Thursday, January 31, 2019

'Unplanned' Premieres in US Theaters March 29, 2019


 
Former abortion industry worker and Planned Parenthood Employee of the Year turns whistleblower to abortion giant after assisting in an ultra-sound guided abortion procedure

Contact: Kristina Hernandez, 908-902-8473, KHernandez@CarmelCommunications.com

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31, 2019 /Christian Newswire/ -- UNPLANNED: THE TRUE STORY OF ABBY JOHNSON - in theaters nationwide March 29, 2019 - is the dramatic account of a former Planned Parenthood superstar. Johnson was one of their greatest allies as the youngest director of a clinic in the nation, until she walked out after assisting in an abortion of a 13-week-old fetus. Johnson worked for the abortion industry for eight years and was awarded the 2008 Employee of the Year at Planned Parenthood. She became a national headline when she walked out and even though Planned Parenthood tried to silence her, no court found their arguments credible.

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"I thought I was helping women," said Abby Johnson, founder and director of And Then There Were None, the only group in the country that helps abortion workers exit the industry and find them new jobs. "But I was doing more harm than good. It wasn't until I saw a child fight for its life that my world came crashing down and I understood the enormity of my actions. I had to leave. No one will be able to walk away after seeing this movie and say 'I didn't know.'"
 
During her time as director of Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas, Johnson facilitated over 22,000 abortions. Since leaving, she has helped nearly 500 former abortion workers, including seven doctors, leave their jobs and find fulfilling careers outside of the abortion industry.

Bringing to life this powerful real-life story of redemption and love, UNPLANNED stars Ashley Bratcher (WAR ROOM, 90 MINUTES IN HEAVEN) as Johnson; Brooks Ryan as her husband, Doug; Robia Scott (CSI, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER) as Abby's superior at Planned Parenthood; Emma Elle Roberts (HUNGER GAMES:MOCKING JAY, I AM NOT ASHAMED, ) as Marilisa Carney, Kaiser Johnson (LITTLE BOY, VAMPIRE DIARIES, SLEEPY HOLLOW); and Jared Lotz (OF LITTLE CONVENIENCE, THANKSGIVING) as Shawn Carney.

Actress Ashley Bratcher was nearly aborted by her own mother, which she didn't find out until filming began. "I was born for this role," said Bratcher.

Written, produced and directed by Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman, (GOD'S NOT DEAD, GOD'S NOT DEAD 2, DO YOU BELIEVE) and produced by Daryl Lefever (I CAN ONLY IMAGINE), UNPLANNED puts the story of the Abby Johnson, the most prominent defector from the abortion industry, on the big screen at a time when the life issue is hanging in the balance amidst a divided political landscape.

"This is the most important movie anyone will ever see on the most controversial issue of our time," said Solomon and Konzelman. "When UNPLANNED comes to theaters, this movie will make abortion unpopular."

With nearly one million abortions that take place each year in the United States, and public opinion evenly split on the topic, UNPLANNED shows what life is like on both sides of the fence.

During the March for Life Vigil Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington,Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City and the head of the U.S. Bishops Committee on Pro-Life Activities, gave the film a rousing endorsement during his homily, "If you see one film this year, see UNPLANNED ... I warn you, UNPLANNED is graphic, it's painful, but at the same time, inspiring ..."

For more information on UNPLANNED, visit www.unplanned.com.

For key art and images, see this link.

For interviews, please contact Kristina Hernandez at 908-902-8473 or khernandez@carmelcommunications.com.

Parental Rights Amendment Introduced in U.S. House


 
Contact: Michael Ramey, Director of Communications, ParentalRights.org,
540-751-1247, Media@parentalrights.org

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2019 /Christian Newswire/ -- Representative Jim Banks (R-IN) yesterday introduced on the floor of the U.S. House a resolution proposing a constitutional amendment to protect parental rights. Joining Rep. Banks on the measure, House Joint Resolution 36 (H.J. Res. 36), were fifteen original cosponsors representing districts from around the country.

