Planned Parenthood's Tacit Support of Physical Assault

Planned Parenthood, much like the Left in general, has always had a problem with consistency. Call it a professional hazard of purporting an ideology that relies on feelings rather than reason.

Here are some examples:

-A child is a “clump of cells.” Unless it’s wanted, then it’s a baby.

-A woman is empowered to make her own choices, unless she makes the wrong one; then she’s coerced, misguided, or manipulated.

-A woman’s rights are to be protected zealously, unless those rights conflict with Planned Parenthood’s prized cash cow of abortion on demand; then they’re to be silenced at all costs.

-Hitting a minor is never okay, unless that minor is protesting abortion outside one of their clinics. Then it’s fair game to punch her in the face.

Admittedly, that last one sounds far-fetched. But, alas, that’s precisely what occurred outside of Planned Parenthood Roanoke this past Saturday.

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Babies don't survive at PP – but Sanger's agenda does

Last weekend, an ambulance was summoned to the Margaret Sanger Planned Parenthood in New York City for a woman who suffered complications post-abortion and had to be transported to a hospital emergency room. Cheryl Sullenger of Operation Rescue tells OneNewsNow that the ambulance crew arrived at the facility on Margaret Sanger Square with lights flashing – but no siren. She finds that irresponsible, as it delays emergency care for those in need.

"We think this is wrong – it actually slows down responses and it endangers women," the pro-lifer says. "... This is such a terrible situation that one state, Missouri, has even passed a law that says that abortion clinic workers can no longer ask for ambulances to run with no lights and no sirens."

Sullenger, CherylIn the New York incident, the young black woman – who walked out of the clinic on her own before climbing into the ambulance – was hospitalized for emergency treatment. That, says Sullenger, fits the business model of Planned Parenthood to target minorities for abortions.

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U.S. Department of Justice investigating Planned Parenthood for selling baby parts

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is officially investigating Planned Parenthood for selling baby body parts, more than two years after the release of the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) videos.

Fox News broke the story Thursday evening, reporting that they had obtained a letter from Justice Department Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Stephen Boyd to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. This letter asked for unredacted documents from that committee, which had been investigating Planned Parenthood.

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VIDEO: Abortion center kills perfectly healthy babies who could survive outside the womb

An undercover phone call revealed the willingness of a late-term abortion facility in the nation’s capital to abort a healthy, 26-week-old baby.


This call is the latest undercover investigation from Priests for Life and Abortion Free New Mexico. The pro-life groups are releasing calls with abortion centers that show abortion businesses are more than willing to abort healthy babies late into pregnancy for no reason.



An employee at Washington Surgi-Clinic told a caller posing as a pregnant mother that she could abort her baby at 26 weeks for $6,200 or at nearly 27 weeks for $7,200.



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Helping Women Doesn’t Mean Advocating Abortion. Quite the Opposite, In Fact.

This November, member nations of the “Group of 7” (G-7) met in Italy to discuss current global health issues and challenges. To the outrage of abortion activists, the G-7 members landed on language that omits abortion terms under the “Gender Perspective in Health Policies and Rights for Women, Children and Adolescents” section of the communique.

Instead, the language states that G-7 nations—made up of the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.K.—would pay special attention to the health of mothers, newborns and children with evidence-based interventions to address issues like mortality and violence.

As the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) reports:

“The U.S. proposed compromise language during negotiations asking to qualify the term ‘sexual and reproductive health’ by reference to UN agreements that explicitly deny abortion is an international right. In the end, it was negotiators from Canada and Europe who wanted no mention at all of ‘sexual and reproductive health,’ preferring deletion to qualifying the term to exclude abortion rights..."

Removing abortion language from the communique does not hamper women’s access to safe healthcare. And the Mexico City Policy certainly does not either. In fact, policies like these protect women by funding centers who provide more comprehensive care—which often includes post-abortion counseling to help women heal from the real and harmful effects of abortions, which groups like “She Decides” continue to prop up as beneficial for women.

