Peter Shinn, President of Pro-Life Unity, will be joining PLEAS, Pro-Life Educators and Students, and Pro-Life leaders in Washington DC at the Convention Center on Wednesday, July 2nd in a united protest against the pro-abortion agenda of the leaders of the National Education Association. The NEA will be holding their annual convention in Washington DC at the convention center, where a protest and press conference will be held from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm.
The imminent home birth of my son Judah.
By Ruben Obregon
The controversy over home births made headlines when earlier this month when the American Medical Association released a statement supporting a statement from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) which stated that the home is not the safest setting for giving birth.
The ACOG statement was in response to Ricki Lake's film The Business of Being Born, a documentary about the maternity industry.
It should be no surprise that the ACOG took this position - after all, it is all about money to them - home births are a threat to their industry and their lifestyles.
Just as money for "therapeutic" abortions helped turned them to the dark side of "medicine", money is again clouding their "medical" judgment. (See http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/93/11/1810.pdf?cid=1810 )
So much for an organization that supports what some call "reproductive choice" - isn't home birth a reproductive choice?
My wife has decided that our home is the best place for our son Judah "Jude" Miguel to be born, and while I had some initial reservations - mostly due to a lack of information - I enthusiastically support her choice to do so.
Her midwife is very experienced with home births - and though my wife has some medical conditions which place this pregnancy in a higher risk category, so far all the indications from our son's perinatal cardiologist are a go for a home birth. On that note, the cardiologist can't understand the ACOG or AMA's position on home birth - he fully supports the option.
So barring any last minute problems, our son will be born in at home where both he and his mother can be comforted and cared for on their terms and not on the nurse's or doctor's terms in a maternity ward.
Little Jude is due to be born at the end of August, and when he is, he'll be born in a warm and safe environment and surrounded by his loving parents and his brother - and an OB/GYN won't be required...
(And if you'd like to do so, you can send Judah and his parents a "happy home birth" gift. ;-) )
Grassroots Pro-Life Victory: Wal-Mart tells Planned Parenthood - Not in our Parking Lot
Washington, DC (27 June 2008) - A Wal-Mart parking lot in Richland, Washington is the latest front-line in the battle against abortion-giant, Planned Parenthood.
At the request of hundreds of pro-lifers, the store cancelled an event in which Planned Parenthood would pass out information in the lot June 27.
American Life League sent out a press release June 26 to pro-lifers across the country informing them of this latest Planned Parenthood encroachment into neighborhood retailers.
"It's hard enough for parents to safeguard their children from Planned Parenthood's pervasive sexualized propaganda," said Marie Hahnenberg, a researcher with American Life League. "They shouldn't have to worry about exposing their kids to Planned Parenthood's aggressive agenda even in Wal-Mart's parking lot."
Local protests were led by Jim Toth, pro-life chairman of the Knight of Columbus for the state of Washington, and after reportedly hundreds of calls and e-mails, the store decided to cancel the event.
"We thank Wal-Mart for taking a stand against Planned Parenthood," Hahnenberg continued. "In the spirit of Sam Walton, Wal-Mart has put the best interest of its customers first and they are to be commended for their decision. We'd also like to especially congratulate Jim and the Knights of Columbus, St. Joseph Council in Kennewick, Washington, as well as the hundreds of pro-lifers across the country who responded with calls, prayers, and support."
From Family Research Council, which offers a free daily email update on issues affecting the family.
Expert: The Pill is outdated and leads to unwanted pregnancies and abortion
By Ruben Obregon
Professor James Trussell, a well recognized expert on contraceptives, told attendees of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service conference "The Pill is an outdated method because it does not work well enough. It is very difficult for ordinary women to take a pill every single day..."
Though he did not intend to, his statement in some ways vindicates those who argue that the net impact of the pill has been an increase in unwanted pregnancies and abortion.
The push to use multiple methods of contraception, along with Trussell's statement, is in part an admission that, at the population level, contraceptive programs and technologies have largely been a failure.
Predictably, Trussell
doesn't advocate abstinence over the pill - for some reason the contraception
crowd simply cannot fathom a cultural shift towards abstinence. Instead, he
calls for increased use of the IUD: "The beauty of the implant or the IUD is
that you can forget about them."
