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• Hollywood Celebs Helped Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz in 2010
• GOP Chair Candidate Cino: I m Pro-Life, But Helped Pro-Abortion Group
• MTV: Call It What You Want, It s Still Abortion
• Democrat Who Started Latest Death Panels Row Regrets Email
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• Pro-Life Professor: Concerns About Death Panels Overhyped
• Washington Post Misleads Readers on Abortion Availability
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Hollywood Celebs Helped Planned Parenthood Abortion Biz in 2010
The Planned Parenthood abortion business reported making more than $1 billion in income in 2010, but they achieved that with a little help from their Hollywood friends.
Looking back on 2010, in its recently-released annual report, Planned Parenthood racked up a stunning number of celebrity endorsements from musicians, writers, actors and other big-named people.
JoAnna Garcia, best known for her portrayal of Cheyenne Hart-Montgomery on The CW sitcom Reba participated in an awareness campaign for Planned Parenthood that it co-sponsored with MTV, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Obama administration. She wasn t alone as celebrities like Big Boi, Joy Bryant, Flo Rida, Keri Hilson, Perez Hilton, Kid Sister, Benji and Joel Madden, Method Man, N.E.R.D., Redman, and Asher Roth joined her.
At an annual benefit for the abortion business, members of the show Private Practice donated a script to auction off signed by Paul Adelstein, Amy Brenneman, Tim Daly, Taye Diggs, Chris Lowell, Audra McDonald, KaDee Strickland, and Kate Walsh.
Kathleen Turner donated her book Send Yourself Roses for the event, Alan Cumming donated his book Tommy s Tales, and Jon Stewart donated tickets to The Daily Show. Heather Tom donated a tour of The Bold and the Beautiful set and lunch, while Bree Williamson treated winners of an auction to a private tour of the One Life to Live set and lunch. Full story at LifeNews.com
GOP Chair Candidate Cino: I m Pro-Life, But Helped Pro-Abortion Group
Republican Party chairman candidate Maria Cino became the final candidate for the national party chairman position to interview with the Susan B. Anthony List, a pro-life political group.
Her interview follows concerns from among pro-life advocates that Cino, who says at length that she is pro-life, served as a member of the board of directors of the WISH List, a pro-abortion organization that focuses on electing pro-abortion Republican women to top federal offices.
Cino also made several donations to WISH List over the years covering the late 1990s and the very early part of this past decade and SBA List president Marjorie Dannelfeser asked her about that.
Cino explained that she was involved with the National Republican Congressional Committee in the early 1990s following the defeat of pro-life President George Bush and that the NRCC struggled financially but weathered the storm in part because of donors from the WISH List. She credited the pro-abortion organization with ironically helping to elect a Republican Congress in 1994 that was a majority pro-life. Full story at LifeNews.com
MTV: Call It What You Want, It s Still Abortion
by Father Frank Pavone
Watching No Easy Decision was very much like watching a typical day in my life, because in my full time pro-life ministry, my team and I minister around the world to men and women who are struggling with their pregnancy, and also with men and women who have been through the abortion experience.
It is certainly no secret to us, to the Church, or to those who work in the pro-life movement that these decisions are not easy. It is also no secret that women do not get abortions because of freedom of choice. As this program illustrated, they get abortions because they feel they have no freedom and no choice. They do not celebrate abortion as an advance of freedom. Full story at LifeNews.com
Democrat Who Started Latest Death Panels Row Regrets Email
The Democrat who started the latest national debate over the inclusion of so-called death panels by the Obama administration into federal regulations now regrets doing so.
The office of Representative Earl Blumenauer, an assisted suicide advocate from Oregon who works closely with pro-euthanasia groups like Compassion and Choices, alerted supporters of the change the Obama administration implemented and worked to ask them to keep the news quiet.
We would ask that you not broadcast this accomplishment out to any of your lists e-mails can too easily be forwarded, his staff wrote. Thus far, it seems that no press or blogs have discovered it but we will be keeping a close watch and may be calling on you if we need a rapid, targeted response. The longer this [regulation] goes unnoticed, the better our chances of keeping it. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Life Professor: Concerns About Death Panels Overhyped
Not everyone in the pro-life movement is on board with the concerns about the death panels the Obama administration recently instituted, as one professor says they are overhyped.
Warren Throckmorton is an associate professor of psychology at Grove City College in Pennsylvania and fellow for psychology and public policy with the Center for Vision & Values.
As LifeNews.com has reported, the Obama administration recently instituted new regulations in the implementation of the ObamaCare law that were removed when Congress debated them because of an outpouring of opposition led, in part, by Sarah Palin. Full story at LifeNews.com
Washington Post Misleads Readers on Abortion Availability
Has The Washington Post ever traveled to Iowa? Obviously, yes for presidential caucuses. But on Friday, Post reporter Sandhya Somashekhar accepted the bizarre premise of abortion advocates that abortions are virtually impossible in rural Iowa.
No one owns a car?
The story centered on a new pro-life cause, protesting the provision of RU-486 abortion cocktails over the Internet. Liberals can get upset about selling booze on the Internet, or the spreading of Obama slurs on the Internet, but the marketing of death pills online is a precious human right. The Post published this silly sentence. Full story at LifeNews.com
Nevada Personhood Amendment Loses Case at Supreme Court
The personhood amendment some pro-life advocates in Nevada hoped to get on the ballot has lost in a case decided by the Nevada Supreme Court.
The state high court rejected a lawsuit filed by amendment backers saying the 2010 election year is over and there is no reason to continue the case. The Thursday decision said the court case, originally filed by Planned Parenthood against having the amendment appear on the ballot, is moot because the elections are over.
