In every war, U.S. soldiers have given their lives for freedom and justice. We dishonor these fallen heroes when as a culture we tolerate the injustice of abortion.

~ Pro-life abolitionist Andy Moore on Facebook, May 27

While enjoying the day with family and friends, as I will be (at Disney!), take time out to commemorate those who have fallen to preserve your freedom.

Here, Trace Adkins sings Till the Last Shot’s Fired with the West Point Cadet Glee Club at the Country Music Awards in 2009…

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Campaigns such as #NoTeenPreg, launched by the Candies Foundation, present young mothers as inherently problematic – to themselves, their families, and their communities.

The Candies Foundation isn’t the first organization to shame young parents and unfortunately it won’t be the last.

~ Choice USA criticizing the Candies Foundation campaign to reduce teen pregnancy, May 23

by Hans Johnson

Johanna Quaas, an 11-time  German senior champion, set a  record for gymnasts by competing last year at the Cottbus Challenge Cup – at the age of 86!

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Last weekend we focused on abortion proponents. This week we analyze ourselves. This weekend’s question comes again from good friend Josh Brahm, Director of Education and Public Relations, Right to Life of Central California:

What are the most frustrating or annoying things that pro-life people do that shuts down good dialogue? Stories are welcome.

[Photo, via Getty Images, is of pro-life activist Randall Terry interrupting a town hall meeting hosted by pro-abortion Democrat U.S. Rep. James Moran of Virginia in 2009]

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Rabbi Edward Cohn of Temple Sinai, talks about compassion and open mindedness during a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Planned Parenthood health center at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of New Orleans on Clairborne Avenue, May 22, 2013.

~ On Planned Parenthood’s plans to build a 7,000 sq ft abortion clinic in New Orleans, “the first Planned Parenthood clinic in Louisiana that will offer the procedure,” according to The Times-Picayune, May 22

[Photo via The Times-Picayune]

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

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• Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights without Frontiers shows that violence in China isn’t limited to the preborn. It extends to men whose “crime” is fathering more than the allowable number of children.
• Wesley J. Smith warns that the U.S. can expect to see in ten years under Obamacare what we currently see under the National Health Service in the UK. Quality of life medical decisions could mean more than just discrimination for the disabled.

• Bryan Kemper of Stand True reintroduces a t-shirt design that was very popular in the 1990’s but began to lose favor as pro-lifers became concerned about offending others. Kemper says we should “be offended that this act of homicide exists as a legally protected right in the first place.”
• ProWomanProLife focuses on the beauty of adoption over the tragedy of abortion with the story of Ryan Bomberger, who was adopted after being conceived in rape. In defending abortion, the industry points to conception during rape as the ultimate tragedy justifying the need for abortion. Bomberger puts a human face on this issue.
• Pro-Life Action League recently assisted pro-life citizens of Fairfax, Virginia, in battling an abortionist’s request to open a “mega mill” abortion facility. The swift action and pressure from the pro-life community caused the abortionist to withdraw his application the day before the city council meeting (which was nearly filled to capacity with citizens ready to voice their opposition). PLAL offers their expertise and assistance to all pro-lifers who are fighting to keep abortion clinics out of their communities.

• Secular Pro-Life says “facts are not gaffes” when it comes to the recent comments of E. W. Jackson (pictured right), candidate for Lt. Governor in Virginia. Jackson dared to state the fact that “Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was”:
  

  In 2011, the last year for which figures are available, Planned Parenthood performed 333,964 abortions in the United States. Nationally, 37% of abortions are performed on black women, according to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. We can therefore surmise that in one year alone, Planned Parenthood killed approximately 123,567 unborn African-American children….

[T]he number of blacks killed by the KKK, in its entire history, does not approach 123,567.

• Bud Shaver of Stand for Life wonders if the fear of losing their 501(c)(3) statuses (thanks to the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups) might cause churches to fear man more than they fear God. Shaver says we should look to the past for guidance:
  

  The most frustrating thing about all this is that it doesn’t have to be the legacy we leave for posterity! Our churches and pastors in 2013 should learn from the past and realize what the religious leadership of the Civil Rights Era accomplished! They peacefully took to the streets in protest and ended the greatest injustice of their generation! PROTEST is the key. Protest is what ended that injustice, and protest is what will end this injustice [abortion].

Feminists used the same two men as both good and bad tools yesterday.

Pro-abortion Reps Jerry Nadler and John Conyers were good tools when lauding abortion…

Thanks to #prochoice @RepJerryNadler & @repjohnconyers for speaking out against #HR1797 in opening statements. #NoHR1797

— Reproductive Freedom for All (@reproforall) May 23, 2013

… but bad tools in the feminist photo op. Click to enlarge…

There they are on the far right, with their male counsel sitting between them – who did come in handy when nudging the incoherent Rep. Conyers to stop talking, a little while after Conyers gave a shout-out to Pepto pink-clad Planned Parenthood employees…

Had the witnesses all been male, feminists would have aimed the camera their way. But that wouldn’t have worked yesterday, since two of the three pro-life witnesses were female.

It is true there are no women on this subcommittee, but it’s not only on the Republican side. Democrats have none either. There are five female Democrats on the full Judiciary Committee, and any one of them could have asked to be assigned to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, where abortion does come up quite a bit.  But it’s not important to them. Any one of them could have asked to attend this particular hearing as well. But it wasn’t important to them. And they would have ruined the picture.

Toward the end of the hearing Rep. Franks showed two photos of a mutilated late-term aborted baby taken by former employees of abortionist Douglas Karpen. A member of the Susan B. Anthony List team snapped a picture of Rep. Nadler refusing to look at the photos as Rep. Franks explained them. “He then rubbed his eyes in boredom,” noted SBA List…

Operation Rescue has more thoughts on those particular photos being shown in the hearing, which OR retrieved from the employees.

As for the pro-abortion side’s sole witness – a post-abortive mother – Drew Belsky at Live Action, who attended the hearing, has good insights. Sad to say, she, too, was a pro-abortion tool. At the end of the hearing, when Rep. Nadler asked her if she had anything to add, she said something to the effect, “My abortion was nothing like the abortions described here today.” I’m sure she had her eyes opened. I felt bad for her. She, of course, was wrong about that.

If you want to see any of the video clips, including my testimony, go here.

Drudge is currently spotlighting LifeNews.com’s piece on former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino’s gripping testimony from the hearing.

[Top photo via Live Action]