From the category archives:
“…I saw that baby trying to get away from the probe that the doctor was using…I just wanted to make it stop…I could see it twisting and just saw it crumble…I will never do this again.”
Christians, pray that the Spirit of God convicts more Planned Parenthood workers and infuses them with the courage to expose the abortion mill’s practices.
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Some pro-lifers oppose publishing photos of aborted babies. I’m not too wild about it, myself. But…
I think people who believe women have a right to kill their unborn babies, and pregnant women considering it, should know what it looks like. They should fully understand that this is no ordinary “medical” procedure. A tiny, developing human being is violently torn from the mother’s womb.
All in the name of convenience.
Does he feel pain? Does he cry?
Graphic image warning: Here’s the blood.
…and resigns from Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas. Praise God! As someone who’s seen the horror up close, she can testify. More like her, please:
Abby Johnson has been spending time at Coalition for Life, and she’s convicted about her previous support for killing unborn babies. More here.
You Generation Y types probably have no idea who Scott Baio is, but Gen-X-ers like me should know. Baio was Chachi on “Happy Days” and spin-off “Joanie Loves Chachi,” and Charles on “Charles in Charge.”
I just learned this morning, through Jill Stanek, that Baio is pro-life and a conservative. He responded to someone on Twitter, and his leanings leaked out. He tweeted, “People that are Pro-Choice should ‘Thank’ their Mother for being Pro-Life.”
But, as Jill notes, the tweet is no longer there. “For whatever reason Baio – or his agent – apparently decided it best to remain underground with his pro-life convictions.”
That’s too bad. I’ve made similar complaints about Christian rockers who don’t like talking about their faith.
One actor who isn’t shy about his pro-life views is actor Jim Caviezel, probably best known for portraying Christ in “The Passion of the Christ.”
So few in Hollywood (or in the music business) hold views similar to mine. They’re like diamonds buried in a pile of manure. When I find one, I’ve got to pluck it out, clean it off, and present it.
Sparkly.
The 22nd SFLA National Conference will be held on January 23, 2010, at the Pryzbyla Center, Catholic University in Washington, DC, my old stomping grounds. (Left the capital a year ago after almost 10 years, and don’t miss it. Much.)
Top 5 Reasons You Need to Attend the 22nd SFLA National Conference:
Check out the proposed schedule. No Lila Rose of Live Action or Erik Whittington of Rock for Life?
Read about both in my recent off-blog effort.
(Image: an “abortable” 12-week-old unborn baby from BabyCenter)
Later…A man who killed a 13-week unborn child faces murder charges. Unborn life is only worth protecting if the woman carrying him wants him. Otherwise…
The wanted unborn baby is protected under law. The unwanted baby is not.
Does that sound right to you?
Related: “old” article at Pajamas Media about NYT aborted baby photos.
We know a lot more about the development of babies in the womb since Roe v. Wade. A re-examination of the law is overdue (pardon the pun).
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If you live long enough, you’ll eventually see everything.
I used to watch “Law & Order.” Fed up over what I considered leftist preaching and no longer willing to suspend disbelief over the statistically weak saga of the Great White Defendant, I stopped.
Anyway, in the usual “ripped from the headlines” fashion, a recent episode was loosely based on the murder of infant killer George Tiller. An abortionist performing a partial birth abortion failed in his attempt, delivering a viable baby. He asked the mother if she wanted him to finish the job he botched, and she said yes. The abortionist kills the baby, which at that point is murder as defined by law. A “pro-life” man murders the child killer. One detective investigating the case is pro-life, and the other is pro-abortion. Interesting exchange between the two at the beginning of the episode.
Jill Stanek, pro-life blogger and former labor and delivery nurse, posted the episode on her blog. I watched it. Still not a fan of the show, but I’m pleased the writers, likely pro-abortion, crafted such a script. Kudos to the network for airing the episode. There are a couple of pro-life swipes here and there, but overall, it’s watchable. The show is, for lack of a better word, groundbreaking.
Ironically, groundbreaking was used to describe pro-abortion shows in the 1960s. How times have changed. If you have 43 minutes to spare, check it out.
(Photo source: National Medical Slide Bank/Wellcome Photo Library)
I’ve always said technology was on the side of unborn babies, more than mere clumps of cells or globs of tissue. These tiny souls have heartbeats and reflexes, including reactions to pain.
For these and many other reasons, I take what the “pro-choice” consider an extreme position. No matter how the baby was conceived or the financial or emotional state of the mother, unborn life should be protected. Period.
