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Posted on 01/10/2002 8:51:56 PM PST by victim soul
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, a loyal water boy for pro-abortion groups, has launched a crackdown on crisis pregnancy centers. This is a direct assault on the front lines of compassionate conservatism.
An estimated 3,000 crisis pregnancy centers offer abortion alternatives nationwide. Most are non-profit and affiliated with Catholic charities. Radical feminists, who push abortion as the only acceptable choice, call these life-affirming pregnancy centers "deceptive." The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) sells a guide to sabotaging the centers' missionary work. Spitzer, a Democrat, promised NARAL three years ago that his tax-subsidized "reproductive rights unit," staffed by abortion activists, would carry on the campaign.
He delivered. According to Chris Slattery, the founder of Expectant Mother Care, which provides the most comprehensive crisis pregnancy services in New York City, Spitzer issued subpoenas last Friday to pregnancy resource centers in Staten Island and Manhattan demanding documents related to their services. Spitzer's office refused to provide me with any information on his legal maneuvering, but more subpoenas are expected.
Spitzer's move "is a triple attack on the First Amendment -- on our freedom of assembly, religion and speech," Slattery told me. Why now? "This is a politically motivated witch hunt in an election year for Eliot Spitzer," Slattery said. According to online campaign finance data, Spitzer has received $2,900 from New York's NARAL political action committee over the past three years.
This is not an effort to protect the public. It's payback to the abortion monopoly. NARAL wants the government to crush growing competition by private, faith-based pregnancy centers that are winning over women's hearts and saving babies' lives.
NARAL and its allies accuse the centers of "luring" women under false pretenses. But, as required by law, the advertising of crisis pregnancy centers makes clear that they do not offer abortions or abortion referrals. With typical condescension, NARAL leaders argue that anxious women thumbing through the Yellow Pages might not understand the plain disclaimer. Interesting how these feminist champions of letting women control their bodies have such little trust in women's minds.
Crisis pregnancy center volunteers assist their clients not by might nor by power, but by the Lord's spirit (Zechariah 4:6). These centers provide free pregnancy tests and discuss all options, including adoption, abortion and parenthood. Unlike abortion mill propagandists who refer to unborn babies as "uterine material," crisis pregnancy counselors are upfront about abortion's physical and psychological damage.
The centers also help expectant mothers of all races, religions and income levels with a wide range of services -- from shelter, nutritional guidance, and parenting classes, to drug abuse, AIDS, and domestic violence counseling, legal assistance, adoption, and post-abortion therapy. An increasing number of crisis pregnancy centers are converting to licensed medical clinics, which offer ultrasound and Doppler screenings, and other health services. The Life Choice Project, sponsored by the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates (NIFLA), provides ultrasound equipment and training, technical assistance and insurance to such clinics.
In New York City, Expectant Mother Care offers 3-D sonogram technology that provides a powerfully persuasive window to the womb. The center has also teamed up with the director of obstetrics and gynecology at Our Lady of Mercy Medical Center in the Bronx -- where there are more abortions than live births -- to provide prenatal and postnatal care, pro-life counseling and hospital referrals.
NARAL and company are doing their best to discredit those who promote a culture of life through peaceful means. NARAL's California chapter recently succeeded in shutting down one Bay Area crisis pregnancy program, First Resort, which had teamed with Kaiser Permanente and boasted a 99.3 percent client satisfaction rate.
In New York and elsewhere, the abortion lobby will continue to drag crisis pregnancy centers through costly court proceedings. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood and the government-backed abortion empire continue their business of massive human disposal fraudulently marketed as a fully informed "choice." Where are those who pay lip service to compassionate conservatism when the movement's foot soldiers need help?
"There, there honey, it's just a clump if tissue."
Unlike PP who won't even LET the pregnant girl LOOK at the monitor!!!!!!!!!
See the chart in this post. New York abortionists kill more black and hispanic babies than white babies. Planned Parenthood and their related butchers have always been a means to suppress minority births, and that's why Spitzer is protecting them. Another related thread.
Go to this post to read how the risk of breast cancer after abortion has been covered up by those who are supposedly entrusted to care for women's health.
SETTLEMENT: ABORTION CAN CAUSE BREAST CANCER http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2002Jan/jan9lif.htm | 1.9.02 | Dr. Frank Joseph
In 1999, the latest year for which statistics are available, there were more abortions than live births in the Bronx: 23,060 to 22,417.
More here: http://www.expectantmothercare.org/susana.html
Well, the only thing about the free market argument is that pro-life pregnancy centers
do not charge the woman anything. It is an entity that exists solely on donations.
Why is that? Because when a woman becomes pregnant, her body is flooded with hormones to prepare for the growth and eventual birth of the baby. In layman's terms, the cells in the breast are 'opened' hormonally to do their job. They are hormonally 'closed' at the end of the natural pregnancy preparation when the body shuts the hormone flow down either through breast-feeding or through the end of the pregnancy. However, when an abortion takes place, it does not allow the hormones to flow naturally to close the breast cells. With the cells in the breast in the 'open' phase they are vulnerable to cancer.
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Is anyone else shocked and surprised that the State of New York, which is begging for Federal Funds to recover from the losses of 9-11, is wasting money on this man's salary???
At the very least, the Feds should dock NY the cost of his yearly pay. Perhaps the cost of his whole pro-abortion squad. (I believe that he's the same State's Attourney that prosecuted the priest for praying quietly on the sidewalk.
I'm appalled that he is demanding a list of the client's names. Is there no privacy or decency allowed in that State?
The agenda is to run the centers out of business, using tax money to hassle them in court. And to scare off women who might visit them, with propaganda and the threat of having their names given to third parties.
This is soooooooo sad.
Probably a little transference at work here ... feminists being the primary proponents of the "Mother Earth as Misogynist" theory as well as the measures that deconstruct the fecund feminine nature in all its potency and true power.
Not a good thing!
Crush the competition? On several levels, it appears.
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