IUDs have their own problems, including the "cost" of obtaining them as well as
various side effects. . Trussell also mentioned that
studies indicated that women miss more pills than they recall - something that,
at least in this author's mind, may cast further doubt on the calculated failure
rates of combined methods as published by
Santelli et al(2006). Trussell's statement should
bring into focus the public funding of Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest
abortion chain and one of the largest distributors of the pill. Planned Parenthood is well
aware of the problems with the pill, yet over the past few decades it has
provided it to minors - sans parental consent - using public funding. In the
long run, a large population of sexually active teens and young adults dependant
on the pill or other contraceptive methods to engage in sexual activity,
sustains the demand for abortion. Planned Parenthood is well aware of this and
has capitalized on it to grow their abortion practice - at the taxpayer's
expense. Trussell's admission should
be a catalyst to re-evaluate both the public funding of contraception programs
and cultural permissiveness towards premarital sexual activity, which is largely
dependent on contraception. It should also bolster
the call to eliminate - not simply to cut
- funding for Planned Parenthood at all levels of government. Related links:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article4215441.ece?articleid=4215441 H/T
Lifenews.com
Black leaders united at the RNC & DNC offices in Washington D.C. and demanded that representatives not accept 10 million dollars from Planned Parenthood, and that they also stop funding Planned Parenthood with American tax dollars to the tune of 300 million dollars per year.
Time magazine revealed last week at least eight students at Gloucester High School in MA have entered into a "pact," according to Principal Joseph Sullivan, to get pregnant and raise their babies together....Sullivan has now gone mum, certainly after school and city lawyers told him to shut up.
It's no wonder Gloucester Mayor Carolyn Kirk disallowed Sullivan from speaking at her June 23 press conference, telling the world he had gone "foggy in his memory," and there was "no evidence" of a pregnancy pact....Kirk tried to shift blame for the pregnancies to state and federal government funding reductions "resulting in cuts to programs and services... including support for health education."
Not so fast. Last spring, MA Gov. Deval Patrick rejected $700,000 in free money for abstinence teaching from the federal government. Meanwhile, Patrick approved a budget increase of $800,000 for comprehensive sex ed funding, bringing the total to
$3.8 million annually....Had this been a school system that taught abstinence, you'd best believe sex ed would be central to the story.
Had Patrick rejected comprehensive sex ed funding and increased abstinence funding, the New York Times would be pointing it out, not me....
Continue reading my column today, "What the media is ignoring about the pregnancy pact," on WorldNetDaily.com.
[Photo of Kirk courtesy of Agencies]
If you are looking for a speaker for a pro-life event, please consider the Rev. Luke Robinson, whom I first saw at the 2007 March for Life:
You've got to hear this clip of the speech he gave - which I covered under Abortion and African-American genocide.
Click to listen: Someone is lying while we are dying
People accuse those of us who are opposed to Obama as possible racists.
No way.
I would vote for this man for President in a heartbeat.
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You can contact Rev. Robinson at Quinn Chapel AME Church in Frederick, Md.
The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn makes a good point concerning unintended consequences in his column "NARAL Catholics Line Up for Obama," here, today.
McGurn mentions that most members of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's National Catholic Advisory Council have NARAL Pro-Choice America's "seal of approval" before noting:
It's not as if these NARAL scores are outliers: Sen. Obama himself boasts a 100% NARAL rating, and for good reason. In a speech before Planned Parenthood, he declared that the right to an abortion is at stake in this election, and vowed that he would not yield on appointing judges that would uphold Roe v. Wade.
Mr. Obama is for using tax dollars to fund abortions, and against restrictions on partial-birth abortion. In the Illinois Senate, he voted against legislation protecting a child who was born alive despite an abortion. In sum, if you want to know what Mr. Obama's policies mean, it's this: taxpayer-funded abortion on demand.
So where in this partnership of abortion-friendly NARALites and Catholics is the good news for the voiceless unborn?
"The political reality is that a National Catholic Advisory Council may do less to advance Mr. Obama than to alert the public about how extreme his votes and policies are - not to mention the similar votes and policies of the Catholic politicians supporting him," according to McGurn.
Here's hoping and praying that McGurn is right.
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From Mike Hichborn, American Life League:
We just posted the latest ALL Report on both blip.tv and YouTube. This report is on the latest statement from the AMA, who is attacking pharmacists for refusing to dispense abortive and contraceptive drugs. Interesting how the "pro-choice" crowd is pro-"Choice," just as long as you choose abortion and contraception. But if you want to "choose" to go along with your conscience ... well, too bad, so sad.
