Planned Parenthood undercover videographer's home raided by California AG

Within hours of releasing an explosive video revealing recent congressional testimony concerning Planned Parenthood's patient consent form to use aborted baby parts for medical research, the Center for Medical Progress' head David Dalieden's home was raided by California's Attorney General Tuesday.

A statement posted Tuesday evening on the Center's Facebook page said the California Attorney General's office seized all undercover video footage involving Planned Parenthood plus personal information. The statement called the raid as a bid "to harass and intimidate citizen journalists":

Today, the California Attorney General's office of Kamala Harris, who was elected with tens of thousands of dollars from taxpayer-funded Planned Parenthood, seized all video footage showing Planned Parenthood's criminal trade in aborted baby parts, in addition to my personal information. Ironically, while seizing my First Amendment work product, they ignored documents showing the illicit scheme between StemExpress and Planned Parenthood. This is no surprise--Planned Parenthood's bought-and-paid-for AG has steadfastly refused to enforce the law against the baby body parts traffickers in our state, or even investigate them--while at the same time doing their bidding to harass and intimidate citizen journalists. We will pursue all remedies to vindicate our First Amendment rights.

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Cardinal Dolan and Archbishop Lori to Congress: Support the Conscience Protection Act

Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan (pictured) and Archbishop William E. Lori–as chairmen of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities and Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, respectively–wrote to the U.S. House of Representatives, March 31, urging support for the Conscience Protection Act of 2016 (HR 4828).

The Conscience Protection Act, they wrote, is “essential legislation protecting the fundamental rights of health care providers…to ensure that those providing much-needed health care and health coverage can continue to do so without being forced by government to help destroy innocent unborn children.”

HR 4828 has a “modest scope,” they noted. “While existing federal laws already protect conscientious objection to abortion in theory, this protection has not proved effective in practice… The Conscience Protection Act will address the deficiencies that block effective enforcement of existing laws, most notably by establishing a private right of action allowing victims of discrimination to defend their own rights in court.”

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Are aborted baby body parts really necessary?

According to medical experts, there is no need to use organs or tissue from aborted babies to do research to cure diseases.

Recent editorials in numerous media sources have quoted scientists as saying that laws being passed in states to ban the use of aborted baby tissue is hurting their effort to develop cures and vaccines for diseases. But this claim is highly contested by many in the field of medicine.

Dr. David Prentice of Charlotte Lozier Institute maintains that many contentions are being made to justify using aborted baby body parts, especially with the latest Zika outbreak.

This is not true, according to Prentice, who says it is hard to believe that some scientists are making the statements about aborted fetal tissue — especially because there is no evidence fetal tissue is needed.

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Is Hillary Clinton becoming 'more extreme' on abortion?

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton has long been known for supporting legal abortion. But her comments in this election year have some pro-life critics saying that she is becoming more radical.

“She is publicly signaling to the abortion lobby that she backs abortion on demand and won’t support any restrictions,” said Mallory Quigley, communications director for the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life political advocacy group.

In an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday, Clinton was asked when, or if, an unborn child has constitutional rights.

“Well, under our laws currently, that is not something that exists,” she said. “The unborn person doesn't have constitutional rights.”

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“Abortion is what my generation did”

What would you think might be the perspective of a woman who wrote a story whose title is “The Abortion I never had”?

I didn’t know either, so, intrigued, I read it. I’m glad I did.

The author begins by talking about a powerful story written by Christina, a woman who did have an abortion. Her account made the author think about her own “scare.”

The headline gives away that she did not have an abortion, but, she tells us, she surely could have. “[A]bortion is what my generation did,” she writes. And while the overall message of her essay on one level is “that could have been me,” there is much more.

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Josie Cunningham: I regret having an abortion so I could get a nose job

Josie Cunningham broke down in tears on daytime TV, saying that she regrets her abortion

Josie Cunningham aborted her fourth child last year so that she could get plastic surgery–in order to pursue a career in pornography. She had also threatened to get an abortion in 2014 in order to appear on [the reality television program] Big Brother, but cancelled her appointment at the last minute.

Ms. Cunningham said at the time that the experience had made her opposed to abortion, but tragically she ended up having an abortion just one year later anyway.

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'Batman v Superman' star Jeremy Irons attacks abortion

After his key role in one of this year’s biggest films, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Academy Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons took the opportunity to publicly condemn abortion.

Playing Batman’s butler, Alfred, in the box office smash that took in more than $209 million on its first week alone, Irons has attracted much attention for his role in his latest action thriller as a superhero’s right-hand man, but his recent comments about abortion have also turned many heads.

During an interview last week when the blockbuster hit the big screen, Irons was quite candid about his stance in the abortion debate.

“I think the Church is right to say [abortion is] a sin,” Irons told The Guardian. “Abortion harms a woman.”

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National Right to Life: Punish abortionists, not women

The National Right to Life Committee, the federation of 50 state affiliates and more than 3,000 local chapters today restated its position that, should abortion once again become illegal in the United States, penalties should be imposed against the abortionist himself, not the woman who has the abortion.

