Last week I wrote about Angie Jackson, who began live tweeting her RU-486 abortion on Feb. 18 to "demystify" us, thinking it would be a "4 hour bleed out."
We learned together Jackson was grossly uninformed about the medical abortion process.
For 9 days Jackson tweeted about recurring headaches, nausea, vomiting, bleeding, pelvic pain, backaches, and cramping so bothersome she went through an entire bottle of 20 Tylenol with codeine in a week and had to ask for more (which she was apparently denied, tweeting Feb. 27, "This is definitely the most pain so far. It's distracting & makes me unhappy... Ibuprofin is a joke, ya'll")....
Meanwhile, a copycat named Next Thursday, inspired by Jackson, decided to begin tweeting her RU-486 abortion on Feb. 25....
When the day came for Next Thursday to begin her RU-486 abortion, it had first to be determined whether she was too far along....
That the abortion mill qualified Next Thursday for an RU-486 abortion by ultrasound tells me it may have fudged on dates.... a red flag for events to follow....
Three days into Next Thursday's RU-486 abortion, something bad happened. Her second-to-last tweet ominously reads: "I've been bleeding like a stuffed pig all day."...
Continue reading my column today, "The copycat who stopped live tweeting her abortion," on WorldNetDaily.com...
At 4:08 p.m. on Feb. 18 micro-blogger Angie Jackson began posting the blow-by-blows of her RU-486 abortion on Twitter. "I took the first pill a little under 2 hours ago," she tweeted.
The 27-year-old's intention, she later told ABC News, was to "demystify" RU-486 abortions....
RU-486 abortions are the coming rage, much less hassle for abortion profiteers than surgical abortions. The mother takes an RU-486 pill at the clinic, which kills the baby, and follows up at home with 1 or 2 doses of misoprostol pills to cause contractions to expel the baby. All for $480, as Angie tweeted.
The bonus for abortion clinics is if an RU-486 abortion doesn't work, which occurs 7.9% of the time according to RU-486's label, there is no guarantee, so mothers must then undergo and pay for surgical abortions - abortion double-dipping.
Notwithstanding that, along with serious, life-threatening complications that can lead to death, as has happened at least 8 times in the U.S. since RU-486 was legalized in 2000, are RU-486 abortions generally less hassle for aborting moms?
Jackson thought so, basing her decision on the fact her abortion would... be a "4 hour bleed-out," as she tweeted beforehand....
But the first rule of demystifying is one must herself be demystified before attempting to demystify. If not, the demystifying process may not go as anticipated, which is what happened in Jackson's case.
Only because Angie decided to live tweet her RU-486 abortion did we learn in actuality it's a long, drawn out, painful process. For that reason I thought Angie's exposé was a worthwhile educational experience for us all....
For 9 days, from Feb. 19-27, Jackson tweeted about such severe cramps she had difficulty walking across the room. She went through 17 Vicodin in 6 days and at a point soon after requesting a prescription for another 20.
Jackson tweeted nausea, vomiting, backaches, headaches and bleeding. 5 days into her abortion experience, Angie commented on another blog, "Honestly I had no idea this would go on so long. I thought the entire abortion would take a few hours, as I'd read in a few stories...."
At the bottom of this column you can read what Jackson's suffering looked like in real time, where I've synopsized the pain of her tweets....
Continue reading my column, "Live tweeting abortion," at WorldNetDaily.com.
Kevin Pearce learns patience from Down Syndrome brother
Tom Brokow interviews the family of Kevin Pearce who many thought would win a gold in the snowboarding competition. He suffered a critical injury in practice months before the Games started. A good interview but what I caught was the highlighting of his Down Syndrome older brother David who his mother said that the "great gift of David in our life prepared me for this experience." How wonderful for a special needs child to be highlighted in this way especially when prenatal testing specifically for Down's Syndrom ends with a 95% abortion rate. Watch this heartwarming 5 minute video here. You will be glad you did.
TN legislators of the liberal persuasion snuck one by with this resolution and little benign cooperation from the other side .
Today they voted to honor the head of the TN ACLU! She was recently profiled by ultra liberal Tennessean editorial page director Dwight Lewis. Amazingly enough she was even nominated to be considered as Tennessean of the Year....an honor she did not receive. In this article, Lewis asked her what she was most proud of...... she answered as follows:
"In the early '90s, there was a case out of East Tennessee, the frozen embryo case that dealt with who was going to have custody. The judge, I think it was Justice (Cissy) Daughtrey, issued an opinion ruling there was a right to privacy as it pertains to procreation. Recognizing that, ACLU decided that this was a good time to really try to expand and protect reproductive freedom rights for women in Tennessee. So, what we did was to look at what we understood had long been a problem with some of the provisions in the Tennessee abortion statute that were fairly burdensome restrictions on women's ability to access abortion services.
