As I was saying not so long ago, many in the pro-life fight are kind of… insane.

Your methods of persuasion fail on every level, what with the chopped up fetus pictures, and the outright hostility to anyone who doesn’t march in lockstep.

Dr. Tiller was a horrible example of the slippery abortion slope. But he did not deserve to be shot down on his way into a FUCKING CHURCH. Whatever his rationalizations for practicing such a horrific form of medicine, he knew there were holes in his imperfect human soul, and sought to fill those holes with Christ.

And some “pro-life” zealot (the kind who were here not so long ago screeching at me that this is a war!!1!one!!1!) shot him.

Do you insaniacs actually expect further sympathy to the cause now? Because it ain’t going to happen.

No quarter.

Do yourselves (ourselves) a favor and please shut up. Shut up, for the love of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee little donkey too.

This contrived outrage over President Obama’s forthcoming commencement address at Notre Dame University is distracting and very, very embarrassing. First of all, you (we) voted overwhelmingly in favor of President Babykiller (54 to 45% Obama over McCain among Catholics), so you have no room to argue over his policies around the unborn. He never made any secret of his belief in abortion (”If Malia or Sasha were to become pregnant, I wouldn’t want them punished with a baby.”), and unless you’ve been living under a rock since the Ascension, the pro-abortion policies of the Democrats shouldn’t be news to you.

Then there’s the fact that you are screwing up a class’s commencement ceremony with your airplane banners and billboard trucks with that oh-so-tired imagery of chopped up baby bits. The President of the United States - whoever he may be - has always done at least one graduation ceremony at a prominent school since time immemorial. And the kids that graduate that day can look back for decades on the day the president spoke at their event. What will these Notre Dame kids have to look back on, other than a bunch of screeching harpies with picket signs?

You are not doing the Catholic faith or the pro-life movement any good by embarrassing Notre Dame. If any of you are alumni (that is, if any of you were educated beyond 5th grade), make your feelings known during the annual donation drive. At that point, you may get a little thrill to send back the pre-paid donation envelope with a grotesque image of an aborted fetus in lieu of a check. Your point will be well taken by the alumni association.

In the meantime, let these kids graduate in peace. You remember peace, right? Jesus taught us about it.

… kills babies.

I don’t normally talk much about abortion. It’s not my shtick. I save that subject for the hundreds of pro-life bloggers out there who are fully versed in the subtle nuances of infanticide. And in turn, they leave the “all Muslims are evil” shtick to me. Welcome to the Internet - there’s room for everybody.

But I just had to say something about this.

The Board of Medicine has revoked the license of a Florida doctor accused of medical malpractice in a botched abortion case in which a live baby was delivered, but ended up dead in a cardboard box.

The Department of Health said Renelique was scheduled to perform an abortion on a teenager who was 23 weeks pregnant in 2006. Sycloria Williams had been given drugs in advance to dilate her cervix.

According to the complaint, she gave birth at a Hialeah clinic after waiting hours for Renelique to arrive. The complaint said one of the clinic owners put the baby in a bag that was thrown away.

Police found the infant’s decomposing remains a week later.

Wow. Just… wow. If you carry on reading the story, you’ll see that the “doctor” in question got his medical training from the back of a comic book, and never should have been practicing medicine outside the Third World.

Those in favor of abortion believe that the legalized, state-monitored availability of abortion clinics means that women will be treated professionally, cleanly and by doctors who are actually, you know, doctors. Yet this man is no better than the sketchy guy with the wire hanger doing kitchen abortions.

He either was too inept to recognize a live birth, or he callously didn’t care. Either way, not only should he lose his license, but so should everyone involved in the process of licensing him in the first place.

Before long we will be hearing from liberals that anyone who doesn’t share their twisted views isn’t really a human.

Marie Stopes, the notorious early 20th century contraception campaigner, eugenicist and anti-Semite, did for Britain what Margaret Sanger did for the US: preached the doctrines of eugenics and promoted contraception and sterilisation to achieve “racial hygiene.” So successful was she at altering British society in favour of her eugenics doctrines, the British government has chosen her to be included in a “Women of Distinction” line of stamps.

The Royal Mail announced this weekend that the face of Marie Stopes, who advocated the sterilisation of poor women to promote the “welfare of the race”, will feature on the 50p stamp.

Looks like Britain is taking a lesson from Canada’s honoring of Henry Morgentaler. Interesting. Tune in next year, when Germany fêtes Eugen Fischer. I’m sure the left will love it.

Cheeky looking little bugger, ain’t he?

When Leeann Phelan was told her unborn baby had an incurable brain abnormality, she faced an agonising decision.

Doctors said he would be stillborn or severely disabled and advised her to have an abortion.

But Miss Phelan and her partner Stephen Crane stoutly refused and carried on with the pregnancy.

Now at six months old, tests have proven that little Jayden was wrongly diagnosed and is a fit and healthy little boy.

Due to pregnancy complications he had to be induced 13 weeks early, and bravely fought for life.

At 23 weeks, he was one week short of the current abortion limit of 24 weeks, which was set with the received medical wisdom that babies born that premature do not survive.

Last week MPs defied public opinion and voted to keep the current six month abortion limit, despite pressure to cut it to 22 or even 20 weeks.

Last night a pro-life group said Jayden’s birth ‘flew in the face of the government’s denial that babies do not survive if born before 24 weeks.’

Miss Phelan, 23, said: ‘We got the results on Friday and the doctors found he was not suffering from this syndrome.

‘We are delighted but it makes my blood run cold to think we could have aborted him and they got that wrong.

‘They told me to get rid of him, but I said no from the start.

So here’s the deal: Whether you are pro-life or pro-choice, you must certainly agree that it shouldn’t be a statistician who decides if your baby should live or die. It should always be up to the mother (or even better: both parents). The odds should be in her hands, not in the hands of some dude with a clipboard and a calculator.

Remember that in countries like the UK and Canada, healthcare is socialized. Every decision made by hospital staff is made with a little dollar sign in mind. To bring a child into the world that needs serious neo-natal care, or that has a terrible disability, is expensive. The hospitals have to invest a good deal of resource in a child like that. So simple eugenics says: Kill it.

Do you want a eugenicist with a calculator deciding your child’s fate?

UPDATE: I see I should have been clearer about the rules in Britain. If a baby is born under 24 weeks, the hospital is not obliged to provide neo-natal care. The baby can be considered a miscarriage at that age, and not viable, even if born alive. Sweet, huh? But Jayden’s parents must have fought pretty damn hard to get him care. Good for them.