by LauraLoo

Shortly after Joni Eareckson Tada spoke at the National Religious Broadcasters’ Convention in March (see video below), her latest book, Joni & Ken: An Untold Love Story, was released.

Joni (a quadriplegic since age 17) and her husband Ken discuss their uncommon marriage – how it began well until the all-too-common problem of pain and emotional distance crept in. The couple shares candidly how the LORD restored their relationship and took their marriage from surviving to thriving, despite Joni’s trials of quadriplegia, chronic pain and cancer.

Multitudes have been encouraged and inspired by Joni.  By God’s grace, she helps others to be overcomers as well!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrO5fGSIyM8[/youtube]

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[HT: In the Market with Janet Parshall]

For those of you who don’t know, I am currently involved in a Medicaid fraud case that I brought against Planned Parenthood.

Please be in prayer for my legal team as they take on this abortion giant.

~ Former Planned Parenthood Employee of the Year Abby Johnson admitting the risk involved in litigating against PP, via her Facebook page, April 25

by Kelli

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• At Abortion Pill Risks, Monty Patterson interviews “Isis,” a college student who recently had a terrifying experience with RU-486, the abortion pill.
• Abortion in Washington compiles a post on the plethora of lawsuits against birth control manufacturers for various complications, including a possible 1,000 soon to be filed against Nuvaring.
• Big Blue Wave says an Australian doctor is under fire from pro-choicers for refusing to refer a couple for a sex-selective abortion. Again, we see just how “open” pro-choicers are to the idea of medical professionals asserting their conscience rights when it comes to abortion. They’re not.

• At Bound4Life, Natalie Brumfield discusses the completion of Students for Life’s Planned Parenthood Project, “a two-week bus tour [to eight] college campuses… [to] educate students on Planned Parenthood’s real agenda and where people can go for real help.” At each campus were 916 pink crosses (representing the number of abortions performed by PP daily) and eye-catching pink signs featuring facts on PP as well as other options for healthcare.
• At The Leading Edge, Chelsea Houghton gives reasons why she believes women should be more open to motherhood:
  

  We live in a world where everything is over planned and in our control. We plan and choose a life for ourselves. A specific career, marriage (or not marriage) at a certain age, this number of children at this age, travel, a house… Whether it is through this or from the negatives people are quick to say, this has created rather a fear of parenthood in our culture.

• Saynsumthn’s Blog reports on the conflicting statements given by Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood CEO Dayle Steinberg (pictured right) on Kermit Gosnell’s abortion practice. Did she or didn’t she know about the shoddy conditions and women’s deaths occurring there? In 2010, Steinberg said “she hadn’t heard of any problems at clinic until the allegations surfaced in recent days,” but later stated that women were leaving Gosnell’s clinic and “would complain to staff about the conditions there.” Patients were then allegedly encouraged to report Gosnell to the health department.
• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition shares an article by Susan Martinuk which points out that assisted suicide affects more than just the person seeking death:
  

  So there it is — the classic left-wing argument against almost everything. Not based on facts or statistics, or what has happened in other countries, but on emotional narratives that are loaded with words like compassion, “I feel,” and claims of “my body, “my choice” and the ignorant and naive assumption that this “will only affect me.”

  In sharp contrast, the reality is that giving individuals the right to die “on their own terms” has plenty of public implications. First of all, it involves the assistance of another and the assurance that society will not stand in the way. Therefore, it is very much a public, not private, act. By giving doctors the right to help their patients die, the legalization of euthanasia would also influence the kind of medical care that the rest of society receives.

[Photos via Bound4Life and Saynsumthn]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• At the Washington Post, Erik Wemple busts NARAL president Ilyse Hogue’s obvious lie that NARAL was “first out of the gate to call attention to [the Gosnell] case”:
  

  Having done precisely 3,454 Nexis and Internet search on the Gosnell case, we missed the part where NARAL had led a charge to highlight the alleged atrocities in West Philadelphia. So we Nexised again, checking on NARAL’s footprint around the time that Gosnell was indicted in January 2011. Not much there. When asked to provide news releases or other evidence of activism around that time, NARAL didn’t provide anything.

• Kirsten Powers has another column devoted to the Gosnell case in which she shares a conversation she had with a woman who went to Gosnell after being referred there by a NAF-affiliated clinic in Maryland and whose child’s foot was one of the feet stored by Gosnell:
  

  When she was 16, [Desiree] Hawkins sought an abortion at a National Abortion Federation-certified abortion clinic, Hagerstown (Md.) Reproductive Health Services. The clinic told her she was 19 weeks pregnant and referred her to Gosnell. When she recently retrieved her file in anticipation of testifying, she was shocked that her sonogram showed she had in fact been at 21 weeks, which meant she would have been 23 weeks pregnant by the time Gosnell performed the abortion.“I was so overwhelmed and hurt,” said Hawkins. “If I had known I was 23 weeks, I would have (chosen) adoption.”

