Elderly pro-life woman attacked outside abortion mill hospitalized with broken leg, bleeding head

A well-loved pro-life sidewalk counselor was attacked by a woman exiting an abortion mill, leaving her with a broken thighbone and a bleeding head wound.

Donna Durning, a sidewalk counselor for over 20 years, was outside the E.M.W. Women’s Surgical Center on the afternoon of April 13 when a younger woman who had been inside the abortion mill violently pushed her, causing her to fall on the pavement. She underwent surgery.

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Prolifers conclude 40 Days prayer emphasis outside Illinois abortion clinics

At the site of Illinois' newest Planned Parenthood Clinic in south suburban Flossmoor Illinois, prolifers gathered Saturday evening for a candlelight vigil concluding the movement's annual 40 Days for Life prayer emphasis.

From March 6th to April 14th, prolifers took turns praying outside five Illinois abortion clinics - in Champaign, Downers Grove, Flossmoor, Skokie, and Springfield.

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Iowa pro-lifers counter Planned Parenthood billboard campaign with their own

Planned Parenthood’s efforts to normalize abortion have reached all the way to billboards, and Iowa’s pro-lifers aren’t having it. That’s why Iowans For Life (IFL) and the Iowa Coalition of Pro-Life Leaders have launched their own billboard campaign. The initiative, titled #SayLifeIowa, is a response to Planned Parenthood’s #SayAbortion campaign, which attempts to portray abortion as normal “healthcare.”

“We HAD to respond to Planned Parenthood’s outrageous billboard campaign,” IFL executive director Maggie DeWitte told LifeSiteNews. “We have to show the true side of abortion; that it certainly is NOT healthcare, it hurts women, and destroys lives.”

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New poll finds majority of Americans support protecting abortion survivors

New polling from Rasmussen found that an overwhelming majority support legislation protecting abortion survivors. 69% of voters agreed that “doctors involved should be required to care for the child and make all reasonable efforts to keep it alive.” This included 77% of Republicans, 72% of Independents, and 61% of Democrats, giving such legislation strong bipartisan support.

The polling also reaffirmed earlier data, finding that a strong majority of Americans continue to want abortion to remain legal. However, 42% of respondents also said that it is “too easy” for women to get an abortion, and 51% believed that abortion should only happen in rare circumstances, or not at all.

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Majority of US ‘registered voters’ support heartbeat abortion bans, new poll finds

On April 3, pollster Scott Rasmussen released the results of a poll of registered voters he conducted with the polling firm HarrisX, focusing on the latest trend in state pro-life legislation.

When simply asked about banning abortion “at any point after a fetal heartbeat has been detected,” a combined 55% said they would either “somewhat” or “strongly” oppose the ban. But when the question is prefaced with the definitive statement that a “fetal heartbeat can be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy,” 56% of respondents said they would favor the ban.

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Rule changes to Medicare Part D can deter drug innovation and reduce access to life-saving medication.

We are equally concerned with protecting older people and people with disabilities from euthanasia as with protecting the unborn from abortion. We have recognized that involuntary denial of lifesaving medical treatment is a form of involuntary euthanasia, and therefore have opposed government rationing of health care.

While we understand the goal of reducing drug costs down for the Medicare program, we believe that the proposed rules changes to Medicare Part D can deter drug innovation and reduce access to life-saving medication.

There are concerns with the proposed rule changes to Medicare Part D drug coverage and its implications on limiting access to lifesaving drugs through potential use of drug price controls. According to the proposed rule, Medicare could now “exclude a protected class drug from a formulary if the price of the drug increased beyond a certain threshold over a specified look-back period.”

The bottom line concern is that drug price controls like this can limit access to life-saving drugs. The explanation begins with the fact that drug price controls have a devastating effect on the development of new lifesaving drugs. Research and development is financed by investors, and investment in pharmaceutical development is risky. Many promising leads fail to work out and never make it to market.

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Bernie Sanders’ support for Planned Parenthood is an exercise in hypocrisy

At the We the People summit on April 1, Democratic 2020 presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of Vermont applauded Planned Parenthood for its “grassroots activism,” adding that he doesn’t understand how his Republican colleagues can reconcile their support for smaller government with their support for pro-life laws restricting abortion.

When a 27-year-old woman in the audience tells Sanders she had an abortion at age 23, saying, “I did what was best for me,” and that she feels “shameless” about it — to the enthusiastic applause of the audience — Sanders says, “It’s not easy coming up here and saying what you did,” and thanks her for her “courage.” But what’s so courageous about admitting you had a procedure akin to having tonsils removed? Sanders unintentionally reveals the truth: Abortion isn’t like any other “medical procedure,” otherwise it wouldn’t take “courage” to admit.

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Ohio lawmakers send ‘heartbeat bill’ to governor, who says he will sign it

An agreed-upon final version of the “heartbeat bill” now heads to Governor Mike DeWine’s desk in the state of Ohio, following the news today that the Ohio Senate voted 18-13 to accept the changes made to the legislation by the House. Governor DeWine has stated that he plans to sign the bill into law. As expected, pro-abortion groups are already threatening lawsuits.