"Pro-choice Republican and independent women tend to abandon Republican John McCain when reminded that he opposes abortion rights," according to a recent poll reported the Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau here.
What a joke! Check out the punchline.
The poll was commissioned by NARAL Pro-Choice America. Plus, the survey of 1,788 likely women voters was conducted by the Democratic polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rossner Research.
U.S. News & World Report offers additional information, here and below, regarding "descriptions used by the [NARAL] pollsters in survey calls made to women between May 29 and June 8":
Obama: "Barack Obama believes that the decision to have an abortion is profoundly difficult for women and families and that these decisions are personal, between a woman, her family, her God, and her doctor, and that politicians should stay out of it. As president, Obama will oppose any constitutional amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade, and he will work to reduce unintended pregnancies through prevention and education by expanding access to birth control and sex education."McCain: "John McCain is pro-life, and on the issue of abortion, he opposes a woman's right to choose. McCain says that, quote, 'abortion is a human tragedy,' and he believes that we must end abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade. As president, he will nominate Supreme Court judges who will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade and return the issue to the states to decide."
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In March 2002, then IL state Sen. Barack Obama and I engaged in an interesting exchange during my testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which he was a member.I was speaking in favor of the IL Born Alive Infant Protection Act for the second time, which had failed the year before.
The previous year, I had told Obama and the committee of my experience holding a live aborted baby until he died in my capacity as a labor and delivery nurse at Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn, IL.That year, I described Christ Hospital's Comfort Room, unveiled in December 2000 to counter my public statements that personnel were shelving babies to die in the department's soiled utility room next to dirty linens, bloody and biohazardous waste, and a urinal....
I did not mention the Comfort Room when I testified again in 2002. But Barack Obama
remembered....
Continue reading my column today, "Barack Obama and the Comfort Room," on WorldNetDaily.com.
See more photos of Christ Hospital's Comfort Room that I submitted to then state Sen. Obama and other members of the IL Senate Judiciary Committee on page 2.
While I sometimes get a kick out of reading them in my travels, I never considered placing a vanity license plate on my car.
Never.
Then I wrote about Choose Life license plates a couple of times on my website and in a commentary "License Plates Put Money Where Motto Is" for the National Catholic Register.
And I knew it was time to put my money where my opinions are.
So this morning I unscrewed my weathered old plate and replaced it with a more cheerful one -- an exercise that will not be in vain. For the proceeds from Choose Life license plates, now available in many states, benefit mothers who choose adoption rather than abortion for their babies.
As the saying goes, "never say never!"
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YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK
WorldNetDaily Exclusive
Biblical message
now criminalized
Penalties created for those criticizing
homosexuality outside church walls
Posted: June 12, 2008
12:45 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
WorldNetDaily
A new Colorado law is helping homosexual activists achieve their goal of forcing Christians to teach biblical condemnation of homosexuality only behind the closed doors of their sanctuaries.
The as-yet untested state law promotes sexual identity "perception" to the level of skin color under state discrimination laws.
Some opponents are calling it a "bona fide censorship law," and top analysts for Focus on the Family, the Christian publishing and broadcast powerhouse, are expressing concern over the "mischief" they expect to follow the signing by Gov. Bill Ritter.
As WND reported, Ritter, a Democrat, struck gender-specific restrooms and locker rooms statewide when he signed the plan into law in May.
The law makes it illegal to deny a person access to public accommodations, including restrooms and locker rooms, based on gender identity or the "perception" of gender identity.
"Who would have believed that the Colorado state legislature and its governor would have made it fully legal for men to enter and use women's restrooms and locker-room facilities without notice or explanation?" said James Dobson, founder of Focus.
"Henceforth, every woman and little girl will have to fear that a predator, bisexual, cross-dresser or even a homosexual or heterosexual male might walk in and relieve himself in their presence," Dobson said.
(Story continues below)
Townhall.com's Hugh Hewitt interviewed an advocate for "Sarah's Law," a proposed parental-consent-for-abortion law in California, on his talk radio program last night.
Proponents from the group "Friends of Sarah" hope for passage of "Sarah's Law" when it appears on the November 4 ballot.
The spokesperson from Friends of Sarah made one very powerful point to Hewitt that should be of interest to every pro-lifer. No minor has ever been injured or worse due to parental consent laws in the more than 30 states with such restrictions on abortions.
