There is a branch of anti-choice activists that will use pretty much anything as a medium for their message: newspaper ads, graphic signs displayed in front of schools, bus stop benches. You would think they would know well enough to leave one place untouched, though. Wire coat hangers.

You would be wrong.

~ Robin Marty reporting on the Choose Life coat hangers of Springdale Drycleaners of Cincinnati, RH Reality Check, December 10

[Photo via Ben at Lifehacksimmediately]

by Hans Johnson

While some in the GOP blame election losses on the pro-life movement (despite abiding by a tacit agreement not to push its case), there is also some push-back from clinics that refuse to comply with Planned Parenthood’s mandate that every affiliate perform abortions beginning next year.

Paul Strand from CBN News interviews Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser:

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At the pro-life summit earlier this month we heard from Stephanie Gray, the Gen Y founder of the Canadian Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform.

Many of the activist groups represented at the summit mentioned they were beginning to take the pro-life message to middle schools as well as high schools and colleges. They noted they are seeing pro-abortion indoctrination at younger ages.

Here is one of their tactics for both high school and middle school campuses.

On a preplanned day, pro-life students place one of CCBR’s postcards in as many lockers as possible – without permission, it should be noted*.

Then CCBR representatives stand with small displays outside the school during lunch hour and at the end of the school day to speak with students.  See all postcards (and read the message on the back) here.

*Which is fine with me, unless there is some school policy being violated. And even then I’d consider it, depending on the consequence. This is life or death stuff, certainly less risky than hiding Jews or slaves. When I worked at Christ Hospital I would leave fliers about its abortion policy on cars around mine as I left the parking garage after work, even though there was a posted rule against solicitation and I knew I was probably being filmed.

I felt deeply regretful about giving my body to someone who did not value me. But I didn’t learn my lesson then. Not yet. It took a sordid, soul-crushing, disgusting, short-lived “relationship” with another not-very-nice dude to really drive the point home.

Sorry, ladies. I’ve been there. I’ve done it. I’ve seen the other side. I ain’t afraid of it. But you can keep it.

~ Kristen Walker Hatten (pictured), Live Action, December 9

No, I’m not making this up. From Planned Parenthood Maryland comes actual kitchen tips, including recipes:

[T]here is hope for the busy adult who wants to provide healthy nutritious meals for the entire family. The Slow Cooker has re- emerged as a staple appliance in many kitchens.

What family, you ask? After all, Planned Parenthood has aborted five million family members since 1970.

Planned Parenthood even provides a couple recipes. One of them sounds interesting, “Old-Fashioned Apple-Raisin Oatmeal.” But I psychologically would never be able to get past the thought that I got the recipe from Planned Parenthood. I would not be able to eat the food. Weird?

[HT: Andy Moore, Tony Massey]

by LauraLoo

Former Miss America Angela Baraquio Grey speaks out on behalf of Whole Life Hawaii against assisted suicide in the state:

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Unfortunately, Angela and her extended family are all too familiar with suicide.  In 2008 she gave a heartfelt interview to CBN about their devastating loss when her brother committed suicide.

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[HT: Jill]

The whole thing has been overwhelming because I didn’t realize you could love something so much, and I know people always say that but I love him so much it hurts…and it’s an interesting feeling to have because I never felt that before.

It changes your perspective about being overly sexual in a film when you have a baby…I’m going to be more cautious about choosing films because I’m already thinking about when he’s in school and his friends are going to be showing him my photo shoots with me in a bikini and he’s going to be horrified.

~ Actress Megan Fox describing the positive effect her son, Noah, has had on her life, as quoted by US Magazine, December 10

[HT: Laura Loo]

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

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• A Single Drop in the Ocean takes exception to a PETA ad that equates eating meat with the pro-life issue.
• Moral Outcry lauds the work of a Colorado pastor who established Project 1:27, which “turned 875 children in the Colorado foster system who were waiting for adoption (not all foster children are eligible to be adopted) just a few years ago into zero.”
• Down on the Pharm answers critics of pharmacists who refuse to sell the morning-after pill to men, and explains why some refuse to sell it at all.
• Pro Life NZ responds to bigthink.com blogger Adam Lee’s “challenge” questions for pro-lifers, which are really nothing more than tired, old pro-choice talking points – including the fallacy of equating natural death with death by abortion.

• Reflections of a Paralytic says that despite the often-repeated mantra, abortion on the disabled unborn is neither moral nor compassionate:
  

  Whether you mean to say it or not, advocating for abortion for unborn children with various diseases and disabilities in an effort to “spare them a life of suffering” (among other things) suggests that one must be perfect in mind and body in order to have a fulfilling life, which sends a message to those of us poor fools living with disabilities outside the womb that you do not think that our lives are worth living.

• Right to Life of Michigan is happy to report that Pro-Life Lobby Day was attended by more than 800 people. Some important pieces of pro-life legislation were passed and will now wait for the governor’s approval. Despite political losses at the national level, pro-life work is gaining importance and traction at the state level.
• ProWomanProLife points out the hypocrisy of feminists and progressives who refuse to even vote to condemn female gendercide in sex-selective abortions in Canada.
• Wesley J. Smith shows the slippery slope is alive and well in Belgium, where the legalization of euthanasia and therapeutic abortion are now being used to justify infanticide:
  

  Several neonatologists have drawn up a procedure which enables euthanasia of premature newborn infants or those presenting a handicap in one of the three following instances: either the infant has no chance of survival, or it is deemed to only have a very mediocre quality of life, or the outlook is poor and it is felt that the infant will suffer unbearable pain.The Groningen Protocol [Dutch infanticide protocol] caused quite a stir in Belgium and a great many medical practitioners are of the opinion that since a “therapeutic” abortion is possible right up to the day before birth in the event of the child being handicapped, euthanasia of newborns ought also to be allowed under the same conditions.

• Operation Rescue has information on the case of a patient who suffered severe blood loss after a possible “chemical abortion gone bad” in Cleveland, Ohio:

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