Planned Parenthood Fundraiser Draws Support From American Idol, Jay Leno, Cheesecake Factory, Wheel of Fortune, Paula Deen and Hundreds More.

Planned Parenthood Fundraiser Draws Support From American Idol, Jay Leno, Cheesecake Factory, Wheel of Fortune, Paula Deen and Hundreds More.



Tomorrow Planned Parenthood's 31st Annual Food Fare will take place at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica California. The annual event started in 1979 with a demonstration by Julia Child. Attendees are paying big money to attend this fundraiser for the largest child killing organization in the world.

Day Session:
10:30 am to 2 pm
Tickets $125 in advance, $150 at the door

Night Session:
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
$175 in advance, $200 at the door

Two of the Item donors to this blood money fund raiser were Children's Discovery Museum of the Desert and Dance for Kids. It just saddens me that businesses that cater to children help raise money for the killing of innocent babies. Do they not realize they are helping to kill off the very children who could be their customers in just a few years??



I was also disappointed to see some of my favorite restaurants on the list of donors to one of the deadliest and most racists organizations in history. I loved the fish tacos at Cheesecake Factory, but I have no intention of ever eating there again. Pinks Hot Dogs and Tommy's World Famous Hamburgers were places I would often visit when I go to Los Angeles; thank God In & Out Burger is NOT donating to this event. Every year at the March for Life my best friend and I go eat at Fogo de Chao Steak House for his birthday; I guess I will have to find another place to celebrate next year.

Last year Planned Parenthood raised over $450,000 from this event and since it started in 1979 they have raised over $7.2 million dollars in blood money. Restaurant critic, author, and radio host Merrill Shindler has said, "…For sheer culinary pleasure, there's nothing like the Planned Parenthood Food Fare – a tribute to the tasty culinary diversity of LA!" We hope you'll join us to experience good food for a good cause! Purchase your ticket today.

For the sake of all the precious children who will never get a chance to experience good food, I will never grace any of these restaurants again. If you want to avoid these businesses and not financially support accessories to murder like California Pizza Kitchen, Paula Deen, Souplantation and hundreds more, check out the blood money fundraiser web site. http://www.pplafoodfare.com

Contact: Bryan Kemper
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Publish Date: March 10, 2010
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Chicago Censorship of Pro-Life Sign?

Chicago Censorship of Pro-Life Sign?



Dennis Byrne (of the Chicago Tribune) writes about a pro-life sign displayed on a Chicago street newsstand that appeared and suddenly disappeared -- along with the newsstand itself -- last week:

One could say that it was just a coincidence that the offending sign was in the 43rd Ward, which Vi Daley happens to represent, and who happened to sponsor the bubble ordinance, and who happened to be honored by Planned Parenthood, which happens to run the clinic.

[Executive Director of the nearby prolife Women's Aid office Susan] Barrett said she has received no response from Vi Daley's office or the Chicago Department of Transportation to her inquiries about who ordered the sign removed. No surprise there. But as this is being written, the Thomas More Society, a Chicago-based pro-life law center, is preparing a request under the Freedom of Information Act to smoke out who issued the order.

The Constitution protects political and commercial speech of all sorts. JCDecaux signs have advertised booze and featured a bikini-clad woman, but a tasteful sign that offends political correctness may not have made the cut.

If the City of Chicago ordered censorship based on content, they may have a serious constitutional issue on their hands, Byrne writes.

The question from us is, will there be a paper trail to prove what took place?  Very unlikely when things are done the Chicago Way.

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City Hall Denies Newstand Moved over Pro-Life Ad

The Daley administration on Tuesday emphatically denied snatching up a newsstand outside a North Side abortion clinic because it carried a controversial ad counseling pregnant women against abortion. The newsstand that mysteriously disappeared was located on the northwest corner of LaSalle and Division, roughly 30 feet outside the door of an abortion clinic operated by Planned Parenthood. On Feb. 9, Aid For Women purchased an ad on the newsstand with the picture of an attractive young woman with a concerned look on her face. Above the picture were the words, "Unplanned Pregnancy? What Now?" Below was the address and phone number of Aid for Women, a 30-year-old organization that counsels young women against abortion. The ad was supposed to run for twelve weeks. Instead, the entire newsstand disappeared after just ten days.  Click here for more from the Suntimes.

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Source: Illinois Review
Publish Date: March 10, 2010
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President's Faith-Based Group Fails to Mention Abortion

President's Faith-Based Group Fails to Mention Abortion
 


No follow through on campaign promises of reducing abortions in advisory meeting.

President Obama's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships presented policy recommendations to him today – notably missing: Any mention of the life issue.

Pro-life groups had hoped to hear the council's plan to reduce abortions. CBN White House Correspondent David Brody said that did not happen.

"This council, in essence, basically punted the abortion question down the road," he said.

Brody said the council has attempted to take a pass on the hot-button issue.

"This council did have the discussion on abortions," Brody added. "It's just that they felt they needed to push that off a little bit more to the Domestic Policy Council."

Ashley Horne, federal issues analyst with Focus on the Family Action, said Obama missed an opportunity.

"The president said he wanted to reduce the need for abortions," she said. "So, that topic would have been a natural fit for this group. It's one more strike against a president who, so far, has catered only to the pro-abortion agenda."

Contact: Steve Jordahl
Source: CitizenLink
Publish Date: March 10, 2010
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Stupak 'Remains Optimistic' He Can Work Out Abortion-Funding Language to Save Health Care Bill

Stupak 'Remains Optimistic' He Can Work Out Abortion-Funding Language to Save Health Care Bill



Rep. Bart Stupak, a pro-life Democrat from Michigan, "remains optimistic" that he can work out language with House Democratic leaders on federal funding of abortion, the main sticking point in getting a health care bill to President Obama's desk.
 
Stupak said on Tuesday he had "meaningful discussions" with two leading House Democrats -- House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) -- and more are planned for later in the week.
 
But Stupak's press secretary Michelle Begnoche told CNSNews.com that no deal has been reached. "Congressman Stupak has not reached an agreement on abortion funding in the health care legislation," she said.
 
Stupak and 11 other House Democrats oppose the current, Senate-passed version of health care reform because they say it allows federal funding of abortion. Stupak has promised, along with 11 other pro-life Democrats, to vote against the bill if Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) brings it to the floor for a vote.

