Most Americans support restrictions on abortion

Americans who think abortion is morally wrong outnumber those who see it as morally acceptable, said a new Gallup poll, released Monday.

This result is consistent with Gallup’s findings since it first started surveying Americans about the issue in 2001.

In this year’s poll, 48 percent of respondents believe abortion to be wrong, and 43 percent say it is acceptable.

Most Americans favor at least some restrictions on abortion, the poll found. Fifty percent said abortion should be legal “only under certain circumstances,” while 29 percent said it should be legal in all circumstances, and 18 percent said it should be illegal in all cases.

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Effingham County Illinois to vote on becoming a "sanctuary for the unborn" - ACTION NEEDED

Effingham County is looking to follow in the footsteps of other counties by become a sanctuary. But instead of being a sanctuary for guns or illegal immigrants, it would be a "sanctuary for the unborn."

A vote on the issue is expected June 18.

If it passed, Effingham County would oppose abortions, except those necessary to save the life of the mother and officially declare that life begins at conception.

You can contact the Effingham board members at:

Effingham County Board
101 N 4th St
Suite 301
Effingham, IL  62401
Phone: 217-342-4990
You can email them by clicking here.

The vote is on Monday, June 18th so may your calls/emails as soon as you can.

Urge the board members to vote to make Effingham County a Sanctuary County for the Unborn.

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AMA vote causes worry in fight against assisted suicide

In a disappointing vote at its annual meeting, the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to continue to review, not maintain, its long-standing opposition to physician-assisted suicide.

After two years of hard and detailed work examining the dangerous trends and effects of legalizing physician-assisted suicide, the Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) issued a report to the full AMA recommending the organization maintain their opposition position to assisted suicide.

According to Lisa Schencker at the Chicago Tribune,

The AMA’s House of Delegates, however, narrowly voted at the group’s annual meeting in Chicago not to accept that report, instead sending it back to the committee for further review. About 56 percent of the delegates voted for further review.

By ignoring the CEJA’s recommendations and voting for “further study,” the House of Delegates tragically missed an opportunity to protect vulnerable patients.

For now, the AMA position in opposition to assisted suicide stands. However, this vote has almost certainly teed up another vote on this at the next annual meeting in June of 2019.

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American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology tries to legitimize late-term abortion

In a press release today, the American Association of Pro-Life OB/GYNS (AAPLOG) has announced that the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) is seeking a “new subspecialty certification for doing late-term abortions” to encourage Fellowships in Family Planning at universities across the United States. As AAPLOG points out, part of this subspecialty certification in “complex family planning” requires that those in such fellowships would be trained not only in contraception and in first trimester abortions, but late-term abortion as well.

The application for certification notes requirements for the Fellowship in Family Planning, and among these are the requirement to learn to use medications (mifepristone, misoprostol, prostaglandin, and methotrexate) for first and second trimester abortions, and to learn to utilize vacuum aspiration for first trimester procedures.

Those in a Family Planning Fellowship would also be required to learn second trimester procedures, such as D&E (dilation and evacuation), intact D&E or dilation and extraction, hysterotomy, and hysterectomy, as stated in the application.

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Planned Parenthood promised to train workers to help sexual abuse victims. They lied.

Planned Parenthood lied when they told the American people and the media that they were “retraining” staffers. An interview originally aired last year; however, in this current climate of the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements as well as a growing intolerance for enablers of abuse, it is imperative that the American people know the kind of organization they are being forced to fund through Title X, Medicaid and other state and federal tax dollars.

“Despite Planned Parenthood’s public rhetoric as well as laws requiring it to report suspected abuse, its failure to report has been deliberate and widespread,” Live Action president and founder Lila Rose stated in her group’s initial press release.

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Abortion organizations complain at UN: Trump admin ruining global abortion access

For decades, the global abortion lobby has worked hard to embed abortion advocacy within a wide array of projects and agendas, from maternal health to global peace and security to humanitarian relief. During that time, one policy has worked to mute the spread of abortion, Mexico City Policy.

On Tuesday, the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) released a report detailing what they charge are the harms of the Mexico City Policy, enacted by Republican administrations since President Ronald Reagan. The policy blocks U.S. funding for foreign organizations that advocate for or provide abortions. Under President Donald Trump, the policy was expanded from family planning to all global health funding and rebranded as Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance (PLGHA).

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AMA to vote Tuesday whether to retain opposition to physician-assisted suicide

For the last few years we have kept you posted on the internal machinations of the American Medical Association (AMA) as pro-physician- assisted suicide forces seek what, for them, is the Holy Grail: for the AMA to ignore the recommendation of its own Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs (CEJA) to retain AMA opposition to physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and “go neutral.”

June 12th, the AMA’s House of Delegates will vote to either accept the CEJA’s recommendation or send it back to committee. The latter would be a huge victory for the likes of Compassion &Choices, formerly, and rightly, named the Hemlock Society.

We can hope the AMA does not lose its way. There is no endpoint, if the AMA “goes neutral.” There will be pressure on physicians to “assist” their patients, the pool of which will grow wider and larger and deeper each year.

