July 2006 Archives

Today the IL Federation for the Right to Life launched a nationwide on-line petition drive telling U.S. Senate Democrats to stop obstructing the Child Custody Protection Act.

This is an urgent matter. The Congressional Pro-life Caucus reported this morning the clock is ticking: "If we hope to see this important legislation signed into law this year, the Senate must act this week to send the bill to conference."

Please sign this petition now at www.ifrl.org/ccpa/ and forward the link to pro-lifers and blogs.

Go here to read IFRL's press release.

Thank you.

Charlie Crist Let My Daughter Die

by Robert Schindler, Sr.
Posted Jul 31, 2006

As most Americans know, on March 31, 2005, my daughter, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of starvation and thirst after having her feeding tube removed by court order. The sad chain of events that concluded with Terri’s death ignited a media firestorm nationally and internationally. What few saw or heard was the callous inaction of aspiring governor Charlie Crist.

The move by pro-life citizens to keep Amnesty International from engaging in abortion advocacy is beginning to go public. And that's a good thing.

Gee...there's nothing like reaching out to help kids, is there?

An example? Let's look at Durex, a subsidiary of the multi-national conglomerate, SSL International, whose new "condoms for kids" hit the shelves in Germany this past week with sales in the U.K. and elsewhere scheduled for next year.

According to the news report, "the condom is 49mm wide — compared to the 52mm standard version — and is easier to put on. Durex says it is designed for the younger, less experienced users. A spokesman said: “It is aimed at youths between 13 and 16, where a not insignificant number engage in unprotected sex.”

Despite the heartbreak, sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancies, abortion, and the death of innocence that always follows the promotion of sexual activity among young unmarrieds (even with the best condoms in use), Durex will still try to sell the line that they are selling the "kiddie condom" out of the most noble of motives. And with the Family Planning Association being enthusiastically behind them, they might fool a few suckers after all.

By the way, among other companies owned by SSL International is Scholl, makers of popular foot products. Here's the news story, courtesy of the Sun Online (U.K.).

Continue reading at prolifenews.tv

This is horrible. I KNOW this stuff goes on every day in abortion mills. Finally, corroboration.

Dead Baby Found In Hialeah Abortion Clinic
Clinic Has Been Closed

Dave Malkoff

Jul 28, 2006, 11:06 p.m. EST

(CBS4 News) HIALEAH Hialeah Police Homicide Detectives are investigating the gruesome discovery of a dead baby’s body inside of an abortion clinic but conflicting stories may prove there's more to the discovery than meets the eye.

The body was found at “A Gynecologists Diagnostic Center,” 3671 West 16th Avenue in Hialeah [FL, near Miami].

Witnesses tell police that a young woman, whose identity has not been released, arrived at the clinic last Thursday at roughly 22 weeks pregnant for an abortion procedure.

Police say the woman arrived the next day after the procedure complaining of severe pain. Workers at the clinic explained to her that the doctor was not available and she'd have to wait.

The woman was taken into a recovery room and according to witnessess, gave birth in the clinic. An anonymous caller, who police believe to be a clinic worker, alerted officials that the baby was born alive and possibly killed. When officials arrived, however, there was no body to be found.

CBS4's Dave Malkoff reported that when police were called to the scene a second time Friday night, they found the body of a dead baby in a biohazard bag.

Detectives believe the abortion clinic tampered with the evidence. The fetus was reportedly 12 inches long and weighed 2-3 pounds.

Hialeah Police PIO, Frank Gonzalez, believe the baby was born premature and is unsure how the baby died.

The clinic's doors have been closed while the investigation continues.

Officials are awaiting the autopsy, scheduled for Saturday, to determine the exact cause of death.

No word yet if charges will be filed.

(© MMVI, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new report from a committee of the National Academies of Science finds that a first-trimester abortion, the most common abortion procedure, is linked to an increasing risk of premature birth. The report comes from the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a NAS organization. The IOM published a report this month titled "Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention."

The cartoonist who penned this is liberal. However, the cartoon can be taken two ways, I'm sure not Ohman's original intent. Pro-lifers know that back alley abortionists have merely moved to main street.

[Hat tip: Fran; Attribution: Jack Ohman, 7-27-06, www.comicspage.com/ohman/]

In a sad display of political posturing, Governor Jennifer Granholm is using the web site of Michigan's government to promote her political agenda, take a cheap shot at President Bush and Republicans in general, and encourage visitors to lobby government officials on behalf of intentionally deceptive bills which would legalize human cloning for research and killing human embryos for research.

For too long the pro-life movement has been reluctant to face the issue of contraception head-on. Most pro-lifers know in their guts there's something wrong with contraception, and that flooding our society with condoms, pills, patches and injections ultimately leads to more abortion, not less.

Contraception severs the link between sexual intimacy and the creation of new human life, a link which is right at the center of God's plan for humanity, created "male and female" in his image, an interpersonal communion which in its capacity to give life echoes the inner mystery of God Himself, the Author of Life. Once separated from this essential mytsery, sexual intimacy becomes and end in itself. The conception of new human life becomes a "mistake," and the answer is abortion.

From the National Right to Life Committee:

Despite a 65-34 vote in the U.S. Senate [yesterday] to pass a bill to prohibit transporting minors across state lines for abortions in violation of parents' rights, the Senate Democratic leadership immediately erected a procedural roadblock in an attempt to kill the bill.

The Senate turned aside all weakening amendments to the Child Custody Protection Act (S. 403).... Immediately following today's vote to pass the bill, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tn.) made a routine move to allow appointment of a conference committee to work out differences with a bill already passed by the House that contains different but related provisions. This routine move was objected to, on behalf of Senate Democrats, by the assistant Democratic leader, Sen. Dick Durbin (Il.).

"Fourteen Democratic senators voted to pass the bill, but only minutes later the Democratic caucus collectively moved to kill the bill by objecting to the routine, necessary step of sending the bill to a conference committee," said NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson. "The Senate Democratic leadership is now obstructing legislation supported by 80 percent of the public, doing the bidding of the abortion lobby...."

The House of Representatives has passed such legislation four times since 1998. Each time it has been killed by actions of the Senate Democratic caucus....

Under S. 403, it would be a federal offense to transport a minor across state lines for an abortion without fulfilling the requirements of a parental notification or consent law in effect in the home state.

Parental notification and parental consent laws are supported by overwhelming majorities of the public -- exceeding 80% in some polls. For a sampling of public opinion polls on this issue, please click here.