In an interview with Fox & Friends Wednesday morning, Stupak said he would stick to the principle that no taxpayer funds should be used to pay for abortion. 
 
"There's at least twelve Democrats who have said that they could not vote for health care unless we get to keep the current law, which says no public funding for abortion," Stupak said, referring to the longstanding Hyde Amendment. "Most Americans agree with that," he said. "All the polling I have seen -- 60 percent, 61 percent -- have said, 'We do not want our taxpayer dollars going to fund abortion.'
 
"I want to see health care pass, Stupak added, but there are some principles worth fighting for. This is one of them."
 
Again on Wednesday, Stupak committed himself to having discussions with House leaders in an attempt to resolve the issue. "But the bottom line is, there has to be no public funding for abortion. That's been the law for 33 years. The president indicates he doesn't want to change current law. Let's just put current law in the (health care) bill and move forward and work on health care, which we should be working on," he told Fox & Friends.
 
At his weekly press briefing Tuesday, Rep. Hoyer told reporters that while he has talked with Stupak, they had not discussed anything "of substance."  "I have had no negotiations with Mr. Stupak," Hoyer said.
 
"Now, I could lie to all of you and say, 'Oh no, I haven't talked to him, I don't know anything about this.' If I said that, you wouldn't, hopefully, believe me."
 
Hoyer said Stupak approached him on the floor of the House, wanting to talk about the abortion issue. "I said 'OK.' We have not yet talked – about substance," Hoyer said. "We have talked about his meeting with me and we will talk – he wants to talk to me."
 
Stupak's office confirmed Hoyer's account: "Congressman Stupak expects further meetings this week and remains optimistic that language can be worked out," his office told CNSNews.com.
 
Stupak told Fox & Friends on Wednesday he's been having "good, positive discussions" with Rep. Waxman: "He's sort of the person who they've indicated I should work with because the main health care bill came through the Energy and Commerce Committee." Stupak sits on that committee, which Waxman chairs.
 
Stupak's willingness to meet with House leaders – and his optimism over a deal – comes after he told the Wall Street Journal there was no way he would support the current version of health care reform.
 
"Nope," Stupak told the Journal when asked if there was any way he could vote for the current package. "It'd be very hard to vote for this bill even if they fixed the abortion language."

Contact: Matt Cover
Source: CNSNews.com
Publish Date: March 10, 2010
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Shooter Expresses No Remorse For Gunning Down Pro-life Activist

Shooter Expresses No Remorse For Gunning Down Pro-life Activist


 
Closing arguments in progress in Harlan Drake murder trial
 
The Defense has rested and closing arguments are now underway as of this writing in the murder case of Harlan Drake, the man accused of gunning down pro-life activist Jim Pouillon, gravel pit owner Mike Fuoss, and planning the murder of a third man.
 
Drake took the stand in his own defense and told how he felt no remorse for the killings, yet believed that he deserved to die or be locked away for what he did.
 
Drake said that he targeted Pouillon because he and his mother disliked Pouillon's graphic sign that he used while protesting abortion.
 
He planned the night before to kill Pouillon if he found him protesting at Owosso High School the following day.
After shooting Pouillon several times, Drake said he pulled up and make the final shot up through the rib cage into the heart, because he saw that Pouillon was still moving.
 
Drake then told the court how he decided that since he had already killed one man, he might as well kill the other men that he believed needed to be shot that day. Police arrested Drake after he killed Fuoss, and before he could kill his final victim.
 
While in jail, Drake asked to view the autopsy photos. "I asked to see the autopsy reports so I could see what my aim was like," Drake told the court.
 
Drake discussed how he had been involved in a fatal traffic accident in 2004, where two teens died. He blamed himself for their deaths even though the accident was not his fault. After shooting Pouillon and Fuoss, he considered killing himself, but did not want to make a mess in his wife's pickup truck. Drake later attempted to slash his wrists while in police custody.
 
Prosecution rebuttal witnesses included a forensic psychologist who testified that Drake's actions indicated that he had an understanding of the "the nature, the quality and the wrongfulness" of his actions, therefore did not meet the threshold of criminal insanity.  Drake's attorneys have argued that Drake was insane at the time of the murders.
 
Pouillon's daughter, Mary Jo, indicated that she was "struck" by Drake's lack of remorse and his comments that he did not want to hurt anyone who had not wronged him.
"He didn't want to hurt anyone that hadn't hurt him or his family, well that was unsuccessful because I am very hurt by it," she said.
 
Since Michigan has no death penalty, Drake would face life in prison if convicted.

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Publish Date: March 10, 2010
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NEWS SHORTS FOR WEDNESDAY

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Mobile Clinic Provides Alternative to Abortion
 


Evangelist Dave Wilkinson takes a converted RV into some of Los Angeles' poorest neighborhoods each week in an effort to fight abortion.

The RV is equipped as a mobile pregnancy resource center offering women free ultrasounds and alternatives to abortion.

Wilkinson told the Los Angeles Times that the mobile clinic also offers him a chance to share his faith.
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Adult Stem-Cell Research Advances in Iowa
 


An Iowa organization is trying to increase the production of ethical adult stem-cell research.

The John Paul II Stem Cell Research Institute was established in Iowa City, Iowa, to create a faster, more streamlined process in doing research that will find cures and therapies using non controversial adult stem cells.

Embryonic stem-cell research always involves the destruction of human life.

One goal of the institute is to increase the number of full-time scientists to 20. Another is to educate the people of Iowa on the issue.
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Planned Parenthood protests cross display because it "likens abortions to killing"  Hmmm, really?



On this National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers let's spotlight 1 of their finest, Planned Parenthood of Roanoke, VA.

The Roanoke Times reports today PP of Roanoke is upset with Rainbow Forest Baptist Church for erecting 729 crosses to represent the # of babies killed in 2008 in Alleghany and Roanoke Cos....

The church has assembled the 3-ft crosses into the shape of a larger cross on a grassy knoll the church owns next to Highway US 460 and plans to keep the display up until Easter.

"They wanted it to be a memorial and a message of redemption and peace for each woman who had an abortion," says Roanoke Times.