We decided it was best to challenge those provisions. We went to Planned Parenthood and asked them to join in with us, and we ... filed a lawsuit challenging several restrictions in the Tennessee abortion statute. It took a good six years, but it was a monumental decision that the Tennessee Supreme Court, in fact, issued and it was the first time the court dealt with the abortion issue. And what they said in their opinion was that there is a right to privacy that pertains to abortion. That was a very exciting decision because we were expanding rights for women in Tennessee."
She is most proud common sense regulations around abortion voted into law by duly elected bi partisan members of the legislature were struck down as unconstitutional and the activist judges found that our state constitution written in the 1800's held a right to abortion!
So....NO INFORMED CONSENT BEFORE ABORTION
NO 48 HOUR WAITING PERIOD
NO HOSPITALIZATION REQUIREMENT FOR SECOND TRIMESTER ABORTIONS.
The public proclamation states in part........that she endeavors to ensure that the voiceless, receive the protections guaranteed them by our founding fathers; and........throughout her estimable career, Ms. Weinberg has sought to ensure the constitutional rights of all Tennesseans.
How many voices have been silenced for eternity, Ms Weinberg? How many women and men have been eternally wounded because they were vulnerable and received no or incomplete information or chance to reflect on their decision. How many women have been harmed physically due to not receiving proper medical care in abortion facilities that remain uninspected and with no regulations imposed on them. The abortion industry may smile on you but shame on the TN legislators who did.
... Next week Polish pro-lifers will unveil a huge billboard in one of Poland's large cities (unnamed now so as not to jeopardize the plan) reminding the public of Adolph Hitler's push for abortion during the Nazi occupation....
Translation: Abortion for Polish women introduced by Hitler on March 9, 1943
... Under Hitler's guidance, the Berlin Chamber of Physicians loosened the Nazis' abortion policy in 1933 so as to use abortion as a tool to exterminate nondesirables. It determined "the health of the mother - considered from all angles - is the decisive factor" for abortions.
Flash forward to the US Supreme Court's definition of the abortion health exception in its Jan. 22, 1973, Doe v. Bolton decision, which was, "all factors - physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the woman's age - relevant to the well-being of the patient."
Great minds think alike, or plagiarize sometimes.
Hitler also introduced the novel concept of free-standing abortion mills in a 1942 policy statement:
It will be necessary to open special institutions for abortions and doctors must be able to help out there in case there is any question of this being a breach of their professional ethics.
What vision. Hitler would no doubt have approved of locating American abortion clinics in minority neighborhoods....
Continue reading my column today, "The abortion clinic and other novel ideas of Adolph Hitler," at WorldNetDaily.com.
It all turned out so well, I have a hard time making much of the fact that Focus on the Family's Tebow ad, billed as pertaining to the pro-life issue, didn't have anything to do with abortion.
But looking back, Focus never said it would.
In fact, Focus said it wouldn't. CEO Jim Daly told USA Today on Feb. 5 the ad was "an open discussion on the sanctity of human life - not just the issue of abortion... [with] a bit of humor in it - in fitting with the Super Bowl theme."
Focus gave exactly what it promised.
People like Jeff Emmanuel at RedState.com commended Focus for PR genius:
The job done by Focus and the Tebows with their much- publicized Super Bowl advertisement was nothing short of masterful. In fact, I'm not sure that word describes the level of mastery Focus showed with their domination of the pro-abortion left through last night's ad and the public relations battles leading up to it....
Brilliant....
Continue reading my column today, "Wednesday morning quarterbacking the Tebow ad," at WorldNetDaily.com.
It's the first Friday of the month and it's time to call for LIFE!
Thank you for all you do for the unborn. Without us speaking out for them, they would die in silence, killed by abortion or embryonic stem cell research. In the end, our representatives, through our prodding, will do the right thing and end abortion and human killing research.
I would like to ask everyone to do one more thing for the unborn this month. Please contact at least 2 people who might do just a little bit more to help the unborn and encourage them to join us in the Monthly Call for Life. It's only once a month, and it's so easy! Go to monthlycallforlife.com for everything you need to say and do.
The actual translation of Exodus 20:13 from the Hebrew is, "Thou shalt not murder," indicating a premeditated, uncivil act.
