• • Actor Kevin Sorbo: "Abortion Is the Definition of Evil, Pure and Simple"
• • Celebrities Call for Ban on Boiling Lobsters Because They Feel Pain, But Aborting Babies is Fine
• • States Passed More Than 50 Pro-Life Laws in 2017 to Save Babies From Abortion

Actor Kevin Sorbo is on the short list of actors in Hollywood with a profound respect for unborn children killed in abortions. Sorbo has spoken out repeatedly against abortion and the Planned Parenthood abortion business and he did so again in the form of an editorialwith his wife Sam recently.

The op-ed references a friend who received a phone call from an old girlfriend who asked him to accompany her to the abortion clinic but eventually changed her mind. Then, the Sorbos talk about abortion in no uncertain terms.

Secular humanists have made the word abortion sound like a woman's right, synonymous with health care, female empowerment, standing for women's issues, a choice, a solution; anything but the truth.

The truth is, however, abortion is the termination of life. It is just a euphemism for murder because the only reason to get an abortion is to avoid the potential of birth - a human birth.

We dress it up with "my body, my choice," but it is still a life inside of a woman's womb, and that life is still extinguished by the brutal procedure of abortion.

Sorbo talks about the inconsistency whereby eggs of endangered species are protected but not the offspring of human beings.

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In a twist of tragic irony, several British celebrities are supporting a new effort to protect lobsters from a painful death while unborn baby humans suffer excruciating abortion deaths in England and America daily.

The humane treatment of animals is important, but many celebrities ignore how pain-capable human babies also are being brutally killed in abortions.

The Daily Mail reports British comedian Bill Bailey and wildlife presenter Chris Packham put their support behind an effort to prohibit lobsters from being boiled or dismembered alive in the UK.

They joined the organization Crustacean Compassion in sending a letter to British Environment Secretary Michael Gove, urging him to include lobsters as sentient creatures in a new Animal Welfare bill, according to the report.

Here's more from the report:

The letter says decapods, the group of crustaceans including lobsters and crabs, are 'crammed together in brightly lit tanks' within restaurants.

It states: 'There is no economic or culinary reason why decapods cannot be humanely dispatched, yet killing is sometimes preceded by breaking off the legs, head or tail, and is often accomplished by boiling alive.'

The groups claimed lobsters and other animals are subjected to "extreme treatments" in the food industry, including dismemberment while they are still alive.

Switzerland also recently banned the boiling of lobsters based on new scientific evidence that they feel pain.

There is strong evidence that unborn human beings, whose lives are much more valuable, also feel extreme pain by 20 weeks of pregnancy, if not sooner. Yet, the U.S. allows elective abortions past this stage, and the restrictions on late-term abortions in the UK are loose.

Tens of thousands of unborn babies are aborted at 20 weeks or later in these countries every year, yet there is no strong effort by celebrities to protect children. On Monday, the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill to prohibit abortions on unborn babies after 20 weeks.

 

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With just one year under his belt, it took an hour and twenty minutes for the president to reflect last week on our nation's latest milestones in his State of the Union address - the third-longest address in the last 50 years.

And while he did not directly address the critical issue of abortion, a thorough reflection on the state of the pro-life movement is equally warranted. America has lost about 60 million human beings to abortion in the 45 years since Roe v. Wade. That Supreme Court decision has prompted generations of advocates to work tirelessly over the years in statehouses and on the sidewalks of our communities to defend and advance the cause of life. And for 45 years, whether at the March for Life, on social media, or in conversations with colleagues and friends, everyday people with a deep and abiding sense of justice have shared scientific facts and defended fundamental rights with their fellow Americans.

As a result, some of the latest data indicates that more than 3-in-4 Americans, including 6-in-10 self-identifying pro-choice Americans, support major rollbacks on legal abortion, with restrictions in place at least as of the end of the first trimester. Sixty percent of the American public opposes taxpayer funding of abortions, and 83 percent oppose supporting abortion in other countries. And millennials are trending towards support for life, with more than half believing abortion should be illegal in most circumstances. This increasingly life-affirming mentality has helped bring America's abortion rate to historic lows - the lowest rate since Roe v. Wade.

