Pro-life blog buzz 4-23-13

from Jill Stanek.com

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Secular Pro-Life highlights the absurdity of an article which blames pro-life protesters and sidewalk counselors for failing to stop Kermit Gosnell’s killings – never mind the fact that NARAL observed the clinic’s deplorable conditions and did absolutely nothing. Amazing.
• ProLifeBlogs shares the news that three of the eight murder charges against Gosnell were dropped by the judge today:
  
  Testimony from the medical examiner and toxicologist has indicated that there was no evidence the babies were injected with Digoxin to ensure the babies were dead prior to the abortion, as the defense has claimed.
  The medical examiner testified that tests were inconclusive as proof that the babies were born alive. However, the tests also did not prove the babies were dead prior to birth. Those inconclusive test results were overshadowed by the weight of testimony from witness after witness, who detailed how the babies were in fact living prior to being murdered through what one witness described as a “virtual beheading.”
  

• Women’s Rights Without Frontiers exposes further disregard for human life in China, where 10-year-old Zhang Anni (pictured left) was taken from school and held without food or water for 20 hours in retaliation for her father’s actions exposing government corruption. Reggie Littlejohn writes:
  
  I believe that the Chinese Communist Party persecutes, detains and tortures the families of dissidents in an attempt to silence them. The CCP will commit serious human rights violations against children to stifle freedom of speech. This is state-sponsored child abuse.
• Wesley J. Smith notes his objections to a bill working its way through the Texas Legislature which would give doctors the right to impose a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) order on a patient’s chart without the patient’s consent.
• John Smeaton has a news brief discussing the conflict between sex education promoters and parental rights advocates, as well as a synopsis of the late Margaret Thatcher’s voting record on family and life issues.
• Reflections of a Paralytic agrees with a recent article that claims the Gosnell story is really about more than abortion:
  
  It’s not a story about abortion. It’s a story about what happens when you replace the family with free love that turns out to be neither free nor love. Like teaching first graders sex ed or handing out condoms on the street, abortion is one of the ways that the liberal state tries to limit the fallout from its destruction of the family.

Pro-life blog buzz 4-19-13

from Jill Stanek.com


by Susie Allen, host of the blog,Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli

We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! EmailSusie@jillstanek.com.

Down on the Pharm highlights a report showing the abortion industry’s claim that the problem with abortionist Kermit Gosnell isn’t infanticide. The real problems – to them – are the restrictions, regulations, and lack of taxpayer funding for late-term abortions.

Big Blue Wave posts a list of top ten most notorious abortionists, demonstrating that Kermit Gosnell is far from being the outlier that pro-choicers claim he is.

Abstinence Clearinghouse shares an article about a new dating website – for people with STDs. Using a drop-down menu, users can find potential mates with their same STD. Looks like some entrepreneurs found a new way to cash in on our culture’s promotion of recreational sex.


At Coming Home, Dr. Gerard Nadal offers his perspective on why the Gosnell case matters and why society wants to avoid it:

We cannot long survive as a civilization of rational human beings with that sort of mentality. American exceptionalism has been consumed by radicalized autonomy, and in the process biomedical ethics, politics, and common decency have been savaged….

To look into the face of Kermit Gosnell is to look in the American mirror, a rare glimpse of clarity as the fog temporarily lifts from the mirror.

Clinic Quotes has a quote from former staffer for the late abortionist George Tiller on how Tiller managed to keep his employees from learning the realities of the late-term abortion practice.

Americans United for Life applauds the Florida House’s unanimous passage of Born Alive Infants Protection legislation. AUL’s Dr.Charmaine Yoest urges the Florida Senate to pass the bill and send it to the governor.

FRC Blog writes about the lawsuit filed against the HHS Mandate by Michael Potter, CEO of Eden Foods– a company which is “organic” and popular with liberals. In typical liberal fashion, Salon published a “hit piece” publicizing the suit and “fram[ing] Potter as a man with an anti-birth control agenda.”

MN Citizens Concerned for Life calls out Whole Woman’s Health, an abortion clinic in Minneapolis, which advertises same-day abortions – which makes them either guilty of false advertising or of illegally ignoring the state’s mandatory 24-hour waiting period before an abortion.