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11 Attorneys General back Trump Administration in dispute over undocumented teenager’s abortion

The undocumented, unaccompanied 17-year-old from Central America secured an abortion, thanks to the ACLU and the DC Court of Appeals. Our last few stories about this human tragedy focused on the Trump administration’s insistence that the ACLU had not been straight about what would happen (and how quickly) once the full DC Court of Appeals decided a minor illegal alien (“Jane Doe”) had a constitutional right to an abortion . For this and other reasons, the Department of Justice filed a petition, asking the Supreme Court to vacate the decision and punish the ACLU.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took the lead, as he has throughout the controversy. Joining Monday’s brief were the attorneys general of Arkansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and West Virginia, as well the general counsel for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The brief from the 11 states reads, “This court should vacate the court of appeals’ order because the Constitution does not confer the right to an elective abortion on unlawfully-present aliens with virtually no ties to the country.” Moreover, it continues, “The States also have ‘a legitimate and substantial interest in preserving and promoting fetal life,’ as well as an ‘interest in promoting respect for human life at all stages in the pregnancy.’”

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Catholic priest, pro-lifers arrested for witnessing inside U.S. abortion centers

Eleven pro-lifers were arrested Saturday, Dec. 2 in the second Red Rose Rescue. The pro-life defense of the unborn took place in three different clinics: Stephen Brigham’s Capital Women's Services 6323 Georgia Ave NW Suite 210, Washington, DC, the Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic 101 S Whiting St, Alexandria, VA, and the Women’s Center Clinic 6765 Orchard Lake Rd, West Bloomfield Township, MI. owned by abortionist Jacob Kalo.

Father Stephen Imbarrato of Priests for Life joined two others, Julia Haag and Joan McKee and entered the D.C. clinic at 2:15 in the afternoon. They were confronted by a totally-packed waiting room—so packed indeed that other women scheduled for abortions were forced to wait in the outside hallway in the building that houses the center. They were able to distribute red roses to all those inside the clinic, offering words of encouragement not to abort their babies. Clinic staff however rounded up all the women and “sequestered” them behind the reception area. The pro-lifers then simply went out into the hallway and continued to talk to the women waiting there.

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Abortion activist punches pro-life teen outside Planned Parenthood, gives concussion

An angry abortion activist punched a pro-life high school student outside a Planned Parenthood on Saturday, giving her a minor concussion but strengthening her resolve to fight abortion.

Another pro-life activist caught the assault on camera...



15-year-old Purity Thomas was praying outside the Roanoke Planned Parenthood on Saturday morning when a woman, apparently there for an abortion, became agitated at the pro-lifers.  The woman approached Serena and began yelling, “what are you gonna do when I beat you all up, when I f*** you all up?”

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Vision 2020 - Week 39 - Rep. Chad Hays and Rep. Sara Wojcicki

Pray for our legislators...

Thank you for praying with us!!

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.

Taxpayer-funded abortion law met with Illinois lawsuit

A new Illinois law requiring public funding of elective abortions is opposed by pro-life groups and taxpayers who have sued the state, calling the measure illegal.

“The people of Illinois totally reject taxpayer-funded abortions,” said Peter Breen, Special Counsel for the Thomas More Society, a non-profit legal group in Chicago, in a statement released Thursday..

“Even apart from the sincere moral objections that many folks have to paying for abortions, there is no money in this year’s Illinois state budget to pay for them,” Breen continued.

House Bill 40 was signed into law by Illinois governor Bruce Rauner in late September.  Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago criticized the governor, saying that he was disappointed Rauner had broken promises to veto the bill, according to the Chicago Tribune.

If it takes effect, the new law will allow taxpayer dollars to fund free abortions for individuals with Medicaid coverage, and for state employees with health insurance, throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

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Pro-lifers say they are fighting 'modern eugenics'

Alliance Defending Freedom along with lawyers from the Bioethics Defense Fund filed a friend-of-the-court brief in November with the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.

According to ADF, the brief was filed on behalf of three Down syndrome groups and a women's advocacy organization that support a law in Indiana banning abortions based solely on a child's disability, race, or gender.

Planned Parenthood affiliates challenged the law in court and a federal judge stopped it from taking effect.  Now the Indiana attorney general is appealing the federal judge's decision.

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U.S. Senate passes major tax reform, excludes unborn

For the first time in over thirty years, Congress is on course to pass sweeping tax reform legislation. But in the process they omitted an innovative pro-life measure that would have granted important legal recognition to unborn children.

