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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
ALL Pro-Life Today: Where was God?
Heroic News: “Planned Parenthood hypes sadomasachim as 'fun' to teens” plus 2 more
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- Planned Parenthood hypes sadomasachim as 'fun' to teens
- Wright's Law
- Bob McDonnell Quietly Certifies Revised Abortion Clinic Regulations
| Planned Parenthood hypes sadomasachim as 'fun' to teens
Posted: 02 Jan 2013 10:49 AM PST Is there any perversion Planned Parenthood will not present to young, vulnerable people as “play”? Judging from the home page of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, apparently not. The “healthcare” organization features a video storehouse known as “A Naked Notion with Laci Green,” by sporting a picture of a young lady waving a condom. |
| Posted: 02 Jan 2013 09:41 AM PST Jeffrey Wright uses wacky experiments to teach children about the universe, but it is his own personal story that teaches them the true meaning of life. |
| Bob McDonnell Quietly Certifies Revised Abortion Clinic Regulations
Posted: 02 Jan 2013 05:47 AM PST Gov. Bob McDonnell has certified health regulations that impose strict hospital construction standards on Virginia abortion clinics -- triggering the next step in a multitiered approval process that could make the revised rules permanent by this summer. |
Papal Nuncio to attend Walk for Life West Coast: Pope’s American ambassador honors San Francisco march
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the papal nuncio to the United States, will honor the ninth annual Walk for Life West Coast on January 26, organizers have announced. The appointment of Archbishop Viganò was announced on October 19, 2011, a date chosen by the archbishop, because it is the feast of the North American Martyrs.
“What an honor! We are so excited — this is the next best thing to having the Holy Father himself with us!” said Eva Muntean a co-founder of the walk.
The nuncio will join an expected 14 Catholic bishops at the Walk for Life West Coast, led by San Francisco’s new Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone — the largest number ever. Last year’s invocation was given by Father Aris Metrakos, the proto-presbyter of San Francisco’s Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. In 2010 the invocation was given by Frank Lee, coordinator of Asian Americans Pro Life.
The Walk for Life appears to have been a thorn in the side of San Francisco’s pro-abortion political establishment since its beginnings. As Cal Catholic reported on December 12: “On December 11, 2012 the San Francisco board of supervisors voted 10-0 (with 1 supervisor absent) to declare January 26 to be a celebration of the Roe v. Wade decision, and expressing support for a “Celebration of Women, Life and Liberty” rally to be held at Justin Herman Plaza.” Cal Catholic further noted “Since the anniversary of Roe v. Wade is actually on January 22, and January 26 happens to be the date of the city’s Ninth Annual Walk for Life West Coast, the resolution seems targeted more at the Walk for Life than a commemoration of Roe v. Wade.”
The December 21 issue of Catholic San Francisco supplied more details. The archdiocesan paper reported: “Two city government agencies and Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights are among the sponsors of the Trust Women/Silver Ribbon Campaign event, which will include a walk down Market Street, a petting zoo, food, face painting and balloon art at Justin Herman Plaza, according to the website oursilverribbon.org. The San Francisco Department of Public Health and Department on the Status of Women are sponsors, according to oursilverribbon.org.”
“An abortion rights rally at the same location last year drew about 80 people, based on reporting and video of the event,” the archdiocesan newspaper noted.
In addition to the Nuncio, speakers at the 2013 Walk for Life rally include Lacey Buchanan whose YouTube video about her blind son went viral and has touched over 11 million viewers; Elaine Riddick, a woman who was forcibly sterilized at age 14 under orders from North Carolina’s Eugenics Board, whose goal was to purify the state’s population by weeding out the mentally ill, diseased, feebleminded and others deemed undesirable; the Rev. Clenard Childress, the founder and director of www.BlackGenocide.org, a website designed to reach the African-American Community with the truth about abortion; and Kelly and Matthew Clinger, a post-abortive couple who share their story about the heartache and pain caused by life in the music industry, divorce, addiction, and abortion.
Actress and model Jennifer O’Neill, national spokeswoman for the Silent No More Post-Abortion Awareness Campaign, will also attend, joining the Silent No More program prior to the rally.
Founded in 2005 by a group of San Francisco Bay Area residents, the Walk for Life West Coast’s mission is to change the perceptions of a society that thinks abortion is an answer. Walk participants are expected from throughout the Bay Area and across the United States and Canada.
