O’Reilly is right: We have no moral authority if we don’t protect the preborn

Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly of The O’Reilly Factor addressed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s stance in favor of late-term abortion from Wednesday night’s debate.

In his Talking Points Memo to open the program, he mentioned:

Now, it’s somewhat shocking and I mean that, shocking, that Hillary Clinton would support late-term, partial-birth abortion citing the health of the mother. As we saw in Kansas and in Pennsylvania, the health of the mother could be anything. There are corrupt doctors who will abort for money on the most flimsy of physical excuses. In a humane country, the unborn must be protected to some extent by the government. Otherwise, we don’t have any moral authority on anything.



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Baby LynLee Hope, born twice, survives risky in utero surgery and is now thriving

The Boemer Family

Imagine, if you can, what was going through Margaret Boemer’s mind. The Lewisville, Texas mom had already lost one of her unborn twins before the second trimester when doctors recommended she abort the second twin.

Why? Because the baby girl, who was by then 16-weeks old, had a tumor on her spine, according to Elizabeth Koh of the News Tribune:

The tumor, they told her, was a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a rare tumor affecting one of up to 70,000 births. It was drawing blood away from her baby and could cause heart failure before she was born.

But Boemer and her husband flatly refused.

Often such surgery is postponed until after the baby is born, but that was not an option. “At 23 weeks, the tumour was shutting her heart down and causing her to go into cardiac failure, so it was a choice of allowing the tumour to take over her body or giving her a chance at life,” she told the BBC. (A sacrococcygeal teratoma is a tumor that grows from an unborn baby’s tailbone.)

“It was an easy decision for us: We wanted to give her life.” She added, ““We knew that if we didn’t choose the option of emergency surgery that night, that within a day or so she would pass.”

Still, doctors gave the baby, Lynlee Hope, only a 50-50% chance.

And the surgery, performed at Texas Children’s Fetal Center, proved to be extremely complicated. Lynlee Hope almost died.

According to Koh,

The complicated and risky surgery nearly went awry as doctors tried to remove the tumor with a “huge” incision, said doctor Darrell Cass, who was part of the operation. The baby, weighing just 1 pound and 3 ounces during the surgery, was “hanging out in the air” as they cut away the mass and her heart nearly stopped — though a cardiologist kept her alive.

LynLee Hope Boemer

Doctors then placed Lynlee Hope (who weighed 1lb 3oz at the time of the surgery) back in her mother’s womb, and sewed up the opening. Twelve weeks later–on June 5–she was delivered again, this time by Caesarean section, weighing 5 pounds and 5 ounces.

Lynlee subsequently underwent a second surgery to remove the remaining tumor on her spine. Now four months old, “Baby Boemer is still an infant but is doing beautiful,” Darrell Cass, the co-director of the Texas Children’s Fetal Centre told the BBC.

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Life-Saving Center, Mobile Ultrasound Unit Awaiting Free Speech Ruling in Illinois

From left to right, Liz Feehan (administration),
Amanda O’Neil (Mobile Unit Director),
Tiffany Staman (Executive Director),
Wymetta Crull (Nurse),
Aimee Orem (Director of Education)
and Karyn McDonald (Center Director).
Missing is Simone Locklund, Nurse Manager.
Photo Courtesy: Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford

A lawsuit was nowhere on Tiffany Staman’s radar when she joined Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford (Illinois] as executive director back in 2014.

But, two years later, that’s exactly where Staman and her center find themselves, as named plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner challenging his ratification of a law this summer that attempts to force pro-life pregnancy centers like Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford to refer for abortions.

Rewriting the state’s Healthcare Right of Conscience Act to compel as many as 150 pregnancy help locations (the law’s broad language leaves its scope undefined) to keep an updated list of local abortion providers available to clients upon request, Democrats passed the bill on a party-line vote before Gov. Rauner—a Republican—signed it into law at the end of July.

Just days after the law—set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2017—was signed, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed a lawsuit in state court, representing Pregnancy Care Center of Rockford, as well as another pregnancy help organization, Aid for Women, and a life-affirming ob-gyn.

While Staman and her center, along with their fellow plaintiffs, await the next steps in the lawsuit, ADF also filed suit in a federal court, representing National Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), along with three more Illinois pregnancy help centers and an ob-gyn.

