When you were born, no one cared about you. Your umbilical cord was left uncut, and you were never washed, rubbed with salt, and dressed in warm clothing. No one had the slightest interest in you; no one pitied you or cared for you. On the day you were born, you were dumped in a field and left to die, unwanted. But I came by and saw you there, helplessly kicking about in your own blood. As you lay there, I said, “Live!”

~ Ezekiel 16:4-6, New Living Translation

by Hans Johnson

This commercial from Thailand for a cell phone company has an age-old message.

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[HT: TheBlaze]

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

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• Wesley J. Smith explores the dark side of Big Fertility that “has also helped create a destructive view that people not only have a right to a child, but to the child they want.” Besides ethical concerns and the health risks associated with this industry, the failure rate of IVF in the US is almost 70%:
  

  It is time to rein in the hype and take a more realistic look at the taboos and myths surrounding infertility and science’s ability to “cure” it.Smith recommends instead focusing on the “parentless children” waiting for adoption and a forever home.

• Jivin J comments on a recent Washington Post editorial asserting – without any evidence – that if Ken Cuccinelli wins the gubernatorial election, abortion clinics in Virginia will shut down. The editorial makes this leap because Cuccinelli favors clinic regulations and inspections. The editorial also ignores the results of last year’s announced inspections, which revealed “widespread deficiencies” and asserts there is “no evidence that women are at risk in Virginia’s abortion clinics.”
• John Smeaton posts some timely statements from the Pope:
  

  Pope Francis has sent a strong pro-life and pro-family message to the participants in the annual Social Week for Italian Catholics, held this past weekend in Turin on the theme of “The Family: Hope and Future for Italian Society”. He said: “A population that does not take care of the elderly and of children and the young has no future, because it abuses both its memory and its promise”. He also said that the family based on opposite-sex marriage open to life is the basis of society.

• The Christian Science Monitor has published Michael J. New’s response to Marymount College student Elizabeth Jahr’s assertions that “Pro-Life Groups Don’t Really Protect The Unborn” and that political pro-life efforts (and the March for Life) would be better spent assisting women facing crisis pregnancies.
• Secular Pro-Life compares the downplaying of child abuse experienced by an orphan to society’s downplaying of abortion:
  

  So we either do something about it… or we look the other way. We question the situation’s veracity. Or we ignore the topic entirely, using polite terms like “choice” and “personal issue.” After all, if we can’t see it — if we insist that it can’t really be that bad — then it’s not real, right? Like the local Germans who lived directly outside WWII-era concentration camps yet didn’t know its horrors until forced to see, we ignore what is happening in orphanages across the world, homes on our block, and Planned Parenthood offices in our town.

• ProWomanProLife asks readers to encourage pro-life hero/activist Linda Gibbons who sits in a jail for protesting outside an abortion clinic. While in jail her daughter passed away. Letters are encouraged – info at the link.
• Pro-Life Wisconsin features a song and video about a true story that ends with adoption:
  

  John Elefante, the former lead singer of the rock band Kansas, has made a pro-life music video in honor of his adopted daughter, Sami. ”I can’t imagine life without my daughter, Sami, and it just breaks my heart that pregnant young women much like her birth mother, instead of choosing life for their babies, are denying them the chance to be born,” Elefante said. “If our song can in any way bring attention to this issue and encourage those who are considering abortion to choose life through options such as adoption, then we couldn’t be happier.”

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by LauraLoo

As reported by DailyMail UK:

A doctor who froze embryos with her boyfriend after she was diagnosed with cancer is now battling him in court after he broke up with her and said he no longer wants children.

Karla Dunston, 42, maintains that she has the right to have her biological children and should control the future of the embryos, while her ex-boyfriend Jacob Szafranski, 32, argues that he never agreed to give up his say in the matter.

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Call me old-fashioned, but in my opinion it’s NEVER a good idea to make such a weighty legal and moral arrangement of this sort without a couple being married.  But now that the children exist, whose side are you on and why?

[HT: WLS890AM Chicago]

How often do we see the entertainment culture take a stand against abortion — especially one as powerful as John Elefante’s “This Time”? The former lead singer of Kansas offers an incredibly personal missive based on the story of his own adopted daughter in order to bring attention to Online for Life, which works to rescue babies (and their mothers) from the abortion culture and give them the chance for life.

If you’re not choking up by the end of this video — when John and Sami explain the meaning of this video — check your pulse.

~ Ed Morrissey, reviewing a moving pro-life music video produced by the former lead singer of Kansas, via Hot Air, September 18

Video at the link.

by Hans Johnson

Just before noon on Sunday, quarterback Joe Flacco was with his Baltimore Ravens teammates preparing for the game with the Cleveland Browns when he got a phone call. It was his wife, Dana, calling from a hospital in New Jersey to say she had just given birth to Daniel, their second son.

Flacco was thinking about joking to his coach John Harbaugh that morning that he was going to rush to his wife’s side, though he never intended to do so.

Ironically the day before pro-golfer Hunter Mahan made a hole-in-one, winning himself a new BMW. I say ironically because earlier this summer Mahan withdrew from the Canadian Open and it’s potential million-dollar purse while he was leading – to be with his wife Kandi when she gave birth to their daughter Zoe Olivia.

So would you give Flacco a pass because he is part of a team sport, where others depend on him, or should his family come first? Here are the Mahans being interviewed for ABC’S Good Morning America:

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Klopfer’s failure to report this abortion raises serious red flags about his abortion business.

If he fails to send in a one-page form when he does an abortion on a 13-year-old, how can anyone know if he is following state abortion law in other areas such as informed consent, facility standards and appropriately determining the age of the baby before he aborts him or her?

~ Mike Fichter (pictured right), President and CEO of Indiana Right to Life, commenting on the recent revelation that Illinois abortionist Ulrich Klopfer (a.k.a. George Klopfer) failed to report possible statutory rape – as required by law – on a 13-year-old Indiana abortion patient, as quoted by the News-Sentinel, September 18

Fort Wayne Women’s Health, where Klopfer performed abortions, is currently listed online as being closed (click to enlarge):

[Photo of Fichter via Twitter]

by LauraLoo

When a person leaves this earthly life, we hope that our loved ones will have many wonderful things to say about us and how we touched their lives with love and joy.

But when Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick passed away, her children (whom she ex­posed to her “evil and vio­lent life”) posted a scathing obituary, celebrating her passing and voicing hopes that she spends the afterlife “reliving each gesture of violence, cruelty, and shame that she delivered on her children.”

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