Urgent Prayer Request - UPDATE

  UPDATE:
Sadly - the bill passed the Senate.  However, you will be glad to know that Senator Althoff voted against the bill.   HB 2675 would expose children to sexually inappropriate material in the name of sex education. The bill could be called for a vote as early as this afternoon or anytime during the next ten days in the Senate. It appears the votes are there for passage. This is very serious.

 

Please join us in calling out to God, asking for His mercy and protection for children. 

Our children's innocence is truly at stake here. Exposing young children to sexually explicit material and assuming they already are or will be sexually active, will only encourage early sexual experimentation ultimately changing the course of their lives. The bill targets children starting at age 11. 

 

Please join us in praying that God would stop this bill. 

Pray:

• God would hold this bill back between now and when the General Assembly adjourns on Friday, May 31^st. 
• God would convict those "undecided" that this is not in the best interest of children.
• Lawmakers would realize that schools already have the option of choosing this type of sex ed curriculum and do not need another mandate.
• Lawmakers would realize this very sensitive issue is best left to parents and local school officials.
• Lawmakers would realize that sexual purity should be desired, valued and encouraged in the schools. 

We are also asking God to forgive the corporate Church for its apathy towards this volatile issue and others that have contributed to the erosion of our culture. 

God gave us the solution to the insurmountable problems we face. 

 

…if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14

 

Scripture indicates how important children are to Him and the penalty for causing them to sin. We firmly believe that God can stop and wants to stop this bill. But it's up to us as His people. 

 

…with God all things are possible. Matthew 19:26 

Pray also for these following senators who are uncommitted on HB 2675:

 

Pam Althoff (R-McHenry)

Bill Cunningham (D-Chicago)

Napoleon Harris (D-Harvey)

Michael Hastings (D-Matteson)

Mike Jacobs (D-Moline)

Patricia Van Pelt (D-Chicago)

Steve Stadelman (D-Rockford)

Jacqueline Collins (D-Chicago)

Can’t afford an abortion? Lie to a friend or family member to get their money or take on credit card debt

 

If you don't work in policy or the pro-life movement, or if you're not particularly passionate about the issue of abortion, you may never have heard of the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions (with the usual exceptions of cases of rape or incest or where a mother's life is at risk).

Regardless of whether or not you're familiar with the ins and outs of this federal policy, you probably appreciate the logic behind it. Many of us consider abortion nothing less than taking the life of an innocent person. Not using federal tax dollars to fund it is a no-brainer.

And then there is the National Network of Abortion Funds.

Apart from repealing Hyde, the folks over at NNAF have lots of suggestions for women who cannot afford to procure an abortion. Here are a choice few:

• Do I have a credit card? Does a friend or family member have one? (If I have time, can I apply for a new card? Could I request a limit increase, which can often take effect on the next business day? I can put just a portion of the cost on a credit card if my limit isn't high enough.)
• Can I get a line of credit at my bank?
• Is there an emergency fund at my church?
• Can I use my cable bill money toward my abortion and then ask someone else for help with my cable bill?
• Are there people who might not help me cover the cost of an abortion, but would help me cover other costs? Am I comfortable lying to a friend or family member, telling them that I had an unexpectedly high electric bill or gas bill due to heating or A/C costs?
• Are there bills that I can pay late or skip this month? Can I talk to the electric company about changing the due date for my bill? (Note that it's illegal for utilities to shut off the heat source for non-payment during the coldest winter months.)

So: there you have it. Taking on credit card debt, not paying your bills in the knowledge that your utility company may still have to supply you with their service, dipping into the emergency fund at your church (which may or may not strongly oppose abortion), or lying to a friend or family member are all acceptable solutions if you are struggling to pay for an abortion.

P.S. If you have a moment, consider contacting the NNAF's board members and the organizations that these individuals represent to see if they're actually comfortable encouraging women to use all these strategies. See the list below:

Sarah Audelo, Senior Manager, Domestic Policy, Advocates for Youth; Washington, D.C.

Veronica Bayetti Flores, Assistant Director, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, Hampshire College; Member, New Leadership Networking Initiative; Amherst, MA

Margaret Chapman Pomponio, Executive Director, WV FREE; Charleston, WV

Carol Cohan, Consultant, Women's Emergency Network; Miami, FL

Marlene Gerber Fried, Senior Advisor to the President and Faculty Director of the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, Hampshire College; Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts; Amherst, MA

D. Lynn Jackson (President), Assistant Professor/Field Coordinator, University of North Texas; Network National Case Manager; Texas Equal Access Fund; Dallas, TX

Karen Law, Executive Director, Pro-Choice Resources; Minneapolis, MN

Shanelle Matthews, Communications Manager, Forward Together; Oakland, CA

Eesha Pandit, Executive Director, Men Stopping Violence; Member, New Leadership Networking Initiative; Atlanta, GA

Sue Steketee (Secretary/Treasurer), Director of Surgical Services and Operations, Planned Parenthood of New Mexico; Abortion Assistance Fund of Planned Parenthood New Mexico; Albuquerque, NM

By Anna Dorminey

Congress Receives Irrefutable Evidence of IRS Harassment of Pro-Life Organizations

Thomas More Society Calls Upon IRS Investigators to Question California Office and to Extend Investigation Back to 2009

 

 

Today, the Thomas More Society offered over 150 pages of analysis and evidence to the House Ways and Means Committee about repeated IRS harassment of pro-life organizations. At the request of Congressman Aaron Schock (R-IL), Thomas More Society President Thomas Brejcha, Executive Director Peter Breen, and Special Counsel Sally Wagenmaker, prepared the legal memorandum with solid evidence of IRS harassment of pro-life organizations dating back to 2009.

 

The memo details the history of IRS misconduct in the cases of three organizations represented by the Thomas More Society. The abuse dates back further than the now publicized 2010 complaints and extends beyond the IRS's recently exposed Cincinnati office to also include the tax agency's California operations in the charges of blatant bias.

 

The IRS office in El Monte, California, began harassing Christian Voices for Life of Fort Bend County, Texas in 2011. In a series of questions penned by Exempt Organization Specialist Tyrone Thomas from the California office, the IRS asked a series of unwarranted questions ordering Christian Voices for Life without any foundation, to explain its content, message, and prayers as if they were engaging in highly offensive or criminal behavior.