Senator Frist's office will hold a press conference later today to pressure the Democrats. Calls will help.

Last week, the same day President Bush vetoed a bill that would have forced taxpayers to further subsidize embryonic stem-cell experimentation, he signed the Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006.

The former got lots of negative press; the latter caused barely a stir. The latter bode poorly for embryonic stem-cell research's public image. Better to ignore.

At any rate, a ban on fetus farming wasn't controversial, passing unanimously in both the Senate and House. Fetus farming seems far-fetched.

But ratifying FFPA scythed a huge swath through plans of embryonic stem-cell harvesters – laudable quick work by pro-life academics and politicos before the other side's powerful lobby could sway self-interested politicians and Americans. Here's why....

Continue reading "Fetus farming shot to hell - where it belongs" on www.WorldNetDaily.com.

Here's the very slanted AP story (complete with an illustrated chart courtesy of NARAL!) announcing Senate passage of Senate 403. For instance, note that the name of the legislation, the Child Custody Protection Act, appears nowhere in the article. I guess the name suggests something much too sane, much too mainstream. Better for the liberal bias of the piece to paint it as "restricting a minor's right to abortion" as the NARAL chart is titled. By the way, that chart is apparantly an "official" part of the AP story -- it is included in every single news organ I've checked in the last hour.

Hillary Clinton, in a example of distortion extreme even for her, attempted to portray the vote as a lethal move against young women. "We're going to sacrifice a lot of girls' lives," said the Democrat. (Memo to Her Honor: Using the word "life" in a justification for abortion is so 1970s and tends nowadays to be very counter-productive. Drop it. Go back to Bill's mantra of making abortion "safe, legal and rare." Few people will believe you mean it...but you won't look quite so dastardly.)

My favorite phrase in the article (though a common one) is that the measure passed because Senators were "Bowing to public support for parental notification," as if reflecting the will of the public was something demeaning, cowardly or beyond the will to resist. Amazing.

From Operation Rescue:

Last month, through God’s grace and a leap of faith, Operation Rescue bought and closed a Wichita abortion mill.

The building was opened to the public and to the media so the filthy and dangerous conditions would be witnessed and documented. Camera crews have photographed nearly every inch of the building where we estimate 50,000 babies died between 1983 and last month.

Now, Operation Rescue must pay for the building and for extensive renovations that will turn this former, roach infested killing center into a beautiful Memorial to the Pre-born and an office suite where Operation Rescue will continue the work of closing even more abortion mills.

Tony Snow, President George W. Bush's chief spokesman, apologized on Monday for saying Bush believed embryonic stem cell research amounted to "murder," saying he had overstated the president's position.

HT: RightFaith.

In other news, the Post reports:

The European Union agreed on Monday to permit limited use of EU funds for research involving human embryonic stem cells provided it does not entail destroying embryos, preserving the status quo.... But ministers agreed after hours of haggling that the EU could fund research into "subsequent steps" involving human embryonic stem cells discarded by fertility clinics.

At one time Americans shared a significant commitment to their offspring, recognizing both their responsibility to their children and the important contribution of parenthood to future generations. If a recent poll reported by the Washington Times is correct, the belief system that motivated sacrificial parenting has been eroded and American mothers and fathers have become increasingly self-oriented.

Once, couples put their children's needs first. Today, significant numbers are less willing to do so. Asked, "Should a couple stay together for the sake of the children," 81 percent of today's women say no, a jump from 51 percent in 1962.

Some call this progress. Others rightly recognize the destruction of the family is destroying our society. Michael J. McManus rightly comments, “America pays a price for exchanging selflessness for selfishness.”

From National Right to Life:

On Tuesday, July 25th, the U.S. Senate will hold a critical vote on the Child Custody Protection Act (S. 403). This bill would make it a federal offense to transport a minor across a state line for an abortion if this action circumvents a state law requiring parental involvement in that minor's abortion (or judicial waiver of such a requirement). Parental notification/consent laws are often circumvented by adults who transport minors to neighboring states which do not require parental notification or consent. Indeed, many abortion clinics in states without parental involvement laws actually encourage such interstate activity (and profit by it) by using "No Parental Consent Required" as a prominent "selling point" in ads run in neighboring states that enforce parental involvement laws.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel did a story about Jim Soderna, a long-time member of the Missionaries to the PreBorn. Remarkably, Jim has been a fixture outside of Milwaukee's abortion clinics for more than a decade and has served time in prison as a result of his protest activities. His efforts are not without results - click here for a history of closed abortion clinics in Milwaukee.

On Wednesday, July 19, 2006, President Bush exercised his first veto of his administration. He sent back a fatally flawed bill passed by Congress dealing with embryonic stem cell research. This bill crossed the moral and ethical lines by allowing for the destruction of human life. The measure did not meet the publicly stated criteria announced by the White House five years ago. So the president, with the support of the pro-life community, acted to defend innocent human life and vetoed the bill.

During the last five years there has been a constant barrage from throughout the media attacking the pro-life movement and attempting to divide pro-lifers on the subject of embryonic stem cell research. In order to confuse the public, those elements within the media who are hostile to the pro-life movement have misstated, failed to report of otherwise confused the issue.

On July 19, President Bush signed the "Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006," a law that prohibits growing human embryos in animals or humans for research.

Did you think fetus farming was a figment of someone's imagination? A right-wing scare tactic, perhaps?

No.

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's 2005 embryonic stem cell research executive order included "payment" for "transplantation, or implantation of [embryonic] tissue," with no age restriction. It also included "payment" for "cadaveric fetal tissue," or dead fetuses.

In other words, Blagojevich was planning to harvest a new crop in Illinois, fetuses, in uterine farms.

In October 2005, bioethicist Robert George of Princeton noted in The Weekly Standard that his home state of New Jersey had also passed legislation authorizing the harvest of "cadaveric fetal tissue."

"What the bill envisages and promotes, in other words," wrote George, "is fetus farming."

George theorized that because week-old embryos, the age currently being experimented upon, have a propensity to grow into cancerous tumors, researchers were beginning to look toward older preborn babies.

At 8 weeks gestation, basic structures for all body systems are established. All remaining time in the uterus is spent growing and refining tissues and organs.

"Because the developmental process stabilizes cells (which is why we are not all masses of tumors)," wrote George, "it is likely true that stem cells, tissues, and organs harvested from human beings at, say, 16 or 18 weeks or later could be used in the treatment of diseases."

Those plans have now been shot to hell, where they belong, making embryonic stem cell research ever more implausible.