The bill would ban abortion once the preborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, which is typically around 5-6 weeks gestation.  According to News5Cleveland, “Ohio joins five other states that have passed such restrictive abortion measures” and “makes no exceptions for rape or incest.”

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Rapist took pre-teen victim for seven abortions, and no one stopped him

Abortion has once again been used to cover up sexual abuse. The victim was sexually abused for years, beginning at age 12, and was allegedly forced to have seven abortions by Florida man Leon Norman Wiley, Jr., now 52 years old. The victim told police that Wiley took her virginity at age 12 and engaged in sex with her “500 times” up to “three times a day” until July of last year. The victim is now in her early 20s, and recently came forward about the abuse after Wiley allegedly began to make inappropriate sexual contact with her seven-year-old daughter.

According to the police report obtained by Live Action News, the victim “reported being impregnated approximately seven (7) times during those incidents. Each time she would get pregnant Leon Wiley Jr. would take her to a woman’s health clinic to receive an abortion [Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale].” It appears that the underage abortions were never reported to authorities by the abortion facilities. A spokesperson for the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office was unable to confirm to Live Action News the age of the victim with each abortion; however, the disturbing information reveals yet again how easy it is for sexual predators to use abortion to cover their crimes.

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Law and Order: SVU’ offers surprising defense of babies conceived in rape

While many use rape as a reason for a woman to have an abortion, popular TV show “Law and Order: SVU” offered a surprising and poignant defense of preborn children conceived in rape, with the main character, Olivia Benson, pointing out that babies in these situations are innocent and don’t deserve the violence of such a cruel death.

Benson, portrayed by actress Mariska Hargitay, is investigating the alleged rape of a girl named Kitty by her therapist. When the Special Victims Unit begins investigating, Kitty realizes she is pregnant, and immediately thinks that abortion is her best choice, even though she dreamed of having children of her own. “I always dreamed of being a mom,” Kitty said. “I had this doll when I was five, Penelope. She came with a bottle and a diaper. My imaginary husband was this handsome prince named Sebastian. I never thought that my baby’s father would be a man who raped me.” Benson tries to reassure Kitty, telling her that she was strong and could get through it, but Kitty remains steadfast in her decision to have an abortion. “I could never love a baby who was conceived by a monster,” she says, before asking Benson what she thinks. And this is the first of several pro-life moments in the episode.

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U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing on protecting pain-capable unborn children

On Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will lead a hearing on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 160).

Since 2010, National Right to Life and its state affiliates have led the effort to protect pain-capable unborn children, starting with enactment of model legislation in Nebraska. Sixteen states have enacted the National Right to Life model legislation, and the law is currently in effect in 15. The legislation has previously passed the U.S. House of Representatives and has garnered a majority of votes in the U.S. Senate.

National Right to Life President Carol Tobias said, “We are proud to stand with our pro-life ally, Sen. Graham, in encouraging the Senate to protect pain-capable unborn children. One-fourth of premature infants now survive when born at this stage – and there is strong evidence that were a child to be aborted at that stage, they would experience great pain, as they are torn limb from limb in late abortions.”

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act continues to be one of the right-to-life movement’s top congressional priorities for the 116th Congress. Like the state bills, the proposed federal law would generally extend legal protection to unborn humans beginning at 20 weeks fetal age (22 weeks of pregnancy), based on congressional findings that by that point (and even earlier) the unborn child has the capacity to experience great pain during an abortion.

A February 2019 Marist poll found that 66% of Americans support such legislation.

It is now commonplace to read about evidence that, by 20 weeks fetal age and even earlier, an unborn child responds to many forms of stimuli, including music and the mother’s voice. Claims that the same child is nevertheless insensible to the violence done to her body during an abortion should engender strong skepticism.

Abortions at this stage are performed using a variety of techniques, but most often by a method in which the unborn child’s arms and legs are twisted off by brute manual force, using a long stainless steel clamping tool. A medical illustration of this common method is posted here: www.nrlc.org/abortion/pba/deabortiongraphic

Some of the extensive scientific evidence that unborn children have the capacity to experience pain, at least by 20 weeks, is available online:

www.doctorsonfetalpain.com
www.doctorsonfetalpain.com
www.nrlc.org/uploads/fetalpain/AnandPainReport.pdf

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VIDEO: Planned Parenthood admits that woman are pregnant with “babies”

In the section at Clinic Quotes titled “Abortion Counseling,” you can read stories from former Planned Parenthood workers and former Planned Parenthood patients talking about how PP denies that a pregnant woman is carrying a “baby.”

Instead, they use words like “products of conception” or “fetal tissue.”