 

Coalition for Life of Iowa found itself in the IRS's crosshairs when the group applied for tax exempt status in October 2008. Nearly ten months of interrogation about the group's opposition to Planned Parenthood included a demand by a Ms. Richards from the IRS' Cincinnati office unlawfully insisted that all board members sign a sworn declaration promising not to picket/protest Planned Parenthood. Further questioning by the IRS requested detailed information about the content of the group's prayer meetings, educational seminars, and signs their members hold outside Planned Parenthood.

 

In yet a third matter, an IRS agent in their Chicago office repeatedly harassed Daniel and Angela Michael of Small Victories, a pro-life organization, with an intrusive investigation, calling the leaders every 2-3 weeks over the course of 2011, beginning in January of that year. The IRS officially closed its investigation in January 2012, having found no illegal activities.

 

Contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312-422-1333, tc@tcpr.net

The House just voted to repeal Obamacare in a 229-195 vote!!!

The House just voted to repeal Obamacare in a 229-195 vote!!!

IRS Harassed Pro-Life Leaders from Pharmacists For Life International

In the wake of the mushrooming IRS scandal, it was learned today that the widening circle of pro-life leadership hit with attempted harassment and intimidation by the IRS has included at least two members of the officers and board members of Pharmacists For Life International (PFLI).

PFLI disclosed today that at least two of its officers and board members have been subjected to ongoing harassment and intimidation attempts by the IRS through continued and costly nuisance audits and threatening letters over a period of months and years.

The two, who are not being identified at present, have generally come away with clean audits and demands for information by the IRS, often with ugly threats of reprisal, confiscation of money and property and inconvenient arrangements for audit reviews and meetings. At least one time, the harassing audit proved to yield a larger REFUND for one of the two individuals, much to the consternation of the IRS.

The cost alone of legal and accounting representation can run into the tens of thousands of dollars for a simple review.

PFLI is the only professional association of pharmacists, interns, technicians and the lay public which is exclusively and 100% totally pro-life. The group has been highly vocal for years over the approval of various abortifacients-- misnamed as so-called 'contraceptives' -- and the regime's attempt to eliminate all rights of conscience for pharmacists and allied health care providers.

PFLI was instrumental in having the illegal diktat by then-governor Rod Blagojevich of IL overturned in court after it was mandated in 2005, with the tacit approval of abortoholic then-Senator Obama. Two IL members of PFLI were in that lawsuit that prevailed over the now-imprisoned Blagojevich.

PFLI will continue to educate the profession and the public over the true mechanisms of action of abortifacients posing as so-called 'contraceptives' and in fighting for the unfettered rights of conscience of all pharmacists and allied health professionals to follow their sincerely held religious and moral beliefs to not be involved in ANY manner with the use of drugs to destroy human life via abortion, euthanasia and infanticide. PFLI has provided low cost vitamins and supplies to hundreds of crisis pregnancy help centers and their clients for almost 30 years.

Contact: Dr. Bogomir Kuhar, PharmD, Pharmacists For Life International, 740-881-5520

Ask Your U.S. Representative to Protect Conscience Rights

Organizations across the country are encouraging people to contact their U.S. representatives today asking them to support a bill that would protect conscience rights for nonprofit and faith-based institutions.

Lawmakers introduced the Health Care Conscience Rights Act (HCCRA) measure in March. The legislation would provide full exemption on religious or moral grounds from the Obama administration's Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate requiring most employers to offer potential abortion-induction drugs in their employee health plans. It would also ensure protection for individuals and health care organizations that choose not to offer, pay for, or refer patients to abortion sellers because of their religious convictions.

"If (HCCRA) passes this summer, it puts an end to the problems with the HHS mandate, which is one of the biggest crises of the First Amendment that the Obama administration has put the though," Connie Marshner, chair of 101 Meeting, told CitizenLink. The District of Columbia religious freedom group spearheaded today's mass email campaign urging organizations and individuals to contact their representatives.

The Obama administration required most for-profit employers to comply with the HHS mandate by August 2012. Faith-based organizations — including some hospitals and universities — have a "safe harbor" until August of this year.

Sixty lawsuits are in play with more than 190 parties. Thirty-one of those involve for-profit business. In 19 of those cases judges granted injunctions temporarily halting the mandate for those companies.

CitizenLink is among the organizations encouraging people to contact their representatives.

"It's easy to get discouraged by the decisions made by our elected officials.  Too many times they vote against the value of life, marriage and family," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior director of Issues Analysis for CitizenLink.  "Yet, when we engage in making our voices heard, our first motivation should be to exercise our right to do just that — be a voice for the biblical values we care about.  It's important for all elected officials — regardless of party affiliation or past votes — to hear from their constituents. That's how our system of government works."  

Take Action to Protect Conscience Rights

Ask your Member of the U.S. House of Representatives to co-sponsor of H.R. 940, the Health Care Conscience Rights Act — and to make sure it comes to a vote before July 4. You can email through our action center or call the U.S. Capitol switchboard: 202-224-3121

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Learn more about H.R. 940.

Read "Conscience rights protect patients and health care professionals."

No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act Introduced in House, Senate

Pro-Life Congressman
Chris Smith

WASHINGTON, DC – Today U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.), co-chairs of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, and U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), announced the introduction of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.

The legislation, which has been introduced as H.R. 7 in the House and S. 946 in the Senate, has the support of 95 cosponsors in the House and 21 in the Senate. (Click here for the text of the bill).

Congressman Smith (R-NJ) said of the bills:

"More than 100 Members of Congress have joined us in introducing the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act—a government wide prohibition on taxpayer subsidization for abortion. With the recent murder convictions of Dr. Gosnell, we've got to encourage Americans to ask—how different really is Gosnell's House of Horrors from abortions that occur in clinics throughout the country? Not much, not much at all," said Smith. "There are Kermit Gosnells all over America. Some abortionists may have cleaner sheets than Gosnell, and better sterilized equipment and better trained accomplices, but what they do—what Gosnell did is the same—kill babies and hurt women. President Obama has said he wants abortion to be rare. To Mr. Obama I say, 'here is a bill for you.' Even the Guttmacher Institute, the former research arm of Planned Parenthood, confirms that taxpayer funding bans are a proven abortion reduction method. According to Guttmacher, studies show that when abortion is not publically funded, abortions in the covered population are reduced by roughly 25 percent."


Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-Il.)

Congressman Dan Lipinski (R-IL) said:

"The overwhelming view of Americans is their tax dollars should not be used to pay for abortions. Yet taxpayer dollars are poised to pay for abortions through the Affordable Care Act and we continue to rely on the dangerous practice of passing annual riders to carry out the desire of the American people that taxpayer-funded abortions should be prohibited," Rep. Lipinski said. "This legislation makes perfect sense by answering to the public's wishes, making longtime federal policy permanent law and protecting innocent life that deserves to be protected."


Senator Roger Wicker

Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS) said:

"The sanctity of human life for all, including the unborn, is deeply rooted in my beliefs and reflected in American values. For more than 30 years, Congress has enacted annual provisions in appropriations bills to make certain American taxpayers are not funding abortions. It is past time for a single, government-wide prohibition on abortion funding. This legislation accomplishes that goal by establishing a comprehensive policy prohibiting public funding for abortion in all federal programs. This approach will reduce the need for separate abortion funding policies and ensure that no federal program is exempt from this prohibition."

The "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" will eliminate the need for numerous, separate, annual abortion funding prohibitions (called riders) and ensure that no other program or agency is exempt from this important safeguard.

The bill would make permanent the policies that currently rely on regular re-approval, including amendments like the well known Hyde Amendment, which prohibits funding for elective abortion coverage through any program funded through the annual Labor, Health and Human Services Appropriations Act. It also would make permanent other existing laws, such as: the Helms amendment (which prohibits funding for abortion as a method of family planning overseas); the Smith FEHBP amendment (which prohibits funding for elective abortion coverage for federal employees); the Dornan amendment, (which prohibits use of congressionally appropriated funds for abortion in the District of Columbia), and; other policies governing programs, such as federal prisons.

Vote 'NO' to Planned Parenthood's Comprehensive Sex Education proposal

ACTION ALERT! 

 

Call your Illinois Senator and ask him/her to vote 'NO' to Planned Parenthood's Comprehensive Sex Education proposal (HB 2675) !!

The Capitol switchboard number is (217) 782-2000. Please call today!

Click here for more on the Sex Education proposal bill.

Abortionist Gosnell sentenced to life in prison

Following his conviction for the murder of three babies born alive, abortionist Kermit Gosnell was sentenced Tuesday to two life sentences without parole for two of those murder charges.

By agreeing not to appeal his conviction, Gosnell was able to avoid the death penalty for two of the convictions of first-degree murder.

Gosnell "agreed to wait all of his appellate rights in exchange for life in prison...instead of the death penalty," the office of R. Seth Williams, Philadelphia's district attorney, said May 14.

He was "immediately sentenced."

On May 15, Gosnell will be sentenced for the death of the third child and for involuntary manslaughter of a patient at his facility, a mother who died of drug overdose, as well as many lesser charges.

Nine of Gosnell's employees have faced state and federal charges for their actions at the clinic. Eight have plead guilty to various charges in the case – three of them to third-degree murder.

Former employee Stephen Massof in courtroom testimony in early April said that he saw about 100 babies born alive. He said clinic workers then "snipped" the back of their neck to ensure their "demise."

Massof is in prison after having plead guilty to third-degree murder in the deaths of two newborns.

In a January 2011 Grand Jury report, Williams found that the Pennsylvania Department of Health had contact with Gosnell's clinic in 1979, when it first approved it. The department did not conduct another site review until 1989, finding "numerous violations." Two site reviews found more violations in 1992 and 1993, but failed to make corrections.

"With the change of administration from Governor Casey to Governor Ridge," the report said, "officials concluded that inspections would be 'putting a barrier up to women' seeking abortions. Better to leave clinics to do as they pleased, even though, as Gosnell proved, that meant both women and babies would pay."

Gosnell's name became a rallying cry for pro-life advocates, who lamented a lack of major media coverage of his trial. Their efforts on social media helped draw attention to the case.

Congress Scheduled to Vote on Obamacare Repeal Thursday

The House of Representatives is expected to decide Thursday whether to repeal the new federal health care law. This vote represents the 37th attempt to repeal all or part of the law.

Signed into law in March 2010, Obamacare requires businesses to offer government-approved health insurance to employees who work at least 30 hours per week. Not only does it increase health care costs for businesses, a provision of the law — the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate — requires most companies to offer coverage for possible abortion-inducing drugs.

"Obamacare represents a huge power grab by the government, regulating an industry that represents one-fifth of the nation's economy," said Carrie Gordon Earll, senior director of Issues Analysis for CitizenLink. "And it's loaded with taxes — the Heritage Foundation tallies it at more than $800 billion dollars extra coming out of Americans' paychecks and pockets in the coming couple of years."

The law includes taxpayer funding for abortion in the form of federally subsidized health care plans mandated to charge all customers at least $1 a month for abortion. The healthcare rule, PL 111-148, does not mention a maximum amount, meaning taxpayers could end up paying more. It also prohibits insurance companies from including information about the rule in any marketing or promotional materials.

"The health care law is the largest expansion of abortion since Roe v. Wade, and includes the unprecedented move to force cooperation with a life-ending agenda or face punitive action," said Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life (AUL) and its legislative arm AUL Action (AULA).

Both have been tracking the Obama administration's pro-abortion agenda, and have found that the government has:

• Failed to prohibit use of federal tax dollars for abortion, abortion coverage and abortion-inducing drugs and devices;
• Allowed federally subsidized Qualified Health Plans (QHPs) to provide abortion coverage through state insurance exchanges required in all 50 states;
• Failed to provide comprehensive First Amendment conscience protections for individuals, employers and insurance companies that object to abortion for religious or moral reasons

The law is also expensive and will continue to harm employees and businesses. According to an ever increasing number of news reports, many more than a dozen companies are facing layoffs or the possibility of reducing workers' hours due to Obamacare.

