Three states to vote on pro-life measures in midterm elections

A total of three initiatives pertaining to abortion have made the November ballots for the 2018 midterm elections, according to Ballotpedia, all instigated by pro-lifers. Voters in Alabama and West Virginia will decide whether to add language to their state constitutions clarifying that they do not guarantee a “right” to abortions or abortion funding, with the former expressly recognizing the “sanctity of unborn life and the rights of unborn children.”

A proposed constitutional amendment in Oregon, meanwhile, specifically seeks to forbid taxpayer funding of abortion. Pro-life activists finally secured a vote on it after multiple failed attempts to make the ballot in past elections.

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Life is Life and Must be Protected

If people are asked to name the darkest days in American history, I think most would say the period of slavery and the civil war. Black Americans were treated literally like property. An infamous Supreme Court decision (Dred Scott) declared that Black Americans could never be considered fully human, could never become citizens.

We are in a comparable situation today. Preborn human beings are considered to be infinitely less valuable than all the rest of us, not fully human. Even though our nation’s founding document declares that all are created equal, the lives of these precious little ones are treated like disposable property.

Science and human biology tell us that a new human life begins at fertilization. Life is a continuum. Why are so many willing to deny the humanity of these children?

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VIDEO: Chelsea Clinton praises Roe v. Wade… and bungles true women’s history

In a speech for a “Rise Up for Roe” event this past weekend, Chelsea Clinton told attendees that the abortion on demand implemented by Roe v. Wade has been a net positive for the U.S. economy. She said:

It is not a disconnected fact…that American women entering the labor force from 1973 to 2009 added three and a half trillion dollars to our economy. Right? The net, new entrance of women – that is not disconnected from the fact that Roe became the law of the land in January of 1973. So, I think, whatever it is that people say they care about, I think that you can connect to this issue.

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Medical waste company defends hauling aborted babies: We’re ‘reverent and respectful’

The waste hauler for infamous late-term abortionist LeRoy Carhart has attempted to defend its gruesome work by asserting that it disposes of the bodies of aborted babies in a “reverent and respectful way” that includes quasi-religions ceremonies.

In a voicemail recording “to all who are concerned,” Bio-Haz Solutions CEO David Henritzy said that no other company does what his does “for the lost souls” of the aborted babies it hauls away. The drivers carry holy water and the Bible, he said, and place crosses on the medical waste containers with aborted children.

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One Ohio Abortion Facility Sues Another and the Hypocrisy Is Astounding

A few weeks ago, pro-life Ohioans caught a major break when one Columbus abortion facility decided to sue another, providing a small but wonderful glimpse into the hypocrisy of Big Abortion.

Alleging lease violations, breach of contract, and other charges, Founder’s Women’s Health Center formally initiated a lawsuit against Your Choice Healthcare, a new abortion facility which opened following a business split that forced Founder’s to temporarily close at the end of June.

According to The Columbus Dispatch, the lawsuit asks the Franklin County Common Pleas Court for an order that would prohibit Your Choice from operating, claiming that the new abortion business is improperly using proprietary information and assets of Downtown Gynecologists, Inc.—the group that runs Founder’s—such as its phone number, website, policies, and forms.

With all these accusations of falsified ownership at play, you could say, in a sense that Your Choice has been accused of being a “fake clinic” — a charge the abortion industry infamously lobs at pro-life pregnancy help centers for telling women the truth about abortion and the dignity of human life.

Yes, Founder’s and Your Choice certainly still agree on the right to abort innocent children, and no, they would never openly identify one another as a “fake clinic.”

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If abortion breaks your heart, the way their bodies are treated after the abortion will, too

So often, when we think about abortion, we don’t really ask questions about what happens to the so-called “tissue” afterwards. But the truth is… it isn’t just “tissue.” These are human beings. And abortion creates broken bodies — or the dismembered limbs and pieces — of tiny children. What happens to these small bodies? We already know that even the FDA is purchasing the “fresh” body parts of aborted children for use in medical research, and universities have done the same. But what about the bodies that aren’t purchased? Where do the arms, legs, little heads, and other human body parts go?

