by LauraLoo and Hans Johnson

Here’s a quick and fun history lesson from Schoolhouse Rock on the birth of the United States July 4, 1776:

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The Unanimous Declaration of the

In Congress, July 4, 1776

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

Rep. James Lankford (R-OK) says the right to life is self-evident, and believes our government should be altered because it is destructive of the right to life. From the House Floor:

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One can assume I am also not the only woman in America who is really tiring of the Wendys of the world claiming to represent “women’s rights” in their quest to mainstream a medical procedure — elective late-term abortion — that most of the civilized world finds barbaric and abhorrent.

Maybe it’s she who is bullying the rest of us into supporting a view that is mocked by scientific advancement; namely 3-D sonograms. Maybe we should be thankful for the men and wonder what is wrong with the women who think protecting the right to abort your baby for any reason up to the 26th week is a “human right.”

~ Democrat Kirsten Powers (pictured), The Daily Beast, July 2

[Photo via religionnews.com]

by LauraLoo

Look at what “abortion” is in the American Sign Language Dictionary.

The validity of this sign was checked with a speech-language pathologist who knows sign language.  She stated that there are sometimes different variations for the same word, and this one is acceptable.

Click here for a similar sign, and this is the sign for abort.

[HT:  Jill]

Click all photos to enlarge…

UPDATE 7/7, 7:50a: Some have complained that the “Hail, satan” in most post yesterday is only chanted once at the end by by kooky mocker.

Yet tweeters wrote it was being chanted all day. Thanks to commenter Lrning for providing a link to another video, posted by Bryan Preston at PJMedia.com, who noted, “This incident apparently occurred earlier than the other ‘Hail Satan’ chant that was caught on tape.” Between 5:15-5:50 on this video, and you can clearly hear the eerie chant, “Hail, satan.” Incidentally, it comes midway through the compelling testimony of a post-abortive mother….

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7/3, 11:27a: In the film, The Exorcist, the demons become more frenzied when their human abode is threatened, in this case by a priest.

And even though that’s just a movie, Scripture backs up this concept (Mark 5:1-20, Mark 9:14-29, etc.).

Thanks to pro-abortion Democrat state Senator Wendy Davis’s grandstanding filibuster to try to defeat a package of pro-life bills in the Texas legislature last week, and the media’s captivation with her and her cause, Austin has become an abortion battleground. And threatened demonic forces are getting bolder.

Yesterday while pro-lifers were singing, “Amazing Grace,” abortion backers began chanting “Hail, satan!” Several tweets corroborated the spectacle, and Cahnman’s Musings got video, adding, “For the record: They’ve been doing this all day, this is just the first time we caught it”…

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Abortion fanatics also prayed to some semblance of satan….

This made me laugh. These people meditating in the Capitol were the ones yelling "f*** you" this morning. pic.twitter.com/q8lhx4frJB

— Dr. Abby Johnson (@AbbyJohnson) July 3, 2013

https://twitter.com/CNNExpress/statuses/352218104052465665

It’s all so very creepy, macabre even, considering not only who they’re praying to but what they’re praying for. But it gets worse. Pro-aborts even involved children in their vulgar displays…

As pro-lifer Jennie wrote on Facebook, “Because nothing says ‘I want my 6-year-old to grow up empowered’ like giving her a sign that says ‘I’d f*** a senator’ to hold at the Capitol.”

But for me, the most disturbing scene was the pro-abortion mob that cheered Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards’ announcement at 3:00 a.m. on June 26 that they had won the first round – that torturous late-term abortions would continue in Texas unfettered.

Here are two views of the announcement and mob response. The scene reminded me of how it must have appeared when Romans cheered the death of Christians in the Coliseum…

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[HT for photo of children: Andy Moore; top photo via CNN; second photo via Washington Post]

Created Equal’s Executive Director Mark Harrington says his organization has pioneered the use of “cutting edge video technology to represent the victims of abortion” to audiences across the country.

