The good news is that Hurricane Katrina destroyed five of nine Louisiana abortion mills, although their displaced vermin were scurrying around shelters within 72 hours handing out free morning-after pills and abortions. Here, have a little more death and destruction – no charge!

Planned Parenthood, pragmatic group that it is, ended all its reproductive interruptive specials (including 50 percent off Depo Provera!) Sept. 10, before any hurricane victims could have gotten to one of its chop shops had they even wanted to. Some call me a cynic on Planned Parenthood. No, that wasn't a public-relations stunt.

Quirky America. Everyone decries the elderly people left to die in nursing homes, and the sick people left to die in hospitals, and even the pets left to die in the streets. But killing New Orleans' little bundles of trouble before they are born is a load off.

I wonder if any deserted abortion mills were looted. Likely not, unless thugs thought they might find drugs or money. I imagine even murderers and thieves were creeped out at the thought of little bags and buckets of dismembered babies floating around inside those places.

Quirky America. The American Red Cross has no trouble calling surviving Louisiana and Mississippi pregnancy resource centers for help:

"In our local maternity wards mothers are delivering in the hallways," wrote Dorothy Wallis, director of the Caring Pregnancy Center of Baton Rouge, in a Sept. 2 e-mail. "The hospitals are sending their post delivery patients to us for care. The American Red Cross sent eight families today. The crisis pregnancy centers of Baton Rouge are now responsible for meeting the needs of refugee women and children."

Yet the American Red Cross refuses to give any disaster relief money to pregnancy resource centers to help them help them. Separation of church and state, you know.

Speaking of pregnancy resource centers, so far I count 13 in Louisiana and Mississippi that were either destroyed or damaged by Katrina. Their plight is grim. They must not only cope with recovering from their own disasters, but also try to care for mothers who are now twice as vulnerable to abortion as before Katrina.

On top of that, affected pregnancy resource centers will not be able to hold their fall fund-raisers or walk-a-thons to shore up for 2006.

Pro-lifers around the country must focus their giving on these pregnancy resource centers. Please donate generously online to the pregnancy resource center disaster relief fund at www.ctlm.org, or mail designated, tax-deductible donations to the Caring Pregnancy Center, 3813 N. Flannery Rd.; Baton Rouge, LA 70814.