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The local ABC affiliate in Philadelphia has an eye-opening report on the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Wilmington, Delaware from which five (5) patients have been rushed to the emergency room in the past three months:
“Ridiculously unsafe…”
“They were using instruments on patients that were not sterile.”
“It’s not washed down, it’s not cleaned off. It has bloody drainage on it.”
These descriptions certainly sound familiar. [Continue reading ...]
Today, Monday April 8, is your last opportunity to give the Obama Administration feedback on the unjust HHS Mandate.
You can do that right here.
You’ve got till midnight tonight to let the administration know that you believe forcing business owners to provide contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs as part of their health plans is a gross violation of our First Amendment rights.
This issue has elicited more feedback than any other item, don’t leave your voice out of the conversation! Planned Parenthood and their cronies are pushing their forces to speak up in favor of the Mandate, so get a move on! And be sure to tell all your friends to do the same via e-mail and your social networks.
Don’t let this last chance to speak up pass you by! Make your voice heard right here and stand up for religious freedom today!
No, this isn’t a cruel April Fools’ Day joke.
Today on Motherlode, a parenting blog on the website of the New York Times, a column appeared with the title “Outlawing Abortion Won’t Help Children with Down Syndrome.”
At the beginning of the column, we find out that the column’s author, Alison Piepmeier, is herself the mother of a four-year old daughter who has Down syndrome. Despite the fact that Piepmeier calls her daugher “a delight” and says she has been “repeatedly surprised by [her daughter's] curiosity, her individual sense of humor and how much she has accomplished,” she still sees absolutely nothing wrong with other parents choosing to “terminate” a pregnancy if the fetus/child has Down syndrome—or, for that matter, any other reason.
It is perhaps also worthy of mention that Piepmeier is a professor of—wait for it—women’s and gender studies. [Continue reading ...]
If a pro-life pregnancy resource center operates a mobile ultrasound unit on privately owned land, you wouldn’t think there would be much that local authorities could do to stop it.
But you’d be wrong.
For nearly two years, TLC Pregnancy Services in Elgin, Illinois has provided teenage girls and women free pregnancy information, testing, and ultrasounds through its mobile ultrasound facility.
TLC has done so through the cooperation of an Evangelical Covenant Church as well as a pub, both of which have allowed their mobile ultrasound facility to park in their parking lots—again, it bears repeating, their private parking lots. In less than two years, nearly 200 women visited the facility and received services.
But no women have been allowed to received services from the mobile ultrasound facility since last summer—because the city shut it down:
Last summer, Elgin moved to shut down TLC’s mobile facility for the rest of the year at both locations. Records indicate that, in August, Police Chief Jeffrey Swoboda, at the request of City Councilmember Anna Moeller, boarded the mobile facility while parked at JB’s and ordered TLC’s ultrasound technician, Jane DeFily, to “cease and desist” her activity. The officer informed DeFily that a certain city councilperson had driven by and described the mobile facility as an “eyesore.” [Continue reading ...]
Yesterday the Pro-Life Action League, acting through our legal counsel, the Thomas More Society, filed a formal administrative complaint with the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation, urging that the IDPR undertake an immediate investigation into the death of 24-year old Tonya Reaves following an abortion at a Planned Parenthood’s Loop Health Center in Chicago on July 20th, 2012.
In the complaint and its ten accompanying exhibits, the Pro-Life Action League and Thomas More Society have detailed a series of serious concerns about apparent inadequate and substandard care given to Reaves.
First, the website for Planned Parenthood’s Loop Health Center indicated [PDF] — in a passage that was later deleted — that only limited services (birth control, emergency contraception, and medication abortion; i.e., the abortion pill) were available at that facility.
Yet Reaves, then 16 weeks pregnant according to her autopsy report, underwent an invasive, surgical dilatation & evacuation (D&E) abortion. Thus these facts suggest that Planned Parenthood’s Loop Health Center was inadequately equipped and inadequately staffed to handle either the D&E procedure or complications arising as a result — which, in Reaves’ case, led to her death. [Continue reading ...]
Today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced proposed new rules allegedly intended to accommodate the moral objections of religious employers to the HHS Mandate. But the new rules do little to address those objections.
