Proposal to regulate anti-abortion counselors is a bad idea
Free choice, free speech: Proposal to regulate anti-abortion counselors is a bad idea: It is never a good idea for lawmakers to draft legislation based solely on the urgings of advocates for one cause or another, and it is particularly dangerous when the measure in question could curtail First Amendment rights.
Planned Parenthood’s 26K Feet for Under $9m
Big Office Condo Deal! Nonprofit’s 26K Feet for Under $9 M. | The New York Observer: A nonprofit has made a short hop to some new downtown space, but a big leap to ownership. The International Planned Parenthood Federation has snapped up 26,000 square feet downtown for less than $9 million.
The foundation has taken the entire ninth floor at 125 Maiden Lane. 'It's almost unheard of for a nonprofit to purchase its real estate today,' broker Suzanne Sunshine said. 'Banks and government are no longer providing the kind of financing like they used to.'
To make the new owners feel at home, there's also a landscaped roof deck, a courtyard with river views, and a fully equipped exercise room.
Teleseminar: Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign?
Thursday, October 28, 2010, Noon (Eastern): "Are You Ready for a Capital Campaign: Capital Campaign Planning Studies" with Linda Lysakowski of Capital Venture
In this session we will examine your organization's internal and external readiness to conduct a campaign. We will discuss the infrastructure needed to run a successful campaign-board involvement, staffing, technology, and the case for support. We will also discuss the planning/feasibility study-do you need one, what you should expect from the study, and what to do if the study says you are not ready for a campaign. NonProfit National Resource Directory
In this session we will examine your organization's internal and external readiness to conduct a campaign. We will discuss the infrastructure needed to run a successful campaign-board involvement, staffing, technology, and the case for support. We will also discuss the planning/feasibility study-do you need one, what you should expect from the study, and what to do if the study says you are not ready for a campaign. NonProfit National Resource Directory
What is the effect of "Ella" on a teenage woman's body?
Dr. Donna Harrison, OBGYN and president of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) discusses safety concerns for adolescent women who might take ella.
Planned Parenthood Operating in Stealth Mode in Lubbock, Texas
ALL: Planned Parenthood in Lubbock, Texas Operating in Stealth Mode: Supporters have alerted American Life League that Aaron Women’s Clinic, an abortion center in Lubbock, Texas, is being operated by Planned Parenthood. The center is the only abortion business in the Plains region and another example of Planned Parenthood’s shift from its oft-touted abortifacient birth control business to a full-blown surgical abortion facility.
First Two Babies Saved
PRAISE GOD!!! We have just found out about our first two babies saved today because of students taking part in the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity.
Pregnant Girlfriend Forced To Abortion Clinic; 6 Counts For Accused
Pregnant Girlfriend Forced To Abortion Clinic; 6 Counts For Accused | NBC 4i: A Columbus man is indicted on six counts after he is accused of kidnapping the mother of his unborn baby and forcing her to go to an abortion clinic at gunpoint.
NRLC mourns the death of Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson :: :: ProLifeBlogs
NRLC mourns the death of Dr. Mildred F. Jefferson :: :: ProLifeBlogs: 'The right-to-life movement has lost a champion and a pioneer. And we have lost a dear friend,' said Darla St. Martin, NRLC co-executive Director. 'Mildred Jefferson was a valued colleague in our fight for the most vulnerable members of our society and she will be greatly missed.'
Images of silent pro-life solidarity from around the world
On his blog, Bryan Kemper is posting photos of students participating in Italy, Czech Republic, Greece, Belgium, Africa, Wales, and Germany -- as well as the US.
Pro-Lifers Risk Trespass Violation in Case of Coerced Abortion
Pro-Life News of the Day: Last Saturday: "We cried with her. She said that she didn’t want an abortion, she just didn’t feel like there was any other option." Then along came the blonde woman.
Silence to Rock Thousands of Campuses Tuesday as Students Protest Abortion
Silence to Rock Thousands of Campuses Tuesday as Students Protest Abortion: On Tuesday morning, students from thousands of schools around the world will keep silence and refuse to speak as a protest against the silencing of countless innocent children by abortion.
Leaders of the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity, a project of Stand True – Christ Centered Pro-Life, say hundreds of thousands of students will lose their voice in solidarity with their brothers and sisters who will never have a voice. Last year Stand True heard from participants that over 80 girls canceled their abortions on the day of the event due to the silent campaign.
Many home-schooled students will also participate in the event by visiting local malls and other public areas to distribute flyers. There is no cost to participate in the event. Flyers are available for download in PDF format at www.silentday.org. Students can also follow the event on twitter at www.twitter.com/prolifeday. Retweet their messages and create huge traffic!
Leaders of the Pro-life Day of Silent Solidarity, a project of Stand True – Christ Centered Pro-Life, say hundreds of thousands of students will lose their voice in solidarity with their brothers and sisters who will never have a voice. Last year Stand True heard from participants that over 80 girls canceled their abortions on the day of the event due to the silent campaign.
Many home-schooled students will also participate in the event by visiting local malls and other public areas to distribute flyers. There is no cost to participate in the event. Flyers are available for download in PDF format at www.silentday.org. Students can also follow the event on twitter at www.twitter.com/prolifeday. Retweet their messages and create huge traffic!
1 in 3 First-Time Births Are Cesarean Deliveries
1 in 3 First-Time Births Are Cesarean Deliveries: One in three first-time mothers are being delivered by cesarean section, and prelabor repeat cesarean deliveries contribute almost one-third of cesarean deliveries overall, according to a National Institutes of Health study. The findings suggest that preventing unnecessary primary cesarean deliveries could substantially reduce the high cesarean delivery rate in the United States – which has increased more than 50% since 1996 and appears to be on a continued upward trajectory.
No shame in aborting unborn life?
No shame in aborting unborn life | Herald Sun: "It's time we realise that having an abortion doesn't mean you don't care about the unborn life you are carrying." Huh? That's exactly what it means!
Not satisfied with the status quo
Why is it only 10% of the entire client load at the average medical PCC represents pregnant women seriously considering abortion? Can those PCCs reverse that trend to 90% or more? The bad news is that we have only found one way to fix this problem and it cannot be done in less than 4 months and with nothing short of changing the way services are offered. To read a more detailed history of the pregnancy resource center model and why it is not working click the following link: Analysis of Why the PRC Is Not Working and How to Fix It
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- How FUN Are Your Special Events?
- When Special Events Are Not Special
- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 50 Plus Questions for Your Special Event
- “How Special Are Your Special Events?” 5 Ways to pump up your event online!
- Ghoulies, and Ghosties and Long-legged Beasties: Keeping Your Head While Planning Special Events (don't be turned off by the title)
Vote for Life
Vote for Life | Americans United for Life Action At votingforlife.com, you can register to vote, get critical early voting information, tell a friend how they can help, share this effort on your blog, get the word out on Facebook and Twitter, and even get your own “Voting for Life” bumper sticker!
New photos of 10-week-old fetus
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| Photo by Suparna Sinha, ob/gyn student, in the course of removing a cancerous uterus; 10 week fetus; used by permission, Flickr |
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| Photo by Suparna Sinha, ob/gyn student, in the course of removing a cancerous uterus; 10 week fetus; used by permission, Flickr |
Note from Evelyn Stone, missionary in Lima, Peru
"Counseling is like caring for the wounded. Sometimes it's receiving them into the hospital, cleaning up ugly wounds, and finding the right medicine and treatment. That means having the counseling office open at the New Life Prenatal Center, taking appointments, spending time listening, encouraging, and finding God's answers to each problem. At other times it's like emergency care, going out to look for the wounded. Today I (Evelyn) will be visiting women that are suffering from sickness, cancer, depression, the anguish of loss, betrayal, etc. So many today are suffering because of a literal explosion of cases related to homosexuality. I have counseled at least one new case each week for two months! US politics have a world-wide impact. Pray for wisdom in counseling from God´s Word."