Created Equal also has plans for similar demonstrations in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Columbus.

~ Maxim Alter reporting on the rental of Cincinnati’s Fountain Square 9 by 12-foot TV screen to display a “graphic abortion video” produced by Created Equal, Kentucky Post, July 2

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Kirsten Powers isn’t standing with Wendy Davis. She also points out the obvious false claim that 37 out of 42 abortion clinics will close:
  

  In addition to the limit on late-term abortions, the Texas legislature sought to pass regulations on abortion clinics similar to what was passed in Pennsylvania in 2011 after the Gosnell horror. The New York Times warned that the Texas bill “could lead to the closing of most of Texas’s 42 abortion clinics.” That sounds familiar. In 2011, the Pennsylvania ACLU claimed a post-Gosnell bill “would effectively close most and maybe all of the independent abortion clinics in Pennsylvania.” Last month, a Pennsylvania news site reported that “several” abortion clinics have closed, which isn’t quite the Armageddon the abortion-rights movement predicted.

• Betsy Woodruff discusses some of the threats pro-life legislators in Texas have had to deal with:
  

  State senator Donna Campbell [pictured left], who issued the third point of order against Davis’s filibuster (which ended it), has also been the target of extensive verbal abuse from pro-choice protesters, according to her spokesman Jon Oliver.

They’ve received Facebook messages and e-mails saying, “I hope you’re raped” and “I hope your daughter’s raped,” Oliver tells me.

• Abortionist Kermit Gosnell has changed his mind again and will apparently plead guilty to federal drug charges less than a week after rejecting the plea.
• Both houses of the Delaware legislature have unanimously passed their minimum abortion regulation expansion:
  

  The House unanimously passed the Senate-approved bill, sponsored by Sen. Robert Venables, D-Laurel. The measure, which now goes to Gov. Jack Markell for his signature, allows clinic employees to lodge complaints with public health officials that could prompt an inspection. It also mandates independent accreditation of any facility that performs invasive procedures, directly targeting Planned Parenthood, which accredits its own facilities.

• West Virginia’s attorney general’s attempt to get abortion clinics in his state to provide him with information about their practices wasn’t met with open arms:
  

  The clinic’s response likely is not what Morrisey had in mind.

  “The center is not in the position of providing substantive responses to your letter,” executive director Sharon Lewis wrote. “Our center is a defendant in a civil litigation matter and, upon advice of counsel, we must decline to respond to your inquiries and allow the discovery process and justice system to address those matters.”

  Lewis is referring to a suit brought against the clinic last month by Itai Gravely, 26, who alleges Dr. Rodney Lee Stephens [pictured right] continued an abortion after she told him to stop due to excessive pain. The lawsuit also said Stephens left parts of the fetus in her uterus.

[Photos via theconservativediva.net and LifeSiteNews]

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

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• Fletcher Armstrong shares commentary from Center for Bio-Ethical Reform director Gregg Cunningham regarding Biola University’s discipline of nursing student Diana Jimenez, who posted graphic abortion signs on campus. Cunningham says at least one child’s life was saved as a direct result of Diana’s display.

• At Live Action News, Rebecca Downs tells it like it is for the new “hero” of the radical abortion industry, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis (pictured left), who filibustered under the guise of “women’s health.” In reality, she filibustered for infanticide:
  

  It would seem that when abortion advocates fight for abortion tooth and nail and say that they are supporting women, they are actually the ones taking advantage of women. They are just using women, and turning their reproductive function of conceiving children, to represent some sort of “choice.” That choice is really the cruel dismemberment or poisoning of children with nothing but the intent to kill them.

  It’s almost funny how pro-abortion organizations or individuals hardly ever use the word ‘abortion,’ because deep down, they know how divisive it is, but also how downright unpleasant. So, instead of fighting for abortion, they say that they’re fighting for women.

