GRAPEVINE, Texas, Sept. 8, 2010/Christian Newswire --

With an unexpected overflow attendance, the 2010 Care Net National Pregnancy Center Conference kicks off Wednesday in Grapevine, TX from September 8-11th at the Gaylord Texan Resort. Pregnancy center leaders from across North America will be challenged by the conference theme that "this is the time" to expand their ministries of compassion, reach the underserved, and lead the pro-life movement.

"Everyone facing an unplanned pregnancy needs to know that there is hope, help, and alternatives to abortion," said Care Net President Melinda Delahoyde. "Until that day, pregnancy centers -- this amazing, nationwide movement of compassion -- must expect, plan, and pray for ministry expansion. Our conference theme, 'this is the time,' was truly inspired by the fact that doors of opportunity are opening all over the country for pregnancy centers to do just that."

Who better to speak into this message than Dr. Bruce Wilkinson, author of The Prayer of Jabez? Dr. Wilkinson will be one of the many powerful conference keynote speakers, including: Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team; Kay Coles James, founder and president of The Gloucester Institute; Elisa Morgan, former CEO of MOPs International; Fr. Frank Pavone, president of Priests for Life; Norm Miller, chairman of Interstate Batteries; Chet McDoniel, an amazing man with an inspiring testimony of faith; and Melinda Delahoyde, Care Net president.

The more than 1,300 conference attendees will be trained by some of the nation's top pro-life and non-profit leaders in over 63 workshops session on best practices, legal issues, board governance, client marketing, spiritual leadership, underserved outreach, fundraising, and other topics.

Additional Care Net conference highlights include:

• A "National Care for Life Forum" hosted by Care Net and EvanTell for select national leaders to discuss strategies to advance the Gospel and the life-saving work of pregnancy centers.
• A forum for African American pastors on opening pregnancy centers in underserved areas and a tour of a local Dallas pregnancy center opened by Pastor Tony Evans and Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship.
• A screening of "Maafa 21," a chilling documentary on the eugenics movement and abortion.
• An event to launch a new program to mentor and dialogue with Generation Y pregnancy center leaders.

All media must acquire a Care Net conference media badge for on-site coverage. Contact Care Net with name, media outlet, and day/time requested.

Shreveport, LA /September 7, 2010/Operation Rescue --

The LA Dept. of Health and Hospitals revoked the clinic license of Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, LA, last week and ordered them to halt all abortions there. The action was the first immediate suspension under the new LA law that allows the State to order a clinic to cease operations.

According to a press release issued September 1, 2010, by the LDHH, they found the following violations that posed an immediate threat to the health, welfare, or safety of a client or patient:

Several violations were noted during a recent investigation of the facility, including the facility's failure to ensure that a physician performed and documented a physical exam on each patient prior to a procedure, failure to properly monitor vital signs of patients under anesthesia, failure to have proper procedures in place for administering anesthesia and failure to have properly trained professionals performing certain medical procedures related to the administering of anesthesia.

"When we see this level of egregious conduct at a facility, it is incumbent on us to take steps necessary to protect our residents," said LDHH Interim Secretary Anthony Keck. "The Legislature gave us this authority because they recognized we must have the ability to stop unsafe practices that place these already vulnerable women in danger."

Prior to the passage of the new law, known as Act 490, suspension orders could not be immediately enforced, allowing dangerous abortion mills to continue to endanger the public for months.

Such was the case in January, 2010, when the LDHH suspended the license of Gentilly Medical Clinic for Women in New Orleans operated by troubled abortionist Ifeanyi Charles Anthony Okpalobi (pronounced ok-PAH-luh-bee). The State charged Okpalobi's clinic with violating laws requiring that abortion clinics have a licensed nurse on staff, and that they have proper state and federal licensing for controlled substances. 9 months later, the clinic continues uninterrupted operations pending appeal, even though there is no evidence that the dangerous conditions were ever remedied.

At that time, Operation Rescue called on the State of LA to consider the health and safety of women and take action that would allow the State to close this dangerous abortion mill. Now, the laws give the State the ability to act on suspensions in the interest of public safety.

"Given what we know from our investigations in to Louisiana's abortion clinics, the suspension of Hope Medical Group for Women's seedy abortion operations will not be the last suspension issued by the Health Department," said Newman.

"This is more evidence that pro-life laws, when enforced, close abortion mills and save lives. We are relieved that there is now another layer of protection for vulnerable women and their innocent pre-born babies, but we cannot not rest until every abortion mill is closed and our pre-born children are fully protected by law."

Read LDHH Press Release Concerning Suspension

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2010/Christian Newswire --

Today, the Susan B. Anthony List announced the launch of its "Life Speaking Out Campaign" aimed at encouraging House GOP leadership to make protecting women and the unborn a priority in its legislative blueprint expected after Labor Day. The campaign includes a website for pro-life activists to lobby House GOP leadership and an encouraging letter to leadership signed by SBA List President Marjorie Dannenfelser.

"The Republican Party must show what it is made of this time around. They can do so by acting on their convictions and those of their party, and by making a commitment to passage of common-sense, life-saving legislation," said Dannenfelser. "Missing from the GOP's original Contract in 1994 was any emphasis on policies protecting the unborn. Pro-life legislation was not made a priority in the following Congress. With the support of a vibrant pro-life movement that understands the urgency of addressing the tragedy of nearly 4k abortions per day coupled with the vast majority of Americans who support a commonsense pro-life agenda, enacting that agenda would not require a heavy lift."

Since the format for the blueprint was originally floated, it has been widely reported that the agenda consists of five basic planks which were outlined in a recess document: jobs, national security, spending restraint, government reform and health care. The SBA List praised its reported inclusion of anti-funding of abortion language, but the "Life Speaking Out Campaign" asks that GOP leaders include a separate "Family Values" plank under which pro-life priorities would be included.

"It would be an electorally costly mistake for the future for the GOP to write off one leg of the three-legged stool of Ronald Reagan conservatism. Real leaders multi-task. The strongly pro-life GOP leadership should be able to respond to the economic crisis and enact pro-life legislation," Dannenfelser said.

"With the majority of Americans labeling themselves pro-life, and with an even stronger majority agreeing that tax dollars should not fund abortion, the consensus for passage of serious pro-life legislation could not be stronger. Today's SBA List initiative will communicate the message loud and clear that Americans are ready to support such leadership and that the pro-life movement is ready to help make pro-woman, life-saving proposals law."

Albuquerque, NM/September 1, 2010/Operation Rescue -

Additional information has come out concerning the incident on August 25, 2010, where a man threatened to shoot two pro-life women outside Curtis Boyd's late-term abortion mill in Albuquerque, NM. That information raises questions of coerced and/or forced abortions there.

The man, identified in police reports as Hal Cox of AZ, brought his 16-year old daughter to Boyd's Southwestern Women's Options for an abortion and became upset when his wife and daughter voluntarily approached two sidewalk counselors that spoke with them about abortion alternatives. He flashed what appeared to be a gun and threatened to shoot them if they said anything else to his daughter.

Police were called to the scene where they discovered that Cox was in immediate possession of a magazine filled with bullets. They also discovered a number of firearms in the trunk of his vehicle. Police confiscated the weapons.

"This raises an important question of whether or not this young lady held any fear for her armed father, and whether she was seeking an abortion of her own free will," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "We know that there is a silent epidemic of coerced abortions and even forced abortions going on in this country."

"Pregnancy is a vulnerable time for women," said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue. "After over two decades of working with abortion-bound women, it has been my experience that a high percentage of them feel like they have no other choice than to abort because of pressure from family and even because of fear of domestic violence."

Two cases in point are the dramatic stories of Michelle Armesto-Berg from KS and Caitlin Bruce from MI.

Armesto-Berg was coerced into an abortion she did not want out of fear that her family would disown her. Her abortion was started before the clinic staff obtained written consent. She gave stunning testimony of her ordeal before a KS Legislative Committee in 2007.

Bruce filed a lawsuit against abortionist Alberto Hodari for a forced abortion she endured in 2008. She says she withdrew her consent for an abortion after viewing an ultrasound image of her pre-born baby. According to Bruce, Hodari ordered a male clinic worker to hold her down while Hodari forced the abortion on her. Her mouth was covered to muffle her screams.

These stories are just the tip of a very large iceberg. More needs to be done to insure that vulnerable women do not have to endure abortions they do not want.

Boyd's clinic is of particular concern because women come to it from all over the country for late-term abortions that are not legal or available in their home states. Studies show that domestic violence against women actually increases in their last 4 months of pregnancy, a time during which Boyd particularly solicits women for abortions.

"We hope that the police thoroughly investigate the Cox case to determine if the young woman was coerced or aborted out of fear for her safety. But unfortunately, in New Mexico abortion laws are so permissive that there is likely no statute that could punish a person for forcing or coercing an abortion on an unwilling woman," said Sullenger. "This lax attitude toward abortion coercion and accompanying domestic violence places women and their wanted babies in grave risk. It is really outrageous that more hasn't already been done to protect women at this vulnerable time of their lives."

As for Cox, his case has been referred to the district attorney, who will evaluate it to see if charges should be filed.

"If they let this man walk away without charges this will send the wrong message to bullies who want to threaten peaceful pro-lifers and coerce young girls into unwanted abortions, as we suspect may have been the case in this instance," said Newman. "They need to make an example out of Mr. Cox in order to stem the violence inside and outside the abortion clinic."

See original story with photos

[Note: The news video incorrectly identifies Bud Shaver as a member of Operation Rescue. Mr. Shaver is a former intern with Operation Rescue, but currently works with Project Defending Life in Albuquerque, NM.]

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland has taken Nike's "Just do it" challenge to tackle life with gusto and run the other way with it.

Without checking with any ruling body in the state of IA whether their plan was legal, PP abortionists 2 years ago began dispensing RU-486 abortion pills by computer screen to mothers scattered throughout Iowa, some hundreds of miles away....

It is a felony in IA for anyone other than licensed physicians to commit abortion. Since physical contact is never made with telemed abortions, or even possible in most cases, PP's scheme was questionably legal at best, criminal at worst....

Operation Rescue, through the IA Open Records Act, has received 900 pages of e-mails sent between officials and staff members at the Attorney General's office, IA Board of Medicine and PP of the Heartland. They smell of collusion.

Example: Citizen's Information Center is a Boston, MS, citizen's watchdog group that investigates the medical industry through public-records requests.

In July, CIC formally requested from IBOM copies of the licenses of PP of the Heartland's abortionists as well as any record of complaints and disciplinary actions against them. These are supposed to be available to the public.

But the Board gave PP a heads up and ample time to file an injunction to stop the release of records to CIC.

Here's an e-mail from PP attorney Mike Falstrom to Kent Nebel, IBOM's director of legal affairs (click to enlarge):

The Board then informed CIC it couldn't give it the records because PP said no....

Continue reading my column today, "Collusion in the Heartland," at WorldNetDaily.com.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M, Aug. 31, 2010/Christian Newswire--

A man was arrested Saturday, August 28, outside Southwestern Women's Options, a late-term abortion clinic operated by Curtis Boyd in Albuquerque, NM, after he threatened to shoot two pro-life women who were offering help to abortion-bound women.

The unidentified man and his wife were escorting their daughter into the abortion clinic when the wife and daughter walked over to the pro-life women to discuss alternatives to abortion. The man became angry and ushered his family members toward the clinic.

"When we come out, I'm going to put a bullet in your head if you talk to her," the man told the pro-life women, whose identities are being withheld for their security.

Witnesses said that the man then lifted his shirt to show the women a dark object that was partially tucked into his trousers. The women recognized the object as a gun and called the police.

"The police responded appropriately and took him away in handcuffs," said former Operation Rescue intern Bud Shaver, who arrived on the scene in time to witness the arrest and the clearing of the clinic by police.

"They cleared Boyd's clinic to search for the gun SWAT style. Everyone, including staff, had to come out with their hands up."

The area was cordoned off and the clinic was closed to patients for nearly two hours while police conducted their investigation.

It is currently unknown if a gun was recovered by police or what charges were brought against the man.

Death threats against pro-lifers have been viewed with greater concern in the wake of the shooting death of activist Jim Pouillon of Owosso, MI, who was gunned down last year as he held a pro-life sign outside a local high school. The killer admitted that he murdered Pouillon because he did not agree with his public abortion protests.

Shaver told OR that he has been threatened a number of times since he has been in Albuquerque, but the police never responded in the way they did on Saturday.

"We are thankful that no one was injured and that the police took appropriate action," said Newman. "Violence against pro-lifers has become something that we have to guard against every day. Those who reach out to women in front of abortion clinics should not be afraid to continue to do so, but should always have security and an awareness of their surroundings in mind."

View the photos here.

Des Moines, IA/August 30, 2010/Operation Rescue --

An open records request for public documents has been denied by the IA Medical Board, which tipped off Planned Parenthood of the Heartland that the request for public records had been made. PP then filed a suit against a medical watchdog group to block the release of the documents.

Operation Rescue was contacted by the Citizen's Information Center located in Boston, MA, a group that conducts research on the medical industry through public records. They sent OR a copy of a law suit filed against the CIC by PP of the Heartland on August 9, 2010, in Polk County, IA, asking the court to enjoin the release of public records to the CIC. As of this writing, no court hearing date has been set and no injunction has been issued.

Along with the petition, the CIC sent OR a series of emails that clearly show that their public records request was forwarded to PP of the Heartland by an IA Board of Medicine staff member.

Operation Rescue has released a copy of the suit filed by PP against the CIC as well as a series of e-mail communications that were provided to the CIC by Amy Van Maanen, Director of Licensure & Administration at the IA Board of Medicine. (Links below)

On August 9, 2010, attorney for Planned Parenthood Mike Falkstrom sent an e-mail to Kent Nebel, Director of Legal Affairs for the IA Medical Board. Falkstrom stated:

Kent,

We're filing to enjoin the release of records today. I apologize for the delay, there were scheduling issues with taking affidavits and I was unable to get them until last week. I appreciate your patience.

Thanks!
Mike Falkstrom

"That e-mail implies a working relationship and prior communication between Mr. Nebel and the Planned Parenthood attorney concerning the open records request. Why would the IBM work with Planned Parenthood to obstruct a citizen from accessing public records? What is the IBM helping Planned Parenthood to hide?" asked Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.

The file in question is the medical license application for Planned Parenthood abortionist Susan Haskell, an osteopath who is involved in the controversial remote-controlled dispensing of abortion drugs known as telemed abortions.

Operation Rescue confirmed with the IBM that medical license applications are in fact public records.

"We have obtained medical license applications from a number of states on our own and the usual procedure is for the medical boards to redact any personal information, such as home addresses and phone numbers. We have never seen a case where access to a medical license application was denied," said Newman.

In a conversation with OR on Friday, Kent Nebel indicated that he was required by law to inform Haskell that an open records request had been made for her license application in order to give her the opportunity to obtain an injunction. He cited Iowa Code Section 22.8.

OR was told that this code requires the IBM to give notice to the physicians when public records requests are made, however 'notice' requirement in 22.8.1 is clearly a requirement to notify the records requester that the custodian of records has filed for injunctive relief.

"It is a misreading of the statute to say that the subject of the records must be notified," said Newman.

As for any potential "harm" claim that may come from the release of public records, any private information can be easily redacted, as is the practice in nearly every other state. Medical license applications are public record for reasons of accountability. Under IA law, "inconvenience or embarrassment" are not legitimate reasons to deny public records requests or to get an injunction.

"If Haskell doesn't want her applications inspected by the public, which has a legal right to do so, maybe she shouldn't working in the medical field where she knows certain information will be considered open record," said Newman.

"We believe that Mr. Nebel acted improperly by forwarding the CIC open record request to Planned Parenthood and denying the CIC the records that were legally requested. This incident diminishes our confidence that the Board is capable of acting properly on complaints before them involving Planned Parenthood's dangerous telemed abortion pill distribution scheme."

As for the petition itself, Planned Parenthood makes numerous of unfounded assumptions about the CIC that Operation Rescue is told are completely false and border on paranoid hysteria.

"PP has no idea who this private watchdog group is, so they jumped to the unfounded assumption that it is a 'anti-abortion' group bent on engaging in illegal activity. They really have no idea why the CIC even wants the records, so they manufactured some fictional conspiracy. They worry the CIC may use the information to 'slander' Haskell, yet they are doing worse to the CIC by attacking their reputation in this outlandish and completely baseless petition. It is the very definition of hypocrisy," said Newman.

OR plans to release additional documents at a later date that we believe shows a protective and apparently improper relationship between the IA Attorney General's office and Planned Parenthood of the Heartland.

"There is evidence that the IA Attorney General may be involved in collusion and even corruption to protect Planned Parenthood of the Heartland from accountability to the laws of the State of IA," said Newman. "We plan to release that additional documentation soon and allow the public to decide."

View the petition: PPH v. CIC

View the email exchange between PPH and the IBM

The FDA's recent approval of Ella (Ulipristal acetate) as an emergency contraceptive is an action so fraught with lies and incomplete research, that it beggars the imagination. It is a tissue of lies built upon a foundation of lies. Let's begin with the foundational lies and work our way up.

Ella is marketed as an emergency contraceptive because it can inhibit ovulation for up to five days. It also acts to prevent the implantation of the embryo and destroys the maternal component of the placenta (more on that later). So how is this not considered an abortifacient by the FDA?

The answer lies in the redefinition of both pregnancy and conception. ...

Read the remainder of this article here.

Pastor Joshua Kulendran Mayandy was being treated in a hospital in Brampton, Canada. They have now decided to withhold food and water from him, allowing him to slowly die of dehydration and starvation, just like Terri Schiavo.

Worldnetdaily Article

We're talking about someone who can communicate, breath and move. If we allow Mayandy to die he will be one of many who have been killed by the culture of death, beginning with Terri Schiavo. The hospital has removed Mayandy's feeding tube and it's only a matter of time until he dies.

Make a difference right now! Click here to call the ICU and the administration at the hospital and let them know you are praying for them to allow Joshua Mayandy to live. Do not be mean, let our numbers and our God do the talking please. The main number for the switchboard is 416 494-2120. Use the administration extension 33467 and leave your message with them.

Can we make a difference? In 2006, we received a letter from Melanie Childers, the sister of Andrea Clark, another woman in a similar situation. Melanie asked us to help her save her sister. We rang the phones off the hook at the hospital, and in the end, we were credited for saving Andrea Clark.

Melanie Childers said:

"As you know, I'm a Democrat, but one that is against abortion. I agree with the Republicans on that issue, at least. After this experience, though, I have to tell you: I am in absolute awe of the power that the right to life people generate. I, of course, first posted on Democratic Underground, and I have to give them some credit: they let my post stand against the rules about posting something like this under the wrong topic.

Pastor Mayandy is being publicly executed because Ontario is going broke. Pay attention to one really important criteria for the hospital to allow him to live.

"The board further ruled that Mayandy would need to ask for food and water for it to be given."

"As an example only, if the attending physician hears Pastor Mayandy make a capable request for food or water, he will be fed and hydrated."

That's what it takes? We have to be able to ask for help? We can't just expect our fellow human beings to do the right thing?

Since Terri Schiavo, euthanasia has become a common method of execution in America. It probably happens dozens of times a day & we just don't hear about it. If we don't stop them,Pastor Mayandy will just be another statistic.

So make a difference right now! Click here to call the ICU and the administration at the hospital and let them know you are praying for them to allow Joshua Mayandy to live. Do not be mean, let our numbers and our God do the talking please. The main number for the switchboard is 416 494-2120. Use the administration extension 33467 and leave your message with them.

Pro-Life Unity

United we stand ~ Divided they die

OAKLAND, CA, Aug. 27, 2010/Christian Newswire --

An appellate court overturned Elder Walter Hoye's criminal conviction for violating Oakland's "Mother May I" law restricting sidewalk counseling. In a jury trial in 2009, Hoye was found guilty of two counts of unlawfully approaching women seeking abortions at an Oakland abortion clinic; the court sentenced him to 30 days in jail and an $1100 fine.

Hoye was represented by LLDF attorneys Katie Short and Allison Aranda and volunteer attorney Michael Millen.

In its published opinion, the Appellate Division of the Alameda Superior Court agreed with Hoye's attorneys that the trial court had erred in two respects. First, the trial court refused to instruct the jury that it had to unanimously agree on the particular incident for which Hoye was to be found guilty. Because the district attorney's office presented evidence of several separate interactions between Hoye and persons entering the clinic, it was unclear whether the jury had all agreed on a single instance where Hoye allegedly violated the ordinance.

Second, the trial court refused defense requests to provide a definition of "knowingly approach," a critical element of the "crime" for which Pastor Hoye was convicted. By failing to provide a definition, the court stated, the trial court left the jury unaware that the ordinance does not apply to stationary speakers who address and proffer literature to persons passing by.

However, this may not be the end of the road for the case. "The District Attorney's office could decide to retry Pastor Hoye," Short explained. "However, it would be well advised to wait until after the Ninth Circuit rules in our federal constitutional challenge to the ordinance, which is scheduled for a hearing in October."

In the meantime, Hoye is heartened by this turn of events "It is my hope that this victory will encourage Pastors to both take a public stand against abortion in the pulpit and to minister the love of Christ to the men, women and children going into an abortion clinic from the public square. It's time for men of God to come together and end the incontestable evil of abortion, anywhere and everywhere it exists."

It was a long ugly year. It was also one that I will never forget. I learned so much about ugliness this year and discovered pure amazing beauty as well . I learned that when we step out to reveal our own ugliness, we disarm pretense, we create a safe house in our presence for others and we find that there is liberty in expressing truth and ugliness. It is sort of like washing off the thick make up we had been wearing for weeks on end just to go 'au natural' with a clean and freshly washed face. Each wrinkle, sunspot, pimple, mole, in the light of day is beautiful in its authenticity. Kicking off the three inch heels we have worn to give us stature only to run barefoot, feeling the sand, mud, water, in-between our toes, shows us how alive we really are when we walk in humility.

Exactly a year ago I released my book, "TO BE A MOTHER." I was reluctant at first to tell my story about the abortion I experienced and the deep pain, regret, shame, guilt and remorse that I felt. But through prayer it was clearly revealed that this story of God's grace and redemption must be told. The day before the book was released it dawned on me how naked I would be and how ugly the truth was in my past. I was so afraid and doubtful but knew it was God's will for it to be written in all of its naked ugly truth. The best lesson I have learned this year is that God loves me as ugly as I can be and as ugly as I have been.

I have stood in front of women (whether it is one woman or a crowd of women) in my 'ugliness' and reminded them that they are loved and of value because God tells us that we are significant in our imperfection and ugliness. We try so hard to keep the make up applied, the high heels on and the pencil skirts pressed. But sometimes our quest for beauty just makes us feel dirtier and uglier by worldly standards, when we refuse to let the scars be shown. Sometimes the most beautiful parts of us are our scars, moles and age spots that we try to hide.

I expressed my ugliness to a Mexican woman walking into her abortion and gave my testimony for the first time ever in bad Spanish. She ended up keeping her baby. She smiled and waved to me as she left the clinic. I felt beautiful even though I was wearing sweats and a baseball cap.

I told a crowd of women of the ugly day that I wanted to kill myself post abortion. Later, after the event, a woman volunteered to help me carry my things to the car. She confessed her own abortion. I was the first person she had told in 27 years. She cried. We laughed in liberation in the empty parking lot outside of a conference center. We both saw how free she felt once she confessed. It was a beautiful day even though it was cold and rainy....

Read the remainder of this article here.

August 26, 2010/Operation Rescue --

• In CA, a lawsuit has been filed against abortionist Andrew Rutland for malpractice and wrongful death in the case of Ying Chen who died in 2009 during a botched abortion at a filthy and ill-equipped acupuncture clinic in San Gabriel. The suit was filed by Chen's boyfriend, Zixiang Hu, on behalf of their 2-year-old daughter after the coroner's office reclassified Chen's death as a homicide.

  The CA Medical Board has been after Rutland for months and recently amended their disciplinary petition against him to reflect the fact that Chen's death is now officially a homicide. It is hoped that this will help the Board gain a permanent revocation of Rutland's medical license when it meets to consider his shoddy abortion practices in February, 2010.

  Read more about Operation Rescue's efforts to bring Rutland to justice.

• MI abortionist Alberto Hodari is the subject of a lawsuit filed last week by the Thomas More Society of Chicago for the release of government documents explaining why Hodari was never disciplined for the illegal dumping of the human remains of aborted babies in 2008.

  Monica Miller of the Citizens for a Pro-Life Society discovered the remains of aborted children in dumpsters outside several of Hodari's Detroit-area abortion mills along with private patient medical records. Hodari was placed on probation for illegal dumping of medical records, but was never disciplined for the illegal disposal of human remains.

  Hodari faces possible disciplinary action after Caitlin Bruce filed a complaint with the MI medical board over an abortion Hodari forced on her in 2008. Bruce has also sued Hodari over her horrific ordeal where she says she changed her mind about the abortion and tried to leave, but was held down by a male assistant while Hodari forced the abortion on her. Additional malpractice suits are also pending against Hodari.

  Hodari also recently divorced and has placed all of his 7 abortion clinics up for sale.

  Read more about Operation Rescue's efforts to bring Hodari to justice.

• Abortionist Rapin Osathanondh faces trial for manslaughter on September 7, 2010, in Barnstable County, MA, nearly 3 years to the day after he killed Laura Hope Smith during a botched abortion. Osathanondh's Hyannis abortion mill was understaffed and ill-equipped for emergencies when Ms. Smith suffered complications to the powerful anesthesia that the abortionist improperly used. She died at the clinic.

  Operation Rescue worked with Laura's mother, Eileen Smith, to bring Osathanondh to justice. Since then, Osathanondh has surrendered his medical license and closed his 2 abortion clinics.

  Please join Operation Rescue in praying for strength for the Smith family during this trial and that Osathanondh will be properly brought to justice in that court of law.

  Read background on this story.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2010/Christian Newswire --

"This fall, an unprecedented number of people of faith will be turning to a higher power to bring an end to the tragedy of abortion through a 40-day program of prayer and fasting, peaceful vigil and community outreach," said Shawn Carney, campaign director of 40 Days for Life.

40 Days for Life is preparing for its largest campaign to date with 238 sites in 6 countries participating in simultaneous campaigns from September 22 - October 31. The list of locations is posted here.

The list includes 223 locations in 46 American states and the District of Columbia. With 9 locations in 6 provinces, this campaign will also mark the largest Canadian participation as well. There are also communities taking part in 40 Days for Life in Australia, Denmark, Northern Ireland, and -- for the first time -- England.

"Many of the people who volunteer to pray at 40 DFL's public vigils have never done anything like this before, and perhaps had never even considered it," said Carney. "But there's a sense of urgency -- more lives are being lost to abortion every day with no apparent end in sight -- that requires an active, prayerful response. People are responding to that call, and it is showing amazing results."

6 abortion centers where 40 DFL prayer vigils have taken place have closed following these campaigns of prayer and fasting. In addition, 35 abortion industry employees have left their jobs at facilities where people prayed for an end to abortion during 40 DFL campaigns.

Carney added that peaceful prayer outside the abortion center "provides a simple reminder -- to patients, to staff, to the community -- of what all people know in their hearts: abortion is wrong and can never be justified. Despite the fact that governments continue to aggressively pursue a pro-abortion agenda, I am confident that the abortion culture will be overcome by the power of prayer."

Just 3 years ago, 40 DFL burst onto the scene as a groundbreaking pro-life initiative. Since then, it has mobilized more than 350k people in 307 cities across all 50 states -- as well as locations in other nations -- during 6 coordinated campaigns, saving 2,811 lives from abortion. The community-based 40 DFL campaign involves people of faith in 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion, round-the-clock peaceful vigils outside abortion facilities, and grassroots educational outreach.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24, 2010/Christian Newswire --

Evangelical left voice Jim Wallis, who has boasted of his ties to the Obama administration, finally has admitted that his "progressive Christian" Sojourners movement has received funding from leftist billionaire George Soros' Open Society Institute.

According to WORLD magazine, Soros, an atheist billionaire who has financed groups promoting abortion, atheism, and same-sex marriage, bankrolled Sojourners with a $200k grant in 2004. Since then Sojourners has received at least 2 more grants from Soros organizations altogether totaling $325k, the most recent in 2007. Sojourners revenues have more than tripled -- from $1,601,171 in 2001-2002 to $5,283,650 in 2008-2009.

Wallis originally rebutted a criticism of "religious progressives" for being allied with Soros in 2005: "I know of no connections to those liberal funds and groups that are as direct as the Religious Right's ties to right-wing funders." Earlier this month in Patheos, Wallis wrote, "No, we don't receive money from George Soros."

Institute for Religion and Democracy President Mark Tooley commented:

Wallis' initial denials and then ultimate confirmation of Soros funding for Sojourners is a revealing turning point for the evangelical left.

Long insisting he represents a mysterious Christian 'third way' more enlightened than the old Religious Right, Wallis now stands exposed as what he always was: a man of the political left. From his days 40 years ago as a radical Students for Democratic Society activist, to his championing of the Marxist Sandinistas in 1980s' Nicaragua, Wallis has always allied himself with secular leftist groups hostile to the historic Church.

Religious leftists may freely tout their views no less than religious conservatives. But Wallis and his Sojourners, as Soros-funded religious leftists, should heed truth in advertising.

DES MOINES, IA/Aug. 20, 2010/Christian Newswire --

Today, Thomas More Society attorney Tom Brejcha, along with representatives from several pro-life organizations, testified at the IA Medical Board hearing to argue against the performance of "telemed" abortions in the state. The Thomas More Society submitted a letter from special counsel Paul Benjamin Linton that outlined the case against this type of abortion, in which a patient is administered an abortion-inducing drug, RU-486, after meeting with a physician remotely via video conference.

"Telemedicine abortions are a clear violation of IA law, as an abortion can only be performed by a physician, and the drugs used to induce abortion can only be administered in a physician's office," said Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Society, who appeared at the hearing at the request of several IA pro-life organizations and leaders. "We hope the IA Medical Board will properly honor the law of the state and public health will not be put at risk by allowing remote control abortions."

Under current IA law, the performance of an abortion by anyone other than a physician is a Class "C" felony. Brejcha adds that "telemed abortions" flout the protocol for administration of the drugs approved by the FDA, Mifeprex and misoprostol.

The chairman of the Board, Dr. Siroos Shirazi, announced after hearing the arguments that the Board will take all comments into consideration and render a ruling, which could come at the Board's October meeting.

Florida/August 19, 2010/FL RTL --

In this outreach of the National Right to Life Committee, we are striving to educate ourselves, inform others, and are dedicated to protecting and preserving innocent human life in all of its stages. Abortion is an important issue and it affects us all with almost 4,000 abortions a day, but we are also concerned about the end of life issues. Educating our youth on the dangers of Euthanasia is important.

FL RTL president Carrie Eisnaugle said, "FL Right to Life is excited about the formation of Florida Teens for Life and looks forward to partnering with them to ensure their success. The more teens know about abortion and euthanasia, the better equipped they will be to save lives in the future."

FL Teens for Life has and will continue to make a great impact right where we live! Twice a month we hold 'Solidarity Saturdays' where we come together to peacefully pray in front of our city's abortion facilities. You can also expect to see us standing near our polling sites in order to bring awareness to voters about their candidates and the issues.

We enjoy being able to help crisis pregnancy centers through donations we collect at our monthly meetings. We have plans to set up informational booths as another way to reach out to the community. Our first meeting brought in recent Christendom College graduate and inspiring speaker, Krystle Schuetz. We will continue to bring in speakers to highlight the different aspects of the pro-life movement like the importance of our pregnancy crisis centers just like the Alpha Center. We will have apologetics training so that everyone will gain the confidence to defend the pro-life message and to promote the culture of life, all the while being uplifting and encouraging.

You can be sure that we will help to represent our generation by being in attendance at the Right to Life March in Washington DC. The issue resonates with our generation and there is no better time for our youth to get involved. They are needed today more than ever to articulate their case for the culture of life.

We hope everyone will keep spreading the word to their family, friends, and local churches. Our website is: www.floridateensforlife.com and you can find us on Facebook by searching for florida teens for life. Feel free to contact us at: flateensforlife@aol.com

UPDATE: In an email dated 8/20, a representative of Kohl's Department Stores states:

Kohl's does not have a corporate partnership with Planned Parenthood. Kohl's does have a partnership with the Southeastern WI affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. All of our funding to this organization is aimed at increasing breast health screenings through a grassroots based education program; a marketing campaign designed to incite women to take action; financial assistance for those unable to pay for a mammogram and sponsorship.

James Barnes
Manager - Public Relations
Kohl's Department Stores
262.703.6286

FRONT ROYAL, VA, Aug. 11, 2010/Christian Newswire --

Life Decisions International (LDI) has released a revised edition of The Boycott List, which identifies corporations that support of Planned Parenthood, the world's primary abortion-advocacy group.

"As a direct result of the commitment, action and prayers of pro-family people, at least 256 corporations have stopped funding Planned Parenthood," said Kenneth C. Garvey, LDI's Director of Communications. It is estimated that the boycott has cost Planned Parenthood more than $40 million since the Corporate Funding Project (CFP) began nearly 18 years ago. "This should serve as a testament to those who thought it impossible to change corporate philanthropic behavior."

New boycott targets include AOL, Darden Restaurants (Bahama Breeze, The Capital Grille, LongHorn Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Season 52), Franchise Services (PIP, Signal Graphics, Sir Speedy), Hilton Worldwide (Conrad Hotels, Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inns/Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hilton Hotels, Homewood Suites), Ignite Restaurants (Brickhouse Tavern+Tap, Joe's Crab Shack), ING (financial services), Kohl's (department stores), Mrs. Fields (cookies), Staples (office/school supplies), Toys "R" Us, and Trader Joe's (markets/supermarkets).

Returning to The Boycott List are The Gap (apparel/accessories) and Freddie Mac (U.S. Government-sponsored secondary mortgages).

Corporations continuing as boycott targets from the previously released Boycott List include AlphaGraphics, Wells Fargo (including Wachovia), Nike, Time Warner, Bank of America, Walt Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Lost Arrow (Patagonia, etc.), Chevron, and Nationwide Insurance, among others.

Garvey was critical of pro-life organizations that continue to use PayPal even though it has been a boycott target for several years now. "PayPal is owned by boycott target eBay," Garvey said. "Most pro-life groups are aware that it is a boycott target because it has funded Planned Parenthood, but they have consciously chosen to continue doing business with the company. Doing so is indefensible." Garvey said alternatives to PayPal exist and he will gladly help anyone who has trouble tracking them down. "It is unconscionable that anyone who claims to be pro-life would willingly do business with a company that funds the number one enemy of preborn children," Garvey said.

The new Boycott List includes a "Dishonorable Mention" section, which identifies charitable groups that are associated with Planned Parenthood and/or its agenda. Groups named in this section include Lions Clubs, the American Cancer Society, Easter Seals, Boys & Girls Clubs, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Camp Fire, Girls Inc., Girl Scouts, Kiwanis Clubs, March of Dimes, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Rotary Clubs, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Salvation Army, YWCA, America Gives Back (formerly [American] Idol Gives Back), and YMCA, among others.

"This has not been some sort of 'Jesse Jackson boycott' where we make news for a few days and then go away," said LDI Chairman Thomas C. Strobhar. "Corporate officials are learning that those who value life are among the most dedicated people on earth. We will not go away until corporate involvement with Planned Parenthood comes to an end."

More information about the CFP, including the steps taken before a corporation is placed on The Boycott List, please click here.

by CitizenLink's Catherine Snow--

The Obama administration is, once again, entangled in controversy over sex education.

Yet this time, it is not about what the administration is trying to implement, but about what it is withholding - and apparently for political reasons.

A taxpayer-funded study that indicates parental and adolescent support of abstinence education is not being released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, as it does not support the administration's objective - or that of vocal "safe sex" activists - of eliminating all abstinence-education funding.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), a division of HHS, funded a survey of 1,000 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 and their parents, in order to measure parent-adolescent communication and adolescent attitudes toward sex and abstinence.

The American Public Health Association's website reveals the only results of the survey...

Read the remainder of this article here.

DES MOINES, IA/Aug. 18, 2010/Christian Newswire --

Operation Rescue will participate in a press conference with a coalition of pro-life and pro-family organizations on Friday, August 20th, at 12:00 Noon prior to the afternoon session of the IA Board of Medicine where public comments will be heard regarding Planned Parenthood's remote-controlled push-button abortion pill distribution scheme, known as telemed abortions.

The IA Board of Medicine will be meeting at 400 SW 8th Street, Suite C in Des Moines. The press conference will be held on the area just south of the building between Murphy Street and SW 8th Street. It is being led by Iowans for Life.

After the press conference, OR plans to attend the public comment portion of the IBM meeting and voice strong opposition to the misuse of telemedicine by Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, which conducts abortion by pill without a licensed physician present or physically available to the patient, even in the event of an emergency.

OR filed a complaint with the IBM against PP of the Heartland in an effort to stop the dangerous practice of the push-button telemed abortions. That complaint launched an investigation that is ongoing.

"We encourage everyone who can to attend the press conference and IBM meeting to voice concerns about PP's dangerous misuse of technology that kills innocent babies and endangers the lives of women," said OR President Troy Newman. "Now is the time for us to stand up and speak on behalf of those who have no voice."

Operation Rescue will also be commenting on our interactions with the IA Attorney General's office regarding requests for a criminal investigation and audit of PP of the Heartland for alleged violations concerning the dubious practice of telemed abortions.

Columbus, OH/August 17, 2010/Operation Rescue--

Documents and information provided by an abortion whistleblower indicate that botched abortions occur much more often than the public is led to believe. Transcripts provided to Operation Rescue show disturbing information about two botched abortions that took place at different abortion clinics in Columbus, OH, within the past month.

"It is our understanding from conversations with our confidential sources in Ohio that abortion patients in Columbus end up in the local emergency rooms with alarming frequency. Our whistleblower says that these two incidents are just the tip of the iceberg. The true number of abortion complications is hidden from the public and it now appears that complications requiring emergency hospitalization have reached epidemic proportions," said Troy Newman.

Operation Rescue is demanding that the Medical Board of Ohio conduct inspections and close the dangerous abortion clinics in Columbus and around the state.
This is the latest of many tips that has come to Operation Rescue since it announced its Abortion Whistleblower Program.

Whistleblowers have been rocking the abortion cartel by coming forward with evidence of abortion abuses, including the following:

• Former employees of late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart submitted affidavits detailing illegal abortions, unlicensed staff dispensing drugs and performing medical tasks for which they were not qualified, and other offenses. This launched investigations by the NE Attorney General and Health Department.

• A whistleblower confirmed abortion abuses that have been occurring at Planned Parenthood of the Heartland in IA where dangerous abortion pills are being administered through a remote-controlled push-button scheme known as "telemed abortion." A medical board investigation is ongoing.

• Whistleblowers in CA helped expose the fact that abortionist Andrew Rutland was violating the terms of his probation by doing abortions without the required supervision of another physician. He faces almost certain license revocation at a hearing scheduled for early next year.

• Operation Rescue blew the whistle on illegal late-term abortion referrals provided by abortionist Ann Kristin Neuhaus in KS. Neuhaus now faces disciplinary action after KS authorities filed an 11-count petition against her based on OR's complaint.

• Two victims of forced abortions done by MI abortionist Alberto Hodari came forward to tell of their horrific ordeals. Both women filed medical board complaints and one has sued. Currently, all seven of Hodari's Detroit area abortion mills are up for sale.

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Read about Operation Rescue's Abortion Whistleblower's program.