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.

Related post:

• Christian Thinking Bad Thoughts

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Update: Thought I was being gutsy posting an unconfirmed photo of the killer, but MSNBC’s just published it.

Later…CBS will have a live-feed of the press conference at Fort Hood, which hasn’t started yet (7:31 p.m. ET). News people are walking around waiting and talking. Do they know we can hear them? Don’t say anything you’ll regret, guys!

Even later…Nidal Malik Hasan is still alive.
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The dead murderer at Fort Hood was a shrink and an Army major named Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan. Hasan was headed to Iraq and was “upset about it.”

The obvious question is why didn’t he just kill himself if he was so distraught? Why kill and wound so many others? What an idiot. Rest in peace? I doubt it.

(The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (the irony!) site is down, but I screen-capped the cache version.)

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.

The scammer pretends to be you and sends an e-mail to your contacts. You’re in a foreign country, and you’ve lost your wallet and need cash fast. Someone hacked into an LBC reader’s e-mail account and sent this to his contacts:

“My Predicament!!
Thursday, November 5, 2009 7:32 AM
From:
This sender is DomainKeys verified
REDACTED
Add sender to Contacts
To:
undisclosed-recipients

This had to come in a hurry and it has left me in a devastating state,I’m writing this with tears in my eyes,I came down here to London,England for a short vacation to visit a resort and got mugged at gun point last night at the park of the hotel where i checked in.All cash,credit cards and cell were stolen off me.My flight leaves today and i’m having problems settling the hotel bills.

The hotel manager won’t let me leave until i settle the hotel bills($1,940) now am freaked out.Please reply and let me if can you have the money wired to me through western union i promise to pay back as soon as i get back home.”

Most people are smart enough not to fall for this, but just in case…

But that doesn’t mean the fight’s over. There’s something about that “will of the people” jazz some politicians just don’t like. Fundamentally. For example, 54 percent of voting Californian’s barred their government from hiring, contracting, and admitting on the basis of race. Thirteen years later, the California legislature drafted a bill bringing back set-aside contracting for minority businesses. Last summer, Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the racial quota bill into law…although the constitution, which he swore to uphold, prohibits it.

Well done, voters of Maine. Last November, California voters (including me) said YES to adding the understood-throughout-the-ages definition of marriage to the state constitution: Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. The vote in Maine will be challenged, just as it was in California.

I’ll have more to say later. Must process this.

“Although immigration and trade are often blamed, a more important reason for our lack of progress against poverty and our growing inequality is a dramatic change in American family life. Almost 30 percent of children now live in single-parent families, up from 12 percent in 1968. Since poverty rates in single-parent households are roughly five times as high as in two-parent households, this shift has helped keep the poverty rate up; it climbed to 13.2 percent last year. If we had the same fraction of single-parent families today as we had in 1970, the child poverty rate would probably be about 30 percent lower than it is today.”

Follow the path to upward mobility by getting married before you have children.

“Of course money is a factor in upward mobility, but it isn’t the only one; it may not even be the most important. Our research shows that if you want to avoid poverty and join the middle class in the United States, you need to complete high school (at a minimum), work full time and marry before you have children. If you do all three, your chances of being poor fall from 12 percent to 2 percent, and your chances of joining the middle class or above rise from 56 to 74 percent. (We define middle class as having an income of at least $50,000 a year for a family of three.)”

Building a nest first, then having children…building a nest first, then having children, protects children from a multitude of social pathologies.

A child’s risk of being poor, a high school drop-out, a juvenile delinquent, or knocked up as a teenager (or knocking up a teenager) decreases if the child’s father is married to his mother and living in the same home as the child. In other words, if you want to give your children the best foundation possible, being married to their father is a good start. Generally speaking.

Source: Brookings Institute

Abby Johnson has been spending time at Coalition for Life, and she’s convicted about her previous support for killing unborn babies. More here.

A girl’s got to protect herself. I’m brushing up on my ninja techniques. Busy weekend. I won’t rest easy, but I hope you will.

(Image credit: My 10-year-old nephew, who was a baby only last week. How did he get to be 10? That means I’m…)

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.

Top 5 Reasons You Need to Attend the 22nd SFLA National Conference:

• Find potential jobs and internships in the pro-life movement
• Meet other student pro-life leaders from across the U.S.
• Learn how to be more effective in saving lives on your campus
• Participate in March for Life and other pro-life events the same week
• Hear and meet national pro-life speakers and heroes

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)

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)

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:

• Personhood.net
• Personhood USA

What a world we live in. Wearing a funny “illegal alien” costume, complete with orange jumpsuit, a green green card, and space alien mask, is tasteless. Actually being someone who jumps borders or overstays a Visa in violation of the law isn’t tasteless, I suppose.

“But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

“For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words.” – 1 Thessalonians 4: 13-18

For me, it is truth. The words fill me with deep longing. I count myself among those who belong to Him, including the men and women who saw Christ with their own eyes. I am a sister in Christ to the apostles Peter and Paul. I am a member of a body of believers that spans the globe. We are hopeful. We are waiting, watching, welcoming…

Keith Bardwell said, “I do ceremonies for black couples right here in my house. “My main concern is for the children…I don’t do interracial marriages because I don’t want to put children in a situation they didn’t bring on themselves. In my heart, I feel the children will later suffer.” Then he said, “I try to treat everyone equally.” (Source)

First of all, how has he gotten away with refusing to issue marriage licenses to interracial couples? Second, unless he knows of specific instances of children being abused or neglected, it’s not his business. Third, he may as well get out of the marriage business if he’s concerned about break-ups. The divorce rate in the U.S. is almost 50 percent.

There must be more to the story. Nonetheless, even if he was set up, he ensnared himself.

For liberals poised to use this silly incident to bolster arguments for homosexual “marriage,” see Loving the Interracial Marriage Distinction.