Former baby parts harvester recalls first day at work: ‘You can feel the death’

The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) released a new video today of a former fetal body parts harvester describing her first day at work inside a California Planned Parenthood.

Holly O’Donnell, who has previously appeared in CMP videos describing her work as a procurement technician for StemExpress, said she “felt the pain radiate through my hand” the first time she touched the limb of an aborted human.  “You can feel the death,” she said, noting that the aborted baby through which she was assigned to pick “was something that was just alive.”



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Full Appeals Court opens the way for undocumented 17-year-old to have abortion

On a 6-3 vote, a divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on October 24th ruled that a 17-year-old undocumented girl can have an abortion.

The judges vacated a three-judge panel’s holding rendered last Friday that gave the Department of Health and Human Services until the end of the month to find a sponsor to take custody of the girl, known as “Jane Doe.”

A spokesman for the Justice Department “said the administration is reviewing the order,” POLITICO reported. “He had no immediate comment on whether federal officials will try to seek relief from the Supreme Court.”

Short of an appeal to the Supreme Court and a stay, it is unclear how soon the girl, who is approximately 16 weeks pregnant, will abort. Clearly it would be soon. Jane Doe currently is in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, a sub-division of HHS that oversees the shelter.

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Apple drops pro-life app after pro-aborts complain

Until last summer, Human Coalition utilized an app which generated group prayer across America for women seeking an abortion. The app also invited prayers for the women’s babies and families.

Lauren Enriquez, spokeswoman for Human Coalition, tells OneNewsNow the app was extremely effective but Apple banned it after getting complaints from abortion proponents and numerous journalistic hit pieces on the ministry.

"We had tens of thousands of downloads, and many, many prayers were recorded for the women who were considering abortion,” Enriquez says.

Apple has claimed that a feature of the app needed to be corrected, even though it had been in operation without complaint for several years. The tech giant declined to reveal what feature needed the changes.

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Pro-abortionist laments pro-lifers adroit use of Twitter

Tip of the cap to Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, for his post informing us of a veteran pro-abortion scribe’s lament which was headlined, “The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Killing It on Twitter.”

The subhead to Robin Marty’s post–“Abortion opponents use the social media platform like a weapon, and with absolute precision—and they’re winning as a result. What are pro-choicers doing wrong?”–nicely summarizes the gist of her analysis.

To be fair, after her pro-forma lament (“anti-abortionists” are so mean to her online, as if somehow this is unique to pro-abortionists), Marty quickly concedes such “aren’t truly representative of anti-abortion Twitter.”

She is more interested in cutting to the chase than whining:

When it comes to the movement itself, it is a coordinated, well-oiled machine that uses Twitter with absolute precision.

And honestly, they are kicking our [behinds] every time they do it.

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ACTION ALERT - SJRCA 0004 Equal Rights Amendment

SJRCA 0004 Equal Rights Amendment

Gov. Rauner signed into law HB40, the massive taxpayer funding of abortion bill last month. Now anti-life forces want to pass a so-called Equal Rights Amendment or ERA in the General Assembly that would lock in abortion rights in the U.S. Constitution and would cause HB40 type taxpayer funding of abortions in every state in our country and the federal budget. Contact your State Representative and urge him or her to vote NO on the ERA!

There is a renewed push to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the Illinois veto session that begins on October 24th, 2017.  Supporters of the ERA are targeting legislators and threatening to run candidates against them in the upcoming elections if they don't vote for the ERA. 

To counter these tactics, your Illinois state legislators need to hear from you.  They need to hear your continued encouragement for them to vote against the ERA, and they need to know you will support them if they vote no on the ERA.  Please remind them that the poorly worded ERA will harm women, harm our unborn children, and harm our society.

The ERA will harm our unborn children by overturning all restrictions on abortions and mandating taxpayer funding for elective medicaid abortions.  

Please click here to contact your State Senator and State Representative by phone and email and encourage them to vote no on the ERA (Bill #SJRCA0004).  If they have previously told you they will vote against the ERA, please contact them and encourage them to stay firm in their conviction to vote against the ERA.  Let them know you will support them in their no vote and in the elections.

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THE ERA-ABORTION CONNECTION

Leading pro-abortion groups – including NARAL, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood -- have strongly urged state courts to construe state ERAs, containing language virtually identical to the language of the 1972 federal ERA proposal, to invalidate laws that treat abortion differently from other “medical procedures,” including laws restricting tax-funding of abortion and laws requiring parental notification or consent for minors’ abortions.