But PP, the apparent authority on redemption, is complaining the crosses send the wrong message:

But David Nova, the vice president for PP in Roanoke, said that to him the 729 crosses represent a political message, not one of redemption.

"The display is a mock cemetery," he said. "It likens abortions to killing. In many respects, it is mean-spirited and not redemptive."
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"The copycat who stopped live tweeting her abortion"



Last week I wrote about Angie Jackson, who began live tweeting her RU-486 abortion on Feb. 18 to "demystify" us, thinking it would be a "4 hour bleed out."

We learned together Jackson was grossly uninformed about the medical abortion process.

For 9 days Jackson tweeted about recurring headaches, nausea, vomiting, bleeding, pelvic pain, backaches, and cramping so bothersome she went through an entire bottle of 20 Tylenol with codeine in a week and had to ask for more (which she was apparently denied, tweeting Feb. 27, "This is definitely the most pain so far. It's distracting & makes me unhappy... Ibuprofin is a joke, ya'll")....

Meanwhile, a copycat named Next Thursday, inspired by Jackson, decided to begin tweeting her RU-486 abortion on Feb. 25....
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Bill Gates: Use vaccines to lower population

Bill Gates: Use vaccines to lower population

Billionaire advocates curbing CO2 by reducing earth's inhabitants



One of the world's wealthiest men and the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates, has suggested vaccines as one method of reducing the world's population.

Gates made his remarks to the invitation-only Technology, Entertainment and Design 2010 Conference in Long Beach, Calif. His February address was titled, "Innovating to Zero!"

He presented a speech on global warming, stating that CO2 emissions must be reduced to zero by 2050. Gates said every person on the planet puts out an average of about five tons of CO2 per year.

"Somehow we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero," he said. "It's been constantly going up. It's only various economic changes that have even flattened it at all. So we have to go from rapidly rising to falling, and falling all the way to zero."

A video of his presentation follows:


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Gates presented the following equation:

CO2 (total population emitted CO2 per year) = P (people) x S (services per person) x E (average energy per service) x C (average CO2 emitted per unit of energy)

Bill Gates presented this equation on curbing CO2 emissions at the 2010 Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference in Long Beach, Calif.



"Let's look at each one of these and see how we can get this down to zero," he said. "Probably one of these numbers is going to have to get pretty near to zero. That's a fact from high-school algebra."

Discussing the "P," or population portion of the equation, he stated, "Let's take a look. First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent" [Emphasis added].

Gates continued on to discuss the remaining factors in the equation and prospects for reducing each one to curb CO2 emissions.

Gates' comments immediately raised questions in the blogosphere about whether the billionaire was advocating dissemination of sterilization agents.

LifeSiteNews reported that in 1995, UNICEF's anti-tetanus vaccinations were found to contain B-hCG, a pregnancy hormone that can permanently sterilize women. An estimated 3 million women between the ages of 12 and 45 received that vaccine. Another UNICEF polio vaccination campaign in Nigeria was suspected of sterilizing women in 2004.

However, according to LifeSite News, the Gates Foundation claims Gates actually advocates using vaccines to decrease child mortality – something he believes would actually serve to decrease population growth. In his 2009 annual letter, he wrote that a "surprising but critical fact [is] that reducing the number of [infant] deaths actually reduces population growth."

Gates contends that parents have more children when infant mortality rates are high so they can be sure several children will survive to care for them later in life.

"And so, if they think having six children is what they need to do to have at least two survive, that's what they'll do," he told CNN in 2008. "And amazingly, across the entire world, as health improves, then the population growth actually is reduced."

Bill and his wife, Melinda, announced in January that their Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will commit more than $10 billion over the next 10 years to develop and deliver new vaccines to children in the developing world. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's global health program focuses on prevention of infectious diseases. According to its website, the foundation also seeks to offer "health solutions for family planning, nutrition, maternal, neonatal and child health, tobacco control and vaccine-preventable disease."

Gates is also a partner in the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, or GAVI. Other partners include the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the World Bank, the vaccine industry, research agencies and non-government agencies. The GAVI Alliance has vaccinated more than 200 million children.

WND reported in May 2009 when Gates joined some of the richest men and women in the world, meeting secretly in New York to conspire on using their vast wealth to bring the world's population growth under control.

In addition to Gates, the meeting included some of the biggest names in the "billionaires club," according to the London Times – David Rockefeller, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffett, George Soros and Michael Bloomberg.

Gates reportedly inspired the meeting at the home of Sir Paul Nurse, a British Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and president of Rockefeller University.

"The informal afternoon session was so discreet that some of the billionaires' aides were told they were at 'security briefings,'" the Times reported.

Stacy Palmer, editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, speculated that the secrecy surrounding the meeting may have been due to concern that "they don't want to be seen as a global cabal."

According to the Times, the billionaires were each given 15 minutes to present their favorite cause. Over dinner they discussed how they might settle on an "umbrella cause" that could harness their interests. Taking their cue from Gates, the report said, they agreed population control was the No. 1 issue.

In February 2009, Gates also discussed population control.

"Official projections say the world's population will peak at 9.3 billion [up from 6.6 billion today] but with charitable initiatives, such as better reproductive health care, we think we can cap that at 8.3 billion," he said.

Patricia Stonesifer, former chief executive of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, said the billionaires would continue to meet in the future.

A guest at the meeting said population growth would be addressed as a potentially disastrous environmental, social and industrial threat.

"This is something so nightmarish that everyone in this group agreed it needs big-brain answers," said the guest. "They need to be independent of government agencies, which are unable to head off the disaster we all see looming."

As to secrecy, the guest said, "They wanted to speak rich to rich without worrying anything they said would end up in the newspapers, painting them as an alternative world government."

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Source: WorldNetDaily
Publish Date: March 8, 2010
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Washington’s Assisted Suicide Stats Revealed

Washington's Assisted Suicide Stats Revealed



Washington State's health department has now released their first annual report for the Death with Dignity Act, the voter-approved law that legalized assisted suicide in 2008 and went into effect on March 5, 2009.

The State Department of Health reports that 63 individuals requested and received lethal prescriptions to kill themselves under the Act for the year 2009. Forty-seven individuals have died. Of these 36 patients were confirmed to have killed themselves by ingesting the poisonous medicine. (Statistics available here)

Sixteen patients still have a status that is "unknown at this time." The health department speculates some of these "participants" may have opted to "wait to use the medication" or "choose not to use it." It further adds that some may have taken the lethal doses and died, but that the Department of Health has not yet received the After Death Reporting Form (due 30 days after death) and the Death Certificate (due 60 days after death.)

