"A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children
and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more." Matthew 2:18-20
Like most mothers I have an intense love for my children that supersedes most everything else in my life. It is an unstoppable force that drives me to protect them at all costs. Some would say that I am even a little too conscientious about their well being, a.k.a over protective. Maybe so, but I do what I do because of my love for them. As most mothers will agree, this heart for our children causes us to be willing to give anything including our lives for our children. So what has happened to us, to the hearts of the women of this country, the mothers, that has allowed us to go against this force inside of us and abort our children?
Something is terribly wrong with this mindset and as you will see a lot of it comes from the so called "counseling" that the women get before they have an abortion. The following poem is in a workbook given by abortion clinics as part of counseling to women considering abortion....
June 29, 2011 - Undercover phone calls released today show Planned Parenthood of Indiana clinics admitting that they are not the only source of women's health care for women on Medicaid. Planned Parenthood and its supporters have recently argued in support of restoring their Medicaid funding in Indiana that poor women will lose access to vital health care services if they cannot go to Planned Parenthood. Live Action, the group that recorded the calls, says its footage shows the reality is quite the opposite.
"Indiana has become Ground Zero in the national battle to defund Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion business in America," states Live Action President Lila Rose. "As more and more states, most recently Wisconsin and Texas, continue to defund the abortion giant of millions of dollars, Planned Parenthood wants us to believe they are the only game in town when it comes to providing care for Medicaid patients. In reality, their own staff admit that they aren't the only option for women in need."
In an official press release, Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards claimed that Indiana's defunding of Planned Parenthood would "take away health care from thousands of women in Indiana." Last week, Live Action's undercover investigators called 16 of the 28 Indiana Planned Parenthood clinics posing as women on Medicaid concerned about where they could receive services if Planned Parenthood's funding was not restored.
Planned Parenthood staffers at all 16 locations admitted that Medicaid women would still have access to medical care after the defunding. Staffers suggested local health clinics or state-assigned primary care physicians for Medicaid patients: "Your primary care doctor should be able to do [a Well Woman exam,] I mean, that's what they're there for," said a Planned Parenthood in Michigan City, while the Merrillville Planned Parenthood said of a local community health center, "They have the same services we have."
"According to Planned Parenthood's own statistics, their 28 clinics serve less than 1% of Indiana Medicaid patients, yet they do more than 50% of Indiana abortions," notes Rose. There are over 800 other Medicaid providers available to these women in the counties with Planned Parenthood clinics alone."
Even Indiana doctors agree that defunding Planned Parenthood in Indiana would have little to no effect on the care and services provided to Medicaid patients.
"If Planned Parenthood only sees 1% of Medicaid patients in the state, and that's their statistic, it doesn't seem like they are making a big imprint in the first place," said Dr. Geoff Cly, at the Northeast Ob/GYN Women's Health Group in Fort Wayne, IN. "I know in our group, we currently have capacity to see more patients and I'm sure many other groups could easily take care of the 1% that's left if Planned Parenthood no longer took care of those patients."
However, President Obama has come to Planned Parenthood's aid by threatening to deny billions in low-income healthcare funds unless Indiana starts contracting with them.
"The Obama administration is holding patients' health hostage in return for funding the largest abortion provider in the country," asserted Lila Rose. "This abuse of power is a threat to every other state - that no matter the cost or consequences, this Administration will sacrifice healthcare for the needy to continue pouring tax dollars into Planned Parenthood."
"Today we launch a 'Stand with Indiana' petition exposing Planned Parenthood's deception and demanding that President Obama revoke his intervention on their behalf," continues Rose. "Planned Parenthood has lied in covering up sex trafficking and statutory rape, lied about abusing taxpayer dollars, lied about mammograms, and now lies about Medicaid-all in the interest of protecting the taxpayer subsidies of their abortion business. States and their citizens no longer want to fund this corrupt organization."
Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri has filed suit against the state of Kansas to restore $330,000 in funding that had been re-allocated to reputable health care centers. Planned Parenthood faces 107 criminal charges - including 23 felonies - related to illegal late-term abortions and the manufacturing of evidence to cover up the crimes.
The new law signed by Gov. Sam Brownback in May reprioritizes how the tax money is allocated, putting organizations that supply abortions at the bottom of the list.
While Planned Parenthood claims that the funding goes to their Wichita and Hays clinics that do not do abortions, these clinics are known to be abortion referral clinics, or "feeder clinics", that draw in potential abortion customers then schedules them for abortions at Planned Parenthood's Overland Park abortion mill.