Amid the challenge in the courts to what ADF argues is a “classic example of compelled speech in violation of… Free Speech rights as protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution,” Heartbeat International—a network of over 2,000 pregnancy help organizations to which Pregnancy Care Center belongs—has urged its Illinois affiliates to refuse to comply with the law.

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Clinton's radical abortion 'wall' alienates Latinos

With a little more than two weeks until the election, presidential candidates are making their final pitches to voters across the U.S. – and pro-lifers are still talking about the stark differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the abortion issue. Trump articulated his pro-life beliefs clearly; Clinton was just as clear on her support for abortion:

Clinton: "I strongly support Roe v. Wade. In this case, it's not only about Roe v. Wade. So many states are putting very stringent regulations on women that block them from exercising that choice. I will defend Planned Parenthood. I will defend Roe v. Wade."

"She constructed an impermeable wall that alienates her from the Latino electorate and from the Christian electorate with her unbridled support of abortion, including late-term abortions," Rev. Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference explains.



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The Sanger Hillary doesn't want voters to know

Margaret Sanger

Even though many pro-life advocates and African Americans called Clinton to reject and denounce the Margaret Sanger Award she received in the not-so-distant past, the former first lady ignored such pleas in order to press forward with her extremist pro-abortion agenda and champion the so-called “women’s reproductive rights” movement.

With the 2016 election also coinciding with Planned Parenthood’s 100th anniversary, more attention is being drawn to Sanger’s 1947 video that resurfaced in 2014, where the notorious eugenicist made the demand for “no more babies” to be born in developing nations for 10 years.

During the last election year, Sanger was named (postmortem) one of TIME magazine’s 2012 “20 Most Influential Americans of All Time” – the same year President Barack Obama, who pro-life leader Dr. James Dobson dubbed “the abortion president,” won his second straight election bid.

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Trump hit a very sensitive nerve when accurately describing Clinton’s abortion extremism

In talking straightforwardly about Clinton’s extremist times two position on abortion, Donald Trump had struck a very sensitive nerve.

The story line is that Trump implied there is a torrent of late-term abortions–and by “late,” critics mean the last week.

He said nothing of the sort. Trump talked about what Hillary Clinton has said–and how she had voted as a United Senator. There weren’t hypotheticals, these were indisputable facts and logical conclusions Trump rightly drew from Clinton’s behavior.

For example, questioned by Fox News moderator Chris Wallace, Clinton didn’t deny she’d voted [multiple times, in fact] against a ban on partial-birth abortions. Instead, as pro-abortionists always do, she skipped acknowledging that and immediately went to the most extreme cases, even though–as NRLC pointed years ago– Ron Fitzsimmons, the executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers, told the New York Times in 1997: “In the vast majority of cases, the procedure is performed on a healthy mother with a healthy fetus that is 20 weeks or more along.”

How about her backup escape clause–the need for a “health exception”? Even abortion advocates, when pressed, on occasion will grudgingly acknowledge that this “exception” is infinitely elastic: there is no abortion for which an “exception” cannot be found.

What about Trump’s comment after Clinton responded, which pro-abortion critics jumped on?

Well I think it is terrible. If you go with what Hillary is saying, in the ninth month you can take [the] baby and rip the baby out of the womb of the mother just prior to the birth of the baby. Now, you can say that that is okay and Hillary can say that that is okay, but it’s not okay with me. Because based on what she is saying and based on where she’s going and where she’s been, you can take [the] baby and rip the baby out of the womb. In the ninth month. On the final day. And that’s not acceptable.

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Several state-level measures may have national consequences for physician-assisted suicide

Jennifer Popik

By Jennifer Popik, JD, Robert Powell Center for Medical Ethics

Over the past few years, battles have raged in nearly every state legislature over the controversial topic of physician-assisted suicide. Currently, bills are imminent in New Jersey and the District of Columbia. On the ballot this November in Colorado, voters will decide Initiative 145, known as the “Medical Aid in Dying Proposal.”

While these bills will pose an immediate danger to vulnerable groups within those states, there is a real threat that these laws will spread to more states quickly, or even produce a new Supreme Court challenge.

Nearly every state in the U.S. prohibits assisting in another’s suicide. However, as part of an initial effort to expand euthanasia, assisted suicide advocates, principally Compassion and Choices, have focused on pushing a carve-out that allows doctors to prescribe a lethal prescription to a supposedly terminally ill and competent patient who overdoses on the drugs. These laws frequently bear some sort of misleading moniker such as “death with dignity” or “aid in dying.”

