by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat China is promising to work on its sex-selection abortion problem: The pledge is in the outline of a plan for childhood development through 2020 but has no specifics. The plan said authorities would increase efforts against the non-medical use of ultrasound tests and abortion of fetuses based on […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s second disciplinary hearing starts tomorrow. The Kansas City Star has an article on how some pro-life groups in Kansas might push for more restrictive measures in 2012 (like a heartbeat bill or personhood amendment) while others are more cautious.

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Noemie Emery in the Washington Examiner on how “choice” language has quieted pro-choicers when it comes to sex-selection abortion: Why not? It’s a “choice” – and choices, of course, must never be questioned, no matter to what ends they lead. Late-term abortion? Terrific. Infant dismemberment? Hardly a problem. […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat The Missourian has a long article on pro-life groups in the Show Me State. Joe Carter points out Mara Hvistendahl’s obviously inconsistent beliefs about abortion and sex-selection abortion: So why does she accept the first form of the argument but not this one? Because that is the outcome […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat The Chicago Tribune has investigated Illinois’ abortion reporting and found it to be filled with gaps: Health care providers are failing to detail abortion complications to the state as required by law, one of many gaps in a surveillance system viewed as crucial to protecting patients, a Tribune […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat The Phoenix FOX News affiliate has the story of a woman whose child had been growing in her abdomen, outside of her uterus: Nicollette Soto’s son weighs just 2 pounds, 14 ounces. She had what’s called a cornual pregnancy, and doctors are amazed he survived. He was born […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat In New Zealand, a storm is brewing over recent revelations that a 16-year-old had an abortion which was arranged by a school counselor without her parents’ knowledge. A West Virginia judge has upheld a life sentence on teenager who killed a pregnant woman’s unborn child when he was […]

by JivinJ, host of the blog, JivinJehoshaphat Kathryn Jean Lopez has a long piece on Planned Parenthood in the National Review. The Hill has an editorial by Abby Johnson regarding Planned Parenthood and then a response from PP’s medical director Deborah L. Nucatola. Nucatola doesn’t really say anything new (her whole piece is assertions without […]