Cancer was the underlying illness in 79 percent of patients seeking to kill themselves. Neurodegenerative disease and respiratory disease accounted for nine percent each, with the rest being other illnesses.

But when it came to reasons for dying, pain did not factor high on the list of "end of life concerns." Just twenty-five percent, or eleven out of 44 individuals that had applied for lethal medication, cited "inadequate pain control or concern about it."

In fact the top three reasons expressed by participants for wanting to die were ranked "losing autonomy" (100%), "less able to engage in activities making life enjoyable" (91%), and "loss of dignity" (82%).

Forty-one percent of those that died expressed fear of "losing control of bodily functions."

Ten individuals (23%) cited the burden they would put on their family, friends and caregivers.

"This is a marker of possible abuse because the person was pressured to feel that way," said anti-euthanasia activist Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

Schadenberg said that there are several indicators in the report that point towards possible elder abuse: the majority of patients were over 65 and educated, and half had some form of private insurance. "These factors are consistent with their being individuals with money. Older people with money are prime targets of abuse," he said, citing a Met Life study.

Schadenberg pointed to a report from Washington attorney Margaret Dore, expressing the same concerns over the elderly becoming victims under the Act, allegedly because the law as written invites coercion. Dore pointed out in a July 2009 article for the Washington State Bar News that the elderly may feel pressure to kill themselves from their heirs, who can co-sign as witnesses on the lethal prescription.

Dore writes that the law requires the individual's consent to receive the prescription for lethal medication; but it does not require his consent to ingest the medication and kill himself. In addition, no witnesses are required at the time of death, so there is no way to prove whether it was the individual himself who took the medication, or whether it was administered, perhaps forcibly, by someone else.

"Even if he struggled, who would know? The lethal dose request would provide the alibi," wrote Dore. "This scenario would seem especially significant for patients with money."

The law also requires prosecutors to treat the individual's death as "natural," making it practically impossible for the authorities to pursue suspicions of foul-play.

The health department report also indicates that only three individuals out of the sixty-three were referred for psychological or psychiatric counseling before applying to receive lethal medication – an additional cause of concern, in the view of anti-euthanasia activists.

"Someone could possibly appear to be confident or appear to be lucid, but that does not mean they actually are lucid," Schadenberg told LifeSiteNews.com. "The fact is that people lots of times make decisions that they would not make otherwise, and with a little counseling and support, they would say, 'I don't really want this.' But no they've not even given them the chance."

"It's really not about confidence or choice or anything like that. The fact is that the goal is about providing death to people, and death-on-demand."

Contact: Peter J. Smith
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Publish Date: March 8, 2010
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Was Margaret Sanger actually against abortion?

Was Margaret Sanger actually against abortion?



A billboard campaign in Atlanta, Georgia proclaiming "Black Children are an Endangered Species" has generated editorial comment and analysis around the nation.  Last week the Chicago Tribune printed an article entitled "Antiabortion activists see a racial conspiracy."  Naturally, the purpose of the article was to challenge such a premise as untrue.

Two key points were used to question the concept that Planned Parenthood has targeted their faciliities for eliminating African-Americans through abortion.  First, statistics were cited that African-Americans have a higher birth rate than the national average, even with all those abortions.  Of course, such statistics cannot deny that Planned Parenthood helps abort almost one half of African-American babies, so their birth rate could be much higher with fewer abortions.

Second, Margaret Sanger was quoted to say in 1920, "While there are cases where even the law recognizes an abortion is justifiable if recommended by a physician, I assert that the hundreds of thousands of abortions performed in America each year are a disgrace to civilization."  Is this statement proof that she was against abortion?

Strong evidence suggests otherwise.  Even the Tribune article admits Sanger was an advocate of eugenics, a movement that supported selective breeding and forced sterilization of the poor and feeble-minded.  In her book Women and the New Race Sanger asserted that the "most merciful thing a large family can do to one of its infant members is to kill it."  Those positions suggest that having concerns about abortion would certainly be inconsistent.

However, American Life League (ALL) has an explanation for Sanger's anti-abortion quote (which they cite from the December, 1918, Birth Control Review).  ALL observes, "How do you sell the practice of contraception to a public that is totally opposed to it?  In 1918, when she wrote the above, no religious denomination accepted the practice of contraception.  Well, you sell it to the people by insisting that with better contraception there would be less abortion!"

Thus, it appears the lie that contraception reduces abortion was part of the marketing plan for Planned Parenthood from almost the very beginning.  Now that former insiders like Abby Johnson have revealed their strong push to increase abortions for profit, the lie has been confirmed.  Planned Parenthood has no interest in reducing abortions, so clearly they know that their business approach increases their abortion business.

Contact: Bill Beckman
Source: Illinois Review
Publish Date: March 8, 2010
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Obama's Abortion Mandate in Healthcare Would Increase Breast Cancer Deaths, Premature Births -- Women's Group Rebukes Obama, Reid, Pelosi

Obama's Abortion Mandate in Healthcare Would Increase Breast Cancer Deaths, Premature Births -- Women's Group Rebukes Obama, Reid, Pelosi



The Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer today sharply rebuked President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and others in Congress for aggressively pursuing an effort to include an abortion mandate in healthcare reform, despite having been informed of overwhelming evidence showing the U.S. National Cancer Institute deliberately misled women with its 2003 workshop that purported to conduct a "comprehensive review" of  an abortion-breast cancer (ABC) link. [1]  On January 20, 2010, the Coalition sent a letter to Obama and members of Congress which notified them of the NCI's misconduct and called for a Congressional investigation of the agency. [2]

"It is despicable that Obama and others in Congress are striving to force taxpayers to pay for abortions, even though an abortion mandate would result in more breast cancer deaths and premature births among women with abortions," said Karen Malec, president of the Coalition. "Obviously, they don't care if women die and babies develop cerebral palsy.