News reports reveal that abortion facilities have a variety of other “solutions”:

- In Michigan, babies have been stored in a freezer for five months.
- In Oregon and in Canada, babies were sent to a facility that burned them for electricity.
- In the U.K., aborted babies have been used to heat hospitals.
- In Ohio, babies were heated through until any bacteria was killed, and then they were sent to rot in a trash dump in Kentucky. Governor Mike DeWine said, “I think it will come as a shock to Ohioans to find out that fetuses are being cooked and then they’re put in a landfill and they’re going to be mixed in with yesterday’s garbage.”
- In Indiana, babies have been sent to a lab and then ground up with an auger:

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Kavanaugh Hearing Set for September 4th

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley announced today that the hearing for SCOTUS nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh (pictured with President Trump) will begin on September 4 and is expected to last for three or four days.

Opening statements by Judiciary Committee members and the nominee will occur on Tuesday, September 4. The questioning of Judge Kavanaugh will begin on Wednesday, September 5. Testimony by those who know Judge Kavanaugh the best, outside legal experts, and the American Bar Association is expected to follow.

This announcement comes after the committee has received the largest number of Executive Branch records ever for the consideration of a Supreme Court nominee. As of today, the committee has received more than 184,000 pages of records from Judge Kavanaugh's work as a White House lawyer and his work for Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr. The committee also expects to receive hundreds of thousands of additional pages of Executive Branch documents. These records will be reviewed in addition to the 307 cases in which Judge Kavanaugh wrote an opinion as an appeals court judge, the hundreds more opinions he joined, and the more than 17,500 pages of material he provided in response to the committee's bipartisan questionnaire.

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VIDEO: ‘Gosnell’ actress tearfully recalls choosing life after hearing son’s heartbeat

The movie “Gosnell” is set to be released this fall, and it will tell the story of Kermit Gosnell, America’s most prolific serial killer. But behind the scenes, a real-life drama with a much happier ending unfolded. Actress Tessya Whatley is playing Viola Brown in the movie, a young woman who is considering having an abortion at Gosnell’s facility, but decides to choose life instead. It echoes her real-life story, in which Whatley found herself facing an unplanned pregnancy:

Whatley discovered she was pregnant, and at first, she planned to have an abortion. But then, the nurse did something unexpected: she played the heartbeat for Whatley to hear as she lay on the surgical table. “I just started crying and decided it was something I couldn’t do, I couldn’t kill my baby,” she said. “So I put my clothes on, I went out to my grandpa, I told him I couldn’t do it; he said, ‘let’s go.'”

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Planned Parenthood’s six-figure ad campaign proves abortion is its business

If you ever had any doubts about how closely tied Planned Parenthood is to abortion, doubt no longer. The organization has just launched a six-figure ad campaign against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, whom Planned Parenthood calls “unfit to serve a lifetime on our highest court.” Why? Because Planned Parenthood believes Kavanaugh is would be a potential vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion-on-demand, overruling all state laws protecting preborn children at that time. What Planned Parenthood isn’t saying, however, is that overturning Roe would not make abortion instantly illegal; it would instead most likely place abortion laws back in the hands of individual states to decide for themselves, just as they did prior to Roe. But the abortion giant isn’t against Kavanaugh because it cares so much about women. (It doesn’t.) It’s against him because overturning Roe would threaten the organization’s very profitable abortion business.

The Washington Times notes that Planned Parenthood’s new ad campaign, #DearSenators, “encourages voters to share their personal abortion stories and to urge their congressmen to block Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation….” Kavanaugh currently serves on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and is considered a Constitutional originalist.

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Over 100 Members of the House Seek New HHS Rule to Make Consumers Aware of Abortion Surcharge

This past Monday, August 6, 102 Members of Congress sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar (pictured) requesting new regulations related to Obamacare and subsidies to plans that cover abortion.

The letter, spearheaded by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and strongly supported by National Right to Life, asks the administration to enforce the Obamacare requirement that insurers offering plans in the state marketplaces must collect a separate payment (or “abortion surcharge”) if the plan covers elective abortion.

Unfortunately, but as NRLC warned, Obama-era regulations have essentially permitted insurance companies to hide the abortion surcharge from consumers.

