They are Lying to You When They Say Miscarriage is Abortion.  Voters in Florida will be asked in November to decide whether a right to abortion — at any time prior to viability, and at any time "when necessary to protect the patient's health, as determined by the patient's healthcare provider" — should be codified in the state's constitution.  The Florida Supreme Court on Monday ruled, 4-3, that a question regarding such a right to abortion may be placed on the ballot in November.  The three justices who dissented from the majority opinion, however — Justices Renatha Francis, Jamie Grosshans, and Meredith Sasso — all women — wrote the amendment "misleads" voters, "fails to convey the breadth of what the amendment actually accomplishes," and includes in its language numerous "undefined terms," such as "viability," "health care provider," and "patient's health."

America's Stunning Embrace Of Paganism Signals The End Of This Country As We Know It.  It's hard to survey the state of our country and not conclude that something is very wrong in America.  I don't just mean with our economy or the border or rampant crime in our cities, but with our basic grasp on reality itself. [...] Abortion, which was once reluctantly defended only on the basis that it should be "safe, legal, and rare," is now championed as a positive good, even at later stages of pregnancy.  Abortion advocates now insist the only difference between an unborn child with rights and one without them is the mother's desire, or not, to carry the pregnancy to term.

Another Fertility Clinic Mishap.  Now, there are lots of dirty little secrets about the in vitro fertilization (IVF) business that they really don't want to tell you amidst the smiling pictures of happy parents.  One is that, because IVF costs what it does and obtaining a woman's eggs is far more complicated than a man's sperm, women are usually hyper-ovulated by drugs to produce multiple ova that are "harvested" at one time.  Because there are no guarantees and frequent failures in fertilization, IVF normally attempts multiple fertilizations simultaneously.  After allowing the multiple fertilized ova to develop to a certain stage, the technician then engages in the equivalent of a grade-school popularity contest, deciding which ones are "most likely to succeed," i.e., be successfully implantable into the recipient woman (who need not necessarily be the egg provider).  The one "most likely to succeed" is implanted.  The others?  Two choices:  they are either discarded or frozen for future attempts in case the one "most likely to succeed" doesn't.  There are probably at least a million cryopreserved embryos in liquid nitrogen in American fertility clinics right now.

137 Abortion Businesses Have Closed Since Roe v. Wade [was] Overturned.  One hundred and thirty-seven abortion clinics have closed down in America since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022, according to a recent report by pro-life organization Operation Rescue.  Operation Rescue published its annual report on American abortion facilities on the day of the 51st annual March for Life, January 19.  The report reads, "in 2023, 49 abortion clinics closed or halted abortions.  Between 2022 and 2023, a total of 136 abortion clinics have stopped killing.  Cities that once had abortion mills in full operation are now abortion-free!"  Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Anne Reed wrote, "This year's national March for Life is being held three days prior to the anniversary of that horrendously unjust decision and less than two years after the anniversary of the day it was finally overturned — June 24, 2022."

There's an Actual Satanic Abortion Clinic.  What More Proof Do You Need That Abortion is Satanic?  It's not just your average abortion clinic — it's run by The Satanic Temple, an organization for Satan worshippers, and it has ambitious plans for providing "free religious reproductive healthcare" across the US. The Satanic Temple claims that it is a religion and that providing abortion is an important element in its rituals.  In fact, American tax authorities have recognized The Satanic Temple as a religious group with nonprofit tax-exempt status.  And now The Satanic Temple is trying to persuade courts in Idaho and Indiana to follow New Mexico's lead.

Abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide in 2023.  Abortion has topped several infectious diseases as the world's leading cause of death for at least the fifth year in a row, even though multiple abortion restrictions have gone into place at the state level following the U.S. Supreme Court's reversal of Roe v. Wade.  Statistics compiled by Worldometer, a database that tracks quantitative data on health, the global population and other metrics in real-time, show that more than 44.6 million abortions were performed worldwide in 2023.  The last available snapshot of Worldometer from 2023, captured by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine by Dec. 31, shows that the number of abortions performed last year exceeds the combined number of casualties caused by the other leading causes of death listed.

'Post-Roe study' tries to blame poor medical care on pro-life laws.  While the study doesn't define what constitutes 'poor quality care', it is clear that abortion advocates sponsoring the survey are planning to draw conclusions between the pro-life protections enacted in specific states and poor medical care suffered by pregnant women.  While sponsors hope to blame any poor medical care on the overturning of Roe v. Wade, they failed to suggest there be any meaningful federal mandates to gather data on abortion-related complications.

After all the screeching that 'women will die' without abortion, where are the dead women?  The United Nations says that millions of women's lives are in jeopardy because of abortion bans in the United States.  First off, almost all of these are not bans.  They are limits.  And when Roe v.  Wade went into effect, it was meant for abortions in the first trimester, not throughout the pregnancy.  Where is the report of all the women at risk throughout Europe and most of the world that also have limits on abortion from the U.N.?  I can't find any.  Where is the report of all the women who have died because of these limits?  I can't find any.  Isn't any report on women's health, climate change, or anything else from the UN worthless and a joke when Iran, the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world, is the head of the U.N. Humans Rights Council? [...] It doesn't appear that Iran cares about womens' or anyone else's health or life.  Incidentally, Iran appears to have an outright ban on abortion.

Pro-abortion radicals steal, destroy signs at Catholic churches opposing Ohio abortion amendment.  Just days ahead of a statewide vote on whether to enshrine abortion "rights" in the Ohio Constitution, vandalism is reportedly on the rise against Catholic churches in the Buckeye State.  On November 7, Ohioans will vote on Issue 1, which would establish a legal "right" to make "personal reproductive" decisions, "including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one's own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion," which the state "shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against."  According to the Ohio Attorney General's Office, the amendment would go far beyond even Roe v. Wade and block prohibitions on partial-birth and dismemberment abortions, allow abortionists to target disabled babies, and end parental consent requirements for abortion as well as minors' contraception, sterilization, and "gender transition" decisions.

When You Search 'Pregnancy' On Google, The Top Result Is For Planned Parenthood.  Google's search results consistently favor pro-abortion sources over pro-life ones, according to a new study that tested the search engine giant against its competitors.  A new report by researchers at the Media Research Center's Free Speech America says that a pro-abortion bias exists across Google's search engine, its AI chatbot Bard, Google Ads, and company policies.  Researchers at the MRC compared Google results to those of Bing and DuckDuckGo, saying that results from Google tilted in favor of a pro-abortion perspective.  During one test, researchers searched for the word "pregnancy" on all three search engines the day before the 50th Annual March for Life.  According to the researchers, Bing and DuckDuckGo had more neutral results, while on Google, the top link produced was to a page on Planned Parenthood, the country's leading advocates for abortion.

ACLU, George Soros and Planned Parenthood Pour Millions Into Ohio for Issue 1.  Shadowy out-of-state groups are pouring money into the campaign to enshrine a radical new abortion law in Ohio's constitution, but will voters fall for it?  In the wake of Roe v. Wade's defeat in the Supreme Court last year, leftist groups are clamoring to dramatically expand abortion up to the day of birth in red states.  In Ohio, that means pushing Issue 1 — which would establish a right to abort babies long past the point of "fetal viability," the limit established under Roe. [...] The Sixteen Thirty Fund, which has dumped $1.3 million into the race, is the biggest lobbying arm of the world's largest "dark money" network, run by Arabella Advisors.  The Arabella network spends billions of dollars each election cycle — in 2020, twice as much as the RNC and DNC combined — electing Democrats and attacking Republicans.  It's the Left's ultimate secret weapon:  A nexus of groups that quietly pour millions of dollars into campaigns to flip red states blue and shift the country leftward.

Pro-lifers confront University of Pittsburgh board for use of aborted babies in 'inhumane' experiments.  The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Magee-Womens Hospital Board of Directors held its first public meeting in four years last week during which pro-lifers took the opportunity to confront the institution over long-running scandals concerning grisly experiments with aborted babies.  In 2020, University of Pittsburgh researchers published a paper revealing that they grafted the scalps of aborted babies into mice for the purpose of exploring human skin's potency as a "significant barrier for protection against pathogen transmission," and to "investigate human-specific pathogens that target the skin."

Most Women are Pressured to Have Abortions, That's Why So Many Women Regret Them.  Britney Spears, an iconic pop sensation, recently unveiled a deeply personal chapter of her life in her upcoming memoir, "The Woman in Me."  In this memoir, she candidly shares her experience of being pressured into having an abortion during her relationship with Justin Timberlake.  Britney's revelation has sparked a conversation about the emotional and psychological consequences of abortion, which often go unnoticed and unaddressed.  In her memoir, Britney Spears opens up about the anguish she felt, saying, "To this day, [abortion] is one of the most agonizing things I have ever experienced in my life."  Her statement shines a light on the profound emotional impact that abortion can have on women.  It is a reminder that the decision to terminate a pregnancy is never easy, and the aftermath can be emotionally challenging.

Indiana Attorney General Sues State Hospital System Over Privacy of Ohio Girl Who Sought Abortion.  On Friday, Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) filed a lawsuit in federal court against the state's largest hospital system, claiming that it violated the privacy of an underaged girl from Ohio who traveled to Indiana for an abortion last year.  As reported by ABC News, Rokita claims that Dr. Caitlin Bernard violated patient privacy laws when she publicly told the story about the 10-year-old, a victim of rape who traveled across state lines to get access to an abortion drug.  The story made national headlines following the Supreme Court's historic decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and became a talking point for both pro-abortion activists as well as anti-immigration activists, once it was revealed that the girl's rapist was an illegal alien.  The 28-year-old culprit was sentenced in July to life in prison.

Federal appeals court says D.C. 'selectively' enforced statute to arrest pro-life activists but not BLM protesters.  A federal appeals court ruled 3-0 Tuesday that the Washington D.C. "selectively" used a defacement statute to arrest pro-life activists for chalking a message on the sidewalk while permitting Black Lives Matter (BLM) protestors to mark property without consequences.  During the summer of 2020, at the same time thousands of BLM protestors were taking to the streets of Washington, D.C. and covering public spaces with paint and chalk, two pro-life activists were arrested for chalking the words "Black Pre-Born Lives Matter"on a public sidewalk.  The Frederick Douglass Foundation and Students for Life of America, who organized the pro-life protest and filed the lawsuit over the arrests, "plausibly alleged" that the statute's enforcement was viewpoint discrimination, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia found.

Does abortion really constitute health care?  Health care for some should not involve paying for the death of others.  Despite the Dobbs v. Jackson ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade, many pro-abortion advocates still claim that "abortion is health care."  This erroneous phrase misses the mark when it comes to what health care truly is.  When doctors take their oath to "do no harm," there is an inherent understanding that human life is sacred and therefore not something easily given up or taken away.  To take an innocent life — for whatever reason — does not constitute health care.

Why Are Women So Angry About Abortion Laws?  The fight over so-called abortion rights continues as pro-abortion advocates in Ohio gathered enough signatures last week to put the question on the ballot in November's election.  Since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision last June, women around the country have filled the streets in protest, angry over restrictions that limit the innately barbaric act of emptying the womb of unborn life.  But what accounts for the level of panic and rage we see in the faces of women protesting limits on abortion?  The explanation for such unbridled anger is usually cast in terms of rights.  The right to do with my body as I choose.  But this line of reasoning does not go far enough.  Contraception and its necessary bail-out plan — abortion — have turned relationships between men and women upside down.  Women have been the losers in this trade.  Nothing brings that anger to the surface like abortion, which is seen as a miserable necessity in a world where men call the sexual shots in romantic relationships.

Study: 24,000 Fewer Abortions in U.S. Following Dobbs Decision.  A new study estimates there were 24,290 fewer legal abortions between July 2022 and March 2023, after the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision.  FiveThirtyEight obtained the study from #WeCount, which is a national research project led by the Society of Family Planning, a nonprofit that supports research about abortion and contraception.  That study found that there were more than 24,000 fewer abortions compared to a pre-Dobbs baseline.  #WeCount made its estimate by contacting every abortion clinic in the country multiple times over a twelve-month period.

Snopes is forced to concede that yes, in-utero babies do smile.  Certain images have power that goes way beyond what a thousand words can convey.  One example is an image tweeted on June first this year by LifeNews.com showing a smile on a baby that hasn't been born yet next to a similar smile on the baby after birth.  That makes expressions like "fetal tissue mass" as descriptors of in-utero children look like the sick jokes they are.  [Tweet]  Perhaps understanding the potential to undermine the logic of abortion, someone wrote to the so-called "fact-checking" website Snopes asking if it was genuine.

FBI Agents Show Up To Pro-Life Activist's Parents House.  Two agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited the childhood home of a pro-life activist and told the woman's mother that they wanted to speak with her, according to footage obtained by The Daily Signal.  Elise Ketch is a member of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising, a group of mostly left-leaning activists who believe that abortion is the murder of a human child.  [Video clip]

California Officials To Pay Churches $1.4 Million Over Abortion Health Care Mandate.  California officials are preparing to pay out $1.4 million to four churches after attempting to force them to provide abortion health care coverage for their employees, according to a press release.  Skyline Wesleyan Church, located in the San Diego area, Foothill Church in Glendora, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in Chino, and The Shepherd of the Hills Church filed two separate lawsuits with Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) in 2015 and 2016 after the Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) sent emails to insurance providers in the state, mandating that their coverage include abortion services.  Federal courts ruled in both cases that the state's mandate violated the First Amendment and ADF announced Friday that the DMHC had agreed to pay $1.4 million in attorney's fees, according to an ADF press release.

Vlaardingerbroek: Nothing More 'Narcissistic and Evil' Than Pushing Abortion over Climate Change.  There is nothing more "narcissistic, degenerate and evil" than those who push abortion or argue against having children because of the supposed climate crisis, Dutch political commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek said.  A report from the Rotterdam-based paper Algemeen Dagblad claimed that the majority of young adults in The Netherlands are concerned about having children in response to the persistent Armageddon-like warnings around the climate, with some speaking to the paper saying that they had aborted their children over fears of the so-called crisis.

Unequal Under the Law for One Means Unequal for All.  [Scroll down]  This conflict can be compared to feelings concerning the abortion issue.  You either have a visceral distaste for killing babies, or don't see a fetus as a living being until that baby draws its first breath.  Abortion and Trump highlight our ability to support emotional judgments over logic and the law, which is on full display as we are culturally and socially divided.  A woman's "right to choose" is inviolate, according to some misguided individuals.  I say misguided on purpose because I don't fully trust someone with such a different idea on a subject as consequential and final as whether to kill a fetus/baby in the womb for personal convenience.  What else might they believe could be dangerous or untenable to my way of thinking?  Maybe they think it is fair to redistribute wealth because they have a profound belief in "fairness." What limits exist for someone who does not think logically?

Evil Medicine:  Our scientific industry is cannibalizing pre-born children by stealing body parts while still alive, transplanting these parts onto mice and thus creating "Humanized Mice" for drug development.  Typically, liver, thymus, lung, kidney, and bone marrow are extracted and transplanted to develop various therapeutic drugs.  This horrific practice of harvesting organs from the live pre-born is no secret.  Several articles, podcasts, and interviews have brought this practice to light in the past couple of years.  Today, hundreds of drugs are developed, sold, and consumed at the expense of pre-born innocents who are being cruelly dissected.  Many popular "monoclonal antibodies" (MABs) are created using humanized mice.  Biolabs are churning out these hybrid mice by the hundreds each week and shipping them all over the world.  Creating humanized mice is a growing and profitable industry that demands a constant flow of live organs.  Could it be that the recent sanctioning in law of late-term abortion up to birth is fueled and funded by this demand?  Could it be that later-gestation fetal organs are better suited for transplantation?

FDA Claims There's a "Therapeutic Benefit" to Killing Unborn Babies in Abortions.  In a legal complaint filed last November in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, lawyers for the Alliance Defending Freedom, who are representing a number of medical organizations and doctors in a suit against the FDA, challenged this FDA action.  "First, the FDA never had the authority to approve these drugs for sale," their complaint says.  "In 2000, the FDA approved chemical abortion drugs under 21 C.F.R. Section 314, Subpart H," it says.  "This regulation authorizes the FDA to grant 'accelerated approval' of 'certain new drug products that have been studied for their safety and effectiveness in treating serious or life-threatening illnesses and that provide meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing treatments.'"  "But chemical abortion drugs," says the complaint, "do not treat serious or life-threatening illnesses.  Indeed, pregnancy is a normal physiological state that many females experience one or more times during their childbearing years."  "Pregnancy is not an illness," says the complaint.  "Likewise," it says, "chemical abortion drugs do not provide a 'meaningful therapeutic benefit' to women and girls over existing treatments."

Florida lawyer argues pregnant inmate's fetus is being illegally detained.  A few months after becoming pregnant, Natalia Harrell sat in a corrections van without air conditioning, according to a recent petition in Florida's appellate courts.  It was more than 100 degrees inside the van, the petition says, and a Miami-Dade County jail employee opened a door only after hearing Harrell banging against the walls.  Harrell, 24, has been jailed without bond since July, when she was accused of fatally shooting another woman and charged with second-degree murder.  She was six weeks pregnant at the time and, now eight months along, says the jail staff has endangered the fetus by refusing proper prenatal care and putting her in situations like the incident in the inmate transport van.

CVS fires nurse for refusing to violate her religious beliefs.  Despite accommodating nurse practitioner Robyn Strader's religious beliefs for more than six years, CVS fired her on October 31, 2021 after suddenly deciding that the Christian religion was no longer valid and no employees could cite it when it came time to prescribe drugs.  ["]Robyn worked at a CVS MinuteClinic in Keller, Texas since 2015. Robyn sought a religious accommodation because prescribing any medications that could intentionally end the development or life of an unborn child would force her to violate her beliefs.  For six-and-a-half years, the company accommodated her without a problem. [...] ["] Strader is now suing, with the non-profit legal firm First Liberty representing her.  The complaint demands Strader's full restitution, including back pay and punitive damages, noting that such a policy not only violates federal civil rights law, it also violates several Texas laws, including one that protects employees from religious discrimination and a second that exempts medical personnel from participating in abortion or abortion-related procedures if his or her religion forbids it.

Satanic Temple Opens New Abortion Clinic to Kill Babies in Ritualistic Abortions.  The Satanic Temple isn't just promoting the killing of unborn babies in abortions anymore.  It's actually killing them through a new "religious" abortion practice in New Mexico.  On Wednesday, the satanic group launched a new "religious medical services arm," TST Health, to begin doing abortions.  The Satanic Temple believes aborting unborn babies is a religious "ritual" and compares it to communion or baptism for Christians.

Report: Abortions In Texas Drop 99% Following Roe Reversal.  Texas has seen a drastic drop in abortions since the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs decision in June 2022, which overruled Roe v. Wade and returned the issue of abortion to the states.  Data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission shows that only three abortions occurred in the state in August of 2022, each of which was deemed "medically necessary," Fox News reported on Sunday.

Pregnancy Center Hires Private Investigators to Find Pro-Abortion Firebombers.  A pro-life pregnancy center network is taking matters into its own hands and hiring private investigators to find pro-abortion terrorists who attacked its medical office, claiming that the FBI is "slow-walking" its probe, which has not resulted in any arrests.  CompassCare is partnering with the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit law firm fighting for religious liberty, to hire private investigators to find the perpetrators on its own terms and timeline.  "After talking with our investigators so far, they've already provided very valuable insight that we didn't know.  And they do have a track record of identifying terrorists both internationally and domestically," Compass Care CEO Jim Harden told National Review.

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Isn't this what the FBI is for?  If somebody bombed an abortion clinic, wouldn't the FBI be all over it?

Richmond Restaurant Denies Pro-Life, Pro-Family Group Dinner Service Over Christian Values.  The intolerant leftist mob is coming for Christians everywhere, and we were just the latest target in the way this past Wednesday night.  The Family Foundation of Virginia is the largest and oldest pro-family advocacy organization in Virginia.  Our team and supporters were denied a meal for our beliefs when Metzger's Bar and Butchery in Richmond, Virginia, refused to service our pre-reserved event, leaving us scrambling just moments before.  For weeks, we had planned a gathering in a private room to fellowship and update supporters on our work.  About an hour and a half before the event was set to take place, one of the restaurant's owners called our team to cancel.  An employee had looked up our organization, and their wait staff refused to serve us.  Their official explanation was that our pro-life and pro-traditional-marriage positions violated the "basic human rights" of women and LGBT individuals.  What human right is more basic than the right to life?

No, Manufacturing Children In A Petri Dish Isn't A Reproductive Right.  Illinois state Rep. Margaret Croke recently introduced House Bill 5779, a bill to legally secure a right "to make autonomous decisions about one's own reproductive health, including the fundamental right to use or refuse reproductive health care."  This bill seeks to codify an individual right to rent wombs and manufacture children in artificial conditions, as well as to discard or hold in freezers an unlimited number of embryos.  The bill would add to the state's new law concerning "the fundamental right of an individual who becomes pregnant to continue the pregnancy and give birth to a child, or to have an abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise that right."  Croke is also a co-author of a previously introduced bill that would force health insurance companies to subsidize surrogacy and other forms of assisted reproductive technology.

Dystopian Pro Abortion Messages Being Written With Drones In Philadelphia Skies.  Demonstrators have used drones to write pro-abortion messages in the Philadelphia sky, according to activist, author, and filmmaker Paolo Mendoza.  "This week we took to the streets to fight for abortion access and bodily autonomy," Mendoza wrote in the Twitter post.  [Video clip]

Democrat labels National Right to Life Committee an 'extremist group'.  Nevada Democrat senator Catherine Cortez Masto labeled the National Right to Life Committee an "extremist group" in a recent campaign ad attacking the group's endorsement of her Republican opponent, Adam Laxalt.  The ad brands National Right to Life a "powerful extremist group" because it is urging Congress to pass what the ad terms a "national abortion ban."  In response, the organization issued a statement to TheBlaze in which it said, "National Right to Life does not want babies to die and supports measures to support the lives of mothers and their unborn children.  Catherine Cortez Masto is the extremist who wants unlimited abortion even late in pregnancy and paid for by taxpayer dollars."

FBI Arrests 87-Year-Old Concentration Camp Survivor Outside Abortion Clinic Door.  Pro-life activist Eva Edl was one of four pro-lifers charged this month in relation to a March 2021 abortion facility rescue at Carafem in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee.  The event was aimed at reaching abortion-minded women in hopes of helping them to choose life for their babies with confidence.  Edl is 87 years old and is a German survivor of a communist prisoner-of-war concentration camp during World War II.  Following her escape from that camp, she began a legacy of fighting for the right to life for all human beings.  "The first time I realized there were abortion clinics in our country was in 1988," she said, according to a previous Live Action News report.  "I said to my husband, 'these are the death camps of America.'  I saw people sitting in front of abortion clinics in Atlanta, and I've been involved ever since."  Eva Edl released a video in November 2018 describing her experience in a concentration camp and her opposition to abortion.

DOJ Charges 11 Pro-Life Activists for 2021 Sit-In at Abortion Clinic — FBI Descends on Defendant's Home 'with Guns Drawn'.  The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reportedly charged 11 pro-life advocates with federal charges related to a 2021 protest at a Tennessee abortion clinic.  In a press release announcing the charges on Wednesday, the Department of Justice said that the 11 individuals violated the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act during a 2021 protest in which they "engaged in a conspiracy to prevent" a Nashville-area abortion clinic "from providing, and patients from receiving, reproductive health services." [...] Identifying Chester Gallagher as the leader, the department alleges that he utilized social media to coordinate the blockade of an abortion, otherwise known as a "rescue."

Anatomy Professor Confirms an Unborn Baby's "Heart Starts Pumping at 22 Days".  An unborn baby must develop a heart that beats by about 22 days of pregnancy in order to survive and grow, said Dr. Peter Ward, a respected embryology professor and researcher, in a recent lecture to medical students.  The lecture refutes recent propaganda from abortion activists claiming that an unborn baby does not have a heartbeat by six weeks of pregnancy.  Ward's talk had nothing to do with politics or the abortion issue.  A professor at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, he described the development of the human heart in a 2018 YouTube series through Lecturio Medical, which helps medical students prepare for the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE).  In the nine-minute video, Ward explained that the heart begins as a "single tube" in the human embryo very early after the unique, human life begins, and quickly develops into a functioning, beating organ.  The myocardium, or muscle of the heart, "starts beating about 22 days into development," he said.

Study: Unborn Babies Can React To Taste, [and they] Dislike Kale.  Fetuses can react to flavors, showing dislike for kale and an affinity for carrots, according to a new study conducted in Northeast England.  The study in the journal "Psychological Science," was conducted on women at 32 and 36 weeks gestation.  It was the first "direct evidence" of fetuses responding to taste from food consumed by their mothers.  [Tweet]  "Fetuses exposed to carrot flavor (n = 35) showed "lip-corner puller" and "laughter-face gestalt" more frequently, whereas fetuses exposed to kale flavor (n = 34) showed more "upper-lip raiser," "lower-lip depressor," "lip stretch," "lip presser," and "cry-face gestalt" in comparison with the carrot group and a control group not exposed to any flavors (n = 30)," the study found.

Reproductive Medicine's Ethical Failure.  "Primum non nocere," above all do no harm, was the American medical ethics standard in 1965, on the eve of widespread contraceptive use.  However, preventing implantation of a newly fertilized ovum in the uterus, one of the lesser modes of action of the birth control pill, sounded ethically troublesome to the obstetricians of the time.  With ethics not quite as motivating as that nice Corvette, the American medical establishment simply changed the definition of conception from fertilization to implantation of the new life into the uterus, ignoring the first six days of human life in the fallopian tube, and making the pill easier to market to consumers.  This medical ethics malpractice dishonored the physician and ushered in a more lucrative vision for the reproductive system.  Today, after 60 years of ethical disinterest, reproductive healthcare has become the wild west of American medicine, in which money talks, morals walk, and sex is big business.

