Foundations Decrease Giving in 2012

Here-4-You Consulting » Foundations Decrease Giving in 2012: In the annual study of foundations by the Chronicle of Philanthropy the results show that most U.S. foundations will decrease or flat-line their giving in 2012. Many foundations are blaming the instability of the stock market for negatively impacting their endowments. The study shows that about $1 in $4 of foundation assets have been lost to ’08 crisis. The recovery of these assets will take approximately 3 years longer is the prediction at Commonfund, a firm which administers foundation endowments.

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Info campaign factor in abortion decline

Advocates: Info campaign factor in abortion decline | CJOnline.com: Anti-abortion advocates hail a new report from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment as proof that efforts to inform women about their fetuses are reducing abortions in the state. Kansans for Life issued a news release about the report, which shows abortions dropped by 522 to 7,851 from 2010 to 2011.

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Shutting down the debate

Shutting down the debate | NRL News Today: That there are psychological consequences to having an abortion have been accepted by many in the pro-life and pro-abortion camps. And yet there is an ideological drive to state that there are no psychological consequences to having an abortion.

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The abortion-breast cancer link (ABC link): Part 1

“The abortion-breast cancer link (ABC link): Those stubborn facts again! Part One | NRL News Today: In this first of three articles on the ABC link, Dr. Joel Brind will chronicle the history of epidemiological data going back over 50 years that shows a consistent statistical connection between a history of induced abortion and a higher incidence of breast cancer among women all over the world. He’ll also briefly talk about the curious logic used by deniers of the ABC link.

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PPFA glories in imaginary underdog status

PPFA, the $1 billion dollar “abortion provider,” glories in its imaginary underdog status | NRL News Today: A recent Forbes.com article extolled the ability of Planned Parenthood to make more money than it would have lost from Komen for the Cure by publicizing its situation online. (Keep in mind that not a nickel was ever withheld—it had to do with future grants—and, in any event, the money from Komen is a drop in the bucket for the abortion giant).

Coincidentally, there is a link within the Forbes story to a list that Forbes generated titled, “The 200 Largest U.S. Charities.”  And guess who is featured there?  Planned Parenthood Federation of America, ranked 27th in total revenue, which is listed as $1,023,000,000. And you know who you do not see in this list?  Groups like National Right to Life who works to protect innocent human life minus the enormous wealth, star power, and media influence enjoyed by pro-abortion groups.

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Birth control may affect long-term relationships

Birth control may affect long-term relationships – - CNN.com Blogs: It’s important for a woman to do her due diligence and weigh the pros and cons of various birth control options before settling on one. And know that the changes to a woman’s testosterone level (potentially diminished when she goes on, and then increased when she goes off) could alter her libido and create gaps with that of her partner’s. Women who met their partner while taking hormonal birth control should consider switching to another method several months in advance of tying the knot in order to assess whether their feelings for their partner will change or stay the same.

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Pregnancy Center Vandalized After Performing Live Ultrasounds in Idaho State Capitol

Stanton Healthcare Vandalized After Drawing National Attention for Performing Live Ultrasounds in the Idaho State Capitol Building - Christian Newswire: Stanton Healthcare is a life-affirming medical clinic reaching out to women and their children in crisis and unexpected pregnancies, and is located right next to Planned Parenthood. It recently drew nationwide headlines when they organized and performed live ultrasounds in the Idaho State Capitol Building during the debate on ultrasound legislation. Scores of pro-choice advocates had to be escorted out of the ultrasound presentation for shouting and disrupting the meeting. Since then, Stanton Healthcare has been getting internet and email threats of violence and hateful attacks.

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Pro-Abortion Pregnancy Discrimination Rises in the Workplace

Pro-Abortion Pregnancy Discrimination Rises in the Workplace | LifeNews.com: Disdain for pregnant women in the workplace is at a record high in our nation. Pregnancy Discrimination cases are on the rise. In the past ten years the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission or EEOC has resolved pregnancy discrimination cases totaling $150.5 million in damages for over 52,000 women. Some say this is because of a competitive labor market that shows little mercy to moms.

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Keepsake ultrasounds tied to low birth-gender ratios in CA?

Radiology, Ultrasound Community: Although a definitive cause-and-effect relationship can't be proved, access to keepsake ultrasound centers continues to be linked with lower numbers of female births among some Asian groups in California. Continuing a trend identified for prior years, several California counties had abnormally low female-to-male birth ratios among Asians in 2010, a development that was associated with the proliferation of keepsake ultrasound centers that offer gender-determination services.

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Mississippi could become abortion-free state under proposed law

Mississippi could become abortion-free state under proposed law; Sole abortion clinic threatens to sue  - NY Daily News: The owner of Mississippi's sole abortion clinic says she will sue the state if her business can't comply with a regulation that will soon become law.

The bill is headed to the governor's desk would require doctors working at abortion clinics to be OB-GYN certified and have admitting privileges to a local hospital. The clinic's owner Diane Derzis said all of its physicians are OB-GYN's, but only one has admitting privileges. Most hospitals will not grant the privileges to out-of-state physicians. And she said her clinic doctors live out of state to protect their safety.

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Alabama Abortion Clinic Ordered Closed By State

Alabama Abortion Clinic Ordered Closed By State :Operation Rescue: Less than 24 hours after pro-life groups, including Operation Rescue and CEC for Life, publicly called for the Alabama Department of Public Health to close the troubled New Women All Women abortion clinic, the ADPH issued a press release today stating that the clinic has been ordered to surrender its license on or before May 18, 2012.

