by Carder

Mother Teresa should not be imaged marching in solidarity with Margaret Sanger and hung in a public setting. It betrays Mother Teresa [to show her] marching in solidarity with Margaret Sanger, who believed in forced sterilization and was a eugenicist…

… The office which oversees the authorization of Mother Teresa’s image respectfully but straightforwardly asked the image to be taken down because it is not representative of who Mother Teresa is.

~ Father Brian Gannon, annoyed with the painting which depicts Mother Teresa “marching” with Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, National Catholic Register, March 17

I don’t know if they’re ignorant or lying, but pro-abort leaders who should know better are spreading flatly false information about how long in a pregnancy a mother can abort….

"Abortions are legal up until a child is born" — a flat out lie. Roe v Wade established 24 weeks. #stopthebanSC

— PP South Atlantic SC (@PPSATSC) March 18, 2015

@marlynantiANC @twit2014opine @JillStanek Yes. Unless life of mother is in danger and/or the fetus has conditions incompatible with life.

— JodiJacobson 🇺🇦 🩸🦷 @jljacobson@mastodon.social (@jljacobson) January 26, 2015

The first tweet comes from Planned Parenthood South Atlantic in South Carolina.

The second was written by Jodi Jacobson, editor-in-chief of the pro-abortion website RH Reality Check.

Both are, of course, wrong.

The correct answer is: Abortion is legal in the United States throughout all 40 weeks/nine months of pregnancy, up to the moment of birth.

The Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision on January 22, 1973, legalized abortion on demand in all 50 states until viability, after which time it could be committed for “life or health” of the mother.

On that same day the Supreme Court handed down its decision on Roe’s companion case, Doe v Bolton, in which it defined maternal “health” as “all factors – physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman’s age – relevant to the well being of the patient.  All these factors may relate to health,” holding further that the abortionist alone could make that decision. This gaping loophole made abortion available on demand in the U.S. throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

The United States is one of only seven countries that allows elective abortions past 20 weeks.

In addition, United States joins only with Canada, China, North Korea, and Vietnam as the most permissive countries in the world on abortion.

I find it hard to believe Planned Parenthood and RH Reality Check don’t know these basic abortion facts.

There would be reason to hide these facts, of course, because the reality of what Planned Parenthood and RH Reality Check actually support is so heinous.

[HT for PP link: Carole at Saynsumthn blog]

by Hans Johnson

Isaac Nolting, 12, often played at the pool in Washington, Missouri, when it was remarked how much he looked and acted like 13-year-old Dakotah Zimmer, who was a friend of a friend. That night, Isaac asked his mother Dawn if he had a brother. Through many tears, she admitted that he was adopted and did have a brother. She had been planning on telling him soon because they were set to attend the same school.

She met his teenaged biological mother when he was a newborn, overwhelmed already with the one-year-old Dakotah. Dawn offered to take him in, and when months later his mother became pregnant with the boys’ sister Ashley, the adoption became finalized.

When both the biological parents died, Isaac’s older brother and younger sister were raised by grandmother Debi Bay. Having lived only twenty minutes apart, the siblings are now closer than ever.

See the story on NBC’s Today:

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Email dailyvid@jillstanek.com with your video suggestions.

[HT: Kelli]

by Kelli

They want you to look like you are helping women out…. When they send you for training, they give you justification into why women get abortions….

Most patients were young and they didn’t want their parents to know. A lot of the girls that came in there were very uneducated in a lot of things. Working in the front desk, I would think, ‘Why aren’t these young girls at school? If they can’t even fill out this paperwork, what are they doing having sex?’

~ Former Planned Parenthood staffer Charjuana Hogan, describing some of the experiences she had while working as a “reproductive health assistant” at PP in Riverside, California, as quoted by Live Action News, March 18

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• This week a Planned Parenthood in California received a package with their address as the return address after the postal service was unable to deliver the package to an address in Georgia. Some employees were suspicious of the package so they called in the bomb squad:
  

  Inside the package was about four pounds of marijuana, baby diapers and a thank you card….

  The card wasn’t written on in the inside, but was left blank with a generic greeting….

• Kay Hymowitz discusses the class gap in unplanned pregnancies:
  

  One way of examining the question of whether hardship is at the root of the unplanned-baby gap is to ask whether locales with more publicly funded family-planning clinics have less unplanned pregnancy. Guttmacher estimates the percentage of the need for publicly funded services that is met in each state and the number of women per 1,000 who have unplanned pregnancies. But as the scatterplot below shows, there is no solid relationship between the two.

  Alaska and California outperform other states in terms of servicing needy women: About 60 percent of the need for publicly funded care is met. The states’ unintended-pregnancy rates, though not the highest in the nation, are still impressive: 50 out of every 1,000 women. That’s about the same as a number of states, including Arizona, Ohio, and Illinois, that are only helping about 20 percent of the women who need it. That sure makes it look like money and access by themselves cannot explain the unplanned-pregnancy gap.

