Today, in a unanimous ruling, the Illinois Supreme Court issued a decision to uphold a parental notification law enacted way back in 1995.

This is FABULOUS news, since Illinois has become known as the abortion dumping ground of the Midwest – the only state without any parental involvement law in force, while all surrounding states have such measures.

Thomas More Society, the pro-life legal team based in Illinois that has been pushing enforcement of this law, has posted a synopsis of this incredibly drawn out court battle.

The ACLU was the first to sue to block the law, later joined by the giant Hope Clinic abortion mill in Granite City - conveniently located close to the Missouri border.

The Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995 is scheduled to go into effect in 35 days. It isn’t perfect. It allows for notification of not only one parent but also “a person over 21 years of age who is the parent, grandparent, step-parent living in the household, or legal guardian.” In the law a minor is considered anyone under 18.

This looser verbiage caused a huge rift in the pro-life movement at the time, which still comes up in conversations. But it is still way better than nothing.

Of course, Planned Parenthood, which has 17 locations in Illinois, is unhappy. From The Chicago Sun-Times:

“We are disappointed by the Illinois Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995,” said Carol Brite, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois. “While we believe the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Act puts the health and safety of teens at unnecessary risk, Planned Parenthood of Illinois is committed to doing everything we can to make this new process as easy as possible for teens if the law goes into effect.”

In 2011, 2,359 of the state’s 41,324 abortions were of minors 17 and under. There were 3,139 out-of-state abortions (age unknown). Both those numbers should now go down.

Only one potential glitch, as quoting ABC News:

The decision means the state’s parental notification law now has to be enforced – unless there’s an appeal to the US Supreme Court.

In its opinion, the court noted that the nation’s high court has found parental notification laws to be constitutional.

Read Thomas More Society’s press release here.

by Hans Johnson

Many would say the “peach fuzz” on their heads is one of the charms of a baby. But some are unsatisfied that their baby doesn’t have a full head of hair. A company called Baby Bangs makes wigs for the littlest of girls. What do you think?

(Disclaimer: We have no control over the ad at the beginning of this video.)

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[HT: Jill]

For those of us guys who like girls – you know, like them like them – and want to have relationships with them that may last anywhere from a few minutes to many years, we need to think about how this bill, by curtailing the bodily autonomy and sexual freedom of women, hurts us, too. We need to stand with women in their fight to control their own bodies….

It’s clear: if the Legislature basically takes away a Texas woman’s right to choose, having sex becomes… riskier for us men, who may well end up fathers well before we intend.

~ Ben Sherman, “Bro-Choice: How #HB2 Hurts Texas Men Who Like Women,” Burnt Orange Report, July 3

Hot Air has some commentary in response.

By all accounts – pro-life sidewalk observers and the clinic staff who talk to them – late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart works solo at his Germantown, Maryland, clinic. He has no partners, no back-up.

Carhart aborts a lot of late-term mothers. He delivers a lot of dead babies.

Late-term abortions are much more complicated and risky. Most recently, Jennifer Morbelli died February 7 following the abortion of her 33-week-old daughter Madison at Carhart’s clinic.

Yesterday, another of Carhart’s patients was taken from his clinic by ambulance. This was a late-term patient on the second day of her procedure, according to pro-lifers on the ground, who also saw Carhart get in the ambulance with her…

[youtube]http://youtu.be/Lo5r91VkWSw[/youtube]

Pro-lifers on the street observe the number of patients going in and out of Carhart’s clinic each day he’s there, which is Sunday through Wednesday. The 2-4 day procedures can begin Sunday through Tuesday. They must just all end by Wednesday. We know how many patients Carhart is juggling on the final day of their procedure, which this year has been as many as 8.

The question is, who provides medical care to the rest of Carhart’s patients when he is otherwise detained? Such as in a delivery? Or when he has left the premises, as he did yesterday?

What if Carhart is in a delivery and another mother unexpectedly delivers? Or starts hemorrhaging? Or faints? Or any one of several scenarios?

Pro-life notes indicate Carhart completed at least four late-term abortions yesterday. Who provided medical care to the other three patients while he was at the hospital with the fourth?

The question regarding Carhart is not whether he provides safe care, the question is whether any aspect of Carhart’s abortion care is safe.

[HT: Grace, Janet, Operation Rescue]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The West Virginia abortionist being sued for allegedly continuing an abortion against a patient’s wishes is denying the allegations and is claiming that leaving a pieces of the child in the patient wasn’t his fault:
  

  Her complaint claims she came to the clinic for an abortion but that she wasn’t given enough medication ahead of the procedure because the center and [Rodney Lee] Stephens didn’t know enough about her history with “use and/or abuse” of pain medication.

  Stephens refused to stop the procedure when [Itai] Gravely told him to and staff members restrained her while he finished the procedure, according to her complaint. She says she felt enough pain after the procedure to eventually go to Charleston Area Medical Center.

  At the hospital, Gravely says the doctors removed more materials from her uterus, including a skull….

  Stephens and the center also state they are “of information and belief” that CAMC removed “additional products of conception.” But Gravely was told that “retained fragments and tissue” could remain after the abortion, which could lead to the need for further medical attention.

  If any “products of conception” remained in Gravely, it wasn’t because Stephens or the center didn’t provide the proper care, according to the response.