The ADPH stated that the agency “performed a comprehensive investigation of New Woman All Women Health Care in Birmingham in response to a complaint received in January 2012. This investigation revealed significant failures in maintaining compliance with the Rules of the Alabama State Board of Health for the safe and effective provision of care.”

The complaint was filed by a pro-life activist in response to an incident on January 21, 2012, where two women were photographed being hand-carried from NWAW past a broken safety rail to awaiting ambulances parked in a trash-strewn alley. Recordings of two 911 calls were obtained through open record requests that showed the emergency calls were placed by clinic owner Diane Derzis, who indicated that two women had been overdosed on the drug Vasopressin.

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Sexual Detox: Challies

Sexual Detox | Challies Dot Com: A huge percentage of men need a porn detox, a moral and psychological reset. Do you? If so, whether you know it or not, pornography has corrupted your thinking, weakened your conscience, warped your sense of right and wrong, and twisted your understanding and expectations of sexuality. You need a reset by the One who created sex.

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Abstinence education reduces teen sex rates

Abstinence education reduces teen sex rates, study shows | LifeSiteNews.com: Researchers observed more than 1,100 ninth graders in Georgia who used the Choosing the Best curriculum in 2009-10. “Data demonstrated significant impact of CTB at the end of 9th grade on commitment to abstinence, pro-abstinence beliefs and attitudes, intentions to maintain abstinence, and lower onset of sexual intercourse, and at the beginning of 10th grade on pro-abstinence attitudes,” the study‘s authors found.

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1 bill for abortion regulation survives

1 bill for abortion regulation survives | Hattiesburg American | hattiesburgamerican.com: One abortion-regulation bill survived in the Mississippi Legislature. Supporters of the surviving measure say it could slow down or even shut Mississippi's only remaining abortion clinic, which is in Jackson.

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Michigan Planned Parenthood opens storefront clinic as boondoggle mega-mill sits vacant

Michigan Planned Parenthood opens storefront clinic as boondoggle mega-mill sits vacant | Jill Stanek: Seventeen months after Planned Parenthood paid $733,151 cash for a 17,050 sq ft unfinished shell in Auburn Hills, Michigan, it stands empty as a neighboring hotel owner continues to battle the abortion giant in court, claiming a deed restriction prevents the structure from being used as an abortion mill. Four walls and a dirt floor, that’s all it is.

Related: Va. grants permission for operating room at Planned Parenthood clinic

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Lack of access to abortion would ‘cheapen’ motherhood?

Lack of access to abortion would ‘cheapen’ motherhood, argues Oklahoma anti-personhood plaintiff | LifeSiteNews.com: Nancy Northup of the Center for Reproductive Rights emailed to supporters the words of plaintiff Heather Hall, who with five other Oklahoma citizens joined the suit launched by the prominent pro-abortion group last Thursday in the state Supreme Court. Hall described how she considered aborting her child after she learned of own mother’s death. Although ultimately opting against abortion, Hall testified that merely knowing she could legally escape the stress of carrying her child at that time “saved my sanity. I chose both of my children, and taking that choice away only cheapens the risks, the pain, the enormity of motherhood.”

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Massive Deficiency Report Reveals Dangerous Abuses at AL Abortion Clinic

Massive Deficiency Report Reveals Dangerous Abuses at AL Abortion Clinic :Operation Rescue: An incident that sent two abortion patients to the hospital from a Birmingham abortion clinic in January has resulted in a scathing 76-page deficiency report issued last week by the Alabama Department of Public Health that details dangerous and deceptive practices that continue to endanger the health and safety of women.

The report found violations in nine categories after a complaint lodged by a pro-life activist prompted a health inspection of New Woman All Women clinic owned and operated by Diane Derzis, who was once dubbed by Alabama legislators as the “Abortion Queen.” Derzis owns abortion clinics in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

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Spread the word about STDs with Giant Microbes!

Pamela Palumbo, CEO of the Pregnancy Clinics in DC Metro, shared a resource for spreading the word about STDs on campus: 

This is what Chlamydia looks like stuffed!

I purchased cute stuffed 'critters' which each are tagged with their name & description and are "sperm', egg, HPV, syphillis, Trich, etc. . . . [W]e took them to the college health fair and put them on the table and WOW, everyone wanted to come see what 'stuffed things' were on the table and picked them up to look at them thinking they were pretty cute. Then as they read them they were shouting out to all thier friends to 'Get over here NOW & see this', gross, OH man....etc. Had amazing drawing ability and we gave out more client cards than ever and called back to the office and made appointments from the fair for STD testing. Who knew. :) 

Find Giant Microbes here.

Could 14 babies be alive today?

Could 14 babies be alive today? | Perth Now: From July 1999 to June 2010 there were 14 cases of post-20-week abortion procedures resulting in the live birth of a child [in Australia]. At least one of the babies was born after 26 weeks gestation. In all of the cases, no treatment or resuscitation attempts for the babies were recorded by the hospital. Labor MPs Ed Dermer and Kate Doust have called for a parliamentary inquiry into the deaths and hospital guidelines that say the babies should not have been given medical care or a chance at life.

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Facts about Pepsi aborted fetal cell controversy

Facts about Pepsi aborted fetal cell controversy | Jill Stanek: There are no aborted embryonic or fetal cells in any of PepsiCo’s final products. But aborted cells are used in the development of artificial flavor enhancers by biotech company Senomyx, with which PepsiCo signed a four-year, $30 million agreement in 2010 for research and development. No Pepsi products containing Senonymx flavor enhancers should be expected until 2013.

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