The following statement may be attributed to National Right to Life President Carol Tobias:

The National Right to Life Committee unequivocally opposes the killing of innocent unborn children and works unceasingly to have them protected in law. Unborn children and their mothers are victims in an abortion. In adopting statutes prohibiting the performance of abortions, National Right to Life has long opposed the imposition of penalties on the woman on whom an abortion is attempted or performed. Rather, penalties should be imposed against any abortionist who would take the life of an unborn child in defiance of statutes prohibiting abortions. National Right to Life-backed state and federal legislation, such as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act and the Dismemberment Abortion Ban, is targeted at stopping abortionists.

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Unanswered questions in light of FDA changing its RU-486 protocol

Both Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research, O’Bannon and myself wrote about the decision, which came at the behest of Danco, the U.S. distributor. Reuters paraphrased Abby Long, a spokeswoman for Danco, as saying

The FDA update reflects data from 22 studies including almost 31,000 women that showed the existing information is out of date.

Dr. O’Bannon succinctly summarized the alteration in the two-drug abortion technique known as RU-486.

The FDA, responding to a request by the U.S. distributor of the drug, has modified dosages [more of the cheaper misoprostol , less of the more expensive mifepristone ], changed the administration, reduced the number of visits, expanded the prescriber pool, and extended the time frame where the drugs may be used. Though applauded by the abortion industry, the documentation demonstrating the impact on women’s safety has not been made publicly available.

Let’s think about this for a while.

Obviously the Abortion Industry is ecstatic. It can make more money off the altered dosages and attract women who may be wary about a surgical abortion (not knowing how bloody and excruciating painful these chemical abortions are). More to the point the FDA gave its after-the-fact support for what abortionists had decided to do on their own going back years and years.

But what don’t we know? Here are just a few items.

Danco spokeswoman Long told Reuters it has been “has been used by more than 2.75 million women in the United States since it was approved in 2000,” but (interestingly) “declined to provide sales data for the pill.” We don’t know how many women have died after taking RU-486 or suffered “adverse events.”

Or, more specifically, we don’t know anything more than what we learned five years ago! At that juncture, the FDA reported that the deaths of 14 women were associated with the use of RU-486 and that there had been 2,209 “Adverse Events.” Adverse events is a blanket term that covers everything from the need for blood transfusions to endometritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, and pelvic infections with sepsis (“a serious systemic infection that has spread beyond the reproductive organs,” according to the FDA).

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Eleven years ago today Terri Schiavo died after 13 days without food and water

Terri Schindler Schiavo, shown here as she responds to the tender touch of her mother, Mary Schindler.

Today marks the eleventh anniversary of the grotesque death by starvation and dehydration of Terri Schindler Schiavo. Her courageous brother wrote today “The inhumanity of what happened to her will never be forgotten.”

And, yet, I suspect, for many pro-lifers, especially those new to our Movement, Terri’s name is only a vague memory, if even that. Eleven years is a long time.

The irony is, as Bobby points out, that his sister’s ghastly death foreshadowed the head-first leap off a moral cliff we see in places like Belgium, the Netherlands, and (perhaps most foreboding) Canada.

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Planned Parenthood marks 100th anniversary with yet another facelift

Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion business, relies on the marketing equivalent of frequent cosmetic surgery to maintain their pretty pink façade of caring about women. Literally making a business out of butchering preborn children and manipulating women every day, the 100-year-old organization has gone through extensive rebrands to continuously blur their primary source of profit: abortion. Planned Parenthood must constantly reinforce the lie that they are a healthcare provider with an altruistic heart for poor and minority women in order to remain current.

Their current rebrand, reported by FastCo Design, was hatched in 2014. Unbeknownst to the organization, the Center for Medical Progress spent that year inside Planned Parenthood abortion facilities and in meetings with their executives across the nation, gathering scathing undercover footage that would irrevocably damage the carefully-constructed façade the organization spent one hundred years polishing. Nonetheless, FastCo Design reveals that Planned Parenthood is on-schedule with their latest marketing ploys, the “Planned Parenthood Experience.”

“When Ideo [the consultancy behind the latest rebrand] and Planned Parenthood delved into ways to improve their operations,” reports FastCo Design, “it always came back to the employees, everyone from health care providers to administrative staff and security.” This is bad news for Planned Parenthood in light of legion evidence that the company’s employees are often bereft of humane concern for the women they purport to serve.

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The right to choose “and the right to lose”

We all have seen and heard videos in which a parent, usually but not always the mom, reflects back on what could have been–the child they did not welcome into this world and whose absence she now bitterly regrets. Often the mom visualizes her child as she would be today if she had not been…..

As good example as you ever see is an absolutely beautiful–and haunting video–“Unborn Grace” taken from the album “Deeper Still.”

When I first encountered a link to the video, I knew nothing about Faye Smith except that she has an absolutely beautiful, soulful voice put to exquisite use in this 4 minute long video.



