By Denise M. Burke, Esq.

I just published a blog at National Review on how the debate over  late-term abortion bans, such as Arizona’s new ban on abortions at or after 20   weeks, is accelerating the collapse of the abortion industry’s “house of cards.”
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"Despite all Democratic party hype about the 'war on women,' the
abortion industry’s 'house of cards' is collapsing. Arguments used to justify the current regime of abortion-on-demand are routinely discredited and state legislators, with the help of groups like Americans United for Life, are passing scores of new laws designed to protect women and children from the inherent and widely documented negative impact of abortion."

 Read more at "The Abortion Industry's Desperate Battle Against
Arizona's Late-Term Abortion Ban."

By Denise M. Burke, Esq.

What a wonderful sight!!  Planned Parenthood held a rally yesterday, the first day of the Democrats'  convention, and no one came!

What was billed as  an opportunity to publicly support the nation's largest abortion provider and to vocally denounce the "war on women [and] reproductive rights" turned into a well-deserved embarrassment for abortion advocates and their allies in the media.  Did you even hear about this poorly-attended, but much-hyped rally on the news or read about it in the papers?

Extraordinary low levels of attendance and interest did not deter organizers from highlighting and attempting to advance their radical and patently offensive agenda.  They papered the outdoor venue with flyers announcing, “YES WE PLAN!” and “2012″ in which the zero is a birth-control pill packet, and handed out anti Romney-Ryan themed condoms.

The fact that this rally was included among the official convention events underscores the Democrat Party's strong allegiance to both Planned Parenthood and to abortion-on-demand.  This allegiance has not wavered even in the face of mounting evidence of financial improprieties, potential violations of state and federal law, and an increasing disregard for women's health and safety on the part of  Planned Parenthood and some of its affiliates across the nation.

Click here to learn more about The Case Against Planned
Parenthood. 

The lack of attendance and interest in the pro-abortion rally also convincingly demonstrates that Americans do not support abortion-on-demand or the policies of the Obama Administration that seek to force American taxpayers to be complicit in the on-going slaughter of innocents both at home and abroad and in the substandard care and callous indifference that women all too often receive from the nation's abortion providers including, most notably, Planned Parenthood.

On the television this morning I had the misfortune of seeing part of a national morning news program. Now I don't normally watch news programs of any kind because I don't like to be indoctrinated with the propaganda of our modern society. But, just like many people can't help but gawk at the horrific scene of a fatal accident as they drive by it, I couldn't take my eyes off the story on the morning news program.

The story was in regards to a disturbing new non-fiction book about a woman who couldn't have her own children and what she was willing to do in order to have a child. The author of the autobiographical book was on the news program and was being interviewed. As she started telling her story one of the first things she mentioned was how, when she and her husband decided to have children, she went off the birth control pill. Next, they discussed how she went through hormone treatments and other various procedures in order to become pregnant. This resulted in at least one miscarriage of twins. There may have been more but that is all I know about. As if that is not disturbing enough, next comes the very disturbing part.

On the news program with the woman mentioned above was the woman's mother. Due to the fact that the daughter could not carry her children to term the mother offered to be a surrogate. That's right, the mother of the woman on the program is not just the grandmother of the resulting child, but also the birth mother. I told you it is disturbing. So what we have is a woman who did everything possible in order to avoid having children by using contraception who has now done the unthinkable in order to have a child. (And you have to wonder how many of her own children were aborted by her being on the pill.)

It must also be noted that the people from the news program were completely accepting of all of it. There wasn't the least hint that there was anything unnatural in a grandmother giving birth to her own grandson. Instead, they emphasized how wonderful it is that this family who really wanted a child got what they wanted.

But at one point in this country, in the not too distant past, this would have been unthinkable and not just because the medical practices of the time were unable to do it. It would have been unthinkable because most people thought differently than they do now. Children used to be seen as a gift from God. But with the advent of contraception and abortion on demand the thoughts of Americans concerning children have changed. The result is that children today are seen as a commodity that can discarded through abortion if they are not wanted or manufactured in a laboratory if they are wanted. And all of this is done so that people can fulfill their selfish desires whether it be wanting or not wanting a child. And this selfishness is then praised by society - like the news program I unfortunately saw this morning.

So, is there any possible way of reversing how the country now thinks? I don't know. But if we are to have any chance of doing so we must remember that the situation in which we now find ourselves didn't happen overnight. It will be a long process to correct the misunderstandings of our society. But we can make a very clear step forward in the coming elections by voting in a pro-life manner for every single position from the President all the way down to the local mayor. It is time for the people of this country who are still scandalized by things like a grandmother giving birth to her grandson to act. If we don't then there will be many stories that are much more horrific than the one I have just told; things that we right now can't even imagine.

I just returned from the hospital about an hour ago and have been processing what just happened. I was called to the hospital to baptize a 22 week premature baby - nothing out of the ordinary. Fortunately the baby was alive and I was able to perform the Sacrament of Baptism, thanks be to God. But what I found strange is that no medical personnel were tending to the baby. The mother was simply holding the baby, apparently awaiting an imminent demise. After completing the Sacrament and talking with the family I went back out to the nurses station. I mentioned to them that I knew personally of a baby born at 20 weeks that had survived and asked why nothing was being done to help this baby. There were many nurses there and they all immediately fell silent, as if they were not supposed to comment on such things. One of them said I should ask the doctor in charge. Upon relating to the doctor what I had asked the nurses I was presented with a look. Her demeanor seemed to say that she did not like to have her decision questioned in the least. And she said to me in what seemed a very condescending tone, "The baby is only 22 weeks. There is nothing we can do." But I wonder, is there nothing she could do or just nothing she was willing to do. There is a big difference between the two.