Happy Mother’s Day

 

American-born impressionist Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926) specialized in paintings depicting mothers and children. Our selection for this Mother’s Day, The Child’s Bath, is one of her most celebrated.

Holding their noses for judges?

Will his promise of appointing socially conservative jurists to the federal courts be enough to entice conservatives, long distrustful of John McCain, to mark their ballots for him? Alexander Bolton writing for The Hill provides an excellent analysis.

Earlier this year, the advice his own mother gave to conservatives was, “Hold your nose” and vote for Johnny.

But, motherly advice aside, a fundamental issue of contention for conservatives has always been sanctity of life. McCain gives lip service to being pro-life and has even managed to garner some endorsements within the pro-life community. But the fact remains he has voted in support of embryonic stem cell and fetal tissue research and routinely uses the same jargon as Democrats when discussing abortion.

Watch this video

and you’ll hear the big tent philosophy from his own lips. Having mastered the art of understatement, McCain refers to abortion as “unpleasant.” He also advocates “going back to the platform of 1980 and 84.”

Those words say more about his views than a vague campaign promise to appoint conservative judges and justices, made with his back to the wall.

Catholic dissidents advise Obama

The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights has expressed deep concerns over Barack Obama’s Catholic National Advisory Council.

Of the 26 Catholic former or current public office holders Obama has listed as either National Co-Chairs (5), or as members of the National Leadership Committee (21), there is not one who agrees with the Catholic Church on all three major public policy issues: abortion, embryonic stem cell research and school vouchers.

Catholic League president, Bill Donohue, issues a stunning exposé of the newly formed advisory council.

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“Let’s go O’Connor this”

Friends are taking contributions to relocate the former home of Arizona’s onetime US Supreme Court Justice who reveled in her ability to wield the swing vote

Heaven forbid the 50-year-old adobe structure, located in Paradise Valley, should suffer the same destructive fate Roe v. Wade legalized for so many millions of pre-born babies.

O’Connor, who along with court allies, supplied the five votes to uphold Roe, was once quoted, “An entire generation has come of age free to assume Roe’s concept of liberty in defining the capacity of women to act in society, and to make reproductive decisions.” She had previously declared that “the essential holding of Roe v. Wade should be retained.”

Now a campaign has been launched to raise the estimated $2 million it will cost to move the house.

“That partisanship that permeates here in Arizona and nationally—it’s destructive,” Elva Coor, wife of former ASU president, Lattie Coor, said. “What we hope is that we can get cities and towns to use (the adobe) from time to time to compromise. Let’s make O’Connor a verb, if you will, and say, ‘Let’s go O’Connor this.’”

Abortion transmogrifies into art (and update)

“Art has to stop being something hanging on the wall, it has to be lived…breathed …everyday”

“I believe strongly that art should be a medium for politics and ideologies, not just a commodity,” Yale undergraduate art student Aliza Shvarts said. “I think that I’m creating a project that lives up to the standard of what art is supposed to be.”

Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce abortions. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of the abortions of her own babies as well as preserved collections of blood from the process.

Yale Daily News reports that Reproductive Rights Action League of Yale, a pro-abortion group, said they were not previously aware of Schvarts’ project, but student Alice Buttrick, an officer of RALY, said the group was in no way involved with the art exhibition and had no official opinion on the matter.

No opinion? On this?

Hat tip to Moonbattery for the original video, now inaccessable.

Update: Yale University is now saying that the student art exhibit purporting to show abortions is a hoax.

Perhaps. Or maybe they heard from enough infuriated parents and alumni, threatening to cut of the money spigot, that they decided it better be a prank.

But, “It’s for the children”

Two reasonable bills dealing with abortion reached the governor’s desk on Friday.

One required parental consent for an underage girl to receive an abortion and the other established state penalties for physicians who perform a gruesome practice of late-term pregnancy termination known as partial birth abortion. Both were given a quick slash of Napolitano’s veto pen. 

 According to the daily, Planned Parenthood of Arizona applauded the vetoes.

The governor’s famous mantra has been, “It’s for the children.” She neglected to tell us that “it’ was death.                

Barack Obama: Wordsmith extraordinaire

 

Obama blocked Born Alive Infant Protection Act

A graduate of Harvard Law School, Barack Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago for 10 years. Both schools are listed in the top 10 law schools in the country.

But Obama revealed his constitutional blind spot in his book The Audacity of Hope:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created [emphasis added] equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among those are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

… (T)he essential idea behind the Declaration—that we are born [emphasis added] into this world free, all of us; that each of us arrives with a bundle of rights that can’t be taken away by any person or any state without just cause; that through our own agency we can, and must, make of our lives what we will—is one that every American understands.

Note Obama’s choice of the word “born” over the word “created.” Perhaps that helps explain his support for unrestricted abortion. Also note that our “bundle of rights” can be “taken away” with “just cause.”

Citizenlink provides a revealing look into the man who could be president.

Baby killing is a lucrative business

  

Planned Parenthood abortion business tops out at record $1 Billion

A new annual report from Planned Parenthood shows the nation’s largest abortion provider has made over $1 billion in income for the first time in its history. The pro-abortion group shows the historical gain in its new annual report covering 2006-2007.

Of concern to pro-life groups, Planned Parenthood acknowledges the receipt of over $336 million in government grants and contracts from both state and federal governments. However, the abortion business provides no breakdown showing how much Planned Parenthood received from the federal government or specifics states.

Read more here.

Also, Hugh Hewitt has an excellent post today on Obama’s abortion extremism.

A strange twist

 

Catholic college slammed for hosting pro-abortion Hillary

Pennsylvania pro-life advocates are jeering Catholic Mercyhurst College for agreeing to host a rally for pro-abortion presidential candidate Hillary Clinton today. The college could be making itself a target of a speech Pope Benedict XVI plans to give about upholding Catholic values when he comes to the United States this month, Life News reports.

This is not the first time a Catholic college has given one of the pro-abortion candidates a platform to promote themselves.

Villanova University hosted Michelle Obama last month. In January, Senator Obama appeared at a huge rally on the campus on Saint Peter’s College, a Jesuit institution in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio loses appeal to the US Supreme Court

Manricopa County sheriff resisted transporting inmates for elective abortions