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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
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• Planned Parenthood Teams Up With Occupy Wall St. Movement
• Congress Told Obamacare Violates Pro-Life Conscience Rights
• Cain Leads Republican Presidential Race, Romney Second
• October Baby: A Pro-Life Movie Showing the Pain of Abortion
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• Clinic Advertises Gentle Abortions. No Pain. No Memory.
• 180 Movie Marks 1.3 Million Views, Heading to High Schools
• When Will Black America Wake Up on Abortion?
• Abortion Not About Terminating Pregnancy, It s Killing a Baby
• Abortion Practitioner Under Investigation in Indiana
• Swiss Police Use Water Cannons to Stop Attack on Pro-Lifers
• Persecuted Canadian Pro-Life Students See Charges Withdrawn
• Pro-Life Group Wins Skirmish, Congressman Wants it Shut Down
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Planned Parenthood Teams Up With Occupy Wall St. Movement
Yesterday Planned Parenthood, the nation s largest abortion provider, joined a coalition of left-wing groups in Florida to protest pro-life Republican Governor Rick Scott and to show support for the larger Occupy Wall Street movement taking place nationwide.
Awake the State, which organized the rally, was accompanied by Planned Parenthood and Occupy Orlando at Senator Beth Johnson Park to stand in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the larger Occupy movement against corporate greed and control over government.
In an email to supporters Planned Parenthood noted they strongly opposed 18 pro-life bills that have been filed since Gov. Scott took office in January. Planned Parenthood accused pro-life Florida lawmakers of playing politics with women s health by introducing legislation that allows government bureaucrats to interfere with decisions that should be made by a woman in conjunction with her doctor, her family and her faith.
Some of the measures signed into law by Gov. Scott include allowing a woman the opportunity to view an ultrasound prior to an abortion, strengthening Florida s parental notification law and prohibiting taxpayer funding of abortion in the healthcare exchanges established by Obamacare.
The Occupy Wall Street movement has become the subject of public skepticism after numerous well-documented cases of anti-Semitism, sexual assault, drug abuse, public masturbation, public defecation, vandalism and violence. Among the movement s supporters and sponsors are the Communist Party USA, the American Nazi Party, Socialist Party USA, Industrial Workers of the World, International Bolshevik Tendency, Marxist Student Union, 9/11 Truth groups and more. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/planned-parenthood-teams-up-with-occupy-wall-st-movement/
Congress Told Obamacare Violates Pro-Life Conscience Rights
Members of Congress heard from panelists today in a hearing who told them that the insurance mandate the Obama administration is likely to add to the Obamacare health care reform law will violate conscience rights of pro-life advocates.
The Obama administration has initially approved a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine suggesting that it force insurance companies to pay for birth control and drugs that can cause abortions under the Obamacare government-run health care program.
The IOM recommendation, opposed by pro-life groups, called for the Obama administration to require insurance programs to include birth control such as the morning after pill or the ella drug that causes an abortion days after conception in the section of drugs and services insurance plans must cover under preventative care. The companies will likely pass the added costs on to consumers, requiring them to pay for birth control and, in some instances, drug-induced abortions of unborn children in their earliest days.
The Health and Human Services Department commissioned the report from the Institute, which advises the federal government and shut out pro-life groups in meetings leading up to the recommendations.
While the rule the Obama administration will likely adopt does include a religious exemption, it is so narrow so as to not include Catholic colleges and universities as well as hospitals. In his opening statement to the committee, Congressman Joe Pitts, a pro-life Pennsylvania Republican, talks about the problems. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/congress-told-obamacare-violates-pro-life-conscience-rights/
Cain Leads Republican Presidential Race, Romney Second
A new national poll released by Quinnipiac University finds pro-life Republican businessman Herman Cain leads the GOP presidential race and a new Rasmussen poll shows he leads in the early battleground state of South Carolina as well.
Former Godfather s Pizza CEO Herman Cain leads the Republican presidential primary field with the support of 30 percent of Republican voters, the Quinnipiac poll found.
Cain is followed by a group of candidates also campaigning on the pro-life position. He is followed by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney with 23 percent, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich with 10 percent and Texas Gov. Rick Perry with 8 percent. No other candidate receives more than 7 percent of the support of Republican voters.
Cain also leads a head-to-head GOP race with Romney 47 39 percent, coming close to the critical 50 percent mark, even though more Republicans think Romney has the knowledge and experience to be president. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/cain-leads-republican-presidential-race-romney-second/
October Baby: A Pro-Life Movie Showing the Pain of Abortion
Would you like to know the wonder of Twitter? Well, here s a great example
On Friday morning, I tweeted, thinking of driving to Alabama to see @OctoberBabyFilm Within a few minutes I was on the phone with Dan Atchison, the film s producer, and he invited us to the premier that night in Birmingham with the cast and crew. We moved a few things around and we were on the road to Alabama.
I didn t know much about October Baby except that it was a movie about a girl who found out she was an abortion survivor. To my surprise, the film is much deeper than that.