Ethika Politika compares the drone program to the sexual revolution ushered in with the birth control pill and later, the morning-after pill:

"The promises of drones, like those of The Pill, are fraught with unintended ramifications that dramatically outweigh any potential benefits the technology can offer. The aftermath of widespread birth control and the sexual revolution are present before our eyes, a testament to the disastrous results of allowing technological potential to have mastery over our behavior."

[Top photo via USA Today]

Pro-life blog buzz 4-16-13

From Jill Stanek.com

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Secular Pro-Life quotes former Delaware Planned Parenthood abortion workers who help to discredit the idea that Kermit Gosnell is an outlier among abortionists.
• Big Blue Wave reports that the media bias surrounding the Gosnell murder trial will be discussed by Brian Lilley of Canada’s Sun News.

• Scott Klusendorf describes some good ways pastors can address the Gosnell trial in their congregations. He also discusses a recent debate he had in front of 600 university students with Malcolm Potts (pictured left), a “Cambridge-trained obstetrician and reproductive scientist… [who] is the first holder of the Fred H. Bixby endowed chair in Population and Family Planning in the School of Public Health, Berkeley,” in which Potts had what can only be described as a complete meltdown.
• ProWomanProLife notes the pro-choice successes in the “terminology war” which dehumanizes the preborn child in the abortion debate.
• Pro-Life Action League applauds Alaska Governor Sean Parnell as well as Sen. Mike Dunleavy for admonishing state employees who tried to suppress the First Amendment rights of pro-lifers in Juneau by blocking their signs and even manhandling some of them:
  
  “It was totally inappropriate that employees of the Department of Administration, the Court System and the Legislature were involved in parking state vehicles in front of the peacefully assembled demonstrators, who were violating no state law,” Governor Parnell said. “I do not condone infringing on Alaskans’ constitutional liberties. I have given direction to the Department of Administration to ensure this does not happen in the future unless public safety is at risk or the rule of law violated. I urge the Legislature and the Court System to do the same for their employees.”
  
  
  

Respected to reckless...did daily abortions drive Gosnell insane?? What's our excuse??

How did Dr. Kermit Gosnell who was once considered a prominent community leader interested in giving back go from "respected  to reckless." This article discusses his rise and fall...... from helping the poor to having such a low regard for life.....concern for  the poor to exploiting them. He definitely had an interest in making money.

As I read reports of who this man is I asked myself...can you remain the same person when you practice the grisly practice of abortion everyday?  It certainly hardens and changes you. From a dr. who made house calls to one who cut feet from the babies butchered  and keep them in jars as trophies. Did doing this everyday make him mad? But the defense is not saying he is innocent by reason of insanity...just innocent cause the babies he routinely aborted were really dead when they exited the mother's womb and he only snipped their necks to ensure fetal demise. 

Gosnell, an African American, treated women of color with disdain and saved the one clean room for white women. While the abortion industry has tried to distance themselves from him, the charade is falling away. Doctors referred patients to him. NARAL may have rejected his application but never bothered to report. PA authorities routinely ignored complaints; failed to inspect. A change in administration from a pro life governor to a pro choice one is cited as reasons for the lack of inspections by the Grand Jury report.  Shame all around...from media  to not reporting, to govt. agencies for not inspecting, to public for thinking infants have no value.  The list goes on and on.

Just as Gosnell went from respected to being on trial  for mass murder...his heart hardened to the killing that he could joke as he killed infants...gallows humor.....so does the society who are obsessed with finalists of Dancing with the Stars that it makes the nightly news but  turns away from news about  the butchering of babies.  Gosnell may really be insane but what does that make us??




Pix: Philadelphia DA?Grand Jury Report

NARAL sees illegalities at Gosnell clinic but did not report. Should be held criminally negligent for this failure

Read this  article and tell me why NARAL is not criminally negligent when they saw violations and failed to report them. How many deaths could they have prevented?  The  authorities in PA  who  refused to follow up on complaints starting from pro choice Gov. Tom Ridge should be liable as well.  Amazing that inspections stopped once a pro choice gov replaced a pro life one.
But NARAL has no reason to be proud of themselves here. 

