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I wouldn’t exactly call it the highlight of Advent, but today marked the return of an annual experience for me since I signed up for Planned Parenthood’s e-mails a few years back: receiving an e-mail from Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards wishing me a Merry Christmas “healthy and safe holiday season.” (See the message in its entirety here.)
Of course, the message was really just a fundraising appeal. It contained three links to their donations page within the message itself, not to mention the big pink “GIVE NOW” button that was impossible to miss. Only one sentence of the e-mail was written in boldface — because, of course, this was the one thing they wanted to focus their members’ attention on, so as to gin up donations:
Opponents of women’s health haven’t given up—day in and day out, they’re attacking Planned Parenthood and every woman’s right to make her own medical decisions.
“Opposing women’s health,” “attacking women’s rights” — same old, same old. We’ve heard it all a thousand times before.
Note also that Richards trotted out the tired old “Choice on Earth” slogan for this year’s Christmas holiday message.
What this tells us is that Planned Parenthood has nothing new to offer.
I have to agree with Richards on at least one point, though. Her opening paragraph reads: [Continue reading ...]
A postcard (shown at right) that appeared this weekend on the popular website PostSecret served as yet another reminder that far from being a means of women’s liberation, abortion is actually a means of women’s oppression.
The text reads:
I told my work that I will be attending an out-of-state funeral for a few days next week.
Im actually (quietly) having an abortion that only my boyfriend knows about it.
I’ve never felt so alone.
Reading this, I was reminded of these words spoken recently by Linda Couri, a former Planned Parenthood counselor who herself had an abortion, but is now pro-life: “There is nothing joyful about abortion. Some women are complacent, but most just bare-knuckle their way through it.” [Continue reading ...]
We were thrilled to find out yesterday that the Dimensions Medical Center abortion facility in Des Plaines, Illinois has CLOSED!
Dimensions was one of seven Chicago area abortion facilities owned by the notorious Vinod Goyal, and since last year it has seen a regular pro-life sidewalk counseling and prayer presence thanks to the tireless efforts of Northwest Families for Life (NWFL), a group of grassroots activists headed by local residents Maria Goldstein and Laura Vandercar.
The League was happy to help get Northwest Families off the ground last year. Shortly after NWFL launched, the League’s Joe, Ann, and Eric Scheidler met with Maria and Laura to offer advice and give them a set of signs to use during the times of their abortion clinic witnessing. (These signs direct women to a nearby pregnancy resource center, and they’ve proven so effective that abortion clinic workers have repeatedly tried to steal them!)
We soon realized that Northwest Families meant it when they said they were seriously committed to stepping up the pro-life presence outside the abortion clinics in their community. [Continue reading ...]
Sign posted by NIWC landlord Wayne Webster before its license was suspended Sept. 30 [Photo via Pro-Life Corner]
At a hearing this week, an administrative law judge ruled that one of the most bizarre, macabre abortion facilities in the country—Northern Illinois Women’s Center (NIWC), in Rockford—will remain closed until at least January 4.
NIWC had its license suspended and has been closed since September 30, after an inspection by the Department of Public Health earlier this year “found conditions that are directly threatening to the public health, safety and welfare requiring immediate, emergency action,” which the facility failed to correct by the time of a follow-up inspection conducted on September 15.
Thus, as of now, NIWC has been closed for two months, and it will be at least one more month until it’s allowed to reopen—if it’s allowed to reopen at all.
For obvious reasons, pro-life news outlets and bloggers have been closely following the NIWC saga. But take note of who is not talking about it:
Pro-aborts. [Continue reading ...]
Whenever we go out on the streets for a “Face the Truth” Tour, we can always count on someone happening by our display to tell us that by showing graphic abortion pictures in the public square, we’re doing more harm than good. This is a charge we’ve heard often enough that we address it as one of the most Common Objections we hear.
In our response to this oft-raised argument, we plainly make the observation that throughout modern history, any number of successful social reform movements — from the movement to enact child labor laws to the civil rights movement — have used disturbing images that depict victims of maltreatment and violence, and that public support for the reforms these movements sought could not have been garnered without publicly showing graphic images of the victims.
The intent behind displaying graphic abortion pictures is the same, of course, for it puts a human face on the victims of what is, for far too many people, merely a theoretical concept or political issue. [Continue reading ...]
A revealing article appeared last week in the New York Observer about one of the more bizarre elements within the world of abortion: namely, abortion doulas.
