Mary Thoms More Society Comments on "Deceptive" Planned Parenthood Clinic

The Thomas More Society issued a press release earlier this month regarding the secretly-built Planned Parenthood mega-clinic in Fairview Heights, Illinois. “The deceptive move is reminiscent of the abortion giant’s covert Oct. 2, 2007 opening of what was then the nation’s largest abortion clinic in Aurora, Illinois.” it said. The abortion business used a shell company to hide the true purpose of the facility during its construction. Planned Parenthood knew that the people of southern Illinois would not receive the facility well, so it relied on deception to prevent protests and complete construction by a deadline. Illinois residents may not even be the primary target group for the facility.

“Planned Parenthood is obviously taking advantage of Illinois’ newly earned status as the Midwest’s ‘abortion tourism destination state,’ targeting women and children from across the Missouri state line, where laws are in place to protect women and girls from the most radical and dangerous abortion practices,” Thomas said in the release. "This purveyor of death has pulled off a sneak attack on the unsuspecting residents of both states in order to profit by preying on pregnant women in Illinois and Missouri.”

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Young Belgium Woman Applies for Euthanasia for Mental Illness

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A 23-year-old Belgian woman named Kelly recently applied for assisted suicide via lethal injection. Kelly reportedly suffered from anxiety, self-harm, an eating disorder and has even attempted suicide on her own in the past. While she was in a hospital undergoing treatment, Kelly learned from a psychologist that she could be euthanized if two psychologists confirm that her mental suffering is "unbearable and untreatable."

"We can't allow society to abandon these people," Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition told OneNewsNow. "This is what euthanasia is about. It's about an abandonment. We're abandoning them to their pain rather than helping them find hope in living."

83 people have been killed in Belgium via assisted suicide for mental illness. Click here or here to read more.

Entire Democrat Roster of Candidates Continue to Herald Abortion

Senator Corey Booker
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In CNN's Democrat Presidential debate on Tuesday, the full lineup of 12 candidates voiced their support for abortion as a right. From supreme court appointments to federal subsidies, every way that women could be given more access to abortion was seemingly on the table.  Particularly troubling was the concept of codifying Roe vs. Wade, ending the shaky legal ground that abortion has stood on since the Supreme Court essentially legalized it without going through the proper legislative process.

New Jersey Senator Corey Booker said this on the subject,

"And so the way as president of the United States I’m going to deal with this is, first of all, elevating it like we have with other national crises to a White House-level position. And I will create the Office of Reproductive Freedom and Reproductive Rights in the White House and make sure that we begin to fight back on a systematic attempt that’s gone on for decades to undermine Roe v. Wade."

"I will fight to codify it, and I will also make sure that we fight as this country to repeal the Hyde amendment, so that we are leading the Planet Earth in defending the global assault we see on women right now."

Kamala Harris said that she would break the rules of the executive branch by calling on the Justice Department to do the work of federal courts:

"My plan is as — as follows. For any state that passes a law that violates the Constitution, and in particular Roe v. Wade, our Department of Justice will review that law to determine if it is compliant with Roe v. Wade and the Constitution, and if it is not, that law will not go into effect. That’s called pre-clearance."

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California Governor Vetoes Student ID Bill Because Schools Might Refer Students to Pro-Life Pregnancy Clinics

California Governor Gavin Newsom
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A California bill requiring schools to include contact information for local "reproductive health care" facilities was vetoed on October 12 for a surprising reason. Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed AB 624 because it was not pro-choice enough.

“There are many agencies across this state that refuse to give women information about all of their reproductive health care options, and I am not persuaded that schools have the appropriate expertise to decide which of these organizations they should direct their students to,” he wrote.

He is stating that it would be so wrong for a school to refer students to a pro-life clinic that he would rather not have them refer anyone at all. While pro-life advocates welcome the veto, the governor's reasoning is worrisome. Click here to read more.

Pro-Lifers File Suit Against Jackson, Mississippi for Ordinance Restricting Protest

Sidewalk Counselors Outside Abortion Clinic
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Sidewalk Advocates for Life has decided to take legal action in response to a Jackson, Mississippi ordinance scheduled to go into effect October 31. The ordinance prohibits demonstrations within 15 feet of a healthcare facility and establishes "quiet zones" within 100 feet of these locations. Violators could face up to $1,000 in fines or 90 days in prison.

