VIDEO: Democrat Senators high-five after voting in favor of late-term abortion

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer high-fived one of his Democrat colleagues, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, Mondday after she voted in favor of late-term abortion.  The Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) has identified Heitkamp as a “vulnerable” Democrat who they aim to unseat this November.

Sen. Schumer, D-NY, high-fived and then clasped the hand of Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-ND, on the floor of the U.S. Senate after she voted “no” on ending debate over the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. Sixty senators needed to vote to end debate over the bill in order for it to have come to an actual vote.



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VIDEO: A ‘male feminist called me a piece of s***’: pro-life youth share horror stories from Women’s March

The second Annual Women’s March, organized to protest the democratic election of President Donald Trump in 2016, flooded the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on January 20 with a torrent of pink hats and feminist anger.

One hundred members of the college pro-life group Created Equal served as a counter-protest, standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to witness to the carnage visited upon unborn children, over half of them baby girls. Created Equal’s representatives showed the marchers actual images of the aftermath of abortion: a dismembered dead baby.  The young pro-lifers withstood a barrage of verbal abuse and sexual harassment as furious abortion supporters vented their rage at this challenge.



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Pro-abortion myths, fables, and fairytales about fetal pain

We all know the French adage, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Never, ever was that more true than in listening to the pro-abortion drivel on display Monday in the Senate as Democrats successfully prevented Republicans from cutting off a filibuster of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. (Sixty votes were needed to “invoke cloture” so there could have been an up or down vote.)

But I was wrong. There is a worse example of recycling myths, fables, and fairytales about fetal pain. I didn’t notice it at the time but evidently Maggie Fox of NBC News had read twitter posts from a “doctor” and decided to interview him after the Senate vote.

By way of preface, Fox can be very perceptive reporter, but less so when she wanders into politics. For example, “the doctor just explained late-term abortion—on Twitter” is Dr. Daniel Grossman.

Grossman is not some ordinary M.D. He is a nearly full-time abortion apologist who composes such convoluted half-truths it takes five times as much space to rebut them as for him to compose them.

For example, he tells Fox

“I really feel like it’s important for policymakers, legislators, to use the best available scientific evidence when they are making policy related to health. I also think it’s important for them to listen to the patients that are affected by this healthcare and neither of those things were done related to this recent bill.”

Small problem. Everything—everything—he told Fox is wrong. Demonstrably wrong. Wrong in the sense of being debunked years ago.

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President Trump, Vice President Pence criticize Senate failure to pass Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Monday after Senate pro-lifers were unable to garner the 60 votes necessary to move to an actual vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (“invoke cloture”), both pro-life President Donald Trump and pro-life Vice President Mike Pence blasted the Senate’s 51-46 vote.

Here’s is what President Trump said:

Recently, when I addressed the 45th annual March for Life, I called on the Senate to pass the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, important legislation that would protect our most vulnerable. It is disappointing that despite support from a bipartisan majority of U.S. Senators, this bill was blocked from further consideration.

Scientific studies have demonstrated that babies in the womb feel pain at twenty weeks. The vote by the Senate rejects scientific fact and puts the United States out of the mainstream in the family of nations, in which only 7 out of 198 nations, including China and North Korea, allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. We must defend those who cannot defend themselves. I urge the Senate to reconsider its decision and pass legislation that will celebrate, cherish, and protect life.

And here is what Vice President Pence said with regard to the “Senate’s Failure to Advance the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act”:

I am disappointed that tonight, 46 Senators voted against a motion that would have respected the majority of Americans’ convictions – including those of President Trump – by refusing to advance a bill that would restrict abortions on babies when they are capable of feeling pain. Just earlier this month I watched as our president, a true pro-life advocate, energized the growing movement at the March for Life. The pro-life message is winning and President Trump and I will never cease in our commitment to defending and protecting the most vulnerable among us. We will continue standing up for the sanctity of life.

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Planned Parenthood accidentally tweets about ‘baby’ doctors saved while in the womb

A Planned Parenthood affiliate tweeted, and then deleted, an article about a “baby” who successfully underwent surgery while still in the womb.

Planned Parenthood of Maryland tweeted a beautiful baby picture which linked to an amazing story of a pre-born baby’s life being saved by experimental surgery for spina bifida at Texas Children’s Hospital. 

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U.S. Senate votes on nationwide protections for pain-capable unborn children, falling short of 60 votes

A majority of the U.S. Senate voted to advance the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 2311), but on a near party-line vote, a minority blocked consideration of the bill. Fifty-one senators (forty-eight Republicans and three Democrats) voted to take the bill up for debate, but 60 votes were required.

