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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
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• Ex-Planned Parenthood Director Praises China s One-Child Policy
• Some Republicans Need Strong Iowa Straw Poll to Remain Viable
• ObamaCare Court Battle About to Intensify as Its Cost Rises
• Judge Hears Suit on North Carolina De-Funding Planned Parenthood
More Pro-Life News
• Four More Texas Abortion Practitioners Face Investigations
• New York Times Touts Selective Reduction as a Half Abortion
• Planned Parenthood De-Funding Law Should Stand, Kansas Says
• Abortion Backers Want Pro-Life Group to Divulge Membership List
• Washington Trust Bank Funded Portland Planned Parenthood Abortion Ctr
• Catholic Declaration On Procured Abortion a Pro-Life Manifesto
• Pro-Life Candidates Win Victories in Wisconsin Recall Race
• Study Ignores How Gender Prediction Kits Lead to Sex-Selection Abortion
• Media Downplays Adult Stem Cell Success in Rick Perry Surgery
Ex-Planned Parenthood Director Praises China s One-Child Policy
The Planned Parenthood abortion business has never been out front with criticism of the one-child, forced abortion policy in China and new comments from a former director of one of its California affiliates may explain why.
Planned Parenthood has repeatedly been challenged by pro-life advocates to speak up against the Chinese policy, that limits couples to having just one child and has been responsible for forcing women to have abortions against their will, forced sterilizations, sex-selection abortions, and massive human rights abuses. Now, the former director of Planned Parenthood World Population in Los Angeles is praising the policy.
In a new letter to the editor to the Napa Valley Register newspaper, Norman Fleishman, praises the policy as he offers his support for the Obama administration s recent decision forcing insurance companies to cover birth control and drugs that can cause abortion.
The Obama administration s mandate that all health plans must provide to women, with no charge, all government-approved contraceptives, has already reignited debate on the federal role in health care, Fleishman writes. Ah, how I remember Every child a wanted child, our motto at Planned Parenthood. And I do welcome this legislation.
Fleishman goes on to condemn the world s population growth and says the Obama mandate and the one-child policy is needed to stem that.
Unless we act (this legislation, along with China s one child policy, is a start), the world is doomed to strangle among coils of pitiless exponential growth, he concludes. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/ex-planned-parenthood-director-praises-chinas-one-child-policy/
Some Republicans Need Strong Iowa Straw Poll to Remain Viable
This Thursday, Republican Presidential candidates are set to take the stage for a debate in Ames, Iowa ahead of Saturday s influential Ames Straw Poll.
Eight Republicans met the criteria to participate in the debate hosted by Fox News: Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman. Lower tier candidates Thad McCotter, Gary Johnson and Buddy Roemer did not meet the minimum polling requirement to participate in the debate.
The debate and the subsequent straw poll will surely make or break several campaigns. While the straw poll has no electoral impact in the race, it has historically been a testing ground for a candidate s viability and organizational strength.
Michele Bachmann and Tim Pawlenty have the most to lose heading into the weekend. Political pundits have predicted for weeks that Bachmann will win the Ames Straw Poll, drawing support from energized Tea Party activists and conservative evangelicals. These expectations may be a double-edged sword for Bachmann. The bar has been set so high that a less than stellar performance in the poll will reflect badly on the Congresswoman and raise doubts about her enduring viability in the race.
Pawlenty, whose campaign boasts some of the Republican Party s top campaign strategists, has a strong presence in Iowa. Sarah Granger Huckabee, the daughter of Governor Mike Huckabee, who won the Iowa Caucuses in 2007, has been at the helm of Pawlenty s efforts in the state. If Pawlenty cannot pull off an impressive showing at Ames, the future of his campaign may be jeopardy. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/some-republicans-need-strong-iowa-straw-poll-to-remain-viable/
ObamaCare Court Battle About to Intensify as Its Cost Rises
The battle to derail the government-run, pro-abortion ObamaCare is about to intensify in the courts and in Congress.
As you know, there are numerous legal challenges to this health care law. We re involved in many of them representing members of Congress in filing amicus briefs supporting efforts by Florida and Virginia to challenge the law. In one case, a petition already has been filed urging the Supreme Court to take that case.
In fact, there will be a well-worn path to the Supreme Court on this issue. All of these legal challenges are likely to end up there at some point. And, ultimately the high court will determine whether ObamaCare survives.