In their lawsuit, Sidewalk Advocates noted that pro-lifers often have to shout to be heard over blaring music the Jackson clinic plays to cover up protests. Brett Kittredge, director of marketing and communications with Mississippi Center for Public Policy, said this in an interview with the Catholic News Agency:

“And so we feel...that this is a free speech issue above all else. It's not about whether you support one issue or the other, whether you take one side or another on abortion, it's a matter of should people have the right to assemble, have the right to speak freely and convince others of their speech, and we believe that's central to a free society.”

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U.S. Circuit Court Blocks Ohio Law Preventing Discriminatory Abortions Against Children with Down Syndrome

A three-judge panel from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 to block an Ohio law preventing abortionists from committing abortions on the basis of a child's diagnosis with Down syndrome. The decision came on Friday, October 11.

Judge Alice Moore Batchelder gave the following statement in her dissent.

"The law prevents a physician from performing an abortion when the physician knows the abortion is sought not because the woman did not intend to become pregnant, but because the child in the woman’s womb tested positive for Down Syndrome. Ohio concluded that permitting physicians to become witting accomplices to the deliberate targeting of Down Syndrome babies would undermine the principle that the Down Syndrome population is equal in value and dignity to the rest of Ohio’s population, and would do deep damage to the integrity of the medical profession. 

The majority holds Ohio’s choice unconstitutional. But controlling precedent requires that we review laws like H.B. 214 under an undue-burden analysis, which is fact-intensive and must consider the State’s interests and the benefits of the law, not just the potential burden it places on women seeking an abortion. Neither the district court nor the majority here makes a genuine attempt to meet that demand, which leaves their decisions insupportable and incorrect."

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UK Woman Forced into Abortion by Court Decision

The Court of Protection in London, upon learning that a woman in her twenties 'with the mental capacity of a toddler' was 12 weeks pregnant, ordered her to complete a surgical abortion later this week. If she does not consent, doctors have permission to physically restrain her to administer anesthesia and complete the procedure.

SPUC’s Deputy Chief Executive John Deighan had this to say:

“This is an outrage which should shock every right-thinking person. It is a level of cruelty and barbarity reminiscent of how people with mental health issues were treated in the 1930s of Nazi Germany. To force abortion on any person is abhorrent and to do so in the name of medicine calls into question the structures of law and justice in our society.”

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Adult Stem Cells Successfully Treat MS-Like Disease

A study published in the scientific journal Neurology found that adult stem cells successfully treated and reversed neuromyelitis optica. This disease functions similarly to multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that causes the immune system to eat away at the coverings of nerve cells. Charlotte Lozier Institute issued the following statement in response to the study:

“Adult stem cells continue to show they are the gold standard of stem cells, providing validated success in therapy after therapy for patients, in contrast to embryonic stem cells, which have not produced a single validated cure in patients,” said Dr. David Prentice, CLI’s Vice President and Research Director, “It’s particularly significant in the current results that most patients suffering from neuromyelitis optica, a progressive autoimmune disease, after a single treatment with adult stem cells, remained treatment-free after five years, versus the standard expensive, ongoing drug treatment. Adult stem cell treatments also improved patient health and quality of life, compared to standard drug therapy. Dr. Richard Burt and other doctors like him should be congratulated for continuing to improve patient opportunities in clinical studies with adult stem cells.”

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Man Pleads Guilty to Murdering Girlfriend who Refused to have Abortion

Antonio Magana
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Antonio Magana pled guilty to murdering his girlfriend in an incident on March 14, 2014. Magana was reportedly arguing with his girlfriend, attempting to convince her to have an abortion, with a witness in the car. The two walked into a park in Santa Paula, California while the witness stayed in the car to give them privacy. The witness heard a sound coming from the park, where he saw Magana returning. He reportedly yelled "I hit her!" when he returned.

Magana's expected sentence is 27 years. The sentencing hearing will be held on Dec. 4, 2019. Homicide is a leading cause of death for pregnant women in the United States, most of which happen at the hands of an intimate partner. Click here to read more.

Abortion Survivors Speak About their Experiences

At the Values Voter Summit held on October 11 in Washington DC, a panel of three abortion survivors shared their experiences coping with the circumstances of their births. The three speakers were Melissa Ohden, a pro-life public speaker who survived an abortion forced on her mother by her own mother while she was in college, Josiah Presley, a man who survived a curettage abortion in South Korea before being adopted by a pastor in Oklahoma, and Claire Culwell, whose grandmother also forced her mother into abortion. Claire's twin was aborted, but Claire survived, albeit with health issues.