"The NCI has declared the ABC link 'non-existent,' but research last year by NCI branch chief Louise Brinton revealed that she and her colleagues at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center are convinced the link exists (and they found that women using oral contraceptives have a four-fold increased risk of the deadly triple-negative breast cancer). [5] Three studies last year (and dozens of studies since 1957) reported an ABC link. [3-5] Additionally, medical texts admit that childbearing sharply reduces breast cancer risk. No one can deny that abortion causes women to lose that protective effect.

"Three systematic reviews and meta-analyses last year confirmed a link between abortion and premature birth. [6-8] The Institute of Medicine identifies abortion as a risk factor for premature birth. [9] Premature birth puts babies at risk for neonatal death, cerebral palsy, mental retardation, epilepsy and difficulties walking, seeing and hearing."

"Why do Obama, Reid and Pelosi hate women and children? Terrorists have not caused as many injuries and deaths among the American people, as have abortion enthusiasts in our government and the abortion industry," charged Malec.

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Contact: Karen Malec
Source: Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer
Publish Date: March 9, 2010
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100,000 Dutch Sign Petitions to Permit Assisted Suicide of the Elderly

100,000 Dutch Sign Petitions to Permit Assisted Suicide of the Elderly



The Dutch show the consequences of opening the door to the assisted suicide banshee. A proposal to allow doctors to assist suicides based solely on age is gaining strength in the Netherlands.  From the story:

    A campaign to give elderly people in the Netherlands the right to assisted suicide said Monday it has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, hoping to push the boundaries another notch in the country that first legalized euthanasia. The signatures are enough to force a debate in parliament, where it is certain to face resistance. Even if widely approved, the proposal would normally go through a lengthy process of committee work and consensus-building that could take years. The legalization of euthanasia for the terminally ill in 2002 was preceded by decades of discussion and quiet negotiation that attached stringent conditions and medical supervision.

Can't media ever get it right?  Assisted suicide has been openly practiced since 1973, only being formally legalized in 2002. It has never been limited to the terminally ill, and the "guidelines" are not "stringent," nor are they enforced with any vigor.  Indeed, Dutch doctors now openly engage in infanticide, nearly 1,000 people are euthanized each year who have not asked to die, and the country's Supreme Court has made it legally available to the depressed.

Those points aside, this story proves what I have stated repeatedly: The Culture of Death is never satiated. It is always hungry. It always wants more.

Contact: Wesley J. Smith
Source: Secondhand Smoke
Publish Date: March 8, 2010
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NEWS SHORTS FOR TUESDAY

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Gender Selection: In India, Abortion Of Girls On The Rise



Gender selection via abortion appears to be on the rise in India – and more common among the wealthy. India's upper classes tend to have fewer children and more access to ultrasounds that reveal their babies' sex. The gender imbalance means fewer women available to be wives. . . . Indeed, across India the most skewed gender ratios tend to occur in more prosperous communities. Far from being an ancient legacy of backward, chauvinistic communities, the practice of gender selection via abortion (also known as female infanticide or female feticide) is flourishing as India's economy burgeons and the country modernizes. In the capital, New Delhi, the gender ratio is more unbalanced than the national average, with 821 females to every 1,000 males. Some of the greatest imbalances occur in the wealthy neighborhoods of south New Delhi.
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Abortion Battle On Health Bill May End



Prospects are good for resolving a dispute over abortion that has led some House Democrats to threaten to withhold support of Obama's health-care overhaul, a key Michigan Democrat said Monday. Rep. Bart Stupak said he expects to resume talks with House leaders this week in a quest for wording that would impose no new limits on abortion rights but also would not allow use of federal money for the procedure. "I'm more optimistic than I was a week ago," Stupak said between meetings with constituents in his northern Michigan district. "The president says he doesn't want to expand or restrict current law (on abortion). Neither do I."
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Missouri House Passes Health Care Freedom Act



The Missouri State House has passed House Joint Resolution 48 (HJR48). The legislation, known as the "Missouri Health Care Freedom Act" seeks to make public policy for the state that every person within the state of Missouri is and shall be free to choose or decline to choose any mode of securing health care services without penalty or threat of penalty by the federal government of the United States of America.
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Planned Parenthood Is The Black Community's Worst Enemy



Planned Parenthood Nazis Recently, the pro-life group, Georgia Right to Life began sponsoring billboards which proclaim black children to be an "endangered species." The billboards illustrate what many of us have believed for years…Abortion on demand was begun to eliminate black babies. In April 2008, a group of black pastors held a vigil outside of a Washington D.C. Planned Parenthood clinic, they did so to protest what they characterize as a "genocide" carried out against black babies. Angered, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, of Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny said: "Every day … over 1,500 black babies are murdered inside the black woman's womb. This is a race issue." In addition to beginning a campaign to educate the public about the toll which abortion is taking on the black community, the pastors have asked Congress to audit Planned Parenthood. During Fiscal Year 2008, Planned Parenthood received a total of $300 million in government contracts and grants.
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Day 20 of 40 Days: 209 Babies Saved from Abortion



I just returned home from Oklahoma. Early tomorrow morning I'll be back on a plane, this time heading to California, where I'll get to visit several more 40 Days for Life campaigns.

In between flights, praying at vigils, speaking at events, long road trips, and short nights of sleep, whenever I check e-mail, my inbox is overflowing with more reports of lives saved.

I still think it's a miracle any time 40 Days for Life prayer vigil participants are blessed with the knowledge that a mother has changed her mind about aborting a child. And today, as we reach the halfway point of this campaign -- it's already happened ... 209 times that we know of! That's 102 more lives spared -- over the last week.
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UN Reports India and China Are 'Missing' 85 Million Women


   
A new United Nations Development Program (UNDP) report released March 8, entitled "Power, Voice and Rights: A Turning Point for Gender Equality in Asia and the Pacific," and coinciding with International Women's Day, highlights the fact that sex-selective abortion continues to increase the gender imbalance in developing countries.

Under the heading "more women than ever are disappearing," a press release from the UNDP announcing the new report says, "The problem of 'missing girls' in which more boys are born than girls, as girl fetuses are presumably aborted, and women die from health and nutrition neglect - is actually growing. Birth gender disparity is greatest in East Asia, where 119 boys are born for every 100 girls."
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A "CONDITION RED" CONGRESSIONAL ALERT

THIS IS A "CONDITION RED" CONGRESSIONAL ALERT FROM THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE COMMITTEE IN WASHINGTON, D.C.

