Pray for Rush:

HONOLULU (AP) -- A Honolulu television station is reporting that conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh has been taken to a hospital with chest pains.

KITV reported Wednesday that paramedics responded to a call at 2:41 p.m. from the Kahala Hotel and Resort where Limbaugh is vacationing.

The station, citing unnamed sources, said paramedics treated Limbaugh and took him to The Queen's Medical Center in serious condition.

Rush's homepage reports:

Rush was admitted to a Honolulu hospital today and is resting comfortably after suffering chest pains. Rush appreciates your prayers and well wishes. He will keep you updated via RushLimbaugh.com and on Thursday's radio program.

Doctors were stunned as a lifeless woman and newborn child both came back to life. Mom and baby are now back at home.

update - here's more:

Dr. Stephanie Martin, director of maternal fetal medicine at Memorial Hospital, responded to a frantic, emergency "code blue," or patient requiring immediate resuscitation, and said that 30 to 45 seconds after she entered the room, Hermanstorfer's heart stopped beating.

"Unfortunately, in most of these situations, despite the best efforts of the team, Mom is not able to be revived," Martin told "Good Morning America."

Martin said it became clear that Hermanstorfer was not responding to any revival efforts after several minutes, so the team turned its focus to trying to save the baby by performing a Caesarean section without anesthetic. That's when doctors were hit with more bad news.

"When I delivered [the baby], he was limp, completely lifeless," Martin said.

Then something happened that Martin still has trouble explaining.

"As soon as I delivered the baby, the mother's heartbeat came back," Martin said. "Somewhere between four and five minutes she had been without heart rate and had stopped breathing a minute or two prior to her heart stopping."

Following are the top 10 stories of greatest impact to the pro-life movement in 2009, in both my opinion and the opinion of my blog readers. I'm listing them in chronological order, not necessarily in order of significance.

1. Jan. 20: Inauguration of President Barack Obama, who was quick to please those hoping pro-lifers were right to assert he was the most anti-life politician ever elected to our highest office, when ...

2. Jan. 23: President Obama signs an executive order overturning the Mexico City Policy, thereby reauthorizing taxpayer funding of international groups promoting and/or committing abortion. Obama defenders rationalize that at least he waited until after the Jan. 22 anniversary of Roe v. Wade, demonstrating a non-provocative tone ... toward born people, anyway.

3. May 15: Gallup releases a poll showing that for the first time since it began asking the question in 1995, a 51 percent majority of Americans consider themselves "pro-life" as opposed to 42 percent "pro-choice."

Gallup credits Obama for the shift, in part: "It is possible that, through his abortion policies, Obama has pushed the public's understanding of what it means to be 'pro-choice' slightly to the left, politically. While Democrats may support that... it may be driving others in the opposite direction."

4. May 17...

Continue reading my column today, "Top 10 pro-life stories of 2009," at WorldNetDaily.com.

On more than one occasion it has been suggested to me ... to wait.

The cause is just, but wait.

The cause is worthy, but wait.

The cause is righteous, but wait.

That is, wait for a more opportune or favorable time to pursue the just, worthy and righteous cause of the California Human Rights Amendment.

This suggestion to wait, has come to me by way of men and women:

• Who love me and have proven themselves under trying circumstances to be my friends.
• Whom I highly respect, whose moral credentials are infinitely greater than mine.
• Whose wisdom has been tried, forged in the raging fires of spiritual warfare and found true.
• Whose commitment to our Lord Jesus Christ is beyond question.
• Whose lives reflect the sacred beauty of sacrifice for "love's sake" itself. (Philemon 1:9)

More . . .

⁸And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. ⁹An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. ¹⁰But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. ¹¹Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ^[a] the Lord. ¹²This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." ¹³Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, 

 ¹⁴"Glory to God in the highest, 
      and on earth peace to men on whom his favor rests."

Washington D.C. - This morning the United State Senate voted 60-39 in favor of final passage of HR 3590, the so-called "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins made the following comments:

"Today's Christmas Eve vote may signal the end of the debate in the Senate, but it's far from the end of the debate at large. Since Senator Reid's bad bill is substantially different from the House's bad bill, the lower chamber will have to vote on the plan again. The Senate bill's massive funding for elective abortions and the construction of abortion facilities are among the most radical differences. On Monday, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius admitted in an interview that the Senate health care bill will force 'everybody' in the exchange to pay an abortion premium. The so-called Nelson 'compromise' ensures that everyone will pay for abortion-no matter how the funds are divided up.

