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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Newborn baby girl discarded in bin and left to die in plastic bag... with her throat cut

Daily Mail: An abandoned newborn baby is recovering in hospital after having her throat cut, being put in a plastic bag and thrown into a garbage bin in China's Liaoning province. The female baby - so newborn that her placenta and umbilical cord were still attached -was discovered by a man who was searching a bin for recyclables.

Note the ironic subheading -- "FAMILY PLANNING ON A BIBLICAL SCALE: PREVENTING 400 MILLION BIRTHS"

Judge rules Ariz. 20-wk. abortion ban may take effect

Judge rules Ariz. 20-wk. abortion ban may take effect - CBS News: Arizona's ban on abortions starting at 20 weeks of pregnancy will take effect this week as scheduled after a federal judge ruled Monday that the new law is constitutional, but reproductive rights groups hope to challenge the decision with an emergency appeal.

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Courts Continue Glacial Pace As Kansas Abortion Clinics Run Amok

Courts Continue Glacial Pace As Kansas Abortion Clinics Run Amok :Operation Rescue: Pro-life groups in Kansas have been trying to pass clinic licensing requirements since 2003 in order to add a layer of protection for women seeking services at abortion clinics that have never been inspected or accountable to any safety standards.

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Former cop paid for abortion to hush up 15-year-old

Former cop paid for abortion to hush up 15-year-old girl, police say | LifeSiteNews.com: The office of Sierra County Sheriff Joe Baca said Noah Pestak met the minor after he picked her up as a runaway while serving in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. After learning of her pregnancy, Pestak paid $425 for an abortion, scheduled to take place on May 23 or 24 – but the teen changed her mind after missing the appointment. Prosecutor Scot Key said Pestak hoped the abortion would “get rid of potential evidence” of a criminal sexual relationship with a minor. The age of consent in New Mexico is 16, or 18 if the adult is in a position of authority.

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Pro-life summer camp

Pro-life summer camp | todaysthv.com: A group of Arkansas teenagers are working to advance the pro-life movement. Topics covered in Camp Joshua include: Abortion 101, Euthanasia 102, Pro-Life Persuasion, and The Impact of Abortion.

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Ex-prosecutor: Victim's miscarriage won't affect homicide charges in Colo. theater shooting

Ex-prosecutor: Victim's miscarriage won't affect homicide charges in Colo. theater shooting: A former prosecutor said Sunday the man accused of shooting and killing 12 people and wounding 58 others at a Colorado movie theater won't face an additional homicide charge after one of the victims who was critically injured suffered a miscarriage. Defense attorney Karen Steinhauser, a former prosecutor and current adjunct professor at the University of Denver, said homicide charges in Colorado only apply to those "who had been born and alive. Legally, it doesn't fit the definition."

The family of Ashley Moser, who was critically wounded in the July 20 shooting in Aurora, said in a statement Saturday she is recovering from surgery but the trauma caused the miscarriage. Moser suffered gunshot wounds to her neck and abdomen. Her daughter, 6-year-old Veronica Moser-Sullivan, was the youngest person killed in the attack.

Editor: Interesting to read the headlines from around the world on this story. About half refer to this loss at 8 weeks gestation as a "miscarriage" and half as an "unborn baby."

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New survey on teen sexual activity fails to present whole story

New survey on teen sexual activity fails to present whole story | LifeSiteNews.com: Perhaps abstinence and sexual restraint are playing a greater role in the teen abortion decline than many in the mainstream media are willing to admit.

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Induced abortion and maternal suicide

Prolife OBGYNS – AAPLOG – American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians & Gynecologists » Induced abortion and maternal suicide: For those who believe in "evidence based medicine," the evidence for abortion associated complications is abundant. Increased mental health effects (depression, PTSD, anxiety), preterm birth, breast cancer, placenta previa, and SUICIDE all have a well documented evidence trail. 


SUICIDE?? Did you not know about abortion and suicide? You do now. Two huge studies are noted on our website, both with prospective data, computer based. The Finnish study by Gisler includes 697,000 pregnancies, and looks at maternal health status one year after delivery and one year after abortion. The suicide rate is six times higher after abortion. A second study by Reardon in southern California, involving 173,000 pregnant women over an 8 year period, showed a the suicide rate for women who had abortions to be 3.1 times higher than women who delivered. 

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Black Pro-Life Leaders Call for Planned Parenthood to be Held Accountable

Black Pro-Life Leaders Call for Planned Parenthood to be Held Accountable - Christian Newswire: The National Black Prolife Coalition expresses heartfelt sympathy to the family of Tonya Reaves -- the most recent victim of a botched abortion performed at a Chicago Planned Parenthood facility. Abortion, the most unregulated surgical procedure in the nation, has left a trail of dead women and over 54 million babies in its wake.

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Planned Parenthood Waited Five Hours Before Sending Abortion Victim to ER

Planned Parenthood Waited Five Hours Before Sending Abortion Victim to ER | LifeNews.com: Steve Miller of the CBS news affiliate WBBM has released a new report showing documents released in the botched abortion death of Tonya Reaves that alarmingly shows Planned Parenthood delayed summoning emergency care for the dying woman for five and a half hours after the abortion failed.

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Tonya Reaves: Her death is not an argument for banning abortion

Tonya Reaves: Her death is not an argument for banning abortion: Editor: Just saying it's not an argument is not an argument.