Urgent prayer needed for Papua New Guinea
Missionary Lori Smith writes: "Last week there was another ambush and two young men from Kenimaro were mercilessly murdered by their enemies from Napamagona and Katagu. A huge confrontation has been planned for Monday [today]. PLEASE PRAY. Each of the warriors coming to the clinic have been just exploding with hatred. I spent time with each one...pleading with them to bring to an end this senseless destruction.
"One young man was almost captured and murdered with his friends. I held his face in my hands and made his eyes meet mine as I poured out my heart of concern. Would he have been ready to meet God had he
been killed [last] Monday? Was he ready now? He would not answer me. I prayed over him, but not with him and my heart just broke. 19 or 20 years of his life now...and if God does not intervene it may be the end for him. My tears have not ceased as I see his face in my heart!
"There are too many guns for the police to intervene. They contacted Bill [Lori's husband] warning him of the conflict that seems imminent, and letting him know they have just decided to let them shoot it out among themselves. Our dear ones at Kokinaga are in the middle of this conflict. Pray for safety!! PRAY for PEACE."
On a happier note, Lori writes that they debuted their new ultrasound machine Saturday. "We finally were able to find the power source large enough and safe enough to power our huge blessing up and let her go!! Wow! What an amazing picture, but a healthy pregnancy was not what Cathi and her husband were wanting to see displayed so perfectly on the ultrasound screen. Pray for them to love and accept this precious little on as a gift from God."
"One young man was almost captured and murdered with his friends. I held his face in my hands and made his eyes meet mine as I poured out my heart of concern. Would he have been ready to meet God had he
been killed [last] Monday? Was he ready now? He would not answer me. I prayed over him, but not with him and my heart just broke. 19 or 20 years of his life now...and if God does not intervene it may be the end for him. My tears have not ceased as I see his face in my heart!
"There are too many guns for the police to intervene. They contacted Bill [Lori's husband] warning him of the conflict that seems imminent, and letting him know they have just decided to let them shoot it out among themselves. Our dear ones at Kokinaga are in the middle of this conflict. Pray for safety!! PRAY for PEACE."
On a happier note, Lori writes that they debuted their new ultrasound machine Saturday. "We finally were able to find the power source large enough and safe enough to power our huge blessing up and let her go!! Wow! What an amazing picture, but a healthy pregnancy was not what Cathi and her husband were wanting to see displayed so perfectly on the ultrasound screen. Pray for them to love and accept this precious little on as a gift from God."
Leading anti-abortion activist dies
Leading anti-abortion activist dies in Mass. at 84 | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle: Mildred Jefferson, the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School and a nationally recognized leader of the anti-abortion movement, has died at age 84. Jefferson helped establish the National Right to Life Committee.
Anti-abortion advocate Carl Paladino rents space to Planned Parenthood clinic
Anti-abortion advocate Carl Paladino rents space to Planned Parenthood clinic in Niagara Falls - NYPOST.com: Carl Paladino, a strong opponent of abortion, doesn't let his religious beliefs get in the way of making a quick profit. The Buffalo bomb-thrower, who says his Catholic beliefs require him to oppose abortion -- including in cases of rape and incest -- is the landlord for a Planned Parenthood in Niagara Falls, The Post learned yesterday. The center provides services including the RU-486 pill, which Planned Parenthood calls 'medication abortion.'
Michigan Pro-Life Group Says Proposal 1 Constitutional Convention a Bad Idea
Michigan Pro-Life Group Says Proposal 1 Constitutional Convention a Bad Idea: Arguments can be made from a pro-life perspective both in favor of and opposition to calling a constitutional convention. On the one hand, pro-life language could be added to the constitution that recognizes legal protection for unborn children. Or provisions could be added that would enshrine abortion -- even if the Supreme Court eventually overturns the Roe v. Wade abortion case. Right to Life of Michigan worries about the latter situation developing.
Susan Boyle: my mother was advised to abort me
Susan Boyle: my mother was advised to abort me | News | The Christian Institute: Doctors told Bridget Boyle, then a 45-year-old mother of eight, that having another baby could kill her. The singer, writing in her autobiography, said when she was born doctors commented she would “never be anything” and she has been “trying all my life to prove them wrong.”
The Story of Baptists for Life
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A broken past for a better purpose
A broken past for a better purpose (OneNewsNow.com): "A former abortion proponent says her dark past, which includes several abortions, has allowed her to offer hope to women who may be considering aborting their children. Norma Murakami, director of A Women's Care Center in Chino Hills, California, remembers a second trimester abortion most vividly because the procedure took two days to complete. But after undergoing six abortions, she was never educated on the procedure until it was too late.
Birth Control: A Preventative Service?
Birth Control: A Preventative Service? - Washington Wire - WSJ: Planned Parenthood launched a campaign today aimed at getting birth control designated as a preventative service under the new health care law. Preventative services must be provided to patients for free under the new rules, so if birth control is considered preventive, women would not be required to make co-payments. Women’s groups had hoped for little controversy over whether birth control would be considered preventive care. But some conservatives have already expressed concern, and the Department of Health and Human Services asked the independent Institute of Medicine to make a recommendation on what services to include. A final decision, which will be made by the HHS secretary, is expected in summer 2011.
Get to Know: Answers for Women
Passion Statement | Answers Outreach: Georgia Purdom says, "Since coming to Answers in Genesis several years ago, I have been burdened to bring the message of the authority and trustworthiness of God’s Word to women. The message of biblical authority is for everyone, but some concepts are specific to us as women (wives, mothers, and womanhood) and other concepts need to be presented in a way that women can relate.
"Does this mean the 'milk' of the Word and not 'meat'? No! Does this mean a PhD in science or theology is required to understand the presentations? Absolutely not! Does this mean flowers, pastel colors, and tea parties? Not my style.
What it does mean is solid, biblical, “meaty” teaching presented by a woman who knows what women want and also what they need—whether they know it or not!
What it does mean is solid, biblical, “meaty” teaching presented by a woman who knows what women want and also what they need—whether they know it or not!
"My presentations are balanced treatments of theology, science, practical applications, and personal stories that will make you think, relate, laugh, and understand the importance of making the Bible the foundation for every area of our lives."
New York Times Falsely Claims National Cancer Institute Denied Abortion-Breast Cancer Link
New York Times Falsely Claims National Cancer Institute Denied Abortion-Breast Cancer Link - Christian Newswire: The New York Times, troubled that the abortion-breast cancer link is bad for the abortion industry's business, published an article yesterday by Susan Dominus, who falsely claimed that crisis pregnancy centers give women information that 'has been medically refuted.'
'Dominus didn't read the NCI's Summary Report,' said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. 'The agency acknowledged one of the three ways abortion raises risk - through the loss of the risk-reducing effect of childbearing. Medical texts say increased childbearing, starting before age 24, and increased lifetime duration of breastfeeding sharply reduce risk. Therefore, the woman who has a full term pregnancy has a lower risk than the one who has an abortion. The NCI contradicted itself by denying abortion is associated with increased breast cancer risk.'
