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The apparently big story right now is about the estimated fewer than 1,000 who marched in Washington D.C. today against the Second Amendment. I understand that this has made all of the major evening new broadcasts: CBS, NBC, CNN etc.

To the very best of my understanding, there was NO such coverage at all of yesterday’s March for Life, which many have calculated drew more than 500,000 to the Mall to protest abortion -the premeditated murder of unborn children – on the fortieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Now, applying some logic here, you would think that a story regarding half a million people would dwarf that of an event which drew, at most, several hundred.

But I suppose when it comes to stories and their coverage from big media, some of them just don’t fit the expected narrative…

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The moment is still seared into my memory. Indeed, I can still feel the revulsion that was far too much for a little child to have to grasp.

It was this day in 1983. I had seen on the news about something called “abortion”. Seems that it was the tenth anniversary of it being allowed. So I asked Mom what “abortion” means.

“It means a mother kills her baby before it’s born.”

A chunk of my childhood died that day. There are some who would think of it as “no big deal”. But to me it was the beginning of a loss of innocence. The first bricks of the wall of naivety that had secured this small child away from the madness of man’s own making, come crumbling down to Earth.

“It means a mother kills her baby before it’s born.”

My God.

And then some years later as a ...

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Got word tonight that the new music video for Faye Smith‘s song “Unborn Grace” stars a friend from my college days, the incredibly talented and exceedingly beautiful Candice Irion!

So I hit the link and watched it.

And this is only the second music video to ever make me cry. I’ll let it be an exercise for the reader about what the first one was.

From the album Deeper Still and gorgeously directed by Mark Blitch, here is “Unborn Grace”…

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Planned Parenthood shouldn’t be complaining one measly bit about Susan G. Komen For The Cure dropping its funding.

After all, Planned Parenthood became something not wanted or needed… and so Komen gave it an abortion.

What? I thought Planned Parenthood was pro-choice. Komen made a choice. It chose to abort its relationship with Planned Parenthood. Komen has the right to choose, doesn’t it?

And now a dozen or so senators are condemning Komen for what it has done to Planned Parenthood. I thought the government was supposed to stay out of people’s private lives where pro-choice is concerned. Guess I was wrong.

Personally, I don’t see how anyone with a shred of conscience can support Planned Parenthood. Its founder Margaret Sanger was a notorious racist and believer in eugenics. This has been well documented. Planned Parenthood was an organization intended to kill off minorities, the mentally ill and everyone ...

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sigh…

Every time I come across a story like this about how inane our “political process” has become, I can’t help but think of that line from Battle for the Planet of the Apes: “Ape has killed ape!!!”

So newly-announced candidate for President of the United States Michele Bachmann is feigning righteous wrath (I know of no other way to put it) at fellow candidate Mitt Romney because he hasn’t signed something called the “Susan B. Anthony pro-life pledge”.

Here’s what the pledge is about, according to the story at LifeNews.com:

The pledge has the candidates promising to support only judicial nominees who won’t interpret the Constitution in a way that supports Roe v. Wade, select pro-life Cabinet members on positions affecting abortion policy, supporting legislation to stop taxpayer funding of abortions and Planned Parenthood, and to support a fetal pain bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks

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In the wake of last week’s tragic incident in Tuscon there have been reams of pages written about human nature, with one spin or another on the subject.

I haven’t read anything that is as poignant and beautiful as what Monsignor Charles Pope – pastor of Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian – has composed on his blog hosted by the Archdiocese of Washington.

Here’s an excerpt “Life is Worth Living: On the Strength and Resilience of the Human Person”…

One of the rights our modern age demands is the right to declare that certain lives are not worth living. In utero testing sometimes reveals the possibility or even the certainty of birth defects. Abortion is often recommended to mothers who carry “defective” children and sometimes that recommendation becomes pressure. It is said that almost 90% of families who receive a poor pre-natal diagnosis choose to abort.

And yet there are so

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Good. God.

How something like this has escaped my knowledge until now, I’ve no idea.

Did you know that two widely-used childhood vaccines were manufactured with cells taken from aborted fetuses?

I didn’t either, until I read this article from LifeNews.com. It’s about a just-published research study that has found a connection between the MMRII and chickenpox vaccines, and the dramatic rise in the rate of diagnosed autism.

From the article…

A new study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency shows a correlation between the use of cells from babies in abortions in vaccines to an increase in autism rates. The study provides another problem from pro-life advocates who are already concerned about the abortion-vaccine tie.

The study, published in February in the publication Environmental Science & Technology, confirms 1988 as a “change point” in the rise of Autism Disorder rate.

“Although the debate about the nature of increasing

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Read about it here.

How the hell is this going to make him any different than Ted Kennedy?

“But Chris, he couldn’t get elected in Massachusetts if he were pro-life!”

There are more important things in this world than “getting elected”.

I have said it before and I will say it again: the vast majority of the Republican party’s leadership and elected officials do not care one iota about the abortion issue. And if they do, it’s only because it never ceases to provide a carrot that gets to be dangled in front of “the faithful” to keep them voting GOP in elections.

It just so happened that this time the carrot was “health care reform”, and that to many people that is more important than the abortion issue. Rather telling also, that Brown has publicly said he doesn’t want the Supreme Court to overrule Roe v. Wade… ...

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The only reason I’m really posting this is to illustrate something that I and many others have screamed ourselves hoarse about during the past several years: that there is no damned difference at all between the Republican and the Democrat parties in the United States.

In an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, new Republican National Committee chairman Micheal Steele said that it was “important” for the Republican Party to “reach out” and embrace candidates who are pro-abortion and pro-“gay marriage”.

(Incidentally, I have my own thoughts about that and I might articulate them someday in the near future, suffice it to say it’s a perspective that’s neither “conservative” or “liberal”… and a lot of my fellow Christians might find it a bit surprising.)

I think that this elicits a lot of questions. Obviously, how is what Steele suggesting for his own party, any different at all ...

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