Planned Parenthood Faces Complaints Over Incompetent Abortion Services :Operation Rescue: Operation Rescue has joined with CEC for Life and Alabama Physicians for Life in filing a complaint with the Alabama Department of Public Health against Planned Parenthood of Birmingham after a civil law suit revealed multiple violations at the clinic during a botched abortion that left a woman infertile.
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Planned Parenthood Forced to Settle Suit, Failed to Report Child Rape
Planned Parenthood Forced to Settle Suit, Failed to Report Child Rape | LifeNews.com: The Life Legal Defense Foundation, a pro-life legal group, supported Denise Fairbanks, who had been sexually abused by her father from the time she was 13. When she became pregnant at age 16, her father took her to Planned Parenthood for an abortion. Although she informed the abortion clinic staff that she was being forced to have sex, they chose not to comply with mandatory reporting procedures
The Planned Parenthood staff did not inform local law enforcement, nor did they make any further inquiries into Fairbanks’ paternal abuse. After the abortion, Fairbanks was returned to the same abusive situation, where she remained for another year-and-a-half. More than a year later, her father was apprehended through a report filed by Denise’s basketball coach, and sent to jail.
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The Planned Parenthood staff did not inform local law enforcement, nor did they make any further inquiries into Fairbanks’ paternal abuse. After the abortion, Fairbanks was returned to the same abusive situation, where she remained for another year-and-a-half. More than a year later, her father was apprehended through a report filed by Denise’s basketball coach, and sent to jail.
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The Biology of Prenatal Development: Must Viewing
The Biology of Prenatal Development: Must Viewing | NRL News Today: "The Biology of Prenatal Development is so beautiful, so awesome, it almost takes your breath away. . . . Not because it takes a stand against abortion. If it did, its science would be unfairly questioned. Instead The Biology of Prenatal Development just tells it the way it is, a story that not so long ago was impossible to convey. We all know technology can cut both ways, but in this instance it is an enormous boost to the cause of unborn babies."
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Florida abortionist offers ‘free’ abortion with the purchase of a sonogram
Florida abortionist offers ‘free’ abortion with the purchase of a sonogram | LifeSiteNews.com: Abortionist James Scott Pendergraft’s abortion facility in Ocala, Florida, as he offered a free chemical abortion with the purchase of a $150 sonogram, all week long. The sonogram is a pre-abortion requirement in the state of Florida. The discount meant that Pendergraft committed the abortions at less than half his normal rate: $495 for 3-9 weeks gestation, $525 for 10-12 weeks, $600 for 13-14 weeks.
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Abortion Clinic in Brooklyn to Stop Abortions After 22 Years
Abortion Clinic in Brooklyn to Stop Abortions After 22 Years | LifeNews.com: The Helpers of God’s Precious Infants have stopped praying outside the Brooklyn Ambulatory Surgery Center in Sunset Park. For the past 22 years, the devoted pro-life friends have been seeking an end to abortion at the Brooklyn location. Their prayers have been heard as the new owners of the building have said abortions will no longer take place when it reopens as the New York Center for Specialty Surgery.
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Court takes close look at pregnancy center regulations
Court takes close look at pregnancy center regulations: A decision on regulations lodged against New York City pregnancy help centers could impact the rest of the nation. Among other things, the New York ordinance requires pro-life pregnancy centers to post and include in their advertising that they do not offer abortions and birth control.
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Abortionist: ‘Conscience compels abortion provision’
Abortionist: ‘Conscience compels abortion provision’ | LifeSiteNews.com: In the September 13th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Lisa Harris laments that there is no discussion of conscience protection for abortion providers.
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Botched Abortion at Lone Birmingham Clinic Brings on New Lawsuit
Botched Abortion at Lone Birmingham Clinic Brings on New Lawsuit - Christian Newswire: Not even six months after the closure of one dangerous Birmingham abortion facility -- brought on by the careless injury of two female patients -- yet another woman, Ms. Roberta Clark, has come forward and filed suit against the city's only remaining abortion clinic: Planned Parenthood.
In 2010, Planned Parenthood of Birmingham originally underwent investigation after Live Action President Lila Rose uncovered their regular practice of illegally providing abortions for minors and choosing to cover up statutory rape cases.
At that time, Planned Parenthood was placed under a one-year probation. The recent lawsuit filed against them by Ms. Clark details an incident that actually took place during this probationary period and creates the question of how it went unnoticed by the Alabama Department of the Public Health, which should have been closely monitoring the facility.
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In 2010, Planned Parenthood of Birmingham originally underwent investigation after Live Action President Lila Rose uncovered their regular practice of illegally providing abortions for minors and choosing to cover up statutory rape cases.
At that time, Planned Parenthood was placed under a one-year probation. The recent lawsuit filed against them by Ms. Clark details an incident that actually took place during this probationary period and creates the question of how it went unnoticed by the Alabama Department of the Public Health, which should have been closely monitoring the facility.
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Another Woman’s Life Imperiled at Planned Parenthood, Records Show
Another Woman’s Life Imperiled at Planned Parenthood, Records Show :Operation Rescue: A Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Birmingham, AL, has been sued for negligence for a botched abortion that took place while the clinic was on probation for supplying abortions to underage teens without parental consent.
The suit, filed last month, also includes as a defendant California abortionist Aqua Don Emmanuel Umoren, who contracts to do abortions for Planned Parenthood in Birmingham and for another abortion clinic in Huntsville. He is accused of falsifying medical records and negligently failing to diagnose a patient’s tubal pregnancy, which painfully ruptured 25 days later necessitating emergency surgery. She is now infertile.
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The suit, filed last month, also includes as a defendant California abortionist Aqua Don Emmanuel Umoren, who contracts to do abortions for Planned Parenthood in Birmingham and for another abortion clinic in Huntsville. He is accused of falsifying medical records and negligently failing to diagnose a patient’s tubal pregnancy, which painfully ruptured 25 days later necessitating emergency surgery. She is now infertile.
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Alabama abortion clinic denied license
Alabama abortion clinic denied license | The Montgomery Advertiser | montgomeryadvertiser.com: A woman said Wednesday she’s not giving up on reopening a Birmingham clinic that performs abortions, even though she was dealt another setback in her attempt to get a license. A state hearing officer has ruled against Kelley Rain-Water in her appeal of the state health department’s denial of her license application to reopen the New Woman All Women Health Care.
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Fetal remains, blood found in Virginia abortion center
BREAKING: Fetal remains, blood found in Virginia abortion center | LifeSiteNews.com: Documents obtained by The Family Foundation of Virginia from the Virginia Department of Health through the Freedom of Information Act show widespread health and safety violations at Virginia’s abortion centers, the pro-family group announced today, including the discovery of improperly stored fetal remains and blood at one facility.
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‘House of horrors’ abortion center saga continues with a new guilty plea
‘House of horrors’ abortion center saga continues with a new guilty plea | LifeSiteNews.com: Months after the raid that brought Dr. Kermit Gosnell’s “House of Horrors” to public attention, prosecutors continue to uncover its crimes. On Tuesday, 41-year-old Corey Lambert plead guilty to obtaining nearly 1,000 illegal prescriptions for such narcotics as OxyContin, codeine, and Tussionex from the abortion clinic.
Gosnell stands accused of writing one million bad scripts as part of a side venture prosecutors say earned the late-term abortionist hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was the prescription drug investigation that caused authorities to raid Gosnell abortion clinic in West Philadelphia.
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Gosnell stands accused of writing one million bad scripts as part of a side venture prosecutors say earned the late-term abortionist hundreds of thousands of dollars. It was the prescription drug investigation that caused authorities to raid Gosnell abortion clinic in West Philadelphia.
