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I was listening to the radio the other day, and heard a brief news report about college students protesting a budget cut, the story ending with, “fifteen people were arrested”. I wasn’t surprised. In fact it seems like in any protest there are always rowdy protestors or damage of property that goes along with it.

It seem that I hear stories like these a lot: “Anti-gun rally in Chicago, six people arrested”, “Police break up anti-war protest, take demonstrators away in handcuffs”, or “Environmental protest ends with fights, multiple arrests”.
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First of all, I hope you’ve been watching the Winter Olympics. Not for any pro-life reason, but simply for the love of the sport, the thrill of the competition – not least of all victory, pride for our country, and finally, because they only take place every four years.

If you have faithfully tuned into NBC’s primetime broadcasts, you may have noticed featured bios about two athletes who have been positively influenced by their handicapped siblings.

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I’m taking this opportunity to toot my own horn, and encourage you to follow my lead.

A few weeks ago I was doing my weekly grocery shopping at the Jewel when I noticed a rather scantily clad young woman on the cover of Cosmopolitan Magazine.  I’m not overly shocked by these things since it’s everywhere, but when I read the topics of that months issue, I was appalled that it was front and center of the check out line at the Jewel!

I won’t write what the magazine said, but it included some swears and other inappropriate material.  My girls are not old enough to read yet, but my oldest is getting there.  I was also concerned about the other children who stand in these lines everyday.

So I picked up the magazine and politely told the checkout fellow who was in his early 20s that I didn’t think this magazine was appropriate for the Jewel check out line.  He actually agreed and even went on to say, “young girls read this stuff and that’s totally inappropriate!”  I asked him if he could talk to the manager and see if they could remove the magazine.  He said he would.

I headed home and I told my husband about the whole situations.  He told me to to contact the manager myself so I did.  We had a nice, understanding chat and he said he would have to check with upper management in order to have the magazines removed.  A short bit later I received a call from the Jewel saying that upper management completely agreed with me.  They removed the magazines.

A few weeks, and the next month of Cosmo magazine later, I was again shopping at the Jewel.  Again the cover of Cosmo had a swear on the front.  I went straight to the customer service desk and told them that the current month’s magazine was just as bad as last month’s and would appreciate it if it was removed from the check out line.  The woman seemed a bit annoyed and said, “You’re the only one that has complained.”  To which I replied, “well, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and they always say it only takes one person to be a hero.”

She removed all the magazines that day.

A week later, I went to the Jewel with my mother-in-law.  As I was waiting in line, I noticed that all the Cosmo magazines were back on the shelves, but every single one in every single line was covered over with a cardboard placard.  If someone wanted Cosmo, they could still find it, but the inappropriate words and images were coverd up.

I explained the whole story to my mother-in-law and she was so impressed.  I felt proud.

Last month I wrote about the case of Pastor Walter Hoye, who was facing charges of “unlawfully approaching patients” at an abortion clinic in Oakland, CA for holding a sign saying “Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help you!“, and asking women, “May I talk to you about alternatives to the clinic?”

At a hearing on Friday, Pastor Hoye was given a choice: he could either go to jail for 30 days, or else he could avoid jail by being part of a sheriff’s work detail or community service — but if he did so, he would also have to agree to stay 100 yards away from the abortion clinic.

He chose jail, and while he was led out of the courtroom by sheriff’s deputies, his supporters clapped and shouted, “We love you, Walter!” (more…)

You may have already heard that President Barack Obama is scheduled to give the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame’s class of 2009.

I’m including here the article that appeared Friday on the homepage of our parent organization, the Pro-Life Action League:

League Calls on Notre Dame To Disinvite President Obama

On March 20 it was announced that President Barack Obama is scheduled to give the commencement address to the Class of 2009 at the renowned Catholic University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. The Pro-Life Action League immediately issued a press release calling on Notre Dame President Rev. John Jenkins to withdraw the invitation.

Obama Attacks Sanctity of Life

“Over the first two months of his administration, Barack Obama has established himself as the most pro-abortion president in U.S. history,” said League National Director Joe Scheidler, himself a graduate of Notre Dame, a Catholic university. “My alma mater should not be providing a platform for this president.”

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Carol Everett. Anthony Levatino. Beverly McMillan. Joan Appleton. Joy Davis. McArthur Hill.

What do these people have in common?

All of them used to work in the abortion industry. Doctors Levatino, McMillan, and Hill used to perform abortions themselves. Joan Appleton was an abortion clinc nurse. Carol Everett and Joy Davis were abortion clinic administrators.

Along with many other former abortion providers, they have all spoken out publicly about how they came to be pro-life.

I thought about these former-abortion-industry-workers-turned-pro-lifers when I realized today, March 10, is the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers. (more…)

If you attended TeenSpeak 2009, you heard Dr. Alveda King talk about Rev. Walter Hoye, who was facing charges of “unlawfully approaching patients” at an abortion clinic in Oakland, CA.

His “crime”?

Holding a sign saying “Jesus loves you and your baby. Let us help you!“, and asking women, “May I talk to you about alternatives to the clinic?”

You see, Oakland had recently enacted an ordinance — which is probably unconstitutional — preventing protesters from coming within 8 feet of anyone entering an abortion clinic.

