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I’m honored to have been asked to join Life Dynamics’ Life Talk team!

Life Talk is a video program produced once monthly at LD’s (newly redesigned) studio in Denton, Texas. The show features “hidden heroes of the pro-life movement and… latest news from the front lines of the abortion controversy,” quoting its Facebook page.

I’ll be part of a great panel that includes (right to left in photo above) Mark Crutcher of LD, me, Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, Rev. Johnny Hunter of the Life Education and Resource Network, and Troy Newman of Operation Rescue. These guys are not only heroic pro-lifers, they’re friends. So getting together once a month with them is going to be like Christmas.

We taped the November Life Talk on the 20th.  You can receive a Life Talk dvd mailed hot off the press each month by purchasing a 1-yr subscription.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention December’s Life Talk will feature groundbreaking news, certain to shift the abortion conversation.

Way To Go is a show about a current and difficult issue but it treats its serious subject in the same way that Arsenic And Old Lace dealt with old lady poisoners or Kind Hearts And Coronets dealt with aristocratic murders. Working with a really great US creator and a transatlantic writing team also brings us just a whiff of the way in which their shows find a different tone for mixing comedy, drama and death.

~ Jon Plowman, executive producer of BBC Three’s new “black comedy series about three ordinary guys who find themselves forced by an extraordinary set of circumstances into setting up an assisted-suicide business,” as quoted by The British Comedy Guide, November 22

The LORD is not too weak to save or his ear too deaf to hear. But your wrongs have separated you from your God, and your sins have made him hide his face so that he doesn’t hear you.

Your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers are stained with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things.

No one calls for justice, and no one pleads his case truthfully. People trust pointless arguments and speak lies. They conceive trouble and give birth to evil.

~ Isaiah 59:1-4, God’s Word translation

Same verses, The Message translation:

Look! Listen! God’s arm is not amputated – he can still save. God’s ears are not stopped up – he can still hear. There’s nothing wrong with God; the wrong is in you. Your wrongheaded lives caused the split between you and God. Your sins got between you so that he doesn’t hear.

Your hands are drenched in blood, your fingers dripping with guilt, Your lips smeared with lies, your tongue swollen from muttering obscenities.

No one speaks up for the right, no one deals fairly. They trust in illusion, they tell lies, they get pregnant with mischief and have sin-babies.

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

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• Michael New reveals the numerous flaws with a non-peer-reviewed and highly publicized “turnaway” study which purported to show that women who were refused abortion due to gestational age were more likely to experience greater stress and financial hardship than women who obtained abortions.
• The Anti-Abortion Gang discusses the so-called war on women, suggesting conservatives do not need to be afraid of their beliefs but need to better articulate their positions:
  

  Women are smarter than this, but they need to be educated on conservatism. They need to know that they need not fear conservatives.

  Conservative women are women too. We fight the same battles they do, we just don’t use our unborn children as pawns in the battle to attain truly equal rights.

• 40 Days for Life concludes another campaign with great results: one abortion clinic closed, three workers quit and currently there are four lawsuits pending against Planned Parenthood for Medicaid fraud (from former employees with insider information). In a recent webcast, former PP clinic director Abby Johnson [pictured left with 40 Days’ campaign director Shawn Carney] shared this encouraging tidbit:
  

  I remember the last Planned Parenthood conference that I went to before I quit. We were actually talking about the 40 Days for Life. Planned Parenthood was saying that their no-show rates go up as high as 75% when people are simply standing and praying outside of abortion clinics.

• Down on the Pharm encourages states to opt out of Obamacare’s state exchanges:
  

  The federal government did not allocate funds or any other means to set up the exchanges, and rely on cooperation from the states. Without this cooperation, Obamacare will essentially crash and burn.

• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition announces Alex Schadenberg’s new book entitled, Exposing Vulnerable People to Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide.
• Generations for Life discusses Eric Scheidler’s recent International Pro-Life Youth Conference presentation on how pro-lifers can improve their messaging and presentation so pro-choicers will be more likely to take a second look:
  

  Our first step, then, has to be convince our “pro-choice” audience that they need to give the pro-life position a second look. In all likelihood, we’re not going to change the mind of a hard-core abortion supporter on the spot, but if, by being diplomatic in our presentation of the pro-life message, we can convince them that we are merely wrong — and not crazy — we will plant the seeds for an eventual change of heart.

by LauraLoo

T.K. and Deidrea Lauxs were ecstatic to be first-time parents. But early on doctors knew that something wasn’t right with their baby. Baby Thomas had Trisomy 13, a fatal condition that makes it impossible for babies to live outside the womb. Doctors advised them to abort Thomas but they chose life instead – even if for just a few days.  Thomas’ short time on earth was an absolute miracle!  

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[HT: GodTube]

You may think I’m setting you up for a spoof, but no.

Planned Parenthood brings new meaning to the term, “Black Friday,” doesn’t it? Click to enlarge…

[HT: reader Anne]

On Dec. 1, 2011, I underwent an emergency C-section. Mysterious pain brought me into the emergency room, and it was discovered that I was experiencing a partial placental abruption….

I now know that it was pain from the cancer growing inside me that brought me to the emergency room that day. It was the cancer that alerted us to the fact that our little girl was about to lose her source of nourishment.

It was the cancer that saved her life. And she saved mine, too. If I hadn’t become pregnant, the cancer — a typically asymptomatic type — likely would not have been discovered until it had spread much further.

~ Joanna Montgomery (pictured right with husband Mark and daughter Magnolia), The Tennesseean, November 21

[HT: Susie Allen; Photo via bizjournals.com]

by Hans Johnson

“Over the river and through the woods to Grandmother’s house we go…”

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