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via cal-catholic.com
'Recall Abortion' Offers a Unique Look at America's Most Divisive Issue
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y., Jan. 2, 2013/Christian Newswire/ -- Americans are savvy consumers. When a product does not live up to its promise, we boycott, we sue and finally, we demand a government recall. Forty years ago, Americans were sold a new product: Legal abortion. We were assured that legal, accessible abortion on demand was needed to elevate the rights of women and improve the lives of children. We believed these lies and we lined up outside clinics to buy this product.
But abortion has exploited women, not empowered them. Abortion has allowed us to see children as commodities whose very existence depends on our whim. Abortion has killed more than 50 million unborn Americans and left millions of their mothers wounded, emotionally and physically. Isn't it to time recall abortion? Recall Abortion, the first book by longtime pro-life activist Janet Morana, examines the societal changes that led to legal abortion and the lies that ensure it continues to be one of the most common medical procedures for women. Through research, interviews with medical professionals and testimonies of women who have had abortions, Ms. Morana takes apart the myth that abortion is safe and necessary health-care and shows the abortion industry for what it is: A profit-driven, unscrupulous and often criminal enterprise that victimizes women. Catholic author and syndicated talk-show host Teresa Tomeo believes Recall Abortion "will put abortion right where it belongs, on a worldwide 'Hall of Shame' episode and the top of the recall list." Wendy Wright of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM) says the book "provides a compelling case against the primary selling points for abortion." The book will be available Jan. 22 from St. Benedict's Press and can be pre-ordered now for $20 per copy at www.priestsforlife.org/store/p-336-recall-abortion.aspx. In his foreword for Recall Abortion, Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, wrote: "If we start with a listening heart and a dose of good will, we can see a common question bridging the pro-life, pro-choice divide and uniting those who care about women. The question is: What does abortion do to those who undergo it? What kind of promises does it make, and does it deliver on those promises?" Those questions, which cut right to the heart of the abortion debate, are answered in Recall Abortion. Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life, co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, and co-host of EWTN's "Defending Life" and "The Catholic View for Women." To arrange an interview, call Leslie Palma or Andre Kim at 347-286-7277 or send an email to media@priestsforlife.org. Priests for Life is the nation's largest Catholic pro-life organization dedicated to ending abortion and euthanasia. For more information, visit www.priestsforlife.org.
PRESS RELEASE: After Clinic Shut-Down--Controversial Abortionist Hired in Detroit Facility--Investigation Called
PRESS RELEASE
January 2-4, 2013
Citizens for a Pro-Life Society
Controversial Abortionist Hired
by Detroit Clinic
Pro-Life Leader Calls
for Formal Investigation
Robert L. Alexander, M.D., whose abortion clinic in Muskegon, MI. was shut down Dec. 26, 2012 by order of that municipality’s Fire Department, due to building and heath code violations, has been hired to perform abortion procedures at Summit Medical Services, a Detroit facility, advertising itself under “Abortion Services and Birth Control,” located at 15801 McNichols Avenue in Detroit.
According to a 12/28 release of MLive and the Michigan Chronicle, the Fire Marshal’s order to close Alexander’s Muskegon clinic at 863 Apple Avenue, followed after police officers, investigating a broken rear window, noted numerous code violations in the facility. Michigan’s Director of Public Safety, Jeffrey Lewis, noted that the closure was in response to fire, health, and building code violations.
Perhaps no other abortion provider in Michigan has had a more troubled and checkered medical career than Robert Alexander, plagued by violations of law, court convictions, jail sentences, a series of botched abortions and the repeated revocation of his license.
For various reasons, Alexander’s Muskegon facility is his fourth clinic to close since 2008.
The discoveries made by city personnel at Alexander’s Muskegon facility are consistent with observations made at the former Women’s Choice facility in Ann Arbor, MI, from which Alexander was evicted by court order in December of 2005. Alexander had been using a spare room in that facility for months to store garbage, including medical waste material, because he had lost his contract with a waste removal company. Alexander relocated his clinic to a store-front in Ypsilanti. In a June 2006 affidavit a young woman who had accompanied her friend to Alexander’s 9 S. Washington facility in Ypsilanti states that “the clinic was in disarray, dirty and unsanitary.” (Affidavits are available from Citizens for a Pro-Life Society upon request.) Without notifying his landlord, Alexander moved out of the Ypsilanti storefront when he could no longer pay the rent on the offices. Many anti-abortion activists observed women leaving Alexander’s Ypsilanti clinic who were confused, had difficulty walking, some even vomited in the parking lot, apparently because they were not given enough time to recover from the anesthetic used in Alexander’s abortion procedures.
