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Abortion “rights” proponents are finding that their position is becoming even more indefensible because of the increased viability of small-sized infants. Proponents of abortion have always maintained that abortion — that is, killing babies — is not murder, but a “termination of fetal tissue.” And the legal system has upheld that viewpoint ever since the Roe v. Wade decision, even to the point of accepting third-trimester abortions and partial-birth abortions. However, recent events have called negative attention to the “logic” of the pro-abortion stance. On September 19, 2004, twins were born to Mahajabeen Shaik — not an unusual occurrence of...

The government recently calculated the cost of raising a child from birth to 18 and came up with $160,140 (US) for a middle-income family. Talk about sticker shock! That doesn't even touch college tuition. For those with kids, that figure leads to wild fantasies about all the things we could have had. WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU GET FOR YOUR $160,140? Naming rights. First, Middle and last. Glimpses of God every day. Giggles under the covers every night. More love than your heart can hold. Butterfly kisses and Velcro hugs. Endless wonders over rocks, ants, clouds, and warm cookies. A hand...

Man paid $20,000 in support for nonexistent child The Associated Press December 13, 2004 ALBUQUERQUE — Steve Barreras’ attorney said he had never seen anything like it. After Barreras was hauled into court, peppered with threats and demands for money for a child he adamantly denied fathering five years ago and even paid out $20,000 to support, his ex-wife was under a judge’s order to produce the child. So last week, Viola Trevino picked up a 2-year-old girl and her grandmother off the street, promised them a trip to see Santa Claus and $50 and took the girl to court,...

A pro-life group that monitors Planned Parenthood says the organization has reached "another disgusting low" by hiring a "sexuality educator" with an X-rated resume. The woman, who will oversee some of Planned Parenthood's youth outreach programs in Indiana, has experience "as an adult book store clerk, BDSM dungeon monitor and escort service phone dispatcher," according to biographical information gleaned by STOPP International. "The most disturbing part of this story is the fact that, through Planned Parenthood, this woman is in charge of programs for children," said Jim Sedlak, director of American Life League's STOPP International. "Planned Parenthood's website directs anyone...

Let me share with you the daydream that gets me through to Friday. I retire. I move to a house on a wooded acre from which I cannot see my nearest neighbor. My new house has a media room with a state-of-the-art sound system and plush recliners. When I am not there, I am lounging on the screened-in porch out back, watching the river travel past. Swell as all that is, here is what makes the daydream lovely: There are no children in the house. They have all grown up and moved away. Oh, I love them to death; don't...

There is an unspoken taboo in our society where if you admit that having kids wasn't quite what you thought it would be and that if you could do it all over again that you would have chosen NOT to have kids, that you are a monster, an evil, despicable monster. The truth is a large percentage of parents HATE being parents. They will never say it out loud and they can't even admit that to themselves because "only an evil demon" would come to that conclusion, they think. However, underneath it all, underneath all the B.S. is the truth...

Can anyone tell me - or point me to a reliable resource - if the Gates Foundation continues to support Planned Parenthood? The most recent contributions I find listed on their website is from 1998-99. Perhaps someone somewhere has more recent info? Thanks in advance. Regards, OSGrace

A few years ago, I took part in a telephone conference call involving 29 people. It was not a business venture, but a personal matter. Lines from Ukraine, China, France, Alaska, Texas, New York and Solon, Ohio, buzzed to Israel to wish my mother a happy 60th birthday. What made this call so special was that it symbolized the profound blessings of a large family. All of the callers were my mother's children and their spouses: seventeen sons and daughters and twelve sons- and daughters-in-law (b'li ayin harah). Everyone had the opportunity to extend words of good wishes. After this...

The Family Foundation of Virginia Defending Faith, Family, and Freedom Across the Commonwealth Victoria Cobb, Director of Legislative Affairs Wednesday, July 21, 2004 Action Alert: Summer Homework for Parents-- What Are They Teaching Your Children? Over a decade ago, public schools in Virginia began teaching "Family Life Education" (FLE), a euphemism for sex education. The Virginia Board of Education dutifully invented standards of learning (SOL) and curriculum guidelines in the teaching of Family Life Education, including: the value of postponing sexual activity until marriage (abstinence education); human sexuality; human reproduction and contraception, including the benefits of adoption as a positive...

