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A strong majority of Democrats would cancel the 2016 presidential election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump if it meant President Obama could serve another term, a new poll found.Data provided to The Hill by the conservative polling outlet WPA Research found that 67 percent of Democrats would take a third term for Obama over a potential Clinton administration.Only 28 percent said they’re ready to move on from the Obama White House, while 6 percent are undecided.Obama is enjoying a surprisingly strong approval rating for a president serving out the final months of his second term.A Washington Post-ABC News survey...

Ohio's Planned Parenthood chapter has caught the eye of the state's attorney general after an investigation found that the non-profit's three locations in the Buckeye State sent aborted baby parts to their disposal service, who then dropped them into landfills, according to the Hill. Of course, Planned Parenthood denied the claims, but also said that the question about baby parts ending up in landfills is something for their disposal service to answer. The publication added that Mike Dewine, Ohio's Attorney General, has also notified the state's Department of Health. He said that Planned Parenthood violated Ohio's Administrative Code, which states...

August 4, 2015 (BreakPoint) -- Given all the grisly and disturbing news we’ve been getting about Planned Parenthood—which is the nation’s largest provider of abortion, and  presumably, the body parts of unborn babies—would it surprise you at all to know that there’s also a quiet campaign to rehabilitate Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger as a champion of women’s dignity and human rights? No less a public figure than Hillary Clinton has said, “I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision . . . And when I think about what she did all those years ago in Brooklyn,...

There is absolutely no business currently before the U.S. Congress that is more important than defunding the U.S. Abortion Mill, ie, taxpayer funding of the PlannedParenthood baby grinder. None!! This is the American Holocaust and we the people are being forced to pay for it through our taxes!! Why is Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell allowing any other business to come before the U.S. Senate? Why is he not pounding on his fellow Republican senators 24/7 to end this evil nightmare? Today?!! Why is Republican Speaker John Boehner allowing any other business to come before the U.S. House? Why is...

"Please, Lord," I groused plaintively last week as I stood a few yards from where Terri Schiavo lay dying because a gaggle of public officials had decided her life was not worth living. "Please don't let one more person tell me how 'complex' this whole case has become." If I heard the "complexity" response once, I think I heard it a hundred times. Worst of all, I probably even thought it a few times myself. But the Terri Schiavo case is "complex" only in the sense that any of our sinful behavior is complicated. Sometimes, it is true, we weave...

THE REALLY AWFUL THING ABOUT AMY RICHARDS TALE AS TOLD TO AMY BARRETT in The New York Times Lives: When One Is Enough is that Amy Richards put her name on her shameful tale of selfishness. "I found out I was having triplets when I went to my obstetrician. The doctor had just finished telling me I was going to have a low-risk pregnancy. She turned on the sonogram machine. There was a long pause, then she said, ''Are you sure you didn't take fertility drugs?'' I said, ''I'm positive.'' Peter and I were very shocked when she said there...

[ snip ] => Newsday: "Doctors call it intact dilation and extraction but abortion foes refer to it as `partial-birth abortion.' " => National Public Radio: "Partial-birth abortion is a term used by opponents for what doctors call intact dilation and extraction." => Washington Post: "The ban on the procedure that critics call `partial-birth abortion' was already on hold temporarily as three courts heard legal challenges to it." => NBC: A federal judge declared the so-called `partial-birth abortion' act unconstitutional on Tuesday. => San Francisco Chronicle: "The ruling deals with what opponents call `partial-birth abortion.' " Why the circumlocutions? In...

In April of 1997, Life Dynamics began an undercover investigation that eventually exposed the hidden industry that markets body parts harvested from babies killed by elective abortions. (Most of the information we gathered was provided by people working inside of a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic located in Overland Park, Kansas.) The Marketing of Aborted Babies is a thorough report on that investigation and contains data, analyses and documentation not previously released to the public. This book contains exact copies of baby body parts orders and price lists. These documents were not altered in any way other than to assign them...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A federal judge struck down Virginia's ban on a type of late-term abortion Monday, saying the law violated privacy rights and failed to make an exception for the health of the woman. U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams called the ban on what opponents call partial-birth abortion ``impermissibly void for vagueness.'' The judge blocked the law last July, the day it went into effect, calling it a ``no-brain case.'' He also has challenged the use of the term ``partial birth infanticide'' by the law's backers, saying it was an attempt to alarm the public. Virginia's law outlawed...

