Who needs Planned Parenthood?
Walter Hoye says this government site confirms that around the country there are over 7,000 federally funded health centers that service the full health care needs of women and children without performing abortions. "How could it be that our public officials do not know this already? And if they already know this, why do they still have a job?" Good point!
PP hiring unlicensed nurses in WA?
Abortion In Washington: Just as Congress is trying to end federal funding to Planned Parenthood across the nation comes revelations that the Planned Parentood affiliate in Central Washington has apparently been hiring unlicensed nurses.
WHO study: Nurses and midwives ‘could carry out early abortions’
WHO study: Nurses and midwives ‘could carry out early abortions’ | LifeSiteNews.com: A study carried out in Nepal by the World Health Organization and the UN Fund for Population Activities is suggesting that more first-trimester chemical abortions could take place in developing countries if nurses and midwives were allowed to administer the drugs. Dr. I. K. Warriner of the World Health Organization noted that early first-trimester medical abortion is currently “underused in developing countries” because usually only doctors are authorized to administer the deadly chemicals.
The tide is turning
Watch and be encouraged. “The Tide Is Turning” is the name of the new video recently released by anti-abortion rights group Students for Life of America, whose stated intention is to train and equip college and high school students with methods and tools to fight abortion. Washington Independent
Europe’s Marches for Life a sign tide is turning
Europe’s Marches for Life a sign that tide is turning on the continent | LifeSiteNews.com: In recent years Marches for Life in North America have been dominated by enormous numbers of young people. This trend seems to have jumped the Atlantic with 3,000, mostly youth, attending the second annual March for Life this weekend in Brussels. The event was accompanied by similar marches in Prague last week and Bucharest, Romania.
Why Our Government Must Stop Funding Planned Parenthood
GARY BAUER AND DR. ALVEDA KING: Why Our Government Must Stop Funding Planned Parenthood - FoxNews.com: President Obama has made the concept of 'shared sacrifice' a constant theme. We agree. But there’s one group that isn’t making the economic sacrifices most other Americans are making. Planned Parenthood, America’s largest abortion business, receives $350 million annually from taxpayers in the form of government grants and contracts, even though it makes tens of millions of dollars in yearly profits. And isn't willing to budge an inch.
Get to Know: LIFE Runners
LIFE Runners Creed | LIFE Runners are LIFE Group Devotions members who pray, raise funds, and run . . . for Pro-Life!
Abortionist’s Conflicting Statements Deepen Kansas Abortion Death Mystery
Abortionist’s Conflicting Statements Deepen Kansas Abortion Death Mystery :Operation Rescue: According to the Wichita Eagle, Hodes testified on March 9, 2011, before the House Committee on Federal and State Affairs: “[Hodes] estimated that Kansas has seen ‘five deaths in the last five years’ because of abortion procedures.”
Operation Rescue obtained a letter written by Hodes to the House Committee of Federal and State Affairs dated March 15, 2011 in which he backtracks dramatically from his original statement. “I am writing to follow-up on one question that was asked during my testimony. I was asked how many deaths had occurred as a result of abortion in Kansas, and I did not know the answer to that question. I did offer an estimation, that perhaps five such deaths had occurred over the many years abortion has been provided in the State.”
Operation Rescue obtained a letter written by Hodes to the House Committee of Federal and State Affairs dated March 15, 2011 in which he backtracks dramatically from his original statement. “I am writing to follow-up on one question that was asked during my testimony. I was asked how many deaths had occurred as a result of abortion in Kansas, and I did not know the answer to that question. I did offer an estimation, that perhaps five such deaths had occurred over the many years abortion has been provided in the State.”
Checking the Math: Algebra and the Defunding of Planned Parenthood
Algebra and the Defunding of Planned Parenthood - American Life League: The Nation's Largest Grassroots Catholic Pro-Life Organization: Just as the answer to 2x=8 is a simple 4, so too zeroing out Planned Parenthood’s x-factor equals healthier children and happier preborn babies.
Update: Solae and Campbell Soup no longer partnered with company using aborted fetal cells
Update: Solae and Campbell Soup no longer partnered with company using aborted fetal cells | LifeSiteNews.com: After the release of information on corporations partnered with a biotech company found using aborted fetal cells lines in food flavor testing, two of those companies – Solae and Campbell Soup – are no longer partnered with the unethical testing company. Solae says that while their company did sign an agreement with Senomyx biotech company in 2007 and is listed on their website as a partner, they have not been in partnership for over a year.
What is the value of emotion-stirring videos?
Watch this and comment.
I've seen a number of videos like this lately -- very well produced, all claiming in one way or another to be an effective tool for persuading women not to abort. But what's the persuasion? The "content" that turns their thoughts from thinking abortion is a solution (in time or too late) is a dream sequence, not any objective truth.
I think these might be effective before a young woman becomes pregnant. The images will stick in their minds and may be useful should they ever face an abortion decision. But it seems to be a product of our age that no words are used. What happens when opposite and equally compelling emotions surface again in the abortion-minded woman?
One viewer commented on Facebook that it might be a good tool for sidewalk counselors, on their smartphones or iPads. I'd like to hear what sidewalk counselors think? Would women going in to abortion clinics stop and watch this? Would it help you persuade them against abortion?
Newport Beach Abortion Clinic Is Eighth To Close This Month
Family Planning Associates, one the largest abortion clinic chains in California, has closed its Newport Beach office, Operation Rescue has confirmed. “This is an old abortion mill where pro-lifers have been sidewalk counseling and praying for decades. Its closure is an encouragement that we are winning,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
Family Planning Associates was founded by the notorious abortionist Edward Allred, who once claimed to have personally aborted at least 500,000 babies and famously stated during an interview with the San Diego Union that he wished he could set up a free abortion clinic in Mexico to “stem the tide” of illegal immigration.
Allred retired in 2005, and sold FPA, then operating 20 abortion sites in two states, to Irving “Bud” Feldkamp III. His son, I.M. Feldkamp, IV, continues to operate the chain. With the closing of the Newport Beach clinic, FPA now consists of 14 surgical abortion clinics and one that offers only the abortion pill.
This is the eighth surgical abortion clinic to close this month. That brings the number of surgical abortion clinics to 681 nationwide, down from nearly 2,200 abortion clinics in 1991. Operation Rescue maintains a listing of abortion clinics by state at the Project Daniel 5:25 web page.
Family Planning Associates was founded by the notorious abortionist Edward Allred, who once claimed to have personally aborted at least 500,000 babies and famously stated during an interview with the San Diego Union that he wished he could set up a free abortion clinic in Mexico to “stem the tide” of illegal immigration.
Allred retired in 2005, and sold FPA, then operating 20 abortion sites in two states, to Irving “Bud” Feldkamp III. His son, I.M. Feldkamp, IV, continues to operate the chain. With the closing of the Newport Beach clinic, FPA now consists of 14 surgical abortion clinics and one that offers only the abortion pill.
This is the eighth surgical abortion clinic to close this month. That brings the number of surgical abortion clinics to 681 nationwide, down from nearly 2,200 abortion clinics in 1991. Operation Rescue maintains a listing of abortion clinics by state at the Project Daniel 5:25 web page.
April is Abortion Recovery Awareness Month
April is Abortion Recovery Awareness Month - Christian Newswire: During the month of April, Abortion Recovery InterNational encourages Christians, around the globe, to enlighten society by reaching out to individuals and families in their community who might have been impacted by abortion.
Ellen McCormack, Anti-Abortion Presidential Candidate, Dies at 84
Ellen McCormack, a self-described housewife and grandmother who ran for president as an anti-abortion candidate in 1976 and 1980, doing well enough to become the first woman to qualify as a candidate for federal financing and Secret Service protection, died on Sunday in Avon, Conn. She was 84.
Mrs. McCormack initially ran for the presidency to help focus national attention on abortion after the 1973 Supreme Courtdecision recognizing women’s right to the procedure. Her television commercials, partly paid for with federal campaign money, attacked abortion as the equivalent of murder.
In a 2007 column on the Web site Eagle Forum, Phyllis Schlafly, long a national leader in the fight against abortion, said Mrs. McCormack had played “a major role in the pro-life movement. Her leadership enabled the then-young pro-life movement to flex its muscles and demonstrate political courage, determination and perseverance.”
In 1976, Mrs. McCormack, who ran as a Democrat and campaigned almost solely on the abortion issue, raised a total of $525,580 in contributions of $250 or less from 20 states. That made her eligible for $247,220.37 in federal matching money for the primaries. The money went mainly for anti-abortion television commercials.
Her success prompted criticism that she had misused amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 that mandated matching money for presidential candidates. Critics said the amendments, adopted in 1974, were never meant to finance single-issue campaigns. Congress responded in March 1976 by requiring a candidate for a presidential nomination to receive more than 10 percent of the vote in two consecutive primaries to qualify for matching money.
Mrs. McCormack responded in 1980 by running as the presidential candidate of the Right to Life Party, qualifying for the ballot in Kentucky, New Jersey and New York and winning more than 32,000 votes. This time, she did not apply, nor was she eligible, for matching money.
In an interview with The New York Times in 1976, she said she saw slides of fetuses at the time and “was convinced it was a human life being taken.” Her political involvement started with her book discussion group and progressed to membership in the Pro-Life Action Committee. She never became a household name.
“We thought our legislators would take care of it,” she said of the abortion issue in an interview with The Times in 1978. “But they didn’t. We found very early that it’s in politics that the big decisions are made. So we decided to run our own candidates.”
Editor: A hero I'd never heard of. May her legacy live on.
Anger over anti-abortion sign using Obama’s face
Anger over anti-abortion sign using Obama’s face - PhotoGallery - Chicago Sun-Times: A controversial anti-abortion billboard campaign that uses President Obama’s face to target black women was launched in Chicago amid angry scenes Tuesday. Abortion-rights campaigners clashed with Always Life, the Texas-based anti-abortion group that plans to install 30 billboards across the South Side to draw attention to the disparity in the number of black women seeking abortions.
Medical records tell tale of abortion survival
Saline infusion is no longer used in abortions, Melissa Ohden said, "Not because they are so horrific, but because too many of us survived." She named at least three other survivors, one a twin whose twin succumbed to the procedure. She knows there are at least eight survivors of Saline infusion abortion. "I am the only one who doesn't have any long term health problems."
