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		By: Faith2014		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/04/01/unplanned-finds-a-larger-audience-than-expected/#comment-2431934</link>

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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2019 00:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m late to reading this but... 

&quot; In this case, the issue is abortion, and the change was from being head of a Planned Parenthood clinic to being an anti-abortion activist.&quot;

We call ourselves pro-life activists.  

In a fashion of political civility, I call the other side &#039;pro choice activists&#039;, not &#039;pro-abortion activists&#039;.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m late to reading this but&#8230; </p>
<p>&#8221; In this case, the issue is abortion, and the change was from being head of a Planned Parenthood clinic to being an anti-abortion activist.&#8221;</p>
<p>We call ourselves pro-life activists.  </p>
<p>In a fashion of political civility, I call the other side &#8216;pro choice activists&#8217;, not &#8216;pro-abortion activists&#8217;.</p>
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		By: Nobody Atall		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/04/01/unplanned-finds-a-larger-audience-than-expected/#comment-2429665</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nobody Atall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 13:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Abby Johnson now works to help others leave the abortion life.  Apparently, within the medical world, working in abortion carries a stigma for those who want to move into legitimate health care jobs.  So her organization helps with that, as well as providing counseling and emergency assistance.  Fair warning, it&#039;s quite faith-based.  

See the website abortionworker dot com
Disclosure:  I have no affiliation with Johnson or ATTWN other than as a past cash donor.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Abby Johnson now works to help others leave the abortion life.  Apparently, within the medical world, working in abortion carries a stigma for those who want to move into legitimate health care jobs.  So her organization helps with that, as well as providing counseling and emergency assistance.  Fair warning, it&#8217;s quite faith-based.  </p>
<p>See the website abortionworker dot com<br />
Disclosure:  I have no affiliation with Johnson or ATTWN other than as a past cash donor.</p>
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		By: Cicero		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/04/01/unplanned-finds-a-larger-audience-than-expected/#comment-2429584</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Cicero]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2019 18:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[DickIllyes @ 4/2, 5:26pm is entirely a libertarian nutter.
More than 60 million Americans have been murdered in utero since 1973. That is way more than the number of deaths Hitler caused.

I guess that&#039;s OK with you, Dick.

Nah, it ain&#039;t murder, it&#039;s a woman&#039;s right to choose.
Well, I&#039;d like a right to choose to murder someone sans legal consequences too. An ex-wife? a Democrat? An illegal migrant? An Erdogan?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>DickIllyes @ 4/2, 5:26pm is entirely a libertarian nutter.<br />
More than 60 million Americans have been murdered in utero since 1973. That is way more than the number of deaths Hitler caused.</p>
<p>I guess that&#8217;s OK with you, Dick.</p>
<p>Nah, it ain&#8217;t murder, it&#8217;s a woman&#8217;s right to choose.<br />
Well, I&#8217;d like a right to choose to murder someone sans legal consequences too. An ex-wife? a Democrat? An illegal migrant? An Erdogan?</p>
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		By: Ed Bonderenka		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Bonderenka]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My best part of the movie, and I loved it, was when Mike Lindell pops up, Stan Lee-like, driving the excavator that takes down the PP sign. &quot;I&#039;ve waited all my life to do this!&quot;.

It was a great, even handed movie, demonstrating the difference in tactics (and what works) in anti-abortion pr testers.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My best part of the movie, and I loved it, was when Mike Lindell pops up, Stan Lee-like, driving the excavator that takes down the PP sign. &#8220;I&#8217;ve waited all my life to do this!&#8221;.</p>
<p>It was a great, even handed movie, demonstrating the difference in tactics (and what works) in anti-abortion pr testers.</p>
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		By: theduchessofkitty		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/04/01/unplanned-finds-a-larger-audience-than-expected/#comment-2429508</link>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“When Abby’s boss makes the point that abortions are how they make money, Abby says, “but we’re non-profit” and her boss says that non-profit is a tax status, not a business plan and points out that abortions pay her salary. The perfect example of Evil Capitalism which is another talking point for the left.”