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Six Must Dos To Protect Your PMC From The Crisis Project
Six Must Dos To Protect Your PMC From The Crisis Project | Beth Chase: Another undercover sting on “crisis pregnancy” centers is being perpetrated by Al Jazeera, which has launched an initiative they call The Crisis Project. According to The Crisis Project website, “The Crisis Project is a nationwide investigation that demonstrates crisis pregnancy center’s reliance on emotional manipulation, religious evangelism and medical misinformation to coerce their clients out of ending unintended pregnancies and using birth control.”
There are six (6) risk management actions for all Pregnancy Medical Clinics (PMCs) and those Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) who are in the process of converting to medical status that will significantly help to reduce your risks and increase your defensibility.
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There are six (6) risk management actions for all Pregnancy Medical Clinics (PMCs) and those Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRCs) who are in the process of converting to medical status that will significantly help to reduce your risks and increase your defensibility.
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Autopsy Report Reveals Planned Parenthood’s Negligence Responsible for Tonya Reaves’ Death
Autopsy Report Reveals Planned Parenthood’s Negligence Was Responsible for Tonya Reaves’ Death :Operation Rescue: Operation Rescue has obtained a copy of Tonya Reaves autopsy report that shows beyond a doubt that the 24-year old woman died from three major complications to a botched second-trimester abortion suffered at a Chicago area Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on July 20, 2012. It furthermore indicates that her injuries were survivable if she had received proper emergency care in a timely manner.
Related: Medical Examiner Withheld Pages of Reaves Autopsy Report Mentioning Planned Parenthood
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Related: Medical Examiner Withheld Pages of Reaves Autopsy Report Mentioning Planned Parenthood
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Abortion never medically necessary
Forum in Dublin on maternal health - The Irish Times - Mon, Sep 10, 2012: An international symposium on maternal healthcare in Dublin at the weekend has concluded that abortion is never medically necessary to save the life of a mother.
A panel of speakers formally agreed to a “Dublin declaration” on maternal healthcare. It stated:
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A panel of speakers formally agreed to a “Dublin declaration” on maternal healthcare. It stated:
“As experienced practitioners and researchers in obstetrics and gynaecology, we affirm that direct abortion is not medically necessary to save the life of a woman.
“We uphold that there is a fundamental difference between abortion and necessary medical treatments that are carried out to save the life of the mother, even if such treatment results in the loss of life of her unborn child.
“We confirm that the prohibition of abortion does not affect, in any way, the availability of optimal care to pregnant women.”Leading Belgian cancer physician and presenter at the conference Frederic Amant is quoted in The Lancet as saying, “Fear of chemotherapy should not be a reason to terminate pregnancy. There is no evidence termination improves outcomes for the mother.”
Related:
- Cancer in Pregnancy website
- Treatment of breast cancer during pregnancy: an observational study
- Long-term cognitive and cardiac outcomes after prenatal exposure to chemotherapy in children aged 18 months or older: an observational study
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Abortion and regret
Abortion and regret: A new article from the journal that brought us the "after-birth abortion" (BMJ's Journal of Medical Ethics) tries to explain away post-abortion regret. From the abstract --
The article considers three theses about postabortion regret which seek to illustrate its pertinence to reasoning about abortion, and which are often deployed, either explicitly or implicitly, to dissuade women out of that reproductive choice. The first is that postabortion regret renders an abortion morally unjustified. The second is that that a relatively high incidence of postabortion regret—compared with a lower incidence of postnatal regret in the relevant comparator field—is good evidence for the moral impermissibility of abortion choice. The third is that high rates of postabortion regret suggest that abortion is not the most prudent or welfare-maximising choice for the woman concerned. All three theses argue for the compellingness of knowledge about postabortion regret in moral and practical reasoning about abortion, especially from the pregnant woman’s point of view. This article argues that all three theses are flawed. In particular, it seeks to remind readers that feelings of regret directed at past decisions are often decoupled from the fact of the matter about their moral or rational justification. Moreover, certain features of reproductive decisions in particular make regret an especially unsuitable yardstick for actual justification in this context, and even less epistemically reliable as evidence for a lack of justification than it may be in other fields of decision-making. The implication is that rates of postabortion regret, even if they can be presumed to be higher than rates of postnatal regret, are not as pertinent to moral and practical reasoning about abortion as is sometimes suggested.
Editor: While it's true that the experience of post-abortion regret is not absolute and that feelings of regret are an unreliable indicator of guilt, it is common enough that post-abortive women find themselves wishing they'd been warned about it. It's also true that it is not the regret that renders abortion morally unjustified but the inarguable fact of what abortion does -- cruelly ending the life of a defenseless unborn child. Regret is not proof of abortion's impermissibility but is good evidence of it.
Perhaps the pro-life side has been guilty at times of overstating the case, but that could be said to be due to the other side's unwillingness to even entertain the idea. Only a few honest pro-choice people have admitted there is regret, fewer still how devastating that regret can be. Because it's not a regret like getting "caught in a rain shower" on an otherwise delightful outing. It's not even just a "reproductive decision," like which method of birth control to use. It's about causing the death of one's child. I haven't read beyond the abstract, but I would like to know whether she deals with what abortion actually is.
Abortion does not improve prognosis for pregnant cancer patients
Lancet Study: Abortion does not improve prognosis for pregnant cancer patients | LifeSiteNews.com: A leading Belgian cancer physician will tell an international symposium in Dublin on maternal health this week that induced abortion does nothing to improve the prognosis of pregnant women with cancer. Described by The Lancet as “leading the agenda on cancer on pregnancy” Professor Frédéric Amant will say, “In the case of cancer complicating pregnancy, termination of pregnancy does not improve the maternal prognosis.”
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Abortion clinic offers $50.00 discount to High School Students
ProLifeAmerica.com Daily News: The Woman's World Medical Center abortion clinic in Ft. Pierce, Florida, which sells abortions up to 17 weeks of pregnancy, is offering discounts to high school students. The ad on their website reads, "We are now offering a $50.00 discount for Travel, Military, Medicaid, High School or College Students. (Only one offer per patient.) When calling for an appointment please mention the discount." The child killing center was founded in 1991 by Candace Dye, a lifetime resident of St. Lucie County.
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The ‘articulate incompetent’
WORLD | The ‘articulate incompetent’ | Bill Newton | Sept. 7, 2012: "Articulate incompetents are in every profession. They have a persuasive-sounding explanation for everything and few if any results. They exist in every segment of business, they make great aggressive forecasts, and then they leave before the results are tallied. They are in ministry, talking high-minded principles and extraordinary faith and then falling short when the slightest opposition rears its head."
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Multiple Abortions Increase Risk of Maternal Death: New Danish Study
A single induced abortion increases the risk of maternal death by 45 percent compared to women with no history of abortion, according to a new study of all women of reproductive age in Denmark over a 25 year period. In addition, each additional abortion is associated with an even higher death rate. Women who had two abortions were 114 percent more likely to die during the period examined, and women had three or more abortions had a 192 percent increased risk of death.
Elevated rates of death were also observed among women who experienced miscarriages, ectopic pregnancies or other natural losses. Women with a history of successful deliveries were the least likely to die during the 25 years examined. Women who had never been pregnant had the highest mortality rate. Among women with a history of multiple pregnancies, women with a history of both abortions and natural losses, but no live births, had the highest mortality rate.
The study is the second record linkage analysis of Danish mortality data to be published this month. The earlier study was limited to comparing mortality rates following only the first pregnancy outcome. It found that abortion of a first pregnancy was associated with a higher rate of death compared to death rates among women who delivered a first pregnancy. The higher death rate among women who had abortions persisted for each of the first ten years following the first pregnancy outcome.
