National Abortion Federation head - Vicki Saporta - announces 2019 retirement

Talk about a passing of the torch. Just two weeks after PPFA’s Cecile Richards stepped down as the head of the largest abortion provider in the world after 12 years, a far lesser known but highly influential player in the abortion industry announced that she will retire in June 2019.

For the past 23 years, Vicki Saporta has been the President and CEO, National Abortion Federation (NAF). NAF describes itself as

“the professional association of abortion providers in North America. We are unique among pro-choice organizations because we represent the providers who make reproductive choice a reality.”

Put less glamorous, NAF is the abortion industry’s trade association.

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Pro-Life Organization gets lots of free Publicity thanks to a Late-Night Comedian who mocked its Mission

John Oliver used a segment of his lewd and crude HBO show to suggest Save the Storks tricks women into keeping their babies instead of aborting them.

The organization uses more than 40 mobile medical vans and buses, equipped with professional medical equipment, to perform free ultrasounds on women considering abortion.

More than 4,000 women have chosen life after seeing their babies beating hearts in the womb, the organization states on its website.

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Planned Parenthood’s ex-CEO says pro-lifers are lying lawbreakers. She must be confused.

Cecile Richards Planned Parenthood ex-CEO, recently interviewed with Amanda Marcotte for Salon. The puff piece was filled with Planned Parenthood propaganda, such as how the aborted baby parts scandal — in which the abortion chain illegally sold the body parts of preborn babies they aborted — was a hoax and a lie (which is, of course, false). But perhaps the most laughable statement is where Richards attempted to smear her opposition as liars and cheaters.

“I think that one of the things that I see on the right is they are so much more willing to lie, cheat, steal, deceive, break the law — tactics that frankly we don’t use in the progressive community,” Richards said, apparently with a straight face. “I do think that they have that advantage. The other is, they’ve got a lot of money. People who really probably could care less about the issue, but have complete focus on undermining any progressive institution that has either capacity or political power.”

Really, REALLY?!?!

It would be hilarious if she weren’t so serious. Money? Law-breaking? Lying? Deception? These are all things that fit squarely with Planned Parenthood’s modus operandi.

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US actively countering international abortion push at United Nations

The UN Economic and Social Council is discussing whether abortion should be part of humanitarian efforts at UN headquarters  

A humanitarian program designed by UN agencies and abortion groups included “access to safe abortion to the full extent of the law” for the first time last year. The Economic and Social Council recommended that package last year, before the update where abortion was included was completed.

Now the Council is being asked to endorse this humanitarian package, known as the sexual and reproductive health minimum initial services package, or MISP, as it did last year, even though when it recommended it last year it did not include abortion.

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AMA, for now, resists pressure to help kill us

Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition says he was grateful to watch the American Medical Association this week take a stand on the controversial issue.

Under pressure to examine the hot-button issue, the association established a study committee to debate changing the existing policy by supporting doctors' participation or by taking a neutral stance.

"And the ethics committee, "Schadenberg reports, "has decided, no, that they should maintain their position against assisted suicide."

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ILLINOIS RATIFIES THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT

The vote taken shortly after 8pm on May 30th ratified the Equal Rights Amendment in Illinois.  The vote was 72-45.   This leaves just one more state to ratify the ERA and amend the U.S. Constitution and is one more step to further endangering the unborn.

Leading pro-abortion groups – including NARAL, the ACLU, and Planned Parenthood -- have strongly urged state courts to construe state ERAs, containing language virtually identical to the language of the 1972 federal ERA proposal, to invalidate laws that treat abortion differently from other “medical procedures,” including laws restricting tax-funding of abortion and laws requiring parental notification or consent for minors’ abortions.

For more information about the ERA visit:  http://eagleforum.org/topics/era.html

For additional documentation on the ERA-abortion connection, see the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org/federal/era.

McCombie joins other GOP members in criticizing bill allowing pharmacists to prescribe birth control

A pharmacist handing contraceptives to a minor is unacceptable

Introduced at the April 27 House floor debate, HB274, sponsored by Rep. Michelle Mussman (D-Schaumburg), would allow pharmacists to administer birth control contraceptives to consumers of any age without a doctor’s exam or prescription.

“So, a 12-year-old might be able to go into a pharmacy and get a birth control pill but would not be able to get a cold medication that requires a prescription,” Bryant said before yielding the rest of her time back to Rep. Tony McCombie (R-Savanna), who asked if a 12-year-old would be able to purchase a condom under her bill.

