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Tuesday, October 28, 2014
(LiveActionNews) — by Sarah Terzo | LifeNews.com | 10/27/14 10:43 AM
 
Carol Everett owned two abortion clinics and was the director of four. She eventually
became pro-life and now speaks about her experiences.
Carol Everett
Like nearly all abortion clinics,
Everett’s clinics had “recovery rooms”
where women could stay after their
abortions until the anesthesia wore off
or they felt well enough to leave.
Everett says there were two main
reactions among women right after
their abortions:
…[T]here are two reactions in
the recovery room.
 
The first one is: I’ve killed my baby. And even then, it amazed me that that
was the first time they called it a baby and the first time they
called it murder. But, you know, as bad as that sounds, that’s probably the healthiest reaction. That woman is probably going
to have the ability to walk out of there and deal with it, and perhaps be healed and go on.
These women may have been going through their abortion procedures in a state of denial. Afterwards,
they could no longer sustain that denial and were forced to face the truth about what they had done.
Everett believes that by facing reality instead of repressing it, these women may be on the path to healing.
But she goes on to talk about the second group of women:
 
But the second reaction is: I am hungry, you kept me in here for four hours and you told me I’d
only be here for two; let me out of here. Now that woman is doing what I did. She’s running
from her abortion. She’s not dealing with it; she’s choosing to deny it, and she’s the woman
that we read all the statistics about, post-abortion syndrome. They say now it’s an average of
five years before people actually deal with the fact that, yes, they did kill their baby. And yes,
they do have to deal with that. You know, I go back to my own personal healing, which just
started a year ago. I was making deals with God. I didn’t want to talk about my own abortion.
Then when I finally did deal with it, I cried nonstop for five months because, you see, I killed
my baby, and I’m still not through that. And how difficult it is for all these women because, you
see, I believe that every woman, even if she’s not physically harmed, is harmed by abortion.
 
The five year statistic seems to be anecdotal, but Everett knows, from bitter personal experience, that
repressing the trauma of abortion only leads to more heartache later. Women who have abortions have a
higher risk of suicide (6 – 7 times higher in adults and 10 times higher in teens) as well as higher rates of
depression, sleep disorders, and psychiatric hospitalizations. Pro-life groups need to reach out to these
women with compassion, regardless of how they are coping (or not coping) with their abortions.
 
Monday, October 27, 2014
by Katie Yoder | LifeNews.com | 10/24/14 3:42 PM
 
A new book – a gospel of responsibility-free sex – defines abortion as “right,” “good” and “moral.” It’s
what’s “best for kids” and it’s all about a woman’s “unalienable right” to pursue happiness.
When Katha Pollitt, an outspoken feminist and columnist for The Nation, published “Pro: Reclaiming
Abortion Rights” on Oct. 14, the journalists used it as a launching pad for their latest abortion obsession:
no-fault abortion. Pollitt’s book “reframes abortion” as “a moral right with positive social implications.” And
since nobody ever went broke telling the self-obsessed what they want to hear, the book has received
rapturous praise form the feminist left.
 
Here, as given to us by Pollitt’s media acolytes, are the tenets of the new Church of Guilt-Free Abortion.
 
1. SLATE: Abortion is ‘Great,’ a ‘Positive Social Good’
“Abortion Is Great,” began Slate’s Hanna Rosin in her book review. She reasoned, “As Pollitt puts it, ‘This is
not the right time for me’ should be reason enough.” “Saying that aloud,” she said, “would help push back
against the lingering notion that it’s unnatural for a woman to choose herself over others.”
Trashing the pro-life movement, Rosin again cited Pollitt to argue, “we have all essentially been
brainwashed by a small minority of pro-life activists” – or the “loud minority [that] has beaten the rest of us
into submission with their fetus posters and their absolutism and their infiltration of American politics”
instead of “saying out loud that abortion is a positive social good.”
As far as messaging, “The pro-choice side should be able to say that a poor or working-class woman
getting an abortion is making a wise choice for her future,” Rosin wrote, “That way, the left would own not
only gender and income equality, but also a new era of family values.”
 
