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NEW YORK, February 25, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-life sources in New York City have learned that a bill designed to gag pro-life crisis pregnancy centers (CPC), much like one in Baltimore that was deemed unconstitutional, is slated to be voted out of committee and immediately put to a full Council vote next Wednesday.Proposed Initiative 371-A accuses crisis pregnancy centers of employing “deceptive practices” that “can impede and/or delay” women’s access to abortion. The bill mandates that pro-life centers display a sign declaring that they do not provide abortions “in writing, in English and Spanish ... conspicuously posted in the...

Imagine a young woman riding the subway, consumed by her thoughts: she is pregnant, considering abortion, but unsure of where to turn. She looks up midcommute and notices a sign with three bold words, one beneath the other: “Free abortion alternatives.” At the bottom of the sign are several phone numbers that will lead her to any one of 12 E.M.C. FrontLine Pregnancy Centers around New York City. The centers — crisis pregnancy centers — provide support for women who would like to continue their pregnancies but are in dire financial straits. They provide useful social service referrals and offer...

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- A New York chain of crisis pregnancy centers continues to provide positive alternatives to women considering abortions in the Big Apple. The center has employed a unique idea by using a converted motorhome with a portable ultrasound unit to assist women with unplanned pregnancies.LifeNews.com reported in February about Expectant Mother Care's mobile unit and its plans to park the motorhome at major abortion facilities six days a week to give women other options apart from abortion.EMC founder and president Chris Slattery told LifeNews.com at the time that the idea marked "a dramatic new chapter...

Activists on Friday protested the reopening of an abortion clinic here shut down in February after state health officials found "immediate and serious" health code violations. As part of their protest, the activists deployed a motor home equipped with ultrasound equipment across the street from Metropolitan Medical Associates and offered pregnant women who approached the clinic free images of their fetuses. The activists believe the images will persuade women to reconsider having an abortion. On Friday, 16-year-old Michelle Younger of Jersey City was one of them. The teen, who arrived with her mother, said she had an appointment at the...

NJ Abortion Clinic Reopens:  Pro-Life Groups To Hold Press Conference New Jersey Right to Life, 113 North Avenue West, Cranford, NJ  07016 PRESS ADVISORY Contact:  Marie Tasy,  (908) 276-6620 PRO-LIFE GROUPS TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd AT 11 A.M. UPON REOPENING OF ENGLEWOOD, NJ ABORTION CLINIC   NJ ABORTION CLINIC SCHEDULED TO REOPEN DESPITE REPORTS OF BOTCHED ABORTION, FILTH, INFECTION CONTROL VIOLATIONS, AND FIVE YEAR NO-SHOW HEALTH INSPECTIONS     March 22, 2007   New Jersey Right to Life, Crossing Over Ministries and Expectant Mother Care-EMC FrontLine Pregnancy Centers traveling with EMC Mobile Clinic 1, along with...

Chris Slattery waiting for clients in his mobile ultrasound center along a street in the Bronx. He hopes that pregnant women will forgo abortions after seeing ultrasound images of their fetuses. Antiabortion activists are unveiling the newest weapon in their arsenal: a motor home with an ultrasound machine, which they plan to park outside Englewood's abortion clinic when it reopens.  The goal is to persuade women to abandon their scheduled abortions after seeing the visual image of the growing life within them.  "When women later see ultrasounds of babies that are at the same stage as their baby was,...

A New York crisis pregnancy center has begun offering free sonograms in specially equipped vans parked in front of South Bronx abortion centers. Frontline Pregnancy Director Chris Slattery said, "We want them to see the baby, hear the heartbeat and think seriously about what they're doing." Joan Malin, president of Planned Parenthood of New York City, is upset by the tactic and said, "Our clients have gotten confused, gone there first and come out very, very upset."

(CNSNews.com) - Women seeking information on family planning and abortion would be protected by a "crackdown on deceit" and from "being lured into anti-choice crisis pregnancy centers" if a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday becomes law.  Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) was joined by 11 co-sponsors in unveiling the Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services (SDAWS) Act, which would require the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to "enforce truth-in-advertising standards for reproductive centers."  Noting that Bush administration funding has provided a "windfall" for such pro-life centers, Maloney said that some of those facilities "have adopted the brazen...

Pro-Life Group To Picket American Girl Place in New York To: National Desk Contact: Ann Scheidler of the Pro-Life Action League, 773-777-2900, 312-965-1030 cell, ann@prolifeaction.org CHICAGO, Dec. 8—The Pro-Life Action League will lead a picket by parents and their daughters at American Girl Place on Fifth Avenue in New York City on Saturday, December 10, from 10:00 a.m. to noon, in protest of American Girl's ties to the pro-abortion advocacy group, Girls Incorporated. "December is the busiest shopping season of the year," said League Executive Director Ann Scheidler. "Our picket will reach thousands of shoppers on New York's Fifth Avenue...

