by Kelli

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• Secular Pro-Life proposes the idea that there are only three reasons why women seek abortions: ignorance, coercion, and health concerns.
• Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life reports the disturbing fact that one-third of the state’s abortions are taxpayer-funded.
• Christina at RealChoice analyzes the new Live Action video featuring abortionist LeRoy Carhart, expressing surprise at her own feelings of shock when she viewed the footage. She also describes the reasons why Carhart may have likened the aborted child to “meat in a crock pot.”

• Right to Life Michigan shares happy news: a mentally disabled pregnant woman from Nevada who was potentially facing a forced abortion has given birth to a daughter, Cierra Marie (pictured left). An adoptive family has been found for her. RTL MI says, “pro-lifers from across the country created a backlash may have played a role in preventing a forced abortion and saving a life.”
• At Reproductive Research Audit, Dr. Jacqueline Harvey says the findings of a new Danish study on the abortion-breast cancer link are not to be trusted:
  

  [Christina] Braüner’s team studied a very limited segment of the population and misrepresented their findings. They stated they “did not find evidence of an adverse effect of induced abortion on breast cancer risk in parous (childbearing) older women overall….” But they didn’t look at parous women overall. They underestimated the risk of abortion by recruiting only women ages 50-65 and excluding all women already diagnosed with cancer. Pre-menopausal women were excluded, as were childless women, although there was no legitimate justification for it.

• Wesley J. Smith reports on a bioethicist who believes that “since fetuses and newborns can’t think, they essentially have a lower moral status than a “normal adult human being.” Smith points out:
  

  Please understand, this kind of discussion… seeks directly to change the morality of society and the public policies that flow therefrom. That’s what happened with eugenics, abortion, and license to dehydrate the cognitively impaired. If we are to prevent this next step – infanticide, and treating so-called human “non-persons” as natural resources – notice must be taken.

• At Pro-Life New Mexico, Tara Shaver points out that in New Mexico, Gosnell-like late-term abortion practices are going on every day at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque:
  

  An eyewitness saw… abortionist Shelly Sella [featured favorably in the movie After Tiller] stab a baby to death after the baby was born alive during an abortion….

  Horrific abortion injuries in New Mexico have been documented beginning in 2008…. Complaints were filed with the NM Medical Board regarding 11 abortion injuries at Southwestern Women’s Options….

  Abortion clinics in Albuquerque are never inspected by the Department of Health. These “clinics” are exempt from the Ambulatory Surgical Center classification and therefore abortionists do whatever they want under no scrutiny or accountability.

• Albert Mohler points out the anti-parental involvement mindset that seems to be driving public policy on matters of children and sexuality:
  

  … [M]arginalizing parents is one of the major aims of those who would educate our teenagers and children about sex, sexuality, and abortion. On May 8, Newsday reported that New York City public health officials are releasing a smartphone app for teenagers that will help them “locate free clinics that can answer questions about sex, prescribe birth control, test for sexually transmitted diseases, or even provide an abortion.” …

  On its welcome screen, the app declares: “Teens in NYC have the right to sexual health services without getting permission from parents, girlfriend/boyfriends or anyone else.”

  These “health authorities” are explicitly and proudly undermining parental authority and the rights of parents to be involved in the most important issues faced by their teenagers.

  But, keep in mind that the new sexual revolutionaries see parents as repressive factors to be removed and marginalized so that the nation’s adolescents can be fully liberated to experiment with sex.

[Photos via RTL-MI and mail.com]

This makes seven in eight months!

Great news comes from Michigan of yet another abortion clinic closing – Birth Control Center in Sterling Heights.

This makes the SEVENTH abortion mill to close in in the Great Lake State since last September.

As it seems with most abortuaries in Michigan, Birth Control Center has a storied past.

Birth Control Center was the state’s second oldest abortion clinic, incorporating on July 19, 1974.

It was Birth Control Center that brought a lawsuit in the late 1970s which struck down state licensing requirements for abortion clinics.

From the 1981 ruling, Birth Control Center Inc v. Reizen (then Michigan’s state health director), until pro-life legislators passed a clinic regulation law in 1999, first trimester abortion clinics there were completely unregulated.

Even after that, as we have seen with Gosnell’s clinic in Pennsylvania, most abortion clinics remained uninspected due to bureaucratic technicalities and foot-dragging.

But that began to change on on December 28, 2012, when Gov. Rick Snyder signed an omnibus anti-abortion “super bill” into law, requiring abortion clinics to be licensed as surgical outpatient facilities, among other things.