Who or what is Chief Justice John Roberts protecting?  The old news of the leak of Justice Alito's draft opinion last May overruling Roe v Wade has now been swamped by the new news of the Supreme Court's final opinion a month later.  That final opinion, almost identical to Alito's draft and joined by five of the nine Justices, held that Roe was wrong.  As a matter of fact and law, the Constitution never mentions, alludes to, or implies a Constitutional right to abortion.  (Notice my use of the word "abortion" to identify abortion.  Because "abortion" has a bad connotation, advocates of it seek to rebrand or euphemize the procedure with wooly obscurity like "a woman's right to choose" or "reproductive rights."  But "a woman's right to choose" is ambiguous unless you think that abortion is the only thing women have the right to make a choice about.  And "reproductive rights" is a deliberate misnomer, much like "Planned Parenthood."  This is not about the right to reproduce or become a parent, but the right not to.)

Dick's Sporting Goods Hit with Civil-Rights Complaint for Funding Employee Abortions, Not Childcare.  A conservative legal organization filed a federal civil-rights complaint against Dick's Sporting Goods on Thursday for sponsoring staff abortions while failing to provide equivalent paid maternity care to employees.  America First Legal (AFL) asked the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to open a civil-rights investigation into the company, alleging multiple violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on parental status.  After the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, Dick's announced a special employment benefit of "up to $4,000" in travel reimbursement for an employee, spouse, or dependent enrolled in their medical plan, along with one support person, to obtain an abortion, AFL reported.

Why PJ Media's Reporting on the 10-Year-Old Rape Victim Matters.  On Tuesday night we learned that Gerson Fuentes, an illegal alien from Guatemala living in Columbus, Ohio, confessed to raping a young girl who was just nine years old at the time. [...] In the case of the 10-year-old rape victim, the story was first reported by the Indianapolis Star, which apparently made no attempt to verify whether it was true — or at least refused to back up the story with evidence, leading even the Washington Post's fact-checker, Glenn Kessler, to call out the newspaper for its thinly sourced reporting.  In fact, the story relied on the word of Caitlin Bernard, an abortion doctor/activist in Indiana.  She claimed that a 10-year-old had to cross state lines in order to obtain an abortion because Ohio law would not permit it.  In fact, Ohio's heartbeat law has a stipulation that allows doctors to perform an abortion if he or she deems it a "medical emergency."  No court appearance is required, and no judge must be consulted — the doctor has the authority to make that call on his own.  From the beginning, many things about this story didn't add up — and they still don't.

New York Republicans Crumple on Abortion.  To model "principled loserdom" while indulging in a "kink for losing":  this is the establishment Republican's beating heart.  And on July 1, Republicans in the New York Senate wore their hearts on their sleeves.  The week before, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health that states are free to regulate abortion.  The Constitution is once again considered to be "scrupulously neutral" on abortion, as Justice Brett Kavanaugh put it.  And so, after fifty years, the legal funhouse of mirrors that began with Roe v. Wade came to an end.  Allowing abortion is the worst thing America ever has done.  It has been far worse than slavery.  There were four million slaves in 1860 out of 31 million people living in America.  That's one in eight.  Today, when the American economy struggles with an aging population that for fifty years has failed to replenish itself with a minimum of new births, one in five of the few pregnancies that still occur here end in abortion.

Reports: Vasectomy Clinics See Increase in Bookings Following Roe Reversal.  Vasectomy clinics are reportedly seeing a sharp rise in men booking appointments since Roe v. Wade was overturned last week.  Despite no data readily available to confirm this trend, urologists nationwide are noticing a sudden increase in bookings — with some even saying they are now booked until the end of August.  One Iowa urologist noted a 200 to 250 percent increase in bookings at his clinic, while a Los Angeles urologist saw a 300 to 400 percent rise in bookings, the Washington Post reported.  However, one Kansas City urologist reported a whopping "900 percent" spike in men seeking to undergo the sterilizing procedure.

Brilliant thread demolishes leftist fearmongering over Roe ruling.  The end of Roe v Wade has brought about a natural disaster-level reaction from the American left-wing, but one woman took to Twitter to disassemble all of the arguments they're using.  "Listen up you silly liberals," she started her thread, "because here is the truth about SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade:  1. No 'most' Americans DO NOT support abortion up until the moment of birth — In fact it's only 12% that do.  57% believe abortion should be banned as soon as a heartbeat is detected."

How to figure out that abortion is not a 'human right'.  The idiocy, hypocrisy, vulgarity — and propensity to threaten violence — are unmatched in the pro-abortion crowd.  They are aghast at a court ruling that they don't like and call it "violence," yet they call the killing of their own offspring in their womb "women's health care."  Most think the January 6 protesters and Trump-supporters should be locked up, but many claim that violence is a "legitimate and appropriate" response to the reversal of Roe v. Wade.  Conservatives did not embark on a "night of rage" after the court's original Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.  Nor have we gone on a summer-long "mostly peaceful" rampage across the country, burning, looting, and assaulting stores, offices, and government vehicles and employees because of the Biden administration's recent threats to infringe upon our Second Amendment rights.

11 Ways Democrats Helped Overturn Roe v. Wade.  No one did more to ensure that the moral and legal atrocity called Roe v Wade was overturned than Democrats.  [Eaxample #2]  Lena Dunham:  From where I sit, rape-hoaxer Lena Dunham led the pro-abortion crowd into a corner they could not escape from.  Back in 2016, when Dunham said, "Now I can say that I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had," she shifted the left's public attitude.  For decades, the pro-abortion crowd treated abortion as a solemn and unfortunate necessity.  Dunham basically said the quiet part out loud, and mainstream Democrats followed her lead.  As a result, what had been portrayed as "safe, rare, and legal" was now treated as something like getting a tattoo — butchering an innocent baby was now a sign of empowerment, strength, or, as Dunham put it, "bravery" and "self-knowledge."

What's Next in the Fight to End Abortion?  The Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade on June 24th, 2022 in a ruling that many of us were expecting, due to the leaked draft of Justice Samuel Alito's opinion on the matter as it pertained to Dobbs vs Jackson Women's Health Organization, which had many American's rejoicing on the steps of the Court or wherever they stood when they heard the news.  But as happy an occasion as this may seem to many, it was also a sad and tragic day that gave way to images of far too many extremely young women raging against the ruling and revealing just how deeply they had been proselytized by the demonic proponents of this sick and evil movement, that has convinced them their only path to true equality to men and achieving the fullest potential of their being is found deep in the unwritten words of the Constitution and an unfounded right to murder their unborn children.  It is the most abominable thing one will ever see.  In a nation that was supposedly founded on "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and the Christian and Western principles that have long supported every aspect of life, including the rights of the unborn upon "the quickening", we saw many of the most far-left, anti-family segment of the country crying out for a right to murder the unborn children of America.

You Can't Kill Me Anymore.  The narrative built over the years that abortion was a "woman's right" is invalid.  The Supreme Court just invalidated that mode of thought.  A more accurate definition of the "woman's right to choose" narrative would be to view abortion as a way of birth control, no different than a condom or birth control pill.  However, wrapping abortion in the emotional blanket of a woman's right to choose has helped make the issue incendiary on both sides.  Common sense and calm, reasoned debate have not been in place since Roe v Wade was first signed into law. [...] There will be much cheering on one side and gnashing of teeth on the other.  I pray the demonstration of these feelings is kept civil and does not run rampant out of control.  Regardless of the Supreme Court ruling, I am grateful my mother chose birth over abortion for me.  My life has had its ups and downs, but it was my privilege to have experienced those actions.

'Without Roe, parts of US will look like Central America' say activists in nations where abortion is entirely illegal.  The United States — long a beacon to reproductive rights activists in Latin America — will now start to resemble those countries without Roe's guarantee of a right to legally access abortion, say campaigners.  For activists in places such as El Salvador, where abortion is entirely banned, and Venezuela, where there exists on the statute an exception to save the life of a woman though in practice is equally criminal, the decades-long success of campaigners in the US was often an inspiration.  For women in Argentina, where "Green Wave" activists succeeded in their own landmark victory to secure legal abortion in late 2020, there was support from counterparts in the US, whose own victory dated back all the way to 1973.

Authentic Feminism is Pro-Life.  Just Ask Susan B. Anthony.  As the leader of a pro-life organization that honors the legacy of Susan B. Anthony and the pioneers of women's rights, I am often asked how we know those remarkable women were pro-life.  To start, Anthony's Quaker ethic was grounded in nonviolence and the equality of men and women.  As Carol Crossed, founder of the Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum, and family descendant Eric Anthony wrote in 2017, "the unifying theme of Susan Brownell Anthony's life was to speak up for those without a voice.  Anthony fought for temperance, the abolition of slavery and especially the enfranchisement of women.  She also spoke up for the voiceless child in utero, opposing Restellism, the term that Anthony's newspaper and others at that time used for abortion."

The Contradictions of Abortion Polling.  The conventional wisdom on abortion polling is that the Supreme Court is walking into a gale-force political wind if it overturns Roe v Wade.  Gallup reported last week that 55% of Americans identify as pro-choice, up six points since 2021 and near a record high.  The Journal's poll last week says 68% of people hope the Supreme Court doesn't completely overturn Roe.  Movement in such topline figures is meaningful, but it obscures as much as it reveals.  What do people mean when they identify as pro-choice?  In the Gallup survey, 67% of Americans say abortion should be "generally legal" in the first three months of pregnancy.  But it falls precipitously to 36% in the second trimester and 20% in the final trimester.  Recall what the Supreme Court is deciding in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.  The Mississippi law under review generally bans abortion after 15 weeks.  That's the second trimester.  According to Gallup, that has public opinion on its side.  "A majority of Americans (55%) are generally against abortion in the second three months," the pollster says.  This is the same percentage who called themselves pro-choice.

Asheville police:  Mountain Area Pregnancy Services vandalized, threatened.  Police are searching for the person or people who spray-painted a local pregnancy services clinic with the words "If abortions aren't safe, neither are you!" and busted out windows, according to a news release.  Officers with the department were called to Mountain Area Pregnancy Services in West Asheville around 7:20 a.m. June 7 to investigate the report of vandalism, according to the release.  "Upon arrival, officers found that someone had spray-painted the business with red graffiti, with the threatening wording, 'If abortions aren't safe, neither are you!' and an anarchist symbol on the front of the building," the release says.  "They also found the wording, 'No forced birth' on the side."

Liberal Prosecutors Say They Won't Enforce Abortion Bans.  Liberal prosecutors in red states have pledged to not enforce abortion bans that could be enacted in the likely event that the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade and allows states to restrict abortions.  Several state and local attorneys general have made public commitments to decline prosecuting individuals who break abortion laws by providing or receiving abortions.  If justices strike down Roe, after a leaked draft opinion revealed May 2 that they likely would, states will have more leeway to restrict abortions throughout pregnancy.  Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney Steve Descano of Virginia pledged to never prosecute women for abortions in a May 22 op-ed for The New York Times.

Pro-Life Group Offers Award for Arrest of Abortion Activists Who Firebombed Its Office.  A Wisconsin pro-life group is offering a reward to help find and arrest the radical abortion activist who firebombed its office last month.  As LifeNews reported, abortion activists firebombed a pro-life group's office in Madison, Wisconsin.  A leftist radical threw Molotov cocktails into Wisconsin Family Action's office in the capital city and a picture of the destruction shows the office heavily damaged from the bomb.  The pro-abortion terrorists responsible also vandalized the building and left a threatening message saying "If abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either."

Florida Officials Issue [an] Emergency Order to Temporarily Close [an] Abortion Clinic after Three Women [were] Hospitalized.  The state of Florida recently issued an emergency order to suspend operations at a Pensacola abortion clinic after a pro-life watchdog group uncovered three incidents in the last nine months in which patients had to be hospitalized with serious injuries.  Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) issued an order on Friday closing American Family Planning until an administrative hearing can be held.  The order came after Reprotection, a nonprofit dedicated to catching abortion providers breaking laws and using local authorities to bring them to justice, began investigating the clinic.

DOJ Employees Demand Day Off to Kill Their Babies.  Federal government employees have a sweet deal that may just get sweeter — if you're into infanticide.  In a May 18 letter, the Department of Justice Gender Equality Network (DOJ GEN) penned a letter asking the administration to "swiftly consider" granting federal employees time off for them or their family members to travel for abortions.  The DOJ GEN is listed on the DOJ site as an employee organization and is a group of 1,150 DOJ employees that are recognized by the DOJ but don't speak for it directly, The Blaze reported.

How A Republican Congress Can Protect Health-Care Workers From The Biggest Federal Erasure Of Their Conscience Rights Ever.  Thanks to the leaked opinion in the Dobbs case, abortion "rights" have become a hot topic on the left.  But what about the rights of health care workers to refuse to abort babies?  Or to refuse participation in other referrals or procedures (such as euthanasia or gender reassignment surgeries) to which they object on moral or religious grounds?  Under a proposed rule removal by the Biden administration's Health and Human Services Department (HHS), health care workers will have little recourse if their medical school, employer, or state insists that they participate in procedures or referrals to which they object.  The rule in question has been a political football for the last four presidential administrations, but the current action on the part of HHS is potentially more extreme than the actions taken by even the Obama administration, and it threatens to leave federal conscience protections — which are required by federal law — without enforcement.

Abortion Doctor Accuses Chip Roy Of Using 'Inflammatory Language' When He Describes What Happens To Aborted Babies.  An abortion doctor accused Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy of using inflammatory language when he asked her about late term abortions she had performed during a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday [5/18/2022].  Dr. Yashica Robinson, an Alabama-based OBGYN and pro-abortion advocate, admitted to having performed abortions as late as 20-week.  She refused to give a direct answer about how she handled human remains after abortions and criticized Roy's phrasing.  "The procedure for an abortion, when we're talking about at 20 weeks, as I understand it, is dilation and extraction.  Have you performed abortions in that stage and, in doing so, have you had baby parts that you've had to discard or store in some capacity?" Roy asked.  Robinson refused to directly answer the question and instead complained about Roy's word choice.

What the pro-life movement gets wrong — and the truth about Roe v Wade.  There are many things that the pro-life movement does exceptional[ly] well in providing resources that are alternatives to abortion but what I have learned these past 26 years that I've been an op-ed columnist is that the movement does not recognize that its opposition has changed.  Those posters of dismantled baby parts and lurid stories of born alive babies being murdered affects only voters who still have hearts.  Now more women are wearing their "I'm proud of my abortion" t-shirts.  Since the SCOTUS leak forecasting the end of Roe V. Wade, the true radical pro-abortion advocates have emerged and they are frightening.  I'm not sure if calling some of them insane is accurate but I'm leaning at dubbing them just plain 'evil'.

Baltimore Working to Become an Abortion 'Sanctuary' Following SCOTUS Leak.  The Baltimore City Council unanimously approved a resolution this week to make the city a "sanctuary" for women seeking an abortion.  Local outlet WBFF noted that the resolution will establish a fund to support organizations that provide abortions.  It was not specified how large the fund would end up being.  City Council member Zeke Cohen told WBFF that the resolution came as a response to a leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court showing the Justices overturning Roe v. Wade.  Cohen said the minds of the Justices are "misguided."

Satanists to Make Legal Argument in Favor of Abortion as a Religious Ritual.  The Satanic Temple of the United States (TST) plans to file legal challenges against any states that restrict or ban abortions, claiming that such procedures constitute religious rituals for its adherents.  As Fox News reports, TST released a statement declared that "in states that outlaw abortion but grant exceptions for instances of incest and rape, members should be permitted a religious exception to perform TST's religious abortion ritual."  "States that outlaw abortion and do not grant exceptions present more significant challenges, but TST has a number of plans that we will be undertaking quite soon," the statement continued.  "First, we will be suing the FDA to permit TST access to Mifepristone and Misoprostol for use under medical supervision as part of our religious abortion ritual."

Amazon says it will reimburse its staff $4,000 for travel and living costs if they have to go over 100 miles for an abortion or medical care.  Amazon will reimburse its staff in the US up to $4,000 in travel expenses annually for a range of non-life threatening medical treatments, including elective abortions, as conservative-led laws look to block access in many states.  The online retail giant's decision comes after a leaked memo on Monday revealed that the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide.  In a message sent to Amazon employees on Monday, obtained by Reuters, Amazon told its employees that the new work benefit would apply to an employee if an operation could not be done within 100 miles of their home and virtual care is not accessible.

Former Stripper Running For Congress Says She Aborted Her Baby To Give It A Better Life.  Alexandra Hunt, 29, is running for the Democratic nomination for the Philadelphia-area congressional district and has been attempting to leverage her sordid past in order to gain an edge over her competition in the race.  As a young adult, Hunt chose to become a sex worker while she studied at the University of Richmond where she earned a degree in psychology and now has her eyes set on Congress.  She also wants everyone to know that she never regretted her abortion.

Pro-Choice Activists Know that Their Movement is Wrong.  Most abortionists have been taught that the procedure is safe, helpful to women, and that if it's not legal, women will die in back-alley abortions.  Many claim that thousands of lives are saved every year thanks to legal abortion care.  In truth, back-alley abortion deaths were rare before Roe v.  Wade, and legalizing abortion didn't prevent Dr. Kermit Gosnell from murdering living babies and endangering the lives of countless women until he was convicted and sentenced to serve three life sentences in prison.  It's not enough for abortion to be legal in the first trimester any longer.  Pro-abortion stances have gotten more and more extreme with each year.  The lines are constantly being redrawn as younger and younger women are taught that if they cannot kill a viable baby that would live outside of the womb — even up until the day it's born — that they are somehow oppressed.  Anyone who questions this religion of political extremism is considered an enemy.

Six Outrageous Videos Posted By The "Libs Of TikTok".  [#6] This is the most disturbing video on our list, by far, and I am leading with it to make sure everyone reading the article has the exposure to the utter wretchedness of feminism, leftism, and postmodernism.  To summarize, a deranged lunatic is planning on murdering her unborn baby and feels great enough about it to both dance AND brag about it on social media.  [Video clip]

You Can't Make History Unless You're Born.  "Seven million women died last year because they didn't have access to abortion."  This was the absurd claim by a pro-abortion activist testifying in opposition to Nebraska's Legislative Bill (LB) 933, the Human Life Protection Act.  The claim made all of us watching those protesting the bill scratch our heads.  Did she really just say that?  Considering there were only 861 maternal deaths in 2020 according to the CDC, let's chalk it up to another epic pro-abortion distortion.  Abortion doesn't reduce maternal mortality.  No Maternal Mortality Review Committee even offers abortion as a solution to preventable maternal deaths.  In actuality there is no state or federal data in America that document a single woman who died because an abortion was not committed upon her and her child.  There are, however, hundreds of instances of women dying from so-called "safe and legal" abortions like Jamie Lee Morales, Tonya Reeves, Jennifer Morbelli, Cree Erwin Sheppard, Karnamaya Mongar and hundreds more since Roe.

Law Firm Seeks to Sue Pro-Choice Organization for Funding Illegal Abortions in Texas.  Thanks to the Texas Heartbeat Act, the number of abortions in Texas is dropping.  But pro-abortion forces in the state remain defiant of the law.  According to the Thomas More Society, directors "of the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity and the Texas Equal Access Fund have admitted in court that their organizations paid for at least one abortion of an unborn child in Texas that had a detectable heartbeat."  The Thomas More Society says that it has "filed pre-suit petitions for discovery" against these two abortion funds:  "Earlier this month Thomas More Society attorneys submitted petitions to take depositions from Neesha Davé, the Deputy Director of the Lilith Fund for Reproductive Equity, and Kamyon Conner, the Executive Director of the Texas Equal Access Fund.  These depositions will uncover the individuals subject to civil liability and criminal prosecution for aiding or abetting these illegal abortions, which will include each fund's employees, volunteers, and donors whose gifts are targeted or used for these illegal purposes."

County To Pay $370,000 After Trying To Force Nurse To Facilitate Abortions.  Winnebago County, Illinois, must pay Sandra Rojas' attorneys $370,000 after its health department fired her for refusing to facilitate abortions, according to the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF).  Rojas worked as a pediatric nurse for the Winnebago County Health Department for 18 years before the department began requiring nurses to undergo training on how to refer women to abortion facilities and help them access abortifacient contraceptives, according to the ADF, which served as Rojas' co-counsel.  Rojas sought protection under the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act because encouraging abortions and abortifacient contraceptives violated her conscience and religious beliefs, according to the ADF.  Rojas was nonetheless forced out of her job for refusing to violate her legally protected freedoms, the ADF said.

Arizona Democrat Wishes his Own Foster Kids Were Aborted.  [Video clip]

In the 21st century, we've entered a brave new era of child sacrifice.  In ancient times, pagans sacrificed children to propitiate angry, erratic, and inscrutable gods, hoping that giving up their most precious possessions would save the entire community.  Leftists are still doing that, not just with abortion, but with their COVID policies and the madness of their decriminalizing crime. [...] I suspect most American Thinker readers recognize that abortion is a death cult.  After all, Americans have killed some 61,000,000 babies since 1973, when the Supreme Court first found that imaginary right to abortion hidden deep within the Constitution.  In the beginning, though, women were embarrassed about what they were doing.  It was shameful.  Now, though, things are different.  Women shout their abortion.  They've made goddesses of themselves and willingly sacrifice babies to satisfy their own emotional needs.  In addition, the cult of climate change says that humans are killing Mother Gaia, another goddess who must be propitiated.

Pro-Abortion Group Projects Messages Onto Cathedral During Pro-Life Vigil.  Catholics have had to reckon with abortion more lately than they may ever have before since President Joe Biden is a supposedly faithful Catholic who has gone against the grain of the church's teaching and expressed his support for baby-killing.  However, the president hasn't talked about abortion all that much since entering the White House, which has led to some bewilderment among the left and the mainstream press (but I repeat myself).

The Editor says...
Defacing a cathedral is a crime, whether it is done with paint or, in this case, a beam of light.

Plenty of feds and narcs were on hand, too.
Tens of Thousands of High School and College Students Gather in D.C. to March for Life.  Thousands of pro-life high school and college students from across the country gathered at the National Mall in Washington, DC, Friday to attend the 49th annual March for Life.  A crowd of an estimated 50,000-plus mostly young people rallied near the Washington Monument before marching to the Supreme Court to stand for the rights of the unborn by protesting abortion and Roe v. Wade.  This year's theme is "Equality Begins in the Womb."

Major hospital just admitted that common, popular painkiller drugs are developed using human fetal cell lines.  In arguing for and against vaccines, leftists change their stories so often that they can't keep up with which version of the 'truth' they're supposed to remember at any given time.  Take the use of fetal stem cells for the development of vaccines and other medicines.  On the one hand, the left tries to hide and deny that fetal stem cell lines are used in medicinal research and development, as a way to trick Christians and others who object to the overall concept of fetal death via abortion or any other means to 'advance' science.  On the other hand, when they aren't paying close attention, they admit that even some of the most common over-the-counter treatments and medicines were developed using similar stem cell lines, and that just happened at a hospital in Arkansas.

Black, female DC police officers say they were given ultimatum:  Have an abortion or be fired.  D.C.'s assistant police chief this week claimed that as an 18-year-old cadet she was told to get an abortion or she would be fired, according to reports from NBC News.  Chanel Dickerson is one of 10 women who are either current or former Black, female D.C. police officers filing a class-action lawsuit against the city's Metropolitan Police Department with claims that they were discriminated against based on their sex and race.  "My choice to have a baby was personal and it should've been mine alone and not for an employer ultimatum," Dickerson had said during a community meeting, as reported by NBC.

America's Frontline Doctors:  Murdered Infants [are] at the Heart of Vaccine Research.  [Scroll down]  These murderous crimes of infanticide are part and parcel of the Rockefeller eugenics movement, which took hold early in the 20th century, and involved, at the very least, the US, Germany, Canada, and Sweden.  And then, of course, the Nazi regime vastly expanded medical torture and killing of the unwanted in their concentration camps.  The Nuremburg War Crimes trials, at the end of World War 2, failed to alert the whole world to the essentially MEDICAL basis of many of these crimes.  In other words, the Nazi doctors were not a lone aberration in an otherwise benign world of medical research.  The whole modern medical structure was woven with inhuman and sadistic practices.  And still is.

Aborted fetal cells and vaccines — a scandal much bigger than Pfizer's whistleblower ever imagined.  [Scroll down]  The fetal cells referred to in Pfizer's emails were HEK293T cells, obtained from the kidney cells of a female fetus in 1973.  In reality, all the currently authorized COVID-19 vaccines are made using aborted fetal cells, including Moderna's.  Moderna also used HEK293T cells in their proof-of-concept tests to see if the genetic instructions contained in these vaccines would be effectively taken up and produce the required spike protein.  Johnson and Johnson used both the PER.C6 cell line (derived from human embryonic retinal cells, originally from the retinal tissue of an 18-week-old fetus aborted in 1985) and the HEK293T cell line, to produce and assay (respectively) their Janssen adenovirus vaccine.  AstraZeneca used the HEK293T cells to develop theirs, as did two other companies that have had their vaccines approved, CanSino Biologics and Gamaleya Research Institute (Sputnik V vaccine).  The use of aborted fetal cells in vaccine production has been going on for over 50 years, starting in the mid-to late 1970s.

Yes, Abortion And Transgenderism Do Have Lots In Common.  Sometimes even New York Times columnists tell the truth.  For instance, a recent article by Jennifer Finney Boylan was headlined "Abortion Rights and Trans Rights Are Two Sides of the Same Coin."  Yes, and the coin is currency from Hell.  Although there are abortion supporters who oppose transgenderism and vice versa, Boylan is correct that the justifications for abortion and transgenderism share most of their ideological DNA.  Both are rooted in hatred for the givenness of human embodiment and its limitations.  Both should be rejected in favor of something better.  Boylan, who identifies as transgender, objects to giving "the state the right to limit what you can or cannot do with your own body" and insists that decisions about abortion and gender transition should be left to an individual, "who alone knows the truth of their heart, who alone can understand what the consequences of their choices will be in the years to come."

CNN Touts Abortion as Vital for Underage Girls, No Reason to Regret.  On Saturday night [10/16/2021], CNN Newsroom weekend host Pamela Brown devoted a segment to promoting abortion as an important option for underage girls as she spoke with a young woman who had an abortion at age 17, and does not regret doing it.  The pro-abortion activist even claimed that it "saved my life" by making it easier to go to college.  The segment also suggested that it was unreasonable to require underage girls to get either the consent of their parents or of a judge before getting an abortion.

