Here’s another reason not to send your children and many thousands of your dollars to a premier Ivy League school.

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The Girl Scout Council of the National’s Capitol is handing out a statement to people who are inquiring about the charges I and others have made about the far-Left agenda at Girl Scouts HQ.  Let’s take a look:

Regarding the charge that the Girl Scouts’ official policy is to admit transgender toddlers, the statement reads:  “Our Council has not dealt with requests from families of transgender youth. Our focus remains on girls in kindergarten through…”  It does not say they will not admit transgender boys and in fact it is the national policy that they do so if ever there is a request.

More from their statement:  “And, contrary to rumors, we do not make donations to this group [Planned Parenthood]. The fact is that as a charitable organization we do not make donations to any other organization.”  We see your Straw Man, ladies!  Nobody is claiming that you donate money to Planned Parenthood, so disclaiming it gets you nowhere.  The charge is that you “partner with… Planned Parenthood organizations across the country,” in the words of Girl Scout CEO Kathy Cloninger on The Today Show.

More:  “Girl Scouts of the USA is one of the 145 Member Organizations of WAGGGS, which promotes mutual understanding and cross-cultural opportunities for girls around the world.”  Ah yes, they are touchy about the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, an aggressively pro-abortion organization which openly partners with the International Planned Parenthood Federation.  Girl Scouts USA often makes the point that they are just one of many member organizations; they don’t like to admit that Girl Scouts USA is the single largest national component of WAGGGS, making up over a third of its 10 million members.

More:  “the WAGGGS program is separate from our Girl Scout program, and your Girl Scout membership dues and cookie sales proceeds do not support WAGGGS.”  Not so fast.  Every little girl who signs up for the Girl Scouts is automatically made a member of WAGGGS, and there are apparently 6 different ways that Girls Scouts USA fund the radical WAGGGS.    If Girl Scouts of the Nation’s Capitol refrains from every one of these 6 funding streams, they should prove it.  Girl Scouts USA paid about 1.5 million dollars in “member quota” dues to WAGGGS in 2009.

Finally, a small change was in order to my blog on the Girl Scouts from yesterday.  In the 4^th FACT about Girl Scouts and abortion, I clarified that Girl Scout “councils” are regional and multi-county entities, since people tend to confuse troops with councils.

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I recently opined in the Washington Times  that people should forgo the Thin Mints this year because of the far-left sociopolitical agenda pushed by Girl Scouts HQ. Others, too, have sounded the alarm. Feathers have been ruffled.

While their transgressions are sundry (forcing troops to admit cross-dressing boys being just one example), Girl Scout executives and their apologists seem most eager to defend the Scouts’ supposed “official neutrality” on abortion and “official non-partnership” with the nation’s abortion giant, Planned Parenthood.

Here are just five facts for the skeptic to consider:

FACT: On March 5, 2004 Girl Scouts CEO Kathy Cloninger admits on NBC’s The Today Show: “We partner with many organizations. We have relationships with…Planned Parenthood organizations across the country.” Watch her admit it here:

FACT: In January 2012, Girl Scouts employee Renise Rodriguez wears “Pray to End Abortion” t-shirt during off-duty visit to her Tucson Girl Scout office and is ordered to turn the shirt inside out or leave. See Renise in her t-shirt here.

FACT: For fourteen years the Girls Scouts in Waco, TX co-sponsor sex ed conference with Planned Parenthood. “It’s Perfectly Normal” book (written by Planned Parenthood executive) given to all children in attendance says abortion can be “a positive experience.” View the 2003 event brochure listing Girl Scouts as a cosponsor here [PDF].

FACT: In national survey, sixteen other regional, multi-county Girl Scout councils admit to partnering with Planned Parenthood; many other councils refuse to answer survey question. Watch interview about the survey on The O’Reilly Factor here.

