:: The S.I.C.L.E. Cell ::

:: Monday, May 10, 2004 ::

Picture of a little girl who, for a brief period of time, was in danger of being aborted due to her mother's severe, debilitating, prolonged pregnancy-related disease.

Women need care, not despair. And children need the lives that they have been given.

:: ashli 9:39 PM # ::
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When I miscarried it SUCKED... but it was fluffy pink bunny cake compared to losing my first child in a second trimester abortion. One child was destined to be mine while the other child was not. One child was mortally wounded (by me) while the other just quietly faded into oblivion. Guilt in one, not much, if any, in the other. Lots of different reasons abortion can hurt so much more than miscarriage.

:: ashli 7:28 AM # ::
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Plutarch on Sertorius:

"You see, fellow soldiers, that perseverence is more prevailing than violence, and that many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. Assiduity and persistence are irresistible, and in time overthrow and destroy the greatest powers whatever, time being the favorable friend and assistant of those who use their judgment to await his occasions, and the destructive enemy of those who are unreasonably urging and pressing forward."

Man, this is good advice, and totally, totally relevant to the abortion issue.

A lot of mothers, myself included (and perhaps at the top of the list) have let fear overwhelm them and rob them of tremendous opportunity. We have let that fear push and push us unto unreasonable urging ourselves, and we have pressed the issue so forwardly as to destroy the beauty, the greatness that would have been ours had we allowed time to ameliorate conflicts, had we but taken the challenge daily instead of all in one lump sum.

Oh that we would, as Sir Henry Wadsworth Longfellow suggested, "learn to labor and to wait."

:: ashli 10:09 AM # ::
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Abortion Turns Miracle Into Tragedy
(as usual...)

Thanks to the poster at AA for this link.

:: ashli 8:28 AM # ::
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As a currently pregnant person, I really REALLY resent like heck the "pro-choice" garbage about "tissue" and "cells" and the beginning of life being a "religious issue". My gestating daughter already has a personality, likes and dislikes. We know she's a sucker for Daddy's voice, hates the hiccups, has less patience than her brother, loves jazz but favors Christian music, etc. I hate the irrational and false idea that she's only a person because I want her to be and have therefore deluded myself into thinking that she is valuable and human. I really, really despise that.

And I hate that these people still claim that my first child was a nothing and that I am grieving over no one... and if I would only think long, hard and carefully about the "very good reasons" I had at the time everything will be all right.

I'm hurt, fuming, incredulous...

:: ashli 8:35 AM # ::
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It's my birthday today, and I have to say that I haven't felt quite right about it since the day I robbed my first child of his/her birthday.

I understand what happened and why. It was tragic... in some ways like a careless accident. It was not "me", not who I am, not what I wanted, etc. I am sorry, have been sorry, will never stop being sorry. I believe in God, and I believe I have been forgiven. I don't feel that I have a duty to suffer or that my suffering is in any way redemptive. I understand that "coming to terms" with what happened and "moving on" would serve myself and my family much more positively and efficiently than being unable to resolve it. I am thoughtful; I've had a little over seven years to contemplate it so far. I am fully aware, yet this awareness doesn't make it any less horrible or any more bearable.

Someone very special is missing from my life. Missing from my arms, by my hands. It is what it is.

And birthdays aren't at all what they used to be.

:: ashli 3:00 AM # ::
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Smattering of "pro-life" news:

The Abortion Shuffle
John Kerry in 1972:
"It's a tragic day in the lives of everybody when abortion is
looked on as an alternative to birth control or as an alternative to having a child. I think that's wrong. It should be the very last thing if it has to be anything, and I say that not just because I'm opposed to abortion but because I think that's common sense."
*****

How can you prove that PBA is never medically necessary if you can't provide the evidence?
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An abortion business owner, who was forced to give up his medical license in Pennsylvania because of his questionable medical practices, allowed an abortionist, who has been disciplined multiple times for unsafe practices and has been sued for malpractice (outstanding $50,000 medical malpractice suit against him because of pain and profuse bleeding suffered by a woman he aborted), to perform abortions without a medical license. A spokeswoman for the abortion businessis tried to defuse attention away from the abortion center's troubles by attacking pro-life activists in Pennsylvania.

She claimed that the abortion businesses had "been victim to a lot of gossip, a lot of inaccuracies and misinformation," and added, "We provide excellent care."

(The abortion chain has a history of hiring staff with questionable credentials.)

A few days later she ate those words when she admitted, "As soon as we confirmed that Dr. Brookman's license was not active, Dr. Brookman was terminated and is no longer working in any of our offices." Looks like the only misinformed people were the spokeswoman and her abortion cronies. D'oh!
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"Pro-choicers" who attended the march don't represent majority of Americans.

Most Hispanics are "pro-life" and were misrepresented in the march by key Hispanic groups.

In a very recent Zogby poll, Hispanics support a pro-life position by a 78-21 percent margin, and African Americans back the pro-life perspective 62-38. In the same poll, 60 percent of 18-29 year-olds took one of three varying pro-life positions on abortion while only 39 percent agreed with the three pro-abortion stances.

"The other side is completely befuddled by the 'ingratitude' of
our generation for the 'right' to abortion," a pro-life woman born after Roe v. Wade concludes. "Yet, young people recognize that harm has been done to each of us as a result of losing 43 million peers. And by seeing family and friends that have suffered following their own abortions, we know that abortion hurts women."
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While abortion advocates claim that some "1,150,000 Marched on Washington, D.C. to Voice Opposition to Government Attacks on Women's Reproductive Rights and Health", D.C. police estimated that 250,000 people participated in the pro-abortion march (and many were "pro-life" counterdemonstrators). D'oh!

In describing the pro-abortion march, a member of the Family Research Council said organizers couldn't find enough people who supported abortion to attend. As a result anti-Bush, anti-war, and anti-globalization protesters were invited to swell the ranks.

"If there was such an outcry from American women to further the abortion-on-demand agenda, the groups marching today would not have had to open their rally to anti-war, anti-Bush and all sorts of other protesters just to fill the national mall."
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Bush advisor comments on march numbers saying September 11th has caused many Americans to value life more. Projecting the statement on "pro-choicers", Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt demands apology, saying:

"It is outrageous to suggest that those of us who challenge this administration's attacks on reproductive rights and access do not value life and human dignity. Indeed, it is because we value life and human dignity that we support..." maiming and killing women and children in "safe", legal abortion.
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"Pro-life" students choked and bled by "pro-choice" NARAL members at Kerry rally.