Study: Premarital Sex Detrimental to Relationships
Study: Premarital Sex Detrimental to Relationships - Negatively Impacts Intimacy, Commitment, Sexual Satisfaction: Researchers at Cornell University have stated that abstaining from sex at the beginning of a courtship could lead to a healthier relationship. The research also suggested that having sex early on could stunt the growth of key factors from developing within a healthy relationship including "caring and understanding." The study, printed in the Journal of Marriage and Family, revealed that women who put having sex off for over six months were more satisfied with their relationships than those women who waited less time.
"Precocious premarital sexual activities may have lasting effects on relationship quality," researchers said. "Courtship is a time for exploration and decision-making about the relationship, when partners assess compatibility, make commitments and build on emotional and physical intimacy."
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"Precocious premarital sexual activities may have lasting effects on relationship quality," researchers said. "Courtship is a time for exploration and decision-making about the relationship, when partners assess compatibility, make commitments and build on emotional and physical intimacy."
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Contraceptive Implant Lost in Women's Bodies
Contraceptive Implant Lost in Women's Bodies: Implanon is a small matchstick style implant that is inserted under the skin on a woman's upper arm. over three years the implant then releases progesterone into the blood stream, stopping the release of eggs, and causes the womb to become less responsive. Hundreds of thousands of women in the UK use this implant, and fears are now spreading that due to the reported cases of implants going missing, many women will be at risk of being unable to conceive.
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Komen NYC: Rough Race Ahead
Komen NYC: Rough Race Ahead—and Women Stand to Lose - The Daily Beast: Komen race participants and donations have dropped across this country this year, following the controversy that rocked the charity in January, when it decided to change its granting structure, which would have phased out a grant to Planned Parenthood.
Editor: Again, might it not be that publicity surrounding the botched decision made crystal clear Komen's support for PP, and that it is that support that has driven people away? For evidence of this, see Canton United Way reclassifies Planned Parenthood over abortion concerns. Polls show support for abortion dwindling, thus it might not be a good idea to hitch your wagon to the nation's number one abortion provider.
Related:
INSIDER BOOK DETAILS KOMEN-PLANNED PARENTHOOD RIFT
Planned Parenthood: the pig at the trough of government funding
Editor: Again, might it not be that publicity surrounding the botched decision made crystal clear Komen's support for PP, and that it is that support that has driven people away? For evidence of this, see Canton United Way reclassifies Planned Parenthood over abortion concerns. Polls show support for abortion dwindling, thus it might not be a good idea to hitch your wagon to the nation's number one abortion provider.
Related:
INSIDER BOOK DETAILS KOMEN-PLANNED PARENTHOOD RIFT
Planned Parenthood: the pig at the trough of government funding
Marie Stopes continues intimidation of crisis pregnancy centre
Marie Stopes continues intimidation of crisis pregnancy centre | LifeSiteNews.com: A high-powered legal group has continued to send letters to Good Counsel staffers, demanding they cease handing out a leaflet on the medical and psychological consequences of abortion, accusing them of distributing “false and misleading” information.
Editor: The information on the physical and emotional damage caused by abortion is constantly being verified. See the Finnish, Danish, and Scottish studies below.
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Editor: The information on the physical and emotional damage caused by abortion is constantly being verified. See the Finnish, Danish, and Scottish studies below.
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Non-Physicians Allowed to Perform Abortions in California
Non-Physicians Allowed to Perform Abortions in California - Christian Newswire: The California Senate voted last week to pass a bill allowing non-physicians to perform aspiration abortions. Senate Bill 623, introduced by Christine Kehoe (D-San Diego), extends a program run by the University of California, San Francisco, in which nurse practitioners, midwives and physicians assistants are trained to perform abortions. "This bill was originally created to regulate boat paint," said Dana Cody, Executive Director of the Life Legal Defense Foundation. "Now it's regulating and destroying human lives."
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Finnish study: Repeat abortions linked to premature birth
BBC News - Repeat abortions linked to premature birth, study suggests: The more abortions a woman has before her first child, the more likely she is to give birth prematurely, a study 300,858 first-time mothers in Finland of has suggested. The study showed women were three times more likely to have a very premature baby, born before 28 weeks, if they had had three or more abortions. The report was published in the journal Human Reproduction.
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"Induced abortion (IA) is one of the most common gynecological procedures performed on women but the impact of IAs on women’s subsequent childbearing has not yet been properly studied. . . . Many previous studies . . . have found a positive association between IA and risk of preterm birth or a dose– response effect (i.e. the risk of preterm birth increased with increasing number of IAs)."'via Blog this'
Surgical abortion pre-term risk
BBC News - Surgical abortion pre-term risk: Women who have "surgical" abortions are more likely in the future to give birth to babies prematurely than women who have medically-induced terminations, a study suggests. The work was based on a large study of more than 600,000 women from Scotland and was published in the open access journal BMJ Open. In addition, the research adds evidence to previous work showing that women who have induced abortions increase their risk of having a premature baby.
Editor: Also in the article -- "The risk of preterm birth after [induced abortion] is lower than that after miscarriage but higher than that in a first pregnancy or after a previous live birth." What we've been saying all along.
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Editor: Also in the article -- "The risk of preterm birth after [induced abortion] is lower than that after miscarriage but higher than that in a first pregnancy or after a previous live birth." What we've been saying all along.
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Danish study reveals higher maternal death rates following abortion
Medical Science Monitor: Medical records for the entire population of women born in Denmark between 1962 and 1991 and were alive in 1980, were linked to death certificates. Mortality rates associated with first pregnancy outcomes (delivery, miscarriage, abortion, and late abortion) were calculated. Odds ratios examining death rates based on reproductive outcomes, adjusted for age at first pregnancy and year of women’s births, were also calculated. Results: A total of 463,473 women had their first pregnancy between 1980 and 2004, of whom 2,238 died. In nearly all time periods examined, mortality rates associated with miscarriage or abortion of a first pregnancy were higher than those associated with birth.
Commentary by the American Association of Pro-Life Ob/Gyns:
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Commentary by the American Association of Pro-Life Ob/Gyns:
A new study of the medical records for nearly half a million women in Denmark reveals significantly higher maternal death rates following abortion compared to delivery. This finding has confirmed similar large-scale population studies conducted in Finland and the United States, http://www.aaplog.org/complications-of-induced-abortion/induced-abortion-and-maternal-mortality/induced-abortion-and-natural-cause-maternal-death/ but contradicts the widely held belief that abortion is safer than childbirth. . . .
Why is this study important?
1) Record-based studies provide complete reproductive history data for all residents. There are very few record-based studies of mortality risks associated with reproductive loss available in the published literature. Without data-linkage to complete reproductive histories (as in this study), results are highly unreliable as prior research suggests as many as 73% of all pregnancy associated deaths are not apparent from death certificates.
2) This study eliminates the potential confounding effect of unknown prior pregnancy history by examining mortality rates associated with first pregnancy outcome alone.
3) No previous record-based studies have compared early induced abortions to later abortions. There is consensus that late-term abortions are associated with more physiological risks and higher rates of maternal mortality in the short term compared to early abortions. However, longer term mortality risks have not been previously examined with record-based data.From the Eliot Institute: Finding confirms similar large-scale population studies in Finland and US; contradicts widely held belief abortion safer than childbirth
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The Quiet Racism of Abortion Bans?
The Quiet Racism of Abortion Bans - Brian Fung - The Atlantic: "What would happen if the GOP got its way and control over abortion rights were returned to the states?" The author proposes that minority women would have a harder time getting abortions, but how would fewer minority abortions be racist? Here's a map depicting the average distance to the nearest abortion provider should Roe v. Wade be overturned.
Response by Day Gardner
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Botched Abortion at Houston Planned Parenthood Injures Woman
Botched Abortion at Houston Planned Parenthood Injures Woman | LifeNews.com: Last Thursday, August 23, 2012 two ambulances and a fire truck responded to a 911 call at Planned Parenthood Houston, the largest late term abortion facility in the nation.