But in a video on YouTube aimed at teaching children about sex, PP admits they knew it was a baby all along. The video narrator says:

“With younger children you can keep it simple and direct. For example, you can say “A baby grows in a parent’s belly and comes out of their vagina.” That may be all it takes to satisfy their curiosity. If they ask, “How does the baby get in the belly?” You can say something like, “Most women have tiny eggs in a special part of their belly. Most men have very tiny seeds, called sperm. If sperm and egg meet they can grow into a baby.”

Planned Parenthood video “How Do I Talk With My Kid About Where Babies Come From?” Visited December 18, 2018.

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News From Around the Nation

Texas

Texas is one step closer to eliminating taxpayer-funded abortions. On Tuesday, the state’s Senate approved Senate Bill 22, its first major anti-abortion bill of the session. Republican Senator Donna Campbell sponsored the legislation, which would ban state and local governments from funding abortion providers. It passed the Senate with a vote of 20-11. The legislation would ban “… a sale, purchase, lease, donation of money, goods, services, or real property, or any other transaction between a governmental entity and a private entity that provides to the private entity something of value derived directly or indirectly from state or local tax revenue, regardless of whether the governmental entity receives something of value in return.”  Click here for more

Oregon

Oregon, the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide in the United States, is now considering further relaxing restrictions on the procedure by waiving waiting periods and expanding the methods of taking the deadly drugs. Two bills currently before the House and Senate, House Bill 2217 and Senate Bill 579, are scheduled for votes soon in their respective houses.  Click here for more

Kentucky

In a 2-1 ruling yesterday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling that struck down a Kentucky law requiring doctors to show women ultrasounds of their preborn babies and allow them to listen to the fetal heartbeat, prior to an abortion. According to a press release from the Liberty Counsel, “The legislation specifically requires doctors to describe an ultrasound although women can avert their eyes and ask to have the sound turned off…. Physicians who fail to attempt to show and describe the unborn baby to the patient could face fines of up to $250,000 and action against their medical license.”  Click here for more

Ohio

Women’s Med Center, home abortionist Martin Haskell, who pioneered the gruesome — and now illegal — partial-birth abortion procedure, may finally close forever, thanks to a ruling from an Ohio appeals court. The facility, which commits abortions even in the third trimester of pregnancy, failed to meet state licensing regulations, which require either admitting privileges or a transfer agreement with a local hospital. Thanks to the ruling from the appeals court, the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) is now free to revoke the facility’s license.  Click here for more

Michigan

Northland Family Planning in Southfield, Michigan, called 911 for a patient emergency requiring an ambulance on March 26th — for the fifth time in just six months. According to Operation Rescue, this latest 911 call from Northland Family Planning involved a patient who can be heard crying in pain in the background. During the abortion, a hole was torn in her uterus (perforation), which is a complication of legal abortion. She also suffered from a collapsed lung. According to her patient records, she was undergoing a D&C abortion, which involves dilating the cervix and scraping the fragile and thin uterine walls to destroy the developing preborn child; it may also involve powerful suction to remove the baby and other uterine material. Click here for more

Arkansas

Senate Bill 278 is now on its way to the desk of pro-life Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a comprehensive measure that increases the reflection period for an abortion-minded woman from 48 to 72 hours, requires abortion clinics to report abortions that result in live births, and have equipment on hand in case there is an emergency. SB 278 passed the Senate Thursday by a vote of 29-5. Without debate, the House passed the bill on Tuesday 75-13.  Click here for more

Colorado

Late yesterday, Operation Rescue obtained 911 records that revealed shocking details of a medical emergency that took place on April 2, 2019, at Warren Hern's notorious Boulder Abortion Clinic.  According to the records, a doctor at the Boulder Abortion Clinic bypassed the 911 exchange and directly called American Medical Response (AMR) requesting an urgent response for an 18-year old female who was 33 weeks pregnant.  Click here for more

Sens. Mike Rounds and James Lankford introduce ban on dismemberment abortion in U.S. Senate

Sens. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced the Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act yesterday.

This vital pro-life legislation would prohibit the performance of dismemberment abortion. The legislation is based on a model state bill proposed by National Right to Life, which has been enacted in Alabama, Arkansas, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and West Virginia. Enactment is pending gubernatorial signature in Indiana and North Dakota, and more states are expected to consider this high priority legislation in 2019..

The Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act defines “dismemberment abortion” as “knowingly dismembering a living unborn child and extracting such unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors or similar instruments that, through the convergence of two rigid levers, slice, crush or grasp a portion of the unborn child’s body in order to cut or rip it off . . .”

This definition largely overlaps with what those in the abortion trade currently refer to as “dilation and evacuation” or “dilation and extraction” (D&E) abortions. The method is commonly used starting at about 14 weeks of pregnancy and extending into the third trimester.

The Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act allows performance of a dismemberment abortion if necessary to save a mother’s life. The bill also says that it does not limit abortions performed in cases of rape or incest, if performed by a method other than dismemberment abortion.