Consider, for example, the case of New Mexico, which in 1973 adopted a state ERA (“Equality of rights under law shall not be denied on account of the sex of any person”) virtually identical to the federal language that SCR 194/HCR 109 purports to ratify.  In New Mexico, this ERA language was subsequently used as the sole basis for a successful attack the state policy against tax-funding of abortion.  In 1998, every justice on the New Mexico Supreme Court agreed that the state ERA makes it unconstitutional for the state Medicaid program to refuse to fund “medically necessary” abortions (which simply means any abortion performed by a licensed medical professional) if procedures sought by men (e.g., prostate surgery) are funded. The case was NM Right to Choose / NARAL v. Johnson, No. 1999-NMSC-005 – you can read or download it here: http://nrlc.org/uploads/era/ERANewMexicoSupremeCourt.pdf.  (Moreover, similar arguments regarding tax-funding of abortion have been accepted by some courts in other states, including Connecticut.)

The New Mexico Supreme Court based its ruling solely on the state ERA, and the justices merely adopted the construction of the ERA urged upon it in briefs submitted by Planned Parenthood, NARAL, the ACLU, the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy, and the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund.  The doctrine that the ERA language invalidates limitations on tax-funded abortion was also supported in briefs filed by the state Women's Bar Association, Public Health Association, and League of Women Voters.

Writing for the unanimous court, Justice Pamela Minzner wrote that “there is no comparable restriction on medically necessary services relating to physical characteristics or conditions that are unique to men. Indeed, we can find no provision in the Department’s regulations that disfavor any comparable, medically necessary procedure unique to the male anatomy . . . .[the restriction on funding abortions] undoubtedly singles out for less favorable treatment a gender-linked condition that is unique to women.”

It should be obvious that this same analysis – that limits specific to abortion are by definition a form of sex discrimination and therefore impermissible under ERA – can be used to invalidate any federal or state restrictions even on partial-birth abortions or third-trimester abortions (since these are sought “only by women”); the federal and state “conscience laws,” which allow government-supported medical facilities and personnel -- including religiously affiliated hospitals -- to refuse to participate in abortions; and parental notification and consent laws.  Indeed, the ACLU “Reproductive Freedom Project” has published a booklet that encourages pro-abortion lawyers to use state ERAs as legal weapons against state parental notification and consent laws.

When questioned about the New Mexico ruling and other such rulings, some ERA proponents reply that the U.S. Supreme Court has previously reviewed abortion-related restrictions under a “privacy right” analysis, and ruled (5-4, in 1980) that this “privacy right” does not invalidate a law (the Hyde Amendment) restricting federal Medicaid funding of abortion.  They go on to assert that the proposed federal ERA would not “change” these past “privacy” rulings.  But this argument is transparently evasive, wholly begging the question.  Obviously, past U.S. Supreme Court rulings on abortion issues have dealt only with the current U.S. Constitution – without the ERA’s absolute prohibition on abridgement of “rights” on the basis of “sex.”  Whatever one thinks of the Supreme Court’s “privacy” doctrine, that doctrine is irrelevant to the question of what legal impact the ERA itself – as a new constitutional provision -- would have on future cases involving abortion-related laws, when ERA-based challenges come before judges.

For additional documentation on the ERA-abortion connection, see the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org/federal/era.

Again, please click here to contact your State Senator and State Representative by phone and email and encourage them to vote no on the ERA (Bill #SJRCA0004).  If they have previously told you they will vote against the ERA, please contact them and encourage them to stay firm in their conviction to vote against the ERA.  Let them know you will support them in their no vote and in the elections. 

 

Media covering up the dangers of abortion

What is missing is information on the dangers of abortion, which the leftist media refuses to cover.

Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue points to stats that have surfaced in just the past couple of weeks.

“We've received reports of nine ambulances that have been called to abortion clinics in six different states …” Sullenger informed. “This is really an astounding number because we know for a fact that some of the injuries were life-threatening.”

In addition, there have been 51 documented incidents of ambulances transporting women from abortion clinics to hospitals so far this year nationwide, and, two-thirds of these involved Planned Parenthood abortion clinics, yet that information is not reported by the mainstream media.

“I think when the media actually ignores stories like this, what they do is they help place these women in danger – to be honest,” the pro-life activist shared. “Everyone deserves to know all of the facts before they make any kind of medical decision, but especially a decision that's going to take the life of an innocent child.”

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Pro-abort Facebook exec slams Twitter for censoring pro-life ad

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tennessee, paid for a campaign ad on Twitter that was suppressed for being “inflammatory.” The Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg (pictured) lashed out against rival Twitter for its censorship and told Axios that Twitter decision-makers should not have banned a senate candidate’s ad.

Blackburn’s ad said, “I fought Planned Parenthood and we stopped the sale of baby body parts, thank God.” She also said she is “100 percent pro-life.”

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TV Show ‘The Good Doctor’ Surprised Us With This Beautiful Pro-Life Stance

On Monday night, the new ABC medical drama series, The Good Doctor, told the story of a woman with a high-risk pregnancy determined to give birth to her baby despite doctors’ recommendations that she abort.