'Dominus didn't read the NCI's Summary Report,' said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer. 'The agency acknowledged one of the three ways abortion raises risk - through the loss of the risk-reducing effect of childbearing. Medical texts say increased childbearing, starting before age 24, and increased lifetime duration of breastfeeding sharply reduce risk. Therefore, the woman who has a full term pregnancy has a lower risk than the one who has an abortion. The NCI contradicted itself by denying abortion is associated with increased breast cancer risk.'
Abortion Practitioner in California Operates Despite Repeated Legal Troubles
Abortion Practitioner in California Operates Despite Repeated Legal Troubles: South California abortion practitioner Feliciano Rios continues to operate an abortion business and do abortions in Chula Vista despite significant legal trouble. The pro-life group Operation Rescue has obtained legal documents showing the numerous issues Rios has deal with over the last two years.
PCCs Push Back Against New York Proposal
Pregnancy Centers Push Back Against New York Proposal Against Free Speech: Pregnancy centers are pushing back against a proposal from pro-abortion members of the New York City Council who are acting on behalf of the NARAL abortion advocacy group, which wants council members to support a proposal limiting their free speech rights. The proposal would place stringent limits on the advertising pregnancy centers use and require them to post signs designed to dissuade women from seeking their abortion alternatives services.
Care Net, a national network of more than 1,100 centers in North America, has announced its intention to defend pregnancy centers in New York City against the legislation. President Melinda Delahoyde called the proposed bill “unconstitutional and a hostile attack on non-profit organizations providing critical help to women. The proposed bill is a response to the growing national movement of Americans who find the practical, nonjudgmental outreach of pregnancy centers to women very appealing People are tired of the old culture wars, but groups like NARAL that advocate for the abortion industry want to keep them going, dividing our communities and our country.”
Care Net, a national network of more than 1,100 centers in North America, has announced its intention to defend pregnancy centers in New York City against the legislation. President Melinda Delahoyde called the proposed bill “unconstitutional and a hostile attack on non-profit organizations providing critical help to women. The proposed bill is a response to the growing national movement of Americans who find the practical, nonjudgmental outreach of pregnancy centers to women very appealing People are tired of the old culture wars, but groups like NARAL that advocate for the abortion industry want to keep them going, dividing our communities and our country.”
Maryland Pregnancy Center Foe Accused of Financial Mismanagement by NOW
Maryland Pregnancy Center Foe Accused of Financial Mismanagement by NOW: A pro-abortion Maryland councilmember and prominent foe of local crisis pregnancy centers is locked in a battle over allegations that she used over $10,000 of funds from the abortion organization National Organization for Women for personal shopping sprees.
Montgomery County Councilmember Marie 'Duchy' Trachtenberg, the official responsible for forcing local pregnancy resource centers to post disclaimers if there is no medical professional on staff, conceded defeat last month in her bid for re-election. But questions concerning allegedly mishandled funds belonging to Maryland NOW continue to haunt Trachtenberg, who served as the lobby group's treasurer from about 2006 until the end of 2008.
Montgomery County Councilmember Marie 'Duchy' Trachtenberg, the official responsible for forcing local pregnancy resource centers to post disclaimers if there is no medical professional on staff, conceded defeat last month in her bid for re-election. But questions concerning allegedly mishandled funds belonging to Maryland NOW continue to haunt Trachtenberg, who served as the lobby group's treasurer from about 2006 until the end of 2008.
A Breech of Public Responsibility
A Breech of Public Responsibility: In 2008 the American Psychological Association released a Task Force Report concluding that '[t]here is no credible evidence that a single elective abortion of an unwanted pregnancy in and of itself causes mental health problems for adult women.' Although the report was criticized by both pro-life and pro-choice researchers, it continues to be cited as evidence that abortion does not have a negative impact on women's mental health.
Priscilla Coleman, author of numerous studies on mental health and abortion and a leading critic of the Task Force report, has issued a response to these claims.
Priscilla Coleman, author of numerous studies on mental health and abortion and a leading critic of the Task Force report, has issued a response to these claims.
New Jersey board suspends abortion doc's license
New Jersey board suspends abortion doc's license - NJ.com: The state's physician disciplinary board Wednesday night suspended the license of a controversial abortion doctor accused of unlawfully performing five late-term abortions outside a hospital or licensed health center and putting his patients' health at risk.
After nearly a nine-hour hearing in Trenton, the state Board of Medical Examiners medical board concluded Steven Chase Brigham, 54, skirted state law by beginning the late-term abortions in New Jersey and sending the women out of state to finish the procedure.
The board stated 'his continued practice presents a clear and imminent danger' to the public and his procedures caused 'fetal demise and brought patients to the point' where abortion was basically required, according to a statement read by a board member.
After nearly a nine-hour hearing in Trenton, the state Board of Medical Examiners medical board concluded Steven Chase Brigham, 54, skirted state law by beginning the late-term abortions in New Jersey and sending the women out of state to finish the procedure.
The board stated 'his continued practice presents a clear and imminent danger' to the public and his procedures caused 'fetal demise and brought patients to the point' where abortion was basically required, according to a statement read by a board member.
What do you make of this?
The Michigan government website has a document listing centers offering free ultrasounds. Hmmmm.
Prayer request from Uganda
Veronica Nakyewe writes: "Thank you for praying for Sister Joy. She is slowly coming back to her senses after 8 days in a coma. Her conditon now is that she hears, she tries to talk with difficulty, but she can't see at all, and she has wounds in the mouth. We are planning to transfer her to a private hospital where she can get Medical help she needs right now.
"Sister Joy is our Senior Counselor at The Comforter’s Center. Sister Joy has counseled women with unplanned pregnancies in
Editor: If you haven't been praying for Joy already, please add her to your list.
Abortion Boosts Breast Cancer Risk 193%
Abortion Boosts Breast Cancer Risk 193% Study Finds, Giving Birth Lowers It: Researchers in Iran have published the results of a new study showing women who have an abortion face a 193% increased risk of breast cancer. On the other hand, women who carry a pregnancy to term find a lowered breast cancer risk compared with women who have never been pregnant. The findings were reported in the April 3, 2010 issue of Medical Oncology but are coming to the public's attention only now.
Tell the real PCC story
Over the past 40 years a movement of women and men has created and sustained a vital service in an area of unsurpassed need. Exemplifying the enduring American principles of voluntary and selfless giving, a mustard seed of concern for women facing unexpected pregnancies has blossomed into dynamic national and international networks of love in action. Today, through a massive commitment of personal time and professional services, the movement to provide pregnancy-related resources encompasses thousands of centers worldwide that bring aid and hope to millions of people each year.
The scope of these centers varies but their mission is single-hearted: to communicate to women and their families that their lives are valuable and that their needs - emotional, psychological, medical, spiritual and practical - can and will be met. With honesty and compassion, the global pregnancy resource movement now offers powerful community-based programs whose accomplishments are a story not yet fully told. A Passion to Serve
The scope of these centers varies but their mission is single-hearted: to communicate to women and their families that their lives are valuable and that their needs - emotional, psychological, medical, spiritual and practical - can and will be met. With honesty and compassion, the global pregnancy resource movement now offers powerful community-based programs whose accomplishments are a story not yet fully told. A Passion to Serve
New IPS stem cell 'breakthrough' is not a pro-life victory
Pro-life news and information from American Life League: News is breaking, once again, that scientists have “developed a technique that can quickly create safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells,” and it’s being hailed as “a major advance toward developing a less controversial approach for treating a host of medical problems.”
