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This is wonderful news to combat YouTube's censorship.

Thread by mlizzy.

Breaking: New pro-life video website launched

Praise God ... pro-lifer Todd Bullis, of Ventura, CA, activist fame, has created Pro-Lifetube.com. The pro-life community has needed this for a long time! Todd is a software developer, saw the need, and filled it. Thank you, Todd!

Any and all pro-lifers can now upload their videos and photos to Pro-Lifetube.com, just as they would to YouTube, but without fear of being expunged.

Todd has spent weeks adding what pro-life videos he could find on YouTube to give Pro-Lifetube.com a solid base. One of the videos he found was this disturbing clip, which I had never seen...

This video was originally shot on March 10, 2009, at a Charlotte, NC, abortion mill. Here's the backstory, from opersvamerica:
(Click video to view.)

Yesterday they [sidewalk counselors] came upon something they have often witnessed at the mills but never got on video - a father forcing his daughter to have an abortion. She was given no choice. So many of the women brought to abortion mills are really given no choice. She ran from the abortion mill and from her father, crying all the way. The father ran after her, chased her down, put her arm in a hammerlock, and forced her back to the mill.
The police were called and brought the entire family to the police station. When the family came back to the mill, our hearts fell as we thought the father had had his way. It was not to be! The father stormed into the abortion mill, got his money back, and sped out of the driveway honking his horn all the way. He was extremely unhappy but mother and baby are doing just fine.
The policeman told us that the father was going to let her carry the baby to term! Praise the Lord!

Thank goodness, this story had a happy ending. Now the pro-life community has a depository for all our videos documenting the horrors of abortion, pro-life activism, and even pro-life music videos at Pro-Lifetube.com. (link)

For all his flaws, Rick Santorum has always been dedicated to life.

Thread by me.

Rick Santorum: Incompatible With Life? Some Children Die in Abortions, But Bella is Now Two

"Incompatible with life." The doctor's words kept echoing in my head as I held my sobbing wife, Karen, just four days after the birth of our eighth child, Isabella Maria.

Bella was born with three No. 18 chromosomes, rather than the normal two. The statistics were heartbreaking: About 90 percent of children with the disorder, known as trisomy 18, die before or during birth, and 90 percent of those who survive die within the first year.

Bella was baptized that day, and then we spent every waking hour at her bedside, giving her a lifetime's worth of love and care. However, not only did she not die; she came home in just 10 days.

She was sent home on hospice care, strange as that sounded for a newborn. The hospice doctor visited us the next day and described in graphic detail how Bella would die. In sum, she could die at any time without warning, and the best we could hope for was that she would die of the common cold.

Karen and I discontinued hospice so that we and our amazing doctors, James Baugh and Sunil Kapoor, could get to work focusing on Bella's health, not her death.

Like so many moms of special kids, Karen is a warrior, caring for Bella night and day and, at times, fighting with health-care providers and our insurance company to get our daughter the care she needs.

Being the parent of a special child gives one exceptional insight into the negative perception of the disabled among many medical professionals, particularly when they see your child as having an intellectual disability. Sadly, we discovered that not only did we have to search for doctors who had experience with trisomy 18. We also had to search for those who saw Bella not as a fatal diagnosis, but as a wanted and loved daughter and sister, as well as a beautiful gift from God.

We knew from experience that Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was such a place. Fourteen years ago, we had another baby who was diagnosed as having no hope, but CHOP's Dr. Scott Adzick gave him a shot at life. In the end, we lost our son Gabriel, but we will always be grateful to Dr. Adzick for affirming the value of his life.

When Bella was 3 months old, she needed some minor but vital surgery. Some doctors told us that a child like Bella wouldn't survive surgery or, even worse, that surgery was "not recommended" because of her genetic condition - in other words, that her life wasn't worth saving. So we again turned to the Children's Hospital and found compassion, concern, and hope in Dr. Thane Blinman. He told us he had several trisomy 18 patients who did well - and so did Bella.

Next week, we will mark Bella's second birthday. Over these two years, we have endured two close brushes with death, lots of sleepless nights, more than a month in CHOP's intensive care unit, and the constant anxiety that the next day could be our little girl's last.

And yet we have also been inspired - by her fighting spirit, and by the miracle of seeing our little flower blossom into a loving, joyful child who is at the center of our family life.

Most children with trisomy 18 diagnosed in the womb are aborted. Most who survive birth are given hospice care until they die. In these cases, doctors advise parents that these disabled children will die young or be a burden to them and society. But couldn't the same be said of many healthy children?

All children are a gift that comes with no guarantees. While Bella's life may not be long, and though she requires our constant care, she is worth every tear.

Living with Bella has been a course in character and virtue. She makes us better. And it's not just our family; she enriches every life she touches. In the end, isn't that what every parent hopes for his or her child?

Happy birthday, Isabella!