“Yes,” Mussman said.

Passing by 12 votes at 57-45, HB274 will now move to the Senate floor for debate and vote.

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Pro-lifers: Let's hear it for the states!

Getting Congress to move pro-life legislation to the president's desk has been a struggle because of the lack of sufficient votes in the Senate to pass the bills. Ingrid Durin, director of the National Right to Life Committee's Department of State Legislation, tells OneNewsNow the success in getting laws passed has been in state legislatures.

"Now we have 16 states that have passed the Pain-Capable Unborn Protection Act," she shares. "This is a law that would protect unborn children from abortion who are capable of feeling pain – and it's only been enjoined in one state, which is Idaho."

States have also been successful in passing fetal homicide laws, which say that if a pregnant woman is attacked and the child is also injured the alleged criminal will face two charges.

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Pro-lifers: Bring on lawsuit over human lives

A pro-life organization welcomes any legal challenges over a new law in Iowa.

Gov. Kim Reynolds signed a bill last Friday that bans abortion after a baby's heartbeat is detected. That's at or around six weeks, marking the strictest abortion regulation in the nation.

It also sets the state up for a lengthy court fight.

Maggie DeWitte, executive director of Iowans for Life, says it's an "almost certainty" that a court fight is coming but pro-lifers welcome it in order to challenge Roe v. Wade in a court of law.

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VIDEO: Students’ pro-life chalk messages destroyed at Fresno State

Wednesday, May 2nd, a vandal at Fresno State was caught on video washing away pro-life chalkings at the school that were written by Fresno State Students for Life.


This comes on the 1-year anniversary of Fresno State professor Greg Thatcher ordering his students to students to destroy similar chalkings on campus. As a result of a lawsuit by the Alliance Defending Freedom and Students for Life, Thatcher was ordered to pay damages to several students involved as well as undergo First Amendment training with ADF.

Bernadette Tasy, one of the plaintiffs in the original lawsuit and the president of Fresno State Students for Life said, "When will students at Fresno State learn that we have just the same free-speech rights as everyone else? Professor Thatcher underwent free-speech training; maybe the whole school should. There should be respect for differing points of view on campus, and if students oppose us they are free to chalk their own messages on the ground, but they should not destroy ours."

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Censoring a pro-life message about second chances

A pro-life organization is calling out YouTube for censoring its content.

YouTube reportedly suspended Abortion Pill Reversal's account citing its policy on "harmful or dangerous content," explaining that it "doesn't allow content that encourages or promotes violent or dangerous acts that have an inherent risk of serious physical harm or death."

Examples of videos that violate this policy are videos about "instructional bomb making, choking games, hard drug use, or other acts where serious injury may result."

Mallory Quigley of the Susan B. Anthony List says there was nothing graphic or objectionable in the content from Abortion Pill Reversal.

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Schlafly's daughter to lobby against ERA Wednesday

The daughter of the late ERA opponent Phyllis Schlafly will be at the State Capitol Tuesday to speak directly with Illinois House members about the problems the Equal Rights Amendment would bring upon the nation if Illinois were to pass it.

"The Equal Rights Amendment is a fraud that will harm women and children," Anne Schlafly Cori wrote in an email to Eagle Forum members over the weekend. "Help me to Stop ERA this week. Join me in Springfield, Illinois to pass out baby socks, which represent that ERA will remove all legal restrictions on abortion including taxpayer-financing of abortion."

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VIDEO: Mike Pence quotes Bible in response to Michelle Wolf’s abortion ‘joke’

‘I count it all joy’: Mike Pence answers Michelle Wolf’s attack on his pro-life stand

Pro-life Vice President Mike Pence quoted the Bible when asked about a controversial abortion joke made at his expense during last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

During the annual event, which President Donald Trump has taken the unprecedented step of boycotting twice so far, comedian Michelle Wolf made a variety of insulting remarks about the Trump administration, including a bit about Pence’s pro-life stance.

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Iowa governor signs bill banning abortions on babies with beating hearts

Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed Iowa’s just-passed ban on abortion once a baby’s heartbeat is detected, establishing her state as having the strongest pro-life laws in America.

“We couldn't be more pleased,” said Iowans for Life head Maggie DeWitte. “[Reynolds] is following through on her pledge to the people of Iowa that she is 100 percent pro-life.”

