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Planned Parenthood TX Abortion Apprentice Taught Partial-Birth Abortion to "Strive For" Intact Heads... AUSTIN, Oct. 27--The eleventh video release from The Center for Medical Progress in the ongoing Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal shows the abortion doctor for Planned Parenthood in Austin, TX, Dr. Amna Dermish, describing a partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate living, late-term fetuses which she hopes will yield intact fetal heads for brain harvesting.

HARTFORD, Connecticut, October 26, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Melanie and Floyd Foster's baby died, they say, because their doctor, OB/GYN Corinne de Cholnoky, ruptured the baby's membrane while trying to remove an IUD. As a direct result, they say, their premature baby was later born alive but died after two hours. Because the baby was only 22 weeks along, Dr. de Cholnoky says the baby was not viable and therefore not a person, and no wrongful death occurred. Because the baby was born alive, the Fosters – and the judge presiding over the case – say the baby was a person,...

You won’t believe what the number one killer of black Americans is. It isn’t heart disease, it isn’t cancer, it isn’t homicide and it isn’t motor vehicle accidents. In fact, the number one killer of black Americans is abortion. Despite a lack of reporting by California, New Hampshire and Maryland, a total of 730,322 abortions were reported to the CDC in 2011, the most recently published reporting year. 405,994 of these reported abortions included cross-classified race/ethnicity data for 2011, of which 146,856 were reported to be black American abortions, equaling about 36 percent of the total number of abortions with...

Dr. Ben Carson says he would “love” to see Roe v. Wade overturned, making abortion illegal in nearly all cases. “I’m a reasonable person, and if people can come up with a reasonable explanation of why they would like to kill a baby, I’ll listen,” Carson said in an interview that aired on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. Unreasonable explanations, according to the Republican presidential candidate, include unwanted pregnancies in cases of rape and incest. “Rape and incest, I would not be in favor of killing a baby because the baby came about in that way,” he said. The only...

Washington D.C., Oct 23, 2015 / 04:12 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Amid continuing controversy over fetal tissue harvesting at abortion clinics, the U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday to defund Planned Parenthood and to reroute funding to community health centers. “Women have the most to gain from congressional action to reroute these tax dollars to community and rural health centers, which provide comprehensive health care services to women, but do not abort the lives of unborn children and harvest their body parts,” the pro-life political action committee the Susan B. Anthony List said Oct. 23. The bill also guts key parts...

An online news group has released a series of video that they say are undercover tapes recorded by The Center for Medical Progress. The footage appears to show top-level abortion industry executives discussing their baby parts harvesting trade. Got News, the group that released the tapes, say they “obtained all of the videos from a source on Capitol Hill.” Video footage seen here says it was obtained from a “National Abortion Foundation’s annual meeting in San Francisco, CA on April 7th, 2014.” We do not know of a group called the National Abortion Foundation and believe this description is a...

The website GotNews.com claims it has obtained and released "all" the remaining undercover videos of Planned Parenthood officials shot by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP), including videos that were blocked from being released to the public by a court order. Eleven previously unseen videos have been uploaded to YouTube. The website's founder, journalist Charles C. Johnson, said that an internet hacker named Andrew “Weev” Auernheimer obtained the footage and uploaded it to YouTube. "This material was turned over by Congressional whistleblowers not subject to the court order," Auernheimer said. The videos, which range in length from just over one...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas officials raided several Planned Parenthood facilities on Thursday, the group said, in a move that comes days after the state's Republicans leaders barred the women's health group from receiving state Medicaid money. The raids were carried out at Planned Parenthood health centers in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio by representatives from the Texas Office of the Inspector General.

SAN ANTONIO — State health investigators on Thursday served subpoenas for records at Planned Parenthood offices in San Antonio, Dallas and Houston, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation but who are not authorized to speak publicly about it. The investigators were seeking a wide range of information, from patient records to employee home addresses, involving Planned Parenthood facilities across the state, said Sarah Wheat, an organization official in Austin. “The breadth and depth of what was requested this morning was unprecedented,” Wheat said. “Today’s visits were clearly politically motivated. We’re all pretty surprised by how far the...

Inspectors from the Office of the Investigator General from the state of Texas just descended on several Planned Parenthood clinics! I have been waiting for this day!!!! It's showtime!!!

The secular progressive tactic of advocating death in the name of liberty continues, this time in the state of California, where Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a bill legalizing physician-assisted suicide in that state. This makes California the fourth state to embrace the practice, after Oregon, Washington, and Vermont. Commenting on his decision to sign the bill, Governor Brown remarked that were he afflicted with a painful terminal illness he would not want to suffer in his final days of life, the implication being that physician-assisted suicide is a means for individuals to free themselves from the physical suffering and...