• Wesley J. Smith says something similar about Wendy Davis’ defense of infanticide, further opining that the abortion industry would love to see Roe overturned, with an even more radical ruling taking its place.
• Down on the Pharm has some interesting theories on why Texas abortionist Douglas Karpen’s late-term abortion/infanticide facility is still open.

• Expose Abortion quotes late-term abortionist Warren Hern (pictured right), who says most women choose abortion for reasons other than medical concerns:
  

  At times, medical considerations enter into the picture, but decisions are usually made on the basis of such factors as desire or lack of desire for parenthood, stability of relationships, educational status, emotional status, or economic status, among others.

• Kansans for Life says the Kansas Pro-Life Protections Act went into effect today with only two minor provisions blocked.
• At Bound4Life, Ellie Saul mourns the self-imposed fertility dearth for women in America, where “one and done” has become the mantra for many – even for Christians. Saul says the church needs to go back to viewing children as a blessing, not as a hindrance to gaining greater wealth:
  

  We have two choices, as always. We can either keep flowing in the current of the system of the world that chooses barrenness and death for convenience without making any sudden movements or changes… Or we can choose life. We can choose to purposely oppose death by choosing and celebrating life as a reward and a gift from God.

[Photos via guardian.co.uk and coloradodaily.com]

Back in the day abortion proponents had all the mojo and pro-lifers were on the defensive. The photo above, via PBS, is of pro-abortion rally demanding a repeal of pro-life laws in Washington, D.C.,  circa 1971.

At the same time, feminists were pushing the Equal Rights Amendment in all 50 states. The photo below, via illinois.gov, is of feminists writing the names of ERA opponents in pigs’ blood on the floor of the Illinois State Capitol on June 24, 1982…

I take this little trip down memory lane to justapose the pro-abortion protests of yesteryear with those we see today.

And while the aggression has certainly not abated, as was on display in Texas last week…

… the other side is no longer screaming from a position of strength but from a place of weakness. Notice that pro-abort outbursts these days are aimed at (usually vain) attempts to stop pro-life advances. We saw this in Virginia last year regarding a bill, eventually signed into law, requiring ultrasounds before abortions…

In Ohio just a couple days ago abortion proponents unsuccessfully tried to gather steam to stop Governor Kasich from signing a wide-ranging pro-life bill…

Then there’s North Dakota, where abortion protesters failed to stop four pro-life laws from being enacted this past March…

I could go on.

That is not to claim the situation is rosy. Most pro-life laws are sued and tangled up in court for years, and many are eventually overturned. Obamacare is a dangerous affront on many levels. But even in the pro-abort bastion of New York, a rarely seen pro-abortion bill just failed.

These days pro-aborts, having belatedly realized the right to abortion is being fractured in the states, are busy scrambling from capitol to capitol to try and stop us – a drain on their energy and resources, which also keeps them from making mischief.

Furthermore, how much of their fomenting is genuinely organic, and how much is manufactured, boughten, or coerced? Just before they removed it, Operation Rescue grabbed a screen shot today of an ad on Craig’s List by a leftist group trying to hire agitators for Austin. Planned Parenthood certainly has ordered its paid clinic staff from around the state to go to Austin. PP CEO Cecile Richards is married to the international executive VP of SEIU. It is not unreasonable to think she has tapped into her union and Democrat sources to get screaming bodies out.

I asked Joe Scheidler of Pro-Life Action League, who has been in the trenches since the early days, how he saw the lay of the land.

“With public opinion trending toward pro-life, with the explosion of legislation regulation abortion, and recent exposes on the horrific conditions in some of the abortion clinics, along with Planned Parenthood’s blatant deception, abortion proponents are in aggressive damage control mode,” Joe responded via email. “Not since the mid-90’s have we seen this kind of fear from the abortion crowd. Clearly they perceive us as effective.”

[Third and fourth photos via USA Today; fifth photo via thegloss.com; sixth photo via the Associated Press]