After being inside the 6 story building for 20 minutes paramedics came out with a young woman on the a gurney, she was hooked up to oxygen and an IV bag. After being loaded into the ambulance, she was taken to Ben Taub Hospital where her condition remains unknown.
This terrible incident comes one day after the Fifth Circuit court of Appeals ruled that Texas can cut Planned Parenthood from the Women’s Health Program.
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After being inside the 6 story building for 20 minutes paramedics came out with a young woman on the a gurney, she was hooked up to oxygen and an IV bag. After being loaded into the ambulance, she was taken to Ben Taub Hospital where her condition remains unknown.
This terrible incident comes one day after the Fifth Circuit court of Appeals ruled that Texas can cut Planned Parenthood from the Women’s Health Program.
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Abortionist Involved In Secret Maryland Late-Term Abortion Scheme Suspended
Abortionist Involved In Secret Maryland Late-Term Abortion Scheme Suspended :Operation Rescue: The medical license of abortionist Harold O. Alexander has been suspended by the Maryland Board of Physicians. Alexander was the Maryland associate of late-term abortionist James S. Pendergraft IV, who is unlicensed in that state. Together they operated a secret bi-state late-term abortion business “in the D.C. area” known as LateTermAbortion.net.
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Bioethics news site admits conception happens before implantation
BioNews - 'Super-fertility' to blame for some recurrent miscarriages, study suggests: Reporting on so-called super-fertility, BioNews cited a professor who led a recent study on recurrent miscarriage. He is quoted as saying, "Implantation is the name for the process where an embryo attaches to the lining of the uterus, shortly after conception." A ha! That's what we say.
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Mother Of Woman Who Died After Abortion Sues Planned Parenthood, Hospital
Mother Of Woman Who Died After Abortion Sues Planned Parenthood, Hospital « CBS Chicago: The mother of 24-year-old Tonya Reaves filed a wrongful death lawsuit Monday against Planned Parenthood of Illinois and Northwestern Memorial Hospital. An autopsy found she died of a hemorrhage following a cervical dilation and evacuation performed during an intrauterine pregnancy, according to the medical examiner’s office. Her death was ruled an accident.
Dorsey Johns, Reaves’ mother, claims staff at the Planned Parenthood clinic “carelessly performed” the elective abortion and failed to properly monitor and assess her daughter’s condition after the procedure, according to the suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court. The suit further claims the clinic did not do enough to stop Reaves’ bleeding, and that staff members failed to adequately warn an on-call doctor about the potentially life-threatening condition.
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Dorsey Johns, Reaves’ mother, claims staff at the Planned Parenthood clinic “carelessly performed” the elective abortion and failed to properly monitor and assess her daughter’s condition after the procedure, according to the suit filed in Cook County Circuit Court. The suit further claims the clinic did not do enough to stop Reaves’ bleeding, and that staff members failed to adequately warn an on-call doctor about the potentially life-threatening condition.
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Finding a New Leader
Leadership transition is an inevitable and often difficult part of a nonprofit's life cycle. However, a valuable leader's departure doesn't have to spell disaster for your organization.
The viral image that deflates pro-abortion rhetoric
Related: The illegitimate rape claim behind Roe v. Wade
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Get to Know: Hope After Rape Conception
Hope After Rape Conception -- Home Page: Hope After Rape Conception's mission is to assist rape survivor mothers and their children. We seek to ensure that they are properly protected under the law from the rapist having any parental rights, that they are not cut off from governmental assistance because their children were conceived in rape, and that they do not have to feel that they are alone in raising their children conceived in rape.
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Sex education 'doesn't cut teen pregnancy rate' claims academic
Sex education 'doesn't cut teen pregnancy rate' claims academic - Telegraph: Unwanted pregnancies have proved “remarkably resilient to policy initiatives”, according to David Paton, professor of industrial economics at Nottingham University, who says the under 16 pregnancy rate in England and Wales has remained virtually static for 40 years. Between 1969 and 2009 the rate has risen and fallen, he said, but not in time with national efforts to bring it down.
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Gov. Nikki Haley signs two ceremonial bills at a pregnancy center
Gov. Nikki Haley signs two ceremonial bills during Spartanburg visit » Anderson Independent Mail: Gov. Nikki Haley signed two bills at the Carolina Pregnancy Center in Spartanburg, SC, on Thursday supporters say are aimed at protecting the rights of unborn babies and prevent taxpayers from paying for abortions under the Affordable Care Act. The Born Alive Infant Protection Act went into effect in May and Affordable Care Abortion Opt Out bill was signed into law in June, but Haley was flanked by pregnancy center volunteers, ministers, lawmakers and children Thursday afternoon when she held the ceremonial signings.
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Students Show Planned Parenthood Names of Women Who Died From Legal Abortion
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Pro-lifer Stockholm Syndrome: Rape, Todd Akin and appeasing abortionists
Pro-lifer Stockholm Syndrome: Rape, Todd Akin and appeasing abortionists | LifeSiteNews.com: Hilary White writes, "If we can make ourselves heard over the shrieks of stage-outrage, I think we should actually be thanking Mr. Akin for presenting us with this golden teaching moment. The entire edifice of lies that is the 'rape exception' needs to be shredded, and as publicly as possible."
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How to talk about abortion . . . without feeling nervous
Beth Chase posted this PDF from Planned Parenthood of New York City, advising readers on how to talk about controversial subjects such as abortion, sex education, birth control, and reproductive rights.
Getting rid of rape evidence
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Abortionist admits, ‘most women having abortions are not raped’
LifeSiteNews: Shortly before controversy erupted over Congressman Todd Akin’s remarks on abortion in cases of rape, an abortionist bluntly admitted that “most women having abortions are not raped.” D.C. abortionist Willie Parker was responding to an article on the ‘Advancing new standards in reproductive health’ blog of the University of California, San Fransico.
Author Tray Weitz had critiqued the approach of advocates for abortion of using hard cases to make the case for legal abortion. She suggested rather an approach that would validate abortion whatever the circumstances – a ‘rights’-based approach. Parker notes that when abortion “advocates have sought stories from me to make the case for abortion, it has always been a request for tragic circumstances, the stories felt to be the most likely ones to move opinion. The reality is that that is not the typical patient I see, as most women having abortions are not raped or are not carrying a lethally flawed fetus.”
Pro-life attorney conceived in rape debates pro-choice attorney Gloria Allred
PICKET: (VIDEO) Pro-life attorney conceived in rape debates pro-choice attorney Gloria Allred - Washington Times: CNN's Piers Morgan invited pro-choice attorney Gloria Allred and pro-life attorney Rebecca Kiessling on his program Tuesday night. Allred, who had become pregnant through a rape and decided to have an abortion, debated Kiessling whose biological mother was raped at knife-point and almost decided to abort Kiessling via back-alley abortion. Both Allred and Kiessling's mother made their decisions at a time when abortion was illegal in their respective states.
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Court rules Texas can cut off state funds for Planned Parenthood
Court rules Texas can cut off state funds for Planned Parenthood | Fox News: The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that the state can turn off the funding spigot pending trial, though Texas intends to continue funding its broader program to provide women access to health care. The high-profile dispute has pitted the state of Texas against both Planned Parenthood and the Obama administration.
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All charges dropped against Kansas Planned Parenthood
All charges dropped against Kansas Planned Parenthood: Former prosecutor Kline reacts | LifeSiteNews.com: Officials have dropped what remained of 107 charges that former District Attorney of Johnson County Phill Kline filed against Planned Parenthood five years ago, snuffing out the last possibility of examining the charges in court.