  She also would have avoided the trauma visited upon her by Gosnell. Hawkins described the licensed medical professional as laughing at her during the procedure as she cried and begged him to stop because of the pain. “Stop being a baby,” he said.

  Video footage of Hawkins via LifeNews below:

“The picture itself is horrible…” Another Story from 3801 Lancaster from 3801Lancaster on Vimeo.

by Hans Johnson

That’s the question Dan Joseph of MRC-TV asked sightseers at the Lincoln Memorial:

Both sides in the notoriously underreported murder trial of the Philadelphia abortion doctor have now rested. Jury deliberation begins today.

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[HT: Jill]

Recall the Livonia, Michigan, pro-life businessman who bought an abortion clinic property earlier this month and then banned it from being sold to an abortionist.

If you own business property, you, too, can deed restrict it so it can never be sold to an abortion business. From Dave Theisen at Real Estate for Life comes three simple steps:

1. Identify the property’s legal address.

2. Prepare the language best suited for the community you are in.* (Example: “No chemical or surgical abortions may be referred from this property or performed on this property [legal address] into perpetuity.”)

3. Incorporate the concepts: This restriction shall run with the land, and the deed restriction is for the benefit of the local community.

*It is important to have the restriction prepared by an attorney to be efficacious and to be in recordable form for the county Register of Deeds. Always consult an attorney, as practices vary from region to region.

Back to that Livonia property, pro-abortion vandals have since defaced the “For Lease” sign, which may have given them a laugh, but it doesn’t change the deed restriction…

Planned Parenthood cannot afford to condemn any abortion, after birth, partial birth, they can’t condemn any. They can’t take action in one way, one syllable, one word, they can’t oppose any type of abortion or they destroy their own purpose.

To Planned Parenthood, every abortion is good, every pregnancy is a potential disease, every pregnancy is the result of male domination. Every abortion equals female freedom and emancipation. Every abortion equals women saying, “Screw you.”

Barack Obama, who, as a senator in Illinois, actively, maybe more than any other legislation, supported the idea that a baby surviving a botched abortion should go ahead and be killed, because that was the original intention of the mother. And when we’re talking about the original intention of abortion, we should always be loyal to it.

Now, the original intention of the Constitution, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no. The Constitution’s a living, breathing document. The female body is not….

Last week Barack Obama talking about what happened in Boston said, “If we can save just one child. If we can save just one child,” and today Obama goes and celebrates an abortion factory and closes by saying “God bless you” to Planned Parenthood.

~ Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, reacting to President Obama’s speech at a Planned Parenthood event in DC last week, RushLimbaugh.com, April 26

[Photo via illuminatielitemaldita.blogspot.com]

Last week American Life League tried to run a full page ad in the New York Times and Washington Post that showed images from actual Planned Parenthood sex education materials for kids as young as 10 years old.

Both newspapers rejected the ad as “too graphic” and “shocking” for their adult readers to see. But the images are okay for kids in the classroom to see – at taxpayer expense.

I have ALL’s ad posted on page 2. WARNING: It’s too vulgar to run on page 1.

The backstory from ALL:

To raise public awareness about Planned Parenthood’s controversial sex education – more accurately described as sexual indoctrination – ALL planned a series of advertisements revealing what and how children are really taught in PP’S so-called “comprehensive sex education.” These are programs that are already in many schools and will reach all public schools as currently mandated in Obamacare.

The Washington Post rejected the advertisement simply saying that, without disguising the pictures, it was “too graphic.” The only images in the ad are from Planned Parenthood-endorsed sources. If they are too graphic for adults reading the Washington Post, then they certainly should not be in elementary school classrooms.

Likewise, the New York Times offered to run the ad only if ALL would agree to blur the pictures. Its staff suggested that they could run a disclaimer saying, “Image too shocking for the New York Times audience. To see actual image and for more information, please visit: http://www.all.org/pdf/PP_HookingKids.pdf.”

ALL is asking concerned citizens to demand that all federal funding for Planned Parenthood be cut. Visit StopPlannedParenthood.com for more information.

“Planned Parenthood is not in the healthcare business, it is in the sex industry,” added Brown. “More than half of its $1 billion budget comes from tax dollars, and the organization stands to gain another billion dollars through Obamacare. It must end.”

Click to enlarge. Get pdf here.