On May 30, 2008, defendant, driving eastbound on Whiskey Road in Suffolk County, entered the westbound lane and struck the vehicle of Robert and Mary Kelly head on, killing them both. At the time of the collision, defendant was 34 weeks pregnant. She was taken to a local hospital where, due to signs of fetal distress, she consented to an emergency cesarean section. Despite the best efforts of hospital personnel, the baby died six days later. An autopsy confirmed that the cause of death was due to injuries sustained in the accident.... Following deliberations, the jury returned a verdict finding...

HARRISBURG, PA, October 21, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Planned Parenthood officials tried to prevent the mainstream media from covering a series of undercover videos that reveal the abortion giant receives compensation for providing medical researchers with the body parts and tissue of aborted babies, a newly released e-mail confirms. A Planned Parenthood official also provided talking points to her state's Democratic governor about how to respond if the issue came up, the documents reveal. The story of the Center for Medical Progress' undercover videos "has not reached mainstream media yet; we are trying to keep it that way," Sari Stevens, a...

Tom Wolf, the Democratic governor of Pennsylvania, received "talking points" from a Planned Parenthood official on how he should react to the series of undercover videos that show employees of the women's healthcare provider discussing the methods by which they sell aborted fetal tissue to biomedical companies. In a report this week, the Tribune-Review said it obtained emails from the Wolf administration that Sari Stevens, executive director of Planned Parenthood's political arm in Pennsylvania, sent to Wolf's office on multiple occasions to impart advice. In one case, she sent "talking points" on the Planned Parenthood videos advising that the story...

NEW YORK CITY, October 21, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Seven abortion doctors – including some who did illegal abortions – are telling their stories to New York Magazine. According to Dr. Curtis Boyd, doing illegal abortions "was a matter of conscience." "[Women] said, 'If we're going to be equal in society, then we have to be able to control our reproduction. We have to be able to choose if and when we're going to have children and how many. We don't have that. We're at the whim of the pregnancies that come along,'" Boyd told NY Mag. Boyd said that the...

Cannot post Bloomberg articles on FR. Link only: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-21/half-the-republican-field-seeks-advice-from-this-princeton-professor

Actor Liam Neeson, known for his roles in popular action flicks, has recorded a new ad for Amnesty International which calls on Ireland to legalize abortion. The European nation is staunchly pro-life and prohibits killing babies in abortions in virtually every circumstance. Amnesty International is helping lead a pro-abortion push to repeal the 8th Amendment in Ireland, which has provided legal protection for unborn babies for years. Amnesty International Ireland recruited Neeson, an Irish actor, to do a voice-over for its commercial, which appears below. In the ad, Neeson essentially says laws protecting babies from abortions are antiquated and should...

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – A majority of states may soon use tax dollars to pay for the implantation of dangerous, abortion-inducing IUDs in women immediately after childbirth. The journal Contraception reports that Medicaid now pays for IUDs to be inserted into women following delivery in 19 states. Eight more states are poised to follow suit. Not one state used taxpayer money for IUDs before the Obama administration took office. Within 10 minutes of delivery, doctors are implanting either copper IUDs or chemical-releasing IUDs in women. But potential health complications for the mother are magnified when IUDs are...

Doctor, Doctor, will I die? Yes, my child, And so shall I. —Anonymous rhyme Forgive me for withdrawing from the outrage over recent videos released by the Center for Medical Progress. Don’t think I am not repulsed by them. Absolutely, I am. But what inhibits me from declaring my own revulsion is a disquieting belief that whether Planned Parenthood is defunded elides the true issue. Our righteous censure attends mainly to the symptoms of a disease we are loathe to cure.That hidden root disorder is our denial of mortality. Modern technical prowess drives the defiance with a welcome roster of...

WEST BLOOMFIELD, MI, October 15, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) -- Over the past 17 years, notorious abortionist Michael Arthur Roth has been found negligent and incompetent by the state of Michigan, which has fined him, suspended his license, and put him on probation. Now, in a bizarre and macabre twist, he has been accused of committing abortions out of the trunk of his car. Michigan State Police raided Roth's waterfront home on Orchard Lake Road in the posh suburb of West Bloomfield on Tuesday, following “a gruesome discovery” of 14 plastic jars of "human tissue," which police said was "possibly fetuses,"...