Melissa struggled with God. "It was like he was telling me 'I saved your life for a reason' and I responded, 'yeah thanks, now leave me alone.'" She was afraid of what God was asking her to do. "There have been 53 million abortions during the past 38 years," she said. "I thought God had saved the wrong one."
While she was in college, the confusion only intensified. "I shared my story," she said, only to be told "just because that happened to you, it doesn't mean you have to be prolife." An admired psychology professor accused her to her face, "What an awful lie. How can you say such a thing? How could your parents tell you such a lie?" Through research, she found the medical records that verified the story. McCook Daily Gazette
Melissa struggled with God. "It was like he was telling me 'I saved your life for a reason' and I responded, 'yeah thanks, now leave me alone.'" She was afraid of what God was asking her to do. "There have been 53 million abortions during the past 38 years," she said. "I thought God had saved the wrong one."
While she was in college, the confusion only intensified. "I shared my story," she said, only to be told "just because that happened to you, it doesn't mean you have to be prolife." An admired psychology professor accused her to her face, "What an awful lie. How can you say such a thing? How could your parents tell you such a lie?" Through research, she found the medical records that verified the story. McCook Daily Gazette
Mich. AG Sues To Close Unlicensed Abortion Clinic
Mich. AG Sues To Close Unlicensed Abortion Clinic - Detroit Top Stories News Story - WDIV Detroit: Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says his office and the Michigan Department of Community Health are suing a Detroit-area abortion clinic that he says has operating without a required state surgical facility license since last summer. The lawsuit filed in Oakland County Circuit Court stems from a 2009 health department investigation that found WomanCare of Southfield was violating state fire code rules applying to freestanding surgical outpatient facilities. The clinic is located in Lathrup Village.
Good News Publishing still putting out pro-life tracts
For 25 years, Good News Publishing has produced the You're Special tract, their best-selling tract. They also still carry Life Before Birth and Ten Fingers, Ten Toes, One Miracle.
Why is it hard to get male volunteers? What can we do?
Guys For Life: Why is it hard to get male volunteers? What can we do?: It's going to take more than a name change, paint scheme and having male brochures on hand to turn this problem around. If I may, I would enjoy challenging you to go one step deeper in your understanding of why you may find it difficult in attracting and keeping male volunteers.
Planned Parenthood Leaves Unprofitable Communities Despite Record Revenues and Subsidies
Even with record revenues each year that now top $1.1 billion, Planned Parenthood pulled out of disadvantaged communities last year at a record pace. Planned Parenthood’s own statistics show that its total income increased 24.7 percent including a 33 percent increase in government grants and contracts since 2005. Meanwhile, the facilities report reveals the opposite trend: 87 clinics have been closed since 2005 with net closings of 31 in 2010 alone. At the same time it increased its surgical and medical abortion facilities by 40 percent from 229 in 2005 to 321 at the end of 2010. ALL's Jim Sedlak says, "Planned Parenthood is concerned with consolidating its business structure, and aggressively growing market share of the abortion business to offset declining abortions nationwide, not serving disadvantaged populations""unless it can make a profit." American Life League
FDA approval of drug to prevent preemies prompts price jump
FDA approval of drug to prevent preemies prompts price jump from $10 to $1,500 - The Washington Post: When a drug to prevent babies from being born too early won federal approval in February, many doctors, pregnant women and others cheered the step as a major advance against a heartbreaking tragedy. Then they saw the price tag.
The list price for the drug, Makena, turned out to be a stunning $1,500 per dose. That’s for a drug that must be injected every week for about 20 weeks, meaning it will cost about $30,000 per at-risk pregnancy. If every eligible American woman were to get Makena, the nation’s bloated annual health-care tab would swell by more than $4 billion.
What really infuriates patients and doctors is that the same compound has been available for years at a fraction of the cost — about $10 or $20 a shot.
The list price for the drug, Makena, turned out to be a stunning $1,500 per dose. That’s for a drug that must be injected every week for about 20 weeks, meaning it will cost about $30,000 per at-risk pregnancy. If every eligible American woman were to get Makena, the nation’s bloated annual health-care tab would swell by more than $4 billion.
What really infuriates patients and doctors is that the same compound has been available for years at a fraction of the cost — about $10 or $20 a shot.
Biotech company using aborted fetal cell lines to test its flavor enhancers
Children of God for Life is calling on the public to boycott products of major food companies that are partnering with Senomyx, a biotech company that produces artificial flavor enhancers, unless the company stops using aborted fetal cell lines to test their products.
In 2010, the pro-life organization wrote to Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder, pointing out that moral options for testing their food additives could and should be used. But when Senomyx ignored their letter, they wrote to the companies Senomyx listed on their website as "collaborators" warning them of public backlash and threatened boycott. Food giants Pepsico, Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup, Solae and Nestlé are the primary targets of the boycott, though Senomyx boasts other international partners on their website.
Senomyx notes their collaborators provide them research and development funding plus royalties on sales of products using their flavor ingredients. “What they do not tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 – human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors”, stated Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director for Children of God for Life, a pro-life watch dog group that has been monitoring the use of aborted fetal material in medical products and cosmetics for years.
UPDATE: Within hours of the press release, Children of God for Life received notice from Campbell Soup that they have severed their ties with Senomyx. Stated Juli Mandel Sloves, Senior Manager of Nutrition & Wellness Communications at Campbell Soup Company, "We are no longer in partnership with Senomyx. This fact was discussed during the Senomyx conference call with its investors earlier this month." If you choose to write to Campbell Soup, please thank them for their decision. Mmmm good!
In 2010, the pro-life organization wrote to Senomyx CEO Kent Snyder, pointing out that moral options for testing their food additives could and should be used. But when Senomyx ignored their letter, they wrote to the companies Senomyx listed on their website as "collaborators" warning them of public backlash and threatened boycott. Food giants Pepsico, Kraft Foods, Campbell Soup, Solae and Nestlé are the primary targets of the boycott, though Senomyx boasts other international partners on their website.
Senomyx notes their collaborators provide them research and development funding plus royalties on sales of products using their flavor ingredients. “What they do not tell the public is that they are using HEK 293 – human embryonic kidney cells taken from an electively aborted baby to produce those receptors”, stated Debi Vinnedge, Executive Director for Children of God for Life, a pro-life watch dog group that has been monitoring the use of aborted fetal material in medical products and cosmetics for years.
UPDATE: Within hours of the press release, Children of God for Life received notice from Campbell Soup that they have severed their ties with Senomyx. Stated Juli Mandel Sloves, Senior Manager of Nutrition & Wellness Communications at Campbell Soup Company, "We are no longer in partnership with Senomyx. This fact was discussed during the Senomyx conference call with its investors earlier this month." If you choose to write to Campbell Soup, please thank them for their decision. Mmmm good!
'Mommy, stop them from killing me!'
Dave Weinbaum: I was shocked to be talking face to face to a person who was aborted—and survived. When I first met Missy, at the Rolla, MO, Pregnancy Resource dinner, I thought she was a woman who had an abortion. As the featured speaker, I figured she would talk of the sorrow, regret and guilt of those who have suffered the loss of an aborted child in later life.
Response to film '12th and Delaware'
Home: Human Life International created this website in response to the film, '12th & Delaware,' to answer questions and concerns about the PCC in Ft. Pierce, FL.
'Miracle baby' grew outside the womb
'Miracle baby' who grew outside the womb - Telegraph: Jayne Jones, 38, saw at a routine ultra-sound scan when she was 27 weeks' pregnant that her baby was growing in her abdomen, on the omentum – the layers of fat that cover the bowel. Almost all such foetuses die within weeks, even days, of conception and only one similar case has ever been reported in Britain.
Ten days after the scan Mrs Jones was rushed to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth by her husband Graham because she had collapsed in pain. She had to have ground-breaking surgery that had never been done before in Britain and involved 36 NHS staff. Billy was born weighing 2 pounds, 2 ounces on April 19 and immediately put in an incubator.
Ten days after the scan Mrs Jones was rushed to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth by her husband Graham because she had collapsed in pain. She had to have ground-breaking surgery that had never been done before in Britain and involved 36 NHS staff. Billy was born weighing 2 pounds, 2 ounces on April 19 and immediately put in an incubator.
Pro-life Groups Sign Lease on New Office Across from Carhart
Pro-life Groups Sign Lease on New Office Across from Carhart’s Germantown Late-term Abortion Clinic :Operation Rescue: Operation Rescue and the Maryland Coalition for Life announce that an office space has been placed under lease directly across the parking lot from LeRoy Carhart’s late-term abortion business in Germantown, Maryland.
The office will be used as a place of prayer for pro-life supporters, but will also act as a resource and referral center for vulnerable and needy pregnant women as well as post-abortive women. The Maryland Coalition for Life will be coordinating efforts with local pregnancy care centers and a nearby physician who has offered to provide free ultrasounds to abortion vulnerable women.
The office will be used as a place of prayer for pro-life supporters, but will also act as a resource and referral center for vulnerable and needy pregnant women as well as post-abortive women. The Maryland Coalition for Life will be coordinating efforts with local pregnancy care centers and a nearby physician who has offered to provide free ultrasounds to abortion vulnerable women.
Can you spot the flaw in this organizational chart?
Editorial: Stem cell board must fix flawed governance - Sacramento Opinion - Sacramento Editorial | Sacramento Bee: Klein set up a dueling, unworkable co-CEO structure between the board chair and the agency president, who should be in charge of the day-to-day activities of the institute in funding scientific research – with the board and chair in an oversight role. Instead, the board chair is involved in day-to-day operations and management. How can the board chair in such a role possibly do independent evaluation of the agency's activities?
'Going Fishing' and Reaching Men in Need
Guys For Life: 'Going Fishing' and Reaching Men in Need: A non-profit seeking to work with men requires a subtly different tone and approach than reaching women.
Philippines Reproductive Health-Abortion Bill Fails
Philippines: Reproductive Health-Abortion Bill Fails to Pass | LifeNews.com: The controversial “Reproductive Health Bill” opposed by pro-life groups because it advances a contraception-birth control agenda that could lead to the eventually promotion and advancement of abortion, has failed. It contained several provisions offending pro-life advocates, including one that would have called for a two-child limit similar to the one-child policy in China that has been enforced with forced abortions, coercive sterilizations and other human rights abuses.
