Florida Abortionist Commits Abortion on Wrong Patient

An abortionist was found guilty and sentenced to pay a $10,000 fine for completing a surgical abortion on the wrong woman in December of 2017. He did not follow the standard medical procedure of checking to see if he was performing the correct operation on the correct patient. The standard procedure, known as the "pause" or "time out" rule, requires medical professionals to recheck this information whenever they exit and re-enter a room during surgery.

The doctor believed that this procedure did not apply to abortion procedures, and his ignorance caused him to carry out surgical abortion procedures on the wrong patient. This conduct is inexcusable and is yet another example of how the abortion industry doesn't actually care for the women who come into its facilities as people, just as dollar signs. Click here for more.

Parts of Missouri Abortion Ban Blocked by Judge

Planned Parenthood and the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging a Missouri law that bans all abortions after 8,14,18, and 20 weeks of pregnancy except in cases where the life of the mother is at risk. It includes several other provisions not challenged in the lawsuit, including increased tax credits for donations to pregnancy clinics and bans on abortions committed due to the race, sex, medical diagnosis of the child. Interestingly, in the event that Roe v. Wade is overturned, the law is built to automatically prohibit all abortions in the state of Missouri.

The Missouri Stands for the Unborn Act was designed to restrict abortion as much as possible without challenging the ruling in Roe vs. Wade according to Nick Schroer, one of the bill's sponsors. Planned Parenthood and the ACLU's challenge is based on the accusation that it still conflicts with the Supreme Court Ruling. The eight-week ban is the only part of the law that is being challenged in court and has been suspended until a final ruling is made, but the rest of the law can still be enforced. Click here for more.

Video: Beto O'Rourke Answers Question About Whether a Life Has Value the Day Before Birth, "That's a Decision for the Woman to Make"

On the night of August 26th, Democrat presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke held a rally in Charleston, South Carolina. O'Rourke took several questions from attendees during the event, and one came from a young man with concerns about a recent statement O'Rourke had made about abortion. His question was this: "I was born on September 8th, 1989, and I want to know if you think on September 7th, 1989 my life had no value." In response, Beto had this to say: "This is a decision that neither you nor I nor the United States Government should be making. That's a decision for the woman to make."

By this statement, Beto is saying that it is acceptable for a woman to have an abortion at any time in her pregnancy up until the moment of birth as long as she believes it is ok. This is an alarming stance that is all too common in the Democratic presidential field today. Click here or watch the video below to view the full exchange.

No matter how you ask the question, my answer will be the same: The decision of whether or not to get an abortion is one neither I nor the United States government should be making. That's a decision for the woman to make. pic.twitter.com/0AcwfGQ1dr

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) August 27, 2019

More Details of Medical Malpractice from Planned Parenthood of Arizona

In the ongoing fallout from Mayra Rodriguez's victorious lawsuit against Planned Parenthood of Arizona, it has come to light that a doctor routinely forced medical assistants to falsify paperwork stating that an abortion had been completed successfully before he had even begun the procedures. By not having medical assistants verify that the abortion had been completed afterward, the doctor put the health (and even lives) of vulnerable women at risk. Women who undergo partial abortions are likely to become infertile or develop life-threatening infections.

Mayra Rodriguez won $3 million in her lawsuit against Planned Parenthood of Arizona. Pregnant women considering their options during an unplanned pregnancy should take note that not all pregnancy clinics have their best interests in mind. Life-affirming clinics not only protect the lives of preborn children, but they don't have the medical risks that abortions do. Click here for more.

Women's Equality Day: Abortion Only Hurts Women

On Women's Equality Day, there is time to reflect on the great advancements culture has made in the realm of Women's rights. Women have fought and won the rights to vote, receive equal pay, and hold positions of political power. Roe vs. Wade provides women the right to have an abortion if they choose to do so. But has that really improved the lives of women?

The effects that abortion has had on women would argue the contrary. Abortion has targeted female preborn children more than males due to sexist ideology. Abortion leads to increases in human trafficking and depression. It is used as a tool to control women since they feel forced to have abortions to participate in society when pregnancy comes at particularly important times in life, such as right before a young woman would normally go to college. Abortion is an overly simplistic solution to a complex problem. Click here for more.

US Prepares to Fight EU Over Abortion Policy at Global Summit Next Month

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In preparation for a global health summit in September, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar sent a joint letter to foreign governments asking for support in an upcoming battle over abortion. The European Union recently rejected a United Nations agreement on global health because it did not make a statement declaring abortion an international right.

The US and EU are arguing over the specific definition of "sexual and reproductive health" in previous UN legislation. The United States wants to make the definition of this phrase specific so that it does not include abortion, while EU ambassadors favor a vague definition that grants abortion rights. Click here for more.