Pro-life groups and organizations are, also once again, being duped into believing that this new invention is “an efficient way to produce apparently safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos.”
Pro-life groups and organizations are, also once again, being duped into believing that this new invention is “an efficient way to produce apparently safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos.”
Editor: I've been watching this controversy for some time and it's difficult to follow the science. I'd appreciate anyone who can help me understand it.
Pro-abortion pols use deceptive scare tactics | SILive.com
Pro-abortion pols use deceptive scare tactics | SILive.com: Eric Schneiderman, the Democratic candidate for New York State Attorney General, looked smugly into the TV cameras, held the thumb and index finger of his left hand about an inch apart, and warned, “We got a Supreme Court that’s just this close to overruling Roe vs. Wade.” It was a brazen lie.
Of the nine justices on the nation’s highest court, only the two most conservative, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have expressed any inclination whatsoever to overrule the controversial 1973 decision that sanctions abortion on demand. Which is why, despite several recent opportunities to reverse Roe vs. Wade, the court has instead lopsidedly reaffirmed it.
There are two reasons why Schneiderman dared to lie about the matter during last week’s debate with his Republican opponent, Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
The first is that he knew he could get away with it. A recent poll commissioned by Findlaw found that nearly two thirds of respondents weren’t able to name even a single justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The second is it's a key political strategy for him has been to make abortion an issue in this race, a tactic that exploits the voters’ unfamiliarity with both the Supreme Court and applicable New York law.
Abortion has been legal in this state for 40 years, the operative statute thus antedating the holding in Roe. Accordingly, contrary to yet another popular misconception on which his strategy depends, even if Roe vs. Wade were somehow overruled, it would have absolutely no impact on abortion rights.
Schneiderman’s duplicitous rhetoric is designed to court a political constituency he views as pivotal to his election. At a City Hall rally on Sept. 17, he was giddily endorsed by City Council President Christine Quinn, an outspoken abortion supporter, and members of NARAL pro-choice New York. Ms. Quinn added the astounding assertion that “We need more reforms to make New York even more pro-choice.”
Editor: Hence her move to regulate PCCs in NYC.
Of the nine justices on the nation’s highest court, only the two most conservative, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, have expressed any inclination whatsoever to overrule the controversial 1973 decision that sanctions abortion on demand. Which is why, despite several recent opportunities to reverse Roe vs. Wade, the court has instead lopsidedly reaffirmed it.
There are two reasons why Schneiderman dared to lie about the matter during last week’s debate with his Republican opponent, Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
The first is that he knew he could get away with it. A recent poll commissioned by Findlaw found that nearly two thirds of respondents weren’t able to name even a single justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The second is it's a key political strategy for him has been to make abortion an issue in this race, a tactic that exploits the voters’ unfamiliarity with both the Supreme Court and applicable New York law.
Abortion has been legal in this state for 40 years, the operative statute thus antedating the holding in Roe. Accordingly, contrary to yet another popular misconception on which his strategy depends, even if Roe vs. Wade were somehow overruled, it would have absolutely no impact on abortion rights.
Schneiderman’s duplicitous rhetoric is designed to court a political constituency he views as pivotal to his election. At a City Hall rally on Sept. 17, he was giddily endorsed by City Council President Christine Quinn, an outspoken abortion supporter, and members of NARAL pro-choice New York. Ms. Quinn added the astounding assertion that “We need more reforms to make New York even more pro-choice.”
Editor: Hence her move to regulate PCCs in NYC.
Abortion Backers Ignore How Abortion Clinics Hurt Women
Abortion Backers Ignore How Unsafe Abortions, Clinics Are Hurting Women: Abortion advocates have consistently argued that legalized abortion is beneficial to women’s health. When abortion is legal, women are not supposed to be at the mercy of unskilled and incompetent butchers and unsanitary and unsafe clinics. All too often, however, today’s abortion clinics have become the true “back-alleys” of abortion mythology.
Editor: Good thing to keep in mind, with NYC PCCs under attack.
NY Council Speaker Christine Quinn leads charge to regulate crisis pregnancy centers' ads
Council Speaker Christine Quinn leads charge to regulate crisis pregnancy centers' ads: More than a dozen CPCs - which in reality are run by anti-abortion groups - are scattered around the five boroughs, often near or even in the same buildings as abortion clinics. The CPCs advertise on websites and public transit and some post misleading signs, foes say, bearing such messages as 'Free Abortion Alternatives.'
Editor: And what is misleading about that?
Women prefer surgical abortion to pill in second trimester
Women prefer surgical abortion to pill in second trimester | Reuters: Women who undergo an abortion during the second trimester may often prefer a surgical procedure to the 'abortion pill.' The study, of 122 women who were randomly assigned to either a surgical or medication-induced abortion during the second trimester, found that all women in the surgery group said they would opt for that form of abortion again, if necessary. In contrast, only 53 percent of women in the medication group said the same.
Editor: Whoa, did you catch that? Abortion pill in the second trimester? Read on: In the U.S., the abortion pill is approved for use within the first nine weeks of pregnancy. In the UK, it is approved for use up through the 24th week; however, most studies comparing the safety and effectiveness of medical and surgical abortions have focused on procedures performed in first trimester."
Editor: Whoa, did you catch that? Abortion pill in the second trimester? Read on: In the U.S., the abortion pill is approved for use within the first nine weeks of pregnancy. In the UK, it is approved for use up through the 24th week; however, most studies comparing the safety and effectiveness of medical and surgical abortions have focused on procedures performed in first trimester."
Women Who Use Abortion Pill Experience More Pain, Emotional Distress
Study: Women Who Use Abortion Drug Experience More Pain, Emotional Distress: The abortion drug mifepristone (more commonly known as RU486) was supposed to be a panacea for women -- allowing them to have safer abortions in the privacy of their own home. But a new study out of England finds women who had the drug-induced abortions preferred the surgical abortion procedure.
NY Times piles on PCCs
Big City - A Push to Erase Ambiguities at Crisis Pregnancy Centers - NYTimes.com: "A yearlong investigation by Naral Pro-Choice New York found that crisis pregnancy centers — in addition to the E.M.C. centers, there are at least four others in the city — feed women information that has been medically refuted (including an old standby, rejected by the National Cancer Institute, that abortions cause higher rates of breast cancer)."
NY City Council Sets Abortion Fight
Council Sets Abortion Fight - WSJ.com: The New York City Council plans to unveil legislation Tuesday that would establish strict disclosure requirements for crisis-pregnancy centers, some of which, abortion-rights advocates charge, deceive women into believing they're full-serve reproductive health facilities by masking their antiabortion agenda. The legislation, backed by Speaker Christine Quinn, would require the centers to disclose to clients that they do not provide abortion services or contraceptive devices, or make referrals to organizations that do. Centers that don't have licensed medical providers onsite would also have to disclose that information. Under the bill, the centers would be required to hang disclosure signs in their offices and post statements on websites and in advertisements.
Abortion Center Used Egg Timer in Fake Bomb Report
Abortion Center Director Guilty of False Bomb Threat Report, Used Egg Timer: The former director of the Reproductive Services abortion center in Tulsa, Oklahoma has pleaded guilty to charges of making false or misleading statements after telling police she supposedly found a bomb at the abortion center.
Linda Meek reported on August 13 a bomb had been placed in a trash receptacle, but she told the court on Thursday she purchased an egg timer and place that in a trash bin and called the local police to report a bomb scare.