As Ed Rivet, Right to Life of Michigan’s legislative director, noted in an email, “It’s pretty apparent that BCC decided it would be too much trouble and expense to bring this clinic into compliance with the new licensing law.”

Added pro-life investigator Lynn Mills, who broke this story, “That is what makes this so sweet – BCC sued to have no regulations and is now apparently closing over regulations!”

Clinic owner and abortionist, Dr. Richard Goldfine, pictured left, still has what he calls an “obstetrical” practice in Bingham Farms, Michigan. Calls to BCC yesterday were referred there.

Michigan is now down to 26 surgical abortion clinics and two medical, for a total of 28, down from a high of 72.

by LauraLoo

Dreams came true for Justin Bychowski, student of Zion-Benton High School.  Winning by an overwhelming margin of votes, Justin was crowned Prom King on Saturday, May 4th.

Justin and his date are such a sweet couple! Congratulations for what most likely was one of their happiest days of their lives, thanks to the support of classmates:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2r7sazmElU[/youtube]

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We need two separate poll questions asked of the public. Hopefully Rasmussen or Gallup or Pew or someone is game. Question one: Does Ariel Castro deserve death? Question two: Does Ariel Castro deserve death for forcing one of his captives to miscarry?

I wonder if the number who say yes to question one will be greater than the number who say yes to question two, as illogical as that may be.

~ Allahpundit, suggesting poll questions based on the fate of kidnapper Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of kidnapping, raping, and torturing three women for ten years, Hot Air, May 9

Castro allegedly impregnated one of the women five times and forced her to miscarry by starving and beating her. Per the blog post: Under Ohio law, killing a woman’s child when it’s in the womb — if it’s against her wishes — constitutes aggravated murder. Prosecutors are considering seeking the death penalty.

Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards told The Hill a couple days ago she thrives on controversy.

Well, this news should really boost her endorphins.

Pro-life group Life Dynamics has launched an ambitious campaign to educate all of the nation’s personal injury attorneys of an enormous opportunity to file civil lawsuits on behalf of child sex abuse victims and their families against abortion clinics that did not report the crime.

Abortion clinic personnel in all 50 states are mandated reporters who must notify designated state agencies of suspected child sex abuse.

A minor girl coming to a clinic for an abortion, contraception, or STD testing/treatment is evidence that a potential sex crime has been committed against that child. Abortion clinics are not to investigate themselves, they are simply to report.

If it turns out abortion clinics did not comply with the mandatory reporting statute, and the abuse continued afterward, they and individual employees are liable, as are any and all who caused the girl to go there – school districts that gave a referral, relatives, etc.

Life Dynamics has mailed this dvd to 53,000 personal injury attorneys across the country explaining the law and opportunity…

[youtube]http://youtu.be/GiObeI-iURY[/youtube]

Life Dynamics has also prepared both English and Spanish ads to which PI attorneys can simply add their contact info…

[youtube]http://youtu.be/qz1t5z9gis8[/youtube]

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Life Dynamics’ president Mark Crutcher told me his phone has been ringing off the hook since the mailing.

“I’m spending night and day talking to these people, and they’re catching the vision about what this is about and the hundreds of thousands of potential clients,” Mark told me in a phone interview this week. “We are not exaggerating when we say this may be the largest criminal conspiracy in American history. It certainly dwarfs the pedophile priest issue, for which $3 billion has thus far been shelled out for only 10-15% of the cases.”

We certainly know there’s a there there.

In 2002, Crutcher conducted the first pro-life undercover sting when having an actress posing as a 13-yr-old who had been impregnated by her 22-yr-old boyfriend call 813 Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation clinics in the U.S. An appalling 91% of those clinics expressed a willingness to cover up statutory rape.

All phone conversations were recorded and can be heard here.

Several years later Live Action found the same willingness of several Planned Parenthood clinics to aid and abet sexual perpetrators of children.

In 2011, Americans United for Life documented several actual cases of Planned Parenthoods across the country covering up child sex abuse.

There are several ways to stop abortion. One would be to sue it to death.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Gosnell jury continues to hear the re-reading of testimony. Based on JD Mullane’s picture of the charges, the jury deliberations could take some time:
  

  The jurors are also apparently still wrestling with minor charges as well, asking to see files related to two babies that were allegedly aborted past Pennsylvania’s legal limit for abortions of 24 weeks. The panel of 12 also sent out a question asking if the medical files were the sole basis for the 227 misdemeanor charges against Gosnell for allegedly violating Pennsylvania’s 24-hour waiting period on abortions.

• At National Review Online, Michael New argues that greater availability of contraception (such as the morning-after pill) for younger women may actually result in increased sexual activity, rather than in decreasing the abortion rate.