This bill is based on model legislation developed by National Right to Life in 2010, and is in effect in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

“Americans should be outraged that pro-abortion Senate Democrats refuse to protect unborn babies who can feel pain. An overwhelming majority of Americans support this bill, including 56% of Democrats and 56% of those who identify as ‘pro-choice’,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life.

Tobias added, “We applaud Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and chief sponsor Sen. Lindsey Graham for their steadfast commitment to passing these protections for pain-capable unborn children. We will keep coming back to the Senate, again and again, until it passes this bill.”

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is sponsored by Senator Graham (R-S.C.), along with 46 cosponsors, and has been one of the right-to-life movement’s top legislative priorities. The operative language is identical to H.R. 36, approved by the House of Representatives on October 3, 2017. This legislation extends general protection to unborn children who are at least 20 weeks beyond fertilization (which is equivalent to 22 weeks of pregnancy—about the start of the sixth month).

The text of the bill is available here

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Men have the right to say abortion is wrong

On January 25, 2018, conservative commentator and Daily Wire editor Ben Shapiro posted a Facebook video of a Q&A session at the University of Connecticut, in which he answered a questions from a female audience member (who says she is going into the healthcare field). She asks how he, as a “white, well off, religious man” feels he has a right to tell a woman that abortion is wrong.

The unidentified woman says, “I personally don’t think that I could have an abortion… but how do you defend your opinion as a white, well off, religious man… telling a woman what she can do with her body and forcing her to –”

Before she can finish, Shapiro answers, “Because evil things are still evil, even if I’m a white, well off, religious man.”

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Pregnancy centers free speech case set for oral arguments at Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court announced March 20 as its date to hear oral arguments in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra. A case both sides of the abortion divide agree is the Court’s most significant of 2018, NIFLA v. Becerra challenges a 2015 state law in California forcing over 100 privately funded pro-life pregnancy help medical clinics that offer free ultrasounds to post signage directing their clients to a taxpayer-funded abortion program through Medi-Cal.

The clinics—which are state-licensed, but receive no taxpayer funding—argue that the state’s so-called “Reproductive FACT Act” co-opts and overrides their right to free speech as guaranteed by the First Amendment. With lead plaintiff NIFLA joined by co-counsel Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the pro-life organizations are now gearing up for their day at the nation’s High Court. Groups representing pro-life, Christian and free speech constituencies—plus 22 states and 144 members of the U.S. Congress—have filed amicus briefs in support of NIFLA.

“NIFLA looks forward to prosecuting our case against the state of California to enjoin its horrendous violation of the free speech rights of pro-life pregnancy centers,” Thomas Glessner, J.D., NIFLA president and founder, said. “This law compels pro-life centers to violate their consciences and promote abortion. As such it cannot and will not stand.”

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Singer Turns Heads at the Grammys With Stunning Anti-Abortion Outfit: ‘I’m a Pro-Life Woman’

Singer Joy Villa has once again turned heads on the Grammys red carpet, wearing a large, white wedding dress to Sunday night’s awards show that included a painted image of a baby surrounded by colors of the rainbow.

And if her message celebrating the unborn wasn’t clear enough, Villa, 26, carried a purse in her right hand that included the words “choose life” — and later told Fox News that she’s “all about life.”

Singer Joy Villa wears anti-abortion FETUS dress at Grammys https://t.co/L1vanotnOR @joy_villa #chooselife

— Joy Villa (@Joy_Villa) January 28, 2018

“I’m a pro-life woman. This year I chose to make a statement on the red carpet like I always do,” she said. “I’m all about life.”

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Almost 75% of American women who had abortions were pressured

The study, published recently in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, found that nearly three-quarters (73.8%) of women with a history of abortion surveyed admitted that they experienced at least subtle forms of pressure to terminate their pregnancies.

More than half of the women reported that the perceived pressure was great enough to significantly influence their decision to abort. Of the 987 women surveyed, more than half (58.3%) indicated that they decided to abort in order to make others happy. Nearly 30% of survey respondents admitted that they were afraid that they would lose their partner if they failed to terminate their pregnancy.

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NRLC urges Senators to vote to proceed to Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act

Dear Senator:

Majority Leader McConnell has indicated that on Monday, January 29, the Senate will vote on cloture on the motion to proceed to the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (S. 2311) sponsored by Sen. Lindsey Graham. The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the nationwide federation of state right-to-life organizations, urges you to vote “aye” with Leader McConnell on this motion. We intend to include the roll call in our scorecard of key right-to-life roll calls of the 115th Congress.

S. 2311 currently has 46 cosponsors. The operative language is identical to H.R. 36, approved by the House of Representatives on October 3, 2017. This legislation extends general protection to unborn children who are at least 20 weeks beyond fertilization (which is equivalent to 22 weeks of pregnancy—about the start of the sixth month).