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Documents Reveal Tonya Reaves Suffered Incomplete Abortion, Perforated Uterus, and Fatal Delay in Emergency Care Access at Hands of Planned Parenthood

Documents Reveal Tonya Reaves Suffered Incomplete Abortion, Perforated Uterus, and Fatal Delay in Emergency Care Access at Hands of Planned Parenthood :Operation Rescue: New documents released in the Tonya Reaves tragedy reveal a timeline leading to her death that clearly shows Planned Parenthood delayed summoning emergency care for the dying woman for five and a half hours after a severely botched abortion.

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Skin cream made from aborted fetal skin cells

KLTV: Back in 2004, a married couple in Switzerland became pregnant. The couple's fetus was diagnosed with posterior encephalocele. The brain was deformed, the brain stem was underdeveloped and the retinas were not formed correctly.

Doctors said the fetus wouldn't survive, so the parents decided to terminate the pregnancy. But before doing so, the parents sent some of the fetus' cells to a cell bank. And cloned proteins from those cells were used to make NeoCutis skin cream.

. . . "Most physicians aren't going to know for sure how this was developed in its early stages," said Dr. Charles Kay, bioethicist at Wofford College. "It's important to note that fetal tissues, stem cells - these are not ingredients in these preparations. These are simply the origins of the cells which produce the proteins, and are in turn, the ingredients."

. . . NeoCutis is quite blunt about the use of fetal skin cells on their website. . . . The letters "PSP" on the front of the tube indicate the cream was made from "processed skin cell proteins."

Pregnancy Center Coming to Most Downtrodden Part of Austin, Texas

Pregnancy Center Coming to Most Downtrodden Part of Austin, Texas | LifeNews.com: The intersection of 12th Street and Chicon is known to be one of the most crime-ridden corners of the city, where drug-dealing and prostitution are rampant. Debi Wehmeier will bring a message of hope to that area of Austin on September 9, 2012. “For many years Christian leaders in and around Austin have prayed for God to make a way for a pregnancy resource center to be opened at 12th and Chicon,” Debi said. ”It is an area of gentrification. There is a huge need to serve the families in that area.”

Chicon Pregnancy Resource Center has partnered with Mission Possible and Christian Women’s Job Corps to help start the new pregnancy ministry.

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Obama gives $426,000 to North Carolina Planned Parenthood after state votes to defund

Obama gives $426,000 to North Carolina Planned Parenthood after state votes to defund | LifeSiteNews.com: The Department of Health and Human Services has given $426,000 in Title X funding to Planned Parenthood. Earlier this month, North Carolina lawmakers voted to override a veto by Democratic Governor Beverly Perdue and end all family planning grants, effectively depriving Planned Parenthood of $125,000 in state taxpayer dollars.

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Congress Asked to Investigate Planned Parenthood Abortion Death

Congress Asked to Investigate Planned Parenthood Abortion Death | LifeNews.com: In response to news that a young woman, Tonya Reaves, died after a botched abortion at Planned Parenthood, the Susan B. Anthony List renewed the call for a congressional investigation into the abortion provider.

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Pro-Abortion Vandalism in Seattle

Brainstorming: How Do We Respond to This Act of Pro-Abortion Vandalism in Seattle?: Pro-abortion activists are praising someone who vandalized a pro-life pregnancy resource center’s advertisement on a major bus route in Seattle, WA with this sticker: “Be advised: this is an anti-choice organization. They will NOT present you with all your legal & medical options. Call Planned Parenthood instead: [number].”

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Congressman Introduces PRO-LIFE Act

Randy Neugebauer Introduces PRO-LIFE Act: U.S. Representative Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) introduced H.R. 6173, the PRO-LIFE Act (Protecting Life in Funding Education Act). The bill restricts federal funding to state and local educational agencies that contract with school-based health centers, unless those centers certify they will not perform abortions or provide abortion-related materials or suggestions to any student.

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The Office: Blessings In Disguise

Time to Fly: The Office: Blessings In Disguise: Good reminder -- "It is during the interruptions when ministry happens."

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15 Texas Planned Parenthood facilities closed by defunding

STOPP - Stop Planned Parenthood - 15 Texas Planned Parenthood facilities closed by defunding: Not one of the nine Planned Parenthood affiliates in Texas received a contract for fiscal year 2012. Combined, the nine affiliates lost over $12 million annually from the federal government’s Titles V, X, and XX funding.

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President Obama's Insensitive Comments Supporting Planned Parenthood

Obama Disrespects Dead Abortion Victim With Insensitive Comments Supporting Planned Parenthood :Operation Rescue: In light of the death of Tonya Reaves at a Chicago Planned Parenthood abortion clinic, Operation Rescue called remarks the president made in Oregon yesterday "political cronyism at its worst that places women in a second-class citizen category as a matter of public policy."

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Exposure to sexual content in popular movies predicts sexual behavior in adolescence

Exposure to sexual content in popular movies predicts sexual behavior in adolescence: study | LifeSiteNews.com: Researchers at New Hampshire’s Dartmouth College are urging parents to protect their children from sexual content in films as they release a new six-year study that found viewing such content has a significant impact on the sexual behaviour of young adults.

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Ambulance arrives at Illinois Planned Parenthood for second patient on same day

Ambulance arrives at Illinois Planned Parenthood for second patient on same day | LifeSiteNews.com: A second woman appears to have been injured at an Illinois Planned Parenthood in a likely botched abortion on Saturday, in addition to a young woman who died from the procedure the same day, reports a national pro-life group.

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Appeals court upholds SD abortion suicide advisory

Appeals court upholds SD abortion suicide advisory - AP State Wire News - The Sacramento Bee: Doctors in South Dakota must warn women seeking abortions that they face an increased risk of suicide if they go through with the procedure, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the portion of the 2005 South Dakota law dealing with the suicide advisory 7-4.