"I have never been manhandled like that before -- pushed around, shoved and tossed -- it was ridiculous," Edmiston said. "I really felt violated, they had no right to touch me like that. So much for 'my body, my choice.'"

One NARAL member told Suanne that her mother should have aborted her. (The basic message: "You're an inconvenience to me; you should have been killed before birth.") Nice.

An abortion advocate in attendance started snapping pictures when another abortion advocate pushed him, put her hands in his face trying to block him, and shouted, "You can't take pictures of that!"

What?! An abortion advocate trying to hurt someone and then keep it a secret? Isn't THAT interesting?

Police did nothing to prevent the illegal abuse and were amused by it, later seen chuckling about it.

Another photographer was hit over the head with a pro-abortion sign until bleeding to prevent him from recording photographic evidence of the assault.
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As Abortion Advocates March, Woman's Abortion-related Suicide Reveals Horror of Abortion...

"Shelly took some of each drug and washed it down
with the vodka.

She went into her bedroom. Above her bed was a photo of the Lord's heavenly banquet. On the side of her bed were two angels. Shelly put her rosary around her neck. An empty bottle of holy water was on her dresser. She opened her journal to the day of her abortion. She laid her head on her pillow. She fell asleep. She never woke up."

:: ashli 11:06 AM # ::
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More on the "pro-lifers" assaulted by "pro-choicers" at the march...

From an outraged reader:

"Remember the article the AP put out about the "March for Women's Lives" in DC last weekend? They mentioned an incident where they claimed an "anti-abortion activist" threw an ink filled plastic egg at a pro-choice sign. Well, they got it wrong. It was a pro-choice activist, and they threw the egg, not at a sign, but at a pro-life activist, hitting him in the temple. Here's a link to the pictures.

comfort

assaulted

(By the way, the website is that of a "pro-choice" activist who was there at the event. I don't know how long she'll keep the photos up, considering how damaging they are to her agenda.)

Here are some of her photos (pre-egging) proving this was, indeed, a pro-life activist hit with the egg. Not the other way around.

standing in the gap

pro-life sign

(If you view all the photos this woman took, you can also see this man and the pro-life woman who is comforting him, in some of the photos before the incident took place)

By the way, several pro-abortion organizations talked about throwing paint on pro-life activists before the march. I'd say that shows pre-meditation. Here's a copy of their quotes before the march. (the original is on WorldNetDaily.com):

'Pro-lifers expect confrontation at NOW march
Abortion advocates vow to strike back during massive D.C. event'
Posted: April 22, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

A group advocating abortion has threatened destructive and
confrontational tactics against pro-life counter-protestors during the upcoming pro-abortion "March for Women's Lives" rally in Washington D.C.

In an alert sent to supporters, the Radical Cheerleaders of DC said engaging abortion opponents in debate is useless "because they are irrational and will not listen to you," so one way to handle them is to destroy their property, because "a thick layer of paint could really complement a bloody fetus picture," according to the Washington-based Culture of Life Foundation .

The event Sunday is described by the National Organization for Women, or NOW, as the "the most significant and massive abortion rights march in over a decade."

The organizers expect hundreds of thousands of participants from about 1,400 organizations and 53 countries.

The Culture of Life Foundation says abortion advocates are angered by the plans of pro-life demonstrators to congregate along the march route and gather in groupings such as parents with small children and infants, women who have had abortions, college students, pro-abortion converts
and clergy.

NOW says on its website the First Amendment grants pro-lifers "the right to hold a counter-protest, but it does not grant them the right to interfere with our demonstration."

The Radical Cheerleaders said it calls upon "feminists, radical
cheerleaders, anti-authoritarians, [and] anarchists" to "rise up against a tyrannical government which threatens to penetrate women's bodies with its laws."

The group, which claims the pro-choice movement has not done enough for women, held a "guerilla workshop" in January to practice organized resistance for the march, Culture of Life Foundation said.

Sponsors of the march have invited anti-globalization groups, who already will be in Washington to protest the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Randall Terry, founder of the pro-life group Operation Rescue, has said he will participate in counter-demonstration to the march, dubbed "Operation Witness."

"The pro-abortion movement is frantic at their losses," he said in a statement. "They know we will prevail and make abortion illegal again and their pathetic death march will do nothing to stop our inevitable victory."

Operation Witness says it expects over 1,000 counter-demonstrators.

A spinoff of Operation Rescue, Operation Rescue West, says it "will expose the bloody truth" behind the "deceptive" march with "Truth Trucks" outfitted with graphic signs depicting the remains of aborted children.

The group says some pro-abortion advocates have vowed to vandalize trucks, which will be on the streets of the nation's capital for three days prior to the march.

"Since half of the 1.2 million babies aborted in our nation each year are female, the 'March for Women's Lives' is a sick joke, grossly misnamed," said Operation Rescue West's president, Troy Newman. "The Truth Trucks will confront this hypocrisy with the grisly truth that cannot be ignored: Abortion isn't about helping women; it is about dismembering healthy human babies."

:: ashli 10:38 AM # ::
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Aborted children stored in fridge with staff snacks. Clinic unsanitary, unsafe for women.

Thanks, Emily, for story.

:: ashli 8:38 AM # ::
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Found in the comments section at After Abortion and re-posted here with permission:

"My buddy Dan, who is adopted, became pro-life the minute he heard a male pro-choice marcher (from the march 12 years ago, now that I think about it) lament for a TV camera what a trauma his life had been because the young woman he
had impregnated years ago had not been allowed to abort the child. He had had to live all these years with the knowledge that he had a kid somewhere on this earth....

Dan looked up at me, his face white with shock.
'David,' he said, 'he could be talking about me...'

Dan has been strongly pro-life ever since."

:: ashli 9:35 PM # ::
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Thanks to the pal who sent me this article from the New York Post:

A Message from Ashley Judd
By Michelle Malkin

Beautiful young actress Ashley Judd went to Washington last weekend wearing a crucifix and a trendy little T-shirt that boasted: "This is what a feminist looks like."

The Associated Press snapped a photo of Ashley, honored guest of the "March for Women's Lives," which has been widely disseminated on the Internet.