October Baby follows Hannah (played by Rachel Hendrix) as she goes on a journey to find her biological mom AND find herself. The exchanges between Hannah, her adoptive parents and her best friend, Jason, all paint a sobering, truthful picture about wondering who you are and where you come from.
Without even knowing that she was adopted or the survivor of an abortion, Hannah grew up feeling like something just didn t fit. She felt like an outsider, and she built walls to protect herself. She had all of the symptoms of living through trauma even though the trauma all occurred earlier than her memory could take her. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/october-baby-a-pro-life-movie-showing-the-pain-of-abortion/
Clinic Advertises Gentle Abortions. No Pain. No Memory.
In New York City 41% of pregnancies are reported to be terminated by abortion. I Googled that statistic to verify it and in the sidebar was a string of advertisements. One in particular caught my eye.
Sure enough, that s what they offer. General anesthesia the mother is asleep while the child is killed.
What struck me as odd is that a provider that buys advertising usually promotes the services believed to be of most interest to the potential customer. But post-20 week abortions are reported to be a rare service, usually 1-3% of the total abortions reported in a given year. The fees begin around $360 and increase with the size of the pregnancy up to $1,700 typically.
Something s not right. (Well, that s an understatement.)
http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/clinic-advertises-gentle-abortions-no-pain-no-memory/
180 Movie Marks 1.3 Million Views, Heading to High Schools
The acclaimed pro-life movie 180 has now had more than 1.3 million people view it online at YouTube and now the producers of the documentary are taking it to high school campuses across America.
A free DVD of the award-winning viral movie 180? may be coming to a high school near you as the promoters of the film follow up on their successful distribution of 200,000 copies of the movie to college and university campuses.
Ray Comfort, the creator of the documentary says it has been so popular because it s shocking. It opens with 14 people (mainly college students) who have no idea of the identity of Adolf Hitler.
One reviewer said, So, what s a pretty good documentary could have been even stronger without the fools early on, Comfort said. Perhaps those who are quick to call these students fools lack perception themselves. These young people are rather ignorant as to perhaps the darkest period of human history, because the American education system has failed them.
Late last month, between 180,000 and 200,000 copies of the 33-minute DVD were given out at 100 of America s top universities, and now the Jewish author and TV co-host is turning his attention to high schools. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/180-movie-marks-1-3-million-views-heading-to-high-schools/
When Will Black America Wake Up on Abortion?
It s common for the black political establishment to claim white conservatives and their policies cause black America s problems. It s a shame this accusation is never challenged because in many ways it is the black establishment that is enabling decline.
There is, for example, a chasm of fatherlessness in black America that breeds malcontents. A man-child mentality permeates communities in which morally malnourished minors learn life lessons from pornographic and misogynistic rap songs glorifying thug life. Yet government programs make single-parent households and absent fathers advantageous.
Is this more the fault of Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society welfare-state agenda or Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI)?
Inner-cities resemble Misrata more than Mayberry. In New York City, a recent headline read 15-Yr-Old Fatally Shot At Brooklyn Playground, 13-Yr-Old Injured. In Chicago, the news is Gang Violence Leaves Two Men Shot. And while blacks comprised only 32.4 percent of the Chicago population in 2009, police report that 71.6 percent of those arrested that year were black.
Youth mobs rob stores and terrorizing innocent bystanders. 18 of the 19 wealthy pro football players arrested during the recent NFL labor lockout were black. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/when-will-black-america-wake-up-on-abortion/
Abortion Not About Terminating Pregnancy, It s Killing a Baby
Imagine that medicine allowed doctors to easily and safely remove babies from the womb long before birth and put them in some sort of artificial womb to complete their development. Now ask yourself if this technology would completely remove the market for killing the unborn. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/abortion-not-about-terminating-pregnancy-its-killing-a-baby/
Abortion Practitioner Under Investigation in Indiana
An abortion practitioner based in Indiana is under investigation by state officials for hiding the fact that he does abortions in the Hoosier State on medical forms filed with Ohio officials. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/abortion-practitioner-under-investigation-in-indiana/
Swiss Police Use Water Cannons to Stop Attack on Pro-Lifers
Police in Zurich, Switzerland were forced to use water cannons and tear gas against anti-life protesters who tried to disrupt a recent March for Life of about a thousand pro-life supporters marching through the streets of the Swiss capital. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/swiss-police-use-water-cannons-to-stop-attack-on-pro-lifers/
Persecuted Canadian Pro-Life Students See Charges Withdrawn
Trespassing charges that had been pressed against pro-life students at Carleton University for putting up a pro-life displayed banned by the administration of their own college campus have been withdrawn. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/persecuted-canadian-pro-life-students-see-charges-withdrawn/
Pro-Life Group Wins Skirmish, Congressman Wants it Shut Down
A national prolife women s political group won a skirmish in court against a former Ohio congressman upset that it would educate his constituents about how he supported the Obamacare legislation allowing tax-funded abortions. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/02/pro-life-group-wins-skirmish-congressman-wants-it-shut-down/
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