"According to a new Quinnipiac poll, Americans-by a huge three to one margin-are overwhelmingly opposed to using taxpayer dollars to fund abortion. Seventy-two percent of the country is now firmly on the side of Congressman Bart Stupak's (D-Mich.) solution to ban the government's financial involvement in the deadly procedure. House and Senate conferees would do well to heed that warning when they come together to iron out their differences with the final bill, else this bill could collapse because of it.

"Disagreement over abortion funding is one of the many reasons this fight is far from over. Both House and Senate versions of the bill are seriously flawed. Both bills still allow rationing of health care for seniors, raise health costs for families, mandate that families purchase under threat of fines and penalties, offer counsel about assisted suicide in some states, do not offer broad conscience protections for health care workers and seek to insert the federal government into all aspects of citizen's lives. Additionally, the bills would place a crushing debt on both current and future generations."

Christmas is tomorrow! On the Eve of this merry holiday, as Christians nationwide are promoting the reason for the season, I can't help but say a prayer for the poor deluded suckers who worship a Savior that they would have proudly seen dismembered and killed had Mary been pro-choice.

You see, Scriptures state that the Eternal Son did not begin his earthly pilgrimage as an infant in Bethlehem. He began it as a zygote in Nazareth. It is simply not possible to take the incarnation of God's Son seriously and advocate abortion, which is unequivocally unborn baby slaughter.

Planned Parenthood - while being dumb as bricks - are still a little more advanced in their understanding of this simple fact than their pro-choice 'Christian' counterparts. They know that Christmas flies in the face of virtually everything they stand for. Christmas is about the gift of life - from the beauty of birth to eternal life in Christ the Lord. Abortion is all about destroying life. And that Jesus guy just keeps getting in their way.

The one thing that makes abortion mill workers pee their pants in fear is a pro-lifer armed with a Bible and a pamphlet with prenatal development details. Seriously, if you could broadcast their inner monologues, it would sound like an enormously prolonged little girl scream. I'm not discounting the hard and admirable work of faithless pro-life activists, but when you think about it, Jesus Christ is the single individual most responsible for the thousands upon thousands of lives saved from the abortionist's scalpel since 1973.

So pro-choicers figure, to attack Christian pro-lifers, they have to attack this Jesus guy they're always talking about.

As a result, during the holiday season while Christ followers proudly proclaim "Peace on Earth" to the world and celebrate the birth of a baby boy, Margaret Sanger followers once again pervert Scripture and celebrate Planned Parenthoods "Choice on Earth" campaign, which celebrates the death of baby boys and girls worldwide.

In an interview a couple of years back, former Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt - who initiated the "Choice on Earth" slogan - stated that she intended the new motto to be a clear allusion to the biblical verse, Luke 2:13-14: "And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

Planned Parenthood is the largest profiteer in the American abortion industry and PP groupies are tireless advocates for the culture of death ideology. So naturally the holiday season is a wee bit uncomfortable for this anti-life, anti-family, anti-God crowd. The introduction of this little slogan of intolerant, sacrilegious, bigoted drivel gives the anti-lifers reason to be quite giddy. Finally! The next best Christmas maxim since "Bah Humbug"!

You'd think a little Christian gal like me would be mad or upset at this perversion of Scripture. But I'm thrilled. This is promising! Like a mouse running toward a cat when there's no chance to outrun it, Planned Parenthood is only displaying their desperation. Folks, people don't attack a non-threat. When you're taking a swing at human rights injustices, the dogs that bark the loudest are the ones that got hit. And boy, are these anti-life she-dogs barking!

Plus, it's really funny. They're like the kid who delights in getting hurt because, "That will show them!" and I can't help but giggle at the childish antics of the pro-aborts who openly adopt the Scripture that they loathe. As long as they're running with Biblical themes, I almost want to encourage them to indulge themselves a little further. For instance, they could try, "Choice on Earth: Continuing Where King Herod Left Off"! Since Scripture clearly eludes them, pro-choice Christians will at least really dig the vibe of 'making sure no infant interferes with your life'.

But here is where this slogan gets great. See, in substituting "Peace" for "Choice" (which is a clear synonym for abortion), they are openly highlighting - and in fact, inviting - a comparison between pro-life peace and pro-choice peace. So let's do just that! Let's take a look at the multiple definitions of "Peace" as defined by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, and then we'll go straight to the source and look at the various definitions of "Peace" as defined by Planned Parenthood staff over the years.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary Definition:
"Peace" -
1. A state of tranquility or quiet
2. Freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions
3. Harmony in personal relations

Planned Parenthood's Definition:
"Peace" -

"I'll tell you one thing about D&E abortions. You never have to worry about a baby being born alive. I won't describe D&E, other than to say that as a doctor, you are sitting there tearing - and I mean tearing, you need a lot of strength to do it - arms and legs off of thrashing babies and putting them in a stack on top of the table."