Abortion facility tries to stop pro-life use of abortion footage
Abortion facility tries to stop pro-life video with real abortion footage | LifeSiteNews.com: Jill Stanek reports that Northland Family Planning Center’s attorneys have sent a cease-and-desist letter to the Center for Bioethical Reform, alleging that posting their video "The Most Shocking Four-Minute Abortion Debate You'll Ever See" violated U.S. digital copyright laws, because Northland holds the registered copyright to the “Everyday Good Women Choose Abortion” footage. The letter warns they could face civil penalties of $150,000 for each posting as well as potential criminal liability.
The Thomas More Law Center is representing CBR and said they'd be happy to bring the matter to court. TMLC senior trial counsel Robert Muise asserts that the Northland material in the CBR video fulfills the “fair use” doctrine in US copyright law, and warned Northland would be “reckless” to follow through on “hollow threats to sue them.”
The Thomas More Law Center is representing CBR and said they'd be happy to bring the matter to court. TMLC senior trial counsel Robert Muise asserts that the Northland material in the CBR video fulfills the “fair use” doctrine in US copyright law, and warned Northland would be “reckless” to follow through on “hollow threats to sue them.”
PreVue Fetal Visualization Device
PreVue Fetal Visualization Device by Melody Shiue | Industrial Design and Future Technology – Tuvie: An industrial designer of the University of New South Wales has designed a product called, PreVue. It is an e-textile based device that employs latest stretchable display technology over the abdominal region, letting other family members to connect with the fetus in its context. Not only PreVue gives you the chance for interacting and watching the baby’s growth inside, it as well serves as a tool to understand the personality of the baby.
Editor: There's no indication this thing would actually work, be good for babies, or is more than a designer's dream.
Pro-Life Med Students Raise Awareness About Discrimination
Pro-Life Med Students Conclude National Tour to Raise Awareness About Discrimination They Face | CNSnews.com: Medical Students for Life of America ended its cross-country tour at George Washington University in the nation's capital on Wednesday. “Across the country, we encountered countless students who feel passionately about promoting a culture of life in medicine and want to implement the ‘do no harm’ oath as a physician,” former abortion-provider Dr. John Bruchalski said in a commentary about the tour. “Unfortunately, they have been backed into a corner, unable to discuss their beliefs publicly for fear of being shut out of medical admissions or residency programs.”
Lautenberg: Pro-Life People "Don't Deserve Freedoms in Constitution"
Lautenberg: Pro-Life People "Don't Deserve Freedoms in Constitution" | LifeNews.com: New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg appeared with about 100 Planned Parenthood supporters and said, “Planned Parenthood is under attack by Tea Party Republicans who have put their extremist ideology above women’s health.” Pro-life advocates countered with, “Shame on you, Lautenberg,” and he fired back: “These people (referring to the pro-life advocates) don’t deserve the freedoms in the Constitution.” As an afterthought, he added, “but we’ll give it to them anyway.”
Sex education materials should be licensed
Sex education materials should be licensed, says MP | News | The Christian Institute: Mrs Leadsom, the MP for South Northamptonshire, asked if the Education Secretary Michael Gove was “aware of the great concern of some parents about the inappropriate material being shown to their five-year-old and seven-year-old children under the guise of sex and relationship education. Will he take steps to start a licensing regime to ensure the material being shown is age-appropriate?”
UK’s smallest twin born at 23 weeks allowed home
UK’s smallest twin born at 23 weeks allowed home | News | The Christian Institute: A premature baby, born one week below the abortion limit and weighing less than a pound, has been allowed to go home eight months later. Her mother, Liz Barrett, has said she is furious at the views of a leading consultant who believes babies born at 23 weeks should be left to die.
Maintaining the Proper Relationship
Maintaining the Proper Relationship | My Utmost For His Highest: Goodness and purity should never be traits that draw attention to themselves, but should simply be magnets that draw people to Jesus Christ. If my holiness is not drawing others to Him, it is not the right kind of holiness; it is only an influence which awakens undue emotions and evil desires in people and diverts them from heading in the right direction.
Clinic relocation mobilizes pro-life community
Real Prolife Stories: One summer day in 2010, Shannon Wygant received a shock. His wife told him that the abortion clinic in Waterford, Michigan, where he traveled to for peaceful prayer, had suddenly moved to his own town of Clarkston. 'Clarkston is a very prolife community and it sent shock waves down the pike when people found out,' Shannon said.
Shannon and his community rallied together to deliver a surprise of their own by renting office space on the floor below the abortion clinic to open a prolife pregnancy resource center. Birth Choice Pregnancy Resource Center held their first open house on February 11 and they've turned the unpleasant surprise into a golden opportunity to reach women closer than they ever could.
Shannon and his community rallied together to deliver a surprise of their own by renting office space on the floor below the abortion clinic to open a prolife pregnancy resource center. Birth Choice Pregnancy Resource Center held their first open house on February 11 and they've turned the unpleasant surprise into a golden opportunity to reach women closer than they ever could.
End gendercide
You are AGA. | All Girls Allowed: Mobilize yourself and others to abolish China's One-Child Policy and restore life, value, and dignity to girls and mothers.
NYC pregnancy center burglarized
Pro-Life News of the Day: NYC pregnancy center burglarized: Chris Slattery from EMC Frontline Pregnancy Centers in New York City reports that one of the centers, in the South Bronx, sustained major damage in a burglary. Photographs show it will be quite some time before this center will be able to serve clients.
Nepal Legalizes Abortion
RH Reality Check: Nepal Advances As U.S. Backslides on Women's Rights | Center for Reproductive Rights: The Supreme Court of Nepal has officially recognized a woman’s "right to abortion as a crucial component of her reproductive rights that cannot be denied by the government without violating a broad range of her human rights."
Paris gives all highschool girls free ‘contraception passes’
Paris gives all highschool girls free, taxpayer-funded ‘contraception passes’ | LifeSiteNews.com: Starting April 25th, every girl enrolled in a high school or apprenticeship school in Paris and its region will be issued with a “contraception pass,” including four vouchers for a medical appointment, a blood sample, and three to six months’ worth of region-funded hormonal contraceptives.
UK gov’t funds Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes to tune of £9.4 million UK gov’t funding Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes to tune of £9.4 million.
UK gov’t funding Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes to tune of £9.4 million | LifeSiteNews.com: This week, the UK government revealed that it is continuing to provide International Planned Parenthood Federation and Marie Stopes International with nearly £9.4 million to abort Britain’s own children and those of countries of the developing world.
Report: Number of Planned Parenthood Centers at 25-Year Low
Report: Number of Planned Parenthood Centers at 25-Year Low | LifeNews.com: STOPP International released the report yesterday showing that, for the fifth straight year, the number of Planned Parenthood centers has declined. In 2010, the Parenthood Federation of America opened 18 new clinics and closed 49, bringing its total clinic number down to 785 – the lowest it has been since 1986.
Planned Parenthood draws fire from PA parents
Planned Parenthood draws more fire at Twin Valley: A group of Twin Valley School District (in Pennsylvania) parents asked the school board Monday to remove Planned Parenthood from a high school health class and replace it with a local physician who could speak on reproductive health matters.
Romania Pro-Life March for Life Coming Up in Three Cities
Romania Pro-Life March for Life Coming Up in Three Cities | LifeNews.com: The provita movement in Romania is thriving in order to follow closely its more experienced colleagues from Western Europe; this year, for the first time, the “March for Life” will turn into a large scale event, scheduled for Saturday, 26th of March. The marches will take place simultaneously in the capital city Bucharest and two other big Romanian cities, Timisoara and Satu Mare.
What went wrong with Gardasil sales?
What went wrong with Gardasil sales? | LifeSiteNews.com: Gardasil’s flat and declining sales are due to a design flaw. To be completely immunized, women and girls have to receive a series of three injections over six months. Many women and girls didn’t do so. For example, according to the U.S. Center for Disease Control, in their report of August 2010, although 44% of teenagers had received the HPV vaccine in 2009, only 27% of them received all three doses of the vaccine. There is no evidence to support the possibility that only one injection effectively protects against cervical cancer.
Get to Know: Center Against Forced Abortions
CAFA: Many teenage girls are being coerced into abortion by their parents. Pregnancy resource centers need to be equipped to help legally defend these clients, and subsequently coerced abortions occur.
The Justice Foundation has created a Dear Parent Letter, which (in a friendly, helpful, and serious manner) informs the teen mother's parents that they could be guilty of illegal actions if they force their daughter to have an abortion. Combined with Life Dynamics's Letter to Abortionists, which is a signed statement indicating the mother's non-consent to an abortion, the two documents form a powerful legal defense that empowers the teen mother to stand for her child.
These letters, along with a letter to clients can be downloaded from the above link.
14 Tips for Making Your Nonprofit Email More Effective
Recent statistical research performed by Dan Zarrella, (a social media researcher and author) has given valuable insight on what practices work in email marketing (and what don't) In this article, Dan reflects on the results of his research and also gives 14 tips on how to make your email blasts more effective.
"Jihad Cosmo"
True Woman | "Jihad Cosmo": Not content with launching an English-language magazine that debuted with a feature called 'How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your Mom,' Al-Qaeda's media wing has followed up with a magazine for women, mixing beauty tips with lessons in jihad. The 31-page glossy, Al-Shamikha, which translates loosely as 'The Majestic Woman,' features a niqab-clad woman posing with a sub-machine gun on its cover.
Sexual Responsibility Leads to Big Cut in HIV in Zimbabwe
The general ABC approach seems to be working in another African country in fighting AIDS–this time Zimbabwe. A=abstinence. B=Be Monogamous. C=If you can’t do A or B, use condoms. From the story:
HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe has declined remarkably in recent years, dropping from 26% to 14% between 1997 and 2009. In a recent edition of the journal PLoS Medicine, researchers explored the reasons for this decline and examined what lessons can be learned and replicated. . . . [T]he study pinpointed several key factors in Zimbabwe’s success. These include changes in sexual behaviour, personal experiences related to the high AIDS mortality in the country and correct information about HIV transmission. . . . The most significant cause of the decline was seen to be the reduction in multiple sexual partnerships, with a 30% fall in men reporting extra-marital relationships.
