June 24, 2020

Abortion Clinic Hospitalizes Two Women After Botching Two Late-Term Abortions

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An abortion clinic in Bethesda, Maryland has recently come under fire for hospitalizing two women after botching late-term abortions. An anonymous whistleblower spoke out to Operation Rescue to describe the horrific incidents, which involved the body parts of aborted children being shoved through their mothers' uterine walls and into their abdominal cavities.

CARE abortion clinic hospitalized the women on May 12 and May 21, just nine days apart. Ironically, the woman hospitalized in the first incident left the hospital the same day that the CARE clinic hospitalized the second woman.

According to the whistleblower, both incidents involved dilation and evacuation dismemberment abortions that went wrong. Both women bled profusely and required several units of blood transfusion to save their lives. 

In the first incident, several body parts belonging to the aborted child were shoved through a tear in the mother's uterus, including a leg that was intact from the hip down. This woman's internal damage to her bowels was so severe that she received a bowel resection and needed to stay in the hospital for nine days after the incident.

The second hospitalization was similar but involved the body of a fetus that was almost fully intact. Somehow, the abortionist had forced the majority of the child through the uterine wall when attempting an abortion. The whistleblower was particularly upset about the amount of force the abortionist would have had to use to push the entire body of the fetus into the abdominal cavity.

Concerned parties have called on HHS Secretary Alex Azar to investigate injuries caused by the CARE facility.

Aurora Planned Parenthood Worker Fumbles 911 Call for Unresponsive Patient

Planned Parenthood in Aurora, IL
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On May, 27, a woman who just had an abortion at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Aurora, Illinois, a patient was lying unresponsive. One worker picked up the phone to dial 911 and have an ambulance pick up the patient, whom the clinic was seemingly responsible for injuring. The conversation that followed showed a complete lack of competence in the Planned Parenthood employee to convey simple and vital information to an emergency dispatcher.



The Planned Parenthood employee did not provide the street address for the clinic, despite being asked for it twice. The 911 dispatcher eventually had to look up the address herself and move on with the call to gather more information. The next exchange could be considered comical if there wasn't an injured woman in need of emergency medical assistance. The dispatcher asks the caller, "Who needs the ambulance?" To which the employee replied, "Yes." The dispatcher has to ask multiple times to get any information from the Planned Parenthood employee, wasting valuable time that could be used to help the unconscious patient.

Click here to read more from Operation Rescue.

June 23, 2020

World's Youngest Surviving Preemie Goes Home After Birth at 21 Weeks Gestation

Jemarius Jachin Harbor Jr.
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In December of last year, Jemarius Jachin Harbor Jr. was born at just 21 weeks gestation and weighed only 13 ounces. Now, Jemarius has successfully graduated from the NICU and will be going home with his family after receiving medical support from hospital staff.

Jemarius's parents Jessica McPherson and Jemarius Harbor Senior must have been aware that prematurely-born children are denied care by medical professionals regularly for being "non-viable," because they recalled speaking with staff at Emory Decatur Hospital in Georgia to plead for help.

“We looked at each other in the eye and I told [the doctor] just give it a try,” McPherson said to Fox5. “I just want you to try. As long as you try that’s all that matters to me. Don’t just up and say that you can’t do it. Just ‘cause you haven’t done it doesn’t mean it can’t be done.”

Before Jemarius, the record for the youngest surviving prematurely-born child was 21 weeks and four days. Jemarius broke that record by four days, proving that younger and younger children have a chance at survival if ever-improving medical professionals attempt to help.

June 22, 2020

Tennessee Legislature Passes Bill Banning Abortion after Heartbeat Detection or for Discriminatory Reasons

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee
In the early hours of Friday morning last week, the Tennessee Senate passed House Bill 2263. If signed into law by pro-life Gov. Bill Lee, who has already voiced his support of the legislation, it would ban both the abortion of children who have detectable heartbeats and the abortion of children due to their race, sex, or diagnosis with Down syndrome.

The bill also requires physicians to take several steps to inform women about their unborn children before they complete an abortion. Women who complete abortions will need to confirm that physicians offered to show them ultrasound images of their children and let them listen to their heartbeats if they are detectable. This may sound confusing since the bill already bans the abortion of children with detectable heartbeats, but the bill was cleverly designed with layers of protection for the unborn that will hopefully remain standing if certain elements of the legislation don't survive in court. The ACLU has already stated that it plans to challenge the law, so the additional protections may prove necessary.