Pro-life voters are pushing for personhood bills and amendments, which would declare that a fertilized egg is a person under the law. Implications are far-reaching, as you might expect. Such laws would impact birth control (which may thwart implantation of a fertilized egg), in vitro fertilization, and abortion itself. If a fertilized egg is legally declared a person, then destroying the fertilized egg, regardless of its stage of development, would be illegal.
No personhood measure passed in the last election, but pro-life voters aren’t giving up. Michigan joins Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, and Montana in the effort to place personhood measures on state ballots. (Source)
A pro-life Democrat, Rep. Jim Slezack, is a leading sponsor of the Michigan amendment. The measure reads:
“Every human person has a right to life, which is the paramount and most fundamental right guaranteed under the constitution and laws of this state…With respect to the fundamental and inalienable right to life, the word ‘person’ applies to all human beings, irrespective of age, race, gender, health, function, condition of dependency, including physical or mental dependency, or method of reproduction, from the beginning of biological development, including fertilization.”
Yes, pro-life Democrats exist. I had the pleasure of meeting and discussing this issue with pro-life Democrat and FOX News analyst Kirsten Powers. We also talked about it on Michelle Malkin’s Hot Air.
More info:
Color me impressed that the left-leaning New York Times showed pictures of retrieved aborted babies along with this story (you can read the story without looking at the images, so no “graphic image warning” necessary):
“A theology professor at Madonna University and the director of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, she said she had firsthand experience retrieving fetuses after abortions and photographing them. When we met two days later in her university office, she handed me proof: a series of 4-by-6-inch prints that she shot, which have been turned into portraits by Stephen McGee.
“The first image in the pile gave me a clue to the source. It showed a cardboard box with six or seven large, sealed plastic bags with something red inside. There were names on the bags in black ink and, on the box, there was a date written with felt-tip marker: Feb. 27, 1988.
“Mrs. Migliorino Miller said this was one of the many boxes filled with fetuses that she, her husband and several others pulled 21 years ago from a loading dock in Northbrook, Ill., a suburb of Chicago. Acting on a tip, between February and September of 1988, she said they retrieved around 4,000 fetuses that had been shipped there from a dozen or so abortion clinics nationwide. (A protracted lawsuit tied to their efforts ended in 2003.)
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“Last year, she said she found 23 fetuses in trash-hauling bins outside two Michigan abortion clinics, leading to a state investigation of the companies’ removal procedures; in 1987, she said a tip led her to a Chicago alley with dozens of boxed-up fetuses in a trash-hauling bin…That was when she took her first fetal pictures. She described her initial motivation as journalistic. “We felt it was very important to make a record of the reality of abortion,” she said.
“The process was a challenge: the fetuses, hard to handle; the scent of the formaldehyde solution, enough to burn the nose. Shooting could only be done up close. She recalled renting expensive macro lenses to get within millimeters of the fetuses.
“She pointed to one of her snapshots showing a tiny hand with visible wrinkles. ‘In order to get that detail,’ she said, ‘you need to get a camera right on top of that.’”
When people say that pro-life people ought to shut about child killing and adopt “unwanted” babies or give these women more money to take care of their kids, it’s absolutely maddening. Permissiveness, not personal responsibility, selflessness, and sacrifice, is always the focus.
Young, full of energy, and passionate about protecting unborn life. I raise my cup of lemon ginger tea to “Lila Rose” of Live Action Films, Planned Parenthood-butt kicker.
This woman is making things happen. Compared to all the ruckus she’s causing, awareness she’s raising, and great things she’s accomplishing, I’m walking in place, staring at the wall! Sheesh.
As you may recall, she goes undercover posing as a girl knocked up by her adult boyfriend, and catches employees on tape advising her to cover up statutory rape. Her undercover videos have resulted in pulled Planned Parenthood funding. By the way, I put her name in quotes because I always assumed it was a pseudonym. Might be first and middle name.
Listen to her 2009 Values Voter Summit speech, given on September 18. To make women feel less guilty killing their babies, abortion mill workers dehumanize the life growing inside. Watch the video for details about “first trimester matter.”
When infant killer George Tiller was gunned down on May 31, pro- and anti-abortion groups condemned the murder. Planned Parenthood issued a statement. The President of the United States issued a statement. The U.S. Attorney General issued a statement. Within hours. On a Sunday.
Contrast this with the murder of the pro-life Jim Pouillon, gunned down last Friday in front of a school.
As of September 15, 8:39 a.m., four days after the fact, Planned Parenthood has not issued a statement. The abortion mill’s still torn up over the death of Ted Kennedy.
