Important documentary on black genocide

They were stolen from their homes, locked in chains and taken across an ocean. And for more than 200 years, their blood and sweat would help to build the richest and most powerful nation the world has ever known. But when slavery ended, their welcome was over. America's wealthy elite had decided it was time for them to disappear and they were not particular about how it might be done. What was set in motion 150 years ago is still being carried out today. So don't think that this is history. It is not. It is happening right here, and it's happening right now. Life Dynamics

Suggestion: Do a showing of the entire DVD at your center for African-American pastors in your community.

One of UK’s earliest babies celebrates her 21st birthday

One of UK’s earliest babies celebrates her 21st birthday | News | The Christian Institute: Jessica Phelan was born 23 weeks and four days into her mother’s pregnancy, and her comments add to calls for changes to the abortion law. She was born weighing just 1lb 3oz and at one stage doctors advised her parents to turn off the youngster’s life support machine, a suggestion they refused. Miss Phelan, who now works as a carer for the elderly, said: “I want to of course have babies of my own in the future and I agree that the limit of abortion at 24 weeks should be lowered like the Government have said to 20 or 22 weeks."

California Abortionist Accused of Homicide In Patient Death

California Abortionist Accused of Homicide In Patient Death :Operation Rescue: The Medical Board of California amended a complaint on Wednesday against troubled abortionist Andrew Rutland to include the charge of homicide in the death of Ying Chen. A revocation hearing before the Medical Board is scheduled for February, 2011.

Rutland had committed a second trimester abortion on Ying Chen at a dirty, unlicensed acupuncture clinic in San Gabriel, California, during which he administered an overdose of lidocaine. He failed to recognize the symptoms of the overdose and the patient went into cardiac arrest. He and his staff were untrained and unequipped to handle the medical emergency. After a “significant delay” in contacting 911, the woman was transported to a local hospital where she died six days later. Chen’s death was originally classified as accidental.

Clinic offering area abortions to close today

Clinic offering area abortions to close Friday | NWAonline: Dr. William F. Harrison, a Fayetteville, Arkansas, gynecologist and advocate for legal abortions who has been a lightning rod for anti-abortion protests for years, will close his medical practice Friday. Harrison, 74, was diagnosed with leukemia in May and is unable to continue seeing patients.

Doctors in India Worried Over Abuse of 'Morning-After' Pill

Doctors in India Worried Over Abuse of 'Morning-After' Pill: Health-care workers and government officials in India are concerned over the routine and indiscriminate use of emergency contraceptive pills, commonly called the 'morning-after' pill. The pills are freely available over the counter in India.

Producers of the two most popular brands in India, called 'I-pill' and 'Unwanted 72,' have been promoting the pills as a 'primary contraceptive' method rather than an 'emergency measure,' and are targeting their ads at teenagers and young unmarried women. More than 8.2 million ECPs were sold in 2009, an increase of 250 percent from the previous year.

Babies Saved from Abortion Pay Visit to U.S. Congressmen

Babies Saved from Abortion Pay Visit to U.S. Congressmen: Four moms and three children - two of them babies - went to the Longworth Congressional Office Building on Wednesday as part of Heartbeat International's 6th Babies Go to Congress event. They arrived to tell their stories of how crisis pregnancy centers helped them see new options other than abortion, and to show off the smiling faces whose lives were saved in the process. Crystal Berger of Sioux City, Iowa,came to Washington this week without a little one in tow, because she had chosen to give her up for adoption - a choice she said she does not regret.

Obama Admin Bows to Pressure, Appears to Limit Abortion Funding in Health Care

Obama Admin Bows to Pressure, Appears to Limit Abortion Funding in Health Care: The Obama administration appears to have bowed to pressure from pro-life groups that discovered it had authorized abortion funding in three states under the new high risk health insurance programs created under the new government-run health care bill, President Barack Obama signed into law.

The Department of Health and Human Services issued a new regulation today that it says prohibits the high risk health insurance pools from covering elective abortions with federal taxpayer funds.

However, pro-life groups informed LifeNews.com they are subjecting the new regulations to scrutiny to determine whether the Obama administration is following through on its promise to withhold abortion funding.

