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Last week, authorities made a shocking discovery while investigating a West Philadelphia abortion clinic run by Kermit Gosnell where a woman died following an abortion in November 2009.
In Gosnell’s office, they found two dozen frozen fetuses.
On Sunday, Gosnell’s license was suspended, with the suspension order detailing “deplorable and unsanitary conditions” that made his practice “an immediate and clear danger to the public health and safety.”
Today, on the pro-choice blog RH Reality Check, Rachel Larris has a post on Gosnell and the woman who died at his facility in November (the woman is identified by the Philadelphia Inquirer as Karnamaya Mongar).
Who does Larris blame for the woman’s death?
Why, pro-lifers, of course.
Live Action President Lila Rose
Friend of the League and President of Live Action Lila Rose shared some exciting pro-life news today.
Lila, who just last month shared about her groundbreaking undercover investigations of Planned Parenthood with hundreds of adults and over 100 teens at the SpeakOut Illinois and TeenSpeak conferences, has exposed the web of deceit that surrounds Planned Parenthood clinics across the country.
Now her work is finally getting the attention of authorities who are moving into action. Here’s what Lila had to say: [Continue reading ...]
Illinois FOCA is back! The so-called Reproductive Health and Access Act (RHAA) was re-filed yesterday by chief sponsor Rep. Barbara Flynn Currie (D-25th), and designated as House Bill 6205.
The new bill slightly tweaks some provisions of HB2354, the Illinois FOCA bill defeated last year by a broad coalition of pro-life and pro-family groups. When it became clear that the bill lacked enough votes to pass, the Democratic House leadership shelved the bill, in a stinging defeat for the pro-abortion lobby.
Abortion chain operator Susan Hill is dead at 61.
Susan and I have a long history, as she was one of the abortionists who got the League all tangled up in NOW v. Scheidler.
It seems that I was always picketing and protesting at Susan’s mills. After all, she was managing twelve at one time.
I had protested outside her mill in Fort Wayne, Indiana and she called the bomb squad, without even warning us that a bomb was expected to go off and blow the big brick building right into our line of march—that is, if someone had set a bomb.
Then I picketed one of her mills in North Carolina, and since it was inside a general office building I went in, but Susan called the police, so we had to stay way outside the building.
Then it was one of Hill’s abortion mills in Wilmington, Delaware that I went into to see what an abortion clinic looked like and to let her know that about a thousand pro-lifers would be protesting outside her mill the next day. She called the police.
I got out before the police came but she filed a warrant and I was arrested and locked up the next day. Luckily, the police were polite and cooperative enough—after a little persuasion by several hundred picketers—to let the march finish and allow us to give some talks before they marched me off to my cell.
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Clinic escorts outside Planned Parenthood in Chicago [Photo by Ann Scheidler]
Just weeks after the story about pro-life young people featuring League staffer Corrina Gura and myself in Chicago’s RedEye daily newspaper, another local daily has submitted its take on activism outside Chicago’s abortion facilities. Their take isn’t nearly as fair as the RedEye’s.
TimeOut Chicago, a paper aimed at young singles, reviews Chicago news, entertainment and culture. Their current issue features a section on volunteering. Among articles on “Volunteering Horror Stories” and “Best Volunteer Projects for Hooking Up” is an article entitled “Volunteer Escorts at Planned Parenthood.”
Wearing his bias on his sleeve, author Jake Malooley opens the piece by criticizing pro-lifers’ “off-key” singing on their Empty Manger caroling day. The rest of the article, a glowing portrait of “clinic escort” Zach Burgess, is chock full of epithets, misrepresentations and outright lies about Chicago’s brave clinic witness volunteers.
Just looking around at our goofy society—our mindless politicians; their unworkable, irrational, juvenile, and almost humorous solutions (if they weren’t so dangerous); their economic nonsense with tax and spend program; the legalization of moral depravity: you get the idea—I can’t help but think of the famous words that William Shakespeare put into the mouth of the Prince of Denmark in his play, Hamlet: “The time is out of joint! O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right.”
Hamlet had just found out from the ghost of his father that the father’s brother, Hamlet’s brother, Hamlet’s uncle murdered him so that he could marry Hamlet’s mother; his girlfriend Ophelia is going mad and drowns herself; Hamlet kills her father thinking he is someone else; and other sundry problems. And Hamlet has to settle it all as amicably as possible, which ends up with his own death, or something like that.
Aurora, Ill.—Last night the Aurora City council agreed to a long-awaited settlement between the city and the Pro-Life Action League that lays out provisions protecting the rights of pro-life protesters at the Planned Parenthood facility in the city. A win for pro-lifers, the agreement recognizes the rights of protesters and secures comprehensive protection for citizens who wish to speak out in front of one of the nation’s largest abortion facilities.
Gardasil, Merck’s basically useless wonder drug has big news this week. Strangely enough, you won’t hear much about it in the mainstream media.
First, the FDA has approved Gardasil for vaccinating boys ages 9 to 26. It will help prevent genital warts (which occurs very rarely among men), and will prevent sexually promiscuous 9 and 10 year olds from spreading strains of cervical cancer to their equally promiscuous partners. How unfortunate that this vaccine which is being forced on our young girls will now be forced onto little boys as well!
A New Jersey blogger George Berkin has hit the nail on the head in his post “Abortion Double Standard.”
Let me read you portions of what he wrote:
A well-known pro-life protester was shot to death over the weekend by a man “offended” by the protester’s exercise of free speech, and the response from abortion rights leaders is telling.
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Since before Planned Parenthood Aurora opened in the fall of 2007 under a cloud of controversy, the Pro-Life Action League has been protesting, praying and counseling outside one of the nation’s largest abortion mills—including a regular protest the third Saturday of every month.
For more background on the Aurora situation and the most recent updates on the legal battles there, watch this two-part interview with League executive director Eric Scheidler by Aurora pro-lifer Denham Reynolds from the August 15 protest.