"This nightmare facility had not been inspected in 17 years – other than by someone from the National Abortion Federation, whom he actually invited there. For whatever reason, Gosnell applied for NAF membership two days after the death of the 41-year-old Nepalese woman, Karnamaya Mongar. Even on a day when the place had been scrubbed and spiffed up for the visit, the NAF investigator found it disgusting and rejected Gosnell's application for membership. But despite noting many outright illegalities, including a padlocked emergency exit in a part of the clinic where women were left alone overnight, the grand jury report notes that the NAF inspector did not report any of these violations to authorities:"

Pro-life blog buzz 4-12-13

from Jill Stanek.com

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Clinic Quotes has a chilling reminder of the history that we should not forget. Did you know the company that manufactured the poison gas used in Nazi gas chambers is the same company that obtained the patent for chemical abortion drug RU-486?

• Abolitionist Society of OK, though sometimes criticized for being judgmental of others in the pro-life movement, has graphics and messaging that speak to the abortion issue without apology. This poster (pictured left; click to enlarge) is no exception:
  
  A silent church that meets down the street from an abortion mill may have a number of true believers. But if those believers know about abortion and yet do nothing about it, then they are likely in sin and not practicing true Christianity. It is in this sense that one could say that it is merely a “church” – it may contain believers, but if it is not being salt and light in the world around it, then what is its purpose?
• Abstinence Clearinghouse helps parents prepare their teen for prom season. Let’s not allow “buy the hot dress” and “here’s a condom” to be the only messages they hear.
• Big Blue Wave exposes the combining of late term “therapeutic” abortions with stillbirth numbers in British Columbia, causing the numbers to increase by 137%. Of course, the mainstream media sees a plus side to this:
  
  The increase has had a concurrent effect as it has meant fewer births of babies with severe congenital anomalies, a B.C. study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal shows.
  Eugenic philosophy clearly hasn’t gone out of style.
• Culture Campaign continues to hammer the media blackout of abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s trial:
  
  [The Media Research Center] reports that there has been no network coverage on ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NPR or PBS, and just one brief mention on CNN.

• Live Action promotes the compelling story of well-known Christian artist Ron DiCianni, who was reportedly “saved from abortion minutes before he was scheduled to die” and is now promoting a campaign to get one of his paintings (pictured right; click to enlarge) placed in pregnancy centers – and even in abortion clinics.
• Bound4Life encourages prayer for Israel, particularly that their attitudes toward the preborn would be changed:
  
  … [W]omen are forced to serve in the Israeli army and that while they serve they get two free abortions, and most women take advantage of this “free service.” I have since learned that abortion is pushed by authority and preferred. It is almost a rite of passage or a badge of honor for women who serve in the IDF. It is becoming a part of the culture, just like keeping kosher. Women who conceive and choose to keep their child are immediately expelled from the army. They also perform abortions all the way up to 38 weeks, when the child could certainly survive on his or her own. The baby tragically has no rights and is not considered to be a person until the umbilical cord is cut.
  Pregnancy resource centers in Israel also need our prayers and support.
• Down on the Pharm wonders how far MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry’s comments against “the private notion that children belong to their parents” actually go:
  
  Now that Planned Parenthood and Obama are Out of the Closet for Infanticide, will the community have anything to say about this?
  At what point of development does the baby become community property?
  Will you be allowed to conceive without village approval?
  Will the community direct when you should have an abortion?
  
• The Guiding Star Project has a two-part post containing healing resources for victims of sexual assault:
  
  According to RAINN.org, young women ages 12-34 are the population at highest risk of becoming victims of sexual assault. What does this statistic tell us? It tells us that rape often occurs during a young woman’s formative years, and that there are a great deal of sexual assault survivors that grow up to be mothers.

[Photos via Abolitionist Society and Live Action]

Pro-life blog buzz 4-9-13

from Jill Stanek.com

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• ProWomanProLife posts results of a recent Canadian survey on sex-selective abortion in which 95% of Canadians did not support it. A companion post illustrates the disconnect pro-choicers seem to have on this issue.