We saw the same results in Uganda–until it began to fade as the C option overrode the A and the B. Secondhand Smoke
Prayer request from 40 Days for Life
40 Days for Life is "seeing a huge impact this spring on the on abortion center employees. Stories across the board continue to pour in about the peaceful vigil’s impact on abortion center employees.
"In one case, someone who arrived to apply for a job … and did not realize that Planned Parenthood does abortions. In another case, abortion centers are cutting hours. . . .
"[K]eep one particular 40 Days for Life campaign in prayer. . . . [A] key employee at an [undisclosed] abortion center wants out. . . . If this employee leaves, then it’s quite possible that another key person may also quit. And if THAT happens — well, the volunteer says the center might not be able to keep operating with both of them gone."
"In one case, someone who arrived to apply for a job … and did not realize that Planned Parenthood does abortions. In another case, abortion centers are cutting hours. . . .
"[K]eep one particular 40 Days for Life campaign in prayer. . . . [A] key employee at an [undisclosed] abortion center wants out. . . . If this employee leaves, then it’s quite possible that another key person may also quit. And if THAT happens — well, the volunteer says the center might not be able to keep operating with both of them gone."
'Complete regulatory collapse': Why complaints about abortion doctor went nowhere
Cassandra Barger knew something was wrong almost immediately. Kermit Gosnell, the abortion doctor charged in January with eight counts of murder, had begun giving her anesthetic to end a pregnancy. Barger ripped the IV from her arm.
Racked by convulsions, she crashed from the exam table to the floor. She would stay there nearly an hour while Gosnell and his staff refused to call 911 or allow her companion to leave the locked clinic for help, according to a lawsuit her lawyer filed.
Barger, 34, a recovering drug addict, had warned Gosnell that she was on methadone when she went to his West Philadelphia clinic April 2, 2005, her filing said. She knew the drug could interact dangerously with certain sedatives. What she could not have known was that Gosnell had a long history of injuring his patients and had let his malpractice insurance lapse nearly a year earlier in violation of state law.
Lawyers at Pennsylvania's Department of State, charged with weeding out bad doctors, were told about the lapse and Barger's lawsuit - along with many others - but took no action. Barger's lawyer said he suspected that Gosnell had paid his client privately to walk away.
Barger's case provides a window into the state's system to discipline doctors, one that relies heavily on physician self-reporting and state investigators whose effectiveness has been questioned. It's a system that patient-safety advocates and a leading ethicist say is broken. Philly.com
Racked by convulsions, she crashed from the exam table to the floor. She would stay there nearly an hour while Gosnell and his staff refused to call 911 or allow her companion to leave the locked clinic for help, according to a lawsuit her lawyer filed.
Barger, 34, a recovering drug addict, had warned Gosnell that she was on methadone when she went to his West Philadelphia clinic April 2, 2005, her filing said. She knew the drug could interact dangerously with certain sedatives. What she could not have known was that Gosnell had a long history of injuring his patients and had let his malpractice insurance lapse nearly a year earlier in violation of state law.
Lawyers at Pennsylvania's Department of State, charged with weeding out bad doctors, were told about the lapse and Barger's lawsuit - along with many others - but took no action. Barger's lawyer said he suspected that Gosnell had paid his client privately to walk away.
Barger's case provides a window into the state's system to discipline doctors, one that relies heavily on physician self-reporting and state investigators whose effectiveness has been questioned. It's a system that patient-safety advocates and a leading ethicist say is broken. Philly.com
Pro-life stings
Pro-life sting: ALL Illinois Planned Parenthoods willing to hide under-age rape - Jill Stanek: Before Lila Rose was Mark Crutcher. In 2002 Crutcher’s organization, Life Dynamics, conducted a comprehensive sting of every Planned Parenthood and National Abortion Federation clinic in the U.S.
Placing phone calls from Texas, where it is legal for one party to tape conversations without another’s knowledge, an actress portraying a 13-yr-old who had been impregnated by her 22-yr-old “boyfriend” told clinics she needed an abortion to keep her parents from finding out they were sexually involved.
Placing phone calls from Texas, where it is legal for one party to tape conversations without another’s knowledge, an actress portraying a 13-yr-old who had been impregnated by her 22-yr-old “boyfriend” told clinics she needed an abortion to keep her parents from finding out they were sexually involved.
In all, the actress spoke with staff at 813 PP or NAF clinics in all 50 states. Adult sex with underage children is illegal in every state, and PP and NAF clinics are mandated reporters. Yet an appalling 91% of all clinics contacted expressed a willingness to help cover up the statutory rape.
Disciplinary Hearing of KS Abortionist Delayed Again
The formal disciplinary hearing for abortionist Ann Kristin Neuhaus has been delayed for the third time by the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts. Neuhaus is a former associate of George Tiller and provided the second physician referral for all of his late-term abortions for several years. Patients involved in the complaint range in age from 10-18 years old with gestational ages between 25 and 29 weeks. All eleven patients were referred to Tiller for post-viability abortions based on mental health concerns between July and November, 2003. In the current petition, based on a complaint filed by Operation Rescue, Neuhaus is accused of the following in each of the eleven counts against her:
• Failure to perform adequate patient interview
• Failure to obtain adequate patient history
• Failure to adequately evaluate the “behavioral or functional impact” of the patient’s condition and symptoms
• Failure to meet the standard of care to the degree of constituting ordinary negligence
• Failure to keep adequate medical records
• Failure to perform adequate patient interview
• Failure to obtain adequate patient history
• Failure to adequately evaluate the “behavioral or functional impact” of the patient’s condition and symptoms
• Failure to meet the standard of care to the degree of constituting ordinary negligence
• Failure to keep adequate medical records
Maternal Death Rate Lowest in Abortion-Free Ireland
Maternal Death Rate Lowest in Abortion Free Ireland: Where is the maternal death rate lowest? Ireland, where human abortion is a crime against humanity. The Ireland statistics are no surprise when considering that abortion is proven to cause all sorts of issues.
Egg cells send out chemical signals to entice sperm
BioNews - Egg cells send out chemical signals to entice sperm, suggests study: Progesterone released from an egg may help guide sperm towards it and assist sperm to penetrate the egg's protective layers, according two studies published in Nature. The discovery could potentially help in the development of non-hormonal contraceptives for men and women, while also explaining some cases of infertility.
Case Dropped Against Florida Woman in Abortion-Infanticide
Case Dropped Against Florida Woman in Abortion-Infanticide | LifeNews.com: The case against Florida abortion clinic owner Belkis Gonzalez has been dropped because witnesses have changed their story.
Sycloria Williams went to the GYN Diagnostic Center abortion facility outside Miami for an abortion. Laminaria was inserted and she went back the next day for the abortion but, instead, gave birth to a baby named Shanice. Abortion practitioner Pierre Renelique did not show up for a scheduled abortion, causing Shanice to be born alive. When that happened, Gonzalez allegedly stuffed the baby’s body in a biohazard bag and tossed the bag on the roof when local officials stopped by to investigate after they received a tip. The baby’s body had decomposed by the time authorities found it a week later.
Related: 'No common sense involved'
Pregnancy centers win again
Pregnancy centers win again | LifeSiteNews.com: States continue to move ahead with resolutions drafted by AUL honoring the work of pro-life pregnancy centers. Such resolutions have already been passed this year in Arizona, South Dakota and West Virginia. They are pending in several states including Alabama, Nebraska and Texas.
Breaking: Firebomb thrown at elderly pro-life activist
Breaking: Firebomb thrown at elderly pro-life activist at 40 Days vigil | LifeSiteNews.com: A homemade “bomb” akin to a Molotov cocktail was thrown at an elderly pro-life activist during a 40 Days for Life prayer vigil yesterday, March 17. The attack took place at around 6:15 p.m., near the All Family Health Care abortion center in Kalispell, Montana. The victim did not see the thrower, nor did she see the device before it exploded on the sidewalk behind her, making a loud popping noise as it burst into flame. The victim was unhurt.
How far would YOU go to choose the sex of your child?
One of the most popular destinations for the burgeoning gender selection tourism industry is the United States, where PGD is legal almost everywhere. And as this reporter found out, PGD is only too easy to arrange, without even the need for a medical referral. "After five minutes on Google, I had identified several clinics close to Los Angeles. One quick phone call later and I was booked in for a $150 consultation at the prestigious Tyler Medical Clinic, just a stone’s throw from the exclusive shopping area of Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills." Daily Mail
Planned Parenthood Lands Another Patient in Hospital
Planned Parenthood Lands Another Patient in Hospital :Operation Rescue: It was another eventful day at the Safe and Legal Abortion Center otherwise known as the Everett Planned Parenthood. Sadly, Mary Emanuel was there to witness the transport of what appeared to be a severely injured woman to a North Everett Hospital. "We are still investigating as to the severity of the botched abortion and only pray that it was not fatal or caused serious injuries."
Refuse to Choose Between Abortions & Starving Children
Refuse to Choose Between Abortions & Starving Children - Feminists for Life of America: What is worse? Having no food or having an abortion? That's the latest 'choice' we are supposed to make for poor women and their children.
During Hill debates and on many blogs, many on one side say 'no' to abortion and 'no' to helping poor women and their children. Many on the other say 'yes' to helping the poor and 'yes' to abortion--especially if poor women receive no help.
When Feminists for Life says we REFUSE TO CHOOSE between women and children, we mean it. Pitting women against children--forcing them to choose between a starving child and having an abortion--is a false choice.
During Hill debates and on many blogs, many on one side say 'no' to abortion and 'no' to helping poor women and their children. Many on the other say 'yes' to helping the poor and 'yes' to abortion--especially if poor women receive no help.
When Feminists for Life says we REFUSE TO CHOOSE between women and children, we mean it. Pitting women against children--forcing them to choose between a starving child and having an abortion--is a false choice.
Get to Know: Drug Watch
DrugWatch.com aims to educate the public about side effects and interactions associated with thousands of prescription and over-the counter medications, including those that may be used by women during pregnancy or to prevent pregnancy. Many medications used by women shortly before or after becoming pregnant have the potential to cause serious side effects and complications. Some birth control medications such as Yaz may cause permanent birth defects and potentially-fatal cardiovascular problems such as blood clots, heart attack and stroke, but many women are unaware of the potential risks of these medications.
