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

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• Expose Abortion has a haunting quote from former abortion practitioner Susan Thayer, discussing how abortion providers must be gradually desensitized to the grisly work of abortion:
  

  I walked into the surgical suite and headed toward the foot of the exam table. I was stopped and told to sit in a chair by the door because, they said, nearly everyone who watches the first time, can’t take it and either get sick or faint. Once you make it through one abortion, you are allowed to gradually move closer to the patient, therefore seeing more of the procedure.

• Bound4Life points out that while we were all distracted by sequestration, the Department of Health and Human Services was quietly releasing more than 700 new pages of Obamacare regulations. Buried within is the mandate for taxpayer-funded abortions, unless you live in one of the 18 states – Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin – which have enacted legislation to ban abortion coverage from their state exchanges.

  So our government is not only depriving schoolchildren of White House tours, but is planning to fund the elimination of future schoolchildren before birth. Chilling.

• Accepting Abundance discusses the controversy surrounding German bishops’ authorization for Catholic hospitals to treat rape victims with the morning after pill.
• Coming Home wonders how the new Pope will address allowing communion for “Catholics” who vote for, advocate, and support the evil of abortion – like Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Andrew Cuomo, and others.
• Clinic Quotes points out that the claim “abortion should be between a woman and her doctor” is really just wishful thinking. According to Dr. Don Sloan in 1992, there is very little interaction between a woman and her abortionist:
  

  I’ve [aborted] tens and tens of thousands of women, and I know so little about so many of them – most of them…. How could I? In a sense the doctor is only a tradesperson, a technician performing a task, like any other.

• The Guiding Star Project has a guest post from a single, childless woman who became the only positive voice in her workplace when a couple trying for baby #2 got pregnant with triplets instead:
  

  Sad that today’s culture is so firm in wanting the perfect 1.2 children so as not to impede upon careers, vacations, and lifestyle choices. Sad that there simply isn’t an openness to life or what God may be asking of a husband a wife. And sad that I was the only one in a room full of ten or more people who had anything positive to say.

• 40 Days for Life says a Memphis prayer vigil had to change locations because previous prayer vigils caused Planned Parenthood to lose their lease in the former location.
• The Abolitionist Society chastises the church for claiming their business is evangelism, while ignoring “loving [their] preborn neighbor[s], being led to the slaughter”:
  

  If you were in the place of your preborn neighbor… would you find what you do for the preborn sufficient? Is simply “voting pro-life,” attending pro-life rallies, listening to sanctity of life sermons, and occasionally donating to crisis pregnancy centers the sum of loving your soon-to-be-killed preborn neighbor as you love yourself? If you were about to be torn to pieces and sucked through a vacuum, would you truly feel loved by those who warm the pews of the churches every Sunday, but don’t do more than this to make your impending death illegal?

[Graphic via Bound4Life; photo via multiples.about.com]

by LauraLoo

Grammy-winning band Audio Adrenaline is back with a new single (as well as a new lead singer – Kevin Max, formerly of DC Talk) and a common goal: to be a voice for orphans in Haiti and around the world.

The official music video for “Kings & Queens” was filmed in Haiti in partnership with the Hands & Feet Project, a non-profit organization founded by the band to care for orphaned and abandoned children with the love of Jesus Christ. 

Proceeds from the song’s purchase will go to to continue growth and support of the nearly eight-year-old charity:

Audio Adrenaline – Kings and Queens (Exclusive Music Video Premiere) from audio-adrenaline on GodTube.

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[HT: Jill]

As the Bishop of Argentina, he opposed Argentina’s leadership on birth control access, he is anti-abortion, anti-condom, and anti-LGBT rights. A new pope, but no new policies….

And while the new Pope is renowned for his HIV/AIDS work and his outward showing of compassion for the poor, his policies are no less hateful.

~ Blogger Sophia, distraught that recently elected Pope Francis is actually a faithful Catholic, Abortion Gang, March 14

by Hans Johnson

A new documentary film called Stuck follows three American families and four orphans from Vietnam, Haiti, and Ethiopia as they wade through the red tape of international adoption. These adoptions have been increasingly difficult to accomplish in recent years, especially with nations like Russia now banning them.