More than 200 Friends of Planned Parenthood met Tuesday for their annual Spring Luncheon and awards presentation at Amarillo Country Club while outside a group of about 20 protesters stood vigil at the West Ninth Avenue entrance. The event was peaceful on both sides as the "pro-choice" advocates quietly entered and left the event and the "pro-life" group displayed posters, including one of an aborted fetus, and prayed. No negative exchanges occurred between the two factions. "One thing about it, those folks have a perfect right to be there," Claudia Stravato, chief executive officer of Planned Parenthood of Amarillo and...

Of all the arguments against same-sex marriage, the most immediately compelling is that it hurts children. If children have a right to anything, it is to begin life with a mother and father. Death, divorce, abandonment, a single-parent's mistakes – any one of these deprives children of a mother or father. But only same-sex marriage would legally ensure children are deprived from birth of either a mother or a father. Why, then, doesn't a child's right to begin life with a mother and father have any impact on the millions of people who either advocate same-sex marriage or can't make...

A state appellate court pondered the claims of two women to be mothers of the same children -- one donated the eggs, the other carried them to term, and both raised the twins together -- and decided the birth mother was the only intended legal parent. In a ruling made public Tuesday, the Court of Appeal panel in San Francisco applied principles from a decade-old surrogate-motherhood case and said the deciding factor was the couple's intent before birth. Despite acting as a co-parent for most of the children's lives, the egg donor had agreed, both orally and in writing, that...

Would someone please tell me what in the world does providing the best education for our kids have to do with a pro-choice march in Washington, D.C., this Sunday, April 25? Why does the powerful and influential National Education Association feel it should have any role whatsoever in co-sponsoring such an event—to the point of allowing the NEA headquarters near the White House to act as a hospitality center for the “March for Freedom of Choice,” while the nation’s nearby state affiliates in New Jersey and elsewhere organize buses to bring in demonstrators for the all-day affair? So, tell me,...

Heard on ABC Radio News: In San Francisco, a government lawyer asked the Cief Medical Officer for Planned Parenthood, Maureen Paul, whether the fetus feels pain during the Partial Birth Abortion procedure. Paul answered, "I have no idea what you mean."

Let me tell you what my mother means to me She has always been beautiful, always in every way She has helped heal more bumps and bruises than need be She is there when I need her; she was there for me as a child every single day She is my mother; she is my mommy even now, ever still She is what every child could ever dream of in a mother in the most best of parts She gives of herself to others, I know that she always will She has always been good at fixing things, and bringing...

February 4, 2004, 1:08 PM CST A baby shorter in length than a Barbie doll – so tiny doctors at first had trouble finding instruments small enough to treat her – is making steady progress surviving a premature birth in a west suburban hospital, officials said today. Zoe Koz was born Jan. 6 at Edward Hospital, Naperville, to Tammy and Eric Koz of Plainfield. The child weighed only 10.8 ounces at birth. Hospital officials said she is one of the smallest babies in the world known to have survived this long, and the third-smallest on record in the U.S.

Senate: Divorced parents can’t be made to pay for college By ANNE SAUNDERS The Associated Press Published: Thursday, Jan. 8, 2004 CONCORD - The state Senate voted Wednesday to bar judges from ordering divorced parents to pay their children’s college expenses. The 20-2 vote sent the bill to Gov. Craig Benson for signature. The House had approved it last year. Judges cannot ordered married couples to pay for college tuition, and it would be unfair to apply a different standard to those who are divorced, said Sen. Frank Sapareto, R-Derry. “If a college education is to become public policy,...

<p>DENVER — A Christian mother is appealing a judge's decision that prohibits her from teaching her daughter that homosexuality is wrong.</p> <p>Cheryl Clark, who left a lesbian relationship in 2000 after converting to Christianity, was ordered by Denver County Circuit Judge John Coughlin to "make sure that there is nothing in the religious upbringing or teaching that the minor child is exposed to that can be considered homophobic."</p>

This website is at Savebaby.com There are many articles and pictures here. There is an article on Margret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood. Many knowledgeable conservatives believe that Sanger started Planned Parenthood to minimize the population of certain races in America. Please click on the above like to view the entire site. Planned Parenthood has taken the owner of the site, Bill Purdy, to court recently to try to shut down his website. This is a link to the complaint in court filed by Planned Parenthood against Bill Purdy. It is a pdf file, not a webpage. Planned Parenthood's...

DENVER -- The family dollar only goes so far and that figures into your decision on when to start a family. So how much does it cost to have a child these days? With the help of a Denver family, KMGH-TV set out to try to find the answer. Like other mothers, Christine Wells couldn't wait for her baby girl to be born. Even with the pain, sweat and tears, Wells said giving birth for the second time is well worth it. "This time I'm much more calm and ready for it. I know what to expect," Wells said. What...