The 6th Annual Face the Truth Tour is at White Marsh Mall in Baltimore, confronting society with the ugly truth about abortion. According to our correspondent at the scene, pro-lifers are coming in good number and the response from the public has been very positive.

More Information: DefendLife.org

Citizen Link relates the story of Jack Rabon, a young girl who was treated by Dr. Carlos Lima in Portugal for a spinal cord injury (more on Lima's research):

"I was in a car accident about three years ago," she said. "I became a paraplegic, and the doctors had told me I would never ever be able to walk again. I went to Lisbon, Portugal, to have an adult stem-cell surgery done in October. It's more than six months since I had the surgery. I have increased feeling in my hip muscles, and they have allowed me to walk again. I have leg braces I use to walk, and I walk with a walker and on parallel bars."

Proponents of embryonic stem cell research are busy minimizing the observed benefits and anticipated applications of alternatives that do not involve the destruction of human life. Their task is not easy, given the constant publication of new treatments and break-throughs that use various forms of non-ESC. Consider the following very recent reports:

• Adult Stem Cell Treatment for Spinal Cord Injuries


• Stem Cells From Baby Teeth


• Studies Support Research Showing Adult Stem Cells Can Mimic Embryonic


• At the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, scientists are making insulin-producing cells from adult stem cells that could one day help millions of people with diabetes.


• Adipose-derived stem and regenerative cells were tested to be safe and improved heart function in a chronic ischemia model, representing a severe form of coronary artery disease


• Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have isolated a new source of adult stem cells that appear to have the potential to differentiate into several cell types


• The latest issue of the American Journal of Pathology carries a breakthrough study in which researchers have identified adult stem cells in hair follicles capable of differentiating into several cell types.


• A Japanese researcher presented the results of new studies he conducted showing the ability to turn mouse skin cells into cells that closely resemble embryonic stem cells.


• Researchers at about 16 sites across the United States are involved in a study on adult donor stem cells to repair the heart muscle after a heart attack.

Dr. David Prentice of the Family Research Council has reported that there are presently 72 treatments or cures involving adult stem cells while others list over 80 for umbilical-cord blood alone.

An international team of authors report the successful treatment of spinal cord injuries using adult stem cells extracted from the roof of the nasal cavity. Published in the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, researchers from Portugal and the United states describe the use of the olfactory mucosa as a source of stem-life progenitor cells for neural repair. Specifically, the research involved the transplanting of olfactory mucosa autografts into patients with traumatically injured spinal cords.

The results were startling. Improvement was observed in all patients, two reported return of sensation in their bladders and one recovered voluntary contraction of anal sphincter. Every patient had improvement in motor scores. "Most recovered sensation below the initial level of injury that was repaired.

It is not a cure and is certainly not being hyped. As noted by Weseley J. Smith, at a time when the nation is focusing on stem cell research there has been barely a mention of it in the media.

However, the full report is available: Click Here (pdf)

Advocates of the culture of death have concentrated on the extreme ends of the life spectrum, oppressing the weak and the helpless whose lives depend on others and asserting that the humans at the earliest stages of life are without value. President Bush's recent veto of a bill that would release federal funding for stem cell research has been applauded by pro-life advocates. Representing disability advocates, Joni Eareckson Tada adds her support:

Joni Eareckson Tada was among those gathered at the White House in support of President George W. Bush as he vetoed a bill which would have expanded federal funding of research using human embryos from IVF clinics to harvest stem cells. Joining fellow disability advocates, ethicists, researchers, theologians and legislators Mrs. Tada, a spinal cord injured quadriplegic for nearly four decades observed, "I stand with countless Americans with disabilities who believe that our cause is not advanced when human life is sacrificed in hopes of finding a cure. People like me -- who are medically fragile -- are left vulnerable and exposed in a society that views human life as a commodity which can be experimented upon or exploited. Any research that destroys human embryos is an affront to God's creative authority."

The disability community has another vested interest in the Presidential veto -- despite lack of reporting by the media, people with disabilities can be encouraged by recent and dramatic advancements in adult stem cell research. During the course of a long bioethics debate over embryonic stem cells, science has out-run politics. Adult cells may be more elastic than scientists previously thought and are offering short-cuts to treatment which embryonic cells cannot match. Over 70 medical conditions are either being treated using adult stem cell therapies or are presently in clinical trials.

Our Truth Tour correspondant is on Northern Pkwy (MD) during rush hour.

more here

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Source: Generations for Life

The 6th Annual Face the Truth Tour is in Baltimore, confronting society with the ugly truth about abortion. Participants are reporting a significant change in their reception from years past. More "thumbs-up" and forthright support than ever before.... well done!

More Information: DefendLife.org

Lauren (My Choice His Life) writes:

As most of you know, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has been asked to decide if doctors performing abortions on minors without parental consent or elective third trimester abortions can be charged with capital murder*. The prolife organizations are downplaying this possibility and essentially saying that the murder of a fetus is not equal to the murder of a 3 year old.

I find it very disturbing that the prolife apologists are assuring everyone that they would never hope to see an abortionists charged with murder, but would rather he be charged with a third degree felony and sent on his way.

It appears the prosecution lacks evidence and is having difficulty using their usual tactics due to the international spotlight:

The trial of a blind Chinese legal activist who exposed forced abortions and sterilisations has been delayed because the prosecution lacked sufficient evidence, his lawyer said on Thursday.

Outside the courthouse in the eastern province of Shandong, some 40-50 supporters of Chen Guangcheng scuffled with people they described as thugs and plainclothes police.

Amir Blanford was born addicted to drugs, and his blood tested positive for cocaine, opiates and marijuana. He died last week, having suffered a cardiac arrest, less than a day after leaving the hospital where he had spent most of his life. Authorities ruled his death "natural".

Concerned Women for America (CWA) repudiates erroneous reports criticizing the selfless work of crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs). Contrary to Rep. Henry Waxman (D- California), a liberal pro-abortion politician notorious for attacks on charitable people who provide alternatives, both research and experience show that abortion can be physically and psychologically detrimental to women.

“These attacks on CPCs only prove how determined those who profit from abortion are to keep women from seeking alternatives,” said Wendy Wright, CWA’s President. “Abortion advocates stop at nothing to smear respectable, compassionate organizations that educate women on the benefits of choosing to save the lives of their unborn babies.

“Rep. Waxman and his allies would better spend their time educating themselves by talking to women who have experienced the damaging effects of abortion. Dismissing women’s real experiences and ignoring facts that conflict with their ideology in order to accuse pro-life groups of being ‘deceptive’ blatantly reveals that their obsession for abortion trumps any concern they ever felt for women’s well-being.