MSNBC Guest Murphy: 'The Texas Legislature Should Be Impeached for Treason'.  Law professor Wendy Murphy said Tuesday [10/12/2021] on MSNBC that the Texas legislature should be impeached for treason for passing a law banning abortions after six weeks into a pregnancy.  Murphy said, "I think that it is so clear that the six-week abortion ban is unconstitutional.  What everybody should be talking about is whether a state can avoid complying with the Constitution by passing a law that forbids the courts to correct them when they do it."

Biden Reverses Trump Rule Barring Taxpayer Funds to Clinics That Refer for Abortion.  The Biden Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final rule Monday that reverses the Trump administration's policy of prohibiting taxpayer funds to family planning clinics that refer clients for abortion.  "This rule is a step forward for family planning care as it aims to strengthen and restore our nation's Title X program," said HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra, a longstanding ally of Planned Parenthood.

Mis-Measuring Infant Mortality.  Nonviable babies who die quickly after birth are recorded as live births in the U.S., but are more likely to be classified as stillbirths in other countries, particularly if they die before birth is legally registered.  That biases our infant mortality rate substantially upward compared with others.  One study in Philadelphia concluded that the overstatement was 40%.  American doctors also go to greater lengths to resuscitate very premature babies who are not breathing when delivered.  Consequently, babies at very high risk of death are counted as live births here, but not in many other countries, biasing our infant mortality rate sharply upward.

Cancer-Stricken Pregnant Mom Opts to Have Her Leg Amputated to Save Unborn Baby.  A pregnant mother chose to have her leg amputated to save her unborn baby when she was diagnosed with cancer.  Kathleen Osborne, 28, from Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, in England, had no idea she was pregnant when she went for an MRI scan diagnosing cancer for the third time.  She couldn't believe it when doctors found that she was also pregnant.  Doctors gave Kathleen two options: abort her baby so she could start chemotherapy or have her leg amputated.  Incredibly, it only took one night for Kathleen to make her life-changing decision and she had her entire right leg amputated at four months pregnant.  Kathleen's baby daughter, Aida-May, was born healthy and happy, eight weeks early, via a C-section.

Boulder County Catholic Church vandalized with pro-choice messages.  Pro-choice messaging and anarchist symbols were found spray painted on the building of Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Church in Boulder County on Wednesday morning.  "It was way worse than I had pictured in my mind," said Mark Evevard, the youth director at the church.  The Boulder County Sheriff's Office said the vandalism happened at approximately 3:30 a.m. on Wednesday.  The vandalism was discovered along a truck in the parking lot and church signs on the property.

Apple offers to pay Texas employees to travel outside the state to get abortions.  Tech giant Apple will pay for their Texas employees to seek abortions outside the state, the The New York Times reported Friday [9/17/2021].  According to the Times, Apple chief executive Tim Cook addressed the issue at an employee-only meeting on September 17, in which he said the corporation would assist Texas employees with obtaining abortions now illegal in the state.  As reported by MSN, the meeting was broadcast to all of the Big Tech giant's roughly 160,000 employees worldwide.  Responding to questions from employees regarding how Apple planned to respond to Texas' sweeping restrictions on abortions enacted earlier this month, Cook said Apple's medical insurance would cover out-of-state abortions sought by employees who live and work in the Lone Star State.

Pro-Life Group Says Google Banned Its Ads in 'Dramatic and Unprecedented Move'.  The pro-life group Live Action claimed Tuesday that Google banned "all" Live Action ads, accusing the tech company of siding "squarely with extremist pro-abortion political ideology."  "They aren't hiding their bias anymore," Lila Rose, Live Action founder and president, said in a statement.  "Google's censorship baldly reveals that the corporation is in the pocket of the abortion industry."  Live Action said in a press release that Google banned the promotion of "all" the organization's ads, including its "Baby Olivia" ad as well as one about the Abortion Pill Reversal hotline, which is managed by a team of medical professionals, according to the pro-life group.  "By restricting scientific information related to abortion pill reversal and other life-saving options, while accepting paid ads promoting life-ending abortions, Google has chosen to operate by an outrageously dishonest and blatant double standard," Rose said in a statement.  "The consequence is devastating — more women and girls will be marketed abortions through Google platforms, without also being offered life-affirming options."

Abortion is not 'family planning,' it's killing children.  Abortion advocates tell us that killing unborn babies is an essential part of "family planning."  For instance, Planned Parenthood's website says that "Deciding to have an abortion doesn't mean you don't want or love children.  In fact, 6 out of 10 people who get abortions already have kids — and many of them decide to end their pregnancies so they can focus on the children they already have."  But according to a massive new study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute, that's just not true.  A review of almost eight million pregnancies found that abortion among low-income women with children is "exceedingly uncommon, if not rare."  Less than six percent of Medicaid-enrolled women had both births and abortions.

Can doctors refuse to give medical service if it violates their religious beliefs?  Ohio could allow it.  Ohio physicians, hospitals and health insurance companies could refuse to provide or pay for a medical service if it violates their moral beliefs, under language inserted into the state budget bill this week.  The new language would also give medical practitioners immunity from lawsuits for refusing such and allow them to sue others.  Abortion rights and LGBTQ advocates sounded the alarm this week, fearing more restricted access to reproductive health care and more discrimination.  Those on the other side hailed the measure as essential for protecting religious freedoms.

Paxton Smith vs. the Texas Heartbeat Law.  Earlier this month, Texas teen Paxton Smith surprised the audience at her high school graduation and used her valedictory speech to criticize the state of Texas for protecting preborn children from abortion violence through the passage of the Texas Heartbeat Law. [...] Smith's valedictory speech was not unique in that it echoed the typical abortion lobby talking points justifying aborting babies with heartbeats — that many women don't know they're pregnant before their baby's heart starts beating (which is true); that the legislation does not afford exceptions for killing children conceived in rape or incest (also true); and that abortion restrictions in general strip women of "bodily autonomy" (not true).  As a fellow Texas woman and a mother of four young children born and raised in this great state, I'm compelled to provide a counterpoint to one of Paxton's claims in particular: her assertion that without the right to kill her children, Paxton's "hopes and dreams" for herself "will no longer be relevant."  With this assertion, Paxton reveals that she has bought into the exact lie and internalized, anti-woman prejudice that the abortion industry has used to sell abortion to pregnant women in her shoes for decades:  The lie that women are so fragile and so incapable of overcoming hardship that they are reduced to a binary choice between the murder of their own children, or utter failure at life.  The reality is that no such binary exists.

Texas City Becomes Latest to Ban Abortion, Passes 'Sanctuary for the Unborn' Ordinance.  The city of Levelland, Texas, voted to become one of the latest municipalities to ban abortion and declared itself a "Sanctuary for the Unborn."  All four City Council members voted in favor of the ordinance, which states:  "It shall be unlawful for any person to procure or perform an abortion of any type and at any stage of pregnancy in the City of Levelland, Texas."  "It shall be unlawful," the ordinance says, "for any person to knowingly aid or abet an abortion that occurs in the City of Levelland, Texas."  Councilwoman Mary Engledow said the successful vote marks a "great day" for the city, adding:  "We have done something that has been long overdue.  Levelland is truly Blessed and by passing 'Sanctuary City for the Unborn' we will remain blessed."

Pork-Stuffed Bill About To Pass Senate Enables Splicing Aborted Babies With Animals.  The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, or so-called "Endless Frontier Act," has been lauded as a force against China's technological dominance, but it's turning into a giant pile of special-interest pork that increases taxpayer outlays for grotesque medical research that splices the bodies of animals with those of aborted human babies.  After weeks of Senate floor debate and more than 600 proposed amendments, the Senate will vote on the bill, first introduced by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Todd Young, R-In., this Tuesday.  Growing concern from Senate Republicans over its ethical and practical effectiveness and its $250 billion spending surge has undercut support for the bill.

Senator Kaine Compares Catholic Views on Abortion to Sharia Law, Says It Wouldn't Be a 'Primary Concern' For Jesus.  Senator Tim Kaine, who claims to be a Catholic, has compared the church's teachings on abortion to Sharia Law.  In an op-ed for the far-left National Catholic Reporter, Kaine was arguing against bishops who want to withhold communion from Joe Biden over his radical abortion policies.  "Catholics in public life not only live according to church doctrine but additionally shape the law, even to include the threat of criminal prosecution and punishment, to enshrine church doctrine on sexuality as mandatory for all Americans is contrary to our basic liberty," he wrote.  "Why would government require that Catholic sexuality doctrine, or Sharia law, or Orthodox Jewish rules about Sabbath observance, be followed by all?"

Pitt researchers are illegally using fetal tissue for human-rat grafting experiments: report.  Anthony Fauci's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases allegedly sent taxpayer dollars to the University of Pittsburgh for research that included grafting aborted human fetuses to rats.  The allegations come from a new video from pro-life journalist David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress, which previously released videos about how Planned Parenthood trafficks in fetal body parts.  The allegations are part of a larger set of accusations against the public university and its role in abortion.  "Publicly available information demonstrates that Pitt hosts some of the most barbaric experiments carried out on aborted human infants," CMP said in a recent news release.

Vatican warns US bishops over get-tough Communion proposals.  The head of the Vatican's doctrine office is warning U.S. bishops to deliberate carefully and minimize divisions before proceeding with a possible plan to rebuke Roman Catholic politicians such as President Joe Biden for receiving Communion even though they support abortion rights.

Word leaks out about fiendish experiments at the University of Pittsburgh.  At American Thinker, we are careful not to make Nazi analogies.  Leftists have a habit of calling every conservative some variation of Hitler, which cheapens the memory of the Holocaust and does nothing to further rational public discourse.  Having said that, it's hard to avoid thinking about one single Nazi — Josef Mengele — when you learn what's been going on at the University of Pittsburgh.  A horrifying video reveals experiments involving fetal tissues and organs, with taxpayer money helping make these experiments happen.  In the 1990s, the Clintons promised us that abortion would be "safe, legal, and rare."  While abortion was never safe for the baby, we were led to believe that leftist social policies would mean that more women successfully avoided unwanted pregnancies or, if pregnant, kept the baby.  Instead, over the past thirty years, abortion has turned into an American death cult.

Pro-Life Group Celebrates Saving 20,000 Babies from Abortion, 4,000 During COVID.  This Mother's Day, Human Coalition is celebrating with 20,000 babies and their mothers who chose life for them in difficult circumstances.  The pro-life organization, founded in 2009, recently reached a huge milestone, having helped 20,000 mothers choose life for their babies.  "Imagine all the moms who will get to celebrate Mother's Day with their child in just a few days," organization president Jeff Bradford said.  "Imagine all the families who will get to make a lifetime of memories together.  Imagine all the boys and girls who will grow up, attend school, play sports, celebrate holidays, and could go on to have children of their own one day."  Human Coalition runs women's care clinics in seven states and telecare services in Texas and Chicago, using innovative technology to reach abortion-minded women through the internet.  On June 22, 2010, the organization said it helped its first mother choose life for her unborn baby, and, since then, its outreach has grown rapidly.

Dr. Fauci is Funding Gruesome University of Pittsburgh Study Skinning Scalps off of Aborted Babies and Growing them on Lab Rats.  The University of Pittsburgh is growing scalps from aborted babies on lab rodents.  This is straight from a horror movie.  The scientists are using human baby fetal skin processed via removal of excess fat.  And Dr. Tony Fauci is funding this gruesome study.

Fauci's agency spent over $400k on experiments grafting aborted fetal scalps onto mice and rats.  The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the federal health agency run for decades by celebrated White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, has spent over $400,000 funding a series of experiments that grafted the scalps of aborted fetuses onto living mice, studies that were meant to investigate the human skin's propensity for developing infections.  The research, published last fall in the journal Nature, was performed by a dozen scientists out of the University of Pittsburgh.  The experiments involved developing rat and mouse "models" using, in part, "full-thickness fetal skin" in order to "provide a platform for studying human skin infections."  The report notes that the "human skin tissues" used in the skin grafting experiments were obtained "from the scalp and dorsum" of "donors," namely aborted fetuses.

Biden admin axes Trump rules limiting experimentation on aborted babies.  President Joe Biden's administration overturned restrictions on Friday relating to federal funding of the use of fetal tissue — body parts of aborted babies — for experimental purposes.  The policy reverses a ban put in place by former President Donald Trump limiting federal funding for such research.  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which superintends the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced Friday that it would be revoking the Trump-era requirement that "all research applications for NIH grants and contracts proposing the use of human fetal tissue from elective abortions will be reviewed by an Ethics Advisory Board."

Chelsea Clinton Celebrates Abortion:  Killing a Baby is a "Personal Choice".  Chelsea Clinton keeps using her notoriety to advocate for the killing of unborn babies in abortions.  The daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she recently began a podcast to explore "the world of public health through shared stories."  One of her first guests is Alexis McGill Johnson, the president of Planned Parenthood, according to Elle magazine.  Planned Parenthood is a billion-dollar abortion chain that reported more than 354,000 abortions last year.  "Alexis and I ... go deep into how so often reproductive rights, especially in the U.S., are situated in personal choice, in privacy rights and in human rights," Clinton told the magazine.  Though she did not mention the word abortion, her comments made her position clear.  She said she and Johnson talked about "the implications if women don't have agency over our reproductive lives ... [and] if women are forced into carrying to term a child that they do not want to have."

Federal Government [has been] Caught Buying 'Fresh' Flesh Of Aborted Babies Who Could Have Survived As Preemies.  Last week, legal accountability group Judicial Watch dropped a bombshell:  a nearly 600-page report proving the U.S. government has been buying and trafficking "fresh" aborted baby body parts.  These body parts, purchased by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to "humanize" mice and test biologic drugs in scientific experiments, came from babies up to 24-weeks-old gestation, just weeks from being born.  While Americans may be used to hearing pro-lifers beat the warning drum on abortion groups harvesting baby bodies and selling them for research, (who hasn't heard of the lawsuit against David Daleiden, who exposed Planned Parenthood haggling over baby lungs and livers at dinner parties?) this time, the U.S. government was the one trafficking baby parts.  Recent emails uncovered by Judicial Watch between FDA employees and the California-based Advanced Bioscience Resources (ABR) prove the agency spent tens of thousands of dollars buying aborted babies for unethical scientific experiments between 2012 and 2018.

Hawaii Law Allowing Nurses to Perform Abortions [is] a Feminist Victory.  Hawaii's new abortion law yields different fruit.  The bad news is that feminists are once again endangering the lives of women.  The good news is that fewer doctors want anything to do with abortion.  Feminists scored another victory this week by championing a law in Hawaii that allows nurses to perform an abortion.  In a time when lawmakers demand that every segment of the population be afforded the highest standards of medical care, it is striking to note that there is one exception:  The credential bar is actually being lowered for abortionists; Hawaii is one of several states allowing non-physicians to perform an abortion.

FDA Green-Lights Chemical Abortions But Pulls The Plug On Johnson & Johnson Vaccine.  A day after gutting restrictions on abortion pills that studies have shown carry significant risks for women, the Food and Drug Administration called for states to halt the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine due to six cases of women developing a rare blood clot within two weeks of receiving the dose.  As of today, an estimated 7 million Americans have received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.  The two abortifacient drugs on which the FDA loosened restrictions are mifepristone and misoprostol.  On Monday, acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock instructed the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that providers will be permitted to administer the drugs through telemedicine, as well as through the mail.

Broad Police Reform Bill Could Result In Firing Cops Who Oppose Abortion.  A California assembly member introduced legislation that would disqualify a person from being a police officer if they've ever used arbitrarily-defined "hate speech" or have had any affiliation with a "hate group."  However, the definitions are so broad, there could be consequences for officers who oppose abortion.  California Assembly Member Ash Kalra introduced Assembly Bill 655 — the California Law Enforcement Accountability Reform Act (CLEAR Act) — on Feb 12 to fight "the infiltration of extremists in our law enforcement agencies."

Yes, Johnson & Johnson used aborted fetal cells in its creation of the COVID-19 vaccine.  Was the Johnson & Johnson vaccine developed from aborted fetal cell lines?  It is a question many of you have asked the VERIFY team after the Catholic church issued a statement warning Catholics that the shot is "morally compromised".  The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Committee on Pro-life Activities posted a statement online and social media.  It said, in part, "The Johnson & Johnson vaccine ... was tested and is produced with abortion-derived cell lines raising ... moral concerns.  Therefore, if one has the ability to choose a vaccine, Pfizer or Moderna's vaccines should be chosen over Johnson & Johnson."

Satanists sue for religious right to ritual abortions.  This past week while the nation was distracted by Joe Biden's dementia-ridden incompetence and Andrew Cuomo's predatory misogyny, The Satanic Temple of Texas filed suit to defend its religious right to engage in child sacrifice as a spiritual ritual. [...] So, there you have it.  Abortion as a religious ritual.  Calling those who disagree with you vulgar names.  An infantile focus on one's own body at the expense of everyone else's.  Denying the science of biology, genetics, DNA, and even sonograms, under the banner of science.  Killing your own child while chanting "by my body, my blood, by my will, it is done."  Infanticide as merely another religious viewpoint.  All of these positions as well as the third and fifth tenets of The Satanic Temple.  Sounds stunningly similar to the Democratic Party platform, doesn't it?

30,000 Doctors Say:  "Abortion is Never Medically Necessary to Save a Mother's Life".  Medical leaders representing more than 30,000 doctors said intentionally killing a late-term unborn baby in an abortion is never necessary to save a mother's life.  In a letter published at The Public Discourse, leaders of the American College of Pediatricians, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists and other medical groups explained their support of the Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.  The bill, which narrowly failed in the U.S. Senate last week, would require that abortionists provide the same basic medical care to an infant who survives an abortion that doctors would to any other baby born at the same gestational age.  Democrats wrongly claimed the bill was an attack on "women's health care."  "Abortion treats no disease," the doctors responded.  "Pregnancy is not a disease, and deliberately killing the unborn child by abortion is not healthcare."

COVID-19 Relief Bill Provides Billions to Bail Out Abortion Industry.  As the Senate prepares to debate the COVID-19 Relief bill, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) observed the bill provides $400 billion that contains no protections for ensuring it will not be used to fund elective abortion.  Daines tweeted a video of his review of some of the features of the measure, which passed the House Friday, referring to it as the "liberal wish list" of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (NY):  [Tweet]  "Here's one that will get your blood pressure up," said Daines, who heads the Senate Pro-Life Caucus.  "$400 billion that has no protections to ensure we don't have taxpayer dollars spent for abortions."  He explained Democrats removed the language of the Hyde Amendment that has prohibited taxpayer funding of abortions in appropriation bills.  "$400 billion that could be used to fund abortions paid for by United States taxpayers," the senator emphasized.

The Strangers Knocking at My Door.  As they did last year, they've come twice in the last two days.  They're kids out running "a raise money for NARAL" scam.  They get a cut of anything they pull in, and they sell any info they get to Planned Parenthood or other death mills.  They're pleasant and they are enthusiastic (I love the painting!  I really admire the tree!) and they hand you the clipboard expecting you to sign in your enthusiasm to support their "work."  I listen and then I tell them, "No, I don't support what you're doing or the people and causes that you represent.  I think it's evil for you to do this, and worse still to do it for money."  Here in Seattle's Queen Anne, where smiles, nods, and signups for their scam are their usual rewards, they seem genuinely surprised and taken aback.  "You mean you're not pro-choice?"

Doctors Called Mom "Inhumane" for Not Aborting Her "Disabled" Twin Babies, They Were Born Healthy.  A mother has spoken out about how doctors called her inhumane when she ignored numerous attempts to get her to abort her twin boys.  Hannah Morris was urged to terminate her pregnancy when her waters broke at just 16 weeks.  She was diagnosed with preterm premature rupture of the membranes (PPROM), and told that neither baby had any chance of survival.  "I had an internal examination and the doctor told me that my waters had broken, and he was really sorry but there was nothing they could do for us," Ms Morris told The Sun.  "I asked a million questions, can the other baby survive?  Can it reseal?

Pro-Abortion Group Storms Catholic Church in Ohio, Knocks Over Table, Shouts Profanities.  A far-left pro-abortion group disrupted a church service at St. Joseph's Catholic Cathedral in Columbus, Ohio Friday on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.  The group of Marxists barged into the church, knocked over a table and shouted profanities.  "Two, four, six, eight this church teaches hate!" the protesters shouted.  "Roe is the floor, we demand more!"  Security quickly rushed in and tossed out the screaming protesters.

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"Roe is on the floor."  That's catchy, but what does it mean?

Investigation into thousands of aborted fetuses found at dead doctor's home ends with no charges.  Indiana's top prosecutor announced Wednesday that he would file no criminal charges or licensing actions after his office completed an investigation into an abortion doctor who kept more than 2,000 sets of fetal remains in his garage before he died last year.  Attorney General Curtis Hill said the yearlong probe found that Dr. Ulrich Klopfer acted alone when he "failed to effectuate the proper disposition of the fetal remains as required by Indiana law."  "No one is believed to have assisted Dr. Klopfer in his actions, and because Dr. Klopfer is dead, he cannot be charged with a crime or with medical misconduct," Hill said in a statement.

Doctors Told Mom Several Times to Abort Her Severely Disabled Baby, She Was Born Healthy.  It was understandable that doctors told Robyn Bryant to "prepare for the worse." She'd already been told that Hallie, her unborn child, was on the small side and then, at the 20-week scan, "it was discovered that Hallie was measuring even further behind than predicted," as Mark Smith and Sam Elliott wrote for the British tabloid, The Mirror.  But then it became even more worrisome and confusing for Bryant and her partner, James Dury, when all the subsequent tests came back normal.  What could be wrong with their baby? [...] Now a little over a year after Hallie was born, this happy, healthy child is about to begin walking.  But what about the genetic tests suggesting major problems?  After Hallie was born, the results of the new tests came back normal.  It all is a mystery, or a miracle.

Medical Expert Confirms Unborn Children Feel Excruciating Pain During Abortions.  The announcement of President Donald Trump's selection of Dr. Maureen Condic for his administration's science advisory board sparked outrage among abortion activists.  Condic is an associate professor of neurology and anatomy at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where she has been since 1997.  With a successful career studying neural development and providing expert testimony to state and national legislative bodies, Condic's appointment to the National Science Board seems apt.  Yet, abortion activists are outraged because Condic has publicly testified about the science of fetal pain.  What the controversy reveals is that abortion on demand requires adherents to ignore the clear personhood, development, and Right to Life of the preborn baby.  Science demonstrates that Life begins at conception and preborn babies feel pain.  But for abortion activists, loyalty to abortion trumps recognizing scientific fact.

Abortion charity Marie Stopes changes its name to distance itself from its founder's links to eugenics and Nazis.  Abortion service Marie Stopes International is dropping the name of the woman who created Britain's first birth control clinic because of her advocacy of eugenics.  The charity will instead be known as MSI Reproductive Choices from today [11/16/2020].  Miss Stopes, who lived from 1880 to 1958, was an advocate for the sterilisation of people considered unfit for parenthood and was a member of the Eugenics Society.

Catholic Bishop:  "It is Not Possible to be a Catholic in Good Standing and Support Abortion".  Catholic Church leaders across the U.S. are giving a resounding "no" to the idea that Catholics can support abortion.  Their statements come as Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden touts himself as a devout Catholic while supporting abortions without limits and promising to force taxpayers to pay for them.  Colorado Politics reports Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila of Denver reminded Catholics that protecting lives should be a priority Friday [9/25/2020] in a column about the upcoming election.  "It is not possible to be a Catholic in good standing and support abortion or assisted suicide, to promote unnatural sexuality, or to seek to push people of faith out of the public square," Aquila wrote at the Denver Catholic.  "Those who do so — Catholic or not — are helping hollow out our culture and contributing to its demise."

Let's Get Busy with a Pro-life Vaccine for COVID-19.  In recent years, we citizens have become increasingly aware of how "ethically" our food, our clothing, and even our technology, such as the smartphone, are produced.  Finding out is not always easy, but when we become aware of abuses, we become motivated to do something about it.  This also applies to aborted fetal tissue.

World Abortion Leaders Exploit Virus to Push Abortion.  As part of its COVID-19 response, the World Health Organization has declared abortion as an essential service.  The U.K. has now issued temporary approval for chemical abortions to be completely done at home.  The U.S. abortion lobby continues to call for the Food and Drug Administration to lift restrictions (REMs) off the abortion pill (U.S. brand "Mifeprex"), making way for complete "self-managed" abortions.  Unfortunately, this is what the abortion industry all over the world has pursued even before the current pandemic — for abortions to be unrestricted, unregulated, and do-it-yourself.

NARAL Pro-Choice President Takes Issue With Coronavirus Protestors Using 'My Body, My Choice'.  Americans across the nation have taken to the streets to protest stay-at-home orders and, in some places, are being required to wear a face mask.  In parts of California and Texas, residents are required to wear a face mask whenever they're outside of their private residence or their vehicles.  Some stores have even implemented their own rules, saying patrons must cover their faces with a mask, bandana or other covering.  People have taken issue with being forced into these rules, arguing that they should have the power to make their own decisions.

Presidents of Five Medical Groups Confirm Killing Babies in Abortion is "Not Essential Healthcare".  As representatives of over 30,000 physicians who practice according to the Hippocratic Oath, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), the American College of Pediatricians, Christian Medical & Dental Associations, the Catholic Medical Association, and the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons decry the call to continue elective abortion during the COVID-19 pandemic made by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and others which falsely characterize elective abortion as essential healthcare.

What Roe v.  Wade and Pro-Choice Abortion Remind Us About Coronavirus.  No matter where you stand on the "pro-life" - "pro-choice" continuum, no person actually wants to have an abortion in the first instance.  That is, regardless of how much a feminist the person is, how many times they have had the slogan "Our Bodies, Our Selves" tattooed on their eyelids and cheeks and on their earlobes, no woman goes to bed with the decision:  "I am really in the mood to have an abortion, so I think I will go and get myself pregnant tonight."  Abortions, even for the advocates, are at the very least inconvenient. [...] So then why, pray tell, do women end up getting abortions, millions upon millions of women in America?  Why don't they just ingest the pill? [...] So here is my point:  Many people are just idiots.  They just are.

