ALIVE From New York: The Day Abortion Died

On May 4th 2019, a near perfect 70 degree afternoon, in the middle of Times Square, in New York City, from three sound stages blasting thousands of decibels into the surrounding neighborhoods, the final speaker of the day said that, “Soon... Abortion will become... unthinkable!”

The statement came after a 90 minute program that had been slated as a “public celebration of life.”

Not content to believe the organizers, protestors attempted to disrupt the proceedings. But those protests, which began with profane chants, obscene signs, and thundering drums, ended with nary a whimper, and dispersed far more mysteriously than they had appeared.  Click here for more.

Alabama bill to send abortion doctors to jail sets up Supreme Court fight

The Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill that would make performing an abortion a Class A felony offence. The Human Life Protection Act would mean doctors who perform abortion could face years in prison.

As a Class-A felony, performance of an abortion would carry a potential prison sentence of 10-99 years but, the bill’s supporters noted, would only apply to doctors and not to mothers.  The bill was carried in the House by a margin of 74-3 on April 30. It must now be passed by the state Senate and approved by Gov. Kay Ivy (R).  Click here for more.

Trump issues religious-freedom protections for doctors, nurses forced to do abortions

The Trump administration has finalized another set of administrative protections for religious Americans’ conscience rights on a range of fronts, President Donald Trump announced Thursday morning during remarks to observe the National Day of Prayer.

According to a press release from the Department of Health and Human Services, the final rule “ensures that HHS implements the full set of tools appropriate for enforcing” laws that exempt healthcare workers from “having to provide, participate in, pay for, provide coverage of, or refer for, services such as abortion, sterilization, or assisted suicide.” It also “clarifies what covered entities need to do to comply with applicable conscience provisions,” “requires applicants for HHS federal financial assistance to provide assurances and certifications of compliance,” and “specifies compliance obligations for covered entities.”  Click here for more.

U.S. hospital will not remove oxygen from elderly woman who says on video ‘I want to live’

The 64-year-old woman at reported risk of being euthanized by a Minnesota hospital has received a reprieve after a pro-life legal non-profit intervened on her behalf.

Catie Cassidy is resting comfortably, according to Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF), after the hospital agreed to abide by her wishes and those of her healthcare proxy and not remove Catie’s oxygen.  Click here for more.

Pro-life Group to Broadcast Live, 4-D Ultrasound in Times Square This Saturday

After New York shocked the country with its egregious law expanding late-term abortion this January, Focus on the Family decided to act, bringing the value and dignity of human life back to the forefront of the discussion.

To do so, the pro-lifec, conservative group organized a 12-week campaign, called “See Life Clearly,” capping it off with an event called “Alive From New York” to be held in Times Square this Saturday, May 4.

“We’re looking to fill Times Square with pro-life Americans, and it will feature live music, compelling and inspirational speakers, and best of all, live 4-D ultrasounds broadcast on a massive digital marquee in Times Square, powerfully showing the world that a baby inside the womb is fully human and should be given the chance to be born,” Focus on the Family announced in February.  Click here for more.

Abortion more deadly than homicide in New York City

More babies died from abortion at 21 weeks gestation or over in 2015 than there were people killed by homicide in New York City, new figures reveal.

Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and published by the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), reveals that the number of abortions at or after 21 weeks was 1,485 while the number of homicides was 352.

CNS News observes that while there were approximately 0.96 people per day victimized by “murder and non-negligent manslaughter” in New York City in 2015, there were approximately 4.1 babies at 21-weeks gestational age or older who were aborted per day in the same city.  Click here for more.

Pro-lifers to nationally protest waste hauler Stericycle for aborted baby disposal involvement

Despite the official Stericycle policy against hauling fetal remains, the company continues to pick up at Planned Parenthood facilities, the group of pro-life leaders say, and state investigators have determined that these pick-ups include fetal remains.

Thus, Citizens for a Pro-Life Society (CPLS), Created Equal, and Pro-Life Action League are organizing a major protest at the Stericycle annual stockholders meeting near Chicago on Wednesday, May 22, with concurrent protests at Stericycle locations around the U.S.

The coalition of pro-life groups is currently recruiting local pro-life activists throughout the country to coordinate protests at Stericycle offices, waste disposal centers, and other facilities on May 22.  Click here for more.

Click HERE for more information and to take part.