'Herded like cattle, treated like dirt'

Not Really Counseling: In this excerpt from her book Giving Sorrow Words: The Unspoken Pain of Abortion, journalist and women's rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist discusses how pre-abortion counseling contributes to the lack of authentic choice.

South Korea Looks at Legalizing Abortion

South Korea Looks at Legalizing Abortion: South Korea's Mother and Child Health Law permits abortion only when the mother's health is in serious danger, or in cases of rape, incest or severe genetic disorder. Abortion is illegal after 24 weeks of pregnancy and technically punishable by the Korean Penal Code. The government has for decades, however, turned a blind eye to the flourishing illegal abortion trade, with the result that South Korea already has one of the highest abortion rates in the world.

Official data from the Ministry of Health indicates that doctors perform about 350,000 abortions per year, while they deliver on average just 450,000 babies, meaning 43.7 percent of pregnancies end in abortion. The actual number of abortions may be at least five times the official estimate, with a spokesman from the ruling Grand National Party saying that a National Assembly inspection last October found that the number of illegal abortions in Korea exceeds 1.5 million a year or roughly 4,000 babies aborted per day. South Korea's total fertility rate is now estimated at 1.19 children per woman, one of the lowest in the world.

Editor: It's shocking and sad that S. Korea's figures match what once was the U.S. abortion rate, and is now higher than ours!

PP conference targets youth organizations

Planned Parenthood’s annual conference held in Des Moines, Iowa, last week targeted “sexual health educators, trainers, directors and managers of youth‐serving organizations, Planned Parenthood affiliates, and other family planning professionals.”

Summit photos posted

We've posted a photo gallery from the Summit on our website and Facebook. If you can identify people in the photos, let me know. Did anyone get a photo of Lori Smith and Aaron? Somehow we failed to do that. Any other photos you want to send in or submit right on Facebook, please do!

Black Pro-Life Advocates Oppose Palin Endorsement of Pro-Choice Karen Handel

Black Pro-Life Advocates Oppose Palin Endorsement of Pro-Choice Karen Handel - Christian Newswire: LaNell Babbage-Torres says she was stunned to learn of Sarah Palin's endorsement of Karen Handel. "Despite Ms. Handel's evasions, it is clear she approved more than $1.2 million for Planned Parenthood. Unfortunately, Governor Palin's endorsement further obscures Ms. Handel's pro-abortion record." Dr. Alveda King added, "Karen Handel has proven herself a master of political doublespeak, telling voters she is pro-life while directing taxpayer money to the number one killer of black babies in the nation."

Pro-Life Group will Distribute Flyers Exposing Maryland Abortionist During 10th Annual 'Face the Truth' Tour

Pro-Life Group will Distribute Flyers Exposing Maryland Abortionist During 10th Annual 'Face the Truth' Tour - Christian Newswire: Defend Life supporters will also be distributing flyers in the Annapolis neighborhood of long time abortionist Romeo Ferrer. Defend Life is calling on the Maryland Board of Physicians to revoke Ferrer's license to practice medicine due to numerous complaints of malpractice injuries and one tragic case which resulted in the death of a mother on February 3, 2006.

Cancer-causing virus found more often

Cancer-causing virus found more often - Health/Science - NewsObserver.com: Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is often associated with genital warts and cervical cancer, but the virus can cause numerous other forms of cancer. Doctors who treat head and neck cancers are increasingly concerned that sexual encounters among young adults may be driving more oral cancers later in life.

KS Healing Arts Board Files Disciplinary Petition Against Tiller Late-term Abortion Cohort :Operation Rescue

KS Healing Arts Board Files Disciplinary Petition Against Tiller Late-term Abortion Cohort :Operation Rescue: The Kansas State Board of Healing Arts has filed an 11-count petition recommending that abortionist Ann Kristin Neuhaus be disciplined for negligence and violations of the Healing Arts Act for late-term abortion referrals she made to George Tiller in 2003.

The New Abortion Pushers

The New Abortion Pushers - HUMAN EVENTS: It is . . . likely that the increasingly discernible violence of abortion has prompted more soul searching even among young pro-choice doctors. As former NARAL head Kate Michelman wrote last year, “[Ultrasound] technology has clearly helped to define how people think about a fetus as a full, breathing human being.”