Related: Smoke and Mirrors: Deception Used to Support Dismissal of Planned Parenthood Felonies
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Related: Smoke and Mirrors: Deception Used to Support Dismissal of Planned Parenthood Felonies
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Free eBook: Text messaging and HIPAA compliance
Chase Advancement Incorporated » eBooks: Here's a free e-book to download on HIPAA requirements as related to text messaging for pregnancy centers. By Beth Chase & Lorraine Mazurek.
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Planned Parenthood to Start Providing Mammograms?
Planned Parenthood to Start Providing Mammograms? I’ll Believe It When I See It.: The Breast Health Initiative advertises an expansion of services and programs, including grants for specialized follow up services, like diagnostic mammograms, ultrasounds, or biopsies.
Note: It doesn't say they'll begin providing mammograms, but grants for mammograms.
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Note: It doesn't say they'll begin providing mammograms, but grants for mammograms.
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National Pro-Life Chalk Day -- September 6
National Pro-Life Chalk Day: What activity requires almost no money and minimal time commitment yet saves lives and impacts a whole school campus? SIDEWALK CHALKING!
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National Community Baby Shower Day
National Community Baby Shower Day | Pregnant On Campus: Participate in the 2012 National Community Baby Shower Day, September 28-30th, to help provide resources for pregnant and parenting mothers on your campus and in your community! "We are hoping at least 100 pro life campus groups to participate in order to help women across our country! Register your group today!"
This national day was inspired by the Pro-Life Aggies group at Texas A&M University when they hosted a “Community Baby Shower” this spring, asking shoppers of a local store to purchase diapers, wipes, formula, and baby items to give to the group so they could, in turn, donate them to a local resource center for young parents. After the Baby Shower this April, Pro-Life Aggies was able to donate over $700 in cash and truckloads of baby items! Because it was so successful, they have decided to partner with Students for Life of America and Stand True to make the “Community Baby Shower” a national movement to support pregnancy resource centers.
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This national day was inspired by the Pro-Life Aggies group at Texas A&M University when they hosted a “Community Baby Shower” this spring, asking shoppers of a local store to purchase diapers, wipes, formula, and baby items to give to the group so they could, in turn, donate them to a local resource center for young parents. After the Baby Shower this April, Pro-Life Aggies was able to donate over $700 in cash and truckloads of baby items! Because it was so successful, they have decided to partner with Students for Life of America and Stand True to make the “Community Baby Shower” a national movement to support pregnancy resource centers.
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Woman Rushed to Hospital from Haskell’s Late-term Abortion Clinic
Woman Rushed to Hospital from Haskell’s Late-term Abortion Clinic Outside Dayton :Operation Rescue: Emergency responders swarmed late-term abortionist Martin Haskell’s Women’s Med Center abortion clinic, located in the Dayton suburb of Kettering, in response to a medical emergency on August 16, 2012. Local pro-life activists photographed paramedics loading a female patient into an awaiting ambulance. Those activists confirmed that the abortionist on duty that day was Roslyn Kade, a long-time associate of Haskell’s. This is the fourth medical emergency recently documented at Haskell abortion clinics.
Related: New 911 Call from Haskell’s Abortion Clinic: “She’s Bleeding Quite Badly”
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Related: New 911 Call from Haskell’s Abortion Clinic: “She’s Bleeding Quite Badly”
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Most Women Seeking Abortions Have Experienced One or More Disruptive Events in the Past Year
Most Women Seeking Abortions Have Experienced One or More Disruptive Events in the Past Year: Most commonly, women who had abortions reported having experienced unemployment (20%), separation from a partner (16%), falling behind on rent or mortgage (14%) or having moved multiple times (12%). See More than poverty: disruptive events among women having abortions in the USA.
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Georgia abortion clinic has violated regs AND waivers for two decades
Stop the madness: Georgia abortion clinic has violated regs AND waivers for two decades | LifeSiteNews.com: In 1994, the Georgia State Planning Agency notified the architect designing Atlanta Women’s Medical Center in Atlanta, Georgia, that plans for its two-story late-term abortion clinic needed to include an elevator. The clinic’s owner, HUMEDCO Corporation, which runs a chain of three abortion clinics, claimed it would be too expensive to add an elevator and requested a waiver.
The Georgia Department of Human Services granted the waiver, through August 31, 2005. It went on to grant another waiver, through August 31, 2012. The terms in both cases were that AWMC had to notify prospective patients of the stairs, escort recovering patients down the stairs, and also notify 911 operators that there was no elevator in the event of an emergency.
The clinic was recently found to be not in compliance, and yet it has not been shut down.
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The Georgia Department of Human Services granted the waiver, through August 31, 2005. It went on to grant another waiver, through August 31, 2012. The terms in both cases were that AWMC had to notify prospective patients of the stairs, escort recovering patients down the stairs, and also notify 911 operators that there was no elevator in the event of an emergency.
The clinic was recently found to be not in compliance, and yet it has not been shut down.
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Woman Conceived in Rape Responds to Akin Abortion Controversy
Woman Conceived in Rape Responds to Akin Abortion Controversy | LifeNews.com: Rebecca Kiessling responded to the comments saying that the use of the term “legitimate rape” was unnecessary and improper and she gave her advice for how pro-life candidates can thoughtfully and articulately address the sensitive subject of rape and abortion. “If you are 100% pro-life with no rape exceptions, there is no need to question the veracity of a rape victims’ account, because you are against all abortions. It would not matter if a woman was not or not raped.”
Many political candidates stumble over the question of rape and abortion. Kiessling gives a three-step process in terms of how candidates should answer the question:
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Many political candidates stumble over the question of rape and abortion. Kiessling gives a three-step process in terms of how candidates should answer the question:
1. The Supreme Court has said that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment for rapists and that rapists don’t deserve the death penalty. I don’t think the innocent child conceived in rape deserves the death penalty for the crimes of her father. It seems to me that is cruel and unusual punishment.
2. Rape victims are four times more likely to die within the next year after the abortion, with a higher rate of suicide, murder, drug overdose, etc.. As someone who really cares about rape victims, I want to protect them from the rapist, and from the abortion, and not the baby. A baby is not the worst thing that could ever happen to a rape victim — an abortion is. We need to educate the American public on the truth in this matter and not make public policy based on myth and misinformation.
3. Rape victims choose abortion at half the rate of the average unplanned pregnancy, which is over 50%. Only 15-25% of rape victims choose abortion, depending on the study. The majority of rape victims choose to raise her child — not “the rapist’s baby” — HER child.
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The Past, Present, and Future of Chemical Abortifacients in the U.S. and Abroad
New Research Bulletin: The Past, Present, and Future of Chemical Abortifacients in the U.S. and Abroad | NRL News Today: The latest Research Bulletin of the Association for Interdisciplinary Research in Values and Social Change features two articles. One details the history of RU-486 in the U.S. The second discusses the use of RU-486 in the developing world.
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Knoxville abortion clinic blames closure on new TN law
Knoxville abortion clinic blames closure on new TN law | The Tennessean | tennessean.com: A longtime Knoxville abortion provider closed its doors, blaming a newly enacted Tennessee law that requires doctors performing abortions to hold admitting privileges at local hospitals. The Volunteer Women’s Medical Clinic had two physicians providing abortions. One died after suffering a stroke within days of obtaining hospital privileges, said clinic director Deb Walsh. Another retired physician working with the clinic has not obtained privileges.
In a letter to supporters, Walsh wrote: "I've been able to keep the doors open and the phone staff working up until this week. We've been working on legal remedies, injunction, etc., but I was unable to bridge the financial gap of paying the monthly lease and operating expenses without knowing when we could resume seeing patients. I'm supposed to be out of the building (5000+sq.ft.) before Monday morning and I plan to somehow achieve that. I have visions of carting all the furniture and equipment across the street to the Crisis Pregnancy Center and piling it up on their lawn rather than going through the tedious task of finding a place for everything."