"ObamaCare has proven to be a typical big-government attempt to 'do something' about a perceived problem by interfering with our free market system, which, predictably, ends up making the problem worse," said Bruce Hausknecht, judicial analyst for CitizenLink. "And if the government won't allow businesses to take the necessary steps to reduce their costs, then prices go up, inflation results, and the American economy suffers."

TAKE ACTION:

Urge your member of the U.S. House of Representative to repeal Obamacare. The new health care law not only increases health care costs for businesses, but contains a provision requiring most employers offer potential abortion-inducing drugs in their employee health care plan.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Learn more about H.R. 45, the bill to repeal Obamacare.

Learn more about PL 111-148, the abortion surge charge in Obamacare.

Read Alliance Defending Freedom's Obamacare fact sheet.

Gosnell conviction prompts call for abortion business scrutiny

As news of the guilty verdict of first degree murder for abortionist Kermit Gosnell broke, pro-life leaders welcomed his conviction while calling for a closer look at the abortion industry as a whole.

U.S. Congresswoman Diane Black, (R–Tenn.), said that while she applauds the grand jury's decision to convict the Philadelphia abortionist on at least three charges of first-degree murder, she said his crimes "stand as a stark reminder that there is no such thing as a safe abortion."

"While Gosnell's horrific actions were especially egregious," she said in a May 13 statement, "we should remember that this is what happens each time an abortion is performed – a beating heart is stopped and an innocent human life is ended."

Gosnell faced over 250 charges, including racketeering, conspiracy and violations of Pennsylvania's late-term abortion ban. He faced more than 200 counts of breaking a state law that requires a 24-hour waiting period on abortion.

He was convicted for three of four first-degree murder charges and the one charge of involuntary manslaughter in the death of a patient who died of an overdose.

The gruesome testimony at the trial included reports that Gosnell and his staff snipped the necks of over 100 babies who survived abortions. One doctor at the clinic testified that the procedure was "literally a beheading."

Gosnell, 72, could face the death penalty for his crimes.

Rep. Chris Smith, (R–N.J.), Co-Chairman of the House Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus, said that "not much" difference exists between Gosnell's "House of Horrors" and abortion clinics around the country.

"Some abortionists may have cleaner sheets than Gosnell, and better sterilized equipment and better trained accomplices, but what they do – what Gosnell did – kill babies and hurt women – is the same," he said in a May 13 statement.

Although some 55 million babies have been aborted in the 40 years since abortion has been legal in the United States, there is an "appalling lack of compassion" for the victims and their mothers who have been "physically, emotionally, psychologically" wounded, he said.

Lila Rose, president of pro-life investigative group, Live Action, said Gosnell's "gruesome and inhuman crimes" must not be seen as outliers in the abortion industry.

"We cannot allow these 'guilty' verdicts, welcome as they are, to make us complacent when it comes to the continuing abuses happening even now in abortion facilities throughout our nation," she said.

In her statement, Rose called on Congress "to investigate all those participating in or willing to participate in this kind of brutality" toward women and children.

Anna Higgins, director of the Center for Human Dignity at the Family Research Council, called the jury's verdict "a just conclusion to a horrific case."

However, she said, the case highlights the "callous disregard for the health and safety of women" as well as the "inhumanity of abortion."

Higgins called on Congress to work with states in requiring abortion clinics "to apply the same safety standards as those followed by other medical facilities, including veterinary offices."

Did Obama's IRS also harass pro-life groups?

With the revelation that the Obama Administration's Internal Revenue Service harassed and beleaguered groups seeking tax exemption status if their names included "Tea Party" or "Patriots," and then later admitting they targeted groups with purposes of promoting limited government and other conservative missions, questions are being raised about other targeted groups. 

Were pro-life groups also a target of the staunchly pro-abortion Obama Administration?

Chicago's Thomas More Society reported first dealing with IRS concerns from pro-life groups as early as 2009.

When the Coalition for Life of Iowa sought tax exemption status in 2009, the IRS sought details about the content of members' prayers at a Planned Parenthood facility. They also demanded that the group refrain both from activities that could be construed as protesting or picketing by police, and to cease activities that could be seen as confrontational or harassing by abortion-seeking clients.
 
Thomas More Society said the IRS insisted that "every member of the board of directors of the Coalition sign a statement, under penalty of perjury, that they will not picket or protest or organize others to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood," 

Soon after the unprecedented demands were made, the Chicago-based public interest law firm made the legal challenge on behalf of the Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based group. Shortly thereafter, the IRS backed off and the group was granted 501(c)3 status.

"The IRS must operate within the constraints of law, and it cannot condition the grant of tax exempt status on the forfeiture or surrender of First Amendment rights on the part of any non-profit group or individual American citizens," Thomas More Society's attorney Thomas Brejcha commented in a 2009 press release.

But again two years later, Thomas More Society issued a letter to the IRS on behalf of a group called Christian Voices for Life. The IRS made repeated requests for information about the viewpoint and content of the group's communications, prayer vigils, and other activities, violating the group's First Amendment rights.

In its 2011 letters to Christian Voices for Life, the IRS demanded to know whether the group did "education on both sides of the issues," whether members of the group "try to block people to [sic] enter a … medical clinic" during "40 Days for Life" and "Life Chain" events, whether members of the group "attempt to talk to someone trying to enter a medical clinic," and to "please explain what you are [doing] during" 40 Days for Life and Life Chain vigils.

"The application of Christian Voices for Life clearly indicates that the organization qualifies as a charitable organization under section 501(c)(3)," stated Thomas More Society executive director and legal counsel Peter Breen two years ago.

"These requests suggest that the IRS may be denying or delaying tax-exempt status based upon the organization's pro-life message, rather than any legitimate exemption concern," Breen said.  "Moreover, the implication in these questions that Christian Voices for Life somehow intends to engage in illegal activity is insulting."

Using the IRS as a tool to squelch political enemies is an illegal tactic that mounted evidence against former President Richard M. Nixon and added to a call for congressional impeachment proceedings, which eventually subsided when Nixon resigned in disgrace.

Abortionist Gosnell found guilty on 3 murder counts

A Pennsylvania jury has convicted abortionist Kermit Gosnell on three counts of 1st-degree murder.