Here's more from the group's website:
Will passage of Sarah's Law delay critical medical care, or cause young girls to turn to self-induced or back-alley abortions?
The effects of implementing parental involvement laws are now very well known. In more than 30 states which have parental involvement laws in effect in some cases for many years, there is no evidence of any injury or death from an illegal abortions, parental abuse, or delayed medical care. In fact, there is no credible evidence that any minor has ever even resorted to an illegal abortion because of a parental involvement law. Given that these laws have been in effect in other states for years, even decades, affecting millions of teens, the absence of any evidence of harm to teens is powerful evidence that these dire predictions are completely off the mark. Parental notification helps teens; it doesn't harm them.Unfortunately, opponents of parental notification eagerly exploit the public's fear of mythical "back-alley" abortions, counting on that fear to override common sense, sound medical practice and good public policy.
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By Flip Benham - Operation Rescue/Operation Save America
Twenty years ago in Atlanta, Georgia, God birthed a movement fueled by the Gospel of Jesus Christ and immersed in a single word - "repentance." This move of God radically changed the face of American Christianity and the pro-life movement. All this took place twenty years ago at the Democratic National Convention in downtown Atlanta. It was here that the Church of Jesus Christ dared to allow the theology of the church house to become biography in the streets.
News from LifeNews.com, here, of a study indicating that 70 percent of women seeking abortions in Australia had used contraceptives reminded me of some U.S. statistics on abortion.
The Guttmacher Institute's annual "Facts on Induced Abortion in the United States" speaks volumes about birth control and abortion. Here's the "Contraceptive Use" section of Guttmacher's January 2008 report (The bold print is my emphasis on points worth noting.):
• Fifty-four percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method (usually the condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant. Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently, while 13% of pill users and 14% of condom users report correct use.[9]• Forty-six percent of women who have abortions had not used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant. Of these women, 33% had perceived themselves to be at low risk for pregnancy, 32% had had concerns about contraceptive methods, 26% had had unexpected sex and 1% had been forced to have sex.[9]
• Eight percent of women who have abortions have never used a method of birth control; nonuse is greatest among those who are young, poor, black, Hispanic or less educated.[9]
• About half of unintended pregnancies occur among the 11% of women who are at risk for unintended pregnancy but are not using contraceptives. Most of these women have practiced contraception in the past.[1,10]
How much do you want to bet that many among the 70 percent of Australian abortion seekers who used birth control before becoming pregnant were equally irresponsible in that practice?
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In November, Finley Percival was born three weeks premature with minor kidney damage. What makes his story unique is that his mother attempted into abort him eight weeks into her pregnancy. The abortionist apparently missed Finley during his dastardly deed and a few weeks later the child's fluttering presence was felt by his remorseful mother. Yes, given a second chance she changed her mind.
Despite Finley's miraculous survival against tremendous odds, Foxnews commentator Dr. Manny Alvarez does seem impressed and suggests, "The danger is that the failed attempt can damage the baby. That is why these patients who get early terminations need follow-ups."
I'm really glad Finley's parents changed their minds ... so is Finley.
Consider this profound statement, spoken by a prominent politician in 1971, on the issue of abortion prior to the Roe ruling:
While the deep concern of a woman bearing an unwanted child merits consideration and sympathy, it is my personal feeling that the legalization of abortion is not in accordance with the value which our civilization places on human life. Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized - the right to be born, the right to love, the right to grow old. ...
When history looks back to this era it should recognize this generation as one that cared about human beings enough to halt the practice of war, to provide a decent living for every family and to fulfill its responsibility to its children from the very moment of conception.
For these were the words of Sen. Ted Kennedy, who radically changed his stance on the issue as columnist Gregory J. Sullivan notes and laments here in today's The [Philadelphia] Bulletin.
Note: Photo by Brian Snyder/Reuters
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The Kansas Coalition for Life is hosting the 3rd Pro-Life Unity conference at the courthouse in Wichita, Kansas on June the 4th. We will be discussing the need for united Pro-Life nationwide and around the world. One of the topics will be the Monthly Call for Life at MonthlyCallForLife.com. This monthly effort encourages people to call and/or email their representatives on the first Friday of every month in order to challenge them to end abortion and human killing research.
Mark Gietzen, the President of the Kansas Coalition for Life will introduce the Signature Ad for 2008, and will encourage people to sign this ad which will appear in top Kansas publications.
