I am deeply concerned that you are contributing to a very high probability that your fetus will die or your child will incur brain damage if born alive. At this time, you must come in for delivery.

I would hate to move to the most extreme option, which is having law enforcement pick you up at your home and bring you in, but you are leaving the providers of USF/TGH no choice.

~ An email sent by Dr. Jerry Yankowitz, chairman of the obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Southern Florida, to his patient Lisa Epsteen, threatening to call police if she did not choose to deliver her baby via C-section, as reported by CBS Tampa Bay, March 7

[HT: Laura Loo]

by Hans Johnson

At kitchen tables across the country, opinions run the gamut when the issue of abortion is mentioned, as it was here on the Fox Business Channel’s Imus in the Morning.

On the pro-choice left is former comedian and current radio talk show host Alan Colmes. Imus show producer Bernard McGuirk and host Don Imus represent the “pro-life with exceptions” position. Unequivocallly pro-life are Imus’ wife Diedre and Fox News Religion contributor Father Jonathan Morris:

Have you had debates similar to this one?

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On the one hand, it’s important to keep teens informed about risks of pregnancy, ways to prevent pregnancy, and challenges they will face if they become pregnant.

Ad campaigns like this ignore half of the equation – probably because the goal is just to prevent birth.

~ LN, discussing the New York City Human Resource Administration’s new teen pregnancy prevention program “in which ads [including the one pictured above] will be displayed in subways and bus shelters citywide,” Secular Pro-Life Perspectives, March 6

NYC currently has a 40% overall abortion rate.

by LauraLoo

Jimmy Kimmel recently hosted mighty basketball trick-shot tot Titus, age 2. Can you guess who won the challenge?

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No surprise, a Planned Parenthood panel will tonight kick off a two-day event to be held March 7 and 8 at the University of Cincinnati, sponsored by UC’s LGBTQ Alliance and UC Feminists.

The title of the event is “Re-envisioning the Female Body” and is advertised to show “12 billboard-sized photographs of vaginas” (not linking to the site – porn).

The purpose? A response to Created Equal’s Autumn 2012 display, which educated UC students about the graphic reality of abortion…

But UC LGBTQs and feminists have a problem with showing the truth about abortion:

The idea and focus of this demonstration is a response to the gruesome, billboard sized images of mutilated fetuses and genocide victims brought to our campus by radical pro-life groups.

It will serve to call attention to the… negative dispositions our society holds toward the vagina….

Objectively speaking, these students have a strange way of making their point.

Showcasing the willing orifice through which helpless babies are chopped, murdered, and suctioned in order to protest exposure of this atrocity is akin to showcasing the arms of Viet Cong and Nazi shooters in order to protest exposure of those mass genocides…

Furthermore, the vagina is an internal organ, so the only way to photograph it would be to insert a speculum and lighted camera scope, and then what would you see? Nothing any more exciting than a photograph from inside a colon, which I’ll spare you.

No, “The Vaginas Are Coming!” display will not actually be of them at all but rather of external female genitalia.

So the entire endeavor is a huge exercise in obtusity, and at an institution of higher education, no less.

Organizer Maria Kothman noted the discrepancy on Facebook but countered that to point it out was simply “finding fault with other’s arguments” – and mean, apparently. “Be kind,” she urged. UC Students who now flunk Anatomy 101 exams on the female reproductive system should try these comebacks with professors.

And what of Planned Parenthood’s part in all this? As DC Naked noted:

What is being pictured is actually the vulva. While it might be totally possible that I would miss something like that, being a lawyer and writer [a]nd not, say, a womens’ health professional, it scares me a little to think Planned Parenthood, which specializes in womens’ health has yet to pick up the difference, despite this being the six month mark of this vagina-centric campaign.

Kudos to Students for Life UC president Ashley Ladouceur for leading a counterprotest to educate on Planned Parenthood’s nefarious practices.

“They were both visibly upset. The mother was crying,” she remembers. “They said they didn’t want to bring a baby into the world only for that child to suffer. … They said I should try to be God-like and have mercy on the child and let her go.”

“I couldn’t look at them anymore,” she said.