Pro-abortion leaders must be ecstatic. In a sea of angry (Hillary Rodham Clinton), haggard (Cybill Shephered) and ghoulish (Whoopi Goldberg) women shaking their fists and waving coat hangers, Ashley's pretty smile helped put a softer, gentler and more glamorous spin on the morbid march for "reproductive rights."

Ashley's message to millions of young American women and girls: Opposing the partial-birth abortion ban is fun! Morning-after pills are cool! Sex without consequences rules!

One wonders what Ashley's mom, beloved country singer Naomi Judd, must have thought of her daughter traipsing around with abortion rights' militants.

Naomi has spoken eloquently about how she rejected abortion as an unwed teen and repeatedly witnessed the miracle of life as a labor and delivery nurse. "I've seen ultrasounds . . . you know that those babies are real," she told TV talk show host Sally Jesse Raphael in 1998.

A few years later, Naomi faced off against Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) on ABC's
"Politically Incorrect" and argued for an eminently reasonable 24-hour waiting period before abortions. Drawing on her nursing experience, Naomi advocated full disclosure of the risks and consequences of abortion -- including the use of ultrasound to give women the "whole picture."

Mikulski growled that it was an "insult" to think that women didn't know what they were doing. Naomi responded that famous abortionist Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League, only disavowed his profession after witnessing abortion procedures filmed through ultrasound technology.

"Oh, my God in heaven, this is a living human being in its mother's womb," Naomi quoted Nathanson confessing. "[H]e was devastated at what he had done."

Needless to say, neither Naomi nor Dr. Nathanson was welcomed on the dais with Ashley, Whoopi and Cybill. Neither was Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, who committed the shocking sin of letting the truth about abortion slip out in a recent Newsweek interview. The procedure, she said, is about "stopping the process of life . . . I don't view abortion as just a nothing."

One wonders at the candid conversation Mrs. Heinz Kerry might have had with Rebecca Porter, Florida director of Operation outcry Silent No More, who recently attended a Kerry campaign event in Tampa, Fla.

Porter quietly held a sign that read, "My abortion hurt me." Candidate John Kerry stared at Porter's sign while working a handshake line, but did not address her. Instead, a Kerry campaign staffer grabbed the sign and tore it to pieces.

Emulating the Democratic Party strategy (remember, this is the party that banned pro-life Democrat Bob Casey, the late governor of Pennsylvania, from speaking at its 1992 presidential convention), the free-speech fanatics of the Left did their best to stifle pro-life dissent and voices of conscience at last weekend's march. they shouted down counter-protesters and tried to hide pro-life protest signs by covering them with the profanity-laced placards. The abortionistas got unexpected help from the Bush administration's National Park Service, which forbade many pro-lifers from displaying graphic posters on adjacent sidewalks.

Nonetheless, the truth keeps slipping out. In Britain, a ground-breaking documentary by filmmaker Julia Black titled "My Foetus" aired last week. Black is pro-choice, but says she "wanted to kick-start debate by allowing both sides . . . to actually look at what an abortion is." Her film showed a four-week-old fetus being vacuumed from its mother's womb -- as well as images of the broken limbs of 10, 11 and 21-week-old aborted children.

Pro-choice journalist Lauren Booth described her response to the documentary this way: "My hand flew to my mouth in shock. I swallowed. I didn't want to say it, but the word 'murder' came to my lips."

This is the true face of abortion, Ashley. Multiply it by 40 million. The mass destruction of unborn life in the name of feminist rights is not "just a nothing." Go ask your mom.

:: ashli 9:36 AM # ::
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Speak up for those who can not speak for themselves; Register to vote today.

A vote for Bush is a vote for women, children and families. It is a vote that rejects the lie of abortion and sends the message loud and clear that women deserve better.

Vote! That no more children die and no more mothers cry!

:: ashli 7:09 AM # ::
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Smattering of various photos from the abortion march in this email from a friend:

1. "I'm not sure, but I think that a *lack* of government might result in far more violence.

2. Wait, what are we here for again? Oh well...

3. March for abortion?

4. Dubya love

5. Uhm, what? Punishing a criminal for killing a baby that a mother *chose* to have is racist, sexist, and oppressive? Huh!?

6. 3 out of 5 black children die in abortion, so yes, NOW, please stop your racism. Again, good to see that this march was all about "choice" and the numbers weren't at all padded.

7. Poor flag. Let's see ... No WTO... No to Iraq... Punk Patch... Earth First... hmmm... Choice? Nadda.

8. Another abortion supporter???

9. Ah! Finally someone for choice!!

10. Kill a baby, burn a flag.

11. Poor Choicer reacts with a snazzy little slogan to a hurting, praying woman; ooo bip!

12. Warning, this one's not appropriate if you can read.

13. This makes a fine point for abortion...in bizarro world...

14. Earth First! ... Right after we're done trashing it with our abortion-supporting signs.

15. More Dubya love

16. Cause a baby is just like a prostate!

17. End Hatred! We white people in militia garb are against racist action! We're for peace, but we'll FIGHT for Choice!!

18. Screamin' at those dangerous 'lifers.

19. Barely containing amusement at those silly "I regret my abortion," signs.

20. Tension

21. Shiney happy people for the health and happiness that is destroying children in abortion.

22. This woman is against wrinkle-free clothing?

23. The face of "choice".
(Ashli: Along with the photos of starving children and aborted babies, this is one of the saddest pictures I have ever seen.)

24. Check out the hand-painted, black and white sign on the left, now there's a bit of logic for ya... Long hair???

25. Crowd shot.

26. If you can't say something nice... you might be an abortion supporter at the abortion march. (Look at the photo's caption)

27. Yelling at priests.

28. Peace lovin' choicers.

29. Look at the sign that says "Abortion is Healthcare." The baby on the other sign doesn't look very healthy to me.

30. Killin' the chil'ren and so proud of it!

31. Blind.

32. A man educates a woman about her "rights".

33. Cheese!

34. "It's fake! You can see the wires!"

35. Perspective

36. OK, whose body are we talking about?

37. Splat goes the ink filled egg. The AP claims it was an "anti-abortion activist who threw the egg at a "pro-choice activist", but you can clearly see the anti-abortion photo in the background. Guess the proof is in the picture, eh?

38. Enough said.

39. This woman needs a biology lesson.

40. The picture is mundane. Read the fascinating paranoia below it."

:: ashli 4:41 PM # ::
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Fascinating account of the so-called "March for Women's Lives" at Emily's blog.