The Bible considers murder the ultimate violation of the sanctity of human life, requiring the ultimate punishment. So Exodus 21:14 makes perfect sense to state, "If anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately," that person shall be "put to death."
I would have had no problem with late-term abortionist George Tiller being sentenced to death by a jury of his peers for committing thousands of murders of preborn children. In recent days both President Obama and his spokesman, Robert Gibbs, have endorsed the execution of alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. KSM's actions were no more heinous than GT's.
But I did have a problem with Scott Roeder murdering Tiller. It was a premeditated, uncivil act.
A pocket of pro-lifers think killing abortionists is just because it stops them from murdering preborn babies when unjust laws or public officials won't. If one believes in the full humanity of the preborn, they say, use of force is as justified to save their lives as it would be to save a classroom of kindergartners from being murdered.
Scott Roeder was obviously a member of that camp.
Roeder's defense team wanted to show that Roeder "reasonably believe[d]... deadly force [was] necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to... a third person," according to KS law, the "third person[s]" being preborn children....
Continue reading my column today, "With Roeder trial, abortion dodges another bullet," at WorldNetDaily.com.
During his State of the Union Address, President Obama asserted:
With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.
Justice Alito can be seen on the left, shaking his head and mouthing what appears to be "not true." Perhaps Obama's cheap shot at the High Court is rooted in the same concern expressed by pro-abortion radicals.
At his first inaugural address, President Ronald Reagan discussed plainly the role of interventionist government economic policies on the woes of that time:
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden.
President Obama has a different philosophy, one that asserts the federal government as the savior through social engineering, control of the means of production, a welfare state and centralized healthcare.
I appreciated the Family Research Council's quick response to Obama's proposed socialized child care proposal and support for gays in the military:
Washington, D.C. - Family Research Council President Tony Perkins released the following statement in response to President Obama's first State of the Union Address:
"At a time of enormous economic challenge, two on-going wars in which American are fighting and increased terrorist threats to Americans at home, President Obama seems untethered from that reality as he called on Congress to force the military to allow open homosexuality. As a veteran of the Marine Corps, the timing of the President's call in the midst of two wars shows that he is willing to jeopardize our nation's security to advance the agenda of the radical homosexual lobby.
"The military is a warrior culture for a reason: Our service members wear the uniform to fight and win wars, not serve as liberal social policy guinea pigs. The sexual environment the President is seeking to impose upon the young men and women who serve this country is the antithesis of the successful warfighting culture and as such should be rejected.
"Tonight the President also proposed expanding the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit which would only benefit families if: both parents work, a single parent works, or one parent works and the other is in school. In other words, it completely discriminates against families with stay-at-home parents, who wouldn't see a penny from this plan. The President's plan further drives a wedge between parents and children as it would encourage parents to place their children in government approved day-care rather than encouraging one parent to stay home and personally care for their off-spring.
"This new socialized child care proposal comes on the heels of a proposed major marriage tax penalty included within the President's health care bills. A tax penalty on married couples only serves to discourage couples from marrying while encouraging societal instability through cohabitation and divorce.
"If this administration cared about getting families back on their feet, it would double or triple the across-the-board child tax credit and let parents decide how to spend the money. For many, it may be all the incentive they need to stay home and care for their kids.
"We applaud Governor Bob McDonnell for calling for a land in which 'innocent human life is protected.' The governor's call to protect human life is clearly in line with the American people who overwhelmingly oppose the President's health care plan which would use our hard earned dollars to pay for abortion coverage. FRC will continue to work to ensure taxpayers are not forced to be part of the President's pro-abortion agenda.
"Family Research Council pledges to work with our allies and the thousands of families we represent to oppose the President's plans to socialize child care, sexualize the military, and penalize married couples through a government takeover of the U.S. health care system."
At the 2010 March for Life the media set new standards for journalistic fraud. In its lead photo, CNN showed five pro-abortion picketers, all that could be found, and ignored the 300,000 pro-life marchers. CNN's Rick Sanchez wondered out loud which group dominated. Newsweek claimed that most participants were in their 60's when, in fact, most were under 25. This video sets the record straight.
On Dec. 3, 2009, NE late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart told the New York Times that after the death of colleague George Tiller in May he began committing abortions "'past 24 weeks."...
The NYT added:
Dr. Carhart's fee schedule lists prices for abortions up to 22 weeks and 6 days (at that point, $2,100 in cash or $2,163 on a credit card), but notes that abortions after 23 weeks are available "after consultation with our doctor," and that abortions after the 27th week may take four days.