The film, narrated by actress Mariska Hargitay, also features Senator Mary Landrieu (D – LA), the Senatorial co-chair of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption. She is the mother of two domestically adopted children, and her husband was adopted from Ireland. Landrieu believes “every child deserves to grow up in a family, and we in the United States need to do more to make this happen”:

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[HT: Kelli]

I think it’s unfair for women facing what must be the hardest decision of their lives to now have to drive down Ontario Street and be reminded of that, and judged for it, and face more stigma about this really important decision.

~ Pamela Arnott, a resident “offended by the message” of the pro-life billboard (pictured above) from the Christian Heritage Party of Canada, which features “a Bible verse on one side, along with an image of a fetus,” and on the other, “a short message calling abortion the equivalent of capital punishment for the innocent,” as quoted by Niagara This Week, March 13

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• In his Best of the Web column from yesterday, James Taranto hits on a number of issues related to abortion, out-of-wedlock births and sex-ratios as he comments on New York City’s new campaign to stigmatize teen births – Planned Parenthood’s response:
  

  Planned Parenthood may describe itself as a “health organization,” but in reality it is an ideological outfit. It is committed to the idea of “reproductive rights” that belong only to women. In the 1992 case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey, for instance, the group persuaded the Supreme Court that a married woman has a constitutional right to abort her husband’s child without telling him.

  If men have no reproductive rights, it follows logically that they have no reproductive responsibilities….

  The contemporary problem of illegitimacy, then, is largely the consequence of Planned Parenthood’s ideology of female “reproductive rights” and the technology that made it feasible. Planned Parenthood’s hostility toward any effort to tackle, or even acknowledge, the problem is anything but coincidental….

  The “98%” poster alludes to that life script and makes the dubious supposition that following it – at least if one leaves out college – is realistic for all women. But an important reason women bear children out of wedlock is because they don’t expect to find husbands.

• Intersections South LA has an article about sidewalk counselors and abortion clinic escorts at one South LA abortion clinic:
  

  On one side, a group of people kneel on a broken sidewalk, sliding rosary beads through their fingers as they call for divine action. And across the sidewalk, another group stands silently; dressed in bright orange vests and black sunglasses. They escort patients into the clinic. Both sides stay on their sides without budging an inch, unless someone tests the boundaries.

• An unlicensed pharmacy in Bangkok has been shut down for illegally distributing abortion drugs:
  

  “One of our officers who is three months pregnant entered the store and asked to buy abortion pills. The pharmacist gave her the pills and charged her 16,000 baht,” Ministry of Health legal officer Chatree Pinyai explained.

[Photo via Intersections South LA]

by LauraLoo

This week, six-month-old Jonylah Watkins was shot multiple times while her dad changed her diaper in his van. She did not survive.

Despite the fact that little Jonylah’s father had connections to Chicago gang violence, the fact that any gang member would purposely target an infant or a child is truly disgusting. 

Mary Young (the baby’s grandmother) told radio host John Kass that she believes her son-in-law knows who killed his daughter but he isn’t talking yet.

Is this father behaving reprehensibly by honoring a gang’s “code of silence” instead of telling the police who murdered his baby?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w7QaTq5Uag[/youtube]

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Guest post by Susie Allen, Pro-Life in TN

Statistics tell us that 50-55% of teens experiencing unplanned pregnancies choose single parenting, 30-35% choose abortion, and less than 1% choose to place their children for adoption.

These statistics are disturbing. What if we could reverse the statistics of abortion and adoption? With two million couples waiting to adopt, why doesn’t adoption seem to be an option on the radar screen of parents experiencing unplanned pregnancies?

One reason appears to be that even in well-written articles, adoption is framed in outdated and negative language. Even some professionals who deal with teens have an inaccurate view of adoption, perpetuated by made-for-TV movies showing adoption as it was in the 1970’s. Today, options aren’t so limited, with open, semi-open, and confidential adoptions.

The nonprofit educational outreach, Decisions, Choices and Options was founded by Tennessee teacher and mother Joi Wasill, with the goal of correcting inaccuracies surrounding adoption. The group offers a copyrighted curriculum now being presented in eight states by 52 trained agencies. Since its inception, this program has reached 55,000 high school students.

From the group’s website, some ideas of correct adoption language (click to enlarge):