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When I first heard, in the 1990’s, that abortion was legal through all nine months of pregnancy, I couldn’t believe it. If that were true, why would it not be common knowledge? Why would there be debate over where life began? I had just abandoned the pro-choice movement and was researching the pro-life position and was finding most of what they said quite persuasive. But how could abortion be legal until birth? Many other people who I have spoken to also could not believe the law could be so extreme. I snuck into a local law library and read Roe...

“I think I speak for all of the writers on this website when I say that her piece is distasteful, ridiculous, and just plain wrong,” Live Action’s Murray Vasser writes of Ann Coulter’s latest column, in which the provocatively prolific conservative commentator criticizes Dr. Kent Brantly for an Ebola-treating mission trip to Liberia, when she would rather see him treat cultural decay here in the United States. Well, I can only go along with one of those adjectives. I agree with Murray that it’s distasteful to question the motives of anyone who goes out of their way to help those...

"It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones." Luke 17:2 The recent border crisis illustrates the utter depravity of the progressive movement. It is a purely political machine, without conscience, bent upon a single objective--the acquisition of power. As well, the Democrat party is a machine whose gears are greased with the miserable poor, sometimes with the blood of destitute children. This is a Dickensian tale populated with real life power-grubbing barons in black top hats. No turn of...

On August 2 pro-life abolitionist Caleb Head, a member of Abolish Human Abortion, observed a Chick-fil-A catering truck making a delivery to Houston Women’s Clinic. According to Head, this abortion mill is the busiest in Houston and 4th busiest in the country…. AHA initiated phone calls and online activism to admonish this Chick-fil-A, located at 3101 West Holcombe Avenue, to repent and never do this again. Head’s father, Pastor Scott Head, wrote a letter to CFA Holcombe’s owner, Juli Salvagio, who responded: Our restaurant was simply fulfilling a catering request. Our goal is to serve great food with genuine hospitality...

Offer preteen girls sex ed and abortion while they are still ‘malleable’: Georgetown researchers Ben Johnson | LifeSiteNews | August 6, 2014 A new report from Georgetown University suggests that public school children should be exposed to sexually explicit sex education at age 10 – while their views are still “malleable” – and that schools could lower STD and abortion rates by providing all girls capable of reproduction with “contraceptives and safe abortion” without “parental approval.”The report promotes the sex ed and abortion-on-demand regimen for “Very Young Adolescents (VYAs),” defined as children between the ages of 10 and 14.“Investing in...

Common sense might call into question why an adult male is accompanying a 13-year-old girl who doesn’t share his last name to her appointment to have an abortion. But the plaintiff in a pending Colorado court case alleges that multiple employees at Denver’s Planned Parenthood of the Rockies failed to question and report this and other clear indicators of sexual abuse. Thirteen-year old R.Z., as she is listed in the case against Planned Parenthood, suffered under her stepfather’s sexual abuse for seven years before he finally impregnated her in 2012. After he discovered her pregnancy, the complaint alleges, he forced...

Many abortion supporters believe that abortion should be legal without any restrictions. They say no to ultrasounds, counseling, or waiting periods before abortions; no to parental consent for minors seeking abortions; and no to bans on painful late abortions and federally funded abortions. Clearly, their ideology is that abortion should be funded by our tax-dollars and permissible for any reason. They also claim that abortion is “harmless” and access to it should be a woman’s fundamental right because she’s the boss of her own body. In fact, these days we hear that abortion is actually good for women. Yes, that’s...

Life Dynamics, Inc. a national pro-life group located in Denton , Texas has released the second part of their child predator investigation. The new report details criminal convictions of child pedophiles who raped their victims and when they became pregnant the victim was taken to an abortion clinic or Planned Parenthood for an abortion concealing the crime. The gist of Life Dynamics’ report is that the medical offices where victims were taken for their abortions are mandatory reporters and because of the clinic’s failure to report suspicion of abuse, the children continued to be raped, sometimes for many years after...

Dustin Siggins contributed to this piece. An abortion industry worker left her job at a Planned Parenthood facility – and eventually brought four of her colleagues out of the abortion industry with her – shortly after she witnessed a woman abort her quadruplets. Most of them were delivered stillborn as she sat on the toilet or stumbled through the hallway, writhing in pain. Two of the “perfectly formed” boys had their arms "wrapped around each other," according to an e-mail she sent pro-life advocate Abby Johnson. Johnson, who heads And Then There Were None (ATTWN), an outreach to abortion industry...

WARNING: Strong language…. Planned Parenthood is tweeting congrats to Maggie Award Winners: Irin Carmon, Jessica Valenti, Janet Mock, and Zerlina Maxwell, Sara Austin deputy editor of Cosmopolitan. Also allegedly receiving the award is Maya Rhodan Reporter at TIME. The Maggie Award is named after Planned Parenthood’s racist founder, Margaret Sanger. Sanger once bragged that she gave a dozen speeches to the Klan. Looks like these recipients are not bothered by the racism aspect of this award, no shock here. Jessica Valenti, a board member for NARAL and a columnist for The Guardian responded to receiving Planned Parenthood’s Maggie Award, Thrilled...

