Albuquerque Initiave to Protect Pain Capable Unborn Children First in Nation at City Level

Albuquerque Initiative to Protect Pain Capable Unborn Children First in Nation at City Level July 3, 2013 By Cheryl Sullenger Albuquerque, New Mexico - A first-in-the-nation effort has been launched by an Albuquerque pro-life group that could ban late-term abortions within the city limits of Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the largest late-term abortion clinic in the nation operates. "On June 28th, 2013, concerned citizens of Albuquerque, New Mexico, filed a petition for direct legislation by voter initiative with the Albuquerque City Clerk. The 'Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance' if put into law in the city of Albuquerque will undoubtedly protect women and children from abortion," stated Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life, who announced the initiative at a press conference today. Frustrated by the state's legislature, which is controlled by pro-abortion Democrats, the group launched the city-wide legislative petition to enact a city ordinance that would protect pain capable unborn children after 20 weeks gestation. The city ordinance would be similar in language to the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which recently cleared the House of Representatives, and a bill known as HB2 in Texas that is the subject of a second special legislative session that has attracted thousands on both sides of the issue to the Texas Capitol. Eight states have passed late-term abortion bans based on the ability of the pre-born baby to feel pain. If the legislative petition is successful, Albuquerque could become the first city to independently enact a ban on the local level. Interest in protecting pre-born babies that can feel pain has increased dramatically after horrific details of babies being born alive then brutally murdered surfaced during the Kermit Gosnell murder trial, followed by similar accusations supported by photographic evidence made by three former employees of Houston abortionist Douglas Karpen. Recent polls show that 64% of Americans oppose abortions in the second trimester while over 80% oppose third trimester abortions such as the kind done in Albuquerque at a clinic, Southwestern Women's Options, owned by Texas abortionist Curtis Boyd. At Southwestern Women's Options, three abortionists Shelley Sella, Susan Robinson, and Carmen Landau offer a method of late-term abortion invested by George Tiller of Kansas. The process begins with an injection through the abdomen and into the baby that is mean to cause "fetal demise," however, the drug used has a high failure rate, which either necessitates a second attempt or results in babies being born alive. Women are then given an unpredictable drug called Cytotec to induce contractions and are sent to a hotel where abortionists admit women sometimes give birth into the toilets in their hotel room. "The citizens of Albuquerque are deeply concerned about the safety of women seeking abortions beyond 20 weeks, which according to late term abortionist Curtis Boyd's, owner of Southwestern Women's Options, informed consent paperwork are more dangerous than carrying the pregnancy to term," said Tara Shaver of Project Defending Life. An abortion consent form used by Southwestern Women's Options notes the following concerning risks of the very late abortions that are dangerously done in an out-patient clinic and sometimes completed in a local hotel: No guarantee or assurance has been made to me as to the results that may be obtained [as a result of the abortion]. The risk of terminating a pregnancy gradually increases throughout the course of the pregnancy. These comparative risks become approximately equal at 16-18 weeks of pregnancy and increases so that pregnancy termination at 18 weeks and above involves a greater risk than carrying the pregnancy to term. Project Defending Life and Operation Rescue worked together to expose over a dozen documented medical emergencies at Albuquerque abortion clinics, the majority of which occurred at Southwestern Women's Options. One incident documented a woman who suffered a ruptured uterus during a 35 week abortion and nearly died. Shelley Sella was charged with gross negligence for that abortion by the New Mexico Medical Board, which inexplicably cleared her of wrongdoing after an expensive prosecution. The proposed new ordinance acknowledges the fact that as early as 8 weeks gestation a developing baby can respond to touch. This fact was confirmed by testimony given in during a House Judiciary Committee meeting by Dr. Maureen Condic, who is Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Part of the findings and authorities contained in the ordinance language states, "The position, asserted by some commentators, that the unborn child remains in a coma-like sleep state that precludes the unborn child experiencing pain is inconsistent with the documented reaction of unborn children to painful stimuli and with the experience of fetal surgeons who had found it necessary to sedate the unborn child with anesthesia to prevent the unborn child from engaging in vigorous movement in reaction to invasive surgery." "We fully support this citizen's petition effort in Albuquerque and congratulate Project Defending Life for side-stepping the obstructionists in the state legislature who are busy protecting abortionists when they should be protecting viable babies during the most vulnerable times in their lives," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. Operation Rescue plans to join Project Defending Life and the Survivors in Albuquerque on August 2-4 to train citizens and stand in support of the local Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance. View the Petition View the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Ordinance text