• Mollie Hemingway writes on how Planned Parenthood and NARAL got the Senate Democrats to vote against the human trafficking legislation they all favored just weeks ago:
  

  Prior to March 10, no Democrats opposed the bill and Planned Parenthood and NARAL didn’t issue a peep about it. Since the afternoon of March 10, when Barbara Boxer [pictured left] dropped her support and Planned Parenthood decided to launch its public relations campaign against the bill, Planned Parenthood has tweeted some 60 times trying to gin up opposition — more than 60 percent of its tweets during that time. Cecile Richards, the head of Planned Parenthood, tweeted a couple dozen times, also beginning on March 10. And NARAL tweeted against the bill nearly 47 times, again beginning on March 10. Heck, almost like it was all coordinated.

  It’s certainly not a surprise that the Democratic Party is so controlled by Planned Parenthood, but it was still remarkable to watch the whole thing transpire in real time.

[Photo via philly.com]

by Hans Johnson

Young members of Created Equal’s Justice Riders and Survivors’ Campus Outreach deterred two mothers from the Tampa Women’s Health Center. This did not please the abortion workers, who came out and washed off the pro-lifers’ messages chalked onto the sidewalk. But when a woman was directed to the pro-life pregnancy resource center next door, their anger grew. They began to splash buckets of water, and even turn the hose on the protesters.

While the intensity is not the same, this can’t help but bring to mind another occasion where water hoses were used against youthful protesters in a civil rights cause. The police were “just following orders” back then. In this case, they refused to step in on behalf of the assaulted parties.

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[HT: Kelli]

by Carder

Lear’s genius was to get All in the Family on the air, and then to introduce previously taboo topics to American television. As Lear pointed out, prior to All in the Family, the common idea of a sitcom was pastoral and agricultural, such as Petticoat Junction. He went on to point out that in the earlier world of sitcoms, a plot might be that the boss is coming to dinner and the roast is burned.

Introducing topics such as racism, abortion, and menopause took American television to a whole different level.

~ Bob Gelfand describing the influence of television producer Norman Lear in shaping the television culture of America via the hit series All in the Family, City Watch, March 17

by Kelli

• Right to Life of Michigan reports that Democrats in the U.S. Senate “voted to block the Justice for Victims of Human Trafficking Act because it did not include abortion funding.”
• At ProWomanProLife, Andrea Mrozek points out a “mistake pro-lifers frequently make” – assuming that a woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy really cares about whether or not she is carrying another human being:
  

  If you ask counsellors who see a lot of women facing unplanned pregnancies, they will confirm that fetal development is not something women are asking about. I believe it would be wise to recognize this as the pro-life movement….

  A woman in this situation, she says, is most concerned about her own survival.

• Survivors has a good post on how to answer the hard pro-life questions, like, “Would you force a woman to carry her rapist’s child?”
  

  The other day, I got into an hour-long conversation about abortion with a man and a woman. They seemed interested to get their questions answered and to find out my views and the team’s views on abortion and the hard questions. As we moved through our discussion, we came to the conclusion that since the fetus has human parents and is growing, it must be a living human being. Abortion, they agreed, is wrong since it would kill that living human being, but they had one major issue with our cause that was preventing us from moving further in our discussion. Their biggest issue was rape.

  “What about rape? Would you force a woman to carry her rapist’s child? What if the woman looks into her child’s eyes and sees her rapist? It’s hardly even a child to her, it’s a monster. Why can’t she get an abortion to be rid of the monster?”

  How would you answer this question?

• Wesley J. Smith shares some shocking (but not altogether unpredictable) news out of Belgium:
  

  A study out of Flanders, published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that 18% of patients deaths come either from lethal injection/assisted suicide or from being put into a deep coma and left to die.

  “Recent Trends in Euthanasia and Other End-of-Life Practices in Belgium,” reports that 6.3% of Flanders’ deaths involved “physician-assisted death.”…

  If the same percentages were applied to the United States, it would mean that roughly 150,000 would die yearly from euthanasia/assisted suicide (6% of 2.5 million annual USA deaths) – and a whopping 450,000 when terminal sedation was included.

• Secular Pro-Life has discovered that an abortion clinic may have actually violated a Disney trademarked service:
  

  For those of you who haven’t visited a Disney park, FastPass is a program that allows you to skip to the front of the line for rides. In essence, it saves your place in line while you do other things in the park. It’s a free service.

  That is not the description you’ll find on the South Wind Women’s Center website….

  Front of the line for your abortion! Enjoy fond memories of your family summer vacation!

  Unsurprisingly, Disney has trademarked the FastPass name. It has a small army of intellectual property lawyers and takes this kind of thing very seriously. I have made them aware.

[Images via Survivors and Disney/Secular Pro-Life]