by Hans Johnson

Population demographics have been a concern in Europe and Japan for decades. But now the U.S. is seeing declining birthrates as well.

From the Contra Costa Times:

The number of California babies born each year began dropping steadily in 2007, according to state public health records, but the birthrate began slowing years before.

While experts point to factors such as more widespread use of contraception, delayed marriage, and economic volatility, one can’t help but wonder if they’re missing the elephant in the room. Or, rather, that they’re ignoring the 55 million missing children that have been aborted in the last 40 years.

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In Planned Parenthood’s world, allowing a woman to see an image of her baby on the ultrasound screen is a “dangerous agenda.” Many women who have abortions do not know the truth about fetal development….

The language of abortion counselors is often crafted carefully to avoid any reference to the baby. Even the term “fetus” is not always used. A 2012 NPR radio program interviewed abortion workers at a facility in England. In the interviews, the clinic workers never mention the word “abortion.” Rather, abortions were referred to as “treatments” – e.g., “the treatment room,” “treatment counseling,” etc.

Ultrasounds cut through all this evasive rhetoric. They show the reality of the unborn baby. As for abortion providers’ statements that ultrasounds are “cruel” and “torture weapons,” anyone who has listened to women who regret their abortions has heard, over and over again, “I wish I’d had more information.” “If I’d known what abortion would really do to my baby, I wouldn’t have had one.”…

So why do abortion providers avoid showing ultrasound images to women? Perhaps this is because up to 78% of women who see an ultrasound of their babies choose not to have abortions.

~ Sarah Terzo, Live Action News, February 6

[Image via Alpha Pregnancy Center]

World Life Organization and Created Equal co-rented a jumbo-tron at the January 26 Walk for Life in San Francisco. On the jumbo-tron was looped a 2-minute video showing the graphic reality of abortion.

One of the pro-life apologists behind the police-protected guardrail surrounding the jumbo-tron was Russell Hunter of Abolish Human Abortion. Russell was approached by a post-abortive mother who made a revealing declaration: “I’m a millionaire because I had an abortion when I was 18.” Here’s the video:

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When Russell called the mother out as having committed “human sacrifice” (to the god of wealth), she rationalized her boast by saying she was at the time 18 and in an abusive relationship. She added, “I got a college degree from Berkeley and a master’s degree.”

This is unvarnished liberal feminism, which has turned the original meaning of feminism on its head.

Liberal feminism teaches that a woman is incapable of parenting and bettering herself at the same time, or waiting to better herself if circumstances aren’t right. Patience, sacrifice, and self-denial are not virtues. Motherhood is not a prize but a punishment.

So if a woman sustains a sexual relationship with a jerk and gets pregnant, the one to pay the price is the baby, not her. It would be too responsible and too hard to do the right thing, of which there are several options that do not involve murdering one’s own child.

And apparently women cannot get college degrees and post-graduate degrees with children. I didn’t know that.

by LauraLoo

From the time she was 6 years old, Erin Merryn was sexually abused:  first by a neighbor, then at age 11 by her cousin.  Rather than destroying her, Merryn’s experiences galvanized her to become a defender of children.

In 2004 Erin self-published her diary, Stolen Innocence, when she was a high-school senior.  Six months later, publisher HCI picked up the book. 

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Last week Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn signed an Erin’s Law bill after a task force completed an exhaustive 10-month investigation of the issue, which included writing age-appropriate curricula for the state’s schools.  Illinois is the fifth state to pass Erin’s Law since she took up the cause.

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Babies are sex objects? If not, why would they have to cover up? And don’t think this is just in Muslim countries. I took the above photo [click to enlarge] on Madison Avenue.

~ Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs, remarking on the recent controversy of a Muslim cleric declaring a fatwa that all “female babies to be fully covered by wearing the face veil.” Quoting Al Arabiya News, February 3:

A Saudi cleric has called for all female babies to be fully covered by wearing the face veil, commonly known as the burka, citing reports of little girls being sexually molested.

In a TV interview on the Islamic al-Majd TV, which seems to date back to mid-last year, Sheikh Abdullah Daoud, stressed that wearing the veil will protect baby girls. The Sheikh tried to back his assertion with claims of sexual molestation against babies in the kingdom, quoting unnamed medical and security sources….

Sheikh Mohammad al-Jzlana, former judge at the Saudi Board of Grievances, told Al Arabiya that Dauod’s ruling was denigrating to Islam and Shariah and made Islam look bad.