• At Slate, Jessica Grose is not happy with wrenching abortion stories. Instead, she wants more stories from women who have abortions “and don’t look back”:
  

  A lot of women don’t want a baby, and they don’t care whether the fetus is viable or how much money is in their bank account. Where are their essays?…

  [A] 23-year-old anonymous author… tried googling “abortion blog” and only came up with anti-choice nonsense and women who regretted their terminations. So she wanted to publish something servicey that explained what an abortion was like and how to go about getting one. But what I liked best about the site was how blithe and unapologetic she was about her choice. She described the aftermath of her abortion like this:

  By monday my hormones were a little wonky but in all i just felt like this parasitic creature that burrowed its way into me and fed of my energy, apetite, [sic] and joy was removed. And I had been restored….

  This kind of honesty… has the potential to nudge the battle back leftward after ceding so much ground.

• The Fairfax City Council has voted in favor of adding a new term to their zoning law which abortion advocates oppose because they believe it will prevent an abortion clinic from setting up in the city.

  The council voted Tuesday night to create a new term in its zoning law, “medical care facility,” delete the term “clinic” from the current definition of a doctor’s office, and require all medical care facilities to obtain a special use permit at a cost of $4,800, along with a detailed approval process and a final vote by the city council. Pro-choice activists said the move was aimed at keeping abortion clinics out of Fairfax City, including an existing clinic in the city which was trying to relocate to meet Virginia’s new hospital-style zoning standards for abortion clinics.

[Photo via Slate, by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images]

The only details I know are coming from South Wind Women’s Center abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. Clear Channel hasn’t responded to my request for comment.

But apparently, on or around July 3, the cable outlet stopped running South Wind’s ads – after a very short run. Hear the ad at the link below. Notice the A-word is never mentioned…

Clear Channel pulled our ads after 1 day due to complaints received about the content. Listen to the ad here. http://t.co/4K1MiJIJJK

— Trust Women (@TrustWomen) July 10, 2013

South Wind, pictured at the top of the post, opened for business on April 3 in murdered late-term abortionist George Tiller’s old clinic. But getting the word out isn’t going to be as easy as it hoped.

When the clinic opened, founder Julie Burkhart admitted, “Getting through the next six to 12 months will be very important for us. Opening a clinic, that’s not being done widely across the country. It’s really moving against the grain.”

Here’s to making it harder to earn a living by killing.

On that note, Pro-Life Action League has been protesting at the Oak Park, Illinois, office of South Wind’s principle abortionist, Cheryl Chastine, pictured right, once a month since April.

by LauraLoo

From Katie Kindelan at ABC News:

Being a first-time dad to a daughter means a lifetime ahead of tea parties, dances, sports, graduations and one day, most likely, walking her down the aisle.

For new dad Channing Tatum, what has him “so excited” about being a dad to his newborn daughter, Everly, with actress-wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum, is something much more basic.

“I’ve never been so excited when something poos,” Tatum, 33, said today on Good Morning America.  I just get so amped up because I’m in the game now.”

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

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Of course, we can never really wake up to blue skies as long as the dark cloud of abortion hangs over us.

Nevertheless, yesterday brought lots of good news for the pro-life movement from many sides.

Don’t mess with Texas pro-lifers

First, last night the Texas House provisionally passed (formal ceremonial vote today) pro-life bills a pro-abortion mob previously blocked on June 25. The tally, 98-49, was four votes higher for our side than the vote taken after pro-abortion Rep. Wendy Davis’s filibuster. Sweet.

At the time of the vote, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards was inexplicably rallying in Houston, as if she forgot the state capital is Austin. Cecile turned from festive to angry after the vote, tweeting, “Tonight the TX House passed a bill that will take women back decades–and we’re not going,” adding this photo to scare us. She apparently missed the memo instructing late-term abortion supporters to wear orange. Click to enlarge…

Rasmussen poll

Also yesterday, Rasmussen released results of its annual poll on abortion. The numbers don’t exactly jibe with Gallup, which has shown pro-lifers holding the majority  in all but one poll since 2009, but the trend coincides:

With Texas and Wisconsin the latest states to attempt limits on abortion, fewer voters than ever are calling themselves pro-choice, and the gap between pro-choice and pro-life voters is the narrowest yet.

A new Rasmussen national telephone survey finds that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters now consider themselves pro-choice, the lowest finding in three years of regular surveying. Forty-three percent (43%) say they are pro-life, matching the highest finding to date. Eleven percent (11%) are undecided.

Tidal wave of pro-life laws remains high

Finally, several news outlets reported yesterday on a new report by the Guttmacher Institute, research arm of the abortion movement, indicating the tsunami of state pro-life laws passed since 2011 is not abating. From a Washington Times article with the lovely title, “Abortion clinics becoming endangered species; new state rules make business tough”:

While much of the national abortion debate has focused on late-term abortions, pro-life forces are scoring major victories with new laws and regulations that in effect would force many – if not all – abortion clinics in a state to shut down….

In a report released Monday, Guttmacher said that states’ efforts to restrict abortion – including clinic regulations – were on pace to exceed those enacted in 2012….

By midyear, states have adopted 43 provisions of all kinds that limit abortion, according to the Guttmacher survey. This was “as many as were enacted in all of 2012,” it noted.

Last year saw the second highest number of pro-life laws ever passed, 43, and 2011 saw the highest, 92. So in all likelihood 2013 will bump 2012 from second spot.

Here’s how the Washington Post saw it…

 Like I said, yesterday was a good day for the pro-life movement. Now, return to work.