A species that “adapts” to the world by killing its own members is a species in crisis and disease.

A species that cooperates among their members and cares for their young until they are strong enough is a species that is adapting to their environment and improving their chances for long term survival.

~ Commenter ninek on the Stanek post, “If wantedness determines value, newborn’s rescuers wasted time,” May 30

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The woman from El Salvador whom abortion advocates have been claiming (for weeks) would die if she didn’t get an abortion will have an early Caesarean section delivery of her child next week, according to the Telegraph.

  For some reason, the title of one abortion advocate’s article is claiming a Caesarean delivery is an “emergency abortion” though the writer admits it’s not an abortion in the article. They must have really wanted that “life-saving” abortion.

• A Wisconsin man has been convicted of attempted murder after he drove to Madison with a gun and said he wanted to kill an abortionist:
  

  Lang was arrested May 25, 2011, by police responding to his accidentally firing the weapon through his motel room door. He allegedly told them that he wanted to kill abortion providers who were killing babies at the Planned Parenthood clinic on the city’s east side.

• Delaware’s attorney general has filed a complaint against abortionist Timothy Liveright based on the testimony of former Planned Parenthood nurses. Liveright was presumably fired from his duties at the Delaware Planned Parenthood this spring. At that time he told the Division of Professional Regulation he was retiring from doing abortions in Delaware:
  

  The Delaware Attorney General’s office filed a complaint today against former Planned Parenthood abortion doctor Timothy F. Liveright, citing him for unprofessional, incompetent and negligent conduct and calling him a “clear and immediate danger to the public.”

  Contacted this evening, Liveright, 68, said such charges were “scandalous” for the state to make.

  Liveright is not happy about the complaint:
  

  “It’s pure bull****,” he said. “They’re jumping on whatever they can jump on. I don’t know what their agenda is, but I don’t think I’m a danger to the public.”

  According to another article, Liveright is still licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania. That article also notes an incident of sexual harrassment:
  

  [Nurse Joyce] Vasikonis [pictured above left], who worked at the clinic from October 2011 to August 2012, said Liveright often failed to wear sterile gloves during abortions, but that she never saw any problems with the actual physical procedures themselves.

  She also said she never saw Liveright yelling or cursing, but that she did witness an incident of sexual harassment. That incident involved Liveright teasing a young female intern about a cellphone photograph of a pierced penis that he and another male employee were looking at.

• A Preferred Woman’s Health Center abortion clinic in Charlotte, which was closed by the state and then allowed to re-open, will continue to be monitored by the state. The clinic was giving women injectable methotrexate and having them drink it from a cup. The National Abortion Federation (PWHC is a certified NAF clinic) actually defends the practice based on a single study from decades ago:
  

  Dr. Mitchell Creinin [pictured right], a California-based obstetrician [and abortionist] who was among the first to study methotrexate abortion procedures, questioned the practices at the Charlotte clinic.

  “There is sufficient data to be using methotrexate but not the way they used it,” said Creinin, who is the chairman for the University of California Davis’ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. “It’s no different than hearing about an orthopedic surgeon cutting off the wrong leg.”

  But National Abortion Federation medical director Dr. Matthew Reeves said the Charlotte clinic’s use of methotrexate wasn’t as risky as Creinin implied.

  The National Abortion Federation, a professional association representing abortion providers, recommends A Preferred Woman’s Health Center as one of three abortion clinics in Charlotte.

  Reeves noted that a Canadian physician a couple of decades ago studied the effectiveness of orally giving patients liquid methotrexate to induce abortions. That study found the method to be safe and effective, Reeves said.

  But Creinin said one study is not sufficient to support the drug’s use in that way.

[Images via The Daily Mail and ucdavis.edu]

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.

• Secular Pro-Life writes that the CEO of Sir Richard’s condom company intends to donate one condom to a developing country for each condom purchased because “if everyone bought our condoms, we could really change the world.” SPL says:
  

  According to the CDC, while condoms are highly effective at preventing HIV transmission, the typical use failure rate for condoms as a contraceptive is a dismal eighteen percent. People often fail to make that distinction, and therefore do not appreciate the chances of pregnancy as fully as they should. No doubt that misunderstanding will be magnified in a region that has little in the way of healthcare access and sex education.

• Reflections of a Paralytic shares a Guttmacher graphic (pictured left; click to enlarge) on the “unmet need” for contraceptives in the developing world, which actually shows that women in developing countries do not report lack of access as their primary reason for not using contraception.
• ProLife NZ has a must-read on the dehumanization infiltrating embryology today. According to Princeton biology professor Lee Silver:
  

  The term pre-embryo has been embraced wholeheartedly by IVF practitioners for reasons that are political, not scientific. The new term is used to provide the illusion that there is something profoundly different between a six-day-old embryo and a sixteen-day-old embryo. The term is useful in the political arena—where decisions are made about whether to allow early embryo experimentation — as well as in the confines of a doctor’s office where it can be used to allay moral concerns that might be expressed by IVF patients.

• Down on the Pharm speaks of billionaire Bill Gates’ wife Melinda (pictured right), who is working with the pro-abortion arm of the United Nations at the Women Deliver Conference to raise money (despite her own personal wealth) to bring birth control to the under-developed countries of the world. Her selection of trainers is questionable: infanticide proponent Peter Singer and LeRoy Carhart, whose nurses and clinic (which “has eight pages of failures listed on its last state inspection”) are both substandard.

  LifeNews adds:
  

  Although Gates, a self-professed Catholic, declared at the London [2012] summit that the [reproductive healthcare] initiative was “not about abortion… not about population control,” her remarks were belied by the lineup of premiere global abortion and population control advocacy agencies in attendance….