"To say that the feeder clinics don't have anything to do with abortions is an outrageous misrepresentation of the truth," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "The Wichita and Hays clinics actually solicit abortion business for their Overland Park counterpart and serve as partners in the abortion business. Blocking funding to them is consistent with the federal law against spending tax money for abortions."
There is question as to whether Planned Parenthood will be able to continue doing abortions legally after July 1. Spokespersons for Planned Parenthood told reporters that the abortion clinic passed a recent inspection under another new Kansas law that provides minimum health and safety standards for abortion clinics. However, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has been mum on whether or not it has qualified to receive a license.
Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood's Overland Park clinic will be in court on July 15 for motions in the massive 107 count criminal case against the abortion giant. The case has dragged on since 2007 and was blocked by the previous administration, which sought to protect Planned Parenthood from prosecution. The case is now moving forward.
"Just the fact that Planned Parenthood faces so many criminal charges is enough reason to stop propping them up with our tax-dollars," said Newman. "It's like giving tax-money to prop up Al Capone."
June 25, 2011/Kansas City, Kansas/Operation Rescue --
An attorney for the Aid For Women abortion clinic in Kansas City has told reporters that AFW has been denied a license to do abortions under a new state law. The license denial was based on information offered by AFW in a written application. An inspection that had been scheduled for next week was cancelled.
"The AFW abortion mill employed among the worst of a number of disreputable abortionist in Kansas. We are not surprised to see that it is the first to be denied licensure," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman.
Meanwhile, Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood in Overland Park told reporters that their abortion clinic passed the two-day inspection conducted by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE), and is expected to be issued an abortion license by July 1, 2011, when the new law takes full effect. The KDHE has not confirmed Planned Parenthood's announcement.
"In light of Planned Parenthood's history of flouting the law, we have no reason to believe they will adhere to the new clinic safety standards," said Newman. "While they may receive initial licensing, these people have the attitude that they are above the law. It's only a matter of time before they disregard the clinic safety rules, too."
Center for Women's Health, the third abortion clinic in Kansas, is operated by the father-daughter abortionist team of Herbert Hodes and Tracey Nauser. When asked about the new law, Hodes simply responded "We're doomed."
Hodes indicated that if his clinic is denied licensure, he will keep it open and continue to offer non-abortion services. An inspection is scheduled for Wednesday.
In Wichita, abortionist Mila Means told a gathering Friday evening that without money, she will not be able to open a new abortion clinic in Wichita. She is seeking to raise $1M even though she admits she is "not good at making business decisions for financial reasons" and has already run one medical practice into a bankruptcy that hurled her into massive debt. Means has also faced discipline from the Board of Healing Arts and has not yet completed her abortion training.
"Squalid conditions and horrific abuses have been documented at abortion mills in this state, fully justifying the new standards. For decades Kansas has been like the lawless Wild West for abortionists and now they are angry they can't keep it that way. The new administration is finally working to enforce the law instead of protecting abortionist from accountability under the law," said Newman. "That is a massive change for the better."
In a shocking move, an amendment to Senate Bill 7, which deals with a variety of health and human services and agencies, was secretly added in conference committee that requires Texas taxpayers to fund the abortion of unborn children who suffer fetal abnormalities or who suffer from conditions "incompatible with life!"
[I]f the fetus has a severe and irreversible abnormality incompatible with life after birth identified by reliable diagnostic procedures.
The feedback from Pro-Life physicians is that this language could include babies with Down syndrome, Spina Bifida, Trisomy disorders, and other disabilities. The main concern is who would be deciding what is "incompatible with life after birth" - the abortion doctors? The House found this language so repulsive that House members squashed this language before it could reach the floor as an amendment, but somehow the amendment ended up in the bill.
Texas Right to Life opposed this broad and dangerous provision of SB 7, since this could have been precedent-setting if passed into law. Sadly, we had to furiously work behind the scenes to fix the language because a small, local advocacy group secretly agreed to this loophole language. Some legislators were then confused on the Pro-Life position on SB 7.
SB 7 is one of Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst's major health care savings bills, and we took the issue directly to him. As expected, he responded accordingly and bought us the much-needed time to close the loophole on taxpayer funding of the abortion of disabled, unborn Texans.
With the help of Governor Rick Perry's staff, Lieutenant Governor Dewhurst and his staff, and over thirty House members, who have been working behind the scenes on this sensitive issue for two weeks, a deal was finally reached late yesterday. The lead negotiators for the Pro-Life House members were Representative Sid Miller (R-Stephenville and author of the landmark sonogram bill) and Representative Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola), two-time Texas Right to Life award recipient.