:: ashli 8:02 AM # ::
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Mecca Monson-Gere, 25, of Honolulu, Hawaii, an abortion-supporting "March for Lies" participant says:

"We knew it would be big. But when you're here, and you're feeling the energy, it's so different."

Feeling the energy, baby. "Mmmm, so good!"

(And I got razzed by abortion-supporters for comparing this type of zeal to an ecstatic love affair.)

Thanks to after abortion for the link.

:: ashli 1:42 PM # ::
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Thanks to a reader for this email:

"Actually, it's 'Whoopi' without the 'e.' She claims to have self-aborted with a coat hanger when she was 14 in the bad old coat hanger days, so maybe she's the one verified case. It hard to say, since sources give her birth year as 1949, 1950, 1954 and 1955. New York legalized abortion in 1968 so if it's 1955 the coat hanger days might have been over by then (though maybe not for 14 year olds)."

I read Whoopi's account in the "Choices We Made" book. She has reportedly lost 6 children by abortion. It is merely a method of birth control that has worked well enough for her, and she avidly supports it. (I would too if I killed six of my kids that way, otherwise I'd go nuts.) She is out and proud about abortion and is a big abortion activist. It serves her purpose to claim that at 14-years-old she rammed a coathanger up her cooch and effectively skewered one of her kids, but the claim is it is not documented.

Personally, I doubt the validity of the story. She's 14, untwists a coathanger, pogos on it in a public toilet for a few minutes and voila!: aborts her baby without any complication. Yeeeeah, right. But if it IS true... shouldn't she then be the posterchild for safe coathanger abortions? I mean, it supposedly worked just dandy for her and cost her a lot less than the PP abortions. Wouldn't free, safe, coathanger abortions be better for poor women?

There are other accounts of abortion in the book, including Rita Moreno's story, Margot Kidder's Lysol abortion story, etc., which really sort of backfires and reads as an advertisement for the "pro-life" movement.

The story that stood out the most for me was a guy who lost his mother in a LEGAL abortion (if I'm remembering correctly), suffered terribly from the loss and somehow concluded that his story was the reason why abortion should remain legal. I will never know how he never came to the conclusion that if his mommy had not aborted, she would be alive along with a sibling he would have loved for a lifetime. Abortion was THE problem for his family, not a solution that should be protected.

It makes no sense to build a small mountain of fluffy pillows on a freeway directly underneath the bridge you plan to jump off of. The safest, sanest thing is not to jump off the bridge, hello (especially if you're holding a baby).

:: ashli 12:56 PM # ::
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Coverage is as coverage does. The media's intense love affair with abortion continues.

The march for death is one of the three lead stories on AOL's welcome menu... while the March for Life was NOWHERE to be seen back in January.

The gratuitous coverage of the abortion-supporting "March for Lies" is just another attempt by the media to tell America what she wants.

The article, however, cites two major actions that have miffed and terrified abortion advocates everywhere: the ban on partial birth abortion and giving the baby rights apart from the mother in murder cases such as Laci and Conner Peterson's. Most Americans, including many abortion-supporters, are against PBA and agree that Conner's murder should be avenged. The article doesn't tell you that. Instead it reports the fringe as the norm.

The media makes sure to mention the presence of such Hollywood personalities as Susan Sarandon and Ashley Judd (who both have enough money and pull to help eliminate some of the problems that abandon women to abortion) and Whoopie Goldberg, currently the star of a children's show for preschoolers, arrived with her coathanger to advocate the elimination of at least a quarter of her future viewers.

Nice photo of the march packing out the mall and teeny tiny mention of counter demonstrations painted in such a way that, once again, makes dissenters look like dangerous lunatics.

"A much smaller number of anti-abortion activists lined several blocks along the march route. From behind steel barricades and under the watchful eye of police, they prayed and chanted "shame on you'' as they waved giant posters showing a fetus at eight weeks."

The abortion supporting marchers have killed over 40 million children and counting and WE are the dangerous ones. Uhhhh...

And this mother/daughter tag team of death is touching:

"Andrea Fleming, a senior in college, came from Orrville, Ohio, with her mother. She said the right to choose is a guarantee that must not be taken away. "I don't think anybody believes abortion is a good thing, but making it illegal isn't going to stop it,'' she said."

You know, rape isn't a good thing either, but we don't protect the choice of rape in order to enable the rapist to commit a crime against humanity in a way that will be safest for the rapist.

That isn't the answer for the injustice and cruelty of rape and it isn't the answer for the injustice and cruelty of abortion.

In the end, the people who support abortion are the people who will lose their children in abortions. Their children would have been more likely to support abortion like their abortion-supporting parents. It's very sad, but they're burning themselves out.

Just imagine the crowd of people who would have marched the mall for abortion if they had not been slaughtered in abortions. Now THAT is something to report on.

:: ashli 7:32 AM # ::
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This from the "sidewalk counselor" who alerted me to many of the situations that so many have generously, compassionately helped out with:

"I am so used to asking for help for people and having no one respond or do anything at all... I still send out the pleas, but I have learned not to expect much. Your little bunch has been extraordinary... Bless them big time, Lord."

YOU MAKE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD!
:-)

:: ashli 4:23 PM # ::
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Everyone has a part, and I agree with holding law makers accountable for theirs.

:: ashli 11:15 AM # ::
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Martin Sheen removed from list of abortion march supporters

:: ashli 11:08 AM # ::
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Marching In The Wrong Direction

:: ashli 10:26 AM # ::
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New situation. As always, email me for the address if you are moved to help out.

"At Fletcher (abortion business in Florida) today, [female abortion business worker] said her financial aid application for HCC was not received in time for her to start nursing classes this semester. She applied online and for some reason, it was not received. Bummer. She was really disappointed and said now she will have to wait til the August semester to start. That means a delay in getting her out of the abortion business. The per credit cost of HCC is 60 bucks. A real bargain. She cannot do that without help.

'How many credits do you want to take,' I queried. A full load...which for her a beginning student would be 12 -14. The math says about 800 bucks.

If you want to help...send bucks to me marked for [female abortion business worker]. Maybe if we can just get her the aid she would have gotten from the school, she can start now and get out of the Fletcher abortuary ASAP. I will stipulate that she has to quit working in the abortion industry before she can receive the funds..."

:: ashli 8:12 PM # ::
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Help me out here, folks. I'm having a baby shower on Friday. What invitation is appropriate for my "pro-choice" friends?

