As reported by The Weekly Standard…

Florida legislators considering a bill to require abortionists to provide medical care to an infant who survives an abortion were shocked during a committee hearing this week when a Planned Parenthood official endorsed a right to post-birth abortion.

Alisa LaPolt Snow [pictured right] the lobbyist representing the Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates, testified that her organization believes the decision to kill an infant who survives a failed abortion should be left up to the woman seeking an abortion and her abortion doctor.

“So, um, it is just really hard for me to even ask you this question because I’m almost in disbelief,” said Rep. Jim Boyd. “If a baby is born on a table as a result of a botched abortion, what would Planned Parenthood want to have happen to that child that is struggling for life?”

“We believe that any decision that’s made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician,” said PP lobbyist Snow.

Rep. Daniel Davis then asked Snow, “What happens in a situation where a baby is alive, breathing on a table, moving. What do your physicians do at that point?”

“I do not have that information,” Snow replied. “I am not a physician, I am not an abortion provider. So I do not have that information.”

Rep. Jose Oliva followed up, asking the Planned Parenthood official, “You stated that a baby born alive on a table as a result of a botched abortion that that decision should be left to the doctor and the family. Is that what you’re saying?”

Again, Snow replied, “That decision should be between the patient and the health care provider.”

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Florida HB1129 defines the term “born alive” almost as the federal Born Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 did. An amendment to HB1129 added the federal BAIPA’s “neutrality clause.”

But HB1129 went further than the federal BAIPA by adding, as the sponsor testified (beginning at 11:02) during the committee hearing:

1. Parity, that regardless of how a born alive infant entered the world – natural birth, c-section, or abortion – s/he shall be treated with the same degree of professional skill, care, and diligence. The bill provided that a born alive baby would immediately be transported to a hospital.

2. “Infant born alive” becomes a reportable item.

3. Surrender – “A work in progress,” according to the sponsor. The bill’s language originally assumed the baby was not wanted, since the mother had just paid to have him or her killed, and should be immediately surrendered to the state. The sponsor said an amendment was being crafted for the unique circumstance when an abortion was necessary for the health of the mother, which meant mean she likely would still want the infant born alive and give it loving care.

It was into this bill language mix that PP lobbyist Alisa LaPolt Snow stepped in.

The problems PP had with the bill were providing care, transport, and surrender.

The former two are problems state Sen. Barack Obama had with a separate companion bill (page 33) to Illinois’ Born Alive Infants Protection Act, which for all intents and purposes was saying the same thing, that medical care of abortion survivors was to be taken out of the hands of the doctor who had been paid to kill them:

[A]n additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make thee assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion….

Obama agreed with Snow that, regarding the care of abortion survivor, as Snow testified, “any decision that’s made should be left up to the woman, her family, and the physician.”

Snow was simply less artful than Obama. Plus, Obama had and still has the public and media snowed, as the Washington Post’s Josh Hicks demonstrated:

Granted, we don’t know why Obama voted against the 2003 bill that included a clause to protect abortion rights…. Nonetheless, we find it hard to fathom that the former senator expressed a belief that human life is disposable outside the womb.

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

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• LTI’s Scott Klusendorf recently had a conversation with a woman who is personally pro-life but can’t understand “how anyone could tell a woman who is raped that it’s wrong to have one.”
• Brendan Malone of The Leading Edge announces his upcoming project, LifeTV, which will attempt to answer questions regarding pro-life issues:

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• Americans United for Life announces a contest for law students to “envision the language of life in writing a mock Supreme Court opinion laying the intellectual framework for overturning Roe v. Wade.” There will be special awards for the top three winners.
• At Coming Home, Dr. Gerard Nadal begins a series on the challenges of the North Dakota personhood amendment, starting with the issue of ectopic pregnancies.
• Via ProLifeBlogs, Papa Mike’s Blog notes the Obama administration’s continued funding (to the tune of $350M) of sexual indoctrination classes for children – while denying White House tours to those same children.

• Abstinence Clearinghouse applauds 25-year-old The Bachelor star Sean Lowe (pictured left) and his finalist fiancée Catherine for pledging to remain abstinent until marriage. Sean was previously sexually active, but seeks to now approach his relationships differently – a choice sometimes known as “born again virginity” or “secondary virginity.” The article explores society’s incredulity toward young, “desirable” individuals who choose abstinence.
• The Guiding Star Project shares a post from a mother who received a poor prenatal diagnosis for her child and did not receive the support she was hoping for:
  

  In the next month, we met with a specialist. We had settled down from the shock and we were ready to meet the doctor who was going to save our baby. He spoke with us in detail about our child’s condition and what would happen in the coming months. And then BAM! It came. “Do you want to terminate the pregnancy?” I felt sick. I had not expected this. I was supposed to put all my confidence in this doctor. He was supposed to save my child but yet he did not care if I wanted to kill her. Did he not just say this was a treatable condition? Is there something he was not telling us?