No, this is not about “Evil Capitalism,” but of a non-profit taking advantage of its tax-exempt status to enrich themselves.  

For a better example of this, you only have to look at the SPLC. A 501(c)(3) non-profit with a half-billion-dollar endowment, some of it soaking up the sun in the Cayman Islands. We all know now it’s a well-built scam built on the unfounded fears of Leftists with cash to spare. 

Not to mention, PP has repeatedly sued every state which has passed legislation or executive who has ordered their funds cut based on the Will of the People - which a Federal judge or another strikes down, for some stupid reason. PP receives so much private money: why the hell do they need the taxpayers’? Simple: there’s always been a business in “hiding” and “burying the evidence” for too many people. That includes politicians (and judges) with a reputation to keep. 

This is all done “in the name of the public good” - the “public good” being what, exactly?  

Honestly, both PP and SPLC should lose their tax-exempt status. Let people like George Soros pay for them instead.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“When Abby’s boss makes the point that abortions are how they make money, Abby says, “but we’re non-profit” and her boss says that non-profit is a tax status, not a business plan and points out that abortions pay her salary. The perfect example of Evil Capitalism which is another talking point for the left.”</p>
<p>No, this is not about “Evil Capitalism,” but of a non-profit taking advantage of its tax-exempt status to enrich themselves.  </p>
<p>For a better example of this, you only have to look at the SPLC. A 501(c)(3) non-profit with a half-billion-dollar endowment, some of it soaking up the sun in the Cayman Islands. We all know now it’s a well-built scam built on the unfounded fears of Leftists with cash to spare. </p>
<p>Not to mention, PP has repeatedly sued every state which has passed legislation or executive who has ordered their funds cut based on the Will of the People &#8211; which a Federal judge or another strikes down, for some stupid reason. PP receives so much private money: why the hell do they need the taxpayers’? Simple: there’s always been a business in “hiding” and “burying the evidence” for too many people. That includes politicians (and judges) with a reputation to keep. </p>
<p>This is all done “in the name of the public good” &#8211; the “public good” being what, exactly?  </p>
<p>Honestly, both PP and SPLC should lose their tax-exempt status. Let people like George Soros pay for them instead.</p>
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		By: Snow on Pine		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Snow on Pine]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 19:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What has struck me as amazing is how well the Left has both deified Sanger, and obscured what Margaret Sanger was really and always about—the deliberate elimination of what she viewed as inferior races—particularly blacks—from the gene pool, about her contacts with the KKK, and some of her all too revealing writings. 

Writings and correspondence in which she very deliberately laid our what she was trying to accomplish, and the methods she was going to use, including hiring black ministers to fool/reassure blacks about the “extermination of the Negro population” that was her stated aim, along with the elimination of other “human weeds.”  

See, for instance this quote at:    https://www.tfpstudentaction.org/blog/margaret-sanger-quotes

 &quot;... these two words [birth control] sum up our whole philosophy... It means the release and cultivation of the better elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks -- those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.&quot;
-- Margaret Sanger, &quot;High Lights in the History of Birth Control,&quot; Oct 1923.
https://www.nyu.edu/projects/s...

See for instance this quote at   https://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/11/10-eye-opening-quotes-from-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/  

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”


Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.