Interesting pair of commentaries in the Los Angeles Times tell us a lot about the state of the abortion battle and the disarray within the pro-abortion community.First an editorial praises two decisions that struck down Mississippi’s and Alabama’s laws requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Then an opinion piece by a veteran pro-abortion war horse, Carla Hall, who laments that the infighting over the decision to kind of, sort of retired the “pro-choice” label could deemphasize the obsession with abortion.We’ve already cribbed from the dissent by Judge Emilio M. Garza to debunk the appeals court decision...

A doctor injects a patient with a placebo as part of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Imagine reading this headline in your local newspaper: “If the Tuskegee Experiments Were Being Run by Planned Parenthood Today, Congress Would Increase Their Funding!” Would you be outraged? One presumes you would be, but the sad fact is that the idea is not too far-fetched. Let’s look at the facts. Planned Parenthood’s foundress, Margaret Sanger, supported eugenics. The record is well documented. In one exposé on this subject, Tanya Green wrote about Sanger’s “Negro Project,” telling the reader, “The aim of the program was to restrict—many...

A physician at the one remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi argued that those who object to abortion on religious grounds are overlooking the “sacred decision” made by those who go to such clinics. Appearing on MSNBC, Dr. Willie Parker took issue with the “vocal, well-organized numerical minority” who support protecting the lives of unborn babies.“The fierce opposition to women making this, what for them is a sacred decision, is ever-present in at least every place that I’ve been,” he said. He referred to his role with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, which argues that a women’s choice to take the life...

She sat across from me, tears streaming down her face. The subject of abortion came up and this woman struggled to discuss it. ‘Emotionally damaging’ was the phrase she used to describe the procedure. She thought about her child. She wondered how old he or she may be. As she reflected on her past she wrestled with feelings of regret. She admitted to choosing abortion without knowing all of the facts. She felt rushed into the decision, wishing now that she would have gathered more information before she decided. This woman’s story is all too common. In the decade I’ve...

Interesting pair of commentaries in the Los Angeles Times tell us a lot about the state of the abortion battle and the disarray within the pro-abortion community. First an editorial praises two decisions that struck down Mississippi’s and Alabama’s laws requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. Then an opinion piece by a veteran pro-abortion war horse, Carla Hall, who laments that the infighting over the decision to kind of, sort of retired the “pro-choice” label could deemphasize the obsession with abortion. We’ve already cribbed from the dissent by Judge Emilio M. Garza to debunk the appeals...

Texas abortion businesses that are in court this week challenging the constitutionality of a regulation that requires abortion facilities to meet Ambulatory Surgical Center standards, are complaining loudly about the hurdles they face in acquiring new offices that comply with the higher medical safety standards. “Abortion mills are so used to setting up in whatever run-down building that will lease to them that now that they have to act like a legitimate medical facility, they simply cannot do it,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “It’s almost scandalous that they have been allowed to operate so far below safety...

A new report from Georgetown University suggests that public school children should be exposed to sexually explicit sex education at age 10 – while their views are still “malleable” – and that schools could lower STD and abortion rates by providing all girls capable of reproduction with “contraceptives and safe abortion” without “parental approval.” The report promotes the sex ed and abortion-on-demand regimen for “Very Young Adolescents (VYAs),” defined as children between the ages of 10 and 14. “Investing in very young adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health” was written by Susan M. Igras, Marjorie Macieira, Elaine Murphy, and Rebecka Lundgren...

An Australian man at the centre of an international surrogacy row after he allegedly abandoned his severely ill infant son in Thailand has multiple convictions for child sex offences, it has emerged.

FULL TITLE: 'I'll take the dumb baby': Surrogacy agent claims birth mum said she'd take care of Gammy BEFORE Australian parents took home his healthy twin, as documents reveal his father was convicted of 22 child sex offences he Thai surrogate mother of a Down's Syndrome boy abandoned by his Australian parents agreed to take care of the baby after his disability prompted confusion about the surrogacy agreement, the agent who brokered the deal claims. Thai agent Kamonthip Musikawong's comments came as Thai police raided the surrogacy clinic linked to the baby Gammy ordeal. Ms Kamonthip, who acted as the...

You work hard for your money, and as a good, upstanding citizen, you pay your taxes, trusting that those dollars will be used to benefit the greater community. They should not be wasted. They should not be abused. And it’s reasonable to believe that any organization that benefits from those dollars should not be caught up in potential fraud.But, if actions speak louder than words, that’s clearly not how Planned Parenthood sees it.We recently released our Annual Report on Planned Parenthood Affiliates and State Family Planning Programs. So, what did we find?A large number of federal and state audits have...