FACT: In 2010-2011 Girls Scouts in New York partner with Planned Parenthood sex ed program, “Real Life. Real Talk.” The program website touts their partners: “Real Life. Real Talk. is proud to count the following organizations, faith communities and companies as partners: …Girl Scouts of NYPENN Pathways.” See screenshot of program web page showing Girls Scouts as partner here.

There are many other things to consider, especially for those for whom this is not an academic exercise (i.e., if you have a daughter in Girl Scouts). Please, please visit www.100questionsforthegirlscouts.org or any other of the Girl Scout watchdog sites proliferating on the Internet.

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Recently the interim editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal made a radically pro-life proposal:  to ban the disclosure to parents of their baby’s sex before 30 weeks gestation in order to save baby girls from abortion.

“A pregnant woman being told the sex of the fetus at ultrasonography at a time when an unquestioned abortion is possible is the starting point of female feticide from a health care perspective,” writes Dr. Rajendra Kale.

Quelle surprise, I know.  Canada’s approach to abortion is nearly as extreme as the United States’ in everything but numbers of babies slaughtered.  Yet here’s the interim editor of Canada’s top medical journal sounding the alarm on female feticide and trying to fight back.  Even her admission that Canada allows “unquestioned abortion” before 30 weeks gestation is worthy of note.

The horrible practice of aborting baby girls due to a preference for sons has come to Canada with the immigrant communities who secretly practice it, though it is not thought to be widespread.

Still, “[s]mall numbers cannot be ignored when the issue is about discrimination against women in its most extreme form,” says Dr. Rajendra Kale, interim Editor-in-Chief of the journal. “This evil devalues women. How can it be curbed? The solution is to postpone the disclosure of medically irrelevant information to women until after about 30 weeks of pregnancy.”  Kale advocates that the policy banning sex disclosure before 30 weeks be adopted by the provincial colleges that govern doctors in Canada.

While my first reaction was pleasant surprise, my friend Wesley Smith was more cynical.  From his Secondhand Smoke blog:

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In a recent column on CNN online, science writer Annie Murphy Paul discusses her astonishment at finding myriad studies about what babies can learn in the womb.

Once considered a mundane field for the researcher, “[n]ow the nine months of gestation are the focus of intense interest and excitement,” she writes, “pregnancy is not a nine-month wait for the big event of birth, but a crucial period unto itself.”

Researchers are learning that much of what a mother experiences in her daily life is communicated to developing child, from the air she breathes and the food and drink she consumes even to the emotions she feels. Paul likens it to “biological postcards from the world outside.”

“The fetus, we now know, is not an inert blob, but an active and dynamic creature, responding and adapting as it readies itself for life in the particular world it will soon enter.” Amen to that.

The findings won’t shock the pro-lifer, but the fact that they’re gaining attention in the scientific community and are being reported in places like CNN online should cheer the pro-life soul. “The recognition that learning actually begins before birth leads us to a striking new conception of the fetus, the pregnant woman and the relationship between them.”

Some of Paul’s conclusions, though, seem to be a stretch. “By attending to such messages,” she writes, “the fetus learns the answers to questions critical to its survival: Will it be born into a world of abundance, or scarcity? Will it be safe and protected, or will it face constant dangers and threats? Will it live a long, fruitful life, or a short, harried one?” A bit deterministic, if you ask me, but I welcome her acknowledgment of the growing child’s sentience.

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“You will always be a part of me,” might be a mother’s teary farewell when her child goes off to college, but research is showing it’s quite literally true.

Kathy Ostrowski reports in the Kansans for Life blog on a recent National Public Radio Morning Edition program featuring Science editor Robert Krulwich and his explosive report about “fetomaternal microchimerism.”  According to Krulwich there is increasing evidence that “when a woman has a baby, she gets not just a son or daughter, [but] an army of protective cells – gifts from her children that will stay inside her and defend her for the rest of her life.”