• Women’s Rights without Frontiers reveals another death at the hands of China’s forced sterilization policy. Shen Hongxia, a wife and mother of two, was subject to sterilization despite the fact that “[her] doctor had clearly warned that sterilizing her could kill her [which] makes her death the responsibility of the Family Planning Officers who forced this violent surgery upon her…. Those responsible for her death should face serious criminal charges.” Reggie Littlejohn says “The Family Planning Bureau and the Village Committee attempted to cover up their criminal responsibility by making an agreement to compensate the family by installments, and to build them a house. Family members felt forced to sign the agreement, as they saw no other way to seek relief.”
• Fr. Frank Pavone discusses why pro-lifers conduct funerals for aborted children:
  
  [T]he People of Life… are not ashamed or afraid to honor in public those who are dishonored in secret by the hidden violence of abortion. By gathering in large numbers to bury aborted children, and by letting as many people as possible know about it, they make up in some small way for the callous disregard in which these children are held by many in our society.
• Wesley J. Smith lauds the courage of pro-life students on today’s campuses, who face “disdain, even open scorn, from peers, repeated put downs by professors, occasional threats of violence, and sometimes, an uncooperative attitude from the administration.”

• Sometimes a picture – like this one, right, posted by Pro-Life Wisconsin – says it all (click to enlarge).
• Pro-Life Action League shares photos sent in by locations around the country that participated in the Good Friday Way of the Cross, an “ecumenical… gather[ing] at… local abortion facilities to… offer[] prayers for children in the womb, mothers, fathers, abortion workers and our whole nation in union with the suffering of Christ in His Passion.”
• Secular Pro-Life posts videos of their presentations at various universities, including Columbia University, their very first visit to an Ivy League school. Since the majority of these students expect the opposition to abortion to come from faith-based groups, their reactions to secular arguments should be interesting.

• Pro-Life in TN spots a post by Creative Minority Report with an interesting find: the Florida Planned Parenthood lobbyist who infamously advocated for allowing infanticide has a professional bio touting her service on the board of Catholic Charities. CMR confirmed that Alisa LaPolt Snow departed that position in January, but she still lists it – along with other clients she serves which have an interest in providing pediatric care. On this point, the Washington Examiner scrutinizes the alliance of Catholic Charities with the Obama Administration on the HHS contraceptive mandate, in opposition to Church teaching.

PP lobbyist advocating for infanticide lists Catholic Charities board membership on her bio...

Can it get any worse than this? The lobbyist for Florida Alliance of Planned Parenthood Affiliates , Alisa Lapolt Snow,  became infamous via the Internet, for her jaw dropping advocacy of infanticide or post birth abortion. All this  while arguing against pending legislation requiring doctors to provide emergency medical care to a baby that survives an abortion.

LaPolt Snow of Snow  Strategies...boasts her client list of child caring firms...quite a departure from her 'let's leave it up to the abortionist and the mother who hired him/her'  to decide what to do with the baby that survived a botched abortion.

• Caring Hearts Pediatric Extended Care Center
• Caring for Kids
• Children First/Children's Care Campus
• Children's Rehab Network
• Children's Week/Capitol Events Inc.
• Cradling Hands Pediatric Care 

 What is even more jaw dropping is her bio on her website.

"Alisa is a graduate of the University of Tennessee where she earned a bachelor’s degree in communications/journalism. She was a founding member and secretary of the Sunset Rotary Club of Tallahassee and serves on the board of Catholic Charities of Northwest Florida-Tallahassee. She is a member of the Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists."

Catholic Charities huh??? Creative Minority could not believe his eyes so he followed up with a call to Catholic Charities who confirmed that she departed her board position in January. No further comment from CC. Note that she still lists it on her professional bio. 

Joel Gehrke of the Washington Examiner notes:

"Catholic Charities USA does not support abortion, but this may nonetheless be something to keep in mind next White House Press Secretary Jay Carney argues that the contraception mandate doesn’t infringe on the religious liberty of Roman Catholics because “Catholic Charities and the Catholic Health Association have expressed their support for this policy, and we obviously appreciate that.”

pix: Lifesite News

Nashville Way of the Cross ...150 people pray while death occurs across the street....

The Way of the Cross in Nashville, TN in front of the Women's Center on Welshwood was a success despite the cold and rainy weather. Approximately 150 men, women and children came out to pray in this ecumenical prayer service known as the Way of the Cross. Children held 14 large crosses symbolizing the walk of Jesus to his death. Other students held pictures in front of each  cross as the remembrance was read.