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CDC: Nearly 40 percent of US Births Are Unintended

CDC: Nearly 40 percent of US Births Are Unintended - ABC News: In 1982, white, married women accounted for 66 percent of births in the United States; today, that group accounts for 43 percent of total births.

About 23 percent of married women had an unintended pregnancy, compared with 50 percent of unmarried women who were living with their baby's father and 67 percent of unmarried women not living with the baby's father.

Nearly 77 percent of teens' pregnancies were unintended, compared with 50 percent of women ages 20 to 24 and 25 percent of women ages 25 to 44.

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Website promotes alternatives to contraceptive culture

College-aged students flashy website promotes alternatives to damaging contraceptive culture | LifeSiteNews.com: In colleges from Texas A&M to Notre Dame and beyond, young people are using their media savvy skills to promote a chemical-free marriage. The youth-based network launched 1flesh.org, which presents countless scientific arguments against the now standard forms of contraceptives and offers an alternative -- natural family planning.

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Woman charged in teen's abortion

Woman charged in teen's abortion | Indianapolis Star | indystar.com: A Southern Indiana woman has been charged with arranging an abortion for a 15-year-old girl without the consent of the girl's legal guardians, Indiana State Police said Friday. Kacy L. Heath, 43, Owensville, is charged with conspiracy to commit identity theft and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Heath allegedly paid for the abortion and transported her to Grant City, Ill., in February for the procedure. Police said the girl was pregnant with the child of Heath's 21-year-old son, who was arrested earlier and charged with sexual misconduct with a minor.

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Washington, D.C., Tests for AIDS in Stores, Streets and Offices

Washington, D.C., Tests for AIDS in Stores, Streets and Offices - NYTimes.com: Angela Byrde has seen doctors several times a year since she was 12, but they never suggested that she be tested, even though she lives in a city with one of the country’s highest H.I.V. infection rates. Now the city, trying to find the estimated 5,000 Washingtonians who are infected but do not know it, is offering tests in grocery stores and high schools, on corners where addicts gather and even in motor vehicle offices. And it is paying people to take them.

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Woman admits ending pregnancy one week before due date

Woman admits ending pregnancy one week before due date - Crime - UK - The Independent: Sarah Catt is believed to have bought medication from the internet that would induce labor. At Leeds Crown Court today, Catt, 35, admitted procuring her own miscarriage. No evidence of the baby has ever been found.

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Identical twins start to differ in the womb

BioNews - Identical twins start to differ in the womb, study shows: Despite sharing the same womb, identical twins are born with different alterations to their DNA that can affect the activity of individual genes.
These modifications, known as epigenetic markers, are thought to be caused by environmental factors. The process adds chemical tags to the DNA, which alters a gene's activity, but not its sequence.

Although previous studies have shown that identical twins do have different sets of epigenetic markers, it was thought that the changes occurred after birth, when the twins experience different environments. However, in this first analysis of the epigenetic profiles of newborn human babies, differences are already apparent straight after birth.

'Twins, like the rest of us, sit in their own amniotic sac and have their own individual experiences', lead researcher Dr Jeffrey Craig told International Business Times. The study, published in Genome Research, suggests that even small differences in womb environment, such as availability of nutrients or the influence of the placenta and umbilical cord, could be responsible.

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October Baby now out on DVD

October Baby Movie Event: Your church, PCC, or other organization can use this powerful film as a ministry tool before the DVD is even available in stores and can be used as a fundraiser for life. Purchase the authorized movie event license for group showings.

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The sober-judgment board

ECFA's FOCUS on Accountability Quarterly Newsletter (page 1): Sooner or later, a wise board will want to assess its own work and evaluate the quality of its oversight. So, what is the biblical way to think about board self-assessment?


Editor: May I suggest our Standards for Excellence assessment tool, for board assessment and assessment of other aspects of PCC ministry?

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Bar installs pregnancy test dispenser

Bar installs pregnancy test dispenser - AP State Wire News - The Sacramento Bee: The owner of a Mankato bar and restaurant has installed a pregnancy test dispenser in the women's restroom in an effort to prevent fetal alcohol syndrome.

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Oxygen network takes unprecedented look at adoption in America

Oxygen network takes unprecedented look at adoption in America | Fox News: Adoption may be something that nearly everyone is familiar with, but fewer may know what the process involves and just how difficult it can be for those involved. Oxygen Media is now attempting to fill that void with a new six-part docu-series entitled “I’m Having Their Baby,” which offers an inside look at the world of adopting a child, including the story of the birth mother and her experience in letting go and making such an important decision.

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Breaking the silence about abortion

Breaking the silence about abortion: Eva Wiseman | Life and style | The Observer: More and more abortion accounts are being told online. As women "come out" with their taboo-breaking reports, are we now hearing the whole story?

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How do you define purity?

How do you define purity? - Blog - Eternal Perspective Ministries: The greatest argument for sexual purity is God’s holiness. If we wish to be godly, we must wish to live in sexual purity.

This doesn’t mean being anti-sex. God has created our sexual identities as a gift. But a sexual relationship is to take place only in that sacred relationship of marriage between one man and one woman. We are sexual beings, whether married or not, but sex is reserved only for the marriage relationship. God is holy in his view of sex in marriage, and expects us to be holy, too.

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Woman dead after 2nd trimester abortion in Chicago

Operation Rescue: A CBS news affiliate in Chicago is reporting that a 24-year old woman died Friday, July 20, 2012, after receiving an abortion from a Planned Parenthood clinic located at 18 S. Michigan Ave. in Chicago, Illinois. The woman was transported from the Loop Health Center Planned Parenthood abortion clinic to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead at 11:20 P.M. The Chicago Sun-Times has identified the woman as Tonya Reaves of Chicago.