Linda Meek reported on August 13 a bomb had been placed in a trash receptacle, but she told the court on Thursday she purchased an egg timer and place that in a trash bin and called the local police to report a bomb scare.
Why isn't it called Breast Cancer Prevention Month?
Why isn't it called Breast Cancer Prevention Month?: Now that we're in the midst of 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month' -- with all its pinkwashing nonsense at full tilt -- it brings up the question of why the month is named an 'awareness' month. Why not name it 'Breast Cancer Prevention Month?' The answer to that question, it turns out, reveals a number of interesting things about the cancer industry that the general public isn't supposed to know.
Editor: And why don't they talk about the abortion/breast cancer link?
NJ AG's Forceful Response To Brigham’s Motion for Dismissal
NJ AG Forcefully Responds To Brigham’s Motion for Dismissal in Illegal Abortion Case :Operation Rescue: The New Jersey Attorney General’s office filed a forceful response emphasizing that Brigham committed multiple violations “in the context of alleged acts of dishonesty and deception.” Issues raised by Brigham and the New Jersey Attorney General’s office will be considered during oral arguments, which have been scheduled for October 13.
Study O.K.’s Light Drinking During Pregnancy. Too Good to Be True?
Study O.K.’s Light Drinking During Pregnancy. Too Good to Be True? – TIME Healthland: A glass of wine or two a week — and not more than one large glass on any occasion — may be safe during pregnancy. But this does not mean that light drinking in pregnancy is good for your baby. The study did find negative effects in children whose mothers drank moderately: this was defined as not having more than 3 to 6 British units of alcohol per week or more than 3 to 5 units on a single occasion. (One British unit of alcohol equals a small glass of wine.) Heavier drinking in pregnancy, not surprisingly, resulted in increased levels of behavior problems and lowered cognitive performance among children.
What’s wrong with “That’s so abortion”? - Jill Stanek
What’s wrong with “That’s so abortion”? - Jill Stanek: Abortion Gang’s negative reaction to the trivialization of the word “abortion” surprised me. I expected cheers.
Editor: According to Webster's, "abort" means 1) to have a miscarriage, 2) to fail to be completed, 3) to fail to develop. Also, to end prematurely, to cut short.
Text Messaging Prevents Coerced Abortion at Planned Parenthood
Text Messaging Prevents Coerced Abortion at Planned Parenthood: The seventeen-year-old teen sat nervously in the waiting room of the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday, October 7, 2010. She was six weeks pregnant and did not want to have an abortion, but her mother had insisted. Suddenly, her phone alerted her to an incoming text message. “Jane, [not her real name] you are a mom! Please choose life for your baby, we want to help you! Tara”
That began a texting conversation that ultimately led to the young mother leaving the abortion clinic with the firm decision to keep her baby.
That began a texting conversation that ultimately led to the young mother leaving the abortion clinic with the firm decision to keep her baby.
Eliminate 90% of Board Dysfunction: 5 Simple Steps
Tension between the board and the executive occurs for lots of reasons. But that tension reflects a dysfunction and thankfully paves the way for a solution. Dysfunction between the board and executive reveals the need for your board to establish a process for how to interact with you the Executive in a healthy way. It is extremely important for the board to establish a process of how to interact with the Executive in a healthy way because the future health of the organization depends on it. Too many organizations have been badly damaged because boards and executives simply did not follow a healthy process or misunderstood their role. CompassCare
The rest of the story: False bomb threat
Former Tulsa abortion clinic director admits false bomb threat | NewsOK.com: Linda Meek, 63, former executive director of Reproductive Services, said she called in a false bomb threat in August.
Murdered Kansas abortion doctor's clinic for sale
Murdered Kansas abortion doctor's clinic for sale - KansasCity.com: A real estate company's 'for sale' sign has been posted outside the Wichita clinic formerly operated by murdered abortion provider Dr. George Tiller. The clinic has been closed since Tiller was shot to death in May 2009. Tax records available online list its appraised value as $734,100.
Kansans for Life sent an e-mail to members floating the idea of buying the former clinic and turning it into a memorial for the fetuses aborted there.
Kansans for Life sent an e-mail to members floating the idea of buying the former clinic and turning it into a memorial for the fetuses aborted there.
Bond set in abortion kidnapping
Bond set in abortion kidnapping | The Columbus Dispatch: A man who police say tried to force his pregnant girlfriend to have an abortion made his first appearance in court yesterday, with groups on both sides of the abortion issue expressing outrage at his actions. While inside the clinic, the woman passed a note to a clinic employee, detailing her situation. Police arrested Dominic Holt-Reid in the parking lot. Yolanda Burgess was not harmed. Police found a 45-caliber handgun in Holt-Reid's waistband.
NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio condemned Holt-Reid's actions and focused on the quick work of the clinic employee. "I think that what happened at Founder's clinic shows the dedication that clinic workers have to make sure that when women come to the clinic, it's their choice," said Kellie Copeland, the group's executive director. "We want women to make their own decisions - not a boyfriend's, not a government." She also said she continued to be concerned for Burgess' safety and welfare.
The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, an anti-abortion group, focused on Burgess, who "refused to kill her unborn baby. The whole idea of coercing an abortion is common," said Mark Harrington, executive director of the group's Midwest affiliate.
NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio condemned Holt-Reid's actions and focused on the quick work of the clinic employee. "I think that what happened at Founder's clinic shows the dedication that clinic workers have to make sure that when women come to the clinic, it's their choice," said Kellie Copeland, the group's executive director. "We want women to make their own decisions - not a boyfriend's, not a government." She also said she continued to be concerned for Burgess' safety and welfare.
The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, an anti-abortion group, focused on Burgess, who "refused to kill her unborn baby. The whole idea of coercing an abortion is common," said Mark Harrington, executive director of the group's Midwest affiliate.
Wanted: Doppler stethoscope for Ethiopia
Reid's Pro-Life Posturing Doesn't Match His Record
Sen. Harry Reid's Pro-Life Posturing Doesn't Match His Record -- LAS VEGAS, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --: Sen. Harry Reid has long campaigned as a pro-life politician. 1001 Reasons to Vote Against Harry Reid, an independent committee, has taken a closer look at his record and found many troubling votes.
Abortion not a Right, but a Crime
Abortion is not a Right, but a Crime, Say Mexican Women's Groups: A coalition of Mexican women's organizations and other NGOs denounced the promotion of abortion as a 'right,' a claim made with increasing frequency in the nation's media.
The organizations decry the use of maternal mortality statistics as a 'pretext' to pressure officials to legalize abortion, pointing out that the World Health Organization attributes only 13 percent of such cases to unsafe abortions. Claudia Perez of Codigo Mujer (Women's Code) observed that the major causes of maternal mortality are not being addressed, and that poor women often don't have access even to antibiotics to treat hemorrhages or infections, a violation of their constitutional right to health care.
The organizations decry the use of maternal mortality statistics as a 'pretext' to pressure officials to legalize abortion, pointing out that the World Health Organization attributes only 13 percent of such cases to unsafe abortions. Claudia Perez of Codigo Mujer (Women's Code) observed that the major causes of maternal mortality are not being addressed, and that poor women often don't have access even to antibiotics to treat hemorrhages or infections, a violation of their constitutional right to health care.
What happens to the babies who survive "Ella"?
Dr. Donna Harrison, OB-GYN and president of the American Association of Pro-life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG) continues with a short explanation of ella’s potential impact on the small number (approximately 2%) of babies that will survive despite their mother taking ella.