Unknown to most,  there was a  spiritual battle taking place inside the abortion mill. I  received a text message when I was preparing to leave for the vigil....needing to arrive early to set up. It was from a friend who serves on a pro life board with me. A relative of hers was inside that very abortion facility on that day to get an abortion. Many individuals were communicating with her via text message (by the way, this abortion mill  does not want cell phone in there for this very reason) trying to get her to change her mind. One birth mother,who made an adoption plan,  was texting her telling her story of choosing life and adoption for her son. Prayers were offered. Pleas to consider another option were ignored and this "strong willed " girl went though with the abortion. This was occurring while 150 people were outside praying the way of the cross and remembering the journey that our Savior made for us some 2000 years ago as He walked to his death by crucifixion.  A most cruel and painful death....and inside  this building  another  life was also facing a death .....by dismemberment. It might sound terrible to be so blunt but that is the way it is and we shouldn't pretend that it is a pretty way to die.

The relative  who tried to intervene, herself a mother by adoption, was disheartened. I sent her a picture of the men, women and children praying outside. It may be  some comfort to know that this little one was remembered in prayer acknowledging her/his brief existence. I know as co coordinator it gave me some solace. Here is one of my favorite pictures.

Check out Pro Life Action League for more pictures around the country including Nashville and then read Fr. Frank Pavones's commentary on Killed in Darkness, Remembered in Light. 

Pro-life blog buzz 4-5-13

from Jill Stanek.com

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• Abortion State discusses a lawsuit filed against Planned Parenthood for defrauding taxpayers:
  
  The lawsuit alleges that Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest filed at least 25,000 false claims with HRSA for reimbursements in excess of the amount allowed for oral contraceptive pills and at least another 25,000 for reimbursements in excess of the amount allowed for “emergency contraceptive” (Plan B) pills under the federal government’s 340B drug reimbursement program. Total damages could be as much as $377,134,130.

• Pro-Life in TN catches an amazing story about a mother who survived a tragic car accident thanks to recently giving birth. While her 2-week-old son survived, her mother and 3-year-old daughter lost their lives:
  
  Since the wreck, [Megan] Bouge [pictured left, with husband Brandon] said… [a] surgeon told her that the levels of progesterone that remained in her body from giving birth two weeks prior to the crash was what saved her life because of the healing effects of the hormone.
  “If I wouldn’t have been pregnant two weeks prior, would I be here?” Bouge asked. “And that’s a God thing. Who else could do that?”
  

• Big Blue Wave showcases an abstract study from Spain that shows that increased use of contraceptives among the country’s youth has increased, rather than decreased, the abortion rate.
• Abstinence Clearinghouse discusses the issue of delaying marriage and how this delay doesn’t always delay childbirth, which leads to children being subjected to a “revolving cast of caretakers and the social, emotional and financial fallout associated with family instability and single parenthood.”
• Down on the Pharm reminds readers that the deadline to comment to the Department of Health and Human Services regarding Obamacare is April 8. Have your say.

• Bound4Life is spreading the word about Exodus 2013 on April 8, an effort by Abby Johnson’s new ministry outreach to abortion industry workers, And Then There Were None. ATTWN’s plan for workers is to “help you find new job opportunities in your area… [and] provide you with financial assistance to make sure your rent and bills are paid, food is on the table, and gas is in your car while you job hunt… [as well as] free legal representation.”
• American Life League’s Judie Brown connects the dots between Chicago’s huge decline in public school students to both gun violence and a high abortion rate, which seem to be taking their toll. And it isn’t just Chicago that is seeing a decrease in the number of children. Brown says, “America is on the decline and one of the major reasons is the wholesale killing of innocent babies prior to birth.”

Progesterone from recent birth helps mother heal from tragic car accident

Great quote from an  article detailing the horrific experience of this middle TN family.   On January 28th,  Megan Bouge was traveling with her mother, 3 year old daughter and two week old son.  A car crossed the center line and several lines   to hit her head on. Killed immediately was the driver of the car crossing the line and the mother of Bouge. Her three year old daughter succumbed to her injuries several days later. Bouge was critically injured and her two week old son was uninjured. Now the mother is released from the hospital and will continue her recovery at home.

