The last three late-term abortion clinics of what was once was a chain of six in Northern California is closing this week, reports Wynette Sills of 40 Days for Life Sacramento.

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• A Pennsylvania man named Ruben Velazquez has pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend and unborn child. He faces two terms of 5 to 40 years.
• A woman who believes proposed legislation in North Dakota would prevent her from getting in vitro fertilization has allegedly threatened the life of a state lawmaker. The legislation appears to attempt to limit the number of embryos created in an IVF cycle to the number that will be implanted:
  

  Richland County State’s Attorney Ron McBeth on Friday charged Nicolette Jean Knudson with threatening a public servant, a class C Felony punishable upon conviction with up to five years in jail, $5,000 or both.

  Court records obtained by Forum Communications show authorities allege Knudson called Sen. Margaret Sitte, R-Bismarck, at 3 a.m. Feb. 27 and threatened to kill Sitte if she interfered with her attempts to get pregnant via in vitro fertilization.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat

• San Francisco Supervisor David Campos is hoping to expand the city’s buffer-zone around abortion clinics:
  

  A city law passed in 1993 created an 8-foot “bubble zone” around anyone who is within 100 feet of a health care facility, but Campos said that has been ineffective. Demonstrators, he said, get around the law by staying in one spot and not approaching clinic visitors.

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• Live Action looks at Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards’ post-election interview with the Huffington Post. She suggests that the Republican party return to former President Richard Nixon’s family planning program initiatives.

  Interestingly, audio tapes have now made public the knowledge that Nixon was a racist and saw family planning as a way to control the African-American population. Others have reported that Nixon was pro-choice in his thinking, and he shared the same eugenic agenda at the root of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger.

 On March 23 at high noon thousands of Americans will gather in over 60 cities with one simple message for President Obama: Back away from the First Amendment. On that day pro-life and religious groups will gather at federal buildings in Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and more to demonstrate in […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat In response to Katie Stack’s editorial attack on crisis pregnancy centers, the New York Times published a letter to the editor from abortionist Nancy Stanwood which claims CPCs in her area lied to patients.The New York Times: All the evidence-free attacks on pregnancy centers that are fit to […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat There appear to be at least a couple of San Francisco supervisors who aren’t raving pro-aborts. Proponents of legislating the advertising activities of pregnancy centers didn’t get everyone on their side: Supervisors, after being briefed by the city attorney, said that in order to mount a strong defense […]

I have a new long piece at Cartoon Movement about faith-based crisis pregnancy centers in the Bay Area. I visited a bunch of them over the last couple months pretending to be naive and knocked-up. ~ Graphic journalist Susie Cagle, introducing her 18-slide cartoon depiction of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers in San Francisco, This Is […]