There is abundant evidence—summarized in the findings of the bill—that by this point in development (and probably earlier), the unborn child has the capacity to experience excruciating pain during typical abortion procedures. On this basis, the bill prohibits abortion after that point, except when an acute physical condition endangers the life of the mother, or in cases of rape, or cases of incest against a minor. The bill spells out the procedural requirements that abortionists must follow when performing an abortion under these exceptions, including seeking to preserve the life of the child whenever this is feasible. The bill also creates specific requirements for the protection of infants who are born alive during these late abortions.

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Cecile Richards reportedly stepping down from Planned Parenthood

Cecile Richards, who has served as president of Planned Parenthood since 2006, will soon step down from her position, two sources told BuzzFeed News on Wednesday.

No official timetable has been reported, but a statement provided to BuzzFeed said that Richards “plans to discuss 2018 and the next steps for Planned Parenthood’s future” at next week’s board meeting.

During Richards’ tenure as president, Planned Parenthood increased the number of abortions performed each year by more than 10 percent. In 2006, Planned Parenthood performed 289,750 abortions. In the 2016-2017 report, that number had grown to 321,384.  On average, Planned Parenthood carried out 320,000 abortions each year during Richards’ tenure.

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Senate to debate Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act next week

The bill is based on model legislation developed by National Right to Life in 2010, and enacted thus far in 16 states.

“This bill would save thousands of unborn babies annually from terribly painful deaths,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life, when it passed the House, 237-189 . “It is now clear that the overwhelming majority of House Democrats believe that painfully dismembering babies, in the sixth month and later, is just fine – now let them try to explain that to their constituents.”

The Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act has been among the right-to-life movement’s top congressional priorities for the 115th Congress. Like the state bills, the proposed federal law would generally extend legal protection to unborn humans beginning at 20 weeks fetal age, based on congressional findings that by that point (and even earlier) the unborn child has the capacity to experience great pain during an abortion.

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Illinois Planned Parenthood 'cashing in' on taxpayer-funded abortion law

On January 16, Planned Parenthood opened a “women’s health center” in Flossmoor to add to its 16 clinics already operating in Illinois. Four additional Planned Parenthood centers are scheduled to open in the state over the next five years.

Pro-Life and Pro-Family groups told Prairie State Wire that Planned Parenthood is gearing up for the growing market for abortions following Gov. Bruce Rauner’s signing of HB 40 in September, which expanded taxpayer-funded abortions through Medicaid and state employee insurance.

In other states, they are closing abortion mills down, in Illinois, they are expanding their business.

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Register to vote Online in Illinois

Did you know that it is now possible to register to vote online in Illinois? Add to this seven full weeks to vote early, it is now easier than ever for citizens to fulfill their civic responsibility. There is no reason not to take full advantage of this law. You can do so by visiting the State Board of Elections website here.

While it is true that politics can be ugly, divisive, and even corrupt, we are called to be the light of the world.  If the light is not present, darkness consumes. We should not be afraid of darkness, we should overwhelm it (Romans 12:21).

Society is rapidly changing.  But that change can be for good.   Let us embrace the opportunities we have to bless the culture and fully participate in public life, including the political process through voting. After all, it is now only clicks away.

Pro-abortion report finds pro-lifers are winning, ‘slowly chipping away at abortion access’

One of the largest American abortion lobby groups, NARAL Pro-Choice America, released a report on the “insidious power” of the pro-life movement, detailing the influence and effectiveness of various efforts to stop abortion on demand.

The pro-life movement is succeeding in that it “is slowly chipping away at abortion access across the country,” NARAL President Ilyse Hogue wrote in the report. “2018 is a year in which anti-choice activists sit in influential roles across the Trump administration, have unprecedented influence over judicial nominations and are introducing the most extreme anti-choice [pro-life] legislation ever seen in Congress.”

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2018 Election: What if pro-abortion Democrats took back the U.S. House?

Democrats would need a net gain of 24 seats in order to take control of the House of Representatives, and in the process take the gavel out of the hands of pro-life Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wi.) and return it to pro-abortion Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal.).

What would that mean for unborn children? It would be difficult to exaggerate the fall-out. If Nancy Pelosi has control of the agenda, there would no chance that protective pro-life legislation would ever be voted on, let alone passed.

Instead, we’ll be faced with a push for pro-abortion legislation like the so-called “Women’s Health Protection Act” (S.510, HR 1322), also known as the “Abortion Without Limits Until Birth Act.” This is a bill radical even by pro-abortion standards that would invalidate nearly all state and federal limitations on abortion, including women’s right-to-know laws and waiting periods. It would also invalidate Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection laws that protect babies 20 weeks and older who can feel excruciating pain during abortion.