The episode ended, against all odds, with a successful, life-affirming outcome. How refreshing, in an age when pro-abortion storylines are so frequently worked into television scripts, to see a pro-life message win out.



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Daughter of pro-abortion billionaire George Soros gives Planned Parenthood political arm $500,000

The daughter of pro-abortion billionaire George Soros has cut a half-billion dollar check to “Planned Parenthood Votes,” the New York-based Super PAC affiliated with Planned Parenthood.

Schoffstall says that according to FEC records, Andrea Soros Colombel made the $500,000 donation on August 1. Two additional important details put the contribution in context.

    “The donation accounts for more than a quarter of the money that the group has raised so far this year, which shows $1.7 million in contributions between January and the end of August.” And
   
    “Andrea’s contribution was the only one the group received throughout the entire month of August. Only 11 other donors have given to the group this year.”

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Acknowledging that pain-capable legislation is strongly supported by women and men

Of all the pro-abortion myths recycled by a compliant media, few are as egregiously off the mark and as damaging as the insistence that the pro-life position is some outlier. If you were silly enough to believe what you read in the Washington Post and the New York Times, you would think pro-life legislation, such as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, is widely opposed by substantial majorities of Americans.

The truth is the exact opposite!

Which may be one reason that when the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act passed the House of Representatives 237-189, for the major television networks it was like the proverbial tree in the forest that none of them heard fall. As Katie Yoder of Newsbusters informed us

During their Oct. 4 morning news shows, ABC, CBS and NBC didn’t mention the vote once. But they found time for others topics like fall fashion deals (NBC Today), a new drama starring Actress Connie Britton (ABC Good Morning America) and puppy-related infections (CBS This Morning).

There the usual hit pieces in the Post and the Times and the rest of usual suspects. But then, miracles of miracles, there was this story that appeared in the October 4 Washington Post under the headline, “Most GOP lawmakers support banning late-term abortions — and so do a lot of women.”

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Pro-abort Billionaire George Soros gives $18 billion to make pro-abortion foundation the second richest in U.S.

George Soros, the billionaire who funds left-wing activism worldwide, gave $18 billion to the Open Society Foundations which was the “bulk of his wealth,” the Wall Street Journal reported. The LA Times said this transfer of money has made the pro-abortion foundation “into one of the world’s largest philanthropic organizations” making it the second richest U.S. charity.

Soros is an “ATM for the abortion providers,” Liz Yore, director of La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, told the International Conference on Population Control. He has given “decades-long financial support (to) the enemies of life” and to movements that use environmental advocacy to mask their true goal of reducing the world’s population.

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Judge rules to allow illegal immigrant minor to abort her baby immediately

UPDATE: A judge has temporarily prevented a minor in the U.S. illegally from obtaining an abortion until another hearing takes place on Friday.
The Trump administration appealed U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan’s Wednesday ruling that an illegal immigrant minor in the government’s custody be allowed to abort her baby “promptly and without delay.”

Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ordered the government to allow an illegal immigrant 17 year old minor from Mexico in its custody to abort her preborn child “promptly and without delay.”

Justice Department lawyers argued the government has “strong and constitutionally legitimate interests in promoting childbirth, in refusing to facilitate abortion, and in not providing incentives for pregnant minors to illegally cross the border to obtain elective abortions while in federal custody.”

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There is a good deal of Misinformation about Assisted Suicide

Supporters promote doctor-assisted suicide as the “gentle" way for people to ease out of this life and rid themselves of the problems they face, including terminal diseases.

However, Rita Marker of the Patients Rights Council says there have been reports of discomfort, nausea, vomiting, people waking up, and others not dying until several days after taking a lethal dose, although reports from states such as California and Washington seem to reflect otherwise.

“All of the reports [from California and Washington] are from the prescribing doctors who actually are not there [with the patient],” says Marker. 

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Department of Justice announces settlement in HHS mandate suits

A week after issuing new religious freedom guidelines to all administrative agencies in the federal government, the U.S. Department of Justice has settled with more than 70 plaintiffs who had challenged the controversial HHS contraceptive mandate.

The Oct. 13 agreement was reached between the government and the law firm Jones Day, which represented more than 70 clients fighting the mandate. Made public Oct. 16, the agreement states that the plaintiffs would not be forced to provide health insurance coverage for “morally unacceptable” products and procedures, including contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs.

“This settlement brings to a conclusion our litigation challenging the Health and Human Services’ mandate obliging our institutions to provide support for morally objectionable activities, as well as a level of assurance as we move into the future,” said Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. in an Oct. 16 letter to priests of the archdiocese.