• Priests for Life features Kevin Burke’s blog, which notes the link between child sexual abuse and post-abortive men:
  

  I encountered a number of men on Rachel’s Vineyard healing programs who had a history of previous abuse and were involved in an abortion decision.

  As they explored that abortion decision they shared a powerful sense that they abandoned their unborn child when they were vulnerable… just as they were hurt when vulnerable and defenseless children. These men felt they allowed their unborn child[ren] to be abused by the abortion procedure.

• The Passionate Pro-Lifer updates us on Colorado’s tolerance and leniency for serial child rapists like William Costello (pictured left), who was also charged almost a year ago with assaulting an elderly pro-life man who was collecting signatures for a personhood petition. Costello remains out on bail. PPL attended his preliminary hearing on charges that he raped three females – one being a 13-year-old girl, stating, “The details I heard in the preliminary hearing are so graphic they can’t be shared here.”
• Pro-Life Action League announces the observance of the National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children on September 14:
  

  The observance will be marked by simultaneous memorial services in cities from coast to coast at gravesites of aborted babies. This is the first time in the history of legalized abortion that such nationwide memorials will be conducted and thousands of people from across the country are expected to participate.

  Organizers may be needed in your area.

• Pro-Life Wisconsin shares an eye-opening video entitled, “You Deserve to Know the Truth about Contraception”:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/auv6c0-FsjU[/youtube]

[Gates photo via WomenDeliver.org; Costello photo via thedenverchannel.com]

by LauraLoo

Following the violent gang-rape of a New Delhi woman last year that made international headlines, engineering students in India have created anti-rape underwear that they say will prevent sexual assault.

Called Society Harnessing Equipment, or SHE, the device will deliver up to 82 electric shocks of 3,800 kV to an attacker, according to The Times of India. To prevent the wearer from being shocked, SHE’s inner side is “insulated with a polymer,” according to creators Niladri Basu, Manisha Mohan and Rimpi Tripathy, students at SRM University, Chennai.

The device is also equipped with GPS that can deliver alerts to police and the victim’s parents.

It’s reported that the ladies plan to mass produce their products for rollout this month.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3p1P7oZOY[/youtube]

Do you think this anti-rape underwear would be effective in preventing sexual assault?

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[HT: 89 WLS AM Chicago]

It is about reconnecting as humans with the dolphins so we can coexist in this world together and learn from one another….

Having that connection with the pod of dolphins anytime – even if the birth doesn’t happen in the water – still brings peace, comfort and strength to the mother and baby during labor.

~ Heather Barringer (pictured with husband Adam Barringer) explaining her decision to travel to Hawaii with her husband in order to achieve a dolphin-assisted childbirth, Charlotte Observer via CBS News, May 28

Video of the couple explaining their decision here.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• Andrea Mrozek writes about the death of notorious Canadian abortionist Henry Morgentaler:
  

  Abortion is the “choice” in that critical moment in a woman’s life when hope went on holiday.

  This is Morgentaler’s legacy: The death of a child, renamed a choice, and without limit in Canada.

  He deserves neither all the credit nor all the blame, of course. When the Supreme Court of Canada heard the now infamous Morgentaler case in 1988, their intention was not to bestow abortion as an unfettered right. Instead, the court went so far as to acknowledge a legitimate public interest in restricting abortion, and then threw the question back to Parliament — which has been holding the ball ever since.

• The Supreme Court in El Salvador has denied the petition of a woman with a high-risk pregnancy who requested an abortion by noting that the threat to her life is not immediate:
  

  The court recognized that Beatriz has lupus, but it said that her disease was currently under control and that the threat to her life “is not actual or imminent, but rather eventual.”

  It ordered that her health continue to be closely monitored, saying that if complications arose that put her right to life in imminent danger doctors “could proceed with interventions.”

  According to CNN, “Beatriz” is now 26 weeks pregnant with a child who has been diagnosed with anencephaly.

  While a number of abortion advocates have acted like Beatriz is knocking on death’s door and the court ruling is a death sentence for her, an article published yesterday in the New York Times reveals that’s not the case:
  

  But the case has its medical detractors as well. José Miguel Fortín Magaña, director of the Institute of Legal Medicine, which evaluates medical issues for the Supreme Court, acknowledged Beatriz’s medical problems but said that her health was currently under control and that she was not in danger at the moment.

  I believe abortion advocates have jumped on this case largely because Beatriz’s child has a serious birth defect, with the goal of helping to legitimize all abortions (regardless of whether the woman has health issues or if her child has defects).

• At the LA Times, Patt Morrison has a puff-piece interview with Alan Trounson, the president of California’s stem cell institute. The first sentence is patently absurd:
  

  In 2004, with President George W. Bush dead set against stem cell research, California just went ahead and did it.

[Photo of women protesting in body paint via New York Times]

by Hans Johnson

Among the witnesses at last Thursday’s Congressional hearing about a bill to ban abortions after 20 weeks gestation was Dr. Anthony Levatino of New Mexico. He had performed about 1,200 abortions before reassessing his career after the loss of his daughter in a tragic car accident.

The bill in question is called the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Said Dr. Levatino: “If you refuse to believe that this procedure inflicts severe pain on that unborn child, please think again.”

[youtube]http://youtu.be/8szDctI9lXM[/youtube]

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[HT: TheBlaze]

[W]hat’s notable is that rescuers recognized that this baby’s life was a life worth saving. His mother may have intended to discard and kill him, but those who freed him recognized that the mother’s desire for her child does not determine that child’s value.

But there is that nagging issue of a newborn baby crying for life in a four-inch sewage drain in China. If wantedness determines value, then firefighters wasted their time. But if value stems from elsewhere, then attempts to tether it to self-centered desires are not simply fruitless; they are fatal.

~ Gina L. Diorio, Live Action News, May 28

[Photo via LA Times]