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December 31, 2007

UK Teen Pregnancy Prevention Campaign Called a Failure UK Teen Pregnancy Prevention Campaign Called a Failure Despite an increase in access to contraceptives, the UK's teen pregnancy campaign has been branded a failure. According to a report in the Daily Star, Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy rate...

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Is Contraception is the ONLY way to prevent abortion? According to Christina Page, it is. In her December 9th column "The Dog Whistlers: The One Question the "Pro-life" Presidential Candidates Don't Want You to Ask ", author Christina Page claims contraception is the only way to prevent abortion: Study after study proves that contraceptive use...

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December 29, 2007

Father wavers on dehydrating daughter to death We have a new case of a young person in danger of being dehydrated to death because she is said to be in a "persistent vegetative case." Her father, who has custody, has resisted but now is wavering. We should...

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Bhutto Respected Life As reported by LifeNews: The world mourned the loss of assassinated Pakistani leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, but her death was more than a setback for those hoping for democracy in this war-torn nation. Bhutto was a member of an...

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December 27, 2007

Poll - Who is the Pro-life blogger of the year? On her blog, Jill Stanek is seeking nominations for the "Pro-lifer of the Year". Among some possible candidates are Eric Scheidler, President Bush, and Phill Kline. As for me, I'll nominate my friends Troy Newman and David Bereit, among others......

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Chicago Tribune Op Ed - Why isn't this study on the pill heeded? A recent op ed in the Chicago Tribune questions why a 2006 study linking Breast Cancer to Oral Contraceptives has largely been ignored: Not wanting to become known as the town quack, I am reluctant to write another politically incorrect...

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American Right to Life: Saving Children? I feel that this article should be posted in response to the recent ProLifeBlogs article calling the National Right to Life "Judas". I hope that the "other side" will be able to be presented now that ProLifeBlogs has decided to...

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December 25, 2007

A wonderful Christmas story - the short version A wonderful Christmas story - the short version If I had to describe the last four months of my life, it would sound like a country record played backwards - I got my wife back, my son back, and my...

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December 22, 2007

The Legacy of Judas: National Right to Life The Legacy of Judas National Right to Life Contact: Donna Ballentine, 888-888-2785 MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Brian Rohrbough, President, American RTL: Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot went to the...

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December 21, 2007

Merry Christmas from President Bush The following is a message from President Bush: Christmas 2007 "But the angel said to her, 'Do not be afraid, Mary, you have found favor with God. You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you...

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US Fertility Rate Hits 35-Year High and Environmentalists are Unhappy About It The fertility rate, which is the average number of children a woman would have during her childbearing years, hit a 35 year high of 2.1. The overall rate hit a high in 1957, and then dropped thereafter, possibly due to...

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Save the Date: Blogs For Life 2008 FRC will host the third-annual Blogs For Life conference on January 22nd, 2008 at Family Research Council Headquarters in Washington, D.C. beginning at 8:00a.m. This event will precede the March for Life, which will mark the 35th anniversary of the...

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Film When Christmas preparation crankiness set it yesterday afternoon, I knew it was time for a break. So I went to the movies. Luckily for folks in the Philly area, the quirky and humorous pro-life film Juno is currently playing in...

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Emergency Contraception Isn't In this brief story in The Hindu, an Indian news service, Dr. Hema Divakar, Chairperson of the Federation of Obsteric and Gynecological Societies in India, decries the number of women who die each year because of legal but unsafe abortions....

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December 19, 2007

Sex education increases abstinence - twisting the results It didn't take long for the virtual ink to dry for contraception zealots to claim that a study linking sex education and increased abstinence proves that sexuality education leads to more responsible behavior. "This study expands on studies that have...

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Wichita Abortion Mill Makeover by Operation Rescue Operation Rescue takes us through a former abortion facility which was bought by Operation Rescue and is being converted into their new headquarters.