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In a letter to supporters, Walsh wrote: "I've been able to keep the doors open and the phone staff working up until this week. We've been working on legal remedies, injunction, etc., but I was unable to bridge the financial gap of paying the monthly lease and operating expenses without knowing when we could resume seeing patients. I'm supposed to be out of the building (5000+sq.ft.) before Monday morning and I plan to somehow achieve that. I have visions of carting all the furniture and equipment across the street to the Crisis Pregnancy Center and piling it up on their lawn rather than going through the tedious task of finding a place for everything."
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The Unofficial Olympic Sport
Life Issues Institute - The Latest News: The Unofficial Olympic Sport: Hurdler Lolo Jones was famously quoted as saying, “If there’s virgins out there, I just want to let them know, it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.” Bradley Mattes comments:
What does this say about our culture? These young people embrace an extreme heightened sense of discipline when it comes to training their bodies for an athletic event. Yet, when one of them chooses to exercise such discipline in the realm of sexual purity, it is ridiculed. Isn’t it ironic that freedom of “choice” is so often trumpeted by the media, yet this young woman’s choice is mocked?
To call it hypocrisy is an understatement. As a parent, I’ve been faced with the question of why those who choose purity face such abrasive opposition. This is what I shared with my sons, “At any moment you could choose to live like them; however they can never again be like you.”'via Blog this'
Pregnancy Center Case to Go Before Full Appeals Court
Pregnancy Center Case to Go Before Full Appeals Court - Businessweek: The full U.S. Appeals Court in Richmond, Virginia, agreed to rehear a case involving a law that requires anti-abortion pregnancy centers to post an advisory encouraging their clients to consult with medical professionals. The court set Dec. 6 for oral arguments in the rehearing, accepting a request by Montgomery County, Maryland, to review a split decision by a three-judge panel.
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Pregnancy-Related Cancers: Rise Is Largely Unrelated to Delayed Childbearing
Pregnancy-Related Cancers: Rise Is Largely Unrelated to Delayed Childbearing : OBGYN News: Pregnancy-associated cancers are increasing, although the phenomenon of delayed childbirth is only partially responsible, researchers suggest.
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Woman Rushed to Emergency Room from Idaho Planned Parenthood
Woman Rushed to Emergency Room from Idaho Planned Parenthood :Operation Rescue: An ambulance arrived at the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Boise, Idaho, this afternoon and transported a woman to St. Luke’s Hospital in Boise where she was admitted to the Emergency Room. The cause of the medical emergency and condition of the woman is currently unknown; however, activists confirm that abortions were performed today at that Planned Parenthood facility.
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College Resource Directory for Pregnant and Parenting Students
College Resource Directory - Feminists for Life of America - Pro Woman Pro Life: Feminists for Life is developing a National Directory of Campus Resources for pregnant and parenting students. This directory will inform prospective and current students, faculty, administrators, and advocates of the resources and support available to pregnant women, expectant fathers, birthparents, and student parents on four-year college and university campuses across the United States. It may also provide information helpful to parents who work on campus, whether faculty, administrators, or other staff.
More pregnancy resources from Feminists for Life
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More pregnancy resources from Feminists for Life
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Dating violence: Do your clients know what counts as abuse?
Dating violence | womenshealth.gov: Dating violence includes:
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- Physical abuse like hitting, shoving, kicking, biting, or throwing things
- Emotional abuse like yelling, name-calling, bullying, embarrassing, keeping you away from your friends, saying you deserve the abuse, or giving gifts to "make up" for the abuse.
- Sexual abuse like forcing you to do something sexual (such as kissing or touching) or doing something sexual when you cannot agree to it (like when you are very drunk)."
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Two women, two legacies
WORLDmag.com | Two women, two legacies | Barbara Curtis: It may not seem like it, but there's a vast contrast between Brown (Helen Gurley) and Gray (Nellie).
Editor: I stole the pun from one of the comments on the site.
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Editor: I stole the pun from one of the comments on the site.
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When it Comes to Prenatal Nutrition, First Lady Agrees it’s a Baby
When it Comes to Prenatal Nutrition FLOTUS Agrees it’s a Baby | Medical Students for Life: In February 2004, Michelle Obama wrote a fundraising letter for her husband’s U.S. Senate campaign claiming the partial birth abortion ban ‘is clearly unconstitutional’ and ‘a flawed law.’ So why does her website “Let’s Move” espouse fetal nutrition? According to the First Lady's Let’s Move web site, “When a woman is pregnant or breastfeeding, she has special nutritional needs that can have a huge impact on the health of her baby."
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"I wish my mother had aborted me"
Lynn Beisner writes in The Guardian:
Aside from all the things she suffered in the past, Beisner's greatest suffering is caused by blindness to the biblical worldview. It would explain suffering, God's sovereignty, the worth of an individual, and our purpose in life.
It is true that in the past 12 years, I have been able to rise above the circumstances of my birth and build a life that I truly love. But no one should have to make such a Herculean struggle for simple normalcy. Even given the happiness and success I now enjoy, if I could go back in time and make the choice for my mother, it would be abortion.
The world would not be a darker or poorer place without me. Actually, in terms of contributions to the world, I am a net loss. Everything that I have done – including parenting, teaching, researching, and being a loving partner – could have been done as well, if not better by other people. Any positive contributions that I have made are completely offset by what it has cost society to help me overcome the disadvantages and injuries of my childhood to become a functional and contributing member of society.
It is not easy to say, "I wish my mother had aborted me." The right would have us see abortion as women acting out of cowardice, selfishness, or convenience. But for many women, like my mother, abortion would be an inconvenient act of courage and selflessness. I am sad for both of us that she could not find the courage and selflessness. But my attitude is that as long as I am already here, I might as well do all I can to make the world a better place, to ease the suffering of others, and to experience love and life to its fullest.Editor: There's so much here to comment on . . . where to begin? She actually makes some good points about some pro-life arguments -- they are entirely too subjective. But I don't believe subjectivity can be discounted completely, especially when you consider them from a post-modern perspective (all views are valid).
Aside from all the things she suffered in the past, Beisner's greatest suffering is caused by blindness to the biblical worldview. It would explain suffering, God's sovereignty, the worth of an individual, and our purpose in life.
Medalist Reese Hoffa Used Olympics Platform to Promote Adoption
Medalist Reese Hoffa Used Olympics Platform to Promote Adoption | LifeNews.com: When reporters put their microphones in Reese Hoffa's face, the bronze medal winner in the shot put took advantage of the platform to extol the virtues of adoption.
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Officials: Pa. Abortion Clinic Deaths No Accident
Officials: Pa. Abortion Clinic Deaths No Accident - ABC News: "City prosecutors say the deaths at Gosnell's clinic were no accident but the result of dangerous medical practices that went on for decades.
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Case Against Abortion Giant Advances
Case Against Abortion Giant Advances | Planned Parenthood, American Center for Law and Justice ACLJ: The American Center for Law and Justice lawsuit against Planned Parenthood in Texas alleges that the abortion giant defrauded taxpayers by charging state and federal governments for services not actually provided, medically unnecessary services, and services that are not covered under Medicaid and other programs. On Friday, a federal court agreed with the ACLJ that these allegations, if proven, constitute fraud in violation of federal law. The federal court in Texas denied Planned Parenthood’s attempt to have this critical case against the abortion giant thrown out.
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Study: Abortion has more negative parenting impact than pregnancy loss
Study: Abortion has more negative parenting impact than pregnancy loss | ProLife NZ: A new review of studies examining various types of prenatal loss and the effects on subsequent parenting has concluded that abortion may be “particularly damaging to the parenting process.”
The article, published in Current Women’s Health Reviews, looked at already published studies on miscarriage, induced abortion and adoption. The author, Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, focused on psychological reactions to these various types of loss and discussed how they might affect a mother’s relationship with children born after the pregnancy loss.