Our lawsuit directly challenging ObamaCare is headed for oral argument next month (September 23rd) before a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C. In our latest court filing we have made it clear that our position is grounded in the Constitution along with Supreme Court precedent. In arguments to reinstate our lawsuit, we contend that the arguments put forth by the Department of Justice lack support in the text, history, or related Supreme Court jurisprudence of the Commerce or Necessary and Proper Clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
Our challenge is clear: we believe the individual mandate, which forces Americans to purchase health insurance, is unconstitutional because it violates the Commerce Clause. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/obamacare-court-battle-about-to-intensify-as-its-cost-rises/
Judge Hears Suit on North Carolina De-Funding Planned Parenthood
A federal judge held a hearing this morning over a lawsuit the Planned Parenthood abortion business has filed against a new provision in the North Carolina state budget that revokes its taxpayer funding.
U.S. District Court Judge James Beaty heard arguments from both sides today in Winston-Salem and, according to an AP report, indicated he will deliver a ruling shortly on Planned Parenthood s request for an injunction stopping the implementation of the de-funding provision while its lawsuit moves forward.
The abortion giant has already sued the states of Kansas and Indiana for adopting new legislation to revoke the taxpayer financing from the group that has been shown to be the biggest abortion business in the country, to cover up cases of sexual abuse, and to assist sex traffickers in getting abortions for the girls on whom they prey.
In North Carolina, the state legislature approved a measure to remove federal funds from the pro-abortion organization in its state budget. The abortion business receives $434,000 through state family planning programs aimed at reducing teen pregnancies and providing birth control. Although the money can only be used for non-abortion services, the same organization is also the nation s largest abortion business doing more than 330,000 annually and comprising more than one-quarter of all abortions in the United States annually.
Planned Parenthood of Central North Carolina (PPCNC) filed suit in federal court to declare invalid the portion of the state budget that yanks its tax money. Planned Parenthood CEO Janet Colm claims the abortion chain is wrongly singled out for a revocation of tax dollars. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/judge-hears-suit-on-north-carolina-de-funding-planned-parenthood/
Four More Texas Abortion Practitioners Face Investigations
Four more Texas abortion practitioners face investigations following an undercover investigation showing abortion centers in the Lone Star State breaking numerous Texas laws concerning abortions and engaging in illegal dumping of patient records and medical waste.
The Texas Medical Board has scheduled potential disciplinary hearings for five abortion practitioners accused of evading Texas law and Opera ton Rescue, which conducted the undercover probe with the pro-life group The Survivors, announced today that four more have been included. The group filed complaints with the Texas Medical Board against twelve abortion practitioners for violations it discovered.
The Texas Medical Board notified the pro-life group that William Watkins West, Jr., Robert E. Hanson, Jr., Pedro J. Kowalyszyn, and Sherwood C. Lynn will appear before an Informal Settlement Conference/Show Compliance (ISC) hearing on October 28 to determine if they should face any disciplinary actions from the board for their actions.
We now have seen stunning results from our Texas abortion clinic investigation, OR president Troy Newman told LifeNews.com today. A total of nine abortionists are facing discipline, and we expect more to join them.
We discovered abortion abuses at every clinic that we investigated, Newman explained. What we found in Texas is just a microcosm of the appalling conditions and horrific abortion practices that exist at abortion clinics in every state that endanger the health and safety of women each day. It s standard operating procedure in the abortion cartel to cut corners on patient safety in order to increase abortion profits. Our investigation and the resulting state actions against the Texas offenders confirm that. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/four-more-texas-abortion-practitioners-face-investigations/
New York Times Touts Selective Reduction as a Half Abortion
As if the new York Times couldn t sink any further down the hole of warped and twisted pro-abortion activism, the Gray Lady is out with yet another news piece that moves the newspaper further beyond the pale.
Ruth Pawder is out today with a new story titled The Two-Minus-One Pregnancy, that focuses on selective reduction the euphemistic phrase given to name the destruction of one or more unborn children in a multiple pregnancy situation where a mother has more than one baby resulting from an IVF pregnancy involving the implantation of multiple human embryos.
