#Prolife QOTD: Woman explains why she decided to give birth to “severely disabled” baby
The Daily Mail Online (UK) writes about a heartbreaking case of a woman faced with difficult choices in the latter stages of her pregnancy (via @GaltsGirl):
“Safe, legal, rare”? #PPact performs nearly a million abortions in 3 years
The Washington Examiner’s Charlie Spiering reports:
Guest Post: The Testimony of a Child of Rape
Considering the turn the public debate this week has taken with the attempted character assassination of Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock over deliberately misconstrued comments he made about rape, abortion, and God, one of my Twitter followers – @Phillybama1 – volunteered to share the story of his birth. He is the child of a rape survivor and, needless to say, he feels very blessed that his mother did not abort him. Here is his story:
#INSEN: I stand with @RichardMourdock against #prochoice demagoguery
Last night, the three candidates for Indiana Senate participated in a debate, and the last question asked was on abortion and where the candidates stood. All three candidates (Richard Mourdock – R, Joe Donnelly – D, Andrew Horning – L) are pro-life and said so in response to the question. Donnelly is Mourdock’s main opponent and they are locked in a tight race, if polling numbers are an accurate indication. Of course, a Republican having to contend with a Libertarian candidate on the ballot makes it even more uphill and it could ultimately be a factor in this race. But in the meantime, Mourdock’s chief concern is Donnelly, and with two weeks to go before election day, opportunistic, leftists seized on Mourdock’s answer and explanation to the abortion question. Via CNN (bolded emphasis added by me):
Obama campaign, feminists on same page: Women are defined by their #ladyparts
It’s officially official: Real feminism as we know it, the kind where women fought for an equal place at the table and to be judged on the basis of their abilities rather than their sex, is dead and gone.