See here for a PDF of the full three page letter the above quote comes from, from the Smith College Margaret Sanger collection at  https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/d6358bc3053c93183295bf2df1c0c931.pdf]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What has struck me as amazing is how well the Left has both deified Sanger, and obscured what Margaret Sanger was really and always about—the deliberate elimination of what she viewed as inferior races—particularly blacks—from the gene pool, about her contacts with the KKK, and some of her all too revealing writings. </p>
<p>Writings and correspondence in which she very deliberately laid our what she was trying to accomplish, and the methods she was going to use, including hiring black ministers to fool/reassure blacks about the “extermination of the Negro population” that was her stated aim, along with the elimination of other “human weeds.”  </p>
<p>See, for instance this quote at:    <a href="https://www.tfpstudentaction.org/blog/margaret-sanger-quotes" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.tfpstudentaction.org/blog/margaret-sanger-quotes</a></p>
<p> &#8220;&#8230; these two words [birth control] sum up our whole philosophy&#8230; It means the release and cultivation of the better elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks &#8212; those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.&#8221;<br />
&#8212; Margaret Sanger, &#8220;High Lights in the History of Birth Control,&#8221; Oct 1923.<br />
<a href="https://www.nyu.edu/projects/s" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.nyu.edu/projects/s</a>&#8230;</p>
<p>See for instance this quote at   <a href="https://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/11/10-eye-opening-quotes-from-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.lifenews.com/2013/03/11/10-eye-opening-quotes-from-planned-parenthood-founder-margaret-sanger/</a>  </p>
<p>“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”</p>
<p>Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts. Also described in Linda Gordon’s Woman’s Body, Woman’s Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America. New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976.</p>
<p>See here for a PDF of the full three page letter the above quote comes from, from the Smith College Margaret Sanger collection at  <a href="https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/d6358bc3053c93183295bf2df1c0c931.pdf" rel="nofollow ugc">https://libex.smith.edu/omeka/files/original/d6358bc3053c93183295bf2df1c0c931.pdf</a></p>
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		By: DNW		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[DNW]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;The Bee is priceless.
https://babylonbee.com/news/report-more-unborn-babies-in-new-york-identifying-as-convicted-criminals-so-they-cant-legally-be-executed&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I&#039;ve read a few Bee parodies, and at first glance thought they were as good as those I had read in The Onion. That was a while back.

Conceptually, the one you have linked to, is, as you note, pretty clever. And I wish them all success.

But the writer, whether wittingly or unwittingly, injects so much pejorative language into the text, that it undercuts the intended effect. There is also the problem that the writing is not at all newsy, but comes off almost as sloppy junior high school level sarcasm.

Indulging in sniping, breaks the frame and destroys the effect of the parody.

Reread it, and it will immediately become obvious what I mean.

&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;NEW YORK—According to a new report, unborn babies in New York have adopted a new strategy to help them stay alive under the state&#039;s barbaric new abortion laws: identifying as convicted criminals so they can&#039;t legally be executed under the state&#039;s constitution. ...&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

If the writer had given it more time, he probably would have come up with something more along these lines - which may not be very good, but preserve the facade of an actual news blurb.

&lt;blockquote&gt;NEW YORK—According to a new report, unborn babies in the State of New York have adopted a new strategy in order to counteract New York&#039;s most recent abortion legislation: By identifying as convicted criminals, they believe that under the state&#039;s present constitution they will no longer be at legal risk of having their lives legally terminated ...&#039;&lt;/blockquote&gt;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The Bee is priceless.<br />
<a href="https://babylonbee.com/news/report-more-unborn-babies-in-new-york-identifying-as-convicted-criminals-so-they-cant-legally-be-executed" rel="nofollow ugc">https://babylonbee.com/news/report-more-unborn-babies-in-new-york-identifying-as-convicted-criminals-so-they-cant-legally-be-executed</a>&#8220;</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;ve read a few Bee parodies, and at first glance thought they were as good as those I had read in The Onion. That was a while back.</p>
<p>Conceptually, the one you have linked to, is, as you note, pretty clever. And I wish them all success.</p>
<p>But the writer, whether wittingly or unwittingly, injects so much pejorative language into the text, that it undercuts the intended effect. There is also the problem that the writing is not at all newsy, but comes off almost as sloppy junior high school level sarcasm.</p>
<p>Indulging in sniping, breaks the frame and destroys the effect of the parody.</p>
<p>Reread it, and it will immediately become obvious what I mean.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;NEW YORK—According to a new report, unborn babies in New York have adopted a new strategy to help them stay alive under the state&#8217;s barbaric new abortion laws: identifying as convicted criminals so they can&#8217;t legally be executed under the state&#8217;s constitution. &#8230;&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>If the writer had given it more time, he probably would have come up with something more along these lines &#8211; which may not be very good, but preserve the facade of an actual news blurb.</p>
<blockquote><p>NEW YORK—According to a new report, unborn babies in the State of New York have adopted a new strategy in order to counteract New York&#8217;s most recent abortion legislation: By identifying as convicted criminals, they believe that under the state&#8217;s present constitution they will no longer be at legal risk of having their lives legally terminated &#8230;&#8217;</p></blockquote>
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		By: Mike K		</title>
		<link>https://thenewneo.com/2019/04/01/unplanned-finds-a-larger-audience-than-expected/#comment-2429477</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike K]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the credits for the movie was the information that Abby now has 8 kids !

