Biden Campaign Reportedly Vetting Pro-Abortion Sen. Klobuchar and Rep. Val Demings for VP

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Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden has yet to announce who his running mate will be, but various media outlets are now reporting that pro-abortion Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and pro-abortion Florida Rep. Val Demings are undergoing a vetting process for the position.

National Right to Life's count of Sen. Klobuchar's record shows that the senator consistently voted on the pro-abortion side 36 times out of the 36 opportunities she was given.

Regarding Rep. Demings, NRL News pointed out that she could help secure the important Florida vote during the election. She would also energize anti-Trump voters since she served as a House manager during the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.

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"AKA Jane Roe" Documentary to Cast Doubt on Norma McCorvey's Pro-Life Conversion

Norma McCorvey

A documentary by FX airing today is expected to portray that the "Jane Roe" of Roe v. Wade only pretended to become pro-life in exchange for financial gain, including a "deathbed confession" interview. Pro-life friends and onlookers alike are devastated at the news.

National Right to Life gave the following statement:

"Norma McCorvey, a woman who survived trauma and rejection that she experienced for most of her life, was welcomed and loved by the pro-life movement from the moment she entered it. It is with a heavy heart that we hear of a documentary that casts doubt on her intentions. 

Regardless of what she may or may not have said in the documentary, it does not take away from the truth about abortion or the fact that the foundation of Roe v. Wade was a lie. Norma McCorvey never had an abortion. She was used by pro-abortion attorneys to push a narrative that did not exist solely to challenge a Texas law that prohibited abortions except to save a mother’s life. 

Norma’s legacy in the pro-life movement remains. She showed the world that the abortion industry lied in 1973 and continues to lie to young women today."

Click here to read a response from Allan Parker, head counsel of McCorvey's effort to overturn Roe v. Wade.

Click here to read a response from Fr. Frank Pavone, head of Priests for Life who says he was close to McCorvey for decades.

Senators Urge DOJ to Investigate Planned Parenthood for Taking Coronavirus Relief Loans

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)

In response to reports claiming that Planned Parenthood affiliates took $80 million in federal loans under the CARES Act's Paycheck Protection Plan, 27 senators led by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) have signed a letter to the Department of Justice calling for an investigation into the matter.

The letter addressed to Attorney General William Barr includes the following excerpt:

“The implementing interim final rule, issued by the SBA on April 15, 2020, explicitly stated that the SBA’s affiliation rules apply to the new Paycheck Protection Program, which excludes organizations like Planned Parenthood that employ its type of governance and affiliation structure and exceed the cap on total employees. Trump administration officials were also quoted in public reports, explicitly clarifying that the SBA’s interim final rule ensured that no funds from the Paycheck Protection Program could go to Planned Parenthood.”

The letter also quoted Planned Parenthood's lobbying arm, Planned Parenthood Action, making it clear the abortion giant knew the funds were meant to exclude them: “The bill gives the Small Business Administration broad discretion to exclude Planned Parenthood affiliates and other non-profits serving people with low incomes and deny them benefits under the new small business loan program.”

A statement from Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s vice president of government relations and public policy, Jacqueline Ayers, claims that the organization did nothing wrong. “Like many other local nonprofits and health care providers, some independent Planned Parenthood 501(c)(3) organizations applied for and were awarded loans under the eligibility rules established by the CARES Act and the Small Business Administration (SBA), which they met,” she said.

If Planned Parenthood affiliates are found to have committed fraud when applying for small business loans, they could face legal consequences.

Click here to read the full text of the senators' letter, including the list of signatures.

Granite City Abortion Clinic Hospitalizes Second Patient in Six Weeks

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Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, IL, which hospitalized one of its patients on March 28, hospitalized yet another patient during the COVID-19 crisis on May 7.

In the most recent incident, a woman had a seizure during a surgical abortion procedure and required emergency transport to a hospital. To make the situation worse, the procedure was taking place on the second floor of the facility, and the elevator was out. This meant emergency personnel needed to carry the suffering patient downstairs before loading her into an ambulance.

Just like the previous incident, this patient was then transported to Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. There is an Illinois hospital directly across the street from Hope Clinic, but the abortion clinic presumably does not have admitting privileges there.



Sadly, a pro-life onlooker saw the same woman come back to the clinic the following day to complete a surgical abortion.

