by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• USA Today, CNN and MSNBC covered last night’s abortion forum in Iowa:

  Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, trailing in Iowa polls, won the biggest applause from the crowd tonight – and aimed his remarks at his competitors.

  “I have some problems with some of the folks who running for office these days when they say, ‘I believe life begins at conception.’ That’s like, I say, ‘I believe the sun rises.'” Santorum said, to laughs.

  “Why would you say you believe something that’s a fact?” Santorum added.

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by LauraLoo

Amazing testimony of how the LORD raised up Chai Ling to serve His purposes in China.  

During an audio interview with Janet Parschall, Chai discusses China’s One-Child Policy, forced/coerced abortions and, as a result, approximately 500 women a day commit suicide.  Chai also shares about All Girls Allowed ministry.  (To speed through the audio to the topics discussed above, please go to 10:30-14:30 and 33:00-end of interview.)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx7m4vO_7L8&feature=related[/youtube]

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Whenever pro-lifers broach the topic of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s attempted prosecution of late-term abortionist George Tiller and the Overland Park Planned Parenthood for child rape cover-up and illegal abortions, they start by saying, “It’s complicated.”

And it really is. The years-long twists and turns are the stuff of fiction novels. But American Life League has produced a nifty five-minute video that explains where we’re at and how we got here very well…

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCS4HPxs6BQ&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

[W]hat makes my liberal friends believe a child at 11 years old, or even 16, wouldn’t use the convenience of condom-aisle Plan B as an excuse to use it instead of condoms, or to skip the hassle of seeing a doctor to get birth control pills, even though the drug is explicitly not supposed to be used as routine contraception?

… [S]ince when do liberals side with drug companies against the government when it comes to protecting the vulnerable?

~ Joy-Ann Reid, Miami Herald, December 14

[Image via firetown.com]

UPDATE 12/15, 7:24a: This is a big enough story that CNN is covering it, as is the Associated Press.

This is a huge embarrassment to Komen and further exposes its relationship with Planned Parenthood to the general public.

Kudos to Lifeway for doing the right thing. Kudos to pro-life groups, news sources, and blogs for making this an issue. From the AP:

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Yesterday I checked in with Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life on the occasion of an auspicious anniversary.

It was three months ago that Father Pavone’s bishop, Patrick Zurek, abruptly ordered him to halt his pro-life work and report back to the Diocese of Amarillo for an unspecified length of time.

Since September 13 Father Pavone has been assigned to the small and isolated Disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ convent in Prayer Town, Texas, 50 miles outside of Amarillo. (Dirt road to convent pictured below.)

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UPDATE 12/15, 6p: Rick Perry became the fourth Republican candidate to sign the pledge today.

12/14, 12:04p: Personhood USA announced this morning that three Republican presidential contenders have signed its Personhood Pledge.

Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum have all signed the pledge, which states:

I stand with President Ronald Reagan in supporting “the unalienable personhood of every American, from the moment of conception until natural death,” and with the Republican Party platform in affirming that I “support a human life amendment to the Constitution, and endorse legislation to make clear that the 14th Amendment protections apply to unborn children.”

Good for them. This is significant forward movement on the political front, particularly on Gingrich’s part, who less than one month ago told ABC’s Jake Tapper life begins at “implantation, and successful implantation.”

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by LauraLoo

Imaginative video posted with the following write-up…

Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Warning: Some graphic images.)

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED [Technology, Entertainment, Design] Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, and Lost producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery.

Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKyljukBE70[/youtube]

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[HT: Stephen & Jamie ]