Gail Richardson will also discuss the monthly Prayer Pivot, which encourages people to pray for an end to abortion around the world through all the time zones, starting at 12:00 am on the first Friday and ending at 12:00 am the next morning.
For more information, {encode="contact@monthlycallforlife.com" title="click here to email Peter Shinn or Gail Richardson"} or click here to go to the Kansas Coalition for Life website.
Thanks to their new strategic marketing partner Dr Phillip Nitschke Mexican tourism has opened up an new frontier to attract elderly Boomers who are looking for an easy way off this mortal coil.
NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico (Reuters) - Elderly foreign tourists are tapping Mexican pet shops for a drug used by veterinarians to put cats and dogs to sleep that has become the sedative of choice for euthanasia campaigners.Tourists from as far as Australia have travelled to Mexico to buy liquid pentobarbital, which causes a painless death in humans in less than an hour, right-to-die advocates say.
Clutching photos of the bottled drug to overcome a lack of Spanish, they have maps sketched by euthanasia activists to locate back-street pet shops and veterinary supply stores near the U.S. border. There they can buy a bottle for $35 to $50, enough for one suicide, no questions asked.
"We have a moral right to a peaceful death. I don't want to die with a total loss of dignity, incontinent, barely able to see and stand up, suffering as my mother did," said Bron Norman, a healthy 65-year-old Australian woman who spent $2,860 to fly to Mexico in March to buy pentobarbital.
Read the rest at Marlowe's Shade
June 7, 1965, was an important day in American history.On that day, the U.S. Supreme Court found a "right to privacy" in the Constitution in its Griswold v. Connecticut decision, which allowed Planned Parenthood operator Estelle Griswold to sell birth control pills
legally that she had been selling illegally.Griswold was cited eight years later in the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision.
But I digress. Well, maybe not.
Did you know the birth control pill can cause chemical abortions?
No, probably not, unless you're a radical pro-lifer like me, or a radical pro-abort. We all know.
But radical pro-aborts don't want you to know. And they call us theNeanderthals....
So the American Life League is launching Protest the Pill Day '08: The Pill Kills Babies this Saturday, June 7....The National Organization for Women is planning counter protests. I wonder how much they're paying picketers, since they only seem to arouse paid personnel to demonstrate against us, particularly on a Saturday. I'm always embarrassed for them.
Continue reading my column today, "June 7: The Pill Kills Day," on WorldNetDaily.com.
American Life League Applauds Habitat for Humanity For Ending Relationship with Planned Parenthood
WASHINGTON, D.C. (04 June 2008) - Jim Sedlak, vice president for American Life League, issued the following statement about Habitat for Humanity of Sarasota, FL ending its cooperation with Planned Parenthood:
"We received news this morning that the Board of Directors of Habitat For Humanity of Sarasota, Inc. voted last evening to disengage itself from Planned Parenthood and not go through with a planned land deal. We are extremely pleased that the Habitat board saw fit to take this action."
"In early May, Sarasota Habitat had agreed to buy a piece of land from Planned Parenthood for $10 and agreed to build multi-family housing on the land. This agreement allowed Planned Parenthood to fulfill a zoning requirement it needed in order to get an occupancy permit for a new abortion facility it is building in Sarasota. American Life League worked with local pro-lifers and publicized this fact across the country, resulting in a large number of phone calls to local Habitat offices as well as Habitat for Humanity International offices."
"Organizations must realize that associating themselves with Planned Parenthood - operators of the nation's largest abortion chain - will be viewed negatively by many good people in this country. Planned Parenthood is a controversial organization and that controversy will transfer to any group associated with Planned Parenthood."
American Life League was cofounded in 1979 by Judie Brown. It is the largest grassroots Catholic pro-life organization in the United States and is committed to the protection of all innocent human beings from the moment of creation to natural death. For more information or media inquiries, please contact Michael Hichborn at 540.659.4171.
As I read E. J. Dionne's column "For an 'Obamacon,' Communion Denied" in today's Washington Post, I was reminded -- once again -- of the abortion issue's great power to create confusion.
Dionne writes of Catholic scholar Douglas Kmiec, "a staunch Republican, firm foe of abortion and veteran of the Reagan Justice Department," being denied receipt of the Holy Eucharist because he supports abortion-friendly presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Now Catholic priests who refuse to serve Communion to pro-aborts and their supporters create more confusion about the issue by politicizing the sacred Host and heart of the pro-life Church.
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