ISSUED MONDAY, MARCH 8, 2010
 
PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY ON THIS ALERT.
 
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi pull out all stops to pass massive pro-abortion health care bill -- the days immediately ahead will decide the issue
 
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are making a final, all-out push to ram through a massive health care restructuring bill that the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) has branded "the most pro-abortion single piece of legislation that has ever come to the House floor for a vote."
 
The health care bill (H.R. 3590) has already passed the Senate, on December 24, 2009.  In order to enact it, however, Obama and Pelosi must convince a majority in the House of Representatives to also vote for the bill.
 
The Associated Press reported on March 7:  "In private pitches to Democrats, President Barack Obama says he will persuade Congress to pass his health care overhaul even if it kills him and even if he has to ask deeply distrustful lawmakers to trust him on a promise the White House doesn't have the power to keep. . . .The party's strategy calls for House Democrats, despite many misgivings, to go along with a health care bill the Senate passed in December [HR. 3590]. Obama would sign it into law, but senators would promise to make numerous changes demanded by House Democrats."
 
"House members who vote for the Senate bill will be accountable to their constituents for what the Senate bill contains, including its pro-abortion mandates and subsidies, without regard to . . solemn assurances that Congress will revisit the issue in future legislation, or any other artifice or gimmick," said NRLC Legislative Director Douglas Johnson, in a detailed statement on the Senate bill issued by NRLC on March 5.  "Any House member who votes for the Senate health bill is casting a career-defining pro-abortion vote."

The NRLC statement describes seven separate pro-abortion components in the 2,407-page Senate bill, including provisions that would allow direct federal funding of abortion, federal subsidies to help purchase private insurance that covers abortion, and federal regulations that would expand access to abortion.  NRLC noted that these problems could have been prevented only by a comprehensive pro-life amendment such as that authored by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mi.).  The House passed the Stupak Amendment on November 7, 2009, but the pro-life amendment was opposed by President Obama and later rejected by the Senate, so it will not be part of the health care bill that the House actually votes on.
 
TAKE ACTION NOW!
 
Time is short.  Most political observers agree that if Speaker Pelosi does not succeed in ramming the Senate bill through the House by the time Congress goes into recess for Easter on March 26, the bill is effectively dead.  Pelosi wants to force the vote by March 19.  But, she does not yet have the votes.  "I think we can get there, but I'm going to need help from any place I can get it," Pelosi told one group, according to the Los Angeles Times (March 8).
 
Whether she succeeds or not depends on what House members hear from their constituents during the next two weeks. 
 
Please immediately TELEPHONE the Washington, D.C. office of your U.S. House member.  Any U.S. House office can be reached through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-225-3121.  But better yet CLICK HERE and enter your zip code into the "Call Now" box, and you will be shown a direct-dial phone number for your representative in the U.S. House, along with helpful short talking points that you can use during your call.  You will also be shown a "Your Feedback" form, which allows you to easily send a short e-mail report to NRLC about how your conversation went, if you wish to do so.  This feedback is very helpful to NRLC's lobbying efforts against the health care bill.
 
The best time to call is between 9 AM and 6 PM Eastern Time.  If you call during the evening, you are likely to get a recording machine or a message asking that you call again during office hours.
 
Even if you previously have called your representative to oppose the health care bill -- please do it again!  And ask any like-minded friends and relatives to do the same.  Remember, President Obama and Speaker Pelosi are putting all their muscle into this, and they are getting plenty of help from the mainstream news media.  It is critical that your representative gets loud and clear guidance from the people who he or she actually represents.

AGAIN please immediately TELEPHONE the Washington, D.C. office of your U.S. House member.  Any U.S. House office can be reached through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-225-3121.  But better yet CLICK HERE and enter your zip code into the "Call Now" box, and you will be shown a direct-dial phone number for your representative in the U.S. House, along with helpful short talking points that you can use during your call.

Pro-Abortionists Have "Lost Control of the Narrative"

Pro-Abortionists Have "Lost Control of the Narrative"



The headline on the "Newsweek Web Exclusive" was "Outing Abortion, From Town Halls to Twitter." The subhead does an unusually deft job of summarizing Sarah Kliff's argument: "A Florida woman tweeting her abortion is trying to take the shame out of the procedure. It's a high-tech twist on an evolving mission, one that's had limited success."
Kliff's jumping off point is what we discussed Monday: a woman who was tweeting while her unborn child was being chemically annihilated by RU486. Having ingested the powerful abortifacient, Angie Jackson then posted a You Tube of herself as her unborn child died. Why?

Angie Jackson, from her You Tube entry

"I'm live tweeting my abortion on Twitter," she said, "not for some publicity stunt or for attention or to justify this to myself, I am at peace with my decision. I'm doing this to demystify abortion. I'm doing this so that other women know, 'Hey, it's not nearly as terrifying as I had myself worked up thinking it was.  It's just not that bad.' …I hope everybody on You Tube has a great and godless day. Peace." (www.nrlc.org/News_and_Views/March10/nv030110.html.)

Kliff's point is that this one-upmanship (my description) is nothing new. The Twitter part might be "novel," but not the "mission."

"In the nearly four decades since Roe v. Wade, in magazines and blogs, in tweets and T shirts, thousands of women have publicly told some form of their abortion story," she writes. "Media vary but the motivation is generally the same: make abortion less shameful and secret."

But, darn it, no such luck. Abortion is still "stigmatized," and, worse yet, "pro-choice organizations lost control of the narrative." They actually gave it away (to women who regret their abortions) by "ignoring the conversation about abortion, even if it was a difficult one to approach."

But, just so we're clear here, it's not that the idea of broadcasting to the world that you disposed of your own unborn child is a bad one. The "problem" is there weren't enough of these stories, or, more specifically, they were "disconnected."

Thus Kliff can assure the reader that "Changing the stereotypes that come with abortion, and the stigma they engender, is not necessarily impossible." What's needed is "a larger, more complex discussion."

Okay, let's think about this in a complex way. Why do so many women who have abortions either verbally express their profound regret or acknowledge that second hand by refusing to discuss what happened--or by "distanc[ing] themselves from others who have had the same experience"?