"Please join us for a fetus fest on Friday..."

"Please come to our products of conception reception..."

"Come get jumpy for our clumpy..."

"Come celebrate the issue of our tissue..."

This is important; My liberal pals tell me the only way to be compassionate is to be "tolerant" of their dehumanizing insanity that destroys so much of our society.

:: ashli 10:22 AM # ::
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A big thank you to the teeny, tiny minority who wrote to do what they could for the three situations listed at the Cell (young mom dying of cancer, ex-abortion clinic worker, mail-in shower for mom of saved baby). Thanks also for those of you who turned the situations over to other groups of people who also wanted to help. 3 or 4 folks turned into a significant, helpful group.

Just so you know, the ex-abortion clinic worker is overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of people who were formerly seen as "enemy number one". Compassion is unbelievably effective.

A big thanks also to the people who didn't necessarily write to help these folks but who donate monthly to good, life-affirming causes such as Feminists for Life.

It's never ever good enough to say you're "pro-life".
You must BE"pro-life", for all it takes for evil to prevail is good people who DO nothing.

:: ashli 9:08 AM # ::
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Saw this over at Emily's.

One read and you'll know why it deserved double mention.

I post it with the intent to make you think... but if it doesn't also rip your heart completely out you may want to check your pulse.

Those "choice" bumper stickers don't really seem so clever after this account, do they.

:: ashli 11:50 AM # ::
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A Wake Up Call from Serrin Foster, President of Feminists for Life (emphasis added by me):

"How Men Convinced Women To Be Pro-Abortion

(It's Women's History Month. Why isn't anyone telling the story about feminists and abortion?)

by Serrin M. Foster

Once upon a time, feminists worked for the rights of women and the unborn. Sound like a fairy tale? Not really. The now revered feminists of the 19th century were strongly opposed to abortion, because of their belief in the worth of all humans.

They opposed abortion even though they were acutely aware of the damage done to women through constant childbearing. They opposed abortion despite knowing that half of all children born died before the age of 5.

They knew that women had virtually no rights within the family or the political sphere, but they did not believe abortion was the answer.

All of the early feminists condemned abortion in the strongest possible terms. In Susan B. Anthony's newsletter "The Revolution," abortion was described as "child murder."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who in 1848 organized the first women's ­rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., classified abortion as a form of infanticide:

"When you consider that women have been treated as property, it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit."

Most people are unaware that antiabortion laws enacted in the latter half of the 19th century were a result of advocacy efforts by feminists, who worked in an uneasy­ alliance with the male ­dominated medical profession and the mainstream media.

These women, who had no rights of their own, were equally concerned about the rights of other oppressed groups, such as slaves, children and the unborn.

Ironically, these anti­abortion laws were the very laws that were destroyed by the Roe vs. Wade decision 100 years later and hailed by the National Organization for Women (NOW) as the "emancipation of women."

The aversion of the early feminists to abortion was based upon then new scientific knowledge about embryology. Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham, a feminist physician, believed educating women about family planning and fetal development would eliminate the "fearful crime of feticide."

Although the early feminists agreed it was necessary to provide legal protection for the unborn, they disagreed sharply with doctors and the media on why women had abortions-and they disagreed in their proposed remedies.

Male physicians active in the anti-­abortion campaign attributed the rising incidence of abortion to feminism because feminists questioned the limits on women's rights.

Feminists were infuriated by this analysis. They said women resorted to abortion primarily because of their lack of autonomy within the family and within society.

Many angry rebuttals to the presumption that women sought abortion for frivolous or selfish reasons appeared in feminist writings.

A passage in Anthony's "Revolution" states:

"Yes, no matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he . . . who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!"

With respect to abortion, the goals of the modern women's movement, led by NOW, would have outraged the early feminists. What Stanton called a "disgusting and degrading crime" has been heralded by Eleanor Smeal as a "most fundamental right."

BUILT ON LIES
It is important to note that Betty Friedan, credited with reawakening feminism in the 1960s with her landmark book "The Feminine Mystique," did not even mention abortion in the early edition.

And it was not until 1966 that NOW included abortion in its list of goals, and even then it was a low priority.

It was a man- abortion­ rights activist Larry Lader, who remains active today- who credits himself with guiding a reluctant Friedan toward making abortion an issue for NOW. Lader had gone around the country trying to repeal abortion laws, and he wasn't getting anywhere. State legislators were horrified by his. ideas.

Lader then teamed up with a gynecologist named Bernard Nathanson to co­found the National Alliance to Repeal Abortion Laws, the forerunner of today's National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL).

Lader suggested to NOW's leadership that all feminist demands, such as equal education, jobs and pay, hinged on a woman's ability to control her own body and procreation.

Employers don't want to pay for maternity benefits or lose production when a mother takes off for maternity leave or to care for a sick child, Lader insisted. So, in other words, if women wanted rights comparable to those of men, women would have to be able to control reproduction as if they were men.

Lader convinced NOW's leadership that legalized abortion would level the playing field in a male ­dominated work­force.

Dr. Nathanson, who later became a pro-­life activist, states in his book "Aborting America" that he and Lader were able to convince Friedan that abortion was a civil­ rights issue.

Later, he admitted that he and Lader simply made up the numbers of women dying from illegal abortions, which had been a major point in their argument.

Making abortion a civil­ rights issue quickly transformed it into the very symbol for women's equality. What Nathanson and Lader had been unable to do in years of lobbying state legislatures was accomplished by labeling abortion a civil right and successfully selling this concept to NOW.

Since then, NOW has made the preservation of legal abortion its No. 1 priority. Its literature repeatedly states that access to abortion is "the most fundamental right of women, without which all other rights are meaningless."

Many years ago, however, very Cliff Brent statements typified the feminist movement, statements such as: "If women were in positions of power, there would be no war. Problems would not be solved by violence."

But once NOW bought into the concept of superiority of women over their own children by the violence of abortion, they replaced a patriarchal system that the early feminists chose to reject with a modern­ day matriarchy. That is quite different from feminism that respects the basic rights of all human beings.

Yet, while members of the women's movement of the '70s continue to promote abortion, another movement is going forward with real solutions. This movement, a renaissance of the original American feminism, is built on a progressive ethic that challenges the status quo.

Pro­-life feminists recognize abortion as a symptom of-not a solution to- the continuing struggles women face in the workplace, at home and in society.