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LifeNews Pro-Life News Report 7/2/13

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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

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• Wendy Davis Won’t Filibuster Second Attempt to Ban Late-Term Abortions
• Obama-Linked Abortion Group Pulls Ad Paying for Texas Protesters1
• Pro-Abortion Wendy Davis Backers Tell Legislator “I Hope Your Daughter’s Raped”
• “Hoes Before Embryos:” The Pro-Abortion Sign That Says it All
More Pro-Life News
• Ireland Takes First Step With Vote to Legalize Some Abortions
• Baby Died Five Years After Botched Abortion, Injections in Her Head Failed
• Will the Senate Let Abortionists Like Kermit Gosnell Continue?
• What Does Wendy Davis Really Stand For? Killing Babies Just Before Birth
• Feminist Suggests Sex Strike to Force Men to Support Abortion
• Kermit Gosnell Pleads Guilty to Running Pill Mill at His Abortion Clinic
• Unborn Babies Can Dream in the Womb, Will Abortion be Their Nightmare?
• Rick Perry Would Beat Wendy Davis by 14% and 6% With Women, Democrat Poll Shows
• Abortion Advocates Fight for a What, Not a Who
• The Myth of the Unwanted Child: We Must Make Adoption Easier
• Protests Show Abortion Advocates Now on Defense Fighting a Losing Battle
• Indiana Abortions at Lowest Rate Since 1976, Drop 40% Since 1980
• How Many Suicide Kits Did Philip Nitschke Sell in England Last Week?
• Ireland Poll Shows 60% Oppose Abortion on Suicide Grounds

Wendy Davis Won’t Filibuster Second Attempt to Ban Late-Term Abortions
Should Texas legislators get another bill to ban late-term abortions to the floor of the state Senate, pro-abortion lawmaker Wendy Davis says she will not filibuster the bill a second time.
The bill was filed yesterday in the Texas legislature and legislators hold the first hearing on the measure today in the state House. A representative of Davis tells U.S. News and World Report that a second special session filibuster is not forthcoming. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/wendy-davis-wont-filibuster-second-attempt-to-ban-late-term-abortions/

Obama-Linked Abortion Group Pulls Ad Paying for Texas Protesters
Last week it was revealed that the raucous crowd that disrupted legislative proceedings in Texas last week, derailing a law that would ban abortions after 20 weeks, was whipped into an angry mob by leftist socialists and hold-ons from the anarchy-driven Occupy movement.
Now it has been discovered that a radical left-wing group with ties to the Obama re-election campaigns sought to hire outside agitators for pro-abortion mischief at the Texas Capitol as a new session has begun that will again attempt to pass abortion restrictions aimed at increasing safety for women and protecting late-term babies that can feel pain. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/obama-linked-abortion-group-pulls-ad-paying-for-texas-protesters/

Pro-Abortion Wendy Davis Backers Tell Legislator “I Hope Your Daughter’s Raped”
The paid protesters opposing the late-term abortion ban in Texas are doing more than rallying outside the legislature against the pro-life bill. They’re threatening pro-life state legislators and their staffers.