"A child's mental, physical, and emotional well-being is predicated on the ability of their parents to direct their upbringing and education," Rep. Banks said in a statement on Wednesday. "It was not the intention of our Founding Fathers to leave government bureaucrats and elected officials in charge of deciding what is in the best interest of someone else's child. As a father of three little girls, I find this simply unacceptable and I urge my colleagues to join me in solidifying the American tradition of parental rights as fundamental rights protected by the U.S. Constitution."

"We are excited to have Rep. Banks taking the lead on this important protection for children," declared attorney Jim Mason, president of ParentalRights.org and a proponent of the amendment. "It is a crucial question that too few are talking about: who will safeguard the child's rights until she can guard them for herself? The answer is obvious; no one will better advocate for a child and sacrifice for a child than the child's parent."

The proposed Amendment would provide that "the liberty of parents to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children is a fundamental right." Proponents believe the measure would correct a 2000 Supreme Court ruling that robbed parental rights of key constitutional protections, leaving the family vulnerable to a wide range of interpretations in lower federal and state courts.

Adoption of a constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress, meaning bipartisan support will be necessary to move it to the states for ratification.

Lawmakers interested in cosponsoring H.J. Res. 36 proposing an Amendment to the U.S. Constitution regarding parental rights should contact Tanner Spencer in Representative Banks's office.

LifeNews: Trump Slams Governor Who Supported Infanticide: Democrats are “Ripping Babies Out of the Womb”



 


Trump Slams Governor Who Supported Infanticide: Democrats are “Ripping Babies Out of the Womb”

President Donald Trump didn’t mince words when he was asked about the shocking comments from Virginia Governor Ralph Northam supporting infanticide.

                             
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Democrat Governor Who Supported Infanticide Defends His Remarks: “I Don’t Have Any Regrets”
Trump Slams Governor Who Supported Infanticide: Democrats are “Ripping Babies Out of the Womb”
Legislator Behind Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth Filed Bill to Save Caterpillars the Same Day
Planned Parenthood Called Democrat Governor Who Endorsed Infanticide a “Champion,” Gave Him $3 Million
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Senate Will Vote Monday on Bill Protecting Babies Born Alive, Days After Governor Backs Infanticide
Legislator Who Admitted Her Bill OKs Abortions Up to Birth: Video of Me Saying That is “Misinformation”
WATCH: Speaker Nancy Pelosi Avoids Question About Democrat Governor Endorsing Infanticide
Vice President Mike Pence: Democrats Pushing Abortion, Infanticide are “Morally Reprehensible and Evil”
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SIGN THE PETITION: Excommunicate Andrew Cuomo for Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth







Legislator Behind Bill Legalizing Abortions Up to Birth Filed Bill to Save Caterpillars the Same Day

Democratic Virginia Del. Kathy Tran introduced “House Bill No. 2495 – Fall cankerworm; spraying prohibited during certain months” on Jan. 9, the same day as “House Bill No. 2491 — Abortion; eliminate certain requirements.”
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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam is under fire for endorsing infanticide yesterday on a radio talk show.
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Legislator Who Admitted Her Bill OKs Abortions Up to Birth: Video of Me Saying That is “Misinformation”

Virginia Delegate Kathy Tran attempted to backtrack Thursday from her horrendous plans to legalize abortion up to birth by claiming that people are spreading “a lot of misinformation” about her bill.
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WATCH: Speaker Nancy Pelosi Avoids Question About Democrat Governor Endorsing Infanticide


Speaker Nancy Pelosi wanted nothing to do with a question about the Virginia Democratic governor who endorsed infanticide yesterday. Click to Read at LifeNews.com





Vice President Mike Pence: Democrats Pushing Abortion, Infanticide are “Morally Reprehensible and Evil”

The Democratic Party has fallen far, supporting infanticide and the killing of unborn babies even as their mothers are giving birth to them, Vice President Mike Pence said this week.
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If We Call Unborn Babies “Undocumented Infants” Will Liberals Stop Killing Them?