Unborn baby saves mom's life

Central Chronicle - Madhya Pradesh's News Portal: A baby saved his mother's life before he was even born just by kicking in the womb only to alert doctors of a tumor inside. Mother-to-be 26-year-old Claire feared she was losing him 18 weeks into the pregnancy. But, doctors discovered the 'miscarriage' was actually a tumor of the womb -- which her unborn son had kicked free. Claire was advised to have an abortion immediately so her cancer could be treated. But she said: 'I couldn't end my baby's life when he had just saved mine.'

Pro-Life Freedom Ride a Success Despite Opposition

Organizers: Pro-Life Freedom Ride a Success Despite Pro-Abortion Opposition: The first Pro-Life Freedom Ride was a resounding success, despite the fact that more than 150 Freedom Riders were turned away Saturday from the King Center in Atlanta, where they had planned a prayer vigil at the Tomb of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Saturday’s three-hour ride to Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church was preceded by a protest outside an abortion mill in Birmingham.

Moms Take Babies to Congress

Moms Take Babies Saved from Abortion by Pregnancy Help Centers to Congress: Women who rejected the “choice” to abort their babies will be bringing their children to Washington D.C. this week to tell Congress how thankful they are for the life-saving work of pregnancy help centers. Babies Go to Congress, a Heartbeat International project, provides an opportunity for women to speak publicly, on Capitol Hill, about their gratitude for the support they received when faced with an unexpected pregnancy.

Bringing science to the abortion debate

BAUER & ALLOTT: Bringing science to the abortion debate - Washington Times: According to conventional wisdom, anti-abortion advocates are vulnerable to charges of being anti-woman and anti-science. Pro-lifers subordinate dispassionate scientific inquiry to irrational religious belief, many people believe, and their 'fetus fetish' blinds them to the plight of women in crisis pregnancies. But two novel laws passed recently in Nebraska explode those myths by highlighting how pro-lifers have embraced women and seized the mantle of science by revealing exactly what it is those who abort are choosing.

500 abortions a day in Britain

Express.co.uk - Home of the Daily and Sunday Express | UK News :: 500 abortions a day in Britain: David Alton, who in 1988 led calls for a reduction in the upper time limit for terminations, said: “The Act is used in many different circumstances which were never envisaged. There are 500 abortions every day, meaning one in five pregnancies is ending in abortion."

Will Obama keep his abortion promise?

Family Research Council: In March, Obama signed an executive order, after passage of the healthcare reform measure, to preserve policies that keep federal funds from paying for abortions. That order won him enough votes from pro-life legislators to pass the measure. But now pro-abortion Democrats are trying to do an end-run on the President's promise.

Thought for the Week from Colleen Tronson, Metro Women's Center

"And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." --Galatians 6:9

John Piper comments, "If you ask what the 'well-doing' is that we must not tire of, probably the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22ff is the best answer: don't weary of being patient and kind and good and faithful and gentle and self-controlled. Don't weary of manifesting your peace and joy in all kinds of acts of love to your neighbors and associates and family. In short, don't lose heart in spending yourself through love."

It is tiring to keep going when times are tough. There are times when the "return" on the investment of time, energy, love, tears, etc. may not be seen this side of glory, but it is so worth it.

RU486 and the Assault on Pregnant Women

RU486 and the Assault on Pregnant Women: In the last few years, one news story after another has described an abortion forced on a woman by a husband or boyfriend who has given her a drug in food or drink without her knowledge.

RU486 Linked to Population Control

RU486 Linked to Population Control: Since it's approval by the FDA in 1992, it has been seen that RU486 poses risks to women and girls and has been used to force them into unwanted abortions. But it is also is seen by population controllers as a tool for controlling the number and 'quality' of births, especially in the developing world.

Botched abortion in LA

Courthouse News Service: Doctors at a Family Planning clinic left a 16- to 18-week fetus inside a minor abortion patient, but told her the procedure had been successful, the patient and her guardian claim in Superior Court. The girl says she 'screamed' and had to be rushed to a hospital after the fetus 'was expelled into the toilet' the next day.