Each of them spoke about the numerous emotions they worked through as they learned about what nearly ended their lives before they had even left their mothers' wombs. They came to the conclusion that having a close relationship with God and forgiving their birth mothers was the most helpful thing they could do to move past this. Click here to read more of their testimony.

Florida Grandmother Kills Autistic Grandson. Said Nobody Would Care for him After she Died.

87-year-old Lillian Parks admitted to killing Joel Parks, her 30-year old grandson with autism, because she was dying and didn't believe anyone would take care of him. Other members of his family disagree. She is now charged with second-degree murder.

Lillian gave Joel a drug overdose Saturday night. This morning his sister Yvonne parks found him laying on a couch dead. Yvonne spoke with WWSB about the situation. “I said, ‘Grams, it doesn’t look like he’s breathing,’ and that’s when she said clear as day, ‘Because he’s not.’ And I said, ‘What do you mean he’s not? Like what are you talking about?’ And she said, ‘Oh, I’m doing us both in, we’re going together.’”

In another statement to WWSB, Joel's mother Toshia Fretz said, “I have never been estranged from my children, by choice. I would’ve come and gotten Joel. [Lillian] had planned two weeks prior to that, that she was gonna let [Yvonne] come and take him back to Ohio!” Click here to read more.

California Governor Signs Law Requiring Colleges to Provide Abortion Pills

California Governor David Newsom
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California Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 24 into law on Friday, October 11. The law will require public universities to provide abortion pills to students. The previous governor vetoed a similar law despite his support for abortion because he believed that abortion clinics were readily available near all public universities in the state, but that apparently wasn't enough for Gov. Newsom.

Democrat State Senator Connie M. Leyva sponsored SB 24. She stated in a press release that without this legislation, students would have to miss class to have abortions, which could “hinder the well-being and academic success of college students, disproportionately impacting students of color and low-income students.”

Students will likely have to miss class regardless since the use of abortion pills also involves completing a miscarriage with the deceased child. Going through with this without medical professionals could be dangerous to students. Click here to read more.

New Spending Bill Would Give $60 Million to Pro-Abortion Organizations

President Donald Trump
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Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire added an amendment to a foreign affairs spending bill that would provide almost $60 million to organizations that consider abortion rights part of their core mission. This is despite a bipartisan agreement that spending bills introduced in September would include “no poison pills, additional new riders, additional CHIMPS, or other changes in policy or conventions that allow for higher spending levels, or any non-appropriations measures unless agreed to on a bipartisan basis by the four leaders with the approval of the President.”

Pro-life leaders are calling on President Trump to veto the spending bill. Since Senate Republicans already approved the bill part way through the legislative process via voice vote, the president might be the only politician standing in the way of extensive taxpayer-funded abortion services for foreign countries. Click here to read more.

Disabled Woman in UK Nearly Forced into Abortion by Court

The Royal Courts of Justice, London.
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A 24-year old woman who has a mental disability causing her to function "at a level of between 6 and 9 years old" became pregnant as a result of presumed rape, although the father is still unknown. A court originally ordered the woman to perform a late-term abortion, but after an appeal, the ruling was changed to forced insertion of a contraceptive device immediately her child is born via Caesarean section.

Lady Justice King wrote for the three-judge Court of Appeals panel,

“[The judge who made the original ruling] was in error in failing to make any reference in her ultimate analysis to [the mother’s] views about AB's best interests when, as the judge found, she knew AB better than anyone and had her best interests at heart... Carrying out a termination absent a woman's consent is a most profound invasion of her Article 8 [human] rights, albeit that the interference will be legitimate and proportionate if the procedure is in her best interests.”

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Michigan Governor Vetoes Funding for Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer
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University of Michigan

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer vetoed 147 lines out of the Michigan legislature's "mess of a budget," and surprised many with some of her choices. One of the things she chose to veto was funding directed towards pro-life pregnancy centers. Whitmer received pressure from the Campaign for Accountability to defund these groups because they don't "provide or respect the full range of options that are available to people," according to Alice Hurley, an attorney for the Campaign for Accountability.

Real Alternatives, a Catholic pro-life pregnancy support organization, made this statement after the governor vetoed funding it was slated to receive in the 2020 fiscal year:

“Real Alternatives is perplexed to hear, that against the wishes of Michiganders, Governor Whitmer has line-item vetoed the successful Michigan Pregnancy and Parenting Support Services Program. The Michigan taxpayer’s investment of $3.3 million dollars since 2013 in funding the work of Catholic Charities and Pregnancy Support Centers has provided life-affirming counseling, mentoring and support to over 8,700 women during their unexpected pregnancy.”

