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It makes me very unhappy when I hear that someone is on the birth control pill, particularly when it’s “for health reasons”—as if disrupting your body’s natural functions with truck-loads of artificial hormones is ever healthy.
I was glad to see this article [pdf], published in the April 2011 edition of Solas, a magazine published by Youth Defence of Ireland.
In the article nurse Carolyn Johnston writes, “Birth control may be generally reliable, but it is far from safe.” In it she documents several recent cases of women who have died from taking the Pill. The deaths of these seemingly healthy women were surprising and shocking to their families, some of whom are taking the time to spread the word about the health dangers of the Pill.
This article [pdf] is definitely worth the read!
Four squad cars responded to the call. Two parked on the small side street, one on either side of the road, narrowing the road for other vehicles.
Since the Chicago Bubble Zone was first enacted in 2009, the majority of the trouble has taken place at the Planned Parenthood clinic at Division and LaSalle on the city’s Near North Side. The one exception was the first day the ordinance went into effect, when Ann Scheidler was told she could not stand within 50 feet of the entrance to the clinic.
Well, the situation at PP has cooled down ever since the arrest and subsequent dropping of charges against supposed bubble zone violators there.
Now the tension at Albany has increased. Four officers responded to the calls from the clinic about the pro-lifers this morning. The one in charge–and the least pleasant one–was one Sergeant Kivel.
An interesting incident occurred this morning at the Albany Medical-Surgical Center, the late-term abortion clinic located near our office on Chicago’s Northwest Side.
Two of us from the League were praying in the alley when the two women who had been counseling at the sidewalk entrance approached us.
They said that a police officer—who was now parked in a nearby parking lot overlooking the abortion clinic—had told them they couldn’t stand within 15 feet of the entrance to the clinic. He told them he was sympathetic to their cause, but that the administrator of the clinic was becoming increasingly insistent that a pro-lifer be arrested. [Continue reading ...]
“Planned Parenthood” is one of the top trends on Twitter today—someone is writing about PP on Twitter (“tweeting”) every few seconds. This means tons of people are thinking and tweeting about America’s Largest Abortion Chain.
This is a great way for pro-lifers to spread the truth about Planned Parenthood.
Visit Expose Planned Parenthood and click on “Get the Facts” to get some ideas of what you can tweet. The homepage also has links for contacting your Representatives, if you haven’t done so already.
So what are people saying about Planned Parenthood?
There are the uninformed, like BadLuckBunny (caution, he uses foul language), who writes,
PLANNED PARENTHOOD already lost all it’s government funding. Thats why you have to pay upfront for services. What is twitter talking about?
The Population Research Institute has put out a new video called “Project Real Need.” It’s less than two minutes, but worth watching.
A very good point they make: Funding to cure malaria is uncontroversial and is necessary, yet we give even greater amounts of money to “family planning” measures that are controversial, are sometimes not even wanted by the locals, and are not beneficial.
On a related note, I’m glad GlaxoSmithKline is on board trying to help cure Malaria. But giving Planned Parenthood Federation of Nigeria $131,000 [pdf] to do it is just a bad idea. Again, talk about money going to the wrong place.
Looks like there are a lot of places we need to improve our spending habits…
America is a very consumer culture. We want the newest iPhone, the newest iPad, the newest gaming system, whatever. We think we should be able to get anything and everything we want.
This also translates to our bodies and our children:
“Not Guilty,” a pseudonym used by a writer for the Abortion Gang blog, writes that becoming an attorney “is the culmination of a 16 year dream of mine.” But, if she were to become pregnant, it “could defer my ability to get called to the bar by 3 months, minimum.” Thus, an abortion would be justified: [Continue reading ...]
Planned Parenthood's sign is trying to enforce unnamed state and federal statutes against public photography.
Why the sudden fear of photography?
Perhaps Planned Parenthood Old Town put up this sign (see photo, left) on Monday the 21st because of the ambulance which pulled up to its doors on Friday, March 18.
Quick thinking 40 Days for Life vigil co-coordinator Darlene snapped a few pictures of the ambulance just outside the door of the clinic (see photo below).
As Darlene wrote in a message to me, she specifically chose to not take any photographs of the woman who was being taken away: [Continue reading ...]
Baby? No, Paris is calling. Thanks Beyaz!
No, really, that’s what the makers of Beyaz, a “new” birth control pill from Bayer, want you to think, it would seem.
Watch the commercial yourself and see if it doesn’t blow your mind.
Birth control is supposed to be a means of female empowerment—making women equal to men. So how do we advertise it? By showing women doing a stereotypical “woman’s thing”, shopping. (I wonder how they could have made this more offensive? Perhaps having a group of women sitting around gossiping?)
How to select a mate
I hope men, too, are offended by this commercial, which shows men as a group of boxed caricatures that women can mull over (“Which one looks like the best one night stand?”) and pick off a table.
But the part that really got me was the woman breezing past the stork, only to find he’s sneaking up behind her. She thinks about it, shakes her head, and chooses to take a trip to Paris instead. [Continue reading ...]
Danielle and Robb Deaver tell their story to the Des Moines Register.
I don’t want to minimize the pain of Danielle and Robb Deaver at the loss of their baby Elizabeth.
But I do want to direct people to this story simply because I cannot wrap my head around the logic being used by the Deavers (and others) who are upset that they weren’t allowed to murder their 22-week old unborn baby.
According to her testimony in an online video, Danielle Deaver’s water broke when her baby was 22-weeks old in utero. She explains that her doctor stated the baby would not continue to develop properly inside the womb because she wouldn’t have enough room to grow. (They seem to be describing a condition known as Oligohydramnios, low amniotic fluid, or Anhydramnios, no fluid. A doctor describes those situations here.)
The doctor gave them a less than 2% chance that her baby could survive and have “any quality of life” (2:16), and “we just couldn’t do that” to the baby or to themselves. They asked the doctor to help them “put an end to this nightmare” and the doctor said he couldn’t, blaming the Nebraska law. He told them there was “nothing” he could do to help them. [Continue reading ...]
A group of pro-lifers (mostly young adults) gathers outside of Planned Parenthood in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood, one of 247 locations of the Lenten 40 Days for Life campaign which begins today.
Last night I attended the opening ceremony of 40 Days for Life Chicago–Old Town. This vigil is being led by a committed group of young adults. I’ve gotten to know them over the last year and a half of Saturdays at this Planned Parenthood, and I’ve really enjoyed getting to know them.
I love the excitement they are bringing to this campaign! They’ve even got a series of YouTube videos encouraging people to come out and get involved.
I hope you’ll take some time this Lent to join your local 40 Days campaign. To see a full map of the 247 cities involved click here. [Continue reading ...]