Yaz Lawsuit Information
Yaz Lawsuit Information: Dangerous side effects associated with the use of Yaz and Yasmin have prompted patients to file more than 100 lawsuits in the United States against Bayer Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of the medications.
Those filing the lawsuits claim the oral contraceptives were marketed in a way that mislead consumers and downplayed dangers associated with the drug, specifically when prescribed to treat moderate acne.
If you were prescribed Yaz or Yasmin and have experienced a severe adverse reaction to the medication, you may wish to file a lawsuit to seek compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering. Please call 800-452-0949 to receive additional information about Yaz and Yasmin litigation.
Those filing the lawsuits claim the oral contraceptives were marketed in a way that mislead consumers and downplayed dangers associated with the drug, specifically when prescribed to treat moderate acne.
If you were prescribed Yaz or Yasmin and have experienced a severe adverse reaction to the medication, you may wish to file a lawsuit to seek compensation for medical expenses, pain and suffering. Please call 800-452-0949 to receive additional information about Yaz and Yasmin litigation.
Planned Parenthood to Close Ohio Facility North of Columbus
Planned Parenthood to Close Ohio Facility North of Columbus | LifeNews.com: The Galion Health Center at 401 Harding Way East has been open for decades but is closing. It was seeing fewer clients.
Pregnant woman charged with murder for eating rat poison that killed baby
Pregnant woman charged with murder for eating rat poison that killed baby | LifeSiteNews.com: Bei Bei Shuai, 34, stands accused of attempted feticide after consuming rat poison at 33 weeks pregnant on December 23. Shuai says she had tried to kill herself after her boyfriend left her. The suicide attempt failed after a friend rushed her to a hospital. Angel Shuai was born alive on New Year’s Eve, but was taken off life support on Jan 3. An autopsy determined that the child died from bleeding in the brain due to chemical poisoning.
Is Planned Parenthood costing us more than we realize?
Family Research Council: The connection between Planned Parenthood's so-called family planning and an increase in abortion is not the only manner in which the abortion giant is running up the taxpayer tab. A 2005 study from George Mason University suggests that as the nation's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood is costing taxpayer billions of dollars a year by fueling the sexually transmitted disease pandemic.
According to researchers Jonathan Klick and Thomas Stratmann, who examined over four decades of data related to STDs, there is a statistically verifiable link between legalized abortion and the rise in STDs. Klick and Stratmann make the argument that sexual behavior responds to economic incentives. In other words, as the laws and economies of scale, along with government subsidies made abortion more economically enticing, an increase in risky sexual behavior followed and with it STDs.
How much is this increase costing us? The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 19 million new STDs occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24. The estimated price tag is $15 billion dollars for healthcare costs alone!
According to researchers Jonathan Klick and Thomas Stratmann, who examined over four decades of data related to STDs, there is a statistically verifiable link between legalized abortion and the rise in STDs. Klick and Stratmann make the argument that sexual behavior responds to economic incentives. In other words, as the laws and economies of scale, along with government subsidies made abortion more economically enticing, an increase in risky sexual behavior followed and with it STDs.
How much is this increase costing us? The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 19 million new STDs occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24. The estimated price tag is $15 billion dollars for healthcare costs alone!
Pro-life Congresswomen celebrate Women's History Month
Congressional Record - 112th Congress (2011-2012) - THOMAS (Library of Congress) Several Congresswomen spoke on the record of where early feminists stood on abortion.
Guttmacher: 54% of Women Who Aborted in 2008 Were Using Contraception
FRC Blog » Guttmacher: 54% of Women Who Aborted in 2008 Were Using Contraception: Increasing access to contraception does not decrease the number of abortions. In fact, studies show quite the opposite. Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its allies are banging the “family planning decreases the abortion rate” drum on Capitol Hill these days. However the Guttmacher Institute, previously PPFA’s own research arm, reports that over half the number women who had an abortion in 2008 –54%– were using a form of contraception during the month they got pregnant.
Teen abortions exceed births
Teen abortions exceed births | Canada | News | Toronto Sun: Ontario teens are increasingly turning to abortion as a method of birth control, a new study has found. Women aged 15 to 19 registered more than 150 abortions for every 100 live births, the study says. That ratio drops significantly once women break into their twenties, so the average for all ages is approximately 37 abortions per 100 live births.
Abortion Statistics in Canada
Improving Abortion Statistics in Canada, and Elsewhere - By Michael J. New - The Corner - National Review Online: On Thursday, the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada released a report that raises very serious questions about the reliability of the official abortion statistics released by the Canadian Institute for Health Information. The Project for an Ontario Women’s Health Evidence-Based Report analyzed insurance-fee codes and found that over 51,000 abortions were performed in Ontario in 2007, a whopping 50 percent higher than the official statistics reported by the Canadian government.
The Global War Against Baby Girls
The Global War Against Baby Girls | First Things: If you were asked to name the technologies whose proliferation inadvertently threatens the human race, what would you include? Landmines? Assault rifles? Nuclear warheads?
Add this one to your list: the sonogram machine. The widespread use of sonogram technology—coupled with liberal abortion laws—has made it easier than ever for women to identify the sex of their child so that those without a Y chromosome can be killed before they’re even born.
How nuclear radiation could affect fetuses
Japan Tsunamis: How Nuclear Radiation Could Affect Fetuses - The Daily Beast: Those most affected by the nuclear crisis could be the next generation of Japanese. Alizah Salario on what radiation does to a fetus — and why cultural stigma could make things even worse.
Even at radiation levels too low to make a mother-to-be sick, health consequences for a fetus can be severe, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fetal exposure to radiation is particularly damaging during the stage of organogenesis (9-42 days), a period of gestation crucial to the development of the heart, lungs, and brain.
The crisis has opened old wounds in regards to Japan’s unique history of radiation exposure, reminding those old enough to recall World War II of the social stigma that plagued parents of afflicted babies. If we go back to the history of the atomic bombs, one of the things that happened was that parents typically would not apply for their bomb victims health booklets because they worried they’d be identified as hibakusha,” said Norma Field, a professor of Japanese culture and literature at the University of Chicago.
Even at radiation levels too low to make a mother-to-be sick, health consequences for a fetus can be severe, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fetal exposure to radiation is particularly damaging during the stage of organogenesis (9-42 days), a period of gestation crucial to the development of the heart, lungs, and brain.
The crisis has opened old wounds in regards to Japan’s unique history of radiation exposure, reminding those old enough to recall World War II of the social stigma that plagued parents of afflicted babies. If we go back to the history of the atomic bombs, one of the things that happened was that parents typically would not apply for their bomb victims health booklets because they worried they’d be identified as hibakusha,” said Norma Field, a professor of Japanese culture and literature at the University of Chicago.
Planned Parenthood Corrects Staffer Telling STD Man to Give Blood
Planned Parenthood Corrects Staffer Telling STD Man to Give Blood | LifeNews.com: During the video shoot Live Action conducted showing Planned Parenthood staffers helping alleged sexual traffickers get abortions and STD testing for the underage girls at the Roanoke, Virginia abortion facility, a staffer told the Live Action undercover agent to attempt to donate blood because he can get free testing.
After filing a complaint about Planned Parenthood in Roanoke with the Roanoke City Health Department, the health department told Live Action last week: “[Planned Parenthood] certainly appreciated being notified of that … and they said they had already been made aware of that and have instructed the staff member, and a corrective plan is in place with training. So they seem to be pretty on top of that issue.”
After filing a complaint about Planned Parenthood in Roanoke with the Roanoke City Health Department, the health department told Live Action last week: “[Planned Parenthood] certainly appreciated being notified of that … and they said they had already been made aware of that and have instructed the staff member, and a corrective plan is in place with training. So they seem to be pretty on top of that issue.”
Cops: Elderly Guilford woman threatens politician over Planned Parenthood funding
Cops: Elderly Guilford woman threatens to castrate politician over Planned Parenthood funding- The New Haven Register - Serving New Haven, Connecticut: Authorities went to the woman’s home after receiving a report that she called a politician Tuesday to threaten harm because the politician wants to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. Police say the woman, who is in her 80s, was “very upset” about the possible funding cut because she used to volunteer with the organization. The FBI determined the threat “wasn’t credible” and that the woman was not going to act on it.
Dear Congress: Defund Planned Parenthood
This award winning video tells Congress how PP killed this woman's siblings.
More than you ever wanted to know about Planned Parenthood's sex ed curriculum
It's All One Curriculum | International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region
Editor: It's all here, apparently. You can download two entire books, their guidelines and activities. Haven't looked it all over yet because it's a lot of pages.
Bloomberg Signs Bill Hurting NYC Pregnancy Centers
New York Mayor Bloomberg Signs Bill Hurting Pregnancy Centers | LifeNews.com: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed a bill today that adversely affects pregnancy centers that the city council approved and that is expected to quickly become the subject of a lawsuit.
Judge Strikes Most of Maryland Law Attacking Pregnancy Centers
Judge Strikes Most of Maryland Law Attacking Pregnancy Centers | LifeNews.com: A federal judge struck down most of a law Montgomery County, Maryland officials passed that targets pregnancy centers and requires them to post signs that may turn potential clients away. The decision follows on the heels of another one where a another federal judge struck down a Baltimore law.
The court issued an order preventing the county from enforcing the requirement that pregnancy centers must post signage noting that the county believes women should seek assistance elsewhere. The court will also consider additional arguments before ruling on a part of the law that requires the centers to post that a medical professional is not on staff. The county intentionally crafted the law so that it doesn’t apply to abortion centers, such as Planned Parenthood.
The court issued an order preventing the county from enforcing the requirement that pregnancy centers must post signage noting that the county believes women should seek assistance elsewhere. The court will also consider additional arguments before ruling on a part of the law that requires the centers to post that a medical professional is not on staff. The county intentionally crafted the law so that it doesn’t apply to abortion centers, such as Planned Parenthood.
‘I wept for hours’ over abortion done to please boyfriend
Big Brother winner: ‘I wept for hours’ over abortion done to please boyfriend | LifeSiteNews.com: A former winner on Britain’s version of the reality show Big Brother opened up about her abortion experience six years ago, revealing how she was shattered after her boyfriend pressured her to abort her baby at 3 months gestation. She warned others to “not have an abortion for any man.”