The 6th Annual Face the Truth Tour has hit Westminster, MD as a group of 40 pro-lifers are currently displaying the ugly truth about abortion. Abortion extremists greeted the tour with signs and jeers. One individual, emailing us from the site indicated that the extremists are doing some "pretty radical things."

More Information: DefendLife.org

LifeNews has full coverage of President George W. Bush's historic veto:

"This bill would support the taking of innocent human life of the hope of finding medical benefits for others. It crosses a moral boundary that our society needs to respect, so I vetoed it," Bush said.

Some 18 families who had adopted frozen embryos -- called snowflake babies -- attended Bush's speech Wednesday. The families adopted the embryos that had been leftover from fertility treatments from other couples who didn't need them.

"Each of these children was still adopted while still an embryo and has been blessed with a chance to grow, to grow up in a loving family. These boys and girls are not spare parts," the president said.

Science is clear about what an embryo is – a new human life. Either the Senators who voted to fund the destruction of these embryos don’t acknowledge the science or they don’t acknowledge that it’s wrong to kill the innocent. I’d like to know which it is. I also thank God and I thank the values voters of this nation that we have a President who acknowledges both of these truths, and therefore will veto this mistaken bill.

Five-and-a-half years into his presidency, George W. Bush has ended his record stretch of bill-signings as he rejected legislation Wednesday that would expand federal funding of human embryonic stem-cell research.
Attempts in Congress to override the veto, which would require a two-thirds vote, were expected to fail.... The president believes the killing of human embryos, from which stem cells are harvested, is murder, says press secretary Tony Snow. - Christian Science Monitor

Democrats' Abortion Politics Trumps Women's Healthcare / Like Tobacco-State Congressmen, Democrats Protect Cancer-Causing Industry, Influence Scientific Decision-Making

HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., July 19 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer, a women's group, denounced U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman and other Democrats on the House Government Reform Committee for advancing the interests of the abortion industry at the expense of women's health.

In their recent report, Waxman and other abortion enthusiasts on the committee attacked crisis pregnancy centers, in part because their personnel inform women about research supporting an abortion- breast cancer (ABC) link. [1]

When parents turn the living human embryos they have begotten over to science, they not only forget them as children but also turn them into commodities, donate them for eventual body parts. The embryos become wholly instrumental, they become resources to be calculated and consumed. They are degraded before they are destroyed. Like human embryos created by cloning, they do not die as unwanted children, or even as human beings, but as things to be used and used up. No greater negation of human dignity is possible.

Professor Richard Stith for LifeSiteNews

Do No Harm has posted some new resources dealing with embryonic stem cell research and adult stem cell research including their response to this strawman attack which tried attack Do No Harm's claims that adult stem cell research has shown benefits to humans with 72 different conditions by using "Is an FDA-approved adult stem cell research treatment generally available to treat this disease or injury?" as their standard. The attack paper also often points out the research with adult stem cells isn't curative. From what I've seen Do No Harm has been careful to avoid terms like "cures" unlike numerous proponents of embryonic stem cell research including the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures and one of the attack paper's authors.

That author being William Neaves, who is the CEO of the Stowers Institute. The Stowers Institute provides a lot of the money behind the wholly deceptive push (fronted by the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures) to put the legalization of human cloning for research into Missouri Constitution while saying they are trying to ban human cloning. Neaves has also written in favor of human cloning for research. Not surprisingly, the article is intentionally deceptive (he never mentions that somatic cell nuclear transfer is cloning or that somatic cell nuclear transfer would produce a human embryo and that an embryo would have to die to get the stem cells), uses terms like "early stem cells," attempts to equate the cloning and killing of another human being for their stem cells with the "natural process of self-healing" and claims that "no new life is created by SCNT."

The New York Times front page article boldly proclaimed their "findings" -- parental involvement laws have had no effect at all in reducing teenage abortions.

Hmm; doesn't that fly in the face of common sense? Of course it does and, especially when one considers the deep disdain the Times has always held for pro-life legislation of any kind, it should prompt the reader who is looking for accurate information and honest applications to check out more careful sources.

Well, here you go. In an excellent article written for the Heritage Foundation and just posted on the web, Dr. Michael J. New takes on the sloppy and slanted job the Times did on the issue. Dr. New's article, "Getting It Wrong: How The New York Times Misinterprets Abortion Statistics and Arrives at Incorrect Conclusions," can be read (and should be!) right here.

July 18, 2006
Jackson, Mississippi

Operation Save America's Pastor Flip Benham and Norma Mc Corvey put the match to the ungodly Roe v Wade decision at this evening's rally for the closure of the last abortion mill in Jackson.

In a symbolic gesture to illustrate before Almighty God the value of man's law when he rejects God's law, Roe v Wade and 6 other Supreme Court rulings, which have led to disastrous results for America, were torched before the saints who are in Jackson to see legal protection for all innocent pre-born babies re-established.

Norma's role in the decision, which led to the unjust shedding of the innocent blood of over 50 million pre-born infants has been a heavy burden to carry.

Led to the Lord by Pastor Flip, the joy of the Lord shown upon Norma's face as she burned man's "law," which had surely been an abomination in His sight.

In February 2004, U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama's wife, Michelle, sent a fund-raising letter with the "alarming news" that "right-wing politicians" had passed a law stopping doctors from stabbing half-born babies in the neck with scissors, suctioning out their brains and crushing their skulls.

Michelle called partial-birth abortion "a legitimate medical procedure," and wouldn't supporters please pay $150 to attend a luncheon for her husband, who would fight against "cynical ploy[s]" to stop it?

But that's not why Obama's opponent Alan Keyes said Jesus Christ wouldn't vote for him.

Obama recalled Keyes' statement in a recent USA Today opinion piece but omitted his reasoning.

I know his reasoning, because I was there....

Continue reading "Why Jesus Christ would not vote for Barack Obama" on www.WorldNetDaily.com.

[Cartoon courtesy of Chicago Sun-Times, published during the Obama-Keyes senate campaign.]

LifeSiteNews.com - A week of rallies, vigils and sidewalk protests outside and near the state of Mississippi’s sole abortion facility is half way through and has seen two arrests and police citations for pro-life demonstrators and a lawsuit against the police of Jackson. Organizers hope the demonstrations will result in the closing of the facility.