Two days after the fact, Obama had something to say about the murder (see LifeNews), but there’s no official White House statement, as was the case with George Tiller.
You can bet your life the Attorney General’s office won’t release a statement. It still hasn’t condemned the murder and injury of military recruiters on duty, which happened shortly after Tiller’s death.
The stunning lack of media coverage of Jim Pouillon’s murder, given the blanket coverage of Tiller’s, is, well, stunning. Then again, the “pro-choice” think Tiller was a brave and courageous hero, what with helping those women out with getting rid of unwanted infants, and all. Pro-lifers like Pouillon are just right-wing, fundamentalist kooks, what with trying to protect unborn life, and all.
I think my point is made. Is further editorializing really necessary? If so, see A Tale of Two Murders.
Update: A Facebook commenter writes:
“Friends of mine were advised by Yale medical to abort their baby because he had a heart defect. He’s doing quite well in a graduate program at Purdue University right now.”
Wow.
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Last year I listened to a pregnant caller on Dr. Laura’s radio show, who carried a baby diagnosed with a heart defect. The doctor told her the baby likely would be stillborn or would die shortly after birth. Specialists offered no hope. Despite the diagnosis, the woman and her husband decided to carry the baby to term.
The thought of losing the baby was heartbreaking, of course, but the couple wanted to give their child a chance at life.
A Twitter follower sent a link about a couple who chose to give birth to a baby diagnosed with a genetic disorder, Trisomy 13, a condition that results in abnormalities like a cleft lip or palate, close-set eyes, extra fingers and toes, etc.
Instead of killing the baby in utero, the couple endured the worry and heartbreak to give their child a chance at life. The baby, named Thomas, died, but his mother and father did an invaluable and unimaginably painful thing: they protected his life so he’d have the opportunity –yes, opportunity– to struggle for precious life. It was his struggle to make.
The older I become, the more I find it puzzling how unrepentant people who kill their babies, especially for convenience, and the so-called doctors who do the killing, live with themselves. Even in an unsaved state, my conscience would have eaten me alive until there was nothing left but an empty shell, my humanity having fled the moment I allowed it to happen, sorrow and regret filling the vacuum.
But that’s just me.
Dramatic? Probably. So is life. Then again, I have done things I deeply regret, and at one point, I thought sorrow would overwhelm me. But the more I trusted Christ, the lighter the burden became. Any woman who’s had an abortion, sought forgiveness, and is now touched by grace knows what I mean.
Also check out Project Ultrasound.
He’s probably best known for his portrayal of Christ in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ.” Actor Jim Caviezel, I’m so very glad to blog, is pro-life. From Catholic Digest:
“Part of what had spurred the adoption was a pro-life challenge. Could you share a little about that?
“This guy I know said, ‘You’re pro-life. Tell you what, if you really believe in what you speak, adopt a child — not any child, he’s got to have a serious deficiency,’ (and I will become pro-life). He never changed his (position), but it convicted me. I don’t think he thought I would step up to the plate.
“I was listening to Johnny Mathis the other day and I said, ‘What an amazing voice.’ I have yet to hear another person sound like Johnny Mathis. How are we so arrogant to think the 51.5 million babies who have died in this country… Look, I am for helping women. I just don’t see abortion as helping women. And I don’t love my career that much to say, ‘I’m going to remain silent on this.’ I’m defending every single baby who has never been born. And every voice that would have been unique like Johnny Mathis’. How do we know that we didn’t kill the very child who could have created a particular type of medicine that saves other lives?”
Pro-life and easy on the eyes.
People really ought to watch where they’re stepping. The dung can get pretty high, and irony often broadsides those who don’t see it coming.
Take this statement from Planned Parenthood. The world is mourning the death of Ted Kennedy, whose son I almost hit at a stop sign years ago. Blogger and former labor and delivery nurse Jill Stanek linked to and highlighted this portion of Planned Parenthood’s statement:
If the point of the post and highlighted statement eludes you, I’ll enlighten you. Ted Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, believed women had the right to kill their unborn babies.
When Planned Parenthood wrote that Kennedy provided “a voice to those Americans who otherwise would not have been heard,” the abortion mill obviously didn’t mean the literally voiceless. I suppose the figuratively voiceless are those perpetually oppressed minorities and “poor” folks.
Disclaimer: This post isn’t a celebration of Kennedy’s death. Just wanted to “raise awareness” of the abortion mill’s statement and advise its author to avoid unintentionally ironic sentiments in the future.
Also check out Project Ultrasound.
