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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — When Planned Parenthood decided four years ago to open a new clinic in a medically underserved working-class neighborhood here, it envisioned a place that would save women living nearby from having to take hourslong bus rides to obtain birth control, testing or an abortion. The U.S. Supreme Court’s June decision overturning Roe v. Wade — four days before the clinic opened — changed all that. Because Kansas is one of the few states in the region where abortion remains legal, the clinic soon found itself inundated with calls not just from panicked patients in Kansas...

In February of 2010, what started out as a routine police raid on a suspected “pill mill” turned into a murder case that shocked the world. Police had suspected that a doctor named Kermit Gosnell was dumping illegal prescriptions for Oxycontin on the streets of Philadelphia. But what they discovered instead was an illegal late-term abortion business where viable babies were gruesomely murdered after having been born alive during appallingly shoddy abortions amid the most squalid conditions imaginable. The following year, a Grand Jury released a bombshell 282-page report that laid part of the blame for the deterioration of conditions...

***WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES ON LINK*** Baton Rouge, LA – As was his normal routine, a homeless man scrounged the streets of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the evening of April 8, 2021, looking for a promising dumpster where he might find some scraps of discarded food for his evening meal. Lifting the lid on a dumpster behind a business on Colonial Drive, he began to sort through the freshly discarded bags of trash. But instead of finding stale, discarded food, the bags of trash contained bloody gowns, napkins, plastic tubes, and other items that shocked and sickened him. The homeless man...

It seems reasonable to conclude that hormone treatments—pricey as they are—now contribute materially to Planned Parenthood’s bottom line.This story was originally published in Abigail Shrier’s newsletter, The Truth Fairy, which you can subscribe to here.A month ago, I was sent a Tweetstorm written by a woman who had worked as a “reproductive health assistant” at Planned Parenthood for about 18 months prior to March 2020. If you assumed that the employee had abortion on her mind, then your knowledge of Planned Parenthood is outdated. Planned Parenthood is now one of the largest providers in the United States of cross-sex hormones...

Cuyahoga Falls, OH – A woman was injured after a surgical abortion procedure at the Northeast Ohio Women’s Center (NEOWC) abortion business on July 25, 2020. An ambulance responded to a 911 call for help and transported her to a nearby hospital for emergency care. According to 911 records obtained by Operation Rescue, the 29-year-old woman suffered “uncontrolled bleeding” after an abortion procedure. The NEOWC’s caller told the 911 dispatcher that there were protesters at the facility and requested that the ambulance report to the back door of the facility. Photos taken at the scene showed that clinic escorts used...

Austin, TX – Recently received 911 records show that a 32-year old woman suffered a serious medical emergency after an abortion at the Austin Women’s Health Center in Austin, Texas, earlier this year. The emergency, which occurred on February 22, 2020, involved post-abortion procedure hemorrhaging. “We have a patient that we performed a procedure on, and she’s having excessive bleeding that we’re not able to control – as of yet,” the caller stated, according to a recording of the 911 call. However, the caller, who was not with the patient at the time, was unsure if the woman was breathing...

Dallas, TX – A 30-year old woman suffered “excessive bleeding” so severe that it prompted a 911 call for help from the staff at Southwest Women’s Surgery Center, an abortion facility in Dallas, Texas, according to a 911 Computer Aided Dispatch printout obtained by Operation Rescue. Requests for the audio recording of the call that was placed on August 25, 2020, was denied by the City of Dallas. However, the CAD report noted that while the woman was conscious and breathing at the time of the call, she was also suffering “fever, cough, or shortness of breath.” The woman was...

According to pro-life organization Abortion on Trial, a security guard has been removed from his position at a New Mexico abortion facility owned by Franz Theard, an abortionist currently under investigation for abandoning a patient who suffered two concurrent botched abortions under his care. Bertram Wiles, employed by Securitas Security Services USA Inc. as a security guard, was placed at Women’s Reproductive Clinic in New Mexico. In video which Wiles posted himself (since apparently removed), he was seen harassing pro-life women across from the abortion business. Though it appeared portions of the video used voiceovers, other portions appeared to show...

"This is our constitutional right, this is public property, this is not Planned Parenthood's America anymore, this is pro-life America," said a pro-life protester who was arrested Saturday morning while sidewalk chalking the words 'Black Pre-Born Lives Matter' outside of Planned Parenthood in Washington, D.C.  (see video of it at link) https://www.breitbart.com/videos/v/TCqT2Rvb/

A group of sidewalk counselors says a man taking his girlfriend to a Detroit abortion facility pulled a gun on them. A Facebook post shared by the abortion abolitionist group Free the States showed a man holding a gun, claiming he was angry that sidewalk counselors pleaded for him to save his baby. “This young man brandished a firearm and pointed it at the sidewalk counselors/evangelists gathered outside of the abortion mill where he recently took his child to be murdered,” the post read. “He threatened to shoot them if they kept on preaching the Gospel.” While the photo does...