According to Rep. Smith, chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus,

Obamacare’s abortion surcharge is practically invisible to consumers. Consumers have a right to know. Abortion is not healthcare—it dismembers and chemically poisons defenseless unborn children and hurts women. The Trump Administration now has the opportunity to take action and enforce the law to bring transparency to Obamacare’s abortion coverage and the abortion surcharge. No person should have to pay for abortion coverage they don’t want.

At the time Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, an array of long-established laws, including the Hyde Amendment, had created a nearly uniform policy that federal programs did not pay for abortion or subsidize health plans that included coverage of abortion, with narrow exceptions. Regrettably, provisions of the 2010 Obamacare health law ruptured that longstanding policy.

Among other objectionable provisions, the Obamacare law authorized massive federal subsidies to assist many millions of Americans to purchase private health plans that cover abortion on demand. For documentation, please see:

www.nrlc.org/uploads/ahc/ProtectLifeActDouglasJohnsonTestimony.pdf, and www.nrlc.org/uploads/DvSBA/GenericAffidavitOfDouglasJohnsonNRLC.pdf.

Direct subsidies

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that between 2015 and 2024, $726 billion will flow from the federal Treasury in direct subsidies for Obamacare health plans. In September, 2014, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a report that confirmed that elective abortion coverage is widespread in federally subsidized plans on the Obamacare exchanges.

In the 27 states (plus D.C.) that did not have laws in effect to restrict abortion coverage, over one thousand exchange plans covered abortion, the report found. (See “GAO report confirms elective abortion coverage widespread in Obamacare exchange plans.”)

Some defenders of the Obamacare in 2010 insisted that this was not really “federal funding” of abortion because a provision in Section 1303 of Obamacare stated that a “separate payment” would be required to cover the costs of the abortion coverage. National Right to Life and other pro-life groups dismissed this as a mere bookkeeping gimmick that sharply departed from the principles of the Hyde Amendment.

In the years since the enactment of Obamacare (known officially as the Affordable Care Act—ACA), it became evident that the Obama Administration disregarded the inadequate measure of segregating funds and sharply departed from the principles of the Hyde Amendment. The Obama Administration issued Section 1303 regulations permitting insurance companies to ignore separate payment requirements which included failing to require insurers to disclose the abortion surcharge from consumers.

A statutory fix, such as the House-passed the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7), is necessary to remedy the severe problems with the ACA in regard to abortion coverage. However, there are steps the Trump Administration can take to mitigate ACA’s massive expansion of abortion coverage.

According to National Right to Life Executive Director David N. Osteen, Ph.D.

Until the day that Congress can repeal the abortion-expanding elements of Obamacare, we support the effort of Congressman Smith and over 100 members of Congress in urging new regulations that could at least ensure basic transparency is provided to consumers – and inform them when they are paying for abortion coverage they do not want.

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Do abortion-supporters care about the danger and destruction of the abortion pill?

Abortion supporters appear determined to ignore the dangers of DIY abortion in their support to license abortion pills for home consumption. BPAS Chief Executive Ann Furedi recently branded abortion pills "safe and simple" in a Spiked Magazine article this week.

With an array of pro-abortion publications peddling the same message, they also appear to possess the same blind-spot. Whilst repeating snappy slogans such as 'we trust women' they refuse to acknowledge the 24 women who consumed abortion pills and are now dead. The cause of death? Abortion pills. The same pills branded 'safe and simple' by Furedi.

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What Trump can do to hit abortion facilities where it hurts

In June, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a new rule proposal that, if adopted, would stop funding for abortion providers through the Department's Title X family planning program. Pro-life advocates have been calling the new rule the "Protect Life Rule." This rule is a good first step.

The Protect Life Rule is expected to hit abortion providers like Planned Parenthood hard. Planned Parenthood spends nearly $60 million in funds derived from Title X grants every year, according to a recent report from the Government Accountability Office. Title X is the second largest source of government funding for Planned Parenthood, representing approximately 11% of all federal and state funds the organization receives.

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VIDEO: Two botched abortions within days at Chicago abortion facility

Operation Rescue has released 911 calls originally obtained by Pro-Life Action League concerning two botched abortions at the same clinic three days apart. Family Planning Associates Medical Group (FPA) is an abortion facility in Chicago, Illinois which commits abortions up to 23.3 weeks (about 23 weeks and two days) of pregnancy according to their website.