According to The Tennessean, the bill goes on to ban abortion at 10, 12, 15, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 weeks of gestation if courts strike down the ban on abortion when a heartbeat is detected. These layers not only provide additional protection for unborn children, but they force judges to specifically define exactly what gestational age they believe is acceptable if they do try to take protections away.

June 19, 2020

Missouri Woman Saves Her Unborn Child with Abortion Pill Reversal

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Pregnancy Help News published the story on their website of a Missouri woman this week, telling how she came to save her child with abortion pill reversal after she took Mifepristone, the first part of the abortion pill regimen.

The woman, whom the article refers to as "April" was convinced by her boyfriend to have an abortion despite her initial objection. 

“Her boyfriend started pressuring her to have an abortion about two weeks after she found out she was pregnant,” said Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC) of Rolla Executive Director Joseph Dalton. “He said she was ruining his life. That it was her fault.”

He even threatened to take her to court to take custody of the child away from her if she did decide to give birth.

April traveled to Hope Clinic in Granite City, Illinois to obtain a chemical abortion (abortion pills), but she immediately felt regret after taking Mifepristone, the first part of the abortion pill regimen. Luckily, her Google searches led her to Heartbeat International's abortion pill reversal hotline. Nurses with the Abortion Pill Rescue Network and the PRC of Rolla helped April acquire Progesterone, which can reverse the effects of Mifepristone.

Mifepristone kills an unborn child by blocking a pregnant mother's natural progesterone, which helps the mother's body provide oxygen and nutrients to her child. By taking more progesterone quickly, pregnant mothers may be able to save their child by restoring the normal flow of sustenance from the mother's body to the child.

April and her child are now happy and healthy. She expects to give birth to a boy this fall.

Kentucky Attorney General Asks Full 6th Circuit to Hear Dismemberment Abortion Ban Case

Kentucky Attorney General
Daniel Cameron
Earlier this week, Pro-life Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron asked the full 6th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear the case involving a Kentucky law banning dismemberment abortion.

A three-judge panel on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a district judge's permanent injunction against Kentucky's dismemberment abortion ban, which would have banned a common method of abortion which involves tearing individual limbs off an unborn child to remove them from a mother's body, usually before the child is killed. This means that the children suffer great pain and die in their mother's wombs by bleeding out. Abortionists choose this method of abortion when an unborn child has grown too large for a mother to safely abort the child via the abortion pill regimen or vacuum aspiration.

The three-judge panel from the 6th Circuit found that Kentucky's ban on this method of abortion was “unduly burdening the right to elect abortion,” but Attorney General Cameron tendered a petition for the full Appeals Court to rehear the case.

“We’re exhausting every possible option to ensure that this law continues to be defended and is ultimately enforced,” said Attorney General Cameron in a statement. “The law extends compassion and dignity to the unborn by ensuring they are not subjected to the horror and pain of the dismemberment process while still alive. We would never allow the dismemberment of any other living being, and we are going to continue fighting, all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary, so that it can’t happen to unborn children.”

June 18, 2020

Pro-Abortion Org Founder Tells Reporters 9/11 Terrorist Attack "Saved" Abortion Drug Mifepristone

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Beverly Winikoff was the Director for Reproductive Health for the pro-abortion Population Council during the time when the abortion drug Mifepristone had recently been approved by the FDA. In a recent interview with Columbia University journalists, she said that the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 "saved" the abortion pill by covering up a news story that could have created a lot of controversy for the abortion drug.

"I remember the first day we heard about a death [from the abortion pill]," Beverly told the reporters. "It was September 10, 2001… And that’s [the 9/11 terrorist attack] what saved mifepristone."

"And that was like, existential, like, ‘Oh my God. What is going on?’ And ‘is this going to be a problem?’ … Planned Parenthood was very worried and was thinking of taking [the abortion pill] out of its clinics. And this was after it was registered."

A Canadian woman died after taking the abortion pill during Canada's clinical trials on Sept. 10. She developed a bacterial infection called Clostridium sordellii after completing her abortion.

It's also interesting to see that Planned Parenthood considered ending its use of the pill after this story broke. Planned Parenthood has only moved toward more radical positions on abortion over time, however. When once it may have accepted legislation preventing discriminatory abortions or adding protective measures for women seeking abortions. Planned Parenthood recently demanded that abortion clinics remain open to provide elective abortions when other elective surgeries were prohibited due to the pandemic. It has been exposed for harvesting the body parts of aborted children so they can be sold to researchers.

