Catholic health-care providers in particular have long said they’d have to go out of business without the conscience protections that [Democrat House Minority Leader Nancy] Pelosi says amount to letting hospitals “say to a woman, ‘I’m sorry you could die’ if you don’t get an abortion.”

Those who dispute that characterization “may not like the language,’’ she said, “but the truth is what I said. I’m a devout Catholic and I honor my faith and love it… but they have this conscience thing’’ that she insists put women at physical risk, although Catholic providers strongly disagree.

~ Washington Post, November 18

[Photo via the Los Angeles Times]

I keep an eye on the Planned Parenthood Express in Orland Park, IL, near where I live.

I get creeped out every time I drive by. It’s a very unwelcoming place; the blinds are always drawn. Come to think of it, I’ve never seen a Planned Parenthood that wasn’t trying to keep the light out.

And I’ve also noticed that the storefront next door to this one has remained vacant for quite some time. A Subway restaurant used to rent that space, but it moved out over three years ago to a spot half a block down the street. I figure no one wants to be Planned Parenthood’s neighbor, and with the glut of office space available, why should they?

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

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• Mommy Life reports that the bi-annual “Sex Week” held on Yale’s campus is now facing the axe due to becoming “highly problematic.” Apparently, the two-week-long event started as a sex-ed program but (predictably) devolved into “pornography, porn stars, fetishes, sex toys and sex talks….”

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by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A Pennsylvania judge has refused to separate the trials of two of abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s employees from Gosnell’s trial.
• While former Gosnell employees are pleading guilty left and right, abortion clinics are still fighting against legislation to strengthen abortion clinic regulations. One Newsworks article has a few quote from abortion clinic director Jennifer Boulanger:

  What people don’t understand is how abortions are done and how simple they are…. I’m going to speak very frankly; an abortion is a five-minute procedure.

  Well, that’s an incredibly broad generalization designed to mislead people. The length of an abortion procedure varies a great deal based on the length of gestation and procedure being used. Boulanger also laughably claims her clinic welcomes inspections.

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by LauraLoo

Where do the souls of aborted babies go?

In a poignant new song, 26-year-old pro-life and pro-family rap artist Joe Pots suggests that a guardian angel leads the “unborn angel” to the throne of God. Read entire article at LifeSiteNews.com.

Great job, Joe!

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Harvard American history professor Jill Lepore has written a lengthy piece for The New Yorker this week entitled, “What’s next for Planned Parenthood?”

The article is informative, written from the perspective of one with a liberal bent but who is scholarly in her research and presentation. I’ve pulled excerpts of interest to pro-life activists…

“This started the day after the mid-terms,” Cecile Richards said when we met in July. Richards, the daughter of the former Texas governor Ann Richards, has been the president of Planned Parenthood since 2006. She’s long-boned and fair-haired and glamorous, and she is in the eye of a perfect political storm….

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Those abortion pictures pro-life activists flash are real. That is what a fetus looks like when its head is crushed.

When you see the procedure, you must decide, as a pro-choice person, whether you are in or out. … I have never been more in….

Doing them underground is a major last resort. I would be willing to, if things came to that.

~ Abortion doula Mary Mahoney (pictured), as quoted by Observer.com, November 14

[HT: moderator Carla; photo by Jackie Snow via Observer.com]

As the dust settles after the defeat of Mississippi’s personhood initiative  last week, here are five reasons I think it lost.

These  have nothing to do with the whopping lies the other side told. In other words, these are constructive criticisms.

I ran my thoughts past Keith Mason of Personhood USA, who took them well. He even gave me one I hadn’t thought of. This is a learning process.

1. We should have anticipated and precluded their whopping lies.

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