September 18, 2018

Even an ‘early abortion’ kills a human being… a remarkably developed one

Even an ‘early abortion’ kills a human being… a remarkably developed one

Pro–abortion feminist Jessica Valenti wrote about her two abortions in her book, Sex Object. She had her first abortion in her 20s at a private abortion facility, for which she paid over $1,000. She spent this money because she did not want to wait in the waiting room with other women, and the abortion facility provided her with a cup of tea right before they killed her baby. It was an early abortion, which doesn’t frequently happen.

The nurse at the abortion facility told Valenti that it was best for her not to come in too soon, because an early abortion is not often successful, and the procedure might have to be repeated. In fact, the first attempt at an abortion missed the baby, and Valenti did have to come in for second procedure.





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September 17, 2018

In two years, Iowa flips from ‘worse than New York State’ to pro-life

In two years, Iowa flips from ‘worse than New York State’ to pro-life

Pro-life advocacy group Life Right Action notes on its website, “In 2010, Iowa had 29 Planned Parenthood locations – most selling dangerous webcam abortions.” Today, only eight remain. And the group shares an encouraging list of other pro-life advances made in the state in the past several years, which has caused the state to “flip” from being one of the most pro-choice to one of the most pro-life in the nation. LRA’s Jennifer Bowen notes that in the past two years alone, many changes have come, writing, “In November 2016, 93 of 99 Iowa counties voted against the pro-abortion presidential candidate, retired 6 pro-abortion senators; flipping the Iowa Senate and maintaining the pro-life House.” She adds:

This resulted in the passage of an historic amount of pro-life legislation in 2017-2018, Iowa moved from “worse than New York State” to one of the most pro-life states in the nation in just two years with the passage of:

-The 20 Week Abortion Ban
-A 72-hour waiting period before an abortion*
-The defunding of abortion providers in our State Family Planning budget
-A first-of-its-kind Safe Haven Expansion Law
-An important ban on the trafficking of unborn baby parts
-The Fetal Heartbeat Bill**
-And the rejection of the Iowa Supreme Court decision allowing parents to sue a doctor for wrongful birth – wrongful life.

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Despite skewed polls on Roe, new poll proves majority still against abortion

Despite skewed polls on Roe, new poll proves majority still against abortion

At National Review, Dr. Michael New notes the number of polls that have analyzed Americans’ views on whether Roe v. Wade should remain the law of the land. The problem with those polls is that most, if not all, either didn’t correctly explain what Roe actually did, or explained it incorrectly. (One company was even forced to walk back its poll for telling respondents that overturning Roe v. Wade would make abortion illegal — a complete untruth — rather than returning the decision to individual states to set their own laws on the matter, just as they did prior to Roe.) The best way to tell how Americans feel about abortion is to ask them not about Roe v. Wade, but about abortion itself, says New.

But a poll from Hill.TV and HarrisX, released last week, asked 1000 registered voters “about circumstances in which abortion should be legal.” And as you might imagine, the results were very different than what Roe v. Wade approval polls have purported to show.

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VIDEO: New Planned Parenthood head spins abortion as ‘health care,’ dodges fact-check on ‘The View’

VIDEO: New Planned Parenthood head spins abortion as ‘health care,’ dodges fact-check on ‘The View’

Newly-minted Planned Parenthood president Leana Wen opened the discussion on 'The View' by hailing the United States’ largest abortion provider as “an organization that for the last 100 years has done more for women’s health than any other.” She repeated the claim from her introductory video that Planned Parenthood supplied her poor family with “basic medical services like cancer screening and family planning” as new immigrants from China.

“And I’m taking on this role in part because I’m a new mother myself. I have a baby who just turned one, and nothing has been more clarifying for me than being a parent,” Wen added. “Because it clarifies my values and what it is that I want to fight for. And what I want to fight for is the same access to health care that everybody should have, that health care should be understood as a human right.” Nobody on the panel asked her to explain how raising a baby reinforced her devotion to an organization that aborts babies.