Monday was the third of eight days of demonstrations by the North Carolina based group Operation Save America. Members of Operation Save America were protesting on the sidewalk outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization abortion mill in conjunction with a larger rally at the state legislature downtown.

The Senate approved legislation Tuesday that would overturn President Bush's limits on using taxpayer funds to pay for embryonic stem cell research. The 63-37 vote for the bill was four votes short of having the two-thirds vote necessary to override an expected presidential veto.

The veto, expected tomorrow, would be the first of Bush's 5 1/2-year presidency.

Sadly, supporters of the legislation included several prominent Republicans, among them Nancy Reagan, Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) presented a common argument in favor of the bill, claiming "it is a clear-cut question to use embryos to save lives, because otherwise they will be destroyed." Fertility clinics hold about 400,000 unneeded embryos, he said, and only 128 have been "adopted" by families that played no role in creating them. "A century from now people will look back in amazement that we could even have this debate when the issues are so clearly cut," Specter said

Yet, as Joe Carter points out,

a 2003 survey by researchers at the RAND Corporation found that 88% of the embryos are being stored for their original function: to make babies for their parents. Only 2.2% of the embryos have been designated for disposal and less than 3% for research. That leaves only 11,000 "potential lives." For a country that has 125,000 adoptions every year, it would be reasonable to assume that most, if not all, 11,000 embryos could eventually be implanted by adoptive parents.

The Family Research Council provides commentary on the vote and anticipated veto related to stem cell research and fetus farming:

Washington, D.C. - Today the United States Senate voted on a package of legislation dealing with the issue of bioethics research. The votes provided passage of three bills: H.R. 810, the "Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act;" passage of S. 3504, the "Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006;" and passage of S. 2754, the "Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement Act of 2006."

For decades pregnancy centers have sustained waves of attacks from abortion providers and proponent groups who routinely seek to discredit their competition. These groups have tried to limit women from accessing comprehensive information on abortion risks and alternatives, which is provided through the free and confidential services offered by the doctors, nurses, and professional volunteers at pregnancy centers.

The latest coordinated string of attacks began late in December 2005 with a report issued by NARAL Pro-Choice Texas entitled Crisis Pregnancy Centers: A Hidden Threat to Women's Health? Since then, the attacks have continued with additional reports issued by the National Abortion Federation and other groups who are angered that pregnancy centers have begun to compete for federal grants that enable them to present abstinence-based educational programs, instead of the "safe-sex" programs that such groups tellingly support. Additional IYD grants have been awarded to a small number of pregnancy centers to enable them to enable them to provide medical services to low income women.

They dedicate their time to teaching kids how to lead healthy lives and helping pregnant women and their newborns. One would think that Crisis Pregnancy Centers would receive supportive thanks from Democrats and Republicans alike. Not so. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Calif.) has launched a full scale attack in the guise of a “report” suggesting CPCs deny “teenagers and women vital health information” and prevent “them from making an informed decision…”.

What I find entirely ridiculous is that the substance of the debate presented by the Washington Post is whether or not abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, as suggested by some CPCs. Although the Post quotes the National Cancer Institute as disagreeing that the interruption of a pregnancy (by killing the unborn) increases the probability of later developing cancer (check this out), the paper decided examining the numerous studies and medical organizations whose research indicates otherwise.

CareNet's website responds:

At best, current findings are inconclusive, but Waxman's report claims to be based on settled science; however current statistics as well as numerous studies and publications on the aftermath of abortion suggest that this debate is far from settled

Australia - It was an illegal abortion gone wrong (the baby lived). “The midwife said words to the effect of, ‘It’s alive, quick, get one of the doctors’,” he said. The doctor, who made no attempt to resuscitate the baby boy born four months prematurely, has been charged with manslaughter and two counts of illegal abortion

HT: RealChoice

In a prior post papijoe reported that a doctor and two nurses have been arrested in connection with the deaths of patients at a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina hit the city.

Texas attorney Jerri Ward, an authority on the law and euthanasia comments, The prosecution must prove intent to gain a conviction in these cases. If intent is proved, the book should be thrown at these medical professionals. Be sure to catch her radio program later today (click here).

Wesley Smith comments:

I am not ready to draw any larger lessons from this episode about euthanasia advocacy or what has been called the culture of death. But we should watch these cases closely to see what the defendants have to say, if anything, about their alleged criminal conduct.

"Planned Parenthood considers pro-life groups such as the National Right to Life Committee and the Family Research Council “Terrorists and Extremist Organizations,” according to its website, and also labels prominent pro-life individuals like Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts and United States Ambassador to the UN John Bolton under the same category" ..... Go Pundit Go has the story (in a public service announcement, Dawn Eden notes, "Your tax dollars at work").

From UPI via Political Gateway

NEW ORLEANS, July 18 (UPI) -- New Orleans authorities have arrested a doctor and two nurses allegedly involved in some of the 45 deaths of hospital patients in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Sources told WWL-TV, New Orleans, the three staff members were booked at the Orleans Parish Prison Monday night and released by a judge on their own recognizance.

They were charged with being principal to second-degree murder, the report said.

More at Marlowe's Shade

The FRC provides links to White House statements on the Bioethics Bills:

• WH statement on the Fetus Farming bill.


• The bill to fund embyronic stem cell research.


• The alternative stem cell bill.

The White House released an emphatic statement on Monday, as the Senate began its debate on a bill to use taxpayer funds for pay for embryonic stem cell research, saying President Bush will definitely veto the bill because the funds would pay for science that destroys human life.

[snip]

"If [the legislation] were presented to the president, he would veto the bill,'' the official statement of administration policy said. Officials underlined the sentence in the statement for greater emphasis.

"The bill would compel all American taxpayers to pay for research that relies on the intentional destruction of human embryos for the derivation of stem cells, overturning the president's policy that funds research without promoting such ongoing destruction,'' it said.

From NewsMax:

American Medical Association President Dr. William G. Plested said Monday that medical professionals should not participate in executions of prisoners.

"The American Medical Association is troubled by continuous refusal of many state courts and legislatures to acknowledge the ethical obligations of physicians, which strictly prohibit physician involvement in a legally authorized execution," he said in a statement. "The AMA's policy is clear and unambiguous - requiring physicians to participate in executions violates their oath to protect lives and erodes public confidence in the medical profession.

"A physician is a member of a profession dedicated to preserving life when there is hope of doing so. The use of a physician's clinical skill and judgment for purposes other than promoting an individual's health and welfare undermines a basic ethical foundation of medicine - first, do no harm."