This marks the third time this blog has covered an Operation Rescue story about an Illinois clinic hospitalizing a woman during the COVID-19 pandemic (the second time for this clinic alone). Operation Rescue also wrote about an incident requiring the hospitalization of a woman at Family Planning Associates in Chicago on March 6. Chicago is by far the area hit hardest by COVID-19.

Abortion clinics should never have received special permission to remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic when real medical facilities were forced to remain closed under Governor Pritzker's orders. The governor did not have the best interest of his political allies in mind rather than the people of Illinois.

Click here to read the full story from Operation Rescue

Federal Government Demands Planned Parenthood Return $80 Million in Loans Meant for Small Business Relief During COVID-19

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Planned Parenthood took advantage of the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program(PPP) meant to assist businesses with fewer than 500 employees by taking over $80 million in loans from the Small Business Administration (SBA).

Planned Parenthood is obviously not a small business and should have been ineligible for those loans. “While each Planned Parenthood affiliate has fewer than 500 employees, nationwide it has over 16,000 employees,” a Trump administration official told the Daily Signal. “So when applying PPP’s affiliation rules neutrally, it’s clear that Planned Parenthood is one large employer and not eligible for PPP money.”

A Fox News report says the SBA will contact every Planned Parenthood affiliate that took loans to explain the rules and demand that the money back. The SBA also said that loan recipients could receive "severe penalties" if it was found that PPP recipients submitted fraudulent information when applying for funds.

Marco Rubio called for an investigation into the incident: “SBA should open an investigation into how these loans were made in clear violation of the applicable affiliation rules and if Planned Parenthood, the banks, or staff at the SBA knowingly violated the law, all appropriate legal options should be pursued.”

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Bioethicist Says Response to COVID-19 in Nursing Homes Exposes "Throwaway Culture"

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Fordham University Professor of Bioethics Charles C. Camosy decried America's response to vulnerable Americans contracting COVID-19 in nursing homes both in a Fox News and a followup piece in the New York Times.

Camosy pointed out that some estimates say roughly half of all COVID-19 deaths in the US have been nursing home residents. Despite both this and the fact that the first known outbreak occurred in a nursing home, "...we did not act. Personal protective equipment, special training and extra staff went almost exclusively to our critical care facilities. Nursing homes got virtually nothing. Well, that’s not entirely true. In New York and other places we gave them patients, and even nurses, infected with the virus."

Camosy dubbed America's culture surrounding nursing homes "throwaway culture," arguing conditions in nursing homes have been poor for some time.

The people that our society resigns to nursing homes cannot be forgotten and left to die. They deserve the same respect and dignity that every other life does, and the COVID-19 response needs to reflect that. State governors who forced COVID-19 into nursing homes while only providing relief to hospitals only prove that they have no desire to protect the most vulnerable. Hopefully, this crisis can prove as a turning point after which Americans will recognize the humanity of our elderly population and respect their right to life.

Click here to read Dr. Camosy's article.

President Trump Gives Pro-Abortion WHO 30 Days to "Demonstrate Independence from China" or Permanently Lose US Funding

President Donald Trump

On Monday, President Trump threatened to make his suspension of funding to the UN World Health Organization (WHO) permanent unless the organization "demonstrate[s] independence from China." The unsurprisingly pro-abortion arm of the UN will have 30 days to make changes before Trump permanently stops the US from sending $400 million in taxpayer funds yearly.

The president made the contents of his letter public in a tweet on Monday, stating, "This is the letter sent to Dr. Tedros of the World Health Organization. It is self-explanatory!"

This is the letter sent to Dr. Tedros of the World Health Organization. It is self-explanatory! pic.twitter.com/pF2kzPUpDv

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 19, 2020

“The only way forward for the World Health Organization is if it can actually demonstrate independence from China,” the letter states. “I cannot allow American taxpayer dollars to continue to finance an organization that, in its present state, is so clearly not serving America’s interests.”

While the decision was not made directly because of the WHO's pro-abortion stance, the loss in funding will hinder the organization's ability to spread the false idea that abortion is essential healthcare even when there is no longer a pandemic.

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USAID Acting Administrator Urges UN to Stop Using COVID-19 to Advance Abortion Agenda

USAID Administrator John Barsa

On May 18, John Barsa, the acting administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) sent a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres asking that the UN stop using its power to promote abortion in countries that do not want it.