And so yesterday, at trial, even though there were no patients who said they felt he had threatened them, Rev. Hoye was sentenced to three years probation, ordered to pay a $1,130 fine, and told to stay away from the clinic—an order Rev. Hoye is refusing to agree to, God bless him.

If you’re on Facebook, you can send Rev. Hoye a message of support here. (And, while you’re at it, you can join the GFL Facebook group here.)

“Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you (falsely) because of me.” —Matthew 5:12

You’ll probably remember me posting a blog in response to an article that came out in the sping of last year, and the article was titled, “Want to Help the Environment? Don’t Have Children”. Time Magazine printed it.

The blazing hypocrisy and stupidity of the article was almost mind boggling, and I was just fuming.

I’m still fuming. Every time that article comes to mind, I just can’t take it! I think that it was an excellant example of the Culture of Death using extreme lies to propagate their agenda. (more…)

Some of the biggest news right now on Lifesitenews.com is a story about how St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital in London, Ontario has been doing “induction” abortions for 20 years! The story is here.

I was especially sickened at how the chief ethicist at the hospital, Fr. Michael Prieur, defended this eugenic abortion practice. He said that they weren’t actually killing the babies, but that they were just taking the babies out and letting them die. What a grand twist!

Dosen’t he understand that, because the intention is to end the life of the baby, they are indeed killing the baby?
Why else are they taking the baby out? Their direct intention is the end the baby’s life, to kill the baby! So they’re doing abortions. (more…)

Many news headlines about the Catholic Church and hierarchy these days are very disquieting. Much of it is simply incomprehensible to me.

Headlines about Pontifical Universities inviting pro-abortion speakers to their events, a movie reviewer for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops talking favorably about homosexual-friendly movies, a priest telling his people how they may need to go to confession before receiving Holy Communion if they voted for pro-abortion politicians, and then being undermined by his bishop; what’s happening to the Catholic Church?

And 54% of Catholics voting for Obama. And so many strongly pro-abortion politicians calling themselves Catholic. And 60% of students at Catholic colleges and universities believing abortion is not wrong. (more…)

One week from today—Tuesday, October 21—Stand True is sponsoring the fifth annual Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity.

For one day, people all over the world will give up their voices in solidarity with babies who have had their voices silenced by abortion.

So far, students from over 3,200 schools—along with over 200 homeschools, over 60 businesses & ministries, and over 700 individuals/non-students—in 21 countries have registered to participate!

Are you willing to give up your voice for a day for those who will never have a voice?

For more information and to register, go here.

Yes, it’s true! Just read this article. I’m still a little in shock.

So I guess we finally ran into a pro-abortion person who actually admits what she really supports! Why did it take so long? Why aren’t they all as proud to face up to abortion as we are to face up to life? I tell you, it is so easy to be on the pro-life side in this battle!

It’s easy to argue in support of the truth, because it’s all real, it all does really exist. What gets hard is arguing in support of lies, of stuff that dosen’t exist, because you have to make it all up and then support it, somehow.

So every now and then we should step back and see how easy we have it here in the pro-life movement! We’re just upholding and confirming and explaining truth. The people who have it the most difficult, the people who work the hardest, are those who support abortion. (more…)

For years, many people who call themselves “pro-choice” have said that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare”.

Many pro-lifers have pointed out how strange it is that abortion advocates would want abortion to be “rare”, because, after all, if abortion is supposedly “safe”, and if it isn’t actually the killing of an innocent human person (and therefore is the moral equivalent of having a tooth pulled), why does it matter if abortion is “rare” or not?

Now, though, it turns out that many abortion supporters admit they really don’t care if abortion is rare—including people like Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice president of the Canadian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, who “worries” [!] that Sarah Palin’s decision to give birth to her son Trig, who has Down syndrome, “may cause abortions in Canada to decline as other women there and elsewhere opt to follow suit”.

Worrying that fewer babies with Down syndrome will be killed?

The brutal honesty is very revealing.

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A couple days ago I was interviewed by a local TV station for a story dealing with teen pregnancy and the debate over abstinence education vs. so-called comprehensive sex education.

I can’t seem to link directly to the story, but you can watch it by going here. Then, in the search field below the video screen, type in “teen pregnancy on the rise”, and it should be the first result.

Overall, I think, the story was presented about as fairly as we could hope for.

Interestingly, the interviewee representing the “other” side of the issue, Soo Ji Min, works for the Illinois Caucus of Adolescent Health (ICAH).

As I’ve mentioned here previously on the GFL blog, two years ago ICAH held its (adults-only) annual fundraiser at the Playboy offices. Last year, their (adults-only) fundraiser featured a stripper. (more…)

On Wednesday, August 27, police officers brutally arrested two teenage girls, ages 15 and 17, near Senator Obama’s Denver hotel.   The young women, Julia Giacopuzzi and Jayne White, were writing messages in sidewalk chalk on the public sidewalk when the police officers rushed in and violently arrested the girls without warning or provocation.

The girls are members of the pro-life youth organization Survivors, and were in Denver during the Democratic National Convention to call attention to Senator Barack Obama’s pro-abortion position as part of A Prayer for Change. (more…)