The Bouges are thankful for the help of many friends and strangers including the prayer and report their  faith will continue to sustain them. Bouge  had an  interesting observation about how her recent birth helped her heal from injuries sustained in the car accident.

"Since the wreck, Bouge said she’s been told many times that she wouldn’t have survived. A surgeon told her that the levels of progesterone that remained in her body from giving birth two weeks prior to the crash was what saved her life because of the healing effects of the hormone."

“If I wouldn’t have been pregnant two weeks prior, would I be here?” Bouge asked. “And that’s a God thing. Who else could do that?”

Pix: Robertson County  Times

Pro-life blog buzz 4-2-13

from Jill  Stanek.com

by Susie Allen, host of the blog, Pro-Life in TN, and Kelli
We welcome your suggestions for additions to our Top Blogs (see tab on right side of home page)! Email Susie@jillstanek.com.

• My Drop in the Ocean follows up on a previous post regarding the differing approaches of pro-life groups in their public prayer/demonstrations in front of abortion clinics. While some groups pray and practice peaceful outreach, others feel this is ineffective and that the response should be more aggressive since a murder is about to take place. These warring tactics have caused some pro-lifers to stay away completely.

• At Stand True, Bryan Kemper shares a graphic that uses the popular same-sex marriage support symbol, turning it into a pro-life message (pictured left; click to enlarge).
• At Reproductive Research Audit, Dr. Jacqueline Harvey analyzes the recent report from the Centers for Disease Control which shows that emergency contraceptive use has doubled and is now the likely contraceptive of choice for many women, instead of a mere “back-up” birth control. One unfortunate result of this EC dependency has been the rise in STDs among young women using it – a fact glossed over by the mainstream media.
• According to the Seattle Times, an attempt to force insurance coverage of abortion in Washington state (as previously discussed here) has failed.:
  
  The bill, which supporters call the Reproductive Parity Act… would make Washington the first state to require insurers that cover maternity care — which they all must do — to also pay for abortions. Similar legislation has been introduced each session in the New York State Assembly for more than a decade but has never received a public hearing.
  … [T]hose supporting the measure said it would ensure continued abortion coverage in the state once federal health-care changes taking effect next year trigger bureaucratic hurdles for insurers paying for the procedure….
  Opponents countered that abortion-insurance coverage is already widespread in the state. They also said the measure threatens the religious freedoms of businesses and individuals who oppose abortion rights and do not want to subsidize the cost of the procedure for others.
  

• ProLifeBlogs shares Operation Rescue’s information on the identity of a young Illinois doctor who plans to fly to Kansas to perform abortions at George Tiller’s former clinic:
  
  [Cheryl] Chastine, 31, …was first licensed to practice medicine in Illinois in August, 2011 and obtained licensure in Kansas on January 17, 2013. Chastine currently works at Total Wellness, Inc. in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago….
  Ms. Chastine apparently thinks she can come to Wichita, kill babies surreptitiously then return home to her non-abortion patients in Chicago with no one the wiser. Now, we’ve uncovered her shadow business that will operate under a secret name at a facility that is not properly sanctioned…. These duplicitous business transactions coupled with her shocking inexperience as a licensed physician raise questions about whether her shady business dealings will be a reflection of what we can expect from her abortion practices.
  Looks like Chastine may be the “family practice physician who will fly in as needed,” as stated by The Wichita Eagle. The recording here is extremely revealing.
• Women’s Rights without Frontiers reports on the alleged suicide of Yang Yuzhi, a Chinese mother of four who suffered from chronic pain as a result of two forced sterilizations by the government. Yang routinely visited the Office of Family Planning to petition for compensation for the cost of pain medication. She was found dead there, hanged and covered with suspicious bruises.
• Pro-Life Action League comments on a New York Times parenting blog written by Alison Piepmeier, a professor of gender studies and a mother to a child with Down syndrome, who finds nothing wrong with the high abortion rate of children who have Ds. Piepmeier supports parents who choose abortion after a “wanted and named” baby is prenatally diagnosed, and even calls one mother’s choice to abort – for fear her daughter might one day be sexually abused – a “protective choice.”

[HT on Seattle Times: Human Life of WA; photos via ]