An autopsy conducted Saturday determined that she died from hemorrhage following a Dilation and Evacuation abortion. The D&E abortion method is one employed in pregnancies that have advanced beyond the first trimester. In involves opening the cervix and removing the pre-born baby by dismembering him or her. The Loop Health Center Planned Parenthood advertizes abortions up to 18 weeks.

. . . This incident follows a report published in the Chicago Tribune in June, 2011, that took to task abortionists in Illinois for failing to report abortion complications and exposed the fact that some abortionists did not report complications at all, in violation of the law. At that time, Illinois officials made no attempt to enforce abortion laws in that state. While the name of the abortionist responsible for this patient death is currently unknown, Planned Parenthood’s most recent 990 Tax Forms list abortionist Caroline M. Hoke as its Medical Director.

The Selling of Abortion

The Selling of Abortion | After Abortion: As many former abortion facility workers can testify, failing to help women who don’t really want to abort, withholding information, lying about fetal development and deciding “what’s best” for women hasn’t changed today. . . . One way to protect the rights of women is through legislation that would hold abortion facilities accountable for failing to screen women for coercion and risk factors that could increase their chances of psychological problems after abortion.

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Final Revocation of Tiller Associate Has National Implications

Final Revocation of Tiller Associate Has National Implications :Operation Rescue: Tiller and Neuhaus went from operating what was once considered the “best” late-term abortion clinic in the world to being disgraced quacks who exploited vulnerable women for financial and political gain. The end of Neuhaus’ medical career closes the book on Kansas’ long involvement as the World’s Abortion Capital and opens the doors for continued progress for the pro-life movement.

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Young women reveal deep regrets over teenage sex

Young women reveal deep regrets over teenage sex | News | The Christian Institute: Kirsten Dugdale, Kimberley Beaumont, and Emily Hackett have spoken about the regret, sorrow and emotional pain of having sex as teenagers, with one wishing she could tell her 14-year-old self to wait. It comes after a recent survey by the University of Glasgow revealed more than a third of teenage girls regret their decision to have sex so early.

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Scientologist: I suffered from ‘severe emotional distress’ after forced abortion

Scientologist: I suffered from ‘severe emotional distress’ after forced abortion | LifeSiteNews.com: Laura Ann DeCrescenzo has sued the church she joined at age nine, saying she has suffered extreme emotional distress as a result of her compulsory abortion.

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Bills cut Planned Parenthood funding

LifeSiteNews: Rep. Denny Rehberg  (R-MT) gave Planned Parenthood and NARAL plenty to complain about when he unveiled his Committee’s spending plan for the next fiscal year. To the delight of most taxpayers, Planned Parenthood would be the bill’s biggest casualty. With the blessing of Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-KY), conservatives took an axe to the organization’s federal gravy train—zeroing out every last penny to America’s largest abortion business. Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) tried to reinstate the funds in today’s mark-up, but failed 9-5. In fact, under the leadership of Rep. Rehberg, the Committee went the other direction adding a bundle of other pro-life policies. 

The Chairman also took the opportunity to attach the Abortion Non-Discrimination Act (ANDA) to the broader bill, which would help end discrimination against pro-lifers in the health care industry. If it survives, ANDA would give medical workers legal recourse if they’re sidelined for their pro-life views.

Sexual Risk Avoidance Education: Considerations for Protecting Teen Health

NAEA - National Abstinence Education Association - SRA Definitive Report: A definitive report released by the National Abstinence Education Association details the differences between two major sex education approaches being implemented in American schools and funded by the American taxpayer.

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I Chose Life with NO Regrets

I Chose Life with NO Regrets: My mom had always supported anything I would decide but she said, “make sure it’s a decision you can live with.”

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Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths

Asian Americans: A Mosaic of Faiths - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: When it comes to religion, the Asian-American community is a study in contrasts, encompassing groups that run the gamut from highly religious to highly secular. A new survey report examines the Asian-American population from the angle of religious affiliation, highlighting the beliefs, practices and views of diverse faith groups.

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4 Steps to Launching a Fundraiser on Pinterest

4 Steps to Launching a Fundraiser on Pinterest | Doing well. Doing Good.: It's easy to execute a cause marketing promotion on Pinterest.

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State Trends for 2012 on Abortion, Family Planning, Sex Education and Insurance

State Trends for 2012 on Abortion, Family Planning, Sex Education and Insurance: In the first half of the year, states enacted 95 new provisions related to reproductive health and rights; issues related to abortion, family planning funding and sex education were significant flashpoints in many legislatures. From the Guttmacher Institute.

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Miss. abortion clinic may be on way to closing

Miss. abortion clinic may be on way to closing - KGWN –Cheyenne, WY– Scottsbluff, NE News,Weather, Sports: Health officials have inspected Mississippi's lone abortion clinic, the first step in a process that could lead to its closure if a new state law survives a legal challenge. Following Monday's inspection, the Mississippi Department of Health has 10 working days to issue findings. The Jackson Women's Health Organization continues to perform abortions in the meantime.

News from other states:
ACLU Trying to Stop 20-Week Abortion Ban; Says "No Court Has Ever Upheld" Such a Law

Virginia AG won't certify abortion clinic rules
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The Beginning of the End of AIDS?

The Beginning of the End of AIDS? — NEJM: We are at a moment of extraordinary optimism in the response to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A series of scientific breakthroughs . . . have the potential to markedly expand the available preventive tools. There is evidence of the first cure of an HIV-infected person. And most important, the finding that early initiation of antiretroviral therapy can both improve individual patient outcomes and reduce the risk of HIV transmission to sexual partners by 96% has led many to assert what had so long seemed impossible: that control of the HIV pandemic may be achievable.