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September 13, 2018

UN disability committee: Abortion ‘prerequisite’ for ‘safeguarding women’s human rights’

UN disability committee: Abortion ‘prerequisite’ for ‘safeguarding women’s human rights’

The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) monitor compliance with their respective human rights treaties by nations who have ratified them. Neither treaty, nor any other global human rights treaty, mentions abortion explicitly, but for decades, treaty monitoring bodies have exerted nonbinding pressure on UN member states to liberalize their abortion laws.

That the committees on the rights of women and persons with disabilities joined together to issue the statement was notable, as there have recently been disputes between UN human rights experts as to whether a prenatal diagnosis of a disability should be considered as a justification for abortion in law. Earlier this year, an event at the UN highlighted the "prenatal genocide" of children with Down Syndrome by abortion.

Senate Judiciary vote on Kavanaugh set for September 20, pro-abortion Democrats continue to “slime” Judge Kavanaugh

Senate Judiciary vote on Kavanaugh set for September 20, pro-abortion Democrats continue to “slime” Judge Kavanaugh

While he ought to be the next Supreme Court justice replacing Anthony Kennedy and we trust will be, there was (and is) plenty of time for pro-abortion Democrats to attempt to smear Judge Kavanaugh.

Sure enough a “secret letter” has mysteriously appeared, even though, according to the New York Times, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.) apparently had the letter in hand last summer. The point, of course, of letting news leak that the letter had been referred to the Department of Justice is, at a minimum, to attempt to delegitimate Judge Kavanaugh, at “best” to delay his confirmation indefinitely.

As it happens yesterday pro-life Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) said, “By trying to slime Judge Kavanaugh, the Democrats are only underscoring one of his most impressive skills: His widely acclaimed talent for thinking through all parties’ perspectives and engaging fairly with the full range of views regardless of his personal beliefs,” according to the Washington Examiner.

This morning pro-life Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said the committee will meet Thursday, Sept. 20, with the vote on reporting the Kavanaugh nomination set for that afternoon.

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State Sen. Pamela Althoff leaving Senate early; Wilcox likely to replace her

State Sen. Pamela Althoff leaving Senate early; Wilcox likely to replace her

 Althoff (R-McHenry) will be leaving office on Sept. 30.  Althoff, who has represented the 32nd Senate District since 2003, was not running for re-election to the Senate, opting instead to seek a spot on the McHenry County board.  The 32nd Senate district includes parts of Lake and McHenry counties.

Republican Craig Wilcox and township assessor Mary Mahady are running to replace Althoff. The McHenry County GOP is expected to name Wilcox to fulfill the rest of Althoff's term in the interim.

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Planned Parenthood: New president, same extreme agenda

Planned Parenthood: New president, same extreme agenda

The Planned Parenthood Federation of America today announced that Dr. Leana Wen, Baltimore city health commissioner, will succeed Cecile Richards as president of the nation’s largest abortion provider.

“Though it’s being largely ignored in media accounts, the appointment of a new president does not change the fact that Planned Parenthood’s primary focus is on abortion, with their clinics performing more than one-third of abortions annually in the United States,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “No doubt Dr. Wen will seek to continue promoting and expanding Planned Parenthood’s abortion empire.”

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September 12, 2018

Inflicting 'harm' on women...by keeping clinics clean?

Inflicting 'harm' on women...by keeping clinics clean?

Responding to the appeals court, Planned Parenthood Action complained that Missouri was inflicting harm on "women's rights and freedoms," and even tied the court decision to the U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

But the state laws are not harming women, says Susan Klein of Missouri Right to Life.

"These are laws that are helping women," she tells OneNewsNow. "And the courts are looking at the benefits of these laws and obviously saw a benefit for these laws in Missouri, and how they were enforced from 2007 through 2016 until Planned Parenthood filed a complaint against them."

One has to wonder, Klein adds, why Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers oppose following regular health and safety regulations that every ambulatory surgical center has to follow.

"Why are they opposed to that?" she asks. "What is the difficulty in abiding by good health and safety regulations?"

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Don’t use taxpayer money to buy aborted baby parts, pro-life investigators say

Don’t use taxpayer money to buy aborted baby parts, pro-life investigators say

Federal research agencies’ purchase of fetal tissue and body parts from a company under investigation for illegally selling them has drawn criticism from the investigative journalism group that filmed undercover videos exposing the practice.