Death threatens, harassing emails and phone calls and calls for their daughters to be raped are among the hate targeted at pro-life lawmakers from the small contingent of abortion activists upset that Texas would consider banning abortions on babies at viability. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/pro-abortion-wendy-davis-backers-tell-legislator-i-hope-your-daughters-raped/

“Hoes Before Embryos:” The Pro-Abortion Sign That Says it All
If ever there was a sign that showed the priorities of abortion advocates, it is this one that appeared at the rally with Wendy Davis and other Texans who oppose the bill to ban late-term abortions.
he paid protesters opposing the late-term abortion ban in Texas are also doing more than rallying outside the legislature against the pro-life bill. They’re threatening pro-life state legislators and their staffers. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/hoes-before-embryos-the-pro-abortion-sign-that-says-it-all/

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Ireland Takes First Step With Vote to Legalize Some Abortions
Although polling data and massive public rallies show the Irish people are opposed, the Ireland Parliament today took the first step to legalize some abortions with a 138-24 to allow abortions in rare cases.
The Pro Life Campaign said it is disappointed at the result of this evening’s Second Stage vote on abortion in the Dáil but welcomed the fact that an initial four Fine Gael TDs voted against the bill. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/ireland-takes-first-step-with-vote-to-legalize-some-abortions/

Baby Died Five Years After Botched Abortion, Injections in Her Head Failed
In July of 1993, a 15-year old mother was brought to Women’s Health Care Services to abort her little girl in the late stages of pregnancy. In fact, so far advanced was the pregnancy that the baby was already in position for delivery.

Not having yet perfected his induction method of abortion, according to accounts, Tiller “injected the baby’s head, in two places, the left side of her forehead above the eyebrow and at the base of the skull, with Potassium Chloride, leaving permanent burn marks and needle track scars.” http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/baby-died-five-years-after-botched-abortion-injections-in-her-head-failed/

Will the Senate Let Abortionists Like Kermit Gosnell Continue?
Many abortion supporters have been careful to condemn the actions of Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted of murder for killing babies born alive after botched abortions.

Yet similar actions are legally committed everyday in our country as long as they are completed inside, rather than outside, the womb. These late-term abortions inflict excruciating pain on the unborn child, and unfortunately are not rare occurrences. U.S. Rep. Trent Franks’s (R-AZ) recently-passed bill, the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act (H.R. 1797), would end this inhumane practice by banning abortion past the point at which the unborn child can feel pain, at 20 weeks. The bill is headed to the Senate. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/will-the-senate-let-abortionists-like-lermit-gosnell-continue/

What Does Wendy Davis Really Stand For? Killing Babies Just Before Birth
After her 12+ hour filibuster of SB5 on the floor of the Texas Senate Tuesday night, State Senator Wendy Davis rose to “stardom,” being labeled a hero by Planned Parenthood and the political left and given fawning interviews on cable news shows asking when she plans to run for higher office. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/what-does-wendy-davis-really-stand-for-killing-babies-just-before-birth/

Feminist Suggests Sex Strike to Force Men to Support Abortion
Misanthropic feminists are at it again. HuffPo’s Vivian Norris just suggested a sex strike in Texas to pressure male voters into giving in to the feminist agenda (aka abortion on demand – er, “women’s healthcare.”). http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/feminist-suggests-sex-strike-to-force-men-to-support-abortion/

Kermit Gosnell Pleads Guilty to Running Pill Mill at His Abortion Clinic
Kermit Gosnell was the gruesome abortion practitioner who was convicted on multiple counts of first-degree murder of killing babies who were born alive after abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/kermit-gosnell-pleads-guilty-to-running-pill-mill-at-his-abortion-clinic/

Unborn Babies Can Dream in the Womb, Will Abortion be Their Nightmare?
When he was about six months old, my grandson and his mom came to my home for a highly-anticipated week-long visit. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/unborn-babies-feel-pain-and-can-dream-in-the-womb-lets-protect-them/

Rick Perry Would Beat Wendy Davis by 14% and 6% With Women, Democrat Poll Shows
Wendy Davis may be the pro-abortion superstar, but a new poll conducted by a Democratic polling firm shows pro-life Texas Gov. Rick Perry would beat Davis in a gubernatorial election — even with women voters. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/rick-perry-would-beat-wendy-davis-by-14-and-6-with-women-democrat-poll-shows/