The League’s Eric Scheidler and Monica Miller of Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, co-directors of the over 250 Stand Up for Religious Freedom rallies coast-to-coast last year in opposition to the HHS Mandate, released the following statement in response:
Nearly a year after promising to provide an “accommodation” for religious employers who object to the HHS Mandate, the Obama administration has finally issued proposed new rules. While we await a full analysis of these proposed rule changes from legal experts, a first look at what the Obama administration is offering makes it clear that the objections of religious employers have not been taken seriously. [Continue reading ...]
NOTE: This article is one of a series on the “top ten” accomplishments of the pro-life movement over the past 40 years since unborn children were stripped of their legal right to life by the 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court rulings.
In a series of articles these past ten days, I’ve been discussing the concrete accomplishments of the pro-life movement since the U. S. Supreme Court stripped unborn children of their legal right to life in their Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton rulings, handed down 40 years ago today.
This series has been intended to serve two purposes. First, it offers a response to the criticism coming from some in the pro-life movement, mostly newcomers, that little has been accomplished since Roe. As I have shown, this is profoundly not the case.
Secondly, this series offers some perspective, both on what things might have looked like in the absence of all the pro-life Americans have done over the past 40 years, and on what a valuable legacy we have to build upon.
With the 40th anniversary of Roe and Doe upon us today, I offer here a wrap-up of my list. As we soberly, somberly reflect on the legacy of these rulings—over 55 million dead and a society deeply wounded—may this overview of our accomplishments give us courage and confidence moving forward: [Continue reading ...]
NOTE: This article is one of a series on the “top ten” accomplishments of the pro-life movement over the past 40 years since unborn children were stripped of their legal right to life by the 1973 Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton Supreme Court rulings.
One of the most common objections leveled against the pro-life movement is that we “don’t care about women”—that we’re obsessed with fetuses and neither understand nor really care about the plight of women facing untimely pregnancy.
It seems to have passed the notice of these critics that at least half of those involved in the pro-life movement, from grassroots volunteers to national leaders, are themselves women.
But this objection—along with the related criticism that we “don’t care about children once they’re born”—is utterly debunked by the compassionate, generous outreach to women offered by the nation’s pregnancy resource centers.
First pregnancy help center in North America was opened with the founding of the group Birthright in Canada back in 1968, a year before abortion had been legalized there, to offer help to women facing unplanned pregnancy. Birthright soon went international, including centers in the United States.
There are now at least 3,000 pregnancy resource centers across the country—more than four times the number of abortion clinics. [Continue reading ...]
Are abortion clinics in Virginia “beautiful, immaculate, clean facilities” that pass inspections “with flying colors”?
According to NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia Executive Director Tarina Keene and her Huffington Post water carrier, the answer is yes. But are they right?
In March 2011, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed into law regulations that required the State’s Board of Health to write new rules for regulating abortion facilities, which had been largely unregulated for more than 20 years.
Late last month, McDonnell signed into law permanent regulations that will now hold the state’s abortion facilities to the same health and safety standards as hospitals. To no one’s surprise, abortion advocates are gnashing their teeth about these regulations, which they contend are unnecessarily “burdensome” and will serve only to limit “access” to abortion.
A recent segment of HuffPost Live looked at the issue of the situation in Virginia, and it’s well worth watching.
Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall and Operation Rescue‘s Troy Newman did an admirable job of explaining why regulation of abortion clinics is so vitally necessary, but you have to hear for yourself the jaw-dropping claims uttered by NARAL’s Keene. [Continue reading ...]
Facebook user Joe Grabowski has declared tomorrow, Saturday, January 5 Standing with Hobby Lobby Day in solidarity with their courageous stand against the HHS Mandate.
Hobby Lobby has been denied an injunction while their lawsuit against the Mandate is being tried and could face $1.3 million in fines per day for their refusal to comply.
Standing with Hobby Lobby day encourages everyone who supports that stand to shop at Hobby Lobby tomorrow. Here’s the description from the Facebook event page:
On Saturday, January 5th, all Americans who value freedom of religion and oppose the HHS Mandate’s unfair impositions upon religious individuals and corporate entities are called upon to show their support for Hobby Lobby by shopping either at their local retail Hobby Lobby store or online.
Over 32,000 have already joined the event online. You can join the event on Facebook here and find your closest Hobby Lobby store here.
Courageous businesses like Hobby Lobby need our support. Their lawsuits could be our last chance to undo President Obama’s pernicious HHS Mandate. Stand up for religious freedom and stand with Hobby Lobby tomorrow!