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

• Big Blue Wave expresses skepticism about the remote birth control device that is supposed to work for 16 years.
• Culture Campaign comments on “nonprofit” Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report. Abortion numbers and taxpayer funding increased while contraceptive numbers decreased. Unsurprisingly, adoption referrals are scarce:
  

  In its annual government-required report, Planned Parenthood indicated that it performed 327,653 abortions (that’s nearly 500 more children killed than the previous year), and served 147,210 fewer birth control customers while receiving an increase in taxpayer funding to $528.4 million (41% of Planned Parenthood’s total revenue). The report indicated that Planned Parenthood, which the government classifies as a “non-profit” organization, had an annual profit of $127.1 million.For the year, Planned Parenthood’s services to pregnant women were 94% abortions; abortions outnumbered adoption referrals by a factor of 174 to 1.

• Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is pleased to announce that another “Dr. Death” has lost his license:
  

  Lawrence Egbert, a leader of the Final Exit Network, has lost his medical license in Maryland.

After a two year review, the Maryland Board of Physicians revoked his medical license after deciding that Egbert’s actions were unethical and illegal. Egbert has said that he plans to appeal.

• Expose Abortion shares a sobering quote about saline abortion (which shows the humanity of the preborn child) from former abortionist Paul Jarrett:
  

  This type of abortion was then done by hypertonic saline injection. In laymen’s terms this meant injecting a very caustic salt solution into the amniotic sac which the baby swallows, causing his death. Labor begins 12 – 36 hours later.

• At Live Action News, Susan Michelle recounts the plethora of emails from pro-abortion professionals who think of 2014 as a bad year for abortion rights, and are fearful of what pro-lifers may do in 2015.
• Kansans for Life is proud of the pro-life victories in their state in 2014. We offer our congratulations:
  

  Pro-lifers can proudly claim credit for the fact that pro-life candidates won all of Kansas’ statewide offices, along with 94 of the 125 seats in the Kansas House of Representatives in the 2014 elections. Notably, pro-life stalwarts Governor Sam Brownback and U.S. Senator Pat Roberts won re-election over their radically pro-abortion challengers.As officially reported by the Kansas Department of Health & Environment, the number of Kansas abortions dropped to 7,485 in 2013, from 7,598 in 2012(2014 numbers aren’t available until March 2015). Many reasons can be attributed to the continued drop, including the improved availability of informed consent information online and increased utilization of pregnancy care centers statewide.

• The Guiding Star Project has some thoughts about the word “feminism” and the how new feminists honor motherhood with no apologies:
  

  The task of caring for young children, most often performed primarily by women, is a challenging task. It involves great time, attention, presence of mind, foresight, tenderness, patience, ingenuity, practicality, and creativity. The difficulty of the task is compounded when one is regularly expected to undertake such a task without help, without break, in more isolation than any previous generation, at the sacrifice of pursuing other passions and dreams, and while enduring cultural scorn and dread — being seen as a “breeding machine and a drudge” rather than as a person with the same capacities, intellect, and talent that she has always had.

Let us recognize all the gifts that women share with our culture, their gifts of life-giving, of care-giving, and whatever skills and intellectual gifts they contribute. Let us give women the full respect of their personhood. May we give caregivers the breaks and support that they need, and the opportunity to exercise the full range of their gifts.

[Images via Washington Post and mommyish.com]

by Carder

It may be hard for a Westerner to understand why she was willing to be photographed at such intimate moments, in a country where people say nasty things about women who have abortions.

Her doctor, Simi Mahesh, explains that there is a bond between doctor and patient: “They do trust me, and that could be a reason.” That trust would extend to the photographer who is working with the doctor.

Also, Palo Khoya spends her life in a remote village, coping with day-to-day challenges.

The Internet is just not relevant.

~ NPR summarizing why Palo Khoya of India (pictured with abortionist Simi Mahesh) agreed to have her abortion clinic experience photographed, December 31

by Hans Johnson

May your new year be less bewildering than last year’s was for Landon!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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[HT: TheBlaze]

by Kelli

Birth control has changed my life. It has allowed me to attend college, travel and be a working woman. I get my birth control at Planned Parenthood because it is accessible and affordable, and because Planned Parenthood advocates for women like me – a young woman of color – every day.

