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In an age of “cafeteria Catholics” who pick and choose which church doctrines they will adhere to and which they will ignore, an age where we have a Pope Francis, who would have us pray for the oceans and invites Amazonian “priests” and their fertility gods into the Vatican, it was refreshing to see a Catholic priest speak truth to power and tell a craven Catholic politician that abortion-on-demand is a moral evil opposed by the Catholic Church and to approve of it means you are unworthy of receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion. You cannot be personally opposed to...

Kamala Harris has been nominated by the Democratic Party to be a heartbeat away from the presidency and judging from presidential nominee Joe Biden’s physical and mental condition these days that might not amount to a whole lot of heartbeats. Her ascension would bring to power someone who has made war on the heartbeats of the unborn, someone who has already used that power to shred the Constitution’s guarantee of the freedom of the press and persecute an investigative a reporter who exposed Planned Parenthood’s efforts to harvest and sell aborted fetal body parts. David Daleiden is head of a...

Kamala Harris has been nominated by the Democratic Party to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, and judging from presidential nominee Joe Biden’s physical and mental condition these days, that might not amount to a whole lot of heartbeats. Her ascension would bring to power someone who has made war on the unborn, someone who has already used that power to shred the Constitution’s guarantee of the freedom of the press and persecute an investigative reporter who exposed Planned Parenthood’s efforts to harvest and sell aborted fetal body parts. David Daleiden heads the Center for Medical Progress, the group...

"""Texas Abortion Clinics: We Should be Able to Dismember Unborn Babies While Their Hearts are Still Beating""" A closely-watched abortion trial concluded Wednesday in Texas with the abortion industry arguing that they should be allowed to continue dismembering living, second-trimester unborn babies while their hearts still are beating. Earlier this year, the abortion chains Whole Woman’s Health and Planned Parenthood, along with other pro-abortion groups, challenged Senate Bill 8, which prohibits dismemberment abortions, a method typically used in the second trimester to kill nearly fully-formed, living unborn babies. It is a barbaric and dangerous procedure in which the unborn baby...

Abortion activists are not happy with the new leader of the Food and Drug Administration. Last week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that Brett Giroir will serve as the acting FDA commissioner until the Trump administration’s nominee is confirmed, the pro-abortion site Rewire reports. Former FDA commissioner Dr. Ned Sharpless recently returned to his role as director of the National Cancer Institute. Giroir, who, until recently, served as the assistant secretary for health under HHS, has been involved in the defunding of the Planned Parenthood abortion chain and the effort to stop taxpayer dollars from paying...

You have to hand it to Planned Parenthood. Few are as adroit as creating shell companies and employing misdirection so that no Fairview Heights, Illinois city official knew that the nation’s leading abortion provider was secretly converting an existing but vacant medical office into a gigantic 18,000 sq. foot clinic where it would perform both surgical and chemical (“medication”) abortions. The ribbon-cutting and rally is scheduled for later today, with the killing geared to begin Wednesday. “Fairview Heights Mayor Mark Kupsky said the city administration had not been informed of Monday’s ribbon cutting event,” according to Joseph Bustos of the...

Rather than admit that, despite its Orwellian name, Planned Parenthood’s main business is promoting and profiting from abortions, the poster child for the culture of death on Monday pulled the plug on its participation in the Title 10 federal family planning program. Wrapping its withdrawal in the mantle of free speech, the group withdrew rather than submit to a Trump administration rule saying that groups in the program and receiving federal funds could not make abortion referrals. As Politico reported: "We will not be bullied into withholding abortion information from our patients," said acting President Alexis McGill Johnson on a...

The rule, which went into effect in May, bans Title X family planning providers from referring patients for abortion care and also requires facilities to financially and physically separate Title X services from abortion services, meaning abortion care must be billed separately and conducted in a separate physical space from the program’s family planning services. “We’ve always known that absent some sort of legal relief or legal action to block the administration from implementing its unlawful rule, that providers would be facing the choice that we see today,” said Jessica Marcella, president of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health...

Lori Carpentier, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Michigan says the decision to leave Title X will effect more than 42,000 people in Michigan. In 2017, Planned Parenthood of Michigan received $4.3 million from Title X funding, Carpentier says. The withdrawal will cut approximately 20% of the agency's fiscal budget. Carpentier says that Planned Parenthood has been the backbone of Title X since the Nixon administration created the program. “We are 1 of 30 recipients of the grant but we take care of about 70% of the patients in the program,” said Carpentier. As for how Planned Parenthood of...