Gosnell, who had performed late-term abortions under appalling unsanitary conditions in a Philadelphia clinic, was found not guilty on a 4th murder charge, but guilty of involuntary manslaughter and a host of other lesser charges.

The grisly details of Gosnell's business had shocked and outraged those who heard of the case. But the abortionist's trial has received little attention from American's mainstream media outlets.

Gosnell was accused of brutally killing babies who survived late-term abortions, allowing unqualified personnel to perform medical procedures, dispensing inappropriate medication, improper storage of fetal remains, and other crimes. Government agents who inspected his clinic—originally looking for evidence of illegal prescriptions—were so appalled by the conditions there that they alerted local prosecutors. The clinic, which was patronized mostly by poor women, had not been inspected for years.

New pro-life campaign for moms sees strong response

A new campaign from pro-life group Heroic Media has found considerable support from busy moms seeking to get more involved in promoting abortion alternatives.

The new campaign, 1000 Moms, was launched last year and has already “seen a very positive response,” executive director Joe Young of Heroic Media told CNA May 7.

By engaging mothers in prayer, networking and giving, the group aims “to help build a culture of life within our communities.”

One of the most important ways mothers are involved in this process is through prayer, Young explained, “Not just for Heroic Media, but for the women we’re reaching through our life-affirming media campaigns.”

Mothers are also asked to “be a champion of life” in their communities by educating themselves on sanctity of life issues, such as abortion and euthanasia, so that they can be “ready to present a pro-life position in the conversation.”

Young said moms are encouraged to share Heroic Media’s message in their social media networks as well.

Finally, members are asked to commit to a $1,000 donation annually to help fund pro-life media campaigns in their local communities.

By supporting the group financially, “They can ensure that this message of hope and help is given through their community and it points back to their local service providers in their area.”

So far, local media campaigns have helped make “significant progress” in connecting women facing an unplanned pregnancy with alternatives to abortion.

“This year, we’ve had more than 65,000 women connected to life-affirming resources,” Young said.

In addition to helping support pro-life ad campaigns, the 1000 Moms initiative is “all about celebrating the heroism of motherhood,” by recognizing the daily sacrifices of local moms.

“Motherhood is such an important job in this country, one that has been downplayed or even demonized in some circles and we really want to celebrate the heroism of motherhood,” Young said.

“Moms play critical role in child development and we just want to celebrate that and allow them to give back to new moms now.”

More information can be found at: http://www.heroicmedia.org/1000moms

Tyndale wins again against abortion mandate

A leading Bible publisher won another court victory against the Obama administration's abortion/contraceptive mandate Friday (May 3), thanks in part to the administration's own partial retreat in the case.

The publisher, Tyndale House, had won a preliminary injunction in November from a lower court that prevented the government from enforcing the mandate, which forces businesses such as Tyndale to cover contraceptives that can cause chemical abortions. The drugs often are called "emergency contraceptives" and can act after conception and implantation, and come under brand names such as Plan B and ella.
 
The administration appealed that injunction to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, but eventually asked that the appeal be dismissed. The three justices on Friday granted the administration's request and dismissed it.

The injunction will remain in place while the case itself, Tyndale House Publishers v. Sebelius, moves forward. The lower court judge, Reggie B. Walton, had said in his November injunction ruling that Tyndale likely would win the overall case.

The legal group Alliance Defending Freedom says the government's desire to withdraw its own appeal is a good sign for religious liberty. ADF is representing Tyndale.

"Bible publishers should be free to do business according to the book that they publish," said ADF senior legal counsel Matt Bowman. "The government dismissed its appeal because it knows how ridiculous it sounds arguing that a Bible publisher isn't religious enough to qualify as a religious employer. For the government to say that a Bible publisher isn't religious is outrageous, and now the Obama administration has had to retreat in court."

Tyndale is among the 25 for-profits that have obtained rulings in federal court. Of those, the for-profits have won injunctions against the administration in 19 cases, according to a tally by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, placing the for-profits' record at 19-6.

In his November decision, Judge Reggie B. Walton had said that forcing Tyndale to obey the mandate would also force it to violate its religious beliefs.

"The contraceptive coverage mandate ... places the plaintiffs in the untenable position of choosing either to violate their religious beliefs by providing coverage of the contraceptives at issue or to subject their business to the continual risk of the imposition of enormous penalties for its noncompliance," Walton wrote. "... Government action that creates such a Hobson's choice for the plaintiffs amply shows that the contraceptive coverage mandate substantially burdens the plaintiffs' religious exercise."

Although the Supreme Court upheld the health care law last summer, it did not address the issues in the Tyndale case.

Tyndale, based in Carol Stream, Ill., with 260 full-time employees, functions as a thoroughly Christian organization, the ADF suit states. For instance:

-- One of its corporate goals is to "honor God."

-- It holds a weekly chapel service for employees.

-- It opens business meetings with prayer.

-- It sends employees on mission projects to support Christian mission organizations, paid for by the company.

-- Its trustees must affirm a statement of faith that proclaims, for instance, "there is one God, eternally existent in three persons."

After the appeals court dismissed the appeal, Bowman said the ADF "will continue to argue that the administration cannot disregard the Constitution's protection of religious freedom for all family business owners and must offer a comprehensive exemption to the mandate."

The three justices who agreed to dismiss the appeal were Karen Henderson (nominated by George H.W. Bush), Thomas Griffith (George W. Bush) and Brett Kavanaugh (George W. Bush).

South Carolina Bill Would Outlaw Obamacare

The South Carolina House passed a bill Wednesday that would make it a crime for state officials and employers to implement the new federal health care law.

Signed into law in March 2010, Obamacare requires businesses to offer government-approved health insurance to employees who work at least 30 hours per week. A provision of the law, the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate, requires most companies to offer coverage for possible abortion-inducing drugs.

If passed, South Carolina’s Freedom of Health Care Protection Act would establish criminal penalties for those who violate it.

The state has made it very clear that is doesn’t want to go along with Obamacare, said Grace-Marie Turner, president of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization in Alexandria, Va. 