A Champion For Maternal Health
A Champion For Maternal Health � Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute: Robert Walley is the head, heart, and soul of MaterCare International, which he founded to reduce maternal mortality worldwide through a global network of like-minded medical professionals. “Saving mothers happens at the bedside,” Walley says.
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Hospital wrongly told two devastated women their unborn babies were dead
Joanna Barro, 25,was devastated when doctors at Brighton's Royal Sussex County Hospital said they were '100 per cent sure' her baby was dead at her eight-week scan. She was preparing to go through a traumatic internal procedure to clear her system a week later when a shocked nurse found a heartbeat and told her the pregnancy was fine. Miss Barro went on to give birth to a happy, healthy baby girl, Ruby, now three.
Earlier this week, the same Sussex hospital was forced to apologise to pregnant Sofia Taylor after it allegedly advised her to terminate her failed pregnancy. Daily Mail
Related: Miracle or Mistake?
Poverty link to abortion numbers
The Press Association: Poverty link to abortion numbers: New figures have showed a 'huge gulf' in abortion rates between the poorest parts of Scotland and the most affluent communities.
Statistics for 2009 showed 3,723 abortions were performed on women from the most deprived areas. That is more than double the total for women from the most well off areas, with 1,753 pregnancies terminated.
Statistics for 2009 showed 3,723 abortions were performed on women from the most deprived areas. That is more than double the total for women from the most well off areas, with 1,753 pregnancies terminated.
SBA List Mission: Advancing, Mobilizing and Representing Pro-Life Women
SBA List Mission: Advancing, Mobilizing and Representing Pro-Life Women | SBA-List: The Susan B. Anthony List’s mission is at the nerve center of the pro-life movement and political process. Through advancing, mobilizing and representing pro-life women we directly contradict the claim that abortion is a woman’s right and the premise that abortion somehow liberates women. To accomplish our ultimate goal of ending abortion in this country, we know that activating more pro-life women in the political and legislative arenas is critical.
New Resource Helps Women Grieve Abortion Losses
Women Go through the Back Door or to Graves with Abortion Secrets -- a New Resource Helps Women Grieve Abortion Losses: Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., recently acknowledged the importance of grieving an abortion decision. Dr. Northrup is author of one of the nation's leading books on women's health, titled, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom. Dr. Northrup notes, 'As a former abortion provider, I've long known about the need for grieving voluntary pregnancy termination ('vpt').'
MissingPieces.org, a counseling group in the heart of the rocky mountains of Colorado, has developed a resource for women needing to grieve the loss of their VPT. The book, C.P.R. ~ Choice Processing and Resolution speaks to all cultures and faiths with no condemnation. C.P.R. is written by professional therapist, Trudy M. Johnson.
Editor: Trudy Johnson's website says she graduated with biblical counseling degrees from Trinity Seminary, and "all counseling is Christ-centered and Biblically-based," but I find little evidence to back it up. Anybody know more about her?
MissingPieces.org, a counseling group in the heart of the rocky mountains of Colorado, has developed a resource for women needing to grieve the loss of their VPT. The book, C.P.R. ~ Choice Processing and Resolution speaks to all cultures and faiths with no condemnation. C.P.R. is written by professional therapist, Trudy M. Johnson.
Editor: Trudy Johnson's website says she graduated with biblical counseling degrees from Trinity Seminary, and "all counseling is Christ-centered and Biblically-based," but I find little evidence to back it up. Anybody know more about her?
Man Tries to Force Woman at Gunpoint to Have Abortion
Man Tries to Force Woman at Gunpoint to Have Abortion, Police Arrest Him: An Ohio man, Dominic L. Holt-Reid, was arrested this morning after police say he allegedly tried to force his pregnant girlfriend at gunpoint to have an abortion. Police charged him with kidnapping and carrying a concealed weapon after he tried to make his partner keep a scheduled appoint for an abortion she decided to go back on today. They found him in the parking lot behind the Founder's Women's Health Center abortion facility in downtown Columbus.
The abortion nurse's daughter
The abortion nurse's daughter: Abigail Seidman developed her secret pro-life beliefs by reading 'hostile' pro-life books at her mother's abortion clinic, by listening to sidewalk counselors, by seeing graphic photos of aborted babies at the mill and by learning about fetal development in school. And Abigail was greatly impacted by post-abortive mothers 'coming in and out, often crying, sometimes downcast with a hostile-looking partner or parent dragging them along by the arm, sometimes lashing out in rage – but never, ever calm, confident and happy, which is what I had been told, over and over again, was in fact the case.'
Planned Parenthood Gets Millions for Teen "Pregnancy Prevention"
Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz Gets Millions for Teen "Pregnancy Prevention": Jeanne Monahan, director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, says Planned Parenthood affiliates were awarded millions in grants either directly or as a subcontractor. 'Although the program will replace abstinence education grants that expire today (the last day of the fiscal year), a number of anti-abstinence groups are among the major recipients. Included in that group is Planned Parenthood, which will receive $4.5 million dollars, specifically in the states of Florida and Washington,' she said. The Portland oregonian newspaper also indicates Planned Parenthood in the Northwest has received $20 million for its programs in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Alaska.
New RU486 Data Points To Telemed Abortion Complication Cover-Up
New RU486 Data Points To Telemed Abortion Complication Cover-Up :Operation Rescue: Australia’s reported complications are disturbing. In Australia, the abortion pill completely failed in 14 cases out of 3,000, and in another 110 cases reported such “adverse effects” as retention of the placenta, retention of aborted baby remains, conditions that require emergency surgery. This data is disturbing in light of Iowa Planned Parenthood's trend toward "telemed" abortion pill dispensing.
City council urges Virginia to regulate abortion clinics
Manassas council urges Virginia to regulate abortion clinics: Opponents of abortion in the Manassas area scored a victory Monday when the City Council passed a resolution supporting the Virginia attorney general's August legal opinion that the state can impose stricter regulations over first-trimester abortion clinics. Manassas is home to Amethyst Health Center for Women, a clinic that performs first-trimester abortions and has been open more than 20 years.
White House Funds Pregnancy Help
White House Funds Pregnancy Help, Pro-Lifers Say No Abortion Common Ground: The White House has dispersed $27 million in grants through a new Pregnancy Assistance Fund created under the ObamaCare health care bill that also funds abortions. The Administration hopes the fund will mute some of the extensive criticism Obama and his pro-abortion allies in Congress endured for not including sufficient abortion funding limits in the legislation.
The funds will be made available to states to support pregnant women and teen parents in what the White House calls an attempt to 'build common ground' on abortion." However, some pro-life groups don't see the fund as achieving any 'common ground' on the issue of abortion.
The funds will be made available to states to support pregnant women and teen parents in what the White House calls an attempt to 'build common ground' on abortion." However, some pro-life groups don't see the fund as achieving any 'common ground' on the issue of abortion.
Ultrasound bill approved by MI Senate
West Michigan News from the Grand Haven Tribune a Michigan Newspaper: The Michigan Senate approved legislation Wednesday to require abortion facilities to provide images as clear and detailed as possible to mothers who opt for an ultrasound while considering an abortion.
Related: Just ask to see the ultrasound
Stowe man charged with assault of unborn child
Stowe man charged with assault of unborn child - The Mercury: The victim told police Gaines wanted her to have an abortion, and they had been arguing about the issue for several months, according to court documents. She awoke during the early morning hours to Gaines punching her in her back area after he had been out drinking.
Gaines allegedly struck her with a closed fist and told her if she screamed during the incident he would “give her something to scream about,' according to court documents. Gaines said “she was forcing him to have this baby and she should respect that he wants her to have an abortion. Since she won’t respect his request to have an abortion, he won’t respect her.”