In 2006 Alexander was sued by Ameritech Publishing, Inc. for a debt exceeding $30,000 (Washtenaw County 2nd Judicial Court case no. 05-808-CK).
Alexander’s brief presence in Ypsilanti was heavily picketed by pro-life advocates (see Ann Arbor News, 3/4/06, Medical Practice Met With Protests).
Alexander’s professional past has faced several legal challenges. Most notably, “In September 1988, [Alexander] was convicted in federal court, by jury trial, on 12 of 15 counts brought against him. The conviction included one count of conspiracy to distribute eight controlled substances and eleven counts of distributing or aiding and abetting the distribution of four of those controlled substances. [Alexander] was sentenced to several concurrent four-year terms of imprisonment, a $25,000 fine, and a three year special parole term…” (http://www.hhs.gov/dab/decisions/cr-244.htm).
These violations and unethical practices resulted in the revocation of Alexander’s license.
A lengthy complaint filed against Alexander in 2002 (File no. 02-682-NH) states that after suffering an abortion procedure carried out by Alexander, the defendant required “total abdominal hysterectomy and resection of her cecum and proximal ileum.”
A Wayne County case filed in July of 1993 (Docket No. C-255) states that Alexander used inappropriate instruments during an abortion procedure, causing perforation of defendant’s uterus. The complaint indicated that Elizabeth A, the woman who sought the abortion, was 7 weeks pregnant, but Alexander had miscalculated that the unborn child was 16 to 17 weeks gestational age. Ironically, this abortion took place at the Summit clinic where Alexander was “moonlighting” at the time.
More recently, a June 2009 case argues that Alexander performed an incomplete abortion on a patient whose pregnancy was at 26 weeks gestation. Michigan law does not permit for abortions beyond 24 weeks except in cases involving health of the mother.
Citizens for a Pro-Life Society director, Monica Migliorino Miller states: “Alexander is an abortionist we have been particularly concerned about for several years and have had many opportunities to observe his peculiar behavior and the state of his beleaguered abortion practice. We filed complaints with the Michigan Bureau of Health Professions—all of which were ignored regarding what we believed to be his un-ethical practice of medicine. Now his clinic has been forcibly closed in Muskegon, which certainly does not surprise me—or anyone familiar with the way this particular doctor goes about providing abortions. The public should now be concerned that while Alexander’s facility has been shut down on the western side of Michigan, he nonetheless continues to ply his medical practice in Detroit. For this reason we call on the Bureau of Health Professions to investigate whether Alexander is competent to perform surgical procedures. In addition, it is troubling that Summit Medical Services has hired such a questionable medical practitioner and thus we call on the Department of Licensing to investigate this clinic and make sure that it is in compliance with proper medical standards of care. The safety of women may very well be at stake.”
Each Saturday morning pro-life sidewalk counselors are at Summit and have observed Alexander at this medical facility and have spoken to him since his Muskegon clinic was closed.
For follow-up interviews, see contacts below:
Women's Medical Services building at 863 E. Apple Ave. has been shut down as of Dec. 26 due to potential code violations. The doctor who has operated the facility is seriously considering not reopening the clinic.
Women's Medical Services building at 863 E. Apple Ave. has been shut down as of Dec. 26 due to allege code violations. This is the notice posted on the building.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL
Monica Migliorino Miller 248 444-9096
Steve Gendregske 734 972-4387
Anne Mitzel 734 678-8251
Summit Medical Services 313 262-8450
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Heroic News: “Kenyan hospital imprisons cash-strapped new moms on maternity ward” plus 5 more
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- Kenyan hospital imprisons cash-strapped new moms on maternity ward
- Grandfather at center of right to life battle dies
- Same sex 'marriage' ends in ruins for Craigslist sperm donor
- Contraceptive mandate victory for pizza baron
- Judge allows ban on funds to Planned Parenthood
- Illinois same-sex 'marriage' bill could get vote this week
| Kenyan hospital imprisons cash-strapped new moms on maternity ward http://economistsview.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b33869e2016306bcda3e970d-400wi Posted: 01 Jan 2013 08:55 AM PST The director of the Pumwani Maternity Hospital, located in a hardscrabble neighborhood of downtown Nairobi, freely acknowledges that he detains mothers who can't pay their bills. |
| Grandfather at center of right to life battle dies Posted: 01 Jan 2013 07:53 AM PST David James, the grandfather at the centre of a 'right to life' legal battle, has died after his bid to continue receiving life-saving treatment was rejected last month. |
| Same sex 'marriage' ends in ruins for Craigslist sperm donor Posted: 01 Jan 2013 07:07 AM PST William Marotta told FoxNews.com he might never have agreed to provide sperm to Angela Bauer and her former partner, Jennifer Schreiner, had he known the legal morass that awaited him after responding to the women’s Craigslist ad for a donor in March 2009. |
| Contraceptive mandate victory for pizza baron Posted: 01 Jan 2013 07:03 AM PST A federal judge has ruled a property management company owned by the founder of Domino's Pizza doesn't have to immediately implement mandatory contraception coverage in the health care law. |
| Judge allows ban on funds to Planned Parenthood Posted: 01 Jan 2013 07:01 AM PST Judge Gary Harger said that Texas may exclude otherwise qualified doctors and clinics from receiving state funding if they advocate for abortion rights, attorney general spokeswoman Lauren Bean said. |
| Illinois same-sex 'marriage' bill could get vote this week Posted: 01 Jan 2013 06:04 AM PST |
From A.L.L.: What Makes 2013 the Year for Cautious Optimism?