A US appeals court upholds use of technology to inform choice in abortion

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, in EMW Women’s Surgical Ctr. vs. Beshear et. al, recently decided that a statute is constitutional under Supreme Court precedents if it “requires the disclosure of truthful, non-misleading, and relevant information about an abortion.”

This important case, celebrated by pro-life advocates, upheld a Kentucky law requiring doctors to conduct an ultrasound, and thereafter offer to show and to explain to the patients the images taken, as well permitting the patient to hear the fetal heartbeat of the unborn life in utero, all at least 24 hours prior to having an abortion performed.  Click here for more.

House Democrats Move to Protect Planned Parenthood Funding

In a budget draft, Democrats are attempting to legislatively protect Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers from the Trump administration’s rule that prohibits taxpayer family planning funds for facilities that perform or refer for abortions.

“...it’s going to keep the Trump administration from shutting the doors of Planned Parenthood, which they have been trying to do from day one,” Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL) said on a press call, according to the Washington Examiner. Click here for more.

US veto threat gets pro-abortion language removed from UN resolution

The Trump administration recently threatened its veto power if the UN security council did not remove abortion-related language from a resolution aimed at combatting rape in war-torn areas. After fierce negotiations, the security council removed the language and the final resolution passed 13-0.

The resolution was an initiative by the German government to address the problem of rape in war zones. The original proposal contained language referring to “comprehensive health services” for “survivors of sexual violence” – language commonly used to imply abortion. Click here for more.

Hospital set to euthanize patient who wants to live by removing oxygen

Life Legal Defense Foundation shared a post on Facebook today regarding a lung cancer patient, Catie, in Minnesota, whom the hospital is threatening to euthanize by removing her oxygen today — which would cause her to suffocate to death. Withdrawing Catie’s oxygen to cause her death is active euthanasia, which is illegal in Minnesota and every other state. LLDF writes:

Catie is a patient at a hospital in Minnesota. She has lung cancer and needs oxygen to remain comfortable. The hospital plans to remove Catie’s oxygen tomorrow morning, which will result in her death by suffocation.

Catie is on video saying she does not want the hospital to “pull the plug.” She relayed this to the hospital’s chaplain, who was sent to Catie’s room by the hospital to prepare her to be euthanized.

Even though the hospital has been sedating Catie, she understands what the hospital is planning to do and says she is still fighting and is “not ready” to die. Click here for more.

As Illinois seeks to expand abortion, ambulance wheels away patient at capital’s Planned Parenthood

While Christians across the world were observing Holy Thursday, business as usual carried on inside abortion clinics across the country while pro-lifers kept vigil on the sidewalks outside. Around noon, pro-lifers praying outside the Planned Parenthood in Springfield, Illinois, one of 18 Planned Parenthood centers in the state, were shocked when an ambulance pulled up to the abortion facility’s patient entrance. Moments later, a person covered by a sheet was wheeled out on a gurney.

Video footage taken by Tim Moore, president of Springfield Right to Life, suggested that the victim was a patient since the person was not wearing shoes. A Freedom of Information Access request was filed with the Sangamon County Central Dispatch System Manager and FOIA Officer to determine the reason for the 911 call, and it was later learned that the person on the gurney was an abortion patient, who was 11 weeks pregnant. She was suffering from chest pains, shortness of breath, dizziness, and nausea. She was conscious at the time, and it is unknown if she began experiencing these symptoms before or after her abortion.  Click here for more.

ACLU sues over Indiana’s ban on dismemberment abortions and expansion of conscience protections

Two days after Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb signed into law House Enrolled Act 1211, which bans the practice of dismembering living unborn children, and Senate Bill 201, which expands Indiana law to extend conscience protections to additional medical providers, the ACLU filed a lawsuit.

“HEA 1211 will discourage women from obtaining abortions and will impose a substantial and unwarranted burden on women’s ability to obtain second-trimester, pre-viability, abortions,” huffed Ken Falk, legal director at the ACLU of Indiana.

The ACLU also couldn’t abide Senate Bill 201, authored by Sen. Liz Brown. State law previously allowed only physicians and hospital employees to object to participating in abortions for ethical, moral or religious reasons. SB 201 extends conscience protections to other medical providers, including nurses, physician assistants and pharmacists.  Click here for more.

