We had a lady testify, her name was CarolValium. She goes in. She’s crying through the procedure. She told her, don’t worry, it’s a blob of tissue, you’re doing the right thing, get it over with quick.

She goes home and lives with this day after day after day after day. The rest of her life she lives with this trauma. And it’s time for that to end. It’s time for women to know the facts. It’s time for them to know what they’re carrying in their womb and what they’re doing….

If you have a loved one that’s thinking about terminating their pregnancy, for crying out loud, you want them to have full information. You want them to have an ultrasound. You want them to know what’s going on in that womb and what they’re doing and that they’re not going to be able to change that for the rest of their life. They make that decision; it’s over. It’s over in a few minutes and then later on they can live with the fact that they terminated their pregnancy and it was the best thing for them; or they killed their child and they made a horrific decision and they regret it and they wish they never would have done it. And for those that want that information and wish that they never would have done it, that’s what Sonia’s law is about.

~ Republican, pro-life, Wisconsin state Senator Mary Lazich, pictured above, in a floor debate on a bill requiring mothers to have ultrasounds before their abortions, June 12, as quoted by GlennBeck.com. The measure passed along party lines after a shouting match erupted, then passed in the House, and is now headed to the desk of Governor Scott Walker, who is is expected to sign it.

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

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• Alveda King of Priests for Life begins a three part series honoring the pro-life men in her life – just in time for Father’s Day:
  

  I am blessed to pay tribute to my Grandfather, Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. who saw me in a dream three years before I was born. That prophetic dream gave me life, against the odds of a threat of abortion.

  Alveda also recommends Kevin Burke’s blog, dedicated to fathers in need of post-abortion healing.

• Pro-Life New Mexico releases an undercover video showing just how easily a 14-year-old in New Mexico (who reveals that her boyfriend is 21, which constitutes statutory rape) can schedule an abortion with Planned Parenthood. PP discusses methods for returning her call so as not to tip off her parents, though the state doesn’t require parental notification. The phone counselor also makes sure to get the patient to the building to close the sale. Is this the best we can do for our children?

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• ProWomanProLife laments that citizens of Quebec may soon have to pay for people to die, if a bill seeking to reclassify euthanasia as a form of healthcare – “aid in dying” – passes.
• Secular Pro-Life publishes the first submission from their paid blogging program by guest author Prayson Daniel, who “make[s] a case for the prima facie wrongness of killing a human foetus that does not depend on theological premises.”

• Big Blue Wave reports that 64-year-old Linda Gibbons has been arrested again for peaceful prayer and sidewalk counseling outside a Canadian abortion clinic. Gibbons, who has spent 10 of the last 20 years incarcerated for her protests, admonishes the churches for their inaction, stating, “Obviously we [the church] have this holocaust because we’ve allowed this.”

• Wesley J. Smith notes the case of a Chicago mother who (with her child’s live in godmother) plotted for a week, then stabbed her 14 yr. old autistic son to death because she felt he was not getting proper care and wanted to end his misery. The two women also killed the family cat in an effort to spare it from living in a shelter, and then made unsuccessful attempts to commit double suicide via sleeping pills.

  Smith predicts the public’s response when the shock of the gruesome story wears off:
  

  I suspect many will be horrified – not by the killing but the method, and the unavailability of “death with dignity” euthanasia. Indeed, I recall when Canadian farmer Robert Latimer murdered his 12 year-old daughter Traci because she had cystic fibrosis. Rather than condemning the monster, many Canadians asked, “Why couldn’t a doctor have done it for him?”

• Reflections of a Paralytic shares a video from Life TV, which reviews the science fiction movie Gattaca, 15 years after its release. The genetic engineering depicted in the film is much closer to reality today:

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[Photo via saynsumthn.wordpress.com]

by LauraLoo

From Joe Haynie on YouTube:

With a nod to the immortal Paul Harvey, this is dedicated to the millions of men who have chosen to be faithful fathers by walking in partnership with their wives in bearing children and raising them in love.  Especially my dad, my father-in-law, my brothers, my brothers-in-law, my son, and our amazing sons-in-law.

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The House is expected to vote on H.R. 1797, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, early next week.

You may have noticed some negative press the past couple days. We we will lose this effort if the pro-abortion lobby gets away with defining the message. The lies are certainly flowing, such as Nancy Pelosi’s whopper yesterday that this bill would ban all abortions. I only wish.

Of all the bills offered in Congress, this should not be one that the abortion industry gets to define. We are talking about babies at the beginning of the sixth month. Babies that can feel pain. Babies like the ones Kermit Gosnell killed both before and after birth. Babies like the ones that you see in NICUs across the country. Babies that are tiny patients in fetal surgeries.

We MUST redouble our effort to get the positive message for H.R. 1797 out into the press. We know reporters watch social media, so I’m asking everyone to use major social media to get our message out. If you haven’t signed up to follow me on Twitter, please do, and please RT my tweets on this as you see them. Use hashtag #theyfeelpain. Same goes for Facebook. Please like and share my posts on this.

In addition, all traditional efforts like op-eds, letters to the editors, grassroots alerts and press releases would be helpful.

Above, to the side, and below are some graphics. Please use freely. Click on all banner graphics to see enlarged view.

Also, as of now there are 183 co-sponsors. Is your rep listed? If not, call NOW. There is a very small window today in which co-sponsors can be added.

As the mother of five children (my oldest child was 6 years old the day I brought my 5th child home from the hospital), as a practicing and respectful Catholic, this is sacred ground to me when we talk about this.

