by Hans Johnson

Does it take being in touch with “your inner child” to be pro-life? Hopefully not, but it would be much harder not to be, wouldn’t it?

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Here’s a previous, similar commercial.

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[HT: TheBlaze]

When they handed me the 3D sonogram and I saw Sarah’s perfect lips and that little Norwegian nose just like mine, I was overcome with a sense of clarity in the world that I can only imagine is beginning of fatherhood. We’re so excited and can’t wait to meet him.

~ Eric Christian Olsen, star of NCIS: Los Angeles, who is expecting his first baby in August with actress wife Sarah Wright, as quoted by People magazine, April 17

Yesterday President Barack Obama made history, becoming the first sitting president to address a Planned Parenthood event.

President and CEO of PP Cecile Richards introduced Obama. If you would like to skip her intro and jump directly to Obama’s speech, go to 6:20 on the video.

There were many take-aways.

For instance, the word “abortion” was never mentioned, only the “right to choose.” And at the end of his speech President Obama asked God’s blessing on this, the United States’ largest abortion provider, which murders 350,000 babies every year.

What were other points of interest did you note in either Obama or Richards’ speech?

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

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• At Reproductive Research Audit, Dr. Jacqueline Harvey shows that a study which attempted to prove the safety of webcam “telemed” abortions actually shows a potentially greater risk to women:
  

  Even if the authors could support the claim that tele-medicine (or “tele-med”) contributed to the modest reduction in late-term abortions, they still fail to note medical abortions have greater rates of complications than surgical abortions.

• ProLife NZ reveals that not only is a war on women taking place through gendercide, but aborted preborn girls’ ovaries are being used (with the aborting mother’s permission) for research and infertility treatments:
  

  Sex-selective abortion highlights the paradox of campaigning for abortion as a woman’s rights issue yet condemning innocent baby girls to death at the hands of an abortionist simply for being girls, which is profoundly anti-woman.

• The New Feminism applauds Boston College (pictured left; a Jesuit college) for addressing the sex-saturated culture on campus which had been promoted under the guise of “sexual health” until certain objections were made to campus authorities:
  

  The college has reminded the [BC Students for Sexual Health] that the promotion of sport sex on campus is inconsistent with the college’s policies toward the sanctity of life, and has scheduled a meeting with them on April 29 to discuss their condom and sport sex advocacy.

The group is not happy about the crackdown on their promotion of “responsible” sex parties.

• Right to Life of Michigan notes an MLive columnist’s reaction to pro-choice objections over Michigan’s “legislation to regulate and inspect abortion clinics (known as the Prolife Bus),” in light of the Kermit Gosnell trial:
  

  Enacting legislation to ensure a clean, sanitary facility has nothing whatsoever to do with a woman’s choice to have an abortion.

It has everything to do, though, with… what happens – especially with respect to the mother’s health – at the time the abortion is being performed (a child is being killed, that’s a given). Moreover, it is but the slightest step necessary to ensure that physicians who are overzealous, careless, or unconscionable do not slaughter children outside the womb as readily as they would inside the womb.

• What about all those “unwanted” babies? ProWomanProLife features an uplifting video that reveals “the side of pro-lifers the media doesn’t show”:

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[Photo via bc.edu]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• NBC New York: Police are investigating the report of an “apparent human fetus” in a trash bag:
  

  Police are investigating a report of an apparent human fetus found inside a trash bag on a Queens sidewalk Wednesday evening.

  A neighbor in East Elmhurst called 911 after spotting a black trash bag in front of her home at 99th Street and 31st Avenue.

  She told police she kicked the bag, then reached in and saw a jar containing what looked like a human fetus.

• More than 100 Irish psychiatrists have signed a statement saying that abortion shouldn’t be legalized for threat of suicide:
  

  [Consultant from Navan Hospital] Dr [Bernie] McCabe said: “I am not surprised that so many of our colleagues agree that the proposed legislation is flawed. As members of the medical profession, we have a duty to our patients to adopt best practice and an evidence-based approach to everything we do.

  The fact is that there is no evidence that abortion is a treatment for suicidality in pregnancy and may in fact be harmful to women. The Government must take this into account and reconsider its proposals.”