"They took that little baby that was making little sounds and moving and kicking, and set it on that table in a cold, stainless steel bowl. Every time I would look over, I would see that little person moving in that bowl. And it kicked and moved less and less, of course, as time went on. I can remember going over and looking at the baby when it was still alive. You could see the chest was moving and the heart was beating."

"It's going to be weird now because you're going to see the sono. You're going to see the heart beating - little hearts, you know - and then, all of a sudden, you're going to put this cardiac medicine in it to make it stop. To kill it. So you're going to see the exact moment when you kill the fetus. And, I mean, it might be more humane, if the fetuses do feel something, why not kill it, you know, fast, rather than rip its leg off?"

"When you're, you know, putting a fetus's feet in over its head in a baggie, there's just this brief moment of, "This could have been me", which I fundamentally believe is okay. She should have the right to choose. But still..."

"I hate it when people put it together to look like a baby. I hate that. I don't want to look at it when it's like that because it's like a broken doll, and that grosses me out."

"Many health workers told me they 'never look at the face' when processing tissue."

Yeah. The filth, the caked-up blood, the descriptions of broken bodies, bloody instruments and psychologically tortured abortionists and clinic staff just reeks of "Peace" to me. Far from being outraged, I feel truly sorry for the twisted freak shows with a god complex that derive a sense of "peace" from women moaning half-consciously while their slaughtered babies grind through a machine in a spray of watery gore.

Through sheer idiocy and a blinding desire to attack pro-lifers, Planned Parenthood actually invites the comparison between "peace" and "choice" with the holiday slogan. So pro-lifers, let's not complain, let's compare! "Choice on Earth" is a celebration of slaughtered children and the worldly "peace" it brings. "Peace on Earth" is a celebration of the birth of Jesus, the long-awaited Messiah who promised, "I am leaving you with a gift, peace of mind and heart. And the peace I give isn't like the peace the world gives. So don't be troubled or afraid." - John 14:27

Planned Parenthood is bending over backwards, trying desperately to make us troubled and afraid this holiday season. But what they don't understand is that we serve a God that grants us a true sense of joy and a peace that passes understanding - even as we are attacked by godless dolts that are stained with the blood of butchered babies.

So don't sweat it when pro-aborts and blinded 'Christians' mutilate "Peace on Earth". Pity them. And embrace the comparison as a tool for promoting life and the real meaning of Christmas! These attacks from the enemy shouldn't be a surprise and they certainly shouldn't be discouraging. We are quite literally in the middle of a war for life. Of course we're going to be attacked! That's expected.

But rejoice! Proudly proclaim the reason for the season, and peace on earth, goodwill toward men. I don't mean to give anything away, but I've read the rest of the Book... And we're on the winning side. Merry Christmas my pro-life friends, and Happy New Year!

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The Senate voted 60-39 along party lines on Wednesday to end the filibuster of the pro-abortion, government-run health care bill. The decision to end debate sets up the final vote on passage of the bill on Christmas Eve -- allowing the funding of abortions as millions of Christians prepare for Christmas. - LifeNews

WASHINGTON, DC -- At 4:45 pm yesterday on the floor of the United States Senate, Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska made the following statement:

"...even though they [pro-life advocates] cannot constructively point out how it doesn't prohibit the use of federal funds or wall off those funds or keep them totally segregated. They just didn't like the language..."

I received this question from a friend on Facebook:

So, Jill, what happened with Nelson? You and other pro-life leaders were advising people to be "calm" and to thank him, and all indications now are that he prostituted his vote like so many others. How do you know who to trust?

My friend was speaking about a blog post I wrote Dec. 11 encouraging pro-lifers to maintain support of Sen. Ben Nelson, D-NE. In that post I relayed an e-mail received from Democrats for Life's president, Kristen Day, assuring everyone Nelson was unwavering in his refusal to vote for any health-care bill excluding a Stupak-like pro-life amendment:

Dear pro-life Friends,

Sen. Nelson has been a strong leader on our behalf. ... I have been assured that he has not changed his opinion and has not gone back on anything he has said. Senator Nelson has taken a very hard line with the Caucus, and they are trying hard to appease him because they need his vote.