The bill was reopened, and language from Texas Right to Life was inserted, making clear that all life is precious and deserves protection, even unborn babies with disabilities. SB 7 will plug two more loopholes in taxpayer-funded abortion and keep the state from sponsoring in utero euthanasia of disabled, unborn babies.
Senator Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound) and Representative John Zerwas (R-Richmond) authored the bill, and they were patient while the language in the bill was tightened despite the abbreviated time allotted for this special session. Their patience and cooperation fostered this tremendous step forward.
An article that was supposed to be a "puff piece" on abortionist Mila Means, who is aiming to open an abortion clinic in Wichita sometime in the nebulous future, has revealed shocking information about her checkered history and attitudes disrespecting authority and the law.
In a front page spread published June 23, 2011, in the Wichita Eagle, a paper known for its radical editorial support of unrestricted abortion, Means bares all about her bizarre relationships that earned her discipline with the Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, her history of financial mismanagement, and her disrespect for authority and the law.
Operation Rescue President Troy Newman was also interviewed for the new article.
Click here to read Operation Rescue's take on Means' interview, which includes a link to the Wichita Eagle story.
Republican presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, was a guest on NBC's Meet the Press last week where he fielded questions on a range of topics including abortion. Santorum has taken some heat in recent months over comments he made comparing the denial of preborn children's status as legal persons to the plight of black Americans during slavery. Undeterred, the former Pennsylvania Senator used his appearance on the talk show to advocate for the personhood rights of the preborn.
Host David Gregory broached the subject by posing a single question regarding Santorum's stance on exceptions in abortion law. "Do you believe that there should be any legal exceptions for rape or incest when it comes to abortion?" he asked.
To the point, Santorum simply stated that preborn persons should be protected by law. "I believe that life begins at conception and that life should be guaranteed under the Constitution. That is a person," he responded.
Gregory pressed, "So even in the cases of rape or incest, that would be taking a life?"
Santorum clarified that although he supports the prosecution of abortionists, he does not support criminal penalties for women participating in abortion. "I would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion should be criminally charged for doing so. I've never supported criminalization of abortion for mothers, but I do for people who perform them," he said.
Summing up his position, Santorum appealed to the foundation of law and human rights. "I believe that life is sacred. It's one of those things in the Declaration of Independence. We are endowed by our Creator 'with certain unalienable Rights,' and the first is life. I believe that life should be protected at the moment it is a human life, and at conception, it is biologically human and it's alive. It's a human life. It should be a person under the Constitution," he concluded.
"The truth is infectious. And the truth is that everyone's life had a beginning at the moment the gametes united to form a unique and invaluable person," said Keith Mason, co-founder of Personhood USA. "Abortion is a crime. I submit that as we continue to defend the paramount rights of the preborn, we will begin to see our elected officials standing on principle."
The Radiance Foundation celebrates Juneteenth (June 19th) and the liberation of black Americans from the shackles of slavery by launching a billboard campaign to expose the epidemic of abortion. Fifty (50) "Juneteenth" billboards throughout metro and downtown Atlanta declare: "The 13th Amendment Freed Us. Abortion Enslaves Us. TooManyAborted.com." The campaign invokes the Reconstruction Amendments and the abortion industry's dependence upon certain persons being classified as property. The landmark Roe v. Wade decision relied upon the perversion of the 14th Amendment, which finally ascribed full humanity to African-Americans, to justify stripping humanity from another group of individuals -- the unborn. In NYC, where Planned Parenthood is headquartered, this dehumanization results in the abortion of 60% of all black pregnancies. Here in Georgia, nearly 60% of all abortions are on African-Americans.
Ryan Bomberger, Chief Creative Officer of The Radiance Foundation, designed www.TooManyAborted.com to expose Planned Parenthood's pro-abortion propaganda. He is an African-American adoptee and an adoptive father who promotes self-control, responsibility, and individual purpose. "Roe v. Wade has made a mockery of Civil Rights history by offering destruction and bondage instead of possibility and freedom. There is no freedom in the mass exodus of fathers in the black community. There is no freedom in the poverty perpetuated by abortion. There is no freedom in using death as a solution to Life," Bomberger explains.