2. REFINERY 29: Abortion is a ‘Social Good’ for Women to ‘Live Full, Complete Lives’
Like Rosin, Refinery 29’s Sarah Jaffe urged, “It is past time for a revived, unapologetic and unified abortion
rights movement that understands abortion as a social good.”
Jaffe celebrated the book’s “powerful call to understand abortion not as some singular culture-war issue
but as one part of a struggle for women to be able to live full, complete lives.”
Change, she said, “will come from many more people joining a revitalized movement that is able, as Pollitt
argues, to stop conceding territory and, yes, demand abortion be part of any true struggle for social
justice.”
 
3. THE GUARDIAN: Abortion is ‘Women’s Pursuit of Happiness as an Unalienable Right’
“Abortion isn’t about the right to privacy. It’s about women’s right to equality,” began Jessica Valenti for The
Guardian. But “The hard part about arguing that abortion is necessary for women’s equality, of course, is
that there are still too many people who don’t see women’s pursuit of happiness as an unalienable right,”
she whined.
Not one to play around, Valenti quickly went to the crux of her argument: “It’s time for the pro-choice
movement to lose the protective talking points and stop dancing around the bigger truth: Abortion
is good for women.”
She explained:
“The pro-choice movement needs to put the opposition on its heels, and make what some in
the ‘pro-forced birth’ movement say what they’re really thinking: that it’s more important for
women be mothers than go to college; that the ability to support existing children, to have a
job that pays well or to pursue a career path we love are inconsequential realities compared to
embracing our ‘natural’ role as perpetually pregnant; that a woman’s ability to incubate a
fetus trumps any other contribution to society that she could possibly make.”
 
4. BUSTLE: Abortion is ‘the Best for Kids’
Bustle’s Lisa Levy praised Pollitt’s
“elegant, pointed, and smart” book
as an “explanation of why keeping
abortion legal is so critical to
women’s lives.” In her piece, she
listed the “7 Things I Learned from
Coffee with Katha” – such as
“Keeping abortion legal is not only
the best situation for women – it’s
the best for kids, too.”
“Abortion is a crucial way to make
sure all babies are wanted, and
their mothers are able to nurture
and provide for them and help them
to realize their potential,” Levy worshipped.
 
5. THE HUFFINGTON POST: Abortion is ‘More Moral’ than Having a Child, Part of Motherhood
To announce Pollitt’s book, The Huffington Post published an excerpt where Pollitt recognized abortion as
“part of the fabric of American life.” “We need to see abortion as an urgent practical decision that is just as
moral as the decision to have a child — indeed, sometimes more moral,” Pollitt spurted.
“Actually,” she continued, “abortion is part of being a mother and of caring for children, because part of
caring for children is knowing when it’s not a good idea to bring them into the world.”
HuffPo later invited Katha Pollitt on for an interview on HuffPost Live.
 
6. THE WASHINGTON POST: Abortion is Worthy of ‘Pop Culture’
Alyssa Rosenberg reviewed the Pollitt’s book with a different twist: “Why it is so important that pop culture
be able to discuss abortion.”
The book, she wrote, “reaffirmed my long-standing conviction that it is important for pop culture to get
more confident and less coy in talking about abortion.”
In her conclusion, she decided, “If Hollywood really wanted to show off its ability to shape public
consciousness and change the conversation in the same way it contributed to the gay rights movement,
‘Pro’ ought to be a challenge to that industry to prove it can do what politicians cannot.”
 
