Focus on the Family president hopes Times Square ultrasound helps people see ‘image of God’ in the unborn

This spring, people in one of the busiest intersections in the world will be confronted with the humanity of the unborn person in the form of a 4D ultrasound.

On May 4, the pro-life Christian group Focus on the Family (FotF) will present a live 4D ultrasound of an unborn baby in New York City’s Times Square as part of its pro-life event “Alive from New York.

This is the kind of ultrasound we’re talking about. It’s 3D, but also shows movement, like a movie.

That means that people in the same state where legislators cheered after legalizing late-term abortions up till birth will have the opportunity to witness an unborn baby doing unborn baby things like thumb-sucking, kicking, and hiccupping.

“Most people have never seen a 4-D ultrasound,” FotF president Jim Daly said in a recent interview with LifeSiteNews. “It’s our hope that after seeing these videos in Times Square, people will have no doubt that every life is made in the image of God.”

“It’s our prayer that Alive from New York will be an event used to help change hearts and minds regarding life,” Daly continued.

Sometimes the best remedy is simply getting people to look at a truth that they may never have encountered or even contemplated before. English abolitionist William Wilberforce once spent three hours detailing the horrors of slavery to his fellow members of the House of Commons. Afterwards, he famously is said to have told the chamber, “Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way, but you can never again say that you did not know."

Maybe, just maybe, seeing the reality of an unborn human being might change some hearts and minds in the Big Apple.

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How do Democrats sleep at night?

Kathy Tran, the Democrat state representative of Virginia’s 47th district who introduced the heinous abortion bill, fought back against allegations that her bill equals infanticide with a short video about the bill that doesn’t explain much.

Because of an honest response she gave to a pointed question in Virginia’s state House, Tran believed that the bill’s intent had been misconstrued and she wished to set it right. In the video, Tran said that late-term abortions are already available to Virginians under certain circumstances “with the approval of medical doctors.” Plural. She says her bill does nothing to change that. Then she said that her bill simply allows women to make these decisions “in a timely manner.”

Apparently the “timely manner” of murdering innocent life is hobbled by current Virginia law, which states that three doctors need to consent to murder before it is allowed. Apparently that either takes too damn long, or abortion advocates have a tough time finding three doctors who will consent to murder just because the mother said so. Tran’s bill drops the requirement for three doctors down to one. So much for no changes to the “doctors” requirement!

Now we read that Tran is “offended” by the blackface image in Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook and is joining the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus in calling for the governor’s ouster. She is not upset at all that the governor, a pediatric physician, is okay with actual infanticide.

How in the world do Democrats sleep at night?

I’m not defending blackface or KKK hoods, but dammit, the cavalier discussion of taking the life of an innocent baby didn’t make this Tran woman even lift an eyebrow, but a thirty-some-year-old image of probably Halloween costumes drove her over the edge.

The Democrats like to say that wealthy billionaires control the Republican Party. In some instances that’s true; corporate welfare is certainly something that has not yet been thoughtfully discussed in the age of Trump and needs to be discussed, but it goes for both parties.  Democrats neglect to inform people is of their own wealthy billionaires and industries that their bills of death support. Like the abortion industry, the human trafficking industry, the illicit drug industry, and the welfare industry.

The constant drumbeat of “for the children,” “for the little guy,” and the ultimate insult to God and our collective intelligence, “doing the Lord’s work,” that the Democrat propagandists repeat to pacify the dimwitted and the disturbed can only be true if turned upside down.

We’re told it’s a woman’s right to have an abortion in America, at the point of birth, without any second opinions. Is that “for the children” too? Maybe it’s for the “little guy?” Let’s hear about how late-term abortion is “doing the Lord’s work.”

Whenever a Democrat says that what they’re doing is “for the children,” it is most certainly for the exploitation of children.

Whenever a Democrat says that their focus is on “the little guy,” it means it’s for the mammoth drug cartels or the fat pigs at the labor trough.

And whenever a Democrat says they’re doing “the Lord’s work,” they mean Lucifer himself.

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Malkin: Jahi's life mattered

Amid all the raging political headlines and hyperventilating tweets of the Summer of Resistance, a searing ember of news stopped me in my tracks this week.

Jahi McMath has passed away.

I never had a chance to meet the young California teen, but her fight for life gripped me three years ago and was never far from my mind or heart — especially as my own daughter, the same age as Jahi, battled her own health crisis.

Do you remember Jahi? Medical experts declared her "brain dead" after a routine tonsillectomy gone wrong. Children's Hospital Oakland pushed to have all life-sustaining medical treatment terminated; the professionals predicted quick deterioration. California declared Jahi legally "brain dead."

But Jahi's mother, professional nurse Latasha "Nailah" Winkfield, refused to accept their verdict. As a parent, caregiver and believer in Christ, Winkfield was compelled to protect her child. With the help of the pro-life Schiavo Foundation, Winkfield moved with her daughter to a long-term care facility in New Jersey.

Medical ethics scholar Wesley Smith visited Jahi with the Schiavo Foundation's Bobby Schindler 10 months ago and reported: "At the time of the tragedy, I believed ... that Jahi was, indeed, dead. But I now have strong doubts. It's nearly four years later, and Jahi's body still has not broken down ... She has experienced no visible bodily decline ... Disabled is not dead."

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