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Do not be preoccupied with evildoers. Do not envy those who do wicked things. They will quickly dry up like grass and wither away like green plants. Trust the LORD, and do good things. Live in the land, and practice being faithful. Be happy with the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Entrust your ways to the LORD. Trust him, and he will act [on your behalf]. 6 He will make your righteousness shine like a light, your just cause like the noonday sun.

Surrender yourself to the LORD, and wait patiently for him. Do not be preoccupied with [an evildoer] who succeeds in his way when he carries out his schemes. Let go of anger, and leave rage behind. Do not be preoccupied. It only leads to evil. Evildoers will be cut off [from their inheritance], but those who wait with hope for the LORD will inherit the land.

In a little while a wicked person will vanish. Then you can carefully examine where he was, but there will be no trace of him. Oppressed people will inherit the land and will enjoy unlimited peace.

The wicked person plots against a righteous one and grits his teeth at him. The Lord laughs at him because he has seen that his time is coming. Wicked people pull out their swords and bend their bows to kill oppressed and needy people, to slaughter those who are decent. [But] their own swords will pierce their hearts, and their bows will be broken. The little that the righteous person has is better than the wealth of many wicked people. The arms of wicked people will be broken, but the LORD continues to support righteous people.

The LORD knows the daily [struggles] of innocent people. Their inheritance will last forever. They will not be put to shame in trying times. Even in times of famine they will be satisfied. But wicked people will disappear. The LORD’s enemies will vanish like the best part of a meadow. They will vanish like smoke. A wicked person borrows, but he does not repay. A righteous person is generous and giving. Those who are blessed by him will inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him will be cut off.

A person’s steps are directed by the LORD, and the LORD delights in his way. When he falls, he will not be thrown down headfirst because the LORD holds on to his hand. I have been young, and now I am old, but I have never seen a righteous person abandoned or his descendants begging for food.  He is always generous and lends freely. His descendants are a blessing. Avoid evil, do good, and live forever.

The LORD loves justice, and he will not abandon his godly ones. They will be kept safe forever, but the descendants of wicked people will be cut off. Righteous people will inherit the land and live there permanently.

~ Psalm 37:1-28, God’s Word translation

I have a new poll question up:

Do you agree with Michael Voris that Obama’s reelection “signals the end of a civilization,” or is he overreacting?

Vote on the lower right side of the home page.

Obviously, pro-lifers greatly miscalculated on the last poll question:

Monday morning quarterbacking myself, I got it wrong, too, on several counts: that the number of people voting for Obama would be down, that there would be no female gender gap (although I must say despite the other side’s “war on women” effort, Obama’s support among women fell 1% from 2008 – down from 56% to 55%),that Akin stood a better chance than he did, and that the Chick-fil-A voters would shock and awe.

But it all is what it is, and we move on – or do we – which brings me back to the new poll question… :)

As always, make comments to either the previous or current poll here, not on the Vizu website.

I like Ann Coulter.

I can’t think of a time when I haven’t agreed with Ann Coulter, even if her rhetoric is sometimes considered over-the-top. I usually enjoy her rhetoric, except her insistence on using the word “retard.”

Rhetoric aside, Coulter is a smart and savvy conservative.

So I was disappointed and stymied by this portion of Coulter’s analysis of the shellacking many Republicans took in Tuesday’s election:

No one can be blamed for the hurricane that took the news off the election, abruptly halting Romney’s momentum, but Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock can be blamed on two very specific people: Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock.

The last two weeks of the campaign were consumed with discussions of women’s “reproductive rights,” not because of anything Romney did, but because these two idiots decided to come out against abortion in the case of rape and incest.

After all the hard work intelligent pro-lifers have done in changing the public’s mind about a subject the public would rather not think about at all, these purist grandstanders came along and announced insane positions with no practical purpose whatsoever, other than showing off.

While pro-lifers in the trenches have been pushing the abortion positions where 90% of the country agrees with us – such as bans on partial birth abortion, and parental and spousal notification laws – Akin and Mourdock decided to leap straight to the other end of the spectrum and argue for abortion positions that less than 1% of the nation agrees with.

In order to be pro-life badasses, they gave up two easy-win Republican Senate seats.

No law is ever going to require a woman to bear the child of her rapist. Yes, it’s every bit as much a life as an unborn child that is not the product of rape. But sentient human beings are capable of drawing gradations along a line.

Just because I need iron to live doesn’t mean I have to accept 100,000 milligrams, which will kill me. If we give the guy who passed bad checks a prison furlough, that doesn’t mean we have to give one to Willie Horton. I like a tablespoon of sugar in my coffee, but not a pound.