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How can you be pro-life but not vote pro-life?

By Jean Garton via National Right to Life.

Columnists and late-night comedians are having a field day with the way political candidates bob and weave on issues. A popular cartoon strip even featured one candidate in the shape of a waffle.

Yet many Americans themselves are inconsistent and “waffle” on issues. Some of them, for instance, who hold a pro-life view, repeatedly vote against that conviction.

When asked why the dichotomy between who they say they are and how they vote, they give a variety of reasons. “Out of party loyalty,” say some or because they agree with a pro-choice candidate on other issues. “I don’t believe in being a single-issue voter,” state many.

Sorry, but that won’t pass the “smell” test, and it’s no excuse for having misplaced priorities. Certainly abortion is just one issue, but it is a fundamental issue, an essential issue, a life and death issue.

Would we vote for someone who is “good” on issues like crime but who also condones child abuse? Isn’t that what abortion is – the first and worst abuse any child can suffer at the hands of an adult.

Would we vote for someone who is “good” on issues like job creation but who also affirms the “job” of being an abortionist? How pro-life is that?

A current TV commercial includes pictures with captions that read: “If you say you’re a cook, but don’t cook, you’re not a cook.” “If you say you’re a fire-fighter, but don’t fight fires, you’re not a fire-fighter.” “If you say you’re a coach, but don’t coach, then you’re not a coach.”

What if the next photo featured a line of people holding pro-life signs, but the caption says: “If you say you’re pro-life, but don’t vote pro-life, you’re not pro-life.” Is it even possible to be pro-life in name only?

Candidates who are pro-life have a respect and compassion for the most defenseless in our midst. Whatever other political and social issues they might embrace, they have the reasoning ability to cut through deceptive rhetoric that hides what abortion is and does.

Pro-life candidates at all levels are concerned with the future rather than with a quick fix to difficult problems. They are willing to stand for what is right rather than for what is politically expedient or politically correct.

How can a candidate who condones the violent, painful destruction of helpless unborn children be trusted to protect our rights and interests when it comes to other issues?

“I’m pro-life, but I’m not a single issue voter?” That just doesn’t pass the “smell test.” It doesn’t even pass the “straight-face” test.

Students expose abortion's horrid truth before election

During this election cycle, Students for Life of America is conducting their brand-new Cycle of Corruption tour at 60 campuses nationwide.

Students for Life of America Vice President Tina Whittington says that his organization is targeting millennials – many of whom will be voting for president for the first time.

"We're trying to wake them up to the fact that there is a cycle of corruption that Planned Parenthood is contributing to because they're basically buying political advocates who then ensure that they continue to get over $500 million of our tax dollars every year," Whittington explained.

Contact: Bob Kellogg via OneNewsNow.com

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New Online Documentary for Teenage Girls about Abortion Health Risks Creating Problems for Pro-choice Legislators, Malpractice Insurers, and Physicians

A new free online TED talks length (17 minutes) documentary points out that legislators, malpractice insurers, and physicians cannot support abortion because of the procedure's long list of documented serious health risks to women; immediate and delayed, emotional and physical.

The documentary, "Wounded and Abandoned in 17 minutes," in addition to presenting 7 health risks of abortion, explains that legislation legalizing abortion came out of the idea that abortion was safer than childbirth. But there are no reliable statistics in the USA to support that. In countries where there are reliable statistics researchers discover the theory is false: Producer B. Keith Neely with his medical script consultant Brent Rooney, present ten meta-studies ("Study of Studies") that demonstrate beyond argument abortion's serious health risks, while no meta-studies whatsoever have cleared it as the relatively benign procedure proponents say it is. Neely adds that "It is astounding that legislators around the world perpetrate, for the apparent protection of women, a long dispelled theory" and notes that the research has been repeatedly validated as accurate in the courtroom. Neely asks how the so called objective media can portray that research as "myths and lies" while failing to expose the real "myths and lies" that are foundational to the abortion industry.

The documentary confronts physicians with their legal obligation to fully explain the health risks to a patient - even if they don't agree with the risks- or face losing their medical malpractice insurance just when they need it in a courtroom. Medical malpractice insurers are at risk of class action because few women have been informed of the risks.

The documentary, includes detailed, medically accurate, but family friendly (not gruesome) animation of the procedure as it walks the viewer through seven different ways a woman's present and future health can be damaged, along with the health of future children.



