Planned Parenthood Wants Your Money

July 20, 2009

Dear John,

Right now, Planned Parenthood, the leader of the abortion industry, is facing multiple investigations in several states for allowing sexual abuse of children to go unreported, as well as encouraging young girls to lie about their age in order to obtain an abortion.

Yet the pro-abortion leaders in Congress gave Planned Parenthood $350 million of your tax dollars last year.

And now they want even more money from you!

Click here to tell your Representative to De-Fund Planned Parenthood now!

Pro-Life Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN) has drafted an amendment that would prevent  federal funds, your tax dollars, from going to Planned Parenthood.

If we do not act today, Congress will continue to pump millions of your tax dollars into the abortion industry. Planned Parenthood, in turn, will continue to protect child abusers and rapists by allowing sexual abuse of minors to go unreported, and will cover up abuse with abortion.

Sexual abuse of children is bad enough, but recent investigations have revealed explosive new reports that show Planned Parenthood coaches young girls to lie about their age and age of their child's father in order to bypass parental consent and notification laws. Planned Parenthood has been radically outspoken against ANY "common ground" restrictions to abortions, including waiting periods and informed consent—even simple sonogram laws have been reviled and opposed by Planned Parenthood.

Click here to contact your Representative today. Tell them to support the Pence Amendment and keep your tax dollars out of Planned Parenthood's pockets.

Please make sure you forward this e-mail to all your friends and family. We need to make sure every voice is heard in this great fight for Life.

Thank you for all you do in the fight to protect the unborn boys and girls.

For Life,

Marjorie Dannenfelser
Susan B. Anthony List President
703-875-3370
www.sba-list.org

DC Pro-life leaders to discuss potential convulsions if congress tries to force Americans to pay for the murder of unborn babies.

Abortion, Healthcare, and Social Upheaval: Pro-Life Leaders to Discuss Backlash -- Including Potential of Unwanted Violence -- DC Press Conference Set for Tuesday

WASHINGTON, July 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- DC Pro-life leaders to hold press conference discussing potential backlash - including the potential of unwanted violence - if Congress votes to take taxpayer money to kill the innocent.

Press Conference Details---

Where: National Press Building, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

When: 2:00 PM, Tuesday, July 21

Image by Getty Images via Daylife

Who: Leaders to be present: 
Randall Terry, Founder. Operation Rescue
Missy Smith, President, W.A.K.E.U.P.
Ruby Nicdao, Chairman, Life Guard,
Dick Retta, President, Our Mother for Life
A Catholic Priest
A leader from the "tea party movement."
And more...

Randall Terry states:

"If Congress votes to fund the murder of babies by abortion in any 'health care' bill - either explicitly or implicitly -- there could be horrific consequences.

"Pelosi and company cannot expect millions of Americans to betray God, and to pay for the murder of their neighbor without something snapping. They must not delude themselves: Congress runs the real risk of national convulsions that have not been seen since the 60s, or perhaps since the civil war if they try to compel Americans to pay for the murder of the innocent.

"If they attempt to fund abortion, it is tantamount to the government putting a gun to taxpayers' heads to force them to pay for the brutal murder of an innocent child. There are many of us who will not comply."

From Fr. Frank Pavone: "Stealth Care"

Fr. Frank Pavone
National Director, Priests for Life

A lot of energy was expended to stop the "Freedom of Choice Act" (FOCA), and those efforts succeeded. But pro-life groups warned that the FOCA provisions to expand abortion and force us to pay for it would be snuck in under another bill.

Well now it's here, and we have to act quickly to stop it. The health care reform bills now being finalized in Congress are going to end up mandating the federal funding of abortion without even mentioning the word - unless Congress explicitly excludes abortion. And that's what we have to urge them to do. Otherwise, we will end up with a health care reform bill that will expand abortion more radically than anything since Roe vs. Wade.

Abortion, of course, is not health care and has nothing to do with health care. After all, what disease does abortion cure? None. And what proven medical benefit comes from the procedure? Again, none.

But in the minds of President Obama and the abortion lobby, abortion is essential. On July 17, 2007, for instance, Barack Obama said to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, "Reproductive care is essential care, basic care so it is at the center, the heart of the plan that I propose...insurers are going to have to abide by the same rules in terms of providing comprehensive care, including reproductive care...that's going to be absolutely vital."