Funny, they don't seem to have a problem with the wholesale slaughter of millions of unborn children, nor the protracted, doctor-assisted torture and murder of Terri Schiavo. They are only concerned about the execution of criminals who've received more judication than anyone else in the world and have still been ruled worthy of death.

... is no longer an idea or a plan, it's a reality involving live broadcasts and video to communicate pro-life news as it happens. Check out today's NPLAC press conference: click here.

Jackson, Mississippi's Kelli Esters of the Clarion Leger wrote this report on July 17, 2006
about the confrontation at the Unitarian Universalist Church July 16, 2006 in which local
police refused to arrest the perpetrators because they wouldn't give their names:

"One of the abortion-rights supporters reportedly was hit by the car and the others beat on the driver's windshield, shattering it."

According to another report by Jackson's Channel 16 News, the anarchy team from World Can't Wait
were frightened for their lives.

One noted, "It was a scary moment!"

Is this a normal reaction?

You decide?

More lies from the father of lies.

Wesley Smith made a brief reference to this report on his Albany Bioethics Conference post. I googled and found a link to the report from Die Welt

Since it is a PDF I'll summarize rather than post. An independent study by a human rights lawyer and former prosecuter have turned up some serious indictors that China is harvesting organs from the incarcerated adherents of the Falun Gong cult. The number, availability, and short wait period for "donated" organs at Chinese hospitals are all consistent with this kind of program. Also in a "sting" operation, callers posing as middlemen have recorded calls with employees of Chinese hospitals who admit they are supplying or did supply the organs. Here is an eerie example of the kind of conversation that was captured:

Read the rest at Marlowe's Shade

Pro-life blogger and Texas attorney Jerri Ward will be guest-hosting Mychal Massie's show Straight Talk on Right Talk Radio tomorrow, Tuesday, July 18. It will air at 1 pm ET (12 pm CT). Her guests will be Burke Balch--who will be on the air the first segment and Ramesh Ponneru will appear the during the 2nd segment and 3rd segment.

Jerri writes:

In part, we will be discussing futile care theory and what is going on in Texas.

Right Talk Radio streams across the internet. You may listen by clicking here. Then, precisely at 1 pm ET, click on the button that says Straight Talk and you will be able to listen.

Feel free to call in with questions or comments at this number: 1-866-884-8255 (TALK)

If you miss it, the show will replay every hour on the hour for the rest of the day.

July 16, 2006
Jackson, Mississippi

A team of Operation Save America (OSA) evangelists and pro-life activists attempted to attend the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jackson this morning and were greeted by a phalanx of anarchists obstructing the entrance to the “church.”

Faces covered with scarves seen at WTO meetings, and holding six feet of PVC pipe to block access to the church drive way, the crowd of protestors with an anti Bush Administration organization “World Can’t Wait” erupted in to a violent attack on Adam Tennant’s Honda. The organization web site www.worldcantwait.net lists, Denver late term abortionist Warren Hern as well as well known author Gore Vidal as advisory board members.

U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave was told by Michael ("I am angry") Schiavo that less government means not protecting those whose family has decided to terminate their lives. To her credit, Musgrave responded with a simple statement: I have only compassion for Michael and Terri’s family, and all those who have lost a loved one.

Liberal Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg wrote a fasinating column yesterday, after stumbling on two of Pro-Life Action League's graphic signs displays in downtown Chicago during the course of one depressing day. Last paragraph:

That's the problem with the whole conflict. There's no balance. On one side you've got guys like Joe Scheidler, practically a biblical figure, John Brown holding a staff and spreading his arms over bleeding Kansas. On the other, you have bland rationality under the by-definition indecisive banner of "choice" (hmmm, which one, let's see ...) afraid to give their names and lacking anywhere near the passion their opponents possess. It hardly seems a fair fight.

(crossroads photo)

The Pro-Life groups Crossroads has crossed the 2,000 mile mark on their trek across America. Participating are groups of Pro-Life college students who make the 3,000 mile journey to Washington D.C. from Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

“Until the cultural and moral problems that emanate from this crisis are settled, America will not be able to begin the healing process,” said National Director of Crossroads Martha Nolan said last Wednesday, according to a released statement. “But whatever happens politically, our purpose is to change hearts and minds, and we are in this fight for the long-haul.”

Catholic Fire Article

Go to crossroadswalk.org for more information.

Being pro-life activists, we see lambs being lead to the slaughter on a daily basis. In the Colorado pro-life community Lamb can also be spelled Lamm. Unfortunately the second Lamm is the enemy of the first, because it was Dick Lamm the state legislator who, in 1967, authored the first law to legalized abortion for rape and incest. He has gone on to become “Duty to Die” Lamm explaining the elderly should kill themselves, “…and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life." Dick Lamm will turn 71 later this year.

It's one thing to have reframing in political discourse where blind partisanship reigns. It is an entirely different matter when reframing starts affecting medical information presented to patients. The recent acclaim for the cervical cancer vaccine is one such case of reframing the debate going drastically wrong.

One important fact about the cervical cancer vaccine is that it is not designed to prevent cervical cancer. There is no medical study or information that will refute this point. What this vaccine prevents in human papillomavirus (HPV) or genital warts. It just so happens that HPV is the leading cause of cervical cancer.

Saying this vaccine prevents cervical cancer is like saying prohibition prevented car accidents. Sure, less people got drunk and starting driving cars, but that's not quite the point. The vaccine does not attack cervical cancer directly.

The radical judicial fiat of Roe v Wade continues on its collision course with scientific realities, especially the technology that has allowed us to not only see into the womb, but to medically treat the tiny patient therein. Thus, the ever increasing awareness by the public of abortion's injustice, unnaturalness and barbarity.

Other developments that have dramatically damaged the "abortion rights" cause is that we're learning more every day about how unsafe abortion is to the adult woman and of how uncaring, secretive, incompetent and manipulative abortionists are in their businesses.

Today's decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court to hear an appeals case from a woman hurt by abortion and misled by the abortionist shows again the schizophrenia in medical practice, law and culture that Roe v Wade began. And anytime there is careful scrutiny of the details of that schizophrenia, the abortionists squirm.

By Andrew Longman
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

Suppose I were to tell you that scientists speculated, though they really did not know, that cutting the limbs off of a certain tribe of people from the deep jungles of Indonesia could, quite possibly, cure hundreds of diseases. Suppose that by cutting off the arms and legs and heads of these folks we could make a nutrient potion that would allay 5 percent of cancers. Further, pretend we debated not the legality of such a practice, that being too gauche, but only the federal funding for the whole expedition.

