“pro-choice” label alienates, fewer self-identify

I wonder why. Support for abortion rights dropped to a new low in the 18-year Gallup survey.Witness feminist teeth gnashing over this one: The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as “pro-choice” is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May [...]

Planned Parenthood pleads: Pray for abortions!

I missed this earlier this month when LifeNews covered it, but I must say I’m awed at the brazen sacrilege of calling people to 40 days of prayer for infanticide. Today is Day 38: Today we pray for a cloud of gentleness to surround every abortion facility. May everyone feel calm and loving. Because gentle, calm [...]

Reproductive justice, indeed.

Heh. Via The Lonely Conservative. Need I remind you, the future belongs to the fruitful. UPDATE: linked at Theo Spark. Thanks, Chris! AND at Temple of MUT! Merci!

Pricetag of the would-have-been aborted daughter: $3 million

Meet Ariel and Deborah Levy of Portland. They have three children. Two of whom are sons: The Levys said their sons are healthy, strong and bright. The oldest is a competitive chess player and has placed in the 99th percentile on standardized tests. Alas, their daughter–despite all the prenatal tests and ultrasounds–has Down Syndrome. The parents [...]

“It has been such a surreal, amazing experience that I still think sometimes that I will wake up and it will just be a beautiful dream”

So says 82-year old Ruth Lee of meeting her 100-year old birth mother, Minka Disbrow, who was raped as a teenager in 1928 and subsequently forced to give up her newborn daughter for adoption. Ruth Lee is the mother of an astronaut and five other children. What heartbreaking and awesome proof that all life–including unexpected, unplanned, and yes, even [...]

“So perfectly organized a structure, it was hard not to attribute divinity to it.”

So says Alexander Tsarias of collagen and how the structure changes within the human body. Watch the TED lecture and marvel. Tsarias: The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go– the complexity of these, the mathematical models of how these things are indeed done are beyond [...]

Romney to NARAL in 2002: GOP “not doing themselves a favor by being so vehemently anti-choice”

What a surprise, right? The Washington Post endears Romney to the so-called liberal Republicans: Mitt Romney was firm and direct with the abortion rights advocates sitting in his office nine years ago, assuring the group that if elected Massachusetts governor, he would protect the state’s abortion laws. Then, as the meeting drew to a close, [...]

The 10%

Via LifeSiteNews‘s facebook page, a smiling reminder of the grim toll of Roe v. Wade: I fight for him. Do you? A Pundette ”Recommended Read.” Thanks!

Seven months

That’s how long Baby Joseph lived with the tracheotomy performed in an American hospital after Canadian officials denied the family the simple operation that would allow the family to bring Joseph home. Via Wesley Smith: “Baby Joseph” died with his mother Sana Nader, father Moe Maraachli at the home, CBC News reported. “It seemed like [...]

“Our culture is over. There is nothing left to save.”

So says Patrick Archibold  of Creative Minority Report in response to this heartbreak: After nearly nine hours of deliberation over two days, a jury of four men and two women agreed that a Palm Beach Gardens obstetrician and the clinic where she works were negligent for not detecting the boy’s horrific disabilities before he was [...]