If we believe this web exclusive, it's because generally abortion "does not define a woman's identity nor engender community formation." Pardon? "[W]hen you make an abortion decision, it's probably not going to define you, so there's less motivation to advocate for that right," according to Kate Cosby, who, were are told, is "a researcher at University of California--San Francisco who focuses on the stigma and emotions involved in abortion."

But the explanation is far different and--if I dare say so--much simpler than that. As anyone who has ever worked at a woman helping center/crisis pregnancy center will tell you, most women consider/complete an abortion out of sense of sheer desperation. Too often they have been abandoned by the men in their lives or are on the receiving end of incredible pressure to abort. When the "woman" is, in fact, a girl, she really needs a helping hand and expressions of support. Without that, it is easy to see why they believe abortion is their "only option."

But having taken their child's life under those circumstances, why would they be cheerleaders for "choice"?

Pro-abortionists and their colleagues in the media subscribe to the theory if you drown the public in abortion stories, people will either become desensitized to the ugly brutality of abortion or become resigned to it as somehow "normal." You would think the undeniable pro-life shift in public opinion--not to mention the very negative response to PPFA's tasteless "I had an abortion" Tee-shirt campaign--might have taught them something. But in fact they draw the opposite conclusion.

The abortion set, never a slave to taste, discretion, or the cruelty of abortion, will never run out of new and imaginative ways to try to persuade the public that aborting/not aborting is no different than choosing Coke over Pepsi. But there is no more chance of that than Barack Obama telling the truth about abortion and health care "reform."

Contact: Dave Andrusko
Source: NRLC
Publish Date: March 5, 2010
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Court Victory for Pro-Life Free Speech at Ivy League Brown University: Thomas More Society Wins Dismissal of Charges Against Pro-Life Advocate Who Challenged Rep. Patrick Kennedy's Pro-Abortion Views

Court Victory for Pro-Life Free Speech at Ivy League Brown University: Thomas More Society Wins Dismissal of Charges Against Pro-Life Advocate Who Challenged Rep. Patrick Kennedy's Pro-Abortion Views
 

    
Attorneys from the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, on the eve of the trial, won a victory in Providence municipal court this week when the city prosecutor decided to dismiss criminal charges against Christopher Young. Young, a Catholic pro-lifer who is also a Democratic mayoral candidate, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after confronting Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) about his abortion views at an advertised "open forum" on health care at Brown University last November.

Thomas More Society attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the charge of disorderly conduct, arguing that Young did not act in a disorderly fashion when he pressed tough questions to Rep. Kennedy and tossed a pro-life video on the desk in front of the Congressman, who quickly took and looked at the video. The video, Maafa 21, is a recently-released documentary on the history of the abortion industry and its targeting of African-Americans.

"This represents a victory for free speech, even when the view expressed gets an inhospitable reception. In this case, it was Young's view that even a supposedly 'unwanted' infant is clothed with an inviolable dignity and endowed with an inalienable right to life," said Tom Brejcha, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Society.

Brejcha continued, "Congressman Kennedy had opened the forum by arguing that all of us are 'children of God' who carry a 'divine spark.' Young was entirely within his rights under the First Amendment when he called Kennedy to task for supporting the mass demise of so many millions of unborn human beings -- all of whom are no less bearers of a 'divine spark' and 'children of God.'"

Brejcha concluded, "The Congressman's stubborn insistence that he remains a faithful Catholic, while advocating both for abortion on demand and the suppression of conscience rights, is nothing less than living a lie. Brown's actions also belied its claim to be a place where ideas may be freely discussed -- even the idea that human dignity is universally shared. We urge Brown to heed the message of Salman Rushdie, who lectured at Brown on the eve of Young's last scheduled court date, urging that all speakers be given the right to speak, even those whose views some find 'detestable.'"

Contact: Tom Ciesielka
Source: Thomas More Society
Publish Date: March 5, 2010
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Prosecution Rests in Pouillon Murder Trial

Prosecution Rests in Pouillon Murder Trial



The prosecution has rested in the case of a Michigan man accused of the shooting death of local pro-life protester Jim Pouillon.

Prosecutors say Harlan Drake, 33, has already confessed to fatally shooting Pouillon and local gravel pit owner Mike Fuoss on September 11, 2009, and that he intended to shoot another man before he was arrested. Pouillon was shot to death while holding a sign with an image of an aborted child outside an Owosso high school.

The defense blamed a 2004 auto accident Drake was involved in, which caused him to lapse into depression, as the reason for his erratic behavior. Defense lawyer Robert Ashley claimed Drake therefore "did not appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct," according to the Associated Press.

Assistant Prosecutor Sara Edwards pointed to another cause of Drake's actions: she said Drake's mother, Kim Staples, had expressed "growing displeasure" with Pouillon's pro-life display the day before the shooting.

"The defendant decided if Mr. Pouillon was in front of that high school on September 11th, he was going to kill him," said Edwards. "He told detectives if Mr. Pouillon was there he was going to
make sure he wasn't going to be there again."

Staples said she felt Pouillon had the right to protest, but that it was "unhealthy" for young girls at the high school to see Pouillon's sign, which showed a living child on one side and a child killed by abortion on the other.

"Just because you have a right to do something doesn't mean that it's right to do," she said, according to the Flint Journal.

Operation Rescue president Troy Newman said that his group would continue "to pray for the victim's families and for justice to be done."

"Mr. Drake has confessed that he planned ahead before he murdered two innocent men, and would have killed a third if not stopped by police. He needs to be held accountable for those actions in the interest of justice," said Newman. "Anything less would diminish the lives of Jim Pouillon and Mike Fouss."

Contact: Kathleen Gilbert
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Publish Date: March 8, 2010
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Maryland Takes Step Toward Ethical Stem-Cell Research

Maryland Takes Step Toward Ethical Stem-Cell Research
 


Maryland lawmakers will soon vote on a bill that would focus funding on adult stem-cell research for sickle-cell disease.

Life advocates said the move shows that funding embryonic stem-cell research has been a losing proposition, and states are beginning to look to the more successful adult cells, which are already treating over 70 diseases and conditions.

Embryonic stem-cell research involves the destruction of human life.

The legislation is now in the state's House of Delegates.

David Prentice, senior fellow for life sciences at the Family Research Council, said it's encouraging that the Maryland bill that would put resources behind adult stem cells, especially for the treatment of sickle-cell anemia.