I want to encourage pro-lifers to attend a Planned Parenthood of Central and Northern Arizona drama sometime. It will provide you with insight into the deception, ignorance, despair and the propaganda that this organization perpetuates. I did attend such a drama in Phoenix recently. Planned Parenthood recruited high school students from throughout the far reaches of the Valley of the Sun to perform as the drama troop, "Positive Force Players." This group recently delivered a performance at a public high school in Phoenix, titled, "Leaving the myths behind: Our bodies, our lives, our futures." It featured eight vignettes about the...

<p>Their dad is an internationally famous bodybuilder and action movie hero. Their mom is a national television personality and part of an American political dynasty.</p> <p>But the children of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver do not fit the stereotype of spoiled celebrity kids, friends and colleagues of the couple insist.</p>

Building contractors in Austin, Texas, have organized a city-wide boycott to prevent construction of a Planned Parenthood clinic that will perform abortions. The builders want to make sure concrete, building materials and workers are not available to erect the $6.2 million facility, planned for a site south of downtown where the project is scheduled to break ground today, the Associated Press reported. "We're going to do everything we can to stop it, slow it down and make it more expensive," said Chris Danze, an Austin concrete contractor, according to the AP. Danze, chairman of the Austin Area Pro-Life Concrete Contractors...

Parenting: You only get one chance to do it right My family recently returned from one of our legendary Hagelin road trips: Two adults, six children (three of them friends), a dog, a van and 20 hours of highway. Both ways. We get a lot of camaraderie out of such trips. We rinse off a lot of sand. We go through a lot of suntan lotion. And we eat a lot of food you won't find on the surgeon general's recommended list anytime soon. Sometimes, we nearly kill each other – but, all in all, these family trips are loads...

Hockey season has barely begun but it's over already for a Windsor man charged with attacking his 10-year-old daughter after a game in Pickering. And the 38-year-old accused not only faces criminal charges, he's now barred from seeing his family. "A 10-year-old girl was leaving the ice," Durham Police Sgt. Paul Malik said. "She was grabbed by the face mask ... yelled at, shaken and hit against the boards. "(The man) continued yelling at her until he was interrupted by some of the coaches." The witnesses stepped in to separate the little girl from the man and called police. She...

Every few days or so on FreeRepublic, those of us who follow the Common Culture and its focus on sexuality start complaining about the clothing in the local stores that is available to children. Mothers and fathers here complain about the trashy, sexualized clothing that little girls are sold. They complain that there are no others choices. Well, I don't know about you folks but I COMPLAIN. To management. Each time I cannot find modest, decent clothes. It takes at most, five minutes. Each time I shop. And I expect I will get results. For each person who complains...mangement extrapolates...

LOS ANGELES — The Planned Parenthood Association says it's not too early to be thinking of that perfect Christmas gift idea. They will be offering the little beauties (pictured left) at their Los Angeles offices starting next month. It's all part of a new nationwide campaign to make condoms more fun. "They could even be used as finger puppets, as you can see," said a spokesman for Planned Parenthood. "We're trying to get people away from thinking of the condom as strictly a 'backdoor' business." The spokesman said that Jewish versions are still in the testing phase. "Both the Star...

Biotech and Baby FoodBy Henry I. Miller and Gregory ConkoPartisan Review | July 9, 2003 arnings about one societal danger or another often portray children as the likeliest or most susceptible victims. As is the case with so many other public health false alarms, the attack on the new biotechnology — also known as bioengineering, gene splicing, or genetic engineering — is less about real concern for children’s health than about environmental activists’ willingness to exploit children’s issues for their own benefit. Biotechnology has been the target of scare campaigns since the technique was first demonstrated in 1973. Activists, like...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - For 10 years, Bryan Nadeu strutted in the Gay Pride parade as part of a marching band, hammering out a beat on a drum while wearing a rainbow-plumed hat. But that was B.F. - Before Fatherhood. Now, with a 14-month-old toddler in tow, he has other things to worry about while preparing for Sunday's San Francisco parade: Baby backpack or stroller? Will there be diaper-changing stations? And how to retreat if his kid melts at the loud music and crowds? "It's like I'm figuring out how I can be a father and still be gay," Nadeu...

