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August 30, 2007

Wrong baby killed in Down syndrome abortion Here's one you'll never see in the American Mainstream Media: Vatican ire over botched twin abortion Herald Sun, Australia, August 30, 2007 A BOTCHED abortion of a fetus instead of its Down syndrome twin has prompted the Vatican to compare...

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Evangelicals birth control free - your input needed I am working on an article on Evangelicals who've given up birth control in order to surrender their family size to God (as my husband and I did in 1985). Please visit MommyLife if you would like to share your...

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August 29, 2007

New Stanek WND column, "Planned Parenthood driven underground" NOTE: WorldNetDaily.com is running a companion news article to my column today, entitled, "Deception built super-secret abortion clinic." I'm not involved in municipal politics, but it would seem to me bad form for a business to sneak its way into...

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Pro-Choicers Giddy That More Women Die in Childbirth! Pro-choicers are triumphantly holding up the papers of a recent study that shows that more women have been dying from childbirth in the United States--higher than they have been in decades. Pro-choicers now think that somehow they have more ammo...

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August 28, 2007

Women Speak Out On Hillary My commentary "Women Speak Out On Hillary" was published today in Philadelphia's Family Newspaper, The Bulletin. You will find a link to the complete story here. It begins: A recent poll indicated that women have issues with Hillary. Americans might...

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Honoring Eli - A Pro-Life Mom's Experience One Thursday night in June, I placed our two year old, Abby, in her bed, kissed her forehead and settled in for a much needed slumber next to my husband, Larry. Life was good. Our family would be welcoming a...

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Did Planned Parenthood commit fraud against Aurora, or are officials in on it? Backdrop.... From the Chicago Tribune, July 27, 2007: Neighbors who drive by the bustling construction site in Aurora think they are seeing the completion of the "Gemini Health Center," just as the sign says.... But in a few weeks the...

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August 27, 2007

"Big News" is really No News in the embryonic stem cell industry... Why It Isn't Just The "Lady Justice Statue" That's Blindfolded The liberal media is just faint with breathless overexcitement today, oh, my: Human embryonic stem cells heal the hearts of rats. Pardon my Noo Yawk bluntness, but-- big freakin' whoop....

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Embryonic Stem Cells Repair Human Heart? Not Hardly Here is a classic case of how a headline can misinform, even mislead the reader who doesn't carefully read the story itself. The headline emblazons this amazing breakthrough, "Embryonic Stem Cells Repair Human Heart," but the story itself proves the...

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August 26, 2007

Study/Survey Being Done On Pain of Abortion...
ALSO: Website for Men Dealing With Regret The research is being conducted by Drs. Catherine Coyle, Vincent Rue, and Priscilla Coleman. Through this new website, they hope to increase our understanding of how abortion affects individuals. In addition, the exploratory nature of this research may help to...

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Pro-life protest at Aurora Planned Parenthood by Jill Stanek...

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August 24, 2007

Wash For Life: Help Support Pregnancy Centers on September 15! On Saturday, September 15 young people across the nation will arm themselves with scrub brushes, soap suds, and hoses and do battle for the pro-life cause. The second annual Wash for Life recruits young people to hold car washes...

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It's Not Enough, Rudy. It's Just Not Enough. Despite his commitment to legalized abortion, Rudy Giuliani is desperately trying to woo pro-life Republicans by talking loud and long about his promise to appoint only strict constructionists to the Supreme Court. But, as Daniel Allott , a senior writer...

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August 23, 2007

Reproductive Health Hazards in New Jersey II "Inspections of N.J. licensed abortion clinics are rare" reported New Jersey's Press of Atlantic City in something equally rare -- an investigative news report on abortion facilities. "Health officials inspected only one of the state's six licensed abortion clinics in...

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Sweet Baby Everytime I dial in, AOL offers me several news articles to tap into at my leisure. Today one caught my eye and click, click I learned Ms. Magazine will be publishing 1,016 names of women who are unashamed of the...

