King Blog’s back from holiday, Marie Lupescu’s grey

and King Alexander is watched in Marseilles…

After Abortion: Amazon lists of novels with an abortion plot or subplot, and abortion recovery books.

The Lawrence Journal-World has a special section marking the 40th anniversary of the publication of In Cold Blood. Includes journalism students revisiting some of the people involved. (Via About Last Night.)

LifeNews reports:

A national group of pro-life Democrats has joined pro-life Democratic members of Congress, adoption agencies and pregnancy centers unveil a package of legislation designed to significantly reduce abortion in the next 10 years. …

The initiative outlines 17 different policy programs designed to empower and promote women as well as protect unborn children.

Some of those include a national toll-free number for pregnancy support, studying why women have abortions, funding daycare on college campuses, increasing funding for domestic violence programs, and making adoption tax credits permanent.

more; GetReligion comments here.

Bible Literacy Project press release: “American high school students are deficient in their academic knowledge of the Bible, and it is limiting their ability to study literature and understand art, music, history, and culture, according to a new landmark national study of high school English teachers—funded by the John Templeton Foundation (www.templeton.org) and published by the Bible Literacy Project.” (more) Via E-Pression.