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Friday, April 1, 2011
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• Boxer Pushes False Claim Planned Parenthood Does Mammograms
• Planned Parenthood, Abortion Enabled My Abuse; Now I m Pro-Life
• Pro-Lifers: Don t Support American Cancer Society Relay for Life
• Man Pulls Gun on Pro-Life Advocates at San Diego Abortion Ctr
More Pro-Life News
• China May Switch to Two-Child Forced Abortion Policy in 2015
• Congressman: Women Accuse Partners of Rape for Tax-Funded Abortions
• Texas Sends Family Planning Funds to Abortion Alternatives
• It s More Than The Economy, Stupid: Social Issues Matter
• Florida House Panel OKs Bill to Cut Abortion Funds in Obamacare
• Arizona Gov to Sign Pro-Life Bill Banning Telemed Abortions
• Iowa House Passes Fetal Pain-Based Abortion Ban
• March for Life Belgium: Second Year, Double the Size
• Missouri Senate Approves Post-Viability Abortion Ban
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Boxer Pushes False Claim Planned Parenthood Does Mammograms
Senator Barbara Boxer, the number one pro-abortion Democrat in the Senate, is pushing a false claim that Planned Parenthood does mammograms as a defense of their status as a taxpayer-funded entity.
That claim comes despite an expose from Live Action, which called 30 Planned Parenthood centers across the country and learned that none of them have mammogram machines or actually do mammograms on site. All of them merely make referrals to legitimate medical centers that provide women with the breast cancer screening service.
Yet, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, Boxer has been repeating these false claims:
California U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is lambasting what she calls a Republican vendetta against Planned Parenthood, saying that efforts in the House Republicans proposed budget to entirely defund the organization will impact millions.
In California alone, hundreds of thousands of women, the Democratic Senator said, use the organization s life-saving services including cancer screenings, mammograms, day-to-day health care, OB-GYN services as well as contraception and family planning. Boxer made the statements this week at a San Francisco press conference. Full story at LifeNews.com
Planned Parenthood, Abortion Enabled My Abuse; Now I m Pro-Life
As the CR vote comes to a climax again next week, I wanted to share an incredible story with the LifeNews blog readers. We ve seen the Live Action undercover videos of Planned Parenthood s protection of racists, rapists and sex traffickers but their movies come to life when SFLA directly works with Planned Parenthood s victims.
Melissa Pereira, a pro-life student leader at Caldwell College in New Jersey, sent me her story last week after winning the Tell Congress video contest and her interview with the National Pro-Life Youth Podcast. It is so powerful, I want to share it with you. As you read it, remember that this is not a single case, but stories like this are generated everyday that Planned Parenthood is open.
We must de-fund this abortion Goliath, and reach out to women who are victims of the abortion industry. Full story at LifeNews.com
Pro-Lifers: Don t Support American Cancer Society Relay for Life
Its springtime and Relays for Life, the American Cancer Society s main fundraiser, are happening in cities all across the country over the next several months. It can be difficult for pro-life advocates to decide exactly how involved to be in events like this, as we can all agree that curing cancer is an important goal, even something worth supporting.
Unfortunately the American Cancer Society is not an organization I can support, as they have been linked to organizations that support abortion, human cloning and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (HESCR).
A friend of mine and strong pro-life advocate, Clinton, found himself in an awkward situation last week. His Christian band had agreed to play at a Relay For Life not knowing that some of the money goes to HESCR. While meeting with Clinton, this question came up: which is worse, giving up a ministry opportunity where Christian music could be heard by non-believers, or supporting something contrary to one s beliefs? Full story at LifeNews.com
Man Pulls Gun on Pro-Life Advocates at San Diego Abortion Ctr
Last Saturday, a man pulled a gun on pro-life advocates participating in a prayer campaign outside the Planned Parenthood abortion business in downtown San Diego.