Pro-Abortion Writer Tells Horrifying Stories from Abortion Pill Users

A pro-abortion writer from Vice recently wrote an article detailing horrifying stories from women (including herself) who had complications when using abortion pills. In the end, she stubbornly comes to the conclusion that her abortion was "was the right thing for both me and the potential child," but the article still serves as a chilling reminder of the potential harm abortions can cause to women and the lack of information given to vulnerable women who go to pregnancy clinics. 

Women gave stories involving contractions, bleeding, vomiting, and needing to go perform surgical abortions instead of waiting for a "miscarriage." According to Vice's source, Dr. Yvonne Neubauer, 95% of medically induced abortions are, “successful in causing the complete passage of the retained product," which means the remain 1-in-20 women experienced similar complications. Perhaps not a high rate, but still an unpleasant one considering the suffering caused to women in positions in which they feel the need to have abortions, let alone the preborn children who are killed. Click here for more.

South African Doctors Refuse to Perform Abortions Despite Advocacy Efforts

Abortion has been legal in South Africa since the Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act passed in 1996. In spite of this, only 7% of pregnancy clinics in the country will perform abortions. On top of this, very few doctors at the 93% of clinics that don't perform abortions are willing to refer patients to clinics that will.

Pregnancy clinics and individual doctors most often refuse to perform abortion procedures due to religious beliefs, which is entirely legal. Polling shows that the culture in South Africa tends to share those beliefs. Religious organizations are working to provide women in need with alternatives to abortion, and the country as a whole serves as an example that it is possible to win the culture war. Click here for more.

Vermont Health Commissioner Says Vermont Taxpayers Will Make Up For Lost Title X Funding

After Planned Parenthood chose to give up Federal Funding from Title X rather than comply with a new rule requiring family planning organizations that receive funding to distance themselves from abortion practices, it took a large hit. In an attempt to make up some of the money it will lose, it turned to fundraising, but Vermont Health Commissioner Mark Levine has brought up another disquieting alternative.  According to him, Vermont taxpayers will make up the funds that local clinics lost.

If pro-abortion legislators and government officials move to increase state funding of abortion facilities, the pro-life victory of Title X could be for nothing. We will soon see if more states try to make this move. Click here for more.

Abortion Pill Reversal Can Stop Chemical Abortions

A new study finds that the use of the hormone progesterone, which is important to a healthy pregnancy, can help prevent the death of a preborn child in the case that the chemical abortion process has already begun. “Women who change their minds after starting a medication abortion now have a second chance at choice,” said George Delgado, one of the study’s authors. At least 750 lives have been saved through the use of abortion pill reversal (APR).

In addition, several states have passed APR informed consent laws which help notify women seeking abortion of this life-saving option. Click here for more.

Amazon Studios Releases Documentary Showing the Tragedies of China's One-Child Policy

A new Amazon Studios documentary shows the horrible damage caused by China's enforcement of its one-child policy. In it, families describe the horrors of having government officials forcefully take children away. Female children were abandoned, killed, or sent away to orphanages so that families could try again to get a male child. Abortions, killings, and human trafficking rose. You can watch the trailer above or click here to see if the film is playing near you.

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Court Upholds Denial of Ohio Abortion Clinic's License. Forced to Close

On August 22, The Women's Med Center of Dayton ran out of options to appeal a court decision that would close the facility. The Department of Health had denied them a license for not meeting regulations. The Women's Med Center went to court and lost, but was able to continue operating until they had exhausted all of their appeal options. On Wednesday, the Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear the case, thereby finalizing the decision.

The facility was unable to "maintain privileges at a local hospital. Instead, it applied for a variance that would have allowed it to substitute a hospital transfer agreement in lieu of hospital privileges." No hospital would enter an agreement with the clinic because of the number of hospitalizations and complications it had a history of causing. Click here for more.

Child Born with 2% Brain Capacity Develops at Near Normal Rate after Parents Reject Pressure to Abort

Doctors had told parents of now 4-year old Noah Wall that if he were to be born, he would end up developing to have half of a normal brain, and that wasn't even Noah's only health problem: “These included spina bifida – a condition which prevents the spine from developing properly – rare chromosome abnormalities and hydrocephalus.” Despite all of that, parents Rob and Shelly Wall decided to go through with the pregnancy and are delighted by their son's progress. "Miraculously he kept on growing, and so did his brain, which by the age of three, scans showed had grown to 80 percent capacity. Now at the age of six, he has learned to talk and is hoping to be able to walk, surf and ski with the help of a pioneering clinic in Australia."

While Noah is still unable to walk, his parents are hopeful that he will, and are determined to help him fulfill his dreams. Click here for more.

Former Planned Parenthood Employee Wins $3 Million in Damages. Was Fired for Reporting Injuries Caused by Doctor.

A former employee from Planned Parenthood Arizona recently won a lawsuit against the organization that fired her. She attempted to report a doctor who developed a history of injuring women during abortion procedures but found that her superiors valued their relationship with the doctor in question more than the safety of the women coming in to have abortions. According to the Mayra Rodriguez, the fired employee, patients were “suffering far more substantial post-abortion surgery complications and problems than the patients who underwent abortion surgery by or with the other PPA physicians.”