PK Coleman, “The Psychological Pain of Perinatal Loss and Subsequent Parenting Risks: Could Induced Abortion Be More Problematic Than Other Forms of Loss,” Current Women’s Health Issues 5: 88-99, 2009.
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The article, published in Current Women’s Health Reviews, looked at already published studies on miscarriage, induced abortion and adoption. The author, Priscilla Coleman of Bowling Green State University, focused on psychological reactions to these various types of loss and discussed how they might affect a mother’s relationship with children born after the pregnancy loss.
PK Coleman, “The Psychological Pain of Perinatal Loss and Subsequent Parenting Risks: Could Induced Abortion Be More Problematic Than Other Forms of Loss,” Current Women’s Health Issues 5: 88-99, 2009.
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Gonorrhea drug is becoming less effective, CDC says
Gonorrhea drug is becoming less effective, CDC says - The Washington Post: U.S. health officials are urging doctors to stop using a key antibiotic for routine cases of gonorrhea because of signs of bacterial resistance, leaving only one recommended treatment for one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the nation.
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Nellie Gray remembered
BREAKING: U.S. March for Life founder Nellie Gray passes away | LifeSiteNews.com: "We thought we would have one march and that would be it. And before you know it, I was in charge of this March. And it’s not something that I wanted or anticipated, but we came together, we did it, and before we know it we had to do it a second time and one thing led to another.”
Also gone: Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies
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Also gone: Cosmo Editor Helen Gurley Brown Dies
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Six million abortions in the UK since abortion legalized – just 143 to save the mum’s life
Six million abortions – just 143 to save the mum’s life | News | The Christian Institute: According to government figures 6.4 million abortions were performed on residents of England and Wales between 1968 and 2011. Of these just 143 (0.006 per cent) were performed to save the life of the mother or to prevent serious permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the mother. A further 23,778 (0.37%) abortions were performed because the continuance of pregnancy would involve the risk to the life of the woman, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated.
The figures were revealed in response to a Parliamentary Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool, who blogged, “When the case for allowing legal abortion was first placed before Parliament it was argued that the law needed to be changed to deal with extremely serious situations. More than 6 million abortions later the figures reveal that in 99.5% of cases where an unborn child’s life is ended there is no risk to the health of the mother."
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The figures were revealed in response to a Parliamentary Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool, who blogged, “When the case for allowing legal abortion was first placed before Parliament it was argued that the law needed to be changed to deal with extremely serious situations. More than 6 million abortions later the figures reveal that in 99.5% of cases where an unborn child’s life is ended there is no risk to the health of the mother."
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Thousands of viewers respond to pro-life TV ad's offer of help
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WaPo notes Komen CEO's large salary, not Planned Parenthood CEO's larger one
MSM notes Komen CEO's large salary, not Planned Parenthood CEO's lger: It also fails to mention Nancy Brinker's past history with PP: "In 1996 Planned Parenthood of North Texas gave her the Gertrude Shelburne Humanitarian Award, and as recently as 2011 Komen sat on that affiliate’s advisory council. (MSM never mentions this part of Brinker’s bio, because it doesn’t fit their portrayal of Brinker as a Republican hack.)"
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EWYL for men's ministry
Heritage House is excited and proud to announce an exciting, comprehensive and powerful curriculum just for men. The basis for this curriculum is a program entitled Men’s Fraternity: The Quest For Authentic Manhood. It is being used worldwide in churches and men’s outreaches. Heritage House received permission to write EWYL Modules exclusively for use by PCC ministries.
Also, updates to other Earn While You Learn modules are available for download.
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Also, updates to other Earn While You Learn modules are available for download.
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Chicago Medical Examiner Refuses to Release Autopsy of Woman Who Died After Abortion
Woman Dies After Abortion, Chicago Medical Examiner Refuses to Release Autopsy - Christian Newswire: Illinois law specifically states that all records in the custody or possession of a public body are presumed to be open to inspection or copying, and nowhere does the state exempt autopsy reports from compliance. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Guide for Law Enforcement published July 12, 2012 by the Attorney General's Office specifically states that autopsy reports are public records and should be released.
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No grace for those who sin against Planned Parenthood
Nancy Brinker’s Komen shakeup too little and way too late - She The People - The Washington Post: On Wednesday, the Dallas-based breast-cancer charity announced that its president, Elizabeth Thompson, was resigning. Founder and chief executive Nancy Brinker said she would relinquish her post after a replacement is found, and two Komen board members also said they are leaving.
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Group claims distribution of contraceptives by Planned Parenthood violates state law
Group claims distribution of contraceptives by Planned Parenthood violates state law | New Hampshire NEWS06: According to New Hampshire Right to Life, the clinics lost their ability to dispense birth control pills, RU-486, the morning-after pill and related prescriptions in June 2011, when the Executive Council voted to halt state participation in the funding of the clinics.
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The Real Risks of Birth Control Pills
The Real Risks of Birth Control Pills | Wellness Times: While there may be some truth to claims that the pill could play a role in preventing certain types of cancer in some women, it also appears to increase risks of other cancers, and it has many undesirable potential side effects—including some that are life-threatening.
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At the Center magazine's summer 2012 issue
More Than Food Stamps By Emily Chase
Divine Appointments By Elaine Ham
More Than Pregnancy Tests and Diapers By Amanda Naugle
Just Outside the Center Door By Sherry Camelleri
The Biology of the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link By Angela Lanfranchi, MD
The Legal Basics of the Pregnancy Resource Medical Clinic Model By Thomas A. Glessner, J.D. and Audrey Stout, R.N. R.D.M.S.
Are You a Contradiction? By Mark Hiehle
Divine Appointments By Elaine Ham
More Than Pregnancy Tests and Diapers By Amanda Naugle
Just Outside the Center Door By Sherry Camelleri
The Biology of the Abortion-Breast Cancer Link By Angela Lanfranchi, MD
The Legal Basics of the Pregnancy Resource Medical Clinic Model By Thomas A. Glessner, J.D. and Audrey Stout, R.N. R.D.M.S.
Are You a Contradiction? By Mark Hiehle
Wandering in a Fundraising Desert By Ron Haas
Marketing 101: Different Strokes for Different Folks By Jerry Thacker
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O Lord, Give Us Success!
Centerboard: O Lord, Give Us Success!: "What is success? What does it look like? Will I recognize it when I see it? What are the characteristics of success? How do I know if I've succeeded? These are good questions for PCC board and staff teams to ask." --The latest from Tom Lothamer in At the Center magazine
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Planned Parenthood Ignored Instructions to Call 911 In Tonya Reaves Abortion Death
Planned Parenthood Ignored Instructions to Call 911 In Tonya Reaves Abortion Death :Operation Rescue: Operation Rescue has obtained a recording and computer aided dispatch transcript that indicates on the same day that Tonya Reaves died from hemorrhage caused by a uterine perforation after a second trimester abortion, the Chicago Planned Parenthood that killed her ignored instructions from an emergency dispatcher to directly call 911 in the event of an emergency in order to prevent wasting precious time.
Tonya Reaves received her fatal abortion at 11:00 a.m. on July 20. As Reaves lay hemorrhaging, an employee called to report that elsewhere in the clinic a 16-year old patient was “physically assaulted” by her mother. The 911 Dispatcher is heard admonishing the Planned Parenthood worker for calling 311, which caused a delay in dispatching aid to the scene.
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Tonya Reaves received her fatal abortion at 11:00 a.m. on July 20. As Reaves lay hemorrhaging, an employee called to report that elsewhere in the clinic a 16-year old patient was “physically assaulted” by her mother. The 911 Dispatcher is heard admonishing the Planned Parenthood worker for calling 311, which caused a delay in dispatching aid to the scene.