And Hilary Clinton said the following to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on April 22, 2009: "Reproductive health includes access to abortion..."

Many will be misled by the fact that the health care bills don't talk about abortion. But as Congressman Chris Smith pointed out in a June 26 letter to colleagues in Congress, "Without abortion explicitly excluded from any government mandated or government funded benefits package, abortion will be included. Time and again, bureaucrats and courts have decided that abortion must be included in public health programs unless the Congress explicitly provides otherwise." That is why explicit exclusions of abortion have been placed in programs like SCHIP and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan.

Without such an exclusion in health care reform legislation, federal officials would be empowered to mandate coverage of abortion in virtually all health plans; massive federal subsidies would be provided for abortion on demand; an expansion of abortion providers would be required; and at least some state abortion regulations would be nullified.

A vast majority of Americans oppose the public funding of abortion. As Congressman Smith points out, "Abortion funding restrictions save lives...The...Alan Guttmacher Institute periodically publishes reports on the effect of limitations on abortion funding. They have concluded that when Medicaid does not fund abortion 30% of Medicaid-eligible women who would have otherwise had an abortion choose life" (June 26 letter to colleagues).

In committee, pro-life amendments to prevent abortion coverage have already been rejected by pro-abortion legislators. And they want to vote on a health care bill within weeks, before people have a chance to consider all the implications. Your Representative and Senators need to hear from you today.

For more details, visit www.priestsforlife.org/legislation

This column can be found online and can be heard in audio format at www.priestsforlife.org/columns/columns2009/09-07-27-stealth-care.htm

Comments on this column?  Go to www.AskFrFrank.com

Fr. Frank's columns are podcast.  See www.PriestsForLife.org/Podcast

"Fly-specking"

Will Massachusetts ruling hurt Walter Hoye case?

On July 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit issued a decision holding a Massachusetts state law doesn't unconstitutionally violate the free speech rights of pro-life protestors and sidewalk counselors. The law creates 35-foot speech-free zones around abortion clinics throughout the state. It also specifically exempts clinic workers and agents.

Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed a lawsuit in federal court in January 2008, but in August 2008, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro ruled that the law was content- and viewpoint-neutral and did not overly burden the free speech rights of pro-life picketers and sidewalk counselors. The First Circuit affirmed that decision this month.

The law updated a 2000 statute that had established six-foot no-approach zones around patients entering abortion clinics. Police and clinic workers had testified that this law was difficult to enforce, leading the Legislature to amend the law to establish the fixed zones around clinics.

In a filing in the Northern District of California on Tuesday, attorneys for the City of Oakland asked Judge Charles Breyer to take the Massachusetts case into consideration in ruling on the constitutionality of Oakland's "Mother May I" ordinance. The constitutionality of that law has been challenged by Rev. Walter Hoye, represented by attorneys from the Life Legal Defense Foundation.

Asked to comment on the First Circuit decision, Katie Short, legal director of the LIfe Legal Defense Foundation, said, "This is one of the most disturbing First Amendment decisions I have ever read. It's not just that the court upheld this completely unprecedented restriction on free speech rights. It was the court's tone as well. Rather than seriously weighing the plaintiffs' [sidewalk counselors'] arguments, the court assumed a bemused, condescending tone, as if slightly puzzled how anyone could think this law was unconstitutional. It referred to the plaintiffs' arguments as 'importunings' that were 'fly-specking' and 'jejune' and 'whistling past the graveyard.''"

"The court appears blissfully unaware that this was the first law of its kind in the country, that is, a law declaring that portions of a public sidewalk, the 'quintessential' public forum, as the U.S. Supreme Court has held, were no longer open to the public. And not just random portions of the sidewalk, but portions specifically designated in order to preclude speech activity on one of the most hotly-debated issues of the day. And to top it off, the court barely considered the constitutional implications of exempting from that law persons who are clearly partisans on one side of the debate."

Lawyers with the Alliance Defense Fund say that they are considering various options in proceeding with the case, including petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court for review.

From

http://www.calcatholic.com/

"Please Mr. President step away from the teleprompter and just be honest with us."

President Obama, Stop Playing Games and Manipulating the American Public Concerning Taxpayer Funded Abortions

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Step away from the teleprompter and just be honest with us.