Gaines allegedly struck her with a closed fist and told her if she screamed during the incident he would “give her something to scream about,' according to court documents. Gaines said “she was forcing him to have this baby and she should respect that he wants her to have an abortion. Since she won’t respect his request to have an abortion, he won’t respect her.”
Why did abortion doctor choose Maryland?
Why did abortion doctor choose Maryland? - Cecil Whig: Localnews: As the details of what happened at Dr. Steven Chase Brigham's abortion practice emerge, the case has become as much about the state of abortion law in Maryland as it is a glimpse into a peculiar scheme by a controversial New Jersey doctor. Both sides of the abortion debate tend to agree Maryland is one of the least restrictive states in the country in terms of procedural regulations.
Editor: Yet it's Maryland (Baltimore, to be exact) that wanted to regulate PCCs.
Big Brother is watching!
Homeland Security dollars are paying for a surveillance camera parked across the street from an abortion clinic in Fairfax, VA, presumably to watch as a group prays, pickets, and does sidewalk counseling. Video
Video of students being arrested for abortion protest
Social Justice Begins in the Womb – Daily Pro-life Updates from the BK Lounge: The police and staff totally refuse to listen to reason or the rights of these students.
Related: Has the Pro-Life Movement Lost it's Focus? (more outrage over an arrest than over death of the unborn)
Family sues Brigham related to daughter's suicide
Operation Rescue: The notorious abortionist Steven Chase Brigham faces a lawsuit from an aggrieved family, whose youngest daughter committed suicide after having an abortion by Brigham. George Zallie Sr. claims that neither Brigham nor his staff warned his daughter, Stacy, of facts about abortion that could have helped her make a better decision, including information that her fetus was “a complete, separate living human being” and “a second family member.” He says his daughter tried to commit suicide four times after her abortion by Brigham in July, 2001, before finally killing herself in October, 2002.
Two More RU486 Infection Deaths Announced by CDC
FRC Blog � Two More RU-486 Infection Deaths Announced by CDC: Almost ten years to the day after the Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion drug, Mifeprex (RU486; mifepristone), two more medical abortion deaths have been announced by U.S. Centers for Disease Control Officials. In a letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine dated September 30, 2010, Dr. Elissa Meites et al., described two additional mifepristone-induced septic shock deaths. Both were caused by c. sordellii, the bacteria linked to a number of RU486 deaths from 2000-2006. One woman who died was 29; the other was 21.
Abortionist charged with pointing handgun at prayerful pro-lifers
Doctor charged with pointing handgun at abortion protestors | TriCities.com: A doctor was charged with a felony in South Carolina on Saturday. Charleston Police said Dr. Gary Boyle, 62 of Blountville, pointed a gun at three abortion protesters near the back entrance of the Charleston's Women's Medical Center. According to the police report, Boyle works at the center. He also practices medicine at the Bristol Regional Women's Center in Tennessee. Both offices are the focus of a 40-day protest by anti-abortion activists.
Michigan Abortion Clinics Guilty of Violating HIPAA
Michigan Abortion Centers Guilty of Violating HIPAA in Dumping Patient Records: The federal government has found three Michigan abortion businesses guilty of violating the HIPAA statutes as a result of their illegally dumping patient records in trash bins outside their facilities. The Chicago Office for Civil Rights began an investigation of the WomanCare, Sharpes Family Planning and Women's Advisory abortion centers after receiving a formal complaint filed by Monica Migliorino Miller, director of Citizens for a Pro-life Society.
Legal do's and don't's for PCCs and other non-profits
On The Effective PRC, Jim Harden writes: "Many Executives and leaders of non-profits like pregnancy centers do not engage in political issues during the election season for fear of the negative impact it might have on their non-profit status. The attorney Barry Bostrom and his legal firm Bopp, Coleson, & Bostrom have put together a list of activities that we as non-profit organizations can and cannot do. Most pregnancy centers are registered as 501 (c) (3) organizations under the IRS tax code and as such have legal rights to engage in certain kinds of activities to not only protect their organizations but also to further the cause of community change for which their organization exists." To download this very helpful document click the following link: Political Do’s and Don’ts during Election Season
It just gets worse
Report: New Illegal Abortion Cases Surface While Brigham Denies Board Can Discipline :Operation Rescue: New documents released this week and obtained by Operation Rescue paint a picture of back-alley-style quackery committed by an arrogant, defiant huckster who acts as though no authority can bind him. The new cases involve abortions at 24 weeks and 33 weeks. At 24 weeks, a baby has a 50% chance of survival if born at that time, and is considered “viable.” A baby at 33 weeks has a 90% chance of survival.
“The risks of abortion are indisputable”
“Rules surrounding the performance of abortions are not ministerial,” stated Deputy Attorney General Jeri L. Warhatfig in a letter brief sent to the NJBME on September 20, 2010. “They regulate a potentially dangerous medical procedure” for the benefit of patient safety. The brief goes on to state, “The risks of abortion are indisputable.”
Quoting from Planned Parenthood v. Verniero, the brief states, “…the risk of death from abortion increased about thirty percent (30%) with each week of gestation from eight weeks lmp to twenty weeks lmp… the risk of major medical complications increases about 20 percent (20%) with each week of gestation from seven weeks lmp to full term.”
“The risks of abortion are indisputable”
“Rules surrounding the performance of abortions are not ministerial,” stated Deputy Attorney General Jeri L. Warhatfig in a letter brief sent to the NJBME on September 20, 2010. “They regulate a potentially dangerous medical procedure” for the benefit of patient safety. The brief goes on to state, “The risks of abortion are indisputable.”
Quoting from Planned Parenthood v. Verniero, the brief states, “…the risk of death from abortion increased about thirty percent (30%) with each week of gestation from eight weeks lmp to twenty weeks lmp… the risk of major medical complications increases about 20 percent (20%) with each week of gestation from seven weeks lmp to full term.”
How the 9 months before birth shape the rest of our lives
Book Review - Origins - By Annie Murphy Paul - NYTimes.com: A growing number of observational studies conducted in different parts of the world bolster the notion that in the nature-nurture dynamic, nurture begins at the time of conception. The food the mother eats, the air she breathes, the water she drinks, the stress or trauma she experiences — all may affect her child, for better or worse, over the decades to come.
Fighting for life
Article | First Things: Lila Rose launched her first investigation four years ago, as a college freshman at UCLA, with her friend James O’Keefe. They soon were working together on projects to “wake up” the UCLA campus to the reality of abortion and the lack of pregnancy services for students. Read her fascinating account of how their undercover investigations developed.
Embattled Abortionist Claims States Can't Prosecute over Interstate Abortion Scheme
Embattled Abortionist Claims States Can't Prosecute over Interstate Abortion Scheme: Stephen Chase Brigham has come under scrutiny after a botched abortion last month led government officials to uncover his practice of starting late-term abortions in New Jersey and completing them in Maryland. In documents filed this week, Brigham claims New Jersey is not able to prosecute him, because he won a similar New Jersey suit and kept his license following a 1994 botched abortion. Officials say Brigham's case cannot be so easily discarded.
Prayer request for Israel
Randy Alcorn's book, Prolife Answers to Prochoice Arguments, has recently been published in Hebrew. Pray for Be'ad Chaim, a ministry of the Israel Pro-Life Association, as they distribute it.