‘Partial Victory for Life’ as Pennsylvania Abortionist Shuts Down Two Clinics

‘Partial Victory for Life’ as Pennsylvania Abortionist Shuts Down Two Clinics The Pennsylvania Health Department’s order for Dr. Steven Chase Brigham’s clinics to cease performing abortions at facilities in Erie and State College represents a “partial victory for life.” They are, however, permitted to remain open for other services.

Brigham successfully transferred ownership of his Pittsburgh and Allentown abortion clinics to Rose Health Services, an entity in which he has no controlling interest, in order to stave off their closure. Deputy Secretary of Health Robert Torres has banned Brigham and any corporation he controls from operating abortion clinics in Pennsylvania, because of his persistent infractions against state medical regulations.

Brigham owns a chain of 15 abortion facilities with locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, however he is licensed only to practice medicine in New Jersey. Brigham let his medical license lapse in Georgia, California, and was suspended permanently in Pennsylvania, Florida, and New York.

Couple sues over failed Down Syndrome diagnosis

Couple sues over failed Down Syndrome diagnosis - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): A Melbourne couple is suing the Royal Women's Hospital for damages because doctors failed to diagnose their unborn daughter with Down Syndrome, denying them the choice to have an abortion.

The Summit

Tomorrow and Friday we'll be at the Summit all day. No posting available from the venue, so just pray for us, our guests, and speakers that God's will be done.

To Keep Women In The Dark, Abortionists Challenge Informed Consent Laws

To Keep Women In The Dark, Abortionists Challenge Informed Consent Laws :Operation Rescue: Abortionists in Nebraska and Oklahoma have challenged abortion regulations that were meant to give women as much information as possible and help identify risk factors that may cause women to double-think their abortion decisions.

Pro-life OB-GYN offers to help abortion doc

Pro-life OB-GYN offers to help abortion doc | The News-Sentinel - Fort Wayne IN: Fort Wayne's most outspoken pro-life doctor has just offered to join forces – in a manner of speaking – with the city's best-known “abortion provider.” Is it a clever political move? A lamb-and-lion sign of the coming apocalypse? No, just a genuine attempt to protect women's health by providing the post-abortion emergency backup.

Abortion clinic in Colombia closed for trafficking children

Abortion clinic in Colombia closed for trafficking children :: Catholic News Agency (CNA): A top health official in Colombia said this week that three abortion clinics in the capital city of Bogota have been closed, with the latest case involving the trafficking of children.

The Death Rattle of Hope Clinic

The Death Rattle of Hope Clinic - Christian Newswire: The Midwest's largest, late-term abortion mill in Granite City, Illinois, where once over 13,104 babies were executed annually; now, less than 4,160 in the past year. "God is giving us the victory over this once bustling abortion mill. The murder capital of the Midwest is being reduced to almost nothing. When Small Victories first started its daily ministry over 18 years ago, this Mecca of the Midwest killed between 300-350 babies weekly."

Michigan Abortions Drop to Record Low Despite Poor Economy

Michigan Abortions Drop 14% in 2009 to Record Low Despite Poor Economy: The poor economic conditions in Michigan were supposed to elevate the number of abortions, but recently-released statistics from the Michigan Department of Community Health reveal otherwise. The number of abortions performed in Michigan decreased in 2009. The report shows 22,357 abortions done in Michigan during 2009 compared to 25,970 Michigan abortions reported in 2008, a drop of 13.9 percent or 3,613 abortions. Since 1987, there has been a 54.4 percent decrease in the number of abortions done in Michigan annually and they have decreased in four of the last six years."

Review: Obama Admin Would Have Funded Abortions in HCR Without Expose'

Review: Obama Admin Would Have Funded Abortions in HCR Without Expose': The National Right to Life Committee exposed the abortion funding and the Obama administration responded at first by claiming the executive order Obama signed prohibits the funding NRLC uncovered. Then, Obama officials revised the statement to say they promised the high risk insurance programs would not fund abortions in Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Maryland or any other states.

Summer issue of At the Center online now!