The author, Rachel White, opens the article with a description of a training session for volunteer abortion doulas given by the Doula Project‘s Lauren Mitchell and Mary Mahoney at an unnamed Manhattan hospital — in which the first 6 of the 40 hours of classroom instruction are devoted to astrology.
Yes, astrology. Oh, and this training session is being held at 9:00 on a Sunday morning.
That in itself tells us quite a lot. After all, it’s quite true that supernature abhors a vacuum. [Continue reading ...]
Even among people who call themselves pro-life, many are reluctant to say they’re opposed to abortion in cases of rape or incest—often out of fear of being labeled a “pro-life extremist”.
Their hesitancy is rooted in a misplaced sense of compassion for victims of these horrific crimes, and in a belief that the law should make exceptions to allow them to have abortions.
Clearly, this question does call for a response from pro-lifers: one that is truly compassionate and that does not compromise the truth.
It’s for this reason that we are releasing our newest brochure, titled, “Abortion for Victims of Rape and Incest?” which debunks the widely held belief that most victims of rape and incest who become pregnant would have abortions: on the contrary, a significant majority of these women freely choose to carry their babies to term.
The brochure also includes numerous excerpts from victims’ testimonies recorded in the invaluable book Victims and Victors: Speaking Out about their Pregnancies, Abortions, and Children Resulting from Sexual Assault, edited by Dr. David Reardon, et al.
We will be distributing copies of this new brochure at at our protest of Personal PAC’s fundraising gala tomorrow, November 17, at 10:30 a.m. at the Chicago Hilton and Towers (Map). [Continue reading ...]
Coupon for $50 off a Sunday abortion at Orlando Women’s Center. (Click image for full size [PDF]).
Abortionist James Pendergraft has had his share of problems, what with having his medical license suspended four times and having a $36.7 million malpractice verdict upheld against him — just to name a few.
So it’s not hard to imagine that he’d be pretty hard up for customers. Hence, his latest gimmick to try to drum up business: he’s offering coupons for $50 off the cost an abortion…but the coupons are only good on Sundays.
The singularly evil character of the whole thing is mind-boggling: as if killing babies up to 24 weeks gestation isn’t bad enough in itself, Pendergraft is preying on desperate, financially struggling women on the day Jesus rose from the dead — a day on which, incidentally, most abortion clinics aren’t even open.
The coupon is advertised on the website of Pendergraft’s Orlando Women’s Center. You can see it for yourself here [PDF], or above, right. [Continue reading ...]
Josh Brahm blogged recently at Live Action about a new video produced by the Human Development Resource Council (HDRC) about RU-486 — also known simply as “the abortion pill” — that’s definitely a cut above the average YouTube video:
It shows a scene of an abortionist in a counseling session with a young woman who wants RU-486. But this counseling session is very unlike the dishonest marketing and misinformation that was shown during Live Action’s Rosa Acuna sting. This is what would happen if an honest abortionist told a woman the truth about her embryo and what RU-486 would do to both her and her child. I’m sure pro-choice people will cry “propaganda” when they see this video, but there’s a documented medical citation for every single sentence the abortionist utters!
Here it is:
Josh has a great idea: Whenever someone does a YouTube search for “abortion pill,” what if this was the first video that showed up? [Continue reading ...]
“Planned Parenthood is the most cost-effective provider of family planning services in this country.”
Cecile Richards may rue the day she said these words in an interview last month with an Oregon newspaper.
Jill Stanek is reporting that a former employee of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has filed a whistleblower’s complaint [PDF] with the Attorney General of Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice alleging that PPGC’s management engaged in an elaborate Medicaid fraud scheme:
Karen Reynolds, who worked as a “health care assistant” from 1999 to 2009 at the Lufkin, Texas, branch of the affiliate formerly known as Planned Parenthood of Houston and Southeast Texas, has submitted company memos and emails to support her charge that PPGC has engaged in a systemwide scheme to bilk Medicaid, Title XX, and the Women’s Health Program of tens of millions of dollars over the course of at least a decade.
The complaint alleges that PPGC’s policy of which medical services to provide and charge for depended largely on who was paying. If the patient was self-paying, then only “services based on medical necessity” were provided. But if the government was footing the bill through a program like Medicaid, then Planned Parenthood would run up quite a tab, “often provid[ing] services on an ‘across the board’ basis even when such services were not medically necessary.” [Continue reading ...]