Outbreak Now Saving Lives as COVID-19 Hits Abortion Industry.  The outbreak of potentially fatal COVID-19 in America threatens to ravage our nation's elderly and sick, but it looks like the deadly pathogen isn't just taking lives — it may actually be saving some of them.  The unexpected news comes as a result of medical shortages, social distancing and standard quarantine procedures that are doing substantial damage to the abortion industry.  The viral outbreak has the potential for "a huge impact," according to abortion provider Joe Nelson, who believes he came down with COVID-19 but is unable to get himself tested.

Viral Video of Girl Cheerfully Getting Abortion at Planned Parenthood Draws Horror.  A widely viewed TikTok video that has drawn horrified responses shows a girl laughing and apparently having fun as she reveals her pregnancy and heads to Planned Parenthood for what appears to be her second abortion attempt.  The video shows the girl exposing her somewhat swollen abdomen and laughing in the car, apparently on her way to Planned Parenthood to have an abortion.  It continues with footage of her smiling as she actually undergoes the abortion, and a close-up of the ultrasound image as her baby is aborted.

Moving in Opposite Directions on Abortion.  Even in our era of politics without precedent, few things are as inexplicable as the Democratic Party's decision to take increasingly extreme positions on abortion while so much of the country moves in a different direction.  The March for Life, held annually in Washington, D.C., around the anniversary of Roe v.  Wade, is one visible example of the country's mood on the U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion.  The number of participants in the march continues to grow each year.  Last week's March for Life was notable not only for its size (no official numbers are available, but video footage suggests well over 100,000 people) but because Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to address the march, drawing additional national (and international) attention to the event.  Commentators have observed that fully half of the marchers are college-aged or younger.

More Than 130 Abortion Clinics Have Closed in the Last Five Years.  Since 2014, more than 130 abortion clinics across the country have shut their doors, according to a pro-abortion group.  Pro-life activists will celebrate the fact that there are fewer "clinics" killing unborn babies.  However, abortion activists have argued that pro-life laws are intended to close clinics, not to protect women and babies.  The Abortion Care Network identified 136 independent abortion clinics — unaffiliated with Planned Parenthood — that closed since 2014.  In that year, 23 clinics closed.  In 2015, another 34 shuttered.  Twenty-two more followed in 2016, then 17 in 2017 and 13 in 2018.  So far this year, another 26 clinics have permanently ceased operations, the organization reported.

Major Newspaper Refuses to Run Father's Memorial for Aborted Son.  Who knew that it is against the rules of civilized society to mourn a pre-born child whose mother chose abortion over life?  The sad truth came to light recently after a Nebraska man submitted an obituary to the Omaha World-Herald for his late son, who was aborted by the woman with whom he had had an affair.  As related by pro-life columnist Lisa Bourne at LifeSiteNews.com, the affair between Brad Allen, a married man with two daughters, and his next-door neighbor, a single mother with two young sons, resulted in a son being conceived.

Ohio Woman Acquitted of Killing Baby Is Found Guilty of Abuse of Corpse.  An attorney for the Ohio woman acquitting of killing her newborn revealed the next steps in the case.  Brooke Skylar Richardson, 20, was acquitted on three of the four most serious charges in the case, including aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter, and child endangering, according to WHIO, a local station.  However, she was charged with abuse of a corpse.  Reports said that she could face one year in prison.

Feds Issue Violation Notice To UVMMC After Nurse Reports Performing Abortion Against Conscience.  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services alleges University of Vermont Medical Center illegally coerced a nurse into assisting with what the department described as an elective abortion.  This is the first enforcement action of this kind from the department's new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division.  The hospital disputes many of the allegations.  The HHS Office for Civil Rights announced the notice of violation against the hospital Wednesday.  According to OCR, in May 2018 a complaint was filed by a nurse against UVM Medical Center "contending that the nurse was forced to assist an abortion in violation of the nurse's conscience rights."

Hollywood's abortion obsession is based on 1970s science and Harvey Weinstein morality.  As more states pass anti-abortion laws, pro-abortion advocates are making their opinions on the issue known.  Alyssa Milano just issued a state-by-state abortion bill guide for filmmakers, while networks and studios continue to double-down on their boycotts of states that have passed anti-abortion legislation.  Reese Witherspoon, who has typically stayed out of politics, had her own starlet tantrum on Twitter, ignoring the will of a large majority of her southern neighbors. [...] This coterie of well-heeled women and men are desperate to make their distaste of these new laws felt.  Their voices join the chorus of elite women in politics, academia, and fashion, the matriarchy — who are united by one thing — to make sure abortion stays legal and unrestricted.  Reading the geriatric lines used decades ago by their grandmothers and great grandmothers, they rail against the patriarchy while fomenting panic into the hearts of women about what will happen if women can't abort their own children.  This song and dance has worked for five decades.

Federally Funded Harvard Program Offers Humanized Mice Made With Aborted-Baby Parts for $800-$1,272.  A federally funded program at Harvard University is offering "humanized mice" made with organs taken from aborted babies for prices ranging from $800 to $1,272, according to the fee schedule Harvard has published online.  This program, which has received $926,682 in grants from the National Institutes of Health over the past 5 years, creates a demand for tissue — including livers and thymuses — taken from aborted babies.  Its current grant of $168,320 was awarded for a one-year period that started on Aug. 1, 2018 and will end on July 31, 2019.

Activists caught in another lie to sell late-term abortion.  The abortion lobby has insisted for years that abortion laws must contain certain provisions that allow for late-term abortions.  Pro-Life Action League Executive Director Eric Scheidler has listened to such pro-abortion rhetoric from the left for years.  "We're hearing a lot about late-term abortion really being a matter of these heartbreaking situations where there's a threat to the life of the mother or there's some kind of horrific fetal anomaly that's going to lead to either the demise [of the child] or a life of pain and misery," Scheidler explained.  However, it is argued that research today shows that such arguments are a lie that the abortion industry and abortion lobby have been hoping the public — and lawmakers — will believe.

Vermont Minors Need Parental Permission To Get An Ibuprofen From The School Nurse, But Not An Abortion.  The Republican governor of Vermont signed legislation this week which makes it legal for minors to obtain an abortion without parental consent.  Vermont law also allows non-physicians, including registered nurse practitioners, to perform abortions.  To put in perspective how radical the state's abortion standards are, consider that parents have to give their child written or verbal permission to obtain so much as an ibuprofen pill from the school nurse, but do not have to approve of their daughter's obtaining a life-altering decision like abortion under GOP Gov. Phil Scott's new law.

Millions in Dark Money Flows to Pro-Abortion Groups.  A dark-money network of liberal groups and initiatives has pushed millions in funding to organizations that advocate for abortions.  Arabella Advisors establishes groups under trade, or fictitious, names, and acts as their "fiscal sponsor," which allows the groups to avoid filing public returns to the Internal Revenue Service.  The network also acts as a "pass-through" entity for left-wing donors, who do not have to mark their money as going to the exact group that they are funding, but rather can make out the contributions to the particular arm at Arabella where the group is located.

Feminist admits the truth:  Abortion is 'killing'.  I must admit, when I first heard of Sophie A. Lewis, I thought she was a cleaver hoax invented by a conservative blogger designed to show us just how vacuous a feminist philosopher can be.  Ms. Lewis has been described as a feminist uterine geography theorist and cyborg ecologist.  Please!  A newly minted Ph.D., educated in England, now living in Philadelphia, her academic interests include cyborg theory, Marxist feminism, queer environmental humanities and social reproduction, i.e., abortion and paid surrogacy.  She refers to a woman with child as a "gestator."  Though one is hard-pressed to make sense of her literary ramblings in a variety of publica[tio]ns, the New York Times took her seriously enough to allow a recent op-ed on British feminists who are hostile to transgenders taking over their space.  Therefore, one must assume this person, who at first seemed a poor caricature, in print and on YouTube, must be for real.

Big Business Sides With the Culture of Death.  Businesses used to avoid taking political positions, lest they anger half their consumer base.  No more.  This week, 180 CEOs signed a pro-abortion open letter that appeared as a full-page ad in the New York Times.  More than simply an endorsement of a single stance on a social issue, this business decision reveals a change in corporate strategy:  avoid ticking off the mouthy minority.  The letter, presented with the print-version of clickbait "Don't Ban Equality," is a response to laws passed in several states that restrict abortion.  The signers make the claim that the laws are "bad for business."  While the letter is short on how these laws harm business, it's long on moral buzzwords like "equality," "empowerment," and "inclusive."  The signers do not make a compelling business case for killing a human life.

The Editor says...
If you would have someone killed to keep your business afloat, how is that different from the Mafia?

Teen Vogue Advises 16-Year-Old On How To Obtain Abortion Without Parents Permission.  The always wholesome magazine Teen Vogue is now advising minors on ways they can violate their parents' wishes and obtain an abortion without their permission.  According to LifeSiteNews, the magazine that once advised teens on the virtues of anal sex has now published an article in which columnist Nona Willis Aronowitz instructs a pregnant 16-year-old girl how to get her desired abortion without setting off her Christian conservative parents' pro-life radar.

Democratic abortion policy is deeply unpopular, as yet another poll confirms.  A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that only 18% of Americans support third-trimester abortion, very close to the 13% result from an earlier Gallup poll.  A plurality of the country, nearly 3 in 10 Americans, believe abortion should only be allowed in cases of rape, incest, and to save the mother's life, followed by 23% who support legal abortion up until the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, or about 13 weeks.  The same share of Americans who support abortion up until the point of birth support making abortion illegal either without exception or only to save the life of the mother.  In short, Alabama's much-reviled abortion bill is just as popular nationwide as Democratic officials' abortion stance of choice.

Illinois Bishop Bars Abortion-Promoting Pols From The Eucharist.  Some Catholics may argue that Bishop Thomas Paprocki has politicized the Eucharist, while others may argue that his action last week is long overdue.  The Illinois state legislature passed their Reproductive Health Act last week, which declares abortion to be a "fundamental right" and removes all restrictions on it.  Paprocki, the head of the diocese of Springfield, responded by barring two Catholic legislators who sponsored the bill from communion — until they confess their sin and repent of it.

Top Execs of 180 Companies:  Abortion Necessary to Be Successful in Business.  [Scroll down]  A Marist poll released in January found 76 percent of Americans are in favor of limiting abortion to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy, including 92 percent of Republicans, 78 percent of independents, and 61 percent of Democrats.  Additionally, while 51 percent of Americans identify as "pro-choice," even 60 percent of those agree with substantial restrictions on abortion.

The Left's Lousy Grasp of Science.  The left has long fancied itself as the champion of science, insisting for years now that the tools of logic and reason belong to no one else.  By extension, it often considers conservatives Neanderthalic savages who place their faith in invisible beings rather than reality.  What rot.  After all, it's today's left that is thumbing its nose at long-settled biology by recognizing a spectrum of genders to rival the Pantone color wheel.  And these same zealots, clearly devotees of rigorous investigation, now insist that life begins when a woman says it does, not when the heart begins to beat or features start to form.  Despite the scientific consensus on life, to say otherwise would advance "the patriarchy," whatever that is.

University of Alabama trustees to refund $26M gift after donor's call for boycott of state.  The University of Alabama board of trustees voted Friday [6/7/2019] to give back a $26.5 million donation from a philanthropist who recently called on students to boycott the school over the state's new abortion ban.

How NASA's Search For Aliens Is Exposing The Abortion Industry.  [Scroll down]  If, during a science experiment on a deep space asteroid, NASA found a speck of organic goo, it would change the world.  Scientists would praise the incredible discovery and begin deriving new theories for the origins of human life on Earth.  My grandchildren would read in school about the greatest human accomplishment to date: discovering alien life in that glorious speck of goo.  And yet, despite science's uncontested and irrefutable evidence that the human lifespan begins at the moment of conception, we hear a growing cry from the abortion industry that the child in the womb is merely a clump of cells.

Trump administration to end human fetal tissue research by government scientists, a victory for the pro-life lobby.  The Trump administration is ending medical research by government scientists using human fetal tissue, a victory for abortion foes.  At least one university's government funding will be terminated, effective immediately, although officials suggested that other research may allowed to continue under intense scrutiny.  The policy change will not affect privately funded research that used human fetal tissue.

Trump Administration Puts The Brakes On The $100 Million Market In Baby Parts.  Today [6/6/2019] the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it was terminating some grants and contracts that relied upon tissue from babies killed in utero via elective abortion and that other projects using fetal tissue would be reevaluated.

The miracle of life, from the world's smallest surviving baby.  It's a genuinely heartening story.  And it brings up the obvious:  That a baby born at 8.7 ounces, just barely over a half a pound, is a living person, same as a baby born under more ordinary circumstances.  And that technology and medical care are increasingly advancing toward being able to save the tiniest of babies — babies born at about the weight of a juice box now.  And that every baby is a very precious and wanted baby.  How distant and frightening to remember that today there is a debate going on elsewhere about abortion, about fetal viability, and the right to kill a baby a second after it's been born and that there are arguments about the life and 'health' of the mother as justification for killing someone the size of this baby.  Every day, behind other closed walls, babies this very size are being killed, chopped up, and sold for parts and profit by hideous organizations such as Planned Parenthood.

A Baby the Size of an Apple Survives and Thrives After 23-Week Delivery.  A hospital in San Diego, California, has announced the birth of what is believed to be the smallest baby to not only survive but thrive.  Saybie — the name given to her by the neonatal nurses who cared for her for five months before her release — was delivered to save her mother's life and weighed in at 8.6 ounces.  The tiny infant's size was compared to that of a large apple or a hamster and her survival described as miraculous.

Simple Truths about Abortion.  In order to have a rational discussion about abortion, it is best to begin with areas of agreement.  The simple truths presented here are not intended to solve all disagreements about abortion, but to provide the foundation for a rational discussion.  After conception, the life developing inside a pregnant woman is human.  It has human DNA.  It is not a spider, dog or any other species of animal, other than human.  Paul Stark's article for a pro-life organization provides a fuller discussion.  The human is very undeveloped at conception, and some may have arguments about why an undeveloped or partially developed human has a lesser right to life than a fully developed human.  However, it is wrong to consider it anything other than human.  Whether or not it satisfies the legal definition of "person" as that word is used in the United States Constitution, it is a human life.  The argument that a woman has a right to control her own body does not fully resolve the debate because it ignores the other human body involved.

Apparently it is impossible to make motion pictures without readily available abortion.
WarnerMedia threatens to boycott Georgia over abortion law.  WarnerMedia on Thursday [5/30/2019] joined a growing number of major studios threatening to pull their productions out of Georgia should a controversial abortion law in the southern US state go into effect.  "We will watch the situation closely and if the new law holds we will reconsider Georgia as the home to any new productions," the company said in a statement sent to AFP.

Democrat Who Called For Killing 'Unwanted' Kids Reveals Convo With Senator Doug Jones.  Democrat Alabama State Rep. John Rogers — who advocated his pro-abortion beliefs last week by calling for killing "unwanted" kids" — said in a Monday radio interview that Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) called him and told him that he agreed with what he said but that Jones had to come out against the comments publicly.

Sen. Doug Jones agreed with 'kill them now or kill them later' abortion comments on a call, state Rep. Rogers says.  Alabama Democratic Sen. Doug Jones reportedly agreed with state Rep. John Rogers' controversial abortion comments during a private phone call, despite condemning what Rogers said publicly, Rogers said in a radio interview.  Rogers has stirred up controversy for framing Alabama's abortion ban debate by saying "kill them now or kill them later" in reference to "unwanted" kids.

Is Abortion Politics Going Crazy?  Thus far in 2019 we have seen some liberal states pass laws to make abortion legal up to the point of birth and maybe later. [...] But those of us that are not marked out for crazy careers or crazy riches live with the fact that the only thing that posterity will know about us is our children and our grandchildren.  Not because our children and grandchildren will amaze anyone, but because they are there.  So we have a tendency to sanctify the marriage bond and the children that come out of it, because that's all we have.

New billboard welcomes drivers to Illinois 'where you can get a safe, legal abortion'.  A billboard promoting abortion greets travelers as they drive into the state of Illinois from Missouri. [...] The Hope Clinic for Women said the message is an effort to fight back against Missouri's recent proposal to tighten its already strict abortion laws, Yahoo Lifestyle reported.  "There will be an avenue for access to abortion no matter what happens legislatively, and we just need to be more creative of getting our message out there to let our most vulnerable communities know that they still have choices," Alison Dreith, the clinic's communication manager, told Yahoo.

Planned Parenthood Supporters Mocking Pro-Lifers Shout about Urinating in Graves of Babies.  During a pro-life event at the University of San Antonio in Texas, Planned Parenthood supporters began waving around Planned Parenthood signs and mocking pro-lifers by singing about how having abortions is their "kink," and how the "fetuses are in the ground." According to Students for Life, Students for Life Regional Coordinator Sarah Zarr said that the Planned Parenthood activists confronted the Students for Life members the moment they set up.  The activists told them that they weren't allowed to be there because the issue affects black women and that the pro-life students had "white privilege."

HHS Extends Contract to Make 'Humanized Mice' With Aborted Baby Parts for Another 90 Days.  The Department of Health and Human Services says it has granted a second 90-day extension to a contract it has with the University of California at San Francisco that requires UCSF to make "humanized mice."  These creatures are made by implanting mice with human tissues taken from late-term aborted babies.  The HHS's multi-million-dollar contract with UCSF that requires the construction of these "humanized mice" creates a demand — driven by federal tax dollars — for tissue taken from late-term aborted babies.  According to an estimate it has published on its website, the National Institutes of Health (which is a division of HHS) will spend $95 million this fiscal year alone on research that — like UCSF's "humanized mouse" contract — uses human fetal tissue.

Finally! Pro-Abortion Actress Confronted While Protesting Fetal Heartbeat Bill.  Have you ever watched as our moral betters in the entertainment business droned on and on about one social issue or the other and wondered why a normal person nearby didn't just tell them to zip it already?  I sure have.  After all, the First Amendment goes both ways.

Abortion and the Catholic Surrender to Politics.  [Scroll down]  The Church's gradual withdrawal from public engagement over the abortion issue was widespread.  Since the mid-'80s, Catholics rarely hear the word "abortion" in a Sunday homily.  Clerics at the parish level appear to have been silenced on the subject.  With the removal of the Church's "braking influence," politicians of every faith were encouraged to aggressively propose and pass pro-abortion legislation, including legislation to remove interferences that might discourage pregnant women from choosing an abortion, such as parental consent, restrictions on how pro-life advocates may demonstrate at abortion facilities, reduced medical safety standards at clinics, and reduced training standards for those assisting with abortion procedures.

Poll: Dramatic Shift to Pro-Life Side Among Democrats and Young People.  A new, national survey on the heels of legislation in New York and Virginia to allow abortion up to the moment of birth shows a major shift to the pro-life side among Democrats and young people, according to the Marist College for Public Opinion and the Knights of Columbus.  The Feb. 12-17 survey revealed that in just one month, the number of Democrats who identified as pro-life shifted from 20% to 34%.  Also, the number of Democrats identifying as "pro-choice" fell from 75% to 61%.  That's a 14-percentage point swing in only four weeks.

Unborn Baby Eagles.  The bald eagle and the golden eagle have now been removed from the endangered or threatened species list by the federal government.  This is, of course, wonderful news.  I am all in favor of saving the eagles and all other species (including our own) from extinction.  In fact, our laws are so intent on protecting the eagle that simply injuring, molesting or destroying an eagle egg could cost you a serious criminal penalty, civil fines, and a year in the slammer.  All for disturbing an egg.  The law takes this seriously.  Whatever else you do, don't disturb an eagle egg.  We go to great lengths to protect unborn baby eagles while they are vulnerable and in the first few weeks of their embryonic life.  In fact, the laws do more than that — they protect unborn eagles from conception to the end of life.  That is how much we value eagle life.

In the Market for Fetal Body Parts, a Baby's Brain Sells for $3,340.  Republicans on the special House panel investigating the transfer of fetal tissue from aborted babies will present evidence in a hearing today that breaks down the price per body part.  With release of this evidence, Republicans say, they have enough documentation to show that several abortion clinics and middleman procurement businesses may have violated federal law.  "It is just horrifying," Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who leads the House's investigation of the fetal tissue industry, told The Daily Signal.  "They are putting a dollar value on these organs from these children — unborn children that have been aborted.  It is just beyond belief."

Terrific News About America's Abortion Clinics!  Operation Rescue conducted a survey of all abortion facilities in the U.S. from Nov. 26 through Dec. 14, 2018, and concluded:  In the U.S., there are "467 facilities that conduct surgical abortions — down dramatically from the high-water mark of 2,176 surgical facilities documented in 1991.  This represents a massive 79 percent decrease in the number of surgical abortion facilities over the past 27 years."  (Unfortunately, medical abortion clinics, those that terminate babies in the womb through drugs and chemicals, are slowly increasing.  However, in 2018, eight medical abortion facilities closed permanently.)

Poll Shows Most Americans Favor Limits on Abortion.  For more than a decade, the annual Marist poll on abortion has found that the overwhelming majority of Americans — usually three-quarters or more — want abortion restricted to, at most, the first three months of pregnancy.  Sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, this annual survey has also highlighted the following fact:  Using polling questions that measure the labels Americans choose for themselves — such as pro-choice — will not actually reveal what they want in terms of abortion policy.  While the majority of those who identify as pro-life can reliably be expected to support restrictions on abortion, so can most of those who identify as pro-choice.  In some years, including this one, more Americans may identify as pro-choice than pro-life, but more than six in 10 of those who say they are pro-choice (61 percent) join the three-quarters of all Americans in wanting abortion restricted to — again, at most — the first trimester.  So do about six in 10 Democrats (59 percent), eight in 10 independents (78 percent) and nine in 10 Republicans (92 percent).

More than 5,500 women came to Illinois to have an abortion last year amid growing restrictions in the Midwest.  One woman came to Chicago by bus from Indianapolis in mid-2017, pregnant but with medical complications that would have made labor and delivery potentially dangerous.  Another woman traveled here from Wisconsin in March because she didn't have the financial means or will to have a baby.  Although they were strangers, 28-year-old Timna Axel hosted them in her Uptown neighborhood apartment for a few nights before and after their abortions at local clinics.  Axel is a volunteer with Midwest Access Coalition, a Chicago nonprofit that helps defray the costs associated with traveling to terminate a pregnancy, including lodging, food and transportation.

Escorts of Death:  Roe v.  Wade's Handmaidens.  I saw them again a few weeks ago, the first time in a while.  My wife and I were driving by.  They stood outside the Planned Parenthood clinic in Pittsburgh.  "Look," I said to my wife, "those are the so-called 'escorts.'  They lead young women into the abortion clinic.  Look at their smiles as they do their job."  The "escorts" work outside abortion clinics.  Their duty is to ensure that every pregnant mom who approaches the door doesn't get deterred or change her mind, especially by pro-life sidewalk counselors banished to the perimeters of the clinic.  They strive to guarantee that every potential customer with cash or credit leaves with an abortion under her belt.  The end-result is, obviously, the death of the unborn child.  All in the name of a woman's "right to choose," of course.

Antifa Website Promotes Home Abortion Classes to 'Dismantle White Supremacist Bio-Medical Patriarchy' In Response to Kavanaugh.  A popular Antifa website is promoting home abortion classes in order to "dismantle the white supremacist bio-medical patriarchy" in response to the swearing in of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.  The website Its Going Down claims that "autonomous pelvic care" is a "radical alternative to state sanctioned reproductive health." [...] "Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation has led to a great gnashing of teeth and cries of concern that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed the right to pregnancy termination under the 14th amendment, will be overturned," the website asserts.

Christian News Site 'LifeSite' Blacklisted by Web Host.  LifeSite, a Christian pro-life news outlet, was allegedly blacklisted by its web host and given just 12 hours to find another host the website, or risk being offline.  "LifeSite just received an email at 8:30 p.m. EST from our web-hosting company alerting us that they will be taking our website down within 12 hours, if not sooner," claimed LifeSite in a statement, Saturday.  "We received absolutely no forewarning whatsoever about this decision."

HHS terminates fetal tissue research contract after outcry from anti-abortion groups.  Health and Human Services has terminated an agreement with a fetal tissue research facility that was providing fetal tissue to the Food and Drug Administration.  HHS said late Monday [9/24/2018] that it canceled the contract with the company, Advanced Bioscience Resources, because it didn't include "appropriate protections" for fetal tissue procurement.  The agency's statement did not go into specifics.  The agency said in a statement that it has "initiated a comprehensive review of all research involving fetal tissue to ensure consistency with statutes and regulations governing such research."

Judge Strikes Down Abortion 'Sanctuary City' Ordinance.  St. Louis violated the First Amendment rights of its residents when it tried to become America's first "sanctuary city" for abortion, according to a federal court.  Judge Audrey Fleissig ruled that the city could not compel religious organizations, pro-life nonprofits, and employers to hire abortion proponents, rent property to abortion clinics, or cover abortions in health plans — a requirement brought about when Democratic mayor Lyda Krewson attempted to add "reproductive health decisions" to the city's nondiscrimination policy in 2017.  Fleissig, who was appointed by President Obama at Democratic senator Claire McCaskill's recommendation, said that ordinance violated Missouri's Religious Freedom Restoration Act and federal law.  The decision stopped short of calling the rule unconstitutional but renders enforcement nearly impossible.

Study misleads on detrimental effects of abortion.  The University of California-San Francisco research arm is rabidly pro-abortion and has issued study results heavily favoring abortion for a number of years.  Its latest analysis of results contends that almost all of the women surveyed who had had abortions were okay with the decision and did not suffer psychological harm — but this is not consistent with what professionals not partial to the abortion industry have observed.  Dr. David Reardon — founder of the Elliot Institute — reviewed the data and contends that the university's conclusions are unbelievable.