Here is an excerpt from the letter (click here to read it in full):

"...Therefore, the UN should not use this crisis as an opportunity to advance access to abortion as an 'essential service.' Unfortunately, the Global HRP does just this, by cynically placing the provision of 'sexual and reproductive health services' on the same level of importance as food-insecurity, essential health care, malnutrition, shelter, and sanitation. Most egregious is that the Global HRP calls for the widespread distribution of abortion-inducing drugs and abortion supplies, and for the promotion of abortion in local country settings." 

"Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump, the United States has made clear that we will 'never tire of defending innocent life.' President Trump said in his address to the 74th UN General Assembly that the UN simply has 'no business attacking the sovereignty of nations that wish to protect innocent life.' Indeed, the UN should not intimidate or coerce Member States that are committed to the right to life. To use the COVID-19 pandemic as a justification to pressure governments to change their laws is an affront to the autonomy of each society to determine its own national policies on health care. The United States stands with nations that have pledged to protect the unborn."

National Right to Life came out with a statement yesterday applauding Barsa for challenging the UN's pro-abortion COVID-19 relief program. Click here to read more.

Planned Parenthood Starts $5 Million Ad Campaign Focused on Abortion Access During COVID-19

Planned Parenthood Action Fund is reportedly starting a $5 million advertising campaign criticizing states with policies that temporarily limit elective abortion during the COVID-19 outbreak.

NBC News reported that Planned Parenthood Action Fund campaign "includes digital, radio, mailers, and online organizing events in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. Almost all of these states are battlegrounds in the coming November election. Some of the ads laud politicians for the work they’ve done; others urge voters to call their representatives to push back."

Rachel Sussman, Planned Parenthood Action Fund's Vice President of State Policy and Advocacy, went on to tell NBC that this was only a starting point to help voters "connect the dots" about actions that restricted abortion access in their states.

While many states restricted access to elective surgeries during the COVID-19 pandemic (much to the detriment of hospitals that don't have enough emergency patients alone to make ends meet) only some states have classified elective abortion as non-essential. The goal of restricting non-essential surgeries was to slow the spread of COVID-19 and make sure sufficient medical supplies were available for hospitals treating sick patients.

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9th Circuit Revives Church's Lawsuit Against California for Requiring Health Plans to Cover Abortion

California State Capitol
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A three-judge panel from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided on May 13th to have a lower court rehear Skyline Wesleyan Church v. California Department of Managed Health Care.

This decision contradict's the lower court's previous decision against the church; requiring it to continue including abortion coverage in its health plans. Many argue the requirement is unconstitutional, and California has no right to require churches to include abortion coverage in their health plans. Even the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights warned the state of California that the federal government could withhold funding if California didn't "stop forcing people of good will to subsidize the taking of human life."

Here are notable excerpts from the 9th Circuit's decision:

"We hold that Skyline’s claim under the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment is justiciable. But we decline to exercise our discretion to reach the merits in the first instance and therefore remand to the district court for further proceedings... We hold that Skyline has suffered an injury in fact. Before the Letters were sent, Skyline had insurance that excluded abortion coverage in a way that was consistent with its religious beliefs. After the Letters were sent, Skyline did not have that coverage, and it has presented evidence that its new coverage violated its religious beliefs. There is nothing hypothetical about the situation."

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National Right to Life Asks Representatives to Oppose HEROES Act

National Right to Life President Carol Tobias

The National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) wrote a letter to legislators in the House of Representatives asking them to oppose H.R. 6800, the Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions Act, otherwise known as the HEROES Act. The NRLC accuses the bill of including excessive spending that will benefit an abortion industry that already appears to be thriving during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The letter includes three main points:

-"H.R. 6800 allows Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider to qualify for loans intended for small businesses."

-"H.R. 6800 issues grants to provide enhanced premium pay to certain categories of workers, and there is nothing barring abortion industry employees from receiving this additional money."

-"H.R. 6800 creates a $100 billion dollar fund called Health Care Provider Relief Fund and this money could flow to abortion providers."

To read the entire letter to U.S. legislators, click here.

9th Circuit Uphold's Trump Administration's "Protect Life" Title X Rule

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Last week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected abortion advocates' request to reconsider its ruling against a case challenging the Trump administration's "Protect Life Rule" for Title X funding.