Rather than having to succeed in the workplace by passing as men, women should be accepted for themselves-and our life­giving capacity should be celebrated.

Like Susan B. Anthony and other early American suffragists, today's pro­-life feminists envision a better world, where no woman would be driven by desperation into the personal tragedy of abortion.

(Feminists for Life was started 25 years ago when two women were thrown out of a NOW meeting in Ohio for distributing anti­-abortion literature. Early American feminists fought for a women's right to vote and for our right to life. We proudly continue their legacy.)"

Supplementary Reading
Direct From the Horse's Mouth:
Abortion and the Lying Liars Who Lie About It

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You have GOT to read this at Emily's.

Excerpt:

"'Men and women are going to have sex, and I can't imagine men agreeing to having penetrative intercourse only when they want to be fathers and are absolutely convinced that the woman also wants to be a mother. To be completely honest, most of the time men want to have sex and not become fathers.'

This suggests that the purpose of abortion rights is to free men to have penetrative intercourse without simultaneously signing onto the possibility of fatherhood.

Since this woman started out by saying that abortion makes women's lives bearable, she may mean that abortion makes our lives bearable because it means that we can now have sex with men who want sex but not babies, and who would want us to clean up the results of some particular acts of penetrative intercourse by driving to an abortion clinic and having the baby sucked out into a dish, so a lab tech can strain it in the back room and count two tiny arms, two tiny legs and a tiny skull to make sure they got it all.

The modern empowered post-Roe v Wade woman. Life is good."

That's it in a nutshell, baby.

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Good point from a reader re: "March for Women's Lives":

"Witford says: 'We have the right to make our own deeply felt, deeply moral decisions.'

What makes abortion -- which he sees as removing a wart-- a deep moral decision?"

Indeed. And I'd like to add:

What's all this "we" stuff? He's not sticking his feet in stirrups or sweating the ABC link.

Furthermore, Hitler made deeply felt, deeply moral decisions. So did Manson, Bundy, Dahmer, Rollings, etc.

Since when does feeling deeply and morally about something justify killing innocent people?

The right to swing your fist (or empty your uterus) ends where someone else's nose begins.

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When you purchase movie tickets or CDs, remember these Hollywood stars who support the "March for Women's Lives" and the maiming and killing of women and children through abortion:

Margie Adam
Christina Aguilera
Jennifer Aniston
Curtis Armstrong
Elaine Aronson
Bea Arthur
Ed Asner
Kevin Bacon
Alec Baldwin
William Baldwin
Meredith Baxter
Shari Belafonte
Maria Bello
Polly Bergen
Thora Birch
Amy Brenneman
Betty Buckley
Jessica Capshaw
Lynda Carter
Stockard Channing
Jill Clayburgh
Kate Clinton
Glenn Close
Cindy Crawford
Sheryl Crow
Alan Cumming
Tyne Daly
Blythe Danner
Kristin Davis
Ossie Davis
Dana Delany
Laura Dern
Ellen DeGeneres
Ani DiFranco (sings about abortion in tiptoe [2nd song listed])
Illeana Douglas
Denise Dowse
Fran Drescher
Kirsten Dunst
David Eigenberg
Hector Elizondo
Emme
Eve Ensler
Giancarlo Esposito
Melissa Etheridge (adoptive parent)
Morgan Fairchild
Edie Falco
Frances Fisher
Calista Flockhart (adoptive parent)
Jane Fonda
Bonnie Franklin
Janeane Garofalo
Ana Gasteyer (accepted abortion award while pregnant)
Indigo Girls
Annabeth Gish
Whoopi Goldberg (lost something like 5 kids in abortions)
Lauren Graham
Maggie Gyllenhaal
LisaGay Hamilton
Ben Harper
Ed Harris
Salma Hayek
Marg Helgenberger
Isabella Hofmann
Helen Hunt
Amy Jo Johnson
Kathryn Joosten
Ashley Judd
Catherine Keener
Carole King
Swoosie Kurts
Christine Lahti
Sanaa Lathan
Sharon Lawrence
Lisa Loeb
Amy Madigan
Natalie Maines (yet another reason to boycott Dixie Chicks)
Wendie Malick
Joshua Malina
Camryn Manheim
Frances McDormand
Ewan McGregor
Marilyn McIntyre
Sarah McLachlan (adoptee)
Moby
Demi Moore
Julianne Moore
Alanis Morissette
Kathy Najimy
Alyson Palmer
Joe Pantoliano
Mary-Louise Parker
Adrian Pasdar
Pink
Martha Plimpton (PETA; won't eat crab but endorses abortion)
Doris Roberts
Paul Rudd
Susan Sarandon
Campbell Scott
Kyra Sedgwick
Martin Sheen (apparently "pro-life" no more)
Cybill Shepherd
SONiA
Fisher Stevens
Gloria Steinem
Julia Stiles
Corky and Mike Stoller
Sharon Stone (adoptive mother)
Amber Tamblyn
Mary Testa
Charlize Theron
Uma Thurman
Heather Tom
Stanley Tucci
Kathleen Turner
Ted Turner
Sarah Weddington
Audrey Wells
Bradley Whitford
Alfre Woodard
Thom Yorke
Amy Ziff
Elizabeth Ziff

Organizers are having trouble coming up with numbers for the march. Gee, who woulda thunk it.

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From the President of Feminists for Life (imho, the NUMBER ONE "pro-life" organization):

"April 13, 2004

Dear Feminist for Life:

As Kate Michelman leaves her 20-year post with NARAL in April 2004, I will celebrate my 10th anniversary with Feminists for Life.

You may be surprised to learn that Kate’s story has moved and inspired me.

Kate Michelman’s husband abandoned her with “no car, no home, no job, no money.” She had three children—and she was pregnant. 

In short, her story was one of a pregnant woman without practical resources and without emotional support. And like so many others, her story ended with a desperate act: she feigned insanity before a hospital board in order to obtain an abortion.

Thirty-one years after Roe v. Wade, women know the gut-wrenching truth about abortion. Women sacrifice their children because they believe they have no other choice.

The crucial question now is, “Don’t women deserve better than this?”

Think for a moment about some of the assumptions behind the status quo, and how ridiculous they are.

How is it, for example, that women are made to feel incapable of raising a child unless everything is perfect and planned?

How is it that women became convinced their own children were their mortal enemies? That children are an obstacle to success?

Who decided that news of a pregnancy should be followed by “I am so sorry” instead of “Congratulations! How can I help?”