<p>Whenever my kids marvel at a neighbor's humongous house or fancy car, I always trot out my standard response.</p> <p>"That doesn't mean they have a lot of money," I scoff. "That means they spent a lot of money."</p> <p>No Kidding: Occasionally, in this column, I mention that raising children is a costly undertaking. That usually triggers a truckload of hate mail from folks who berate me as a cynical, soulless, childless, self-indulgent yuppie.</p>

"I have been a pro-choice believer my entire life until someone shared your web-site with me. I was first shocked then sickened by what I saw. God, how could I have been so misguided my entire life? I actually believed it was not a baby. I actually believed a first trimester abortion was fine. Boy did you open my eyes. I believe that God worked with me today to show me the right way. I have often wondered if I was wrong but always dismissed those thoughts until I saw these photographs." I have always been convinced that showing people...

WASHINGTON – Concerned Women for America (CWA) criticized Planned Parenthood’s abuse of Christmas by its hawking an offensive version of a Christmas card that reads “Choice on Earth,” instead of “Peace on Earth.” “Planned Parenthood, a giant organization that receives hundreds of millions of tax dollars, has chosen to profit from a day sacred to Christians by offending them. The group twists a well-known Scripture in which God offers peace on earth – not abortion – through the birth of His Son Jesus Christ. Planned Parenthood officials are too hardened by their mission of profiting from abortion to see that...

Planned protest Pro-lifers oppose clinic BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer Dozens of pro-life citizens gathered outside the Laredo Country Club late Tuesday afternoon to protest a visit by Planned Parenthood. Their concerns centered around abortion and abstinence education. "We don't need any more abortion providers," Laura Boes said. She and the nearly 50 protesters held rosaries and signs that read, "Pray to end abortion" and "Planned Parenthood out of Laredo." Planned Parenthood of San Antonio and South Central Texas, one of 128 affiliates of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, wants to open a clinic in Laredo next year....

I caught a couple of minutes of a news report Saturday from the Texas News Channel. It focused on three TX female liberal icons raising money for Planned Parenthood International in (I think) Dallas over the weekend. The trio is former Democrat Governor Ann Willis Richards (1991-95), columnist Molly Ivins, and former Lady Bird Johnson press secretary Liz Carpenter. Richards stole the show with her "joke" about AR Bill. She said that in every room in which had been in with a bunch of women, all swooned over AR Bill, when he entered the room. "Women flock to him like...

Lamentations of the Father (Household Principles for Children) -- Laws of Forbidden Places:Verily, of the beasts of the field, and of the fishes of the sea, and of all foods that are acceptable in my sight thou may eat, but not in thy living room. Of the hoofed animals, broiled or ground into burgers, thou may eat, but not in thy living room. Of the cereal grains, of the corn and of the wheat and of the oats, and of all the cereals that are of bright color and unknown provenance thou may eat, but not in thy living room....

A top Planned Parenthood official in Iowa could be jailed this week if the group doesn't hand over to investigators the names of women who took pregnancy tests at the group's Storm Lake clinic, Buena Vista County authorities said Tuesday. The names are a last resort for county authorities, whose search has stalled for the mother of a baby boy left for the shredder at a recycling center in May. Planned Parenthood officials say records of pregnancy tests are off limits under federal privacy laws. County officials disagree. For rest of article, go to above link, THEN do a search...

"You better watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical…" — Supertramp's Logical Song In the past, women ruled the home, taking primary responsibility for raising the children. In that same past, men ruled the workplace. Every workplace. Without exception. Two distinct spheres, each ruled by one sex. Some seek a return of that past, wanting women completely out of the workforce. This is based upon the premise that these roles, women as caregivers and nothing else, and men as providers and nothing else, were best for society in the first place. That premise is infinitely...

WHO S*CKS: Trusting Planned Parenthood By Nathan Porter BSNN.net Trust: Firm belief in the honesty, integrity and reliability of another person or thing. Last Month, the House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to reauthorize abstinence-only sex education programs for another five years. Planned Parenthood, hereinafter referred to as PP, complains that the bill “denies our children the uncensored truth about their health.” As though without congressionally funded programs every kid in America will grow up thinking abstinence is sex. “The committee's action is dangerous, irresponsible and reprehensible,” a recent PP press release fumes, “and reflects the Bush administration's agenda to...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Most mothers facing new welfare rules have found jobs, but more money hasn't translated into improvements for their kids, according to a three-state study that examined details of family life. Most of the mothers did not improve their parenting skills and continued to have trouble paying the rent and buying food. Mothers were just as likely to be depressed as they were before being pushed into jobs. They also spent less time with their children, who spent more time watching television. The findings, being released Tuesday, add texture to the results of the massive welfare overhaul in...