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Study shows sex education found to increase abstinence A new study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, demonstrates that education may be associated with an increase in abstinence. While the study does not focus on contraception, you can be comprehensive sexuality education advocates will twist the results...

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New Stanek WND column, "'Juno': The movie pro-aborts will hate" The movie "Juno" will be released in six days, on Christmas, and I can't wait. I previewed it a month ago and loved it. That means pro-aborts will hate it. "Juno" is a great story that undermines almost all...

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December 14, 2007

PPFA's Holiday Greeting Cards Empty as Abortion My blood boiled when I first saw Planned Parenthood's "Choice on Earth" seasonal greeting cards for sale a few years back. I found the play on the words "Peace on Earth," words sacred to those of us celebrating Christmas, to...

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New ProLife Chapter Established in Westmoreland County Announcing a newly formed Chapter of the PA ProLife Federation in Westmoreland County!! With the help of Bryce McMinn, the Southwestern Pennsylvania Chapter Coordinator for the PA ProLife Federation, a Westmoreland County chapter has recently been formed. If you would...

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December 13, 2007

Abortions rising again in Illinois The Illinois abortion statistics for 2006 generated virtually no coverage when released by the Illinois Department of Public Health on November 30th. Given the recent trend of decreasing abortions in many states, including Illinois, the jump of over 3,000 abortions...

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Hillary Clinton Cuts Teen Pregnancy by 1/3 - and Al Gore Invented the Internet.. Much like Al Gore's claim that he invented the internet, Hillary is taking credit for the reduction in teen pregnancy rates between 1995 and 2005. "To address this important issue, my husband issued a call to action in 1995 to...

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December 12, 2007

32 week old baby aborted in a "lifesaving" procedure. According to an article on theAge.au.com, a 32 week old baby was aborted because the child's mother was "distressed to the point of being suicidal" as a result of learning that her unborn child was diagnosed with dwarfism. The doctor...

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New Stanek WND column, "Hillary vs. Obama: Who's the biggest baby killing champion?" MSNBC reported it "would be putting it mildly" to say a Dec. 4 press conference had "gone awry," one the Clinton campaign arranged for the head of the pro-abortion group EMILY's List to hype Hillary. It seems Barack Obama's...

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December 11, 2007

Young Colorado Activist Goes to Root of Issue Law student, and founder of the group Colorado for Equal Rights, Kristi Burton, 20, of Peyton, Colo., goes right to the root of the abortion issue -- when human life begins. "I really believe every time in history we live...

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"There Must Be Another Way:" Breakthrough Stem Cell Scientist Tells His Story. Inspiration can appear in unexpected places. Dr. Shinya Yamanaka found it while looking through a microscope at a friend's fertility clinic. Yamanaka was an assistant professor of pharmacology doing research involving embryonic stem cells when he made the social call...

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December 10, 2007

The Carbon Footprint - the New Abortion Debate? A recent and troublesome trend by environmentalists is to attach an environmental cost, in the form of a carbon footprint, to both born and unborn children. The carbon footprint, according to CarbonFootprint.com, is "a measure of the impact human activities...

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December 9, 2007

I Was Wrong, On a Couple of Counts, about the Idaho State University site. I posted late last week (now since taken down) on the apparent free speech violation I and at least one of our readers experienced at what appeared to be an ISU website, entitled ISUer.com. We were blacklisted and our comments...

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December 8, 2007

Bleeding Kansas: The Abortion State - Money and Politics The Kansas Coalition for Life's video released on November 23, 2007 was the first in a series called "Bleeding Kansas: The Abortion State." As people have actually come to Kansas from every other U.S. state and some foreign countries just...

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December 7, 2007

Live Video - Institute on the Constitution Christmas Party Michael Peroutka The Institution on the Constitution is having a Christmas party, & everybody is invited! Click here to go to see the live video until 9:00 PM Eastern. Wait a few seconds for it to load please....

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Mitt Romney just disqualified himself A month ago I wrote a post stating Fred Thompson had disqualified as one of my presidential primary picks for opposing a human life amendment or federal intervention if need be of disabled killing. Now Mitt Romney has disqualified himself...

