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Joy Behar ripped the House of Representatives on her program on Monday for their recent defunding of Planned Parenthood. Behar, focusing on the organization's birth control services, criticized the move as "illogical...because if you are not going to help people with birth control, you're going to have more abortions. So, besides being evil and immoral and unethical, they're also stupid". The liberal host led her 10 pm program by playing clips from Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore's Thursday speech on the floor of the House, where she argued that funding Planned Parenthood was better than having "to

As pro-lifers, we expect to receive a certain amount of abuse standing outside an abortion clinic. It is part of the price we pay in order to get a few words of life to abortion bound mothers. Occasionally, there is the irate husband or boyfriend who will threaten you or even give you a shove, but again, that is to be expected. We recognize that they do not know Jesus, and therefore do not know any better. What we do not expect is that kind of treatment from those who call themselves pro-life. Sadly, this is the situation in Granite...

Recent Acts of Abortion Violence Show Pro-Lifers Peaceful, Group Saysby Steven ErteltLifeNews.com Editor October 3, 2006Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Recent acts of violence related to abortion show that abortion and its legalization is more responsible for violence than pro-life advocates. A leading pro-life group says the acts back up its research showing pro-life people are less violent than abortion advocates. Human Life International recently unveiled a web site featuring the results of its research showing over 7,000 acts of violence and illegal activities by those who support or practice abortion. Brian Clowes, Ph.D., senior analyst for HLI, points to several...

The Governor has signed legislation targeting one side of the political debate, but not and the other and a bill that is designed to publicly shame pharmacists that are pro-life. The Governor will never win any awards for protecting innocent Human Life. Everyone knew that he was with the exception of possibly parental notification zealously pro-abortion. His COS Susan Kennedy was the chief political operative for the California Abortion Lobby. In his kowtowing to the extreme pro-abortion agenda of the Democrats in the legislature he has signed three bills under the banner of benefiting "women's health" that really target political...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- On a street once known as Murder Row, a teen center founded to steer youths away from drugs and crime has become an outpost in another crusade - a nationwide push by anti-abortion activists to expand their foothold in heavily black and Hispanic inner cities. The campaign involves crisis pregnancy centers, whose counselors seek to dissuade women with unplanned pregnancies from having abortions. There are more than 2,300 centers across America, yet relatively few in inner cities where abortion rates are typically highest. Now the two largest networks - Care Net and Heartbeat International - have launched...

PIERRE, S.D. - Four Republican state senators who voted against a bill to ban most abortions in South Dakota were defeated in Tuesday's primary election. Just how much their opposition to the legislation led to their losses was not immediately clear, but abortion opponents in the state have long had a firm grasp on the Legislature. Several lawmakers who supported the abortion ban were successful in the primary. The most contentious race involved Sen. Stan Adelstein of Rapid City and challenger Elli Schwiesow, vice chair of the state GOP and a staunch abortion foe. Schwiesow, who had lost in 2004...

Springfield, IL had a great rally for life yesterday, Deb Schultz who had an abortion in 1986 later to have 5 children, the father is now a minister and she works at a crisis pregnancy center. Attendance was 750-800 people

A leading player in the Terri Schiavo debate is a Florida judge whose fame began five years ago when he ruled that no compelling evidence showed Mrs. Schiavo wanted to be kept alive. Pinellas County Circuit Judge George W. Greer, 63, has held firm on that ruling, despite a sea of death threats, angry e-mails, phone calls and criticisms from disability rights groups and others that he is biased in favor of Mrs. Schiavo's husband, Michael Schiavo. Sympathetic profiles in two local newspapers noted that he must retain sheriff's deputies as bodyguards against protesters who dog his steps. Continued

A Planned Parenthood affiliate agreed today to settle a lawsuit brought by three pro-life activists barred from a library the agency ran as part of a public system. The abortion provider has agreed to pay damages in the suit. "This is a severe blow to Planned Parenthood's efforts to infiltrate public libraries," said Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel of the Liberty Legal Institute, the organization representing the women. "This should send a message to every level of government, if you team up with Planned Parenthood to push just its viewpoint, a lawsuit is sure to follow." As WorldNetDaily reported, Planned Parenthood...

It is a common error in the customary pro-life position to equate practices which may well be considered diametrical opposites, abortion, which is meant solely to deprive a developing child of life, and cloning, which is undertaken to produce new life via radically new avenues. In a past essay of mine, “An Objectivist condemnation of abortion”, I have argued against a rationalization that Ms. Rand and her intellectual followers have provided for the termination of pregnancy. However, the remainder of the Randian position within the field of bioethics possesses innumerable advantages to both secular and religious pro-lifers alike, which will...