WASHINGTON, July 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Christian Defense Coalition calls for candor and transparency by President Obama concerning public monies being used to pay for abortions.

The faith organization called for this openness after White House budget chief Peter Orszag was asked on "Fox News Sunday" if federal funds would be used to pay for abortions in the Obama health care plan.

His response, "I am not prepared to say explicitly that right now. It's obviously a controversial issue. I'm not prepared to rule it out."

It is clear the President is not leveling with the American people because if they knew their tax dollars would be paying for abortions they would never support Mr. Obama's health care initiative.

The Christian Defense Coalition along with other pro- life and human rights organizations is beginning a campaign called "Abortion is Not Health Care" on July 26.

They have already secured permits for the week on Capitol Hill.

Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney, Director of the Christian Defense Coalition, states,

"President Obama ran on a campaign on transparency and openness in government. He promised his Administration would be different than past Administrations. Sadly, this is just another broken promise by the President.

"When it comes to being open, candid and honest with the American public on taxpayer funded abortions the White House is being manipulative and vague. They know if the American public discovered that President Obama wants public monies to be used to pay for abortions they would never support his health care reform plan.

"During the Presidential campaign, Mr. Obama made it clear he wanted taxpayer funded abortions to be a major part of health care. Now he is trying to downplay these policies.

"We call upon President Obama to stop playing games and manipulating the American public and come clean. Are taxpayer funded abortions a part of your health care initiative? It is a simple and straight forward question that deserves a straight forward answer.

"Please Mr. President step away from the teleprompter and just be honest with us."

For more information or interviews call: Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney at 540.538.4741, 202.547.1735

KILLING THOSE DEEMED UNWORTHY OF LIFE

Eugenic Mentality Shows Little Signs of Dying Out

By Father John Flynn, LC

ROME, JULY 19, 2009 (Zenit.org).- The idea that some people are genetically inferior, and need to be eliminated or prevented from reproducing, is a mentality that still persists, despite the battering it took after the atrocities committed by the Nazi regime.

Continue reading this article here: http://www.zenit.org/article-26495?l=english

Rep. Tiahrt's Abortion Remarks Reveal Painful Truth Liberals Don't Want Public To Know

July 18, 2009  Tax-funding of abortions in Washington, DC would further target Black population. Washington, DC - Kansas Rep. Todd Tiahrt made remarks in opposition to tax-funding of abortion, which would increase abortion especially among the impoverished, predominately Black communities of Washington, D.C. Rep. Tiahrt rightly noted that tax-funded abortion would "encourage women who are single parents, living below the poverty level, to have the opportunity for a free abortion." He then remarked that if tax-funded abortion had been available, perhaps President Obama or Clarence Thomas may have been aborted. "If you take that scenario and apply it to many of the great minds we have today, who would we have been deprived of? Our president grew up in those similar circumstances. If that financial incentive was in place, is it possible that his mother may have taken advantage of it?" Rep. Tiahrt said. Now Rep. Tiahrt is taking criticism from liberal press and politicians. Some are even asking for an apology. However, Tiahrt's remarks were exactly on point, and actually did not go far enough. He is criticized for mentioning two Black men that could have been aborted if their mothers had been offered government subsidized abortions. In fact, Black women are disproportionately targeted for abortion. The abortion movement in America was founded with racist motives designed to eliminate the Black population. (Full documentation available in Life Dynamics, Inc. documentary "Maafa 21.") Today, the abortion rate for Black women is five times higher than the abortion rate for white women. While only 13% of American women are Black, they account for 36% of all abortions. Just last year, a Planned Parenthood office in Idaho was caught encouraging donations to pay for abortions on Black women. "The bill that Rep. Tiahrt bravely opposed would further target vulnerable Black women for abortions. It is racist at its core," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "But after 50 million abortions on all races, it is clear that we have been denied those who would have enriched us as a people. Have we aborted the one who would have had the intellect and inspiration to find a cure for cancer, or find ways new to feed the hungry? It is a legitimate question that needs to be asked, because the societal impact of abortion is deep and devastating, and affects us all. The last thing abortion promoters want is dialog on this subject." Watch Rep. Todd Tiahrt's remarks.

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