The Times never makes it past the second paragraph before showing how Jenny, an IVF client, justifies the abortion of one of her twin babies because she didn t conceive naturally. Jenny s remarks to the Times are ghastly:
Things would have been different if we were 15 years younger or if we hadn t had children already or if we were more financially secure, she said later. If I had conceived these twins naturally, I wouldn t have reduced this pregnancy, because you feel like if there s a natural order, then you don t want to disturb it. But we created this child in such an artificial manner in a test tube, choosing an egg donor, having the embryo placed in me and somehow, making a decision about how many to carry seemed to be just another choice. The pregnancy was all so consumerish to begin with, and this became yet another thing we could control.
But it s Pawder s description of Jenny s actions to extinguish the live of one of her healthy babies that takes the cake for its offensiveness.
She was 45 and pregnant after six years of fertility bills, ovulation injections, donor eggs and disappointment and yet here she was, 14 weeks into her pregnancy, choosing to extinguish one of two healthy fetuses, almost as if having half an abortion, Pawder writes. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/new-york-times-touts-selective-reduction-as-a-half-abortion/
Planned Parenthood De-Funding Law Should Stand, Kansas Says
Yesterday, the Kansas Attorney General s office filed an appellate brief in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals asking it to halt a judge s decision placing a temporary hold on enforcing the new law de-funding the Planned parenthood abortion business.
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten issued an injunction preventing the state from enforcing the law after Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri argued that it would suffer irreparable harm if the law was allowed to stand and that it would be forced to close one or more of its facilities because Kansas would direct hundreds of thousands of taxpayer funds to non-abortion medical clinics that provide the same services without also destroying the lives of women and unborn children in abortions.
The appeal stresses that it is impossible to find a direct or even indirect conflict between federal Title X law (that constrains only HHS) and the Kansas proviso prioritizing public health clinics as subcontractors as opposed to agencies that do abortions. The filing said that Marten was wrong because of his zeal to find a bad legislative motive and getting points of the law incorrect when ruling in favor of Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri last Monday.
The appeal papers say, Judge Marten may not like the plain meaning, and may wish the statutes said something else, but they do not it simply cannot be that the right to obtain abortion in certain limited circumstances, or even to advocate for abortion, trumps both federal and state spending authority, as well as the State s sovereign immunity.
The appeals brief says Marten impermissibly reaches into the government treasury to create not restore a new one-third-million-dollar contract for Planned Parenthood. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/planned-parenthood-de-funding-law-should-stand-kansas-says/
Abortion Backers Want Pro-Life Group to Divulge Membership List
As part of their lawsuit seeking to overturn a new pro-life law in Oklahoma that allows women a chance to see an ultrasound of their baby before an abortion, pro-abortion activists are also threatening a pro-life group. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/abortion-backers-want-pro-life-group-to-divulge-membership-list/
Washington Trust Bank Funded Portland Planned Parenthood Abortion Ctr
A community bank that operates in the Pacific Northwest is under fire from pro-life advocates for financing the new Planned Parenthood abortion business it recently built in Portland, Oregon. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/washington-trust-bank-funded-portland-planned-parenthood-abortion-ctr/
Catholic Declaration On Procured Abortion a Pro-Life Manifesto
There is a little-known and little-studied document from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith entitled: Declaration on Procured Abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/catholic-declaration-on-procured-abortion-a-pro-life-manifesto/
Pro-Life Candidates Win Victories in Wisconsin Recall Race
Despite pro-abortion and liberal groups spending tens of millions of dollars to support pro-abortion candidates in a bid to take over the Wisconsin state Senate from pro-life lawmakers, pro-life legislators won last night. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/pro-life-candidates-win-victories-in-wisconsin-recall-race/
Study Ignores How Gender Prediction Kits Lead to Sex-Selection Abortion
A review published in the Journal of the American Medical Association documents the accuracy of a simple blood test for sex determination of a developing human fetus as early as 7 weeks gestation. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/study-ignores-how-gender-prediction-kits-lead-to-sex-selection-abortion/
Media Downplays Adult Stem Cell Success in Rick Perry Surgery
A survey of recent headlines about medical treatment received by Governor and potential presidential-hopeful Rick Perry of Texas could easily lead one to believe that he is a Texas-sized hypocrite when it comes to his opposition to human embryonic stem cell research. Once again, the mainstream media has things seriously wrong. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/10/media-downplays-adult-stem-cell-success-in-rick-perry-surgery/
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