New Centers Multiply across Peru

Report from missionary Evelyn Stone: "One new Prenatal Center south of Lima, another right by the airport near the ocean, a call from the high Andes of Peru, plans to travel to the jungle... yes, effective evangelistic counseling ministries are needed all over Peru. In June, Evelyn traveled to the high Andes to speak 14 times at a marathon conference in high schools. On the same trip she met as consultant with a church that is making plans to open a Center soon. This week she will travel to northern Peru to hold a training conference for new and continuing volunteers at the New Hope Prenatal Center that was begun in 2006. This conference will be the first time to use part of her new book on biblical counseling at pregnancy care centers, Step by Step to Life and Hope. Please pray for God's blessing and an effective ministry."

Get to Know: EvanTell

Imagine every one of the 2.4 million women visiting one of the 2,700 PRCs/PMCs in the United States hearing a graceful presentation of the gospel – in a completely consistent way regardless of who she talks with in the Center! Save the Mother, Save the Child is a worldwide program of evangelism training and equipping that can meet that incredible flexibility and consistency challenge.

You Can’t Take the Back Alley Out of Abortion

You Can’t Take the Back Alley Out of Abortion | First Things: Abortion supporters embody the single biggest indicator of delusion, which is this: In order to see things working out their way, they have to imagine the world different than it is. They need this to keep going — they need to keep looking forward to the vision they have in mind. But what they lose along the way is a deeper understanding of why abortion isn’t accepted in public and medical life. Rather than trying to understand why support for abortion dwindles, they turn away, they cover up, they try to hide the discomforting part of abortion from patients, from nurses, from themselves.

The new abortion providers

In 1973, hospitals made up 80 percent of the country’s abortion facilities. By 1981, however, clinics outnumbered hospitals, and 15 years later, 90 percent of the abortions in the U.S. were performed at clinics. The American Medical Association did not maintain standards of care for the procedure. Hospitals didn’t shelter them in their wings. Being a pro-choice doctor came to mean referring your patients to a clinic rather than doing abortions in your own office. This was never the feminist plan. . . .

For all the anxiety about being in the spotlight, the surprising truth is that however embattled abortion remains in America at large, at the top of academic medicine, the structure built to support it looks secure. David Grimes . . . surveys the terrain . . . and says with satisfaction: “A few things have happened to turn it all around. Thanks to the donor, I think it’s all here to stay.” NY Times

Editor: "The donor" is the Susan Thomas Buffet Foundation, and the grants are given through the Kenneth J. Ryan Residency Training Program, which gives medical schools two or three years of seed money for abortion training for OB-GYN residents.

Women Can Sue for Psychological Injuries After Abortion

Women Can Sue for Psychological Injuries After Abortion: Until now, women who experienced psychological problems after an abortion had no standing to sue abortionists for subsequent psychological problems, even when the women were coerced into unwanted abortions. The Nebraska law removes that legal obstacle and also clarifies the standard of care for appropriate pre-abortion screening.

When life gives you a lemonade stand . . .

Just when you need it most, the Lord drops a sweet blessing in your lap like the one Colleen Tronson received from three young children who sent her a note signed it by their own hands. The director of the Metro Women's Center in Crystal, MN, says, "I will treasure it always!"

Dear Metro Women's Center,

We set up a lemonade stand by our garage sale to raise money for the parents and babies that need help. We raised $7.

Love, Abigail, Samuel, Isaiah

Girl's generosity helps a center

Elliott wanted a "baby" birthday theme for her 10th birthday. Her ideas went way beyond just decorations though. As she invited her guests, she told them that she didn't want presents for herself, but that she wanted gifts for the babies at the Compassion Pregnancy Centers of Northeast Indiana. Her friends arrived at her party with diapers, wipes, bottles, washcloths and cereal, which were delivered by Elliott and her mom to our Angola Center. Executive Director Mari Bowers says, "We are so impressed with Elliott and her thoughtfulness and giving spirit. Way to go Elliott! You are our hero!"

UN Creates What May Become a Billion Dollar Agency for Radical Feminism

UN Creates What May Become a Billion Dollar Agency for Radical Feminism � Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute: Last Friday the General Assembly voted to consolidate four separate United Nations bodies dedicated to women’s issues into one new gender equality entity called “UN Women.” The resolution capped a victory for radical feminists who lobbied for years for the new entity and is the latest in an overall push to bring women’s issues even more onto the UN agenda.

