I got to defend my children and you and everybody else and do what’s right to save lives….

Obesity kills. There’s just no question about it.

~ Pro-abortion New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, reacting to a judge’s decision to revoke the city-wide ban on the sale of 16 oz. sodas, as reported by the New York Post, March 11

[HT: Kelli; photo via CBS New York]

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

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

• At Life Training Institute, Jay Watts addresses the pro-choice argument of using abortion as a means of “self defense.”
• At Catholic Vote, Michael New discusses the results of a recent poll showing that the majority of New Yorkers aren’t nearly as pro-choice as their governor. New also points out the under-reported demographics of the poll, which show strong trends toward the pro-life position.

• Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights without Frontiers spoke four times at the recent United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, calling upon China’s incoming president, Xi Jinping (pictured left), to “abandon all coercive population control and to end this bloody reign of terror” wrought by the One-Child Policy.
• Pro-Life Action League recommends hosting a Way of the Cross prayer vigil on Good Friday, in front of your local abortion clinic.
• Stand True has an opportunity for spring/summer internships for adults aged 18-28. Travel, learn, and contribute to the pro-life cause with Stand True and Priests for Life’s youth outreach.
• Reproductive Research Audit discusses the importance of closely analyzing the various surveys conducted on abortion views
  

  … [T]he composition of the sample – whether it is composed of only likely voters, the general population, etc. – can influence the results… [and] the structure of the specific questions can influence the results of a survey.

• Suzy B applauds pro-life TN Rep. Diane Black (pictured right) for introducing legislation opposing the HHS Mandate and the assault on conscience rights and religious liberties:
  

  Additionally, more than 50 national and statewide groups have joined the recently launched Call2Conscience.com coalition to mobilize grassroots in response to the assault on conscience and religious liberty. Hundreds of thousands of Americans were mobilized last week to urge Congress to include language to defend conscience and religious liberty in any must-pass funding legislation.

• Pro-Life in TN says Canadian Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose finds herself in a difficult situation: she opposes gendercide, which is skewed toward females, but feels pressured to vote for the right of women to commit gendercide against their own daughters via abortion.
• Reflections of a Paralytic addresses misconceptions about disabled people and sex, stating that “life with a disability is not as awful as it is made out to be.”
• Secular Pro-Life provides their perspective on the case of the teacher at a Christian college who was fired for engaging in premarital sex and becoming pregnant, violating her teaching contract. What makes this case really shocking is the fact that the college then offered her husband – the man who got her pregnant – her old position.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• In an attempt to further abortion worldwide, the United States and the European Union joined forces at the UN Commission on the Status of Women to ask for the deletion of “a reaffirmation that every human being has the inherent right to life, liberty and security of persons.”
• Authorities in Minnesota have charged a man with two counts of murder for killing his wife and his unborn child:
  

  The Dakota County attorney’s office charged Roger Earl Holland, 36, with two counts of second-degree intentional murder – one count in his wife’s death and one in her unborn child’s death. Bail was set at $1 million, or $750,000 with conditions….

  Holland called 911 last Thursday to report finding his wife, Margorie Ann Holland, in cardiac arrest at the foot of a staircase in their Apple Valley apartment, prosecutor James Backstrom said in a news release. Margorie Holland, who was nearly four months pregnant, and her unborn child died at a hospital later that morning.

• NARAL Wisconsin stopped Care Net of Dane County from getting a city loan to build low-income housing:
  

  City staff had recommended extending two low-interest loans totaling $550,000 to Care Net, which operates a crisis pregnancy center and residential home for pregnant single mothers on MacArthur Road. The group is proposing to build a 36-unit apartment building and daycare on land it owns next to its center….

  Megin McDonell [pictured left], a board member with NARAL Pro-Choice Wisconsin, and Ald. Lisa Subeck, the former executive director of NARAL, told the committee that Care Net, an anti-abortion, faith-based group, misleads women about the risks of abortion and does not offer “all-options” counseling, as it advertises.

• The Beaumont Enterprise has more on a previously reported story regarding a fetal surgery where doctors used a laser to cut off blood flow to a mass which was pushing against the child’s lungs and heart:
  

  The surgery, known as fetal laser ablation for bronchopulmonary sequestration (BPS), has only been performed one other time in the United States, at the St. Louis Fetal Care Institute in 2011. During the procedure, doctors insert a needle into the mother’s belly and into the womb. Then, the needle is advanced into the baby’s chest, then into the BPS where a laser fiber is introduced through the needle and targeted at the abnormal blood vessel going to the BPS. The laser fires and blocks the blood flow, causing the mass to stop growing. The goal of the operation is to reverse the process by which the BPS is causing heart failure in the fetus. After the surgery, the BPS steals less blood flow from the fetus, and the heart and lungs start growing more normally as the BPS shrinks in size.

by Hans Johnson

Physiology teacher Gary Wilson discusses “The Great Porn Experiment” that has emerged in the last few decades with the explosion of internet pornography. Some of the science, having to do with increased dopamine levels, is well understood.