• A Georgia man has been charged in the death of his girlfriend and their unborn child:
  

  Carlos Jerome Simpson was indicted Tuesday by a DeKalb grand jury on charges of murder, felony murder – killing someone while committing a felony – aggravated assault and possession of a gun during the commission of a felony.

  Simpson, 23, allegedly shot and killed Shikira Dunson outside his home on Feb. 18.

  The 20-year-old Dunson was five months pregnant, so prosecutors added the charge of feticide, defined by Georgia law as willfully and without legal justification causing the death of an unborn child by any injury to the mother.

• Another man charged with killing his wife and unborn child now faces two 1st degree murder charges after authorities searched his computer:
  

  The day before Margorie Holland died, Roger Holland made Internet searches asking: “if you pass out and fall down a flight of stairs, can you break your neck,” according to the criminal complaint against him.

  He made similar searches multiple times before that, Backstrom said.

  Police found Margorie Holland at the bottom of a flight of stairs in the couple’s Apple Valley townhouse — though the county medical examiner concluded she died of strangulation, not a fall down the stairs.

[Photo via ajc.com]

by LauraLoo

From Chris Fabry Live…

A Texas father’s letter to Victoria’s Secret, taking the company to task, has gone viral:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIMonVz2qRs[/youtube]

Many agree with him. Dr. Rosalie de Rosset, author of Unseduced and Unshaken, presents a theology of modesty (video, page 2). What are your thoughts? [Read the rest of this entry…]

UPDATE 4/26, 11:00p: So much for not wanting to be filmed. Obama’s speech to Planned Parenthood will be live streamed this morning, to begin at 11:20a, here.

We also now know the Planned Parenthood event is being held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., according to The Christian Post.

[HT: Kristina at CRC Public Relations and Mallory at Susan B. Anthony List]

4/24, 4:21p In a perfect pro-abortion world, the White House would proudly boast of President Obama’s plans to keynote a Planned Parenthood Federation of America event.

Particularly after his 2012 War on Women conquest, Obama should relish the opportunity to take a victory lap with his pro-abortion bff, PP CEO Cecile Richards, and all that Planned Parenthood stands for – contraception, abortion, and reproductive FREEEEDOM! (imagining that as Braveheart would say it).

But as quickly as the White House let slip that Obama would be attending Planned Parenthood’s annual gala tomorrow, it has retreated. Reported the Washington Times today:

President Obama has canceled plans to deliver a keynote address at Planned Parenthood’s annual fundraising dinner Thursday night after critics decried his high-profile role at the abortion rights group amid new concerns about the brutality of illegal forms of abortion.

White House spokesman Jay Carney… attributed the schedule change to Mr. Obama’s desire to spend more time at a memorial service in Waco, Texas, for family members of the victims of the fertilizer plant explosion.

Mr. Carney said the president will still address Planned Parenthood and its supporters Friday morning. Still, the shift to a lower-profile address at a more low-key morning event, rather than an evening gala fundraiser, is significant.

Earlier this week, abortion opponents pressed Mr. Obama to rescind his agreement to speak at the Planned Parenthood fundraiser, considering the gruesome revelations emanating from the trial of Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell.

An interesting side note is it has been impossible thus far to find out where the Planned Parenthood event is actually being held. All PP will say is it’s in Washington, DC, somewhere. Our people have been calling reporter friends, etc., and no one seems to know.

Since Obama is now speaking Friday morning, this must be some sort of conference and not just a one-night stand for “supporters and national and local leaders from across the country,” as the PP press release portrays attendees.

This shroud of secrecy is another sign pro-lifers are having a negative impact on PP. PP appears to be trying to stave off our protesters, and/or President Obama prefers not to give us any more video or photo opps.

This is not a good news cycle to be pro-abortion, and particularly to be associated with Planned Parenthood, since a PP lobbyist recently indicated infanticide is a-okay, and a PP affiliate CEO let slip PP knew all about mass murdering abortionist Kermit Gosnell but did not report him. Of course, Obama is vulnerable on Gosnell as well.

I wonder if Seals and Crofts would be allowed to sing Unborn Child on campus?

~ Professor William Jacobson wondering if the 70s folk group Seals and Crofts would be welcome on college campuses today, given the intolerance for pro-life displays in colleges and universities, Legal Insurrection, April 21

Click the link to view the YouTube video of the 1974 single “Unborn Child” here.