We are likewise at a time of unprecedented momentum in the passage of life-affirming laws. As the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute noted in July 2017, over 30 percent of all such laws have been enacted in the last six years, more than 50 each year since 2011. Americans United for Life has dedicated much of our time and energy to building on this momentum by providing state legislatures the resources they need with our "pro-life playbook," "Defending Life."

The pro-life trend continues as more than 50 life-affirming state bills became law in 2017, including an Alabama law that allows health care providers to follow their consciences in refusing to perform abortions. We now have Arkansas laws both banning abortions that selectively target baby girls and requiring standard medical care for babies born alive during an abortion. Nebraska passed legislation requiring that mothers diagnosed with a lethal fetal anomaly be informed about perinatal hospice care, and Wyoming passedlegislation - particularly meaningful to me based on my personal abortion experience - ensuring that abortionists allow mothers to see their babies on ultrasound.

While the U.S. Senate failed to pass a bill that would end abortions after five months of pregnancy, Kentucky and Iowa became the 20th and 21st states to pass this legislation at the state level. Ohio banned abortions targeting babies diagnosed with Down syndrome, and Texas had passed a fetal burial law, which upholds the dignity of unborn children.

Pro-life advocates have also made significant strides at the federal level in the last 12 months. In January 2017, President Trump reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, which withholds funding from foreign and international non-governmental organizations that perform, counsel, or lobby for abortion. In April, the administration ceased funding the United Nations Population Fund due to its support of and complicity with China's forced population control and abortion policies, and President Trump signed H.J. Res. 43 into law, allowing states to block Planned Parenthood from receiving federal Title X funds.

In October, HHS announced it would begin requiring insurers to bill separately for abortions, a historically unenforced ObamaCare rule. We learned in December that the Department of Justice had launched a federal investigation into Planned Parenthood's practices and alleged sale of fetal tissue. The U.S. House of Representatives made headway in both defunding efforts and a five-month abortion limit. And of course, we cannot overlook the critical confirmation and investiture of Justice Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The laws we pass, inspired and sustained by the majority of Americans who support life, have a concrete effect - they save lives. Such laws include parental involvement legislation, which results in a double-digit drop in abortions sought by teen girls, and the Hyde Amendment, which Americans United for Life successfully defended before the Supreme Court in Harris v. McRae and which has saved more than 2 million lives since its creation.

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Speaker Paul Ryan has chosen a pro-life guest to sit in the Congressional chamber during tonight's State of the Union Address.

Ryan's guest is a pro-life nurse who was forced to assist in am late-term abortion. Her presence will help spotlight the important conscience rights issues that medical professionals face who don't want to be forced to be involved at abortions. It also highlights the recent actions president Donald Trump took to provide additional legal protection for such pro-life doctors and nurses.

In 2009, while working at a hospital in New York, nurse Cathy Cenzon-DeCarlo was forced to assist with a late-term abortion. Though she objected on grounds of violating her religious beliefs, the hospital threatened disciplinary action if she did not participate. After a years-long legal battle and an investigation led by the Department of Health and Human Services, the hospital eventually changed its policy to ensure medical personnel are not forced to participate in abortions.

Now, Cathy is an outspoken advocate on behalf of other medical personnel who are faced with the same unjust dilemma.

"No one should be forced to violate their religious beliefs-especially in the workplace," said Speaker Ryan. "Not only did Cathy stick up for her faith, but she did so while fighting for the unborn. It's wrong that Cathy and so many others have been intimidated into assisting with abortions, which is why the Trump administration's expanded conscience protections are a welcomed change. As a staunch defender of religious liberty, I was very moved by Cathy's story-I am delighted she's attending tonight's address."

President George W Bush first issued conscience protections for pro-life doctors and other medical workers who did not want to participate in abortions. But President Barack Obama rescinded those protections and created a situation where pro-life medical workers and others who don't want to be involved in abortions are pressured to do so.