It’s ridiculous that NARAL and other abortion advocates wrap themselves in a “flag of freedom” while women are coerced into abortion. Their movement underestimates women, insults women, does nothing to address the difficult problems women face.

Feminists for Life—this little-organization-that-could—has a different approach:

Women deserve better than abortion.

We believe in women. We are creating real solutions. We are challenging the status quo.

As I look back on the last decade, I think of all those who have helped me along the way, and the sacrifices that you and I have made to help those at highest risk of abortion. I have learned so much. We have come so far.

Together we have achieved some major breakthroughs.

FFL has shifted the focus to what women need, bringing together unlikely partners to win victories such as family and medical leave, stronger child support enforcement, health care for pregnant women, resources to fight violence against women, and more.

FFL has mobilized celebrities such as its Honorary Chair Patricia Heaton and Co-Chair Margaret Colin, who have brought new attention to the pro-woman, pro-life movement—and let others in the entertainment industry know they are not alone in their pro-woman, pro-life convictions.

FFL’s unique College Outreach Program has focused attention on college students, who are at high risk of abortion and who are the leaders of our future.

FFL has changed hearts and minds through “The Feminist Case Against Abortion,” presented across the U.S. and internationally. FFL’s Vice President Sally Winn and I have gone to venues where we were told to “expect trouble” yet found that students who came to protest said they agree with most of what we say and are willing to work with us on pregnancy resources. 

FFL’s Pregnancy Resource Forums have provided a catalyst for changes that help pregnant and parenting women, replacing hostility with hospitality. MIT, which before didn’t even think about pregnant women, recently announced maternity leave policies; Vanderbilt pro-life students just held their first Forum; Georgetown continues to hone its services through an annual Forum; and more.

FFL’s ad campaign has reached more than 4 million students. Now our “Covetable Stuff” merchandise is helping pro-life students share our pro-woman message wherever they go—including classrooms, dorms, and student unions. And our incredible recently upgraded website (www.feministsforlife.org) has become a recognized resource for writers and researchers.

Since 1994, abortions have declined by 30% among college graduates.

A clear mission. Strategic programs. Advocacy for woman-centered solutions. Lasting change. Results.

Feminists for Life recognizes that abortion is a reflection that our society has failed to meet the needs of women. We are dedicated to systematically eliminating the root causes that drive women to abortion—primarily lack of practical resources and support—through holistic, woman-centered solutions. Women deserve better than abortion.

Women deserve better. It isn’t just a slogan or a PR tactic. It isn’t window dressing for the pro-life movement. It is our heart. It is our commitment to real solutions.

It is who we are and what we do.

Like Susan B. Anthony, we are defying the status quo and calling on everyone to address the root causes that drive women to abortion.

Together we are educating an entire movement about our rich feminist legacy. You can see we are transforming the pro-life movement, from the grassroots through all levels of leadership. Pro-woman pro-life conferences, op-eds, and bumper stickers are appearing everywhere. Everyone is using FFL’s pioneering message.

Can you believe how many groups are now talking about the early American feminists’ opposition to abortion? 

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton never saw the day when women could vote—their most cherished goal.

But I believe that if we put into hyper-drive our women-centered solutions, and challenge abortion advocates to join us in providing real support for women, we will see the end of legalized abortion in our lifetime.

The “Berlin Wall” of Roe is beginning to crumble.

Kate Michelman recognizes this as she addresses college audiences across the country. “Not since Roe v. Wade has the threat to reproductive freedom and choice been so great," she says. "We're all redoubling our efforts on college campuses and among young people."

What NARAL sees as a threat to “freedom” and “choice” is in fact the promise of real freedom and choice for women. If we succeed, women will finally be free of the desperation of seeing no choice other than the violence and trauma of abortion.

Indeed, the real solutions FFL is promoting and implementing today will hasten the end of legalized abortion, and we are educating the next generation of leaders and activists to support and serve the women and children at highest risk of abortion.

It is not enough to say “no” to abortion. We must say yes to life—the woman’s life and her child’s life.

We must ensure that the solutions women need and deserve are available when Roe is no more.

Here is what we need to do next.

1. Stand up, be counted—and spread the word. There are still many who would join us but have not yet heard the message. Order FFL bumper stickers, shirts and caps that tell the world you refuse to choose between women and children!

2. Put your money where your heart is. You can see, looking back on the past decade, that committed activists following in the steps of our feminist foremothers can do a lot with just a little when they have a strategic woman-centered plan and the resources to implement it. 

3. Believe that we will succeed. Ours is a life-affirming mission of hope, truly empowering and ennobling women. If we commit ourselves, Susan B. Anthony’s promise is ours: “Failure is impossible.”

In the past decade I have received a lot of the credit for our
efforts. But it is you, and thousands like you, who have made it all possible.

I thank you and all FFL members for the stories you have shared, for the volunteer time that took you away from family and friends, for the countless sacrifices you have made. Some have lost relationships. Some have lost jobs. You have given generously. 

Your work, conviction and investment have made an enormous difference in the lives of women. I want you to know your joy, your hope, your faith in women and your support for students have effected real change.

Our vision is to end abortion as we know it: to ensure that pregnant women have the practical and emotional support they need, so that abortion becomes unthinkable, a relic of the past. It is a momentous and humbling proposition. And yet, ten years ago, I never would have believed we would have come as far as we have. Looking ahead to the next ten years, I believe we can really achieve this goal.

Just think what that would mean—the lives saved and transformed, the pain prevented. It’s within our reach, but we must strive for it as never before.

Your continued and generous support is essential. You are making this happen—thank you.

For women, for life,

Serrin M. Foster
President"

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If I had to choose only one "pro-life" organization to give my money, time, effort to, it would be Feminists for Life without question.

Give, give, give to Feminists for Life. Get a bumper sticker or start with a monthly pledge. Even if it's five bucks. DO IT TODAY for women, for life!

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More than 1/4 of Girl Scouts troops work with Planned Parenthood!

In addition, 79% of Girl Scout councils refused to say whether or not they worked with PP.

PP's Girl Scout-related function is to teach sex education to young girls.

Of 315 Girl Scout councils, 17 work with PP, 49 do not and 249 refused to say.

"...one council's CEO admitted she was told to keep silent, and told STOPP (an organization that opposes the PP's abortion agenda), 'I have been instructed to say 'no
comment' to whatever you ask.'"