While dozens of youth and young adults, mostly from the St. Therese Youth Group from Del Cerro, stood in the parking lot of the abortion busienss praying, a 4-door, black car with tinted windows pulled up to the abortion center. The vehicle briefly stopped when a pro-life sidewalk conselor named Terry approached the vehicle.
As she attempted to hand the drive a flier about the abortion practitioner and problem associated with him, he drove past her into the parking lot of Planned Parenthood and dropped off the woman who was in the back seat. According to the California Catholic Daily newspaper, the drive turned around the car to drive towards the exit and Terry again tried to hand him a flier, but the drive refused to accept it.
The drive then drove forward about 10 feet, stopped the car just before the street, and opened the car door. He leaned out of the car and asked Terry to come over towards him.
She approached, assuming he wanted to talk about the woman he dropped off for an apparent abortion. As she reached the vehicle, she hear d distinctive clicking sound making it appear a gun was being loaded. Cal Catholic indicates the man threatened her, pointing the semi-automatic pistol in her direction and telling her if she ever came close to his car again he would use the weapon. Full story at LifeNews.com
China May Switch to Two-Child Forced Abortion Policy in 2015
Chinese officials at the annual meeting of the Chinese People s Political Consultative Conference and the National People s Congress early last month discussed the idea of relaxing the one-child family planning policy that has resulted in forced abortions, coercive sterilizations and other human rights abuses.
The Lancet, a British medical journal, indicates the potential changes would discard the one-child policy in urban areas and have them join rural areas, where citizens are already allowed to have two children, if the first baby is a girl, in order to work on family farms and pass them from one generation to the next.
Reggie Littlejohn, of Women s Rights Without Frontiers, a group that focuses on the targeting of girl babies in abortions and infanticides in China because of the one-child policy, told Baptist Press a change to a two-child policy won t stop abortions or human rights issues.
The problem with the One Child Policy is not the number of children allowed, Littlejohn said. Rather, it is the fact that the policy is enforced through forced abortion, forced sterilization and infanticide. Even if some couples will eventually be allowed to have two children, the Chinese Communist Party has emphatically not stated that they will cease their appalling methods of enforcement. Full story at LifeNews.com
Congressman: Women Accuse Partners of Rape for Tax-Funded Abortions
Yesterday, when the House Ways and Means Committee approved a bill to stop a means of taxpayer funding of abortions, one congressman made an assertion that a pro-life group is taking to task.
The committee voted for a bill to prevent a number of federal tax credits and tax deductions from being used for abortion, or for health plans that cover abortion, but contains exceptions for abortions sought in cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
During debate, one member of the committee, Rep. Ron Kind, a Wisconsin Democrat, indicated that he opposed the bill in part because it could lead to some very perverse unintended consequences, specifically, that women would falsely accuse boyfriends or husbands of rape in order to continue to qualify for a tax-subsidized abortion.
Kind told Thomas A. Barthold, chief of staff for the Joint Committee on Taxation:
Well, Mr. Barthold, one of my fears of what s before us today is that it could lead to some very perverse unintended consequences almost encouraging low-income women, that would have this benefit denied from them, to file false claims of rape whether it s against a boyfriend, whether it s against an acquaintance, perhaps even a husband in order to avoid, you know, the consequences that this legislation, the financial consequences that this legislation would bring. And I m not quite sure how many of my colleagues on the other side have just thought through those unintended results the filing of false issues like that. Full story at LifeNews.com
Texas Sends Family Planning Funds to Abortion Alternatives
Texas Republicans voted for amendments to their budget bill today that send money meant for family planning efforts to better causes, including funding abortion alternatives.
The move follows on the heels of a vote in Congress to cut the federal family planning budget because money goes to the Planned Parenthood abortions business, and their own figures show they provide abortions almost exclusively to pregnant women as opposed to legitimate medical and other health care services for women carrying to term.