Leaked NPR Emails:  Don't Call Kermit Gosnell an 'Abortion Doctor'.  Early last month, John Sullivan, executive producer of the new film Gosnell:  The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer (in theaters Oct. 12), reached out to National Public Radio to purchase a sponsorship for the Peabody Award-winning interview show, Fresh Air.  Sullivan, who was prepared to spend as much as six figures, crafted his ad copy to answer the question you're probably asking:  Who is Gosnell?  The proposed ad was as follows, "Support for this NPR program comes from the film Gosnell:  The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer.  The film is the true story of abortionist Kermit Gosnell.  A story the mainstream media tried to cover up because it reveals the truth about abortion."  No dice.  According to e-mails provided to The Daily Beast, NPR's representative ran it up the legal flagpole and came back with a disappointing answer.  In addition to other minor tweaks to the wording, their response stated, "The word 'abortionist' will also need to be changed to the neutral word 'doctor.'"

Ice Cream Shop Creates Abortion Flavor.  What could be better than a nice ice cream cone on a hot day in August?  If you mean an ice cream cone from What's the Scoop? in Portland, probably a lot of things.  That's because they've created an abortion-themed flavor (Rocky Roe V. Wade, natch) to raise money for National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) Pro-Choice Oregon.  Each pint costs $9.50, and half of the proceeds will be donated to NARAL.  If you come by at certain times, you can even have the ice cream scooped personally by NARAL activists.

Mother With Ovarian Cancer Who Refused Abortion Gives Birth to Healthy Baby.  Aleks Patete simply could not abort her unborn son, despite her troubling cancer diagnosis.  The 28-year-old Ohio mom said her unborn baby boy saved her life, and there was no way she was going to destroy his.  "I think about the things that could have happened and what could have gone wrong and there's no other reason than the grace of God that everything worked out and we are both alive," she told People.  "I truly think God was watching over us."

Abortion Clinic in Nashville, Tennessee Closes Down Permanently.  The Women's Center, an unlicensed abortion facility in Nashville, Tennessee, has closed its doors for good as of Saturday, August 11, 2018.  Over the years, the State of Tennessee attempted to shutter the Women's Center because it had failed to obtain a facility license, but a 2002 court ruling allowed the abortion facility to remain open.

NARAL partners with ice cream shop to sell 'Rocky Roe v Wade' flavor.  There is no more wrenching personal decision a woman can make than the decision to abort her baby.  Even most pro-choice advocates recognize this.  That so many women come to regret that decision speaks to why so many Americans believe that abortion should be illegal in almost all cases.  But to NARAL, abortion is an ice cream flavor. [...] The cavalier attitude toward aborting a child by NARAL is not surprising.  These people see killing a fetus as a "medical procedure" and not the life-altering, searing decision real women in real America sometimes make.  How anyone can eat "Rocky Roe v. Wade" without vomiting is beyond me.

Florida police officer kicks pregnant woman in the stomach, forcing her to give birth, authorities say.  An off-duty North Miami Beach police officer is facing a felony charge after allegedly kicking a woman who was eight months' pregnant, in the stomach, officials said.  Miami Beach Police were called to Espanola Way around 8:30 p.m.  Wednesday [7/25/2018] over reports that a woman was having severe abdominal pain and contractions after being attacked by another woman, Miami New Times reported.  Ambar Pacheco, 26, admitted to attacking the woman, claiming the victim's boyfriend kicked her sister in the face, prompting her to "beat [...] her," WPLG reported.  The woman was taken to an area hospital, where she ultimately gave birth, The Miami Herald reported.

Abortion Activist Quits Catholic Church, Walks Out of Mass Because New Priest is Pro-Life.  [Mary Elizabeth] William's parish got assigned a new priest who is outspokenly pro-life and for traditional marriage, she wrote in a July 29 piece.  That's not a surprise, as these beliefs are in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.  But apparently this newfound information caused her to walk out of Mass.  She agrees with a Catholicism that is "spirituality rooted in real world action, one that speaks out from the pulpit against greed and violence" and praised her parish for collecting food for the poor.  But a priest teaching doctrine is "the other kind of Catholicism," the bad kind.

The Rise of the Abortion Cheerleaders.  The Shout Your Abortion website broadcasts this trendy creed, loud and strident and clear:  "Abortion is normal.  Our stories are ours to tell.  This is not a debate."  The group's website also provides the option to buy a T-shirt telling the world that you're proud of your abortion, or even purchase an "Abortion Is Freedom" button that might make Orwell cringe.

Catholic Priest Punished After He Told Pro-Abortion Catholics to Go to Confession.  The shockwaves after Ireland voted to repeal their pro life legal protections for unborn children are still being felt.  A new report indicates a pro-life Catholic priest is being disciplined for telling his congregation that if they voted to repeal the pro-life law they should go to confession.  The vote in Ireland to repeal the 8th Amendment left pro-life people, and specifically members of the Catholic Church around the world, stunned.  Ireland had long been a pro-life nation that valued its women and unborn children but it paved the way for legislation to legalize abortion when it removed its Eighth Amendment protections for babies before birth.

The Other David Hogg makes an argument quite unlike any other against abortion.  With the national debate set to go into overtime on abortion with the upcoming Supreme Court nomination, an eloquent argument for choosing life comes from an unexpected source — young David Hogg of North Carolina, who has often been confused with high school gun control activist David Hogg of Parkland, Florida, due to similar age, appearance, and name — but absolutely opposite points of view.  As I wrote here a few months ago, the North Carolina kid was pretty impressive, and I hoped we'd hear more of him.  Now we have, and he's got an amazing argument for choosing life over choosing abortion.

Netflix Airs 'Salute to Abortion;' Host Declares: 'God Bless Abortions!".  On Sunday [7/8/2018], Netflix aired a "Salute to Abortion," hosted by "comedian" Michelle Wolf, who closed the segment with a star-spangled, flag-waving, drum corps declaration:  "God bless abortion!"  On her weekly Netflix program, "The Break with Michelle Wolf," Wolf used Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's announced retirement to tout abortion rights and demean pro-life Americans, [...]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Promises Dying Teen To Outlaw Abortion.  Texas Governor Greg Abbott has promised a teen he will grant his dying wish:  "Outlaw abortion altogether in the state of Texas."  Teen cancer patient Jeremiah Thomas had one wish before he died and thanks to the "Make a Wish" foundation, he offered that wish to the pro-life governor of Texas.  His request:  treat abortion "like an act of murder."  "For my wish, I wanted to talk to you and discuss a bill of abolition [to end abortion]," said Jeremiah as he cited a poll showing 68% of Texans want the barbaric practice abolished.

School Nurse Took Teen for Abortion, Lied to Her Parents About Why She Came Home Late.  A story out of New Zealand recently told of a school nurse booking a student for an abortion, driving her there during school hours, bringing her home late, and lying about why they were late.  Weeks later, as the girl deteriorated emotionally and physically, it came out that she had received an abortion that day.  The surgery damaged her uterus and she will now never be able to have a baby.  Any parent reading this story can relate to the outrage of a mother having a school employee go behind her back to encourage her 15-year-old daughter to get life-changing surgery in secret.  As it turns out, the school did not have to notify the parents because New Zealand has no requirement of parental consent for a minor to have an abortion.  The school nurse could legally leave a mother wondering where on earth her teenage daughter was when she didn't come off the school bus in the afternoon.

Premature Twins Die After Hospital Withholds Treatment, Despite Mom's Desperate Pleas.  A tragedy is being reported by the pro-life group Created Equal involving a Columbus, Ohio, hospital staff that stood by and refused to even evaluate twin boys born at 22 weeks 5 days gestation despite their mother's desperate pleas for help.  Both boys were born alive, moving, and breathing.  Neither of them survived.  Created Equal released a shocking video taken at the mother's hospital bedside and documentation of the incident, which occurred at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, in June of 2017.  "It is outrageous that Riverside Methodist Hospital turned callously away while these babies slowly lost their struggle for life.  The anguish this caused the mother and the family is obvious from viewing the video," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.  "This hospital cannot be allowed to withhold life-saving medical intervention from premature babies that have a good chance of survival if treated, as these babies did.  We simply cannot stand idly by and watch this happen to others.  This hospital must be held accountable."

Shocking 911 Call:  Baby Born Alive After Abortion, "The Fetus is Breathing, We Can't Provide Care".  A news station has uncovered shocking new audio evidence about a baby who was born alive at a late-term abortion facility in Phoenix, Arizona.  In February, Pro-life Arizona reported learning that a city fire department transported a baby from the Family Planning Associates abortion clinic on North 7th Street to the Banner University Medical Center.  "The baby was reported to be 21 weeks along (gestation) to the termination clinic, but when they removed the baby from the mother's womb, the 'fetus' was breathing.  A 9-1-1 call was made from clinic staff, firefighters responded and worked ... to save the babies life," according to the group's Facebook page.  The baby later died at the hospital.

Political Party Suspends Pro-Life Member of Ireland Parliament Because She Opposes Legalizing Abortion.  Irish member of parliament Carol Nolan was punished by her own political party in March for voting to protect unborn babies' rights.  Despite continuous criticism and a three-month suspension, the Sinn Féin TD continues to be a passionate advocate for the unborn in Ireland.  On Monday, she wrote a column for the Irish Examiner to explain why she opposes her political party's pro-abortion stance and why voters should, too.

Seven Doctors Tell Mom on Chemo to Have Abortion, She Gives Birth to a Healthy Baby.  A California mom recently shared how seven different doctors urged her to abort her unborn baby after she was diagnosed with stage-three breast cancer.  Though devastated by their warnings, Tifanie Morataya still clung to hope that both she and her unborn baby would make it through chemotherapy.  They did.  The Daily Mail reports the California family is thriving almost two years after Morataya was diagnosed with breast cancer.  Baby Zoe now is a healthy 14-month-old whose life proves that "miracles can happen," her mother said.  If Morataya had listened to all those doctors, her daughter would not be alive today.

An Abortion Supporter Raped Me Because I Said I Oppose Abortion in Cases of Rape.  At age 15, I met at school a girl who hated me because I was completely against abortion.  She would always say me:  "That's because they never raped you."  And I replied that even if someone did, I would never kill my son because he would not be to blame for that violent aggression.  One day, while waiting for the bus, she and her brother got me in a car and raped me.

68 Iowa Faith Leaders Sign Letter in Support of Abortion.  In reaction to legislation advancing in the Iowa legislature that would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks into pregnancy, 68 faith leaders in Iowa issued a letter stating their support for abortion and their support for women "to make their own healthcare decisions."  In a letter published in the Des Moines Register, March 15, the religious figures said, "As faith leaders, we want to use our collective voices to stand with Iowa women in support of their constitutional right to make independent healthcare decisions, including the right to an abortion."

The Editor says...
Yes, you should be free to make your own health care decisions.  But killing your children has nothing to do with maintaining your health, especially if you are aborting your child merely because you have enough kids already, or you wanted a boy but the fetal offspring is a girl, or because you think the kid will be imperfect upon arrival.

300 Doctors and Nurses Say Their Employer Discriminated Because They Refused to Do Abortions.  When President Donald Trump announced the creation of a new office to protect the conscience rights of pro-life medical workers, abortion advocates scoffed at the need for it.  However a new report indicates that more than 300 health workers have filed complaints with the Department of Health and Human Services at its new office saying that their religious or conscience rights have been violated by their employer.  The pro-life doctors and nurses are being forced to perform or promote abortions or to refer women for abortions that violate their religious views or conscience.  That hundreds of healthcare workers have been pressured to be involved in abortion is no surprise as LifeNews has chronicled over the years many cases of pro-life doctors and nurses who have faced employment discrimination simply because they refuse to be involved in performing or referring for abortions.  The same is true for pro-life pharmacists who don't want to be involved and dispensing abortion drugs or referring women to pharmacies that dispense them.

Catholic Bishop Says Sen. Durbin Will Not Be Given Communion Until He Repents.  Because Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) supports abortion on demand and recently voted against a bill to ban abortions after 5 months, the Catholic bishop of his diocese in Springfield, Ill., has declared that Durbin is objectively "cooperating in evil," persisting in "manifest grave sin," and he must therefore "not be admitted to Holy Communion until he repents of his sin."  In a statement on the Diocese of Springfield website, Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki said, "Fourteen Catholic senators voted against the bill that would have prohibited abortions starting at 20 weeks after fertilization, including Sen. Richard Durbin, whose residence is in the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois."

UN is Pushing Abortion on Africa, But This Pro-Life Scientist is Trying to Stop Them.  What do you call it when Western elites attempt to foist abortion on native African cultures?  At the United Nations, two women were squaring off:  one, a Danish abortion advocate, the other, African scientist Uju Ekeocha.  Their opinions expose the deep clash of civilizations across the globe:  the culture of life versus the culture of death.

America's Problem is a Contempt for Life, Not a Love of Guns.  In a society that reveres human life, gun ownership isn't a chronic problem.  People who genuinely believe in the sanctity of human life won't take another life — by gun or any other means — unless it is absolutely necessary.  Not so in a society that views human life as subjective and revocable.  In a society that condones, funds, and promotes abortion and excuses euthanasia, human life is cheap.  When a woman has a right to kill an unwanted child growing inside her simply because it suits her to do so, life is robbed of its value.  In a society that believes that a woman has the power to change the child growing inside her into an inanimate blob of tissue simply by decreeing that it is so, human life is something that can be dismissed by mere whim.

Congressman Joe Kennedy + Baby Carriage + Pro-Abortion Rally = One Really Weird Photo Op.  These Kennedys are an odd bunch.  Congressman Joe Kennedy III (a devout Catholic?) is seen here with his wife and their baby attending a pro-abortion rally.  Wife:  "Hey, want to go to the abortion rally?"  Kennedy:  "Yeah!  Grab the baby and let's go!"  Weird.  Sad.

Disgraced FBI Agent Lisa Page Also Trashed Pro-Lifers: 'I Truly Hate These People'.  Disgraced former FBI lawyer Lisa Page not only has a strong distaste for President Trump, but also pro-lifers.  According to LifeNews, on page 13 of the Interim Report by Sen. Ron Johnson titled "The Clinton Email Scandal And The FBI'S Investigation Of It," released yesterday [2/7/2018], there is an "exchange between FBI senior lawyer Peter Strzok, Page's co-adulterer, and her about pro-life Americans."  Simply put, Page not only dislikes the pro-life movement but "truly hate[s] these people," making it personal.

The original feminism is pro-life.  Jan. 22 is the 45th anniversary of the Roe v.  Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States.  That's 45 years and more than 60 million yet-to-be born children being legally terminated by their parents.  Looking at modern feminism, we see that instead of its early emphasis on the rights of women to equal pay and equal votes, it has been narrowed to a defense of abortion rights.  Feminists who oppose abortion are often drowned out of conversation with their pro-abortion rights sisters.  The result is that few people are aware that the founders of the women's movement were, without known exception, opposed to abortion.  These activists saw it as a symptom of women's oppression, not a solution to it.  Today's pro-life feminists agree.

Satanic Temple Challenges Abortion Law on Religious Grounds.  Earlier in the week, the Satanic Temple argued a case before the Missouri Supreme Court on behalf of "Mary Doe," a woman who says the state violated her right to religious freedom when she went to get an abortion back in 2015.  Specifically, Mary, who did ultimately get the abortion, says the state's informed consent law — which requires women seeking abortions to wait 72 hours, have an ultrasound, and sign a form that states they' read a booklet promoting the idea that life begins at conception — violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Mom Slams Doctors Who Told Her to Abort Her Severely Disabled Baby Girl, She Was Born Healthy.  A British mother criticized her doctors for encouraging her to abort her unborn daughter after tests indicated that the baby girl could have a disability.  Baby Kyla-Shae Anderson was born healthy 18 months ago, and her mother, Kamelia Walters, 25, of South London, is grateful that she is alive, The Sun reports.  Walters said she also feels angry because her daughter would not be alive today if she had taken her doctors' advice.

How A Baby Is Not A Parasite:  A Guide For Idiots.  Every time pro-life chat surfaces in the news, I see stupid people try to justify abortions by any means possible.  With the March for Life in full swing, you can bet the pro-abortion crowd has surged forth on social media and put their dumbest foot forward in order to combat the growing menace of people who don't want babies to be killed.  One of my favorite excuses the pro-abortion crowd uses is the reasoning that a baby is essentially a parasite, and if a woman wants to rid herself of a parasite, who am I to tell her she can't?

Pregnant 14-Year-Old Rejects Abortion, Now Faces Intense Bullying From Her Classmates.  Kaiya Acton knew that people would look down on her when they found out that she was pregnant at just 14 years old.  But the Liverpool, England teen refused to even consider sacrificing her unborn baby's life to save face.  The Liverpool Echo reports Acton chose life for her son, Dean, and now is working hard to give them both a better future.  "I do think the stereotype of young mums is very unfair, people don't know the struggles and strains all mums go through," the now 16-year-old said.  "...we are capable of just as much love towards a child and the right care depending on your situation."

Pastor and Priest Advise Two Rape Victims to Kill Their Babies in Abortions.  Clergy need to get this one right!  Save The 1 has published two recent stories in which the pregnant rape victims' clergy not only advised them that's it's acceptable to abort, but actually encouraged them to do so.  One rape victim went through with the abortion, and the other did not.  In other words, a pastor was responsible for the death of an innocent unborn child.

10 Amazing Things That Happen to Babies Before Birth.  With today's modern technology and medical information, we have a real-time window into the womb.  What happens to babies before birth — all the ways they move, grow, and change — is nothing short of amazing.  Here are just 10 things that happen to babies before birth.  These 10 things demonstrate their uniqueness, value, and of course, their humanity.  What's more, each of these 10 things happen in the first trimester — when approximately 90% of abortions in the U.S. occur.

More proof that a mother and her unborn baby are two separate people:
Pregnant Arizona woman, 19, shot dead while sleeping, baby survives.  The Tucson Police Department said in a news release several people in the home were awoken at 4:30 a.m. to the sounds of 19-year-old Jasmine Vega screaming before becoming "unresponsive."  Arriving officers found Vega unconscious and transported her to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.  Vega was six months pregnant at the time, according to police.  "Hospital staff were able to successfully deliver her unborn child, who is currently being treated at the hospital," Tucson police said.

New York Nurse Gives Emotional Speech About Being Forced To Participate In An Abortion Against Her Will.  On Wednesday [11/8/2017], several nurses spoke publicly in favor of the Conscience Protection Act of 2017, legislation sponsored by Rep. Diane Black (R-TN), which "would allow health-care providers like nurses and doctors to sue if they're coerced into participating in abortions or if they face discrimination at work for refusing to do so," reports The Hill.

The Media Doesn't Want to Talk about the 26th Victim of the Texas Church Massacre.  Media outlets across the country are apparently having difficulty counting.  They can't seem to get the number of victims right in last week's horrific Texas church massacre.  While many correctly reported that 26 people were killed during Devin Patrick Kelley's maniacal rampage, many others went to great pains to avoid reporting that an unborn child died at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, last Sunday.  Or, if they did report the baby's death, they reported it as a footnote, careful to separate the unborn child from other victims.

Abortion Clinic Paid Staff Less if Women Didn't Have Abortions.  The British newspaper, the Sun, called it an "Abortion Bombshell."  And so it clearly was — the news that one of Britain's largest abortion providers paid staff bonuses to encourage women to have abortions!

Here's Why An Unborn Baby Was Counted As A Person In The Texas Massacre.  The sheriff deputies who assessed the fatalities at the bloody crime scene at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, counted the death toll as 26, because one of the victims was a mother carrying an unborn child inside of her.  The federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act of 2004 recognizes unborn children as separate victims for federal and military crimes.  Texas law also defines a human being to include "an unborn child at every stage of gestation from fertilization until birth," and recognizes an unborn baby as a potential crime victim.  "This has been a longstanding priority for us, and something we were instrumental in pushing," said National Right to Life director Jennifer Popik according to The New York Times.  "The principle here is that there's two victims.  For a family already invested in the child, for the grandparents, this is a loss."

Late-Term Abortion Clinic Kills Baby in Abortion Then Harvests Baby's Body Parts for Research.  A late-term abortion clinic in New Mexico faces a lawsuit after it killed a baby in an abortion and then harvested the baby's body parts for research — without the mother's consent.  As LifeNews previously reported, a woman who aborted her baby in 2012 says the abortion facility donated her aborted daughter's body to researchers at the University of New Mexico without her full knowledge or consent.  Jessica Duran filed a lawsuit against the Southwestern Women's Options alleging that the abortion facility did not tell her that donating her aborted baby's body was voluntary.  Duran also said the abortion facility did not give her details about how her baby's remains would be used in the research.  Duran's lawsuit accuses SWO of deceptive trade practices and violation of state law, which requires informed consent before providing an abortion.

Left Celebrates 'Justice' After 17-Year-Old Illegal Immigrant Has Abortion.  After much persistence from the American Civil Liberties Union and the #JusticeforJane social media campaign, news broke Wednesday morning that the 17-year-old illegal immigrant "Jane Doe," who was being held in a Texas detention center, was able to obtain her "constitutionally-protected right" to have an abortion.

Abortion Doctors:  Not Really Any Reason for an Abortion to Save a Mother's Life.  Pro-choice activists sometimes claim that late-term abortions need to be legal in order to protect women's lives.  These abortion activists know that many people shudder at the thought of killing a fully formed baby who could survive outside of his or her mother's womb.  They know that the simple "woman's body, woman's choice" slogan is not enough to convince the public that aborting full-term babies should be legal.  In order to justify these abortions, pro-choicers sometimes say that if late-term abortions were banned, women's lives would be at risk; in other words, women have late-term abortions in order to save their own lives.  Is this true?  Common sense seems to indicate that it isn't.  A third trimester abortion is performed by injecting poison (usually dioxin) into the baby, then inducing labor.  A woman essentially "gives birth" to a dead baby.  In both a third trimester abortion and a traditional live birth, the woman has to go through labor.  The only difference is that in an abortion, the baby is injected with poison, killing him or her.  This is done for no other reason than to prevent a live birth.  It seems to be common sense that injecting deadly poison into a woman's body would carry some risk.  It is hard to believe that it is safer to inject poison and induce labor rather than to simply induce labor without the injection.

Two Abortion Clinic Staffers Have a Change of Heart and Quit Their Jobs.  More good news today ... we've learned that two more abortion business workers have had a change of heart and quit the industry!  In all such cases, we keep the specifics confidential.  Former workers often face criticism, rejection from friends ... and sometimes even the threat of lawsuits from their former employer.  Please keep these workers in your prayers as they continue the path to healing.  This now makes 156 abortion employees who've experienced conversions and left their jobs during 40 Days for Life campaigns!

Is Roe v.  Wade and a lack of respect for life responsible for Las Vegas?  The media hunt is on.  It's the guns.  Always the guns.  But sacred cows being what they are... what about abortion? [...] Now we have another massacre on our hands.  And guess what is NOT being discussed?  That's right — abortion and respect for human life or the lack thereof.

President Donald Trump Overturns Obamacare Abortion Mandate in Huge Pro-Life Victory.  The Trump administration announced today that employers will now be exempt from the federal requirement to provide insurance coverage for abortion-causing drugs in their health insurance plans if it conflicts with their sincerely held religious or moral beliefs.  This now limits a rule created under the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act that required that employers, including non-church religious organizations, must cover all forms of contraception, from birth control pills to abortion drugs and devices at no cost to the employees.  The Trump administration stated legal reasons for issuing two rules: one for religious and the other for moral objections.  The administration acknowledges that the Affordable Care Act law did not provide protection for nonreligious, moral conscientious objections as required by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.  Both rules would take effect as soon as they are on display at the office of the Federal Register.  Leading pro-life groups were delighted by the news.

Actress Jokes with Abortionist:  My First Abortion Was 'My Best One'.  What do you get when you put an actress who jokes about abortion in the same room as an abortionist who says he's never killed a baby?  Cheers, laughter and attacks on pro-life Christians.  Or that's what happened in Seattle.  In June, two media-beloved figures spoke at a #ShoutYourAbortion event in Seattle — but surprisingly the event went unnoticed by the media.

Perez Hilton Says Kylie Jenner Should Kill Her Baby in an Abortion.  What Perez Hilton did to Kylie Jenner and her unborn baby over the weekend serves as a strong example of just how often women are pressured to abort their unborn babies.  Hilton, a celebrity blogger, said he would have urged the 20-year-old reality show star to abort her unborn baby if she was his daughter, the International Business Times reports.  And he openly admitted that he would do the same if his own young daughter came to him pregnant in a similar situation. [...] The truth is that many women and girls face heavy pressure to abort their unborn babies, often from their parents or a partner.  All too often an abortion is not the "choice" that the abortion industry sells it as.  A study published in the Medical Science Monitor found that as many as 64 percent of post-abortive women say they felt pressured to have an abortion.

Jane Fonda's Mother Had Nine Abortions Before Fonda Was Born, She Then Committed Suicide.  A new report reveals some of the intense family drama behind pro-abortion activist Jane Fonda's parents.  The report describes how Fonda's father was cold and a bully, as well as a shameless womaniser and Jane always blamed her manic depressive mother Frances for their break-up. [...] Obviously Frances had quite a bit on her plate emotionally — including all of the relationship issues — that ultimately caused her a mental breakdown and led to her taking her own life, but the multiple abortion undoubtedly played a role.  There have been numerous studies that found an association between abortion and suicide.  Other studies have found a link between abortion and depression (which is a major risk factor for suicide).

New Abortion Doula Class Teaches How to Hold a Woman's Hand While She Kills Her Baby.  Abortion activists held a class last week in Denver, Colorado to teach doulas how to support women's decisions to abort their unborn babies.  Traditionally, doulas are people who provide emotional support and education to women through their pregnancies, labor and sometimes into the first few months of parenting.  But abortion activists now are training doulas to encourage and support aborting unborn babies.  Vice reports the Colorado Doula Project organized the first formal abortion doula training in the state last week, and 50 people attended.  The pro-abortion group said there already is a waiting list for the next training.

MI will let felon abortionist get back to work.  Thomas Gordon has terminated preborn babies in his Grand Rapids abortion clinic but won't be doing so for a while after running afoul of state laws.  Chris Gast of Right to Life of Michigan says Gordon never informed health regulators of his criminal record that includes criminal convictions for domestic assault.