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Get to Know: Ypulse

Youth Marketing, Youth Media, Youth Research, Youth Insights - Teens, Tweens, Millennials | Ypulse: Ypulse is a youth market research firm. Interested in targeting youth? Want a deeper understanding of this new generation? "Our goal is to ignite consumer intimacy throughout your organization, so that every step of the creative process is not just inspired by, but also excited by, the wants, needs, and desires of this new generation of youth – the Millennials."

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5-year-old girl thriving after in-utero surgery to remove tumor

5-year-old girl thriving after in-utero surgery to remove tumor | Fox News: Kelly and her daughter, Addison, now 5 years old, were the second mother and child to undergo a fetal surgery procedure where doctors removed a tumor between the heart and lungs that was causing heart failure and fetal hydrops — a condition where Addison was taking on so much fluid that she would not likely survive.

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Free family-planning services underused

Free family-planning services underused, services, health, title - News - YumaSun: Men and women in the Yuma area who are impoverished and uninsured still have access to affordable reproductive health care at the Planned Parenthood Yuma Health Center, but officials say they are generally not using the services available to them.

“Uninsured individuals are not coming into our Yuma Health Center,” said Cynde Cerf, director of communications for Planned Parenthood of Arizona. “We have free care to provide and members of the community are not taking advantage of the care that is available to them.”

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E-Tips Issue #4 - Polity Setting Rules

Chase Advancement Incorporated » E-Tips Issue #4: FOUR POLICY SETTING RULES THAT SHOULD NEVER BE IGNORED, WITH BETH CHASE

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You Cannot Live The Gospel

What Is The Gospel? - SermonAudio.com: Most people in churches today have a false understanding of the Gospel. We associate it with things that are really the law. In this Sermon, Dr. Baucham discusses what the Gospel is "not" and what the Gospel "is".

This video -- You Cannot Live the Gospel -- is a snippet from the sermon.

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Teleseminar: Starting a Development Program from Scratch

Teleseminars Sponsored by NonProfit Direct: The NonProfit National Resource Directory: Thursday, July 26, 2012, Noon (EASTERN) Starting a Development Program from Scratch, Jean Block, Jean Block Consulting

Are you new to the world of resource development? Is your agency trying to improve your resource development? This teleseminar is designed just for you! You’ll learn the important elements to be included in a diversified development plan, the keys to success for each element and be inspired by a FUNdraiser with more than 45 years of experience, who started with a shoe box…and has raised millions since then. You, too, can go from a shoe box to success by following her practical advice.

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Illegal Dumping Uncovered at Carhart’s Maryland Late-term Abortion Clinic

Illegal Dumping Uncovered at Carhart’s Maryland Late-term Abortion Clinic :Operation Rescue: Formal complaints have been filed against abortionist LeRoy Carhart and his late-term abortion clinic in Germantown, Maryland, after an investigation by pro-life activists uncovered the illegal dumping of biohazardous waste, private patient medical information, and dangerous drugs.

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Obama administration’s harassment of pro-lifers gets personal

Obama administration’s harassment of pro-lifers gets personal | LifeSiteNews.com: On July 13 FBI agents Conrad Rodriguez and William Sivley paid a visit to Jill Stanek's son-in-law, Andy Moore, at his home. Andy is a pro-life activist who prays and protests outside the Southwest Women’s Surgery Center abortion mill in Dallas, where late-term abortionist Curtis Boyd freely acknowledges he “kill[s]” children. Here are some of the questions they asked in their "fishing expedition":

• What affiliations do you have including church groups?
• How long have you known your wife?
• What belief system makes you believe in your cause?
• What is your goal in protesting?
• Do you know why people would make complaints against you?
• Are there friends of yours or people you’re connected with that you could confidentially tell us are aggressive or abrasive? “Don’t be afraid to tell us.”
• Are you involved in activism in Austin, since we noticed some entries on abortionwiki?
• They were REALLY interested in the connection to Jill Stanek – details of internship, New Zealand speaking tour visit, did you get your activist and pro-life ideas from her? Did she train or teach you? Did you meet Jill before or after you became involved in the movement? Was it Jill who “fired you up” to become so active in the movement?
• They were overly nice saying he wasn’t in trouble and feel free to tell us anything. Encouraged him to keep going back out there, that they represent both sides. ++they are protecting his freedom of speech++ is what they kept saying.
• They said their task force that deals with these abortion cases also handles Hate Crimes and White Supremacy. Odd grouping with pro-lifers.
• They knew he was an immigrant. They said a felony on his record could/would get him deported. “You wouldn’t want to be apart from your wife and newborn.”

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Before I Formed You in the Womb… by Ron DiCianni

Before I Formed You in the Womb… (Before I Formed You in the Womb) by Ron DiCianni | Christian Art - Christian Framed Prints | Tapestry Productions: In Before I Formed You, Ron DiCianni makes the statement that each life, as we’re told in Scripture, is known and crafted by God for a purpose. How must it grieve the Author of Life, each time one of those precious lives is destroyed.

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National food company boasts huge pro-life billboards on semis

‘It’s good business’: National food company boasts huge pro-life billboards on semi-trailers | LifeSiteNews.com: JTM Food Group, which boasted $100 million in sales just last year, delivers their meals to schools, restaurants, the military, and government organizations using 20 semitrailers, each displaying a prodigious image of a beautiful smiling baby on the rear panel with the words “Life, what a beautiful choice.” The bottom reads: “JTM: A Right to Life Company.”