"The published science shows bone marrow and cord-blood adult stem cells are the only curative treatment for sickle-cell disease, helping both children and adults," he said. "We desperately need to focus on the patients first and increase funding for adult stem-cell research."

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Publish Date: March 5, 2010
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Hillary Clinton Tells Brazilians to Consider Legalizing Abortion

Hillary Clinton Tells Brazilians to Consider Legalizing Abortion

Repeats unsubstantiated claim about Brazilian hospital visit

 

Hillary Clinton told Brazilians yesterday to consider legalizing abortion in a nationally televised interview broadcast from Zumbi dos Palmares University, in Sao Paulo.

In response to a question about the prohibition of abortion in Brazil, posed by one of the students, Clinton responded by saying that legalizing abortion "is something that needs to be carefully thought about because of the great effect it has on the numbers of children that poor women have that they can't educate, feed properly, care for, the great toll that illegal abortions take, and the denial of women being able to exercise such a fundamental personal right."

Abortion in Brazil is illegal except in rape cases.  More than two-thirds of Brazilians support their country's laws prohibiting the killing of the unborn, a number that has climbed in recent years.

The Secretary of State also repeated a controversial claim she made last year in congressional hearings regarding a trip she supposedly made to a Brazilian hospital where women were dying from botched illegal abortions.

"I visited a hospital here in Brazil back in the 1990s, and I'll never forget one of the doctors telling me that this hospital that I visited was a hospital that had the best of feelings and the worst of feelings," said Clinton. "And I said, 'Well, what do you mean?' He said, 'Well, half the hospital are women having babies, and they are so excited. And half the hospital are women who are suffering from illegal abortions, and they are very sad.' I'll never forget that."

The words used by Clinton were almost identical to those she uttered in a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in April of 2009, when she said, "I've been in hospitals in Brazil where half the women were enthusiastically and joyfully greeting their babies, and the other half were fighting for their lives against botched abortions."

However, when questioned by the National Catholic Register following the hearing, the State Department admitted it could not substantiate the story.

Spokeswoman Laura Tischler reportedly told the Register that she was "unable to confirm where or when the trip she referred to in her testimony was - where specifically in Brazil she was visiting or when the trip occurred."

Contact: Matthew Cullinan Hoffman
Source: LifeSiteNews.com
Publish Date: March 4, 2010
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NEWS SHORTS FOR MONDAY

NEWS SHORTS FOR MONDAY

Colorado Personhood Ballot Initiative Must Replace 15,000 Signatures in 15 Days



The Colorado Secretary of State has disclosed that 15,690 of the 79,648 signatures submitted by Personhood Colorado were invalid. Beginning today, March 4, Personhood Colorado will have 15 days, per state initiative law, to replace the signatures. Every ballot initiative campaign faces the challenge of validating signatures. Incorrect, illegible, or old addresses are typically the culprits, as petition signatures must match the recorded registered voter's address. "This is not unexpected news," commented Keith Mason, co-founder of Personhood USA. "We anticipated that this 15 day curing period would be evoked, and we have been diligently preparing to get over 1,000 signatures each day of the 15 day period. It will be a challenge, but we are ready to get started."
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Revised Abortion Regulation Passes Utah House, Senate



A pregnant woman in Utah who intentionally causes the death of her baby "outside legal medical care" could be prosecuted for criminal homicide under a bill that was introduced and approved by the Legislature on Friday. HB462, which is an amended version of HB12, removes the word "reckless" behavior but retains "intentional" acts by the woman that cause an abortion as grounds for a charge of aggravated murder. The measure doesn't change the state's legal abortion statutes but establishes Utah as the only state to set parameters on when a woman can be held criminally responsible for causing the end of a pregnancy at her own hand or means outside a doctor's care.
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Thousands Rally In Spain Against Abortion Law



Tens of thousands of anti-abortion demonstrators have gathered in at least four Spanish cities to protest a new law that allows abortions without restrictions for up to 14 weeks. Organizers' spokesman Victor Gago says one march, carrying banners of "Yes to life," blocked the capital's central Sol square. Spain's Senate approved the new bill late last month after it had been approved by the lower house in December. It is due to come into force later this year. The bill brings traditionally Roman Catholic Spain in line with its more secular neighbors in northern Europe.
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Toy Balloons Released Into Sky in Russian Far East Anti-Abortion Video



An anti-abortion video in the Russian Far Eastern city of Vladivostok, entitled Silent Scream, gathered some 30 participants on Sunday who symbolically released black and red toy balloons with unborn children's names into the sky, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. Women in Russia, whose population is 142 million, undergo some 1-1.5 million abortions annually in line with official statistics. But the flash mob participants released toy balloons to the sound of a bell ringing each six seconds, which they said was due to unofficial statistics, in line with which an unborn child dies in Russia during an abortion each six seconds, which is four-five times the official figures.
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City, Pro-Life Activists Settle Lawsuit



YORK, PA -- Settlements have been reached in two federal lawsuits involving anti-abortion activists who claimed their First Amendment rights were violated by the city, according to the parties involved. Two men sued York in connection with incidents near the Planned Parenthood clinic. Edward Snell, of Harrisburg, sued the city after he was arrested in 2004 in Rose Alley, behind the organization on Beaver Street, where he was trying to hand out literature and speak to people entering the clinic. In his suit, Snell claimed he was wrongfully arrested for refusing to leave the alley and that police used excessive force. He was found not guilty of disorderly conduct. John McTernan, of Millersville, said in his own lawsuit that in 2005 he was threatened with arrest by a police officer in the same alley, where he was holding an anti-abortion sign.
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Miracle on 9th Street: Victory In Court For Anti-Abortion Citizen



The Recap of my Injunction Trial -- A victory in court for any anti abortion citizen is nothing short of a miracle, especially when it involves the infamous Milwaukee injunction. I cannot think of anyone that has won an injunction case until now. I was very zealous in asking for prayer, and I'm convinced that was the main reason I won. It was helpful that the pro aborts had a weak case against me. I certainly did not intend to violate that injunction, and they had the burden of proving it. It was also debatable if I even violated the injunction at all. Additionally, I had an outstanding attorney, Russell Jones, that was able to find legal issues that have never been raised before.
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