The problem is NE has a law banning abortions past the age of viability. Although unspecified, currently a baby is considered viable at 23 weeks.
This wasn't the first time Carhart publicly flouted the fact he allows himself a wide swath of wiggle room on whether a baby he is aborting is viable or not.
Hence the introduction of the Abortion Pain Prevention Act by NE Speaker of the Legislature Mike Flood on Jan. 21.
The Abortion Pain Prevention Act takes us into a whole new world of abortion law, banning all abortions after 20 gestational weeks on the basis of a preborn baby's capacity to feel the pain of it all. At this age a baby anatomically "has the physical structures necessary to experience pain," states the bill, based on scientific evidence....
Watch this legislation. It has the potential to be as explosive in the 2000s as the Partial Birth Abortion Ban was in the 1990s, and just as damaging to the abortion movement. Meanwhile, if passed, it would save exponentially more lives.
And once again Carhart, the ultimate loser of the PBA Ban battles before the Supreme Court, is in the middle of it....
Continue reading my column today, "Bill protects preborns after 20 weeks," at WorldNetDaily.com.
Friends, many of you were with us during the battle for Terri Schindler Schiavo's life five years ago. We're delighted that the foundation established in her name continues to the good work and will commemorate her death with a "Life and Hope" concert:
Country Legend Randy Travis Headlines the April 11 show in Indianapolis with Opening Act Collin Raye
The Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation is excited to announce the first annual Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Concert to be held at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis, Indiana.
This concert showcases two award-winning Country stars in a rare appearance together on the same stage! It promises to be a fabulous music show, long to be remembered by country music fans! The concert comes just days after the fifth anniversary of Terri Schiavo's death and will benefit the Foundation established by her family.
With one of the most recognizable voices in country music and over twenty-five years on the country music charts, Randy Travis is one of the top-ten selling solo country artists of all time. Collin Raye has produced five Platinum Albums, and fifteen #1 hits. But perhaps the closest to Collin's heart is his granddaughter, Haley, who is afflicted with a rare degenerative brain disorder. Collin has worked tirelessly to help find a cure for Haley and has helped other families who are faced with similar situations.
The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Concert will be Sunday, April 11, 2010, 7 PM at the Murat Theatre in Indianapolis, IN. Tickets are now available through LiveNation.
Funds raised through ticket sales and sponsorships for this event will allow Terri's Foundation to honor her legacy in many ways. Most importantly, it will allow the foundation to continue protecting the lives of vulnerable persons who are in jeopardy of having their lives hastened.
Participants in the 2010 March for Life were consistent in their reports of the crowd enthusiasm and size.
HUGE. That is all I can say. The largest in recent memory. Some informal estimates at 300,000. In my humble opinion, there were more like 500,000 people attending the March. Pro-lifers swarmed Washington D.C. on a cool but rain free day. The sun even came out at the end of the day while the women from Silent No More gave their testimony. - Jakubczyk on Life
Today, in spite of the weather, I drove to Washington D.C. to partake in the 37th annual March For Life and had an experience like no other. I saw an enthusiastic crowd in very large numbers totally devoted to the life cause, consisting largely of young, fresh faced people chanting, praying, laughing, and enjoying life to its fullest as they marched for their firmly held beliefs.
They came from Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and even from as far west as Kansas City, MO. They all came for the same reason, to convince our lawmakers and Supreme Court justices to overturn Roe vs. Wade, and make abortion a thing of the past. There were priests, bishops, lots of students, women who have had abortions and regretted them, Knights of Columbus, bloggers like myself, politicians, teachers, nurses, several nuns, and people from all walks of life, all who agree that abortion will go down in history along side American slavery and lynching of African-Americans as stains and blights on our nation's history.
Scan down Matt's post for great photos including the one above. Excellent photos from Generations for Life here. Jill Stanek notes great March videos on YouTube:
As we've come to expect, the MSM not only failed to provide an accurate representation of the March for Life but emphasized the 60 strong counter protest (JillStanek).
In covering the 2010 March, the media have morphed from laziness and incompetence to outright fraud. Someone should be fired.
Let us start with Krista Gesaman writing for Newsweek. Her headline sums up the utter absurdity of her thesis, "Missing at the 'Roe v. Wade' Anniversary Demonstrations? Young Women." Twisting the words of a police organizer, she informs the reader that "a majority of the participants are in their 60s."
This leads Gesaman to conclude, "So this raises the question: where are the young, vibrant women supporting their pro-life or pro-choice positions? Likely, they're at home." All Gesaman had to do was stick her head out the window to know otherwise.