Texas lawmakers in the state House today approved, on a 100-44 vote, an amendment Rep. Randy Weber sponsored that takes $7 million in family planning funds and directs the money to abortion alternative agencies. Another $1 million from the budget would head tow programs that provide early childhood intervention.
Only Democrats voted against the amendment to help pregnant women but state Reps. J.M. Lozano (D-Kingsville), Armando Martinez (D-Weslaco) and Sergio Muñoz Jr. (D-Palmview) also voted for diverting the money to women. Full story at LifeNews.com
It s More Than The Economy, Stupid: Social Issues Matter
As the Iowa caucuses loom, potential contenders for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination are jockeying for position, each eager to establish themselves as the person best-suited to take on Barack Obama. Needless to say, there has been a lot of temperature-taking a lot of fingers in the wind as presidential hopefuls attempt to gauge the mood of the electorate. Which issues will play best against the President? What policy position is likely to get people off their couches and to the polls on election day? The obvious answer? As former President Bill Clinton put it, It s the economy, stupid! Indeed, three years into a recession, with a sluggish job market and gas prices expected to rise this summer, it s no surprise that the economy is weighing on the minds of the American people more than any other issue. No doubt this is what led Governor Mitch Daniels recently to suggest that the GOP should downplay contentious social issues in favor of a laser focus on America s dire financial situation: Full story at LieNews.com
Florida House Panel OKs Bill to Cut Abortion Funds in Obamacare
A Florida state House committee is following the lead of the state Senate, where a committee has also approved legislation that would remove abortion funding from the Obamacare health care law.
The Florida House Insurance and Banking Committee on Wednesday passed a bill that prohibits the state exchanges created under Obamacare from paying for elective abortions unless in cases of rape or incest or the woman s life is in danger following federal law. The bill would have Florida join a list of other states to use the provision in Obamacare to opt out of abortion funding, allowed by numerous loopholes and a lack of an abortion funding ban in the legislation. Full story at LifeNews.com
Arizona Gov to Sign Pro-Life Bill Banning Telemed Abortions
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer will sign into law on Saturday a pro-life bill that would protect women by requiring abortion centers to meet certain health and safety regulations and that will also promote ultrasounds. Brewer s office confirmed this afternoon that she and legislators who sponsored the bill will participate in a signing ceremony tomorrow just days after she signed into law the first state ban on race-based or sex-selection abortions in the United States. Full story at LifeNews.com
Iowa House Passes Fetal Pain-Based Abortion Ban
The Iowa state House on Thursday passed a bill banning abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy based on significant scientific evidence showing unborn children feel pain during an abortion.
A subcommittee of the House Government Oversight Committee approved the bill earlier this month and House File 657 passed on a 60-39 vote that was largely along party lines. We have talked much in this chamber in recent weeks about the well-being of the care of animals in Iowa from doves to livestock, said Republican Rep. Mary Ann Hanusa said during the debate, according to the Des Moines Register. I would certainly hope that protecting the well-being of a 20-week-old unborn child and shielding it from the agony and painful death of an abortion would be at least as important topic of conversation. Full story at LifeNews.com
March for Life Belgium: Second Year, Double the Size
Last year a group of students decided that the pro-life message needed to be front and center in Brussels, Belgium. There is a huge significance to Brussels as it is also the European Capitol, hosting the European Parliament and EU. I was already going to be in Europe at the time of the march last year, with a team from Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, when I got the invitation to attend. I was also honored with the opportunity to speak at the march, an experience I will never forget. Full story at LifeNews.com
Missouri Senate Approves Post-Viability Abortion Ban
Following the lead of the state House, which approved a similar measure two weeks ago, the state Senate on Wednesday gave initial approval to a bill that would ban abortions after the point of viability. The legislation, which still needs a final vote, requires abortion practitioners to determine if the unborn child is viable and if the baby is determined to not be viable the abortion practitioner would have to issue a report to the state health department indicating so and explaining why. Full story at LifeNews.com
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