By Dave Andrusko

There is so much going on today, I'm going to briefly mention three items in this final post of the day.

#1. The Winston-Salem Journalism has reported that Dr. Donald Jason, the Forsyth County Medical Examiner, has ruled that "An infant girl found dead outside Planned Parenthood on Saturday was alive when she was born and did not have any bruising on her body." As of today police still had no success finding the mother or determining how the girl, who was several weeks premature, died.

Winston-Salem police Captain told Michael Hewlett that police "haven't heard from any medical personnel who may have seen a patient who was showing signs of having recently given birth and they haven't heard from anybody who might have known the mother." It remains unclear exactly when she was born.

Dr. Jason performed the autopsy at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and said that it will take at least three weeks to determine a cause of death.

"Jason said the baby was found wrapped in a blanket," Hewlett reported. "The infant had on a diaper and a one-piece garment, he said. The blanket did not obstruct the baby's airways, Jason said." Noteworthy is that the Planned Parenthood office in Winston-Salem did close on Saturday "but was back to regular hours yesterday."

#2. There are key primaries going on in a number of states across the country. We will fill you in tomorrow on how pro-life candidates fared. As you know from prior posts, the cause of life is doing far, far better than anyone would have thought possible when the tide that carried in pro-abortion President Barack Obama also swept in a number of pro-abortion members of the House and Senate.

Dr. Donald Berwick. Berwick

#3. I was going to write a separate piece today--and I may return to it tomorrow--about Dr. Donald Berwick. Berwick is so radioactive that Obama used a recess appointment to install him as Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services which runs the nation's massive Medicare and Medicaid programs. I read a number of accounts of a speech he gave yesterday to an audience of health insurance industry representatives--the first time Berwick has poked his head above ground since the appointment.

You have to understand why organizations such as NRLC were adamantly opposed to Berwick. He is in love with rationing, and early on gave his heart away to the British National Health Service. Berwick dragged behind him a boatload of controversial statements, so extreme and so out-of-tune with the American people that NRLC dubbed him a "one-man death panel."

At least according to the Associated Press account, Berwick couldn't have been any more agreeable Monday, and couldn't have put much more space between what he had said and what he uttered yesterday. In just three of AP's Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar sentences, Berwick took it all back.

"…pushing back against unsustainable costs cannot and should not involve 'withholding from us, or our neighbors, any care that helps' or 'harming one hair on anyone's head,'" he said, according to Alonso-Zaldivar. "He also said he does not think federal bureaucrats have all the answers when it comes to remaking the system. 'A massive top-down national project is not the way to do this,' he told a conference held by America's Health Insurance Plans, the industry lobbying group."

And if you believe that…

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