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Baby given less than a 1% chance of survival returns home with her mother

Fionnuala McArdle was just 23 weeks pregnant when her daughter was born on October 9 last year. Her baby weighed just over a pound (480g) and doctors at the Royal Maternity Hospital’s neonatal unit gave her between a zero and one per cent chance of surviving. Fionnula’s daughter was also born with pneumonia and surrounded by toxic fluids.

Fionnuala named her daughter Meabh, which is an Irish name meaning the cause of great joy. Appropriately enough, Meabh’s name is thought to originate from the great warrior queen Mabh of Connacht.

True fighter

Little Meabh has certainly proven herself to be a true fighter over the past five months, as she’s gone through four operations, including a major heart operation and two on her eyes.

But with the help of medics, she’s pulled through – and has now been discharged from hospital to return home with her mother.

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FDA expansion of abortion pill use still does not necessarily mean chemical abortion is safer

Many suspected that today’s announcement by the FDA was a long time coming. Despite a record of at least 14 known deaths, and thousands of women suffering significant adverse events, the FDA relaxed safety standards and modified the protocol for mifepristone/misoprostol chemical abortions that had been in place since September of 2000.

The FDA, responding to a request by the U.S. distributor of the drug, has modified dosages, changed the administration, reduced the number of visits, expanded the prescriber pool, and extended the time frame where the drugs may be used. Though applauded by the abortion industry, the documentation demonstrating the impact on women’s safety has not been made publicly available.

Certainly, none of the modifications is of any benefit to the unborn child.

For women, the mifepristone/misoprostol combination comes with significant cramping, bleeding, and other gastrointestinal side effects (nausea, vomiting, diarrhea) that are expected parts of the chemical abortion process.

While it may be claimed that these side effects are supposed to be reduced with the new protocol, chemical abortions simply do not occur without significant bleeding, cramping, etc. That these side effects are similar to signs of ruptured ectopic pregnancy, serious infection, or may be the prelude to significant hemorrhage that could be missed by patients or even doctors expecting these as part of any chemical abortion would still appear to be a problem under any protocol.

In the end, it is obvious that the FDA’s new protocol serves only the interests of the abortion industry by expanding their base of potential customers, increasing their profit margin, and reducing the level of staff and amount of resources they have to devote to the patient.

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Mother Angelica Founders of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) Dies Easter Sunday at 92

Mother Angelica, whose vision for a global Catholic television network was unprecedented, will be mourned by millions of people whose lives have been touched by her indomitable and God-centered spirit.

Mother Angelica made “pro-life” the cornerstone issue in all aspects of EWTN’s programming.

“A great pro-life visionary has gone to God,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “But the work Mother Angelica started has had a tremendous impact on the world and will continue to do so. EWTN is a great friend and ally to pro-life people of every faith. We are deeply grateful for her love and caring for all God’s children.”

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In ultrasound, unborn baby shown clapping along to “If you’re happy and you know it”

I love to watch ultrasounds. I love how cleverly families use them to introduce the newest members to their friends and loved ones.

Take a You Tube video posted by Jen Cardinal, the baby’s mother. You’ll quickly see why it is no mystery that I love it.

The 15-second-long video is simultaneously touching and hilarious. Here’s Jen’s brief introduction:

At our 14 week ultrasound our baby was clapping, so I sang a song with our doctor as my husband filmed.



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Abortion mandate cases teeter on edge of 4-4 ruling

Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Greg Baylor is representing two of the Christian universities seeking relief from the mandate. He says with the recent death of Justice Antonin Scalia it's possible the court could wind up with a four-to-four decision.

"So that would leave in place all seven decisions that the court was reviewing,” he says. "And all seven of those cases, unfortunately, were losses for religious organizations that cannot comply with the mandate in a manner consistent with their religious conscience."

According to Baylor, it's also possible that the eight remaining justices could decide to do nothing for now. "Their second option would be to not issue any kind of decision at all and set the case for re-argument at a time when there are nine justices on the court," he says.

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Women have trouble “ending the life” of a late term unborn baby

Ann Furedi comments on late-term abortions and women’s reluctance to get them [1]:

“Many women, who would have few qualms about opting for a pregnancy to be terminated in its early weeks, balk at the thought of ending a life they have felt move inside them.”

Ann Furedi runs the largest chain of abortion clinics in Great Britain. She mentions that abortion is “ending a life.”

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Colorado Planned Parenthood shooter will face mental competency hearing on April 28

The man who opened fire in a Colorado Planned Parenthood the day after Thanksgiving will likely be sent to a mental institution.

But District Attorney Dan May asked for a mental competency hearing to take place before Dear is sent away.

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Houston Planned Parenthood joins lawsuit against Daleiden after being caught on video

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC), based in Houston, joined a lawsuit against the pro-life investigators who released undercover footage showing abortion officials – including some in Houston – discussing the harvesting and sale of human organs.

“Extreme anti-abortion politicians who want to ban abortion have invoked these lies to fuel their efforts to pass extreme restrictions on access to reproductive health care,” said PPGC President Melaney Linton in a press statement. “Even after David Daleiden has been indicted on a felony charge and these videos have been thoroughly discredited, women are still facing devastating consequences from these smear videos.”

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