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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 [...]

We’re an hour and a half into the hearings and I need to hear no more. It’s all about the Dems beating dead horses. Over and over again. Unitary executive. CAP. Vanguard. Vanguard. Vanguard.
John Podhoretz marvels: “A Kennedy who has never known a moment’s worry about money is now grilling a lifelong middle-class public servant [...]

***scroll for updates***
Townhall.com has an “Alito Central” clearinghouse with tons o’ links.
Stephen Bainbridge dissects the NYTimes’ Alito-bashing editorial. More at Instapundit.
Confirm Them notes that C-SPAN coverage begins at 11:30am ET, although the actual hearing isn’t set to begin until noon. There will be a re-air Monday night at 8pm ET on C-SPAN.
The Oregonian’s David [...]

***updated…Wash Times reports Leonard Leo quitting pro-Miers lobbying effort***
SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers was supposed to turn in more detailed questionnaire responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Kathryn Lopez reports that as of 8pm EDT tonight, Miers had failed to turn in her answers.
Hmmm.
Meanwhile, there have been some significant shifts to the oppose column in [...]

I have answered the White House’s call for energy conservation…by conserving my energy and laying off the Harriet Miers nomination for a brief spell.
In the meantime, read Ed Morrissey’s excellent piece in the Washington Post about the rift on the right. Ed has additional thoughts and a round-up of reax to his piece here.
Patterico [...]

Hot off the press: the latest fabrications from the Associated Press and the New York Times.
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Related:
- The Dowdifier strikes again
- AP: John McCain is “front-runner” for GOP nomination
- The Associated Press and its sources
- The Associated Press makes it up
- The crowd that didn’t boo
- Associated Press continues to stonewall
- The Associated Press twists [...]

Bill at INDC Journal, accuses me of “shoehorning science and medicine in order to fit an ideological agenda, misrepresenting risk and utilizing hyperbole” because I “hyped” the deaths of four Californian women who used RU-486, the abortion pill.
Bill implies that RU-486 is safe because only a small number of deaths have been linked to it. [...]

The Los Angeles Times reports:
Health officials are investigating whether there are any links in the cases of four California women — at least two in Los Angeles County — who have died since 2003 of massive infection after taking the so-called abortion pill, RU-486, and a follow-up drug.
The state and federal probe follows an announcement [...]

Tigerhawk examines fallout from NARAL’s aborted smear ad against SCOTUS nominee John Roberts. The group’s communications director has “resigned”, and as Tigerhawk notes:
I find it hard to believe that NARAL’s communication director would quit in the teeth of a nomination battle without having been pushed out. It is a virtually certainty that NARAL gave him [...]

In Opinion Journal this morning, Manuel Miranda nails loony NARAL for its inexcusable attack ad against SCOTUS nominee John Roberts:
The ladies who gave Plato’s “noble lie” new uses in the hearings of Clarence Thomas are at it again. NARAL is using the image of the abortion clinic bombing by Eric Rudolph to suggest that Judge [...]

Tony Mauro of the Legal Times reported in February 2005 that SCOTUS nominee John Roberts’ votes “have mainly fallen on the conservative side, but not always:”
Last December, in United States v. Mellen, Roberts ruled in favor of a criminal defendant who challenged his sentence in a fraud case. Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson — yes, an [...]

WaPo says an announcement may come as early as this afternoon.
The Supreme Court Nomination Blog has all the lowdown on rumored frontrunner Edith Clement. (Update: Rolling list of Clement’s noteworthy opinions.)
Jonathan Adler comments on lefty Nan Aron’s wishes.
Christopher Flannery likes Justice Alice Batchelder.
ProLife Blogs takes a look at the two Ediths.
FOX News reports [...]

There is one fundamental issue that matters more than any other in choosing the next Supreme Court justice–a wartime Supreme Court justice. More than abortion. More than affirmative action. More than the Ten Commandments in courtrooms. The issue is national security.
Will the next high court nominee, for example, side with the Johnnie Cochran-for-Jihadists model [...]