Why the secrecy? If partnering with PP was so beneficial and positive, wouldn't Girl Scouts want the whole world to know about the relationship? Wouldn't they want parents to know that their little girls were learning about the birds and the bees (and the birds and the birds) from Planned Parenthood?

"'It is important to understand, we are not at war with the Girl Scouts, but that we are trying to protect young girls from the evils of Planned Parenthood,' said Sedlak. 'We are simply asking , that Girl Scout councils stop their partnership with Planned Parenthood.'"

Once little girls are exposed to PP in a safe, respected environment, the message is that PP is a name they can trust. Who then will they go to when they are pregnant and scared to tell their parents? If there's no hidden agenda, why is the Girl Scout/PP association hidden?

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An excerpt from the recent PBA testimony:

"THE COURT: Do any of [the parents] ask you whether or not the fetus experiences pain when that limb is torn off?

THE WITNESS: I do have patients who ask about fetal pain during the procedure, yes.

THE COURT: And what do you tell them?

THE WITNESS: I, first of all, assess their feelings about this, but they of course even notwithstanding the abortion decision, would generally tell me they would like to avoid the fetus feeling pain. I explain to them that in conjunction with our anesthesiologists that the medication that we give to our patients during the procedure will cross the placenta so the fetus will have some of the same medications that the mother has.

THE COURT: Some.

THE WITNESS: Yes, that's right.

THE COURT: What do you tell them, does the fetus feel pain or not when they ask?

THE WITNESS: What I tell them is that the subject of the fetal pain and whether a fetus can appreciate pain is a subject of some research and controversy and that I don't know to what extent the fetus can feel pain but that its --

THE COURT: Do you tell them it feels some pain?

THE WITNESS: I do know that when we do, for instance an amniocentesis and put a needle through the abdomen into the amniotic cavity that the fetus withdraws so I certainly know based on my experience that the fetus will withdraw in response to a painful stimulus.

THE COURT: Don't you make it simple for them and say "Yeah, they feel it"?

THE WITNESS: I am not confident what the fetus feels with the anesthesia that we use and I don't want to shy away from the possibility the fetus feels pain but I do not believe it's fully determined what the fetus feels during this procedure.

THE COURT: Do you care?

THE WITNESS: Certainly."

I.E...

Joe Judge: Does a baby feel pain in a PBA, Ms. Abortionist?

Ms. Abortionist: Well I... um... er... What is pain really?

Joe Judge: Does a baby feel pain when he is conscious, half born, squirming his little arms and legs around and you poke him in the back of the head with a sharp point and suck his brains out with an aspirator?

Ms. Abortionist: Well... I... um... er...
I DID NOT HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONS WITH THAT WOMAN!
Um... what was the question again?

Joe Judge: Look, do you even care that a PBA might be painful to a child?

Ms. Abortionist: Oh yes, and I toss their little deflated bodies in the company retort very gently.

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Put your thinking caps on and shield your boobies.

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Hollywood lies.

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The 15-year-old girl who died in an abortion three months ago soaked an entire mattress with her blood upon returning home.

"WomanCare told her family that such bleeding was 'normal'
following an abortion, and not to take her to the hospital."

Her mother knew this advice didn't sound right and called the ambulance that the 15-year-old died in on the way to the hospital.

Remember, the teen broke down and told her mother and aunt about the baby and that laminaria had been inserted. She was obviously having doubts if she told at this point. The mom and aunt called the abortion facility to ask if the abortion procedure could be stopped and the clinic totally lied to them saying it could not. The abortion business made $2,000 off of the abortion of the 6-month baby.

"...23 lawsuits from the past 20 years had been
filed against WomanCare facilities and Alberto Hodari. All had
been dismissed, with many referring to an undisclosed settlement. The suits were filed for various injuries suffered as the result of abortions, including hysterectomies on 19, 22, and 23-year-old women, and even the death of Chivon Williams in 1996, who died after having a first-trimester abortion performed by Hodari."

Although the teen used fake ID, the ID was borrowed and the person in the picture looked nothing like the teen. Facility workers should have been able to spot right away that it was a fake ID.

Abortion supporters will not mention any of this at the "March for Women's Lives".

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Court decides past abortion caused cerebral palsy in subsequent child.

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"An easy, but effective way to help Pro-Life Republican candidates is to note on the top of the surveys sent to you by the Republican National Committee, etc., " I WILL SUPPORT ONLY PRO LIFE CANDIDATES" and mail their surveys, back to them in their envelopes. (If you want to black out your name, etc., that's fine, too.)

If you are a Democrat, you can do the same thing on the surveys you receive from the Democratic Party.

If enough people do this, it will make a difference."

Interesting suggestion.

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Boo-boo time. Many of you do not know this, but when you send mail to the SICLE Cell, it does not go to me but to a filter who trashes the junk and vitriol and fwds me the productive emails. The person who has been so generously serving as my filter has been very busy and has not checked mail at the SICLE Cell for 60 days. Because of this, the account has gone inactive and I have not gotten any of the emails.

This is a relief! Because, of all the situations I've mentioned, only people who already have my primary email address have been able to write offering help, and that hasn't been many! I am hoping it was just an email error and not that people really are not interested in helping.

If you want to know the addresses of the three situations (mom dying of cancer, ex-abortion clinic worker, baby shower for mom who left abortion clinic) or if you know of an available Down Syndrome adoption situation (i.e., a birthmom who wants to make an adoption plan for her child with Down's) please write my primary email address.

I'll try and work the bugs out of my SICLE Cell email in the mean time, because I WANT MY FILTER BACK!
:-)

UPDATE: I think mail is up and running again at the Cell.

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Gay and oppose abortion?

"Dear Members and Friends of PLAGAL,

In January the Board of Directors voted to participate in a
counter demonstration in DC on April 25th against the March
For Choice. We are in the final stages of planning. We are
writing today to get a feel for how many people will be able
to participate in the event. Please reply to this email if
you are able to participate. We will be sending more info
soon with detailed instructions on the demonstration.

Cecilia Brown
President"

Whether we support or oppose homosexuality, abortion is discrimination and a massive violation of human rights. It seems to me, all abortion opposition is welcome.

Typically homo/bisexuals are associated with abortion advocacy, but as I mentioned before, if scientists ever find a gay gene and there's a prenatal test for it, there are going to be lots of little gay boys and girls at the bottom of abortion clinic garbage disposals.

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