Planned Parenthood receives massive annual corporate welfare (to the tune of 363.2 million taxpayer dollars) despite the fact that they've failed to reduce the national "unintended" pregnancy rate since 1995, according to the CDC. Thousands of federally funded Title-X clinics, nationwide, provide the same "reproductive healthcare" as Planned Parenthood, without committing abortions. In Georgia, there are over 200 Title-X medical facilities to serve anyone, especially low-income individuals and families. "Planned Parenthood, contrary to their own claims, is not the savior of the black community. In urban areas, where Planned Parenthood clinics have been for more than half a century, unintended pregnancy rates have risen, STD/HIV rates are exponentially higher and increasing, and parenthood occurs for only 2% of its pregnant clientele. The remaining 98% are aborted -- 332,278 babies who aren't given any choice," Bomberger adds.
Suicide is, by definition, an act you perform by yourself. Therefore, there is no such thing as doctor-assisted suicide.
If you ask a friend, family member or doctor to help you commit suicide, you immediately change the definition of suicide from a solitary act with implications for you only as an individual to an act that involves other people and society. It is no longer suicide. Now it is a conspiracy to commit homicide. Once you involve others in killing any human being, it becomes homicide....
LANSDOWNE, Va., June 9, 2011/Christian Newswire --
On behalf of Care Net, 6 Care Net affiliate pregnancy centers in the State of Maryland and other national pregnancy center organizations, Americans United for Life (AUL) has filed an Amicus Curiae, "friend of the court," brief with the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc.
The Baltimore pregnancy center is challenging the anti-pregnancy center ordinance enacted against them in late 2009, which would subject the center to fines if it fails to issue certain disclaimers. The ordinance applies to the center specifically because it is pro-life, and no similar ordinance was enacted against organizations providing or referring for abortion.
The Greater Baltimore Center won its case at the District Court level; however, the City of Baltimore is now appealing the decision to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals under the representation of attorneys from the Center for Reproductive Rights.
While the case involving the Baltimore measure advances, abortion advocates in California announced this week their intent to introduce a similar measure in the City of San Francisco. The announcement is consistent with a nationwide strategy recently revealed in a video by NARAL Pro-Choice New York to target pregnancy centers in urban areas with hostile legislation.
Care Net President Melinda Delahoyde said the legislative attacks against pregnancy centers are of deep concern, but not surprising. "The public needs to know that these legislative attacks against pregnancy centers are focused on urban areas, the very areas where abortion providers are prevalent, support for abortion alternatives is lacking, and abortion rates are skyrocketing," Delahoyde said. "Truly, we wouldn't be seeing all this activity by abortion advocates if pregnancy centers weren't making a difference in helping women choose alternatives to abortion."
MCALLEN, Texas, June 7, 2011/Christian Newswire --
Operation Rescue has been notified that the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has determined that Whole Women's Health of McAllen has violated Texas laws regarding the disposal of fetal remains from abortions. The TCEQ has now closed their investigation and referred the matter to formal enforcement.
Operation Rescue received a copy of the TCEQ Complaint Report that made the determination that violations have occurred.
The case stemmed from a 3-month undercover investigation conducted by Operation Rescue with the help of the Survivors earlier this year.
Evidence gathered during that investigation was hand-delivered to the TCEQ, which then conducted their own investigation that gathered similar evidence supporting Operation Rescue's claims that Whole Women's Health was in violation of the law.
Operation Rescue's investigators discovered packets containing the refuse from several abortions in an open, public dumpster behind Whole Women's Health in McAllen. The pro-life investigators carefully photographed the aborted baby remains, bloody cannulas, which are disposable surgical instruments used in early-term abortions, and other bloody objects, including syringes and partially used vials of drugs.
The TCEQ investigative report indicated that "recognizable human body parts, tissues, fetuses, organs, and the products of human abortions" were illegally dumped by Whole Women's Health, which constituted a violation of the Texas Administrative Code.
Violations of the strict regulations that govern the disposal of such tissue can create a public health hazard.
Penalties for the violations will now be determined by the enforcement branch of the TCEQ, and could include hefty fines.
"The TCEQ has confirmed that Whole Women's Health has violated the law just as we said. Our investigation has served to protect the public and bring these abortion violators to justice," said Newman. "I am confident that similar investigations could be conducted with equal success at virtually every abortion mill in the country. We have yet to find an abortion clinic that fully complies with the law."
In the meantime, the Texas Medical Board continues to investigate complaints filed by Operation Rescue against over a dozen Texas abortionists. Those investigations are ongoing and could result in disciplinary action.