Their appetite whetted, pro-abortion Democratic leadership would then begin to attempt to dismantle many other pro-life laws.

And the biased pro-abortion media will celebrate the initiatives, claiming a “mandate” for abortion on demand.

We cannot allow that to happen. We know that every time we pass pro-life legislation lives are saved. In fact, one piece of pro-life policy alone – the Hyde Amendment, which restricts taxpayer funding of abortions except in rare cases – has saved two million babies. Even the process of passing pro-life legislation (i.e., the discussion surrounding passing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act) saves lives by educating the public about the unborn child’s capacity to experience horrific pain while she is killed.

Due to retirements, resignations or candidates running for other offices, in 2018, there are more than 30 pro-life Republicans seats to defend – twice as many seats as pro-abortion Democrats in.

Overall, there are 23 vulnerable pro-abortion Democrat seats compared to 61 vulnerable pro-life Republican seats so far this year...

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Dept. of Justice, 144 members of Congress weigh in on behalf of pregnancy help centers

The mounting list of amicus (“friend of the court”) briefs filed with the United Stated Supreme Court on behalf of pro-life pregnancy centers has grown to include amici from the Trump administration’s Department of Justice and from 144 members of the House of Representatives.

The High Court is set to hold oral arguments in National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA) v. Becerra later this spring.

At issue is the so-called “Reproductive FACT Act,” passed on a strict party line vote in California in 2015. The law forces “privately funded pro-life pregnancy centers to promote taxpayer-funded abortions, threatening crippling fines for noncompliance,” according to Pregnancy Help News. The law is a blatant infringement of First Amendment freedoms of speech and free exercise of religion.

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President Donald J. Trump Proclaims January 22, 2018, as National Sanctity of Human Life Day

We focus our attention on the love and protection each person, born and unborn, deserves regardless of disability, gender, appearance, or ethnicity. Much of the greatest suffering in our Nation’s history — and, indeed, our planet’s history — has been the result of disgracefully misguided attempts to dehumanize whole classes of people based on these immutable characteristics. We cannot let this shameful history repeat itself in new forms, and we must be particularly vigilant to safeguard the most vulnerable lives among us. This is why we observe National Sanctity of Human Life Day: to affirm the truth that all life is sacred, that every person has inherent dignity and worth, and that no class of people should ever be discarded as “non-human.”

Reverence for every human life, one of the values for which our Founding Fathers fought, defines the character of our Nation. Today, it moves us to promote the health of pregnant mothers and their unborn children. It animates our concern for single moms; the elderly, the infirm, and the disabled; and orphan and foster children. It compels us to address the opioid epidemic and to bring aid to those who struggle with mental illness. It gives us the courage to stand up for the weak and the powerless. And it dispels the notion that our worth depends on the extent to which we are planned for or wanted.

Citizens throughout our great country are working for the cause of life and fighting for the unborn, driven by love and supported by both science and philosophy. These compassionate Americans are volunteers who assist women through difficult pregnancies, facilitate adoptions, and offer hope to those considering or recovering from abortions. They are medical providers who, often at the risk of their livelihood, conscientiously refuse to participate in abortions. And they are legislators who support health and safety standards, informed consent, parental notification, and bans on late-term abortions, when babies can feel pain. These undeterred warriors, many of whom travel to Washington, D.C., every year for the March for Life, are changing hearts and saving lives through their passionate defense of and loving care for all human lives. Thankfully, the number of abortions, which has been in steady decline since 1980, is now at a historic low. Though the fight to protect life is not yet over, we commit to advocating each day for all who cannot speak for themselves.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim January 22, 2018, as National Sanctity of Human Life Day. I call on all Americans to reflect on the value of our lives; to respond to others in keeping with their inherent dignity; to act compassionately to those with disabilities, infirmities, or frailties; to look beyond external factors that might separate us; and to embrace the common humanity that unites us.

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Chicago law firm offers pro-bono legal aid for pro-life health workers

The United States Department of Health and Human Services announced last week that its Office for Civil Rights will open a division devoted to protecting rights of conscience and religious freedom.

Chicago's Thomas More Society attorneys are now assisting pro-life health workers and pregnancy help centers to take advantage of this new opportunity. This process of filing rights of conscience and religious freedom complaints will safeguard federal protections on behalf of those who believe they have been discriminated against. The national public interest law firm is offering this service pro-bono.

As attorneys with the Thomas More Society defend pro-life doctors, nurses and pregnancy centers from a wave of state laws aimed at forcing them to make abortion referrals, the Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights’ new dedicated division will aid the process of filing right of conscience and religious liberty discrimination complaints.

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