by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• A Massachusetts man plans on pleading insanity after being charged with killing his girlfriend and an unborn child his girlfriend said wasn’t his:

  Peter Ronchi, 48, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the May 2009 slaying of Yuliya Galperina, who was due to give birth within days.

• A Vermont man has been sentenced to 5 years in jail for attacking his son’s girlfriend and threatening to kill her and her unborn child:

  The Caledonian Record said [Perry] Comeau was arrested in 2009 after terrorizing his 31-year-old son and his son’s 23-year-old girlfriend. The girlfriend told police Comeau was drunk when he pushed her down, kicked her and grabbed her by the throat telling her he was going to kill her and her baby.

• Pro-lifers in Loganville, Georgia used Halloween as a time to educate the children in their community about fetal development. Some parents weren’t happy about this:

  “There was a pro-life group of some kind handing out 12-week-old fetus toys to the children. A man handed one of the so-called toys to my 3-year-old grandson. He asked what it was. The man that handed it to him told him, ‘This is a 12-week-old fetus. This is what you looked like in your mommy’s belly,'” Loganville resident John Ramsey said. “There is a time and place for everything. This event for handing out candy to small children was not the time or the place to be handing out toys about pro-life.” …

  “This ability to see how complex, fragile and precious life is, even at 12 weeks, is an amazing experience for children,” Edmonds said. “We were told by two people this year that they enjoyed the displays but did not want to have other discussions about early life development with their children for another few years, and one person did voice concern to a city council member who was at the event. Other than that, we had a wonderful response from all of the attendees.”

• The Los Angeles Times has an article on scientists attempting to figure how to use embryonic stem cells to treat diabetes. Since embryonic stem cell research isn’t a political issue anymore, we get to hear that cures aren’t anywhere near being around the corner:

  But fine-tuning the cells to make them safe and effective for human use will take time. For example, beta cells do more than just produce insulin; they also respond to body cues to produce just the right amount of insulin when it’s needed and thus regulate glucose levels with great precision. If you make beta cells that produce too much insulin, the level of glucose can drop dangerously low — and people can pass out, lapse into a coma or even die….

  Another major problem facing a cure in humans is the issue of autoimmunity — the problem that causes Type 1 diabetes in the first place. “Even if we are able to generate beta cells from stem cells, if you put them into a patient with Type 1 diabetes, they’ll be eliminated quickly, because the immune system is primed to destroy those cells,” [director of the UC San Francisco Diabetes Center, Matthias] Hebrok says.

by LauraLoo

Too posh to push?  Apparently so for some in the UK, where C-sections are in greater demand.

Which side are you on?  Also, if you’ve experienced both labor and C-section deliveries, do you have a preference?

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Email LauraLoo with your Lunch Break suggestions.

I strongly feel that this was not the right thing to do at a children’s event.

Again, this was a great event except for the people that were handing out toy fetuses to small children. At an adult event, OK, at a small children’s event, I think not.”

~ Grandfather John Ramsey complaining about Project:Ignite’s distribution of 12-week-old fetus toys at a local Halloween event, as quoted by The Walton Tribune, November 6

Here were my top five favorite political cartoons for the week, starting with a Bill Clinton trifecta, conjuring memories of an era – and a president – I’d like to forget.

by Chip Bok at GoComics.com…

 by Dana Summers at Townhall.com…
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Future generations will also serve him. Our children will hear about the wonders of the Lord. His righteous acts will be told to those yet unborn. They will hear about everything he has done.

~ Psalm 22:30-31, New Living Translation

[Photo montage via Th!nkAboutIt]

Pro-abortion ideologues are throwing a righteous fit over a pro-life group’s decision to protest a pro-abortion politician outside her church last Sunday with graphic signs.  I loved Robin Marty’s headline at RH Reality Check…

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Recent news stories about the new vitality of the antiabortion movement and its legislative achievements – more than a dozen states enacting record numbers of abortion restrictions this year – have glossed over one crucial fact. The most visible, entrepreneurial and passionate advocates for the rights of the unborn (as they would put it) are women. More to the point: They are youngish Christian working mothers with children at home.

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They deceived from the moment of their conception, pardon the pun, by stating they were Mississippians for Healthy Families. In actuality two of the group’s three organizing officers were CEOs of Planned Parenthoods in other states, and the third was the executive director of ACLU of Mississippi, certainly not family-oriented.

Since then the lies they’ve told about Initiative 26, Mississippi’s personhood amendment. have been too numerous to recount.

But today the group got about as close to incurring a “cease and desist” order as it could possibly get, from none other than Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.

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