“Advanced Bioscience Resources is under federal investigation right now for colluding with Planned Parenthood to sell aborted baby body parts for profit,” David Daleiden, Center for Medical Progress lead, said Sept. 10. “It is unconscionable that the United States government is still paying top-dollar in taxpayer money for the freshest, most high-quality dismembered baby hearts, lungs, livers, and brains.”

“By custom-ordering late-term aborted baby body parts for sale from Planned Parenthood partners like (Advanced Bioscience Resources), the FDA is directly complicit in these abortions and implies that these kids are worth more to the U.S. government dead than alive,” Daleiden continued.

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September 11, 2018

Study misleads on detrimental effects of abortion

Study misleads on detrimental effects of abortion

A well-recognized pro-life research group is dissecting the latest study results from a known abortion proponent, and the two groups’ analysis are worlds apart.

The University of California-San Francisco research arm is rabidly pro-abortion and has issued study results heavily favoring abortion for a number of years.

Its latest analysis of results contends that almost all of the women surveyed who had had abortions were okay with the decision and did not suffer psychological harm – but this is not consistent with what professionals not partial to the abortion industry have observed.

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‘Just a blob of cells’: Husband, abortion workers coerce woman to abort


One therapist who counseled post-abortive women commented on how so many of them did not want to abort. She said:

Of the many women I’ve counseled, I would say that well over 90% of them aborted their babies to please someone else: their husbands, boyfriends, parents, or peer group…. It’s a mockery to talk of a woman’s right to choose when she’s not the one doing the choosing.(4)

Sometimes these abusive men threaten violence. Sometimes they berate and harass the woman until she gives in. Some threaten to leave the woman if she doesn’t have an abortion. The woman is forced to choose between her baby and her relationship. Sometimes, a partner’s abandonment doesn’t just threaten emotional distress. A woman may be faced with raising her child as a single mother, without the income a partner would provide. She may be forced to find another place to live. Fear of living in poverty could be another factor driving her to abort.

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Abortionist and clinic workers force woman to have abortion

Abortionist and clinic workers force woman to have abortion

I waited for a long time, almost 3 months before I called the clinic for an appointment. When I went in for my first appointment, I decided I couldn’t go through with it. They told me to go home and think about it.

I did, but I knew my parents would be so disappointed in me. The next day I went back. I was still upset, but they said I no longer had a choice. I started yelling. I told them I didn’t want the abortion anymore. The doctor got very angry. They gave me a sedative to calm me down, but I kept screaming. I thrashed around trying to get off the table, but the nurses pinned my arms and legs down by leaning on me. Finally they strapped restraints on me. I kept screaming, “I don’t want to kill my baby. Please don’t kill my baby.”

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Pro-life majority found in recent poll

Pro-life majority found in recent poll
According to The Hill, a recent online poll on abortion conducted by Hill.TV and the HarrisX polling company “found that 41 percent of respondents believe that the procedure should be legal in limited circumstances, such as rape, incest and to save the life of the mother.”

Another 14% said abortion “should be illegal under all circumstances.”

Only 17% of the 1,000 registered voters agreed with the official policy of the Democratic Party—that “abortion should be legal under all circumstances.”

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JB Pritzker's 3-alarm for Monday: Abortion is threatened with proposed HB 40 repeal

JB Pritzker's 3-alarm for Monday: Abortion is threatened with proposed HB 40 repeal

Democrat gubernatorial candidate JB Pritzker will veto any attempt to repeal the taxpayer funding of abortion, he said Monday.

Of course that's what he said. He's been endorsed by Planned Parenthood.

Despite the fact every Illinois voter knows well it would take an earth-shaking miracle for a repeal to make it through Illinois' Planned Parenthood-controlled Democrat majority, JB Pritzker reaffirmed his commitment to unlimited abortion...