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President Trump tells pro-life audience he has kept this promises

In a speech to the 2017 Values Voter Summit frequently punctuated by loud applause, President Donald Trump laid out a litany of promises that he said he had made and kept.

“Some of those promises are to support and defend the Constitution. I appointed and confirmed a Supreme Court Justice in the mold of the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia, the newest member of the Supreme Court, Justice Neil Gorsuch,” the President said to a standing ovation at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

“To protect the unborn, I have reinstated a policy first put in place by President Ronald Reagan, the Mexico City Policy. (Applause.) “We cherish the sacred dignity of every human life.” (Applause.)

“To protect religious liberty, including protecting groups like this one, I signed a new executive action in a beautiful ceremony at the White House on our National Day of Prayer which day we made official,” Mr. Trump added.

In addition, “We have also taken action to protect the conscience rights of groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor.”

The President was alluding to HHS’s announced interim final rule changes to the ObamaCare and HHS coverage mandate that would protect moral and religious rights of conscience.

“Rights of conscience are extremely important to the right-to-life movement to protect medical professionals, religious institutions and employers from being forced to participate in abortion,” said NRLC President Carol Tobias. “We commend President Trump for keeping his campaign promises by supporting these rights of conscience. These rule changes will help promote a policy that protects pro-life rights of conscience with regard to abortion.”

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Vision 2020 - Week 34 - Senator Mattie Hunter (D) and Senator Iris Y. Martinez (D)

Pray for our legislators...

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
--A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Vision 2020 and the Illinois Federation for Right to Life would like to invite you to join us in praying for our state legislators.  We will send out information about a couple different state representatives each week for you to pray over.

Consider sharing this information with your ministry partners, your church family, on your website and/or your Facebook page.

We know that prayer changes things.  And we know that NOTHING is impossible with God. So let's join our hearts and voices together and petition heaven on behalf of the great state of Illinois!

Some of our legislators need prayer that God will open their eyes and change their hearts (or move them out of their positions) and some need prayers that they will have the strength, courage and boldness to be able to stand firmly against the opposition as they fight for life and family values.

Renewed Push to Pass ERA in Illinois

There is a renewed push to pass the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the Illinois veto session that begins on October 24th, 2017.  Supporters of the ERA are targeting legislators and threatening to run candidates against them in the upcoming elections if they don't vote for the ERA. 

To counter these tactics, your Illinois state legislators need to hear from you.  They need to hear your continued encouragement for them to vote against the ERA, and they need to know you will support them if they vote no on the ERA.  Please remind them that the poorly worded ERA will harm women, harm our unborn children, and harm our society.

The ERA will harm our unborn children by overturning all restrictions on abortions and mandating taxpayer funding for elective medicaid abortions.  

Please contact your state legislator and state representative by phone and email and encourage them to vote no on the ERA (Bill #SJRCA0004).  If they have previously told you they will vote against the ERA, please contact them and encourage them to stay firm in their conviction to vote against the ERA.  Let them know you will support them in their no vote and in the elections.

Click here for contact information for your Senator and Representative.

Department of Health and Human Service may define human life as ‘beginning at conception’

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a draft of its new strategic plan for 2018-2022, and with the addition of a few small words, it’s clear that there is a major change.

Formerly, the document stated the following in its introductory information:

    HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving Americans at every stage of life.

The new edition now states this:

    HHS accomplishes its mission through programs and initiatives that cover a wide spectrum of activities, serving and protecting Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception.

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Media forced to admit Trump is right about horrific U.S. abortion laws

The mainstream media pounced on President Donald Trump after he stated in announcing his support for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act on October 2: 

    “The United States is currently out of the mainstream in the family of nations, in which only 7 out of 198 nations allow elective abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.”

The Washington Post decided to fact check the president. Their conclusion? He is "backed by data."

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Ruling May Create a Right to Abortion for Anyone on Earth who Enters the U.S. Illegally

UPDATE: U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler dismissed a request by the ACLU for a temporary restraining order to force HHS to either transport an undocumented pregnant 17-year-old teen to an abortion clinic or allow here to be taken there. Click here for more

Federal District Judge Laurel Beeler is hearing an emergency request from the ACLU of Northern California to order the Office of Refugee Resettlement to allow a pregnant undocumented teenager–“Jane Doe”–to leave ORR custody to have an abortion.

The ACLU’s request for a temporary restraining order allowing the abortion to go forward is opposed by the Trump Administration, Ken Paxton, the attorney general of Texas, and six other attorneys general—from Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.

“No federal court has ever declared that unlawfully-present aliens with no substantial ties to this country have a constitutional right to abortion on demand,” Paxton said. “If ‘Doe’ prevails in this case, the ruling will create a right to abortion for anyone on earth who enters the U.S. illegally. And with that right, countless others undoubtedly would follow. Texas must not become a sanctuary state for abortions.”

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