The 9th Circuit made its decision in February after lifting a temporary injunction against the rule placed by a lower court. Pro-abortion groups have requested that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reconsider the case with a different panel of 11 judges or all 29 9th Circuit judges, but this request was rejected.

“The full court has been advised of the petitions, and no judge has requested a vote on whether to rehear the matter as a full court,” the judges wrote in their denial.

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New Planned Parenthood Clinic Opens in Waukegan, IL

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A new Planned Parenthood clinic has opened to the public in Waukegan, IL, apparently financed by Planned Parenthood donations.

Jennifer Welch, President and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Illinois, gave this statement in a press release: “The Covid-19 pandemic created a growing urgency for increased access to essential health care in the region. I’m proud that PPIL is able to open our doors to help area residents seeking high-quality sexual and reproductive health care.”

The press release further states that the Waukegan clinic will provide abortion medication, but it does not mention surgical abortions.

Planned Parenthood is very fortunate to be able to open new facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many businesses have been required to temporarily close their doors, and for some that closure has become permanent since they have no income to sustain themselves. This is yet another instance of the Illinois government's favoritism benefiting the abortion industry financially.

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Aurora, IL Planned Parenthood Hospitalizes Patient During COVID-19 Lockdown

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Last month a Planned Parenthood Clinic in Illinois hospitalized a woman after harming her in an elective procedure. Illinois clinics take advantage of the fact that Illinois's state government grants them special treatment, and that has continued during the COVID-19 outbreak.

On April 22, a packed Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora, IL had a patient picked up by an ambulance due to hemorrhaging caused by an elective surgical abortion procedure.



“It’s irrational that the hospital was barred from conducting elective surgical procedures, while abortion facilities are allowed to do elective surgical abortions without so much as a limit on the number of people in the facility,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue, the organization that provided the above video. “Abortion facilities are treated as if they are more important than hospitals or anything else. Businesses and churches were forced to close, but abortion facilities remain open with the blessing of Democrat Gov. Pritzker.”

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Indiana Abortion Clinic Reportedly Committing Surgical Abortions Without a License

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Center for Medical Progress Video

A report discovered by pro-life advocates exposes that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Indiana is committing surgical abortions without a license by getting help from an abortionist shown in one of the Center for Medical Progress's undercover videos.

Tippecanoe County Right to Life reviewed two Termination of Pregnancy Reports showing that Lafayette Planned Parenthood in Lafayette, Indiana committed two surgical abortions on March 5,2020. Lafayette Planned Parenthood is only licensed for chemical abortions, so these abortions occurred without the state officials making sure the clinic was properly equipped.

Tippecanoe County Right to Life board member Kevin Niebrugge filed complaints with the Indiana Attorney General’s Office and the Indiana State Department of Health. Regarding the abortions, he said, “The Lafayette Planned Parenthood facility is not licensed to do surgical abortions, because their facility is not set up to meet the physical building and safety standards required for surgical abortions.”

The person who signed the Termination of Pregnancy Reports was Dr. Deborah Nucatola, who was filmed by pro-life undercover journalists while discussing how she harvests fetal body parts from aborted children, sometimes altering the abortion procedure to do so.

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David Daleiden and CMP File Lawsuit Against Pro-Abortion Forces for Conspiracy to Violate Constitutional Rights

David Daleiden
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A team of undercover journalists working for the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) was recently found guilty of violating California law by recording supposedly private conversations and showing the world that Planned Parenthood abortionists altered abortion procedures to harvest body parts from aborted babies and make a profit. Now, the CMP is filing a suit against pro-abortion organizations and California officials for conspiring to violate their first and fourteenth amendment rights.

The lawsuit reads:

“David Daleiden became the first journalist ever to be criminally prosecuted under California’s recording law, not because of the method of video recording he utilized in his investigation — which is common in investigative journalism in this state — but because his investigation revealed and he published ‘shock[ing]’ content that California’s Attorney General and the private party co-conspirators wanted to cover up. Defendants seek their ‘pound of flesh’ from Mr. Daleiden and to chill other journalists from investigating and reporting on that same content.”

