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Planned Parenthood Funding: What About the Fraud? With the continual funding of Planned Parenthood by the government, we are left wondering why the government is so adamant about funding this organization-an organization so detrimental to the lives of America's youth, women and children, and that has repeatedly overbilled for its services. Read today's guest commentary for more on how Planned Parenthood harms our society. [ Read today's commentary here. ] |
| HEADLINES | | | | Nonsurgical abortions increasing Omaha Abortions have declined over the past decade in the region and nationwide, but a more recent method of having them is on the rise. As states such as Nebraska place more restrictions on abortions, a form of chemically induced abortion available in the United States since 2000 has given women another way to end pregnancies. There has been a nationwide increase in abortions performed with a combination of pills, and in Iowa and Nebraska, the increase has been substantial. The pills, mifepristone and misoprostol, are taken early in pregnancy and result in expulsion of the fetus. They aren't the same as the morning-after pill, which is considered emergency contraception. In Iowa, Planned Parenthood three years ago devised a method of providing those pills remotely by computer, without a doctor present. The videoconference strategy made it somewhat easier for women in rural areas to obtain the pills. | | WHO approves drug that could save lives, but also be used for abortions Life Site News
By authorizing the use of a single drug, the World Health Organization (WHO) has simultaneously raised hopes for saving thousands of mothers' lives and fears that the drug will also be used to kill perhaps millions of unborn children. Misoprostol is used to help stop bleeding during delivery, the main cause of maternal deaths, but it can also be used to induce at-home abortions, which are very dangerous, particularly in rural areas that lack primary or emergency medical care. The fears are grounded in the fact that WHO approved use of the drug by unskilled personnel and that both WHO and Gynuity Health Projects, the organization which sought the drug's approval, advocate the use of misoprostol for abortion outside the hospital setting. | | Serial abortion clinic protester released from jail National Post A 62-year-old grandmother released from jail after 28 months for picketing a Toronto abortion clinic says she promised her mother she would stay out of trouble long enough to visit her in British Columbia. But Linda Gibbons vowed to return to the front lines of anti-abortion protests even if it almost certainly means an immediate return to jail. "I want to, God willing, go see my mom in July. I haven't seen her for three years," Ms. Gibbons said in an interview Sunday, her second full day of freedom. "I believe I would probably be back at the abortion clinics shortly thereafter." Ms. Gibbons walked out of jail on Friday after Ontario Court Justice Mara Beth Greene granted her lawyer's application requesting that she be released without conditions. | |