Some interesting points and quotes from the segment:

• “In a teaspoon of an ordinary pregnant woman’s blood… [are] dozens, perhaps even hundreds of cells… from the baby,” according to a Tufts University researcher.  Lab studies done “over and over and over and over” of mother mice with diseases (ovarian, endometrial, and cervical cancers) show that fetal cells rush to the places where they’re needed in the mom.
• “The cells of an unborn child will stay in the mother for decades… essentially forever,” said a researcher from Thomas Jefferson University.  “There’s a lot of evidence now starting to come out that these cells may actually be repairing tissue.”
• A study involving a Boston woman with hepatitis (and a history of five pregnancies) found hundreds of fetal cells at work “repairing” her liver.

In a culture where children are too often seen as a threat to self, here’s an argument that might reach even the hardest heart.

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The Thomas More Society reports that an Illinois judge yesterday ordered the doors of the Northern Illinois Women’s Center to remain shut pending a formal public hearing. The abortion center lost its license some months ago after failing public health inspections, the first inspections in 14 years.

Lawyers at the Society say the inspections uncovered numerous health and safety violations, including:

• Gynecological cannulas (surgical instruments inserted during abortion) stained with “brown substance”
• Shoes stored inside open box of surgical gloves
• Equipment used to sterilize medical instruments failed biological testing
• All 3 operating rooms failed to ensure a sanitary environment
• Box of opened surgical gloves stained with a dried “brown substance”
• Failure to prevent contamination of surgical equipment
• Operating rooms not staffed with a qualified Registered Nurse as required by law
• Abortion practitioners without hospital admitting privileges

Here’s hoping it won’t take 14 years to close the place for good.

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Joan Desmond has written a nice review of the new Steve Jobs biography in the National Catholic Register:

In it she recounts Jobs’ gratitude to his biological mother for not choosing abortion:

[Biographer Walter] Isaacson traces Jobs’ effort to find his biological mother, a Midwestern graduate student raised in a Catholic family. “I wanted to meet my biological mother mostly to see if she was okay and to thank her, because I’m glad I didn’t end up as an abortion. She was 23 and went through a lot to have me,” Jobs told his biographer.

Apparently Jobs’ biological mother sought to secure his future well-being by insisting that a college-educated couple adopt her son. “Instead,” recounts Desmond, “two high-school dropouts provided a loving and secure home — and a garage where Jobs watched his father fix things and make them work. Meanwhile, the well-credentialed biological father left his children in the lurch.”

This last point presents a major theme of the biographer: that the circumstances of Steve Jobs birth to unmarried parents and adoption as an infant left him with deep abandonment issues that impacted the rest of his life. But so, too, is there healing and redemption through love – the love of his adoptive parents, the experience of loving his own children, and the love between Jobs and his sister, Mona Simpson, whom he didn’t meet until they were both adults:

After his death, Simpson offered a eulogy that reflected on the emotional scars inflicted by their biological father and the healing power of her brother’s love. “Even as a feminist, my whole life I’d been waiting for a man to love, who could love me. For decades, I’d thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother,” said Simpson.

One incident Desmond highlights gives testimony to Jobs’ determination to be a very present father to his own children, despite all of the money and fame:

There’s a wonderful scene in the biography when Bill Gates comes to pay his respects to his old nemesis. While Gates lives in a house that rivals the square footage of Versailles, Jobs consciously chose to reside in a comparatively modest residence that functioned without live-in staff or a security detail. The Jobs family gathered every night at the kitchen table for dinner. When Gates checks out Jobs’ home, he asks in wonderment, “Do you all live here?”

How wonderful, that part of the legacy of this American genius is the potential greatness of every “unwanted” child and the enormous significance of fatherhood.

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When Austin and I learned we were pregnant for the fourth time, we rushed to the radiology lab – not the usual response to such happy news, but this pregnancy followed three miscarriages and so we had a routine:  positive home pregnancy test followed quickly by a blood test to check for hormone levels and then an ultrasound to try to see what was happening.  In prior ultrasounds we had seen a yolk sac but not much growth and, most important, no measurable heartbeat.  Each of these pregnancies miscarried between 4 and 9 weeks.