“It’s our opportunity to witness,” said Tony Maas, CEO of the business, which has been family owned and operated for three generations.

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Should We Stop Asking Jesus Into Our Hearts?

Should We Stop Asking Jesus Into Our Hearts? | Christianity Today: Salvation is a posture of repentance and faith toward the finished work of Christ in which you transfer the weight of your hopes of heaven off of your own righteousness and onto Jesus Christ. It does begin in a moment, but it persists for the rest of your life. The way to know you made the decision is by the posture you are currently in. The apostle John almost always talks about "believing" in the present tense because it is something we do continually, not something we did once in the past (e.g. John 3:36; 20:27-28; 9:36-38; 1 John 5:13). The posture begins at a moment, but it persists for a lifetime.

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Parents: Teen daughter murdered after abortion fight with boyfriend

Parents: Teen daughter murdered after abortion fight with boyfri - WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC: The parents of a murdered teen, found in a local park, say they know why she was killed. Hawa Gabbidon's parents say she was murdered after she and her boyfriend got into a fight about having an abortion. Gabbidon was almost two months pregnant.

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New Video Series Documents Pro-Life Concerns About Girl Scouts

New Video Series Documents Pro-Life Concerns About Girl Scouts | LifeNews.com: The producers say the videos demonstrate how the Girl Scouts’ official curriculum and website connects girls to pro-abortion role models and groups, as well as explicit sexual content. The video series provides an in-depth look at the facts behind the pro-life concerns over the Girl Scouts, including troubling content in the Journeys curriculum books and the Girl Scouts’ financial and mission-oriented relationships with pro-abortion groups like the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.

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Abstinence Education is Superior Sex Education Approach

NAEA - Congressional Report: Abstinence Education is Superior Sex Education Approach: The House Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee released a report on Friday (July 6, 2012) entitled A Better Approach to Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Sexual Risk Avoidance. The report examined the theory and the evidence behind both Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) Abstinence Education and Sexual Risk Reduction (SRR) "Comprehensive" Sex Education. It concluded that SRA is the superior approach and one that deserves policy priority.

• Read the Congressional report, A Better Approach to Teenage Pregnancy Prevention: Sexual Risk Avoidance here
• Read the NAEA report, Sexual Risk Avoidance Education: Considerations for Protecting Teen Health here
• Read the Abstinence Education Reallocation Act here

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Mississippi Judge Allows Law that Could Close Last Abortion Clinic to Take Effect For Now

Mississippi Judge Allows Law that Could Close Last Abortion Clinic to Take Effect For Now :Operation Rescue: Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue: "We are happy that Judge Daniel P. Jordan III has allowed Mississippi House Bill 1390 to go into effect for now, but are deeply distressed at his assessment that if the two abortionists in Mississippi were to stop doing abortions there, it would create an ‘undue burden.’"

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Get to Know: Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. (1830-1922)

Horatio Robinson Storer, M.D. (1830-1922)Horatio Storer is an early American gynecologist. He is even better known for the "physicians' crusade against abortion" which he started and carried out with the assistance of the American Medical Association.


Most people today are surprised to learn that induced abortion was common among married Protestant women in the United States in the 1850s. The "physicians' crusade" led to the passage of laws in almost every state that protected the fetus from conception. These physicians, and the new abortion laws they worked to create, taught people that the fetus was alive prior to "quickening," the point in the pregnancy when movements of the fetus were first felt by the woman.

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UK doctors routinely broke law on abortion

NHS doctors routinely broke law on abortion | News | The Christian Institute: Doctors at 14 NHS hospitals have been systematically breaking the law by pre-signing abortion consent forms, an investigation by the health watchdog has found.

Under the current law, two doctors must sign a referral form before a woman can go ahead with an abortion. But an investigation by the Care Quality Commission discovered hospitals using pre-signed forms, or forms on which the approval signatures had been photocopied, thereby allowing the second doctor to make the decision on their own.

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Fifty Shades of Grey: Why you don't want to read it

“Fifty Shades of Grey” | Abstinence Clearinghouse: Fifty Shades of Grey is flying off the shelves of every book store in the U.S. So why shouldn’t you read this popular book? The author of the following article gives four reasons.

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Fathers, Don’t Abort Your Daughters

Patheos: So you learned the baby you helped to conceive is a girl and not a boy. Already frightened by the idea of fatherhood, already concerned about all the hardships and sacrifices parenting entails, already disoriented by the potential radical change this requires in the way you envision your future, you feel now — even if only slightly — more inclined to want your partner to abort.

. . . So now you’re fantasizing about an abortion again, how one visit to a clinic could give you back the future you wanted, how you could escape from the whole situation and all the pressures it brought with it. You don’t feel ready for this. Your heart does not feel big enough. You’re still so selfish, so lazy, so irresponsible — and those are the things you like about yourself.

Don’t do it. Do not do it. Your daughter is waiting for you. She will expand and soften your heart. She will make you a better man. A daughter too is a blessing beyond measure. Give yourself to this, and she will make you into a protector and provider.

American Family Planning abortion clinic demolished

American Family Planning abortion clinic demolished | Pensacola News Journal | pnj.com: The American Family Planning clinic, the scene of a double murder and multiple fire-bombings during its years as an abortion clinic, is being razed. The City of Pensacola declared the Ninth Avenue building unsafe after a New Year’s Day arson fire damaged the rear section of the two-story, frame structure.

Editor: In an earlier article, the accused admitted setting the fire because he has a "strong disbelief in abortion." Baptists for Life's beliefs equally strong, but perhaps more consistent. We oppose the use of violence as a pro-life tactic. See also Should We Use Violence to Fight Abortion?

