Texas' latest pro-life law is back under legal scrutiny, and those contesting its provisions are ready to redefine the meaning of "undue burden."...
The professor physically assaulted the girl, stole her sign and then called her a terrorist as she walked away. ...
First Amendment upheld against Massachusetts law involving abortion clinic protests...
But there was another aspect I thought about but didn't write about.
It's reflected in the featured image.
And it is captured by Elizabeth Scalia at The Anchoress, sent to me by reader Mike:
If you let yourself become distracted by what is coming from her mouth, you miss all that is revealed in her face, which tells the whole, and very different story. A month after the abortion — with the dramatic change in hairstyle that so many women effect when emotions are high and they need to feel in control of something — watch Emily, then. The light is gone from her eyes. The seeming disconnect between pc-fed head and instinctive heart is laid out in breathtaking and stark incongruity, even down to the shadows, the blue note, the lack of energy. Devastating. Cognizant of it or not, she is a mother in grief.
But it's actually titled "Trust"...
Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis made her name and kick-started her campaign for governor by filibustering an anti-abortion omnibus bill, standing and talking for 11 hours straight in support of abortion rights. So it comes as a surprise — and frankly, a betrayal — to learn that Davis told the Dallas Morning News on Tuesday that she could support a ban on abortions after 20 weeks, if it gave "enough deference between a woman and her doctor" to make the decision to abort after that point for medical reasons.... You may have bought her sneakers, but when it comes down to it, Wendy Davis is a politician.Irin Carmon at MSNBC writes, Wendy Davis falls into abortion question trap:
This week, Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis delighted her detractors and confounded her pro-choice supporters when she appeared to support the very same 20-week ban she spent 11 hours filibustering..... It’s far too late for Davis to shy away from abortion rights, including the more politically uncomfortable parts, after confronting them head-on in her filibuster. Regardless of what she was trying to say, a political campaign isn’t a great place for complex or nuanced moral conversations. On the campaign trail, Davis would likely be better off if she stuck to the broader point she made in her filibuster: “The alleged reason for the bill is to enhance patient safety. But what [the provisions] really do is create provisions that treat women as though they are not capable of making their own medical decisions.”Tata Culp-Ressler at Think Progress (yes, that Think Progress) wrote, Why Wendy Davis’ Position On 20-Week Abortion Bans Doesn’t Make Any Sense:
"Caribou Barbie is one nutty puppy."The treatment of Palin was sexist -- including liberal women who mocked Trig Palin and thought it the worst thing in the world that Palin had the audacity to bring him on stage with her -- but not just because of the term "Caribou Barbie." That term was the least of it. The "Caribou Barbie" name was part of the myriad of accompanying photoshops and sexualizations of her, using any excuse to make sex jokes. Palin wasn't just turned into any Barbie, but a sexy librarian and bikini model not just in the blogosphere, but from stars such as Stephen Colbert. With Palin it wasn't just the use of the term "Barbie," it was the full package of sexualized attacks, including from mainstream publications. [caption id="attachment_66047" align="alignnone" width="400"]
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A song from John Elefante formerly of the group Kansas. Ed Morrissey writes: If you’re not choking up by the end of this video — when John and Sami explain the meaning of this video — check your pulse. Yup. It's not often we hear pro-life songs coming from...
Reports of the death of SB5 were premature...
The author doesn't have the guts to put his name on it. Not surprised. Disgusting: We're having twins and I'm not happy about it, thought about aborting one twin. ow.ly/kL9cG ow.ly/kL9l7— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) May 6, 2013 As horrible as this might sound, we found ourselves wishing these...
We previously noted how an active Twitter movement forced the mainstream media into covering the Gosnell trial, Infographic — Conservative Tweets Force MSM Coverage of #Gosnell. Another pro-life group has released videos of clinics in the Bronx and District of Columbia, and it is getting mainstream newspaper...
As frequently reported at College Insurrection, pro-life students on campus regularly are accosted by faculty and other students, their displays torn down, their speakers shouted-down, and their requests to be treated as any other student group denied. (language warning) I wonder if Seals and Crofts would be...
On this day when we are focused on Boston, also remember Philadelphia...
News today, AP via Ed Morrissey, Nurse saw more than 10 babies breathing: A former abortion clinic worker has capped the murder trial of her former boss with testimony that she saw more than 10 babies breathe before they were killed. Kareema Cross is the final prosecution witness against Dr. Kermit Gosnell. She...
There was a lot of Twitter activity trying to drive the mainstream media to cover the trial of Kermit Gosnell. The Washington Post and NY Times, among others, now will be sending reporters to the trial, although denying that any pro-abortion bias caused them to shy...