The defendants in the lawsuit include:

• The Planned Parenthood Federation of America
• Former CA Attorney General Kamala Harris
• Current CA Attorney General Xavier Becerra
• The National Abortion Federation
• StemExpress- An organization that trafficks in fetal body parts to sell for medical research
• Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California

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BBC Uses Woman's Out-of-State Elective Abortion to Argue States Should Not Restrict Abortion During COVID-19

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In an article titled: "Coronavirus: Texas banned abortions - how did that affect women?" BBC News used a woman who traveled out of state to get an elective abortion for her child who was diagnosed with a condition called skeletal dysplasia as an argument for why elective abortion should be available during a pandemic when many other services remain restricted or unavailable.

The woman the article references says she was told by doctors that skeletal dysplasia was “incompatible with life” and they would die upon birth, but not all instances of skeletal dysplasia are deadly. There are many mutations of it, and it is even possible for doctors to misdiagnose them. BBC may be arguing that the child would have died anyway, and this woman's inability to legally abort her child in the state of Texas caused her emotional trauma, but there can always be a chance that the child would survive the pregnancy. Now the mother has to live with the fact that her child wasn't given a chance at all in addition to knowing they were diagnosed with a harmful condition.

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"The Price is Right" Donates over $97,000 to Planned Parenthood

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On Monday night, the popular game show "The Price is Right" hosted a special episode featuring celebrity drag queen RuPaul. While RuPaul did not play, he did choose a charity to which the game show donated money equal to the value of the prizes contestants won. That "charity" was Planned Parenthood.

All three contestants won their respective games during that show (two of them winning cars), making the total winnings for contestants that night $97,266 according to Yahoo! Entertainment. The Yahoo article describes Planned Parenthood as an organization that "has provided much needed medical support to communities for over 100 years."

Planned Parenthood is not a charity. It is a business that earns its profits by killing innocent unborn humans. Planned Parenthood continues to receive increased funding from private donations and several states since it chose to refuse federal Title X funding. The Trump administration requires organizations receiving Title X funding to not recommend or provide abortion to pregnant women. They also cannot co-locate with organizations that do provide abortions.

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Doctors Refused to See Pregnant Woman Because of COVID-19 Pandemic. She Died Shortly After Giving Birth.

Screenshot from Amber Isaac's Twitter account

First-time mother Amber Isaac died early on the morning of April 21 at Montefiore Medical Center after giving birth to her son during an emergency C-section. New York doctors refused to see her for a month even though her partner attests that her condition was worsening since February.

“She had mentioned to me that she feels like she’s not gonna make it,” McIntyre told The City. “And I would try my best to cheer her up. She would tell her mom she’s really glad the baby is healthy, but she’s scared that she’s not gonna make it.”

After her family insisted that doctors see her, she was allowed to have a checkup in April, when doctors diagnosed her with HELLP syndrome. The condition is deadly if left untreated, so doctors at Montefiore Medical Center performed a C-section to end Isaac's pregnancy (note that this process is significantly faster than an abortion) and begin treatment. Sadly, the mother died after the C-section and was never able to see her child.

“As soon as they took the baby out, her heart stopped,” McIntyre said.

Isaac tweeted four days before her death that she would write a "tell-all" about her experience with Montefiore Medical Center after everything was over. 

The hospital's refusal to see her before the last minute is a deadly display of the effect healthcare rationing can have, especially on disadvantaged and minority populations with few options.

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California Doctor Criticizes State Governments for Taking Some Rights Away While Allowing Abortions During COVID-19 Pandemic

California Governor Gavin Newsom
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“I'm here representing thousands of physicians around the country, whose voices must be heard,” said Dr. Jeffrey Barke at a California rally in opposition to government overreach during the COVID-19 pandemic. “I'm here representing thousands of physicians across the country whose voices are being silenced because we don’t agree with the mainstream media and the experts who are telling us what to do.”

Dr. Barke criticized the California state government picking and choosing which actions citizens can take during the pandemic. “Never in the history of this country have we been told that you can’t go to church because it’s ‘non-essential’ but you can go get an abortion because that’s ‘essential,’” he said. Dr. Barke also pointed out that liquor stores and pot dispensaries were allowed to remain open while citizens with other businesses were forced to remain closed.

The Illinois state government faces all the same criticisms. It allows abortionists to continue providing elective surgical abortion while other businesses are forced to stay closed or provide their services in a much more limited capacity.

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