Babies can recognise faces while still in the womb, scientists find.  Incredible moving images of unborn infants before their birth, shows that they turn their heads towards shapes which resemble faces — with the position of eyes and nose picked out.  But when they see a random shape, they ignore it, scientists at Lancaster University have found.  The finding suggests that the instinct to recognise facial features develops before a baby has even see its first face.  It also shows that an unborn baby's senses are already well developed and parents should begin interacting with their child while it is still in the womb.

Chili's Is Throwing in a Side Order of Abortion Funding with Every Slab of Mediocre Ribs in KY and IN.  Back in 2011, a California Chili's restaurant teamed with the local Planned Parenthood to raise funds for the abortion giant.  The Mar Monte Chili's location passed out flyers to diners, promising that if they just showed the paper when they came to eat, Chili's would donate 15% of their total bill to Planned Parenthood.  But once the flyers went public, the restaurant received so much backlash that the fundraiser was canceled.  Instead, the Mar Monte Chili's donated $200 to Planned Parenthood.

Gosnell, Game Changer.  You can't unlearn," Ann McElhinney insists, referring to what she and her husband, Phelim McAleer, refer to in the subtitle of their new book, Gosnell:  The Untold Story of America's Most Prolific Serial Killer.  In April 2013, the Irish-born investigative journalists focused their attention on the Kermit Gosnell trial going on in Philadelphia, about the abortions performed at the clinic now known by those who didn't look away as a "house of horrors."  The evidence prosecutors showed in court was grisly.  As McElhinney has put it:  "The humanity in all the pictures is unmistakable, the pictures of the babies that were shown as evidence in the Gosnell trial were first-, second-, and third-trimester babies, in all their innocence and perfection."  Coinciding with the 44th anniversary in January of the Supreme Court's Roe v.  Wade decision, Gosnell, their book, is a precursor to a movie they've completed production work on.  Starring Dean Cain (formerly Superman on the primetime Lois & Clark), the movie is still in need of a distributor.  You can imagine how popular such a sell would be in Hollywood — whose stars most recently took the stage in the so-called women's marches to protest Donald Trump as president and to insist on continued taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.

Mrs. Stephanopoulos Brags Daughter Threw Pro-Abortion Hissy Fit After Trump Won.  Nothing could make a liberal power couple's hearts swell up with pride more than the sweet sounds of their young daughter throwing a pro-abortion hissy fit.  That's exactly what happened Tuesday on The View, when actress/comedian Ali Wentworth, married to ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos, boasted about how "upset" her young daughter was with Trump's win.  Wentworth bragged that the 14-year-old ranted and raved around their home afterwards, sulking about abortion and "women's rights."

Stephanopoulos' Wife:  Our 14-Year-Old Daughter Screamed 'NO ABORTION!' After Horrifying Trump Win.  If you're wondering why the left has gone insane, perhaps it's because they were raised to be insane, and they're raising their children the same way.  Why in the world does a 14-year-old girl think that her world is ending because Donald Trump has been elected president?  More importantly, why would she think her world is ending because of possible restrictions on abortion?  Are leftist parents truly raising their daughters to believe that their rights to freedom are dependent on their ability to kill their own offspring in the womb?

Christian fired for employer's refusal to accommodate.  Alexia Palma, who immigrated from Guatemala as a child, worked for Legacy Community Health in Houston as a health educator in its clinic for low income patients from the inner city area.  Because her Catholic beliefs prohibit her from practicing contraception, the management at her company allowed her to show a video on the subject, rather than teach it herself — a class that comprised only 2 percent of her job.  Palma said that this arrangement was working fine ... while it lasted.  "This was working perfectly clear for a year-and-a-half — until new management came in [and] found out about my accommodation," she explained.

Texas to Require Burials After Many Abortions.  Texas health officials have adopted a new rule that would require burials after many abortions conducted in the state — a decision that could have a profound effect on providers there.  The rule, which was submitted to the Texas secretary of state by the Texas Department of Health Services last Monday, changes the manner in which fetal tissue can be disposed of following an abortion at a clinic, hospital or other medical setting.  While previously the tissue was to be disposed of in the same matter as most other medical waste in a sanitary landfill, state health officials are now requiring fetal tissue to be interred, regardless of the gestational duration, if a woman has an abortion in those settings.

Lawsuit challenges new Texas rules over fetal remains.  Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Monday [12/12/2016] seeking to prevent Texas from requiring hospitals and abortion clinics to bury or cremate fetal remains rather than disposing of them in a sanitary landfill, as they most often currently do with such remains and other biological medical waste.

Cardinal Dolan Rebukes "Catholics" for Choice:  This Pro-Abortion Group is Not Catholic.  An abortion advocacy organization called "Catholics for Choice" (CFC) placed deceptive full-page newspaper ads in multiple cities on September 12 calling for taxpayer funding of abortion in the name of the Catholic faith.  As the U.S. Catholic bishops have stated for many years, the use of the name 'Catholic' as a platform to promote the taking of innocent human life is offensive not only to Catholics, but to all who expect honesty and forthrightness in public discourse.  CFC is not affiliated with the Catholic Church in any way.  It has no membership, and clearly does not speak for the faithful.  It is funded by powerful private foundations to promote abortion as a method of population control.

Pro-life pregnancy centers must make abortion referrals, 9th Circuit rules.  The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against a coalition of pro-life pregnancy centers on Friday, upholding a California law that requires them to refer patients to publicly funded contraception and abortion services, even if doing so violates their moral and religious beliefs.  The decision upheld a lower court ruling saying California law AB 775, or the FACT Act, does not violate the First Amendment rights of the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates and two other faith-based nonprofits.  Matt Bowman, senior counsel at the Alliance Defending Freedom, which represents the appellants, called the decision a "clear violation" of constitutionally protected rights to freedom of speech and religious expression.

Texas to require burial or cremation of aborted fetuses.  Texas intends to require that aborted fetuses be buried or cremated under new rules following the US Supreme Court's decision to strike down two of the state's most restrictive abortion laws.

House panel seeks criminal charges for University of New Mexico in abortion research.  A prominent southwest university's medical school could face a criminal probe after it was revealed that students dissected aborted fetal brains and other body parts at a summer camp.  The University of New Mexico was accused of illegally transferring fetal tissue by the House Select Panel of Infant Lives in a recent letter to New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas.

Ohio abortion facility torn down to make way for pro-life memorial.  An Ohio abortion facility shuttered by state health inspectors has been demolished to make way for a memorial for the unborn.  The Center for Choice clinic in Toledo, Ohio, was shut down in 2013 after inspectors found moldy and rusted equipment, reported the Christian Times.

Hospital boots abortionist in 'demonic' baby-killing rant.  A California hospital has reportedly severed ties with an abortionist involved in a "demonic" confrontation with a pro-life activist, in which the doctor charged through the front doors of a medical facility while wielding a pair of scissors and proclaimed his "love" of tearing unborn babies apart in the womb.  The bizarre exchange with Dr.  Robert Santella outside his Family Planning Associates abortion facility in San Diego was captured on video and uploaded to YouTube, reported WND.

'Daily Show' tweet encouraging abortions pulled after backlash.  Comedian Trevor Noah's "The Daily Show" faced fierce backlash on Monday [6/27/2016] for tweeting "Celebrate the #SCOTUS ruling!  Go knock someone up in Texas!" after the U.S. Supreme Court's Whole Woman's Health v.  Hellerstedt ruling.  Professional pundits and everyday Twitter users responded with a flurry of condemnation after Comedy Central's official "The Daily Show" account implied the supreme court's 5-3 ruling was a cause for celebratory sex — and abortions.

While People Complain About Harambe the Gorilla's Death, Thousands of Babies are Aborted.  [Scroll down]  This incongruent concern for animals but not unborn children was recently seen in New Zealand.  A 24 year old Danish student tourist, Rasmus Zetner, was fined $10,000 by Judge Brian Callaghan in the Christchurch Court for killing a Whio duck, an endangered specis [sic] in South Westland.Under the Wildlife Act 1953, the whio duck is an absolutely protected species.  Its killing is a serious crime, on conviction the offender may be fined up to $100,000, or imprisoned for up to two years.  This crime was considered important news and was given extensive coverage by all the media in New Zealand.  Yet New Zeland allows the killing of an unborn baby.

Embryonic Stem Cell Fail as Firm Goes Defunct.  In 2004, Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards promised that if John Kerry won, people would rise out of their wheelchairs and walk.  In the 2006 election, actor Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's, made a commercial for Democratic Senate candidates in which he urged voters to support those candidates who opposed restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research and stood in the way of imminent miracles.  Private funding, it should be noted, was never restricted.  The only thing that stood in the way of miracle cures from embryonic stem cell research miracle cures, we were told, was the pro-life movement and those wascally Republicans who were putting embryos ahead of the sick and paralyzed. [...] Some 12 years after Edwards made his messianic claim, ESCR has proven quite literally to be a bankrupt line of research.

Utah Law Requires Abortionists To Give Anesthesia Before Abortion Because Babies Feel Pain.  A baby at 20 weeks gestation is "fully capable of experiencing pain."  Pro-choicers like to ignore that fact, because it humanizes what they've convinced themselves to be a blob of lifeless cells.  It's sad that this law is even necessary, and even worse that people actually have a problem with it.

Doctors save baby after pregnant Mom's tragic death.  Missouri doctors have managed to deliver a baby whose mother was killed in a crash on her way to a hospital to give birth.  The Southeast Missourian reports that 26-year-old Sarah Iler and the baby's father were driving Wednesday [5/11/2016] from Cape Girardeau to Poplar Bluff when a tanker truck collided with their SUV.  Cape Girardeau police Sgt.  Adam Glueck says officers administered CPR in the hopes of saving Iler and the baby.  Iler was declared dead on arrival at a hospital, but doctors performed an emergency cesarean section and delivered her daughter, Maddyson.

Bright flash of light marks incredible moment life begins when sperm meets egg.  Human life begins in bright flash of light as a sperm meets an egg, scientists have shown for the first time, after capturing the astonishing 'fireworks' on film.  An explosion of tiny sparks erupts from the egg at the exact moment of conception.  Scientists had seen the phenomenon occur in other animals but it is the first time is has been also shown to happen in humans.

The ACLU's deadly anti-Catholic vendetta.  The ACLU is angry that Catholic hospitals won't perform abortions.  The so-called "civil liberties" organization (if only!) appears to again be revving up to sue Americans who dedicated their lives to saving others while serving their faith.  And the ACLU wants the public to be incensed, too.  But its latest ploy will almost certainly backfire by unintentionally demonstrating how important Catholic hospitals are to American health care.  For example, in trying to raise public hackles over the fact that Catholic institutions don't perform abortions, the ACLU reminded everyone, in a report issued late last week, of something truly impressive:  One out of every six patients in the United States is cared for in a Catholic hospital.

Woman accuses Florida hospital of flushing her miscarried baby down the toilet.  Linda Gomez filed suit last week in Palm Beach County court against Wellington Regional Medical Center, seeking unspecified damages for emotional trauma.

Pro-Abortion Group's Display Features Baby-Shaped Cookies With Their Heads Broken Off.  The pro-abortion students' table had cookies shaped like babies, many with their heads broken off.  Around the baby cookies were papers that said, "Abortion should remain legal because ..." and included a space for students to write a reason.  The College Fix reported the photos of the display received wide-spread attention on social media after conservative blogger Matt Walsh posted them on Facebook.  Walsh said someone on campus told him about the display and sent the photos.

Abortion Clinics Are Closing at a Record Pace.  Abortion access in the U.S. has been vanishing at the fastest annual pace on record, propelled by Republican state lawmakers' push to legislate the industry out of existence.  Since 2011, at least 162 abortion providers have shut or stopped offering the procedure, while just 21 opened.  At no time since before 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion, has a woman's ability to terminate a pregnancy been more dependent on her zip code or financial resources to travel.  The drop-off in providers — more than one every two weeks — occurred in 35 states, in both small towns and big cities that are home to more than 30 million women of reproductive age.

The Editor says...
Good point.  The Supreme Court legalized abortion.  Not the voters, not their elected officials in Congress.

Trapped In a Pro-Abortion Bubble.  On the libertine Left, one of the most revered "social justice warriors" is the abortionist.  "Abortion providers" are revered as living statues of liberty, granting the freedom from being "punished with a baby," to quote our current president.  Entire documentaries celebrate them.  The latest is Trapped, named after the pro-abortion lingo for any law that regulates the abortion industry, or as they spin it, "targeted regulation of abortion providers."  In the Los Angeles Times, Katie Walsh provided the propagandistic ooze:  "These providers embody a remarkable mix of tenacity and tenderness as they comfort patients and attempt to discern and comply with labyrinthine regulations."  Tenderness.  This film followed the usual route of an abortion propaganda film. [...] In Trapped, the abortionists show they have no conscience.  They are not only capable of doing anything, but of saying anything that advances their daily horrors.

Jury convicts woman who cut baby from womb.  Jurors convicted a Colorado woman of cutting a stranger's baby from her womb in a gruesome case that reignited the debate over the legal rights of fetuses.  The jury found Dynel Lane guilty of attempted first-degree murder, assault and unlawful termination of a pregnancy in last year's attack.  Prosecutors said Lane went to great lengths to convince others she was expecting a baby before luring Michelle Wilkins to her home with a Craigslist ad for maternity clothes.  Lane then hit and choked Wilkins before using two kitchen knives to cut out the unborn girl.

The Editor says...
Craigslist would function as intended only among moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate to the transactions of any other.

Trump the intolerable.  [T]he fundamental purpose of government is to protect the vulnerable from violence.  There is nobody more vulnerable than a baby.  Every year, with our government's approval, the courts' protection, and our own tax dollars, abortionists kill 1 million babies in this country.  They kill tens of thousands of babies who have reached the age of viability.  Donald Trump finds that slaughter acceptable.  That makes Donald Trump unacceptable.  Trump stands with President Obama and Hillary Clinton in insisting that taxpayers share complicity in this slaughter by continuing to fund Planned Parenthood.  His recent claims to a pro-life conversion could not be less convincing.

'Scandal' Plays 'Silent Night' as Main Character Has Abortion.  How vile is the television industry?  They won't just promote toleration of abortion.  They won't just promote abortion itself.  They will sanctify abortion, turn it into a sacred rite of passage.

Woman charged with attempted murder in failed coat hanger abortion.  A Tennessee woman who cops say tried to abort her 24-week-old baby with a coat hanger in a bathtub was charged with attempted first-degree murder Wednesday [12/9/2015].  31-year-old Anna Yocco, of Murfreesboro, remains jailed on a $200,000 bond, according to the Daily News Journal.  Yocca filled a bathtub with water and attempted to self-abort with a hanger in September, according to a Murfreesboro Police Department report.  When she began bleeding, however, she became worried for her safety.

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One wonders how she thought such an operation could be conducted without bloodshed.

New California Law Forces Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers to Advertise Abortions.  Did you hear about the new bill that California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law? [...] The bill he signed (AB775), named the Reproductive Fact Act, aims to punish pro-life pregnancy centers, which offer women and girls compassionate alternatives to abortion.  Under penalty of ruinous fines for every "violation," the law orders the pro-life centers to post notices and tell mothers that they can abort their babies and have California taxpayers foot the bill via the state's expansive Medi-Cal program.

Chinese Human Rights Activist on Two-Child Policy: 'Now They Will Kill Any Baby After Two'.  Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng is not impressed with China's new two-child policy that was announced last week, predicting that its "evil" practice of forcing women to have sterilizations and abortions will continue. [...] "This is nothing to be happy about," he tweeted.  "First the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] would kill any baby after one.  Now they will kill any baby after two."

Whoopi Goldberg to Carly Fiorina on 'The View' — 'No One's Harvesting Baby Parts! Come On Girl'.  Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina appeared on the show "The View" on Friday [11/6/2015].  She talked issues, and things got contentious when the subject of abortion came up.

Police Raid on Abortionist's Car Reveals 14 Containers of Human Tissue, Possibly Fetuses.  A police raid on the car of an abortionist with a history of violations has revealed containers of human tissue — possibly aborted babies — and medical equipment, leading investigators to hypothesize that Michael Arthur Roth may have been performing illegal abortions out of the trunk of his car.  Police in West Bloomfield, Michigan found "14 containers of human tissue, possibly fetuses, medical equipment and large amounts of Fentanyl, a drug used for pain and sedation," reports ABC affiliate 7 Action News.

Murdered Babies Found in Abortionist's Car But Why Regulate the Abortion Industry?  It's shocking, but only for someone who hasn't been immersed in the diabolical decadence of the Culture of Death.  Police just discovered an unbelievably gruesome assortment of human remains in 14 containers in a raid of an abortionist's car.

Kermit Gosnell on wheels:
Networks Ignore 14 Containers of 'Human Tissue' Found in Abortionist's Car.  The media tend to eat up horror stories — except when abortion is involved.  Local stations first broke the news Oct. 13 that police discovered 14 containers of "human tissue" in a Michigan abortionist's car.  The horror story eerily echoed reports from the case of Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell — and, like Gosnell, it didn't tempt coverage from the broadcast networks.  All three, ABC, NBC and CBS, turned a blind eye to the news.  This is the story ABC, NBC and CBS censored from their news shows[.]

When Is A Baby A Baby? Half Of Americans Say Roe v. Wade Gets It Wrong.  Over the last decade, Gallup data show the number of people who don't have an opinion on the topic has risen by more than 10%.  But when people hear doctors assuring buyers they will take care to use their forceps to "crunch" only above and below the torso to preserve marketable organs, indifference turns to concern.  People start thinking maybe these fetuses aren't the "blobs of tissue" abortion advocates tell us they are, but rather viable human beings with organs so well-formed and functioning that an industry exists to harvest them for medical experiments.

A would-be father's perspective on Planned Parenthood and loss.  This summer my son or daughter would be about twenty-one.  Who knows maybe she'd have a child, too, by now.  But I will never know what could have been, because I didn't have the courage when it mattered.

Baby born 4 months premature on cruise ship wins race against time to survive.  A Utah woman who gave birth to a one-and-a-half pound baby boy four months premature during a Caribbean cruise has revealed how she kept him alive with the help of the ship's medical staff and a makeshift incubator.

The United States is a Dying Country.  I could only watch over the past 42 years as the American people have sanctioned, through legal abortions, the death of over 54.5 million children.  Once this disregard of human life took hold, the citizens of this nation were susceptible to wholesale changes within society.  Far too many of the American people, flush with prosperity, willfully ignored the infiltration of the education, media and entertainment establishments by the 1960's radicals, the most narcissistic and radical legion of socialist true-believers on the face of the earth.  Through the control of these mediums of indoctrination, an ever increasing percentage of the population has been conditioned to believe there are no moral absolutes and there is a limitless list of rights as granted by the government.  Since 1973 there has been the open promotion of euthanasia, the abandonment of traditional behavioral guidelines and the active denigration of organized religion, together with the successful inculcation of the entitlement mentality.

CDC: The Centers For Baby Control And Prevention.  Imagine how the media would react if the vast majority of experts advising the Department of Energy on policy were oil industry lackeys.  Or visualize the coverage if only hedge-fund managers had the government's ear on Wall-Street rulemaking?  Badly, I suspect.  Yet this is not always the case.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) releases a document called "Providing Quality Family Planning Services Recommendations" — which is compiled in conjunction with a distastefully Malthusian sounding "U.S. Office of Population Affairs" — that sets policy recommendations on planning your family.  Spacing.  Numbers.  Disposal.  That sort of thing.

Two Decades of Gallup Polls Show Majority of Americans Want Abortion To Be Illegal in Most Cases.  In 37 consecutive polls performed throughout the past 21 years on the issue of abortion, Gallup has found that a majority of Americans surveyed say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.  "In the past 20 years, the percentage who say abortion should be illegal in all circumstances or all but a few circumstances has never dropped below 54 percent," writes Terence P. Jeffrey at CNS News.com.

Appeals court upholds strict Texas abortion law closing all but seven clinics.  A federal appeals court on Tuesday [6/9/2015] upheld a strict anti-abortion law in Texas that will close all but seven abortion providers in the state.

Court upholds key parts of Texas' strict anti-abortion law.  A federal appeals court on Tuesday [6/9/2015] upheld Texas' strict abortion restrictions that could soon leave only seven abortion clinics open in a state of 27 million people.

Late Term Abortion Defenders Are the Real Science Deniers.  For contemporary liberals there is no worse offense that to be "against science," a term that is loosely thrown about to silence skepticism about environmental extremism.  But a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine illustrates that those decrying the effort to oppose late term abortions as a right-wing "war on women" are not only on questionable moral ground but also disregarding scientific facts about premature babies.  According to the Journal, it is now clear that babies born at 22 or 23 weeks into pregnancy have a decent chance to survive if given treatment.  Those born at 23 weeks are even more likely to live with half doing so without significant problems.  This is good news for families but as even the New York Times tacitly admitted in its story about the report, it is bad news for those on the left who have been fighting efforts in state legislatures to ban late term abortions.

For the first time in seven years, Americans are 'pro-choice'.  Half of Americans (50 percent) consider themselves "pro-choice" on abortion compared to 44 percent who identify as "pro-life" — the first time since 2008 that the pro-choice position has a significant lead in Americans' views on abortion.  A majority of women (54 percent) are now pro-choice, compared to 46 percent of men, according to a new Gallup poll.

Brain-dead woman kept alive 54 days delivers baby boy.  Doctors in Nebraska prolonged the life of a brain dead woman for 54 days so she could deliver a baby boy named Angel.  Karla Perez, 22, died two days after the delivery, the Washington Post reported late Friday [5/1/2015].  Angel weighed just 2 pounds, 12.6 ounces at birth.  The last time a brain-dead woman in the U.S. delivered a baby was 1999, the paper said.

Premature babies can survive at 22 weeks, study finds.  A new study finds that babies are sometimes able to survive when born at just 22 weeks, raising questions for the abortion debate.  The study released Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that 5.1 percent of babies born at 22 weeks were able to survive, and 3.4 percent were able to survive without severe impairments.  Most of the variation between hospitals in survival rates is due to how heavily they decide to treat these premature babies.

The Editor says...
That doesn't mean they aren't human at 21 (or 20 or 19...) weeks, they're just more fragile.

New spa-like abortion clinic is part of a trend to 'destigmatize' the procedure.  With its natural wood floors and plush upholstery, Carafem aims to feel more like a spa than a medical clinic.  But the slick ads set to go up in Metro stations across the Washington region leave nothing to doubt:  "Abortion.  Yeah, we do that."  The clinic, opening this week in tony Friendship Heights, specializes in the abortion pill and will be unique for its advertising.  Its unabashed approach also reflects a new push to destigmatize the nation's most controversial medical procedure by talking about it openly and unapologetically.

Hidden Conservatism and Abortion.  [Scroll down]  How would Americans feel about Roe v. Wade if, instead of asking the bland question of supporting or not supporting that decision, they were asked if they support what this decision really meant?  It did not, of course, legalize abortion.  Three states at the time of that decision broadly legalized abortion, but most other states did provide an exemption for abortion in the case of rape, incest, and the life of the mother.  Indeed, in Texas, the state from which Roe v. Wade came, the mother could have had an abortion if she had been raped.  The problem was that the mother stated that she had been raped when, in fact, she had not.

New NARAL Ad Compares Pro-life Group to a Molester.  We've seen some shameful and misleading ads this election cycle, but has the pro-abortion organization NARAL crossed the line?

John C. Willke, Doctor Who Led Fight Against Abortion, Dies at 89.  Dr. John C. Willke, an obstetrician who helped establish the modern anti-abortion movement — and whose idea that rape victims could resist conception was widely challenged — died on Friday [2/20/2015] at his home in Cincinnati.  He was 89.

Matthew Yglesias: Watching My Wife Give Birth Made Me More Pro-Abortion.  I'm not sure what's more egregious.  1. Stuffing your newborn child into a Vox onesie shortly after he takes his first breath.  Or, 2. Admitting that watching your wife go through the pregnancy of your first child has solidified your belief that abortion is OK and should be hassle- and judgment-free.  Apparently Vox executive editor Matthew Yglesias is unaware that his newborn son will one day read.

Group touts 4,000 abortions in 1 year with Clinton's support.  Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton's international foundation, in the spotlight this month for hosting the annual Clinton Global Initiative in New York, back two groups that operate a massive international abortion business, including one that heralded its 4,000 abortions in a 2013 annual report.  Clinton Foundation documents show that it supports two groups that provide abortion services and supplies in Africa, India and Asia — Pathfinder International and Population Services International.

Eyewtiness to abortion.  Seven years ago, I took the heartbreaking decision to accompany my teenage daughter to a private abortion clinic where — at 24 weeks and just inside the legal limit — the life of her unborn baby was terminated.  Despite my efforts, I couldn't talk my child out of her decision, and faced with the agonising choice of going with my daughter or leaving her to go through the ordeal alone, I went with her.

Poet: I 'would've died' for my aborted daughter's 'right to choose,' just 'like she died for mine'.  What kind of mother asks her baby to die for her?  And what kind of media outlet celebrates that?  To take the second question first, The Huffington Post is promoting a video featuring Scottish "poet" Leyla Josephine, celebrating her decision to abort her daughter.  [Video clip]

A Kafkaesque standard of morality:
Poet: I would have died for my aborted daughter's right to choose, just like she died for mine.  She starts by imagining the moments she would have shared with her daughter had she been born, then takes to repeating "I am not ashamed," as if trying to convince herself by incantation that she really isn't.

A Moral Universe Torn Apart.  "I am not ashamed," a young woman says into a camera.  "I am not ashamed."  The woman is Leyla Josephine of Glasgow, and she is a self-described feminist performance artist.  She is reading a poem titled "I Think She Was a She" — a poem lauded by The Huffington Post as "unapologetic. ... She ardently declares her power over her body as she reminds us that a woman exercising her right to choose is not uncommon — and should never be shamefully brushed under the rug."  What, exactly, is this poem?  It's Josephine recounting her abortion of her unborn daughter.  She notes, "I know she was a she and I think she would've looked exactly like me.  I would've told her stories about her grandfather, we could've fed the swans at Victoria Park."  Then, however, she reveals just what she's done:  "I would've supported her right to choose.  To choose a life for herself, a path for herself.  I would've died for that right like she died for mine.  I'm sorry, but you came at the wrong time."  You came at the wrong time.  Therefore, murder is justified.