It is appalling that it takes a lawsuit from a former employee for a doctor like this who repeatedly hurts mothers in addition to their preborn children to be acknowledged, let alone held accountable for their actions. Click here for more.

Unplanned Actress Ashley Bratcher Creates Scholarship Fund for Women with Unplanned Pregnancies

After the success of the recent film Unplanned, made by the writers and producers of God's Not Dead, lead actress Ashley Bratcher is partnering with Heartbeat International to help women with unplanned pregnancies pursue education while being a mom. "...Not only will the scholarship financially support the decision of mothers to continue their education, but it will also connect them to an organization that will support them throughout their pregnancy and beyond.”

You can donate the scholarship fund here.

The film tells the story of Abby Johnson, a former clinic director for Planned Parenthood who became a pro-life activist after a traumatic experience watching an abortion through ultrasound. Abby Johnson tells her story in a book also named Unplanned.

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Planned Parenthood Loses Federal Funding after Leaving Title X

On August 19th, Planned Parenthood made the announcement that it would pull out from the Title X federal family planning program rather than comply with a new Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics who receive funding from the Title X program from referring patients to abortion providers. They believe it is more important for them to be able to offer abortions to patients than to receive funding from this program. To comply, the organization would have had to make a “good faith effort” to abide by the new rule before the 19th.

Title X provided $60 million of federal funding yearly to planned parenthood, but it still receives far more from Medicaid in addition to other federal and state sources. Planned Parenthood is attempting to make up for some of the lost federal dollars through fundraising, but they know that it won’t be nearly the same. Click here for more.

Their facility has seriously injured dozens of women. And Planned Parenthood just gave them an award.

Planned Parenthood just bestowed “Media Excellence” awards upon various Planned Parenthood-friendly journalists, as well as the highest “Care. No Matter What” award to staff associated with Reproductive Health Services Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, Missouri. The facility has had more than six dozen medical emergencies in the past ten years, and put women’s lives at risk due to failed abortions. The Media Excellence awards, previously named the “Maggie Award,” or the “Margaret Sanger” award, after eugenicist founder Margaret Sanger, was recently changed without fanfare or explanation.

Despite the dangers the facility may pose to women, and the state health department’s decision not to issue the facility a license, a commissioner has just granted Planned Parenthood another reprieve, allowing the unlicensed abortion vendor to continue providing abortion services until a hearing set for August 1.  Click here for more.

Pregnant Alabama woman shot in stomach loses baby and is indicted for manslaughter

In a highly unusual case, an Alabama woman has been indicted for manslaughter after her preborn baby died from a gunshot wound… and she wasn’t the one who pulled the trigger.

According to news reports, Marshae Jones, 27, got into an altercation with another woman over Jones’ baby’s father. CNN notes that Pleasant Grove police Lt. Danny Reid said the other woman, Ebony Jemison, “react[ed] [to] defend herself” with a gun. Reid said, “It was the mother of the child who initiated and continued the fight which resulted in the death of her own unborn baby…. The investigation showed that the only true victim in this was the unborn baby.” A grand jury declined to indict Jemison, instead bringing charges against Jones for the death of her five-month-old preborn baby, a girl. Jones has another daughter at home, age six, reports the New York Times. Click here for more.

France’s top court decides brain-damaged Vincent Lambert must die

The French Court of Cassation has decided that Vincent Lambert (pictured), France’s Terri Schiavo, must die.

At the end of a whirlwind procedure, it published its arrest of cassation at 5 p.m. Friday in Paris, agreeing with the French state that the administration had in no way violated the tetraplegic, brain-damaged young man’s rights by a form of legal “assault” in refusing to sustain his life regardless of provisional measures demanded by the UN Committee for the Protection of Disabled Persons (CDPH).

The stopping of his food and hydration can “resume” immediately, according to the mainstream media.  Click here for more.

Supreme Court will not hear challenge to decision overturning Alabama law banning the dismemberment of living unborn children

The Supreme Court denied Alabama’s petition to review a decision that overturned the state’s ban on the dismemberment of living unborn babies.

The 2016 law never went into effect. In July 2016, an enthusiastically pro-abortion trial judge issued a temporary restraining order against Alabama’s Unborn Child Protection from Dismemberment Abortion Act (SB 363) before ruling it unconstitutional in 2017.

Last August, a sympathetic appeals court panel reluctantly upheld U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson’s decision.

While Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas concurred with the decision in Harris v. West Alabama Women’s Center not to hear the appeal, he pointedly observed, “The notion that anything in the Constitution prevents States from passing laws prohibiting the dismembering of a living child is implausible. But under the ‘undue burden’ standard adopted by this court, a restriction on abortion — even one limited to prohibiting gruesome methods — is unconstitutional if ‘the purpose or effect of the provision is to place a substantial obstacle in the path of a woman seeking an abortion before the fetus attains viability.’ ”  Click here for more.