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Planned Parenthood Announces Large Political Fund to Defeat Pro-Life Candidates

Planned Parenthood announced Wednesday that it plans to spend a minimum of $45 million to defeat pro-life candidates in the 2020 election. Its initial target states will include Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, but there are plans to expand that reach.

Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson participated in an interview in July with CBS News which included the following statement:

“We are primarily a health care provider,” said Johnson, president and chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. “We provide access to sexual and reproductive health, in some cases primary care. We’re not political by nature but we’ve been politicized, and that fight has actually been our focus — to ensure that our health centers stay open.”

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English Woman Sues Hospital and Wins for "Wrongful Birth" of Disabled Son

Edyta Mordel (right) outside London’s High Court

Edyta Mordel from Reading, England sued Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust after she gave birth to a son diagnosed with Down syndrome, saying that she was not given a test that would have allowed her to know ahead of time and choose to abort. It is NHS's policy to offer this test to all mothers expecting children, and Mordel originally opted to take the test, but during a screening when she was asked if she would like it she responded no. The court found that Mordel had misunderstood the question and the hospital should have further questioned her about her response since it had changed. She was awarded $360,000 worth of damages as a result.

In her testimony, Mordel stated, “I knew someone from work with Down’s syndrome. I saw how difficult his life is and I would not have continued my pregnancy. I would not have wanted a disabled child, and I would not have wanted my child to suffer the way that disabled people suffer. I wouldn’t want to have brought my child into the world like that.” NHS is not even a pro-life institution, but because there was a miscommunication regarding a medical test it is now 'at fault' for a life that the mother deems isn't worth living. Click here to read more.

Woman Shares Experience of Doctors Refusing to Assist her Premature-Born Children

Sonia with her husband and children.
Source: Sonia's Facebook post

Sonia Homeak Charbonneau gave birth to twin boys at 21 weeks gestation due to medical complications. Even though the babies survived birth, doctors refused to offer any medical assistance to help them live because the letter of the law stated that her children were "unviable". They were born 10 days before the law would have considered them viable. Charbonneau recently went to Facebook and explained the situation.

“[T]hey put me on progesterone and bed rest explaining to us that if the babies were born before 23 weeks they would not do anything to try to save them. They also did not want to give me the steroids to help their lungs develop until 23 weeks. We just really hoped they would stay in there!”

The twins, named Thunder and Cloud, lived for about an hour and a half before passing away. They needed medical assistance to survive since their lungs were not yet fully formed, but it was refused to them because they were born before 23 weeks gestation. Instead, she held her deceased children throughout the night. Click here to read more.

More Bodies of Aborted Babies Found When Family Members Investigated Deceased Abortionist's Vehicles

Ulrich Klopfer

Update: The total number of aborted children found in Klopfer's vehicles has been totaled to 165. Read more about that here.

As family members continue to go through deceased abortionist Ulrich Klopfer's belongings, they encountered even more bodies of aborted children in the trunk of a vehicle put in storage. Up to this point, 2,246 bodies were found in the abortionist's Illinois home. They are assumed to have been transported from abortion facilities he associated with across state lines in South Bend, Indiana.

Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill had this to say regarding the discovery:

“Today we were notified by authorities in Illinois that family members this morning found additional fetal remains as they continued to sort through the late doctor’s belongings,” Attorney General Hill said. “We have dispatched investigators to Illinois to gather facts, but we anticipate simply adding these remains into the protocol we have already set up for dealing with these disturbing circumstances.”

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Beverly Hills Woman Hemorrhages After Aborting 18-week Twins

On August 6, 2019, A 39-year old woman was brought from the Pro-Choice Medical Center in Beverly Hills to a hospital for hemorrhaging after she had an abortion on her 18-week preborn twin children. The abortion procedure for preborn children of that gestational age, known as dilation and evacuation, involves a doctor physically tearing limbs off preborn children and crushing the skull so that each piece can be removed without undergoing surgery or inducing labor.

Abortion-vulnerable women need to be made aware of the dangers involved with this procedure. Late-term abortions that require dilation and evacuation involve the risk of physical harm to the mother while the doctor physically tears pieces of her children out of her body. If a piece gets left behind or the doctor damages the mother's uterus during the removal process, the mother could experience life-threatening infection or hemorrhages. Click here to read more.