I am still prochoice for some cases as I saw women who died from illegal abortions when I was a medical student.  I do think the woman has to acknowledge that she is killing her infant, a position endorsed by, I think, Camille Paglia who is a leftist but very honest.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the credits for the movie was the information that Abby now has 8 kids !</p>
<p>I am still prochoice for some cases as I saw women who died from illegal abortions when I was a medical student.  I do think the woman has to acknowledge that she is killing her infant, a position endorsed by, I think, Camille Paglia who is a leftist but very honest.</p>
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		By: Tom Grey		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Grey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 16:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Poland, today, shows what &#039;illegal abortion&quot; means in the EU and in an OECD country.; tho Ireland also shows how a no-abortion state can legalize abortion.

There is little excuse, today, for getting an abortion rather than going thru with the pregnancy and then deciding to keep or give up the child.  There are plenty of people looking to adopt, and even care for abnormal and damaged babies.

Single mothers in OECD countries do not starve, tho they also don&#039;t have &quot;an easy life&quot;.  

The increasingly good sonograms, showing more clearly the baby, is a huge reason for fewer abortions.  Fewer unwanted pregnancies, as well as fewer totally pregnancies, also has been helping to reduce abortions.

In the future, the Feminists who think:
Being a Wage Slave for a Rich Company is 
Better Than Being a Mother to Your Own Children
such feminists will be increasingly mocked.

Plus, the pro-file families will continue to have, on average, far more children than the pro-abortion feminists.  Tho many pro-life kids will be indoctrinated in schools towards whatever the PC-Klan believes at the time, esp abortion.