Ambulance Races To Northern Illinois Women’s Center
Ambulance Races To Northern Illinois Women’s Center (NIWC) | Pro-Life Corner: On Friday March 11, 2011 an ambulance came speeding into the Northern Illinois Woman's Center with lights and sirens blaring. Shortly thereafter a woman was hurried out of the abortion mill by the ambulance crew and two abortion mill workers. As far as is known, this abortion mill has not been inspected going on to 15 years.
Pearl S. Buck: Pro-life feminist
Today few people may recognize Pearl S. Buck as both a mother of eight and an independent public figure and leader among women, as a pro-life feminist. "Press steadily for human equality, not only for yourselves, but for all those groups who are not given equality,” she told Howard University students in her 1942 commencement address. Buck's tireless efforts as a champion for people in need extended to both women and their unborn children. Feminists for Life
Only One Planned Parenthood in Trafficking Videos Contacted Police
Only One Planned Parenthood in Trafficking Videos Contacted Police | LifeNews.com: Live Action officials indicate just two of the seven Planned Parenthood abortion centers featured in their videos told media they contacted law enforcement authorities as required by law in each of the states and the District of Columbia where the videos were filmed.
“Out of seven clinic videos released, in only two cases (Roanoke and Charlottesville) has Planned Parenthood publicly said what local law enforcement they contacted,” he added. In the case of Charlottesville, Planned Parenthood claimed it contacted the local Albemarle police but a police official reported to the media that he have no record of a child sex abuse report coming from Planned Parenthood.
“Out of seven clinic videos released, in only two cases (Roanoke and Charlottesville) has Planned Parenthood publicly said what local law enforcement they contacted,” he added. In the case of Charlottesville, Planned Parenthood claimed it contacted the local Albemarle police but a police official reported to the media that he have no record of a child sex abuse report coming from Planned Parenthood.
El Trauma Post-Aborto
Family Research Council: The growing weight of scientific studies and the voices of women themselves tell the story of abortion as a life-changing, adverse experience for many. Relying on Dr. Martha Shuping's experience as a psychiatrist, we can describe the psychological impact of abortion through the lens of her clinical counseling and the emerging scientific literature. In Spanish.
Encouragement from Colleen Tronson
The director of the Metro Women's Center in Crystal, MN, writes: "Since before Thanksgiving when my father-in-law passed away, things have seemed a bit 'off.' There have been clear moments, and then CRASH! Everything seems to happen at once: my car went haywire, my parents were ill, my dear friend Diane's mother passed away, one of our volunteers is in hospice care, another on dialysis for kidney trouble. Another volunteer had her knee replaced, so we miss her smiley face around the office. Abortion foes are plentiful, and some clients decided to 'fall (leap) off the spiritual wagon' by making some not-so-wise choices."
How often have you had a week like this? Colleen goes on:
"But in the midst of it all the LORD has been holding us up. I have been thinking 'Where can we go to get all of our needs met, if not to the LORD?'
"My dear husband shared this passage of scripture with me that seemed to be just the ticket! Psalm 27:11-14: 'Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.'
"I often have a hard time remembering the address of Bible passages, but this one I will remember because I am linking it to a 7-Eleven store--you know, the place where you can get just about anything you need! Just like with the Lord, who gives us everything we need! We don't have to faint because we know the goodness of the LORD and can go to Him at any time for help in times of trial!
"Well, so as not to leave you thinking that all is tragic, here is some great news! This week two women prayed with us to receive the LORD as personal Savior! Chisago Lakes Baptist Church did a diaper drive, providing 29 more bags of diapers! . . . A long-time client has been making beautiful progress and plans to be baptized, and during this season, two babies lives were spared from abortion."
How often have you had a week like this? Colleen goes on:"But in the midst of it all the LORD has been holding us up. I have been thinking 'Where can we go to get all of our needs met, if not to the LORD?'
"My dear husband shared this passage of scripture with me that seemed to be just the ticket! Psalm 27:11-14: 'Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of my enemies. Deliver me not over unto the will of my enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait on the LORD be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.'
"I often have a hard time remembering the address of Bible passages, but this one I will remember because I am linking it to a 7-Eleven store--you know, the place where you can get just about anything you need! Just like with the Lord, who gives us everything we need! We don't have to faint because we know the goodness of the LORD and can go to Him at any time for help in times of trial!
"Well, so as not to leave you thinking that all is tragic, here is some great news! This week two women prayed with us to receive the LORD as personal Savior! Chisago Lakes Baptist Church did a diaper drive, providing 29 more bags of diapers! . . . A long-time client has been making beautiful progress and plans to be baptized, and during this season, two babies lives were spared from abortion."
Women Dying In Secret? KS Attorney General Asked to Investigate
Video Shows Abortion Activists at Their Most Extreme
A new video by CatholicVote.org exposes some of the extremist views of the most hardcore abortion advocates. The video shows pro-abortion activists at a rally supporting abortion until birth and forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions.
The footage features activists promising to have an abortion if pregnant and gloating about past abortions. Two women brag that they are medical students who will do abortions after graduation. Another activist says, “I want Planned Parenthood to be like Starbucks, I want a Planned Parenthood on every corner.”
Internet, social media can transform pro-life ministry
The Internet can transform an organization or cause by making it look more powerful than it really is or weaker, depending on its online presence. A single YouTube video posted by an unknown person can launch an entire organization or movement.
Today, over 60% of young people get their news online. The majority of young people spend more than 7 hours per day connected to online media via their phone, ipod, or computer, often multi-tasking on sites such as Hulu, YouTube, and Facebook.
People of all generations turn to Google for answers, even for the most difficult questions. I’ve seen hearts and minds change on abortion because of these simple searches, when a student searches the words “unborn baby” and sees a 3D ultrasound a proud parent posted on YouTube or when a scared young girl finds a pro-life pregnancy help center when searching the word “abortion.” LifeNews
Today, over 60% of young people get their news online. The majority of young people spend more than 7 hours per day connected to online media via their phone, ipod, or computer, often multi-tasking on sites such as Hulu, YouTube, and Facebook.
People of all generations turn to Google for answers, even for the most difficult questions. I’ve seen hearts and minds change on abortion because of these simple searches, when a student searches the words “unborn baby” and sees a 3D ultrasound a proud parent posted on YouTube or when a scared young girl finds a pro-life pregnancy help center when searching the word “abortion.” LifeNews
92% of French women consider abortion a traumatic event
A recent survey done by OpinionWay on abortion and contraception mentalities in French women found that 92 percent consider abortion a traumatic event, and 83 percent say abortion is physically painful. According to the survey, one in two women in France also said they had been misinformed about abortion or contraception methods. At the same time, 82 percent of the respondents said they believe that legalizing abortion liberated women, especially from fear of unwanted pregnancy. LifeSiteNews
Planned Parenthood: A culture of sexploitation
Under our legal system, no child can consent to engage in prostitution. Similarly, no children who are trapped in a situation of commercial sexual exploitation can give informed consent to undergo an abortion or receive a regime of contraception because of the trauma and manipulation to which they are subjected routinely and constantly. Yet the health care providers in these videos appear all too eager to sign up juvenile victims for both abortions and contraceptives.
To subject a juvenile victim of commercial sexual exploitation to either an abortion or contraception has only one purpose: to sustain her exploitation, and only one beneficiary: the trafficker/pimp. This is why the Live Action videos are so revealing and so shocking. They show health care professionals, employed by a national organization receiving taxpayer funds, who not only do not fulfill their obligation to report to authorities these potential cases of child abuse, but actually are willing to facilitate that abuse.
Editor: The author is president of the Renewal Forum, a nonprofit group combating U.S. human trafficking, and former head of the Human Trafficking Program at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
To subject a juvenile victim of commercial sexual exploitation to either an abortion or contraception has only one purpose: to sustain her exploitation, and only one beneficiary: the trafficker/pimp. This is why the Live Action videos are so revealing and so shocking. They show health care professionals, employed by a national organization receiving taxpayer funds, who not only do not fulfill their obligation to report to authorities these potential cases of child abuse, but actually are willing to facilitate that abuse.
Editor: The author is president of the Renewal Forum, a nonprofit group combating U.S. human trafficking, and former head of the Human Trafficking Program at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Planned Parenthood Reports Abortion Rate Up By More Than 8,000 in One Year
Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Web site shows that it performed 332,278 abortions in 2009, up 8,270 from 2008. According to a fact sheet published in February 2011, Planned Parenthood clinics in 2009 performed 332,278 abortions – up from 324,008 in 2008, or a 2.5 percent increase. According to Planned Parenthood’s fact sheet, one number did go down in 2009. The number of abortions for 2008 numbered 2,405, with only 977 adoption referrals made in 2009. CNS
Editor: Do the math. PP's abortion to adoption referral ratio comes to 340 to 1.
Newborns remember music heard in the womb
Scientists at Paris Descartes University have found that one-month-old babies remember music that was played to them in the third trimester of their mothers’ pregnancies. LifeSiteNews
Why Prior Abortions Raise Autism Risk
In 1999, Professor Larry Burd & colleagues reported that women with prior induced abortions had a three times higher risk of delivering a newborn later diagnosed with autism.1 In the 1960s, the U.S. autism rate for newborns was approximately 1 in 10,000, but the rate skyrocketed to 1 in 110 in 2009 according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Is it biologically plausible that prior maternal induced abortions elevate a newborn baby’s autism risk? In a word, yes. This is because of two mechanisms — preterm birth (very preterm and extremely preterm) and raised paternal age at delivery. Six significant studies report that prior induced abortions boost extremely preterm birth risk (under 28 weeks’ gestation). Elliot Institute
The truth about "back alley" abortions
With the arrest of Dr. Kermit Gossnell and his associates for running an abortion “house of horrors” in Philadelphia, and legislative proposals to strip Planned Parenthood of government funding at the state and federal levels, abortion advocates are falling back on the claim that any effort to regulate the abortion industry will lead to the closing of clinics and a rise in dangerous “back alley” abortions. But these claims are based on myths. The truth is that legal abortion has increased, rather than prevented, the pain, suffering and exploitation of women. Elliot Institute
Kansas Practitioner Admits Five Abortion Deaths in Five Years
Overland Park, Kansas abortionist Herbert Hodes traveled to Topeka Wednesday to testify against the abortion clinic licensing bill, but while doing so, revealed something neither the committee nor the public has ever heard–that there have been 5 maternal abortion deaths in Kansas over the past 5 years. LifeNews
Pharmacist Convicted for Forcing Girlfriend to Have Abortion
Orbin Eeli Tercero was charged with criminal homicide of an unborn child, first-degree murder of an unborn child, aggravated assault of an unborn child, aggravated assault, hindering apprehension or prosecution, and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence. he was arrested last April by state police after reportedly having a two-year long fling with a 36-year-old pharmacist who worked at the same pharmacy despite his engagement to another woman. LifeNews
Tribute to Joe Scheidler
Tribute to Father of Pro-Life Activism: Joe Scheidler - Christian Newswire: Joe Scheidler is known as the father of pro-life activism who, beginning in the early 1970s, infused the pro-life movement with a bold, creative, no-nonsense approach to ending the injustice of abortion. His leadership style defined the meaning of pro-life direct action.
