UPDATE 12/3, 7:49a: In light of Gingrich’s comment yesterday, Dr. David Prentice has listed all the presidential candidates’ statements on embryonic stem cell research at the Family Research Council Action blog.

12/2, 3:41p: For such a supposedly smart man, presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich sure is stupid on the subject of biology. Gingrich told ABC’s Jake Tapper today:

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

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• Timmerie’s Blog has a must-read account of intimidation in her college speech class. Though her physically and verbally hostile teacher told the class the topic of abortion was not allowed (unless a student chose to argue in favor of it), Timmerie got around this rule in an interesting way.

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Pro-life activists from NorthWest Families for Life broke the news two days ago that Dimensions Medical Center abortion mill in Des Plaines, Illinois, a northwest suburb of Chicago, had permanently closed.

Dimensions was one of seven Chicago area abortion mills owned by abortionist Vinod Goyal, pictured right. Now his chain is down to six.

I called the number to confirm the news, and a receptionist said Dimensions had been closed “awhile.” Turns out the lights were apparently turned off in late August.

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Pro-life activists with the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform gave new meaning to the term “Black Friday” last week when showing shoppers in White Marsh, Maryland, the dark truth about abortion through abortion victim photos.

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by LauraLoo

Apparently Angel Adams of Tampa, FL, doesn’t think it should be her responsibility to financially provide for her 15 children conceived through 3 baby daddies. Angel and the youngest of her dozen children were evicted from an apartment, homeless and hungry.  But the story of going in and out of court continues.

Who should pay for these children? The parents (Angel, plus each baby daddy)?  Social services? Assistance through a variety of pregnancy care centers?  Obamacare?

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It’s times like these that I respect Octomom – at least she admitted her sin of crazy schemes to conceive and tries to find work to provide for her family.

It’s times like these that I think of married couples wanting children and cannot have them.

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What the mainstream media isn’t telling you about yesterday’s hearing

 
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Congressman Darrell Issa, held a hearing yesterday to investigate whether the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services discriminated against the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops when denying it a grant in October to aid human trafficking victims.

At issue is whether HHS, headed by pro-abortion Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, purposefully rigged the rules to keep the USCCB from getting a grant by giving preference to agencies that refer for contraception and abortion. Under the Bush administration the USCCB had previously been awarded a five-year, $19 million grant, which expired in March.

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This is very real situation that has happened many times on our country. Since 1989, a few months before the end of the Chilean dictatorship, it was stated that therapeutic abortion would be considered illegal, not even when the life of the mother is in danger.

The realism is very important on this film which is why the story is based on lives of many real people, and it also shows how politics and religion get involved on a subject like this. Yet the movie is not a drama, but a thriller that states how this is not only an attempt against human rights, but also a situation that always leads to a violent resolution.

~ Chilean director Francesc Morales discussing his latest horror film production, “Apio Verde” via Bloody Disgusting, December 1

Movie Poster translation: “Green Celery: In a Country Without Alternatives, There Can Be No Regrets”

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• The Illinois Supreme Court will take up IL’s parental notification law which has been in limbo since 1995.
• Slate’s William Saletan (a pro-choicer who favors some abortion restrictions) describes his debate with UK abortion proponent Ann Furediregarding limits on late-term abortion and while his conclusion (cognition, interaction and viability make humans valuable) is wrong, he still points to some major flaws in Furedi’s beliefs:If, as Furedi says, viability makes no particular difference, then why stop at birth? In our debate, I pointed out that the neural development trajectory outlined in “The Emergence of Human Consciousness: From Fetal to Neonatal Life” doesn’t end at birth. It runs through the first three years of life. If a child’s ability to survive on its own makes no difference, and if neural development adds no binding significance to the fetus’s original dispensability, then who are you to impose your values on Susan Smith, Andrea Yates, or Marilyn Lemak? If a woman feels that eight, 18, or 28 weeks after birth isn’t too late for her, shouldn’t we trust her judgment?

  Interestingly, Saletan is unable to see that his own arbitrary criteria for limiting abortion could also lead to the killing of some born human beings.

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