I don’t think it should have anything to do with politics.

~ House minority leader Nancy Pelosi responding to a reporter’s question regarding the moral difference between an elective abortion at 26 weeks and the killing of that same infant born alive, The Weekly Standard, June 13

Video at the link.

[HT: Susie and Jasper]

The rap sheet against late-term abortionist James Pendergraft is long. A convicted felon, Pendergraft’s medical license is currently suspended for the fifth time.

The movie 22 Weeks was based on a true story about Baby Rowan, who survived his abortion at one of Pendergraft’s clinics but was refused help by staff.

The man is as abortion-crazed as can be, offering $50 discount coupons for Sunday abortions in the past. Even today, if you click on his website, a pop-up coupon for discount abortions – up to 50% off late-term! – will appear…

Pendergraft offers another deal where he will kill preborn babies and leave it to the mother figure out how to rid her body of her dead child: “Once the fetal heart beat has stopped, the patient can elect to return back to her private physician to complete the induction of labor with delivery of the fetus, or they may elect to go to another facility to have the termination process completed,” states his website.

But today, finally, may mark the beginning of the end of Pendergraft’s reign of terror over helpless little babies.

This morning Orland authorities cordoned off and seized all contents of Pendergraft’s Orlando Women’s Center, one of five mills he owns.

The raid came as the result of a $36 million judgment against Pendergraft in 2011 for a lawsuit filed by Carol Howard, a mother whose 22.3 week old baby girl survived an abortion by Pendergraft in 2001 but lives with multiple handicaps, including cerebral palsy. To date Pendergraft had paid only $100,000 of that settlement.

Pendergraft was on hand today to view the confiscation of his property, claiming it wasn’t his but was part of a trust, as he told a reporter from wftv.com. Pro-life activist Michele Herzog was at the scene and told me Howard’s attorneys said Pendergraft’s attorneys had requested an emergency hearing on that basis to get the assets returned.

On the other hand Howard’s attorneys told Herzog they will also try to seize all property at Pendergraft’s other four locations.

So this certainly isn’t over.

Howard’s attorneys have not yet returned my request for comment.

Michele overheard Pendergraft say he was referring all patients to his EPOC Clinic, also in Orlando. So tomorrow pro-lifers plan to have extra sidewalk counselors on hand to reason with abortion minded mothers.

Michele found herself and another sidewalk counselor alone with Pendergraft, pictured right.

“Mr. Pendergraft, let today be the day you stop shedding the blood of innocent children,” pleaded Michele.

“Dr.!” was Pendergraft’s only response.

After a moment’s pause, Michele quietly responded, looking Pendergraft in the eye, “No, you are not a doctor. Someone who tears babies limb from limb is no doctor.”

In 2001, Ms. Magazine took up Pendergraft’s offense on the federal charges that landed him in prison. Ms. lauded Pendergraft as “a fierce promoter of a woman’s right to choose… [and a] highly credentialed and well-regarded physician”

Ms. considered it a feather in his cap that “Pendergraft probably performs more abortions in his five clinics than any other provider in the U.S.”

Pendergraft was a featured as a “moving” speaker at the National Organization for Women’s Emergency Action for Women’s Lives rally in 2001. NOW later claimed he had been “wrongfully imprisoned.”

[Photo of clinic/yellow tape via John Barros on Facebook, who deserves immense thanks for tirelessly sidewalk counseling at this clinic daily for several years, saving hundreds of babies; bottom photo via American Life League]

Today, Live Action released a fifth investigative video in its series, “Inhuman: Undercover in America’s late-term abortion industry.” This video answers the question, “What is human?” from the abortion industry’s perspective.

Their answer: Not preborn babies, no matter what age, unless their mothers say they are, which, of course, is ludicrous.

Replayed in this video are lowlights of previous videos – abortionist LeRoy Carhart joking that dead preborn babies are like “meat in a crockpot,” and that he uses “a pickaxe, a drill bit” to get them out; abortionist Laura Mercer (pictured right) lying that a 23-wk-old preborn “doesn’t even look like a baby yet” and macabrely using hand gestures to show how babies are pulled apart en utero; plus a couple more.

New to this investigative series is abortionist Carmen Landau (pictured right) of Southwest Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who told LA’s investigator that giving her 27-wk-old baby a lethal injection was “like any shot, you know, like a flu shot, or a vaccine, really.” But I don’t expect that’s any kind of shot Landau would like to get.

Kudos to Drudge Report for being five for five on spotlighting LA’s “Inhuman” releases. Thank goodness for pro-life new media, since MSM is none too anxious to honestly report the horror of abortion, or the people who commit them….

Here’s LA’s latest video…

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by Hans Johnson

Traditionally, members of the winning Super Bowl  team visit the White House shortly before receiving their championship rings. Several former teammates of the Baltimore Ravens passed on the June 5th event to attend mini-camp for their new teams. But Matt Birk, who had just retired, chose not to meet President Obama for another reason. Already known for his opposition to “gay marriage”, he is also strongly pro-life.

As he told KFAN radio the next morning:

“I wasn’t there. I would say this. I would say that I have great respect for the office of the presidency, but about five or six weeks ago our president made a comment in a speech. And he said: ‘God bless Planned Parenthood.’

Planned Parenthood performs about 330,000 abortions a year. I am active in the pro-life movement and I just felt like I couldn’t deal with that. I couldn’t endorse that in any way.”

The following day Birk also spoke by phone to the Pro Football Talk Live show. The conversation turns to the controversy over his firm convictions at about the 6:00 mark:

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