We need more movies about the realties, and more real situations. It&#039;s not showing in Slovakia.  (Yet?)
https://www.france24.com/en/20180525-abortion-laws-vary-eu-ireland-malta-poland-termination]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poland, today, shows what &#8216;illegal abortion&#8221; means in the EU and in an OECD country.; tho Ireland also shows how a no-abortion state can legalize abortion.</p>
<p>There is little excuse, today, for getting an abortion rather than going thru with the pregnancy and then deciding to keep or give up the child.  There are plenty of people looking to adopt, and even care for abnormal and damaged babies.</p>
<p>Single mothers in OECD countries do not starve, tho they also don&#8217;t have &#8220;an easy life&#8221;.  </p>
<p>The increasingly good sonograms, showing more clearly the baby, is a huge reason for fewer abortions.  Fewer unwanted pregnancies, as well as fewer totally pregnancies, also has been helping to reduce abortions.</p>
<p>In the future, the Feminists who think:<br />
Being a Wage Slave for a Rich Company is<br />
Better Than Being a Mother to Your Own Children<br />
such feminists will be increasingly mocked.</p>
<p>Plus, the pro-file families will continue to have, on average, far more children than the pro-abortion feminists.  Tho many pro-life kids will be indoctrinated in schools towards whatever the PC-Klan believes at the time, esp abortion.</p>
<p>We need more movies about the realties, and more real situations. It&#8217;s not showing in Slovakia.  (Yet?)<br />
<a href="https://www.france24.com/en/20180525-abortion-laws-vary-eu-ireland-malta-poland-termination" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.france24.com/en/20180525-abortion-laws-vary-eu-ireland-malta-poland-termination</a></p>
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		By: Sharon W		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sharon W]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2019 15:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dick Illyes @ 5:26 a.m., that is exactly the kind of fear tactics that are routinely used, no matter the moral issue.  May I remind you that the unimaginable Gosnell travesty happened while abortions were legal?  Abby Johnson naively believed Planned Parenthood was indeed all about watching out for women.  I have heard her speak twice, early on and again in October 2017.  The progression of her coming out of that unreality started when her supervisor told her there is no way every abortion would be performed with an ultrasound (Abby assuming it would, as that is the safest means for the pregnant woman) as that is costly and would negatively affect the bottom line.  The real reason for her complete change of position came with her discovery that the baby in the womb does feel, as evidenced by the baby trying to get away from the suction device.  Once she witnessed this, the house of cards of her beliefs regarding abortion came tumbling down.  She already knew it was a baby.  She was promoted to director of the clinic in part because when she was given the job of reassembling the &quot;products of conception&quot;, she was told she was the only woman her boss ever encountered who didn&#039;t cry upon seeing the baby whose parts all needed to be accounted for.  This was part of her responsibilities.  In our sphere, family members that embrace abortion and those of us who do not, I think the difference lies in whether one believes a baby is who they are upon a first breath or a first heartbeat.  I just babysat my 3rd grandchild yesterday.  At 2 months she has her own personality and is Ava...the one and only.  In raising my own 3 children I wasn&#039;t as aware of the inherent differences in them &quot;out the gate&quot;.  Too much responsibility, demands, fatigue.  As a grandmother of a 9 yr old, 1-1/2 yr old and 2 month old, I have a vivid knowledge of each one from the beginning...the first time I held them and up to the present.  Distinct and precious.  Dick Illyes, one of the most fundamental purposes of government is to protect the weakest and most helpless member of a society.  If that isn&#039;t the innocent baby in the womb, I do not know who it would be.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dick Illyes @ 5:26 a.m., that is exactly the kind of fear tactics that are routinely used, no matter the moral issue.  May I remind you that the unimaginable Gosnell travesty happened while abortions were legal?  Abby Johnson naively believed Planned Parenthood was indeed all about watching out for women.  I have heard her speak twice, early on and again in October 2017.  The progression of her coming out of that unreality started when her supervisor told her there is no way every abortion would be performed with an ultrasound (Abby assuming it would, as that is the safest means for the pregnant woman) as that is costly and would negatively affect the bottom line.  The real reason for her complete change of position came with her discovery that the baby in the womb does feel, as evidenced by the baby trying to get away from the suction device.  Once she witnessed this, the house of cards of her beliefs regarding abortion came tumbling down.  She already knew it was a baby.  She was promoted to director of the clinic in part because when she was given the job of reassembling the &#8220;products of conception&#8221;, she was told she was the only woman her boss ever encountered who didn&#8217;t cry upon seeing the baby whose parts all needed to be accounted for.  This was part of her responsibilities.  In our sphere, family members that embrace abortion and those of us who do not, I think the difference lies in whether one believes a baby is who they are upon a first breath or a first heartbeat.  I just babysat my 3rd grandchild yesterday.  At 2 months she has her own personality and is Ava&#8230;the one and only.  In raising my own 3 children I wasn&#8217;t as aware of the inherent differences in them &#8220;out the gate&#8221;.  Too much responsibility, demands, fatigue.  As a grandmother of a 9 yr old, 1-1/2 yr old and 2 month old, I have a vivid knowledge of each one from the beginning&#8230;the first time I held them and up to the present.  Distinct and precious.  Dick Illyes, one of the most fundamental purposes of government is to protect the weakest and most helpless member of a society.  If that isn&#8217;t the innocent baby in the womb, I do not know who it would be.</p>
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