“They’re not setting up a state based exchange to be a funnel for federal subsidies for the Obamacare insurance,” Turner told CitizenLink. “They’re not expanding Medicaid according to the law. And then the House has basically said, ‘We are also going to try to make the implementation of this ‘null and void’ in the state of South Carolina by criminalizing anyone who tries to implement it.”

Plan B isn't 'preventive medicine,' says Christian physician

A spokesman for the Christian Medical & Dental Associations explains why he has always opposed efforts to lower the availability age for Plan B, saying "morning-after" planning is in fact no planning at all.
 
The Justice Department announced Thursday it will fight against the availability of Plan B - the "morning-after" pill - for minors. Last month, New York federal judge Edward Korman ordered the Food and Drug Administration to permit over-the-counter sales of the drug to minors; and two days before the order was effective, FDA issued a rule permitting sale of Plan B to 15-year-olds and up.

Now, in the appeal filed on Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney General's office will argue Judge Korman does not have the authority to order the drug's availability to minors. That move has apparently angered some White House allies - including Planned Parenthood, whose president stated later that "age barriers" to emergency contraception like Plan B "are not supported by science and ... should be eliminated."

Adds Los Angeles Times' political reporter Robin Abcarian: "Planned Parenthood is probably getting used to this shabby treatment from a president who loves them to their face but dallies with the right behind their backs."

Dr. Andre Van Mol of the Christian Medical & Dental Associations was opposed to the lowering of the age to begin with.

"It's another example of proposing technological fixes to moral issues - and as a result, opening up a whole new can of worms," he tells American Family Association. "You can't out-technology sin and its consequences. It always leads to other problems."

Van Mol, who also is affiliated with the sexual purity group known as Moral Revolution, believes making the abortifacient available without a prescription would "increase sexually transmitted infections as well as unplanned pregnancies, actually rising further than the problematic levels we already have."

"It's motivating people to think later rather than earlier. Morning-after planning is no planning whatsoever," he states bluntly. "This is not preventive medicine; and when you're talking about 15-year-olds - obviously an adolescent mentality - the problem's going to be even worse."

Thursday in Mexico, President Obama defended his administration's decision to appeal Korman's ruling, saying he was "very comfortable" with the FDA's current rule. "It's not my decision to make," he added. "The first time around, where there were no age restrictions, [HHS] Secretary [Kathleen] Sebelius expressed concerns and I supported those concerns and I gave voice to them."

Anna Higgins of the Family Research Council spoke to American Family News about the president's statement last night in support of the FDA's decision.

"I think it shows that he is backing off of his original statement - which showed a lot of common sense - in which he said that it's not smart or medically safe for a child to have access to a medication that potentially, if not used properly, could end up having an adverse effect," she offers.

"I mean he echoed Sebelius's concerns in 2011," notes Higgins. "It seems like he's kind of turning on those concerns in face of political pressure."

Celebrated abortionist draws fire after undercover film

New footage by an undercover investigative group shows a prominent late-term abortionist joking about the abortion procedure and telling women not to seek emergency care if something were to go wrong.

“Dr. (LeRoy) Carhart’s testimony is shocking and sickening,” said Lila Rose, president of Live Action, the organization that conducted the undercover investigation.

In a statement released with the video, Rose criticized Carhart’s comparison of a dead infant within a mother’s womb to “putting meat in a crock pot,” as well as references to the tools he uses to complete abortions as a “pickaxe” and “drill bit.”

She also stated that “he outright lies when he claims that his patient, Jennifer Morbelli, died of complications in her pregnancy rather than from his abortion.”

Carhart was one of four protagonists in the documentary “After Tiller,” which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013 and has won numerous honors since its opening. The doctors highlighted in the film are the four remaining doctors in the United States that still perform third-trimester abortions.

In 2009, Dr. Carhart also won awards from Physicians for Reproductive Health and NARAL Pro-Choice America.

The doctor is shown in the latest of several videos recorded undercover by Live Action. Speaking to women at his clinic, Carhart minimizes the risks and potential side effects of abortion, despite statements to the contrary by the Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Planned Parenthood.

He also claimed to the undercover investigators that he has never “had anybody leave there feeling worse than they came,” and that he “never had to send anybody to the hospital.”

Acknowledging that a woman died after an abortion at his clinic, he asserted that the death was due to “complications with the pregnancy, but not from the abortion.”

However a Maryland medical examiner determined that the death of the woman in question, Jennifer Morbelli, was a direct result of a late-term abortion Dr. Carhart performed at his Maryland clinic. According to the Baltimore chief medical examiner's office, the 29-year-old school teacher died from “amniotic fluid embolism following termination of pregnancy” as well as widespread internal bleeding.

Carhart is currently under investigation for Morbelli's February 2013 death. Her death occurred six weeks before the second of Live Action’s investigations.

The footage also reveals Carhart advising the women not to seek emergency care should they need urgent medical attention during the multi-day abortion process.

“You don’t call 911,” he tells them, advising them instead to “just get in the car” and drive themselves to the clinic should they need emergency care.

Information sheets given to patients at Carhart’s Maryland clinic state that if patients “feel that something is wrong and you need to be seen do not go to the ER, call and we will meet you at the clinic.”

Carhart splits his weeks between his Nebraska and Maryland clinics, and according to Maryland pro-life group “Defend Life,” he was in Nebraska at the time of Morbelli’s death.

Pro-life reports indicate that Morbelli and her family had tried repeatedly to contact the doctor when she began experiencing shortness of breath and chest pains following the abortion procedure. The family eventually took her to the hospital, and she died shortly afterwards.

Rose, whose organization is releasing a series of similarly undercover videos, cautioned that these problems are not rare, although they are often overlooked in the abortion business.

“Our investigation reveals that the horrors of the abortion industry leaves devastated two victims: the mother and the child,” she said

Pro-euthanasia doctor now assistant head of Illinois' Public Health

BLOOMINGTON - The controversial family physician Dr. David Gill is now assistant director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, appointed this week by Governor Pat Quinn after Gill lost a 2012 bid for Congress from the 13th CD to Republican Rodney Davis. 

Gill, of Bloomington, received his bachelor’s and medical degrees from the University of Illinois and has served as a family practice doctor and emergency room physician for more than 20 years. Most recently he was an emergency room doctor at Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal.