~ “Shireen,” a woman quoted in Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s latest annual report, as posted by CNSNews.com, December 31

Also revealed in the report: Planned Parenthood performed 327,653 abortions in FY2013 (up 487 from previous year) and provided fewer contraceptives.

by Hans Johnson

Before the celebrating begins this New Year’s Eve, many reflect on the year past and make a list of resolutions for the year to come.

May respect for the miracle of life be at the top of that list.

Many times we will be presented with a choice between aiding in the betterment of others’ health and well-being, or of turning away to be only concerned with our own. May we, whenever possible, choose life.

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by Carder

I thought I was going to die…. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through.

I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.

~ Rapper Nicki Minaj reflecting on her abortion in an interview with Rolling Stone via E! Online, December 30

What interests people always interests me. Some posts I think are not so amazing spark lots of activity and vice versa. So here were my top 10 most read posts of 2014! Thanks to Kelli for researching these stats.

10. Vanity Fair busts Planned Parenthood in undercover NuvaRing sting (March 3)

9. Baby Munoz put to death by judicial tyranny (January 26)

8. Wendy Davis reveals her late-term “quieting of the heart” abortion (September 8)

7. Porn studies prof goes berserk at sight of abortion victim photos (March 12)

6. Pro-life photos of the week: Pregnancy care center sign beats Planned Parenthood wall (September 6)

5. Maya Angelou chose life (May 29)

4. Pro-life video of the day: Coca-Cola’s amazing pro-life ad (January 7)

3. NBC medical expert: Joan Rivers’ emergency a reminder on importance of admitting privileges (September 1)

2. Journal of Public Health publishes study linking autism to vaccines made with aborted fetal cells (September 9)

1. BREAKING: Australian TV personality commits suicide after depression triggered by abortion (February 23)

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

• Wesley J. Smith discusses the latest culture of death idea. We’ve heard of “abortion doulas,” but what about death doulas? These individuals, according to two authors, would become “suicide facilitators” by “fill[ing] a gap between treatment doctors and hospice workers.”
• Josh Brahm lists his top five posts of 2014.
• Clinic Quotes features a grisly story about what contractors found when they renovated an old home that once belonged to an abortionist. Under an old examining table they found the “remains of two tiny babies floating in a preservative solution inside two dusty jars with screw-on lids.” A local TV station did an interview but referred to the babies as specimens and (interestingly) did not show them on camera.

• At Live Action News, Cassy Fiano writes about abortion supporters who want abortion clinics to be aesthetically pleasing, but seem unconcerned about making sure the clinics actually meet safety standards:
  

  Give us something pink and pretty, and we’ll ignore that [clinic owner Diane] Derzis had 76 pages’ worth of health code violations, the fact that one of her clinics was forcibly closed because she sent three patients to the hospital in one day, and that, for all intents and purposes, she’s operating an illegal abortion clinic. Derzis laughably said in an interview that she thanks God for her safe abortion, yet she does nothing at all to provide safe abortions for women who come to her for help.

  But oh boy, is her clinic pretty! [pictured] …

  Whole Woman’s Health has had multiple violations, including rusty instruments and expired medicine, but who cares? They’ve got herbal tea and recliners! The walls are decorated with inspirational quotes! Surely that tea and those pretty walls will make women feel better when they find out that an abortionist was poking around in their uterus with rusty equipment.

• Fletcher Armstrong discusses the success of bringing the pro-life strategy to European countries, and the resulting response:
  

  Neil Datta [is the] secretary of the European Parliamentary Forum on Population and Development (an abortion advocacy organization). Referencing an interview with Mr. Datta, Women’s eNews (a feminist online publication) wrote:

  U.S. anti-abortion groups appear to be sharing their expertise with their European counterparts. Datta cites the example of the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, based in Knoxville, Tenn., which ran a poster campaign that links photos of genocide and holocaust next to images of aborted fetuses. Countries, such as Slovakia and Poland, used a similar ad campaign to promote their agenda at the European Parliament and in public squares, said Datta.

• Big Blue Wave is astonished at an anti-smoking ad being shown in Finland, which discusses the harm that smoking can bring to preborn children. This type of ad has been seen before in the U.S. and Canada, but I haven’t seen any in recent years:

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[Photo via Live Action News]