Would this strike you as immoral?

Terri Schiavo's widower (WHAT?!?!) takes on politicians in privacy campaign

CHASE SQUIRES
Associated Press
DENVER - More than a year after winning a bruising battle to disconnect his brain-damaged wife from a feeding tube, Michael Schiavo brought his campaign against government intrusion to Colorado Wednesday, demanding an apology from a Republican congresswoman he accused of interfering in his family's decision.

From our friends at the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation Center for Health Care Ethics:

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, July 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- The publicity surrounding Terry Wallis has brought attention once again to the condition of Terri Schiavo. Terry Wallis suffered a traumatic brain injury in 1984 and was termed by some of his doctors to be in a “persistent vegetative state” (PVS) and then improved to a “minimally conscious state” (MCS).

Similar to Terri Schiavo, doctors predicted that Terry Wallis would last indefinitely in this condition and not improve. Researchers are now confident that, “Mr. Wallis's brain is healing itself by forming new neural connections since 2003”, according to the New York Times.

Michael Reagan does a great guest post in LifeNews. Here he sums it up better than I've seen anywhere:

It needs to be said right up front: at this time those promised ESCR miracles are merely the products of the proponents’ hopes and dreams, and mostly based on the now admittedly falsified claims of a South Korean scientist -- not of the current reality, which is grim. Far from curing everything from Alzheimer’s Disease to spinal cord injuries, and a whole host of other medical problems as proponents promise, all ESCR has produced thus far is cancerous tumors in lab animals. And even top ESCR scientists now admit that any progress in the field is 25 years away, after they stop killing lab animals, that is.

More at Marlowe's Shade

It's fascinating the number of personal attacks I've been getting since I responded to the "satire" piece from the Onion. It's also funny to me how pro-aborts claim such brilliance, yet struggle to say a sentence or two without cuss words.

The last person said "I don't know any college educated folks who don't know the site", which proves my point that our children are brainwashed in the public school system. Of course the person who wrote that probably only knows people like him, rude, nasty & thrive on personal attacks.

He signed his string of filth with

"Color me stunned ... douchebag"

His name is douchebag? ...& what color is "stunned"?

Yesterday, Mere Comments described an article in the liberal Jewish Monthly Tikkun written by Donna Schaper. Donna Schaper is a 58-year-old senior minister at Judson Memorial Church in New York City who also speaks and writes on the side. In her article she writes about her abortion 19 years ago. Mere Comments only posts a portion of her article but another version of the article (probably a very close version) was printed in the Hartford Courant in February of this year and is available online at the blog of A Classical Presbyterian. Her article is quite disturbing, to say the least.

Schaper outrightly admits that she believes "abortion is a form of murder," named her unborn child "Alma" and was "terribly troubled." Yet claims she was "behaving as an adult" because she made a choice. She also claims that women who make the choice to have an abortion are "positive moral forces in history." While recommending abstinence to unmarried people in countries struggling with AIDS is "immoral to its core."

Twenty-nine 29-year-old Kalilah Roberson-Reese became incapacitated following an emergency cesarean section which claimed the life of her child and left her brain damaged. She was abandoned by her husband and with Medicaid running out doctors invoked the infamous Texas Futile Care Law, and on June 26th a futility review committee voted to discontinue her care. Jerri Ward, an attorney with experience in such cases is fighting for her life:

This case raises questions of whether the law might be used to bury mistakes," said Jerri Ward, an Austin attorney who this week asked a judge to stop Memorial Hermann from withdrawing life support from Roberson-Reese. "At the very least, there is an appearance of a conflict of interest that should preclude a futility review committee from making a life-or-death decision before an independent investigation is made."

[snip]

According to hospital medical charts, nurses discovered Roberson-Reese was unresponsive after finding her tracheal breathing tube had become disconnected June 12. That was more than a month after doctors performed an emergency cesarean section, trying to save the life of her 33-week fetus. The baby died.

-The Houston Chronicle

Officials promised to give Ward and the family seven business days notice if they decide to resume plans to withdraw life support. The agreement followed negotiations in the chambers of Harris County Probate Judge Russell Austin and came just two days before the 1999 law would have allowed the hospital to end treatment.

Operation Rescue has announced that it will open the Central Women’s Services abortion mill to the media and public for tours on July 13-15, 2006. OR purchased the building last month, insuring the closure of the abortion mill.

Central Women’s Services Open House Tours

Press conference and special media tour: Thursday, July 13, 10 AM

Public Open House:

Friday, July 14, from 11 AM – 7 PM
Saturday, July 15, from 10 AM – 4 PM

“We want the community to see the squalid conditions at this abortion mill for themselves before renovations begin,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “Viewing this facility really brings home the grim reality of abortion in America today and the human tragedy of the thousands of children who died here over the past 23 years.”
“It is important to give the community the opportunity to visit this abortion ‘death camp’ and reflect not only on the tragedy, but also on this awesome victory that God has graciously granted our community,” said Newman. “Abortion supporters are also welcome.”

“We especially invite women who may have had abortions at Central Women’s Services to return and grieve for their babies,” said Newman. “Christians will be standing by to offer prayer and help for post- abortive women, if necessary.”

More information: Operation Rescue

A recent appellate court ruling has decided that it is illegal for companies to pay Hollywood for movies and then sanitize them of gratuitous nudity, over-the-top profanity, and puerile violence. For years, Hollywood has found ways to insert into otherwise coherent storylines scenes of nudity, sex, profanity, and violence.

In what seems like a simple compromise, a company would pay for the video, sanitize the content for those who request that service, and then sell the video to the consumer. In these cases, Hollywood gets paid for the price of the movie.

That apparently is not enough.

True to their absolutely wicked agenda of child killing
at all costs, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood had their
“KILL PILL THRILL DAY” Plan B give-away all
over Colorado June 30, 2006.

My mailbox is overflowing with letters of support and concern regarding my last column on disabledocide.

Tragically, another girl, age 4, with cerebral palsy named Lexus Fuller is in OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria battling for her life.

Her mother, Kellie Waremburg, allegedly overdosed the child so she would go to sleep and never wake up.

I realize we forgot to post this today, but you can still participate in the effort tomorrow & call or email your representatives on Monday.

Join the Monthly Call For Life Today & Tomorrow - July 7th & 8th

Join us today & tomorrow for the nationwide Monthly Call for Life at Monthlycallforlife.com.