Womb of the Unknown Soldier

The military may want to limit civilian casualties, but Senate Democrats are doing everything they can to increase them. When they trek back to Washington next week, members will take another crack at taxpayer-funded abortions -- this time on foreign and domestic military installations. If they succeed, it would be the government's second largest expansion of abortion this year. And, like the health care law, it will be just as unpopular. FRC

Buffett Billions Padding “Charitable” Abortion Advocacy

The Bloomberg news agency reports that abortion advocacy groups received tens of millions for their work promoting abortion at home and abroad through the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, a charity Buffet set up in honor of his first wife, who died in 2005. That foundation distributed more than $2 million to the Abortion Access Project Inc., over $2 million to Catholics for Choice, a group dedicated to undermining the Catholic Church’s teaching on the sanctity of life, and more than $40 million to Ipas, a group that promotes the expansion of legal abortion in Latin and Central America, and in third world countries. Buffett Billions Padding “Charitable” Abortion Advocacy

Fetal transplants for Parkinson's disease come from aborted babies

Controversial tissue transplants from aborted fetuses to people suffering from Parkinson's disease could soon begin again following a scientific breakthrough in understanding and overcoming the side-effects of such operations. Independent, Christian Institute

FRC Responds to Flawed British Study on Fetal Pain

The Family Research Council released a new report that refutes claims made recently by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' that a fetus is not able to feel pain before 24 weeks of development. Pro-abortion activists in the United States could also try to use this study to argue against Nebraska's new law that states that an unborn baby can feel pain at 20 weeks and which, as a result, outlaws abortions from that point on. FRC notes that the RCOG's study is seriously flawed and could lead to a profound moral injustice, the more cavalier taking of unborn life.

Pro-Life Women's Group Confident White House Pregnancy Funds Airtight

The Obama administration quietly announced the $25 million fund about two weeks ago, and it is a section of the controversial national health care bill President Barack Obama signed that also contains massive abortion funding. Focus on the Family, FRC, Care Net and Heartbeat say they're concerned Planned Parenthood and pro-abortion groups will wind up receiving some of the money. They also note the total funding is a "drop in the bucket" compared with the hundreds of millions in government monies pro-abortion groups and the abortion business receive.

But Serrin Foster of Feminists for Life of America is applauding the new grants, saying they are the "first federal grants of their kind" and they were "inspired by Feminists for Life's work on college campuses to develop resources for this underserved population. This is what we have been working towards. Pregnancy and parenting should never terminate an education." LifeNews

MAP: The War on Life in America

Across the country, the fight for life is both encouraging and alarming. Check out Care Net's map showing which state governments are favorable/unfavorable to PCCs.

HHS Approves Pennsylvania Plan to Subsidize Coverage of Nearly All Abortions in New "High-Risk Pool"

The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new "high-risk" insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March -- and has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of Governor Edward Rendell (D) under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania. "The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million in federal tax funds, which we've discovered will pay for insurance plans that cover any legal abortion," said Douglas Johnson, legislative director for the National Right to Life Committee. "This is just the first proof of the phoniness of President Obama's assurances that federal funds would not subsidize abortion -- but it will not be the last."

And it's now been revealed that New Mexico will have a similar program. LifeNews

Ginsburg: Roe will hold

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared Thursday that abortions would continue to be available to women regardless of the legal challenges now being waged by opponents of Roe v. Wade. " Over a generation of young women have grown up, understanding they can control their own reproductive capacity, and in fact their life's destiny," Ginsburg said in rare public remarks. "We will never go back to the way it once was." Politico

Bill to Restrict Speech of PCCs by Controlling Their Advertising

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) have reintroduced legislation to restrict the speech of pro-life crisis pregnancy centers by regulating the advertising they do. The bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to restrict advertising by the pregnancy resource centers, specifically ads that “create the impression that such person is a provider of abortion services if such person does not provide abortion services.” Critics claim the “Stop Deceptive Advertising in Women’s Services Act,” first introduced in 2007, is itself deceptive and is designed to limit the access women have to organizations that provide alternatives to abortion. CNS News

Study undercuts sex ed advocates

A U.S. government study has found that most teens are virgins, a finding which one pro-life group says has “huge significance” for sex education curricula which assume that teenagers are sexually active. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s June 2010 report (PDF) is titled “Teenagers in the United States: Sexual Activity, Contraceptive Use, and Childbearing.”