The Editor says...
If a baby arrives "at the wrong time," that is entirely the mother's fault, not the baby's.

America is Importing the Problems Abortion Was Supposed to Eliminate.  [S]uddenly, despite the intrusion taking place on our border, those who normally justify abortion on demand seem overly concerned about the well-being of the destitute youngsters imposing themselves on not just one woman's life, but all our lives — itinerant youngsters who, if they were traveling in the womb, rather than on foot, the left would enthusiastically abort.  Even Barack Obama, the most pro-abortion president in the history of America, justifies accepting the tsunami of children streaming in from south of the border by calling it a "humanitarian crisis," which naturally necessitates the "saving of human lives or ... the alleviation of suffering."

Pregnant woman punched in Brooklyn knockout game: 'I was worried about the baby'.  It may be the most cold-hearted case of the knockout game yet.  A 33-year-old punk punched a pregnant woman in the face so hard that she lost consciousness.  But the creep was quickly arrested, just blocks away, cops said Friday [8/15/2014].  Jannatul Ferdous — two months from her due date — told the Daily News she was horrified for her unborn child.  "I was scared and worried about the baby," the 34-year-old victim said at her home in Brooklyn.

The Editor says...
Please note:  She wasn't worried about a fetus, or a clump of cells, or any part of her own body, she was worried about a her baby.

Mother Courage.  Valerie Gatto does not want to talk about abortion.  That's probably prudent, inasmuch as she very much desires to be the next Miss USA, and contestants in that pageant are expected to have ruthlessly anodyne interests along the lines of reading children's literature to blind dolphins.  But she is admirably direct, even bracing, about the aspect of her life that intersects that troublesome issue:  She was conceived when her mother, a teenager at the time, was attacked on the streets of Pittsburgh and raped at knifepoint.

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Says It Will No Longer Fund Abortion.  Melinda Gates, of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, has announced that her international family planning foundation will no longer fund abortion because she believes abortion and family planning have become "conflated."

On the science of abortion, liberals are in serious denial.  Is the beginning of a human life something we can know?  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) claimed recently that human life begins at conception, and that this is a scientific fact.  There are two stock responses to such a statement, both obscurantist.  The first is the tack Philip Bump took in trying to create a gotcha blog post about Rubio's statement.  Bump promised to boldly look into the science of human life's origins, and boldly came back saying that there isn't any.  After querying a medical definition of pregnancy and sending it to Rubio's office for comment, Bump threw up his hands and retreated from the science altogether: [...]

Abortion Advocates 'Honor' the 'Bravery and Life's Work' of George Tiller.  NARAL Pro-Choice America, a pro-abortion advocacy group, marked the 5th anniversary of George Tiller's murder on Friday.  The late-term abortionist was shot at his church in Wichita, Kansas, by a man — later convicted — who said he did it "to protect children."  "Today, we honor his bravery and life's work along with eight other doctors and clinic workers who have died in the line of duty since 1993," NARAL President Ilyse Hogue said in a news release.  "Their legacies inspire and guide in our work to protect and expand the freedom of women and families to make personal decisions about their health care.  According to the Abortion Federation of America, there have been eight murders of abortionists and abortion clinic staff between 1993 and 2009.

Former McCain Adviser: Amnesty Needed Because Americans Not Making Enough Babies.  On Thursday [5/22/2014], a former adviser to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and the president of a think tank that supports the Senate's amnesty bill said America needed sweeping amnesty legislation and more immigrants because native-born Americans are not making enough babies.  "Like all important policy issues, it comes down to sex," Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who advised McCain during the 2008 campaign, said Thursday at a National Journal event on immigration.  "The blunt fact is the native-born population does not have a fertility rate high enough to keep the population growing."

The Editor says...
There have been 50 million abortions since Roe v. Wade.  That's one reason for the alleged shortage of native-born American babies.

Abortion Polls and Hidden Conservativism.  How much should abortion matter in counting up conservatives and liberals in America?  The left has made abortion its litmus test.  Supreme Court nominees, presidential nominees — anyone, really, who wants the left's support for office — must slavishly adopt the party line on abortion.  By the left's own rhetoric, these abortion polls must matter a great deal.

New Poll: Americans Oppose Obamacare's HHS Mandate 53% to 43%.  A new poll released Thursday [5/8/2014] shows that Americans oppose Obamacare's HHS mandate — the rule requiring "free" coverage of contraception, sterilizations, and the "week-after" pill that may kill human embryos — by a 10-point margin.  Polling on this issue has varied widely, depending on how pollsters frame the question.

Warren Buffett has given $1.2 billion to abortion groups.  May 13, 2014, marks one year since Philadelphia abortion Dr. Kermit Gosnell was convicted of first-degree murder "in the deaths of three babies who were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy, 'house of horrors' clinic," according to the Associated Press.  Gosnell instantly became the face of abortion in the prolife community.  But there's another, more recognizable face pushing abortion in the U.S. — liberal billionaire Warren Buffett.  The so-called "Oracle of Omaha" has donated more than $1.2 billion to abortion organizations from 2001 to 2012.

National Journal laments what the rest of us cheer.
Texas Is Permanently Shutting Abortion Clinics and the Supreme Court Can't Do Anything About It.  When Texas Gov. Rick Perry signed a sweeping anti-abortion law in 2013, he did so knowing the measure faced an uncertain future.  Indeed, the law is already winding its way through the legal system, and if its opponents have their way, Texas's reproductive legal code will land in the hands of the Supreme Court.  But such a decision is likely a year or years a way, and back in the Lone Star State, the final judicial score won't much matter.  The law has already had tremendous success in closing abortion clinics and restricting abortion access in Texas.

UN Urged to Tell Catholic Church it Has No Right to Oppose Abortion.  The Center for Reproductive Rights, a non-governmental organization that advocates for legalized abortion, is urging the United Nations Committee Against Torture to tell the Catholic Church that "the freedom of speech and of religion" do not give the church the right to advocate against abortion.  When the committee met in Geneva on Monday for a hearing on the Vatican's compliance with the Convention Against Torture, Vice Chairperson Felice Gaer, an American, said in her opening statement that laws that ban all abortion — which is the position of the Catholic Church — may violate the convention.

NY health boss resigning after agency failed to inspect abortion clinics.  State Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah is stepping down amid criticism over his agency's failure to conduct regular inspections of abortion clinics and for delays in releasing a long-awaited fracking study.  Word of Shah's resignation late Wednesday came as the Health Department announced it was scrambling to inspect 25 abortion clinics "within the coming days" — after The [New York] Post reported that it hadn't visited many of them in more than a decade.  The abortion clinic controversy also became a political hot potato for Gov. Cuomo when GOP gubernatorial candidate Rob Astorino Wednesday accused the Health Department of neglect and called on Shah to resign.

Mississippi Could Soon Shut Down Its Only Abortion Clinic.  Mississippi could soon become the first state in the nation without a single abortion provider.  The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit is set to hear oral arguments next week regarding a 2012 law that would force the only remaining clinic in the state to close immediately.  The legislation is part of a recent wave of antiabortion regulations that have shuttered large numbers of providers in several states.  However, the situation in Mississippi is arguably the most extreme, as the state has only one facility offering legal abortions.  The Mississippi law would require all physicians in health centers that perform more than 10 abortions a year to be certified in obstetrics and gynecology and have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.

'Abortion is a gift from God'.  So blares a poster on exhibit at the taxpayer-funded University of Michigan.  So far, I have been able to find no protests from the ACLU or other groups that decry religious expression at venues that belong to governmental authorities.  The poster is the work of Heather Ault, and is part of a campaign called "4000 years of choice."

NYC's tanning salons inspected more regularly than abortion clinics.  The state Health Department is failing to inspect many of New York's abortion clinics — with some facilities escaping scrutiny for more than a decade, bombshell documents obtained by The [New York] Post reveal.  Health inspectors regulate 25 diagnostic and treatment clinics and surgery centers that provide abortion services — though pro-choice advocates say there are 225 abortion service providers in New York state.  Eight of the 25 clinics were never inspected over the 2000-12 span, five were inspected just once, and eight were inspected only twice or three times — meaning once every four or six years.

Aborted babies incinerated to heat UK hospitals.  The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with some even used to heat hospitals, an investigation has found.  Ten NHS trusts have admitted burning foetal remains alongside other rubbish while two others used the bodies in 'waste-to-energy' plants which generate power for heat.  Last night the Department of Health issued an instant ban on the practice which health minister Dr Dan Poulter branded 'totally unacceptable.'

Soylent Green Really Is People.  Imagine it's 2014. Nazi concentration camps whose smokestacks emitted the by-product of incinerated human remains were eradicated more than sixty years before.  The only place one could see such horrors was in old newsreels or science fiction films.  Not so fast.  It turns out some smokestacks in the U.K. have been billowing out the burned remains of more than 15,000 fetuses over the last two years.  This would have necessarily included not only aborted fetuses, but babies that were stillborn or the result of miscarriages as well.

The issue is life.  Recent news out of Britain stated that in more than two dozen government-run hospitals, aborted babies and miscarried fetal remains were burned in furnaces as medical waste without the knowledge of parents.  The Telegraph reports that mothers were instead told that the remains had been cremated.  At least two of the hospitals use the furnaces as "waste to energy" generators to provide heat. [...] I would like to think there would be universal outrage at this news.  But I suspect there won't be.  If the unborn child is not a human life worthy of dignity and respect, what difference does it make how it is disposed of?  But, of course, each pre-born baby is made in the image of the same God who hung the stars in the sky, so how they are treated makes a great deal of difference.

Aborted Babies Burned for Electric Power in USA.  A shocking admission from authorities in Victoria, British Columbia reveals that the remains of aborted babies are disposed of in the US and sent to a facility that burns waste to provide electric power for Oregon residents.  According to LifeSiteNews, The British Columbia Health Ministry confirmed that biomedical waste is shipped to the U.S. for destruction.  Such waste includes "human tissue, such as surgically removed cancerous tissue, amputated limbs, and fetal tissue."

Aborted fetuses incinerated at Oregon waste facility for energy purposes.  The British Columbia Health Ministry admits that it had shipped the remains of aborted fetuses to an Oregon waste-to-energy facility to produce electricity for residents of the Northwestern state.  In an email to the B.C. Catholic, a local Catholic paper, a Health Ministry official stated that "biomedical waste" had been "transferred" to an Oregon waste-to-energy facility and this so-called waste included "human tissue, such as surgically removed cancerous tissue, amputated limbs, and fetal tissue."

Oregon County Orders Incinerator: Stop Using Aborted Babies to Generate Power.  Marion County, Oregon commissioners approved an order Thursday [4/24/2014] to stop an incinerator from using aborted babies to generate power.  The order states that the incinerator must stop accepting medical waste until procedures are in place to ensure aborted babies are not among the substances burned to produce electricity.  As Breitbart News' Warner Todd Huston reported earlier on Thursday, authorities in Victoria, British Columbia revealed that the remains of aborted babies are disposed of in the United States and sent to a facility that burns waste to provide electric power for Oregon residents.

D.C. Abortion Fund Offers Coat-Hanger Pendant for Donors.  The D.C. Abortion Fund (DCAF) is offering a coat hanger pendant to all who donate $10 or more a month to the non-profit organization that gives money to women of D.C., Maryland, and Virginia who cannot afford to pay for abortions on their own.

The Symbol of a Lie.  When I read that the DC Abortion Fund was thanking its donors with the gift of a "lovely" wire-hanger pendant, I assumed that this was going to be one of those made-up stories that make the grandmotherly rounds on Facebook but is not true.  It is true, and the DC Abortion Fund is proud of itself.  We as a people should not be.  But first a word of praise for the DC Abortion Fund:  The group at least has the intellectual integrity to put the word "abortion" right there in the middle of its name — no NARAL-style "choice" euphemisms for this merry band of butchers.

State shuts down abortion clinic, suspends doctor's license.  Texas officials have shut down a Houston abortion clinic and suspended the license of its doctor under a new state law requiring physicians who perform the procedure to hold admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.  The Department of State Health Services has revoked the abortion license of A Affordable Women's Medical Center and the Texas Medical Board has temporarily suspended the medical license of Dr. Theodore M. Herring Jr., the facility's medical director and sole provider of abortions, the agencies announced Friday [2/14/2014].  Herring unlawfully performed 268 abortions between Nov. 6 and Feb. 7, according to the two agencies.

NARAL President: 'Anti-Abortion Is Anti-American'.  Everybody says something stupid and offensive at one time or another.  But it takes a special kind of ideologue to turn it into a speech repeated over and over.  And that ideologue is NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue.  We missed it the first time she told a crowd that pro-lifers are "un-American."  That was at a Feb. 4 event in Washington, D.C. marking the pro-abortion group's 45th anniversary.  But Hogue liked it so much she said it again in San Francisco on March 4, at an event featuring Sandra Fluke, America's most famous birth control user.

Celebrating National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day.  Planned Parenthood of New York City has some ideas about how best to observe National Abortion Provider Appreciation Day today.  You can "help change the overall climate from one where abortion providers are vilified and attacked to one where they are honored and upheld as the heroes they are" in a number of ways.  One suggestion is to send a thank-you note to your local abortionist; another is to "send flowers to reproductive health centers near you."

Victoria father welcomes healthy baby Iver, says goodbye to wife on life support.  A healthy baby boy entered the world Saturday evening, as the heartbreaking human drama of one Victoria family came to a both an end and a beginning.  On Monday evening [2/10/2014], Dylan Benson announced on Facebook the birth of his son Iver Cohen Benson, and said goodbye to his wife Robyn, a 32-year-old who was declared brain dead five months into her pregnancy.

Two weeks earlier, there was a similar case with the opposite outcome:
Brain-dead Texas woman taken off ventilator.  A wrenching court fight — about who is alive, who is dead and how the presence of a fetus changes the equation — came to an end Sunday [1/26/2014] when a brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman was taken off a ventilator.

Judge orders JPS Hospital to withdraw life support for brain-dead pregnant woman.  The judge has sided with the family of Marlise Muñoz and ordered JPS Hospital to declare the pregnant woman dead and withdraw life support by 5 p.m. Monday [1/27/2014].  Muñoz's husband, Erick Muñoz, declined to comment as he left the courtroom.  His attorney Jessica Janicek said justice was done.

Assistant gets 6-12 years for Gosnell clinic role.  Middle-aged, a graduate of a Caribbean medical school just starting to take his licensing exams, looking for work in the job market's offseason — it wasn't surprising that Steven Massof had trouble finding a residency program.  So Massof leaped at the chance to work at Kermit Gosnell's Women's Medical Society in West Philadelphia. [...] What no one — least of all Massof — could explain to Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Benjamin Lerner was why he stayed five years, working under the table for $300 a week, performing illegal late-term abortions and killing infants born alive.

To Mark Abortion Decision, Obama Touts 'Freedom and Opportunities to Fulfill Their Dreams'.  In a statement marking the controversial Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade, President Obama says that "this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams."

The Moral Case For Allowing Abortion Grows Ever Weaker.  This is the 41st anniversary of the day the Supreme Court found that a generalized right to privacy it had basically invented, meant that a woman has a constitutional right to snuff out an unborn life, a human being with a beating heart.  That's what a fetus as young as six weeks is.  Small wonder these protesters still come every year to register their continuing objections.  Some estimates are that as many as 55 million abortions — 55 million — have occurred since the Court acted.

Extreme Cuomo Governs Abortion Capital of America.  New York and the abortion industry have a long and lucrative history up to and including the present day.  [Governor] Cuomo has happily carried on the tradition of protecting a woman's "right" to end her baby's life, which makes his "astonishing" statement not so astonishing.  Just in the past year, the Catholic governor and various women's groups have been promoting a bill to codify federal abortion rights into state law, leading to greater access.  But exactly how much more access do women need in New York?

Inside the Beltway: The bipartisan side of the March for Life.  Lawmakers are not ignoring the March for Life, scheduled at high noon Wednesday on the National Mall, and currently the largest pro-life demonstration on the planet, according to organizers.  "In a rare feat for the nation's capital, representatives from both sides of the aisle will come together," the organizers say, pointing out that keynote speakers include House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia and Rep. Dan Lipinski, Illinois Democrat.  Also speaking, though the House is in recess this week:  Republican Reps. Christopher H. Smith of New Jersey and Vicky Hartzler of Missouri.

March for Life, and pro-life movement, now led by young adults.  A 28-year-old dynamo working on college campuses across the nation, Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins, exemplifies why hers is the "pro-life generation."  Ms. Hawkins feels deeply the loss of nearly one-third of her age group.  "The undeniable fact is that nearly a third of my generation was killed by abortion.  We are missing brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, husbands and wives.  But [we're] determined to set it right.  We've seen the ultrasounds of our siblings, Googled 'abortion' and seen the bloody images, and sat with a friend as she cried about her abortion," she says.  "This youth generation is the most pro-life generation of young people since 1973.

Guttmacher Study Shows Pro-life Success in Swing States.  Earlier this month, the Guttmacher Institute released their 2013 state-policy review.  The report indicates that pro-lifers continue to make very good legislative progress at the state level.  In 2013, 70 state-level pro-life measures were enacted — making 2013 the second most productive year on record.  The report specifically cites Texas, North Dakota, North Carolina, and Arkansas as being especially active in passing pro-life laws.

Pro-abortion protest against Catholics in Argentina as classy as you'd expect.  After watching the video, one might guess that the police were intimidated by the sheer size of the protest.  Clearly, they didn't want to intervene on behalf of some people who were turning themselves into passive human shields to protect their place of worship.  It's not as if they had been taken by surprise, though, because this happens every year in Argentina for its National Meeting of Women, and a trek to defile the local cathedral is always on the agenda.

Abortion provider lied about insurance, N.J. prosecutors say.  Three years ago, New Jersey regulators suspended abortion provider Steven Brigham's medical license for endangering and deceiving patients.  During the suspension hearing, he testified that he was covered by medical malpractice insurance.  Now, as Brigham, 57, tries to regain his license, New Jersey prosecutors have submitted evidence that his sworn statement was yet another lie.  They allege that not only did he stop carrying required liability insurance around 2006, but last month produced a phony insurance policy when forced to back up the statement.

Louisiana Named Most Pro-Life State; Washington The Least.  Americans United for Life released their annual "Life List" report on the most and least pro-life states in the US.  This year, Louisiana came out on top for the fifth straight year, followed by Oklahoma, Arkansas, Arizona, and Pennsylvania.  Nos. 46. Connecticut, 47. New York, 48. Vermont, 49. California, and 50. Washington state brought up the rear, with Washington placing last for the fifth straight year.

What Men Choose with Choice.  Forty years of unlimited abortion has given us a broad social acceptance of "choice" within the ranks of the elites.  Nowhere is this more evident than in Washington, D.C., where NARAL is sponsoring a gala event called "Men for Choice."

California's Brown Signs Bill Permitting Non-Physician Abortions.  The legislation, which had been pushed vigorously by Planned Parenthood, had been strongly opposed by pro-life groups and some physicians, arguing that it amounted to legalizing back-alley abortions for profit.

100 Pro-Abortion Storytelling Events Organized Across Country.  On Monday [10/28/2013], pro-abortion groups across the country launched an organized effort to feature women telling uplifting stories of their abortions. [...] MTV star Katie Stack of 16 and Pregnant will be joining the campaign. [...] "It's very hard to talk about abortion without the negativity, without calling people murderers, without the judgment," Stack explained.  "The speak-out event is almost an experiment to see if it's possible. [...]"

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Abortion and capital punishment have this in common:  Liberals find ways to defend abortion without mentioning the death of a baby, just as they want to fight capital punishment without mentioning the gruesome details of capital crimes.  Liberals specialize in half-truths and one-sided stories.

Colombian baby alive 10 hours after being declared dead.  A premature Colombian baby was found alive by a morgue attendant 10 hours after doctors had declared her dead, officials said.

CA Gov. Brown to Sign Bill Legalizing Non-Physician Abortions.  The bill, AB 154, passed both houses of the state legislature with strong support from Planned Parenthood and pro-choice groups.  Planned Parenthood stands to benefit most directly from the bill, as non-physician staff at its clinics would be able to obtain abortion licenses.  One doctor — who identified himself as pro-choice — told Breitbart News that "the bill is a disaster since it sends us back 100 years to the problems of the complications from back-steet abortions.

Albuquerque to put first-ever municipal abortion ban on ballot.  A bill banning abortions in Albuquerque after 20 weeks of pregnancy will be put to voters in New Mexico's most populous city in November and could become the first municipal abortion ban in the nation.

Abortion Clinics Closing at a Record Rate.  For Abby Johnson, the closing of a single Planned Parenthood center demonstrated her dramatic reversal from abortion clinic director to leading pro-life advocate.  But for pro-lifers throughout the United States, it marked another exhibit in a hopeful trend — abortion centers are shutting down at an unprecedented rate.  The total so far this year is 44, according to a pro-life organization that tracks clinic operations.

Albuquerque Becomes Latest Focal Point in Abortion Wars.  At the New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum, three dozen people, many of them teenagers, arrived last month without warning.  Wearing T-shirts that said "Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust," they demanded that the museum include an exhibit on what they called the "American genocide" of legal abortion, and fanned out to scatter cards with pictures of bloody "late-term abortion victims."  They then moved outside to picket with a banner calling Albuquerque "America's Auschwitz."

Bias alert:
It's the New York Times, after all, and they couldn't avoid including a few liberal talking points, like calling Operation Rescue a "militant group," pointing out that abortion is "legal," and making an unattributed statement that "Some Jewish leaders here are still angry about the Holocaust comparisons..." when in reality the Holocaust wasn't as bad as the on-going slaughter in America's abortion clinics, simply because the number of people killed is far greater, and abortion is entirely preventable and has taken place over a period of several decades with the approval of the courts and the Democratic Party.

Scrutinize W.Va. Abortion Clinics.  Dr. Byron Calhoun, vice chairman of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at West Virginia University Physicians of Charleston, wrote to Morrisey about the abortion clinics, both located in Charleston.  "We commonly (I personally probably at least weekly) see patients ... with complications from abortions at these centers," Calhoun wrote.  Care provided at the clinics is substandard, he added.

Man pleads guilty to tricking pregnant girlfriend into taking abortion pill.  [John Andrew] Welden was indicted under the rarely used federal Unborn Victims of Violence Act, a murder charge that carries a life sentence.  Todd Foster, Welden's defense attorney, told reporters that the stakes of going to trial were too high.  "The possibility of a mandatory life sentence, no discretion to the judge, obviously is a big factor," Foster said.

Study reveals newborns recall words heard in utero.  The little human being living inside a pregnant mother turns out to be a lot more capable than previously known.  Kathy Drummond describes the research that led to the startling finding that newborns can recall words they heard in the womb [...]

Nurses could perform abortions in the first 12-weeks of pregnancy under new Californian bill.  Nurses in California could soon be allowed to perform abortions within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.  Nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwives would be allowed to perform abortions instead of doctors.  Supporters of the bill — which has passed the Californian legislature — say increasing access to abortions in the early stages of pregnancy would be safer for women.

California legislature approves non-physician abortions.  Remember, of course, that this is all about women's health. [...] While the legislature is at it, why not allow midwives to do liposuction, too?  After all, a liposuction only removes fat, not a "clump of cells," as some would have it, and that fat doesn't get removed from an internal organ susceptible to perforation.  Liposuction gets pricy for the working class, so it's not really fair that only a doctor can suction fat out of a body.

This is reason enough to leave Facebook, if you didn't have plenty of reasons already:
Facebook Group Says 'Virgin Mary Should've Aborted'.  Bible-believing Facebook users who are members of the group, "Catholics & Protestants Against FB Religious Discrimination" led the online fight to have the page taken down — and succeeded.  But, they didn't have long to celebrate.  As the religious group reports, Facebook just reversed its decision.  Now, the newly republished "Virgin Mary Should've Aborted" page has over 8,000 likes.

Abortion consensus.  Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina recently appeared on ABC's "This Week" and made an observation that may come as a surprise to many abortion-rights advocates.  "There are only four countries in the world that have, that legalize abortion after five months," she noted.  She identified those countries as being China, North Korea, Canada and the United States.  Consider that reality in light of the furor surrounding the Texas abortion law that outlawed most abortions after 20 weeks.  Opponents insisted that the Lonestar State was heading back to the Stone Age by preventing late-term abortions.  Yet in France, a nation seldom regarded as a bastion of social conservatism, abortion in most circumstances is illegal after only 12 weeks.  The same is true in both Germany and Greece.

Raising money to ensure women have access to abortions.  Sarah Tuttle led her bowling team to a fourth-place finish in a nationwide tournament this April that raised $553,133 to help low-income women seeking abortions.  "Some people fundraise to fight breast cancer; I fundraise for abortion access," said Tuttle, a hot line operator and board member for the Lilith Fund, a Texas nonprofit that helps women pay for abortions.  "It's about having access to abortion and that not being about economics."

New video: Abortion doctor compares death injection to 'flu shot'.  The latest investigative video from the anti-abortion group Live Action unveiled Thursday [6/13/2013] shows an Albuquerque, New Mexico abortion doctor comparing the injection used to kill a fetus to a flu shot.  The shocking video provided to Secrets features recordings from Dr. Carmen Landau, of Southwest Women's Options in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and a counselor employed at the same facility.

Carhart: Aborting Late-Term Baby 'Like Putting Meat in a Crock-Pot'.  In a covertly made tape-recording at a Nebraska abortion clinic, Dr. Leroy Carhart told a pregnant woman that aborting her late-term baby by subjecting the child to a lethal injection inside the womb was "like putting meat in a Crock-Pot."  "It's like putting meat in a Crock-Pot.  Okay?  It doesn't get broke — it gets softer.  It doesn't get infected," Carhart said in response to a question from a Live Action investigator who posed as a potential patient.