Scheidler has inspired generations of pro-life activists, and paved the way for opponents of abortion to be bold about their fight for life. He has spoken around the country and the world, authored the book Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, and produced videos featuring former abortionists who are now telling the truth about what goes on in abortion clinics.
Scheidler has inspired generations of pro-life activists, and paved the way for opponents of abortion to be bold about their fight for life. He has spoken around the country and the world, authored the book Closed: 99 Ways to Stop Abortion, and produced videos featuring former abortionists who are now telling the truth about what goes on in abortion clinics.
Post-Gosnell Inspections Close Two Problematic Abortion Centers
Post-Gosnell Inspections Close Two Problematic Abortion Centers | LifeNews.com: Soleiman Soli runs two abortion businesses known as Abortion as an Alternative Inc in Bensalem and the Germantown section of Philadelphia that were recently the subject of scathing reports from state health inspectors. The Associated Press indicates Department of Health officials said Soli responded to the problems by retiring.
Editor: Did you catch the name of the clinics -- Abortion as an Alternative?
Owner of Beach abortion clinic had license suspended in N.J.
Owner of Beach abortion clinic had license suspended in N.J. | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com: Dr. Steven C. Brigham had his medical license suspended last fall by the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners after authorities discovered he had begun at least five late-term abortions in New Jersey and then transported the patients to his clinic in Maryland, where state law allows second-trimester abortions outside a hospital, according to news reports.
Brigham is listed as the president and secretary of two companies on the second floor of 224 Groveland Road, according to the Virginia Beach Commissioner of the Revenue's office. That also is the address of a clinic called Virginia Women's Wellness.
Brigham is not licensed to practice medicine in Virginia. He has no day-to-day involvement with the local facility, said Dr. David R. Peters, who serves as the medical director for the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood and worked for 13 years at Virginia Women's Wellness. He said the clinic is safe and well-run. 'If my sister had need of an abortion, if I could not do it, I would not hesitate to send her to Virginia Women's Wellness,' Peters said.
Brigham is listed as the president and secretary of two companies on the second floor of 224 Groveland Road, according to the Virginia Beach Commissioner of the Revenue's office. That also is the address of a clinic called Virginia Women's Wellness.
Brigham is not licensed to practice medicine in Virginia. He has no day-to-day involvement with the local facility, said Dr. David R. Peters, who serves as the medical director for the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood and worked for 13 years at Virginia Women's Wellness. He said the clinic is safe and well-run. 'If my sister had need of an abortion, if I could not do it, I would not hesitate to send her to Virginia Women's Wellness,' Peters said.
New Abortionist with Old Problems Takes Over California “Shop of Horrors”
New Abortionist with Old Problems Takes Over California “Shop of Horrors” :Operation Rescue: A troubled abortion clinic near the U.S./Mexico border in Chula Vista, California, has opened and closed numerous times as one by one each abortionist who worked there lost medical licenses or was incarcerated for criminal activity and other abortion abuses. Now, it has reopened again with yet another disgraced abortionist, W. Constantine Mitchell at the helm.
This clinic’s history is among the worst in the nation and Mitchell only adds to that sordid legacy. One reporter described the clinic as a “shop of horrors.”
This clinic’s history is among the worst in the nation and Mitchell only adds to that sordid legacy. One reporter described the clinic as a “shop of horrors.”
Price of drug to prevent preemies jumps after FDA approval
Price of drug to prevent preemies jumps from $20 to $1,500 after FDA approval - latimes.com: Since 2003, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has recommended that doctors offer the progesterone shots to high-risk women. But because there has not been a commercial product available, women have obtained the drug from so-called compounding pharmacies, which make it to order. The pharmacies have typically charged about $10 to $20 per shot for the drug, which is given weekly.
Last month, however, the FDA approved a commercial form of the drug, called Makena, manufactured by K-V Pharmaceutical Co. of St. Louis. The company said Wednesday that the drug will be available for shipping March 14 and that it will cost $1,500 per dose. The company said, however, that it would establish a 'comprehensive patient assistance program' to ensure that the drug was available to every woman who needs it.
Last month, however, the FDA approved a commercial form of the drug, called Makena, manufactured by K-V Pharmaceutical Co. of St. Louis. The company said Wednesday that the drug will be available for shipping March 14 and that it will cost $1,500 per dose. The company said, however, that it would establish a 'comprehensive patient assistance program' to ensure that the drug was available to every woman who needs it.
Students for Life of Michigan Activism & Training Weekend
Students for Life of Michigan Activism & Training Weekend - Eventbrite: College students from across the state come together to engage in a weekend of pro-life activism and leadership training. This event is unique because students have the opportunity to share ideas and connect with other Students for Life clubs all while promoting life on Grand Valley's campus.
In the training portion of the weekend, students will learn skills such as recruitment, event planning, and fundraising. The focus of the this year's training is to help Students for Life clubs transition leadership and plan for a successful fall semester. Come and make a difference for life in the Grand Valley community and get to know other students who share your passion for life.
In the training portion of the weekend, students will learn skills such as recruitment, event planning, and fundraising. The focus of the this year's training is to help Students for Life clubs transition leadership and plan for a successful fall semester. Come and make a difference for life in the Grand Valley community and get to know other students who share your passion for life.
Pregnant with cancer, healing for two
Pregnant with cancer, healing for two - TODAY Health - TODAYshow.com: How do you treat cancer to save the mother — and still protect the unborn baby? It’s a growing problem that now affects as many as 1 in every 1,000 pregnant women, with about 3,500 diagnosed in the United States each year. As more women delay childbirth until they’re older, the incidence of cancer during pregnancy, particularly breast cancer, is going up.
As the number of the cases grows, however, so do the options for treatment. Instead of terminating pregnancy, once almost universally recommended, or waiting to treat the disease until after childbirth, perhaps allowing the cancer to grow, more women are urged to battle the cancer head-on.
Research shows that certain chemotherapy drugs, such as Lisa's treatments of Cytoxan and Ardriamycin, are safe during pregnancy because the drug molecules are too large to pass through the placenta. Unlike other toxins, they're prevented from reaching the baby. Growing research suggests that women treated for cancer while pregnant may do no worse than non-pregnant women, and perhaps even better.
As the number of the cases grows, however, so do the options for treatment. Instead of terminating pregnancy, once almost universally recommended, or waiting to treat the disease until after childbirth, perhaps allowing the cancer to grow, more women are urged to battle the cancer head-on.
Research shows that certain chemotherapy drugs, such as Lisa's treatments of Cytoxan and Ardriamycin, are safe during pregnancy because the drug molecules are too large to pass through the placenta. Unlike other toxins, they're prevented from reaching the baby. Growing research suggests that women treated for cancer while pregnant may do no worse than non-pregnant women, and perhaps even better.
Planned Parenthood Under the Microscope: In Defense of Kirsten Powers
Last week a Daily Beast article by Kirsten Powers generated some excitement in pro-life circles. The article entitled “Busting the Birth Control Myth” makes the case that Planned Parenthood does not deserve funding from the federal government. . . .
However, on Tuesday, Powers issued a retraction. She states that she made a “serious error in reporting this column that undermines the conclusion I drew.” She goes on to say that her argument is “not supported by the data” and that it “invalidates my piece.” . . .
Powers did make a mistake which she was right to both publicly admit and correct. However, this mistake, by itself, does not invalidate her argument. Even though her comments about trends in contraception use were based on erroneous data, she highlighted other research which seriously questions the ability of contraception funding to lower abortion rates. In fact, a look at the existing research on contraception use and abortion rates indicates that Powers’s argument was stronger than she probably realizes. National Review, Jill Stanek
However, on Tuesday, Powers issued a retraction. She states that she made a “serious error in reporting this column that undermines the conclusion I drew.” She goes on to say that her argument is “not supported by the data” and that it “invalidates my piece.” . . .
Powers did make a mistake which she was right to both publicly admit and correct. However, this mistake, by itself, does not invalidate her argument. Even though her comments about trends in contraception use were based on erroneous data, she highlighted other research which seriously questions the ability of contraception funding to lower abortion rates. In fact, a look at the existing research on contraception use and abortion rates indicates that Powers’s argument was stronger than she probably realizes. National Review, Jill Stanek
International Women's Day Prompts Appeal on China, Abortion
International Women's Day Prompts Appeal on China, Abortion | LifeNews.com: Congressman Chris Smith and human rights activists addressed China’s brutal women’s rights record at a Monday press conference marking the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day. Speakers, including an ex-political prisoner and a Tiananmen Square massacre survivor, appealed to the United Nations to end its complicity in coercive population control and defend women against violence of the one-child policy.
Care Net Celebrates Victory for Women in Washington State
Care Net Celebrates Victory for Women in Washington State; Anti-Pregnancy Center Bill Defeated - Christian Newswire: Care Net celebrated the defeat Monday of a Washington state bill that threatened to shut down 56 pregnancy centers in that state. The bill, HB 1366, was prompted by abortion advocacy groups that have launched a nationwide campaign against pregnancy centers that help women choose alternatives to abortion. The bill expired when it was not brought up for a vote Monday in the full State House of Representatives.