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Contact: B. Keith Neely, Wounded and Abandoned, 416-464-0445

Catholic university blasts ‘Unborn Lives Matter’ posters as ‘bigotry,’ bans them on campus

College Republicans at DePaul University were prohibited by the university president from displaying posters on campus advertising their group with the pro-life message, “Unborn Lives Matter” by Vincentian Father Dennis Holtschneider who indicated on Friday in a letter that the “Unborn Lives Matter” message constituted “bigotry” occurring “under the cover of free speech,” The Daily Wire reports even though they followed protocol in submitting the design for approval.

However, the request made its way to Father Holtschneider, who responded that the administration would protect the university community from the pro-life message’s bigotry.

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A Schizophrenic Nation

National Right to Life President Carol Tobias

By Carol Tobias, President, National Right to Life

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines schizophrenia as a psychotic disorder with serious specific characteristics. Its second definition is “contradictory or antagonistic qualities or attitudes.”

Based on this second definition, when it comes to Life, I think it’s safe to say that our country is schizophrenic.

After almost 44 years and 59 million dead babies, this country is still not comfortable talking about abortion. It’s not a topic at the family dinner table. “Well, Susie, what did you do today?” “Oh, I went to Planned Parenthood to get an abortion.” Women don’t tell co-workers they will not be at work tomorrow because they’re going to get an abortion.

Because of right-to-life efforts to keep the fate of unborn child alive as part of the public debate, this country still knows that it’s wrong to kill unborn children. Any woman in this country who is considering abortion knows that someone–a family member, a friend, co-worker, or neighbor– would counsel her not to do it.

This loss of respect for the innocent human life of that defenseless unborn child has created a mindset that no human life is special. The elderly and persons with disabilities are being denied food and water, and medical treatment, because someone decided they are a “burden” taking up space and resources.

However, while our country legally condones the killing of unborn children, and devalues the lives of other vulnerable persons, the children who did survive, the so-called “wanted” children, have become even more precious– maybe because they survived.

Consider: The development of technology has allowed us to declare “Amber alerts” nationwide. If a single child is missing, the entire country is asked to help find him/her. This is an unqualified good– we should search for every missing child and grieve for every lost child. But this highlights our schizophrenia.

A less unqualified good, perhaps, are parents so overtly involved in their children’s lives that a recent phenomena—“helicopter parents”– has arisen. The parents are “hovering” not just in their young children’s lives– there are stories of parents who phone their college-student children to wake them up for class, or even attend job interviews with them.

Some might say it’s a paradox that at the same time we dispose of more than a million unborn children each and every year, the children who “survive” are cherished and protected.

A better explanation, I believe, is schizophrenia.

Compare. Decide. Vote November 8

Hillary Clinton and the Democrats want you to pay for abortions. Hillary Clinton has pledged to change the law so that your tax dollars will pay for abortion on demand.

6.7 million dead babies–PPFA “just getting started”

Cecile Richards and Margaret Sanger

Okay, I appreciate the need to thread the needle–that is, for PPFA to acknowledge (in the most minimal imaginable fashion) some of the outrageous things its founder did and said without raining on Planned Parenthood’s parade in celebrating the 100th anniversary of its founding by the notorious Margaret Sanger.

Thus the convoluted, intended-to-hide headline from the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, “ The Layered, Complex History of Margaret Sanger — Planned Parenthood Founder and Reproductive Rights Trailblazer”– and the oblique first sentence :” Planned Parenthood’s founder, Margaret Sanger, was a woman of heroic accomplishments, and like all heroes, she was also complex and imperfect” [www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/blog/margaret-sanger-planned-parenthoods-founder].

“Imperfect”? Yes, you could say that. Let’s just cite one example.

Here’s a passage from, “The Need for Birth Control in America,” which appeared in Birth Control: Facts and Responsibilities, ed. Adolf Meyer, M.D., 1925.

“In his last book, Mr. [H. G.] Wells speaks of the meaningless, aimless lives which cram this world of ours, hordes of people who are born, who live, who die, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions. All that they have said has been said before; all that they have done has been done better before. Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.”

“Hopeless repetitions” that are “clog[ging] up the path” that “we must clear away” so as to “cultivate our garden”?

“Imperfect” seems a bit of an understatement, wouldn’t you agree?