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A careful explanation why the AMA should continue its opposition to physician-assisted suicide

Whenever, and it could be very soon, the AMA decides whether to go “neutral” on physician-assisted decision, the verdict will carry enormous weight.

Also invariably, when pro-death forces prevail, one very important reason is because the “body’s defenses” (in the form of leading medical organizations) chose no longer to see “helping” patient to die as an invader that must be fought with unrelenting vigor but welcomed in.

The AMA’s current position is that assisted suicide “is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.” Yes, yes, and yes.

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Doctors called her incompatible with life, but Bella Santorum just turned 10

“Incompatible with life.” Those words have pierced the hearts of parents around the world as doctors handed them devastating diagnoses for their preborn children. Karen Santorum, wife of former Senator Rick Santorum, is one of those parents. Doctors told them that their daughter Bella had Trisomy 18, a condition that is considered “incompatible with life.” But there Bella was, safely in her mother’s womb, very much alive. The pro-life couple refused abortion… and now Bella has turned ten years old.

“[…] she is the happiest little girl in the world and is full of life,” said Karen Santorum in a Facebook post on April 30, 2018.

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Rep. Mark Walker: Investigate Planned Parenthood’s sex abuse cover-up

Congressman Mark Walker (R-NC), Chairman of the Republican Study Committee, joined Live Action president Lila Rose and additional members of Congress in a press conference Thursday, June 7, 2018, to expose Planned Parenthood’s decades-long cover-up of sexual abuse. Live Action’s new seven-part docuseries, Aiding Abusers, exposes Planned Parenthood’s systemic cover-up of sex abuse including the aiding of sex traffickers.

Walker, who applauded President Trump’s Protect Life Rule to Title X funding, said that while it is astonishing that Planned Parenthood would cover up sex abuse he did not actually find it surprising. The Protect Life Rule would end Title X family planning funding for groups that commit, support or refer for abortion.

“Seems that Planned Parenthood, according to reports, has broken the law,” he said during the press conference. “There should be a full investigation into whether Planned Parenthood willfully turned over child victims of abuse back to their abuser and, if necessary, criminal prosecution. […] This isn’t about politics.”

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VIDEO: 56 lawmakers demand Planned Parenthood be investigated for covering-up child sex-abuse

Members of Congress gathered outside the U.S. Capitol June 7th to call attention to an important investigative report and video series exposing Planned Parenthood’s repeated failure to notify law enforcement of suspected human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of women and girls.

What these abusers do––what sexual traffickers do––to their victims is take them or threaten to send them by force to an abortion facility, which can become a key place for that abuse to be covered up,” said Rose.  “And Planned Parenthood, instead of reporting the abuse as they’re mandated to do in virtually all fifty states by law––instead of reporting abuse, instead of being that person who can encounter a girl in a situation of extreme distress and be that moment of intervention for her––does a secret abortion, has a ‘don’t ask, don’t tell policy,’ and sends this vulnerable young girl back into the arms of sex abusers,” said Lila Rose, founder of Live Action which produced the investigative report and video series.

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Planned Parenthood cheers attorney general who refused to investigate them

Tuesday, the state of California held its primary in preparation for November’s elections, and Planned Parenthood was thrilled with the results. Why? Because Attorney General Xavier Becerra won. On the surface, this may not seem notable; cheering on pro-abortion politicians is par for the course when it comes to the abortion lobby. But in this case, there are some massive ethical breaches.

Some may recognize Becerra’s name: he is the attorney general who refused to investigate Planned Parenthood after the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) exposed the abortion giant’s criminal activities. Around the country, CMP found that Planned Parenthood was selling the body parts of babies they aborted. They also were found to be killing preborn babies that survived abortions — babies that were born alive.

But rather than hold Planned Parenthood accountable for its lawbreaking, Becerra went after the Center for Medical Progress. He filed 15 charges against investigators David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt, and refused to even investigate the likely criminal activity found in CMP’s videos.

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The Planned Parenthood billionaire mega-donor you’ve never heard of

With Starbucks in hot water over its donations to Planned Parenthood, 2ndVote decided to look into other major donors to the abortionist the general public might not be aware of.

The Laura and John Arnold Foundation has donated almost one billion dollars to research since 2011. The organization is renowned for its focus on evidence-based solutions to public policy problems. Its grants have funded research on those suffering from mental health, better understanding of gun violence, and bail reform.

What's less known is that behind the Foundation's "evidence-based" efforts is frequently distinctly left-wing, anti-life advocacy.

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Doctors Face Scrutiny About Defining Brain Death

Most people who sign organ donor cards believe what organ donation campaigns tell us, such as:

“A person who has sustained a severe brain injury, such as from an accident, stroke or lack of oxygen is put on artificial support.

Doctors work hard to save the patient’s life, but sometimes there is a complete and irreversible loss of brain function. The patient is declared clinically dead. Only then is donation an option.” (Emphasis added)

This is termed “brain death” and organs are harvested while the patient is still on a ventilator (breathing machine) and has a heartbeat.