Whether it was 4D chess from the president or a lack of understanding from Planned Parenthood’s staff, Trump somehow managed to get the abortion giant to cut funding to itself. Daily Caller White House correspondent Amber Athey and video columnist Anders Hagstrom break down the entire Title X drama resulting in a $60 million hit for Planned Parenthood.

NEW YORK (AP) — Planned Parenthood said Monday it’s pulling out of the federal family planning program rather than abide by a new Trump administration rule prohibiting clinics from referring women for abortions.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has denied Planned Parenthood's application to license an abortion facility in downtown Louisville. In a letter to Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Cabinet Secretary Adam Meier said the downtown facility reportedly performed 23 abortions from December 2015 to January 2016, stating the facility was not licensed to perform abortions during that time. A judge previously found Planned Parenthood had been following directions of state officials when it began operations in December 2015. Planned Parenthood issued a news release Friday accusing the administration of refusing to comply with a...

A new rule adopted by the Trump administration that is expected to deprive the abortionists at industry leader Planned Parenthood hits Monday. That’s the rule that Title X funds cannot go to clinics that conduct abortions or refer them. The pending change has been upheld by a numerous court decisions. But now Jordan Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice says the first deadline has come for the abortion industry to prove it is complying in order to continue getting funds. “HHS has announced the first date for Planned Parenthood and other Title X recipients to provide ‘assurance’...

The Trump Administration banned abortion referrals at taxpayer-funded family planning clinics on Monday. The new “Protect Life Rule” will be implemented immediately. Planned Parenthood and the state of California tried to block the new rules but a federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration in a decision last week. Mark Meadows tweeted out @RepMarkMeadows Great news: today the Trump administration is immediately beginning to implement President Trump's 'Protect Life Rule,' stopping taxpayer funding of the abortion industry—something widely supported by Americans. Promise kept from the President. 8:50 AM - 16 Jul 2019

In an undercover video, a former technician for a tissue-harvesting company details how an aborted baby was kept alive so that its heart could be harvested at a California Planned Parenthood facility, raising more legal questions about the group’s practices. Holly O’Donnell, a former blood and tissue procurement technician for the biotech startup StemExpress, also said she was asked to harvest an intact brain from the late-term, male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion. A StemExpress supervisor “gave me the scissors and told me that I had to cut down the middle of the face. And I...

The way that Planned Parenthood treats its pregnant employees is cruel, illegal, and extremely hypocritical The New York Times just published this article, which is titled, “Planned Parenthood Is Accused of Mistreating Pregnant Employees.”The article cites numerous examples of how Planned Parenthood has given absolutely horrible treatment to its pregnant employees.Not only are these actions on the part of Planned Parenthood cruel, some of them are also illegal, and all of them are extremely hypocritical.If there’s any one organization that should treat its pregnant employees with kindness and respect, as well as obeying the laws regarding pregnant employees, it’s Planned Parenthood.Here...

As the final weeks of the GOP-controlled Congress draw to a close, pro-life voters look on with great disappointment at the Republican politicians who failed to follow through on their most crucial promise: to defund Planned Parenthood. In about a month, Democrats will take over the House of Representatives and any hope of stripping the abortion giant of federal funding will pass away. With precious little time left in the lame-duck session, GOP congressional leaders have chosen to ignore the persistent urgings of pro-life leaders. Just last week, leaders from Live Action, Students for Life America, the Susan B. Anthony...

The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a high-profile case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their effort to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood, over the dissenting votes of three justices. The court's order reflected a split among its conservative justices and an accusation from Justice Clarence Thomas that his colleagues seemed to be ducking the case for political reasons. The two states were appealing lower court rulings that had blocked them from withholding money that is used for health services for low-income women. The money is not used for abortions. Abortion opponents have said Planned Parenthood should...

MONTGOMERY, Alabama, October 19, 2018 (LifeSiteNews) – Today, the Alabama Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the case of Jessie Phillips v. State of Alabama that “the value of the life of an unborn child is no less than the value of the lives of other persons.” In a concurring opinion, Justice Parker boldly called on the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. “I urge the Supreme Court of the United States to reconsider the Roe exception and to overrule this constitutional aberration,” wrote the Alabama Supreme Court judge, and recommended that the Court “return the power to the states...

The crimes of abortionist and serial killer Kermit Gosnell are, by now, well known. But another abortionist is currently under investigation by the FBI: Douglas Karpen, who has come to be known as the “Texas Gosnell.” In 2011, Karpen appeared before the Texas Medical Board following multiple complaints, but they were all dismissed. In 2013, however, the voices against him grew louder as staffers from his abortion facility began to come forward, accusing him of committing grisly late-term abortions, after which babies were sometimes born alive. Instead of getting them medical attention, as federal law requires, Karpen would instead —...