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Nicknamed “Rocky.”

Exposing the abortion racket.

Planned Parenthood gives Manhattan Mini-Storage’s wire hanger billboard two thumbs up: “Fabulous.”

Abortion doctor George “The Killer” Tiller charged with 19 misdemeanor counts. Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison: “It’s my job to enforce the law.”

Not everyone gets to walk out of the clinic with the “I had an abortion” t-shirt and a smile on her face…

The Dems’ embryonic stem cell research bill goes down. 28 veto threats to go. But shamnesty lives.

LifeNews.com has the story.

Caught on tape again and again and again.
Uploaded to YouTube:

Double standards.

Where are the wimmin’s groups?

A pro-life documentary you won’t see on PBS or at the movie theater. Find out more here.
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While we’re on life issues, Bobby Schindler has a question for the GOP presidential candidates and un-moderate debate moderator Chris Matthews: “Since When Does Pro-Life Mean Killing The Disabled?”

Kirsten Powers speaks truth to the pro-abortion elites in her party:
It’s tragic that abortion rights have become synonymous with modern day feminism. But it’s mind-boggling that late-term abortions now enjoy the imprimatur of every one of the presidential candidates of one of the two main political parties. Many early feminists — the Suffragettes — opposed [...]

There’s a new kind of “conscientious objector” in Britain’s medical community–and the pro-abortion lobby isn’t happy (via the Independent):
Britain is facing an abortion crisis because an unprecedented number of doctors are refusing to be involved in carrying out the procedure. The exodus of doctors prepared to perform the task is a nationwide phenomenon that threatens [...]

Dawn Eden reports that Yale medical students are celebrating “Roe v. Wade week” by holding a seminar, open to non-medical students, on how to perform abortions.

What if tens of thousands of protesters poured into Washington, D.C., exercising their free speech and joining peacefully to participate in public debate? How would the MSM cover them?
If it’s tens of thousands of pro-illegal alien marchers, they get front-page, banner headline-plus-multimedia bonanza, panoramic coverage gushing over their ability to “flood the Mall” with “passion” [...]

Blogger Gene Miller notices the British debut of Jack Hitt’s NYT magazine piece on El Salvadoran abortion law. It appeared in the Observer this Sunday with no corrections or clarifications of its false claims about Carmen Climaco.
Climaco appears, just as in the NYT piece, as a sympathetic figure serving 30 years for having an abortion [...]

Before she left, Michelle put up a “corrections” post in which she noted in passing,
Now, if only TPM and the fevered left-wing blogosphere would hold, say, the New York Times–has anyone seen a correction yet for the Carmen Climaco debacle?–as accountable for its errors as the rest of us.
Michelle blogged, Vented, and wrote a column [...]

Carmen Climaco (right, holding baby): New York Times’ propaganda tool
Remember this name: Carmen Climaco.
The next time you hear a New York Times columnist defend the paper’s commitment to accuracy, fairness, and ethical standards, give them two words: Carmen Climaco.
The next time an MSM apologist denies liberal bias, repeat: Carmen Climaco.
Today’s Vent covers ombudsman Byron [...]

Fox News Channel’s Jesse Watters takes a closer look at the biomedical big bucks behind Missouri’s cloning amendment. An excerpt:
People in Missouri go to the polls November 7th to vote on Amendment 2, which would allow controversial embryonic stem cell research and would, some critics say, opens the door to human cloning. A billionaire couple, [...]

My friend Julia Gorin has a great piece in today’s Opinion Journal about how she was almost aborted and her offense to Ms. Magazine’s new campaign to destigmatize abortion by having their readers fess up to having had one.
Julia and I are both from the former Soviet Union and I’ve written before about the [...]

Cincinnati Enquirer reports this morning that Northern Kentucky University professor Sally Jacobsen and her band of cross-destroyers have been criminally charged:
A professor and six students at Northern Kentucky University were charged Wednesday with misdemeanors related to the April 12 destruction of an anti-abortion display on campus.
Sally Jacobsen of the literature and language department, has been [...]

***update: ProLife Blogs reports that Sally Jacobsen has been put on leave…NKU Glenn Reynolds has more details…***

There’s much more on the story I blogged Friday concerning Sally Jacobsen, the Northern Kentucky University women’s studies professor who enlisted her students to wreck a pro-life display of crosses erected in memory of abortion victims.
A state lawmaker [...]

***update: new photo of unhinged professor caught on camera***

Northern Kentucky University professor Sally Jacobsen tears the “Cemetery of Innocents” sign on Wednesday evening. Photo credit: Sarah Loman, The Northerner Online
Look–liberal “tolerance” at work again! An unhinged feminist professor tells her students to wreck a pro-life display of crosses (via Cincinnati Enquirer):
HIGHLAND HEIGHTS - A professor [...]

Terri Schiavo’s husband and parents marked the anniversary of her death fittingly this week, appearing nightly on cable news shows to (a) claim the moral high ground while (b) accusing each other of having helped cause her death. A video montage is below; it might take a minute to load, but it’s worth your [...]

Via Breitbart.com/AP:
The Supreme Court dealt a setback Tuesday to abortion clinics in a two-decade-old legal fight over abortion protests, ruling that federal extortion and racketeering laws cannot be used to ban demonstrations.
Anti-abortion groups brought the appeal after the 7th Circuit had asked a trial judge to determine whether a nationwide injunction could be supported [...]

Interesting news from the left-wing Guardian newspaper:
A majority of women in Britain want the abortion laws to be tightened to make it harder, or impossible, for them to terminate a pregnancy.
Evidence of a widespread public demand for the government to further restrict women’s right to have an abortion is revealed in a remarkable Observer [...]

Via Breitbart/AP:
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito picked up his second Democratic supporter on Thursday, with Tim Johnson of South Dakota announcing he will vote for the conservative judge to become the nation’s 110th justice.
Johnson joins fellow Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska as the only members of their party to announce Senate support for the [...]

Check out this must-read photo essay from Zombie, who attended the Walk for Life West Coast march and counter-demonstration in the Bay Area. You won’t see this pro-abortion zealot’s sign featured on any MSM front page:

Today, FYI, is National Sanctity of Human Life Day. Here’s the text of President Bush’s proclamation:
A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America
Our Nation was founded on the belief that every human being has rights, dignity, and value. On National Sanctity of Human Life Day, we underscore our commitment to building a [...]