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Abortion Advocates Fight for a What, Not a Who
Abortion advocates would love America to believe that it’s who they are fighting for, that they are fighting for women, and a woman’s right to choose an abortion. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/abortion-advocates-fight-for-a-what-not-a-who/

The Myth of the Unwanted Child: We Must Make Adoption Easier
Joleigh Little of National Right to Life addressed the 2013 NRLC Convention on Saturday with a talk entitled “The Myth of the Unwanted Child,” in which she challenged the misnomer “unwanted” in relation to children, and shared moving adoption stories and convicting anecdotes about the conditions that children waiting to be adopted endure, particularly children with special needs. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/the-myth-of-the-unwanted-child-we-must-make-adoption-easier/

Protests Show Abortion Advocates Now on Defense Fighting a Losing Battle
Back in the day abortion proponents had all the mojo and pro-lifers were on the defensive. The photo below, via PBS, is of a pro-abortion rally demanding a repeal of pro-life laws in Washington, D.C., circa 1971. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/protests-show-abortion-advocates-now-on-defense-fighting-a-losing-battle/

Indiana Abortions at Lowest Rate Since 1976, Drop 40% Since 1980
On the heels of news that Minnesota’s abortion numbers have fallen to their lowest levels since just after Roe v. Wade, Indiana has good news about its own abortion figures. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/indiana-abortions-at-lowest-rate-since-1976-drop-40-since-1980/

How Many Suicide Kits Did Philip Nitschke Sell in England Last Week?
Australia’s ‘Dr Death’ Philip Nitschke visited the UK this week and held a ‘workshop’ at Dragon Hall in London providing instruction in how to commit suicide. About 150 people attended. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/how-many-suicide-kits-did-philip-nitschke-sell-in-england-last-week/

Ireland Poll Shows 60% Oppose Abortion on Suicide Grounds
A new Amárach opinion poll has revealed that a clear majority of people are opposed to abortion as a response to a suicide threat. http://www.lifenews.com/2013/07/02/ireland-poll-shows-60-oppose-abortion-on-suicide-grounds/

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Heroic News: “Researchers Find Placenta Blocks Viruses between Mother and Unborn Baby” plus 1 more

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Researchers Find Placenta Blocks Viruses between Mother and Unborn Baby Posted: 02 Jul 2013 09:31 AM PDT When virologist and mother-to-be Carol Coyne was working in her lab four years ago, she began wondering how her placenta was protecting her unborn baby from the viruses she worked with.

Texas Debates Pro-Life Bill Again Posted: 02 Jul 2013 07:37 AM PDT For Democrats in Texas hoping to halt a pro life bill from passing through the state legislature a second time around, time will be both an enemy and a friend.

Pray and Fast for Our Bishops - St. Irenaeus

THIS WEEK’S SAINTLY BISHOP St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons St. Irenaeus lived in a time where memory of the apostles still lingered. As a priest, he was strongly influenced by St. Polycarp, who had heard the apostles firsthand. St. Irenaeus had such zero-tolerance for heresy he wrote a five-book treatise exposing the errors of his day using Holy Scripture and the teachings of the Apostles. READ MORE If someone had the means to help a neighbor and did nothing, what does St. Irenaeus say will become of him? Click here. SUGGESTED PRAYER O God, who made St. Irenaeus to be a teacher of Catholic Faith and and example of apostolic fortitude, rouse up in your Church men after Your own Heart, that they may govern her wisely and bravely. FASTING IDEA Spend thirty minutes in meaningful conversation with your spouse. Look for times in the past few weeks when God sent blessings into your lives but you and your spouse may not have been aware of them. Know someone who would like to join the campaign to Pray and Fast for Our Bishops?  Click the icon below to forward this message and ask them to subscribe.