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September 10, 2018

Democrats grilling Kavanaugh all received money from abortion industry

Democrats grilling Kavanaugh all received money from abortion industry

The past several days, politically-minded Americans have been watching the Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Predictably, pro-life issues became central to some of the questioning. It wasn’t long before Planned Parenthood, the nation’s largest abortion provider, chimed in, claiming Cavanaugh is a threat to Roe v. Wade (and even to birth control). These claims were sent to its email list multiple times this week, with a prominent link in each for people to donate to fight Kavanaugh’s nomination. Judging by the donation records of Planned Parenthood political action committees (PACs), it appears that the money they solicit is being funneled it right back into elections and votes they hope to buy. Planned Parenthood, of course, has a business interest in keeping abortion legal, and would therefore be against any Supreme Court appointee who is a Constitutional originalist like Kavanaugh.

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have put on quite the show over the past week — some more than others. Each has a 100% rating from Planned Parenthood, and Planned Parenthood has helped to fund them all.

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Gloria Steinem Calls Abortion ‘Basis of Democracy’ in New Netflix Film

Gloria Steinem Calls Abortion ‘Basis of Democracy’ in New Netflix Film

Democracy depends on the ability to end others’ lives before they’re even born, according to one famed feminist.

Netflix released a trailer for its new documentary, Reversing Roe, on Sept. 4. The timely teaser for the abortion law film comes during Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings. The film hits computer screens Sept. 13, and appears to include interviews with abortion activists including Gloria Steinem.

The trailer gave a sneak peak of her comments.

“It’s the basis of democracy, that you control your own body,” she said in the film worried about Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the U.S. This comes as many in the media panic that Kavanaugh could enable the court to overturn Roe.

She’s right: the ability to control one’s own body is important. But abortion is about controlling someone else’s body – and ending his or her future.

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International Planned Parenthood targets India’s youth with same strategy as in U.S.


As the country with the world’s largest adolescent population, India is a cash cow for Planned Parenthood’s abortion business, which helps population control enthusiasts’ achieve their eugenic goals.

Planned Parenthood has been relentless in its efforts to kill babies in India since 1936, the first time Margaret Sanger set foot in the country. Now, newly elected Director General of International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) Dr. Alvaro Bermejo is visiting India this week (September 4- 7). The reason for the visit, as reported by Business Wire, is quite straight forward. “India continues to be the second largest country in the world,” notes the publication. “19 percent of India’s population is in the 15-24 age group and over half a billion are under 25 years of age.” This translates to a perfect opportunity for Planned Parenthood to turn a profit by selling abortion.  The strategy is...

Planned Parenthood targets the poor and vulnerable with “no refusal” and “free abortion” promotions

Planned Parenthood lobbies for liberalizing India’s abortion laws

Planned Parenthood-promoted school sex education programs undermine parental rights and influences

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Iowa pro-abortion gov candidate bought Planned Parenthood a building


A philanthropist who admittedly helped to purchase a building for Planned Parenthood to operate an abortion facility is now running for Governor of Iowa. Democrat Fred Hubbell is opposing incumbent Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds (R), who recently signed the state’s Heartbeat Bill. As the state’s previous Lt. Governor, Reynolds assumed the office after Governor Terry Branstad left to take a position with the Trump Administration as Ambassador to China.

Hubbell’s campaign website is open about his support of the abortion corporation, despite records (including court documents) showing that Planned Parenthood covers up for child sexual abusers. His website reads, “For over thirty years, Fred has worked to increase access to quality, affordable health care for every Iowan through his work with Planned Parenthood, and serving as chair of the Mid-Iowa organization in 1984….”

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Abortion lobby bashes Kavanaugh for phrase ‘abortion-inducing drugs’ in hearing


Pro-abortion voices are pouncing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh for yet another statement during his confirmation testimony, this time a reference to the abortifacient function of certain contraception methods.

“The question (Sen. Ted Cruz’s questioning of his dissenting opinion in favor of Priests for Life against the Obama administration’s contraception mandate) was first, was this a substantial burden on their religious exercise? And it seemed to me, quite clearly, it was,” Kavanaugh explained. “They said filling out the form would make them complicit in the abortion-inducing drugs that they were, as a religious matter, objected to.”  His mere use of the phrase “abortion-inducing drugs” was enough to send abortion advocates into a frenzy.

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