Having been in Washington for the March this year, I can assure Gesaman that the demographics matched last year's, Young women were everywhere and unavoidable. They filled every hotel lobby in town. Many of them had spent countless hours on busses to get there.
My experience is consistent with his observations. How someone can get the demographics so absurdly wrong and then belittle the protest of child killing is beyond me.
However, it's not hard to get the facts. Check out Cspan Coverage and citizen journalists at YouTube and through the posts linked to in our right column.
he 5th annual Blogs for Life Conference will be this Friday from 8:30 to 11:30a EST, hosted by Family Research Council.
You can still register to attend in person. Or make plans to view online. Bloggers can live stream the conference on their sites. Get the embed code here.
Here is the tentative speakers' schedule, which even as late as yesterday changed. So it's by no means written in stone.
A coalition of local churches, including the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tulsa, are sponsoring a march for life on Friday, January 22, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. The purpose of the march is to celebrate life on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade and to show solidarity with those marching in Washington, D.C. The march starts at 8th and Boulder.
In a stunning upset, Republican Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley in Massachsetts' Senate Race (53-47%). YES! Earlier in the race, Coakley led by over fifteen points and was expected to be a shoe-in. In fact, exit polls were not even planned for what was considered a sure Democratic victory.
Having spoiled the Democratic super majority needed to pass Obamacare, Brown now fills the seat vacated by the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
There are more long faces at MSNBC than at an aardvark convention - Michelle Malkin
We wish Brown's victory had been about Obamacare's abortion provision. It wasn't. Massachusetts chose Brown to protect their pocket books, lower taxes and protect their families from the Senate's healthcare debacle. Fiscal responsibility is to be desired and a cornerstone of Brown's campaign was his promise to vote against Obama's healthcare plan.
Update: Democrats are scrambling to blame someone for conducting a poor campaign or not lending enough support. Perhaps it's inconceivable that it could be their bankrupt policies and heavy handed tactics that voters have rejected.
John Jakubczyk, ever the optimist, offers the following commentary:
Coakley is calling [Brown] "anti-choice." Well he may no be there yet, but if the left pushes hard enough, they may push him right into a pro-life position.
We like true converts. Here is an opportunity to win one and establish lines of real communication.
The results of this election could be the beignning of something big.
Final Update (9:25 EST): Brown has won the election (see results below). (Boston Globe website crashed - as has HotAir and Michelle Malkin)
Massachusetts polls are closed and results are coming in fast and furious. At 8:40 EST with only 17% of districts reporting Brown leads Coakley 52% to 47%.
One blogger notes: On CNN, live shots of the respective campaign headquarters showed Brown's HQ in a state of euphoria -- and Coakley's HQ dead as a funeral.
Meanwhile, the Boston Globe (accidentally) called the race for Coakley (oops).
If Brown does indeed win, despite his opposition to Obamacare and emphasis on fiscal responsibility, Republicans are going to have to get use to the idea that he is neither a conservative or pro-life.
Updates
(8:47 EST): Brown maintains same lead with 36% of precincts reporting.
(8:53 EST): Brown maintains 52% to 47% lead with 45% of precincts reporting.
(8:57 EST): Brown maintains 52% to 47% lead with 52% of precincts reporting.
(8:59 EST): Brown's lead has grown - 53% to 46% with 57% of precincts reporting but still waiting for the city of Boston (only 88 of 254 have reported in).
(9:02 EST): Brown's lead remains at 53% to 46% with 60% of precincts reporting. Note that in Boston Coakley leads 62-37% with only 37% of precincts reporting.
(9:05 EST): Brown's lead remains at 53% to 46% with 63% of precincts reporting. Note that in Boston Coakley leads 63-36% with 44% of precincts reporting. So, the question is whether or not the City of Boston is enough to close the gap. With Brown's overall lead at over 85,000 votes I'm guessing that the answer is "no". Even if 50% of the city voted and Coakley led by 20% this would only give her an added 60,000 votes.
(9:11 EST): Brown's lead remains at 53% to 46% with 66% of precincts reporting. Note that in Boston Coakley's lead has increased to 65-34% with 52% of precincts reporting.
(9:14 EST): Brown's lead remains at 53% to 46% with 69% of precincts reporting. Boston is increasingly favoring Coakley 66-33% with 53% of precincts reporting.
(9:17 EST): Brown appears to have a decisive lead: 53% to 46% with 71% of precincts reporting. Boston favors Coakley 66-33% with 58% of precincts reporting.
Coakley just conceded by telephone to Brown - what an incredible upset!