I assure you that the senator has not backed down from his commitment...

Up to the end Nelson was working with all the right people - Democrats for Life, NE Right to Life, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, pro-life MI Rep. Bart Stupak.

But in the end, Nelson betrayed them all....

Continue reading my column today, "Ben Nelson's betrayal," at WorldNetDaily.com.

This is very helpful:  In order to help pro-life pilgrims plan their trip for the upcoming Washington March for Life, LifeSiteNews.com has compiled a list of events in and around D.C. at that time.

Check it out.

Blogs4Life is an important annual bloggers conference help on Jan. 22 in Washington DC just prior to the March for Life.  We're happy to announce that registration is open and the following pro-life leaders have confirmed that they will be speaking:

Jill Stanek, JillStanek.com: (Emcee)

Marjorie Dannenfelser, President, Susan B. Anthony List

Kristen Day, Executive Director, Democrats for Life

Joseph Farah, Founder, WorldNetDaily

Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council

David Prentice, Senior Fellow, Family Research Council

Peter Shinn, Founder, Blogs for Life; President, Pro-Life Unity; Director, Cherish Life Ministries

Panel on emerging online technologies: Molotov Mitchell(www.illuminatimd.com), Krystle Weeks (FRC), Peter Shinn

Panel on hosting a winning pro-life blog: American Life League'sKatie Walker and ALL's Pro-life Blog contest winners

Please check the Blogs4Life website for updates - the agenda is rapidly evolving and I'm told there are a number of exciting developments in the works!

Rep. Parker Griffith, a freshman Democrat from Alabama has just announced he is switching his affiliation to the Republican party. In this video he lays out his motivation for the change and remarks on the radical changes to Democratic party.

As a physician he states that the healthcare bill before Congress is bad for doctors and patients and is a major threat to our economy, nation and healthcare system.

"There is no room in the Democratic party for a pro-life ...conservative businessman.... They are completely ignoring the American people."

WASHINGTON (December 19, 2009, 2:00 PM EST): The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of right-to-life organizations in all 50 states, strongly opposes the abortion language contained in the "manager's amendment" filed today by U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid (Nv.). Reid intends to press for Senate approval of the language during the days immediately ahead, without allowing an opportunity for any revisions to be considered.

The following statement may be attributed to NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson:

The manager's amendment is light years removed from the Stupak-Pitts Amendment that was approved by the House of Representatives on November 8 by a bipartisan vote of 240-194. The new abortion language solves none of the fundamental abortion-related problems with the Senate bill, and it actually creates some new abortion-related problems.

NRLC will score the upcoming roll call votes on cloture on the Reid manager's amendment, and on the underlying bill, as votes in favor of legislation to allow the federal government to subsidize private insurance plans that cover abortion on demand, to oversee multi-state plans that cover elective abortions, and to empower federal officials to mandate that private health plans cover abortions even if they do not accept subsidized enrollees, among other problems.

In addition, if the final bill produced by a House-Senate conference committee does not contain the Stupak-Pitts Amendment, NRLC will score the House and Senate votes on the conference report as votes to allow federal mandates and subsidies for coverage of elective abortion. Unless the Stupak-Pitts Amendment is included in the final bill, and the new pro-abortion provisions dropped, a significant number of House members who voted for H.R. 3962 will not vote to pass the final legislation.

A more detailed critique of the new Reid language will be posted on the NRLC website later today at http://www.nrlc.org/ahc

Yesterday a friend and I were discussing the fact that President Obama allowed the public funding of abortions in Washington DC, and what our response should be.

My friend suggested that instead of an all out refusal to pay taxes, and instead of individuals doing this on their own - which the IRS would salivate over - he suggested a massive tax protest held over a certain period of time.

If the signers of the Manhattan Declaration are serious about refusing to pay taxes over the public funding of abortion via health care legislation, let me say there is no longer a need - if there were a reason to begin with - to await passage.

If one one million people withheld their taxes for one month it would send a strong message - one that the IRS certainly could not deal with, and one that would send a shot across the bow of Congress and the White house.

And if the Government isn't moved, then the taxes will continued to be withheld until public funding is rescinded.

Sounds extreme? No, what is extreme is an oppressive government encouraging the killing of our innocent neighbors - and paying for their execution.

I like this idea of a targeted tax protest - I just wonder if the signers of the Manhattan Declaration would adopt it.

Anybody for a tax protest during the month of April?

And for those who who are confused over the issue of paying taxes to Caesar, consider the closing line of the declaration - "We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God's."