Mississippi Legislature Passes "Life Equality Act" Banning Discriminatory Abortions

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Mississippi legislators voted to pass the "Life Equality Act" early this week, and it will soon be sent to pro-life Democrat Gov. Tate Reeves to be signed. The bill would make it illegal for a physician to abort an unborn child simply because the parents take issue with the child's race, gender, or possible genetic abnormality.

“We are simply saying all these rights that have been won over the years in the area of racism or sexism should be applied to the unborn in Mississippi,” said Mississippi Senator Joey Fillingane.

Surprisingly few states have passed this common-sense legislation. According to the Guttmacher Institute, nine states have banned abortion based on an unborn child's sex, two have banned it based on their race and two have banned abortion in cases when doctors believe the child may have a genetic abnormality. Missouri is the only state which has successfully banned abortion in all three cases. Kentucky has also passed legislation to do this, but a court order put it on hold, preventing it from coming into effect.

June 17, 2020

Iowa State Legislature Passes 24-Hour Waiting Period for Abortions

Iowa State Capitol
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Last weekend, legislators in Iowa passed a bill to require a 24-hour waiting period for women seeking abortions. By requiring that abortion appointments be scheduled at least 24 hours in advance, legislators hope women will take the time to think about this incredibly important decision, thereby saving innocent lives.

The Iowa House voted 53-42 to approve the bill, and the Senate approved the measure with a 31-16 vote on party lines.

According to the Des Moines Register, State Rep. Sandy Salmon, R-Janesville said, “Waiting periods help ensure that decisions are made not under duress and not under undue influences. It’s the hope that after taking time to consider it, a woman would choose life over death.”

Pro-life Gov. Kim Reynolds is expected by many to sign the bill into law but has not yet done so at the time of writing.

June 16, 2020

Abortion Clinic Hospitalizes Woman with Overdose of Pain Killers

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An abortion clinic in Michigan hospitalized a woman last month during an abortion procedure by administering an overdose of painkilling medication, causing her to fall unconscious and remain unresponsive on multiple attempts to revive her.

According to the 911 call recording obtained by Operation Rescue, the clinic attempted to administer the drug Racan, which is used to counteract opioid overdoses, but the 25-year old African American patient remained unresponsive.

“Medical emergencies will continue at this troubled abortion facility until Michigan authorities find the will to shut them down,” said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. “How many scandals, criminal violations, and botched abortions are needed before Michigan decides this abortion facility is just too dangerous to operate?”

Planned Parenthood Officially Endorses Joe Biden for President

Presidential Candidate Joe Biden
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In a statement released on their website alongside a video, Planned Parenthood finally made its support of presumed presidential candidate Joe Biden official yesterday.

The statement praised Joe Biden for his role in the affordable care act and his pro-abortion voting record, saying: 

"Joe Biden was instrumental in the creation of the Affordable Care Act, expanding birth control with no co-pay to nearly 63 million women, and helping to ensure that sexual and reproductive health care was accessible across the country. Biden has pledged to fight to not just protect but also expand access to sexual and reproductive health care, and he left the Senate in 2009 with a 100% voting record from Planned Parenthood Action Fund."

 In a clip from the video posted with the statement, Biden said, “As President, I’m going to do everything in my power to expand access to quality, affordable health care, including reproductive health care. I’m proud to stand with Planned Parenthood in this fight.”

The statement goes on to say that one of the reasons Planned Parenthood is endorsing Biden is that he has promised to repeal the Hyde amendment, which in theory should prevent federal funds from being used to pay for abortion. This has been circumvented in multiple ways since its passage, but it has at least made it more difficult for federal funds to make their way into Planned Parenthood's pockets. If it is repealed, abortion businesses could become much richer.

June 15, 2020

HHS Protects Doctors' Right to Object to Abortion and Gender Reassignment

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The Department of Health and Human Services put in place a new rule that will protect doctors' right to object to certain morally questionable procedures based on their conscience. The rule makes it clear that objecting to abortion and gender reassignment procedures is not an act of sex-based discrimination.

“HHS will enforce Section 1557 by returning to the government’s interpretation of sex discrimination according to the plain meaning of the word ‘sex’ as male or female and as determined by biology,” said an HHS announcement.

Eight states and several healthcare providers challenged the Obama-era definition of sex-discrimination issued by the HHS in 2016. This culminated in Judge Reed O’Connor issuing a nationwide preliminary injunction against the regulation, finding that it violated the religious freedom of medical professionals. This injunction was never appealed. Now, the problematic regulations are no longer in place.