On Friday we will be at the Supreme Court from noon til 2:00 pm.

On Saturday the 8th of July we will be at the Falls Church, Virginia abortion mill from 9:00 am till 11 at 900 South Washington St., (Lee Hgwy). Others will be there earlier in the morning as well. Help boost our numbers. We have had as many as 25 - 30 people there.

It is significant to see how quickly and clearly a child sees through the twisted logic of those who try to justify abortion -- even, as in this case, when the child exposes the barbarity of abortions done by his own parent.

This Nat Hentoff column in Jewish World Review also has some illuminating information on Jesse Jackson, Derek Humphrey and the continuing lack of a logical defense from liberals for abortion.

In today's Slate, Michael Kinsley has a long article on embryonic stem cell research, in-vitro fertilization and prolifers. His basic thought is this: Prolifers don't oppose the deaths of human embryos at in vitro fertilization clinics as strongly as they oppose killing human embryos for research. Therefore, the majority of prolifers opposed to killing human embryos for their stem cells are "willfull(y) ignoran(t) and indifferen(t) to logic."

Some excerpts:

As one of those people myself (I have Parkinson's), I am not an objective analyst of what the U.S. government's continuing near-ban on stem-cell research is costing our society and the world.

Much has been made of Bob Casey being a pro-life Democrat, especially by those who desire to cut into the conservative base of voters who have been electing Rick Santorum to the U.S. Senate. However, this interview excerpt (printed in full on the liberal blog My DD) clearly reveals that Casey's pro-life convictions are weak, inconsistent and ranking far lower in his priorities than is his unqualified support of anyone in the Democrat Party, including, obstensibly, the most adamant supporters of abortion. Note too his convenient indifference to abortion when it's dealt out in chemicals instead of curettes.

An Indiana television station did a piece on the alleged incident where a girl was supposedly misled by a pregnancy center posing as an abortion clinic. They also have a video of it (which wouldn't work with my media player).

It seems the 17-year-old girl's story has changed or Planned Parenthood was lying in their original e-mail. The article says,

I could die, I was going to ruin my life, " the 17-year-old said the center told her after she had already made the decision to get an abortion.

June Maxam writes a comprehensive commentary on the recovery of Terry Wallis from a "minimally conscious state" and the unfortunate decisions that led to the death of Terri Schiavo:

Had Michael Schiavo allowed his wife therapy during the dozen years preceding her death, she may have recovered significantly and regained her speech, just like Terry Wallis of Arkansas.

She might have been able to relate what really happened the night of Feb. 25, 1990, perhaps the real reason why Michael Schiavo refused to allow any therapy or rehabilitative efforts for his wife.

And most likely, she would say that she didn't want to die.

Remember to mark your calendar for September 22, 23 2006 for the Arizona Right to Life Conference. Speakers include:

• Scott Klusendorf, Life Training Institute


• Janet Folger, Faith2Action


• Janet Morana, Priests for Life


• Austin Ruse, CFAM


• John Mark Reynolds, Biola University


• Jim Sedlak, Stop Planned Parenthood


• Martin Gillespie, RNC


• Jacque Chadwick, University of Arizona


• Melanie Welsch, Refuge Clothing

Check the website www.azrtl.org for all the important information.

the most egregious example of judicial interference in the role and rule of law. The legal disaster that is Roe v Wade has not only been responsible for the killing of over 40 million children but it has wounded the law and gutted the moral purpose for government and our legal system... Jakubczyk on Common Sense

By Judie Brown

A tragedy has unfolded in Pekin, Illinois, where a 3-year old girl was suffocated by a woman who put a plastic trash bag over the child's head. Dr. Karen McCarron, a certified pathologist, now sits in jail, facing charges of first-degree murder. That a respected medical professional is charged with such a crime is shocking enough; but you also need to know that the victim is her own daughter, and McCarron has confessed to the killing. It sounds surreal, but the numbing fact is that an innocent child's life has been brought to an end at the hands of the woman who bore her.

When I first read the story of Katie McCarron's death, it was hard for me to imagine how a mother could intentionally drain the life out of her three-year-old daughter. So I decided to learn as much as I could about this little girl and her mom. But what I discovered horrified me. What I found has convinced me that our nation's 33-year history of aborting our children has spawned a variety of attitudes that can only be described as wicked.

Katie was an autistic child; she had a number of problems that her parents had been dealing with during the years leading up to her untimely death. Like Katie, other children have been affected to varying degrees by autism and other problems. But in most cases, parents have accepted reality, learning how to best help their child and cope with the condition themselves. This can be a strain, no doubt. But a special needs child is also a blessing in many ways.

The Washington Post reports that Oglala Sioux president Cecilia Fire Thunder was fired by the Tribal Council June 29 as a direct result of her threat to open an abortion mill on her reservation should the South Dakota ban take effect. Fire Thunder did so without conferring with the Council. The Council replaced her with Alex White Plume.

A source on the reservation, Leon M., who also gets the hat tip, told me the council's action "was unbelievable but a powerful statement to the world."

Leon also corrected the Post on the vote tally: "One Councilman showed up late and voted no to impeach, but his vote was not recognized and, therefore, the vote was 9 to 4 for impeachment."

[Photo courtesy of the Washington Post]

The cartoon above was created by Dan Lacey, an outstanding artist who publishes his work at FaithMouse.

Consider the language selected to represent "Choose-Life" license plates:

Anti-abortion license plates ready to roll in Tennessee

Tennessee's anti-abortion "Choose Life" license plates could hit the streets within three months now that the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal.

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She tried to save her child:

A pregnant Chinese woman fell to her death at a hospital while trying to flee an attempt by local officials to force her to abort twins, a human rights monitoring centre said.

Li Shimei was seized at her home and taken to the hospital in the eastern city of Hefei because she already had one child when she became pregnant, a violation of China’s “one child” birth limits, the Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said, citing unidentified sources.

Li, who was seven months pregnant, fell from the Shuguang Hospital’s second floor while trying to leave because she thought the procedure was too dangerous, the Information Centre said.

Check out this article about House Rep. Dave Weldon's bill that would ban the grisly practice known as "fetal farming."

“Growing a human fetus for the purpose of harvesting his or her body parts for experimental research is something right out of the most gruesome horror movie,” Weldon, a medical doctor, told LifeNews.com.

“Unfortunately, it's also a real possibility unless the Congress acts to prohibit it," Weldon explained. "This bill will ban fetal farming before its advocates begin such unimaginable horrors in the name of science.”