The overwhelming majority of people – including me – are going to say the law shouldn’t force someone who has been raped to carry the child. On the other hand, abortion should be illegal in most other cases.

Is that so hard for Republicans to say?

Pro-life activist and the product of rape Rebecca Kiessling wrote a lengthy response to Coulter that is well worth reading. I wish Ann would speak with Rebecca.

Coulter got the scenario so wrong. It wasn’t so much the “no exceptions” position Akin and Mourdock held that got them in trouble. It was the ridiculous way they explained their position.

Consider how Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Josh Mandel deftly turned the tables on that question by pointing out opponent Sherrod Brown’s extremist position of believing abortion should be legal throughout all 9 months of pregnancy.

Brown stuttered in response, “I’ve never heard anybody say that before Josh, I’m not aware of that.” Mandel may have lost his race, but it wasn’t over a stumble on his pro-life position. (View video here, 48:52-51:40.)

And it wasn’t only the “last two weeks of the campaign” that were “consumed with discussions of women’s ‘reproductive rights.'” It was the last 10 months of the campaign, after Obama and the Democrats launched their “war on women” meme.

At any rate, what are your thoughts on Coulter’s analysis? Perhaps you agree with her?

Women who live in parts of Mexico where abortion is illegal have long crossed the U.S.-Mexican border to obtain abortions in U.S. border cities like San Diego, but those numbers might be declining thanks to draconian border security and other changes, [according to] a new study….

But though it may not be surprising to many that Mexican women seek higher-quality health care in the U.S., other reports show that some American women who don’t have access to abortion services at home are crossing into Mexico. New America Media, for instance, reported in August that Texas women crossed the border to obtain the abortion drug misoprostol from largely unregulated pharmacies in Mexico.

~ The Raw Story, November 8

[Photo (click to enlarge), via The Texas Tribune, is of a pharmacy employee in Nuevo Progreso, Tamaulipas, in Mexico, holding a box of misoprostol, aka Cytotec, a medication intended to treat ulcers but used off-label to induce abortions]

I’ve previewed the first episode, and this show is a going to be ground-breaking. A description:

Surrender the Secret is a new reality television series that will premiere on Knock TV beginning January 22, 2013, on the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. A description:

Surrender the Secret tells the real-life abortion stories of 5 women, and follows them as they go through post-abortion recovery. Together, these brave women embark upon a healing journey using an 8 session bible study specifically written for women who have had an abortion. See how they work through different healing exercises which help them get free from the bondages of pain, guilt and shame.

With an estimated 43% of women in the United States having had an abortion, and over 54,000,000 babies aborted since the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade legalized abortion in 1973, the number of women suffering with their abortion secret is staggering.

Over the ten episodes of this first-of-a-kind Christian reality TV series, the women form a close bond and trust each other as they open up and share their darkest secret, and how it has affected their lives. Surrender the Secret shows their amazing transformation, spiritually, emotionally and even physically, coming from the pain and shame of having an abortion in their past, releasing their anger, receiving forgiveness and finding peace in God’s love and grace.

It was totally surreal to watch a reality show focused not on Hollywood’s version of reality – Snooki, Kim, and The Donald – but on the secret reality of millions of women: abortion.

Surrender the Secret will help countless women who have been too afraid to analyze the consequences of their abortion, either alone or with others.

It will follow the Bible study by the same name, so I can envision many post-abortive mothers purchasing the book and following along at home.

I give these brave mothers, led by group facilitator Jill, pictured above right, mega-kudos for allowing themselves to be filmed.

Here’s the trailer…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfgQpKAqWsM[/youtube]

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• Wesley J. Smith discusses the reasons why he believes assisted suicide proponents lost their bid to legalize the practice in Massachusetts.
• Michael New says that despite an anti-life win in the Presidential race, other life issues ballot initiatives fared well on Election Day.

  At First Things, New also argues that the greatest successes of pro-lifers over the past 20 years have been outside the political realm, as evidenced by the declining abortion rate.

• ProLife NZ has an excellent and lengthy response to a viral blog post about one woman’s (as usual) illogical journey from pro-life to pro-choice, pointing out that apologetics are crucial in the pro-life fight.
• At Pro-Life Action League, Joe Scheidler says pro-lifers need to “shake off the nightmare” of the election and get back to our mission: saving children’s lives and helping women.