Are Gay and Lesbian Marriages Reprehensible?

from Courageous Priest

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Are Gay and Lesbian Marriages Reprehensible? Sodom and Gomorrah Genesis 18: Are We Re-living Sodom & Gomorrah? Or Does Equality Trump the Bible? by Fr. Marvin Deutsch, M.M. – The first reading from Genesis, chapter 18, for today’s mass is certainly opportune and could not have come at a better time. It is less than a week since the Supreme Court decided that the marriage between one man and one woman (The Defense of Marriage Act, passed by Congress in 1996) cannot be supported by the constitution.  The reading comes just one day after the “Gay Pride” parades in San Francisco, gays and lesbians dancing, celebrating and flaunting their victory over the opposition.  Gays and lesbians in CA can now get married.  Proposition 8, a referendum supported by the majority of residents a few years ago forbidding gay and lesbian marriages, is now null and void.  What has happened, of course, is that our Supreme Court judges, unwittingly perhaps, have shot down the democratic process.  What good is a vote of the majority of the people if one activist judge in California who just happened to be gay, could declare the vote unconstitutional, and this later would be supported by the 9 men and women in black gowns playing God?  (The vote was 5-4 which exonerates some of them)  As Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the spokesperson for all the Bishops recently said, “the Supreme Court’s decision was a tragic day for marriage and the country.”  Somehow the nation has lost its common sense.  All truth has become relative.  Right and wrong is arbitrary, determined by the wishes of those in power. So let’s return to the Scripture reading.  What does it tell us? Abraham is pleading with God not to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah because of their many sins.  God is telling Abraham that he will not destroy the cities if Abraham can find just a few people living the truth of his will.  Abraham could find none and thus fire and brimstone rained down up Sodom and Gomorrah destroying both cities.  (We see in the next chapter Genesis 19, the principles sins were the sins of sodomy.  These sins are named after the city of Sodom) Does this story from Genesis have any significance for us today?  Is the same admonition being given to us by God today?  Or, have times and customs changed to the degree that unnatural sins are at least tolerated by God because people claim that God created them that way?  Why did Cardinal Dolan make the above statement regarding the evil of homosexual marriage?  Is he being intolerant and hateful? In response, first of all, the stability of our society is built upon the truth of the natural family, one husband and one wife and their children.  When the family is functioning properly and living morally, so is society.  There is peace and harmony.  Would that this were true today. The decision of the courts is based on a so called “equality”.  According to the 14th amendment, all citizens of the United States should have equal rights and protection under the law.  Yes, we are all equal, but what has that to do with gay marriage which is an aberration?  For example: if some men and women decided that they prefer to walk around town naked and gave equality as the reason, (out of equality with those who prefer to wear clothes), I doubt whether this would be allowed or tolerated.  (Although in the future, the way things are going, it might be).  No doubt they would be told that their actions are reprehensible and have nothing to do with equality.  It has to do with decency, good order and common sense. Gay and Lesbian marriages are quite the same. Sodomy and other sexual aberrations, fall under the same category . These acts are all reprehensible, contrary to nature, good order and common sense.  Can society as we know it continue to exist under these aberrations?  The aberrations of Communism destroyed the culture of Russia; Fascism destroyed the cultures of Germany and Italy.  Even ancient Rome collapsed because of the loss of moral integrity. Our society cannot continue in the way it is going without dire consequences.  It is for us to hold firm to what is right, true and God’s plan.  We should not be merely passive.  Our future as a country and a moral society is at stake. We have a strong support to stand on, the truth.  Yes, God exists; he has a plan; there is a heaven; there is a hell; there is also a future judgment. As the song of the 1960′s goes, “When will we ever learn, when will we ever earn?” Fr. Marvin Deutsch, M.M. Discover More Bishop Soto Ruins Gay and Lesbian Gathering Is Our Culture Worse Than Sodom And Gomorrah? Cuomo Must Be Banned From Catholic Schools