It shows that from 2006 to 2008, 58 percent of never-married teen girls and 57 percent of never-married teen boys between the ages of 15 and 19 reported that they had never had sexual intercourse. The numbers were substantially unchanged since a 2002 study. As in the 2002 study, the leading reason teens gave for not having intercourse was “against religion or morals,” with 41 percent of teen females and 35 percent of teen males offering this reason. The vast majority of never-married teenagers had not had sexual intercourse in the month before the survey, with 76 percent of females and 79 percent of males reporting no sexual relations.

The American Life League claims that the report builds a “solid case” against Planned Parenthood’s promotion of “sex education devoid of morality or religious influence.”

Abortion Group Wants Pregnancy Centers Removed From Internet Directories

In a letter to its members, NARAL president Nancy Keenan announced she is asking two Internet directories to remove pregnancy center listings. "Today, my team sent our letter with more than 59,000 signatures to YellowPages.com and SuperPages.com asking them to remove misleading CPC ads from their sites. But anti-choice CPCs are still blanketing buses, billboards, and even the airwaves with their falsehoods." LifeNews

ACTION: Contact the directors at http://www.yellowpages.com/about/contact-us and http://www.superpages.com/about/feedback.html and tell them to ignore NARAL's request to remove pregnancy center ads.

Seeking essays from young women

Dear Fellow Pro-Lifers! I am looking to hear from remarkable women who have been faced with an unplanned pregnancy. I am collecting essays from women that have been faced an unplanned pregnancy as I would like to incorporate some in my up coming book. My target audience is young women 20 - 30, since it is the highest group that experiences unexpected pregnancies. I am seeking essays on the following topics: Parenting when you least expect too. ● Why I chose to keep my baby and how this has affected my life. ● Why I chose adoption for my baby and how this has affected my life. ● Children who were given up for adoption – what are your thoughts and feelings about your experience? ● Parents who have been given the gift of parenting children that were given up for adoption – describe the blessings you have received through a woman’s unselfishness to give life to her baby. ● How women have been affected by having had an abortion. ● Thank you so much for your time and assistance. All submissions may be submitted via email. Please contact me if you'd like me email you a flyer. Sincerely, Ashley Simmons

Healing for the Soul

Kurt Dillinger is in Kitwe, Zambia, visiting Edward and Barbara Mwansa. One of the many ministries that they oversee is a maternity home for unwed mothers. All of the moms have led lives that eventually resulted in their contracting HIV/AIDS and a pregnancy. They have been sexually active most of their young lives, initially not by choice but developing later as a lifestyle. They come to the home with no family support system, no financial help, no health care insurance, no friends, and no hope for the future. They are gradually dying and they have been told by someone that they must abort their baby or the baby will certainly be born with the HIV/AIDS virus.

. . . Just by accepting her, giving her a safe place for her to live, and teaching her new life skills, her own life is re-energized – resulting in more days, possibly years of life. It is amazing what being loved can do for a person! Additionally, she is told that there is a high probability that her child would be HIV/AIDS free after being born if she follows the council of the maternity home leaders and takes the medications offered by the doctors. The amazing truth about this story is, every young woman going through this maternity home program has given birth to a HIV/AIDS free baby.

In the name of Jesus

What does it mean to pray in the name of someone? The sense that the Bible authors used it, was what the person stood for, the substance of their character, or their authority. . . . When we pray in the name of Jesus or baptize in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, what we are doing is acting in their authority, in their stead, according to their command, and consistent with their desires. . . . There is power in praying in the authority of Jesus Christ, by the authority He has given you, consistent with His character, His desire, and His will. It's like when we say, "Stop in the name of the law." . . . It might be better for us to start our prayers with that phrase instead of ending it. STR