This time was different.  There on the ultrasound, at just 4 weeks, was the rapid flutter of a tiny rudimentary heart!  What a sight!   And then, what a sound!   I had always held pro-life views.  Always known that a tiny growing child in the womb was a living human being.  But seeing and hearing Lucy’s heart beat brought me to a deeper knowledge of the truth of her humanity.   It was my sweetest encounter with Thomistic epistemology.

A coalition of pro-life groups is embarking on a new effort to promote state laws nationwide that would do one simple thing:  require abortion practitioners to make the fetal heartbeat audible and visible to pregnant women before an abortion.   It does not ban abortion or restrict it in any other way.  It does not require abortion practitioners to make pro-life statements.  It simply requires the use of medical technology to impart medical facts.  Genius.

An Associated Press report yesterday quoted Ohio Right to Life director Mike Gonidakis, whose group is part of the coalition, as touting the measure as both legally sound and effective:  “This is it,” he said.  “This is the one that’s going to continue to save lives in the current court environment we have.”  The approach is supported by Family Research Council Action, the National Right to Life, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Americans United for Life, and Susan B. Anthony List.

The pro-abortion crowd is sounding the alarm, of course, and falsely claiming this approach takes away women’s rights.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

Knowledge is power.  Let those little hearts beat!

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Last week Margaret Ogola’s life on Earth came to an end, at the very young age of 53.  Here was a woman who understood the gift of time, for she filled the hours allotted to her in radical solidarity with those God entrusted to her care, and in service of advancing the cause of human life and dignity.

Dr. Ogola was a medical doctor, an award-winning novelist, a university professor, a human rights advocate, and a mother of six children.  She ran a hospice for AIDS orphans.  She directed the Institute of Healthcare Management at Strathmore University in Nairobi.  She was an advisor to the Catholic Bishops of Kenya.  She was a powerhouse, yet was described as a person filled with peace.  (For a comprehensive obituary see the Strathmore University web site.)

Margaret Ogola was well known in her country as an award-winning novelist.  Her first novel, The River and the Source, won every African literary award around.  Her subsequent works also received acclaim.

Dr. Ogola was well also known to many Americans active on the world pro-life stage.  Family Research Council’s own Pat Fagan and my husband Austin Ruse knew her from their work with her on the biennial World Congress of Families where I am told she kept huge audiences rapt with her soft voice and powerful message.  In a speech she made at the 4th Women International Conference in Beijing (China) in 1995, she argued that, unless we recognize that each individual is valuable by virtue of simply being conceived human, we cannot begin to talk about human rights.

May God give comfort to her husband and children and may He rest her soul in eternal peace.

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Abby Johnson has opened a window to the world inside Planned Parenthood, the nation’s abortion giant, and it’s disgusting, worse than imagined.

If you dare, read on:

Abby Johnson Recalls: Planned Parenthood Alarm Was 2229 (BABY)

It took a few weeks before I got the alarm code to our clinic. I guess it takes that long for them to trust you. I remember getting the code and feeling shocked. The code was 2229. That seems innocent…until they told me what it spelled out…BABY. Really. Wow. We were really joking about that…our alarm code was mocking the murder of children.

A few weeks later I was introduced to our freezer in the POC (products of conception) lab. This was the freezer that held the fetal tissue until the biohazard truck came for disposal. I found out the name for that freezer…the nursery. Again, that was a joke. How had that become a joke?

Read the rest at Life News.

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A few years ago the New York Times ran a story about a new social phenomenon:  Couples, who claim to love each other, who have an exclusive sexual relationship, and who share financial expenses, are choosing not to live together.  The arrangement is called “Living Apart Together,” and apparently it’s on the rise.  The couples interviewed spoke of their need for “alone time” and “personal space” and a desire not to “wait on” the other person they claim to love.  “Why bother joining households and lose a great city apartment?” one suggested.

