by Carder

I should note here that I am unequivocally, adamantly pro-choice. But I’ve never reacted with outrage at people who are anti-abortion. Unlike those who, say, oppose gay marriage, I don’t think anti-abortion advocates are acting from a place of closed-minded hate. I think that, in addition to ignorance on women’s rights, they are looking at abortion as a simple moral choice: for life or against it.

But my mother’s choice, and the choice of those like her, complicates this simple paradigm. But as complicated as it is, it has, in many ways, deepened my relationship and understanding of her.

Just how many people, like me, owe our lives to abortion?

~ Anonymous coming to terms with the news of her mother’s abortion prior to her birth, Huffington Post, February 20

Good morning, and Happy Sunday! Here were my top five six favorite political cartoons this week. Be sure to vote for your fav in the poll at the bottom of this post!

by Bob Gorrell at GoComics.com…

 by Glenn McCoy at GoComics.com…

 by Dana Summers at GoComics.com…

 by Michael Ramirez at Townhall.com…

 by Steve Kelley at Townhall.com…

 and finally, with a tip of the hat to this evening’s Academy Awards, by Gary Varvel at GoComics.com…

Don’t be impatient for the Lord to act! Keep traveling steadily along his pathway and in due season he will honor you with every blessing, and you will see the wicked destroyed.

I myself have seen it happen: a proud and evil person, towering like a cedar of Lebanon, but when I looked again, he was gone! I searched but could not find him!

But the good person – what a different story! For good people – the blameless, the upright, those of peace – have a wonderful future ahead. For them there is a happy ending.

But evil people shall be destroyed, and their posterity shall be cut off.

~ Psalm 37:34-40, Living Bible/God’s Word translations

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is said to want babies banned in the wake of being forced to sit next to crying baby North West at a runway show during New York’s Fashion Week last week:

A source told Radar Online, “Anna doesn’t think fashion shows are appropriate for very young children such as North West. The loud music, the lights from the show, along with flashes from all of the cameras, and of course all of the people, is just overwhelming to a toddler.”

What do you think? Should decisions such as where and when to bring one’s children to events be left up to parents or left to the discretion of organizers – which could extend beyond Fashion Week to weddings, parties, and even church services?

by Kelli

What we believe about who God is and how God creates doesn’t leave room for political or moral neutrality on abortion.

I look out at the Christian landscape and our culture today and I’m encouraged on one hand when I see Christians addressing some of these issues like poverty or sex trafficking. These are issues we need to address in our culture and our culture will applaud us for addressing [them] but I’m concerned when I see the same Christians or church leaders who are passionate about those issues are passive when it comes to issues like abortion or so called same-sex marriage, issues that will bring us into much greater contention in our culture.

It’s like we’ve chosen which social issues we’re going to address and which one’s we’re going to ignore based on what’s most comfortable or least costly to us….

[Abortion] poses the most clear and present danger to the most people daily….

So this must compel us to address very core life issues to say how can we work to help these children live and that involves coming alongside women who are struggling with, wondering how can I have this baby, and to serve them, to show them there’s options. Either to help them deliver and raise this baby or to put this baby up for adoption so that children can live, women can thrive.

~ Alabama pastor David Platt (pictured above with his family), explaining how he once used to shy away from addressing issues like abortion in church, as quoted by The Christian Post, February 19

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

• Wesley J. Smith examines a New York Times article which celebrates “a woman who waxes ecstatically about choosing the characteristics of her baby – apparently including his sex – as if she were buying a camp shirt at Tommy Bahama.” Smith mourns the fact that our society has become so self-centered and consumer-focused “that we presume the right to both have a baby and the baby we want.”
• Survivors lists four things we can learn from civil rights hero Rosa Parks, applying this knowledge to combatting the horror of abortion.

• Right to Life of Michigan says The Women’s Pavilion, an abortion clinic in South Bend, Indiana, will soon have its license revoked due to failure to correct multiple health violations:
  

  The clinic’s abortionist, Ulrich Klopfer [pictured left], has had a variety of run-ins with the law including his failure to report statutory rape after performing abortions on 13-year-old girls.

  Just another reason why clinic inspections are important.

• Secular Pro-Life has a new series of blog posts which “deconstruct bizarre, disingenuous, and otherwise noteworthy statements on abortion center websites.” After reviewing the website for Reproductive Health Services of Montgomery, they had this interesting observation:
  

  There is also a page entitled “Patient Comments,” but upon a close reading, the comments appear to come from political supporters rather than patients. None say anything specific about having had an abortion at RHS (e.g. “The staff treated me well”). One talks about having an abortion in 1973 (before RHS existed); another identifies herself as the mother of a newborn; another talks about wanting abortion to be legal when her four-year-old daughter grows up; and another refers to women she knows who have had abortions, rather than referring to herself.

  The comment that really gave me chills, though, was the last one:

  “I have cared for 53 foster teenagers, most of them born unwanted. I couldn’t appreciate what you are doing more!”

  Dude. If you truly believe that the children in your care would have been better off dead, you have no business whatsoever being a foster parent. I hope those 53 teenagers got out of this person’s home with some measure of their self-esteem intact.

• ProWomanProLife has an astute comment on the article regarding a Canadian OB-GYN who was recently removed from his job because he put women at risk:
  

  Dr. Michel Ronald Prevost [pictured right], an Almonte, Ont., gynecologist, admitted he gave abortion patients incorrect doses of medication that resulted in fetal abnormalities in two pregnancies that went to term.

  That the doctor in question was trying as a matter of routine to kill babies bothers no one. That he wasn’t very good at it, however, now THAT’S a problem.

• John Smeaton discloses the funding of an educational program for teachers which is intended to help them identify safe and unsafe sexual behaviors among children:
  

  The UK law is clear that sexual activity under the age of 16 is unlawful. Nevertheless, the Department for Education has funded and recommended as a useful resource a Brook “traffic light” system that condones underage sex. The system has been adopted by at least one County Council. (Brook Advisory Service is one of Britain’s leading abortion referral organisations, specialising in advising young people – including those under 16 – about abortion, sex, STIs etc).

  The traffic light system is not distributed to young people but is intended to “inform” teachers and other professionals working with children and young people.

  The tool identifies green, amber and red behaviours. Green behaviours – according to Brook – “reflect safe and healthy sexual development”, and “provide opportunities to give positive feedback”. Those behaviours include “consenting oral and/or penetrative sex with others of the same or opposite gender who are of similar age and developmental ability” – even where those engaged in the activities are in the 13-15 age group.

  Activities classified as amber rather than red include “following others into toilets or changing rooms to look at them or touch them” and “pulling other children’s pants down/skirts up/trousers down against their will”. These behaviours, according to Brook, merely “have the potential” to be unsafe and unhealthy behaviour.

[Photos via nationalrighttolifenews.org and cbc.ca]

by Kelli

It was only a month ago that the news of the House’s decision not to vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act reached the ears of stunned March for Life participants in Washington, D.C.

While some pro-life leaders personally attempted to visit ringleader Rep. Renee Ellmers’ offices the next day to express their dismay, other reactions to the news were caught in these “man on the street” interviews from the Washington Free Beacon:

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by Carder

We hope to adopt a lot of kids. If God blesses us with biological kids of our own, it’s not going to quench our desire to adopt.

~ Newlywed Jessa (Duggar) Seewald, opening up about her and husband Ben’s plans to adopt, People, February 18