2:27p: Per CNN’s David Ariosto (via Twitter): ‘The jury in the Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell case has reached a verdict on all 263 counts.”

Now waiting the verdict. Courtroom locked down. All electronic equipment ordered off, reporters banned from leaving courtroom until all the results are read.

2:30p: On Fox News, Megyn Kelly says she just saw an ultrasound of her 24-week-old baby, which is the age Pennsylvania law currently limits abortion.

2:43p: @PhillyInquirer on Twitter: “It could be an hour or more before the Gosnell verdict is disseminated. The jury must convey its decision on each of the 250+ charges.”

3:17p: From @jdmullane on Twitter: “Phila abortionist Kermit #Gosnell guilty 1st degree murder in 3 of 4 babies.“

3:22p: From @Fox News on Twitter: “BREAKING: #Gosnell found guilty in 3 of the 4 first-degree murder charges.”

3:25p: From @jdmullane on Twitter: “Courtroom fell silent as #Gosnell found guilty of murdering babies A, C and D. He faces death in each case.”

3:35p: From @jdmullane on Twitter: “#Gosnell found not guilty in death of Baby E, who was heard emitting a single baby sound before neck was cut.”

3:55p: Who was Baby E? From the Grand Jury report:

We recommend that a murder charge be filed against Kermit Gosnell for the murder of “Baby E,” a baby that Ashley Baldwin heard crying before Gosnell killed it. Ashley testified that she heard the baby cry in the large procedure room, the one used for later-term abortions, and saw the baby moving. She said Lynda Williams summoned Dr. Gosnell, who then went into the procedure room where the baby was.

Kareema Cross testified that Ashley had called her over, and that she heard this baby “whine” once while Dr. Gosnell was alone in the procedure room with the baby. Ashley confirmed that Gosnell was the only person in the room with Baby E. When he came out of the room, the baby was dead. Gosnell put the baby’s remains in a waste bin. Ashley saw an incision in Baby’s E’s neck.

4:25: CNN Breaking News on Twitter: “#Gosnell was also found guilty of 21 counts of abortion of the unborn, 24 weeks or older. http://on.cnn.com/15Gugpj”

4:30p: CNN Breaking News on Twitter: “Gosnell also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in anesthetic overdose in 2nd-trimester abortion.“

by LauraLoo

Unconventional Cher and her mom Georgia Holt were recently interviewed by Ellen DeGeneres.

That this happened at all is a testimony to the sanctity of life. According to Breitbart, May 9:

Cher, one of Planned Parenthood’s biggest cheerleaders, was almost aborted by her mother.

Georgia Holt was 20-years old, separated from her husband and pregnant. She moved back in with her mother who told her to get an abortion or get back together with her husband. She decided on an abortion and scheduled the procedure. LifeSite News reports:

I can remember the chairs were chrome [in the clinic], and I was sweating,” she recounted. “The sweat was just coming off of me on this chrome and when the door opened and it was my turn, I said, ‘Mother, I can’t do it.’ So, that’s how she’s here.

This has not stopped Cher from defending Planned Parenthood and justifying abortion.

Cher, her sister Georganne, and Georgia appeared on Ellen to tout a rereleased cd of Georgia’s, originally recorded in 1980,  this time with Cher accompanying. Back in the day Georgia had her own singing and tv career. The new cd is being released right before Georgia’s 87th birthday!

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Say what you will about Cher, but she and her mother look AMAZING.

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[Photo via Perez Hilton]

This is the third year I’ve worked with them on their annual Mama’s Day campaign. It’s a campaign that seeks to shift the narrative on motherhood, and specifically bring love and light to the mamas who are more often demonized by our political climate and our media than celebrated. These means mamas of color, immigrant mamas, queer mamas, young mamas, incarcerated mamas and more.

This is the second year we’ve tried to do this by creating an ecard tool, with fabulous art by activist artists, that people can use to send cards to the caregivers in their lives, but also to create strong messages to share anywhere online.

~ Miriam Zoila Pérez describing her work with the radical cultural transformation advocacy group, Forward Together, which produces the alternative Mama’s Day ecard tools, Radical Doula, May 10

[Photo of lesbian mothers ecard (click to enlarge) via Mama’s Day]

New York Daily News adds more details.

Happy Mother’s Day!