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More Than A Chit-Chat About Abortion In one of those miraculous moments of stark honesty with a stranger, a lovely mother and grandmother shared a deeply personal and painful family secret with a mutual friend and me. We were the remnants of a pleasant gathering at...

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August 22, 2007

Dueling Urban Legends: Safety and Less Abortions With Plan B
and... ...Plan B As "Loss Leader" for Planned Parenthood and The Rich Get Richer (But It Ain't Who You Think) Point One: Check back here on this blog in oh, about, August 2027, when there will have been enough longitudinal evidence...

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New Stanek WND column, "Liberal misogynitis" The word misogyny means "hatred of, or hostility toward, women," and in case you haven't noticed, liberals consider it the grooviest word to hit the planet since groovy. Just this past week liberal bloggers used misogyny, misogynic, misogynist or misogynists...

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August 21, 2007

Another music video about saving sex... Sense Field - "Save Yourself" h/t Dawn Eden...

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When men just want relations and not relationships - (Updated with video...) Recently while traveling on a bus to Coney Island with my son, I overheard a conversation between two men regarding abortion. One of the men was talking about how his girlfriend was pregnant and that he didn't want the baby,...

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Preemies Speak for Life Without Saying a Word Another "Tiny 'Miracle' Baby Finally Goes Home," reported the Associated Press. Tamara Dixon was born in Trenton, N.J. Congratulations to Andrea Haws and her husband Terry Dixon on the homecoming of Tamara, the answer to her mother's prayers. "Doctors gave...

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August 20, 2007

(Prolifer)ations I blogged last week that I was impacted by an article stating liberal bloggers do a much better job of linking and cooperating with one another than do conservatives. So in an effort to build community, I launched a new...

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Aborting Women Are So Decieved The other day I saw part of a Frontline documentary, linked to here by my new friend Jill Stanek. It was about abortion, made in 1983. On Jill's post, there is an explanation as well as two large photo links...

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Cort participates in Operation Save America 's Emancipation Proclamation signing Birmingham, AL (July 17, 2007) - Counterterrorism expert, author and candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, Dr. Hugh Cort, participated in the signing of Operation Save America's Emancipation Proclamation in Birmingham, Alabama yesterday. Operation Save America's Emancipation Proclamation gives...

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August 18, 2007

Arthur Miller had a son with Down syndrome - part 2 Read Arthur Miller had Part One first. I had many more comments I wanted to make on this article, but I wanted to make sure you read it first because I so appreciated the skill with which the author took...

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August 17, 2007

Arthur Miller had a son with Down syndrome We never knew that did we? We only knew what we learned of Arthur Miller in high school and college or our further pursuit of theater. He was touted by many as America's greatest playwright. And his life didn't lack...

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Prenatal diagnosis - raising public awareness and eliminating fear Dear Barbara (MommyLife) I am the mother of 11 children, the last has trisomy 18. Peter is 21/2 and a great joy and blessing to his family. After my experience I felt called by the Lord to help others who...

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Swimming lessons for infants can help save lives.. While this video isn't about abortion, it's still about saving babies... Amazingly, babies can be taught to roll over if they fall into a swimming pool. Of course parents should never take their eyes off of their babies, but it...

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August 16, 2007

Birth Control Patch Video - Alleged Cause of Death Brought to you by the No Room for Contraception Campaign. Visit the campaign's website at http://www.noroomforcontraception.com Click here to find out more about the potential dangers of "the patch" Note: There are more than 1000 claimants who have filed lawsuits...

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Edgy Pro-Abort Ad Aids Pro-Life Movement New York City's Manhattan Mini Storage company, known for its edgy advertising, unintentionally aided the pro-life movement with its most recent ad campaign. The company's new billboards feature a huge coat hanger and the message "Your closet space is shrinking...

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August 15, 2007

Applying Principles of Economics to Abortion Law-abiding friends and acquaintances who had abortions back in the late 1970s and early 1980s would probably not have made that lamentable choice if abortion was illegal, I've often thought. Economist John R. Lott, Jr., offers evidence that my instincts...