Obama Admin Targets Pro-Lifers in FBI Training Forum With Pro-Abortion Orgs
Obama Admin Targets Pro-Lifers in FBI Training Forum With Pro-Abortion Orgs: Documents obtained today reveal the Obama administration partnered with leading pro-abortion organizations to host an FBI training seminar in August with the main focus of declaring as 'violent' the free speech activities of pro-life Americans.
On August 25, 2010, the FBI and the US Department of Justice co-sponsored a training seminar with Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority Foundation.
FBI and Obama administration officials provided participants with an 84-page document entitled “Resource Guide: Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers' that contained print copies of Power point presentations prepared by the Justice Department an analysis of alleged pro-life 'violence' prepared by the pro-abortion groups.
The so-called violence perpetrated by pro-life advocates mostly contained examples of constitutionally-protected free speech,including activities such as praying, providing women outside abortion centers with alternatives information, and peaceful protesting or picketing. Matt Bowman, a top attorney at the Alliance Defense Fund, said today that the cooperation between the Obama administration and pro-abortion organizations to target pro-life free speech should cause alarm.
On August 25, 2010, the FBI and the US Department of Justice co-sponsored a training seminar with Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority Foundation.
FBI and Obama administration officials provided participants with an 84-page document entitled “Resource Guide: Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers' that contained print copies of Power point presentations prepared by the Justice Department an analysis of alleged pro-life 'violence' prepared by the pro-abortion groups.
The so-called violence perpetrated by pro-life advocates mostly contained examples of constitutionally-protected free speech,including activities such as praying, providing women outside abortion centers with alternatives information, and peaceful protesting or picketing. Matt Bowman, a top attorney at the Alliance Defense Fund, said today that the cooperation between the Obama administration and pro-abortion organizations to target pro-life free speech should cause alarm.
It could be worse: FBI Targets Peace Activists For Alleged Terrorism Support
90% at risk for abortion. 85% have their babies!
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N.J. doctor denies charges of performing illegal abortions
N.J. doctor denies charges of performing illegal abortions | NJ.com: Fighting to keep his medical license, abortion doctor Steven Brigham today denied in legal papers that he tried to evade state law by administering pregnancy-ending drugs to patients before leading them by caravan to a Maryland clinic for the surgical procedure.
RU486: Planned Parenthood's cash cow
A July 2009 Planned Parenthood study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that in 2008, a total of 96,738 medical (abortion pill) abortions were committed by Planned Parenthood in the U.S., representing 32% of first-trimester abortions in Planned Parenthood facilities. Planned Parenthood's website reports that an abortion-pill abortion costs between $350 to $650, so at an average cost of $500 per abortion, that means Planned Parenthood took in over $48 million in 2008 from abortions by pill. Wednesday STOPP Report, 9/29/10
Facility Closes in Maryland Run by Man Who Killed Woman in Botched Abortion
Facility Closes in Maryland Run by Man Who Killed Woman in Botched Abortion: It's official. The Gynecare Center run by embattled abortion practitioner Romeo A. Ferrer, who has been under fire involving a case of a woman he killed in a failed abortion, has closed. Two pro-life groups have confirmed that a replacement abortion practitioner will not do abortions in Ferrer's stead. Ferrer is closing his abortion center after a 10-year campaign from dedicated pro-life organizations. The Maryland Board of Physicians suspended his medical license but pro-life advocates were hoping for more.
"Receptionist" vs. "Director of First Brand Impressions"
"Receptionist" vs. "Director of First Brand Impressions": In my years of calling hundreds of organizations and dealing with countless 'phone receptionists,' I've often been given bad information, talked to as if I were an imposition rather than a valued caller, put on interminable hold, felt like I had just woken the person up, or been treated downright rudely. Heck, sometimes I don't even get past the receptionist and I'm already questioning whether or not I want to do business with this group.
Take the test yourself. Call your own organization, and then ask, 'Was I received in a way that would make me want to call this organization again?' What's it take to turn a 'receptionist' into an effective 'Director of First Impressions'?
Take the test yourself. Call your own organization, and then ask, 'Was I received in a way that would make me want to call this organization again?' What's it take to turn a 'receptionist' into an effective 'Director of First Impressions'?
RU486 used in 20% of U.S. terminations
RU-486 used in 20% of U.S. terminations - UPI.com: The abortion pill mifepristone, previously known as RU-486, is used in 20 percent of U.S. pregnancy terminations, researchers say. However, when mifepristone was approved and put on the market 10 years ago, it was expected to change the way abortions were obtained in the United States.
'We haven't seen as much expansion in terms of where one can obtain it as we thought we might,' Lawrence Finer, director of domestic research at the Guttmacher Institute.
'Mifepristone has not brought a major improvement in the geographic availability of abortion.'
'We haven't seen as much expansion in terms of where one can obtain it as we thought we might,' Lawrence Finer, director of domestic research at the Guttmacher Institute.
'Mifepristone has not brought a major improvement in the geographic availability of abortion.'
Seeking Women Who Have Had Abortion Pill Complications
Operation Rescue Seeks Women Who Have Had Abortion Pill Complications :Operation Rescue: Operation Rescue is asking women who have suffered complications from medical abortions, especially in Iowa, to tell their stories. Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which is the first in the nation to employ the remote-controlled abortion pill distribution system, incredibly has told media that after 1,900 telemed abortions, there have been no complications. Contact Operation Rescue at (316) 683-6790, ext. 112, or send an email.
Why Do Women Love Jerks ?
Why Women Love Jerks : Girls Gone Wise: Because jerks – men who Proverbs calls a fool – do and say things to establish an emotional bond quickly, before their true nature is known. They make emotional promises that are not theirs to keep and in doing so sweep women with unguarded hearts off their feet. And once the emotional connection is there, very little can make a woman leave a fool… because she loves him.
Just because there have been fools in your past does not mean there cannot be a wise man in your future. But you must cut off ties with fools and surround yourself with wise, godly people. Because “whoever walks with the wise becomes wise.” (Prov. 13:20)
“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Just because there have been fools in your past does not mean there cannot be a wise man in your future. But you must cut off ties with fools and surround yourself with wise, godly people. Because “whoever walks with the wise becomes wise.” (Prov. 13:20)
“A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
Quietly racking up the abortion toll
DILLER & WALKER: Quietly racking up the abortion toll - Washington Times: While Planned Parenthood continues to sit on its annual report for 2008-2009, new documents found hidden on its labyrinthine website give taxpayers an insider's look into the beleaguered abortion monopoly it is helping fund.
The numbers paint the grisly picture of an organization beset by financial problems yet determined to increase income by killing more preborn human beings.
But that's not the surprising part. The shocking thing about these numbers is that they are finally dispelling the ubiquitous Planned Parenthood lie that the organization is about something other than abortion.
The numbers paint the grisly picture of an organization beset by financial problems yet determined to increase income by killing more preborn human beings.
But that's not the surprising part. The shocking thing about these numbers is that they are finally dispelling the ubiquitous Planned Parenthood lie that the organization is about something other than abortion.
TX AG rules on abortion clinic practices
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott issued two opinions regarding the practice of abortion in Texas that significantly increase protections for the health and safety of women. In response to requests for opinions, Abbott ruled that abortion facilities that perform medical abortions (using chemicals such as using RU 486 instead of surgical methods), must obtain an abortion facility license. Abbott also ruled that abortion facilities may not use a prerecorded telephone message to furnish information the law requires an abortion doctor to provide “orally by telephone or in person" to a woman 24 hours before the abortion, including the medical risks of the abortion.
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