• Big Blue Wave posts on the “strategic” lawsuit brought against LifeSiteNews by former Canadian MP and Catholic priest Raymond Gravel for “defamation, contempt and incitement to hatred” because they dared to actually publish some of his actual comments on life issues. Relevant video begins at 3:30:

[Bachelor photo via Celebrity News and Style]

by LauraLoo

In commemoration of the greatest event in human history, we celebrate the victory of Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, for defeating Satan and saving all sinners who turn to and trust in Jesus’ finished work at the cross for full forgiveness of sins.  And, being God, Jesus defeated death and rose from the dead – becoming the forerunner for all His children who likewise someday will also rise from the dead and be with Him for all eternity!

Different versions of the Gospel can be found here, here and here.

The Crucifixion Scene from “The Passion of the Christ”
Warning: Gory (not suitable for children or very sensitive adults)

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“How to be Saved” by Dr. Charles Stanley

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“Jesus Paid It All” sung by Kristian Stanfill

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Hallelujah, what a Savior! Have a blessed Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday!

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Nothing is going the pro-aborts’ way except through political or judicial maneuvering. In other words, they are only able to keep themselves from going under by hook or by crook.

This is unsustainable. The trajectory is on the side of Life. A Time magazine cover story outlined many of the other side’s problems in January.

Students for Life National Programs Coordinator Beth O’Malley has blogged about her observations of attending the Young Feminist Leadership Conference on March 23-25 in Washington, D.C., which echo mine (examples here, here, and here):

While the presenters tried to assert confidence and enthusiasm in their position, their tone towards the current state of this battle was disappointed and frustrated! They are “on the defensive,” and we have done a significant amount of damage with our pro-active efforts on the grassroots levels and in legislative measures.

In my second workshop attendance, I listened to the panel list numerous ballot initiatives, amendments, and lawsuits challenging their abortion and “family planning” programs. In particular, it is important to note what the panelists claimed was causing the most damage.

1. We have turned the conversation. We are discussing matters that are not within the framework that the other side wants.
2. We are fighting on our turf. We have gained ground through ballot initiatives, amendments, and lawsuits that challenge the other side to take the defensive.
3. We make them spend money. Our constant, pro-active fights in community, state, and federal battles are costing them time, money, and resources.
4. We are targeting Planned Parenthood.Our increased efforts to put the abortion Goliath out of business are having a huge effect! “If you can make them spend a few million dollars in a few different states every year, that’s a lot less money for actual patient care and services.”
5. We sometimes split their base and cause them to fight amongst one another.

Yes, the sun does shine for them in Washington. But it’s dark – and growing darker – everywhere else.

As a side note, Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics wrote something inspiring on Facebook this week:

There are no unimportant discussions about abortion. First, with the public’s growing unease over abortion, people who we could have never reached in the past are at least willing to listen to the pro-life message. Even among abortion clinic employees, there is a creeping sense of doubt about what they are doing. Morale is low, turnover rates are astronomical, discouragement is rampant, and while they would never admit it, every rational pro-life argument they hear amplifies their doubts.

Bottom line: Let’s rededicate ourselves this weekend to not just press on but redouble our efforts to stop the child killing.

The fetal heartbeat bill passed in North Dakota might not survive a legal challenge, but other radical laws may have the effect of shutting down the state’s lone abortion clinic.

So, poor desperate women of North Dakota: you may as well just give up and kick back at Preggers, where every night is Ladies Night.

~ Cartoonist Jen Sorensen “inviting” women with unplanned pregnancies to Preggers, the fictitious bar for pregnant women depicted in her political cartoon (pictured, click to enlarge), Jen Sorensen, March 25

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A Pennsylvania man named Ruben Velazquez has pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend and unborn child. He faces two terms of 5 to 40 years.
• A woman who believes proposed legislation in North Dakota would prevent her from getting in vitro fertilization has allegedly threatened the life of a state lawmaker. The legislation appears to attempt to limit the number of embryos created in an IVF cycle to the number that will be implanted:
  

  Richland County State’s Attorney Ron McBeth on Friday charged Nicolette Jean Knudson with threatening a public servant, a class C Felony punishable upon conviction with up to five years in jail, $5,000 or both.