The Rubio-Lee Amendment, aimed at helping lower income families benefit more fully from the increased Child Tax Credit, garnered only 29 ‘Yes’ votes, falling far short of the 60 required for passage.  Thirty Republicans voted against the measure, while 9 Democrats supported it.  The Senate procedural hurdles required the removal of the unborn from the 529 education savings accounts and also prevented Alaska Senator Steve Daines from offering his much anticipated amendment which would have included the unborn in the Child Tax Credit (CTC).

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Controversial Abortion Bill Prompts Taxpayer Lawsuit Against Illinois Officials

On November 30, 2017, the Thomas More Society filed a taxpayer lawsuit against State of Illinois officials in a counterattack against House Bill 40, which requires public funding of tens of thousands of elective abortions. The taxpayer lawsuit, filed in the Sangamon County Circuit Court, is brought on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Illinois taxpayers, represented by county and statewide pro-life organizations, the Springfield Catholic Diocese, and a group of Illinois legislators from across the state.

“The people of Illinois totally reject taxpayer-funded abortions,” stated Thomas More Society Special Counsel Peter Breen, who drafted the lawsuit. “Under HB 40, Illinoisans will be forced to pay for 20,000 to 30,000 abortions per year with their tax dollars.”…

[If implemented]HB 40 would force every Illinoisan to pay for free abortions for those on Medicaid and state employee health insurance. This would apply through the full nine months of pregnancy and for any reason, even when the latest scientific research has shown that the unborn child can feel pain and survive outside the womb.

There is no cap on the number of abortions that could be covered under Medicaid and no cap on the amount of taxpayer dollars spent on these procedures. Based on recent figures from the Department of Healthcare and Family Services showing a cost of up to $1000 per Medicaid abortion, state government spending on abortions could range anywhere from $15 million to $30 million.

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One Step Closer to the Supreme Court for David Daleiden and the Center for Medical Progress

Life Legal's petition for review of the 9th Circuit's decision in National Abortion Federation v. Center for Medical Progress is moving forward in the U.S. Supreme Court.

Earlier this week, the Court requested additional briefing from the National Abortion Federation (NAF), an indication of interest in the case from some of the justices. NAF's brief is due at the end of December, after which Life Legal will file a reply.

The National Abortion Federation (NAF) sued David Daleiden and his Center for Medical Progress (CMP) just weeks after Daleiden released his first video showing Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's Senior Director of Medical Services negotiating the sale of body parts from aborted babies up to five months gestation—all while enjoying her salad and wine.

Over lunch, Dr. Nucatola told Daleiden that when working with a body parts broker seeking specific organs, she will "basically crush below, I'm gonna crush above, and I'm gonna see if I can get it all intact." She went on to say that when brokers are looking for the intact head of a baby, "some people will actually try to change the presentation," which is a violation of federal law.

NAF sought a gag order prohibiting CMP from releasing additional footage recorded at its annual conferences, fearing further public scrutiny of the unethical and illegal business practices of its members. Federal judge William Orrick, who previously served on the board of an organization that "partnered" with Planned Parenthood, issued the order.

Orrick held that Daleiden contracted away his First Amendment speech rights when he signed a non-disclosure agreement required by all NAF conference attendees. The disclosure agreement is designed to prevent the public from finding out about the abortion industry's unveiling of more efficient ways to kill unborn children.

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Pro-life senator proposes Child Tax Credit amendment that includes preborn

“Moms and dads start planning and preparing for their baby’s birth as soon as they learn about their pregnancy,” noted the Family Research Council’s David Christensen, vice president for government affairs. “Parents take time off for doctors’ appointments, stock up on diapers, formula, clothes and swaddles, and they plan financially to take time off work to care for and bond with their baby. By recognizing that the financial burdens of parenthood begin in the womb, the ‘Child Tax Credit for Pregnant Moms’ would be a significant help to individual families and the economy overall. For pregnant moms, especially those who are young and low income, an additional $2,000 could make a real difference as she works hard to give her baby a solid start in life.

“Under the “Child Tax Credit for Pregnant Moms,” every child will receive a CTC for an unborn child, but consistent with current law, the credit could only be claimed once the child is born and issued a taxable identification number (TIN), such as a Social Security Number. Therefore, the IRS would never have to investigate whether a woman was pregnant or if the child died before birth.”

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World Medical Association updates Hippocratic Oath

A modern successor to the Hippocratic Oath has been approved by the World Medical Association. This is the first revision in a decade and reflects changes in the climate of medical ethics.