Reading that story brought to mind how Woody Allen once described the perfect arrangement he had with Mia Farrow:  separate apartments on opposite sides of Central Park where they could see each other’s lights go off at night.  But we know how that ended.   (For those too young to remember:  Woody ended up having an affair with, and then marrying, his own stepdaughter, and in his defense famously said, “The heart wants what the heart wants.”)

Last week the London Telegraph reviewed another new social relationship trend:  people who are neither married nor in love (nor, in some cases, even acquainted) are apparently having children together through the use of in vitro fertilization.  Why?

The story leads with examples of homosexuals who wanted to have a child of their own partnering up with people of the opposite sex to share biological material.  But also interviewed was this single heterosexual woman, approaching the end of her fertile years, who explained:  “In a worst-case scenario I would seek an anonymous donor, but I’ve always thought a child needs a father.  At the very least I wanted a donor who would visit regularly.”

What kid wouldn’t want Daddy Sperm visiting regularly?  But why does little Johnny hide under the bed when the door bell rings?

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Here is an interesting piece from Saturday’s Wall Street Journal.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks posits that it is the breakdown of the family and, even more fundamentally, a turning away from its Judeo-Christian faith, that has created a moral crisis in the West of which the London riots are a symptom.

I do not agree with everything he says (when he calls the rioters “victims” and says it’s “not their fault,” that is a bridge too far for me), but his broader argument for the moral reinvigoration that a return to religion can bring to society, and its necessity in bringing about a common good, is persuasive.

An interesting quote from the end of the piece:

One of our great British exports to America, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson, has a fascinating passage in his recent book “Civilization,” in which he asks whether the West can maintain its primacy on the world stage or if it is a civilization in decline.

He quotes a member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, tasked with finding out what gave the West its dominance. He said: At first we thought it was your guns. Then we thought it was your political system, democracy. Then we said it was your economic system, capitalism. But for the last 20 years, we have known that it was your religion.

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This weekend the New York Times Magazine published another piece on a favorite topic:  aborting one or more children in a multiple pregnancy, known antiseptically to those in the business as “selective reduction.”

A few years ago it featured Amy Richard’s first-person account of having two of her triplets killed so that she wouldn’t have to “shop at Costco and buy big jars of mayonnaise.”  This piece follows a married woman in her forties, with two young children in grade school, who became pregnant with twins following years of infertility treatments and aborted one at 14 weeks gestation.   Apparently “Jenny” reasoned that:

[T]wins would soak up everything she had to give, leaving nothing for her older children. Even the twins would be robbed, because, at best, she could give each one only half of her attention and, she feared, only half of her love. Jenny desperately wanted another child, but not at the risk of becoming a second-rate parent.

Beyond the revolting illogical pro-choice platitudes (at least she didn’t try to suggest there was no baby there; at 14 weeks that child was so well-developed she could move on her own), “Jenny” did touch upon something close to truth in her machinations; she had a glimpse of the post-modern problem of human commodification:

[W]e created this child in such an artificial manner — in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me — and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice. The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control.

Right.  It’s the logic of “choice,” and not even the logical end.

The right to abortion is limitless in this country.  You can have a legal abortion at any time, for any reason.  That’s a hard truth these Times Magazine pieces help to tell.  Dr. Richard Berkowitz ofColumbiaUniversityMedicalCenter, who does this type of abortion, admits what the “pro-choice” movement would rather hide:  that a woman can have an abortion “for any reason — financial, social, emotional.”

You can even have a baby killed over worrying whether you’ll be able to love her enough.

If the child were given a say, no doubt she’d happily give up any love for an ounce of respect and the chance just to keep living.

h/t  Kathryn Jean Lopez, The Corner

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Have you ever wondered what it was like to be a federal prosecutor taking on the ugly, arrogant criminals in the porn industry, and winning?

Wonder no more, and read this interesting PBS interview of Bruce Taylor from 2001.