Here were my top five favorite cartoons this week, beginning with a bittersweet Mother’s Day tribute to one of the Cleveland hostages’ moms, who passed away before knowing her daughter was alive. But Amanda Berry is indeed alive and now has her own daughter, Jocelyn, the clearly much loved child of her rapist. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite cartoon in the poll at the bottom of this post.

by Jeff Darcy at Cagle.com…

 I haven’t been this offended by a liberal cartoon in a long time. But Steve Benson at GoComics.com has disgusted me, managing to tie abortion, contraceptive coverage(?!), and “no respect for rape victims” to a horrific story where one of three kidnap victims was beaten and starved until she miscarried five times. She certainly was given no “choice.” It is for this reason her captor may get the death penalty. But to abortion proponents, no story is unrelated to their sick blood lust…

 I’ll be interested to read your take on South Carolina Republican Mark Sanford’s election to Congress. Here’s liberal Jim Morin’s take, at GoComics.com…

 by Glenn Foden at Townhall.com…

 by Jerry Holbert at Townhall.com…

Blessed are all who fear the Lord
     and live his way.
You will certainly eat what your own
     hands have provided.
Blessings to you!
May things go well for you!
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine
     inside your home.
Your children will be like young olive
     trees around your table.
This is how the Lord will bless the person who fears him.
May the Lord bless you from Zion
     so that you may see Jerusalem prospering
     all the days of your life.
May you live to see your children’s children.
Let there be peace in Israel!

~ Psalm 128, God’s Word translation

by Hans Johnson

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!

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I’ll answer that: with tasteless and tactless audacity, from the top down.

As the Weekly Standard noted, “The White House is marking Mother’s Day… by celebrating free birth control provided by Obamacare“….

Thanks to the #ACA, 1 in 3 women under 65 gained access to preventive care—like birth control—with no out-of-pocket costs. #HappyMothersDay

— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) May 10, 2013

To put a bow on his warped present, President Obama regifted the nation’s women at his Mother’s Day party yesterday with who else in the audience but representatives of Planned Parenthood, of course.

This year, abortion proponents are bawdily celebrating a day they make their living exploting women to avoid at all costs, even with their own lives. They have gone so far as to rename it “Mama’s Day,” creating a #mamasday hashtag on Twitter.

The pro-abortion group Strong Families has posted e-cards you can send, which can look pretty scary…

or present a perverted view of motherhood…

Sigh…

But yet there is still our voice of reason, for which we know all innately yearn, even if confused and deceived by aberrationists. Charmaine Yoest, President and CEO of Americans United for Life, and happily married mother of five, has written this word of comfort…

Yet, motherhood is not lost, even if the winds of popular opinion seek to redefine it.  Motherhood is still based upon the sacrifices of a woman for her family, her strength to carry on despite challenging circumstances, and her ingenuity in redeeming beauty out of despair.  Forty years of Roe has attempted to skew the notion of motherhood… and with that womanhood.  The pain of legalized abortion, which has been neither safe nor rare, has wounded the feminine heart and her natural gift of motherhood.

In spite of this tragic cultural shift, the pro-life movement has spent the past 40 years healing women, protecting children, and restoring hearts touched by the pain of abortion.  And while Mother’s Day may seem a day of grief to many who have lost a child, a sister or a mother, we know that motherhood stretches beyond a role or a biological reality: motherhood is a commitment to love.  When we help the less fortunate, hold the hand of the fearful, embrace the heart of the lonely, we redeem motherhood in our communities.  As we nurture those in need of affirmation and walk beside the brokenhearted, when tender compassion is the mark of our life’s journey, we heal the rift, the separation, the alienation of motherhood in our culture.

And as we move towards renewal of motherhood, we heal the pain of Roe, and in turn transform our culture into one that accepts the dignity, the worth, the value of all persons.  And we will continue our work until all are welcomed in life and protected in law.

Your thoughts on pro-abort attempts to hijack all that Mother’s Day means?

Reporter:What about the trial in Philadelphia of the doctor, Kermit Gosnell? Is there any role at all that Congress could play to ensure that what’s happened at that clinic isnt happening elsewhere? 

Pelosi: I think what went on there, and I only know what you all report on it, is it’s really disgusting. It’s really disgusting, and when we talk about women’s reproductive health, that’s not what we’re talking about.

~ Pro-abortion Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, May 9; video below…

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[HT: Real Clear Politics]