7. ELLE: Abortion is Ending ‘Potential Life, Not a Life-Life’
Elle’s Laurie Abraham not only interviewed Pollitt, but read her book as a “kind of call to action, an appeal
to stop letting abortion opponents fill all the available airspace.” Or, in other words, a call to “tell a different
story, the more common yet strangely hidden one, which is that I don’t feel guilty and tortured about my
abortion. Or rather, my abortions.”
She did so for Elle’s November 2014 issue in a piece entitled, “Abortion: Not Easy, Not Sorry.”
As a “highly educated daughter of a Planned Parenthood clinic volunteer,” Abraham believed, “An embryo
or a fetus is all potential.” “Now is the time to say that I don’t think that I killed anyone when I had an
abortion,” she said.
To describe her first abortion, Pollitt wrote:
“By 12 weeks, it has become a fetus, 2 inches to 3 inches long, with features that are
recognizably human. Yet by my lights, a fetus at this stage is not a person in any real sense of
that word. It can’t live outside the womb; none of its organ systems is fully developed; and,
most crucially, it’s not capable of conscious thought, since the cortical synapses don’t begin to
form until the second trimester. The way I’ve always thought of it, in lay terms, is that I ended
a potential life, not a life-life.”
While “she sobbed” before her second abortion, she reasoned, “A third child would put too much strain on
our marriage, I wanted to keep working, and I didn’t want to cheat the children I already had.”
8. THE NEW YORK TIMES: Abortion is a ‘Right’
For The New York Times, Clara Jeffery recognized the book as an “eye opener for those who have never
darkened the door of a women’s studies classroom.”
Although she never had an abortion
herself, she helped friends
terminate their unborn. Jeffery
noted how, “contraception and
abortion have allowed women to
widen their worlds dramatically.”
“If you’re a woman, I don’t need to
detail all the barriers we still face,”
she assumed. “If you’re a mother, I
don’t need to tell you all the ways in
which the workplace is set up as if
you didn’t have kids, and schools,
camps and childhood extracurriculars as if you didn’t have a job.”
“Motherhood is hard enough if you go into it willingly,” she said. “And Pollitt is correct to insist that the right
to an abortion is merely society’s down payment on all the rights we are yet due.”
 
9. NEW YORK MAGAZINE: Abortion is ‘Good for Everyone’
“We should accept that it’s good for everyone if women have only the children they want and can raise
well,” Alex Ronan wrote for The Cut, “which is both obvious and worth repeating in a climate that’s openly
hostile to women’s lives, safety, and ambitions.”
And Pollitt was the best champion of the cause. “Blending statistics, history, and stories of real women
along with her signature wit, Pollitt is an excellent guide to the debate’s most important questions,” Ronan
continued.
 
10. SALON: Abortion Is Valuing Women
Salon’s Michele Filgate described Pollitt’s book as “a refreshing and comprehensive look at abortion
rights.” Because, as Filgate whined, “There are many preconceived notions about abortion that lead to one
terrible conclusion: our society doesn’t value women nearly enough.”
“One would think that in 2014, all women in the United States would have easy access, but that’s somehow
not the case,” she said. ”’Pro’ is a passionate plea–and a book that is needed now more than ever.”
 
11…
That is the media take. That is the “feminist” take: the voices of women who regret their abortions, pro-life
women, baby girls who are no more, don’t exist.
Let’s prove them wrong.
 
Friday, October 24, 2014
by Matt Yonke | LifeNews.com | 10/23/14 4:28 PM
 
For the last few years, League staffers Ann and Joe Scheidler and myself have all been listed on a “bully list” on a website called Voice of Choice, where pro-lifers’ home addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other personal data were listed without their consent so that pro-choice people could call and harass them.
 
voiceofchoiceThe irony here is pretty thick—the Scheidlers and myself have never committed violence against any pro-choice person, while pro-choice activists have attacked the Scheidlers and their home, offices and property untold times over their decades of pro-life activism!
 
In March of last year, I even appeared on National Public Radio’s Air Talk program with the fellow who runs the site, late-term abortion clinic owner Todd Stave. Listen to that debate here:
 
prolifestudents38Today we were surprised to see that the list had been taken down!
 
Though we were aware of a lawsuit that had been filed against Voice of Choice in December of last year by pro-lifers over the bully list, we’d heard no updates prior to the mysterious removal of the list today.
 
The site gives no indication as to what motivated its owners to take down the list. Whether it was legal proceedings against them had been successful, whether they simply decided that harassing pro-lifers wasn’t the best way to advance their cause, or something else entirely is impossible to say unless or until more details emerge.
 