Orange Shirt 'Pro-Choice' Fascists Antagonize Austin's Summermoon Coffee Shop for Making a Choice.  NARAL, the big abortion lobbying and pestering propaganda group, wanted a donation for a silent auction. Austin, TX, coffee shop Summermoon declined to donate.  Note:  They declined to donate to an allegedly pro-choice group.  Which, last time I checked, is their choice to make.  Since the donation would come from their property, and all. [...] For making a choice that the pro-abortionists disagree with, they're "anti-choice."
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Perry Signs Abortion Restriction Bill.  Perry signed the legislation at a ceremony Thursday morning [7/18/2013].  The bill will require abortion clinic doctors to have hospital admitting privileges, restrict abortions to surgical centers, dictate when abortion-inducing drugs can be taken and ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy.

Chile Cathedral Attacked in Abortion Rights Rally.  Abortion-rights demonstrators vandalized Chile's main cathedral during a Mass and used pews as barricades during clashes with police.

Abortion-rights activists borrow technique from opponents in Wichita protest.  It was not your typical Kansas abortion protest.  But it was indicative of a national trend of abortion-rights activists adopting some of the harsher methods that have been used against them in the past.  Assailing anti-abortion counselors as liars, about 15 activists from around the country — and a couple of Wichitans who joined in — gathered for a rhetorically sharp protest Friday outside A Better Choice, an anti-abortion pregnancy crisis center near Central and Hillside.  The center shares a parking lot with the anti-abortion activist group Operation Rescue, known for its protests targeting clinics that provide abortions and the homes of people who work at them.

Who Wants to be Pro-Choice?  The pro-abortion crowd is dwindling.  The movement is in shambles.  Sure, there is still a lot of money involved in exploiting women in desperate situations in this way, so the industry remains, but its support among the people is slowly dying.  It is really being sustained by government. [...] The pro-aborts have been exposed.  They said the child was "a blob of tissue," and ultrasound technology has shown beyond any reasonable doubt that it isn't.  They said this was an easy way out for women, and it isn't.

When Is a Ban on Abortions 'Extreme'?  The American left loves Western European democracies for their cultural sensibilities and for their policies on everything from crime to health care.  One policy area where you won't hear American liberals cite the European example, though, is abortion.  The reason is simple:  Abortion law is far more restrictive in Europe than in the United States. [...] The banning of late-term abortions now being considered in the House of Representatives and some American states would seem only civilized to most Europeans.

Illinois Supreme Court backs parental notification for abortions.  The Illinois Supreme Court today upheld the constitutionality of a 1995 law that requires doctors to notify parents of girls younger than 17 who seek an abortion.  The decision clears the way for the state to enforce the state parent notification law following a lengthy legal battle.

Bias alert! The Washington Post makes a great effort, in the article below, to portray the abortion clinic operators as victims.
Fairfax City abortion clinic, busiest in Virginia, closes.  A women's health care clinic in Fairfax City that performed more abortions than any other location in Virginia has closed, and it's unclear whether it will reopen elsewhere.  The closure, and the clinic's difficulty finding new space, highlight a growing issue in the abortion debate: changes in local and state regulations and standards for abortion clinics.

A Battle For The Inalienable Right To Life In Texas.  Before the firestorm surrounding George Zimmerman's exercising his right to self-defense, there was Kermit Gosnell, the late-term abortion doctor who was convicted of murdering African-American babies who somehow survived his procedure only to be slain outside the womb.  Unlike Zimmerman, Gosnell received little media concern, though the children he killed would never grow up to wear a hoodie, and abortion, including the late-term variety, poses a greater threat to the viability of the black community than gang bangers and neighborhood watchmen combined.

Calling Evil, Good, And Good, Evil.  In the respective Biblical Books of Isaiah (Isaiah 5:20) and Jude (Jude 1:10), the Lord warned us that in the last days that we were going to call evil, good, and good, evil.  Nowhere was this oxymoronic perversion more evident than to hear and witness the reportage of the successful Filibuster, executed by Wendy Davis, a Texan politician, whose efforts prevented a law that would have banned late-term Abortion to pass — you know late-term Abortion... that evil procedure where doctors are given an exception to breach the Hippocratic Oath of first doing no harm to kill viable children in the wombs of women.  This Texan politician, Wendy Davis, who pulled off the Filibuster, was lauded from coast to coast and there was even talk to use those wicked coattails — of keeping in place a law that has murdered countless of viable babies in the womb — to run for higher office.

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The Bible does not say that we will (all) call evil good, and call good things evil.  It says "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;" which means don't do that.  Any time someone quotes from the Bible, read it for yourself.

The New 'Pro-Choice' Mantra: 'Hail Satan!'  Not surprisingly, as the pro-abortion side loses legislative battle after legislative battle, its "true colors" are coming into focus.  Those colors are darker than many might have imagined. [...] Understandably, many leftists now complain that this frank display of "pro-choice" allegiance to the prince of darkness has hurt the multi-billion dollar baby-killing biz.  They're right.  It has.  It's blown away the smokescreen of euphemistic "pro-choice" rhetoric and propaganda to expose, naked beneath, that which lies at abortion's inglorious core:  Death, death and more death.

Immigration reform? Or a comprehensive transformation of America?  [O]ur Congress doesn't seem to [care] about our national sovereignty, our national future or our national character.  All that matters is embracing and welcoming foreign workers into our country because we are about 50 million short of the number of citizens needed to maintain our economy thanks to legalized abortion.  Talk about the mother of all unintended consequences!

The Grey Lady's Grudging Abortion Admission.  In a piece in its upcoming Sunday [6/16/2013] magazine, the New York Times allows in an absurdly roundabout way that a recent study has found that the vast majority of women denied abortions end up glad that they gave birth.  If you blink, you might miss the decisive quote from the researcher, Diana Greene Foster.  It comes very late in the piece:  "About 5 percent of the women, after they have had the baby, still wish they hadn't.  And the rest of them adjust."

Chelsea Clinton: My great-grandparents didn't have access to Planned Parenthood's crucial services.  Which "services" does she wish her unwed teenaged great-grandparents were able to avail themselves of?  Let's give her the benefit of the doubt and assume that she means contraception, not you know what.  America's abortion warriors can't be so far gone that they're now lamenting their ancestors' inability to terminate them out of existence.  Can they?

Death Wish!  I don't wish my political opponents were dead or had never been born.  I simply wish they would either 1) come to their senses or 2) lose elections so we don't 3) end up with crappy, corrupt, America-destroying administrations like the current one.  No, it's Chelsea here who, following thoughtlessly in the footsteps of her parents, is wishing herself right smack dab off the face of the earth!

Big Government's Abuses of Power.  Philadelphia abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell may well turn out to be the most lethal serial killer in U.S. history.  His recent murder conviction gave only a glimpse of his carnage at the end of a career that spanned more than three decades.  Yet Gosnell operated with impunity right under the noses of Pennsylvania health and legal authorities for years, without routine government health-code and licensing oversight.

Four Maryland abortion clinics shut down and three doctors suspended.  Four Maryland abortion clinics have been shut down and three doctors have had their licenses suspended after a patient died at one clinic and regulators say they found lax procedures at all four.  The clinics, run by Associates in OB/GYN Care, were shuttered last month after state regulators received a complaint about a patient receiving an abortion-inducing drug with no doctor present.

Late-Term Madness in New York.  Ed Mechmann points out that Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act would open the doors for non-doctors performing abortions, including late-term abortions.  (Kermit Gosnell was a doctor, and we saw how well that went.)

State restores license of abortion doctor; 2 others' still suspended.  A state panel restored the license of the doctor who is medical director of a group of abortion clinics accused by state regulators of putting women's health at risk, while the licenses of two other physicians who worked at the clinics remain suspended.

The Kermit Gosnell Trial Reignited The Culture Wars, And Now The Anti-Abortion Activists Are Winning.  Over seven weeks of stomach-turning testimony, witnesses for the prosecution detailed Gosnell's "house of horrors," a clinic in which venereal diseases were spread through dirty instruments, feral cats roamed around operating rooms, and fetuses were stashed in empty juice cartons and shoeboxes.  According to the prosecution, these atrocities went undetected by state health inspectors, who visited the clinic just three times, and unreported by other abortion providers, who knew of Gosnell's reputation and even visited the clinic.

Abortion Rights Community Has Become the NRA of the Left.  Abortion rights advocates have argued that there is nothing to see here.  Move along.  This is what illegal abortion looks like, they say.  But Gosnell's clinic was not illegal.  It was a licensed medical facility.  The state of his clinic was well known:  there were repeated complaints to government officials and even the local Planned Parenthood.  He wasn't operating under the radar but in plain sight, and he received referrals from abortion clinics up and down the East Coast.

Against Infanticide.  The massacre of 20 children in Newtown, Connecticut, last December rightly sparked a national conversation about policies that might be enacted to prevent such atrocities in the future.  But where is the national conversation in response to the massacre of innocents carried out in Philadelphia by Kermit Gosnell?

25 Reasons To Dislike Liberals.  [#13]  The same liberal who pretends to be angry about Susan Smith or Casey Anthony will then turn around and give the thumbs up to women who do the same thing to their children via abortion.

The Perverse Logic of the Left.  It wants to protect children from infanticide by exposing them to more abortions.

Grand Jury: Under Pro-Abort GOP Governor, Pennsylvania Stopped Annual Inspections of Abortion Clinics.  The administration (1995-2001) of Pennsylvania's Republican Gov. Tom Ridge stopped annual inspections of abortion clinics, according to the grand jury report on Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who is currently on trial in Philadelphia charged with the first-degree murder of seven born babies.  Under Democratic Gov. Bob Casey Sr., who preceded Ridge, the state had conducted annual inspections of abortion clinics, the report said.

What may be the most sensational mass murder trial in American history went unreported.
President's speech to Planned Parenthood: a reminder of the Left's dishonest abortion views.  Lately, abortion has been in the news.  It never gets far out of the news, but it intruded with extra force these past two weeks for two reasons.  The first was the story about the media's decision to ignore the Kermit Gosnell trial because it didn't fit into the abortion narrative.  The narrative is that abortion should be "safe, rare, and legal."  The Gosnell reality was that women died in his filthy clinic, that living babies got murdered (with the psychopathic Gosnell collecting hands and feet as trophies), and that the abortions were illegal under any standards, since they were so late term as to constitute murder under Pennsylvania law.

Inside Abortion-Clinic Walls.  A former Planned Parenthood clinic director named Abby Johnson, since she left, has been inviting those who work in the abortion industry to join her.

Receptionist: Unlicensed doc fled Pa. clinic raid.  A medical receptionist says an unlicensed doctor fled out a back door the night of an FBI raid on a Philadelphia clinic.

Kermit Gosnell's Nightmare Abortion Clinic Was A Multimillion Dollar Business.  Gosnell is also accused of running an absolutely filthy clinic — known as the Women's Medical Society — that had untrained staff give at least one patient a fatal dose of the painkiller Demerol.  Catering to women who were so pregnant they couldn't get abortions anywhere else, Gosnell's clinic became a "huge moneymaker" by charging $3,000 for a late-term abortions, according to a scathing, 281-page grand jury report that lays out the allegations against him.

How to Murder the Innocent, Defenseless, and Undefended and Make Big Bucks Doing It!  If you are unaware of the trial taking place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of the abortion doctor (I use the term "doctor" loosely) Kermit Gosnell, I am not surprised.  Our feckless, spineless, corrupt and statist-driven media have done their best to sweep it all under the rug. [...] The police originally raided Dr. Gosnell's "House of Horrors" because he was overprescribing oxycontin — not because he was murdering infants.

PA Official Closed Gosnell Negligence Case.  Pennsylvania prosecuting attorney for the Department of State Juan Ruiz decided to close a civil malpractice lawsuit against Kermit Gosnall despite evidence of neglect, including leaving fetal parts in the woman. [...] Ruiz closed the case on April 20, 2009 after only reviewing the complaint, and said a pattern of conduct did not exist in this case.

Gosnell is not an exception.  This, of course, is the horror story of a cesspool in Philadelphia posturing as an abortion clinic, operating without inspection for 17 years.  Gosnell, the doctor who ran the place, is formally charged with the murder of one woman and seven infants.  However, the grand jury report and testimony of family and staff at the trial indicate that if there were records in this dump, where life and death were meted out daily, Gosnell would be indicted for hundreds of murders of live children.

North Dakota passes most restrictive abortion bills in nation.  One North Dakota measure would prevent women from having abortions based on a genetic defect, like Down syndrome.  The other would ban doctors from performing an abortion if a fetal heartbeat is detected — as early as five or six weeks.  Republican state Rep. Bette Grande of Fargo sponsored both bills.  Grande, a ninth-term legislator, is one of the more conservative lawmakers in the state.  She's pushed for controversial right-to-life issues and has been vocal about the issues.

Sharpton: I'd Urge My Daughters Not to 'Get Rid of a Child' Through Abortion.  Rare is the "pro-choice" liberal who admits that abortion kills an unborn human being.  The Rev. Al Sharpton made this seldom-witnessed acknowledgement — or as close as he's likely to get — on his radio show while drawing an analogy to his views on the Defense of Marriage Act.

Why the United States is a Dying Country.  [Scroll down]  [Over the past 40 years] the American people have sanctioned, through legal abortions, the death of over 54.5 million children.  Once this disregard of human life took hold, the citizens of this nation were susceptible to wholesale changes within society.  Far too many of the American people, flush with prosperity, willfully ignored the infiltration of the education, media and entertainment establishments by the 1960's radicals, the most narcissistic and radical legion of socialist true-believers on the face of the earth.  Through the control of these media of indoctrination, an ever increasing percentage of the population has been conditioned to believe there are no moral absolutes and there is a limitless list of rights as granted by the government.

Justin Bieber's mom producing pro-life film.  Pattie Mallette's position on abortion is clear:  Had she not converted to Christianity before getting pregnant as a teen, her pop star phenom son Justin Bieber would have never been born.  But now, with a memoir under her belt and her son's next album dropping soon, the Stratford, Ont., born mother is carving out a niche as an anti-abortion crusader, amid reports Bieber may not be comfortable with it.

If They Were Baby Seals Instead of Just Babies...  Perhaps our pro-abortion friends will better understand why we pro-lifers oppose any tax-funded support for Planned Parenthood if we explain our opposition in a way that engages their sympathy:  Suppose there were a company called Planned Parkas that manufactures very warm winter coats for people who otherwise would have difficulty obtaining them.

The Teenage Horror of 'Parenthood'.  The NBC series "Parenthood"' has drawn raves from TV critics this season for a storyline about a 40-something mother fighting cancer.  Then on Jan. 1, NBC asked viewers to tune in the following Tuesday for an "unforgettable" new episode.  A teenager would get an abortion at Planned Parenthood.  Such is NBC's definition of "parenthood."

New Pope: No Communion For Pro-Abortion Politicians.  New Pope Francis I is a conservative in the mold of his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II.  That's especially true on the issue of abortion, which he called a "death sentence" for the unborn in 2007.

NBC Accused of Pushing Abortion Through 'Parenthood' Episode.  NBC is being accused of engaging in some pro-abortion propaganda with its latest episode of Parenthood.  The hourlong NBC drama that aired Tuesday night featured teenage girl Amy (Skyler Day) aborting her fetus at a pristine Planned Parenthood clinic while boyfriend Drew (Miles Heizer) sat nervously in a waiting room.

President Obama's Sandy Hook speech turned into a pro-life video.  President Obama delivered an emotional speech about protecting America's children in December in response to the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.  But the producers at Blackstone Films have turned that speech into a remarkable video to reflect on the duty of Americans to protect our nation's unborn children.  It's a very powerful video that is sure to spark some controversy.

Guns, abortion, and tyrants.  Guns and abortion.  One is an enumerated, constitutional right, and the other is not.  The Second Amendment guarantees the right of the people of the United States to keep and bear arms.  It's not a government-given right; it's a natural right — the right to defend yourself, your family, and your freedom.  In rare circumstances, abortion might be necessary to preserve the mother's life.  But there is no right to kill unborn babies in the U.S. Constitution.  But 40 years ago next week the U.S. Supreme Court contended that abortion is an implied "right of privacy," one that previously had lain hidden in our founding document.

Judge finds NC 'Choose Life' plates unconstitutional.  A federal judge has ruled it is unconstitutional for North Carolina to issue pro-life license plates unless the state offers similar plates supporting abortion rights.  U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox ruled on Friday [12/7/2012] that North Carolina cannot produce or distribute the "Choose Life" plate.  Judge Fox concluded, "The State's offering of a Choose Life license plate in the absence of a pro-choice plate constitutes viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment."

The Editor says...
I've got a copy of the Constitution, and it doesn't mention license plates or "viewpoint discrimination".

Abortion and Newtown: The Culture of Violence.  Since the demands for a national discussion about what caused Newtown are already flowing from President Obama, the New York Times, Washington Post and every liberal with tweetability, they should be respectfully yet candidly obliged.  And the very first issue to mention is what has become the great unmentionable in the world of liberalism, and alas too many other precincts as well — and to say it plainly and hopefully politely.

The Media's Gunsmoke.  Eliminating guns is a separate goal from eliminating violence.  The media supports the former but opposes the latter.  It routinely props up the culture of death, guarding abortion with even more zeal than it condemns gun rights.  "We need to have a conversation about the killing of unborn children," is a line you will never hear from CNN's Piers Morgan or Soledad O'Brien.  The lamentations of posturing pro-abortion journalists over a coarsened culture don't count for much.

Have You Bought Your 'Abornament' Yet?  Yes, abortion rights activists have reached a new level of depravity.  Apparently, as everyone indulges in the holiday spirit, the pro-choice camp decided to create abortion ornaments — or 'abornaments' — to be part of the commemoration of the birth of Christ.  The fact that pro-choice Americans threw this in the face of those who practice religion, or hold pro-life beliefs, is offensive in the extreme.

Republican Party must remain for life, against abortion.  Now, more than ever, our party needs to hold onto our pro-life, pro-human-rights values.  In fact, the Republican Party should become more fiercely aligned to the pro-life position than ever.  Despite what you may have heard from the Democratic National Convention, it's not an unpopular position.

The Editor says...
One thing this country does not need is two Democrat parties.

'Are You Going to Keep It?': Getting Abortion on the Table.  "Are you planning on keeping it?"  This question was posed recently to a married woman by her doctor. [...] The unwanted assumptions must be fully unpacked to appreciate how such language shapes our culture's attitudes.  Why is it deemed acceptable to insinuate abortion into pregnancy?  The offhand nature of this question — "Are you keeping it?" — turns abortion into a pregnancy option rather than an "emergency" practice.

Group plans Christmas party to promote abortion.  As Christians around the world take time to remember the miraculous birth of Jesus, a Washington, D.C. group will be raising money at its Christmas party to help make any birth a miracle. [...] To be fair, this is certainly not the first time an abortion group has hijacked a holiday for its own gain.  The D.C. Abortion Fund is obviously just following in the footsteps of Planned Parenthood — a heavyweight among the baby murder crowd.

Judge: "Choose Life" Out in North Carolina.  Providing another example of why judicial review needs to be reviewed is U.S. District Court Judge James C. Fox, who just ruled that North Carolina may not offer its "Choose Life" license plates.  And wait till you hear his reasoning (if you can call it that).

NC's 'Choose Life' license plate lawsuit kept alive by US Supreme Court.  The question about whether North Carolina can issue "Choose Life" specialty license plates and not offer the other side of the political debate will be revived in the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday [6/290/2015] sent the North Carolina case back to the federal appeals court with instructions to reconsider it in light of a ruling this month in a Texas case.  In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. justices ruled that Texas did not violate the First Amendment when it refused to allow specialty plates bearing the Confederate battle flag.

The Editor says...
I've got a copy of the Constitution, and it doesn't mention license plates or "viewpoint discrimination".

Lena Dunham Wishes She'd Had an Abortion to Be More Authentically Pro-Choice.  Dunham said there is a "cultural stigma" surrounding abortion, namely because it's just so "hard to put an abortion on network TV" these days.

Woman Films Her Own Abortion To Show World How 'Cool' It Is.  Emily Letts, a counselor at a New Jersey abortion clinic, decided to film her own abortion and post it on YouTube as a form of positive inspiration to women who are contemplating having the procedure but worry that they might feel guilty afterward.  Letts has no such guilt.  She recalls the procedure with fondness.  She even describes it as "birth-like," and said it made her feel good, just like giving birth would.

Video Catches Man Picking Up Biohazard Bag of Aborted Babies at Late-Term Abortion Clinic.  Ashley Riddle, president of Metro Sidewalk Advocates, reported for her sidewalk shift as usual at LeRoy Carhart's abortion facility in Bellevue, Nebraska, but as she stood offering help to abortion-bound women, she found herself in a conversation with one man that proved to be anything but usual.  Riddle's smart phone camera was running as a man emerged from Carhart's abortion facility with a blue cooler bag that sported a bright orange biohazard sticker.  Realizing that the cooler's contents were very likely the remains of aborted babies, Riddle asked, "Sir, don't these babies deserve a proper funeral?"

Who needs a doctor?  Have your abortion at home.  The group Women Help Women announced recently the rollout of a website designed specifically to help women carry out their own abortions at home — without the supervision of a medical practitioner and without concern over whether the practice might be illegal in their home states — as one Pennsylvania woman found out a few years ago.

Children Don't Exist to Advance Your Politics.  Polly Dunning has managed to compose perhaps the creepiest sentence ever written:  "By having sons, we do feminism a great service."  The line appears in Wednesday's Sydney Morning Herald, in a piece entitled "Having a Son Went from a Dilemma to Being the Most Valuable Lesson of My Life."  "I've always been a feminist," Dunning writes.  But after longing for a daughter, she discovered that she had become pregnant with (horror!) a son.  She describes the anxiety that followed: [...]

Gloria Steinem Backs Abortion Because:  "Forced Childbirth is the Single Biggest Cause of Global Warming".  According to radical feminist Gloria Steinem, women will never be "fully equal" to men unless they have abortion rights.  Oh, and the patriarchy's to blame for climate change too.  In an interview with Refinery29 writer Lindsey Stanberry, Steinem shared thoughts on feminism, and unsurprisingly, everything came back to female reproductive rights.  When the writer commented that some considered climate change to be a feminist issue, Steinem avidly agreed, opining that forced childbirth was the cause of many of the earth's problems.

Newborn Clutches the Contraceptive Coil Meant to Prevent His Birth.  Baby Dexter was not supposed to be.  His mother, Lucy Hellein of Fort Mitchell, Alabama, was using a supposedly highly effective birth control device when doctors believe she conceived Dexter, according to the Daily Mail.  And when Dexter was born on April 27, the IUD coil that was supposed to prevent his life from being conceived came out, too.  A photo of the newborn grabbing the contraceptive device has been catching people's eyes on the internet.  More than 70,000 people have shared it on Facebook, the report states.  Mirena, the contraceptive coil, or IUD, that Hellein used, is advertised as 99-percent effective.

'I Might ... Pull Off a Leg or Two'.  A shocking new vid eo has just been released by the Center for Medical Progress, the undercover investigative group that in 2015 released videos showing that Planned Parenthood affiliates have profited from selling the body parts of aborted babies.

Chelsea Handler:  Had Abortion, "Teen Moms Make me Want to Kill Someone".  Chelsea Handler, the host of the popular late-night television entertainment show Chelsea Lately, is making waves with recent comments about teen pregnancy, and she has admitted she had an abortion as a teen herself.  In a new interview with the New York Times, the comedian said she is not a fan of television shows like MTV's Teen Mom that depict teenagers have children.

Former Abortion Clinic Owner:  We Pushed Sex Ed on Kids to Create a Market for Abortion.  For six years Carol Everett operated four abortion clinics in Texas.  As reported by The Catholic Register, Everett earned a commission for every abortion in addition to a share of the fees charged by each clinic.  She says she sold abortion and made big bucks off of the "cash cow" of abortion.  A new abortion clinic, she said at the annual Rose Dinner for the National March for Life in Ottawa, would make enough money to pay for itself in a single month.

Pelosi Won't Say Aborting Baby With Beating Heart 'Dishonors God'.  Three weeks ago, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said it dishonors God to pull out of the Paris Accord on climate change, but today she did not say it dishonors God to abort a baby with a beating heart.  At Pelosi's press briefing on Thursday [6/22/2017], CNSNews.com asked Pelosi if her understanding of what dishonors God extends to aborting a baby with a beating heart as well as pulling out of the Paris Accord.

Every female athlete I know has had an abortion:  US gold-medalist runner breaks 'sport's last taboo'.  A double-gold Olympic medalist claims every female track-and-field athlete she knows has had an abortion.  Sanya Richards-Ross, 32, said pregnancy and abortions are issues 'that are not really talked about, especially in sports.'  The Jamaican-American athlete revealed in her new book that she herself had an abortion — just one day before leaving for the Beijing Games in the summer of 2008.

My Son Was Conceived in Rape, But That Doesn't Define His Value or His Humanity.  The first time my son, Adriel (AJ) entered the world, excitement and joy filled me!  My parents were so proud and joyful to see him.  They held him and shed tears.  He was so precious to all of us.  Little did we know, just how precious he'd be to so many people, even to strangers.

Planned Parenthood backers sing pro-abortion songs in 'fetus graveyard' at Texas university.  Students at the University of Texas-San Antonio recently shared their support for Planned Parenthood by singing pro-abortion versions of "For What It's Worth (Stop, Hey What's That Sound)" in a "fetus graveyard."  The hit 1960s protest song that urged citizens to "look what's going down" was used during an April protest, although 2019's student-activists had a different subject on their mind than the band Buffalo Springfield:  pro-abortion activism.  The spectacle took place April 9 in response to an event by Students for Life, the organization reported Monday [4/29/2019].

Why Is the Left So Anti-Baby?  My own personal experience is that the closer an American identifies with academia the less likely he or she is to have children.  The "educated" have been anti-baby and pushing population control for at least a century.  What is going on here?  In part, of course, the push is to discourage other people from having children:  eugenics and the "unfit."  In part, it is that upper-class women prefer to outsource child-minding.  So Birth Control was invented.  And the educated classes decided to make abortion respectable.  But it looks like the only people interested in birth control are the We, the educated, the evolved.  Ordinary people just go on having babies like they always did, only now a lot more of the babies are surviving.  How unfit of them.