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Number of signatures on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 962) Discharge Petition up to 198

This was reported by someone who was in the House gallery on Tuesday as Members, one by one, came up and signed a discharge petition to liberate the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 962 ) from the clutches of pro-abortion-to-the-maximum Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.).

Some needed context.

First, Pelosi, who is loopy enough on her own, is being egged on by extremist new members of the Democratic caucus who are so radical they make her seem positively middle of the road by comparison.

Second, Pelosi is attempting to intimidate those members of her caucus who are nervous about being (correctly) labeled as, at best, soft on infanticide, at worst active supporters of standing by and watching abortion survivors die.

I’m told Pelosi screamed at one female member of the Democratic caucus. There is no reason to believe this is not 100% accurate.

It’s one thing for Democratic men to jump ship. Pelosi will go after them in her usual cutthroat manner.

But Democratic females? You can just imagine the heat Pelosi is putting on them.

The number needed to force a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act is 218, a majority of the House. There were 193 signatures on Tuesday. The number has since risen to 198.

Members have asked for the House to consider H.R. 962 on every legislative day since the bill’s introduction. 28 of the 29 requests have been for unanimous consent.

Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) offered an unanimous consent request today. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) said he had no plans to schedule H.R. 962 for a vote on the House floor.

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The wealthiest man in the world was born to a high school teenage mother

Many know about the story of how Apple founder Steve Jobs was born to an unwed college student and was placed with an adoptive family. But not many know the story of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who, though now a household name, also came from less than glamorous beginnings. Bezos’ mother was a teenager when she got pregnant, and had she been pushed to have an abortion, none of the things Bezos has built and accomplished would exist. Bezos left a lucrative job on Wall Street to found Amazon — a decision that made him the richest man in the world.

In 1964, Jacklyn Gise, just 16 years old, got pregnant. She had to battle the forces that worked against high school students who face teenage pregnancies — except that she, unlike many other teenage mothers, had the support of her parents. Bezos credits his family for this support, which continued into his childhood, and which he says gave him the ability to take the risks he has.

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Woman pretends to seek late-term abortion to prove abortions are done on healthy babies

Last month, pro-lifer Jamie Forbes made an undercover phone call to prove how easy it is to schedule a late-term abortion for non-health reasons, contacting Southwestern Women’s Options, a notorious abortion facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico, which allowed her to schedule an abortion at 32 weeks.

Now, Jamie is back with more videos of phone calls to show that abortion facilities don’t really care what the reason is for a woman’s late-term abortion. In other words, it doesn’t have to be for “health” reasons — and this practice of late-term abortions for any reason whatsoever isn’t limited to New Mexico.

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Pro-Choice activist admits abortion “takes life”

From pro-choice Alexander Sanger, grandson of Margaret Sanger, and International Planned Parenthood Council Chair:

“While abortion opponents argue that the taking of human life is prima facie is evidence that abortion does not serve a biological purpose, I would argue otherwise… While abortion takes life, it enables life to reproduce itself successfully, not a nature’s terms but on human terms. The unborn child is not just an innocent life. While it is the epitome of human destiny and the greatest potential joy that humanity can create, it is also a liability, a threat, and a danger to the mother and to the other members of its family. In order to survive, humanity has necessarily taken preborn life to preserve other life all throughout its evolutionary history.”

Alexander Sanger, Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom in the 21st Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2004), p. 261.

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Casten works to remove predecessor Henry Hyde's prolife funding protection

Seven of Illinois' Democrat members of the U.S. House signed on last month to a measure that would destroy the prolife legacy of the late Congressman Henry Hyde (IL). In addition, Illinois' junior U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth helped introduce the EACH Woman Act that would force taxpayer funding of abortions on low income women with Medicaid health coverage.

Pro-abortion Democrat Sean Casten now represents Illinois 6th Congressional District that Hyde represented from 1975 to his retirement in 2007, the same year he passed away. Casten's stinging rebuke of Hyde in his press release boasting the intention of the EACH Woman Act said, "The Hyde Amendment – named after anti-choice ideologue Henry Hyde who formerly represented the 6th District – has, since 1976, blocked the use of federal funding for abortion services."

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Rep. Mike Conaway introduces first-of-its-kind legislation in U.S. House Abortion Pill Reversal protocol saves lives

The National Right to Life Committee praised Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) for his introduction late yesterday of the Second Chance at Life Act of 2019. This protective legislation, based on a model developed by National Right to Life, will require that a woman be informed that the effects of the chemical abortion pill can potentially be reversed in order to save her baby, if she changes her mind after taking the first of two drugs.

Seven states have enacted this legislation: Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Utah.

“Over 500 babies have been saved by the abortion pill reversal protocol,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “We applaud Rep. Mike Conaway for leading the charge to empower women with the information that chemical abortions can be reversed and that their unborn children can be saved.”

The number of chemical abortions is increasing. The percentage of “early medical abortions” (the CDC’s designation for nonsurgical chemical abortions at or earlier than eight weeks gestation) in the last ten years has risen from 11.3% in 2006 to 24.2% in 2015.