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Abortion, the 2008 Election, and William Wilberforce William Wilberforce is one of my few heroes. He was a British Parliamentarian, and the leader in the abolition of the slave trade in Europe. I also consider him to be, though less recognized as, a hero of the fruits...

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New Stanek WND column, "Killer cupids" The abortion industry cannot let the Partial Birth Abortion Ban go, for three reasons.... So the industry has embarked on an interesting public relations campaign. Although it maintained for 15 years during PBA Ban court battles that the number committed...

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August 14, 2007

Pro-Life Education Association Sept 8 Awards Brunch PRO-LIFE EDUCATION ASSOCIATION (PLEA) ANNUAL AWARDS BRUNCH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2007 10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON at THE SENATOR in Augusta (off Interstate 95) Registration begins at 9:15 AM Cost: $15.00 per person AWARD RECIPIENTS: CHARLA BANSLEY - State Director,...

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Christina Page's Spin on "Pro-choice" Policy - Giving Credit Where Credit Isn't Due Posted on the No Room for Contraception Blog by Ruben In an opinion piece published today on the Huffington Post, author Christina Page asserts that it is the "Pro-choice" movement which "takes responsibility for finding effective solutions" to the problems...

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Neonaticide as 'an Act of Delayed Abortion' Forensic psychologist Geoff McKee provided an informative explanation of the mindset of women who commit neonaticide in his opinion piece published in yesterday's Los Angeles Times. McKee notes the difficulty of prosecuting cases like the one in Maryland where four...

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August 13, 2007

Lawsuit moves MI Gov. Granholm to remove embryonic stem cell petition from website The Associated Press reported August 9 that the Thomas More Law Center in Ann Arbor is suing MI Democrat Gov. Jennifer Granholm for discrimination: Granholm, who wants to lift Michigan's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, has a link on...

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What Perfect World Would Pro-Choicers Want? From NathanSheets.com: On the Portland State University campus I am considered more radical than the socialists who have no qualms in declaring their hatred of free speech--they actually say that groups like the Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) should not be...

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Summertime Living is Supposed to be Easy Consider this sampling of headlines from the Saturday and Sunday editions of one of my local newspapers, The Philadelphia Inquirer. "As suspect surrenders, a family gives up on city"because Lu Jiaxing, 49, was murdered by that suspect during a robbery...

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FPA Back Door Tactics The Family Planning Association (FPA) have a plan to introduce abortion into Ireland North and South, whether we like it or not. In The North of Ireland the FPA calls itself the fpa(NI) in the Republic there is a sister...

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August 12, 2007

Why Rudy Giuliani is Unfit for Office Mark Pickup comments:Here is an Objective truth: Abortion is wicked. It is murder of the weakest and most defenseless. Any politician who defends abortion is unfit for public office. They do not support the first universal human right which is...

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It's a grisly practice How are abortion clinics protecting themselves against charges under the partial-birth abortion ban? By ensuring unborn babies are dead by injecting them first with lethal drugs before aborting them....

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August 11, 2007

Rush Limbaugh, Christ Hospital, and Barack Obama Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh had a caller on who spotlighted Christ Hospital, its involvement in the hideous practice of aborting babies alive and letting them die, and the connection to Barack Obama, who as state senator spoke and voted against IL's...

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August 8, 2007

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Window-shopping for PPFA Products Planned Parenthood's online store was scheduled to reopen today. But the "Reopening August 8th" sign still sits on the webpage door. I'm bummed. I was so looking forward to window-shopping. The folks at PPFA must be too busy selling abortions....

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New Stanek WND column, "Helen Thomas' kind of life" On Aug. 4, White House journalist Helen Thomas celebrated her 87th birthday. I'm 51 and already worried about someday being a burden, dependent on others to care for me. Thomas apparently is not. That or she hasn't connected the...