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'Ugly Black Babies' says Charlotte Abortionist
'Ugly Black Babies' says Charlotte Abortion Doctor - Christian Newswire: Abortion doctor Ashutosh Ron Virmani is caught on tape referring to the black children he kills as "ugly black babies."
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Before I Formed You in the Womb (print): Special price and background story
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Appeals Court Blocks Arizona Abortion Law
Appeals Court Blocks Arizona Abortion Law - WSJ.com: A federal appeals court temporarily halted a controversial Arizona law that would ban most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The decision is a victory for abortion-rights advocates who have sought to block the enforcement of the new law, which was scheduled to take effect on Thursday.
The law, which was passed by the state's Republican legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer in April, would criminalize most abortions after 20 weeks except in medical emergencies. The decision comes just two days after a federal judge refused to block the statute, saying it didn't impose a "substantial obstacle" to the procedure. The judge said it was consistent with standards set by federal courts, and that Arizona had the right to enact such a law.
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The law, which was passed by the state's Republican legislature and signed by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer in April, would criminalize most abortions after 20 weeks except in medical emergencies. The decision comes just two days after a federal judge refused to block the statute, saying it didn't impose a "substantial obstacle" to the procedure. The judge said it was consistent with standards set by federal courts, and that Arizona had the right to enact such a law.
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A biblical solution to the maternity care crisis (and much more)
A biblical solution to the maternity care crisis (and much more) | American Vision: One of the greatest but most overlooked needs in America is maternity care for inner-city women. When many of these women become pregnant, they are often pressured into considering an abortion. Even if they choose to keep their baby, the quality of maternity care they receive is often compromised and many women do not receive any prenatal care before going to the emergency room for labor and delivery.
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Study: Proof That We Sexually Objectify Women
Study: Proof That We Sexually Objectify Women - Lindsay Abrams - The Atlantic: Few would argue that the objectification of women is a real thing -- and a real problem -- but as yet there's been no cognitive explanation for it in a literal sense. Do we really look at women differently than we do men, and are they actually objectified in the eye -- and brain -- of the beholder?
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Cohabiting women having more babies
Cohabiting women having more babies – USATODAY.com: As more unmarried couples in the USA move in together, more also are getting pregnant, a new government report suggests. The number of births overall to cohabiting women increased from 14% of all births in 2002 to 23% in 2006-10, according to the first federal report on intended and unintended births since 1990.
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Just say no: Why abstinence is the better way to go
Just say no: Why abstinence is the better way to go | LifeSiteNews.com: Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA), abstinence, truly lowers the rates of sexually transmitted infections and unintended teenage pregnancies as opposed to comprehensive sex education (CSE), which only focuses on reducing these risks.
Editor: Teaching young people to "just say no" is good in that it's like the parental instructions of Proverbs 1:8-9 -- "a graceful ornament on your head, and chains about your neck." But as experience has shown, young people -- especially Christians -- must also be encouraged to appropriate these lessons for themselves, maturing to the point (as described in Prov. 2:10) where "wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul." See also Why Unmarried Christians are Having Sex and Sex and Character. And, as though it needed to be said, Why Churches Shouldn't Push Contraceptives to Singles.
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Editor: Teaching young people to "just say no" is good in that it's like the parental instructions of Proverbs 1:8-9 -- "a graceful ornament on your head, and chains about your neck." But as experience has shown, young people -- especially Christians -- must also be encouraged to appropriate these lessons for themselves, maturing to the point (as described in Prov. 2:10) where "wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul." See also Why Unmarried Christians are Having Sex and Sex and Character. And, as though it needed to be said, Why Churches Shouldn't Push Contraceptives to Singles.
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3D replica of the fetus as memorabilia
Come to Japan and take home Shape of the Angle - a 3D replica of the fetus as memorabilia: A Japanese firm Fasotec is collaborating with Parkside Hiroo Ladies Clinic in Mintao-ku, Tokyo, to devise ‘Shape of the Angle’, a miniature 3D replica of the fetus that you can actually keep as a memorabilia. The process requires the fetus to be photographed using MRI, the photo is then processed with a custom built 3D software. A 3D printer is then used to create the resin for the mother’s body and the white resin for the fetus.
Editor: Centers, let's not get any crazy ideas.
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Editor: Centers, let's not get any crazy ideas.
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State of Michigan's Infant Mortality Reduction Plan Released
SOM - State of Michigan's Infant Mortality Reduction Plan Released , Creating a healthier Michigan means ensuring babies survive: In Michigan, 5 out of every 1,000 Caucasian babies and 7 out of every 1,000 Hispanic babies die before their first birthdays. Among Michigan's African-American population, that rate is 14 out of every 1,000 babies born. To address infant mortality and the large disparities that exist in our state, the Michigan Department of Community Health today released Michigan's Infant Mortality Reduction Plan.
Editor: The plan includes a call for an expansion of Michigan's abstinence program, The Michigan Model, to additional communities. The Michigan Model promotes abstinence plus information about contraception (see pages 14 and 21 of the plan).
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Editor: The plan includes a call for an expansion of Michigan's abstinence program, The Michigan Model, to additional communities. The Michigan Model promotes abstinence plus information about contraception (see pages 14 and 21 of the plan).
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Planned Parenthood seeking donations on Central Texas streets
Planned Parenthood seeking donations on Central Texas streets: Workers from Planned Parenthood have taken to Central Texas streets to drum up support in the wake of what officials from the organization say has been a tough year. The campaign, which has placed workers in Bastrop, Austin, Round Rock and Georgetown, has so far turned up donations from more than 4,000 people, totaling more than $165,000.
Editor: This is simply insane!
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Editor: This is simply insane!
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Mix & Match Girl, Marathon Girl, and Monument Girl
Lies Young Women Believe | Mix & Match Girl, Marathon Girl, and Monument Girl: Paula Hendricks talks about three of the biblical womanhood counterfeits, frauds, and fakes.
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Solid Majority of U.S House of Representatives Votes to Prevent Abortion of Pain-Capable Unborn Children
Solid Majority of U.S House of Representatives Votes to Prevent Abortion of Pain-Capable Unborn Children | NRL News Today: But 154 Lawmakers Vote to Defend Current D.C. Policy of Legal Abortion for Any Reason Until Birth
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A Fact Ignored by the WHO
A Fact Ignored by the WHO | First Things: “Experts do not know all the elements that can set off early labor.” The Times quoted an author of the WHO report: “Even after controlling for risk factors like age, poverty, smoking, obesity and diabetes, ‘we really don’t have an explanation for what’s behind it.’”
Unfortunately, one significant, and modifiable, risk factor for preterm birth was completely ignored by the WHO report: prior termination of pregnancy. There is a large and growing body of scientific data documenting this risk factor for pre-term birth. More than 120 peer-reviewed studies, from more than a dozen countries, have found a statistically significant increased risk of preterm birth or low-birth weight after a termination of pregnancy.
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Unfortunately, one significant, and modifiable, risk factor for preterm birth was completely ignored by the WHO report: prior termination of pregnancy. There is a large and growing body of scientific data documenting this risk factor for pre-term birth. More than 120 peer-reviewed studies, from more than a dozen countries, have found a statistically significant increased risk of preterm birth or low-birth weight after a termination of pregnancy.
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The Beauty Of Biblical Balance
Themelios | Article: The Beauty Of Biblical Balance - The Gospel Coalition: Balance is not always a virtue. For example, when Scripture commands us to love God with our whole being (Deut 6:4-5; Mark 12:29-30), it does not add, "Of course, all things in moderation: one must balance love for God with other priorities." Applied in the wrong contexts, the appeal for balance may be a mask for moral indifference and spiritual compromise. But let me assume that we have heeded the warning and turn to some of the different axes around which we need to maintain balance.
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