[HT: Laura Loo]

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

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• Moral Outcry and Wesley J. Smith explain why the Department of Health and Human Services’ so-called “compromise” is really just more of the same – a violation of religious freedom.
• At ProWomanProLife, Andrea Mrozek includes a clip of her interview with conservative Canadian media personality Ezra Levant regarding live birth abortions taking place in Canada. Live birth abortion, while only recently coming to light in Canada, was made public in the U.S. years ago by our own Jill Stanek, resulting in the passing of the Born Alive Infants Protection Act.

• Right to Life of Michigan points out that the majority of Americans lack accurate knowledge of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton – two cases that shape our country’s current abortion law.
• Pro-Life Wisconsin has a two-part series on personhood and why it matters.
• Suzy B notes the latest example of Obamacare’s coercive tactics and restrictions on federal grants:
  

  Recently the North Dakota State University froze a $1.2 million federal grant it had received because the grant requires the university to team up with Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion provider, to implement a sex education program under Obamacare. University officials are concerned that accepting the grant could potentially be a violation of state law, which forbids taxpayer funding of abortion businesses such as Planned Parenthood.

Now, Planned Parenthood and their allies are attacking the University for freezing the grant.

Send an email in support of the university’s decision, here.

• Reproductive Research Audit has a weekly round-up of articles on reproductive health issues, including two which prove that even in matters of abortion reporting, there is no common ground between the pro-choice and pro-life camps.
• Voice for Hope shares an excellent speech by Serrin Foster of Feminists for Life on the feminist case against abortion.

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Ottawa Citizen reports that Norman Barwin, a leading abortion advocate in Canada, has had his medical license revoked for 2 months for medical misconduct after he admitted to inseminating 3 women with the incorrect sperm. Barwin has also agreed to end his fertility practice. Before settling lawsuits, the families believed Barwin may have used his own sperm:
  

  As part of his plea bargain, Barwin agreed that he inseminated three women with the wrong sperm, but according to his lawyer Karen Hamway, he was unsure how the errors happened….

  “There must have been some type of human error,” she said, as Barwin’s victims listened from the back of the small hearing room. “He cannot explain how the error occurred.”…

  He is past-president of the Canadian Fertility Society, the Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada and Planned Parenthood Ottawa.

• The Daily Times is covering the New Mexico Medical Board’s upcoming ruling on abortionist Shelley Sella’s (pictured left) botched 35-week abortion:
  

  The Albuquerque Journal reports that an attorney for the New Mexico Medical Board maintains Dr. Shelley Sella breached the standard of practice in treating a 26-year-old New York woman who had a uterine rupture during a procedure to abort a 35-week-old fetus with severe brain abnormalities….

  According to a transcript of the disciplinary hearing and other documents, the patient had to be rushed to University Hospital after the rupture. She ultimately recovered, but may not be able to carry a future pregnancy to full term.

  I wonder if Sella’s problems with the medical board are mentioned in the new documentary movie featuring her and other abortionists who do 3rd trimester abortions.

• Jonathan Kay argues that Canada should have a law setting limits on abortion:
  

  For the sake of argument… I am going to accept [pro-choicer Carolyn Bennett’s] contention that Canada’s professional medical societies are enforcing a de facto national abortion policy — a policy whereby, absent medical need or serious fetal abnormalities, women cannot receive abortion services past 24 weeks gestation.

  Having accepted this contention, my question is this: How is this status quo meaningfully different from a federal abortion law that sets 24 weeks as the gestational limit for elective abortion? The current Canadian policy, as Ms. Bennett describes and praises it, is basically a civil variant of the one encoded in the criminal laws of just about every European nation — except that most of those countries generally have gestational limits well below 24 weeks (12-18 weeks is typical)….

  When politicians do finally muster the courage to tackle this issue, there will be a hearty political battle over where the gestational limit should rest. But I have never understood the argument that we should avoid such a political battle lest it be too “divisive.” Britain recently has had a vigorous debate about whether that country’s gestational abortion limit should be rolled back from 24 weeks to 20 weeks — yet the country seems to have survived the experience. Why is Canada, alone among Western nations, seen by many of its citizens as so delicate that we must be spared any real debate about such an important moral question?

by Hans Johnson

Josh Andrew Frydlewicz’s heart had an underdeveloped left side, so doctors at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia operated – months before he was born. They placed a stent by way of a needle through his mother’s abdomen. No child had made it to his or her first birthday after such a procedure. Until Josh Andrew did so with parents Katrina and Tony.

From ABC News: