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September 28, 2007

Father Doesn't Know Best: Britain's Nanny State Creates New Rules for Keeping Parents Out of the Loop In a world where I find little that actually shocks me anymore, the following news almost did. According to new "guidelines" (a favorite word of government bureaucrats that actually means "laws"), U.K. parents are to be removed from the loop...

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September 27, 2007

How About a Recall on Abortion? During the "big story" on our local ABC affiliate Action News 6 last night, a consumer reporter crisply offered the latest information on more toys that might endanger children. (Here's the video.) Like other recently recalled play things, these toys...

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Truthful and Good News, for a Change:
Verizon calls NARAL "unsavory" and "controversial" Yet NARAL amazingly thinks Verizon is censoring our free speech! NARAL ought to consider that Verizon just might be listening to the predominance of its client base. Here's the email they sent:...

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September 26, 2007

PPFA Creates Its Own Credibility Gap State by state, inch by inch, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is losing credibility. Anecdotal evidence in the stories of regretful post-abortive women, who gave up motherhood with Planned Parenthood's help, has long revealed the group's self-interested deceptiveness. Increasingly,...

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Chris Danze to help Colorado Planned Parenthood boycott A pro-life hero and friend Chris Danze alerted me this morning he and his wife will travel to Colorado in 10 days to help "get a construction boycott off the ground" at the site of Planned Parenthood's 50,000 sq. ft....

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Bill to Put 'Aborting a Blob of Tissue' to Rest "If one of your daughters was pregnant, would you force her to have the baby?" a student asked during one of my high school pro-life presentations as a speaker for Pennsylvanians for Human Life. Without hesitation I replied that I...

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September 24, 2007

Who stole abortion billboard? Who stole abortion billboard? By Lynn Bartels, Rocky Mountain News September 24, 2007 Colorado Right to Life today accused Planned Parenthood supporters of stealing a controversial billboard banner on display outside the anti-abortion group's annual dinner. A spokeswoman for Planned...

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SCOOP: $7.5 mil libel lawsuit against Planned Parenthood to be filed Tuesday On behalf of a number of Aurora citizens who took part in the 40 day prayer vigil, Tom Brejcha of the Thomas More Society will file a $7.5 million lawsuit against Planned Parenthood/Chicago Area and its CEO Steve Trombley Tuesday....

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Priest Blasts 'Usual Suspects' For Votes Against Pro-Life Policy FRONT ROYAL, VA -- The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, STL, president of Human Life International, (HLI) today blasted a gang of 16 Catholic senators for their votes on an amendment to HR 2764 to overturn the Mexico City Policy instituted...

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Abortion: The Ultimate Cover-up Crisis Pregnancy Centers often receive phone calls from people seeking abortion. I answered such a call recently from a woman who was calling on behalf of her married daughter. I asked if the daughter had received a medical pregnancy test...

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September 22, 2007

New Pro-Life Presidential Candidate Wayne Wilson As a pro-life American, the first issue I look at when deciding on a candidate to support is the issue of life. Then I look at many other issues to decide between pro-life candidates. Right now, I'm very concerned about...

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September 21, 2007

A Bitter Pill for PPFA to Swallow "By no means is this case over. By no means," said U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle upon rejecting a motion to allowed Planned Parenthood to open its new super-abortion-clinic in Aurora, Ill. The judge also noted that PPFA was in...

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PPFA's Dubious Explanation of Abortion One would think that having a miscarriage and choosing an abortion were slightly different forms of the same experience, based on PPFA's online explanation of abortion. Here's what Planned Parenthood has to say on its website: Abortion ends a pregnancy...

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September 20, 2007

"The Medical Right": Executive Summary For those of you who are just becoming familiar, The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice has recently made public a report on what they term "the medical right" which is essentially the scientific counterpart to the religious right. The purpose...

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September 19, 2007

National Right to Life Honors Schindler Family The National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund will hold its 14th annual Proudly Pro-Life Awards Dinner on Tuesday, October 2, 2007, at 7:00pm at the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in Washington, D.C. A pre-dinner reception will be held at 6:00pm....

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Sept. 25th - Washington D.C. Area 40 Days for Life Kickoff Rally On Tuesday, September 25th, many participants in the local 40 Days for Life project will be gathering at Farragut Square in Washington D.C. for the Kickoff Rally. The rally will be attended by at least 6 D.C. area 40 Days for Life Campaign Directors. Speakers will include Jack Ames from DefendLife.org, Pastor Luke J. Robinson and Norma McCorvey. The 40 Days for Life Project encourages all Pro-Life people to pray for an end to abortion by joining in 40 days of prayer in front of abortion mills, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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September 18, 2007

What Do PPFA and O.J. Have in Common? As I watched this Fox News-Chicago video report on the delay in opening the Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Aurora, Ill., today, I thought about how PPFA has a lot in common with O.J. (Hattip: Jill Stanek for Fox News-Chicago...

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September 17, 2007

Online Window Shopping at PPFA's Store A distraction seemed in order while waiting for word on whether Planned Parenthood's clinic -- the one PPFA tried to slip into Aurora, Ill., under the false names Gemini Office Development and Gemini Health Systems -- will open this week...

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Judge denies Planned Parenthood Aurora's request to open tomorrow This information comes from pro-life attorney Tom Brejcha, who just left the hearing: U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle has denied Planned Parenthood's request for an order that Aurora allow it to open tomorrow. There is a very short schedule for...

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People With Signs=Anti-Choice Extremists With all of the controversy surrounding Planned Parenthood's sneaking into Aurora, Illinois to build an abortion mill, things wouldn't seem complete unless Planned Parenthood made some moronic insinuation about coming from pro-lifers. Sure enough, Planned Parenthood posted an advertisement (posted...

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September 16, 2007

The Forgotten Cost of "Choice" The stories of each of the women named in that montage on YouTube come from court documents, medical journal articles, autopsy reports, news stories, and online sources. The dates range from the 19th century to the 21st century. The...

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Parental Notification Laws Decrease Teen STD Rates Data on reports of teen STD's from the Centers for Disease Control correlated with information on State laws mandating parental notification and consent for abortion is strong evidence that the laws protect young people. Read more on the research by...

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Protest of Aurora Planned Parenthood, September 15

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September 14, 2007

What Percentage of PP's Business Really Is Abortions? (ARTICLE UPDATED SEPT. 16, 2007) It depends on what percentage of what financial categories you're using to answer the question. Also would someone please pass this info on to the good folks fighting this PP clinic in Aurora for me?...

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Sen. Casey Sells Out Pro-Lifeness & Pro-Lifers Pennsylvania pro-lifers who voted for pro-life Democrat Bob Casey, Jr., in the U.S. Senatorial election of 2006 because they were angry with proactive, pro-life Sen. Rick Santorum, take note. Last week Sen. Bob Casey, Jr., voted in favor of Sen....

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September 13, 2007

Whimping Out on When Life Begins "New Jersey's Top Court Rejects Suit on Abortion" reported The New York Times today. Here's how the story begins: NEWARK, Sept. 12 -- Because there is no consensus on the issue of when life begins, a doctor does not have...

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Video clips from 9-11 Aurora City Council meeting Jeff from Chicago Pro-Life Activist has put together two video montages, 4-6 minutes each, of highlights from the Aurora City Council meeting on September 11 concerning Planned Parenthood's attempted sneak into the community. The montages include testimony from both pro-lifers...

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September 12, 2007

Real Concern for Reproductive Health in NJ New Jersey residents' efforts to pressure their public advocate to ensure that abortion clinics there are regularly inspected by the Health Department were in vain, reports the Associated Press. (Here's the story as it appeared in Newsday.) This pressure came...

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CPC Near Aurora Planned Parenthood;
Mass TONIGHT Down The Block From PP in Joliet Diocese, IL "...Help WCS save and change lives" And not just the unborn ones, either. The women who get help from the likes of Woman's Choice Services avoid the "life after abortion," the "depression after abortion", the "suicide after abortion", the "trouble...

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Last night's Aurora City Council meeting First, Jeff at Chicago Pro-Life Activist is preparing a video/photo montage of last night he'll get to us asap. I'll post a few photos now to give you a sense. Eric Scheidler warned in email updates he had heard Planned...

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New Stanek WND column, "Planned Parenthood bombs itself" Last week, I detailed how it appears Planned Parenthood mega mills popping up across the country are not happenstance but the culmination of a five-year plan not only to expand, but also exterminate competition.... But pro-lifers interrupted the plan...

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September 11, 2007

StemLifeLine pushing parents to use extra embryos to "protect the future" Many have been lulled into thinking that because of the federal ban on funding for fetal stem cell research, it is banned. That's how our media portray it. However, it is a ban on federal funding only - not on...

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A Prayer for the Nation on September 11 On this sad anniversary, here's my "A Prayer for the Nation," first published in the Philadelphia Daily News on September 16, 2001: While the bagpipes wail in mourning, oh Lord, awaken us from our stupor. A monstrous evil made itself...

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Armani Exchange - Window Displays Gone too Far? On two separate treks into Manhattan, I came across two AX stores that had questionable window displays. The first store, which is right across the street from St. Patrick's Cathedral, had posters of half naked couples. Not only are the...

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September 10, 2007

Planned Parenthood's full page ad in today's Beacon The only entity likely happy about the Aurora Planned Parenthood battle is the Aurora Beacon, which is selling a lot of ad space these days. I was flabbergasted when hearing about the full page ad Planned Parenthood took out today...

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Sean Hannity Scores Real Reporting on PPFA Sean Hannity kicked off football season on "Hannity's America" with hard hitting reporting by Fox News correspondent Ainsley Earhardt. Hannity and Earhardt tackled Planned Parenthood. Earhardt's expose of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, which ran last night on the...

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Abortion clinics protect child rapists This is old news to pro-lifers, but with all the attention on Planned Parenthood of Chicago for attempting to slither into Aurora with what it brags will be its largest US abortion mill, the time seems perfect to post audiotapes...

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LA Times: Planned Parenthood's "mask" Per Joe Scheidler's weekly hotline, an August 31 Los Angeles Times story was "[o]ne of the most comprehensive stories to come out of the battle against Planned Parenthood so far." Continued Scheidler: [Reporter] Stephanie Simon... sees a national protest against...

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Back to Higher School With Students for Life The group Students for Life of America has updated its website just in time for students of higher education who are returning to colleges and universities this fall. It's worth more than a look. Formerly known as "American Collegians for...

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Hannity's Planned Parenthood segment Jeff from Chicago Pro-Life Activist has posted last night's Planned Parenthood segment from Hannity's America on YouTube: I thought the segment covered a lot of ground in six minutes: Planned Parenthood's fraudulent construction practices, its treatment of aborting mothers as...

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September 7, 2007

Hardball in Aurora II: Pushback Let's rumble. Steve Trombley, CEO of Planned Parenthood Chicago, must retract the "false, libelous and malicious statements" in his letter or face "legal redress," this according to a letter just sent electronically to Trombley by Tom Brejcha, attorney for the...

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Hannity's America to investigate Planned Parenthood This Sunday, Hannity's America on Fox News Channel will feature an investigation of Planned Parenthood. The show will air 8p CST and 11p CST. The program's impetus was the Aurora situation and the tremendous uprising against it. But also covered...

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Hardball in Aurora From the Aurora Beacon, yesterday: Responding to criticism by anti-abortion activists and some Aurora aldermen, Planned Parenthood officials on Wednesday said they were truthful with the city about the development approval process for a clinic proposed for the city's far...

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Aurora Planned Parenthood opening "likely delayed" The Chicago Tribune reports today: The opening of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora likely will be delayed as officials investigate whether the group's occupancy permit application was proper, Mayor Tom Weisner said Thursday.But PP Chicago CEO Steve Trombley is...

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Truth be Told, One Way or Another Truth tossed aside often boomerangs and snaps people out of their stupor. Sometimes it takes activists to raise it. Other times those who suppress truth bring themselves down with their deception. Jill Stanek's appearance on The O'Reilly Factor to talk...

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September 7th - Call for Life Today! Every month on the first Friday we call and/or email our representatives to ask them to oppose abortion and human killing research. If we don't let our representatives know that they should do the right thing, who will? It's not just our vote that counts, it's our voice and our email.

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Ironies of Planned Parenthood in Aurora Ironies abound in Planned Parenthood's attempt to slip an abortion clinic into Aurora, Ill., by hiding its identity under the false names Gemini Office Development and Gemini Health Systems. PPFA's choice of Illinois is ironic because one of the most...

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Embryo Adoption: A Donor's Story Emily and Tom Walters* knew they wanted children from the beginning. Before the beginning, actually. "My husband and I started trying to conceive four months before our wedding," recalls Emily. "I knew I could still fit into my dress if...

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September 6, 2007

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September 5, 2007

Planned Parenthood Fed acknowledges Aurora battle Hey, she stole our line. A couple hours ago Planned Parenthood prez Cecile Richards sent the following email to her list, acknowledging Aurora as "ground zero" in the war over abortion, just a few days behind Eric Scheidler. At least...

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New Stanek WND column, "Planned Parenthood aims at mom and pop chop shops" I obviously don't have the cutthroat business drive that Planned Parenthood executives have. Few do. So I couldn't understand why PP was erecting its huge Aurora, IL, abortion mill in DuPage County, which was already disgraced by four independent mills,...

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Love Begets Love A chance encounter with a stranger highlighted my Labor Day. Hers was the face of absolute innocence and unconditional love. I met this joyful teen after her parents had helped her to mount a rented bicycle in a New Jersey...

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September 4, 2007

FNC at Aurora Planned Parenthood today From Eric Scheidler, hot off the press: I've just gotten word that Fox News Channel (national) is going to be out at the Planned Parenthood site between 2 and 3 p.m. today. They're interested in what we're doing here, and...

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Nationwide Call For Life Friday, September 7th September the 7th is the next Call For Life day at MonthlyCallForLife.com. Every month on the first Friday we Email and/or call our representatives to let them know that we want them to end abortion and stop human killing research.

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September 1, 2007

The GOP Values Voters Presidential Debate A letter of invitation was sent June 4 from national pro-family leaders to both the Republican and Democrats running for president. While it seems everyone is clamoring for the same date, Sept. 17, the good news is that seven out...

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