High numbers of chemical abortions are why nearly two-thirds (65.4%) of abortions are now performed at eight-weeks’ gestation or earlier.

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U.S. House Members line up to sign discharge petition on Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

Thanks to the efforts of Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), members of the U.S. House of Representatives today were able to begin signing a discharge petition on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act. The discharge petition is a tool that the minority can use to circumvent pro-abortion leadership who is blocking a vote on this bill.

Led by Republican Whip Steve Scalise and Rep. Ann Wagner, members of the U.S. House of Representatives today lined up on the House floor to begin signing a discharge petition on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to the House floor. If the petition is signed by a majority of House members, it would force a vote on the House floor. If enacted, the bill would extend federal legal protection to babies who are born alive during an abortion.

The discharge petition can remain open an entire congress. Once it reaches a simple majority of signatures (218), the bill can come for a vote. 21 Democrats must join Republicans. Today’s effort was the first step in the battle to reach the crucial 218 number of signatures.

If your Representative’s name is not on the list, urge him/her to sign on. Get your family members, neighbors and friends to do the same.

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Abortionist’s Unethical Study Will Have Women Abort Twice to Disprove Abortion Pill Reversal

Definitively derided as “unscientific” by abortion fanatics the world over, Abortion Pill Reversal is now being put to the test in an unconscionable new study which promises 40 women an abortion by the project’s end.

Orchestrated by California abortionist Mitchell Creinin, the study sets out to determine whether the reversal protocol is actually as ineffective as Creinin insists. His goal is to create a “formal study that can be definitive.”

“I want to own that,” he told NPR in an article published last week.

Ownership of that study would, of course, be a top priority for a man with some skin in the game, since Creinin, as it turns out, is compensated by the very lab that distributes the chemical abortion pill, mifepristone, across the United States.

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Supreme Court allows PPFA’s legal onslaught against David Daleiden to continue

The United States Supreme Court today declined to hear an appeal by the Center for Medical Progress of a decision by a federal appeals court which rejected CMP’s motion to dismiss Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit against David Daleiden (pictured).

Mr. Daleiden, a citizen journalist and the project lead at The CMP, became nationally known in 2015 when undercover investigators posed as buyers of “fetal tissue” (an umbrella term that includes intact hearts and lungs and pancreas and brains), and asked the kinds of questions someone who is the middleman would ask of the abortion industry.

The product of this 30-month-long “Human Capital” investigation was a lengthy series of videos that documented Planned Parenthood’s unsavory involvement in the procurement and sale of body parts from aborted babies. The CMP videos revealed the participants’ cavalier, flippant attitudes of towards the unborn babies whose body parts they were harvesting.

Planned Parenthood sued him in 2016 claiming among other things fraud, invasion of privacy, and trespassing.

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Trump Admin Awards $5.1 Million to Group of Pro-life Medical Clinics, Cuts Funding to Planned Parenthood

In a major announcement Friday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)revealed a multi-million dollar grant for a set of pro-life pregnancy help medical clinics in California.

Over the course of the next three years, the pro-life group, Obria Medical Clinics, will receive a total of $5.1 million in Title X family planning funds.

“With this grant, the administration has opened up a new avenue of health care choices for low income and underserved women and their families in California,” Obria Group Founder and CEO Kathleen Eaton Bravo said in a statement. “Many women want the opportunity to visit a professional, comprehensive health care facility—not an abortion clinic—for their health care needs; today HHS gave women that choice.”

At the same time, HHS is cutting funding to some Planned Parenthood affiliates in five states. Planned Parenthood President Leana Wen bemoaned the decision to slash funding to affiliates in Hawaii, North Carolina, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Virginia, saying, “Planned Parenthood will not let this stand.”

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Georgia passes pro-life ‘heartbeat bill’, awaits governor’s signature

The Georgia House has voted in favor of HB 481 dubbed the “Heartbeat Bill” in a vote of 92 to 78. The bill will outlaw abortion when a fetal heartbeat can be detected, as early as six weeks gestation.

The bill passed in the Georgia Senate on March 22 before returning to the House with changes. Now it will head to the desk of Gov. Brian Kemp who has said he will sign it.  It, unfortunately, includes exceptions for children conceived in rape or incest who will continue to be at risk of being legally killed up to 20 weeks, as is the current limit for abortions in the state.

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41 states have introduced over 250 pro-life laws since January, Planned Parenthood complains

Planned Parenthood and its former research arm released a new report this week intended to warn their followers about rising threats to so-called “reproductive rights,” but the numbers will just as likely hearten pro-lifers by putting the scope of 2019’s pro-life legislative progress in perspective.

On Wednesday, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) and the Guttmacher Institute released a report detailing the number of state-level bills to restrict or ban abortion that have been introduced since the beginning of 2019. According to the abortion giant, bills to ban abortion once a fetal heartbeat can be detected (which PPAF’s press release describes only as “six-week abortion bans” and bans “before many people know they are pregnant”) have risen by 63 percent compared with last year.