Four men were arrested outside a Greensboro, N.C., abortion clinic on Saturday. Their alleged crime? Praying in public while the county is under a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus pandemicSeveral members of a group called Love Life, which is dedicated to praying to end the sin and tragedy of abortion, say they were detained and later arrested by Greensboro police after they gathered near an abortion clinic called "A Woman's Choice" to "pray in defense of the defenseless and minister (offering hope and help in Jesus name) to at-risk mothers and fathers." The group conducts weekly prayer walks in a...

Alabama pro-lifers have been actively praying and witnessing at the building site of a new Birmingham Planned Parenthood facility over the course of the past year. Now, it looks like their efforts may have been successful at keeping that Planned Parenthood from opening. Students for Life of America recently sent out a press release in which it praised many of its student activists for their role in delaying the opening of the new state-of-the-art facility. “Numerous pro-life students have volunteered their time and energy to stop the new abortion facility from opening up in their community. They have been actively...

According to a survey by the pro-life watchdog group Operation Rescue, 367 surgical abortion facilities have closed permanently since 2013. With this year’s closures, there has been an astounding 79 percent drop in the total number of surgical abortion facilities in the United States since 2013. But it isn’t all good news. Operation Rescue conducted a survey of all abortion facilities in the United States from November 18 to December 6, 2019. They defined abortion facilities as independent businesses that commit abortions outside of a hospital, and looked at two categories of abortion: surgical and chemical (abortion pill). Overall, the...

One of the busiest abortion facilities in Massachusetts may be shutting its doors soon, and is begging for donations to help stay open. Women’s Health Services in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, claims to only have a few months left if it doesn’t get more money, fast — even though it is the third busiest abortion facility in the state. Women’s Health Services (WHS), which has been open for 27 years, launched a GoFundMe page with the hope of raising $250,000; so far, it is far short of that goal. Allegedly, the loss of a grant has left them with...

PART ONE OF A TWO-PART OPERATION RESCUE SPECIAL REPORT A total of 36 abortion facilities closed nationwide in 2019, according to a survey of every abortion facility in the U.S. conducted by Operation Rescue. While the number of closures shows that in certain areas, abortion suppliers have outstripped the demand, as abortion numbers and rates continue to drop nationwide, according to the Center for Disease Control. Other noteworthy facts were revealed by Operation Rescue’s survey. * Since 2013, 367 surgical abortion facilities have permanently closed. * This year’s closures represent a staggering 79 percent drop in the number of surgical...

Pro-lifers in Birmingham rejoiced today as over 30 years of persistent prayer were answered. The Calthorpe Clinic abortion centre in Edgbaston closed its doors for the last time as their business came to a halt after performing terminations for 50 years. Originally run as an old people’s home, in 1969 the centre became the first in the UK to exist exclusively for abortions. ‘People have been praying there for decades’ said Stephanie Pyne who, along with many other dedicated Christians, has herself participated in peaceful vigils for nearly 30 years. For over 8 years the international prayer campaign 40 Days...

The ACLU of Tennessee filed a lawsuit against a Nashville suburb Wednesday to stop a zoning ordinance that effectively bans surgical abortions in the city borders, an antiabortion tactic that is putting town councils on the front lines of one of the most polarizing issues in American life. The suit, filed on behalf of the nonprofit national women’s clinic carafem, calls the Mt. Juliet city commission’s zoning ordinance “unconstitutional.” The ordinance is part of “the state’s relentless attack on abortion rights, enacting a multitude of restrictions designed to shutter clinics that have provided safe and affordable abortion care and impose...

Dayton, OH – Operation Rescue is seeking help from pro-life supporters in a public campaign to force the resignation or removal of the current Ohio Department of Health Director, Amy Acton, who has prevented a very dangerous late-term abortion facility from losing its facility license through the use of a duplicitous paperwork loophole. Acton, who was appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine in February, licensed the Women’s Med Center of Dayton, a late-term abortion facility, under an assumed name to keep it open despite four years of litigation by the state to terminate its abortion license for dishonesty and failure to...

Iowa pro-life advocates won a legal victory this fall when a federal judge ruled in favor of their right to free speech outside of abortion facilities in the state. Anthony Miano and Nicholas Rolland, both of Davenport, are pro-life advocates who stand outside Planned Parenthood and other abortion facilities in Iowa to be a voice for unborn babies. They stand on the public sidewalks, read aloud from the Bible, preach and speak to people walking in and out of the abortion facilities. In 2018, they challenged a state law that prohibits “loud and raucous noise in the vicinity of any...

In a webcast sponsored by And Then There Were None, two former abortion workers told their stories. And Then There Were None is a pro-life group that helps abortion workers leave the abortion industry. Abortion workers Noemi and Jayne described how women were rushed through their abortions. Their facilities wanted to do as many abortions as possible in order to maximize profits. Jayne worked at a Planned Parenthood facility in Delaware. She says: "The doctor was always in a rush. He was there, he flew in, to the airport – the Planned Parenthood people, the up[per] echelon would rush to...