But back to my question, I was thinking this morning how thankful I am that abortion clinics are closed on Thanksgiving. That’s a pro-life victory. What’s more, I’m sure several mothers are reflecting on this family day and reconsidering the abortion appointment they’ve made.
What pro-life gains are you thankful for today?
For the fifth year in a row, the Knights of Columbus, a fraternal organization of Catholic men, delivered laundry baskets filled to the brim with pie, green beans, dinner rolls, frozen turkeys and pans, to the 75 families in the Colorado Springs Pregnancy Center’s LifeSteps Program.
The program provides education, support, and practical assistance for parents and future parents, from the time of pregnancy, until their child turns 2. The turkey baskets are just one way the program aims to help families prosper….
“We got 90 percent of what we needed for him through them,” said Valerie Vance, who held her 8-month-old son, Ayden, on her hip. “When I found out I was pregnant, it was not a good situation…. We didn’t have anything,” she said. Without the help of the program, Vance said she would “probably still be in tears….”
While the center primarily reaches out to teen and first-time mothers, the LifeSteps program has expanded to help mothers of all ages. Fathers-to-be are also encouraged come, even if they’re not involved with the mother.
Valerie Pond came to the program when she was 4 months pregnant. She’d heard that it provided maternity clothes.
“In addition to finding out I was pregnant, I had lost my job,” said Pond as she picked up a basket with her son, 16-month old Malachi.
Pond said the turkey baskets are just another amazing thing the program has provided.
~ Lisa Walton, The Gazette, November 17
by LauraLoo
In political circles, GOP doesn’t just stand for Grand Ol’ Party anymore…
On The ED Show, it was reported the House Committee approved a bill to essentially defund Planned Parenthood. House Bill 298 passed on a party-line vote. But Ohio Democrat state senator Nina Turner proudly opposed the measure during a news conference by wearing a “baby pink” T-shirt with an entirely different meaning for GOP, as well as spewing all sorts of other hateful liberal rhetoric.
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Republicans also want to revive the Heartbeat Bill, which would ban all abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected.
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I wrote in July about the attack of 69-yr-old pro-lifer Everett Stadig by an abortion proponent as Stadig was collecting signatures for Colorado’s personhood initiative in front of a Denver grocery store.
What followed is an example of perseverance in the face of injustice, which led to an amazing conclusion and a reminder of Genesis 50:20, “Even though you planned evil against me, God planned good to come out of it. This was to keep many people alive….”
Hat tip to pro-life activist Jo Scott for relaying the end of the story, as follows.
A witness saw the pro-abortion thug throw Stadig off his bike, swearing and yelling, “I’m pro-choice!” and, “You don’t have a right to be here!” The witness took down the man’s license plate number and gave it to police. Stadig suffered a broken hip.
Yet police then made no attempt to locate Stadig’s assailant until his attorneys, Rebecca Messall and Barry Arrington, intervened.
Only then did police locate the owner of the vehicle, 47-yr-old William Costello, and arrested him for assault.
Pursuant to Katie’s Law, a DNA sample was taken from Costello, and as ABC News reported November 19:
That DNA was then linked to three unsolved sexual assault cases occurring in 2008, 2010, and 2011.
Prosecutors now allege that Costello sexually assaulted a 13-year-old girl in March 2008, a 22-year-old woman in August 2010, and a 49-year-old woman in September 2011.
Costello is being charged with two counts of kidnapping, two counts of sexual assault on a child, three counts of sexual assault and two counts of impersonating a peace officer, the D.A.’s office said.
The charges further allege that in the latter attacks Costello claimed he was a police officer, prosecutors said.
As I said, it’s an amazing story. Police are now investigating whether Costello is involved in more rapes.
I am pro-life because of information. I was pro-choice because of lack of information….
This is not to say everyone who is pro-choice lacks information. There are people right now working in clinics whose job it is to count the body parts and make sure there are no arms or fingers or heads left inside women to cause infection. Gotta make sure they got it all! These people certainly do not labor under any illusions about the baby being a “clump of cells.”
So how do they do it? Sister, you got me. I do not know. I know that even pro-choice Kristen would have run from that room screaming and puking….
I think it is possible to delude yourself that you are doing “good” even while sifting through your bloody fingers tangible evidence of unspeakable evil. Humans are clever like that. We can do all sorts of mental acrobatics to make ourselves the good guys.
~ Kristen Walker Hatten, Live Action, November 16
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by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
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The Kline-denigrating tweets of Sarah Peterson Herr [pictured far left] (outed Thursday evening by Operation Rescue) reflect the culture of abortion corruption that has long plagued Kansas as well as a deep, dangerous and pervasive animus towards Kline among the legal authorities in this state.
What we need is consultants to train pro-life candidates not just on how to message their pro-life positions, but how to go after and destroy the pro-abortion Democrats for their radical records, and how to proudly go on offense for life and make Democrats wish the topic would go away.
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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat
“Whether it will spread outside NSW is the next big question for us,” Ms Walmsley said.
“Students should be allowed freedom of expression, but our concern is, despite what they’ve said, these clubs do appear to be promoting an explicitly pro-life agenda.
Imagine that, a pro-life group promoting a pro-life agenda. The horror!
by Hans Johnson
Did you ever wake up not knowing exactly what kind of a day would await you? So did Baby Oliver.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