THE ABORTED STATES OF AMERICA What a difference a year makes. The map above has been updated to reflect the number of children murdered by surgical abortion in this past year, about 1.4 million in the U.S., roughly half the population of Mississippi, shaded in red. When added to the 17 states in black, this equals a population of 44,000,000. It's the sickening truth America, 44 MILLION innocent babies have been dismembered by surgical abortion since Roe v Wade on January 22, 1973. The war on Terrorism: To try to get some additional perspective on this number, lets look at...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published its latest survey on abortion in the United States on the day after Thanksgiving. The survey, reporting legal induced abortions obtained in the U.S. in the year 2000, contains some eye-opening findings you will not likely read in the mainstream press.Keep in mind that the survey presents data which is voluntarily reported by cities and states, the mechanisms by which cities and states gather the data in the first place can vary widely, and some states don’t report at all. California, which in 1997 was responsible for 23 percent of all abortions nationwide,...

"(Planned Parenthood) object to the contention that an abstinence-only program supported by state Rep. Mark Anderson, R-Mesa, is successful. They claim that in a desperate attempt to dredge up financing for abstinence programs that Gov. Janet Napolitano gleefully axed from the state budget in June, Anderson has cooked the books on their rate of success. A Department of Health Services study has found that about 95 percent of teens who entered the program as virgins stayed that way, and that attitudes supportive of avoiding sex generally have improved among the kids." ---------------------------------------------------- Editor's note: A new voice joins Republic columnists...

MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATHTop abortion doctor convicted of abuse Researcher claims case not as rare as news coverage suggests Posted: December 4, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Arizona's most prominent abortion doctor was convicted yesterday on 22 counts of sexually abusing patients over the past 17 years. Dr. Brian Finkel, 54, who has said he performed 20 percent of the state's abortions annually, was found not guilty on 34 counts, including six of the more serious charges of sexual assault, the Arizona Republic reported. Dr. Brian Finkel as verdicts are read yesterday (Photo: Arizona Republic) The jury could not reach...

Phoenix, AZ (LifeNews.com) -- A jury on Tuesday found abortion practitioner Brian Finkel guilty of 24 counts of sexual abuse. More than 60 women complained Finkel inappropriately touched them and, in some cases, their sexual organs, during abortions and examinations. Finkel was acquitted of 34 of the counts, including all of the sexual assault charges. Jurors were undecided on four of the charges. However, more than 30 women testified that Finkel groped or touched them and that was enough for the jury to issue a verdict against Finkel after deliberating for fourteen days. Though they had never met each other,...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- They're back. Planned Parenthood announced today that it is "pleased" to once again sell its "Choice on Earth" Christmas cards that sparked a national outrage last year. "Planned Parenthood believes in every individual's right to make choices and live in peace with our planet. Our holiday card has proven to be very popular with America's pro-choice majority for almost a decade because it sends an inclusive seasonal message for people of all faiths. I am proud of the card," Planned Parenthood president Gloria Feldt said. The outside of the card features the Planned Parenthood logo and...

Boycott Blocks Construction of Abortuary in TexasSteve Brown, CNSNews.comMonday, Nov. 10, 2003 The willingness of some Texas pro-lifers to mix their personal views with their professional lives has blocked the construction of a $6.2 million abortion clinic in Austin. San Antonio-based Browning Construction, one of the largest such companies in the state, pulled out of the contract recently after a key contractors balked at the project because it was going to house a Planned Parenthood clinic where abortions were going to be performed. "We have requested that the construction contract be terminated because we are unable to secure and retain...

Abortionists are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a challenge to clinic oversight laws in South Carolina. The Center for Reproductive Rights is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that would end several regulations on abortion clinics in South Carolina. At stake is the health of women who seek to end a pregnancy. South Carolina has some of the most stringent regulations in the nation for the abortion industry. They include requiring clinics to admit women to a hospital, if needed, and making clinic records available to inspectors on demand. Denise Burke, a spokesman for Americans...