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• Women’s Rights Without Frontiers reports on a tragedy in China where a toddler was run over by a van when family planning officials attempted to collect a fine from the child’s family. Because of great protest in the village, the officials have been arrested. WRWF president Reggie Littlejohn encourages pro-lifers to keep shining the spotlight on this, and other, human rights violations:
  

  Our hearts break to learn of the violent death of an innocent child, and we extend our deepest sympathy to his parents. Those responsible for this violent death must be held accountable. Too often, under the glare of international scrutiny, the Chinese Communist Party will arrest officials who have committed a heinous human rights violation. Then as soon as the attention of the world shifts away, these same officials are restored to their former positions or even promoted.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Rebecca Taylor on Mara Hvistendahl’s Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men: What I loved most about this book is that it goes beyond the typical reasons why Asians are aborting their girls in record numbers. We know they have […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Iowa Republicans aren’t happy with the bill introduced by Sen. Joe Bolkcom designed to keep abortionist LeRoy Carhart out of Council Bluffs. The Canadian March for Life was held yesterday in Ottawa: While the crowd, estimated at over 10,000, largely consisted of teenagers in matching T-shirts bused in […]

by Charlie Savage has an interesting piece in the New York Times about the Sotomayor hearings, abortion, Gonzalez v. Carhart, settled law and precedent. Hadley Arkes discusses empathy and apathy. After discussing Laci’s and Connor’s law and court cases involving partial-birth abortion, Arkes writes (emphasis added)…

by Hadley Arkes has ideas on what could occur when President Obama visits Notre Dame: The President of Notre Dame, Rev. John Jenkins, has offered his own words to put the matter in a more defensible light, and those words have been echoed by members of the faculty. Let me…offer a proposal. President Jenkins…said that […]