• Secular Pro-Life explains how pro-lifers should respond to the “70% of pro-lifers are men, and 100% will never be pregnant” myth, and other ad hominem attacks:
  

  It’s also important to keep in mind that Roe v. Wade was decided on by nine men. If men must stay out of the abortion issue, we must keep them out of the issue on both sides. So we would have to overturn Roe v. Wade. But that’s not all. If your contention is that men must stay out because they have never been pregnant so they can’t understand what it’s like, would you say that women who have never been pregnant should stay out, too? “Well,” you might say, “women can at least get pregnant. Men should stay out because they can never get pregnant.” Then would you also say that women who are incapable of becoming pregnant should also stay out of the abortion issue?

  Should white people who have never owned slaves, never had the means to own slaves, or were never slaves themselves, have stayed out of the slavery issue? Were non-Jews wrong for opposing the Holocaust? Abortion is a human rights issue, just like slavery and the Holocaust were.

  Standing against injustice is right for everyone, not simply someone of a particular gender, race, religion, and so on.

• Reggie Littlejohn of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers is doing her part to educate Europe on the horrors of gendercide by co-presenting the film, It’s a Girl, to both the British and European Parliaments.
• ProWomanProLife posts an article excerpt by George Jonas, who reportedly “does not associate himself with the pro-life movement.” The whole article is worth a read:
  

  In our times feminists contend that social equality is a compelling reason [for abortion]. They interpret it as women having no burdens imposed on them that aren’t also imposed on men. Since nature imposes pregnancy only on women, in order to even the scales, women should be entitled to an absolute license to terminate their pregnancies on demand.

  This is the essence of the feminist argument, though it’s seldom put so bluntly…. They can’t quite bring themselves to grant women a licence to kill, like 007. This is why the debate is filled with pious rhetoric about women controlling their own bodies, or lives aborted not being “life.”

• At the Priests for Life blog, Fr. Frank Pavone shares words of post-election encouragement:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcug001qj9Q[/youtube]

Huffington Post is reporting today that two Ohio pro-life groups that have been bitterly divided about a pro-life bill may be working together on a compromise.

This is fabulous news, if true, and it appears it is.

I called Janet Porter, who leads Faith2Action, the group behind what is known as the “Heartbeat Bill,” legislation that would protect Ohio babies from abortion after a heartbeat can be detected – as early as six weeks of pregnancy.

I asked Janet whether it was true she is now working with Ohio Right to Life on a compromise bill.

“We’re talking to everybody who will protect babies with beating hearts,” she responded. “There is talk of a compromise bill, but nothing is final yet.”

To me, that was a yes. A blurb on the F2A’s website, right, also indicates something is in the air.

Expect more news next week. Here’s the germane excerpt from HuffPo:

The so-called “heartbeat bill,” which could prevent a woman from having an abortion before she even realizes she’s pregnant, has been stalled in the Ohio state Senate since June 2011 largely because a major anti-abortion group refused to support it. Mike Gonidakis, executive director of Ohio Right to Life, told the Columbus Dispatch in March of 2011 that the bill was so extreme that it could backfire and prompt the Supreme Court to reaffirm Roe v. Wade.

But Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus (R-New Richmond) told The Cincinnati Enquirer on Thursday that the Senate plans to reconsider the heartbeat bill in a lame duck session that begins next week. Ohio Right to Life is working on a compromise with Faith2Action, the main anti-abortion group behind the bill, to develop a substitute bill they both can agree on.

Gonidakis told The Cincinnati Enquirer that the bill is close to being ready for Senate consideration, but he would not elaborate on the details. “We’re going to keep the process close to the vest,” he said. “We don’t want this to play out in the press. We’re still working on it, trading messages about the language. It’s not final yet.”…

While several GOP-controlled state legislatures flipped back to a Democratic majority on Tuesday, Ohio’s State Assembly remained firmly in Republican hands and gained a few anti-abortion allies. On Oct. 12th, Gov. John Kasich (R) appointed Ohio Right to Life board chair Marshall Pitchford to the committee in charge of choosing someone to fill a new vacancy on the Ohio Supreme Court, and he appointed Gonidakis to the Ohio State Medical Board.

by LauraLoo

Pro-abortion protesters gathered to menace the Cathedral of Buenos Aires, assaulted a protective contingent of riot police but were eventually repulsed to cheers of “Viva Cristo Rey!” (Long Live Christ the King) by Catholics who had come to aid in the Cathedral’s defense. 

The video is in Spanish but the article in the above link has translated what occurred in English.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tIToj-Yc-k&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

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