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Planned Parenthood Ad: "No Stress, No Worries, No More Pregnancies"

Planned Parenthood Ad: "No Stress, No Worries, No More Pregnancies" | LifeNews.com: An ad for Planned Parenthood read, “No stress, no worries, and no more pregnancies.” How’s that for a marketing slogan?

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Jon Voight (aka Angelina Jolie's dad) defends Brad Pitt’s mother after she receives death threats

Jon Voight defends Brad Pitt’s mother after she receives death threats | LifeSiteNews.com: Academy Award-winning actor Jon Voight, the father of Angelina Jolie, said he stands with Jane Pitt, who has received death threats since publishing her views supporting the rights of the unborn and traditional marriage—and opposing President Barack Obama.

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Five abortion workers leave industry

Five abortion workers leave industry thanks to Abby Johnson’s new ministry | LifeSiteNews.com: Abby Johnson quit her job as manager of a Texas Planned Parenthood in 2009, and is now helping other do the same with her new ministry. And Then There Were None—which offers emotional, spiritual, legal, and financial support to those leaving the abortion industry—has helped 22 abortion workers leave their jobs since being launched in June.

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Undercover Sting Exposes Illicit Late-Term Abortion Clinic in Maryland

Undercover Sting Exposes Illicit Late-Term Abortion Clinic in Maryland :Operation Rescue: Operation Rescue staff members, posing as potential late-term abortion customers, began recording a series of conversations with James Scott Pendergraft, IV, of Florida, which document a suspicious bi-state abortion business aggressively advertized on the Internet as LateTermAbortion.net.

Disability and the divorce rate

Daniel Vance: "In my first decade involved in disability issues, I repeatedly heard people claim that marriages involving parents of children with disabilities had a divorce rate of more than 75 percent. . . . After reviewing the literature, I found no credible evidence married couples raising children with disabilities experienced that high of a divorce rate. . . . I guess if you speak untruths long enough, people will believe it."

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Keener Marketing Sanctity of Human Life Inserts for PCCs

Keener Marketing PRC Sanctity of Human Life Inserts: The anniversary of Roe v. Wade is the perfect time to remind your community of the valuable service that you provide, enlist new volunteers, and increase donations. Our bulletin inserts are designed to be used year round so order extras for church speaking engagements!

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Pregnancy Health & Fitness

Amanda Hargreaves | Pregnancy Health & Fitness: "Many women have concerns about exercising whilst pregnant – and about getting their figure back afterwards. That’s why I spent over three years designing and producing workout programmes to help you exercise safely and effectively throughout your pregnancy and beyond." She's giving away her pre- and post-natal workouts for FREE!

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Meet the Woman in Charge of the Last Abortion Clinic in Mississippi

Daily Beast: After nearly four decades working in, running, and owning abortion clinics, both her champions and her opponents call her the “abortion queen.” That Diane Derzis, the owner of the state’s last abortion clinic, embraces that moniker is one of the myriad reasons Mississippi’s prolife absolutists want to put her out of business.

Former Planned Parenthood employee sues abortion giant claiming massive Medicaid fraud

Former Planned Parenthood employee sues abortion giant claiming massive Medicaid fraud | LifeSiteNews.com: Another former Planned Parenthood employee is accusing the abortion giant of engaging in systemic fraud, according to a lawsuit made public today. Attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom (formerly the Alliance Defense Fund) filed the suit on behalf of former Planned Parenthood clinic director Sue Thayer against the abortion giant’s Iowa affiliate in March 2011. The suit accuses Planned Parenthood of having submitted “repeated false, fraudulent, and/or ineligible claims for reimbursements” to Medicaid and failed to meet acceptable standards of medical practice.

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Fertility Drugs Mean Breast Cancer Risk? Depends on If You Get Pregnant

Fertility Drugs Mean Breast Cancer Risk? Depends on If You Get Pregnant, Study Says - ABC News: Scientists have been concerned about the effects of fertility drugs in recent years, citing a possible relationship between the hormones altered by the drugs and those implicated in breast cancer. Studies attempting to pinpoint the link between fertility drugs and cancer risk have varied widely in their conclusions. Some have found a reduction in cancer risk, some an increased risk. Others found no connection at all.

But researchers at the National Institutes of Health found that although the drugs seem to reduce breast cancer risk in young women, the risk goes up when they get pregnant.

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Summer 2012 Eternal Perspective Ministries

Summer 2012 - Quarterly Newsletters - Eternal Perspective Ministries: This issue includes --

• Can We Be Good Without God?
• Can't you see that I'm busy?
• What Not to Wear 
• What to Do If You Wake Up Feeling Fragile

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At the Center magazine Spring 2012 edition

• Centerboard: Hire a Leader and Get Out of the Way! By Tom Lothamer 
• The Love Chapter: 1 Corinthians 13 By Dianne Pomon 
• Help! My Client Is Single and Pregnant. What Do I Do Now? By Elaine Ham 
• Deneutralized: Every Center Has the Potential to Shine! By Dr. Christopher Gustafson 
• About-Face By Jeffrey D. Miller 
• Shepherding Your Center By Pat Stonestreet 
• Abortion Is Not Safer Than Childbirth: Get the Facts and Share the Truth By Thomas A. Glessner, J.D. and Audrey Stout, R.N. R.D.M.S. 
• Being Real By Mark Hiehle 
• You're Not Asking for Yourself By Ron Haas 
• Marketing 101: The Mobile Wave By Jerry Thacker

‘I entered a sanctuary’: Woman who posted pictures of her abortion speaks

‘I entered a sanctuary’: Woman who posted pictures of her abortion speaks | LifeSiteNews.com: “Jane Young” said she posted images of her 2011 abortion on her website, ThisIsMyAbortion.com, “to counter the perverse use of dead fetus images used by the anti-abortion movement.”