SFLA, Live Action, & Expose Planned Parenthood Coalition Launch Unprecedented Social Media Campaign
Last night, Students for Life along with the members of the Expose Planned Parenthood Coalition launched a massive grassroots social media campaign on a critical webcast to federally de-fund Planned Parenthood. By launching a grassroots campaign on the coalition website and using the newest pro-life grassroots mobilizer, AbolishAbortion.com, the Coalition will be engaging pro-lifers of all ages to organize, unite, and activate online.
Listen to the full webcast here.
Abolishabortion.com will allow users to register on the site and link their Facebook and Twitter accounts with the “Status 365″ feature. This feature will automatically change the user’s Facebook or Twitter status message once per day with a fact about why America should de-fund Planned Parenthood.
Church Project to Include Pivotal New Resource
Church Project to Include Pivotal New Resource | Church Awareness Project: The Church Awareness Project to be officially launched today features a letter to pastors encouraging them and others to speak out about pre-abortion and post-abortion issues. Participants will also receive planning, publicity and help/healing kits with a unique focus that stems from important evidence-based research.
Effective Financial Oversight Strategies for Ministry Leaders Forum - March 17, 2011
Effective Financial Oversight Strategies for Ministry Leaders Forum - March 17, 2011: From risk management to financial reporting, ministry leaders must apply effective strategies to ensure that their ministries are operated with God-honoring excellence in matters of financial stewardship. This Forum will emphasize an organization-wide approach to risk management, effective internal control strategies, effective internal financial reporting and budgeting as a strategy to improve financial position.
Ontario: Teen abortions exceed births
Teen abortions exceed births | Canada | News | Toronto Sun: Ontario teens are increasingly turning to abortion as a method of birth control, a new study has found. Women aged 15 to 19 registered more than 150 abortions for every 100 live births, the study says. That ratio drops significantly once women break into their twenties, so the average for all ages is approximately 37 abortions per 100 live births.
Competing bus tours
The Women Speak Out bus tour made its first stops today in Iowa in an effort to raise grassroots support for encouraging the Senate to follow the House’s lead in revoking taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The Susan B. Anthony List-sponsored 13-district bus tour is led by former Colorado Rep. Marilyn Musgrave and Live Action President Lila Rose.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood quickly got on the road with its own bus tour.
Maryland Cmte Hears About Woman's Death From Legal Abortion
Maryland Cmte Hears About Woman's Death From Legal Abortion | LifeNews.com: Last week, the Maryland Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on Senate Bill 505 — a bill to ensure abortion facilities are held to the same health and safety standards required of legitimate surgical facilities. Panelists heard about the death of a young woman from a botched abortion and how abortion clinics in the state are not properly regulated by the state health department to protect women.
The cost of funding Planned Parenthood
Expose Planned Parenthood One baby every 96 seconds. $11 every second. The cost is too high.
Just say no to feminists' boot camp
Just say no to feminists' boot camp: Over the next six weeks, millions of Americans will unwittingly shell out some $700 million to buy Girl Scout cookies. The money from these cookie sales will be used to turn young girls into militant, anti-God, men-hating citizens of a greater global universe, where everything is situational, free love is practiced and abortion is a basic human right.
Most of these girls come from conservative, God-fearing households whose parents are unaware (or in denial) that the organization has morphed into the feminists' boot camp of choice.
Examine the organizations the Girl Scouts are promoting: CARE, a leading lobbyist for abortion-on-demand worldwide, the population control organization UNICEF, MTV, the Women's Media Center founded by Steinem and Jane Fonda, and Media Matters, which is funded by George Soros and run by a cadre of left-wing progressive socialists.
Most of these girls come from conservative, God-fearing households whose parents are unaware (or in denial) that the organization has morphed into the feminists' boot camp of choice.
Examine the organizations the Girl Scouts are promoting: CARE, a leading lobbyist for abortion-on-demand worldwide, the population control organization UNICEF, MTV, the Women's Media Center founded by Steinem and Jane Fonda, and Media Matters, which is funded by George Soros and run by a cadre of left-wing progressive socialists.
Planned Parenthood's Birth-Control Myth
Planned Parenthood's Birth-Control Myth - The Daily Beast: Planned Parenthood claims women get more abortions if they don’t have access to contraception—though research suggests otherwise. . . .
Planned Parenthood continues to claim that without its contraception services the abortion rate will go up. This deception smacks of a fleecing of taxpayers in an effort to promote an ideological agenda, rather than a sincere effort to help women plan families.
What is that ideology, exactly? To find out, you have to dig through Planned Parenthood’s tax forms because the group certainly isn’t going to tell you. According to its most recent tax filing, the purpose of Planned Parenthood Federation of America is to provide leadership in “[a]chieving, through informed individual choice, a U.S. population of stable size in an optimum environment; in stimulating and sponsoring relevant biomedical, socio-economic, and demographic research.”
So it is, in reality, a population-control organization. Funny, this was never mentioned in the gauzy $200,000 advertising campaign launched last week. It also doesn’t make it into the “About Us” section of the group’s website, which repeatedly claims its mission is to protect women’s health, when in fact the real mission is to keep the birth rate at whatever level the leaders believe it should be.
Author's Note: Kirsten Powers writes, "I made a serious error in reporting this column that undermines the conclusion I drew. I compared statistics on contraceptive use from a January 2011 Guttmacher Institute fact sheet to a year 2000 study on the same issue. However, I did not realize that the 2011 fact sheet derived its statistics from the year 2000 numbers, so my argument was not supported by the data. I should also note that I sent my conclusions and the relevant numbers to a Planned Parenthood spokesman before the piece posted, but he did not correct the factual issue at the time. I am deeply sorry for the error, which invalidates my piece."
Editor's note: Kirsten, I'm confused. I appreciate your commitment to veracity, but what part of the article is now invalid? If I were you, I wouldn't go so far as to say all of it is. You still have the statistics from Spain.You still have their own documentation as to the reasons women abort. You still have the statement from Planned Parenthood's 990. You still have their admission about mammograms. It's still right and proper for you to raise questions about their funding.
Planned Parenthood continues to claim that without its contraception services the abortion rate will go up. This deception smacks of a fleecing of taxpayers in an effort to promote an ideological agenda, rather than a sincere effort to help women plan families.
What is that ideology, exactly? To find out, you have to dig through Planned Parenthood’s tax forms because the group certainly isn’t going to tell you. According to its most recent tax filing, the purpose of Planned Parenthood Federation of America is to provide leadership in “[a]chieving, through informed individual choice, a U.S. population of stable size in an optimum environment; in stimulating and sponsoring relevant biomedical, socio-economic, and demographic research.”
So it is, in reality, a population-control organization. Funny, this was never mentioned in the gauzy $200,000 advertising campaign launched last week. It also doesn’t make it into the “About Us” section of the group’s website, which repeatedly claims its mission is to protect women’s health, when in fact the real mission is to keep the birth rate at whatever level the leaders believe it should be.
Author's Note: Kirsten Powers writes, "I made a serious error in reporting this column that undermines the conclusion I drew. I compared statistics on contraceptive use from a January 2011 Guttmacher Institute fact sheet to a year 2000 study on the same issue. However, I did not realize that the 2011 fact sheet derived its statistics from the year 2000 numbers, so my argument was not supported by the data. I should also note that I sent my conclusions and the relevant numbers to a Planned Parenthood spokesman before the piece posted, but he did not correct the factual issue at the time. I am deeply sorry for the error, which invalidates my piece."
Editor's note: Kirsten, I'm confused. I appreciate your commitment to veracity, but what part of the article is now invalid? If I were you, I wouldn't go so far as to say all of it is. You still have the statistics from Spain.You still have their own documentation as to the reasons women abort. You still have the statement from Planned Parenthood's 990. You still have their admission about mammograms. It's still right and proper for you to raise questions about their funding.
What Is the Water of Life?
What Is the Water of Life? - Answers in Genesis: Picture a desert in your mind—a dry, barren wasteland with rolling sand dunes and nothing green for miles other than an occasional cactus. That kind of desert is pictured in Isaiah 44:3. However, the focus of this passage is not on a physically dry land but rather on a spiritually dry land—the lifeless ground of people’s sin-hardened hearts.
Executive training reading list
Through the Optimization Training Program, PRC executives and core staff are guided through a very intentional leadership development process that includes one-on-one coaching, implementation plans for using innovative management tools, and an extensive reading list. Executives who participate in CompassCare's Executive Training read the 14 books (listed here) over a period of six months. These books have been written by a variety of business and leadership experts across a wide spectrum of industries, allowing executives to gain insight into leadership from perspectives outside the PRC movement.
Abortion deaths up Philly homicide stats
Abortion deaths up Philly homicide stats - UPI.com: The seven newborn babies allegedly killed by a Philadelphia abortion doctor and his staff will swell this year's homicide statistics, police said.
Lt. Ray Evers said all seven will be classified as black and male. He said the race and gender of only one, a black male, is known, but the FBI statistical system requires homicide victims be classified by race and gender, and most of Dr. Kermit Gosnell's patients were black. 'Males as a gender was picked, because we just picked males,' Evers said.
Lt. Ray Evers said all seven will be classified as black and male. He said the race and gender of only one, a black male, is known, but the FBI statistical system requires homicide victims be classified by race and gender, and most of Dr. Kermit Gosnell's patients were black. 'Males as a gender was picked, because we just picked males,' Evers said.
Contraceptive pills deplete women’s bodies of essential vitamins, antioxidants
Study: Contraceptive pills deplete women’s bodies of essential vitamins, antioxidants | LifeSiteNews.com: A study carried out by the Obstetrics and Gynecology Dept. of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital has found that women who use hormonal contraceptives have significantly lower levels of essential vitamins and antioxidants compared to women who do not use the drugs.
Young adult sex on the decrease
Young adult sex on the decrease: study says | LifeSiteNews.com: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released a study this week showing that more teens and young adults are choosing not to have sex and that numbers choosing abstinence have increased since 2002.
Arrested ‘pro-choice terrorist’ a survivor of abortion
Arrested ‘pro-choice terrorist’ a survivor of feminist mom’s four abortions | LifeSiteNews.com: Theodore Shulman, a self-described “pro-choice terrorist” who was arrested last week by federal agents in a possible connection to death threats against pro-life leaders, has four siblings that were aborted by his mother, a feminist authoress and political activist.
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