But for the time being, we’re happy that this pro-abortion bullying movement has stopped their unproductive tactics.
Thursday, October 23, 2014
by Cheryl Sullenger | LifeNews.com | 10/22/14 1:18 PM
 
To the dismay of California’s people of faith, the California Department of Managed Health Care has
reclassified abortion as a “basic health service” under the Affordable Care Act and ordered all insurance
plans in the state to begin covering surgical abortions immediately. Even churches are not exempt from
funding abortions.
Operation Rescue opposes this policy that
forces men and women who deeply oppose
abortion on religious grounds to fund
surgical abortion in violation of their faith,
and encourages others to oppose it as well.
 
“Since Obamacare was first introduced, we
warned that the day could come when
Christians would be required by the state to
violate their consciences through forced
payments for abortion,” said Troy Newman,
President of Operation Rescue. “Now, with
this mandate in California that imposes
forced abortion funding on churches, it has
come time for men and women of faith to stand against this tyranny and refuse to comply with this unjust
law that would make us accessories to the taking of innocent human life.”
Last year, Operation Rescue launched the “Pledge for the Preservation of Life and Liberty,” which has
been signed by most of the nation’s best respected pro-life leaders.
This Pledge has been carefully crafted to stand as a ‘line in the sand’ regarding any scenario in which the
Affordable Care Act forces individuals to participate – whether directly or indirectly – in the destruction of
human life. In short, the pro-life movement has chosen one answer to being forced to fund abortion
through healthcare: We will not comply.
 
“I have made the decision not to comply with any unjust law that would force me to pay for abortions – no
matter the personal cost to me,” Newman said. “Instead, I have chosen to engage in peaceful civil
disobedience rather than violate my faith and conscience. Those in California need to understand that this
assault on our religious liberties is just the beginning. It will never end if we do not stand firm today and
refuse to fund abortions. Religious freedom and the lives of babies that would be lost if we capitulate are
more than worth the personal sacrifice. I invite Californians to join me in resisting this evil mandate.”
 
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
by Shawn Carney | LifeNews.com | 10/21/14 9:34 AM
 
Abortion facilities try their best to nestle into a community and go unnoticed. Sometimes, they look like
ordinary buildings in an otherwise good neighborhood. Other times, however, they look like the grotesque
places they really are.
Their dark and sterile existence is even more reason for you to be there … for those who feel they have no
other choice than to walk inside.
 
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
A vigil participant in Chicago sent in a picture of the abortion facility there, along with a note: “If you were a
woman going for ‘women’s healthcare,’ would you go into a place with ugly gray plastic sheets hanging on
a cyclone fence?”
The sheet-covered fence surrounds the parking lot next to the building. “It’s very scary and very, very
sketchy looking,” said the volunteer.
Victor, the 40 Days for Life coordinator in Chicago, sent word that several babies have already been saved
from abortion during this campaign. “Thank you for all that you do to build a culture of life,” he said.
Just a few days ago, an abortion worker came out to tell the prayer volunteers they had to remove their
signs from the sidewalk. Heather, the 40 Days for Life leader in Austin, thinks it’s one sign in particular they
don’t like: “Ask me about free pregnancy tests and free ultrasounds.”
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The volunteers were ready for such a ridiculous claim, so they produced a letter signed by the police chief,
stating that signs could legally be used at the vigil. The abortion worker said that didn’t matter, because
“the state is overriding the city on this one.” That, of course, wasn’t accurate.
“This tells me two things,” Heather said. “One, the abortion facility is obviously behind this; how would the
worker know about this supposed new sign ordinance otherwise? And two, our signs must be turning away
a ton of business at the abortion facility for them to go this far!”
She added that their attorney friends are keeping on top of this so the volunteers’ rights are protected.
 
ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY
The 40 Days for Life vigil is held outside an abortion center on a busy highway just outside Atlantic City.
“We are reaching thousands of cars a day,” said Ethel, the local leader, “which is probably the best free
advertising ever … we get so much positive response.”
40 Days for Life is gathering momentum in the Atlantic City area, as more churches get involved. “Our
church has amazed me,” she said, “with 8 to 10 people just from my church out there. My pastor at New
Life Assembly said it’s about time we are joining the ranks!”
As the growth continues, Ethel said she knows in time there will be even more “of the Light of God to
expose the darkness.”
Tuesday, October 21, 2014

by Dave Andrusko | LifeNews.com | 10/20/14 5:47 PM

What is the three-legged stool on which abortionists and their apologists rest their case?

That abortion is free of complications—emotional and physical; any research that demonstrates otherwise is, by definition, “junk science.” That abortion is not only free of aftershocks, it is for many women a rite of passage on their way to adulthood; in other words, killing your unborn children is a positive.

And that the American public is in the pro-abortionist’s corner, ready, willing, and eager to make sure that there is no “restriction” on access, here or anywhere else in the world; in other words, they agree there can never, ever be enough abortions. None of them is true, as we have patiently demonstrated on a few hundred occasions.

Today I would like to take a few minutes of your time to talk about the first of these by discussing a piece written by Priscilla Coleman, Ph.D., who has compiled some of the best research proving how detrimental having an abortion is to women.

The title of her analysis which appeared today is, “They’re Still Trying to Disprove Post-Abortion Trauma Syndrome: And still resorting to junk science to do so.”

This is a long, in-depth critique which you can read at your leisure. So let me touch on just a few of the highlights.

Dr. Coleman uses as a starting point an essay by Zawn Villines titled “Is So-Called Post-Abortion Trauma Syndrome a Myth?”

What is the Villines strategy? On the one hand, choose not to “focus on the large international body of peer-reviewed scientific evidence indicating that abortion increases women’s risk of experiencing mental health problems.” On the other hand “exclusively describe results of the flawed ‘Turnaway Study,’ led by Diana Greene Foster.”

The study was a “failed attempt to prove that women really are better off economically, physically, emotionally having an abortion, even if those happen to be late abortions, than they would be if they gave birth,” to quote NRLC’s own Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon. Dr. O’Bannon takes the systematically flawed study apart, finding it does not substantiate any of these claims [1]

Coleman explores the serious—and I do mean serious—methodological problems, which include that fewer than a third of the women agreed to participate in the study and that “Villines neglected to mention that 60% of the women in the Turnaway group who continued their pregnancies expressed happiness about their pregnancies.” Not exactly an incidental finding, wouldn’t you say?

Two other important considerations. Villines and others who share her views are determined to marginalize the findings that have been replicated around the world. But as Coleman explains

“The results of hundreds of studies published in leading peer-reviewed journals over the past 4 decades indicate abortion is a substantial contributing factor in women’s mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and death from suicide.”

In 2012 Coleman published what is called a “meta-analysis”–a study of the studies–which “has much more credibility than the results of individual empirical studies or narrative reviews.”

So what did “Abortion and Mental Health: A Quantitative Synthesis and Analysis of Research Published from 1995-2009” reveal? According to Coleman, that

“women who aborted experienced an 81% increased risk for mental health problems. When compared specifically to unintended pregnancy delivered, women were found to have a 55% increased risk of experiencing mental health problem. This review offers the largest quantitative estimate of mental health risks associated with abortion available in the world.”

There is much, much to read.  It is very much worth your time because Dr. Coleman’s article (and all the other work she is doing) clearly document that abortion has a lasting impact on the mental health of a significant percentage of women.

[1] Dr. O’Bannon published an exhaustive five-part series detailing the “Turnaway Study’s” numerous inadequacies. The final segment, with links back the first four parts, can be read here.
Monday, October 20, 2014

by Shawn Carney | LifeNews.com | 10/17/14 9:42 AM

As we get into the second half of the campaign, two groups of people are being challenged — those who have thought about praying at a vigil but haven’t done so yet … and abortion workers who have — for the first time — begun to question their jobs.