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Life Matters

By Carol Tobias, President NRLC

NRLC President Carol Tobias

Bizarre. Heart-rending. Sad. Mind-boggling. Select your own adjective. To put it mildly, this election season has been one of the most unusual our country has ever seen. With just a couple weeks to go before the election, it is still inevitable that our next president will be either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump. We must remember that we’re in this battle because LIFE MATTERS.

More than 59 million innocent babies are dead because of legal abortion. That’s 59,000,000 lives, lives of boys and girls who are no more because the Supreme Court decided their lives have no value.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the nation’s largest abortion provider, is responsible for the deaths of more than 6.7 million of those preborn babies. Why is that important? Because PPFA wants Hillary Clinton to be our next president. She wants to make sure PPFA continues to receive taxpayer funds. In addition, she wants to change the existing law so PPFA can be reimbursed by the taxpayers for killing the children of women on Medicaid.

We hear, of course, that other issues are important and we can’t be “single-issue.” Issues like poverty and child abuse. In 1978, NARAL (now NARAL-Pro-Choice America) said freely available abortion will “greatly reduce the number of unwanted children, and thereby curb the tragic rise of child abuse in our country.” That hasn’t happened. Approximately 700,000 kids are abused each year (and that doesn’t even include the one million abortions each year). Not surprisingly, reducing the value of unborn children has also reduced the value of born children.

Poverty? The numbers are falling but we still have millions of people below the official poverty line. Abortion hasn’t suddenly made people rich — unless they’re in the abortion industry.

Respect for women, or abuse of women? Many claim that women can’t be “free” until they can control their own bodies– a woman should have the “right” to kill her unborn child, a child with a body separate from her own. And yet, read any issue of National Right to Life News and you will see evidence that more and more women every year are beaten and assaulted because she won’t kill her child by abortion.

What about the untold number of women who are suffering because they regret killing their child? Depression, suicidal thoughts, drug and alcohol abuse, and self-condemnation are rampant. Abortion didn’t help make their lives better.

I often think of the couple I met who got an abortion many years ago. That turned out to be their only child and they now regret having no grandchildren to enjoy. Abortion is not a cure-all for any problem. It is an end-all of the unborn child’s life.

A lot of charges of racism have been bandied about during this election. What about the racism that exists among abortion purveyors? 79% of Planned Parenthood surgical abortion centers are within walking distance of African American or Hispanic/Latino neighborhoods. In New York City alone, 60% of viable black pregnancies are aborted. That should certainly be part of the discussion about racism.

There are many issues, no doubt. But as Mother Teresa stated, “”We must not be surprised when we hear of murders, of killings, of wars, of hatred. If a mother can kill her own child, what is left but for us to kill each other.”

Sadly, the media matters, too

For years the media has shown bias in its reporting on pro-life issues, as well as pro-life candidates. When we hear that NBC News had the “Trump tape” for a couple of months but decided to wait until one month before the election and just prior to a debate to release it, that’s kind of a “there they go again” moment.

Pro-lifers have a natural, justified skepticism of anything they hear or read in the “mainstream” media. Why do the accusations matter when made against a Republican candidate but it wasn’t an issue when the candidate was Bill Clinton?

Media Research Center found that, over a four-day period, the major news outlets spent 198 minutes on Donald Trump’s now-famous tape but only 13 minutes on the WikiLeaks release of Clinton campaign emails.

How many people have learned that Donna Brazile, then a CNN contributor and now head of the DNC, had the exact wording of a town hall question and passed it on to the Clinton campaign prior to a debate with Bernie Sanders? How many have heard that Clinton campaign officials showed anti-Catholic bigotry or that John Podesta, chairman of Clinton’s campaign, helped to create a “Catholic” group to foment disagreement in the Catholic Church on moral issues?

The media bias continues. Last November, Hillary Clinton tweeted that “Every survivor of sexual assault deserves to be heard, believed, and supported.” Yet, there was very little coverage and certainly no outcry of indignation when Joy Behar, co-host of ABC’s “The View,” called the women claiming assault by Bill Clinton “tramps.” I guess only women who fit the mold of a pro-abortion liberal have a right to be offended and defended.

Again, LIFE matters

Are all social ills caused by abortion? No. Will all social ills be cured when unborn children are again protected? No. But when a society decides to value and protect the lives of innocent, defenseless children, we will be taking a gigantic step forward in understanding that all human life is precious.