The current declaration is still a noble attempt to affirm that doctors have duties towards their patients and towards society; they are not just profit-maximising entrepreneurs with an expertise in human physiology.

The most striking change implicitly allows abortion. In 1948, doctors were to declare that “I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of conception.” In other words, the nigh-universal prohibition of abortion was fully backed by the medical profession.

By 2017, this had been watered down to “I will maintain the utmost respect for human life.” In as much as some ethicists maintain that an embryo is life, but not a human life, this is an escape clause for abortion.

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District Judge rules against Texas Ban on Dismemberment Abortion

Federal District Judge Lee Yeakel, who historically rules in favor of the abortion industry, issues a sweeping ruling that strikes down the Pro-Life Texas Dismemberment Abortion Ban. The full five-day trial on the ban was held earlier this month after abortion providers resorted to the courts to protect their practice of ripping living children limb from limb out of their mothers’ wombs.

State Senator Charles Perry (R-Lubbock) and State Representative Stephanie Klick (R-Fort Worth) sponsored the widely-supported legislation during the 85th Legislature with Texas Right to Life spearheading the passage of the ban. This Dismemberment Abortion Ban narrowly addresses one type of second-trimester abortion procedure in which a living preborn child is torn limb from limb while his or her heart is still beating.

After the measure passed as an amendment to another related bill [SB 8], several Texas abortion clinics and a few abortionists challenged the Pro-Life law claiming the measure created an undue burden on abortion providers and women seeking abortions and was, therefore, unconstitutional.

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VIDEO: Abortionist will terminate ‘developed’ 26-week-old baby for $7k

One of America’s most infamous late-term abortionists is willing to abort healthy babies of healthy moms up to 28 weeks into pregnancy for thousands of dollars, a new undercover call revealed.

After 28 weeks, abortionist LeRoy Carhart will abort babies on a “case-by-case basis” if they and their moms are healthy.

Most babies are born at 40 weeks. One study showed that a significant number of babies survive when delivered as early as 22 weeks, just over five months of gestation.



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Pro-abortion groups panic over GOP tax bill

Pro-life groups are pleased with a provision in tax reform legislation but their opponents are predictably upset.

Tax reform isn't where one would expect to deal with the issue of abortion and life, but Jim Sedlak of American Life League tells OneNewsNow there is a provision that recognizes life begins at conception.  The provision, says Sedlak, is “that the children who are confirmed as being present in the mother's womb, but not yet born, can have college accounts set up for them and contributions to those accounts become deductible from the parent's income.”

Although the measure has nothing to do with abortion, abortion organizations such as NARAL and Planned Parenthood have begun an aggressive campaign to have it removed from the legislation. If the tax bill passes as-is, NARAL warned on Twitter, it will include the "unprecedented recognition of personhood ideology" for the first time ever.

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Battle continues over abortions for undocumented, unaccompanied teenagers

As of October 17, 43 pregnant illegal immigrant girls in HHS custody

A constant thread throughout the tragic story of an undocumented pregnant teenager who aborted her 16-week-old baby, was that for the ACLU, the role of “Jane Doe” was to make it impossible to prevent unaccompanied pregnant minors from coming into this country and aborting their babies. Indeed the ACLU has filed a class action suit arguing that undocumented teenagers have the same rights to access abortion that Americans have.

The continuing significance of this legal challenge was illustrated this week by a story in The Washington Times. Stephen Dinan reported, “The surge of illegal immigrant children crossing the border also means a surge of pregnant girls in U.S. custody, according to new government figures made public late Monday, highlighting the latest test of Trump administration policies.”

According to Dinan

At least 420 pregnant Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) have been caught and put into government care over the last year, and 43 pregnant illegal immigrant girls were still in custody of the Health and Human Services Department as of Oct. 17, Jonathan White, the department’s director for children’s programs, said in court documents.

Of the 420 girls seen in fiscal year 2017, 18 requested abortions and 11 had them. Another five rescinded their request for an abortion, and two were turned over to sponsors in the U.S. before a final decision was made, Mr. White said, meaning they were outside of government custody.

He added, “The Trump administration is vehemently fighting the ACLU, saying that as of right now there are no pregnant girls in government custody seeking abortions so there’s no need for a class action lawsuit.”

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