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London 2012: women told to stock morning-after pill

London 2012: women told to stock morning-after pill | News | The Christian Institute: Women in Greater London are being encouraged to stock up on the morning-after pill (MAP) for free in preparation for disruption caused by this summer’s Olympic Games. The morning-after pill can cause an early term abortion.

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Abortions Have Made Life Better for Millions Of Men: It's About Time to Speak Up in Support

Alternet: One in three women in America will have an abortion at some point in her life. There are roughly twice as many abortions as LASIK procedures performed in any given year. Given that overwhelming prevalence, it's high time for women who have had abortions to come out, step up, stand by their choices -- and refuse delivery on all attempts to burden them with regret or shame.

. . . But through all of this fresh energy and determination, there's one set of big, deep voices that's conspicuously missing. We need to hear from the men, too.

For every single woman who's ever had an abortion, there's a man somewhere in the story. For every woman who was able to delay motherhood until a better moment, or improve her existing kids' chances by not enlarging her brood, or end a pregnancy that was doomed to end in tragedy and pain, there's also a man out there who is not a father today -- or is a better father to the kids he has -- because a woman he was involved with had the means to make this decision.

Two Abortion Injuries on Same Day Land Women in Hospitals in Two States

Two Abortion Injuries on Same Day Land Women in Hospitals in Two States :Operation Rescue: Saturday was a particularly dangerous day for abortion-bound women in Massachusetts and Georgia as two abortion clinics in those states sent patients to local hospitals by ambulance. Both July 7 incidents were photographed by pro-life activists.

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Pro-abortion violence

Pro-choicers injure pro-life vet & elderly man in 2 separate attacks: Everett Stadig was collecting personhood initiative signatures in front of a Denver grocery store on July 1 when he was shoved to the ground by an enraged abortion supporter and fractured his hip.

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Pre-Abortion Screening Law to Take Effect in South Dakota

Pre-Abortion Screening Law to Take Effect in South Dakota | After Abortion: A federal court has dissolved an injunction against enforcement of a new law in South Dakota that requires abortion doctors to screen women for coercion and other factors that increase the risk of psychological complications after abortion. Beginning July 1, physicians must screen women for coercion and other risk factors for psychological complications before scheduling an abortion.

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Mississippi Abortion Clinic Deceptively Hides Abortion Abuses in Court Challenge

Mississippi Abortion Clinic Deceptively Hides Abortion Abuses in Court Challenge :Operation Rescue: The Jackson Women’s Health Organization (JWHO), the last abortion clinic in the state of Mississippi, filed a suit in Federal Court in an effort to block the July 1 implementation of a new law that would require all abortionists to have privileges at a local hospital. Operation Rescue has learned that the clinic’s court pleadings omit key information about their primary abortionist’s botched abortion history in a deceptive gambit to conceal the truth about his atrocious safety record.

Related: State Cites Safety Concerns In Defending Mississippi Law That Could Close Its Last Abortion Clinic

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Bronx Abortion Mill Charged in Illegal Dumping Case, Loses Accreditation

Bronx Abortion Mill Charged in Illegal Dumping Case, Loses Accreditation :Operation Rescue: Dr. Emily’s abortion clinic in the Bronx, New York, has been formally charged based on complaints filed by Operation Rescue in January related to the illegal dumping of private medical information and aborted baby remains and other infectious waste on a city sidewalk outside the abortion clinic.

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34% of women seeking abortion choose life when offered help

34% of women seeking abortion choose life when offered help: Mexico City gov. | LifeSiteNews.com: The city’s secretary of health, Armando Ahued Ortega, reports that during the five years that abortion-on-demand has been legal and subsidized by the city, it has received 125,000 requests for abortion services. However, it has only conducted 82,000. A total of 43,000 women have changed their minds and decided not to abort.

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Coaches Tip, with Phil Holsinger

Coaches Tip, with Phil Holsinger | Blue Ridge Women's Center: "One of the greatest struggles I see with multi location pregnancy resource organizations is that the unique approach to one location may be significantly different in another location. Failure to recognize and adapt to this difference can be a difficult process for your entire team. I have also observed a trend in our national effort to bring conformity and uniformity, at times, without recognition of the uniqueness of the community. "

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New Obama Planned Parenthood Funding Totals $1.2 Million

New Obama Planned Parenthood Funding Totals $1.2 Million | LifeNews.com: The Obama administration has sent a family planning grant of $395,000, but additional information shows the grant is an annual one that the abortion giant will receive in Memphis for three years — totaling almost $1.2 million. Barry Chase, executive director of Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis, told the Tennessean newspaper that the money from the Obama administration will replace the $700,000 in funding the state formerly provided it.

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Minnesota Abortions Drop to Lowest Levels Since 1975

Minnesota Abortions Drop to Lowest Levels Since 1975 | LifeNews.com: Abortion numbers dropped for the fifth straight year in Minnesota, according to the latest annual report issued today by the Minnesota Department of Health. The decrease of 3.7 percent follows a trend of fewer abortions statewide since the Positive Alternatives program began in July 2006, funding efforts to help pregnant women who may consider abortion.

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British Medical Association Calls for Better Abortion Counseling

British Medical Association Calls for Better Abortion Counseling | LifeNews.com: The British Medical Association has voted on two important motions, including one supporting the provision of independent counseling for women considering an abortion that is separate from counseling directly from those that sell abortions. Another motion which would have changed the BMA position on assisted suicide from ‘against’ to ‘neutral’ was not passed.

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