Liberal Media Ignores Democrat Governor Supporting Infanticide, Only Fox News Covered It

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Ashton Kutcher Posts Powerful Video From Man With Down Syndrome: Don’t Abort People Like Me

Democrat Governor Endorses Infanticide But Calls Condemnation of Him “Disgusting”

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

The $100,000 Baby

The $100,000 Baby

by Kallie Fell, CBC Research Associate
fake $100,000 bill with baby in center
What would you think if America’s favorite marketplace, Amazon, started selling babies to men and women who genuinely desired, with all of their heart and souls, to become parents? These are good people who would treat their purchases like family, for a lifetime.
What do you think? Do you think this is absurd? Should markets exist where men, women, and couples have the opportunity to buy parentage? What if these markets already exist? In his newest publication, The One Hundred Thousand Dollar Baby: The Ideological Roots of a New American Export, David Smolin, claims that they already do.
In his article, Smolin boldly states that America is “actively building worldwide markets in children” and “a primary present manifestation of this worldwide market is surrogacy.” We at the Center for Bioethics and Culture agree. The main purpose of David’s publication is to elucidate the mainstreaming and promotion of markets in children and to encourage readers to research and resist such markets.
David’s article starts with an important review of the law and economics argument for markets and parental rights and how artificial reproductive technologies, like surrogacy, contribute to the acceptability of this argument. David writes, “what was once perceived as radical has become increasingly plausible.”

How Did We Get Here?

So how did we go from radical to plausible? David answers this question by pointing to the left. He states that the “political, legal, and cultural left in the United States has long critiqued the ‘traditional patriarchal family’ bound together by heterosexual marriage and biological relationship” and the result has looked for ways of “decoupling sexual activity from pregnancy, pregnancy from birth, and biological procreation from social and legal parenthood.” The goal, David writes, “is to make procreation a choice unbounded by biology.”
The right to procreate then is “conceptualized as a right to a child, or at least the means of obtaining a child” and where there is a right, there is a law to accommodate it. Unfortunately, states like California have bought into this ideology and have successfully mainstreamed the one hundred-thousand-dollar baby. David writes, “the expression ‘one hundred thousand dollar baby’ aptly describes the California surrogacy industry, and indeed the industry where practiced throughout the United States. Cost estimates of a California surrogacy are in the range of $90,000 to $145,000, and so the expression may be conservative.”
David continues his paper by exposing the surrogacy industry in California, the United States, and beyond. Financially speaking, the United States is on the high-end of the surrogacy market, but still seems to be an attractive option to intended parents due to the deceptive perception that the United States has “stable legal systems explicitly supportive of commercial surrogacy” and is “well-regulated and trouble-free.” Under this charade, the American surrogacy industry advocates for global markets in children, even though experts and councils from other nations view surrogacy markets as explicit baby selling and child trafficking.
After reading David’s publication, it is clear that California, and America at-large, are “willing to allow practices that risk the life and health of surrogate mothers, and even the resulting children, if it serves the interests of the customer, the intending parents, and the intermediaries who profit from surrogacy” and are “willing to place women’s bodies under the dominion of intending parents and the industry.”

Resistance is Not Futile

So what can we do? David ends his publication with a crucial call to action; a call for resistance. His call to resistance is both beautifully and powerfully written, so I’ll leave his words here:

Resistance is not futile because there is something in human beings that wishes to perceive values beyond self-interest, market-variations, and economic benefit in themselves, others, and their most personal relationships. Indeed, resistance is not futile because most human beings are repulsed by primarily market understandings of family formation and parent child relationships...
If resistance were futile, jurisdictions that once were global centers for commercial surrogacy, such as Cambodia, India, Nepal, Thailand, and the Mexican state of Tabasco would not have chosen to limit foreign commercial surrogacies conducted within their territories. If resistance was futile, Sweden would not be actively considering a ban on surrogacy...
Resistance to markets in children will require exposing inappropriate rights and equality claims for what they are, which is the reduction of the conception and value and dignity of the human person. Resistance to markets in children will require courage precisely because there are good reasons for such markets, but of course, not good enough reasons to justify such a fundamental violation of human dignity.

We are thankful for David Smolin and his work. We are thankful to each of you who are interested in our work. Do you have courage to help us resist and #StopSurrogacyNow?
David Smolin is a professor of law at Samford University and is considered an expert in bioethics and biotechnology issues, reproductive constitutional issues, international children's issues, as well as family law.