During the 2012 congressional campaign, Gill's views on health care raised eyebrows when Bloomington Pantagraph's political reporter Kurt Erickson revealed that Dr. Gill had been fired from OSF St. Joseph's Medical Center in Bloomington because of his support for assisted suicide.  

When asked about the controversy, Erickson reported Dr. Gill said, “I don’t think people should have to put up with the amount of suffering the state says they have to. A lot of physicians feel disgruntled, ashamed and disgusted in their inability to assist patients."

He added that physician-assisted suicides already occur. For example, Gill said some doctors will keep increasing a patient’s dosage of pain-relieving morphine, fully aware that respirations will eventually stop. ...“It goes on everyday,” he said at the time.

Dr. Gill also said in a campaign radio interview that Obamacare did not go far enough, that he fully supported the single payer health care system and that Medicare would change dramatically in the years to come.

 

Urge Congress to end abortion-to-birth in the nation's capital!

Take Action! WASHINGTON (May 8, 2013) -- Pro-life members of Congress, led by Congressman Trent Franks (R-Az.) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), with strong backing from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), have re-introduced legislation to curb an ongoing scandal in our nation's capital:  The entire abortion law was repealed, and abortion has been made legal -- for any reason whatever -- right up until the moment of birth. This appalling situation would be addressed by the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act  (H.R. 1797, S. 886).   The bill would prohibit abortion in the District after 20 weeks fetal age, unless the mother's life is endangered -- based on compelling scientific evidence that by 20 weeks (if not earlier), the unborn child is capable of experiencing excruciating pain while being aborted.  During a 2012 hearing on this legislation, Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist, explained to a House panel exactly how second-trimester dismemberment ("D&E") abortions are performed -- to see video of his testimony, click here.  (Warning:  graphic content.) A recent national poll by The Polling Company found that, after being informed that there is scientific evidence that unborn children are capable of feeling pain at least by 20 weeks, 64% would support a law banning abortion after 20 weeks, unless the mother's life was in danger.   Only 30% said they would oppose such a law.  Click here to read the NRLC release on the poll.  For additional documentation on the pain suffered by unborn children, click here. Pro-abortion groups and their allies in Congress have made it clear that they intend to try to delay, obstruct, and defeat this bill.  Please use the tool below to send messages to your representative in the U.S. House and to your two U.S. senators, urging them to cosponsor H.R. 1797 or S. 886, if they have not already done so, and to urge its speedy passage! To view an up-to-date list of the current co-sponsors of H.R. 1797, arranged by state, click here.  To view an up-to-date list of the current co-sponsors of S. 886, arranged by state, click here.

 

Pro-life demonstrators have strongest impact on undecided women: study

by Hilary White

May 3, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Pro-life demonstrators who work outside abortion facilities and speak to women have an emotional impact on women who have not yet made up their minds to abort, a study has found.

A group of researchers at the strongly pro-abortion Bixby Center for Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, interviewed 956 women seeking abortion between 2008 and 2010 at 30 US abortion facilities, asking them whether they had seen pro-life demonstrators and whether or how much they had been “upset” by them.

“One of the strongest predictors of being upset by protesters,” the study concluded, “is whether the woman had had difficulty deciding to have an abortion. Women who had more difficulty deciding were more likely to find the protesters upsetting.”

The study notes that there has been a significant increase in the number of protests outside abortion facilities in the US over the last ten years. “State-level analyses suggest that abortion protests have an effect on both the supply and demand for abortion services”. But little concrete research has been done directly on the effect of such demonstrations on the individual women and their decisions.

In Canada and the US there are laws that restrict pro-life demonstrations outside abortion facilities, called “bubble-zone” laws in Canada. In arguments over such laws, the study noted, “there is an implicit, but untested, assumption that abortion protesters negatively affect women’s experience of abortion”.

The study’s findings did not uphold this conclusion, however. Of 956 women interviewed who were seeking abortion between 2008 and 2010 at 30 US abortion facilities, 46 per cent saw protesters; of those, 25 per cent reported being a little upset, 9 per cent reported being “quite a bit” upset and 7 per cent were “extremely upset”. There was no reported association between seeing or being stopped by pro-life demonstrators and “negative feelings” about the abortion after the fact.

The women who said they were having the most difficulty making up their minds also reported being the most “upset” by the presence of pro-life demonstrators. 19 per cent who were having difficulty with the abortion decision reported being “quite a bit” or “extremely” upset as opposed to 11 per cent who had firmly made up their minds. More of the “quite a bit” and “extremely” upset group also reported as having been stopped and spoken to personally by demonstrators compared to those who only saw them.

Gosnell judge dismisses 3 murder charges, 5 remain

 

Judge Jeffery P. Minehart dismissed three of the eight murder charges against Kermit Gosnell this morning, leaving five counts that will eventually go to the jury. The three dismissed first degree murder counts dismissed today relate to the accused murder of three newborn babies, birthed during late-term abortions only to have their spinal cords severed.

 

Operation Rescue has been in the courtroom reporting on the trial.

 

"I am shocked that these counts have been dismissed. I have heard testimony by very credible witnesses to the effect that these babies were murdered in cold blood by Gosnell as they cried and struggled for life. We pray that justice will be done in the remaining five victims of Gosnell's horrific slayings," said Cheryl Sullenger, Senior Policy Advisor for Operation Rescue, who has observed the trial and published first-hand accounts of the proceedings.

 

The remaining charges are related to the death of four newborns and one patient, Karnamaya Mongar, who died from a drug overdose during a second trimester abortion by Gosnell.

 

Testimony from the medical examiner and toxicologist has indicated that there was no evidence the babies were injected with Digoxin to ensure the babies were dead prior to the abortion, as the defense has claimed.

 

The medical examiner testified that tests were inconclusive as proof that the babies were born alive. However, the tests also did not prove the babies were dead prior to birth. Those inconclusive test results were overshadowed by the weight of testimony from witness after witness, who detailed how the babies were in fact living prior to being murdered through what one witness described as a "virtual beheading."

"If Gosnell gets off scot-free, that will send a message that murdering live babies and abortion patients is now acceptable behavior in America and that abortionists who engage in such depraved practices are above the law. This would put women and babies in grave danger - more than they already face - at abortion clinics throughout the nation," said Sullenger.