Supreme Court considers case that could be devastating for Planned Parenthood

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media D/B/A Argus Leader. The case centers around an exemption to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that was used to deny a request for data from government vendors as part of a newspaper’s food-stamp fraud investigation.

What does this have to do with abortion?

According to Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), it could actually have implications for Planned Parenthood, and how much information U.S. taxpayers are allowed to know about the abortion corporation’s use of federal funds. Planned Parenthood uses the same FOIA exemption (Exemption 4) that the Food Marketing Institute uses in order to prevent pro-life organizations from exposing the truth about how Planned Parenthood spends the $500 million in taxpayer dollars they receive a year. Exemption 4 covers “trade secrets and commercial or financial information obtained from a person [that is] privileged or confidential.” This allows government contractors like Planned Parenthood to deem all of their spending of taxpayer funds confidential. It’s “illogical,” according to ADF, because it negates the value and purpose of why the FOIA exists in the first place. Click here for more.

Planned Parenthood Outrageously Claims ‘No Medical Benefit’ to Abortion Pill Reversal

Dr. Meera Shah of Planned Parenthood (pictured) writes for Jezebel about “Shattering the ‘Abortion Reversal’ Myth.” Her column claims, “It is only a theory that has been introduced by anti-abortion activists and politicians to further attack access.” Shah doubles down, saying there is “no evidence that medication abortion reversal is possible.” Abortion Pill Reversal indicates studies reveal a 64-68 percent success rate. Plus there’s the fact that in 2016, 175 babies were saved by it.

There’s more lunacy with her writing, “[W]e do not expose people to potential risks for no medical benefit, so we would never recommend this as an option for patients.” What about the benefit to women who want to have their baby and the “medical benefit” to the baby who wouldn’t be aborted? It’s more accurate to say there’s “no… benefit” for Planned Parenthood. Click here for more.

Now there are Eight: Oklahoma Gov. Stitt signs Abortion Pill Reversal bill

On Thursday Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed SB 614 into law. Abortionists are now required to tell an abortion-minded woman at least 72 hours before her scheduled abortion that she might be able to reverse a “medication” [chemical/RU486] abortion, should she change her mind.  Oklahoma joins Arizona, Arkansas, South Dakota, Utah, Idaho, North Dakota, and Kentucky in assuring that women know that if they have second thoughts prior to taking the second set of pills, they have a solid chance of saving their babies. Click here for more.

Closely divided Montana Supreme Court upholds district court decision allowing non-physicians to perform early abortions

Voting 4-3, a divided Montana Supreme Court last Friday upheld a district court ruling “that allows a nurse practitioner and a nurse midwife to provide abortions while they challenge a state law that says only physicians and physician assistants can perform the procedure,” the Associated Press’s Amy Beth Hanson reported.  The Center for Reproductive Rights and the ACLU of Montana had filed the lawsuit last year.  Click here for more.

Dangerous Missouri Planned Parenthood sends 72nd patient to hospital

The “most dangerous” abortion facility in the nation, as some have dubbed it, sent its 72nd patient in ten years to the hospital on April 24, 2019. Most of the medical emergencies at Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region have been due to hemorrhaging after surgical abortions, reports pro-life watchdog group Operation Rescue. The most recent patient is believed to be an African-American woman. She was wheeled out of the center on a gurney to a waiting St. Louis Fire Department ambulance. A fire truck was also present at the scene.  Click here for more.

Kansas Supreme Court Rules State Constitution Protects Dismemberment Abortion

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled that the Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act (SB 95) violates the state constitution’s Bill of Rights, which they argue guarantees a “right” to abortion.  “Dismemberment abortion kills a living unborn baby by tearing her apart limb from limb,” said Ingrid Duran, National Right to Life director of state legislation. “It is unconscionable that the Kansas Supreme Court would allow living unborn babies to be killed in such a gruesome manner.”  Click here for more.

Bank of America Misled Customers, Investors on Direct Donations to Planned Parenthood

"2ndVote has released documentation challenging Bank of America's defense of its contributions to Planned Parenthood. In a letter recently obtained by 2ndVote, the president of the Bank of America Charitable Foundation apparently responded to a customer concerned with the bank's support for Planned Parenthood: 'Bank of America does not make any direct grants to Planned Parenthood.' Bank of America did contribute over $50,000 in what appears to be so-called 'matching gifts' to the abortion giant through its foundation in 2017."  Click here for more.