June 12, 2020

UN Members Ignore US Motion Blocking Abortion Promotion in Emergency Aid

A Morocco delegate steering negotiations regarding UN humanitarian assistance during emergencies (such as COVID-19) ignored a declaration from the US that should have blocked the legislation. The US objected because the current draft used language the UN has abused to promote abortion globally. Rather than following the correct procedures, the Moroccan diplomat simply acknowledged the complaint and forwarded the draft for publication.

“The United States cannot accept the terms ‘sexual and reproductive health care services’ and ‘sexual and reproductive health’,” reads a statement by US diplomats to the UN. UN agencies have taken advantage of similar language to promote abortion globally.

“At the UN and elsewhere, the United States will continue its work to build consensus on clear terminology that would better promote women’s health without also promoting abortion,” the U.S. statement continues. “The United States rejects any interpretation of international human rights to require any State Party to provide access to abortion. In short, there is no international right to abortion, nor is there any duty on the part of States to finance or facilitate abortion.”

The UN, in an effort to simplify decision-making while UN headquarters are closed due to COVID-19, currently uses a procedure that considers a resolution adopted if no members object. The US objected, but the process was not honored.

This resolution will need to complete more steps before it is officially passed, so pro-life nations will have opportunities to block it or vote against it.

District Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Challenging Trump Protect Life Rule for Title X

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This week, U.S. District Judge Lance Walker dismissed a lawsuit by the abortion business Maine Family Planning which challenged the Title X Protect Life Rule.

Maine Family Planning argued that the Title X Rule violated their free speech rights under the first amendment, but Walker disagreed, saying the rule, "authorizes nondirective counseling, including abortion counseling; it only prohibits an abortion referral.”

The Protect Life Rule forbids organizations receiving Title X funding from committing abortions, co-locating with organizations that commit abortions, or referring patients to abortions as a method of family planning.

Maine Family Planning previously received over $2 million in Title X funding annually but chose to withdraw from the program rather than adhere to the new requirements. Planned Parenthood similarly chose to stop receiving Title X funding rather than limit itself to life-affirming methods of family planning.

Abortion businesses still receive taxpayer funding in other ways, but this decision is a good step in the direction of preventing all Americans from subsidizing the murder of unborn children across the country.

June 11, 2020

CBS Poll Gives Interesting Statistics on Support for Roe v. Wade

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A new CBS poll gives fascinating statistics about public support of legal abortion.

It should be noted at the start that this poll consisted of 331 people who identified as Republicans and 454 who identified as Democrats. The 123-person bias to the Democrat side accounts for some of these statistics.

24 percent of respondents said that they thought abortion "should not be permitted" at all, while 31 percent supported abortion being "available but under limits." Finally, 43 percent said that abortion should be "generally available."

The CBS poll also asked if respondents supported the idea of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. 63 percent said they would prefer the decision to remain, while only 29 percent of the left-slanted poll group supported overturning the decision.

Finally, respondents were asked if they would vote for candidates who disagreed with their position on abortion. 49 percent said that they would, while 42 percent said they could not vote for someone who disagreed on this issue.

While some of these statistics may be disappointing for pro-lifers, it's important to remember the bias included in this poll and consider one silver lining: 55 percent of respondents (including Democrats) said they either believe abortion should be either banned or limited in some way. Pro-lifers may be able to use this common ground to save lives and start discussions that change minds on the value of unborn life.

Religious Groups and Businesses Sue the State of Illinois over Illinois Reproductive Health Act's Abortion Coverage Mandate

Thomas More Society
Vice President Peter Breen
Yesterday, the Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois for mandating that all insurance policies sold in the state include elective abortion coverage.

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the Illinois Baptist State Association, the Southland Smiles dental practice and the Rock River Cartage freight company in the Sangamon County Circuit Court. It charges that requiring all health insurance plans to include coverage for elective abortion violates the religious rights of those who believe abortion kills a human being.

The lawsuit seeks an injunction that would prevent the state of Illinois from enforcing the abortion coverage requirement against employers and insurance companies.

“This forced coverage of abortion is a blatant violation of the religious and conscience rights of Illinoisans,” said Thomas More Society Vice President Peter Breen. “While the secular forces behind this mandate often erroneously object to any influence of religion on the state, here they had no hesitation in wielding state power against our sincerely held, common-sense religious beliefs, which compel us to avoid paying for health insurance coverage of abortion.”