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Judge sides with James Dobson against Obamacare abortifacient mandate

Social conservative leader Dr. James Dobson will not be forced to insure abortion-inducing contraceptives through his nonprofit organization, a federal judge ruled this week.

For five years, Dobson has been fighting the so-called Affordable Care Act’s (better known as Obamacare) mandate for employers to cover abortion-inducing drugs in their insurance plans, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported. He won a temporary injunction in 2014, but the case went on until this week, when U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn issued a permanent injunction on behalf of the El Paso-based Dr. James Dobson Family Institute and “Family Talk” radio show.

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Researchers find Hormonal contraceptives cause abortions

In a review of available scientific literature, three physician-researchers have found evidence that women using hormonal birth control do conceive children, who are then destroyed by the chemicals in an early abortion.

Researchers Donna Harrison, Cara Buskmiller, and Monique Chireau published “Systematic Review of Ovarian Activity and Potential for Embryo Formation and Loss during the Use of Hormonal Contraception” in the January 2019 Linacre Quarterly, a peer-reviewed publication of the Catholic Medical Association. Having examined scientific papers dating back to 1990 that studied the use of hormonal contraception, they found evidence that high levels of estrogen and progestin hormones, which circulate when ovaries produce ova, are accompanied by the conception of embryonic babies who die.

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Twitter suspends pro-life movie “Unplanned” account on opening weekend

Three days after the overtly pro-life film, “Unplanned” hit movie theaters nation wide, and one day after reaching #4 in the Box Office, the film’s official Twitter Handle (@UnplannedMovie) was inexplicably suspended, late Saturday morning.

Conservative voices took to Twitter to condemn the suspension, many claiming the move as “par the course” in the social media giant’s attempt to censor conservative thought.

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Frustrated pro-abortion House Democrat slams Trump Administration as “Abortion Obsessed”

What could any member of a pro-life administration enjoy hearing more than for a dyed in the wool pro-abortion to slam him or her as “abortion obsessed”?

That’s what Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) told Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a Wednesday hearing. “Your administration is abortion-obsessed,” Frankel said at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on the State Department’s 2020 budget proposal.

Frankel was referring to Secretary Pompeo’s announcement at a Tuesday press conference where he said the U.S. State Department will refuse to work with any foreign non-governmental organization (NGO) engaged in the abortion business. The State Department will also refuse to fund foreign NGOs that give money to other foreign NGOs engaged in the international abortion industry.

“We will enforce a strict prohibition on backdoor funding schemes and end-runs around our policy,” Secretary Pompeo said. “American taxpayer dollars will not be used to underwrite abortions.”

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Bishops speak against proposed Illinois abortion bills

Cardinal Cupich speaks to the press March 28 at the capitol building. 

Joining him from left are Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, 

Bishop Daniel Conlon of Jolliet and Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield. 

(Lane Fowler/Hospital Sisters Health System)

The bishops of Illinois’ six Catholic dioceses gathered in Springfield March 28 to speak against proposed legislation that would define abortion as a fundamental right and do away with a law requiring that the parents of minors seeking abortions be notified.

Cardinal Cupich said the bills amount to an attack on the dignity of human life.

“This is not about the right to an abortion, although we would question that,” said Cardinal Cupich. “This is a radical departure from the status quo that goes far beyond Roe v Wade.” 

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No, the Mexico City Policy is Not Increasing Abortion Rates Overseas

On Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the Trump administration plans to strengthen the Mexico City policy, which has been in effect during every Republican presidential administration since 1984 and which prevents U.S. foreign-aid money from funding groups that either perform or promote abortions overseas.

As public opinion has begun to shift in a more pro-life direction in recent years, supporters of legal abortion, including many in the media, have begun to pursue a different strategy. Instead of arguing that the pro-life argument for the sanctity of human life is philosophically wrong, abortion-rights supporters often argue that pro-life policies are ineffective or counterproductive. In reality, however, a substantial body of research illustrates that defunding organizations that perform abortions is an effective strategy for lowering abortion rates. Pro-lifers should welcome this strengthened Mexico City policy.

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Congressman Russ Fulcher Calls on Planned Parenthood President to Provide the Percentage of Abortions the Organization Performs on Women of Color

In a letter sent to Dr. Leana Wen, Congressman Fulcher states, "I recently learned that Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger embraced a philosophy of racial discrimination and eugenics. That historical fact, and the possibility that this philosophy continues within your organization, is disturbing to me and many others."

Fulcher goes on to say, "As a Representative of many who oppose Ms. Sanger's philosophy, I must do all that I can to ensure her racist and eugenic policies are still not being implemented today."

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A Vote for Democrats Is a Vote for the Culture of Death

It is a sad fact of contemporary political life in the USA that the Democratic party pushes killing as an acceptable answer to human problems, e.g., the Culture of Death. Consider this very partial list:

The New Jersey Legislature, Democratic controlled, just passed legislation legalizing assisted suicide. The Democratic governor promises to sign the bill. (Promoting some suicides promotes suicide.)