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Recycled Chinese Slogans Could Help 'Pro-Choice' Cause According to a recent LifeNews article, China is changing its slogans for its family-planning programs, which include a one-child-per-family policy enforced by compulsory abortions and sterilizations. The slogans are part of an ongoing effort to improve China's image as a...

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August 7, 2007

Political Pro-Life Pettiness Not Pretty The testy exchange between Republican presidential candidates Sam Brownback and Mitt Romney about their pro-life credentials during the Des Moines debate reeked of pro-life pettiness. Brownback won 1st Pettiness Prize from my perspective as a convert to the cause after...

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Dr. Maria Kraw - Medical Consequences of Contraception - Part 3 John Pacheco of the SoCon or Bust blog has uploaded part 3 of 12 of the series onto YouTube. In these informative video, Dr. Maria Kraw, an endocrinologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, uses slides and medical facts...

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Fearmongering for Abortion Rights Every once in a while I take a web walk on the other side to learn what the pro-choice chattering set has on its mind. Yesterday's stroll led me to a doozy of an abortion-friendly commentary, courtesy of RH Reality...

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More On Consequences of Illegal Abortions Last week I wrote about how even pro-lifers discriminate against the unborn when saying that women should not be punished for having abortions if and when abortion should become illegal. Silent No More, the nation's leading post-abortion group, has just...

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August 6, 2007

Per UPI, abortionists are "health officials"; mills are "agencies" The first two paragraphs of the July 30 UPI article likely duped the vast unwashed: Several U.S. health officials argued that the passage of the Partial Birth Abortion Act is forcing more dangerous procedures to occur. Health officials through agencies...

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"Persistent Vegetative State" Diagnoses Too Often A Rush To Judgement From Political Mavens [HT from DWT at DL] A study by the Coma Science Group of the University of Liège, Belgium, finds that up to half of patients in an acute vegetative state regain some level of consciousness. In the...

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August 1, 2007

A Matter of Life and Linguistics "Legal, forensic obstacles abound in case of Maryland infants" is the headline on a recent Associated Press/CNN report about the four dead fetuses found in the home of Christy Freeman. You read that correctly. It says "infants." The story notes...

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Live video from Arundel Mall at ProLifeNews.tv Click hereto go to ProLifeNews.tv and watch live video of the Maryland Face the Truth Tour 2007...

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CEDAW and Abortion: The Evidence Is In You say you believe it when reporters, United Nations spokespersons and Democrat politicians assure you that CEDAW (the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women treaty) isn't about abortion? Then how do you explain the following?...

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Dr. Maria Kraw - Medical Consequences of Contraception (YouTube) John Pacheco of the SoCon or Bust blog has uploaded two videos to YouTube of a presentation given by Dr. Maria Kraw, an endocrinologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada. In these informative videos, Dr. Kraw uses slides and...

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Government-Imposed Involuntary Euthanasia Title IV effectively ends the ability of older Americans, if they choose, to add their own money on top of what the government will pay in order to get Medicare health insurance less likely to ration life-saving medical treatment -- by ending the "private fee-for-service" alternative that gives them this legal option. We urge your "no" vote on the CHAMP Act.

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Wisconsin Senate Democrat State Health Insurance Plan Equals Taxpayer-Funded Abortions "If the Healthy Wisconsin state health insurance plan is adopted by the budget conference committee, 30 years of protecting Wisconsin taxpayers from paying for most abortions will be wiped out and Wisconsin taxpayers could be put in the terrible position...

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What About Dead Fetuses Found in Clinics? We're shocked and appalled when we read that "Police Find Four Fetuses in Mom's Home," as reported by the Associated Press. No wonder. The first of the four dead babies, a boy described by authorities as a "viable fetus/infant," was...

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Lack of Non-Existent Partial-Birth Abortion Procedure Hurting Women From NathanSheets.com United Press International recently wrote a report about the supposed increased risks that are coming following the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban. "Health officials through agencies like Michigan's WomanCare have pointed out that since the U.S. Supreme Court passed the...

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