Never forget that without the right to Life, we have no other rights. There are many issues in a campaign, but when we vote, one “issue” must take precedence.

LIFE matters!

Black leaders: 'Absurd' to support pro-abortion Hillary

Clenard H. Childress Jr,
director of The Life
Education and Resource
Network

During LEARN’s demonstrations that spanned from New Jersey to Washington, D.C., the black pro-life group asked black voters why they are turning a blind eye to the racist legacy of America’s abortion industry – and supporting a candidate who most closely reflects Sanger’s racially motivated ideals and goals.

“In May 1926, Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood and an outspoken advocate of eugenics, addressed the Ku Klux Klan’s women’s chapter, where she so impressed them that she received ‘a dozen invitations to speak to similar groups,’”  LifeSiteNews’ Ben Johnson informed. “She launched an effort dubbed the Negro Project, which paid black leaders to promote the use of birth control and sterilization.”

Hillary supporting black genocide?

Despite Sanger’s clearly exposed racist agenda, Clinton has expressed that she idolized Sanger for her ideals.

“[I am] in awe of [Sanger’s] courage, her tenacity, her vision,” the then secretary of state proclaimed at Planned Parenthood’s gala back in 2009.

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Pro-lifers to mark Planned Parenthood's 100 years with candlelight vigil

Saturday, October 15, 2016, the Chicago-based Pro-Life Action League will host a candlelight prayer vigil at the Aurora Planned Parenthood, marking the abortion providers' 100th year.

Eric Scheidler, Executive Director of the Pro-Life Action League, noted the significance of the abortion giant’s anniversary, saying, “This month Planned Parenthood turns 100. That’s 100 years of preying on our families, polluting our culture, and, since 1970, killing our children by the millions. As they hold big fundraisers to celebrate this shameful milestone, those that value human life will unite to pray for an end to this organization that has done so much to destroy American families.”

Saturday's event will recognize Planned Parenthood's October 1916 founding by birth control activist and sex educator Margaret Sanger. While organized decades before, the first Planned Parenthood abortion was performed three years before the practice was legalized with the Supreme Court's Roe vs Wade decision. To date, Planned Parenthood has provided roughly 7.3 million abortions, currently adding over 320,000 to that total every year, cornering nearly one third of the U.S. abortion market.

The Aurora candlelight vigil - to begin at 6:00 PM Saturday - is one of 120 pro-life events in the United States marking the 100th anniversary of the abortion giant.

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How should Pro-Lifers dialogue with the American people?

In the run up to the very important November 8 elections, understandably we pay a great deal of attention to the political process. But whoever is President, pro-life Donald Trump or pro-abortion Hillary Clinton, an overarching question will remain unchanged: how do those who affirm the value of all human life most propitiously dialogue with the American people?

The historian W.E. Lecky somewhere observes that the spread of any idea depends not only on the intrinsic power of that idea but also on the predisposition of the age to which it is presented. Taking that as our cue, clearly our task is to create in modern America an overriding receptivity—a predisposition—to the idea that the unborn child is “one of us,” deserving of justice and loving care.

Since pro-lifers believe that virtually every heart, no matter how calloused, can be touched, we have a challenging job ahead of us. But before we can devise a winning strategy for seriously influencing the hearts and minds of people, we must figure out what are today’s principal stumbling blocks, the primary obstacles that impede this receptivity to the message that the unborn are our brothers and sisters.

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100th Anniversary: 100 Celebrities Who Support Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood celebrates its 100th anniversary this Sunday, October 16. Over the years, the organization, which has aborted 7 million babies since 1970 (according to pro-life organizations), has never been short of support from its star-studded fan base.

From actress Kerry Washington to comedian Amy Poehler, here are 100 of the most famous celebrities who support Planned Parenthood through a myriad platforms... Click here for the list.

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Early voting for 2016 elections has already begun

In the last presidential election, about 35% of voters, over one third of the total, voted early. In several states, over half of all voters voted prior to Election Day.

So if you’re waiting to share where the candidates stand with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and all other social media, DON’T. The time to start is NOW. Pro-lifers need to educate themselves AND their friends about where the candidates stand on life issues NOW. As of this writing, voters in eleven states have already begun, and many more will follow soon.

To find out how to cast a ballot early in your state click here.

You can view the IFRL PAC Endorsements by clicking here.

Please use your social networks to share the invaluable resources here with your pro-life family, friends and colleagues.

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