One thing that is causing a “blind spot” in this study is a lack of a control group of those men who have never seen porn.

WARNING: Language may be inappropriate for children or sensitive ears.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSF82AwSDiU[/youtube]

Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Jill]

I received an infographic, “What we think about abortion,” from a person working for healthcare-administration-degree.net.

The ultimate goal in emailing me was to promote that degree program, which I coincidentally do think is a good career path for pro-life college students to consider, particularly in these times.

But I thought the infographic was well done and worth posting. It is as fair and balanced as the poll questions dictate.

HAD’s answer to question, “Why the difference?” was intriguing, although I think many people who say they believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases would find they actually oppose the legality of many more abortions than they realize if asked about specifics – gender-selective abortions, abortions as primary birth control, late-term abortions, abortions when babies can feel pain, etc.

Click to enlarge…

Source: What We Think About Abortion

The charity regulator in Scotland has upheld a ruling that would force a Roman Catholic adoption agency to end its policy that requires prospective adoptive parents to be married for at least two years….

This attack on the adoption agency was orchestrated by National Secular Society, who claims that the policy of searching for stable homes for children is “discrimination” against the unmarried and homosexual partners looking to adopt….

… St. Margaret’s [has] until April 22 to comply with the new regulation or they will be removed from the official Scottish charity registrar. This would prevent them from fulfilling adoptions in the future.

There has been a large outcry over the attack on St. Margaret’s adoption agency.

Traditional marriage supporters have highlighted the incident as an example of how religious bodies will be harmed by the passing of gay marriage legislation and other anti-Christian policies in the U.K.

~ Myles Collier, Christian Post, March 7

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers was March 10. From the various pro-choice sources I read, it seems like it was less celebrated than usual.
• The Wichita Eagle interviewed one of the physicians who has signed up to provide abortions at the South Wind Women’s Center abortion clinic when it opens. South Wind is operating at the same location where George Tiller provided abortions in Wichita. The new physician says she’s never performed an elective abortion:
  

  She has been a board-certified OB/GYN for about 10 years but has never performed elective abortions. The doctor says abortion is probably not a choice she would make for herself.

  But she believes that women have the right to that option and she said she felt a calling to step up to provide that option. The doctor asked to not be named in this story…. The OB/GYN wants to remain anonymous for as long as she can.

• The state of Maryland has suspended the licenses of three abortion clinics:
  

  State health officials have suspended surgical abortion procedures at three clinics, including one in Baltimore where a patient suffered cardiac arrest and died.

  The physician who performed the abortion at Associates in OB/GYN Care LLC on North Calvert Street wasn’t certified in CPR and a defibrillator at the facility did not work, state officials said in a letter Friday to the General Assembly.

  Although the cardiac arrest was caused by underlying health conditions and not the abortion, investigators found that it raised questions whether doctors at the clinic can handle an abortion that goes wrong….

  The other two clinics that lost surgical privileges, located in Landover and Silver Spring [pictured above left], also are owned by Associates in OB/GYN Care and also had licenses suspended for issues related to the ability to respond to life-threatening problems during surgery.

I’ve been in Florida since March 1 (hence the lowered rate of posts – thanks to Kel, Carder, Jivin J, Susie, Hans, and LauraLoo for standing in the gap!).

Last week I was so happy to get to meet up with Carder, who has been a moderator on the blog for several years and also posts our Quote of the Day on M-W-F…

I also got to connect with pro-life heroines Michele Herzog (below right) and Allura Lightfoot (below left) where they do sidewalk counseling several times a week at All Women’s Health Center abortion clinic in Altamonte Springs. I’ve written about Michele’s work a couple of times (here and here)…

Michele was just telling me how pro-lifers are on friendly terms with the local police, when an officer pulled up just to see how everyone was doing…

I was also honored to meet pro-life hero John Barros, who has saved hundreds if not thousands of babies at the Orlando Women’s Center, owned by infamous late-term abortionist James Pendergraft…

Pro-lifers at this mill have been successful in reaching abortion-minded moms by use of megaphone, as pro-life stalwart Patte Smith’s DIL Rachel demonstrated…

At OWC I also got to meet 10-yr-old pro-life sidewalk counselor Jonah, whose mother Amanda was told by doctors to abort due to her hyperemesis and hyperesthesia olfactoria (hyper-vomiting and hypersensitive sense of smell).

God bless him, Jonah already has many saves under his belt. This day he pleaded with infamous abortionist Randall Whitney to stop killing babies…

[youtube]http://youtu.be/EXNP-Adh4WE[/youtube]

On a daily basis pro-lifers like these wonderful people save babies and their moms from certain destruction at abortion mills across the country. I was truly honored to meet them.