  Court records obtained by Forum Communications show authorities allege Knudson called Sen. Margaret Sitte, R-Bismarck, at 3 a.m. Feb. 27 and threatened to kill Sitte if she interfered with her attempts to get pregnant via in vitro fertilization.

• In the Kermit Gosnell murder trial, assistant medical examiner Gary Collins has testified that despite the defense attorney’s claims, Karnamaya Mongar’s death had nothing to do with soot in her lungs:
  

  Defense attorney Jack McMahon has argued that Mongar hid respiratory problems that made her more vulnerable to the effects of Demerol.

  Mongar, a native of Bhutan, lived for 20 years in a refugee settlement camp in Nepal before immigrating with her family to the United States four months before she died.

  Collins conceded that Mongar’s lungs showed carbon particles but said it was the normal soot inhaled by any person, not sign of a disease such as black lung. Otherwise, Collins said, Mongar’s lungs were normal.

• A fight is brewing in San Francisco over Planned Parenthood’s plans to put a clinic (at which they claim won’t provide abortions) downtown near a Catholic church:
  

  Although Planned Parenthood says it doesn’t intend to offer abortions at the clinic, opponents of the procedure have already fired off dozens of letters to the city opposing the facility. Neighboring businesses are also wary of the project, fearing protesters at the clinic will drive away customers.

  Some 100 people, many of them opponents, turned up at a recent meeting where a parking plan for the clinic at 435 Grand Avenue was approved. An appeal to the City Council of that decision is expected and the deadline is next week. But parking is just the start of the approval process, which will go to the planning commission, and in all likelihood the City Council.

[Mongar photo via LifeSiteNews.com]

by Hans Johnson

A pro-life student group at the University of Waterloo in Canada recently invited local conservative MP Stephen Woodworth to speak. About a third of the way through, when he began to compare laws supporting abortion to those that considered some people as less than human during American slavery and 1930s Germany, a male student from another college, supposedly dressed as female genitalia, began to shout him down. Then a woman took the podium and began to reduce all women’s concerns to an obsession with their genitalia:

“In the name of every c– we stand here today refusing to let you further devalue the anatomical jewel, and moreover refusing to let you keep talking about removing it.

We are the defenders of the c– You are threatening the freedom of all c–s while disseminating anti-c– misinformation in institutions that require integrity.”

WARNING: Profanity

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Ezra Levant discusses the incident.

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[HT: TheBlaze]

On March 22 North Dakota became the first state to legislatively authorize a ballot initiative that would establish the right to life from the moment of conception.

On March 26 North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple signed three other major pro-life bills into law. According to the Bismarck Tribune:

• HB1305 will make it a Class A misdemeanor for a physician to willingly perform an abortion based specifically on gender or on genetic abnormalities.

• HB1456 requires a physician to determine whether there’s a detectable heartbeat prior to performing an abortion. A physician who willingly performs an abortion after the detection of a heartbeat could be subject to a Class C felony….

• SB2305 requires physicians providing abortions to be licensed in the state and to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.

While the pro-abortion website RH Reality Check reports “the governor [pictured right] is receiving spiritual ‘attaboys'” from the Catholic Church for upholding those pro-life measures, the mainstream media is reporting a very different story, that the governor and lawmakers are receiving death threats. From valleynewslive.com, March 27:

[T]he N.D. Highway Patrol and the Richland County State’s Attorney are investigating potentially threatening emails and phone calls sent to lawmakers.

The messages were traced to someone in Richland County. Officials won’t say the nature of the messages or which legislators received the threats, and no charges have been filed at this point.

“We were very surprised,” says Robin Nelson, one of the organizers of Monday night’s rally protesting the anti-abortion bills and a Stand Up for Women organizer. “Stand Up for Women is a peaceful movement, but this is an emotional issue. Emotions are running high.”

A group fighting for the legal right to murder babies is “a peaceful movement”? Sure.

More from the Stand Up for Women ND Facebook page (click to enlarge)…

Reality bites.

It dawned on me yesterday after reading about these threats that we should expect major outbreaks of violence and anarchy as we edge closer to the day when abortion is again made illegal in America. Perhaps I’m late to the party.

After seeing what union thugs did in Wisconsin, and the lawlessness of the occupy movement, I have a better taste of what’s ahead.

But then again, I probably don’t.

Because abortion is satan’s baby, pardon the pun.