Bruce is the most experienced porn prosecutor in our history and, in my opinion, a national treasure.

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This week CBS online reported that Playboy is getting out of the pornography business.   According to Jim Edwards of Bnet, the whole commercial porn industry is tanking.  He cites Playboy’s losses of $15 million last year on revenue of just $55 million (down 9 percent from the previous year), as well as the declining revenues of other companies and cable pay-per-view porn.

Wouldn’t you just like to gloat?  I sure would.  That reaction might be misplaced.

As for Playboy, while it will no longer actually make pornography, CEO Scott Flanders says the company is moving into “brand management,” licensing its name and logos.  So it could survive and thrive yet.

And the assumption from every quarter is that the hits to this vile industry are due not to some beneficent cause but to the glut of free porn on the Internet and elsewhere.  It could be even worse than that.  My friend Donna Rice Hughes, who heads Enough is Enough, believes it’s not quantity but content:  the big industry leaders can’t compete with the type of deviant hard-core material that is now available on the Internet.

I hope she’s wrong.  Whether it’s big porn syndicates tied in with organized crime or “mom and pop” amateurs dumping more and more deviant material on the Internet, the heart of the issue is still the same.  As Bruce Taylor, the nation’s most experienced porn prosecutor, told PBS:  “It’s still the same industry.  These are a bunch of pimps who make hardcore porn […] by hiring people, turning them into prostitutes, and then distributing illegal obscenity.”

The problem is the same, and so is the solution.  These people are violating long-standing federal obscenity laws.  Prosecute them and convict them.  It’s deceptively simple.  Enforce the law, and the Internet porn industry will decline.

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Reading Internet stories about late-term Florida abortionist James Pendergraft is like walking through a funhouse mirror – only the warped, grotesque image is the one that’s true.

For over a decade, abortion defenders have propped up this man as a hero to their movement, lauding him in their blogs, inviting him to speak at their rallies.  This man, who aborts babies as old as 27 weeks gestation and who sends women home to have abortions in their toilets or to emergency rooms for unwanted hysterectomies, has managed to continue profiting from his chain of abortion clinics for over a decade despite numerous run-ins with authorities, including repeated suspensions of his medical license.  But a little disabled girl might finally be his undoing.

In 2001 he was convicted of federal extortion charges and put behind bars after threats he made against county officials were caught on tape.  The abortion-rights crowd rallied behind him and invited him to speak at their rallies.  (Source)  His conviction was later overturned.

His license to practice was later suspended, Florida Department of Health stating that he showed “a flagrant disregard for the laws of the state of Florida and a willingness to endanger the lives and health of pregnant patients.”  (Source:  LifeNews)

After the suspension ran its course, he was suspended again.  See Operation Rescue.

Now, a morbid lawsuit over a failed abortion brought on behalf of the little girl who barely survived it has resulted in a verdict of 36 million dollars.  See Jill Stanek’s Article and LifeSiteNews.

The mainstream media has not reported on this verdict, but other sources say that attorneys on behalf of a young girl who survived one of Pendergraft’s abortions filed a lawsuit seeking a lifetime of medical care for the child, and they have won a $36 million verdict.  In 2001, the plaintiff’s mother, Carol Howard, apparently paid one of Pendergraft’s clinics $1,300 to abort her baby at 22 weeks gestation.  She was given multiple doses of RU-486, according to a source, and after 12 hours of labor left the clinic upset and in pain, later to deliver the baby girl in a hospital.  The child weighed 1 lb 6 oz at birth, and suffers from cerebral palsy, lack of function on one side of her body, strokes and brain damage, physical, emotional and cognitive delays, lung damage, chronic lung disease, and seizure disorders.  According to pro-life witnesses inside the courtroom, the Florida jury verdict orders Pendergraft to pay Howard $18,255,000 in punitive damages, $18,000,000 in compensatory damages, and over $400,000 in court costs.

Will this finally stop him?

