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

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• John Smeaton reports on hideous UK legislation which suggests the “solution” for pregnant women diagnosed with HIV/AIDS is to kill, rather than treat, their preborn children.

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by LauraLoo

Here’s a Christmas chorus of canines, cats, a chinchilla, a caterpillar (some sort of creeping creature), etc., singing Jingle Bells. Rawr! :D

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRzhd3eUyO8&feature=email[/youtube]

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[HT: Mary ]

The Michigan Department of Community Health has cancelled an approved $200,000 grant to Planned Parenthood Mid and South Michigan as confirmed by Ed Rivet, Legislative Director for Right to Life of Michigan, with whom I spoke this morning.

The grant was to help Planned Parenthood furbish its 17,050 sq. ft. mill in Auburn Hills, which at present is just an unfinished big box.

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The [blog] debate that all of these people were having was whether or not the Duggars had disrespected their child by showing pictures of her deceased body at the funeral. Of the hundreds of comments I read, nobody suggested that this was not a full-fledged child. The cause of contention was the issue of whether they had respected their daughter’s dignity, not whether she had dignity in the first place. Her worthiness of respect was taken for granted.

… This would not have been the tenor of the conversation 10 years ago — or even five. Even as recently as 2006, there would have been a flood of “it’s just a fetus, who cares?” remarks, and the debate would have centered around whether the child was even worthy of a funeral.

The old myth about unborn life being “just a clump of tissue” has been under attack since the advent of the ultrasound machine, and now it would seem that it’s finally been relegated to the dustbin of history….

I fully believe that 100 years from now, the vast majority of people will consider abortion morally wrong — modern technology has made it too hard to deny the dignity of human life within the womb. The only question was when the shift would finally happen, when society would finally stop clinging to the antiquated, unscientific ideas about unborn children. Survey data has been looking promising for a while, but the internet reaction to the Duggar photos seals it. There is no question that our society has far more respect for unborn human life than it used to….

I believe that we have just witnessed the tide turn.

~ Jennifer Fulwiler, National Catholic Register, December 19

[Pixelated photo of baby Jubilee’s tiny hand via starcasm.net, which warned viewers that uncensored photos of the “child” might be “disturbing.”]

Author Stephenie Meyer picked the tiny town of Forks, Washington, as the setting for her wildly popular Twilight book and movie series because it is “ridiculously rainy” there, and everyone knows vampires can’t come out on sunny days or they sparkle.

Well, Forks is a little less dreary today with the news that its local Planned Parenthood has closed its coffin. According to PeninsulaDailyNews.com on December 17:

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• In the Washington Post, Marc Thiessen discusses Newt Gingrich’s various statements on when life begins and embryonic stem cell research.
• The Guttmacher Institute has published new research which looks at the demographics of women who have abortions after 12 weeks. Findings include that black women and teens were more likely to have later term abortions than other segments of the population and that later term abortions were more likely to be paid for with health insurance.

  Here’s abortion advocate/journalist Sarah Kliff’s write-up.

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by LauraLoo

Here’s a sneek peek at TLC‘s new reality special Virgin Diaries.

I have mixed feelings about this.  Is a program showing the ineptness of romantic/sexually starved people necessary?  Absolutely not.  We know they’re out there.  But since such a program now exists, naturally there are those who mock these type of folks who, for whatever reason, are virgins and yet willing to subject themselves to a cable audience. Is this program short lived or will it be a ratings hit?  Your thoughts?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp-jZyzQSms[/youtube]

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[HT: Jen Kim, Tribune Redeye]

Because our readers have been SO great lately, keeping up with us and showering us with love and lots of comments, I’m thinking we need to show our appreciation.

So, the reader who submits the best abortion haiku will have it featured here as an Abortioneers post!

~ Anti-Anti inviting readers to submit abortion haikus for posting, Abortioneers, December 14