 

Sullenger is set to return to the courtroom on Monday to hear and report on the remainder of the defense case.

 

Read Sullenger's reports on Gosnell trial at OperationRescue.org.

 

 

Obama Announces Planned Parenthood Support

by Bethany Monk

President Obama expressed his fervent support for the nation’s largest abortion seller Friday during a Planned Parenthood conference in Washington, D.C. He also made known his disapproval of members of Congress who want to defund the abortion business and state lawmakers who have voted pro-life bills into law.

Obama is the first sitting president to speak in person at a Planned Parenthood event. He mentioned that lawmakers in 42 states are considering laws limiting abortion. Even after “decades of progress” he said, “there’s still politicians who want to roll back the clock.” He also thanked the abortion seller for helping to promote Obamacare.

Planned Parenthood gave $15 million to Obama’s re-election campaign.

“President Obama touts Planned Parenthood as a trusted friend and health care provider to women and girls, but this could not be further from the truth,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony List. “Planned Parenthood last week admitted to knowing about the conditions inside Kermit Gosnell’s clinic, yet chose not to act to help end the killing of newborn babies and butchering of women.”

Gosnell, 72, is accused of murdering multiple newborns and one pregnant woman. His abortion business had not been inspected for more than a decade, even though Pennsylvania has regulations in places for the abortion industry. He is currently on trial in Philadelphia. 

“If the president was truly concerned with the healthcare needs of women and girls in abortion mills,” said Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), “he would join AUL in calling for clinic regulations to protect the growing number of women maimed and killed there.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Watch Obama’s speech at the Planned Parenthood conference.

Read “Dig Deeper: A Case to Defund Planned Parenthood.”

Watch 3801 Lancaster, a documentary following the Gosnell case as it unfolds.
Warning: Contains graphic images.

 

 

Take Action: Urge Your Representative in Congress to Protect Conscience Rights

It’s not too late to make your voice heard.

In just a few months, most faith-based organizations across the country will have to comply with a government mandate requiring that they offer potential abortion-inducing drugs in their employee insurance plans. Life advocates are encouraging people to ask their member of Congress to attach conscience rights language to the next funding or financial bill in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Obama administration is requiring faith-based organizations — including some hospitals and universities — to comply with the Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate by August. Rep. Diane Black introduced the Health Care Conscience Rights Act last month. The act would prevent the government from discriminating against employers, individuals and health care providers that chose not to help provide or pay for abortions.

“It seems the only feasible way to address this violation of religious freedom before that deadline is to add language like the Health Care Conscience Rights Act to the next ‘must pass’ bill needed to keep the government operating — most likely the debt-limit bill,” Richard Doerflinger wrote in an email last week to pro-life groups. Doerflinger serves the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as its associate director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities.

Both houses of Congress would have to pass this bill to keep the government running.

There are nearly 60 lawsuits challenging the mandate. Twenty-nine of those involve for-profit businesses, which had to comply beginning August 2012. In all but six of those cases, judges granted injunctions temporarily halting the mandate for those companies.

So far, 30 non-profits — including hospitals, charities, Christian colleges and Catholic dioceses — have filed suit. Courts have dismissed 19 of those, saying they can’t sue until after they have been hit with the mandate.

Doerflinger encourages people to contact their elected officials, urging them to add the language to the next must-pass bill.

“Many members of Congress still say they are not receiving messages from their constituents about this urgent issue,” Doerflinger continues in the email. “I am writing to encourage all who care about it to renew and expand your efforts.”

Employers who filed lawsuits against the mandate should also contact Congress.

“Organizations that filed comment letters against the mandate should send copies to their representative, with a cover note urging Congress to act.”

Take Action: Urge your Representative to Protect Conscience Rights TODAY
Contact your representative in Congress today and urge him or her to protect the rights of conscience for religious institutions and non-profit organizations. Ask your representative to stand against the HHS mandate by including health care conscience protection in the next “must pass” bill.

FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read H.R. 940.

Planned Parenthood Sex-Ed Too 'Graphic,'

'Shocking' to Show Adults

 

WASHINGTON, DC - This week, both the New York Times and Washington Post rejected a full-page advertisement from American Life League as "too graphic" and "shocking" for their adult readers. What was too graphic? This full-page color advertisement showed images from actual Planned Parenthood sex-ed materials used for children as young as 10 years of age. ALL couldn't agree more. The rejected ad can be seen here: http://www.all.org/pdf/PP_HookingKids.pdf.

 

"The question we must ask is: Why is the Obama administration funneling $350 million to push this filth into classrooms while at the same time telling us we don't have money for White House tours, TSA agents, or border security?" asked Judie Brown, president and cofounder of ALL. "Starting in kindergarten, funded with our tax dollars, PP uses graphic cartoons to saturate children with sexual imagery that encourages them to focus on sexuality, engage in sex, and accept dangerous aberrant sexual acts as perfectly normal. Parents' tax dollars are being used to turn their own children into Planned Parenthood's future sex customers."

 

To raise public awareness about Planned Parenthood's controversial sex education----more accurately described as sexual indoctrination----ALL planned a series of advertisements revealing what and how children are really taught in PP'S so-called "comprehensive sex education." These are programs that are already in many schools and will reach all public schools as currently mandated in Obamacare.

 

The Washington Post rejected the advertisement simply saying that, without disguising the pictures, it was "too graphic." The only images in the ad are from Planned Parenthood-endorsed sources. If they are too graphic for adults reading the Washington Post, then they certainly should not be in elementary school classrooms.

 

Likewise, the New York Times offered to run the ad only if ALL would agree to blur the pictures. Its staff suggested that they could run a disclaimer saying, "Image too shocking for the New York Times audience. To see actual image and for more information, please visit: http://www.all.org/pdf/PP_HookingKids.pdf."

 

American Life League is asking concerned citizens to demand that all federal funding for Planned Parenthood be cut. Visit StopPlannedParenthood.com for more information.

 

"Planned Parenthood is not in the healthcare business, it is in the sex industry," added Brown. "More than half of its $1 billion budget comes from tax dollars, and the organization stands to gain another billion dollars through Obamacare. It must end."