According to Brendan Nyhan, Feminist Majority president Eleanor Smeal is the latest liberal to spread the myth that Sandra Day O’Connor’s replacement will overturn Roe v. Wade. In an e-mail to her supporters, Smeal writes:
This is it! The worst has happened with the resignation of Sandra Day O’Connor. Let there be no mistake about it: [...]

Hot day ahead for the Supreme Court as it ends its term; hands down some highly anticipated rulings (including a Ten Commandments case and the Cooper/Miller confidential sources appeal); and prepares for a likely resignation.
Hugh Hewitt and Bill Kristol had dueling predictions last week. Hugh sez Rehnquist; Kristol sez O’Connor. We’ll know soon enough. [...]

The Indiana attorney general’s office has been putting the heat on Planned Parenthood in its investigation of explosive charges that the abortion providers failed to report incidents of child molestation to authorities, and the state just got a judicial green light. From the NY Times:
Planned Parenthood of Indiana has to show state investigators the medical [...]

A new state report shows the abortion rate in Wisconsin is at its lowest since the state began tracking abortions in 1974, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin was one of the states that professor Glenn Stassen said was experiencing an increase in abortions. He later retracted that claim, but his now-discredited conclusions were [...]

You probably haven’t heard about the new analysis by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, released Thursday, May 19. The study indicates that both the number of abortions in the U.S. and the abortion rate declined in 2001 and 2002:
The Institute estimates that 1,303,000 abortions took place in the United States in 2001—0.8% fewer than the 1,313,000 [...]

Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is shifting his position on abortion, just as George H.W. Bush did prior to the 1980 election:
Governor Mitt Romney said this week in a nationally published interview that he is ”in a different place” on abortion than at the time of his first run for public office in Massachusetts, when he [...]

Pia de Solenni has a jaw-dropping piece in NRO today about a morning radio show here in D.C. that aired a vulgar broadcast interviewing callers who joked about having multiple abortions. The host, “Elliott” of Elliott in the Morning on D.C. 101, held a contest to find the woman who had had the most abortions. [...]

Howard Dean on Meet the Press this morning claims abortions have gone up “25 percent since George Bush was president.”
The bogus numbers have been cited by Hillary Clinton and New York Times columnist Nick Kristof, among others. Tim Russert did not bother to challenge Dean’s assertion.
The truth?
See here, here, and here.

Tom Maguire at Just One [...]

I was going to comment on this curious post at Instapundit, which seems to take an uncharacteristically rude slap at Kathryn Lopez of NRO for simply noting House passage of the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act (apparently such measures are reckless and unnecessary diversions because there’s a “war on”), but Ace of Spades already [...]

Pro-abortion forces in Illinois make it a criminal offense get a bill through the House that would prohibit an ultrasound from being administered without a doctor’s order, the Illinois Leader reports. Bryan Preston notes:
Why would Planned Parenthood, an industry leader that aborts children and makes millions doing it, care a bit about the safety [...]

In today’s column bemoaning the declining credibility of the MSM, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times argues that the press needs to take bolder steps to reconnect with the public:
More openness, more willingness to run corrections, more ombudsmen, more acknowledgement of our failings - those are the kinds of steps that are already under [...]

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof responded via e-mail to this post criticizing his claim that the number of abortions has “increased significantly” since President Bush took office. He writes:
michelle,
thanks belatedly for your note about hillary and abortions. i was in zimbabwe, skulking around and pretending to be a tourist, and didn’t have web access. [...]

One of the pro-abortion Left’s favorite attacks on people of faith is that we only care about children before they’re born and not afterwards.
Perhaps this is why the mainstream media has ignored the amazing stories of pro-life activists who have been keeping vigil outside Terri Schiavo’s hospice–people like Steve and Tony Sakac, the Withey family, [...]

On the New York Times op-ed page yesterday, columnist Nicholas Kristof dredged up the debunked talking point that the number of abortions has increased since George W. Bush became President:
What has been lethal for Democrats has not been their pro-choice position as such, but the perception that they don’t even share public qualms about abortion. [...]