For his phenomenal work convincing just enough Catholic voters that pro-abortion, pro-infanticide, pro-human embryo experimentation Barack Obama was actually pro-life, Catholic law professor Doug Kmiec was awarded an ambassadorship to the country of Malta, a group of Mediterranean islands off the southern coast of Italy.

Kmiec labored hard to earn that plum appointment, going so far as to rustle up a book, Can a Catholic Support Him? just 7 weeks before the 2008 election.

Sitting in a Panera cafe with winter boots on in the aftermath of Chicago's first blizzard of the season, let me check Malta's weather right now.... December being one of its coldest months, the daily average temperature is 65 degrees with 5 hours of sunshine.

But I digress. Of course, Kmiec's answer was an emphatic, "Yes!" In a May 2008 op-ed in Catholic Online, Kmiec explained....

Continue reading my column, "The one man who can stop publicly funded DC abortions," at WorldNetDaily.com.

WASHINGTON, December 15/Christian Newswire --

Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, will join Pennsylvania pro-life leaders in a "pray-in" at the office of Senator Casey this afternoon in Washington DC.

Activists also plan a series of public events around the state of Pennsylvania over the next two weeks to encourage Senator Casey to embrace human rights and refrain from voting for cloture on the Senate health care legislation.

Cloture is a parliamentary procedure in the Senate where debate is ended and an immediate vote is taken on the matter being discussed.

A cloture vote in the United States Senate needs 60 votes.

Rev. Mahoney states:

The pro-life community wants to make it clear to Senator Casey and Senator Nelson that a vote for cloture is a vote for abortion. Since the United States Senate has enough votes to pass health care reform in it's final version, a cloture vote is a final vote. It is a vote to support the bill.

Even if Senator Casey and Senator Nelson vote against the bill in it's final passage, they cannot make the claim that they are pro-life or they are interested in protecting the rights of America's children.

It is hard to imagine that Senator Casey and Senator Nelson would sponsor an amendment prohibiting public money from being use to pay for abortions and then turn around and vote for cloture which guarantees that the health care bill would include taxpayer funded abortions.

I will be joining with pro-life activists from Pennsylvania today in a 'pray in' at the office of Senator Casey. I will also be working with them over the next two weeks in a public campaign around Pennsylvania challenging Mr. Casey to embrace human rights and social justice and protect America's children.

Our message is clear and unambiguous. You cannot vote for cloture and consider yourself pro-life.

For more information or interviews contact: Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney at 540.538.4741 202.547.1735

As we've previously written, the claimed global warming crisis is being used to motivate any number of social changes. Wesley Smith has published a number of articles on the topic, pointing to the following draconian measures advocated by climate change radicals (Diane Francis, Financial Post):

The "inconvenient truth" overhanging the UN's Copenhagen conference is not that the climate is warming or cooling, but that humans are overpopulating the world.

A planetary law, such as China's one-child policy, is the only way to reverse the disastrous global birthrate currently, which is one million births every four days.

The world's other species, vegetation, resources, oceans, arable land, water supplies and atmosphere are being destroyed and pushed out of existence as a result of humanity's soaring reproduction rate.

Ironically, China, despite its dirty coal plants, is the world's leader in terms of fashioning policy to combat environmental degradation, thanks to its one-child-only edict.

The fix is simple. It's dramatic. And yet the world's leaders don't even have this on their agenda in Copenhagen. Instead there will be photo ops, posturing, optics, blah-blah-blah about climate science and climate fraud, announcements of giant wind farms, then cap-and-trade subsidies.

None will work unless a China one-child policy is imposed. Unfortunately, there are powerful opponents. Leaders of the world's big fundamentalist religions preach in favor of procreation and fiercely oppose birth control. And most political leaders in emerging economies perpetuate a disastrous Catch-22: Many children (i. e. sons) stave off hardship in the absence of a social safety net or economic development, which, in turn, prevents protections or development.

China has proven that birth restriction is smart policy. Its middle class grows, all its citizens have housing, health care, education and food, and the one out of five human beings who live there are not overpopulating the planet.

China's policies of population control include forced abortion and sterilization, discrimination against seconds, and severe penalties against those who criticize the gross violation of human rights.  In and of itself, the policies suggested by Francis are morally bankrupt.  However, coupled with the ClimateGate scandal and the fact that Francis has violated the policy she advocates, the advocacy of the one-child policy is outrageous.

Read:  Global Warming Hysteria: The Potential For Tyranny 2

Curious how the law gives greater protection to unborn baby eagles than human babies.