Planned Parenthood won at the lower court level and amendment supporters filed an appeal taking the case to the state Supreme Court. In January, a judge said the language was too broad and violated a state law saying ballot measures can t cover more than one subject.
Carson City District Court Judge James Russell issued the ruling siding with the ACLU and Planned Parenthood. The pro-abortion groups say the five-paragraph description of the measure does not say that the end result would ban abortions. Full story at LifeNews.com
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Leaders in the pro-life community are angrily responding to the news that the Obama administration added death panels to the ObamaCare implementation.
Women who have had or work with women who have had abortions are reacting to the contorversial MTV show, No Easy Decision, featuring a teenage girl s abortion decision.
The Planned Parenthood abortion business is continuing its mission to attract more eventual customers but using sexual education to build relationships.
Republican Party chairman Michael Steele confirmed his pro-life views in a new interview with the Susan B. Anthony List as he faces several candidates looking to replace him.
Republicans are already eying five Senate races in 2012 that they say involve incumbent senators who may have a tough time winning re-election bids.
During this Christmas season I have had the blessing of being introduced to some real pro-life heroes. No, not the kind who work on Capitol Hill fighting legislative battles, or who pray outside abortion clinics. 
The Catholic Community Services Board in Eugene, Oregon has stopped using the United Way as a charity partner through which it can receive donations because of ties to Planned Parenthood.
She was able to talk at length with three couples. The first couple she approached as they were exiting their truck. They were both very quiet but seemed interested in listening. She talked first about the doctor's record and then asked how far along the young woman was. The woman said 10 weeks. Anne showed her a picture of a 6-week-old preborn baby and the woman began to cry. Anne told her what she was about to do this Christmas would haunt her every year at this time, and that surely she should reconsider what she was doing. After the conversation, the couple went back into their truck and stayed there for almost 30 minutes. However, many cars came in, parking right by them, with couples walking into FPA. This seemed to help affirm their decision to get back out of their truck and go into the mill. How sad for this young couple that they will never know the face of their child on this earth. The other two couples she was able to speak with were Asian, and both remained intent that the only solution was abortion because of the pressures of family members. One couple told Anne their culture is different, and they had to listen to her mother and have the abortion, or she would be removed from the family. Anne told them about adoption and doing what is right over what family thinks. They remained unmoved and went into the abortion mill. Anne gave the last girl a hug and could see she was crying. A short while later Anne was met with rude comments and bad language from a few other couples she spoke to. It was a sad day to witness these couples so removed from this most holy season. David spoke with a young man standing outside of a car that had just arrived with a couple still inside. All three were white, in their early 20s. The young man said he felt like vomiting, and that if it were his girlfriend, he would never bring her for an abortion. David ran back to get some brochures and returned to talk with the couple as they exited the car. He told them about the risks of an abortion, and they brazenly scoffed at David's comments, saying that there was risk in driving and other everyday activities. He told them the memory of having an abortion would ruin every Christmas for the rest of their lives. At this, the boyfriend became agitated and told David, "Get out of here before I whip your --- !" David calmly said that he was just trying to warn them about the regrets they would have, and then walked away as the couple went up into the mill. He spoke with several other women throughout the morning, but all were impatient and not open to what he was telling them. Roger spoke with an African American couple in their mid- to late 20s who arrived in a newer truck. The boyfriend would not roll down the window, but cracked the door open a little so he could listen. He gradually opened the door all of the way so they could both hear when Roger told them of the litigation history of the abortionist. He asked how far along the woman was, and the man said, "I don't know, a couple of months, I guess." He showed them a picture of a 6-week-old preborn baby, and told them how the abortionist and his staff would lie to them, telling them it was nothing but a blob of tissue. 
San Francisco Archbishop George Niederauer "intends to initiate a dialogue" with the leadership of Catholic Healthcare West regarding questions raised by Phoenix Bishop Thomas Olmsted over CHW affiliate St. Joseph's Hospital's compliance with the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services used by the U.S. bishops to govern moral choices in Catholic health care. The Archdiocese of San Francisco announced Archbishop Niederauer's involvement in a statement Dec. 21, which followed Bishop Olmsted's decision that St. Joseph's can no longer identity itself as Catholic because of noncompliance with the directives. The corporate offices of Catholic Healthcare West are located in the San Francisco archdiocese. To read the full story, 
When it comes to making New Year s resolutions, pro-life organization have one they definitely intend to keep: pressing for bills in Congress to de-fund abortion and Planned Parenthood.
The program followed one of the teens, Markai, from the show 16 and Pregnant after she found out that her birth control method failed and she was pregnant for a second time in less than a year. The show included interviews by Dr. Drew Pinsky with two young women who also made the decision to have abortions. In promotional materials MTV said the special report would show the devastating effects of facing such a decision. 
The status of Democrats for Life of America is in doubt after the organization spent the year coming under fire from numerous pro-life groups for its role supporting ObamaCare.
Next year, Republicans in Congress will float their legislation to repeal ObamaCare, though some suggest the legislation is not likely to succeed in overturning the controversial law.
For weeks we have been hearing about the MTV special that would feature a teen couple contemplating abortion. We were tempted to write about this show last week but decided to wait until the show aired. We know that MTV is no bastion of decency or truth, but we did not think the show would actually go as far as it did. We were wrong.
Senator Bob Casey was supposed to be the pro-life Democratic champion in the style of his father that the pro-life movement needed for a bipartisan attack on abortion.
When media outlets reported last week on the decline in the number of teen births, one leading researcher says they should have placed emphasis on abstinence education.