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The new year is upon us and we have numerous reasons to be optimistic about the nation's future. In light of recent or current events, some may find this odd. But as today's commentary explains, there are many people who are working diligently toward making 2013 a better year-and the nation a better place.
As a new year approaches, we naturally reflect on the one past. While it's easy to get caught up in the negatives of the past year, we must identify and focus on the positive things that have happened as well. When we do this, we see that there are many reasons to look to this coming year with hope.
Mobilizing young people to take part in positive, pro-active efforts is pro-life America's task and we welcome it. Leading the way are powerful figures like Professor Michael New, Doctor Gerard Nadal, and others. As a result, today there are more young Americans struggling to focus attention on the preborn child and the vulnerable in our midst than ever before. More young adults are becoming well informed about the dire consequences of contraception, abortion, and the general decline in morality in America. This is good news.
There are inspiring speakers carrying messages of truth, forgiveness, and healing to a troubled nation that has been polluted by too many years of sexual self-gratification-a nation in which lives have been ruined or ended by contraception, abortion, and the growing tentacles of a decadent cultural elite. Speaking eloquently are Abby Johnson, Lila Rose, Patrick Reilly, and many other young people. We detect in the audiences they inspire a vigor that will lead to a conversion of hearts from one end of this nation to the other.
African Americans are turning the corner and beginning to recognize the familiar events that, to them, were unheard of and undetected. The works of individuals like Alveda King, niece of Dr. Martin Luther King; Walter Hoye; Ryan and Bethany Bomberger; and others are raising awareness and teaching black America that the goals of organizations like Planned Parenthood are focused on making sure their preborn babies are killed before birth.
Christians are finding that their witness and persistence save lives and renew hope. This is, in no small measure, thanks to the efforts of the 40 Days for Life organization, which began as a seed of an idea in the mind of David Bereit. Thanks to Bereit's commitment to a vision that was given to him by the Lord, 40 Days for Life has grown exponentially over the past few years to an activity that throughout the land has saved babies, brought love to countless expectant mothers, and inspired citizens to come out of their homes and witness to the sanctity and dignity of the human person.
The foundations for these stellar activities and blessed people who have emerged over the years come from the same source that has helped build American Life League, Human Life International, Priests for Life, Pro-Life Action League, and so many other fine national organizations. That source is God and His infinite grace, for without Him nothing is possible. The seeds sown over the past 50 years would have died long ago if not for faith in the Almighty, His word, and His grace. The good news is that they have not died. Indeed, the seeds have grown into mighty oaks of love for life, providing the nurturing of a new generation of activities, organizations, and leaders that have emerged as America awakens from her slumber and recognizes what has been lost because of man's selfishness, discontent, and disregard for human dignity.
These are the top five reasons for such glorious hope as we enter 2013. The recipe for success is at hand:
Combine:
One generation of young enthusiasts
One helping of articulate speakers
One measure of self-sacrificing black leaders
One generous sprinkling of faithful public witness
One heaping cup of reliable guidance
Stir with the largest amount of total surrender to God's will possible and allow it to rise.
When the dough is ready, the nation will be on its knees, prepared to surrender to His truth and right the wrongs that once nearly destroyed America.
The first day of this anticipated miracle is the first day of 2013. That day is at hand.
We look forward to it with immense faith, hope, and joy.
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