“Governor Pritzker and his administration have run roughshod over the religious freedoms of Illinoisans, from shuttering churches during COVID-19, to forcing people of faith to pay for elective abortions,” Breen continued. “The people of Illinois shouldn’t have to sue to have their fundamental religious rights recognized, but just as we succeeded in reopening our state’s churches through vigorous court actions, we will fight this abortion insurance mandate until it is reversed.”

June 10, 2020

Colorado Supreme Court Rules Deliberately Harming an Unborn Child is not Child Abuse

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The Colorado Supreme Court ordered a retrial of a case involving a man convicted of shooting his pregnant wife partially because one of the counts he was found guilty of was child abuse.

A man named Andre Jones shot his estranged pregnant wife in the stomach seven years ago causing her death. His then-unborn daughter managed to survive the incident, but she was born with severe neurological damage. She suffered vision and hearing loss, and she is unable to breathe or swallow on her own. Jones was convicted of first-degree murder, unlawful termination of a pregnancy, and child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury. Jones's lawyers argued that his daughter was not a person at the time of the crime, so child abuse could not occur. The Colorado Supreme Court agreed, so when they ordered a retrial they did so without the child abuse charge.

In the majority opinion, the justices said, "The child abuse statute defines ‘child’ as ‘a person under the age of sixteen years.’ The statute does not define ‘person.’ […] We cannot infer from this definition, however, that the child abuse statute similarly applies only to harm caused to those who are already born at the time of the injurious conduct."

University of Colorado Boulder law professor Aya Gruber had this to say,

“It’s kind of wild that they’re saying, ‘It’s not clear to us on the face of it that the word ‘person’ doesn’t really mean ‘person or fetus.’ In other words, they’re saying it is completely plausible [for a] facial meaning of the word ‘person’ to include ‘fetus.’ That part of it all seems like a pretty big blow to the anti-personhood [movement] and maybe a symbolic victory for the personhood movement.”

Pro-life advocates say this may prompt some Colorado legislators to push to include unborn children in a definition of personhood.

Andy Cohen Wins $32,000 for Planned Parenthood on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

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Last Thursday, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and talk show host Andy Cohen went on the game show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" to win money for charity. While Cooper selected Spike's K9 Fund as his charity of choice, Cohen decided that he wanted to win money for Planned Parenthood.

Reports say that Cohen won $32,000 on the show; a small amount compared to what was possible but still an unnecessary donation. Income from private donations, taxpayer funding, and business-as-usual generate millions of dollars in excess revenue for the abortion giant.

This comes just a few weeks after another game show "The Price is Right," similarly allowed celebrity drag queen RuPaul to choose Planned Parenthood as the recipient of a donation.

June 9, 2020

Chicago Woman Decides Against Abortion

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A post by John Janson on Pro-Life Action League's blog told a short and encouraging story about a woman who changed her mind on abortion after they had a short exchange on the sidewalk outside a Chicago abortion clinic.

"About ten minutes after I arrived, I offered literature to a young African-American woman on her way in and told her that there had recently been a medical emergency at this location, and that she could get help at the Aid for Women pregnancy center on Michigan Avenue," Janson wrote.  

"She accepted the literature but continued walking, and then opened the door.  At that point, I said, 'Even if you go in, you can still change your mind.'"

He writes that about 15 minutes later, the woman emerged from the clinic and smiled at him before returning to a vehicle and sharing a long embrace with another woman before leaving.

Sidewalk counseling can save lives. While many women may not listen, sincere words of kindness coupled with life-affirming options can make a difference.

June 8, 2020

6th U.S. Court of Appeals Rules Against Kentucky Dismemberment Abortion Ban

On June 2, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a permanent injunction against a Kentucky dismemberment abortion ban by U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley. The court found that Kentucky’s House Bill 454 created too much of a barrier to abortion access, even though it only banned a single method of abortion.

Dismemberment abortion kills an unborn child by having an abortionist individually tear limbs off a child and remove them from a mother's body individually with forceps. The child eventually dies by bleeding out during this process. Abortionists often use this method to complete abortions once an unborn child has grown too large to be removed via vacuum aspiration abortion. The unborn baby, specifically the baby's head, becomes too large to pull out of the mother's womb without first crushing it. To solve this "problem", abortionists tear individual limbs from a child's body until only the head remains. Then, they crush the skull and remove all of the pieces to complete the abortion.

“While the court did not decide in our favor or in the favor of these young victims, we must never give up working toward the day when all innocent human life is protected in law,” said National Right to Life President Carol Tobias.

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