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Planned Parenthood exploits children In case anyone needs more information on Planned Parenthood's exploitation of our children (do not watch this with your kids around): Also, check out their website for teens: TeenWire. While Governor Kaine just cut Virginia's federal funding for abstinence education,...

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How well do you know Roe v. Wade? From Alliance Defense Fund (ADF): The anniversary of Roe v. Wade is approaching again. We have found a massive discrepancy between "support" for upholding Roe and knowledge about what the decision actually did. Polls consistently show a contradiction: one on...

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Teen Birth Rates on the Rise - Speculation Without Evidence A newly released CDC report shows that there was a 3 percent increase in births among 15-19 year olds, and a 4 percent increase among those 18-19 years of age. It didn't take long for groups to offer explanations as...

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December 6, 2007

Obama may have voted "present," but Hillary voted "yes" I reported Tuesday that Hillary Clinton is giving Barack Obama heat for voting "present" on certain bills as IL state senator, seven on abortion issues, according to Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times. I know three of those were on...

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Keep the Buzz About the Movie A tip from a friend about a pro-life film sent me hunting for Juno. I was delighted with my discovery. The humorous quirkiness of Juno, rated PG-13, appears to be matched by its heart. The basics -- director, writer, cast...

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December 5, 2007

A Matter of So-Called Linguistics One phrase written in a short Associated Press item "Clinton attacks Obama's record," which ran in my morning newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer, caught my eye due to its pet peeve factor. It's one of those words or phrases that becomes...

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December 4, 2007

More Evidence: Childbirth Isn't More Life-Threatening to Mothers Than Abortion This is sadly worth noting only for the reason that, far too often when discussing the increased risks of maternal death from having an abortion, pro-choice folks defend to the death the disproven belief that "more women die from childbirth...

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Catholic Hospitals Forced into Endangering Preborn Babies: Is Your State Next? In the wake of Connecticut's tyrannical law that requires even Catholic hospitals to provide "emergency contraception" (i.e. abortifacient drugs) to rape victims, Rev. Deacon Tom Davis argues that pro-life advocates in other states should begin preparing even now for the...

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Breaking news: New group challenges National Right to Life I was given this news tip yesterday, but actually Time magazine broke the story November 21, which no one apparently picked up on, perhaps because it was only posted online: [B]ut what's clear is that the anti-abortion movement is fractured....

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December 3, 2007

Of These Presidential Candidates, Only ONE Consistently Believes in a Federal Ban on Abortion We live in a country that revolves around rights and freedoms. We have the right to make certain choices about our lives, we have the freedom to do so. However, those rights and those freedoms come to an end when...

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Post-abortion awareness group seeks public support Silent No More, a post-abortion awareness campaign, is seeking signatures of support for a letter to the American Psychological Association. Specifically, the letter seeks dialogue with the APA's Task Force on Abortion and Mental Health. Silent No More would like...

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Where Was Amnesty International When Gillian Gibbons Needed Them? Gillian Gibbons, the mild-mannered British teacher who was imprisoned and threatened with tortuous punishment for naming a teddy bear Mohammed, is finally leaving Sudan after being granted a full presidential pardon. Sudanese president Omar al Bashir cleared the teacher...

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December 1, 2007

CNN the Magician and Its Secret: Accomplices-in-the-Audience Exposed So CNN plants numerous, known, Democrats/anti-Republicans as though they are common ordinary unaffiliated questioners in the GOP debate, then gets outed for it, then accuses its critics of stalking them. Don't that beat all. No wonder I thought there were...

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Breaking news: Georgia RTL bucks National RTL on prez endorsement The Georgia Right to Life PAC released a press release yesterday afternoon endorsing Mike Huckabee for president, snubbing National Right to Life's pick, Fred Thompson. The first paragraph is verrrry interesting: The mission of Georgia Right to Life PAC is......

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