One of the greatest lies and slurs hurled at pro-lifers is that we only care about the baby until it is born.
"Are you prepared to pay for that child of poverty in order to help raise it for the next eighteen years? No?? Then shut up about abortion!"
It's a clever little manipulation, though not much in the way of an argument.
Responsibility for raising the child resides with the parents, not society. To suggest that the mother and father of a poor and unexpected child cannot be counted on to be the primary providers of their child is to infantilize the parents and inject chaos into the lives of the family. Our inner-cities suffer from just this sort of chaos with generational poverty that traces its roots back to the well-intentioned Great Society programs begun in the 1960′s. For decades people have lamented that there must be a better way.
"Pro-life volunteers do not deserve to be branded and their pregnancy care centers marked with the messages of the abortion industry." ~ AUL's Dr. Charmaine Yoest.
Washington, D.C., June 7, 2011 --
Today AUL will file an amicus curiae brief on behalf of Care Net, Heartbeat International, the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, and pregnancy care centers in Maryland, whose free speech rights are being trampled by the abortion lobby through its attempt to brand pregnancy care centers in a "Scarlet Letter" Campaign, said Americans United for Life president and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest.
The "Scarlet Letter" campaign is a recent push by the abortion lobby to force its competition in the pro-life community to push an abortion message in pregnancy care centers by requiring signs about abortion to be posted. The abortion industry worked for the passage of multiple ordinances across the country to force the abortion messages. Several other lawsuits involving similar ordinances are moving through the courts. In the case involving Baltimore, the lower court has already ruled the forced abortion messages to be an unconstitutional violation of the free speech rights of pro-life Americans, and the case is being closely watched.
"The ordinance in the Baltimore case tries to undermine the work of pregnancy care centers by forcing the posting of messages about abortions in the facilities," said Dr. Yoest. "Apparently, the abortion lobby feels threatened by the loving care available to mothers in pregnancy care centers, and is trying to brand the centers with a 'Scarlet Letter,' disparaging the message of loving alternatives to abortion."
AUL's brief, which is available here, will be filed today in the Fourth Circuit case Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. For more information on the potentially precedent-setting action, contact AUL's media office.
You'd think that a woman over ninety would have better things to do than sit all day sewing suicide kits. But hey, her business took in almost $100,000 last year.
Sharlotte Hydorn sells suicide kits at $60 a pop from her home in El Cajon, California. She considers herself on a "mission of compassion," a kind person who helps others. She recalls the sad death of her husband from cancer some 35 years ago, and regrets that he went through prolonged treatments and died in a hospital instead of at home. Inquiring minds want to know: why didn't he just refuse treatment and go into home hospice? Or if his wife had medical authority, why didn't she do that for him? But whatever, that's her story and she's sticking to it.
So Hydorn sits all day sewing together plastic bags and tubes so you can create your own do-it-yourself gas chamber. For 60 bucks, you don't get your money's worth. The suicide kit is a tacky mess, and it does not provide a dignified death, as promised. You die wearing a plastic dry cleaning bag over your head.
... One of the time-honored ways psychiatrists still use to talk people out of suicide is to say things like, "Well, are you sure you want to risk it? After all, you can't be sure where you're going once you leave here ..." But Hydorn is a science teacher, and as a scientist, she knows more than all of us....
By authorizing the use of a single drug, the World Health Organization has simultaneously raised hopes for saving thousands of mothers' lives and raised fears that the drug will also be used to kill perhaps millions of unborn children. Misoprostol is used to help stop bleeding during delivery, the main cause of maternal deaths, but it can also be used to induce at-home abortions, which are very dangerous, particularly in rural areas that lack primary or emergency medical care.
The fears are grounded in the fact that WHO approved use of the drug by unskilled personnel and that both WHO and Gynuity Health Projects, the organization which sought the drug's approval, advocate the use of misoprostol for abortion outside the hospital setting.
WHO says its "work over the past three decades has contributed significantly to the emergence and wide acceptance of the current recommended regime" of medical abortion, according to one of its recent reports. WHO has trained midwives throughout the developing world to perform abortions in order to eliminate the need for physicians, the report says. In Vietnam alone, the trials included 1,734 women, and its misoprostol-induced abortions are conduced up to 63 days, WHO says.
Gynuity is working to mainstream the use of misoprostol for self-induced abortions. According to a 2009 Gynuity report, the organization works at the community level to cast self-induced abortion in a positive light, and to "oppose legislation introduced at the state or federal level that furthers the concept of fetal personhood." ...