Coalition Asks Gov. Bush Priorities: Governorship or Terri's Life? To: National Desk Contact: Joe Giganti,for the 11th Hour Coalition to Save Terri Schiavo's Life, 703-928-9695 PINELLAS PARK, Fla., March 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Paul Schenck, L.H.D., has issued the following statement on behalf of the 11th Hour Coalition to Save Terri Schiavo's Life: "It is unconscionable that Gov. Bush has not taken executive action to save the life of Terri Schiavo, an innocent woman being brutally murdered in a manner not witnessed publicly since the Nazis in World War II. Frankly, we are baffled by the governor's recent assertion to...

Join New York Pro-Life Leaders The Rabbi Yehuda Levin & Chris Slattery and many others for a "Stop Specter -Pro-Life Picket" Monday, November 15th Outside Speaking event of Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen. Rick Santorum at "The Monday Meeting" Outside of Grand Hyatt Hotel 42nd St. (between-Park & Lex), Manhattan from 5:15-6:30PM MORE... 1. CONTACT JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MEMBERS AND ASK THEM TO REJECT ARLEN SPECTER'S BID FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP Urge the Judiciary Committee members listed below to support Senator John Kyl of Arizona for Chairman, so that the anti-Specter forces are not divided among several of the other contenders thus...

Pro-life leaders have planned a "pray-in" in Washington on Tuesday to protest Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) being considered for the chairmanship on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Talon News reported on Friday that Specter, who openly acknowledges his support for abortion, issued a warning to President George W. Bush after the election last week about nominating conservative judges to be considered for the U.S. Supreme Court. Specter said he "would expect [Bush] to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning," namely for him to select judges who would not overturn the landmark ruling of Roe v. Wade which legalized...

Emergency Communiqué to all Brother Knights and Pro-Life friends:Print Friendly First I want to say thanks and God bless each of you who helped get out the Vote on Nov 2. But now the Pro-Life advances we have made are in great peril. Your immediate assistance is needed and will take just a few minutes of your time. We can stop this disaster from crippling the future prospects of ending the Holocaust of abortion—but only if enough of us participate. Senator Arlen Specter is in line to become the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Specter is an...

Prayer for Life Tour to Bring Culture of Life to Swing States: PA and OH faithandaction@faithandaction.org  About Faith and Action109 Second St. NE., Washington , D.C. 20002 Ph: (202) 546-8329    Fax: (202) 546-6864 Lancaster, PA - Oct 15 -- Faith and Action & Operation Rescue, along with a coalition of pro-life groups, will gather at City Halls, rallies, and demonstrations across the critical swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio beginning Sunday, October 17, to affirm a Culture of Life and expose Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry's stand in favor of abortion and the Culture of Death. The Rev. Pat Mahoney...

Oct 15 /Operation Rescue, along with a coalition of pro-life groups, will gather at City Halls, rallies, and demonstrations across the critical swing states of Pennsylvania and Ohio beginning Sunday, October 17, to affirm a Culture of Life and expose Democratic Presidential Candidate John Kerry's stand in favor of abortion and the Culture of Death. The Rev. Pat Mahoney from VA, Chris Slattery from NY, and singer David Vogel, of OH will speak at these events. The pro-life entourage, known as the Prayer for Life Tour 2004, will be on the road in these two states from now until Election...

<p>The first one is a protest of Planned Parenthood's Republicans for Choice "Big Tent" Extravaganza on Monday August  30th, 2004,  at 7:30 PM at the Beacon Theatre. 2124 Broadway, 74th Street & Broadway,  New York City.</p> <p>The other protest is Tuesday Aug. 31st starting at 5:30 pm.  Another "Big Tent" deal. The Republican Big Tent Celebration is a gathering of pro-abort Republicans at The Sky Club - 200 Park Ave., 56th Fl. at 45th between Vanderbilt and Lexington.  We will be gathering at the Vanderbilt entrance.  I will have signs & T-Shirts available.</p>

An anti-abortion group, once investigated for unauthorized medical practices, today is launching a new front in the battle: free sonograms in front of South Bronx abortion clinics. Women coming to the clinics will be met by sidewalk activists from EMC Frontline Pregnancy Centers, who will invite them into a 32-foot, ultrasound-equipped van for a hot drink and the not-so-subtle suggestion they change their minds. "We want them to see the baby, hear the heartbeat and think seriously about what they're doing," said EMC President Chris Slattery. While mobile "crisis pregnancy centers" are familiar to rural America, New York's would be...

A New York-based crisis pregnancy center operator is suing one of the most aggressively marketed abortion providers in New York City for alleged false advertising. Expectant Mother Care, which has twice been cleared of false advertising charges made by abortion supporters, claims the "Dr. Emily" abortion clinics are illegally advertising in the "abortion alternatives" section of local telephone directories in violation of state law. "The consumer cannot help but be deceived and misled by the blatant falsehood," Chris Slattery, founder of Expectant Mother Care (EMC) told Cybercast News Service in an exclusive interview Friday. Slattery filed suit in New York...