In both instances, clinic staff called 911 to report “uterine bleeding”. The first patient, just 18-years-old, was bleeding so badly that a Foley catheter, normally used to drain a bladder, was placed in order to slow the bleeding, indicating that she was hemorrhaging. The call was made on March 21, 2018, at 10:08 am and the clinic worker requested an ambulance. The second call was made on March 24, 2018, at 8:33 am for a 23-year-old woman suffering from a uterine bleed. The abortionist was said to be riding in the ambulance with her to the hospital.

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Pro-lifers denounce FDA for buying ‘fresh’ aborted baby parts for experiments on mice

A June 13, 2018 notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announces that the agency has awarded a $15,900 contract to Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. (ABR), a San Francisco Bay fetal tissue procurement firm, for the purpose of acquiring “Tissue for Humanized Mice.” The contract runs from July 15, 2018 to July 14, 2019.

This is one of eight contracts the FDA has signed with ABR since 2012, according to the U.S. General Services Administration, all for requirements such as “Humanized Mice,” “Human Fetal Tissue,” “Tissue Procurement for Humanized Mice,” or “Human Tissue.” The revelation is particularly concerning in light of ABR’s work with Planned Parenthood in the abortion giant’s 2015 scandal over selling aborted baby parts.

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Reversing Chemical Abortions is a threat to ideology of abortion on demand

A chemical abortion, commonly known as RU-486, occurs when a mother is given a lethal cocktail of two powerful drugs. Mifepristone, typically given at the abortion facility, blocks progesterone, thereby inhibiting the signal to the woman’s body that she is pregnant and shutting down the system supplying nutrients to the child. The second drug, misoprostol, usually taken at home, induces severe cramping and bleeding in order to expel the baby’s tiny body.

Thanks to the ingenuity of pro-life physicians who care for both mother and child, however, there is now hope for those women who change their minds before taking the misoprostol. As you would expect, the abortion industry is furious.

The effort to halt chemical abortion was first launched by Dr. George Delgado and Dr. Matt Harrison, Medical Director and Associate Medical Director of Abortion Pill Reversal, respectively. They have found it is possible to save the unborn baby provided the woman has not taken the second of the two drugs that make up the chemical abortion regime.

Since 2012, their organization has received thousands of calls from women who had changed their minds, some who indeed turned out to still be pregnant. Over 500 babies have been saved.

Within the last few years, legislation providing information on the possibility of abortion pill reversal (APR) has been introduced in a number of state legislatures and has become law in five states.

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“Friends” stars honored costar’s preborn baby in the most adorable way

“Friends” is one of the most popular television shows of all time. Lasting 10 seasons, the cultural juggernaut racked up millions of viewers, many of whom continue to watch the show in syndication. But the show wasn’t just notorious for its humorous plot lines; the six stars of the show — Jennifer Aniston, David Schwimmer, Courteney Cox, Matthew Perry, Lisa Kudrow, and Matt LeBlanc — were known to be extremely close in real life and insisted on negotiating their salaries as a group. After Cox married actor David Arquette, every other star of the show added “Arquette” to their last names in the credits in solidarity. And when Kudrow got pregnant, they honored her preborn baby in a beautiful way, too.

In a new interview, Kudrow revealed that the cast had a cute little ritual before they would begin taping. “The six of us would do a huddle backstage and just say, ‘All right, have a good show, love you love you love you love you,’” she recalled. Fans of the show will remember a major storyline for Kudrow’s character, Phoebe, who agrees to be a surrogate for her brother and his wife in seasons four and five. In real life, that storyline was written specifically to accommodate Kudrow’s pregnancy… and the cast modified their ritual accordingly, showing their love and excitement for Kudrow’s preborn son, Julian.

“[W]hen I was pregnant, then they would say, ‘Have a great show, love you love you — love you, little Julian!’ Cause we knew it was a boy and that was his name,” she said. “So sweet, they included my little fetus in the huddle.”