But as a May 29, 2018 Wall Street Journal article “Doctors Face Scrutiny About Defining Death- As families challenge the determination of brain death, physicians are changing their approach,” the assumptions about brain death are now being challenged because of cases like Jahi McMath. Jahi was a 13 year old girl who suffered complications after a 2013 tonsillectomy in California and was declared “brain dead” but who is still alive in New Jersey after her parents refused to allow the ventilator to be removed.

With this article as well as a February 5, 2018 New Yorker magazine article titled “What Does It Mean to Die?” about the McMath case, the public is now becoming aware of the ethical, legal and medical controversies surrounding “brain death” and questions are being asked.

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Adult stem cells save life of preborn baby

The latest development involves researchers in San Francisco whose work helped a preborn baby with a blood disorder. 

A preborn baby was diagnosed with alpha thalassemia major, which causes life-threatening swelling and an enlarged heart. It's also a condition in which doctors often recommend abortion - but not this time.

They gave her blood transfusions to get the swelling down, then with the last blood transfusion, they did an adult stem cell transfusion using the mother's adult stem cells. The adult stem cells are taken from the mother's bone marrow and injected into the umbilical vein to the baby.

Four months later, the child was born and appears to doctors to be a healthy newborn.

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VIDEO: Aiding Abusers: Planned Parenthood tells ‘sex traffickers’ they can pose as guardians

Are crimes against young victims of sex trafficking covered up when they are taken to a Planned Parenthood facility? Live Action’s latest release in the seven-part docuseries “Aiding Abusers: Planned Parenthood’s cover-up of child sexual abuse,” implies that they are.  In light of the MeToo and TimesUp movement’s spotlight on enablers of sexual abuse, Live Action has republished excerpts of a 2011 undercover investigation in which investigators posed as a pimp and a prostitute looking for abortions and STI treatments to keep their sex trafficked victims, as young as 14, on the streets.

The Sex Trafficking Investigation video in the Aiding Abusers docuseries contains highlights from that 2011 investigation, featuring Planned Parenthood employees at seven facilities in several states aiding the “sex traffickers” by counseling them on how to get their victims tested for STIs, the best way for them to get abortions, and how to lie on forms about their victims’ ages.



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More people still consider abortion morally wrong than morally acceptable

Each year Gallup conducts what it calls its annual “Values and Beliefs survey,” typically conducted in early May. Over the course of the year Gallup will filet those numbers every which way.

The first iteration, which came out yesterday, addressed the question of how people evaluated 22 different “behaviors and practices”—whether they are “morally acceptable” or “morally wrong.”

On abortion, we learn from Jeffrey M. Jones, that 49% said abortion was morally wrong, while 43% said it was morally acceptable.

The year before that 47% said abortion was morally wrong, the same 43% morally acceptable. Only once in 17 years (2015) have the percentages been the same.

“Gallup’s trends on many of these items date back to 2001,”Jones writes. “On most, Americans have adopted more permissive views over time. “

This is not true on abortion, in spite of a 24/7 campaign by the major media to tell us abortion is as no different than filling (or extracting) a tooth.

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Against current U.N. law, Office of Human Rights tries to strip preborn of human rights

In blatant violation of international law, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has unveiled a startling new campaign that claims “you have human rights since birth.” The unsettling image, which depicts a baby’s arm with the statement written on a hospital bracelet, makes clear the position of this U.N. body—human rights should not be afforded to human beings until after they are born.

Abortion advocates might applaud this claim, but the position of the body flies in the face of established, and binding, international law on the rights of the unborn.

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VIDEO: Actress Sandra Bullock on being an adoptive mom: It’s ‘my purpose’

Actress, adoptive parent, and single mom Sandra Bullock opened up recently to TODAY’s Hoda Kotb, a fellow adoptive mother, explaining how becoming a mother made her realize that it was not her career as an actress that gave her purpose in life, but her children.

“It’s just like being a mom, I finally realize, ‘Oh, this is what I was supposed to do when I grew up,” she said. “Not be an actress; to be a mom. … This is my purpose.”

Bullock, 51, adopted her children when she was in her 40s. Son Louis (8) was adopted as an infant in 2010, and daughter, Laila (5) was adopted in 2015 at age 3 1/2 after being in foster care. Bullock told Hoda Hotb that her priorities in life are “my kids, my kids, my kids. My family. My family. That’s it,” adding that she doesn’t work as much anymore because her family is what’s most important, and she wants to be there for her children’s big moments.


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Without dissent, Supreme Court dismisses lower court decision granting undocumented teen an abortion

In a five page unsigned opinion filed without noted dissents, the Supreme Court today dismissed a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit which allowed an undocumented 17 year girl to abort.

While the particulars of the case of the girl from Mexico who entered the country through Texas apply only to her, the importance is that the High Court’s decision means no precedent has been set that would allow other similarly-situated teenagers to obtain an abortion.

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