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Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are trying to raise awareness about child trafficking and prostitution in the United States and have created a technology task force to create solutions to end human trafficking online. Their blunt slogan is, “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls,” and they’re recruiting celebrities to make this pledge and spread the word. Here’s a video from their launch.

Good for them; they could be spending all of their free time (and money) redecorating their homes.

The sleezy yet still influential Village Voice mocked Kutcher saying he wildly inflated the number of girls who are sex trafficked in the United States. That number is notoriously hard to get, but Kutcher and his program are working with NCMEC, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a source to be trusted. Not only did the Voice play down the problem – suggesting, ludicrously, that the number of actual arrests gives some scope of the problem — but Kutcher is right to point to the Voice as potentially part of the problem. Turn to their back pages and see dozens of ads for prostitutes. (They call people like us who support laws against prostitution “prohibitionists.”)
Good for Kutcher. He slammed the Voice with a tirade of late night Tweets. A sampling:

Hey @villagevoice hows the lawsuit from the 15 year old victim who alleges you helped enslave them going?
Hey @villagevoice speaking of data, maybe you can help me… How much $ did your “escorts” in you classifieds on backpage make last year?
Hey @villagevoice speaking of Data… How many of your girls selling themselves in your classifieds are you doing age verification on?
Hey @villagevoice Find another way to justify that YOUR property facilitates the sale of HUMAN BEINGS
Hey @villagevoice if you want to dispute the online data I’ve collected about the consumption of child porn or the hard facts from NCMEC lmk
Hey @villagevoice REAL MEN DON’T BUY GIRLS and REAL NEWS PUBLICATIONS DON’T SELL THEM

Read more on the Kutcher-Village Voice face-off here.

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For all his bravado, in the end Jack Kevorkian was a coward. Dr. Death promoted killing as virtue and convinced far too many people to rally around his evil creed. But, in the end, what he advocated for he ran away from personally. Notwithstanding all of his medical suffering, rather than pull out his suicide machine, the evil doctor instead reserved for himself a natural death. While his followers may still be lost, Kevorkian himself now knows the truth.

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In the midst of the budget debate last week an important premise was planted:  That President Obama is willing to risk a lot, and lose a lot, in order to keep the federal spigot open and tax dollars flowing to Planned Parenthood.

The New York Times report on the budget negotiations included this gem:

At one crucial moment in the game of chicken over a looming shutdown of the United States government, President Obama and the House speaker, John A. Boehner, faced off in the Oval Office. Mr. Boehner, a Republican heavily outnumbered in the room by Democrats, was demanding a provision to restrict financing to Planned Parenthood and other groups that provide abortions. Mr. Obama would not budge.

“Nope. Zero,” the president said to the speaker. Mr. Boehner tried again. “Nope. Zero,” Mr. Obama repeated. “John, this is it.” A long silence followed, said one participant in the meeting. “It was just like an awkward, ‘O.K., well, what do you do now?’ ”

That meeting broke without an agreement. But while Mr. Obama may have held tough on the abortion provision, he and the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, had already made a broader concession — agreeing to tens of billions of dollars in spending cuts that would have been unthinkable had Republicans not captured control of the House from Democrats in midterm elections last year.

Keep in mind, Mr. Obama wasn’t protecting a right to abortion, but something even more radical:  the right of America’s largest abortion provider to reach into our pockets!

Planned Parenthood has almost one billion dollars in net assets and $737 million in reported revenues, not counting the $363 million from taxpayers.   Isn’t that a special favor for “Big Business”?

And what a business.  From its most recent report we learn that Planned Parenthood clinics aborted 332,278 American children, about the same number of people who populate the city of Cincinnati. (For more important facts on Planned Parenthood, see this wonderful piece by Susan Wills)

The budget negotiations revealed, again, President Obama’s abortion zealotry.  We have the Republicans congressional leaders to thank for that.  As my colleague Tom McClusky asks:  “Who is the hard liner on abortion?”

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