~ Surrogate mother Crystal Kelley describing the moment when the biological parents of her unborn child, Baby S. (pictured), attempted to convince her to abort the baby because of fetal abnormalities.

They later offered to pay Crystal $10,000 to abort, but she escaped to Michigan to avoid a legal showdown in her home state of Connecticut, as reported by CNN, March 5

[HT: David]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A Wisconsin man has been charged with stalking after he allegedly threatened to kill his lover if she didn’t have an abortion.
  

  True Xiong, 46, demanded she undergo the procedure when she learned she was pregnant with his child in July, according to the complaint filed Monday in La Crosse County Circuit Court.

  She refused, and Xiong continued with his threats to kill her and the child, sometimes calling her two or three times a day. Xiong said he

  tampered with her car and rotated her bed, an action in Hmong culture meant to bring bad luck to the woman and her child, according to the complaint.

  Xiong, who is married, threatened the woman in person when he could no longer reach her by phone.

• A teacher who was fired by a Christian college after becoming pregnant is suing her former employer:
  

  Teri James, 29, told the news outlet that she did sign a two-page contract with San Diego Christian College that included a provision agreeing not to engage in “sexually immoral behavior including premarital sex.”

  “I needed a job in this economy and so I never thought that anything would happen,” James explained to “Today.”

  But James said she was humiliated after being pulled into her supervisor’s office last fall, where she was asked if she was pregnant and then was let go. After James lost her job, she claims the school offered a position to her now-husband, even though they were aware he’d had sex before getting married, too.

• Planned Parenthood representatives testified against legislation meant to curtail Alaska’s taxpayer-funded abortions.

  Alaska’s Supreme Court has ruled to allow taxpayer-funded abortions in “medically necessary” cases, going on to define “medically necessary” so broadly that anything could be considered “medically necessary.” Last year, Medicaid paid for about 1/3 of Alaska’s abortions.

  One of PP’s arguments was that limiting taxpayer-funded abortions would be dangerous for women and would “put their health at risk.” They provided no evidence that states which have banned tax-funded abortions are more dangerous places to obtain abortions. Another argument was that the government should stay out of abortion decisions (an odd argument to make when you want the government to pay for abortions).

  The testimony by the Planned Parenthood reps is great evidence that PP considers any abortion “medically necessary” if a woman wants one.

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

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• Secular ProLife notes NARAL’s strong objection to a North Carolina bill which would add information on “the link between abortion and preterm birth” to school sex education curricula. Though even the pro-choice New York Times has reported on this link, NARAL has chosen to label it “propaganda.”
• Down on the Pharm examines the case of Kristopher Del Campo, a DePaul University student who is facing expulsion for exposing the identities of 13 confessed vandals – all of them adults – who were caught on security cameras destroying an authorized pro-life club display. The student vandals (who have not been disciplined) were named in a report, which Del Campo then posted online.

• While this year’s 40 Days for Life campaign faces opposition, prayer warriors have seen at least 245 babies saved from abortion. Participants at a Washington Planned Parenthood event said they were greeted by several pro-choice protestors – but their protest didn’t quite go as planned:
  

  [One] prayer volunteer asked a group of about eight of them “what exactly they were protesting, since abortion on demand has been a legal reality for forty years…[.] Why should our prayers bother them? In my spirit I knew the real reason,” he said. “It is the shame and guilt that they are protesting.”

  “One lady was yelling at us…. [T]hen I spoke with her and told her my abortion story,” said yet another vigil participant, who’d had an abortion at this facility a number of years ago. “She ended up taking one of our balloons and hugging me and crying and left with lots more information about better services.”

• ProWomanProLife says a politician in Japan has suggested banning abortion in the country as a way to combat their national birth dearth and subsequent economic trouble.
• Stand True documents the 14th known botched abortion since 2008 at Southwestern Women’s Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the “grossly negligent” late-term abortionist Shelley Sella practices her trade. Pro-life activists were able to confirm that on March 1, the clinic called an ambulance company instead of 911 for this emergency, despite the fact that this can cause delays and is supposedly against the clinic’s own policy.
• Alveda King adds her own perspective on the recently-released study showing a large increase in breast cancer among young women.
• Right to Life of Michigan posts a video from CNN on the hug that revolutionized the way hospitals treat premature infants: