Email from Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life:

But now, as I write this at 2:41 AM, we've received the news that the Democratic leadership WILL ALLOW A VOTE on the pro-life amendment by Bart Stupak and Joe Pitts!

This is a major victory, as indicated by a CNN news report this morning. Ellsworth must have signed on to the Stupak/Pitts amendment, probably thrilled to do so after the tremendous backlash he got (examples here and here) for his phony pro-life amendment. Incredible that Catholic bishops were directly involved in the deal-making...

Continue reading "Breaking News: House to vote on Stupak/Pitts anti-abortion amendment"

Is your congressperson on this list from GOP House Whip Eric Cantor [pictured right]? CALL!

As of today, at least 69 Democrats have expressed opposition to the Speaker's health care bill. As the bill comes to the House floor, how many Democrats will stand up and vote against a health care bill that raises taxes, cuts benefits to seniors, and spends money that families and small businesses across America cannot afford?

Pelosi needs 39 to carry the majority.

Meanwhile USA Today just posted...

Continue reading "Republicans count 69 Democrats opposed to Pelosicare; starting to "flake off""

The article below indicates Catholic pro-life Democrats are having a problem defying their bishops on the healthcare bill currently as written. They are not falling for the phony pro-life Ellsworth amendment.

It also indicates Catholic pro-life Dem congressman (and co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Life Caucus) Bart Stupak is holding strong with his assertion he has the votes to stop healthcare on the Life issue. From CNS News, today...

Continue reading "Bishops call phony pro-life amendment "money laundering system"; Stupak says still has votes to stop"

Press release from Congressman Steve King (IA-5)

Congressman Steve King today made the following statement calling on American citizens to come to Washington this weekend to stop a government takeover of health care.

"Nancy Pelosi and Washington liberals cannot ignore what transpired yesterday in Washington. Americans from every state stormed Capitol Hill. They took over the Hill. And they loudly chanted 'Kill this bill!'...

Continue reading ""House Call II" Capitol rally planned for tomorrow"

UPDATE, 11/6 3:18p: 40 Days reports the O'Reilly segment with Abby Johnson has been postponed until next Wedneday due to the Ft. Hood tragedy. Meanwhile, Fox has been advertising her appearance on Huckabee tomorrow (which replays Sunday).

[HT: Mary LF]
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11/3, 6:36p:The 40 Days for Life blog is reporting that Abby Johnson, the former director of the Bryan, TX, Planned Parenthood who quit her job earlier this month and is now a pro-life convert, will appear on The O'Reilly Factor Friday night.

Read my previous post giving Johnson's backstory here.

The Associated Press has an update on PP's attempted restraining order against Johnson...

Continue reading "Former Planned Parenthood director to appear on O'Reilly Friday 11/11; Huckabee 11/7"

by intern Andy M.

Spotlighting important information gleaned from other pro-life blogs...

Continue reading "(Prolifer)ations 11-6-09"

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This today, from the AP:

House Democrats acknowledged they don't yet have the votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system, and signaled they may push back the vote until Sunday or early next week....

The apparent problem: Democrats have yet to resolve intraparty disputes over abortion funding and illegal immigrants' access to health care.

[Rep. Steny] Hoyer (D) sought to pin the blame for any possible slippage on delaying tactics expected from Republicans, who unanimously oppose the health care remake. But he acknowledged that Democrats are still short of the 218 votes they need to pass the bill....

Continue reading "Not enough, Nancy? Health care vote may be delayed "

From ABC News, November 5, one more problem for pro-aborts claiming preborns aren't human:

Think newborns just eat, sleep and wail the same way across the world? That's not so, according to a new study which found that babies cry with an accent within the first week of life.

By recording cries of 60 babies born to French or German parents, researchers discovered that babies cry with the same "prosody" or melody used in their native language by the 2nd day of life.

French newborns in the study ended their cries with a lilt at the end typically heard in French.

German babies, however, started their cries intensely and dropped off at the end - much like the emphasis their German parents put in a sentence, according to a study published Thursday in Current Biology.

Experts in child development say the most exciting part of this discovery is not that infants recognize the melody of their language, but that the newborns may have the ability to use what they heard in the womb to then control their cries.

[HT: Nathan WS]

UPDATE, 3:10p: WEARTV.com has news video about the Pensacola mill closing, including interviews with local 40 Days organizers, as well as its history of bombings and shootings.

[HT: Michael B.]
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The FL Agency for Health Care Administration has shut down the Community Healthcare Center in Pensacola, FL, after it couldn't cough up $413k in fines for failing to renew a lab license for 413 days.

The AHCA served ample notice to the 25+ year old abortion mill in January, but when it hadn't settled its bill 10 months after the fact, the clinic "voluntarily" closed its doors October 30, according to AHCA via PNJ.com, after AHCA paid it a shakedown visit on October 20.

Too bad, so sad, PNJ.com also reports:

The closure leaves AMS of Pensacola... as the only abortion clinic in Escambia County.

40 Days for Life was keeping vigil at the mill during that time. What great news to learn on Day 38!

As an aside, this particular mill has a sordid history. It's where Paul Hill in 1995 killed abortionist John Britton and deathscort James Barrett.

[HT: David Bereit of 40 Days]

The above Boston Globe photo is of TX Congressman John Culberson yesterday, tossing Pelosi's 2k page healthcare bill into an opposition crowd. Reports the Globe...

Continue reading "Healthcare fight "furious": today's the day to burn the phone lines"

The above is a shot of the wild scene outside Nancy Pelosi's office yesterday afternoon, as described in The Hill last night...

Continue reading "Pelosi's office trashed; priest + 11 arrested "

When I read NBC's Law & Order was airing an episode last week "ripped from the headlines" of an abortionist shot in church, i.e., Dr. George Tiller, I, of course, anticipated the plot would not go well for pro-lifers. The most I expected was milliseconds of fairness with pro-abortion clichés ruling the hour.

My, was I surprised. I could have written that script. The episode wasn't even balanced. It was outright pro-life, not that I mind.

If you haven't seen the episode, you should. Sans commercials it is only 42 minutes long....

Pro-abort reaction was swift and harsh. Sarah Seltzer at the Ted-Turner-funded blog RH Reality Check called the episode an "abortion disaster" and "wasteland of TV."

Kate Harding at Salon accused NBC of spreading "anti-choice propaganda" and "smear[ing] the memory of... Dr. Tiller."

Ms. Magazine was "appalled by this second assassination" of Dr. Tiller, calling the show "shocking" and "insensitive."...

Jennifer Boulangerat Women and Hollywood called the show "deeply stigmatizing" and "rife with medical inaccuracies."

On and on.

The question is: How did this story line come to pass?....

Continue reading my column this week, "Is Hollywood tipping pro-life?" at WorldNetDaily.com.

I've been out of pocket at a speaking event (shout out to Choices of the Heart in NJ!). Lots going on. Here are the latest scoops via Twitter from reliable sources Matt Lewis and Greg Mueller (click to enlarge). I'm afraid to hope we're starting to see a meltdown:

Then there was this, posted 6p ET tonight, entitled, "Pelosi breaks pledge to put final health care bill online for 72 hours before vote"...

Continue reading "Healthcare battle gone wild"

by JivinJ

"Any House member who votes for the Pelosi rule is voting to establish a federal government insurance plan, the public option, that the bill explicitly authorizes to pay for all elective abortions. When a federal agency pays for abortions, that is federal funding of abortion in reality, whatever contrived labels Speaker Pelosi or her acolytes slap over it....

Continue reading "Jivin J's Life Links 11-5-09"

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I previously reported that Bryan, TX, Planned Parenthood director Abby Johnson quit earlier this month after seeing an abortion on ultrasound and being forced to push abortion to increase profits....

Continue reading "Planned Parenthood had abortion quotas, says former director"

Read my previous posts for the backstory here and here.

The other side's resolve for the completely unfettered right to kill babies knows no bounds. From the Chicago Sun-Times, November 4:

It has been 14 years and it will be at least a few more months before IL's long-mothballed parental notification law for teens seeking abortions takes effect....

Continue reading "IL parental notification law again blocked"

UPDATE, 11/5, 5a: It occurred to me yesterday that Reid's staffers likely didn't tell the press the topic of Koop's letter. But Koop did, at least in part. Here's the epilogue, from Roll Call:

Reached at his home Wednesday, Koop confirmed that he wrote a few "beautifully typed" pages on his views of the health care legislation. The fact that it caused a Capitol Hill scare is "nonsense," he said.

"I wasn't aware that sending a hand-delivered letter was an offense," he said, later adding: "I did it over a weekend. I don't have a lot of secretarial help and I'm 93."

Koop said the letter asked that health care legislation include a provision to ensure doctors and medical students would not be forced to perform abortions.

He has not heard from Reid's office, he said....

Continue reading "Letter on abortion in healthcare shuts down Senate today"

Abby Johnson, the Bryan, TX, Planned Parenthood director who quit a few weeks ago because she saw an abortion on ultrasound and also felt pressured to sell abortions, came up on The View November 2.

Pro-abort co-host Joy Behar had a problem not with abortion but that the abortion industry might profit from it. Hello? I really wonder how these people can be so ignorant. Joy is apparently unaware Planned Parenthood of America has grossed $1 billion 2 years running.

Barbara Walters was careful to defend PP. More ignorance. I grow so tired of it.

There was more to the segment not shown in this clip. Read it at Newsbusters.

[HT: Stephanie R.]