We’ve seen 104 abortion workers have a change of heart and resign during 40 Days for Life campaigns … and most of them do so in the last half of the campaign. They may brush off or even mock the peaceful vigil outside their workplace at first, but over time they begin to turn their attention to the work going on inside their building.

God uses your peaceful presence to save lives … and touch the hearts of those who work in the abortion industry. If you have considered going out to pray but haven’t done so, there is still time … and that time can have a huge impact on abortion in your community!

Find the 40 Days for Life location nearest you. God answers prayers! Here are a few examples.

LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS

 

“We had a save today!” said Rita in Little Rock.

A young girl came with her boyfriend to have an ultrasound. She went inside while he went to park the car. As he walked to the building, the volunteers told him about the pregnancy resource center.

“He said he would go in and tell her about it,” she said. The woman came out a few minutes later. “We told her that we could get her a free ultrasound and we walked her to the pregnancy resource center.”

She later got back in touch with the vigil participants and told them she is keeping her baby.

Rita said later that same day, there was more good news. “Another lady changed her mind … she said she couldn’t go through with it.” She left the abortion center and did not return.

COLUMBIA, MISSOURI

 

Planned Parenthood in Columbia is no longer doing abortions – but they’re certainly referring women to other locations that perform them. So there’s still a reason to pray on the sidewalk outside.

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“It appeared that several women were there for abortion counseling,” said Kathy, the Columbia leader. “Please pray for these women, especially the ones who refused our information and rushed out of the driveway.”

Prayer volunteers did succeed in convincing a couple of women to visit the local pregnancy help center for life-affirming assistance.

Kathy said there was one busy day at Planned Parenthood recently, but on many days, business is off. “And only three workers were there – down from six. One has to wonder, what is going on?”

An empty parking lot is always good news. “Keep praying for this clinic to close,” she said. “When clinics close, babies are saved.”

CINCINNATI, OHIO

 

A determined group of volunteers stood outside Planned Parenthood on a very rainy night in Cincinnati, as Archbishop Dennis Schnurr led them in prayer. “The archbishop commented on how we are witnesses for life … and making a difference,” said Theresa in Cincinnati.

With so much rain in the forecast, the Cincinnati team said it was uncertain whether anyone would actually go out that night – but the leaders really appreciated their perseverance.

“Let us continue during these 40 Days for Life with prayer, fasting and community outreach to end abortion,” Theresa said.

LifeNews.com Note: Shawn Carney is the campaign director for the 40 Days for Life pro-life prayer campaign against abortion.
Friday, October 17, 2014
by Steven Ertelt | LifeNews.com | 10/16/14 4:57 PM
 
Planned Parenthood, the nation’s biggest abortion business, is celebrating its 98th birthday today and the
abortion giant has done over 6.6 million abortions since Roe v. Wade, more than any other abortion
company. In a terrible irony, Planned Parenthood tweeted out a picture of baby carriages to celebrate its anniversary.
Happy 98th birthday, Planned Parenthood! Jim Sedlak of American Life League says the abortion giant has built itself on Margaret Sanger’s racist
philosophies. “Planned Parenthood Federation of America dates its beginning to Oct. 16, 1916,
when Margaret Sanger
opened the nation’s first birth
control clinic in Brooklyn, New
York,” he explained. “Sanger
had three basic philosophies
that are still active within
Planned Parenthood today.
One of those was a passion to
prevent the birth of
“defectives,” which Sedlak
says led to her stating in her
1932 Plan for Peace that
persons from “dysgenic groups” should be given their choice of sterilization or confinement on a farm for
the rest of their lives. Sanger was a member of the American Eugenics Society.
“Planned Parenthood does not make public the race of its abortion clients anymore. In the 1990s, it
revealed that 43 percent of its abortions were on blacks and other minorities – who only made up 22
percent of the population,” he explained.
 
When Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) released its 2012-2013 annual report the
numbers showed abortion is still a very large portion of Planned Parenthood’s business and income.
Abortions accounted for 93.8 percent of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services. Prenatal care services
dropped 32 percent in one year, and 52 percent since 2009. Adoption referrals are also down 4.5 percent
in one year. For every adoption referral, Planned Parenthood performed 149 abortions.
More information from its annual report reveals:
During fiscal year 2012-2013, Planned Parenthood reported receiving $540.6 million in taxpayer funding, or nearly
$1.5 million per day.
Planned Parenthood reported $58.2 million in excess revenue, and more than $1.3 billion in net assets.
In 2012, Planned Parenthood performed 327,166 abortions , a 2% drop from 2011. In 2002, Planned Parenthood
performed 227,385 abortions, meaning they perform 100,000 more abortions than they did 10 years ago.
Over the past three reported years (2010-2012), Planned Parenthood has performed nearly one million abortions
(990,575).
In 2012,abortions made up 93.8% of Planned Parenthood’s pregnancy services, while prenatal care and adoption
referrals accounted for only 5.6% (19,506) and 0.6% (2,197), respectively. For every adoption referral, Planned
Parenthood performed 149 abortions.
Prenatal care services have dropped 32% in one year, and 52% since 2009. Adoption referrals are also down 4.5% in
one year.
 
After reviewing the report, Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) President Marjorie Dannenfelser had the
following comments:
“Business is booming for America’s largest abortion provider, which receives public funding at a rate of
$1.5 million per day. Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report shows that they performed 100,000 more
abortions in 2013 than ten years ago. Meanwhile, cancer screenings and prenatal services, including
adoption referrals, continue to drop. Planned Parenthood claims to be a trusted health care provider to
women and girls, but their numbers tell a different story. Planned Parenthood is a business whose entire
mission is to profit off of abortion.”
Thursday, October 16, 2014
by Steven Ertelt | LifeNews.com | 10/15/14 6:42 PM
 
With concerns about the Ebola virus on the minds of Americans and people worldwide given new
infections, one pro-life group is hoping that moral alternatives will be pursued when creating an Ebola
vaccine. Children of God for Life announced today that several Ebola vaccines in development for use worldwide
are made using aborted fetal cell lines despite the fact that moral alternatives are reported as equally
effective. As the pro-life group informed LifeNews.com: Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) and NIAID are jointly developing their
ChAd3 vector for delivering the Ebola virus gene using HEK-293 (human embryonic kidney) cells.
Likewise, NewLink Genetics of Iowa used HEK-293 cells for their VSV-EBOV Ebola vaccine in Canada, while Johnson and
Johnson/Crucell developed theirs using PER C6 cells, derived from retinal tissue of an 18 week
gestation aborted baby. “There is absolutely no reason to use aborted fetal cell lines,” stated Debi Vinnedge, Director of Children of
God for Life. “At least two other Ebola vaccines in development by the University of Texas and GeoVax
are using either Vero cells or chicken eggs. Likewise, there are therapeutic products such as ZMapp
(LeafBio) and TKM-Ebola (Tekmira) that are using plant or Vero cells.”
 
Vinnedge wrote to the Department of HHS, the NIH, the FDA and NIAID pointing out that even the US
Department of Health listed other options such as yeast, insect, plant, bacteria, CHO, BHK, heLa and COS
cells, in their own patent, stating, “The attenuated [ebola]virus can replicate well in a cell line that lacks
interferon functions, such as Vero cells.” “It is completely irresponsible of this Administration to put these problem vaccines on fast-track for approval
and ignore the fact that a massive number of people may very well refuse them. Why not fast track a
product that everyone can use in good conscience?” asked Vinnedge.
 
The pro-life group is urging pro-life Americans to contact the Obama administration and their members of
Congress requesting that they expedite the morally acceptable alternatives.
 
Contact:
Sylvia M. Burwell, Secretary
Dept of Health and Human Services
200 Independence Avenue
Washington, DC 20201
 
Dr Francis S. Collins, Director
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20892
 
Dr Anthony Fauci, Director
NIAID Office of Communications and Government Relations
5601 Fishers Lane, MSC 9806
Bethesda, MD 20892-9806
 
Margaret A. Hamburg, Commissioner
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20993
Wednesday, October 15, 2014

by Carole Novielli | LifeNews.com | 10/14/14 10:01 AM

Two children were raped several times resulting in several pregnancies that ended in abortion. Each time the young victims were sent back into the hands of their abuser because the clinic or clinics where they were taken by their mother failed to report the possibility of abuse.

