura Loo]

Early voting on the first local ban in the country on abortions past 20 weeks began in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on October 30. It will run until November 15, with Election Day on November 19.

Albuquerque is currently a late-term abortion magnet, as it is home to abortionist Curtis Boyd’s Southwestern Women’s Options, where elective abortions are committed “through 28 weeks” and “later” for maternal/fetal indications.

This ban would set a dangerous precedent for abortion supporters. They are already fighting a losing battle in their attempts to extinguish pro-life fires among the states, but their troubles would grow exponentially were they also forced to deal with hundreds or thousands of local municipalities.

Perhaps this is why Barack Obama’s Organizing for Action has gotten involved:

Operation Rescue, which discovered this dalliance, has more details.

The other side should be worried. People overwhelmingly support a ban on late-term abortions. For the ban initiative to qualify, organizers gathered more than double the number required – 27,000 signatures – in just 20 days.

Meanwhile, an Albuquerque Journal poll on September 9 found wide support for the ban in all polled demographics – except Democrats. Click to enlarge:

Pollster Brian Sanderoff found the spread for support “a little surprising,” because “many Albuquerque voters are pro-choice; however, support for the pro-choice position evidently declines as the term of the pregnancy increases.” True. Even 1/3 of ABQ Democrats can’t stomach it.

In the growing furor to sway public opinion, pro-life drop cards even made their way into Halloween trick-or-treat bags, which a Jezebel writer found  ”creepy and annoying.”

But it’s apparently not creepy and annoying to air pro-abortion ads on television featuring a mother who chose to kill her preborn baby.

In its fact check of the ad, sponsored by Respect ABQ Women, KOB4 found “that the woman in the ad is not from here and did not have her abortion here.” The mother is, in fact, from Virginia. She described choosing to have her preborn baby given a lethal injection rather than “suffocate” at birth, although no details were given.

I must say I always find these stories suspect, how many exaggerated to curry acceptance? Nevertheless, it is misplaced compassion to kill a sick baby in the only safe, warm, hospitable environment s/he will ever know. Here’s the ad…

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Meanwhile, ABQ Voters for Late Term Abortion Ban has released a video for viewing in churches…

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The group’s campaign strategy is to get out the church vote.

To that end, Santa Fe Archbishop Michael Sheehan asked all parishes to read a message from him in support of the ban during all Masses this past weekend. He wrote, in part:

I encourage all the people of Albuquerque to support the proposed ordinance to ban late term abortion after the 20th week. These children are able to feel pain and suffer greatly when aborted….

Please join me in supporting this effort with energy, time, and resources. Together we can get out the vote on November 19, 2013.

Archbishop Sheehan also held a special Mass last night, which garnered lots of media attention. From KOB4:

At a special Mass at the Shrine of Bernadette, Archbishop Michael Sheehan gave parishioners a mission during his homily.

“Let us say yes to Jesus, let us say yes to the unborn child, and urge others to do the same,” Archbishop Sheehan said.

Amen.

Pro-life video creater extraordinaire, Ryan Bomberger, has also made a video in support of the ABQ 20-week abortion ban…

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by LauraLoo

Abby and Brittany Hensel were born conjoined with a very low chance they would make it through infancy, but God had such big plans for these girls!

Now well into their teenage and young adult years, these two girls prove to the world that they are truly winning at life!  Their spirit and determination are positively infectious.  Once you meet these girls, you will never be the same.

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[HT: GodTube]