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Former abortion worker: We wanted teen girls to get 3 to 5 abortions each

Abortion activists like to claim that pro-lifers are liars about pretty much everything. They claim that abortion victim photographs, which shows the horrific reality of what the procedure does to human beings developing in the womb, are fake (although they won’t say what they think the baby looks like when the abortionist gets through with her.) They insist that the video exposes released by organizations like the Center for Medical Progress and Live Action are “doctored.” And they assure everyone that abortion workers are not feticide technicians, but simply feminists out to help women in any way they can.

And that is why the testimonies of those who actually worked in the abortion industry before becoming pro-life are so devastating. There have been many high-profile defectors over the years: Dr. Bernard Nathanson, one of the founders of NARAL, Norma McCorvey, otherwise known as Jane Roe of Roe v. Wade, and Dr. Anthony Levatino, among others. Carol Everett, a former abortion provider, even wrote a book in the early ‘90s detailing what the abortion business is all about. Titled Blood Money: Getting Rich Off a Women’s Right to Choose, Everett’s book exposes the abortion industry for precisely what it is: A business, with dead babies being the product. Some time ago, I spoke with Everett about her experience as an abortion worker. This is what she told me.

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Rep. Smith Seeks New HHS Rule to Make Consumers Aware of Abortion Surcharge

On August 6th, Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and 101 other Members of Congress sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar requesting new regulations to enforce the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirement that insurers participating in the ACA marketplace must collect a separate payment, or “abortion surcharge” if the plan covers elective abortion. Current regulations permit insurance companies to essentially hide the abortion surcharge from consumers.

In 2009, President Obama told Congress that the ACA would not pay for abortion. Sadly, that promise was broken. Research by ObamacareAbortion.com has shown that, for 2018, roughly half of the plans sold on the ACA marketplace cover abortion on demand.

“Obamacare’s abortion surcharge is practically invisible to consumers,” said Smith, chair of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Life Caucus. “Consumers have a right to know. Abortion is not healthcare—it dismembers and chemically poisons defenseless unborn children and hurts women.”

“The Trump Administration now has the opportunity to take action and enforce the law to bring transparency to Obamacare’s abortion coverage and the abortion surcharge. No person should have to pay for abortion coverage they don’t want,” Smith said.

Congressman Smith is the prime sponsor of the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act (H.R. 7), which has passed the House of Representatives four times since 2011. This bill creates a government-wide, permanent protection against taxpayer dollars paying for abortion and health insurance plans that include abortion, and would permanently remedy the ACA’s unprecedented expansion of taxpayer funding for abortion coverage.

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Can states defund Planned Parenthood?

The U.S. Supreme Court could get involved if states continue to spark the wrath of Planned Parenthood by deciding to take away Medicaid funds from abortion facilities.

Planned Parenthood has filed suit against states that want to redistribute the money to local clinics that offer far more services and are not associated with terminating the lives of preborn babies. Attorney Rachel Busick of Americans United for Life tells OneNewsNow the abortion conglomerate files suit when states decide to no longer finance them.

"Planned Parenthood's suing because they think that they should have a constitutional right to receive government funds because they provide abortion," Busick comments. But she asserts that "they clearly do not" have that right.

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Steve Jobs: Adoption was the first of many ‘connected dots’ in my life

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, though he passed away at the young age of in 2011, is still making headlines. A controversial new book written by his daughter, Lisa, with whom he had a strained relationship, reportedly paints him in an unfavorable light. But the relationships in Jobs’ life — like in many of our lives –were complicated. And yet, when Jobs made remarks reflecting on his own life, it is clear that he was grateful for the opportunities life had afforded him.

“You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backwards.” These were Jobs’ words in a speech at Stanford University’s graduation in 2005. Jobs described having been born to an unwed graduate student who chose to place him with a family for adoption. The prospective adoptive couple were college graduates. But when they found out he was a boy, they had wanted a girl so they refused to go through with the adoption. Another couple then received a sudden call about “an unexpected baby boy.” They wanted him. But when Steve’s biological mother found out this couple were not college-educated, she refused to sign the adoption papers until they promised her they would send him to college. Steve eventually did go to college, but dropped out after a year. And that, of course, was another “dot” in his life, connecting him to his future with Apple, and later with Pixar.

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