• The New York Times covered Live Action’s InHuman video of abortionist LeRoy Carhart (pictured left). While writer Erik Eckholm says Carhart uses “some imprudent phrases while discussing the process of a late-term abortion,” the article is largely a defense of Carhart and fails to mention his blatant lies regarding the deaths of Jennifer Morbelli and Christin Gilbert:
  

  The new video captures the doctor, LeRoy H. Carhart, using some imprudent phrases while discussing the process of a late-term abortion with women posing as patients. At one point he describes a fetus that has died after an injection in the womb as softening like “meat in a Crock-Pot.” But the video provides no evidence of illegal action or subpar medical techniques.

  Other medical experts as well as defenders of abortion rights said the comparison with Dr. Gosnell, who seemed to show blatant disregard for his patients and the law, was misleading and unfair.

• Ramesh Ponnuru and Robert George call for Congress to hold hearings on how states regulate (or in some cases don’t regulate) abortion clinics:
  

  The grand-jury report suggests as well that the fact that the victims were poor and black partly explained the passivity of state officials. This claim, if true, strengthens the case that the state was failing to fulfill its legal duty. There is, of course, all too much precedent for such state failure to enforce civil rights granted by the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment contemplates such failure and offers a solution: Its fifth and concluding section confers upon Congress the power to enforce its substantive guarantees. In this case, power clearly implies duty. It is a power Congress has often used to force states to do the right thing, or to step in itself to bring justice where states refused.

[Photo via Daily Mail]

UPDATE 5/9 2:15p: Last night Representatives Fincher, Stutzman, and Blackburn introduced the House version of the Gosnell resolution, which calls on Congress to review illegal abortion practices.

Meanwhile, pro-abortion Senators Blumenthal, Boxer, and Shaheen are trying to block the Gosnell resolution in the Senate and have introduced a watered down resolution condemning bad behavior in medical facilities everywhere. Pro-life Senator Lee, pictured right, responded with a hoot of a gotcha. According to the Daily Caller, he said:

I am heartened and I think all Americans should be heartened and the entire pro-life movement should be heartened by the clear implication in this proposal that health regulations should be equitably applied and enforced on abortion clinics as they are on other healthcare facilities.

5/7 9:23a: Even as some on our side have begun to complain that Republicans are not taking advantage of the Gosnell massacre to introduce pro-life legislation, as Democrats did by introducing anti-gun legislation after the Newtown massacre, pro-life legislators and wonks have been and are working on it.

The first response was unveiled late yesterday, when pro-life Utah Republican U.S. Senator Mike Lee, along with 10 co-sponsors, introduced an as yet unnumbered resolution calling for Congress to “investigate and correct abusive, unsanitary, and illegal abortion practices.”

What abortion supporter interested in “safe” abortions could possibly oppose investigating and outing unsafe abortion clinics nationwide? We shall soon see.

The resolution also addresses an issue that is long overdue, to “evaluate the extent to which such abortions involved violations of the natural right to life of infants who are born alive or are capable of being born alive.”

The Born Alive Infants Protection Act was passed in 2002, but there has never been any follow-up to determine whether the law was being violated.

Since then, incidents have been reported of abortion survivors who were left to die, such as the baby who was born alive in a toilet in an Orlando, Florida, abortion clinic in 2005, and who clinic workers abandoned to die despite pleas from his mother; or the baby who was zipped still alive in a biohazard bag and thrown on the roof of a Hialeah, Florida, abortion clinic in 2006.

Lee’s resolution also addresses the issue of fetal pain, interstate trafficking for abortions, the woeful lack of abortion reporting among the states, unenforced abortion clinic regulations, and mentions as an example of unsafe abortion clinics the “meat market” that is Planned Parenthood of Delaware. It’s a great piece of work.

Again, let’s see who could possibly oppose such a common sense resolution, although my guess is it could start at the top….

https://twitter.com/notalemming/statuses/331529687228628992

by Hans Johnson

3-D sonogram pictures have become ever more clear in recent years. But what if one or both parents are blind?

Tecnologia Humana 3D in Brazil is among the companies who are able to provide the service of a printed 3D image of the child in order to form an accurate replica, such as this one at 26 weeks, pictured right (click to enlarge).

Parents will now be able to hold an image of their baby and judge his or her growth, in anticipation of that day when they truly do hold their baby.

This is a video from a company in Japan which uses the same technology:

[youtube]http://youtu.be/XUsCPO7poY8[/youtube]

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[HT: TheBlaze]