The Democratic New York Legislature legalized — and applauded — late-term abortion, signed into law by a Democratic governor. The new law even removed the consent requirement for abortion to be legal and the mandate that babies who survive abortion be properly cared for medically.

The Democratic-controlled House in Vermont passed a bill — by 106-37! — that transforms abortion into an absolute right without limit as to time, method, or purpose — a bill that would also explicitly strip embryos and fetuses of any rights that a born person need respect, which has portentous meaning well beyond the abortion issue. The bill may well pass the Senate.

California’s Democratic-controlled state government has legalized assisted suicide, made it so that abortionists don’t have to even be doctors, and tried to stifle Crisis Pregnancy Center first amendment rights by forcing them to advertise where abortions could be procured — later declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Democrats in the U.S. Senate all voted to block the Born- Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that would simply require babies who survive abortion to be cared for like any other born baby.

The Democratic governor of Virginia — a pediatric neurologist! — infamously supported a (failed — the Virginia Legislature is Republican) late-term abortion authorizing bill and added the bill would permit born babies to be neglected to death after a “conversation” with the mother.

(We have yet to see what Illinois' Democrats will "accomplish".)

When infanticide becomes respectable, we have really swallowed the nihilism.

Democrats unanimously at the national level — and overwhelmingly at the local level — believe in culture-of-death policies. That puts the rare remaining pro-life Democrats in a real conundrum. Vote their party and even if their own legislator does not swallow the hemlock, there is little doubt that the party’s leadership will.

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NRLC strongly urges House Members to sign Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act Discharge Petition

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise has indicated that a discharge petition for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (H.R. 962, sponsored by Rep. Ann Wagner) will be filed on April 2nd, during that day’s first vote series. If the petition is signed by a majority of House members, it will force a vote on the House floor.

If enacted, the bill would extend federal legal protection to babies who are born alive during an abortion.

The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the nationwide federation of state right-to-life organizations, strongly urges you to sign the discharge petition.

In light of the radical trend that started with the signing of the Reproductive Health Act by Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York, allowing abortion through all stages of pregnancy and removing explicit protections for babies born alive during an abortion, there is renewed urgency to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

National Right to Life believes that it is time for Congress to act decisively to put the entire abortion industry on notice that when they treat a born-alive human person as medical waste, as a source for organ harvesting, or as a creature who may be subjected to lethal violence with impunity, they will do so at grave legal peril.

H.R. 962 would enact an explicit requirement that a baby born alive during an abortion must be afforded “the same degree” of care that would apply “to any other child born alive at the same gestational age,” including transportation to a hospital. This language does not dictate bona fide medical judgments nor require futile measures, but rather, requires that babies born alive during abortions are treated in the same manner as those who are spontaneously born prematurely.

In addition, the bill applies the existing penalties of 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1111 (the federal murder statute) to anyone who performs “an overt act that kills a child born alive.” This would apply, for example, to an abortion clinic staff person who dissects a breathing born-alive infant in order to harvest an intact liver, or to an abortionist who ends a born-alive baby’s whimpers with a sharp blow to the skull, or by snipping the spine.

The bill provides a civil cause of action to women who are harmed by violations of the act.

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LA Times accidentally reveals why Trump’s pro-life HHS rule is necessary

A headline from the Los Angeles Times has some scratching their heads. The title reads, “Trump’s Title X rule will restrict abortion access and obstruct women’s healthcare.” The Title X rule the Times is referring to is a change that forces abortion providers to separate their abortion business from their basic family planning/birth control services.

But… if that Title X money isn’t already propping up the abortion industry just as pro-lifers have claimed all along, then how could this new rule “restrict abortion access,” as the Times editorial board claims? Secular Pro-Life noticed pointed out the irony in a Facebook post:

The Times editorial board writes, “Some of the providers that receive Title X funds — including Planned Parenthood, which provided healthcare to 40% of all patients in Title X programs in 2017 — offer abortions as well. But those abortions are never funded by Title X dollars, since Congress has barred federal money from being spent on abortions.”

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Minority Whip Steve Scalise and Rep. Ann Wagner for lead discharge petition effort to protect born-alive abortion survivors

U.S. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) (pictured) and Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) today announced that a discharge petition on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act will be filed next Tuesday, April 2. Once the petition is signed by a majority of House members, it will force a vote on the bill on the House floor. If enacted, the bill would extend federal legal protection to babies who are born alive during an abortion.

On February 25, the U.S. Senate voted 53-44 for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, failed to receive the 60 votes necessary to invoke cloture due to efforts by pro-abortion Democrats to block its advancement.

“We applaud the efforts by Minority Whip Steve Scalise and Rep. Ann Wagner to bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to the forefront of the U.S. House of Representatives,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Pro-abortion Democrats who oppose this bill should be forced to explain to their constituents why they believe abortion is such an absolute ‘right’ that it protects what amounts to infanticide: willfully withholding life-saving care from a born-alive infant.”