The story begins in 2008, when a 16-year-old teen gave birth and her boyfriend’s parents realized that the baby did not look like their son, but rather like an adult male acquaintance of the teen’s mother.

A DNA test proved the boyfriend was not the baby’s father, and that’s when the girl admitted that 44 year-old Ricky Jackson was the father. At that point, the boy’s parents reported the information to Ashland Police.

“(The girl) had confided in their son that the Jackson had raped her when she was 11 years old and that he was very jealous of their son’s relationship with” the girl, Middlesex Assistant District Attorney Katharine Folger said in a court document.

Police arrested Jackson on March 23 of that same year.

The victim also had a sister and the girls, fearful for their safety after Jackson was released from jail, later admitted to police that Jackson had been raping both of them for years. According to their statements, the sexual abuse began in October of 2002, after Jackson and their mother became involved.

The girls told police that after their mother would go to sleep, Jackson would go to their room and rape them. According to their testimony, Jackson impregnated the older sister twice twice when she was 13 and 14 years old, and impregnated the younger girl when she was 12.

The girls’ mother took them to have abortions each time she learned they were pregnant.

According to prosecutors, the mother of the raped children did not know they had been impregnated by Jackson. The girls told police they never reported the sexual assaults because Jackson had threatened to kill them if they did.

In August 2008, Jackson was charged with two counts of child rape, violating a restraining order, intimidation of a witness, and one count of rape and indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14.

Life Dynamics, a Denton, Texas organization which has been exposing how child rapists use abortion to cover their crimes, summarized this case in a report they titled, The Cover-Up of Child Sexual Abuse.

Mark Crutcher, president of Life Dynamics makes it clear that the failure of abortion facilities to report suspected child abuse is causing children to be repeatedly raped, sometimes for years after their abortions, “In almost every case of adult men having sex with minor girls, the perpetrators are aware that the relationship is illegal and could land them in prison,” Crutcher says, “They also know that one of the most likely ways for them to get caught is for their victims to become pregnant. When that happens, their back up plan is inevitably going to involve abortion. As a result, there is no place within the medical community where underage victims of sexual abuse are more likely to be found than at abortion clinics. The question is: how are these girls dealt with when they show up at those clinics?”

Crutcher continues, “It is important to understand that mandatory reporters are neither obligated nor authorized to investigate these incidents. Whatever conclusions they might reach about the legality or illegality of a child’s sexual activity has no bearing on their obligations as mandatory reporters. If they are presented with evidence of sexual activity by a patient who, by reason of her age, cannot legally consent to sexual activity, their only duty is to report to the authorities. The responsibility for determining whether a criminal act has or has not occurred belongs only to the state.”

According to a summary of the case published by Life Dynamics,”three pregnancies resulted from these assaults and, in each case, their mother took them for abortions. Since there were multiple abortions and the sexual activity continued after each one, it is certain that none of the abortion clinics involved made a report. The rapes did not end until the parents of a boy who knew the girls learned of the situation and called police.”

Life Dynamics has published 60 examples of cases where child sexual abuse was covered up with an abortion and the clinics where the victims were taken failed to report the possibility of abuse.

In a press released issued at the time the group published their report, Crutcher states, “ it is almost universally accepted that sexual predators who target children almost never stop on their own. Instead, they continue until they are stopped by someone else. In reading the cases you will see incident after incident in which girls continued to be raped and sexually abused – sometimes for years – after the abortion clinic where they were taken ignored the state’s mandatory reporting law. But once the situation was eventually revealed to the authorities, the perpetrator was arrested and the abuse ended immediately. This illustrates why compliance with these laws is such an indispensable tool for dealing with our national epidemic of older males sexually exploiting underage girls.”

You can read the entire report here.

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