by LauraLoo

As reported by the Telegraph:

Nathan, born Nancy, Verhelst, 44, was given legal euthanasia, most likely by lethal injection, on the grounds of “unbearable psychological suffering” on Monday afternoon.

Wim Distelmans, a cancer specialist who carried out the euthanasia, is the same doctor who late last year gave lethal injections to congenitally deaf twins who were frightened they were also going blind.

“I was the girl that nobody wanted,” Mr Verhelst told Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper in the hours before her death.

“While my brothers were celebrated, I got a storage room above the garage as a bedroom. ‘If only you had been a boy’, my mother complained. I was tolerated, nothing more.”

TVOOST captured Mr. Verhelst’s final moments and broadcast them in Belgium:

Nathan/Nancy’s euthanization has led to his friend’s desire to also be euthanized. How incredibly sad.

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[HT: Drudge Report; photo via Telegraph]

It’s so intoxicating, the bond is just so… viscous. It’s like superglue.

~ Actress Claire Danes on her relationship with 9-month-old son Cyrus, to British Vogue as featured by People

[HT: LauraLoo]

by Hans Johnson

Many a youth has brought shame and embarrassment to their family for their misdeeds. But often it’s the reverse.

As muggings go, you can’t get much lower than violently yanking the handbag from the shoulder of Tona Herndon, 78, of Edmond, Oklahoma.  She had been visiting  the gravesite of her husband of 60 years as she had every day since he passed away two weeks before. Gone was $700 in cash, credit cards, and all her personal information.

The man was soon arrested, and was recognized in a news report by his son, fifteen-year-old Christian Lunsford. His father, to whom he had barely spoken since his parents’ divorce, had recently given him $250 so he could attend band camp.

Christian called Mrs. Herndon and set up a meeting at a church parking lot. Here, from CBS, is what happened next:
[youtube]http://youtu.be/kBvglDbjH1c[/youtube]

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[HT: TheBlaze]

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.

• ProLifeBlogs features a post by LifeSiteNews which reports pro-choice violence against a woman participating in a peaceful Life Chain in Toronto. Faye Arellano was attacked and beaten by a knife-wielding man, who was arrested. During the Life Chain, Faye “held a rosary in one hand and a sign in the other which read: ‘Life, the first inalienable right.”

• Down on the Pharm comments on California Governor Jerry Brown’s (pictured left) signing into law a bill that will allow non-physicians to perform abortions in the state:
  

  We know already that abortionists who are physicians have a poor performance record. It would be irrational to expect that people with less medical training would have a better safety record than those who have to undergo four years of medical school and four years of residency.

  Pro-lifer Wynette Sills, who is participating in 40 Days for Life in Sacramento, addressed the passage of this law on Facebook – citing scientific facts and posting photos of actual fetal development – and was temporarily blocked from posting on the social media site for a comment that read, “Debi, become informed. Human life begins at conception and every abortion kills a human being. Know your science, rather than just respond with emotions.”

• Right to Life of Michigan “circulated petitions throughout the summer to initiate Abortion Insurance Opt-Out legislation. More than 315,000 signatures were submitted to the Secretary of State’s office today sending a strong message to Michigan lawmakers that abortion is not health care”:
  

  Michigan’s Constitution allows the people of the state to initiate legislation through a petition; 258,088 signatures of registered voters needed to be collected in 180 days to initiate the Abortion Insurance Opt-Out Act. Signatures for the NO Taxes for Abortion Insurance petition drive was collected in less than 4 months. After the Board of Canvassers verifies the signatures, the legislature will have 40 calendar days to respond.

• Secular Pro-Life says pro-choicers often ask pro-lifers, “If you had the choice to rescue either an adult or ten frozen embryos from a burning building, which would you choose?” But this question actually proves nothing about the value of human life:
  

  Consider it like a case of triage. Two people are in mortal danger and a doctor can only save one. The doctor will save the person with the greatest chance of survival. Does that mean the other person is less valuable than the person she saves? Of course not. But if she tried to save the person with the most extensive injuries, she may end up losing both. In this case, since the fate of the embryos is uncertain (nor could it ever be certain), saving the adults would be morally justified because they have a 100% chance of survival if you rescue them.

  Choosing who to save does not equate to the intentional killing of embryos.

• Albert Mohler discusses the addictive nature of pornography and how it “hijacks” the male brain:
  

  In Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain, [William] Struthers presents key insights from neuroscience that go a long way toward explaining why pornography is such a temptation for the male mind.

  “The simplest explanation for why men view pornography (or solicit prostitutes) is that they are driven to seek out sexual intimacy,” he explains. The urge for sexual intimacy is God-given and essential to the male, he acknowledges, but it is easily misdirected. Men are tempted to seek “a shortcut to sexual pleasure via pornography,” and now find this shortcut easily accessed.

[Photos via Bloomberg and Flickr]

This week, comedian Jon Stewart welcomed Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to The Daily Show, where he proceeded to grill her on the debacle that is Obamacare, stating, “We’re going to do a challenge. I’m going to try and download every movie ever made, and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare — and we’ll see which happens first.”

Part 1:

Part 2, in which Jon Stewart advocates for single-payer health care. One has to wonder… with the way Democrats “never let cris[es] go to waste,” is Obamacare purposely disastrous so that people will cry for a supposedly “simpler” single-payer health care system?

In his ending monologue, Stewart said he was still confused and felt perhaps Sebelius had been lying to him in her responses.

[HT: The Daily Caller; LauraLoo]

She’s a great role model…She’s been a great godmother to Zachary. She came to bathe him in Las Vegas. She was already dressed to go to the show, and she was sitting there and she bathed him, and she was like dressed like Audrey Hepburn… and she fed him….

We’re all bonkers in this business, but we’re human beings at the same time.

~ Singer Elton John describing Lady Gaga’s role as godmother to his sons Zachary and Elijah, as featured in People’s “Hollywood’s Surprise Godparents”, October 7

by Hans Johnson

Last year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning adoptions of Russian children by Americans. In response, radio host Laura Ingraham, who has adopted two boys from Russia as well as a girl from Guatemala, founded the Adopt a New Attitude Project.

She discusses the ban on FBN’s Imus in the Morning and EWTN’s The World Over with Raymond Arroyo (at about the 25:00 mark).

This is a video Miss Ingraham recently released featuring adoptees speaking directly to Mr. Putin:

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We must be careful not to make a fetish of choice. If the technology allows and a woman wants a blue-eyed, blonde baby, do we support her because we are pro-choice?

A girl’s right to life has to be a basic tenet of any feminist position and cannot be compromised by an absolutist pro-choice narrative.

~ Pro-choice feminist Rahila Gupta, who seems to have stumbled upon the Catch-22 of the pro-choice position, The Guardian, October 8

[HT: JivinJehoshaphat; photo via aworldtowin.net]