by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The New York Times features on article on the pro-life factions in Ohio and the heartbeat bill.
• The NOW of New York is upset a NY woman has been arrested and charged for self-abortion.

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by LauraLoo

Preston Leatherman and a team of misfits took to the malls of Green Hills and Cool Springs in Nashville, TN in order to film the latest edition of Dancing with an iPod in Public.

After a quick 3 hour hit-and-run style shoot through these shopping centers on November 27, this is the result of their efforts.

Hopefully this video will put you in the Christmas spirit and make you want to get up and dance along!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlZ8DXRnM-0&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube]

[HT:  Alisdair from ProLifeNZ]

UPDATE 4:12p: Josh at CatholicVote.org has written a great follow-up post.

10:56a: I’m sorry to say the good people at CatholicVote.org are apparently starstruck. Blogged Josh Mercer yesterday:

 The Gingrich campaign contacted me directly last night about the comments that he made to ABC News. The campaign sent me the following statement from Newt Gingrich. (Which is also on their website).

I am very glad that the Gingrich campaign was quick to respond to the fallout from the ABC News interview and that they came out with a strong pro-life statement which reaffirms the scientific fact that life begins at conception.

Really? A personal note is all it takes to move past Newt Gingrich’s unequivocal statement to ABC’s Jake Tapper on December 2, that “when a woman has [a]  fertilized egg and that’s been successfully implanted that now you’re dealing with life”?

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However, even a fairly uninformed Gaga fan can see that the video more specifically tells the story of her being dropped from her original record label Island Def Jam and her subsequent signing at Interscope. The real topic that has everybody talking goes beyond the pop superstar’s battles in the musical arena. Many are now wondering if the songstress had an abortion.

Marry the Night shows the star in a women’s clinic being wheeled into a common room for patients…. [T]he attending nurse then tells her “no intimacy for two weeks.” As the woman continues to fret over Gaga she reveals she will be a star before a surreal ballet starts.

Afterwards, the same brunette version of Lady Gaga is an apartment, naked save for a pair of underwear that actually resemble bandages…

The intimacy comment, the bandages, and the fact that Gaga has highlighted in interviews that this was a women’s clinic have fans speculating that the star had an abortion before being dropped by Def Jam.

~ Ashley Mott of Gather wondering if Lady Gaga may have had an abortion based on her latest video,  December 4

[Screenshots are from video]

My top five favorite political cartoons for the week, first by Gary McCoy at Townhall.com…

 by Steve Benson at GoComics.com…

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After all these things, this word of God came to Abram in a vision: “Don’t be afraid, Abram. I’m your shield. Your reward will be grand!” Abram said, “God, Master, what use are your gifts as long as I’m childless and Eliezer of Damascus is going to inherit everything?”

~ Genesis 15:1-2, The Message translation

[Photo via wallpaper-million.com]

When I spotted the new cover of Reader’s Digest in the check-out line at the store last night, I almost gagged…

The hypocrisy is breathtaking. “Everything we must do must be for our children”?

This said by the woman who made a fundraising appeal on her husband’s behalf in support of partial birth abortion, which she called “a legitimate medical procedure.”

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Although the couple dismissed any obstacles posed by their famous age gap – last year Kutcher praised his wife as “a genetic freak,” insisting that he was “not worried” about infertility issues – reality eventually seeped in, creating some of the first fissures in their relationship.

After the initial cheating scandal in September of last year, Kutcher told a close acquaintance about his frustrations. “He knows that with Demi he won’t have kids, and he really wants kids,” the source said then. “When he married Demi, he didn’t realize it at the time. He didn’t get it.”

~ People, December 5 issue

[Photo, via People, is of Moore and Kutcher mocking their age gap on Saturday Night Live in 2005]