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Guess who aims to control abortion debate in Senate

President Trump has expressed his intent to sign pro-life legislation such as a bill to ban abortions at 20 weeks, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act.

The legislation passed in the House but failed to obtain the 60 votes necessary in the Senate to even debate the measure.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, points out there are three branches of the federal government and one of them failed to act.

"The president would have signed that five-month pain capable bill if the Senate had been able to send it to him," she says. "He asked for it. He spoke to that very eloquently. But if the Senate can't pass the bill and have the Congress send him that bill, he simply can't sign it."

Under the present system, a mere two or three senators can effectively prevent the full Senate from advancing a pro-life bill to the floor for a vote.

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153 Members Call for New Title X Regulations - Take Abortion Out of Family Planning Programs

U.S. Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ-04), Diane Black (R-TN-06), Ron Estes (R-KS-04), and Vicky Hartzler (R-MO-04) joined 149 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar requesting that the department move swiftly to issue new regulations for the Title X Family Planning Program.

National Right to Life has also asked HHS to issue new Title X regulations consistent with those issued during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

Citing the troubling ways existing Title X regulations have blurred the line between abortion and family planning, the letter calls for revised regulations that will require the federally-funded Title X service sites to be physically and financially separate from facilities that provide abortion, and to eliminate the federal mandate requiring Title X providers to refer for abortions.

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Killing unborn children not a human right, says State Department

In presenting the annual U.S. report on global human rights, Ambassador Michael Kozak told reporters that abortion is not a human right and therefore "reproductive rights" was no longer included in the report.

"Reproductive rights" was a rather recent addition to the report, included by the Obama administration that, Kozak claims, never intended the term to include abortion. He said it only acquired that meaning in recent years through its use by partisans on both sides of the abortion debate. If this were true, the question arises as to why the term abortion is used under the "reproductive rights" section in the 2013 report on Ireland. Pro-lifers would point out that at least in general usage, the term has always included abortion. Kozak did correctly describe abortion as a largely unsettled question of national policy around the world.

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Chicago police work to raise awareness and save newborn babies

April is “Save Abandoned Babies Month” in Illinois, and the Chicago Police Department has been raising awareness of life-saving Safe Haven Laws in an effort to save babies’ lives. According to local station WTTW, Chicago Police plan to “distribut[e] thousands of information cards across the city, detailing the law in hopes of expanding community awareness.” The department has also been spreading awareness through social media:

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April is Save Abandoned Babies Month in Illinois, an effort to raise awareness of the Illinois Abandoned Newborn Protection Act and subsequent Baby Safe Haven Law. Since it was enacted in 2001, at least 126 newborn infants in Illinois have benefited under this law. #ILSafeHaven pic.twitter.com/jjZexwiQA3

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To date, Illinois’ Safe Haven Law has saved the lives of 126 babies since 2001, who would otherwise have been abandoned and may not have survived. CPD Superintendent Eddie Johnson told WTTW, “Once you know about the safe haven law, talk about it. You might just save a life, and as we know, there’s nothing more precious than the gift of life.” CFD Commissioner Jose Santiago likewise stated, “If there is any parent who is feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders, the Chicago Fire Department will be here when you need us, and no baby will ever be turned away.” Officers got the opportunity to meet with children who were saved because of the state’s Safe Haven Law.

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Pro-life Pompeo confirmed as Secretary of State; abortion advocates pounce

The Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo as the next U.S. Secretary of State, to the delight of social conservatives and the anger of pro-abortion voices.

The Senate voted 57-42 to confirm him Thursday, Fox News reported. The former Kansas Republican congressman and Donald Trump’s CIA director replaces former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who the president fired in March.

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Alfie Evans, dies early Saturday morning

Alfie Evans, whose “Alfie’s Army” enlisted recruits from all over the world, died early Saturday morning, five days after being taken off his ventilator by Alder Hey Children’s Hospital which refused to allow his parents to take him to Italy for further examination and possible treatment.

The hospital also managed to drag out negotiations with his father, Thomas Evans, so there was no opportunity for the grievously ill 23-month-old toddler to die at home with Mr. Evans and Kate James, Alfie’s mother.

Alfie’s death was announced on the Facebook page of Alfie’s Army and on Mr. Evans personal Facebook page.

My gladiator lay down his shield and gained his wings at 02:30 -- absolutely heartbroken -- I LOVE YOU MY GUY

There were emotional scenes as Alfie Evans supporters released hundreds of balloons into the sky in memory of the “warrior” toddler.

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