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, State Department Ensures Enforcement of Mexico City Policy

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Trump Administration for pledged to enforce, to the broadest extent possible, regulations under the “Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance” program that protect U.S. foreign aid funding from being used to pay for or promote abortion overseas.

In a press conference, Secretary of State Pompeo announced that the U.S. State Department will refuse to work with any foreign non-governmental organization (NGO) engaged in the abortion business. The State Department will also refuse to fund foreign NGOs that give money to other foreign NGOs engaged in the international abortion industry.

“By ensuring enforcement and compliance with existing pro-life policies, Secretary of State Pompeo and the Trump Administration reaffirm their commitment to protecting innocent human life at home and abroad,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “We applaud Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for his dedicated pro-life leadership and for his efforts to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not used to fund or promote abortion overseas.”

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Even the Chicago Tribune’s editors think Illinois’ abortion bills go too far

Illinois lawmakers are currently pushing legislation to make the state’s abortion laws even more extreme than New York’s. HB 2495 and would virtually eliminate all protections for preborn children, allow infanticide, remove conscience protection laws for health care workers, allow taxpayer funding for abortion, and more. HB 2467 would repeal the Parental Notice of Abortion Act of 1995, making it so that minors can obtain abortions without parental notification. The bills are so extreme that thousands of citizens flooded the Illinois state capitol building in protest — and now, even the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune (not known to be pro-life or conservative) is saying the pro-abortion legislators are going too far.

In an article published by the editorial board, the Chicago Tribune argued that the abortion laws in Illinois are already permissive enough, and don’t need to be relaxed more than they already are. Parental notification laws, they argued, are not restricting anyone’s abortion access, and gives parents the right to know what’s happening to their minor children.

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Mississippi gov. on signing heartbeat abortion ban: ‘We will all answer to the good Lord one day’

When Mississippi’s Gov. Phil Bryant (pictured) signed the state’s ban on aborting babies with beating hearts last week, he put the debate in perspective by declaring that all participants will eventually have to explain their stances to their Creator.

“We will all answer to the good Lord one day,” Bryant tweeted in response to the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights’ threat to sue Mississippi over the new law. “I will say in this instance, ‘I fought for the lives of innocent babies, even under the threat of legal action.”

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19 times House Democrats have blocked a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act

On February 25, pro-abortion Senate Democrats were able to block a vote on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act (S. 130) sponsored by Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) (pictured). While proponents prevailed 53-44, that was seven votes short of the 60 votes necessary to move forward (“invoke cloture”).

Meanwhile in the House, controlled by pro-abortion Democrats led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca.), Rep. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.) introduced H.R.962, the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act on February 5.

H.R.962 would require that a child born alive after an attempted abortion receive appropriate treatment and be transferred to a hospital.

On every legislative day since the introduction of H.R. 962, a different Member has asked for the House to consider H.R. 962. “19 times, House Republicans have tried to pass the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, a bill that would rescue children who survive a botched abortion,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) “19 times, House Democrats have blocked legislation to save these survivors. This is about saving lives, and any child who survives an abortion should have an opportunity for life.”

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Reasons why pro-abortion laws don’t protect women and girls

There are some misconceptions about abortion that we are so used to reading and hearing that we rarely stop to give them a second thought. Erika Guevara-Rosas, the Americas Director at Amnesty International, wrote a piece in The Washington Post arguing for the liberalization of abortion laws in Latin America. Her piece was based on these common claims of pro-abortion activists:

Latin America authorities have shown alarming negligence in failing to protect women and girls from gender-based violence. Instead of supporting survivors, they frequently revictimize them and deepen their suffering. By denying their right to legal abortion, they also put their rights to life and health at risk.

Rhetorically, this kind of argument seems persuasive to some. After all, who wants gender-based violence against women, the revictimization of women, and the endangerment of women’s lives and health? But when you peel back the rhetoric, the reality becomes clear: pro-abortion laws like the author wants for Latin America would fail to protect women on all counts.

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VIDEO: Vague 911 call: Woman suffers ‘complications’ at unlicensed Illinois abortion facility

A video shared by Pro-Life Action League reveals a disturbing 911 call from an abortion facility in Peoria, Illinois. On March 6th, a caller from Whole Woman’s Health — one location of an abortion chain with a history of health violations — phoned 911 because a patient needed emergency care. Despite the call for help, the caller was reluctant to divulge any information to the dispatcher because, as she eventually revealed, “We’re an abortion clinic, and it will be posted all over the internet.”

After identifying her place of employment as a “business,” the caller very vaguely tells the emergency dispatcher, “We have a patient who needs assistance.” When the dispatcher asks her what kind of assistance, she replies, “She needs a transport to the emergency room.” The dispatcher tries to get more information about the nature of the problem, but the caller refuses to elaborate.


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