Planned Parenthood is building some nice new digs in St. Paul.

According to the Star Trib article a few weeks back:

The new, three-story facility will be environmentally efficient and provide a more convenient location for many of nearly 30,000 people in the Twin Cities who use its reproductive health services, she said. It will be close to the new Central Corridor light rail line, which is expected to open in 2014.

Well gee, I'm glad it's on the light rail line! 

Planned Parenthood is also trying position itself for the impact of the new federal health care law, which is likely to increase demand for medical services, she said.

So they admit ObamaCare= more abortions on our tax dime!

Even now, demand for all its reproductive health services except abortion, is increasing, Stoesz said. Abortion rates both in Minnesota and nationally have been declining for several years.

Well, at least some good news.

Question:  Why are these huge abortion operations always in low-income areas of a city?  Sad.  Sad.  Sad.

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal had a recent piece about the old-guard  Pro-Choice'ers lamenting the fact that there are far fewer young women in their ranks. 

There's a question here that nobody is asking: Where don't babies come from? "Young, zealous women," after all, begin their lives as baby girls. For a more detailed exposition of this theory, check out our 2005 article "The Roe Effect." But here's the short summary: If the next generation of abortion proponents is mysteriously missing, it may be because their mothers availed themselves of the right to have an abortion and thus did not become mothers.

It's true.  My mom is ardently Pro-Life...she had four children back in the days of the zero population theories and endured many dirty looks and questions about her bigger-than-usual family.  I always wanted a bigger family myself and plan to instill the same values in my kids.  There have been articles written about the liberal/conservative divide on family size, but it's really just common-sense.  One article notes:

Tomorrow's children, therefore, unlike members of the postwar baby boom generation, will be for the most part descendants of a comparatively narrow and culturally conservative segment of society. To be sure, some members of the rising generation may reject their parents' values, as often happens. But when they look for fellow secularists with whom to make common cause, they will find that most of their would-be fellow travelers were quite literally never born.

Anecdotally I know quite a few liberal-leaning women who have three kids...Three is the new two, the new accepted "top" number you can have that is universally accepted.  I also know many wonderfully conservative women who have two kids or who never had kids at all....then there's ultra-lib hero, Nancy Pelosi who has five children.  But in general, there's evidence to the claim that conservatives have more babies

Abortion is one issues with which conservatives must never move too far to the liberatarian-bend of "do whatever you want to do" because these things matter.   The American family matters...and incidentally, these are the issues where we can bond with many in the new-immigrant communities who hold these same values.  While the left promises handouts, we promise to protect life.

The fact is that our culture has come to celebrate motherhood and babies (celebrating single motherhood?  another question.) No amount of the tired chants, "My body, my choice!" or the paid-NARAL neighborhood canvassers, are going to change that.